00:00:00.000i go to lay down and as soon as i close my eyes i see the matrix i see all i like a binary code
00:00:05.200like ones and zeros ones and zeros and i was like i'm just tired just tired yeah and then from there
00:00:11.200i i opened my eyes and my hand was like uh you ever seen a goofy movie um i was literally
00:00:17.280everything was the same color in the same animation as the goofy movie like i literally
00:00:21.680felt like i was in a cartoon and i was like oh boy here we go
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00:02:17.920Hi, Makayla. It's good to see you again.
00:02:19.720Yeah, good to see you too. How are you doing?
00:02:22.020Really well. Yeah, actually, I can honestly say never better.
00:02:27.500Wow. Okay. I feel like I feel the same way. That's good.
00:02:31.580You look great. You actually look really, really healthy. It's crazy to see your evolution of,
00:02:35.640you know obviously you've come a long ways from when you were really sick and then
00:02:38.800your progress has been phenomenal thanks when when did we talk that was oh it's been
00:02:44.300probably almost two years yeah okay so you we spoke when I was like taking care of my dad and
00:02:50.880in a rough spot right so I think you were overseas you were somewhere yeah you were definitely weren't
00:02:57.580in the country Serbia or something yeah you got married since yeah yeah think things are drastic
00:03:03.920have drastically improved. So before, I mean, we're started, but for anyone who doesn't know
00:03:09.000who you are, can you give a brief background about who you are and what it is you do?
00:03:13.320Yeah. Basically, I'm a guy living the American dream. I've started a few different businesses
00:03:19.960over the years and every business that I've started has basically provided me with an
00:03:24.300opportunity. It started as a hobby, right? And they say, don't make your hobby your profession
00:03:29.640because you'll get tired of it. And that's one thing that hasn't happened to us. So basically,
00:03:33.920in a nutshell because it's a really hard question to answer people ask me this all the time in fact
00:03:37.680people ask my wife and my kids and and nobody really knows how to answer it um i am in the
00:03:44.120i'm an entertainer in the automotive world um that's kind of where we got started and we had
00:03:50.200a tv show on discovery channel uh we still do i started filming in 2015 uh it's called diesel
00:03:55.140brothers we are on season number eight or nine i can't remember they all kind of blended together
00:04:00.820So our new season comes out in October. And then we're also YouTube content creators. We are search and rescue kind of professionals. We volunteer time and services to be able to go help find missing people, you know, extract large vehicles and equipment from dangerous situations.
00:04:23.000So that's crazy. Yeah, we do a little bit of everything, but basically everything we do, we just document and we film it and people love it. So that's a very, very long answer to a short question, but that's kind of what we do.
00:04:38.360So how did you go from, so your business was diesel sellers and you started that. How did that get transformed into a TV show?
00:04:48.400So it's interesting. We started the business back in 2012. And in 2012, Facebook didn't really have any rules or algorithms. I mean, it was just kind of a wild west out there. And if you posted something, it could go viral with no rhyme or reason behind it.
00:05:06.480so we started this page about trucks because we originally um bought and sold trucks and we still
00:05:12.120do that's one of my businesses we have a truck dealership but basically we would take the trucks
00:05:16.260that we were uh buying uh for resale and we would post videos of them because these were unique
00:05:20.940trucks uh unique vehicles and we would put those videos on facebook and the video started getting
00:05:27.040like hundreds of thousands of views like overnight and so we realized that we were onto something and
00:05:31.900so we took that and we built it into a community a facebook community which was called like diesel
00:05:36.460trucks for sale or something. And I realized that that wasn't a very catchy business name.
00:05:40.100So we came up with a diesel seller's business name and that turned into less focus on the
00:05:46.220trucks and more focus on us as the guys that were driving them and showing them and doing these,
00:05:52.240these goofy things. And so we took that a step further and started creating YouTube content,
00:05:55.840which was like pranks with the trucks and pretty much anything automotive related,
00:06:00.740but not only automotive related. It was, it was automotive meets lifestyle.
