Answering YOUR Questions With Our Best Advice

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Answering YOUR Questions With Our Best Advice

Date: December 19, 2023

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Episode Overview

This episode of Life Wide Open dives into a wide range of listener-submitted questions, offering candid, entertaining advice from all six CboysTV members: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah. The conversation flows from hilarious, everyday mishaps to real talk about relationships, mental well-being, work, friendship, small-town fame, and the nuances of being a YouTuber. The guys share their perspectives in their characteristically raw, irreverent, but earnest style.

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Highlights & Key Discussion Points

1. Kicking Things Off: Memes, Weather, and Vikings Football (00:00–09:20)

• Seasonal Jokes & Weather: The guys joke about Minnesota's winter (or lack thereof) and the potential to go surfing on Christmas instead of ice fishing.
  • CJ: "I don't know what's happening this winter. There is no winter. I feel like Cindy Lou Who in The Grinch." (01:33)
• The Vikings Losing: As usual, the Vikings lost again. The team’s spirits remain high.
• Tony's Story: They reminisce about Two Turn Tony sending them a pallet of drinks, joking about their (now skunked and over-fermented) final can.

2. Year in Memes & Pop Culture Flashbacks (04:30–13:10)

• Meme Calendar Nostalgia: The group recaps the year's biggest memes (OceanGate, Bud Light, WWE folding chair) and laughs about the absurdity of viral moments.
  • "Each year somebody does a meme calendar and you can keep track... It takes you back." – Mike (04:50)
• Cringey Old Guy Jokes: Ben finds an odd, outdated funeral cartoon in his grandpa's old glove box.
• Jokes about Evolution vs Revolution:
  • CJ: "Pretty evolutionary."
  • Mike: "No."
  • Ryan: "Revolutionary, kind of." (13:19)

3. Behind-the-Scenes: Life Updates and Random Stories (13:10–24:22)

• Snowplow and Car Insurance Drama: Ben shares about crashing into a utility box and getting a surprise $800 bill:
  • "You're lucky to be alive. That box could've hurt you. It destroyed your car! You should send them a bill." – CJ (10:38)
• Selling the SEMA Truck: They sold a CboysTV vehicle to a superfan from Florida, with contrasting fan reactions.
• Ken’s Mom, Subarus, and Family Boundaries: Ken shares about his mom's conspiracy theories about AI in her new Subaru and the running gag about building a wall between his house and his family:
  • Ken: "No, I can build a wall."
  • CJ: "Ken's gonna build a wall so he separates his family." (16:13)

4. The Therapeutics of Manual Labor & Cleaning (18:19–24:24)

• Farm Remodel and Manual Labor:
  • CJ and Ryan discuss the satisfaction and therapy of working with their hands, be it farm work or just cleaning up the shop.
  • "It's one of the most therapeutic things to do is clean, but it's also on, like, the same token, draining." – CJ (20:23)
• Simple Pleasures: From cleaning garages and breaking down boxes to working out and sauna sessions, the crew talks about their favorite ways to decompress.
  • "Dude, that's me in my sauna. Like, it's the absolute best thing ever." – Mike (23:35)

5. The Phone Conundrum: Technology, Presence, & Group Dynamics (24:24–29:04)

• Phones Killing Vibes: The guys bemoan how phones ruin group conversations or movie nights—everyone’s guilty of it.
  • "If one person pulls out the phone for just a little bit, it's a ripple effect..." – CJ (24:46)
• “Stacking Phones” Game: When dining out, they sometimes pile their phones to encourage real conversation—with penalties for the weak-willed.

6. Fitness, Gamification, and Wearables (29:04–34:29)

• Wearables and Gamifying Health:
  • Debating whether gadgets like Whoop or Apple Watch are helpful or just another distraction; most agree they motivate healthier habits.
  • "It gamifies trying to be healthier, which is good for you. It's like when you play Call of Duty at the end of the round, you watch your ranking go up." – Ryan (28:00)
• Treadmill Mishaps: Light roasting over treadmill recalls and the dangers of home gym equipment.

7. DIY Moves & Friendship Boundaries (34:29–36:51)

• Moving Stuff & Friendship Guilt:
  • They discuss the awkwardness of asking friends to help move heavy objects repeatedly.
  • Mike: "It's because I ask so much of you guys every single day. I feel like you don't owe me like, one more thing." (32:27)

8. Apocalypse Scenarios & Doomsday Prep (36:51–41:59)

• Zombie Apocalypse and Yellowstone:
  • A classic CboysTV tangent on whether they'd fight to survive or check out early if the world ended.
  • CJ: "I'm not trying to live in a bunker my whole life and I'm sorry if that's a hot take..." (41:21)
• Morality, Prepping, and Social Collapse:
  • Debating ethics in a “Purge” scenario and whether prepping is wise or paranoid.

9. Crowdsourced Questions & CboysTV Advice (45:09–59:21)

Tough Calls with Dad’s Sled (45:21)

• Weston's Question: He crashed his dad’s new sled—repair and confess, or hide it?
  • CJ: "In any situation like that, you've got to come clean. You're not getting anywhere by trying to lie or hide your way out of it." (46:23)

Dealing with Haters in a Small Town (46:54)

• Dylan’s Question: How do you handle other people’s opinions, especially when getting attention in a small town?
  • Ryan: "You just can't care. That's probably the bottom line on it."
  • Mike: "The only people hating are people that are below you. Nobody's ever hating on someone lower than them." (49:40)

Feeling Lost After School (50:33)

• Anonymous Question: "I don't know what the f*** I'm doing"—working hard, considering military, no relationship.
  • Ryan: "99% of the world doesn't know what they're doing."
  • Mike: "Keep working, but also start doing YouTube on the side... Just start."
  • CJ: "...It's not as glamorous as you'd think. The grass isn't always greener." (53:38)

Best Friend's Ex Situation (55:37)

• Anonymous Question: "My best friend's ex... and I haven't told him."
  • Ryan: "...The best move is to come clean before someone else does. It'll come out eventually and it's always worse if you hide it." (56:42)

Met Parents Too Early & Relationship Uncertainty (58:08)

• Another Listener: Met her parents after a week, not sure about the relationship.
  • CJ: "One week is nothing in the grand scheme of things."
  • Ryan: "See where it plays out, man. Don't take it too serious and see where it goes." (59:21)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Manual Labor:
  • "Just feels good. It's rewarding when you get done. And it's also just good for you." – Ryan (19:10)
• On Phones & Presence:
  • "It’s a ripple effect... before you know it, everyone’s on their phone." – CJ (24:46)

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Advice Corner Timestamps

• Crashed Dad's Sled: 45:21–46:52
• Small Town Haters: 46:54–50:14
• Lost After High School: 50:33–54:43
• Friend’s Ex Drama: 55:37–57:04
• Relationship Question: 58:08–59:21

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Tone & Style

• Laid-back, honest, self-deprecating, and supportive—never taking themselves too seriously but always giving practical, lived-in advice.
• Plenty of humorous jabs, tangents, and real talk about the less-glamorous aspects of content creation and small-town fame.

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Listener Takeaway

If you’ve ever felt lost, faced criticism chasing your dreams, or just wanted a group of friends to laugh with about the absurdities of life, you’ll feel right at home with this episode. From practical advice to “just start” to the catharsis found in a clean garage or a solid break-down-session with friends, the Life Wide Open crew keeps it real—always.

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Transcript

[Ryan]

How do you feel about building on those grounds that are hard?

[Ken]

Just get rid of what's there and then start fresh.

[CJ]

I don't think that's how ghosts work.

[Ken]

Those things look super dangerous.

[Mike]

Oh, damn. She's better stop it right now. Oh, my gosh.

[CJ]

Says okay. This is a sticky one.

[Mike]

Oh, yo, we're going to.

[CJ]

That actually goes back.

[Ben]

Punch him in the face. Next one. What up, guys? Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. What are we, number 106 on this one? It's Saturday right now. The Vikings just played. They just lost.

[Mike]

Classic.

[Ben]

And how many podcasts started out like that?

[Mike]

Fresh off of a lot.

[CJ]

Just getting that out of the way.

[Ben]

Cracking the last Tony in existence.

[Ken]

Is it really?

[Ryan]

I was wondering where'd you find that thing?

[Ben]

Cool. Well, Ryan actually found them, but in a cooler like from the summer. So they might be a little.

[CJ]

They're skunked. But when Tony's skunk, they ferment because the alcohol is from sugar. So they get stronger. Like, I bet you that thing's running at least 11% right now.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah. No, they get the job done.

[Mike]

Story.

[Ben]

There's only one.

[Mike]

The story behind the Tony's is. Is there's a tick tocker. His name is two Turn. Tony Shout out. Two Turn. And he sent us an entire pallet of his drink. Two Turn. Tony teased and they lasted us. You would think that an entire palette. It was 204 cases would last long time didn't.

[CJ]

No, we blew through. I mean, we were pretty cavalier about giving them away because we wanted everybody to try it. But what'd they make it? Three months.

[Ben]

Three months.

[CJ]

Three months back.

[Mike]

And that's the last one. The last one.

[Ben]

As far as I know.

[CJ]

I hope you enjoy that.

[Ryan]

The last melon.

