BAD First Impressions with Our Neighbors, Money Mike is SELLING this Surprising Car, & Sponsoring a Golf Course

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Episode Summary

Release Date: May 20, 2025

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1. Local News Quality and Neighborhood Dynamics

The episode opens with the hosts dissecting the shortcomings of local news coverage. They express frustration over the predominantly negative reporting, which often overlooks positive community developments.

Ken (02:02): "Our local news sucks so bad."

Ryan (02:20): "Tuning into the news is just straight up turning on an awful TV show."

CJ raises concerns about the podcast's impact on their privacy, hinting at potential stories about neighbors being featured.

CJ (02:02): "There's that possibility that we're gonna talk about you on the podcast. Your story is not safe with us."

The conversation shifts to their personal experiences with media exposure, sharing anecdotes about their appearances on the news and the ensuing neighborhood gossip.

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2. Cars and Storage Challenges

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around their vehicle collections and the logistical challenges they face with storage. The hosts reminisce about selling a PT Cruiser and discuss the implications of owning multiple cars.

Mike (06:03): "Got to run back to the office and edit all this stuff by 5:00. How do you do this every single day?"

They delve into stories about totaled cars, the difficulties of maintaining a diverse vehicle fleet, and the practicality of owning high-performance cars in their community.

Ryan (07:00): "Can't put a price on that."

The issue of storage becomes prominent as they debate the feasibility of acquiring additional space, with creative suggestions like purchasing entire storage facilities.

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3. Gambling Experiences and Pull Tabs

The hosts share personal anecdotes about their gambling habits, particularly focusing on pull tab machines. They discuss the addictive nature of gambling and the financial pitfalls they've encountered.

Ken (43:07): "We walked in. This is the short story. Evan immediately goes to the pull tab machine to start gambling."

Ryan (44:57): "I think we just lost already after one, the night we had."

They recount a night of excessive gambling, leading to significant financial losses and health repercussions, highlighting the risks associated with such activities.

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4. Merchandise and High-Stakes Giveaways

A highlight of the episode is the announcement of their latest merchandise drops and giveaways, featuring high-value prizes like Lamborghini Huracans and Urus.

CJ (52:15): "The new merch drops live and new giveaways."

Ryan (52:17): "The best giveaway we've ever had. I mean, two, the choice of either a Lamborghini Huracan or a Lamborghini Urus."

This segment emphasizes the podcast's growing popularity and their commitment to engaging their audience with exclusive and coveted prizes.

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5. Sponsored Golf and Community Engagement

The hosts discuss their involvement in local golf activities, including sponsoring a hole at a prestigious golf course. They emphasize how this sponsorship integrates with their brand and content creation.

Ken (56:04): "We sponsored a golf hole, so we got a reckless golf sponsorship at our local golf course."

Evan (56:23): "We played that hole a couple weeks ago, and I went just went from, like, one bunker to the next. Oh, so frustrating."

This sponsorship not only promotes their podcast but also strengthens their connection with the local community and golf enthusiasts.

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6. Exotic Vehicles: Blimps and Fighter Jets

In an entertaining shift, the conversation turns to extraordinary modes of transportation, including blimps and fighter jets. They explore the feasibility, costs, and practical applications of owning such vehicles.

Mike (67:00): "Imagine having a blimp that's not some sort of advertisement. What's the point?"

Ryan (70:05): "No, it is funny. Even with cars with more traction control."

The hosts humorously debate the practicality of blimps for personal use and discuss the allure of fighter jets, contemplating their uses beyond mere ownership.

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7. Community Reputation and Podcast Impact

Towards the end, the hosts reflect on how their podcast has influenced their reputation within the neighborhood. They express concerns about being associated collectively and the potential for misunderstandings or misrepresentations.

Ken (39:31): "All my neighbors found out that we had a podcast because I was telling some, like, HOA drama."

CJ (40:09): "Anyone who's around us... your story is not safe with us."

This introspection underscores the balance they strive to maintain between community relations and their content creation endeavors.