00:06:04.040and we had a couple of videos that went crazy viral and Jay Leno originally saw one of those
00:06:10.240videos and he called us and he's like hey this prank is hilarious I love it I want to have you
00:06:14.100guys on my show yeah it was wild so he had us on the show on a segment that he used to do called
00:06:18.760prank you very much and the day after that show aired our phone just started ringing non-stop from
00:06:25.840different networks all over the place and we really didn't want a tv show because we had heard
00:06:30.180all the horror stories about you know these people it's like the guy at the mall that gives
00:06:34.380you his card right and he's like hey i'm gonna make you a model and make you famous and we're
00:06:37.380like that's we didn't but we didn't believe that that was something that could actually happen or
00:06:41.760or on the other side of it we didn't want to become the kardashians we didn't want to become
00:06:45.880these people that were uh you know make being made look silly on tv until one day discovery
00:06:52.880like one of the top producers called us because we've been blowing them off forever and uh this
00:06:57.940guy says hey i want you guys to know did we were discovered like we're not some talent agency we're
00:07:03.600not we are discovered corporate and we're going to guarantee you guys eight shows in the season
00:07:09.640and all you have to do is just let us come film and so at that point i was like okay let's take
00:07:13.760a little more seriously they came out uh filmed a pilot loved us and we just started filming and
00:07:19.500never stopped so that's that's kind of how that evolved and out of that tv show we've created
00:07:26.040a bunch of different spinoff, both on YouTube, online, Facebook, and on TV, a bunch of different
00:07:32.760series. And, you know, it was originally all based around the trucks, but my goal was to
00:07:40.740branch out of that just because trucks are cool and I love them, but that's like this much of my
00:07:46.020life. I do so many other things. And so that's kind of how the TV show was born when it aired
00:07:51.560on tv or on a discovery channel back in january 2016 it was their number one new series premiered
00:07:59.260that aired like in 50 years or something it's a crazy number yeah so the show did really well and
00:08:04.660they originally were hoping that the show would you know go into the automotive niche and and
00:08:10.160kind of cater to those 35 to 65 year old men who want to watch cars and trucks get fixed
00:08:17.040but it quickly became a family show it became a show that moms and dads and kids and basically
00:08:23.580everyone from the babies to the grandparents were watching together because it wasn't just
00:08:28.220about trucks it was about us and our lives and our families and the stuff that we do and the goofy
00:08:31.960you know pranks and things like that so it uh it became something that was never intended to be but
00:08:36.860it became exactly what i would have hoped it to become uh if that makes any sense because uh like
00:08:44.020i said just working on trucks and cars it's that's that's it's too little for me i think
00:08:49.400bigger than that i guess yeah i can kind of understand the like the concern about being
00:08:55.500niched into one area right and the thing about a niche is you need a niche to get started and
00:09:01.800the trucks are kind of where that catalyst that got us out there and you know people started
00:09:05.620recognizing us and then from there it's just all just a matter of what you do with it and how you
00:09:10.920have you leverage that platform and we've been uh we've been fortunate enough to leverage it in
00:09:15.340ways that other automotive creators and and uh you know tv show talent didn't do yeah got stuck
00:09:22.320yeah there's actually something to that right you can get your one shot at kind of popularity and
00:09:28.360then there are things you have to do to keep that going or to grow it right otherwise you can just
00:09:32.680fade away right exactly so that's the that's the thing that i didn't want to have happen see
00:09:37.440I think so many people and this is this is a this is a important point for kind of everybody right
00:09:44.980now anybody who's trying to become relevant or an influencer or anything like that the harder you
00:09:50.240try to be relevant the less successful you're going to be because it's obvious right you see
00:09:56.380those people that are out there constantly doing things to try to get people's attention and a lot
00:10:01.660of times they're doing things that aren't natural to them they're doing things that they think people
00:10:06.400want to see but if the camera wasn't rolling they might not be doing that specific thing
00:10:11.480and it's obvious they're acting and so we we're not actors we're legitimately just guys with
00:10:17.100a lot of different interests and we have the resources and the ambition and sometimes stupidity
00:10:23.920to pursue these things and it's worked people can tell that it's natural it's authentic and
00:10:29.120there's been times where we've kind of gone dark on both social media and tv because we weren't
00:10:34.260really doing anything that we felt we needed to share at that time. And I think that is where you
00:10:39.520see people able to step up to the next level because it's growth, right? You can't, like you
00:10:45.980were saying, if you get stuck in that same world for too long, you become stagnant, you become
00:10:50.180stale, and you have two options, either just disappear and become completely irrelevant or
00:10:54.460try too hard and continue to try to like be front and center. And neither one of those were great
00:11:00.680options for us. And so we just decided to keep living and growing and doing new things. And
00:11:05.860when we found something that we were excited about, we turned the camera on and it worked.