[CJ]

I don't know what's happening this winter. There. There is no winter. I feel like Cindy Lou who in the Grinch, you know, singing where are you Christmas? That's how I feel right now.

[Ben]

And I feel like I'm getting old because I'm like, as a young kid, if it doesn't snow before Christmas, I'm upset. I'm actually upset. But now I'm just like, roads are nice. Yeah.

[Mike]

I'm not like that, man.

[Ben]

We need snow. Obviously at some point we're going to need snow for the content that we make. But I'm like, if we need snow, like, we'll go west, but we'll get it. It's crazy.

[Mike]

Winter came, the lakes froze and then all came back. The lakes unfroze, rain they're all unfrozen. So we're gonna potentially go surfing on Christmas.

[CJ]

I'm so excited. That could be the best Christmas gift that I could ever receive. Half the lake is frozen and half the lake is water. So the other morning I was coming to work, one half of the lake had a boat on it. There's. There's guys out there fishing in a boat. And then on the other half, there was two guys in a spearhouse. Ice fishing.

[Mike]

Dude. Fishermen just love to fish.

[CJ]

I know. And they love thin ice almost more than us.

[Ben]

This is true.

[Mike]

It'll be interesting, though, when we take your boat out on Christmas. Hopefully we don't find any icebergs.

[CJ]

Yeah, I was. That. I was going to ask. Oh, are we going to use your boat? It's easier to get out. It probably surfs better. But it sounds like you kind of just offered up.

[Mike]

I mean, it was your brilliant idea, so I'll let you.

[CJ]

Can't argue with that.

[Mike]

I was thinking about this, though. I was playing this out of my head. I was like, okay, so let's just say we hit an iceberg in the middle of the lake.

[CJ]

Mm.

[Mike]

The boat goes down. Like, how far are you making it? Swimming it in that water? Like it's 33 degrees.

[Ryan]

Put the life jacket on and you.

[CJ]

You'll just.

[Ryan]

You'll make it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You'll be fine.

[Mike]

How many people lived from the Titanic? I've actually never even seen the movie.

[Ben]

I haven't.

[Ryan]

Really.

[Ben]

I haven't either, no. Wow. Ryan's the only one who's seen this.

[Ryan]

It's a long movie I haven't seen.

[Mike]

Sit down.

[CJ]

We're watching the Titanic tonight, boys.

[Ben]

Did I say too? I go. Okay. So it's kind of like a room they made. Like a romantic movie. Yeah, see, that's right.

[Ryan]

I'm not that interested in it.

[Ken]

2200 people and passengers and crew were on the Titanic. 706 survived.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Ryan]

They only had 2200 people on there. I thought there was more people on that quite a bit.

[Ken]

Ships weren't that big back. Like, a cruise ship today is huge compared to, like, what the Titanic was.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And that was, like, a big ship back then.

[Mike]

How did they survive? Who saved them?

[Ken]

They have lifeboats.

[Ryan]

Is there any people that are like.

[Mike]

Like, you're in the middle of. Yeah, there's in the middle of, like, the Antarctic, right?

[Ken]

Yeah, but there's. Back then, it was like, the only way to get between the US And Europe was by boat. So, like, there's boats going back and forth all the time. It's kind of like today. There's planes going back and forth to the US and Europe all the time. But a boat can stop, so they.

[CJ]

Just called other boats in. And then they just like sent out.

[Ken]

A distress signal and took a little bit.

[Mike]

But like, I wonder how long these people were floating.

[Ken]

The Titanic was on, like, at the bottom of the sea by the time.

[CJ]

They showed up, but that only took like 11 minutes or something ridiculous, right? Or was that a long sinking? Was it that Fitzgerald that sank fast?

[Ken]

I don't know about that.

[Mike]

Was it this year that the whole, like, Ocean Gate thing happened? Yeah, the submarine.

[CJ]

Yeah, that was this year.

[Mike]

Man. Is it crazy to think, like, how much stuff has happened this year? Like, how many memes have been born? And it just seems like you live like one week at a time for whatever. Like the whole news is fixated on. Exactly.

[CJ]

Each year somebody does a meme calendar and then you can keep track.

[Mike]

That's.

[CJ]

And it's so fun.

[Mike]

It takes you back to like.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah, I remember when Ocean Gate was a meme, man.

[Ryan]

The world moves quick.

[Ben]

It does.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I love how like, okay, January was the cop. That one. Classic. Good start, dude.

[Ben]

This is good.

[CJ]

Space balloon.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Silicon Valley Bank. Bud Light. When Bud Light went down. Gorlock the Destroyer.

[Ryan]

Man, she was that big of a deal, huh?

[Mike]

No big deal, bro. June. Makes sense.

[Ryan]

July.

[Ben]

Have you.

[Mike]

Dude, I haven't even seen that video.

[CJ]

I've never seen the full video, but I just don't know. I just heard in the back. That is not real.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. I don't know about you.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But that person is not real. Yeah, she was tweaking, dude. I feel bad for her.

[CJ]

Yeah, but why was she tweaking? Tweaking?

[Ryan]

Probably a mental illness or was on some kind of drugs.

[Ken]

She was just tweeting.

[Mike]

No, she just looks like a Karen. She was just like.

[CJ]

No, she's. Well, it's funny, she looks like one there, but I don't think she was on every other breakdown.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, she ended up posting some tick tocks and she. This newfound fame and she seemed chill.

[CJ]

Oh, well, that's good.

[Mike]

Yeah, she's probably got a PR. She got PR team now. That's like. All right, so here's your 12 month strategy to recover from this.

[Ryan]

And we have the merch drop going live this Tuesday.

[Mike]

What is August? What is this one?

[Ken]

I have no idea what that is.

[CJ]

I don't remember that one.

[Ryan]

I kind of want to see what's going on there.

[Mike]

Zoom in on it, screenshot it, and then go to Google and then just pop it in and Google crazy that.

[Ben]

You can do that.

[Mike]

Yeah, I use it all the time.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ben]

I've actually like. Yeah, I've never really used it, but.

[Mike]

Dude, I know it's powerful. If I'm watching something or like a. Like anything comes across, I guess my phone and I don't want to take the time to like research, type out words. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's probably a better way to put it.

[Ben]

Sometimes you can't.

[CJ]

Sheer wielding man folding chair in Alabama Brawl.

[Ryan]

Oh, man, they went WWE on it.

[Mike]

I don't think I have.

[Ryan]

That's his weapon of choice, the folding chair.

[Mike]

He watched too much wwe, John Cena, both. How did this one make the yearly meme calendar but we've never heard about it.

[CJ]

Yeah, I don't know. I guess anybody can make a meme calendar. So anybody can put their meme on it.

[Ryan]

Oh, it's not video.

[CJ]

Should have known that. We couldn't have gotten trustworthy news from cnn.

[Mike]

You're just trying to backtrack after.

[Ben]

They ain't gonna find it on this page.

[Mike]

Yeah, I know. Podcast.

[CJ]

I left that in because I Ben went, oh, I don't want you to get everybody to think you did. But apparently everybody took that part out. No, I left it in. And everybody thinks I did now because.

[Ryan]

I cleared it up for you. I go, ryan didn't. Ryan didn't. And you took that. My part out, I think.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Ryan]

Because I remember listening back, I was like, damn, he did himself dirty.

[Mike]

I was very confused by that. I even gave you an out wwe.

[Ryan]

That guy.

[Mike]

That's a good wrestler name too.

[Ryan]

Reggie Ray.

[Mike]

That is a good wrestling.

[Ken]

That was when they lost the like the fighter jet.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Public to help find it.

[Mike]

What is up with that? That one. That one was like almost so bizarre. It came across my screen and I was like, well, this isn't.

[Ben]

Yeah, there's got to be something more to it.

[Mike]

I think the funniest one is the copy in January.

[CJ]

That was a good start actually.

[Ben]

They've been over using that. That picture of her face for so long. And I just saw another one on Snapchat. Like, what's she up to now?

[Mike]

What is she up to?

[Ben]

I didn't watch it. I'm like, who the cares?

[CJ]

That one just had trains calendar 2023. That's her. Savage Mike was cleaning out his little side by side unit that he bought from his grandpa and he pulls out of the glove box. What? What was it depicting. It was like a drawn picture.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was like a. I didn't get. Was like a funeral. And it said cost for the Norsemen. Like, I don't. People from Norway. It was $4.79 for the funeral. Cost for Italians was $479. And costs for Jewish people were 4,007. I didn't get it at all.

[CJ]

It was a picture of, like, an elaborate funeral. And I was like, man, dude, Grandpa. Grandpa was show.

[Ben]

We were just cracking up about that, let's say. Like, it gets a good laugh from his buddy, you know, John. And he's like, oh, John loved it. I gotta print out 10 more of these things.

[CJ]

It was all folded up. Like, you could tell he put that in his wallet. Yeah. It was like, I can't wait to take this to the Steam Threshers reunion. Like, Corey's gonna love this, dude, Dale.

[Ben]

You know, it's like.

[Mike]

Yeah, his memes. It's like the revolution of getting a chuckle out of your buddy. Now you just send it to him over.

[Ben]

Yeah, Instagram revolution.

[CJ]

Yeah, the revolution, dude.