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Conclusion

This episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV offers a blend of personal stories, community insights, and lighthearted banter. The hosts navigate topics ranging from local news dissatisfaction and vehicle management to high-stakes giveaways and exotic vehicle discussions. Through engaging conversations and candid reflections, they provide listeners with an authentic glimpse into their lives and the dynamics of their community.

Notable Quotes:

• Ken (02:02): "Our local news sucks so bad."
• CJ (02:02): "Your story is not safe with us."
• Ryan (07:00): "Can't put a price on that."
• Ryan (44:57): "I think we just lost already after one, the night we had."
• CJ (52:15): "The new merch drops live and new giveaways."
• Ken (56:04): "We sponsored a golf hole."
• Mike (67:00): "Imagine having a blimp that's not some sort of advertisement."

Listeners can dive deeper into these discussions and more by tuning into the full episode every Tuesday at 9am CT.

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Transcript

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[Ken]

Every time that one of us have like moved somewhere, like the whole neighborhood has like Seaboy's box, they shake and like what they would think of like the worst that could happen did happen.

[Evan]

That was on the news last year too.

[Ken]

Yeah. Is it illegal to act like a lawyer? Cause you can represent yourself, so why can't your buddy represent you?

[CJ]

There's that possibility that we're gonna talk about you on the podcast. You're gonna get roped into something that's told to the whole world. Your story is not safe with us.

[Mike]

Our local news sucks so bad.

[CJ]

Does it?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Well, I guess I was gonna ask have you ever watched it?

[CJ]

But it's too negative for me. That's why I don't watch it.

[Ken]

I think that's just news in general. But I turn the news on. You find out how bad the area that you live in is.

[Mike]

Yeah, for real. They don't really report too much on the good stuff.

[Ken]

Why would they?

[Mike]

But even like the frickin weather. I don't know.

[Ryan]

Yeah, all of it. No, like, tuning into the news is just straight up, like turning. Voluntarily turning on an awful TV show.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, do people that listen.

[Ken]

People that listen to the news or watch the news are like, more cynical about life than people that just don't.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, for an hour a night, someone basically tells you a bunch of bad things with one happy story in the middle.

[Ryan]

Dude. It's got to be a tough battle for them because then when they pursue a happy story, it can come across as corny. I'm not talking like it's almost always. Yeah, yeah, it's exciting to hear about, like, if. When they did the news story on Grandparent. Like, stuff like that's really exciting to hear people beat cancer and this and that. But sometimes it's like all the local fire department had to rescue a dog and then they like get a couple clips of the dog and they're like, it's pretty corny.

[Ken]

I think it's also just like, really difficult to make something interesting every single day. So that's where they're like, all right, what's interesting to get anyone's attention? Well, let's just talk about, like, the stores that got broken into this.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Like, shocking yesterday. I mean, we know how hard it is to make something every single week, so let alone every single day like it is. I can't imagine. Very difficult. You got to make something out of nothing more.

[Ryan]

So, like, you don't actually get to make something happen. You have to wait for something to happen. But yeah, dude, like, it would be like, stressful keeping an honest news station because honest does not make money, you know, exaggeration. And.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's why. That's why they call it fake news, Mike.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. It just seems also like. I'm sure most people are nodding their heads in agreeance with us, but, like, how do people watch it?

[Ken]

I don't know if anyone listening to our podcast right now watches the news at night.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I hope not. Honestly.

[Mike]

Parents do that.

[Ryan]

What.

[Mike]

What's gonna happen to the news stations?

[Ken]

Are new stations shutting down?

[Ryan]

That's what I was wondering. And. And if they aren't, when will they?

[Mike]

Yeah, when will they.

[Evan]

They're not really shutting down. They're just like getting bought up by progressively bigger and bigger companies and they. All the news stations are owned by like four companies.

[Ryan]

That's Kind of true. I never thought of it like that. Like, you wait for it to kind of get crappy, you buy it, and then you're like, sick. Another outlet to tell, you know, people to tell our story.

[CJ]

They've been pretty good to us.

[Mike]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ken]

Me and C.J. were on the news like, a year ago at this point, but that was the last time that we were on there.

[CJ]

That was a Today show.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's right. You're right. That was different.

[CJ]

Had like, two interviews.