00:11:10.660Fair enough. Okay. I have a question. So in 2012, when you, when you started the shop,
00:11:17.300did you have any like outline for your life or have you kind of just gone with the flow,
00:11:23.200like becoming kind of famous? Was that random or were you striving towards that?
00:11:29.360so one thing about me is i'm not a great planner um and it's not that i don't have the ability to
00:11:36.960plan it's that i don't like to because i have a very dangerous uh skill but i didn't really know
00:11:42.260that i had back then and it's the ability to like we were just talking you know before we got started
00:11:47.680to manifest things really quickly and so if i think about something if i think about it for
00:11:53.600more than five or ten minutes it's done and it happens subconsciously this thing that all these
00:11:59.120things come to me without me working towards them without me saying okay today I'm gonna I'm gonna
00:12:06.020get this I'm gonna get that it's just I want this I want that thing so bad and I one thing I'm really
00:12:12.820good at is visualizing myself having the things that I want um and I didn't you know this has all
00:12:17.560become kind of mainstream now right you've got the you've got the secret the the secret the law
00:12:22.560attraction all these different things that people talk about and I remember 2000 2010 2011 a friend
00:12:31.780of mine introduced me to the secret right that's like the the kindergarten where everybody starts
00:12:37.740in the world of personal development and I remember watching it and I was like this is weird
00:12:43.340because this is what I do I didn't know I had a name I didn't know there was a process I just
00:12:47.640pictured what I wanted. I would feel the emotion of when I would accomplish that goal, even though
00:12:53.160I was years away. Like I used to, here's a good example. I used to drive down the road in my car
00:12:57.680or my truck. And I one day went and did a demo flight in a helicopter and I became obsessed
00:13:04.520with helicopters. Well, I grew up lower middle class. You know, my, my dad was sick all growing
00:13:10.880up we didn't have a ton of money and so a kid like me shouldn't have had ambitions or or not
00:13:17.760necessarily ambitions but shouldn't have thought that he was gonna be able to own a helicopter
00:13:20.320anytime soon but I went into the demo flight and fortunately after the demo flight I mean the the
00:13:25.700place where I went was like hey you should become a pilot professional pilot get you trained and it
00:13:29.180was like 80 grand and fortunately I couldn't afford it at the time and I say fortunately
00:13:33.880because I would have hated to become a professional pilot they wouldn't be able to take all the fun
00:13:38.560out of it so uh anyways i would drive up and down the road in my truck and i would pretend like i
00:13:42.760was driving or flying the helicopter after that experience because it was so cool to me and i
00:13:47.280just wanted to like put my stuff in that mindset and it wasn't it wasn't necessarily intentional
00:13:52.480at the time saying okay if i do this you know two years from now i'm gonna have a helicopter i just
00:13:56.520really enjoyed the thought of like man this feels like i'm flying a helicopter how would it feel if
00:14:00.080i actually had my own uh 2016 i bought my first helicopter um helicopters aren't you know they're
00:14:06.020not cheap and they're not easy to, to get into that world. And this was, you know, five years
00:14:13.360after my first experience with one, I was able to go buy one. And since then I, that's all I do is
00:14:18.540helicopters. I love helicopters. I've got all sorts of different helicopters. In fact, I just
00:14:21.320bought a Black Hawk helicopter from the U S army. One of the only privately owned, privately used
00:14:28.820Black Hawks in existence. I mean, they buy them and they fight fires with them, but I bought it
00:14:33.440to fly my family around. So that's just amazing. Yeah. It's really cool. So I, when I heard about
00:14:39.500vision boards, you know, you've heard this, uh, everybody talks about that. I was like, okay,
00:14:44.540that's something I should do. So I went to the internet and I pulled off a bunch of pictures
00:14:47.920of things that I loved or I wanted, or I thought were cool. And I, you know, made a collage. This
00:14:53.500was back in 2011, 2012. Uh, and I, I ordered it from some company online and they sent me a big
