Ryans Near Death Experience, Fan CRASHED At Our Shop, & Ben VS Evan

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV – June 9, 2026 Episode: Ryan’s Near Death Experience, Fan CRASHED At Our Shop, & Ben vs Evan

SUMMARY

Main Theme/Overview

This week, the CboysTV crew returns with a jam-packed episode featuring tales from recent adventures, their bachelor party escapades, a harrowing near-death experience for Ryan, a wild burnout-machine crash at their shop, hot takes on grilling, golf, and shorts, plus classic Cboys banter about tattoos, grilling, larping, and more. Expect plenty of laughs, candid stories, and behind-the-scenes group dynamics as CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Mike catch up and recount some truly wild moments.

Table of Contents

• Shorts Debate, Tattoos, & Gym Guy Stories (01:12–11:01)
• Dirt Bikes, Bachelor Party Recap & Golf Culture (11:03–22:05)
• Ticks, Grilling, and Hot Dog Stand Banter (22:05–35:36)
• Reading, School, and AI Chat (35:36–44:14)
• MrBeast’s Plane Winner–Now Drug Runner? (44:14–47:10)
• Weed Laws, THC Drinks, and Zorba’s Love (47:10–51:47)
• Shop News: Zorba’s Fire Truck & Ryan’s Hydroplaning Scare (51:47–56:25)
• Burnout Engine Crash: Fan’s Near-Disaster at the Compound (60:13–68:32)
• Medieval LARPing, Renaissance Fests, & Hot Dog Truths (68:32–75:17)
• Fishing Pole Rescue and Racecar Merch Talk (75:27–77:25)
• Closing Moments and Teasers (77:27–End)

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Shorts Debate, Tattoos, & Gym Guy Stories
(01:12–11:01)

• The episode opens with classic group laughs, jumping into a spirited debate about the trend of “short shorts” for men.
  • CJ: “CJ also started that saying this short, short trend has gone too far.” (02:52)
  • Evan: “I just think they’re a little too short… Kids are wearing damn near capris now.” (03:08)
• Gym tales: The crew discusses the notorious “jacked guy” at their gym who wears what basically amount to underwear. Ben suggests if you’re that jacked, you can get away with anything, but Evan disagrees: “I don’t know if being jacked makes it okay…” (05:37)
• Tattoo bonding stories: The group relives their shared “Life Wide Open” tattoos and brand love from fans.
  • Evan reflects on getting his tattoo after the group: “It actually worked out in my favor because I got to, like, see your guys’s, and I was like, theirs is too high…” (07:40)
  • Ben: “There’s really no greater honor than somebody wanting to get a tattoo of our brand on their body for the rest of their life.” (08:27)

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Dirt Bikes, Bachelor Party Recap & Golf Culture
(11:03–22:05)

• Evan’s new dirt bike is revealed, sparking detailed dirt bike chat (11:03–13:03)
  • CJ and Ben nerd out over new 327cc fuel-injected two-strokes vs. legacy models and emissions talk.
• The crew recaps a wild bachelor party with golf, Zorbas trips, and hot weather.
  • Ryan: “I played 36 holes of golf this weekend.” (14:07)
  • Evan: “How I fit into this crew is… guys I went to school with, and the other half were guys Ryan met in college… like three Venn diagrams of friends.” (15:35)
• Quick commentary on golf culture’s current popularity and “grow/shrink the sport” debate.
  • Ryan: “It’s not a problem if you play bad as long as you play fast.” (17:59)
• Ken’s golf style: loses a ball, just drops another to keep up the pace.
  • CJ: “If it goes into the grass, I just give up and drop a ball.” (21:36)

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Ticks, Grilling, and Hot Dog Stand Banter
(22:05–35:36)

• Ticks are rampant in Minnesota; the notorious “alpha-gal” red meat allergy is discussed.
  • Ryan: “You can get a tick bite, and then you’re allergic to red meat.” (23:28)
• Grilling chat: Swap grilling war stories, love for traditional propane grills, debate over smashburgers vs. thick burgers, and the “Blackstone” trend.
  • Ben: “See, that’s like… Well, I think they’re all going toward the Traegers. No, the fryers. Blackstone!” (27:54)
  • CJ: “Maybe unpopular opinion, but with the Blackstones being so huge, I don’t really like smash burgers.” (29:20)
• CJ shares bachelor party grill-master stories (“Not a good look for the knife guy…” 31:57) and why he keeps giving his knives away.
• Mike reflects on giving a dirt bike hat to a kid, only to learn he can’t read it. Ben confesses his struggle with reading in school (“I had to get pulled out of class and go and, like, read in this closet.” 35:09)

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Reading, School, and AI Chat
(35:36–44:14)

• The group reminisces about school, AR reading points, and cheating with SparkNotes and Chegg.
  • CJ: “There’s a display case in the hallway… you’d see these, like, oh, I gotta read this book.” (36:48)
• Ryan mentions the rise and fall of Chegg, replaced by AI. (“Apparently now kids aren’t using Chegg because of AI.” 39:15)
• Spirited chat about how AI (ChatGPT) is already changing the way students learn and cheat, and whether learning the “old way” even matters anymore.
  • Ben: “I don’t know if you need to absorb half the shit you learn in school, in high school.” (40:58)
  • CJ: “If these kids are learning how to use AI and get true life skills, that’s realistically how it’s going to be.” (41:15)

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MrBeast’s Plane Winner–Now Drug Runner?
(44:14–47:10)

• Ben shares the news that the pilot who won MrBeast’s ‘last to leave the plane’ YouTube challenge was recently busted for trafficking $3.6 million in weed in Paraguay.
  • Ben: “I just saw that this pilot that got the jet from MrBeast… was arrested for moving drugs.” (44:34)
• Group riffs on how times change, the economics of legal vs. street weed, and regulation woes.

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Weed Laws, THC Drinks, and Zorba’s Love
(47:10–51:47)

• Evan observes: “Now it’s like you go to the grocery store, you can get some THC drinks. Isn’t that weird?” (48:09)
• Crew laughs about how THC seltzers and lounges have popped up, even in casinos and bars—how quickly the stigma around weed vanished.
• Zorba’s—local pizza spot—is celebrated as the group’s homebase and, unintentionally, a viral hangout for CboysTV fans.
  • Ben: “Any of the Zorba’s TikToks… all the comments are just like, ‘Where are the Cboys?’” (51:02)

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Shop News: Zorba’s Fire Truck & Ryan’s Hydroplaning Scare
(51:47–56:25)

• The team is offered an old Zorba’s fire truck (which doesn’t run) for their next project.
  • Mike shows off photos: “It used to be a fire truck. Now it’s like a surf beach truck.” (53:04)
  • CJ: “If only we had a team that could easily put any motor we wanted into that puppy.”
• Ryan recounts his near-death hydroplaning experience:
  • “I hit this puddle… no exaggeration, was looking out the right side window in my car before I even knew what happened. At 80 miles an hour…” (54:18)
  • “I’m going to attribute… 3% to me been ripping on the Corvette lately and drifting it, 97% to pure luck.” (57:05)

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Burnout Engine Crash: Fan’s Near-Disaster at the Compound
(60:13–68:32)

• Ben details a terrifying accident with a fan at the shop: Dom (“Speed Freaks”) brought his 600hp engine-on-wheels burnout buggy, then immediately crashed it into a tree during filming.
  • “He just comes out hot… doing donuts already… Drifts this thing completely sideways into the trees.” (61:33)
  • “He crawls out and proceeds to go, ‘My legs are broken.’ And not a single one of us questioned it…” (62:46)
• Wild hospital trip: The group rushes him to the ER, convinced he’s badly injured. Miraculously, after hours, he walks out under his own power—just a “double dead leg.”
  • “It was a complete 180 from what we were expecting…” (66:13)

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Medieval LARPing, Renaissance Fests, & Hot Dog Truths
(68:32–75:17)

• Ryan introduces “larping”—from medieval battles to modern “fake flexing” in Lamborghinis. (69:00–73:24)
  • Evan: “These guys were born in the wrong century, not just era.”
• The conversation devolves into hot dog and bratwurst banter (with classic Cboys irreverence).
  • Mike: “I like them for the shape.” (74:39)
  • CJ: “Do you know how you know if you’re at a gay picnic?” (75:02…classic Cboys TV edginess)

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Fishing Pole Rescue and Racecar Merch Talk
(75:27–77:25)

• CJ tells a family fishing story: snags and recovers a lost fishing pole that still had a lunker bass on the line.
  • “So I grabbed a spoon, cast it around for 10 minutes, end up catching the pole that has a fish on it…” (75:44)
• Mike reveals making his own race car merch on ChatGPT—classic second place jokes.

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Closing Moments and Teasers
(77:27–End)

• Group jokes about their fabricators (Big Wrench and Gavin) doing an awkward photoshoot; more behind-the-scenes family humor.
• Ben forgets his “big topic”—teasing content for next week: “There was something. I know there was something…” (79:20)
• Ryan reminds listeners about the CboysTV million subscribers “bowl cut” commitment and new muscle car giveaway. (79:34)
• Next week’s plans: Octane Fest recap and “something important” that Ben forgot.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “There’s really no greater honor than somebody wanting to get a tattoo of our brand on their body for the rest of their life.” – Ben (08:27)
• “Holy crap, Ryan!” – Ben, after Ryan’s hydroplane story (55:08)
• “He crawls out and proceeds to go, ‘My legs are broken.’ And not a single one of us questioned it…” – Ben (62:46)
• “These guys were born in the wrong century, not just era.” – Evan (72:07)
• “I like them [hot dogs] for the shape.” – Mike (74:39)

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For Fans and New Listeners This episode is a quintessential CboysTV experience: hilarious, honest, and unexpectedly thoughtful, mixing wild adventure tales, group dynamics, hot takes, and heart. If you want CboysTV’s real-life behind the scenes—this is a must-listen (or must-read).

Transcript

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[Ryan]

you were flipping that knife around and you cut yourself.

[Evan]

Yeah, I did.

[Ryan]

That's not a good look for the knife guy.

[Mike]

I don't love hot dogs as much

[Ben]

as everybody thinks I do. I was a bad reader. I. I had to like, get pulled out of class and go and like read in this closet.

[Ryan]

I. I almost died on Sunday. No exaggeration. Was looking out the right side window in my car at 80 miles an hour.

[Ben]

Are we going to talk about what happened filming last week

[Evan]

and don't you come? No.

[Ben]

Your system, Mike.

[Ryan]

Yeah, get it out, get it out. Get it out, Mike. You don't want to sit.

[Ben]

Better tits. Well, you could have saved that. You didn't have to. Get that out. Ken, anything you want to get out?

[Ken]

Ooh, nothing that I want recorded.

[Ben]

Smart.

[CJ]

Hurry up. Let one rip.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Ken gets up and goes to the bathroom. We're like, not that.

[Ben]

Not that. Well, we're back, boys. We're back.

[Mike]

Back for now.

[Ryan]

That we are.

[Mike]

It's getting back in black. You're back in black. I see.

[CJ]

I didn't really realize that, but yeah, I'm pretty murdered out.

[Ben]

Dude. Evan's. Evan's been out. Just hitting the boys hard if he doesn't approve of their. Their outfits. It's. It's summer, you know, shorts. Shorts are. Evan's not holding Back on his opinions of they're too short.