[Evan]

I was on the news last year, too.

[CJ]

Yeah, for that. Sexual harassment in the workplace.

[Evan]

No, no, no. It was for the. This fake mayor that they. They just rigged.

[CJ]

They wrote a whole story on you, Ken.

[Ryan]

They didn't. And Ken, that was actually good.

[Mike]

Yes, that was Kevin Wall.

[CJ]

That was a really good story.

[Ken]

That was great. So I. I don't want to, you know. No, I don't want to come at all of them because that was actually good.

[Evan]

That dude was dialed. He was like. He was here for like, 45 minutes. He's like, okay, Came from this place less than 45.

[CJ]

I have five minutes.

[Evan]

I have. I got to film with this, and then I have two more stops. I got to go, and then I get. Got to run back to the office and edit all this stuff by 5:00. Like, how do you do this every single day?

[Ken]

That's what I'm saying. It's. It is very pretty.

[Ryan]

Big feat, I think, just looking back on all the fine photos and videos I have of when you took your Continental out. If you would have had that as your campaign rig, you would have won.

[Evan]

No, no, I. I think Dave rigged that thing so hard, it just wasn't even possible.

[Mike]

No.

[Ken]

I don't know if the Continental is that much better than he would have locked.

[Mike]

Do we still have that PT Cruiser?

[Ken]

I think we sold it.

[CJ]

Sold it.

[Ken]

We should have probably kept it. I feel like we maybe could have.

[Mike]

One of one thing we sold. Oh, we really should have kept that.

[Ken]

Do we need it? No. But I don't know.

[Evan]

One of CJ's brother's friends bought it, and then I saw him a couple weeks ago. He's like, yep, we. We totaled that thing.

[Mike]

Oh, I did hear about that.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Did you know how they totaled it?

[CJ]

Hit an approach or something.

[Ryan]

On purpose?

[CJ]

I don't know. I don't think. I doesn't seem like it's something they do on purpose.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he bought that car because I.

[CJ]

Was like, what he could afford.

[Mike]

Yeah, he needed a car.

[Evan]

He, like, fixed it up. You Know, fixed a couple.

[CJ]

Yeah, he drove that thing to Montana, dude.

[Mike]

Really?

[CJ]

Also, like, the reason we sold it, we have all these vehicles sitting out there, and it was just literally sitting outside in like, the snow with the window down. And then my brother's friend, like, really needed a car because his car shit out on him and, you know, he only had this much of a budget. And I was like, yeah, you know, we actually might have one that's pretty good. You just need to put a window in it or whatever and it's. It's good to go.

[Ken]

True, we locked, but like, we could have.

[CJ]

Have just pulled it in, but instead we just like. Like I felt like it was kind of just like it was time for. Yeah. And there wasn't much cool that could. It was still worth something. I think I sold it to him for like 1500, which is not much, but still.

[Ken]

Yeah, you can't put a price on that.

[CJ]

Kid drove it for like six months.

[Ryan]

That's gotta be my new favorite saying. I don't know if you or Evan said it first, but, like, can't put a price on that. Like, it's hilarious to say it to things like, yeah, gas. Gas is under 2 bucks a gallon. It's not yet, but. So, yeah, it only cost me, you know, 50 bucks to fill up. Can't put a price on that.

[Mike]

Yeah, something that you can very clearly put an exact.

[Ryan]

That I just did.

[Ken]

Yeah. Can't put a price on it.

[Mike]

Mike, what was the deal with that. That old guy driving down the wrong side of the highway?

[Ryan]

Oh, dude, I don't know. But there was a guy. You know, you don't see it that often. You. You sometimes catch someone going down a one way. That's, you know. You've done that?

[Ken]

Yeah, no, I've caught. I've caught somebody doing that. He was driving my car.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Okay. And then what? And then it leads to the.

[Ken]

The me.

[Ryan]

It's like. Oh, it's like kind of.

[Ken]

You guys haven't done that?

[CJ]

No, it's like maybe one time accidentally.

[Ken]

Accidentally turned onto a one way.

[Ryan]

I have.

[Ken]

And then like, the only thing you can do is just like, you got to just go until like the next.