00:15:00.220poster of it and i hung it up and it was cool but i didn't spend a ton of time like looking at it
00:15:04.580every day it's just those things were things that i wanted and somehow deep down inside i knew that
00:15:10.000i could get well 2015 2016 i looked at the vision board it was like wrapped up in my closet in fact
00:15:17.600we were done filming with discovery one day and i was cleaning out my office closet and i came
00:15:21.760across my whole vision board which had since been rolled up and tucked away and i was like i should
00:15:25.860look at that. Pulled it up. Every single item on that board. Oh, that's I'd already accomplished
00:15:31.480is wild. So to answer your question, I don't look too far into the future because it's dangerous
00:15:39.640for me. Um, if I think about wanting to own something, I'm going that direction, whether
00:15:46.360I like it or not. So I have to be careful now, now that I understand the power that I have and the,
00:15:50.760the way that my, my subconscious works, I have to be very careful with the things that I put
00:15:55.600it right there because if i'm going for something over here but i put this right here is something
00:15:59.460that i really want i'm feeling the emotions of accomplishing that goal you better believe i'm
00:16:04.080going that direction and it might sidetrack me from going this way so uh oh i like that yeah
00:16:09.420interesting okay i like that that would have sounded way out there to me uh probably a while
00:16:17.260ago now probably more like eight years ago right but i've had similar strange experiences now
00:16:22.760nothing to the degree of like helicopter but um i had my dad was always very set on goal setting
00:16:28.840right like write out what you want and then aim towards it and you'll get there right but i always
00:16:33.580thought that was because when you think about something then subconsciously you work towards
00:16:37.580it whether or not you're thinking about it right and that could be part of it but i i did have an
00:16:41.960experience right before dad got really sick i wrote out i was like what do i want i've got some
00:16:47.040opportunity here i didn't have very much money but i was like i'll work really hard what what do i
00:16:51.860want. And I wrote like 12 things about what I wanted and then put my journal away. And then
00:16:57.340dad got really sick. And I didn't look at that journal for another year and a half. And I really
00:17:01.600had spent most of my time taking care of my dad. So I hadn't been focusing on work at all, really,
00:17:06.060but I had accomplished all the things I'd written down in the journal. Right. And I was like, oh,
00:17:10.820that's really strange. Right. Because I, it wasn't something I looked at every day. It was something
00:17:15.140that I'd thought of like once was like, no, I really want these, but I don't really have time
00:17:20.380right now because i was taking care of dad um there's definitely like i don't exactly know how
00:17:25.600reality works but it's definitely strange right so i see what you're saying the thing is it's not
00:17:32.520it's not reality because reality is is what most people grow up thinking you got to set goals and
00:17:38.300you got to work towards them and you know you're slowly checking things off that list um you know
00:17:43.880the the real reality of of how things work and how people that are ambitious and have the ability
00:17:52.200to manifest things that all happens like i said subconsciously it happens without us knowing it
00:17:59.060but it's deep down inside of us i think it i think it boils down to emotions um if you can feel
00:18:05.220something you can have it even if you don't have it and this is that's a it's a pretty elementary
00:18:10.220concept, but if you really dig into it, you know, take, for example, anxiety. There's a lot of people
00:18:17.540that struggle with anxiety and fear and, you know, borderline depression, even if they're not
00:18:23.600clinically diagnosed. Well, one day when I was talking to a friend who had, you know, he was
00:18:30.960talking to me about some anxiety that he had and some issues, I was hearing him out. And after the
00:18:36.820conversation I said listen this may sound crazy and you know no offense but your anxiety sounds
00:18:43.380a lot like excitement to me because the emotion is kind of the same if you think about it if you're
00:18:48.540excited about something you get those butterflies you get like your heart rate you know increases
00:18:52.780and you get kind of in a go mode well anxiety does the same type of thing physiologically to you you