[Ryan]

The evolution.

[Mike]

God, you know it's bad when CJ's correct. The revolution. Oh, my God. I quit.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Mike]

Dude. This is bad times, dude. Holy.

[Ben]

You know how we talked a couple podcasts about my broken car? How I crashed it, I took out a green box. That's what did that damage. But I got a bill the other day from the Internet company, and I was like, this is weird. Why did I get a bill? Like, my mom, since they sent it to my, like, home house. I was just confused. Why am I getting a bill from Arvid? And then it said, like, pedestal. Like, pedestal.

[Mike]

No. No way. How much? 800.

[CJ]

What?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

How they find you?

[Ben]

I don't.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Ryan]

It's hard because the podcast. Oh, man.

[Mike]

Who would have thought? Putting on the Internet.

[Ben]

I think it's from the podcast or they, like, it was kind of by the roadhouse, so maybe they were like, yellow car, like that.

[Ryan]

Maybe you should pay it, Mike.

[Ben]

I'll probably pay it.

[Mike]

You know what's funny, though, is, is I wonder, like, if a snowplow hit it. I get it. It's a public serving.

[CJ]

It's a public utility.

[Ben]

No, I thought you're. They're.

[Mike]

They're a private.

[Ben]

Creating like a little narrative here.

[Mike]

No, I'm just, you know, like, if a snowplow hit it, like, do they send the county?

[Ryan]

I mean, it was pretty far off the road.

[CJ]

You're lucky to be alive. You're. That was an Accident. Yeah. That box could have hurt you. It destroyed your car. You should send him a bill for your car.

[Ryan]

Bill for your car. Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

Box hit my car.

[Ben]

That was the worst part. Had I not hit the box, like, I mean, I'd be looking at less damages, obviously.

[CJ]

Exactly.

[Mike]

You know what, though? Ryan and Mike. Ryan, you're pretty heated here, Mike. Maybe just pay it, because I don't want them cutting off our WI fi.

[Ben]

I already wrote the check, but say.

[Ryan]

So, Adam, the guy who bought the SEMA truck.

[Mike]

Yeah. Oh, did he make it home?

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's. He's on his way. He loves it. Actually loves it. He's texting me about. He's like, it drives great. Like, everyone is giving me thumbs up. I'm like, yeah, dude, that can't go anywhere in that truck without getting attention.

[CJ]

He was so.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he loves.

[CJ]

He's happy.

[Ryan]

Oh, he's so happy about it.

[Mike]

He made it back to Florida.

[Ben]

Yeah, he. He flew up here and. And I guess is in the process of driving it all the way back to Florida, and he's just stoked him. And a buddy came up, and he's like, yeah, dude. His buddy was saying. He's like, dude, he just loves you guys, and this is a huge opportunity for him. I'm like, oh, really? 69,000.

[CJ]

That's cool.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What a deal on that truck, too.

[Ryan]

That was a good deal.

[CJ]

That was a good deal. Good for him.

[Mike]

So his buddy was like, do not get the hype of this truck. I personally would never buy it, and I think it's ugly.

[CJ]

Buddy didn't pull up.

[Mike]

He said that to me. I don't know if he did say that to me, but he said it to him. I think he was like, I would not buy this, but he loves you guys, man.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ben]

In my head, I was like, damn, Nissan Altima.

[Mike]

However, actual car.

[Ken]

Was that just around.

[Ben]

It was. It was.

[Ryan]

No, they drove over in Chicago. That's where that guy lived.

[Mike]

He worked with the Nissan Altima.

[Ben]

There's nothing wrong with it, especially when you work for Nissan corporate.

[Mike]

Well, yeah. Well, what are you gonna drive a gtr?

[Ryan]

That'd be great. I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with an Altima. You just can't criticize another man's vehicle when you're. When you roll.

[Ben]

Precisely.

[Ryan]

In a maroon Ultima.

[CJ]

Precisely. And he was a great dude.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

They were both just a little jibber jabber here.

[Ben]

I. I seen this clip a few times now. Just coming off like the. The roasting a Nissan, I guess, but Marquis, Brown. Like, very hot take.

[CJ]

Brownlee.

[Ben]

Yeah, very hot take. He goes, hot take. But a Nissan's never made a good track car. I don't like gtr. And everyone's like, whoa, whoa, that is a hot take.

[Mike]

And then they, like, clipped it over.

[Ben]

With some hard song of, like, all the sweet race cars Nissan's built. I'm like, you can't see that?

[Ryan]

That is a pretty hot.

[Ben]

That's a bold statement. Nissan's made some insane race cars over the years.

[CJ]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out where he's got that from.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, I mean, between all of their GTRs. I mean, from the beginning. Yeah, like, they were pretty revolutionary.

[CJ]

Pretty evolutionary.

[Mike]

No.

[Ryan]

Revolutionary, kind of.

[CJ]

Evolutionary.

[Mike]

Correct term.

[Ryan]

They were revolutionary. So, Ken, your mom came over the other day and, like, dropped off your Christmas presents or something?

[Ken]

No, it was a Christmas decorations.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Ken]

She wanted me to have a stocking on her fireplace.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you need one, dude.

[Ken]

Alex said they're just for decoration.

[Ben]

That's fine.

[Ryan]

The stockings?

[Mike]

Well, yeah, and then they're not going.

[Ken]

To match, and then it's going to be weird.

[CJ]

Oh, I think that's fine. Do you put it up downstairs, though? You have your own.

[Ben]

There you go.

[Ken]

No, not yet.

[Ryan]

Ken, why don't you go hang it up at your new house? And when do you want me to help you move into that place?

[CJ]

When are you leaving?

[Ken]

Maybe three years.

[Ryan]

Three years.

[Mike]

You are a patient man, Mike.

[Ben]

She looks at me after she got Ken the stocking goes. You probably don't even have one there. And I was like, no, I don't.

[Ryan]

But I thought it was your Christmas gifts. I was like, so Ken's not going to Christmas, huh?

[Mike]

We gotta get Ken's mom on the pod.

[CJ]

Oh, I would love to. Is your mom busy right now?

[Mike]

Call her up.

[Ken]

I'm sure she's doing something. I think she had a. What was it today? It's like their garden club thing.

[Ryan]

Sounds about right.

[CJ]

It's December.

[Ryan]

They're preparing, Ryan.

[Ken]

They got to get these gardens ready for. For April.

[CJ]

You're right. I'm sorry.

[Ben]

It's.

[CJ]

That's why I'm not in the club.

[Ryan]

Prior preparation prevents piss poor performance. Ryan.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ben]

Preparation prevents piss poor performance.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they call that the.

[Ken]

The 4Ps.

[Ryan]

It's actually the six piece.

[CJ]

6Ps?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Your. Your mom pulled up in a new car.

[Ken]

Yeah, she. She tried to hide it.

[CJ]

She tried to hide it from you.

[Ken]

She was like, I want to buy a new car, but I want your advice on. On a new Car. And I was like, okay, you know, when you get. Get back from Alaska, I'll help you go car shopping.

[Ben]

Ken.

[Ken]

Thinking about, she just goes and buys a Subaru.

[CJ]

But she had previously had a Subaru that she sold because she didn't like it, right?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So how does she like this one?

[Ken]

She's going to like it for about six months and then she's going to hate it, think it's the worst car in the world. She's going to sell it and then think it was the best car in the world.

[Mike]

That's what she's done with every car.

[Ken]

For the last 20 years.

[Ben]

Well, she's already reached no.

[Ryan]

So she was saying that there's AI in there because she's a pretty big conspiracy. Conspiracy theorist and she thinks that the Chinese are listening to her or that the AI is trying to get her.

[Ken]

I'm. I'm sure they are.

[Ryan]

You know what'd be funny is if we like hid a hidden camera and then like a little speaker in there and then like had like a Chinese person speaking into it.

[CJ]

The Bluetooth device.

[Mike]

She'd go just, dude, that would be funny.

[Ryan]

We stopped pranking Ken and we start pranking his family members.

[Mike]

They're just like, what the is this? I'm not sure if Carolyn even knows that we have a YouTube channel.

[Ken]

She. It takes a little bit of explaining what we've been up to, but I'm.

[Mike]

Sure, I mean, that it does. That's a pretty fair statement for anyone though.

[CJ]

So it does surprise me that you bought a house right next to your family, actually.

[Ken]

Good deal.

[CJ]

It was good enough that the family being next door overrode it.

[Ken]

I mean, I can build a wall.

[Ryan]

Ken's gonna build a wall so he separates his family.

[Ben]

Not just a fence. Like. Yeah, something modernized, something Trump would build.

[CJ]

Yeah, that really would put a weird like, thing in the family. Because there are about building the wall, but then also they're like, but the wall separates me from Ken.

[Ken]

No, no, the rest of them, they, they love, they love open walls.

[CJ]

Oh, really? So the wall would also piss them off if you put it between the two of you. Oh, okay. My bad. Didn't know that.

[Mike]

I think that'd be pretty funny though, Ken. I think that'd be the first day you get in there, you build a massive brick wall over it.

[Ryan]

They're just like shadowed from the sun. Like, it's like they have no sunlight anywhere on their property.