[CJ]

I almost think that CJ's had maybe the more vocal opinions. I've certainly agreed.

[Mike]

Me.

[Evan]

Yes.

[CJ]

I've never said anything negative about yours.

[Ben]

And that was cj.

[CJ]

CJ was the one ripping you a new one.

[Mike]

He also was.

[CJ]

And I was just like, yeah, Jack

[Mike]

was just minding his own business. And you go, your shorts, man. What are you doing?

[CJ]

Someone else.

[Mike]

I think he said they were gay.

[Ben]

I think it was.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

CJ also started that saying this short, short trend has gone too far.

[Ben]

Started.

[Evan]

I do agree. I mean, I've been vocal about the short, short Trend since about 2015. I just think they're a little too short.

[Mike]

Tough though, because like you're literally rocking them right now.

[Evan]

No, I'm talking short.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Evan]

But these hang to the top of my knee.

[Mike]

Evan, these aren't short shorts. Looked me for the same length shorts as.

[CJ]

I think you're blacking out.

[Ben]

That was cj. I remember, on the track.

[Mike]

I remember that too.

[CJ]

Was it on the track?

[Mike]

When did I do it before that?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, I don't actually even remember anything about that. I thought it was just really. Just roasting Jack for his short shorts, which was pretty warranted. I will say that they were pretty short Jack, but I don't think they were.

[Evan]

Pop up a picture like the stereotypical frat dude in 2015 with like the salmon colored pink shorts. Like that shit's what I'm talking about. Like, I'm just like, I'm glad that trend is gone. And now it's like five beyond that. Cuz you look at like what the kids are wearing, they're like damn near Capri now.

[CJ]

He pulled his shorts down and they're still eight inches above his knees and he pulled them down.

[Mike]

I think we can all agree. I think we can all agree that 5 inch inseam isn't okay.

[Ben]

I don't know. Is that where. Yeah, where are we putting this at? You know, where's the inseam at?

[Ken]

5 inch is definitely. I would consider short. 7. I think 7 to 8. Those are like 5 inch. Those are too short.

[CJ]

If you don't got 5 inches in your shorts, then I guess you can get away wearing them that short.

[Ken]

Your inseam is good, but your tightness is just.

[Ben]

Yeah, EVs got. EVs got other problems. You know, the length is one thing, but the tightness, the, the moose knuckle. Ev is just. I mean, it's damn near. You got to give a warning before walking into some of these rooms.

[Mike]

But this is funny how full circle it went, because if you guys have noticed, maybe in the couple last six videos a couple times, Dalton's like, ken, your shorts are so short. When Dalton actually rolled in at 18 years old and told us, all of us we need to get shorter shorts and was rocking damn near underwear for sure.

[Ben]

You know?

[Mike]

Yeah, he's.

[Ben]

He's definitely changed a lot in the last two years.

[Mike]

You're welcome.

[Evan]

Some of these shorts that are being worn, if you were wearing a little bit too long of a shirt, it looks like you're not wearing pants. Yeah. Like, I mean, that is too much, in my opinion. That's just too much.

[Ben]

There's a guy at the gym. He's older guy, but he is jacked. I know you guys know who I'm talking about.

[Ryan]

Exactly.

[Ben]

And I swear he wears underwear.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I saw him. They got smaller from last year.

[Ben]

They're shorter. It's like, damn near not even past, like. It's damn near like Speedo almost.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's got him kind of hiked.

[Ben]

But I. I mean, it's tough because it's like, if you're that jacked, you

[Ken]

can kind of just get away with it.

[Ben]

Yeah, you can kind of do whatever you're doing.

[Evan]

Really? I don't know if you're jacked if that makes it okay. I just.

[Ken]

I think it's different when you're in the gym than when you're just walking around.

[Evan]

If it's like a performance thing, but I don't really know what kind of performance you're gaining by that.

[Ryan]

Cj, I have noticed your shorts have gotten a little shorter now that you're. You got the tattoo popping. I feel like I've noticed the. The short will occasionally get pulled up, so I will tattoo a little bit. No, those look fine. Those look fine. I'm just saying, occasionally I'll notice you're sitting, and then it'll just be like this.

[Evan]

Well, yeah, it's slight.

[Ryan]

Show it off.

[Evan]

Sitting like this.

[Ben]

Mine really has to be like, I went to, like, I got to be

[Ryan]

wearing, like, mine says wide open laundry's like, can you just either have it not show or it says, life wide

[Evan]

open laundry does not.

[Ben]

Like, Ryan, you just can't win.

[Ryan]

Well, that's just. I just. I just. Mine's just a little too high. And So I like CJ's placement.

[Mike]

No, say. I was going to say, like, yours is in the primo spot. Cody Sherbrooke's is also way down.

[CJ]

Cody's Always running his.

[Mike]

Yeah. I remember you being like, I want

[Ben]

it to be pretty high.

[Mike]

You know, it's going to be hidden. And same for, like, dude, I just regret putting it.

[Ryan]

You could get another one right below it.

[Mike]

The same thing as a joke. I've entertained that idea. I'm like, what if I just rocked another one?

[Ben]

Dude, I will say this. I did a way better job of drawing all of your guys's tattoos than my own. Like, my. Mine doesn't even look like any of yours. I. I was so drunk when I did mine. It doesn't have the. The same style angle. Everyone else thinks that you can talk

[CJ]

about being drunk and getting your life wide open tattoo. We all did well, me, me, Mike,

[Ben]

and Cody, we're more drunk. All right. Takes away from me, though.

[CJ]

You're talking about your drawing. Ours are.

[Ben]

Yours is good. I think you're great.

[Mike]

You think?

[Ben]

You think I actually.

[CJ]

Yours is, like, not good.

[Ben]

No, I think yours is more of, like, the standard of what all of them look like without the X. Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

But one. But mine was like. I was just like, one eye open and.

[Mike]

Sturgis, yours is good too.

[Evan]

Yeah. I'm glad you did a good job drawing mine.

[Ben]

I did a great. Yeah, yours is really good. Yours is really good.

[Evan]

And I was mad that you guys would go out and get them without me after sending me back to the hotel, saying, you're gonna meet me there. But I will say. I will say it worked out in my favor because I kind of got to, like, see your guys's, and I was like, theirs is too high. Like, I wanted it right here. But I also saw Cody's. His is, too, in my opinion, a little bit low. So I was like. Even in my drunkenness after Gavin got married, I knew, okay, I need it, like, in this vicinity. And it turned out great. Also, it helped being at an actual tattoo parlor, not just a tent on the side of the street.

[Mike]

Or it was.

[Evan]

Or leaning up. Leaning up on.

[Ryan]

It was a restaurant converted into a

[Evan]

tattoo shop or whatever, you know?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Or just our tattoo gun sitting on our pool table. So I got lucky. It actually worked out in my favor.

[Ben]

There's really no greater honor than somebody wanting to get a tattoo of our brand on their body for the rest.

[Evan]

There's a lot of them, though.

[Ben]

I know it's crazy, but it's like, dude, what an honor.

[CJ]

Fortunately enough, I feel like a lot of people can look at it, and if they don't know, they're not like, oh, you have a brand.

[Evan]

Yeah, it's more of a slogan meaning

[Ben]

or, you know, I agree.

[CJ]

It makes it a lot easier to, like, get the brand when it.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's a slogan. It's. It, like, represents something. It's not just like a brand that's

[Evan]

magic, but like Nike's logo on your arm or something.

[Ben]

Right. Then it's like, what are we doing here? Put it on your forehead and at least charge them. Send them an invoice for some marketing.

[Mike]

Have you seen Nate's?

[Ben]

Our.

[Mike]

One of our merch workers, dude, he

[Ben]

had that before he worked for us, which is. Yeah, actually.

[Evan]

Cool, man.

[CJ]

I feel bad. I didn't see what's up with his.

[Evan]

Looks great on the side.

[Mike]

Your hat logo. Like, thick, right on his rib cage. It goes hard.

[CJ]

Heck, yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. And he had that way before. He still think it's crazy.

[CJ]

Uncle Rich might have the gnarliest one. It's a little bit different than what, But, I mean, his is. His is a true work of art.

[Ben]

Yeah, it is. Yeah. He definitely put the most time and effort into his tattoo. Like, ours are like scribbles. You could even call it where his is like a full on SE Boys logo off of a T shirt onto his skin.

[Ryan]

He didn't have you there to draw it. So he was like, well, what am

[CJ]

I going to do?

[Ryan]

Just got to pick a logo.

[Ben]

Yep. And then he was like, all right, I ran a Seabo one. You get a puppies and coffee one. I was like, uncle Rich, I. I feel like a dick saying no, because you got ours. I do appreciate that, but it's a big commitment.

[Ryan]

Shout out puppies and coffee.

[Ben]

Yeah, shout out Uncle Rich's puppies and coffee.

[Ryan]

Maybe not. Put it on my ankle.

[Ben]

Come on, Ryan.

[Mike]

Ankle.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[CJ]

Tramp stamp.

[Mike]

No.

[Ryan]

I'm not a big fan of the butt. The male butt tattoo. Honestly, a lot of guys out there lower. Lower backs even.

[Ben]

Who the. Do you know that's got a. A male that has a tramp stamp?

[Ryan]

Not. I don't know any that have tramp stamps, but I know of quite a few that have butt tattoos, and a lot of them are. They're pretty funny.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's fully committed. You know, that's fully committed.

[Ryan]

I for sure Rich had more tattoos on his leg than just that one. I love that he crepes on it. That's insane.

[Ben]

Yeah. If you got to start saying crepes again, dude, for the sake of Uncle Rich, you can't let crepes die.

[Ken]

It's kind of like the butt Tattoo nobody will ever see. Unless you actually want to show them it.

[Ryan]

I. I don't have a good butt. I don't want.

[CJ]

You know who definitely doesn't need a butt tattoo?

[Mike]

Sh.

[CJ]

He has no butts.

[Ben]

Shreds. Where do I put it?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Ev, I saw that you got a new dirt bike. Congratulations. It's good to see. Actually. I saw that and I was like

[CJ]

the kids back on a super pumped shout out base camp out of Billings, Montana. Sean hooked it up. That's super sick.

[Mike]

And that would be why it's not

[CJ]

orange, why it's not a Suzuki. Also, this has been probably two plus years in the works.

[Ben]

Yeah. You getting off of electric?

[CJ]

Kawasaki has been teasing.

[Ben]

Oh, now you want a Kawasaki?

[CJ]

Listen, Kawasaki's been teasing that they're going to drop a two stroke and there'll be constant posts that pop up and it's just troll posts. Like Honda's drop in a two stroke. Shit's not gonna happen. Kawasaki literally today. Or was it last night?

[Ben]

Today, yeah.

[CJ]

Drops a 327 fuel injected two stroke motocross bike.

[Ben]

Damn sick. But that three, would that have changed?

[CJ]

I mean, do I want one? Of course. But does that change the fact that I got a brand new Yamaha 450 Anniversary Edition? Absolutely not.

[Ben]

No.

[CJ]

It's the sickest bike ever.

[Ben]

Hold on. No. So they, they dropped a 327.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Bigger.

[Ben]

Bigger than a my KTM. What's the equivalent of that in like a four stroke? Like a 500.

[CJ]

I mean they're just trying to make it keep up with a 254 stroke at this point.

