Colton McKivitz
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah, another build they did, we created the world's biggest donut that was livable inside. It was basically like a house. Was it edible too? Unfortunately not. Oh. But- But it was cool.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
It was a big circular house and it was shaped like a donut and it took them like four months to build. Oh, is this y'all?
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Where was that at? It was off the coast of North Carolina.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
And we also did a video in Iceland. We flew to the world's most dangerous lighthouse out there. You have to take another helicopter out in the middle of the ocean in Iceland. It's just this little tiny landing pad that only one pilot can fly there.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah, just go to YouTube, type in JSTU, J-S-T-U. That's our main YouTube channel. Yep.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
You know, we're hunters, you know, love waterfowl hunting. And we had watched, you know, the Duckman videos and Duck Commander and obviously Duck Dynasty and everything. And so we felt a connection. But the real connection was through the Unashamed podcast.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
That was kind of, you know, where we really connected, you know, God and church and kind of our fellowship with the Lord was through the Unashamed. You know, you guys think like us, you look like us. Like that's where our connection was and what drew us.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
us to duck commander um and then my dad had a dream of um that was kind of his thing was to be baptized by you guys oh really yeah a couple years ago he he asked me he's like i think it was rookie year sometime you brought up that you want to be baptized by by the duck man i was like all right you know It's kind of a pipe dream when you think about it. That's a long way for us to go.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
How do those paths meet? Sure enough, one of the owners at the Niners, I wore a Duck Commander sweatshirt, his place in Idaho up on a mountain, and he said, you want to meet him? And I kind of looked at it funny. I was like, you never know when you take someone's word for if they know somebody. And I was like, all right, whatever.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
And through growing in the word and getting closer to God, I learned to ask for help. And sure enough, I asked him. I was like, all right, let's see what this is about, if he really knows it. Sure enough, a week later, he's like, hey, you ready to go to Louisiana? and meet the duck man and get baptized. And I was like, all right, let's go. Um, you know, I listened side.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
One of the coolest thing was it was, you know, I knew it was God talking to me. Um, you know, he said we were going, I was like, okay, you know, let's plan it out. And a couple of days later I listened to one of the unashamed podcast and you happened to be on it. And, um, you know, you said that if someone put a revolver in my head, um, You said, pull the trigger. He said, I'm ready to go.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah, and I just, you know, our quarterback, Brock Purdy, like you said earlier, you know, he kind of said the same thing. We were talking about the end of the world and revelations and, He's like, all right, let's go. I'm ready to go. Like, why not? And, uh, you know, I wasn't there in my life. Um, and that kind of struck me. I was like, man, I gotta fix this. Like I ain't ready to go, you know?
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Um, and then that happened. And then, you know, sure enough last night, you know, Jace was kind enough to let us in and, you know, take us in as kind of family. And, you know, we, we went through the word and, um, about an hour, you know, talking about what baptism really means and, Your old self dies. He referred to his pool as a graveyard. There's a funeral. Yeah, there's a funeral.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
I haven't seen it, but I know of it.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
That was the big game. We had to receive our first touchdown. Okay. Hit them with the horns out. They were throwing flags left and right.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah. I'm going to LSU either. Just the athletes nowadays.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
I mean, these kids are in weight rooms at nine, 10. I mean, I didn't touch a weight till sophomore, junior year of high school. I didn't know what a weight was. Yeah.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Practice is pretty hard, but games, he makes it easy, man.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
He'll get a few days off, so those are the nice ones. But when he's on, man, it's game on. It takes everything in you. Oh, yeah.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah, I mean, it's exactly like that. You've got your few who are very outspoken. And a lot of it is guys are just there to play football and collect checks and don't want to kind of deal with that side of it. Yeah, they're there to do their job. Yeah, exactly.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah, exactly. But, I mean, it's a pretty strong community. There's a lot of guys in faith. And, I mean, we have a pretty strong cohort with the Niners. Yeah. You know, they do our, um, our study every night after on Saturdays before games and everything. So, okay. I mean, there's a good community of guys that, you know, who are believers. So I got like a chaplain. No. Yeah.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
you know, July to February 11th. It's a long time together. You go through a lot of things and having that kind of structure is huge for a team.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah, absolutely. Our, uh, uh, my family growing up, our Christmas tradition was to get Duck Dynasty DVDs, whatever the current season was, we'd watch it all Christmas morning. So this is, this is awesome being here.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
There's 53 on the active and then 16 P squad guys.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
I mean, it's all God's timing and God's will. There's a reason we're here today. Earlier I got to share with a high school kind of my story, and that was my first time telling it. It's just there's a reason we were put here today, and there's a reason we connected and met, and that's all God's will.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Thursday night match, and it's everywhere. Yes, man. Yes.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Then you get the paperwork because you submit the play, and then two days later they're like, ah, sorry we messed up. Yeah.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
I mean, it took us probably, what, three or four months to write the book? Who's there? But yeah, we just kind of went back through some of the videos that we've done and kind of explored the lessons that God was teaching us through the creation of the video or the process or whatever. So there's a bunch of stories in there from just like us personally or from the videos we've done.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Loosen up and have some fun for crying out loud. Absolutely. Yeah. Like on our videos, like we're grown men, but we're still kids at heart. We're still grown. That's what we're building.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Yeah, I think that part of it is like just researching, trying to find weird locations that either people haven't been to or don't do very often. But then sometimes it's like, yeah, we built a roller coaster in our backyard. It's just like, what would be like a dream that you could do? Even like as a kid, it's like, what would be the coolest thing ever?
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
It's like now we're adults and we can just do it.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
We just like making each other laugh. So it's like we were going to film school because we wanted to be in the entertainment industry doing YouTube like on the side. And once that started growing, it's like, yeah, we didn't have any thought of like, oh, this could be a business.
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JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date
Like the roller coaster. We could be like, oh, we want to build a roller coaster, but we can't build. We need someone else who can build to make it cool.