He's doing OKAY but I no longer talk to him on my regular phone because he refuses to get a proper job to cover his apparent living expenses and I just don't have high hopes for his continued success. I wish him the best but he'd be SO much safer rigging up a landscape trailer to the back of his truck and having some way to show how he's paying for his house and all the expensive custom metal fabrication on his off-road vehicle...
So another word of advice, if it happens that you do some day find yourself in the position where you're actually profiting off this hobby, don't let your lifestyle run away with ya. That 6 year old pickup truck on the used car lot will get you around town just as well as the tinted Benz next to it...