00:18:59.940know your heart rate increases but the problem is it's how you're framing it so I learned I just
00:19:05.660learned this on my own and later on confirmed through different teachings that anxiety and
00:19:11.300excitement can be the same thing. It just depends on how you frame it in your mind and what you
00:19:17.400turn that thought and that feeling into. So if I was ever feeling anxious, I can take that anxiety
00:19:23.380and I can turn it into excitement or one of my goals. It's just a matter of what I'm thinking
00:19:27.560about. If I'm anxious about, you know, in the early days of our business, making payroll and
00:19:32.140being concerned, I could turn that anxiety into an excitement for when we got paid on a big deal
00:19:38.880or whatever it was. And it was a small shift, but instantly my day would become better. And I would
00:19:44.660just not allow those negative thoughts that were attached to that emotion to be there. Instead,
00:19:50.440I would just move a positive thought over to the same emotion, the same feeling, and boom,
00:19:54.520everything just got better, easier, and less resistance. I think that's ultimately what it
00:19:59.500goes down to is if you focus on resistance you're gonna run into a hell of a lot of resistance it's
00:20:05.320just that's just the way it goes you know it's so funny and people think that this is uh people
00:20:10.700think sometimes that these concepts are voodoo or a little bit out there and uh i disagree
00:20:17.560completely because like we're talking with with the queen you were literally just yesterday
00:20:22.860thinking about that now does that mean that you put the queen in the hospital no but that means
00:20:26.980that there was some sort of very unpopular some sort of wavelength that connected there for you
00:20:32.660and you kind of felt or knew or thought of something before it even happened because
00:20:38.240you know whatever happened to her was going to happen a long time ago you just caught
00:20:43.820you caught a hold of that energy yeah i think that wavelength that energy that frequency
00:20:48.680you caught a hold of it i really think that's the absolute truth and it's no different than
00:20:53.980a radio in your car, when you change the channel, you're catching different frequencies, which are
00:20:57.520different songs. Well, that's something that a man invented, right? Or, or, you know, people
00:21:01.420created a radio and that's something that's primitive and simple. Imagine the things that
00:21:06.600we can't see and that we don't understand. They're out there. I think we're just giant antennas,
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00:26:32.520I knew that it was happening and I just sat back and said, all right, let's do this.
00:26:36.400Because I was told kind of what to expect and kind of how to handle it.
00:26:40.180And I didn't want to try to steer this journey, right?
00:26:42.680I didn't want to go in there and say, oh, I got to do this. I got to do that. Because I went in
00:26:46.000there just knowing that if something needed to come out, it would come out and I would deal with
00:26:50.320it. And literally it just took me on a kind of a, a wild 10,000 foot view of my life starting when
00:26:58.380I was a kid. And it just started bringing up weird little childhood memories that I didn't really
00:27:03.320even know that I remembered. And grownup Dave saw those memories like, oh, that's, that's a
00:27:11.560concern like that's that's it that was a trauma that was an issue that was something that stuck
00:27:15.460with you that's not an issue and I was able to go stamp stamp stamp stamp and just basically go
00:27:20.100one traumatic memory at a time and say that's okay that's okay that's okay and the one that
00:27:26.600stood out the most to me was my mom dropping me off for the first well pretty much the whole
00:27:31.480first year of kindergarten like I hated that for some reason I just felt abandoned I like I was
00:27:37.560total mom's boy. I was the youngest. And apparently that was something that really,
00:27:41.620really stuck with me. And it caused me to act certain ways, even as I got older,
00:27:45.680as a fear of abandonment. So I was able to take a look at that and say, Hey, like little Dave,
00:27:51.100you're okay. Like your mom still loved you. She was, she picked you up from school. Everything
00:27:54.680was okay. Everything worked out. You didn't understand it then, but you understand it now.