[Ben]

What?

[CJ]

The 254 strokes have literally like surpassed the 252 stroke. Back in the day a 252 stroke and a 454 stroke were comparable. But the four stroke technology is just so far. I mean maybe the 327 I guess would be making a run at the 450, but it's just.

[Ben]

Didn't they stop making two strokes because of regulations and emissions and so why are they allowed to now?

[CJ]

Well, I think this is how they have to find a way to be able to meet emissions and still make a two stroke. Got it. And I think it was patents too. Like with fuel injection systems. Like once KTM locks something in, I think it's hard or you know, every. Yeah.

[Mike]

So it's. It's like fuel injected. So that's sick.

[Ben]

Nice.

[CJ]

I think it looks great.

[Ryan]

It's a great. It is a good looking bike. Speaking of going from 250 to 450. How did Deeks do this weekend? I. I meant to watch it. I was on the course.

[Ben]

He took. He took fifth. Right. And then Jet Lawrence took fourth, I believe.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Ben]

I think that was the ranking. But, dude, that was the first time I've, like, ever. Ever cared about, like, an outdoor moto race like that. Like, after it happened, I was busy. I didn't watch the race. But as soon as it was done, like, I was. I was looking up, like, who won. Like, I was just, like, invested. Like, there's so much talk between the two. I don't know. I think it's, like, amazing for the

[Mike]

sport, getting people going in there, too. I mean, it's like, between those two, amazing. And then there's, like, 10 other contenders.

[Ben]

Dude, people just love to see a

[Ryan]

good beef, especially with racing.

[Ben]

It just.

[Ryan]

It's fun to have because, I mean, everybody's competing, but it's fun to have, like, two people that you're either rooting for against or makes the whole thing more interesting, especially with dirt. By G. We were out on the course. C.J. and I were at a bachelor party this weekend, and so I played. I played 36 holes of golf this weekend.

[Ben]

That had to have sucked for you.

[CJ]

36.

[Mike]

I don't believe it.

[Ben]

Play, like, 72.

[Ryan]

Yeah, everybody else played more the day before, but that was on Thursday. We were working, but I was out there on the course, and I was watching it, and they were like, oh, this, like, goes for a while. And I go, yeah, like, the last two holes, three holes, we've been playing, like, they have been running wide open the whole time, people. Non dirt bike guys were impressed. They were like, damn, that's, like, a lot of stamina. Because they were all. They were watching soccer or some. Some team sport. And I was like, look at that guy. He's standing there doing nothing. I go, look at this guy. He's hitting whips and triples.

[Ben]

Like, dude, they're the most fit athletes. Yeah, they say, like, I would watching

[Mike]

the outdoor, like, it's sick because they go faster, but there's so many braking bumps and so many ruts and so many, like, yeah, Intense.

[CJ]

It just looks make supercrust seem pretty smooth.

[Ben]

It does.

[Mike]

Obviously it takes way more technical riding.

[CJ]

Timing. Yeah, timing.

[Mike]

But, like, do the ruts and the braking bumps in outdoor. Looks so brutal.

[Ben]

How was your guys's bachelor party weekend?

[Mike]

It looked awesome.

[Evan]

So fun.

[Ben]

You guys do it pretty big.

[Evan]

So get this. So, like, it was a combined bachelor party. Two of our friends and I would Say, how I fit into this crew is some of these guys were, like, my best friends in high school. Like, kid guys I went to school with. And then the other half were, like, guys that now Ryan met in college. So, like, we kind of.

[Ben]

You guys came from two separate.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there was, like, three Venn diagrams of friends that all overlapped, but it

[Evan]

was, like, an awesome crew. Like, probably 22. Two guys. And we were basically golfing, staying at this cabin resort thing. And then there was a Zorbas in the area, so we were hitting Zorbas two nights in a row. Running up hard, man. Yeah, I feel like I was still

[Ben]

talking about you there.

[Evan]

Right, guys?

[Ryan]

Not good things.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was fun. It was just a lot of fun. And. Yeah, I mean, I don't really know

[Ben]

if I had much to say.

[Ryan]

I just. I just was. I just.

[Mike]

Was anybody bundled?

[Ryan]

Oh, dude, everybody was bundled.

[Ben]

Everyone.

[Ryan]

CJ and I did our best to make sure everyone was bundled by the end of the night.

[CJ]

Did you behave on the golf course to some extent?

[Ryan]

Yeah, we did. I played. When I got there Friday morning, I was like, all right, I have more golf to play today than I've probably ever played in my life.

[Ben]

The last place you kind of calls it. Yeah.

[Evan]

By like or.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm pretty much done. So I'm like, All right, it's 95 degrees. I can't black out like I did at Ben's bachelor party. I'm gonna actually try to play some golf. And I. I think you guys would have been proud. I mean, I. I had a couple double bogeys. I had one par.

[Evan]

That's good. He was in the group ahead of me. I was surprised he was playing, like, after whole nine. I kind of figured he'd have been just, like, you know, I'd peek ahead. I just kind of figured he'd just be sitting in the cart drinking a beer. Yeah, just. But he was swinging, and it seemed like he was, like, on the green at the same time as other people. And, yeah, I was telling me a

[Ryan]

little more to get there.

[Evan]

Good job. It's fun.

[Mike]

I was surprised he was playing bad. I was surprised he's playing well. No, I was surprised he was playing at all.

[Evan]

Yeah, I figured he would have tossed the towel. And it was so goddamn hot the first day.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was, dude.

[Ben]

I've been seeing comments on just, like, different golf videos saying, like, shrink the sport. Like, golfers that are, like, purists and maybe hard, more hardcore golfers are trying to get the new guys back out.

[Ryan]

We.

[Ben]

I Was actually, courses are busy and it like, like golf is kind of like a new hyped up thing that like everyone's doing. And like the guys that have been golfing, the golfers are like, get these guys out off my course.

[Ryan]

I actually golfed with the first day. Poor guy, dude. I hadn't seen him in a few years. And he's the GM of a golf course, like a very nice golf course around here. I'm like, dude, I'm sorry. I go, it's gonna be a problem today. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna do my best.

[Evan]

But like, this guy's getting a mile. Ryan's in at 10ft. Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

And so he was like, no, it's okay. And basically we had a conversation after hole three and he was like, it doesn't, it's not a problem if you play bad as long as you play fast, which I like. I don't even bother fake setting up for the shot. I go, what the hell is it gonna matter? I'm gonna whack it. And it's either gonna go good or it's gonna go bad. And we talked about like, what's your take on growing the sport, shrinking the sport? And he was like, listen, as a manager of a course, it's a double headed thing where we want more people to play. But he goes, there's a lot of people that come out on bachelor parties that are like, really disrespectful. And he's like, dude, as long as people are respectful on the course, it's good that more people are playing. Because he's like, it could have died. Like bowling or some, you know.

[CJ]

Well, I mean, it's hard to compare golf to bowling.

[Ryan]

I don't know, an old man sport.

[CJ]

I, I do agree with what you're saying.

[Ryan]

So he, he was like, no, I don't think the sport should be shrunk. But he is like, like anything. 5% of the people should not play.

[Evan]

Dude, I will say one thing. I'm so you. I'm tainted to like golfing during the week. When I go to the course, I can get my own cartoon whether I'm with two or three. You guys, you know that wildflower is so good to us.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

They give us our own cards. We can play nine holes in 45, 50 minutes and there's no one in front of us, whatever. If I go golfing, say on a Saturday, me, grandparon, whoever, we go to a different course or, or really just any course, just because that's when people have time to go. Like, I'm like, what the is this? Like, we're waiting around. You gotta, like, wait at the next hole for them to get far enough the head so you can hit. Like, if that's how it was always when I'd go, gol know if I'd like it that much. Like, I don't like the waiting part.

[Ben]

Yeah, I guess it depends, like, what you got to do that day. Like, if that's the. That's what you're doing, you know.

[Evan]

But if you're like, more than four hours, I'm out.

[CJ]

Yeah, but I agree with what CJ's saying. Like, I don't like to overthink it. When you can just drive up to your ball, you know, check your yardage, grab a club, hit it, and keep moving. And then you do that throughout the week. And that's just how you're used to playing. Now when you double your time, you get to your ball and you stand there for 5 minutes, 10 minutes to hit. I think it throws your whole program off. Like, now I'm overthinking, and I'm just. I like to just keep things moving, right?

[Mike]

And I said before that even when I'm playing fast, I'm not playing fast enough. So I don't know.

[Ben]

I don't know what's going on there, Mike, you just. You just operate at a different speed.

[Mike]

I do, but, like, it's funny. Like, even when I'm like. I get to my ball, pull out my club, hit it, and then, like. Like I said, I lose my ball a lot.

[Ben]

So that's.

[Mike]

That's where most of my time goes, now that I think of it.

[Ken]

I definitely feel like I can play a lot faster when I'm in the cart alone, and I can just go straight to my ball. So I go to somebody else's ball, I just lose my ball.

[Ben]

Ken actually is a pretty fast golfer because he, like, damn near doesn't even give himself enough time to, like, put the ball on the tee. Like, if he misses the tee on the first time, it just falls off and it's right there. He's just like. It's all the same. He's just hit it off the deck.

[Evan]

He doesn't even look for right. He just goes and drops after he hits it. Like, he needs roughly 100 balls.

[Mike]

He's like.

[Ben]

It's like one. It's like, it's. Realistically, you probably get three shots per ball. Like, you probably go through, what, at least 20, 20 balls, at least a

[Ken]

solid 12 and an 18, 12 and a 9.

[Ben]

Sounds about 24. 24, dude.

[Ryan]

Expensive for Ken.

[Ben]

Golf course loves to see Ken coming, though.

[Ken]

I do a lot better in the spring when the grass is short and I can find the ball in the grass. If it goes into the grass, I just give up and drop a ball.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, that's good, Ken. You're keeping the pace. Play moving.

[CJ]

And I agree. Sometimes when I'm out there playing with my buddies, they're playing. Not that it really matters, but it's like a golf ball. It's not like a brand new pro V that you kind of want to find. And I watch this thing go 100 yards into the rhubarb. So it's just like, don't even attempt. Yeah, like, like just. Just drop the ball and let's keep moving. They're wandering around the brush, stumbling, getting picker bushes cut up on the leg.

[Ben]

He's like, what are you doing?

[CJ]

Let's just keep moving.

[Ben]

Bad year for wood ticks too. Been seeing that.

[Mike]

Don't get those yesterday if you get

[Evan]

bit with this new. Yeah, I learned about that strain. That's the deer ticks of lime. It can cause you to not be able to red meat. What was that? I didn't look into it, but just one. I heard that's like a thing.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Bill Gates made it or some

[Ben]

like that surprise me.

[Evan]

But I wouldn't doubt it.

[CJ]

But in general, it's the deer ticks that are the problem. Yeah, the problem. The wood ticks are actually.

[Ben]

That's just a bad tick season in general, I think.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, I've been getting. The wood ticks are crazy. But you don't really have to worry

[Ben]

about them little bastards.

[CJ]

They're just annoying. It's gross. I pull. I had one on the back of my ear for long enough though. When I finally got it, it was like white. Like a pumpkin.

[Ben]

No.

[CJ]

So you're like. That sucker was on there for probably 24 hours.