[Mike]

Cuz it's so big at the top. Ken just puts barbed wire too.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, it doesn't even look pretty. It looks like it's trying to stop bad people.

[Ken]

Well, it just says, look good on my side.

[Ryan]

We got to go over there, Ken. I got to check that place out.

[Ken]

I want to demolish it before summer.

[Ryan]

So let's get to it. Let's go over there right now and.

[CJ]

Destroy the limo through it.

[Ben]

Brain starts racing when you say stuff like that.

[Mike]

We should open up, like, pretty good about that. Have, like, a driving range in there, like, for. That would be for fun for cars and golf balls.

[Ken]

There is, like, a great basement. So you drive a car in there, it is gonna, like, fall through the floor. I almost guarantee.

[Ben]

I take it that it's pretty old.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah. Nobody's lived in there in probably 10, 15 years. There's mold all over the place. There's dead mice over. All over the floors.

[CJ]

It.

[Ken]

It needs to be. It's not salvageable.

[CJ]

You could save it till Halloween and run a little hot. Yeah. A little side biz, dude.

[Ryan]

I was on the outside of it. His curtains are, like, just, like, deteriorating.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Ken]

Oh. It probably is haunted.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ryan]

How do you feel about building on those grounds that are hunting?

[Ken]

Just get rid of what's there and then start fresh.

[CJ]

I don't think that's how ghosts work.

[Ryan]

I agree.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You just. They go with the house, the house disappears.

[Mike]

Not sure if they like that.

[CJ]

What about the hallowed grounds?

[Ken]

Yeah, I don't believe in that, Ken.

[Ryan]

We got to check the walls before we start tearing that thing down. I could see there being some, like, money or some hidden valuables in there.

[Ben]

Or we might have to call Evan. There might be a bestis.

[Mike]

Yeah, man. You know, Mike's turning you into the county. Dude, that is a brutal job.

[Ryan]

How's the farm coming along? I haven't been over there in probably three weeks. Oh, is it really?

[Mike]

I mean, have they painted the shipping containers yet?

[CJ]

Not yet, no. Oh, well, that will really start changing it there. But rocking this week.

[Ben]

Really chipping away.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we got to go check that out.

[CJ]

Yeah, the farm remodel is coming along. Just when it was here, it was like, you were so involved in it, but you can almost kind of forget about it over there, which is nice.

[Ryan]

Thing over there, because we can keep.

[CJ]

Our work flowing here. But I try to go over there at least every other night and check up on it, and it's so fun having something like, progressively changing like that. You can physically watch the change happening.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[CJ]

Which is pretty legit. I had to take a break this week editing and do a Little dirt, work in the skid, steer. It's like, therapeutic for your soul, man. Get in some heavy machinery and mindlessly operate.

[Ryan]

It felt good, I think, even doing manual labor. Like. Like, I. Me personally, I don't want to do that every single day. But, like, you spend, let's say, one day doing some good manual labor. Like, for instance, us cutting all the ice with the chainsaws and then using the shut. You know, that's quite a bit of fun. Like, work like physical labor or even just like helping, like my dad build a brick retaining wall, let's say, or shovel out some stuff, you know, it just feels good. Like, it's rewarding when you get done. And it's also just good for you.

[Ben]

You know, that just comes down to. I guess the main thing you could equate that to is like, mowing. When you quit mowing, you know, we don't mow our lawn anymore.

[CJ]

Evan does.

[Ben]

Well, Evan mows it here. But it just reminded me of like, two chains. What have you been up to?

[Mike]

Two chains.

[Ben]

He's like, I bought lawnmower. He's like, ever since, he's like, I. I lived in an apartment and then I. When I was rapping, I got money and then I never mowed my own lawn. I've never mowed my own lawn before.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Ben]

So he got a lawnmower and mowed it. I'm like, that's. Every man should at least mow.

[Ryan]

I wonder if we have any friends that have never mowed.

[Ben]

I'd be curious.

[Ryan]

I'm sure there's some. One of those things, somebody that's just been in the city, just pampered, never mowed before.

[Mike]

I guess if you grow up in.

[Ben]

That's what I mean. Well, yeah, a development where they mow your own lawn or something.

[CJ]

Yeah, that brings up a good point. Yesterday I spent all day around here cleaning, basically. And it's one of the most therapeutic things to do is clean. But it's also on, like, the same token, draining. Like, I have this weird balance where when I'm working or have other work to do, it's like, damn, I really could be doing the state sales tax, but also the shop floor needs to be scrubbed. So I think I'm going to do that instead of.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And then you tend to put yourself further behind. And it's something that I really, really struggle with, is trying to find the balance of, like, cleaning up around here and keeping the shop in order so we can do other things and then also doing the Tasks that are on, like, your secondary to do list, you.

[Ben]

Know, cleaning the floor mindless. That's. Those are the best jobs. When you're trying to, like, get away from the stuff you have to do that takes all. All your brain. But, yeah, it was like you cleaning the shipping container. It was like, you're taking all the stuff out. You're like, this is going great. And then as soon as you had to start thinking, what should we keep? What should we.

[CJ]

Oh, then how should I.

[Ben]

And then you're like, I don't want to do this.

[CJ]

I got everything outside, and I almost just quit right there. But I was like, damn, I ruined the whole shop. It's so dirty. I have to finish.

[Mike]

We got one of those. It's basically like a push lawnmower, but it's a sweeper. It's got, like, two little floor scrubber. Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Shout out Brenco for that. They hooked it up, dude. That.

[CJ]

With the scrubber.

[Mike]

For the scrubber, but the pusher. Sweeper. And you just literally just push it around like it's a lawnmower, and it sweeps up the floor. So nice.

[Ryan]

It's amazing.

[Mike]

I love doing that after, like, a long day of editing. It's so therapeutic.

[CJ]

That's what I mean. It's like this therapy for it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

There's nothing better than cleaning the garage.

[Mike]

Besides for drinking beer in it, Ryan.

[Ryan]

Well, that's true that. At the same time, though.

[CJ]

Exactly. And you got to clean the garage to drink beer in it.

[Ben]

I feel like one job that I hope that I stop enjoying at some point, but my therapeutic job is breaking down boxes. I just love grabbing 10 just per stuff. Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Just throwing the utility knife in them, breaking them down.

[Mike]

It.

[Ben]

It makes it feel like there's a.

[Mike]

The.

[Ben]

Oh, that was the end of the process. The merch came in. In the boxes. It.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

But, yeah, I just love breaking down boxes. And I sing a little song. Breaking down boxes. Breaking down boxes.

[Mike]

Never heard that.

[Ben]

Yeah, No, I made it. Oh, I made it up.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ben]

What do you do that's therapeutic, cj?

[Ryan]

I'd say working out is probably my most therapeutic thing. You know, just go to the gym, which for me, it's probably not the same as other people. Like, most people hate going to the gym, where I'm just going there. Like, I'm just kind of, like, maintaining. I'm just doing, like, bench whatever. I'm not pushing myself that hard. But I'm listening to a podcast.

[Mike]

I've always wondered what you do.

[Ryan]

I'm listening to a podcast. I mean, I'm still putting in work, but I'm not, like, like, hating it, you know?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You are going, leaving, trying to keep your heart rate above 85 for the hour and a half.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's just nice.

[Ben]

It makes sense. I remember, like. And I'm in no position to, like, say anything about what you do at the gym, but the few times that I went with you, I'm like, damn, like, C.J. just chilling over there. Chilling now. Look at him. He's chilling again over there now.

[Ryan]

Well, you gotta get rest in between.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

But then as soon as you told, you're like, I do the gym differently. It's therapeutic for me. I'm like, makes sense. Totally makes sense.

[Mike]

Dude, that's me in my sauna. Like, it's like the absolute best thing ever. Turn that thing on, sit there and just watch it warm up. So excited to hop in it. Sometimes I'll just turn it on and hop in it. It's just nice sitting in there. And then by the time it's warm, I'm ready to get out. I just love it. It's the best.

[Ryan]

I'm trying to get one.

[Ben]

Very therapeutic. I was in the sauna with Gavin the other day, and we, like, chat quite a bit throughout the day. And then we both got in the sauna, just 15 minutes, just didn't speak.

[Mike]

That's beautiful. Sitting in there and just chilling, sweating and.

[Ben]

And your hands are too sweaty to go on your phone. So, yeah, you might play some music, but no music at that point. But yeah, you're not like, you know, in the hot tub, like, you keep your hands out so you can go on your phone, which I enjoy. But, like, in the sauna, your hands are too sweaty to operate it.

[Mike]

Yeah, I pop my phone up and I just watch something.

[CJ]

It's interesting how much phones have changed the game for hanging out. Like, hangs aren't as good anymore because the phone is so accessible. And even just a few minutes, like right now, when we're all sitting, nobody's looking at our phone because we're. We're chatting. But if you're at dinner and even one person pulls out the phone for just a little bit, it's like a. It's like a ripple effect before eight.

[Ben]

Way drug to other people.

[CJ]

Exactly. Then someone goes, oh, well, Mike's on his phone. I. I'll. I'll check my Instagram quick. And then before you know it, the other two are like, oh, well, they're on their phone.

[Ben]

I'll.