00:27:58.480So that's, that's why I think ayahuasca is so cool because rather than just seeing shapes and
00:28:03.480colors. And I did see shapes and colors, but you also had a purpose. I was able to go in there and
00:28:08.800do some actual work on myself that I didn't know needed to be done. So that was my psychedelic
00:28:13.940experience. Um, and it was everybody, you know, people who do ayahuasca typically do it multiple
00:28:19.260times because they love to be able to go in there after I was done. I knew that I was done. I knew
00:28:24.860that I didn't need to do it again because that's just the confirmation that I got, but I'll tell
00:28:29.880you this the days and weeks after doing ayahuasca is some of my like like 2020 vision it is the most
00:28:39.480crystal clear you'll ever see and feel and think so that was that was pretty much it do you have
00:28:45.980advice for say men in their early 20s yes um the world is a way different place now than when i was
00:28:56.400my 20s um it's interesting because a really good example of this is when i was in my early 20s
00:29:04.000nascar was still like huge like the one of the highest paid biggest money you know sports out
00:29:11.120there um you know 10 15 years later nascar is all but dead i mean the the audience isn't there and
00:29:18.080so that's the reason i bring up that example is because something as big and as as um eclectic
00:29:24.720and exciting as, you know, being a NASCAR fan can change and it can go away. And so you have to
00:29:31.020realize that the world is not the same place that it was when your brother was in his twenties or
00:29:35.680your dad was in his twenties. And so for me, it is the best thing that you can do. And it's really
00:29:45.200hard sometimes is reach out and find opportunities to help the other people around you accomplish
00:29:54.960what they want and that that sounds kind of generic but i'll dive in a little bit deeper
00:29:58.160it's if you have friends or family or co-workers start to ask questions about
00:30:04.960what they're working towards and what they want because if you start lifting up the people that
00:30:13.040you're around even and i don't mean like it doesn't have to be big grand things but
00:30:16.880learning and caring um i think empathy is something that is kind of very rare these days
00:30:26.140um simply because there's a lot of you know division in our cultures and whether just whether
00:30:33.300be in the u.s or other countries there's a lot of division and people are being taught that if
00:30:38.080if you don't see or act the world in the world the way that I do or act the way that I do
00:30:43.680that's bad and you're part of that tribe and it's like a bunch of tribal warfare so
00:30:51.400learn what other people are working towards and help them accomplish those goals and understand
00:30:59.980that if you have the tribal mentality of this is my lane and that's your lane and you're different
00:31:09.100than me and mine mine is better because this this this that that is very toxic thinking and
00:31:16.020uh one way to kind of cure that is this is what i did because we're members of the church of
00:31:22.460jesus christ aka the mormons um when we were 19 we get sent to other countries to go uh act as
00:31:29.120missionaries. So when I was 19, I got sent down to the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia in Brazil.
00:31:34.300And I lived in a mud shack and I learned, I learned the value of, you know, a plate of rice
00:31:41.140and beans. And I learned that in most other countries, they eat the bones and the chicken
00:31:46.440and they, they don't waste anything. So immerse yourself in cultures that are completely different
00:31:53.960than yours. I like that. I think that is the number one thing that somebody could do as a
00:31:57.640young person without family and responsibility go put yourself you know be a foreign exchange student
00:32:03.760go go work abroad whatever you can do because that will open your eyes to humanity it'll it'll
00:32:12.580help you better understand why it's so important to to realize that you're not just like your lane
00:32:22.580isn't the only correct one and your tribe isn't the only correct one go just literally dive as
00:32:30.180deep as you can into it because everybody i've ever met and known that's done that is a better
00:32:35.460person for it and they have better people skills and they have a better understanding of how and
00:32:40.420why things happen and it's uh it's hard because in this day and age we get what we consume so we get
00:32:51.540more and more of what we consume based off of what the algorithm wants to give us everybody
00:32:55.540has social media right and if i like dogs and i click on a dog it's going to give me more dogs
00:33:01.620and so if i am clicking on things that are negative or not healthy for me it's going to
00:33:06.340continue to serve more and more of that which is why i stay away from um party politics it's it's
00:33:12.980the most like if you think about it it is the most primitive caveman thing in the entire world
00:33:21.840like the way that the republicans the democrats talk about each other it is wild and we're sitting
00:33:28.580here putting up with it so i think a lot of that type of thinking would go away if if people just
00:33:34.820get out there and experience like yeah what your life is like you know what i mean so that's my
00:33:41.100best advice. It's get out there and serve, help other people because everything else just falls
00:33:46.080into place. That's what I did. I'm not a smart guy. I'm not a super talented guy. I'm not a guy
00:33:50.040with a ton of training. I just put myself out there and I wanted to figure out how to help
00:33:55.180other people, whether it was being a missionary and teaching about the gospel or going out and
00:34:00.300helping with flood relief in Texas and New Orleans. If you do that, I'm telling you,
00:34:06.040you can be the dumbest least talented person in the room and you'll probably be the most successful
00:34:11.480that is i really like that yeah it worked for me that's my that's my story i i really i really
00:34:17.900agree with that too i think it's like i thought i was i like i'm a pretty open person and i was
00:34:23.600like i'm pretty open right and i'm not very conservative so but when i traveled and went
00:34:29.620to cultures that were like vastly different and i mean like not like going to different places in
00:34:34.480the us or to like london or something i mean like going to eastern europe or something yeah um i was
00:34:40.860i was like blown away at how different cultures are like it it shocked me and i was like 26 at
00:34:48.360that point so it's not like i was 20 and like my eyes opened i was just like oh people are a lot
00:34:53.880more different than i thought they could be from each other and it doesn't mean that one way is
00:34:57.460right no it means it means that every way has its beauties every every culture has so many
00:35:04.200beautiful things about it. So why would we, again, it goes back to that caveman mentality.