[Evan]

I remember pulling kick off one of my buddies when we were little kids. It was in his hair and it looked like a blueberry. Oh, it looked like a blueberry. Dude, it was so bad.

[Mike]

I used to pull those off my dog, like all the time. But on a person is. This is different.

[Evan]

When it's a blueberry, you just know

[CJ]

you were carrying that thing for like a day. Like, how did I not notice that it was.

[Ryan]

But I'm looking up right now. But it's called like the Alpha galaxy tick or Alpha gal syndrome. If this certain type of tick bites you. You're allergic to red meat.

[Evan]

How much would that suck?

[Ryan]

You can't eat steak. You took steak and burgers from me and all I had to eat was chicken and fish. That would suck.

[Evan]

I'd be. I'd be fine.

[Ryan]

I'd be cooked.

[Mike]

I think I have like high cholesterol, so it wouldn't be the end of the world.

[Evan]

You have high cholesterol, Mike?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You just finding all the hot dogs?

[Ryan]

Yeah, dude.

[Mike]

I do eat a lot of, like, salty.

[Evan]

You're kind of a fat.

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[Evan]

Ass food guy though.

[CJ]

Anyone else craving a nice ribeye right now?

[Ryan]

Yeah, now we talk about this meat.

[Evan]

Dude, honestly, if you're ever not feeling that good, this is like my thing. I do Go to the gym and then just go grill a steak. I swear you'll feel better afterwards. Just go lift some weights, eat a steak. Everything will be okay.

[Ben]

Dude, I just got a new grill.

[Mike]

Really fired up.

[Ben]

What'd you get pretty fired up? Nothing like crazy.

[CJ]

Just Weber propane, charcoal pellet.

[Ben]

Oh, propane. Yeah, I got like natural gas like propane.

[Ryan]

Propane plumbed into my house and propane accessory.

[CJ]

Taste the meat, not the heat. I. I approve.

[Ben]

Okay, nice. Good. All right. That's great.

[Mike]

Just so much. I mean, just like cars or anything. Like the grill I have, my grandparents had and then it went to my sister and then it went to me and I'm talking this thing might be like 189@ Walmart. Like it is so crappy, but it's

[Evan]

rusted or how many years?

[Mike]

Yes. Oh, no. I mean not like, not the greatest, but like they're. Yeah, the burners are like starting to disintegrate because. Yeah, and it's just like, it's literally like a tiny ass cheap ass grill. But it just keeps working.

[Evan]

Dude, I was running like a hand me down grill from my. My parents old grill for the longest time too. Like, and I realized the grates were like kind of rusted and like everything underneath was kind of. And I was just like, what am I doing? Like, I Just went and got a new grill. It was like 200 bucks. So, you know, like, just for something decent, I was pretty surprised by the

[Ben]

price of a new grill. It was. Yeah, mine was like 213 or something.

[Ryan]

People aren't grilling anymore, I guess.

[Mike]

Huh.

[CJ]

See, that's like.

[Ben]

Well, I think they're all going to the Traegers. No, the. The fryers.

[Mike]

Blackstone.

[Ben]

Thank you for how that's.

[Ryan]

Honestly, I'm kind of on that, cuz I'm.

[Evan]

That's Mike with his high cholesterol. He's got a fryer.

[Ben]

That's how he's making his steak.

[Evan]

Slicing his. His fries.

[Ryan]

Dude. One of my friends was building an outdoor kitchen at their. Or like somebody that I know built this outdoor kitchen at their house, and they have a deep fryer in their outdoor kitchen. I go, how much you love frying food?

[CJ]

Are they catching fish?

[Mike]

Sounds amazing.

[Ryan]

That's what it is. But I was like, let's put some Oreos in that thing.

[Ben]

Bringing his own snacks over.

[Ryan]

Oh, cool if I fry these.

[CJ]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but with the Blackstones being so huge, I don't really like smash burgers.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

That's why.

[CJ]

Why squeeze all the juice into.

[Evan]

I'm not a smash burger guy either. I don't like how they're so thin. Like there's just like. I just don't like them.

[CJ]

I have it. I'm like, man, we could have just made a nice half pound cheeseburger and it tasted fucking delicious. But only have three dried up.

[Evan]

Three little shiny, like, crunchy.

[Mike]

The double smash burger I have at Freddy's is arguably way juicier than most burgers.

[Ryan]

The way it's. The way you cook it, you're supposed to sear it. So the meat.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

But then outside's.

[Ben]

Seared burgers are gas.

[Mike]

But I get not. Not being into them.

[CJ]

Yeah, I mean, I'll definitely eat them, but I'm going to take a thick, juicy burger.

[Evan]

Same. I'm here with you, you know, so my parents, they have a trigger grill, you know, with the pellets or whatever. And so it's a smoker technically. Isn't that what it is? It just takes. So, like, since my house has been getting remodeled, I've been living there. And I'll make my steaks on there because I don't have a normal grill. Takes so goddamn long to heat up. Especially in the winter because it's, you know, negative 30 up here. And everyone's gonna say, get the blanket, because that's what they Told me on my snapshot, it has the blanket on it. It just is one of those things. It just takes a long time. But if you're a guy like my dad, who's got plenty of free time, he's loving. This is. You know, it's just. It's a thing. But for me, who just got home from work, it's 8 o'.

[Ben]

Clock.

[Evan]

I don't want to wait 30 minutes for this thing to warm up and then another 20 minutes to smoke the steak. You know, like a normal propane grill. You do what, four and a half, five minutes on the other side and you're. You're dialed.

[Ben]

If you medium rare that you're ready to time.

[CJ]

You season your steak and then you come back out.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You just.

[Evan]

You're ready to go.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And that's why I just like it. Traditional grill.

[Ben]

This is funny.

[Evan]

Hank Hill, he would say the same thing. You don't need any of those.

[CJ]

You know, get the propane sometimes the vibe. Like when we go out camping and Slim fires up his smoker and he's got a bunch of racks of ribs and you sit around and drink beer for a couple hours and it's almost like an activity.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. If you're smoking, you're. You're pretty much just chalking it up for the day.

[Ryan]

The day.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That's like I'm smoking today.

[Ryan]

That actually reminds me. C.J. was grilling this weekend.

[Evan]

Dude. Yeah, I. I was, man. In the grill.

[Ryan]

He was. Which was great because somebody needed to take control. And I'm glad that there's a guy who's willing to cook. But I noticed something that happened this weekend. Cj, you were flipping that knife around and you cut yourself.

[Evan]

Yeah, I did.

[Ryan]

That's not a good look for the knife guy.

[Evan]

Well, it's hammered.

[Ryan]

I look over. CJ's bleeding all over the fog. What happened? He goes. Snapped it.

[Evan]

Yeah. I've actually officially ran out of knives because.

[Ben]

What.

[Evan]

I'll be at a place. Right. So I'm at. I mean, there is more, but they're not. They're kind of just. I know. I need to.

[CJ]

You were just asking for so many knives that come in after this. Ran out of.

[Ben]

Now where the. Did you. You literally yelled at. At at us for losing our knives.

[Evan]

Yeah, well, I didn't lose them. I didn't lose them.

[Ben]

You said if you're. If you lose your knife, you don't deserve one.

[Evan]

I know. No, if you lose it, you don't. I give them away because I'll Be, that's cool. I'll be in a place, I'll be at a place and people love to come up and go, cj, can you snap it? Or like whatever? And then I'll like pull it out and I'll do it and they'll be surprised that I have it on me. And they'll be like, give it a try. And then like, they'll like maybe do it or like I'll kind of show them. Like I just like flick like this, this. And I'm like, you can just have it. And I, I always leave and they're always like, what? Like they can't believe I'm giving them a knife.

[Ben]

She's a man of the people.

[Evan]

And I realized this weekend when I was at Zorbas and this guy came up, I just, I don't have much memory of it, but I know I gave him my knife and, and then I was like, I think that might have been my last like halfway decent one. So.

[Ben]

Geez, that's an expensive gift.

[Evan]

And it was like a sixty dollar thing.

[Ben]

But yeah, you're doing it every time.

[Evan]

I know.

[Ryan]

It's just what you do to get

[Evan]

them in a good mood and whatever,

[Ben]

you know, it usually they'll, they'll kid will come up and they're like, hey, can I have your hat?

[Evan]

Well, you know, they ain't getting my hat.

[Ben]

Exactly. So that's a good. How about this kid? How old are you?

[CJ]

Eight?

[Ben]

How about this knife?

[Mike]

Dude, that reminds me.

[Ryan]

I gave it comes home running with its out. Look what C.J. gave me.

[Ben]

Tell me how to snap it. It's still got his blood on it.

[Mike]

I think that's good. I think that sticks with people for a long time.

[Evan]

That's what I kind of think too.

[Ben]

I think a grandfather C.J. passing down knives.

[Mike]

I gave Sean, who was dropping Evans dirt bike off. He brought his son Axel and he's like five, six. And I'm, I'm like, he just had a birthday. I went and grabbed him a youth sized dirt bikes hat. I'm like, he's gonna love this because he's literally obsessed with dirt bikes. He's playing with a little YZ and I'm like, look what I got you. He like looks at it and he's, he's kind of funny and he's like, thanks. And then I put it on him and he's like, sweet. And then I was like, like, do you know what it says? He just like runs off and goes, no.

[Ryan]

Maybe the youth dirt bikes hat needs to Just be a picture of a dirt bike.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ben]

Maybe that'll make more sense.

[Mike]

Because I, like, showed it to him.

[Ben]

I'm like, look what it says.

[Mike]

And then he ran away. And I was like, it says dirt bikes.

[Ben]

He's like, how old are you when you're supposed to, like, know how to read?

[Mike]

Five.

[Ben]

Like, when you're. I say that lightly because some people still don't know how to like myself.

[Mike]

I should say, you learn how to read in kindergarten when you're five.

[Ben]

Interesting.

[CJ]

I mean, he probably could read. I think. He just didn't process.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You think you fully learn how to read when you're in kindergarten?

[Ryan]

Well, not Shakespeare.

[CJ]

No.

[Evan]

It's like, you.

[CJ]

You're going through elementary school.

[Evan]

It's a different second grade. You're reading Magic.

[Mike]

Yeah, I remember Base.

[Ben]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I was a bad reader.

[Ryan]

Knew that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was a bad reader. I. I had to, like, get pulled out of class and go and, like, read in this closet. Straight up, dude.

[Ryan]

Dude, I put you in the clock.

[Ben]

I would get pulled out of class and make a mark, and they would have me, like, read with a special teacher. Like, in a closet.

[Ryan]

Damn.

[Ben]

I was like, there's really no better place to do this.

[Ryan]

Just in a little windowless room. So there was no distraction next to the mop bucket. Yeah. They could distract you from. It was the janitor.

[Ben]

Yeah, you remember, I'll take you under my wing, swing boy. And then when he's all done, I'm walking out, he just shuts the door and goes. He's.

[Mike]

Dude, you guys have accelerated reading or whatever? Ar.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

What is that? Like,

[Mike]

yeah.

[CJ]

He was gift.

[Ben]

The gifted readers had a special room. I was in the closet, and the other kids got high school.

[Mike]

I'm like. I thought they called it accelerated reading because we had an AR store. So you just read books, take the test, get points, and then you could go.

[CJ]

There was a test on a computer you could get.