[CJ]

I'll grab mine, and you just fall out of the conversation. Yeah, it's. It's honestly, like, sad, I feel like.

[Ben]

And then the few times that we do do the stack, you know, stack your phones in the middle. We talked about that before. It works 100 of the time.

[Mike]

When we put our phones in the.

[Ben]

Middle, the conversation gets better.

[Ryan]

Obviously, the phone use. But extremely annoying. When we're watching a movie and you, like, look around and, like, half the people are on their phones. You're like, you're not even watching the.

[CJ]

Movie at a theater. You're.

[Mike]

No, I'm talking like.

[Ryan]

Like, sometimes, like, we do, like. Like, if. If me and Alex say, like, sit down to watch a movie, and she's like, let's watch a movie. Let's do, you know, whatever. I'm like, okay, yeah, sure. I'm prepared to watch and pay attention. But you just go on your phone. You're like, you're not watching the movie. Like, sometimes when we go over to your house and have, like, theater nights, sometimes half the people are on their phones. I'm like, it just kind of, like.

[Mike]

Ruins the vibe in here.

[Ryan]

Like, no one's even paying attention.

[CJ]

Exactly. And then you're like, well, damn, I'll just watch the movie. I want to watch.

[Ryan]

The movie because that. You guys all want to watch it and you guys aren't watching it.

[Ben]

But you try to come together and pick a movie. But, yeah, like, no one's caring.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Especially if it's a movie you vouch for, too. You're like, come on.

[CJ]

I think it's difficult with us because we spend so much time together that even, let's say, airport or a dinner and stuff like that isn't necessarily special. Not that it's not important, but we're just like, I spent 12 hours with the boys today. Dinner is just the final step to me going home and then getting on with whatever I got to do. So we're. We're a little more apt to go on our phone. But I think when we don't and we do the phone stack, we have this game that we play when we go out to eat where everybody takes their phone and put it in a stack and you can't touch it because likely your phone is in the middle of the stack and there's a consequence.

[Ben]

For if you do touch it.

[CJ]

Yeah. What is it? Is it shots or pay for dinner?

[Ben]

Either or.

[Ryan]

We only do that, though, when we have, like, let's say our girlfriends or friends outside of this. But, like, if we all just went out to lunch. I would literally not care if you guys are on your phone.

[CJ]

No, for sure not.

[Ryan]

But if you got, like, other, like, you should pay attention. Try to be present in the moment. Give them, Give it your all.

[CJ]

Yeah, I think the looking at your phone, looking for some type of. Whether it be, like, dopamine stimulation, something like that, and then it takes away the fun from whatever you're actually doing. Like, I've noticed that when I get in these, like, black holes of, like, constantly looking at my phone, even like, I'm working or we're doing something and you're like, hey, go grab a jump pack and I'll, like, run over there. And then I'll. I'll. I'll look at my phone quick. And it just takes you out of the moment you're living in.

[Ben]

And the worst part is, is that, I mean, I'll speak personally. Like, I can't stop doing it. I know. Yeah, it takes you away from the moment so bad, whether it's really quick or for a long time.

[CJ]

Well, you guys are whoop guys now, but do you think Mike having an Apple watch makes it better or worse for looking at your phone?

[Ben]

Better because you, you. I'd say better because. Yeah, again, you know, your phone doesn't light up when you're wearing your watch. Notifications come on your phone and. And then you know what you're getting. Whatever you're getting, you know what you're getting, and you don't take your phone out. And you also can't scroll Instagram or, you know, Facebook Marketplace. You can't do that on your watch. So it's not going to make me do that anymore. Yeah.

[Mike]

The issue with the whoop, though, is then you're just constantly checking your stats.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's, like, gamifying.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, yeah, I like the whoop because it. It's like anything, dude. It just provides stats to, like, your life, for instance, and. And basically the way you're living. And then it gamifies trying to be healthier, which is good for you. You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like when you play Call of Duty at the end of the round, you know, or the game, you get the. You watch it go up a little bit, gives you your points and how much more you need to get ranked up. I'd say it's kind of the same. Like, that is what made Call of Duty addicting for me, for sure. This is kind of the same way, like, you're, like, trying to get better sleep you're, like, trying to figure out how to just be healthier.

[Mike]

Yeah. With the sleep, too. They do sleep debt. So if you get, like, you know, seven hours of sleep one night, you're supposed to get a little more. Let's just say 7 hours and 45 minutes. And so then you're in debt 45 minutes. And then if it continues to, like, add up throughout the week, and then at the end of the week, you're in debt, like, three hours, four hours to your body, then you can, like, you know, sleep in a little bit, bring it back to, you know, where you're supposed to be at.

[Ben]

I like that.

[CJ]

That's interesting.

[Mike]

I just think it's a big thing.

[Ryan]

Like, everyone is trying to be healthier nowadays. Like, it's seriously amazing. But just the Fitbits, the whoops that even the Apple watch, like, all these things that provide statistics and basically gamify life, is contributing a pretty fair role.

[CJ]

To it, I feel. What makes you interested. And you can see it, because even if you were, every day you're like, okay, I'm gonna go for a walk. But then when you can see your steps or your hour counter or whatever, it's like, heads up.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's nice, dude. Today this is very out of pocket for me, considering I haven't done this in two and a half years. I was just wait. I didn't know there was a Vikings game today. I was waiting for you guys. I was like, man, I got pretty much everything I was doing done, and I'm like, I'm gonna go run a mile on the treadmill.

[Mike]

We didn't have a treadmill. Have it.

[Ryan]

Fuck.

[Ben]

I went downstairs into the workout room, and I was like, oh, yeah, we're.

[Mike]

Use their stupid bit, the eggs.

[Ben]

No. And then I thought about that. I'm like, well, I'm not going to go run outside. But I was seeing if. I was just looking on Facebook, Marketplace. Is it cool if I pick up another treadmill? Couple hundred bucks?

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Good one, though.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get a good one.

[Mike]

Dude, Greta got a treadmill. Oh, I've told this. I guess she got a peloton treadmill.

[Ken]

This thing's, like, super dangerous. They're, like, all recalled.

[CJ]

Really?

[Mike]

We got to call Greta. Oh, damn. She's. Oh, my gosh.

[Ryan]

Ben just throws headphones off sprints to his.

[Ken]

Yeah, a kid died on one, so they, like, recalled all of them.

[Ryan]

How?

[CJ]

Thank God, dude, kids are dying from pop and soda and candy at a learning rate, but a treadmill takes one out.

[Ryan]

He should have stayed on the couch and played video games.

[CJ]

He was trying to ride his pit bike on the treadmill.

[Ben]

No, he had it at full speed and he just kept rolling.

[Ken]

He got pulled underneath it.

[Mike]

Oh, Ate him.

[Ryan]

How old was he?

[CJ]

Do they have the. That's super sad.

[Mike]

Yeah, that is. Baby must have been really young.

[Ken]

Doesn't say. But then there's 87 other people got injured from it.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Mike]

Interesting.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Mike]

You know what, though? I'm not surprised one bit, because me, my dad, and I had to call in Justin to move this treadmill down my stairs. Bro, it was. It legit. Had to have weighed 500 pounds. Maybe not that much. But it was so heavy.

[Ben]

It was a full three, man.

[Mike]

So heavy. So, anyway, next time you want to run, Mike, you can just come to my house and use a treadmill and use a. I got to have you sign the waiver.

[Ben]

Yeah, of course.

[Mike]

Obviously, you know.

[Ryan]

Are you gonna run on that treadmill, too, Ben?

[Mike]

I probably should. I don't know. We'll see.

[Ben]

At some point.

[Mike]

I have not used it yet, but I set it up, like, 14 minutes before I came here to film, so I have a pretty valid excuse today. It was gnarly, though. I literally thought I was gonna have to call you guys in for back. I was like, this might be a five man job. My dad is like, call everyone.

[Ben]

You know, not that I've had to do it, really, at all, but, like, there's something about me that just. I don't want to call you guys to help me move stuff. It's one thing if I'm like, hey, I just need help for five hours. I'm moving, like, everything out of there. That's one thing. Because you either are going to be like, I mean, or, I'm out for five hours. What if I'm like, hey, I need to move a couch? Like, the next time you're in Fargo, can we meet up?

[Mike]

I help you.

[Ben]

I know.

[Mike]

What?

[Ben]

I don't like asking for that stuff.

[Mike]

It's because it's. I get what you're saying, and I've dealt with the same thing, just moving into my house. It's because I ask so much of you guys every single day. I feel like you don't drive.

[CJ]

You don't know.

[Mike]

Yeah, you do, actually. You don't owe me, like, one more thing. Especially on your free time.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's it.

[Ryan]

That's what I. That's why I never ask you. Just because I'm, like, getting some free time. I'm not trying to have them waste it using, trying to help me, you know?

[Mike]

Yeah, I feel bad, too, because I've called Justin a couple times, but. Yeah, but he lives right by me.

[Ryan]

You owe him a case of beer.

[Mike]

I do owe him a case. And every time, time he comes over, I give him a hug and I go, bro, I am so sorry, but this is one heavy dude last time.

[Ryan]

Justin's at home right now icing his back.