[Mike]

Time that you throw in reverse and rip a J turn.

[Ken]

Yeah, I guess you could do that.

[CJ]

Or just rip the E brake.

[Ryan]

So I think kind of what you said is, don't panic. And if you know you're going to. So I look over at this guy, but we're on the highway, on Highway 10, the speed limit where we were was 55 miles an hour. Like, he's cruising the wrong way. And. But he looked like. He looked like damn near was smiling. Yeah. He's older.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Maybe he was laughing at him.

[Ryan]

I don't think he. Yeah, even that could have been laughing at himself.

[Ken]

So maybe he was just like, ah, I gotta own it.

[Ryan]

Either way. I mean, freaking could have died.

[CJ]

I couldn't believe how many. How fast the other people were going. In the snap, though. Like, if I saw a guy in the oncoming, I would slow down, pull over, but they just stayed on their same speed. Just went.

[Ryan]

Yeah, right. I would be, like, slowing way down to make sure he didn't do.

[CJ]

And then the fact that you almost rear ended.

[Ken]

I thought you.

[CJ]

Alex thought you hit somebody. She's like, I think he hit somebody.

[Ryan]

I was driving the new Bronco, Sydney's Bronco, and it has the stop that.

[CJ]

It's a good thing you have that.

[Mike]

90 of the time is super annoying.

[Ryan]

Yes. And it put the brakes on and saved me for rear ending someone.

[Mike]

Wow. That's actually awesome.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So I was the distracted driver. But that reminds me of a joke that. It's like the wife's at home. Honey, honey, I'm watching the TV. And, you know, you're driving on i55. There's someone. There's someone driving backwards, so be careful. And he's like, there's someone driving backwards. No, everyone is stupid. But that's how I felt like that guy felt.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then Ken said someone else was doing it today. What's going on?

[Evan]

I pulled out of the gym and I saw a lady. You know, you're supposed to cross the highway. And she just turned. Turned onto the highway, going the wrong direction. And, you know, she's like driving completely erratically. There's cars coming. Like, there's a car coming.

[Ken]

Bobbing and weaving.

[Evan]

Yeah, she's bobbing and weaving. And then she turned around, like, in the middle of the road. It was not. Not a pretty look.

[Ken]

Yeah. What do you do? Just hit the ditch?

[Evan]

This one truck, like, slammed on the. Slammed on his brakes, and he kind of, like, weaved a little bit around her Jesuit.

[Ryan]

The ironic thing is that was in the exact same spot.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Must happen there a lot. We're going to have to put your video up, Mike. And probably yours, too.

[Ken]

The crazy part, Mike, when you sent that video, I was literally sitting in my car in the Walmart parking lot watching that video. I was at Menards.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Mike]

I was like, holy. That's right. There we go.

[Ken]

Which is right Next to where Mike sent the video. Yeah. And I, like, immediate, like, whipped over and was like, oh, my God.

[Ryan]

Oh, the.

[Ken]

Actually, like, expecting to see you, like, standing outside exchanging shirts. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh. So it really did look like I got in.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

The thing is, Sydney was so upset with me, and I was so flustered that I just immediately. She's like, get off your phone. Like, you almost just crash. I lock my phone, put it in the center console, and then don't open it until 45 minutes later when I got home. Then I sent it.

[Ken]

So, yeah, I opened it. I opened it up two hours later. So we. We were, like, way off.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. I so badly just wanted to press send when I was like, I can't take my phone out. Could get in another accident.

[Ken]

Yelled at.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think it's just. There's a lot of people that maybe shouldn't have their driver's licenses around here, and they're all back now for the summer.

[Ken]

Bad.

[Mike]

My commute is straight up 25% longer, and I granted, drive at a good clip. I don't speed, but, like, when I hit. When I hit a stop sign, I like, stop, look, turn, you know, I'm not like, stop, sit, look at the flowers, then turn. You know, stuff like that. And it's. It's starting to add up into my commute.

[CJ]

The snowbirds, man.

[Ken]

Snowbirds are back.

[Ryan]

Dude. I just got a. Like, a letter. I'm North Dakota now. I just got a letter that was like. It just told me that I got points taken off because I have points now on my license. And it was just like, failure to stop.

