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Cameron Hanes - Keep Hammering Collective

KHC 162 - Whistlin’ Diesel

Cameron Hanes - Keep Hammering Collective

Cameron Hanes

Health & Fitness, Sports

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Whistlin’ Diesel (Cody Detwiler) - YouTube content creator and personality best known for publishing a variety of videos about motor vehicles including cars, trucks, bulldozers, farm equipment, and off-roading vehicles. His videos have been viewed more than 1.7 billion times. Cody Detwiler aka Whistlin’ Diesel sits down with Cameron Hanes for an almost 2-hour no-holds-barred conversation. From growing up as a Jehovah's Witness and getting shunned by his friends and some family, to accidentally blowing up on YouTube, burning supercars, why the court is trying to get him for tax evasion, and how he’s still dreaming way bigger. This is the most open he’s ever been! Follow along: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cameronrhanes  Twitter: https://twitter.com/cameronhanes  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camhanes/  Website: https://www.cameronhanes.com  Follow WhistlinDiesel: https://www.youtube.com/@whistlindiesel  Timestamps: 00:00:00 – Growing Up as a Jehovah Witness to the Video That Started His Career 00:09:40 – Breaking Away from Jehovah Witnesses, Being Shunned, & Paving Dreams  00:12:35 – YouTubers that Inspired Cody to Start YouTube 00:16:56 – Tax Evasion: What Really Happened 00:25:45 – Gag Order: The Court’s Trying to Get Cody to Shut Up 00:30:41 – Setting a Ferrari on Fire 00:36:18 – Cam’s Car that Started on Fire, Cybertrucks, and Electric Vehicles 00:41:53 – What’s Wrong with America’s Authoritarian System 00:50:48 – Euphoria and Gratitude for the Journey 00:56:34 – Cody’s Faith & Family 01:05:37 – Play Big. Lose Big: Negativity from Followers 01:12:09 – Climbing Mountains as a Kid to Climbing Grand Teton 01:20:57 – Cody’s Russian Girlfriend in Dubai 01:26:12 – Dreaming Bigger to Help Those in Need & Give Back 01:35:16 – Small Town Mindsets, Visual Success, & Focusing on Your Goals 01:41:17 – Engaging Clips & Learning from Mr. Beast 01:45:04 – F**k, Mary, Kill: Monster Truck, Killdozer, Ferrari  01:49:40 – Final Thoughts Thank you to our sponsors: LMNT: Visit https://drinklmnt.com/cam for a free sample pack with any purchase Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% your first order Ketone IQ: https://www.ketone.com/Cam use code CAM for 30% off your first subscription Grizzly Coolers: https://www.grizzlycoolers.com/ use code KEEPHAMMERING for 20% off Hoyt: http://bit.ly/3Zdamyv use code CAM for 10% offSig Sauer: https://www.sigsauer.com/ use code CAM10 for 10% off optics

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every step I take I move my truth.

0:02.0

Every time they tell me stop I use.

0:04.0

Every comment hate that makes my feel, gather up my energy and boom.

0:08.0

I had them talking, saying the way that I move it's so reckless.

0:10.0

That is a part of my mind I've been blessed with.

0:12.0

Giving my blood so I am relentless.

0:14.0

This is the Keep Hamry Collective with Cody DeWiler, right?

0:19.0

DeWiler.

0:20.0

DeWiler. I've never, I've never, I guess I've

0:24.2

never known your last name. Just Whistle and Diesel. I usually go by diesel or something like that.

0:29.7

Whistle and Diesel, right? Yeah, sure. Where does that come from? That was a random Instagram name I

0:35.0

picked like seven years ago just because I was I made an Instagram page for my truck

0:38.6

Yeah, I just kept it from the beginning so well for me that's all I've ever known is whistle and diesel

0:43.6

But I did know Cody because we have corresponded like over the years a couple times yeah yeah

0:48.6

Yeah, so so tell me about like tell me about how you grew up

0:53.4

You grew up right here no I grew up. Did you grow up right here?

0:55.0

No, no, I grew up in Indiana, like a small town in Indiana.

0:57.5

Oh, okay.

0:58.4

It was like maybe 5,000 people.

1:01.4

It's called Argus, Indiana, and there's just like rolling farmland.

1:05.5

A lot of Amish people, a really quiet place to grow up.

1:10.7

Not very well off, but people are like happy because it's just

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