[Mike]

You got me moving my sauna. I swear, the poor guy. You've got to eat so much trust in me after that one because you not tell him what he's moving before he comes. I said it's a sauna. But it shouldn't be that bad. Oh, yeah, gnarly.

[Ryan]

Well, I bet he's gonna be pretty pump for your new safe.

[Mike]

Oh, gosh.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's the cherry on top. All right. It's a gun safe.

[Mike]

Justin would legit block me.

[CJ]

I've got this in room 72. Gun. 72. Gun. Gun safe. Can you help me carry it down the stairs? I don't want to tear up the yard.

[Mike]

We need to do it today because they're cementing the walls around it tomorrow.

[Ben]

Is anyone.

[Mike]

How big is this?

[Ben]

So it's me, you, and who else? Just us.

[Ryan]

Gretel helps.

[Mike]

Yeah. I go, greta.

[Ryan]

Greta.

[Ben]

Yeah. That is crazy when people have to, like, crane them in while they're, like, building the house, I guess. Gun.

[Mike]

That is cool. I was watching this flare video and. And he got like a mack daddy safe. And they had to build it. They had to build it around, like, the house, around the safe. That's so baller.

[Ben]

I don't know if it does, but that's gotta like, essentially bring the value of the house up. Not a lot, but a little bit. I got a built in massive safe.

[CJ]

Can you get out of the safe if you were in it?

[Ryan]

Probably not.

[Mike]

That's a good question. What? Why are you asking?

[CJ]

Well, I was thinking it could double as, like, a safe room.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

You know.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

Well, obviously safe, but like a, you know, like a bunker room or like a tornado room or something like that.

[Ryan]

Right. I feel like there should be.

[CJ]

If it's that big, it would make sense. Like, what if, like a breeze came and blew that door, locked you in there?

[Ryan]

You didn't have a phone. Single man question.

[Mike]

Thank two. If you go missing, I guarantee if they came and checked out your house, they wouldn't look in your.

[CJ]

They can't get in your.

[Ryan]

They don't know the code.

[Mike]

Yeah. Oh, my Gosh.

[Ben]

But let's say they do get up to the safe and you weren't yelling at the time because you've been in there for 48 hours or whatever.

[Ryan]

Can.

[Ben]

That's what I'm saying. It's like a super nice safe. So you're like, I'm in here. And they just look.

[Mike]

Yeah. You're like, damn it. Why I didn't need this safe to begin with.

[Ken]

Like, what if a tornado rolls through, knocks out like all the cell towers, the power and you get locked in there and like the house collapses around it? What do you do?

[Mike]

And you're just dumb, man. Dude, I don't know. Unbelievable.

[Ryan]

Probably do the same thing first. The first scenario just sitting there.

[CJ]

Is your house have a safe that you bought?

[Ryan]

No.

[CJ]

Cuz like, yeah. What if the hypothetical person we're speaking of was trapped in there and then they just went, oh yeah, he disappeared. But we can't get in the safe because he had a big code and then he's in your house.

[Mike]

How long would you last?

[CJ]

Oh, this is a great question. Horror, horror movie scenario, let's say zombie apocalypse, not what are you doing? How long you want to live?

[Ben]

How long do I want to.

[Mike]

I think about this a lot, actually.

[CJ]

Every time I watch this game.

[Mike]

About this a lot. Like, if a zombie apocalypse comes, one, am I ready? Absolutely not. But two, do I even want to live?

[Ryan]

I would, I'd fight back.

[CJ]

So you're a fighter.

[Ryan]

I'd see how long we could go.

[Mike]

What are you doing?

[CJ]

Where you doing something?

[Ryan]

You'd be freaking traveling with other people that are not infected yet. And you'd be fucking walking dead.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Dude, they don't make any movies about the people who quit. They make them about the winners.

[Ryan]

You just lay down like, what, you just go find us.

[CJ]

No. Do something.

[Mike]

No, no, I've just thought about, you know, like, how prepared do you want to be?

[Ryan]

Oh, oh, I guess I'm not going to be prepared for that. I'm not going to waste my time.

[Mike]

Like, obviously you're going to have to deal with that when it, you know, but like the doomsday preppers, like, what state of mind are they in? Cuz like, you know, what's the volcano that if it erupts, the entire world is Yellowstone. Is that what.

[Ryan]

It's straight up Yellowstone.

[Ken]

It's straight up Yellowstone.

[Ben]

Straight up Yellowstone.

[CJ]

The whole season on Yellowstone rip. Yellowstone's gonna explode. God damn it, John.

[Ryan]

If that volcano's work.

[CJ]

This is Jamie's work. I'm going to kill That I think, like, basically everybody pretty good.

[Ken]

I think, like, everyone within, like, a 100 or 200 miles is just, like, instantly dead. And then.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's not.

[Ken]

The ash cloud is going to, like, pretty much cover the whole.

[CJ]

That's what I'm saying. Put me in the vaporization blast zone. If the whole world is going to be Antarctica for the next millennium, take me out, dude.

[Mike]

Right, that's what I'm wondering.

[Ryan]

You know, probably make it through that, though. You'd have some gear.

[Ben]

Yeah, I got my mono suit on.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

What kind of gear do you.

[Ben]

What do you mean?

[Mike]

Do I look like the type of.

[Ryan]

World'S going to be Antarctica?

[Mike]

You just rebuild.

[Ben]

Oh, you.

[Mike]

You legit mean snow gear.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You'd probably be all right, right?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I can't believe this dude's like, I'll give up. There's, like, half that. We spend half our life living in Minnesota.

[Mike]

No, that's not the problem, dude. It would kill off, like, every life form, like, every planet, plants and like, pretty soon you're living on processed food. Yeah. So we'd be fine if you have it.

[Ken]

Like, the air outside wouldn't be safe to breathe.

[CJ]

I don't have a goddamn Twinkies in here.

[Mike]

Yeah, the. Ryan's wearing his mono suit, running around the world.

[CJ]

Jake.

[Ben]

Jake and Dave are over there. Like, thank God we bought all this soup.

[Mike]

Yeah, my. One of my dad's really good friends bought, I want to say, a hundred pounds of rice.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Mike]

Might even been 100 pounds.

[CJ]

What soy sauce did he buy, Dude?

[Mike]

Yeah, that's a good question. Better have some yum yum sauce.

[CJ]

I didn't think about that.

[Mike]

A lot of rice. And then he bought, like, 15 ars. Okay, lucky. Because he's worried about what his neighbor's coming over and asking him for rice. So word gets out that he's the only.

[Ryan]

That much rice. Yeah. I mean, you need guns.

[Ben]

All right, so you guys got. There's a new movie, ironically, about this on Netflix called Leave the World Behind.

[Mike]

Crazy.

[Ben]

And yeah, it's good. They have a bunker in it and all that. I didn't love the ending, but worth the watch. It's kind of what you said. It's like, yeah, I'm gonna fight. But it's like, yeah, how much are you gonna prepare? You might buy 15 ars and a bunch of food and build a bunker, and you'll never see more than a dog trying to bite you, you know, as far as danger goes. So that, that'd be tough. But, yeah, I, I. On the what would I do? I would fight, but I wouldn't be able to handle much emotionally, let's say, like, I'm fighting and I have to watch, like, Ken gets, like, bit, and we have to, like, watch him die. And I feel like everyone around me.

[CJ]

I don't.

[Mike]

Stone cold.

[Ryan]

You would literally.

[Ben]

I would just. I would. After so much people around me dying, I would get really discouraged. And then, like, that's what would emotionally, like, losing other people around you. If I had a good crew the whole time, I'd be like, we're fighting the death.

[Mike]

But what's the point of living if, like, all your homies die? Yeah, dude, I think a really good podcast would be with a doomsday prepper in his bunker.

[CJ]

They don't show those things off, dude.

[Ben]

Someone might.

[CJ]

The right guy.

[Mike]

A flashy doomsday prepper looking for one. Yeah. Some of those guys can, like, straight up, straight up live off of their food for, like, years. Like, 50 years.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ben]

That's what I was going to say is that this is more of a terrorist attack. And the whole plan of the terrorist attack was to turn the country into a civil war, which I am. I don't know.

[CJ]

That was. The interesting part is it wasn't even a terrorist attack. It was the US Trying to tear apart itself.

[Ben]

But, yeah, like, I don't like to think about that happening, but, I mean, it kind of is. It's like when someone's in rough shape, like, I bring C.J. over the neighbors, and the neighbors, like, get off my lawn. I'm trying to save me and my family. Like, even though you've known him for 10 years, like, just everyone was cut through throat. And then you might get someone that wandered their way from three miles away. That's just like, well, let's just kill whoever. Because I. I feel like living. Purge. Yeah.

[Mike]

Go straight perch.

[Ben]

Yeah. That terrifies me is people turning on each other just to survive.

[CJ]

Makes a guy wonder, you know? That's what I'm saying.

[Mike]

That's.

[CJ]

That's my hot take. The world starts ending. It's in. It's not like the gradual, you know, like, oh, you can maybe make it through, but freaking zombie apocalypse style, like, shit's going south.

[Mike]

It's.

[CJ]

It's not good. You're one. You're one of, like, a couple thousand people left. I'm like, come on, dude, let's rob a plane. Go skydiving. No parachute style. Like, let's go out with a bang.