[Ben]

And how the hell do you know about this? Ev.

[Ryan]

Heaven has the highest iq.

[CJ]

I was. I was in elementary school, dude. I shredded. I was in the gifted talented program.

[Ben]

When you say shredded, define that.

[CJ]

I was the high level of re. Because there's the different colored dots.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And they worked away. And black was the high one. And I was ripping black at a young age because I wanted those points

[Evan]

so I could go.

[Mike]

You get bigger points for harder books.

[CJ]

Yep. And then you'd get prizes. And there's a display case, like, in the hallway. So anytime you walk down the hallway,

[Mike]

you would see These.

[CJ]

This, like. Like, oh, I gotta read this book.

[Mike]

Yeah, the fourth Harry Potter I can get.

[CJ]

Yeah, those were big points because they were long.

[Ben]

You were a nerd.

[CJ]

I never read Harry Potter.

[Mike]

Or if you read a really big book and then you'd, like, get excited to take the test and you, like, kind of bomb it. You don't, like, get that many points and you're like, what a waste of time.

[CJ]

Yeah, because points were like, if you got 100 on the test, you get the points it was worth. And then the shittier you did, the less points. And I remember a couple times, you know, maybe buddies, like, his points were up and I'm needed some points. I'm like, it. I'm just gonna take the test and only read half the book and then just bomb it. And then it's all waste because you could never redo it again. You know that time I did spend on that. Yeah. It was just all for nothing. All for nothing.

[Evan]

The listener can tell how well of readers we are by when we read the ad.

[Ben]

That's a good point. Yeah.

[Evan]

When. When everyone's reading that. That right there shows how good of

[Ryan]

a reader spending surprisingly low on that totem pole.

[Evan]

Well, the other thing is you can make cuts and you normally clean it

[Ryan]

up, but Spenny's Canadian. It's not his first language.

[Ben]

Yeah, he was.

[Evan]

He was riding dirt bikes. He wasn't reading books.

[Ryan]

Yeah, American. Wasn't his first language reading.

[Mike]

And now I'm pretty. Like, I'm pretty slow at reading, like, in comparison. Like, or when Sydney's reading something and I'm reading it too, she literally reads it twice as fast.

[Ben]

Yeah, I know.

[Mike]

And it stresses, actually, because I'm like, I'm trying again. I know I do things.

[CJ]

When's the last time you read, like, a book? Like, more than just, like, get a little information for something?

[Evan]

Like, last May, I read a full book. I read a couple full books. I don't even remember what they were.

[Ryan]

Evan Emmanuel doesn't count.

[CJ]

No, I know that's what I say, but. No, I mean, that's why you love

[Ben]

reading those things so much, huh? Yeah.

[Ryan]

Why?

[CJ]

Just because I like reading.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you got little pictures mixed in there, too.

[Ben]

Little comedy. A Chinese owner's manual is a little

[Mike]

bit of like, a bunch of short stories. Yeah.

[CJ]

Comedic relief. I don't mind that.

[Ben]

Last book I read was. I was a senior in high school probably. I still remember what it was. It was the Nike book.

[Ryan]

I watched the movie instead. It was entertaining.

[CJ]

Yeah. I was screwed in High school because I found out about Spark Notes. So you never bro had to read a book.

[Ryan]

I. I just got an email that the reason I passed college, I use this thing called chegg has ever heard of.

[Mike]

Check.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I paid for the premium check. I knew I. My whole career. Well, didn't. Not my career. My passing of college.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Wrote on it. And apparently now kids aren't using chegg because of AI. Yeah, AI stole chegg's job, obviously.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So yeah, I was like, damn, that's the first real.

[Ben]

And what did that email look like

[Evan]

that I thought they were going to tell you, like, you've been paying for it.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's what I thought. And are you still paying for it, Ryan?

[Ryan]

No, I'm not actually.

[Evan]

Which is surprising too.

[Ryan]

I. I do love a good subscription.

[Evan]

Love a good subscription. He doesn't use.

[Ryan]

But no, they just like emailed me and they were like, due to the onset of AI, like we're shifting focus. We're going to be like a research. Like they're just using chat GPTs integrated in their website. They're not storing all the data they used. Like people used to upload their tests.

[Mike]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Said you'd be like, all right, four is a. And it was easy.

[Ken]

It had like all the test answers.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It was lit.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Isn't that weird?

[Ken]

Every study guide.

[Evan]

What are we doing, dude?

[Ryan]

How are we doing here?

[Ben]

How do teachers even give students test or homework and then assume that they're not going to just go home and just take a picture of it, upload it to chat and just say, fill this out.

[Evan]

Well, it's kind of lazy on teachers because if they're all just running the same exact test best, like they're kind of doing the same.

[Mike]

Dude.

[Ben]

I think kids are just strictly getting by using chat or just any kind of.

[CJ]

I would be definitely. But I mean like with math, like when you show your work and stuff, even if you're copying it down, I feel like you're absorbing some of.

[Ben]

Dude, I don't think so. I don't think they're absorbing. And the honest truth of it is I don't know if they need to like, I don't know if you need to absorb half the that you learn in school. In high school.

[Mike]

I guess they have.

[Ben]

You know it. If you're learning. If these kids are learning how to use like AI and get true life, like that's realistically probably how it's gonna be. Like, you don't need to know the any of these algorithm things. That you're learning. In high school, I used to always

[Evan]

say, oh, what, you think you're just gonna have a calculator in your pocket?

[Mike]

I can.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we literally.

[CJ]

Better.

[Ben]

Yeah, way better.

[Ken]

I think there is value in people actually learning and having to, like, remember it and not just be so reliant

[Ben]

on technology, you know, value in it. But I'm being a realist here and looking at it of how it's going.

[Evan]

But it's learning how to solve a problem that's more so what it is. So it's like you get dealt these math problems. You got to kind of figure out the game on how to solve them.

[Ben]

You know, these kids are just solve it.

[Mike]

Okay, so use, use.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah. So you learn how to solve it one way or another. But still, that's how it is in life.

[Mike]

Being the devil's advocate to that. It's like maybe a math problem, you could just plug it in, get the answer, and have it show your work. And maybe you don't learn anything. But when you need to learn something, you use chat a lot. Right. Like when I have like a tax question or something, like a insurance question, I put it in a chat and then I learn from it.

[Ken]

But it's not always right. Like, it hallucinates stuff sometimes and just comes up with.

[Evan]

Even. Even before chat gbt though, you'd have to do your own research in some way, shape, or form.

[Mike]

So it's like if you have an A question you need an answer to, you read it. You might not retain 80 of it, but you do remember those key points that you were originally looking for.

[Ben]

Yeah. And Ken, I mean, saying that it's like, not correct for the most part. It probably is for the most part,

[Ken]

but like, for a lot of height,

[Ben]

I mean, that's how. That's kind of how anything is.

[Ken]

Like, if you're. You're asking like a high rate, like, you want to do your taxes. Right.

[Ben]

You shouldn't ask chat to do your taxes.

[Ken]

Some people out there are, oh, yeah,

[Evan]

I guess that's crazy.

[Ben]

Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, I think kids nowadays, they're obviously just relying on it more and more.

[Mike]

But I think it's cool. I use chat to ask the questions that teachers never taught me, you know,

[Ben]

or like, you don't learn half that ever.

[Mike]

Well, yeah, I guess you're right. But yeah, it's like, what. Why is it beneficial for me to set my business up as an S corp? If you ask like any high school teacher that they'd be like, what? I mean, you could maybe ask, I don't know, professional. Yeah, you'd have to find a professional.

[Evan]

Isn't it weird I. I said this to the, to the guys I was golfing with last weekend. How like quickly Chat GPT just became a part of everyone's lives. And like before that you had Google. But like, it is so much better than Google. I mean, it just might be one of the biggest advances we've dealt with in the last 10 years for sure. Like, I remember when Facebook and like Instagram and like, you know, there's just. Is pretty. How seamless. And it almost seems like it's been here this whole time, but it's really only been around for maybe like a year, obviously a little bit longer.

[Ben]

But I think it was the end of 22.

[Evan]

Widely adapted.

[Ben]

Yeah. Remember when we were sitting on this podcast and I was like, have you guys heard of Chat GPT? And then we popped it up and we were like, write me.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Story about.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Me and my friends doing something. Or like.

[Evan]

Yeah. I didn't really see what the benefit of it at that time when you're having to answer those questions. But yeah, it's crazy, dude, man. We're moving closer and closer to iRobot.

[Ben]

Did you guys ever see the YouTube video Mr. Beast did where it was like last to leave this airplane gets to keep it. And it was like a private jet and they had to like keep their hands on it. I think it was like a year ago maybe. I think it was like 100 pilots started by keeping their hand on the

[Ryan]

airplane in the plane or on the outside.

[Ben]

On the outside.

[CJ]

Oh, wow.

[Ben]

And it was like a four million dollar jet, maybe a two million dollar jet jet. I don't know. Nice jet, either way. And it ended up going to this, you know, guy that kept his hand on the longest. And I just saw that this pilot that got the jet from Mr. Beast by winning this challenge was arrested in Paraguay or something like some foreign country for moving drugs, for moving like hundreds of pounds a week. Yeah.

[Evan]

He was like, I already won. Now I'm gonna try and then take another shortcut.

[Ryan]

He's like, I'm gonna take this plane that Mr. Beast gave me and fly what can.

[Mike]

How can I make money with this plane? And then he's like going down the list and he's like, this one pays the Most.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. $3.6 million worth of weed.

[Evan]

So how much trouble is he in?

[Ben]

I think a lot.

[Mike]

I would say he's probably looking at like.

[Evan]

Can I see a picture of this guy?

[CJ]

I think that's him right there.

[Ryan]

500.

[Evan]

How old is he?

[CJ]

Did it say he was Jamaica? Oh, Jamaican from US.

[Mike]

He goes by Captain Treesy.

[Evan]

Wow.

[CJ]

261 kilograms.

[Evan]

So why are they, why are they like still.

[Ben]

That's wild.

[Evan]

Here's a question for some of the people on our podcast. With marijuana now legal in these states?

[CJ]

No, but I don't think what it just said there. They weren't bringing it to the states. They're probably maybe flying it around because some of those countries are super illegal down there still.

[Evan]

Okay.

[CJ]

I think, I don't know, like, still

[Evan]

seems to be like illegal growing or whatever marijuana. Like, isn't there still drug dealers selling marijuana even though you can technically just go get it out of.

[CJ]

Yeah, cuz it's way cheaper to get it on the streets.

[Ben]

And also, I mean, avoid the tax, man.

[Mike]

I'm now even starting to hear the classic. You know how it's just like, well, all these vegetables have this sprayed on it.

[Evan]

Yeah. They're saying that about marijuana.

[Mike]

Saying it about weed too.

[Evan]

I actually believe that. And dude, I, When I was in Sturgis, we were hanging with a bunch of those like riders and one of the guys said, his family, I don't know how much I could say, but you know, they, they do it legally though. And he was saying that the issue is that, the issue is that they spray all that on there.

[Ryan]

Oh, and they're smoking it.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

Like the pest.

[Ben]

Pesticides.

[Mike]

One more.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

But it's like very hard to keep

[CJ]

up with once the government starts regulating it. They poison it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, classic.