[Mike]

Wait, what?

[Ryan]

I don't know. Is that on its camera somewhere? I was just frustrated because I was like, damn. Yeah, it was like, minus two points on my record. Failure to yield, slash, stop. And it wouldn't tell me where did that. Yeah, it didn't say much. It wouldn't tell me where I did. It just said the date of the offense and the car. I was like, March 14th.

[Mike]

And then knew the car new.

[CJ]

It's not like it was taking points off. It was literally putting points on. Because you don't want points or do you want.

[Ken]

No, you have, like, 10 points.

[CJ]

You got in trouble.

[Ken]

Start out with 10.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Like a certain amount points off. How many points you start with?

[Ryan]

I have no idea.

[Ken]

So, like, is that a. Is losing two points a big deal or.

[Ryan]

I don't think if you got, like, 50 points, I. I don't think losing two points is a big deal. I think a speeding ticket is like five or six or seven or eight.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Evan]

But I feel like if you never got a ticket and someone never stopped you or mailed you anything for a ticket, how. How does that.

[Mike]

Justin, apparently in Arizona. Yeah, go grab it. In Arizona, they have like, cop cars that will be sitting on the side of the road and they have cameras and they'll like flash and take a picture of you for speeding. Right. And then they send you a ticket in the mail. But it's been deemed like, it's. It's an unlawful way to give you a ticket so you don't have to pay it. Like, if you go into the police station. It happened to Blake. The guy in the police station literally laughed and said, no one pays these. But most people pay them by mail, so they still take your money, but they're like, literally not legally binding. So good to know. If you're in Arizona, don't take my legal advice.

[Ken]

Yeah, I have no idea.

[Mike]

One guy told me a story.

[Ken]

Is that real?

[Mike]

Yeah, but that's what they said.

[Ken]

Can you get a fact check on that?

[Evan]

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing something about that too.

[Mike]

There we go. It's fact checked.

[Ryan]

That's great. So all it says, it says court convictions, posted date. I don't know why it says court convictions. Like, makes sound way scarier. March 5, 2024, 3:11. Fail to yield, stop conviction, date, offense, date, court, county, nine. Cast. Oh, yeah, whatever. That's all. It just says that stuff. No ticket, never got pulled over. I'm confused.

[CJ]

Fight it.

[Evan]

Let me see this.

[Ken]

Are you sending. Are they prefer. Like send cash, preferably?

[Ryan]

Yeah. No payment. It says no payment. It's no response needed. I'm confused.

[Evan]

The conviction was last year and it was basically. I'm assuming you got your insurance renewed. Yeah, because it's like this Lexus Nexus thing that's like where all the insurance providers, like, get their information from, for, like, what you've done or like any kind of like speeding tickets or anything like that. And it says LexisNexis was the company that requested this information.

[Mike]

Oh, so it follows you.

[Ryan]

That was just a receipt for them.

[Evan]

Yeah, because you. You did this a year ago, March 5, 2024. But it says you still have 00 points on your record.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that actually sounds about right. I do remember having. No, I remember having an instance with an officer where I was coming off an exit. And if I'm coming off an exit. Yeah, If I'm coming off the exit to the downer. I. I don't know if I've ever full stopped unless I'm pulling off to like take a pee or something. I don't know if I've ever full stopped on it's eggs get you with a bridge.

[Ken]

There's a stop sign right there.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but I shouldn't say like ever. But I like, I just. Look, there's no cars coming.

[Ken]

You can't just decide which stop sign you stop at, Mike, and then think that it's stupid because you never stop at that one.

[Ryan]

No, but this is a different one. I was just using that as an example. But I was just saying like, if I'm coming off of a highway, I like usually don't do a full stop. And he just is like, what are you doing? And I'm just like, I didn't.

[Ken]

I don't stop at that stop sign. What are you doing?

[Mike]

Here's another non confirmed law thing. I heard that stop signs in mall parking lots are unenforceable. They have to have some sticker on the back.

[Evan]

They have to have a border on the. On the outside. Has to be like a white border.