[Mike]

That's.

[CJ]

I'm not trying to fight off zombies and live in a bunker for my whole life. And I'm sorry if that's a hot take and not the correct answer, but I'm not trying to live in a bunker my whole life.

[Ryan]

No, I don't want to live in a bunker.

[CJ]

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Yellowstone goes off, you can't go outside because the whole world is nosh nox noxus noxious.

[Ben]

It is tough.

[CJ]

That's a little toxic fumes.

[Ben]

Cuz it is toxic. So you'd have to stay in a bun bunker. So like you literally have to stay in there but for the like zombie thing.

[CJ]

Same.

[Ben]

I personally taking the wuss route and staying in the bunker if I don't have to like risk dying every day.

[CJ]

There you go. You guys can eat me then. Yeah, I'll sacrifice myself for y'. All.

[Mike]

Really makes you think.

[Ben]

Yeah, man, I've been watching some heavy years lately on Netflix.

[Mike]

I feel like I'm so many good shows behind.

[Ryan]

Yeah, same.

[CJ]

Do you guys have like that list that you put the in your notes when someone tells you about a good show and you've got this list like infinitely long of the shows that you could never watch, but you know, you're sitting at dinner with somebody or drinks and they're like, you gotta watch Bodies. Yeah, for sure. That sounds great. And then you never.

[Mike]

You know what, Ryan? You are my list. Every time that I finish a show, I go, what should I watch? I'm going to ask Ryan. Dude knows. You are so well diverse on what shows you do watch. And you'll know which ones I would like for sure. Appreciate that. It goes back to what you were saying earlier about like being on your phone during a movie. Me and Greta started a series the other day and she was on. She was reading a book on the first episode and then.

[Ben]

And then second one and go, what's going on?

[Ryan]

This.

[Mike]

Get this, dude, get this. I'm actually fired up about this. She was reading her book, right? And I go, are we not watching this then? And she was like, I'm just reading my book. Like, you can keep watching this. We've been traveling. I download all these episodes. I'm three. I'm three seasons in.

[Ben]

Oh, man.

[Mike]

And Greta comes to me last night and goes, should we go? We should watch Suits. I go, I've been watching Suits.

[CJ]

We're too deep.

[Mike]

I'm on the third episode. She was in the third season and she was like, we were watching that together. And I was like, no, we weren't. We were not watching that together. You read a book the entire first episode.

[Ben]

Similar scenario where I'm watching the movie. I'm like, this is. I'm liking this movie is actually that movie I was just talking about. But, like, this movie. And then Sydney was on her phone, and halfway through, she goes, can we watch something else? And I'm like, yeah, sure.

[Mike]

No problem.

[Ben]

I'll finish it later. And then I'm like, I had to watch half of it and get into it the whole time. Turn it off, do this thing.

[CJ]

When she gets bored with a show, she'll just search up the ending, or if it's really scary, Google the ending. I'm like, why do that? Gosh, it's good for her. So I'm like, just don't tell me. Let me live through this moment. But I. I'm always like, why did you just Google the end of the movie that we've been waiting to see for a long time?

[Mike]

Yeah. Or like, on Netflix, you can, like, scroll through the episodes and then, like, read them and then. And, oh, yeah, like, get. You know, keep going season to season. They don't give you much, but they still give you enough to, like, you know, spoil what you're watching it for for sure.

[Ryan]

I was like, what's the point?

[CJ]

Well, it's just like the teaser. It's tough.

[Mike]

But, yeah, I agree.

[CJ]

Whenever I'm downloading them for the plane, I, like, try not to read them. Yeah, just click the things.

[Ben]

Same for that. That squid game show I was just talking about that. The game show that they did, they. Someone, like a news article posted that the winner hadn't gotten her money yet. And then everyone's just like, bro, you just outed the win. Like, because the episode hadn't quite dropped, everyone's like, oh, like, it dropped maybe the same time they released it, but people didn't have time to watch it. Like, oh, all right.

[CJ]

So I put out on our story a few weeks ago on the Life Wide Open podcast. Instagram had some people voice memo in if they needed some advice.

[Ben]

So this is fun.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ryan]

I love this.

[CJ]

This one's from Weston Hack Barth.

[Mike]

Dude, this is like a radio show.

[CJ]

What do I do if I'm riding.

[Ryan]

My dad's brand new sled around the yard and I try to drift it and I slide her into a tree.

[CJ]

And it takes out both the skis. Do I. Do I call them?

[Ryan]

Or is it working tone that I crashes brand new sled or do I try to fix it? Before he gets home.

[Mike]

That's tough.

[Ben]

Oh, no, you just. Two keys, you order the parts and then you call him.

[Mike]

Well, first off, you're not gonna fix it if you took out the whole front end.

[Ben]

I love the trying to drift this leg because like, if you kind of know, like, snowmobiles don't really drift.

[Mike]

No.

[Ben]

And when you try to drift them, they end up going like, you know, tipping over and whatnot. But yeah, I guess if, if we learned anything trying to hide, you know, your mistake from your parents rarely, rarely ends well. If it were me, I'd like do what I could to order every part that I need and then be like, I broke it. I don't know if I'm capable of fixing it, but I order the parts already.

[CJ]

I feel like in any situation like that, you got to come clean. You're not getting anywhere no matter what you do by trying to lie or hide your way out of it.

[Ryan]

I definitely wouldn't call them at work. I just wait till he gets home, be like, listen, I messed up.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I'm going to take full responsibility for it. I'm, I'm going to try and pay for whatever damages I can, if not all of it.

[Ben]

One thing in this day and age, a new snowmobile, it ain't cheap.

[Ryan]

No.

[Ben]

15 plus. So like, that could be a factor too.

[Ryan]

It's easy to total a slide out too.

[CJ]

Here's one from Dylan.

[Mike]

Yo, boys. Yeah. Scenario for you. So I know you guys kind of live in a small town and had some success. Just wondering kind of how you deal with other people's opinions or how people look at you. Does that stuff get to you or, or not really. All right, peace. Peace. It's a good question. That is.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I mean, we definitely deal with that. There's some haters for sure.

[Ben]

And I'd say general consensus. We don't let it get to us.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we don't.

[Ben]

That doesn't mean that. It never does.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we never has.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

It's, it's funny though, because you don't see your haters until you have like a little bit of a bauble and then they come out and they're like.

[Ryan]

Oh, I knew they would fail.

[Mike]

Or like this. So it's, it's, it is always interesting to see, you know, like the people that actually have your back if shit goes south for an instance. Those are the real ones. But like any small town, like, you're going to have like the small minded people that like, they clearly don't want to Leave the small town and they don't get what you're doing and they want to just almost like hold you down. I think you're going to have that literally anywhere that you go. I think the less that you like give a fuck actually what they think, as long as like you're okay with what you're doing. Like, if you're not confident in what you're doing, then you're going to let other people's opinions like, get to you. But like, when we first started making videos, I think back to it and like, I can't believe that like we didn't care about what anyone said or like thought watching these like videos back. Because it's like most people's opinions were pretty valid. Like it was like, you know, stupid or like cringy. And like at the time it's like we didn't care and like didn't let that affect us one bit. And we were so stoked on it. But yeah, I mean, there was plenty of haters. There's still there.

[Ryan]

So like, here's an, an example. I'm not going to out the restaurant, but there's an owner of a restaurant that we eat at frequently and he's never said anything to our face, but he talks about us to other people and they've told us, oh yeah, he's always saying whatever about you guys, but. And like, from my understanding, he's just saying like, oh yeah, those guys are idiots. Like they're doing all that, you know, whatever. But there's plenty of stuff he said. But we don't care. And we still even go there and eat all the time. In fact, my plan was next time I see him, just because I've been hearing more and more is I, like, I'm going to eat and I'm going to go up and like when I'm walking I'll be like, hey, it was great as always. Appreciate you guys, you know, exactly.

[CJ]

To kill him with kindness.

[Ryan]

Because I'm sure he probably doesn't know that, that I hear that he's talking about us.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But yeah. So anyways, I, I mean, you just can't care. That's probably the bottom line on it.

[CJ]

It's easier said sometimes than done. But you really do. You just got to focus on whatever you're doing.

[Ryan]

Dude, the only people hating are people that are below you. Very true. Like, nobody's ever like hating on someone lower than them. You know, like the people winning aren't like, like making fun, you know, like talking down.

[CJ]

Yeah. Or they're scared because you're coming for them.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. That's the only other reason, I guess. But yeah, true.

[Ben]

But yeah, I was gonna say we use this line as a joke and as a real thing. If some. If one of the boys is like, screwing some. Something up they're doing, you know, Ben and I might look at each other and go, some people just don't get it, man. But then we also use that as a real term. You know, someone's hating. Really. Some people just don't get.

[CJ]

Don't get what you're doing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It is funny though, how the tides always turn, like, especially in.

[Ryan]

In moments of the Bible. I like what you say, like the Bible or when. When some. When stuff isn't going right. That's when people are like, quick to. Yeah. Then you see their true colors.

[Ben]

Yeah. Let's hear another one.