00:35:10.340Why would we sit in our own little circle and hyper-focus on the things that we don't like
00:35:15.640about other people when instead we could expand our thinking and go focus on the beautiful things
00:35:22.140about other people? It's literally the exact same amount of effort, if not easier, to focus on the
00:35:27.440beautiful things. And you become such a happier person. You become somebody that people want to
00:35:32.820be around think about this if for any of your listeners if you're having struggles in your
00:35:40.340social life if you're having strife and arguments and constant you know feel like you're always
00:35:45.860running into a wall think about what you're focusing on in you know a bunch of different
00:35:53.000areas okay take uh take sports take politics take your hobby take your neighborhood take work
00:36:00.280take all the different things and think about what you think about most okay if you're thinking
00:36:06.420about work and you you are always constantly thinking about how bad you hate that job and
00:36:10.920you can't wait to get a new job well it's easy to take that and flip it and and think about how
00:36:18.140awesome your new job could be and how what you're doing now is going to be just a step to get you
00:36:22.900there it's these are small moments of reframing the way that you view hey okay okay i've got a
00:36:28.660I've got a comment on that. Um, uh, I think I was working on an app for a while that I decided not
00:36:35.040to release, um, cause I'm working on something else. But what the app did is it helped you
00:36:40.060identify areas in your life. So like your relationship, your career, your health, and
00:36:45.780then it helped it. It measured how happy you were on each of those scales. So like maybe you score
00:36:50.840a three on your relationship cause you're not happy with your relationship. So you identify
00:36:54.100where the problems are in your life and then you take that problem and you figure out the steps you
00:37:00.420need to take in order to solve that problem so rather than thinking of the problem as some sort
00:37:04.960of thing that's going to be stuck with you forever that's going to make your life fail you just
00:37:08.900reframe it and turn it into oh well that's what I should be working towards solving and it turns
00:37:14.120it into kind of more like a more positive problem than just this thing that's weighing you down
00:37:19.680um and i think part of the way i got out of having the autoimmune disorder was i was like okay well
00:37:25.300i'm stuck with this like this is me i'm stuck with it and it was ruining my life like every
00:37:31.000aspect of my life and so i decided to figure out you know do whatever i needed to do to fix it
00:37:36.800right but anyway thank goodness it worked so there's a there's a simple way to do that and
00:37:43.200that's exactly what i'm trying to what i'm what you're saying to me right now is exactly
00:37:47.000what people need to do and exactly what i started doing and the very most basic simple way to do
00:37:53.520that is to do this wake up start your day as soon as something hits you uh that creates for me it's
00:38:02.620dread dread is my most dread and frustration are my two most powerful emotions that cause me to do
00:38:08.060stupid things and they and they they literally i feel like when i feel those two things i'm in a
00:38:13.320cement box and i can't move and i can't make any progress catalog those emotions or those feelings
00:38:19.980or those triggers if if going down the road from here's one actually that i cataloged um i learned
00:38:27.400this from a from a hypnotist um and not like the guy at the carnival but like an actual like
00:38:33.040therapeutic hypnotist that does um hypnosis on people for that's cool to help overcome things
00:38:38.320and he said look just just grab a hold of whatever that that negative thing is throughout the day
00:38:42.860uh and for me the first thing i noticed was a pothole on the on the road down from my house
00:38:47.260i would hit it every single day and it would just instantly like there'd be a rattle and a shake in
00:38:50.960my truck and it just pissed me off and i would let it piss me off and and i didn't realize that
00:38:55.760i was letting it piss me off he says take those things all those triggers throughout the day
00:38:59.820look at them grab them acknowledge them and then put them on a shelf behind you doesn't mean that
00:39:06.200you're doesn't mean that you're erasing them or or ignoring them or but it also doesn't mean that
00:39:12.060you're giving them a ton of time and attention. Take it, acknowledge it, recognize it, make a
00:39:16.660mental note of it and put it on a shelf. Throughout the day, grab those little things that you're
00:39:20.940catching yourself feeling, whether like I said, they're negative emotions or negative things that