[Mike]

I just saw a thing like pass that. The FDA passed like a new chemical that can spray on like strawberries and tomatoes to make them last even longer. I was like, I thought we were going the other way.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Mike]

It is crazy to like make it last like a week longer.

[CJ]

So I'm sure there's some in other places in Minnesota, but this is the first one I've seen. The casino by my house has a marijuana lounge. Like a bar.

[Mike]

Yeah, I've been in there because it's on the res.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's just like a smoking bar, I imagine. Do they serve you?

[CJ]

I, I, I don't know. I'm gonna have to investigate. I just saw the big billboard for it.

[Mike]

I better not. I got it.

[Ben]

Well, it's like every bar you go into, you can get like the THC drinks now.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah. It's so crazy, man. That's another gas station. That's another thing. You know, I said, like, it's just like, Chad, GBT integrated so seamless. Like, it's like we've always had it same with this stuff. Stuff. Like, I remember in high school if, like, me and my friends got caught smoking weed. Our parents thought we were like, legitimately, like, they're. They're their whole life. Like, are they gonna start doing meth next? Like that kind of, you know, but. And now it's like, now it's like, you go to the grocery store, you can get some THC drinks. Isn't that weird?

[Ben]

It is.

[Evan]

How quickly it turned around. Like, oh, no, it's legal now in

[Ben]

like public, Public settings like that.

[Ryan]

I always thought it was weird, like, when you're at a bar and they have all like the. The brands of THC seltzers on the umbrellas.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

I was in. I was in like a. One of the nice restaurants around here, and they've got like, those umbrellas, and I'm like, can we just get like a year bar branded umbrella?

[Ben]

Like, instead of thc, they just gave them to them.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, I know.

[Mike]

There's a lot in it too.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. And then it's like, oh, we have

[Ben]

them, but, oh, Ryan, they're just stepping on your toes of promoting, huh? Doing sponsors. Yeah, hire me. I can come in for your bar.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ben]

Ryan just.

[Evan]

He leads a live ad read while everyone's eating dinner over a mic.

[Ryan]

Welcome to bar number or bar A. You're going to love the way that they have homegrown steaks.

[Mike]

Speaking of doing stuff while people are eating. When we pulled up to Zorba's at the end of the cheap car challenge, and you guys were so gung ho about, dude, let's, let's. This motor's cooked on the Z. Let's blow it up in the parking lot.

[Evan]

I didn't really want to.

[Mike]

I. Dude. And since, like I said, we talked

[CJ]

about it for an hour. You wanted to.

[Mike]

I had some, you know, was like, it's like Evan on a golf course, you know, he just. Sometimes he just doesn't. Like, there's certain things some people are okay with. And I was like, when you guys were revving, it was too much.

[Ryan]

You were rev bombing it out.

[Ben]

I. I couldn't.

[Evan]

I wanted to blow it up, but I said, dude, people are eating. And then everyone was like, there's not that many people in there. I was like, all right.

[Mike]

And they didn't.

[Ben]

They.

[Mike]

The Couple out there didn't care, but I was like, imagine being at a picnic table at a restaurant.

[Ben]

Someone's.

[Mike]

Someone's rev bombing their VQ 350, literally 25ft away.

[Evan]

I think it cleaned it out. We thought the thing was gonna blow up and we're gonna have to push it home now.

[Ben]

It's right.

[Evan]

And it. I think after that Italian tune up is just running like a topic.

[Ryan]

Power of the Italian tune up, baby.

[Ben]

That's a pretty good example of maybe we were just getting a little too comfortable, a little too excited.

[Ken]

It was a weak date.

[Mike]

It's.

[Ken]

It's better than if we did that on a Saturday.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, we actually wouldn't have done that.

[Evan]

Hey, shout out Zorbas. Shout out Zorbas. Pelican Lake. If you're ever in the area, go there. They got the best pizza, the best drinks, best burritos, and a great atmosphere. And you might even run into us. You'll likely run into us. So I apologize for rev bombing that car in your parking lot, but it's a great spot, so hopefully we can at least add up.

[Ben]

Yeah, dude, I think it's pretty crazy, actually. Like, yeah, we're not sponsored by Zorpus at all. We just. We just genuinely love going there.

[CJ]

Home away from home.

[Ben]

It's pretty funny, but it's pretty bizarre. Like, the correlation that people now have, even though it's not a sponsorship at all, because you go online, like, any of the Zora's Tik Toks, like, they have, like, a couple locations, and they all have, like, separate tik Toks. You go on any of them. Not. Not our hometown one. Not the town over. Not the town over that, like, far away. And all the comments are just like, where are the Seaboys? Where are the. Yeah, that's funny. Is. Is Evan there? Or, like, Zorba's at Seabo, but, yeah, it's pretty funny. They were actually talking about, like, giving us some vehicle a pizza.

[Mike]

Yeah, no. Yeah, yeah, I was supposed to pick that up. Well, actually, I got called because somebody else dropped the ball, which is fine.

[Ryan]

Me.

[Ben]

We have.

[Ryan]

I dropped the ball 100. I supposed I was 100.

[Mike]

It's all good. We have a deadline, and that deadline's not for two weeks, so we got.

[Ryan]

Oh, do we.

[CJ]

Do I get to know what?

[Ben]

Yeah, we'll find out.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh. I. I just completely.

[Mike]

I don't. You don't want me to show you?

[Ryan]

I just said I'll reach out on Tuesday, and that was last week.

[Evan]

Oh, you Want to show me? Okay.

[Mike]

I just. I need. I need help knowing what we're gonna do with it.

[Ryan]

I have no idea. But they said it's either going to us or to the scrapyard. And I said, yeah, it's cool.

[Mike]

It's cool.

[Ben]

Let's just go get it. We'll go get it one of these days.

[Ryan]

We're just gonna grab it one. It's sitting out in front of one of the local Zorbas. It's just gone one day and they're like, what the.

[CJ]

It's not our Zorbas.

[Ryan]

No.

[Mike]

No. DL.

[Ryan]

But yeah.

[Ben]

Oops. Yeah, that'll be good.

[Ryan]

Good.

[Ben]

That'll be good. Oh. All right. So, Mike, just showing.

[Ryan]

I don't know what.

[Evan]

That's sick.

[Ryan]

I don't know what we're going to

[Mike]

do with it, but it's fire truck.

[Ben]

They're going to give it to us.

[Evan]

Amazing. They're giving it.

[CJ]

I'm assuming it doesn't run.

[Mike]

It doesn't, but I. I thought it was like a prop. And it's been because it's been sitting there forever. Apparently it ran in 20, 22. I'm like, well, that's great. I mean, a motor and it ran.

[CJ]

If only we had a team that could easily put any motor we wanted into that puppy.

[Ryan]

Hellcat.

[Ben]

Hellcat that. Yeah.

[CJ]

Or at least a 350.

[Mike]

But yeah, it's this cool little. Yeah, it used to be a fire truck. Now it's like a surf beach truck.

[Ken]

I'm surprised they're getting rid of that.

[Evan]

Ken, would you like that parked out front of your house? No, I was just trying to get a. Get a vibe for things. All right. Call that ID off, guys.

[Ryan]

What about in the back side of your house by your beach?

[Evan]

You do love Zorbas, Ken.

[Ken]

I do because it's on my way home and it's very convenient.

[Evan]

So you just eat there every day?

[Ken]

I actually don't.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Ken]

Cooked more in the last month than I have really.

[Mike]

Let him cook.

[CJ]

What do you cook?

[Ken]

Steaks, mostly. Steak.

[Ben]

Should we fire up the steak talk again?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You ever have a side with it?

[Ben]

Speaking of 6, I just got a new grill.

[CJ]

Little salad. Steak and salad. No potato. No, too much starch.

[Ryan]

I think I almost died on Sunday. I was driving home from the bachelor party. Urgently. Let's just say I was. I was speeding pretty hard in the vest. That, and it was raining. And, like, I have all season tires, which I obviously thought would do fine on snow, and they didn't. But, like, I Wasn't that worried. I thought I was cool to just drive pretty decently quick, like, it was going to be okay, but I think the tires are so wide that the car is much more prone to hydroplaning than I thought.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And when you say the word hydroplaning, everybody kind of thinks it's like when the car gets light and you kind of feel like you're out of control. But I was coming up on an intersection they had fixed. It was at the county line, and they had fixed the new road, and the old road was fairly shitty. And then when they turned all the equipment around, they must have just up the old road. And so there was, like, a puddle, basically. And I hit this puddle, no exaggeration, Was looking out the right side window in my car before I even knew what happened. At 80 miles an hour. Like, I'm driving, and it went. And I went like this. And I went like this, this. And I went like this. Thankfully, the new road was, like, perfectly smooth, so it was slippery. It was like our drift track. And I just went like that. I first went this way. I went back this way. I went back this way. And then it snapped in line.

[Ben]

Holy crap, Ryan.

[Ryan]

85 miles an hour. And that's why I text everybody. I go, holy boys. I almost just piled up.

[Ben]

I didn't see that.

[Mike]

That's so bad.

[CJ]

I saw it.

[Ryan]

I didn't even know it was the most extreme. Like, it was like when you watch those videos of those cars on the skid pad when they just, like, get kicked out.

[Ben]

Yeah, bro.

[Ryan]

It was crazy.

[Ben]

Good thing that there is no oncoming traffic.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but, I mean, there it was deep ditches, old field, you know, deep ditches.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. Crap, Ryan.

[Ryan]

It was really, really bad. It scared the out of me.

[Ben]

No, that's. That is scary.

[Ryan]

I guess hydroplaning, like, is a thing. I thought if you had good tires, like, I thought hydroplaning was for people with bad tires, but apparently not.

[Mike]

I would say it's what you said earlier, the whip width.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Just running just three 45s on the back.

[Ben]

You slow her down.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I did slow her down after that, but I'd been, like, passing people, and I was like, oh, that would have just been great. They'd have been like this. As I'm all as a. Upside down in the ditch.

[Evan]

I had to call CJ Driving.

[Ryan]

He was like, an hour behind or ahead of me, and I had to call. She's like, dude, you got to come back and get me.

[Evan]

I would have Spun around.

[Ben]

I totaled.

[Ryan]

I totaled the rig. So, yeah, it was. It was really, really scary. Glad careful out there.

[Ben]

Glad that it didn't end bad.

[Ryan]

Yeah, me too. I, like, got home, and I was like, it is crazy.

[Mike]

Like, cars, you know, like, physics, the ability for them to end up back,

[Ryan]

straight, that snap back, really, you.

[Mike]

You know. Yeah. You're sideways, and you're this way, you're that way. And then you ended up straight again. Like, I remember one time Cody and I were, like, headed to this ski hill, and it was super icy, and I remember being like, maybe we shouldn't go today. And we're like 16, and we're just driving in Detroit lakes and just went around a curve and fully 360, and then ended up straight again in the oncoming lane, which was scary. But I was like, how did we not just spin anywhere but back?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Momentum.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Lucky.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No, it was. I. I'm gonna attribute it 3% to me been ripping on the Corvette lately and drifting it around and. And kind of knowing how to correct things. And then 97% to pure luck and it not being my day to have a big problem.

[CJ]

Did you ever get back in the gas? There's no way you hit the brakes. I feel like if you hit the brakes.