[Caller]

I just graduated three months ago. High school. I've been working 50 hours a week full time as a technician at a Ford dealership. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing with my life. My dream was what you guys have. I grew up as a kid always doing YouTube videos. Stopped doing it because everybody told me it was unrealistic. And now I'm trying to join the army and I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing with my life. It's kind of.

[Ryan]

Of go into.

[Caller]

And I don't know what to do, honestly. I haven't been able to get a girlfriend or nothing. Been single. My ex cheated on me. What? Not. Long story short, I don't know what I'm doing. Love you guys.

[Ryan]

That's tough, dude.

[Mike]

My advice to him is like, 99% of the world doesn't know what the they're doing. Yeah, but this guy's actually doing something. Yeah, it sounds like working 50 hours a week. He wants to go into the military. Like, both of those are extremely honorable.

[Ryan]

It sounds like he wants to make YouTube videos, but he's thinking he. He should go into the military because he doesn't know what he's doing. But you're right. Most people don't know what the they're doing. We don't know what the we're doing half the time, but we just figure it out as we go. And I think that is actually the biggest thing is figuring it out as you go. It's very easy to be like, oh, I don't know what to do. And then you just stand still. Nothing happens. But if you. If you're like, well, I'm gonna figure it out as I go and you just start. Then you can at least get the ball rolling. It might be a slow roll at first or whatever, but at least you're doing something. But, but still, yeah, there's literally nothing wrong with what you're already doing. I mean, working as a technician 50 hours a week or going into the military, like, both those great jobs, man. Like, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you truly want to be a YouTuber, I would say that you should probably maybe keep working, but also do start doing YouTube on the side and start evolving and building as a YouTuber. You know, it would start, Just start, start making videos and then focus on making the videos better and just study YouTube and don't listen to, don't listen to the haters, man.

[Ben]

Listen to the haters a little bit.

[Ryan]

And, and yeah, they could, they could sit there and talk shit and say all that stuff, but if you're already doing a job, you say, well, this is my hobby. I like doing this. Because if you actually do, like doing it, that'll be the true testament you, like. It's not. It doesn't happen overnight.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, sure. We worked this and another job for what, like, three, four years?

[Ryan]

Three or four years, we were doing both, you know, like working here at night, printing shirts, editing till 2 in the morning, and then going to work the next day and, and, or school or whatever you were in.

[Mike]

But also, it's not as glamorous as, like, you would think that it would be. Like, it's not easy. No, it's like becoming, I guess, what's your pinnacle success, like, YouTuber would be. It's not like you're gonna have everything figured out. You're not gonna have no more money problems. You're gonna be working way more than you already are right now.

[Ryan]

You're probably thinking about it all the time.

[Mike]

You're gonna be thinking about it all the time. You're probably still gonna have relationship issues because you won't even have time for one.

[Ben]

Like, yeah, that's for sure.

[CJ]

Sure.

[Mike]

It's not always better on, like, the other side of the fence. Like, your grass isn't always greener.

[Ben]

Truly, like, there's a lot of differences, but the only real difference is, like, you're working for yourself. Other than that. Like, yeah, the work doesn't get any easier.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'd say that's. That's probably the most glamorous side. It's like being able to do what you want, make your own decisions. But as far as, like, feeling like You've, like, made it or like, yeah, it's. You're happier because you're now a YouTuber. Like, that's not. That's not the case. I think it's just doing whatever you want to be doing.

[Ryan]

And also that's a good thing to mention. Not trying to discourage you from doing it. But behind the video that you watch each week on YouTube, there is so much more work and thought that goes into making these things happen than what you see. So, like, and not trying to discourage you. And you'll. You'll learn that as you start going. If you want to make good videos and videos that are getting, you know, high views, there's a lot more that goes into it than just being funny on camera when it's rolling.

[CJ]

Yep.

[Ben]

And. And the last thing, I'll add this. Obviously his kind of goal is to not be a technician at the Ford dealership. However, that among many other. Like, when you're working for someone else, it is worth walking the walk. So proving yourself with the work you do. It is worth saying to your higher ups that I'm working like, I want a promotion. You know, walking more. I want a promotion. But yeah, I think I forgot to do that too. Like, you're just. When you're working for someone else there that the boss is rarely ever going to come to you and say, hey.

[CJ]

I want to pay you, I want.

[Ben]

To pay you more. It just doesn't happen. So that's a big part too. Like, if you think you're working hard and can show you're working hard, it's not insane to ask your boss for.

[CJ]

A raise and hit up our boy Ken cuz he's got a squeaky roof that he really needs fixed.

[Ken]

They're supposedly almost done.

[Ryan]

Oh, on his bronco.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

All right. One more.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

Says, okay, this is a sticky one.

[Ben]

Oh, we can't.

[Mike]

We can't mention any names here, cuz we got to stay anonymous. But what would happen or how can I solve this issue if I potentially. My best friend's ex girlfriend and I haven't told him about it. Yo, we're gonna let actually goes back. Yeah.

[Ben]

Punch him in the face. Next one.

[CJ]

He'S gonna get punched.

[Ben]

To be honest, every situation is different.

[Ryan]

That's a different situation.

[Ben]

We don't know what his friends like, if he's a hothead or if he's a chiller or what.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And like, what their relationship was like. Like, how long have they been broken up for? Is a big thing. Like has as he Moved on from her. I mean, definitely. Hate to say it, man, but. Not that. Not a bro move, but, I mean, there's nothing wrong with being sorry about it and. And coming clean for sure. You know, I.

[Mike]

It's gonna be a lot better coming from you because that. Otherwise she's gonna hold that over.

[CJ]

That's true. Somebody else figures out from somebody else.

[Ryan]

It'll probably come out. Yeah. Unless you're lucky. So then, I mean, if you. If you don't say anything and then it comes out, definitely much worse than just coming clean. But if it's like, a lot of time has passed, man, that is a stink, man. If he's got an inkling that you did it and you did, and he's gonna, like, it'll just never be the same. So you'd be better off just coming clean.

[CJ]

Godspeed, brother.

[Ben]

Yep, I'm enjoying these. We should.

[Mike]

Talking to a girl. I already met her parents, and it's only been a week, but I'm not completely sure if I like her.

[Ben]

And I'm going off to college, so I don't know. And I feel bad if I bring things.

[Mike]

Break things off with her after I just met her parents.

[Ryan]

Man, if you're not feeling.

[Ben]

Yeah, man, as far as going into college, if he's not, like, head over heels, you know, like, can't stop things. Thinking about her.

[Mike]

Yeah. It doesn't get any easier.

[Ben]

Let her down easy, soldier.

[Ryan]

Or you could just let it kind of play out and see where it goes.

[CJ]

Yep.

[Ryan]

I mean, that's not true. To me, it's not that big of a deal, but I guess it's different. It's situational. Like, me and you're like, this girl's parents. Like, if you just like. Especially if you're in high school and, like, you went over to her house to hang out and you were say, hey, you know, not that big of a deal.

[CJ]

Yeah. It's only been a week. Scheme of things there nothing for sure.

[Mike]

I wouldn't let the parents. Yeah, exactly.

[Ben]

I've heard that before. And people are like, oh, yeah, Like, I met the parents. Parents, like, right away. And I'm like, oh, yeah. Around here, we just call that, like, normal, you know, like, hanging out.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like going, yeah, nice to meet you. And then. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think they.

[Ryan]

I think maybe if you were older, let's say you lived in a different city and you meet this girl, you go out at the restaurant, and then you go to her hometown and, like, meet him and eat dinner like that's much more official. But, like, if you just, you know, it depends on how you met him, which sounds like it was pretty casual. One week is nothing.

[CJ]

And they're in high school, dudes.

[Ryan]

Younger dude's just like, I don't want to be with her, but I already met her parents. I'm going to have to marry her. Just spends the rest of his life because one week.

[Mike]

But as parents meet him and they're like, that dude's a idiot. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Who knows?

[Mike]

Maybe they're hoping it doesn't work out.

[Ben]

The worst part was they were kind of mean to me. Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah. I mean, obviously it's a tough spot, but I feel like you do a lot of maturing and growing in college and it. It wouldn't be the worst time to be single or start a new life. It's situational. Who knows what's going on? Maybe we're going to read that and they're like, we got married 10 years later. I don't know, man. But I wouldn't let the parents. That's the best advice. I wouldn't let the parents hold up.

[Ryan]

Just see where it plays out, man.

[Ben]

You two do your thing.

[Ryan]

Don't take it too serious and see where it goes. No need to make a solid, like, right now decision.

[Mike]

But damn, that was pretty fun.

[Ryan]

I like doing that. We're going to do that. I think from.

[CJ]

Yeah, send in more. We have. We have a Instagram and just send in a voice recording of your questions or advice or. They don't have to be serious. They don't have to be about anything in particular. And we'll do our best to give you advice about it. And also, we have like 2,000 subscribers left to go. Less than that, I believe, actually to hit a million K200K on the podcast to be pretty sweet.

[Mike]

That would be nice.

[Ryan]

We've been lingering at that 190 area for a while now. So tell your friends, tell your family members, tell your friends. Family members. Hit the subscribe button and we'll see you guys next week. Thank you for listening.

[CJ]

Peace.

[Mike]

I mean, steal your grandma's phone at Christmas.

[Ben]

We rip one of these every week.