00:39:25.940you're thinking or seeing and just put them on a shelf. And at the end of the day, you'll be able
00:39:30.840to look back and you'll realize that the shelf isn't nearly as full as you thought it was,
00:39:35.800especially if you're in a really bad place. If you're in a really bad mindset, you're going to
00:39:40.320that your shelf is going to be chock full of of all sorts of different things it's not my i had
00:39:46.640like four items on my shelf that really were things that were just triggering me and i thought
00:39:52.400that i i thought if you would have asked me back then i would have said i got a hundred things that
00:39:56.480are bothering me i didn't it's usually the same thing over and over again just presenting itself
00:40:01.680in different forms so um i think a very powerful exercise is to recognize it acknowledge it um
00:40:09.600because if you try to bury it we all know what happens it's just gonna you know come back out
00:40:14.080even stronger and and nastier but if you acknowledge it and give a little bit of time
00:40:18.420and say you're right that is that is something that's affecting me and then you set it aside to
00:40:22.380be able to to then work through it is it is one of the most powerful things i've ever done um
00:40:29.220and so it goes right back to what you were saying is it's where we're looking is where we're going
00:40:36.460right if you're driving your car and you're looking down the road you're going to go down
00:40:39.300road but if you're looking over you know in a field you'll start to drift off you're looking
00:40:44.740down at your phone you'll start to drift and it's it's it's so simple and that sounds way
00:40:49.060too simple but i promise you that is the way it works what you're looking at whether it be
00:40:55.220physically with your eyes or mentally with your emotions and thoughts that's where you're going
00:41:00.900so just be aware of what those things are what you think about is what you become that's where
00:41:05.300where you end up. I like that. Okay, Dave, if people are not familiar with you, where should
00:41:14.460they go online to find you? So YouTube is where we're doing a lot of our most relevant content
00:41:20.620right now. I have a Instagram at Heavy D Sparks, Facebook page. It's called Heavy D. Both those
00:41:26.760pages are verified. They've got like three to four million followers on each of them. So you'll be
00:41:30.780able to know which one they are um but youtube is is the really fun one for me right now and that's
00:41:35.400one where you'll be able to get a better idea of what i say when i say that i'm not just a truck
00:41:40.920guy like you know one day we're looking for the body of a missing person and the next day we're
00:41:46.140finding the body of a missing person and the next day we're we're jumping monster trucks it's just a
00:41:50.600it's a smorgasbord of of our life and and the best part about it is we became one of the fastest
00:41:56.960growing youtube channels in the world uh when we started posting back in end of 2020 um you know
00:42:04.160we're growing every month it's anywhere between 100 to 200 000 new subscribers wow um and it's
00:42:09.840because we're creating content for everybody you know the crime junkie moms that stay home and
00:42:15.440listen to murder podcasts all day all the way to the gear heads to the old guys that wish they were
00:42:20.960gold miners we we do it all and it's not forced it's not me looking for like hey how can I talk
00:42:27.320to this group how can I talk to that group it's me saying oh wow that gold mine is really cool I
00:42:31.800want to go explore it next thing you know boom it's blowing up so definitely check out the
00:42:36.160YouTube channel Heavy D Sparks there's stuff on there for literally everyone and and you may not
00:42:41.540believe me but once you go to the channel even you Michaela I think you would go there and you
00:42:44.940would be like wow this is I had no idea that I was interested in you know this missing person
00:42:50.160or whatever it is or or the exploration of an old mine um and one thing i'm really proud of
00:42:56.300is the cinematography i've got an incredible media team and every single video that we make
00:43:04.100whether it's just a dumb stunt or something very meaningful feels like a miniature movie and that's
00:43:10.300cool yeah so that's something we're really proud of and we're we're continuing to get into that
00:43:13.520We're getting ready to do some mini docu-series on some really twisted stuff that's happened with missing people and stuff that we're aware of.
00:43:23.620Stuff that you would see like on Netflix, but we're just going to do it for free and put it on YouTube because it's good practice for us.
00:43:29.800And we want to continue to sharpen that axe and get really, really good.
00:43:33.680So long story short, I think I went from being, you know, a TV automotive entertainer to, I want to be a storyteller.