[Ryan]

No, I basically didn't really do anything with either of the pedals. I kind of just, like, was just sliding.

[Ken]

Just whipping the wheel.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Kind of like just going.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

On limiter.

[Ryan]

No. And just kind of correcting it back and forth. And then I straightened out and I got back on the gas.

[CJ]

But that's knowing not to panic.

[Ryan]

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[Ben]

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[Mike]

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[Ben]

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[Evan]

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[Ben]

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[Ryan]

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[CJ]

Literally, in that situation, you hit the brakes, there's got to be like a 99 chance I would have piled up. And then usually a lot of people, they lose control. It's the first panic they do is just bury the gas.

[Ben]

Bury the gas or break.

[CJ]

I meant.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

I meant hit the brake. But yes, hit the gas if they're

[Evan]

not the gas for most people. But yeah, yeah, get back.

[Ben]

Yeah. I mean, you black out, you slam on the brakes. Been there. But yeah, dude, I mean, are we gonna talk about what happened filming last week?

[Mike]

Yeah, that.

[Ryan]

This week's video. Yeah.

[Ben]

I hit up this guy. His name is Dom Speed freaks on Instagram. And I'd seen this thing for a while. It's like a 600 horsepower short block engine. Big block, big block Chevy that essentially has wheels. Wheels on it. It's an engine that has wheels on it. No transmission, not much more than that.

[CJ]

It's a clutch to the.

[Ben]

Yep. Yeah. So anyway, he like built this thing to like be a burnout car and burnout buggy. And I was like, dude, do you want to bring this thing out to Octane Fest? And he was like, yeah, I'd love to because we got a burnout competition, which would have been last weekend. And he was like, can I bring it out to the compound and, like, slide it around beforehand. I was like, absolutely. That'd be great for the video. So he brings this thing out, parks it in. In the garage, and I tell the rest of the guys, you know, I was like, if you saw the video, like, I go down. I'm like, yo, I got somebody in here. They had no idea who was behind the garage door or what was about to pop out. I was like, this thing's ridiculous. Like, they're gonna think this is funny. So I walk in the there and I. I shake his hand. I go, what's up, brother? Thanks for coming. And he's like, yeah, dude. And I'm like, looking at this thing, and I'm like, this is insane. I was like, the guys are not going to expect this to come out of the garage door, right?

[Evan]

Expect it.

[Ben]

And I was like, all right, dude, just roll it out the driveway or roll it out the garage door and just roll it down onto the drift track. And I want to get, you know, you hopping out of it. Their reaction. And then we'll do, like, a little walk around of this thing and then go and spin it. And he was like, all right, sounds good. So I walk out, I go down, we open up the garage door, and he just comes out hot, ripping. Next thing I know, he's doing donuts already. He's. I was like, oh, shit. He's going for it. Like, he. He's doing the show just right off the bat, like, he was excited, clearly. And then next thing I know, he drifts this thing completely sideways into the trees.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he kind of started going wide, like he was doing tight ones. And then he was like, all right, I'm just gonna hit a big drift. And then basically just into the tree.

[Evan]

T boned himself into a tree.

[Ben]

Into a tree. So he drifts this thing sideways into a tree. And, like, it's just a straight. It's a motor with, like, this little exo cage around it, which was only

[Ryan]

strong enough, we found out, to hold the Barbie plastics that he has on. Like, it wasn't a roll cage, and

[CJ]

the cage was kind of where his body was, if I remember correctly. His legs are literally straddling motor, and they're is zero protection.

[Ben]

So we obviously run over there. I mean, you see it in the video. We're freaking out. We're like, holy, dude, are you okay? He crawls out and proceeds to go. My legs are broken. And not a single one of us questioned it because we just watched what happened. We were like, holy. First words he says to us, my legs. My legs are broken.

[Evan]

I mean, he just seemed like a guy. Like, he knew his legs were broken. I.

[Ben]

Exactly.

[Evan]

I didn't doubt it. I said, okay, we gotta get him to the hospital.

[Ben]

You know, we go, okay, do you want us to call the ambulance? He's like, we'll be sitting here waiting for probably 30 minutes until the ambulance shows up. Or we can put you in the Sprinter van and rush you straight to the hospital right now. He's like, all right, just get me in the Sprinter. Let's go. It's, like, one thing if, like, your femurs are broken, because you can, like, bleed out if you break what I was thinking.

[Evan]

I thought his femurs were the ones that broke.

[Ben]

Yeah, bad deal if your femurs are broken. And he's like, oh, it's down here. And we're like, all right.

[CJ]

Right.

[Ben]

Get him in the Sprinter.

[Ryan]

And then he put his weight on one leg, kind of both legs.

[Ben]

Yeah. They tried to stand up, but we were like, bro, bro, bro, chill. But. But when he was standing there, his cowboy boots were, like, kind of loose, I think, on his feet. So his feet were, like, side. The cowboy boots were, like, kind of, like, cocked. Yeah. And we were like, oh, my God. Like, I saw that. And I was just like, yeah, his legs are straight up. Snapped right there. And so we get him in the Sprinter, and we're, like, rushing them to the hospital, and we're like, how you doing, bro? Like, you doing? And he's like, I think the adrenaline's starting to wear off, boys. And we're, like, trying to talk to him, like, keep them, like, you know, calm. And we're like, all right, bro. Like, we'll be there in 10 minutes. And he's like, oh, yeah, it's starting to. I'm starting to feel it now. Like, oh, my God, this is so.

[Ryan]

This is bad. Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, we're freaking out. Get to the hospital. Get him in a wheelchair. And the doctors are like, yeah, this is gonna take a while. Like, plan for a couple hours here.

[Evan]

And so we keep in mind we're mega bumped. We're all mega bombed. Especially like, dude, I haven't even said a word to this guy. The first word I said to him, are you okay? Like, you know, like, I'm. We make a new friend, and he gets hurt before I even, like, realistically anything. So I'm just bummed because I'm thinking, dude, that sucks. Like, his summer, he's gonna have a broken legs. Like a kimbo broken yeah, it's awful.

[Ben]

It's the worst thing that could happen is somebody comes out and gets.

[Evan]

I'm really bummed because I did not want. Obviously, we don't want anyone to get hurt, but especially someone outside of the group that we just met. So we're just down.

[Ben]

Yeah, we were down bad. We're down bad. And, you know, now we can kind of say it in, like, a more of a lightful way, but because of.

[Evan]

Because of him, we got so lucky.

[Ben]

What would happen next? He goes back. None of us are family, so, like, none of us can go back there with him. And we just roll back to the shop. They're like, you guys got a couple hours until he's out. We go back to the shop, and we're eating, and his filmer, like, his buddy was with us, and he gets a call from him. We all perk up, and we're like, what's he saying? What's he saying? He's like, oh, okay, all right, all right. Hangs up. And we're like, what.

[CJ]

What's the word?

[Evan]

What's the word?

[Ben]

And he's like, yeah, he just got out of the X rays on his legs, and then they put him in for an MRI on his head. And he's good. We're like, what do you mean he's good? Like, doesn't have surgery good. Like, just cast and. No, like, we can go pick him up. We're like. We're like, holy. This is great news.

[Ryan]

We heard all day.

[Ben]

Yeah, this is incredible. And so we drive in and proceed to pick him up, and he walks out of the hospital. We're like, a beautiful sight. We're like, holy. No crushes, nothing. And he was like. I guess it was just like a dead leg.

[Evan]

Wasn't a dead leg, but it was just a. Just a double dead crazy hit.

[Mike]

But, yeah, that's fine.

[Ben]

And he was good. He was good, dude. It was. It was a complete 180 from what we were expecting of, you know. He was like, they're broken. They're broken. And we're like, this is not good. Like, if he knows that, like, they're obviously broken.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

He's like, no, I'm good.

[Ryan]

And it's funny. We. We pick him up. We talk up in the Sprinter. We get to meet him and catch his name and, you know, everything. All that. And we get him back, and he goes, so, what are we gonna do now? And we're like, I think we're gonna take it pretty easy, bud. Like, we just. We. You don't like, we're. You were scared. We were scared. Like, nobody goes, cool if I drift the TRX for a bit? I'm like, I. I guess if you can press the pedals, man, have at it. Just go over there away from the trees. Yeah, bro, I got you.

[Mike]

And then fast forward to, like, two hours later, the runaway Trans Am.

[Ryan]

He's running around the field filming with us.

[Ben]

Like, it's literally a runaway.

[Mike]

And we're like, you gotta stand back because you can't run very fast.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, he was like, cool. If I stand over here and I looked at him and go, no, get over there and stand behind something, bro. I was like, like, cool. If you stay. That's in the open, bro. What is. What's going to happen when this thing starts going rogue? Which it did. I was like, you're standing behind the shipping container, buddy.

[Ryan]

God.

[Mike]

I was like, dude, I ran into him when we were at Sema, and, you know, we were in the burnout pit, and there's like, all those dudes are crazy. Like, they're all like, gear heads, metal heads, like, running full strong. And every time someone ran into him, they're like, dude, you're crazy. That thing's crazy.

[Ben]

It's insane.

[CJ]

Saying about.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I mean, it lit. It literally is a. A V8 strapped to a small piece of metal with a seat on.

[CJ]

Well, he said it's. The whole rig is a thousand pounds and the engine is 800.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Mike]

That's crazy.

[Ben]

But he's trying to boost it up to a thousand horsepower, so it's a thousand horsepower to a thousand pounds.

[CJ]

There's no power to.

[Ryan]

Between me, my nuts and that engine

[Ben]

to really be pretty much sitting on it.

[CJ]

Not to mention that steering rack, back gear chain stuff was awfully close to a guy's nuts right off the.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's a crazy, crazy rig. Crazy rig. He's a crazy guy. Not like. I checked out his Instagram afterwards, and I was like, oh, this guy is. He's just a maniac. Like, he's. He runs on Limiter, which I love.

[Ben]

Yeah, that. When, like, that happens, though, it puts everything in perspective real quick.

[Ryan]

That's for sure. Yeah, it's 100 for sure.

[CJ]

I think it was like, thank God.

[Ken]

Minutes from the time he pulled out of the garage till the time we were rolling away in the sprint.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think so. It was fast.

[Ben]

Thank goodness the Lord. He's good.

[Ryan]

I was watching this. It was making me think of this. This has been something I want to talk with you guys about for a while that he's out there wearing no armor. And there. There's this thing that's been going around. It's an old word that's come back called larping.

[Mike]

Talk to me.

[Ryan]

People are larping in Miami when you take a rental Lamborghini and then you larp that you're rich. But larping originally started out with a bunch of old people pretending that they're from, like, medie times. Have you guys ever seen the videos

[CJ]

whacking each other in the head? Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

These guys dress up in like, night in shining armor outfits and then just beat the out of each other.

[Evan]

Yeah, dude. They got, like, real axes and they'll just go up and smack a guy.

[Ryan]

It is. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

[Mike]

The stuff I've seen was foam, but.

[Ryan]

Oh, this okay.

[CJ]

I've always wanted to do a motorbike joust. Put that over there.

[Ben]

That.

[Mike]

That sounds like.

[Ben]

Oh, my Ken.

[CJ]

You could not handle that to the knees.

[Mike]

I'm not going to lie.

[Evan]

This is insane.

[Mike]

I've never seen this. I've only seen it with the foam swords and maces. And action.

[Evan]

Yeah. See?

[Ryan]

Looks sharp.

[Evan]

They must have it dull to some degree. Dude, still heavy. Do you know how much mass that carries when you swing that hard?

[Ryan]

Top comment? Bro's got to go to work tomorrow. Chill. Second one is bros ACL hunting.

[Evan]

I've seen one when the guy's just standing there. He's got, like, both his arms kind of. And this one guy just goes bing. And like, you gotta imagine there's not much foam inside this little steel helmet. Like, it's just a bucket on the poor guy's head.

[Ben]

It ain't doing anything.

[CJ]

What if that ding. You heard how loud it was a

[Evan]

cameraman, Dude, Even if you had had a football helmet on, you ain't want. You don't want to take that to the.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Still getting a concussion either way.

[Evan]

That's gotta hurt so bad.

[Ryan]

But to bring up your point, the craziest one is when they do it on horses and joust each other. It would be pretty fun to do this. It breaks the stick. This is a thick wooden stick.

[Ben]

Did he take it to the neck?

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Ben]

But, dude, I mean, this is like. It's some real.

[Evan]

You gotta wonder what these people do in real life.

[Ryan]

Life. That's.

[Evan]

What do they do for real life?

[Ryan]

As he's named in this. Sir Christopher Hatton.

[Evan]

You know what? I. I would love to go to one of these. I'd like to see this stuff in. In real life, in person. But you know, my ultimate reason why I don't want to go is for one of those giant ham legs.

[CJ]

Turkey. It's turkey.

[Evan]

Are they turkey legs?

[CJ]

You get them at valley fair?

[Evan]

Yeah, just I feel like it would hit different walking around there.

[Ryan]

So, you know, we should go to

[Mike]

one of these larping events into the renaissance festival. Never. I always like the one, the thing where the guy stands in there with his arms and you throw tomatoes at him and he like roasts you.

[Evan]

Yeah, the jester.

[Mike]

That's kind of funny.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Just the classic, like if someone did something bad where they put their. Their head in, like, their hands and everyone in town throws tomatoes at them.

[Ben]

Like, where's the best renaissance festival? What's a good one to pull up to?

[Ken]

There's one like, by Minneapolis.

[Ryan]

I want to go to, like, I'm talking. I want to go to the rednecks with paychecks version of this. I'm not trying to. To a. Just a classic one where people are out there. I want to go to the one where. Where people are really getting into it.

[Evan]

Dude, these guys were born in the wrong century. Not just era. We always say Gavin was born in the wrong era. These guys were born in the wrong century.

[Ryan]

Imagine like how, you know, like our parents feel about some of the. We do imagine we just show them that. Be like, I'm going to go to the field, drink nine beers and get whacked in the head with an axe, bro.

[Evan]

At least with ours there's like quite a bit of upside these guys ain't getting.

[Ryan]

Doing it all year for the love of the game. Dude, these guys are actually in France, so we might have to go to.

[Mike]

Oh, wow.

[CJ]

France.

[Ben]

Of course I'm going to France for my honeymoon. Maybe I can convince Greta.

[Ryan]

You pull up with Greta to one

[Mike]

of these pretty lit for fantasy authoritarian or authorian role Play. There's a five day living history LARP held at the Sherwood Forest Fairgrounds in mainland McDade, Texas.

[Ben]

It's always in Texas.

[Mike]

Always in Texas.

[Ben]

So how. How did it go from that was larping to somebody fake flexing a lamborghini in Miami just faking it.

[CJ]

Because those people aren't real. They're faking it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. They aren't actually doing it for medieval times.

[Ben]

Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

[CJ]

They're not actually killing each other.

[Ben]

What's the larping definition?

[Ryan]

Live action role playing thing.

[Mike]

So, I mean. Yeah, I guess.

[Ben]

Okay. Yeah. So you're just larping in a different manner.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

All right, that makes sense.

[Ryan]

Live action role playing in the late seventies inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and historical reenactment groups. But now that's kind of like how they became a popular now as people are live action role playing, them being wealthy, kind of like Jack is LARPing being a race car.

[Ben]

It's hard to say what he's larping

[Mike]

that week and I'm larping like that. I'm a hot dog connoisseur.

[Ken]

Well, no, you're just. You're just a hot dog connoisseur. You don't have to.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah, you're just a hot dog stand worker.

[Ryan]

I guess if you're doing that, if you're saying that you're liveaction role playing a hot dog connoisseur, that would say that you don't like hot dogs. You're just doing it to be popular.

[Evan]

Is that true?

[Ryan]

Is that true?

[Mike]

No.

[CJ]

I think these people like what they're doing. They're just.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Going to a level they couldn't obtain

[Ryan]

realistically in real life, maybe.

[Mike]

Like what? Nobody could actually eat 15 hot dogs.

[CJ]

And, like, Mike could actually. I mean, he does quite literally own hot dog.

[Ryan]

Cut.

[CJ]

So it's like you're actually just any hot dog. You're just doing it. You're not larping at all.

[Mike]

But I don't love hot dogs as

[Ben]

much as everybody thinks I do. Yeah, you're a humble man.

[Mike]

Yeah, I like them, though. Yeah, I like them for the shape.

[Ken]

I. I love your modesty.

[Ben]

I eat them for the shape you say.

[Ryan]

Ken, you're.

[Ken]

You're very modest about it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

How do you.

[Mike]

Absolute gasoline brats the other day, though.

[Ben]

Geez, Mike, you can't just start switching up on the dogs. Start.

[Mike]

Maybe I've been eating brats. That's how I'm in this freaking predicament.

[Ken]

Maybe he just likes it for the shape.

[CJ]

Do you know. Do you know how you know if you're at a gay picnic?

[Mike]

I thought that one was dumb.

[CJ]

You know, Ken, how do I know

[Ken]

if I'm at a gay picnic?

[CJ]

The hot dogs taste like. Cut that. Probably.

[Evan]

Leave it. Leave it.

[Ryan]

Gosh.

[Evan]

And just leave the paws on Ken and just

[Mike]

rub your eyes.

[Evan]

Shitty hot dog.

[CJ]

We were out fishing at the family cabin, and Aiden and Brody were down on the dock. Brody's helping Aiden with his pole. Next thing, Brody's pole just shoots off into the lake.

[Mike]

Okay. Oh, the whole pole.

[CJ]

The whole pole's gone. So Brody thinks this rod is just a lost cause. I'm like, hell, no. So I grabbed a spoon, cast it around for 10 minutes, end up catching the pole that has a fish on it, and then.

[Ryan]

Oh, that was the fish. Yes. What?

[Evan]

Bro, he's stoked.

[Ben]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. So. So he caught the fish, and the fish just ripped the pole out of his hand?

[CJ]

No, he was helping Aidan. So the pole was sitting just right next to him, but it was sitting on the dock, and you just heard a quick like. And I think Brody was just chalking it up as a loss, like, oh, no. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

[Ben]

We're.

[CJ]

We're gonna get this back. So I just put a heavy daredevil on and just started casting around and ended up snagging into it.

[Ben]

How many pounds is that?

[CJ]

That didn't officially weigh it, but we're gonna go over six. Could be upwards of seven, which is a big bass. That's a big bass.

[Mike]

Yeah. So Evan sent this picture of this bass, and we're all like, you know, dude, congrats. Like, it's a huge one. But the fact that you caught the rod that was on it, like, that's. That's great, dude.

[CJ]

And Brody's face when he. When he pulls that out. And see, we didn't even think it was a bass.

[Ben]

We.

[CJ]

It. You know, it was dark out. Pretty much says it all.

[Ryan]

All.

[CJ]

So that was a pretty cool.

[Mike]

That's dope.

[CJ]

Pretty cool weekend memory.

[Ben]

And, Mike, did you make yourself race car merch? Mike, I hate to be sneaking on your.

[Mike]

I was just being a boomer on Chat GPT.

[Ben]

Oh, wow. Look at that.

[CJ]

No limits, no fears, no horsepower, either.

[Ben]

Look at that. That is the truth.

[Evan]

Or even really W's.

[Ben]

There you go. Mike, you could.

[Mike]

I mean, second place is not first. Not first.

[Ben]

Just, you know, it's not. But we were hanging in the fight.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, and. And yeah. How about these guys?

[Mike]

How about the ranches in their photo shoot?

[Evan]

Should we frame these?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Big framed pictures.

[Ben]

Big dude people love.

[Evan]

That's a good one. I like that.

[Ben]

Holding hands.

[Mike]

It's amazing that they're, like, forming a

[Ryan]

big w. I just want to know what Dalton said to get a smile out of those two in that.

[Ben]

Dude, Big Ranch was loving it. Gab was not. Not. Not so much.

[Ryan]

The crescent wrench is so good.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. Big wrench said, thank God Gavin was wearing sunglasses, so I didn't have to stare into his eyes. It made a lot easier.

[Ben]

But, dude, I mean, who's Got better wrenches. Like, who actually has better fabricators?

[Ryan]

No, it's. It's decided. Nobody. Nobody in the world, bro.

[Ben]

They're goated.

[CJ]

Big Wrench had said, you know. Yeah, you know, it was kind of awkward, but it. You know, it's just me, Gavin Dalton, taking pictures. But when other people showed up to the park to observe what was going on, he said, that was. That's when it got awkward.

[Ryan]

Full grown men.

[Mike]

I just love taking Big Wrench along for these adventures because,

[Ryan]

Like, what the hell is that?

[Ben]

Yeah, I agree.

[Ryan]

I love Gavin making small talk in that, too.

[Mike]

Yeah, he's. Gav's getting his 95 shaved into his head and he's just like, so what have you guys been up to, bro? Nothing.

[CJ]

When he shaved Spenny's 96 backers, he goes, well, it was on the other side of his head. I thought I needed to go the other way. Like, what the hell are you saying right now, brother? Did you catch that?

[Ben]

You're like, he's all love drunk, you know, not thinking straight. He's got something else on his mind.

[Ryan]

Ben, you ever figure out what you were going to talk about?

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

I guess we'll just have to do it next week.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Called.

[Mike]

Dang.

[Ben]

We'll put a pin in it.

[Ryan]

Something to come back for.

[Ben]

There was something. I know there was something.

[Mike]

Something.

[Ryan]

It was something important.

[Ben]

Yeah, we'll figure it out, though, and we'll be back next week with that piece of information. There will be something. So stay tuned for next week's Drop, dude. Love it.

[Ryan]

Love it. Well, thanks, fellas. Please subscribe. Mike is getting a bowl cut at 1 million subscribers. Ideally we could. If we time it out, we. He could probably have it done for either Ben or CJ's wedding, so. That'd be sick.

[Mike]

Oh, gosh. Are we really running it that fast?

[Ryan]

I. I mean, it'd be pretty sick if we could. If we could triple up subscribers. But you, every single one matters. So thanks, guys.

[Mike]

We're also running a crazy giveaway right now. Little red, white, and blue muscle car action. Like, literally the three best muscle cars that we could find. So get [e-mail]. we'll be running that for a couple more weeks.

[Ken]

And thank you to everyone who came out to Octane Fest last weekend. It was.

[Ryan]

Even though we don't know anything about it.

[Ben]

Yeah, we'll do a recap. We'll do a recap.

[Ryan]

We'll see if it was good or not.

[Evan]

Bye.