[Mike]

To make it a legal stop sign.

[Evan]

Make it a legal stop sign. If it's just a red stop sign with no border on the edge, then it's not.

[Mike]

Then it's a suggestion.

[Ken]

Suggestion. It's like the ones at Walmart or at.

[Ryan]

And it has to be, it does have to be like regulation size.

[Mike]

Really.

[Ryan]

Also, if you don't stop, you could get in trouble. Like someone could sue you or Walmart.

[Ken]

Could sue you or you could hit somebody.

[Ryan]

That too. Obviously.

[Ken]

I think they're there. I think they're mostly there for like reasons safety. But people.

[Ryan]

Yeah, unless a cop sees you, like no one's going to like pull you over.

[Evan]

Yeah, but it's private property. They really can't give you a traffic ticket on private property.

[Ken]

I think you're doing sitting in a Walmart park.

[Ryan]

I think. I think if you prevent crime, actively blowing mall parking lot stop signs, I.

[Evan]

Mean that's just reckless endangerment. At that point though.

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[Ken]

Dude Ken, you should go and like fight one of my tickets for me.

[Ryan]

I was just gonna ask like let's.

[Ken]

Put Ken in a suit.

[Ryan]

Do you have to be a red like show up?

[Ken]

Yeah. Do you have to be like on the bar?

[Mike]

Do you have to be a lawyer to be act like a lawyer?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or could I just bring someone that I think could fight my case?

[Evan]

So if, if I make this worse for you, then better how would your feelings be? Well, if I fight it and you get a worse penalty, well it's going.

[Ryan]

To be pretty obvious to see if you tried your best or not.

[Ken]

I don't know. I like that, though, I think. Ken? Yeah? Is it illegal to act like a lawyer because you can represent yourself, so why can't your buddy represent you?

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. You can represent yourself.

[Mike]

You can't go to court for someone else without a law license. But some federal and state agencies allow non lawyers to represent others at administrative hearings, which is.

[Ken]

I don't know. Oh, like that guy that's trying to put up those sheds that the whole county's fighting and then could go as like, on behalf of him.

[Evan]

Yeah, I'm not going on behalf of that guy.

[Ken]

Or you could represent the county and go against him. Just head to head. It's like, I'm here to represent.

[Evan]

I'm just gonna let all the neighbors do all the fighting because there are some people that are way more fired up than I am.

[Ken]

Really?

[Mike]

Yeah. That's a tough situation. I saw the news story on it last night, and I think people just missed the mark. On what matter?

[Ken]

Hold on.

[Ryan]

Yeah, fill them in.

[Ken]

Wait, you watched the news last night? You watched the news?

[Mike]

I watched it on Facebook.

[Ryan]

Okay. But basically, I mean, our area, as you've seen in some drone shots, maybe there's a lot of sheds around here, and there's someone who wants to put up even more who already has lots of sheds, and it's in a really beautiful spot and the townspeople ain't having it. You got a petition rolling, but it's.

[CJ]

Not sheds for himself. It's sheds to basically sell or, like, rent out. I think that's where they're really getting mad because, like, if it was for.

[Ryan]

Yourself, you can't say much.

[Evan]

Yeah, I think a lot of these people are worried about, like, the density, and you're cutting down, like, 15 acres of forest.

[Mike]

I think that's like, the problem. I think the. All the people on there trying to do their best were like, it's going to make my neighborhood busy. And that's just not a very noble thing to be upset about. That you don't. Yeah, that you don't want more people in your neighborhood. And they said, oh, the environmental impact. But it's had an environmental impact statement. I think the problem is, is he just, like, he's done it multiple times, comes in clear, cuts a field, and then throws up as many sheds as possible. And it's like. It's ugly, which I guess is a selfish thing, too.

[Evan]

They don't really do any landscaping to it. It's just throw some gravel down and weeds grow.

[Ken]

They Grow pretty much just like if you've been watching the channel for a long time. The old shop that we used to live in and, like, that development that we used to be in. Just picture that just, like, all over the place. That, like, next to a lake, like, where people. You know, it's a very vacation town around here, like, where we live, so most people just have cabins and they come down here, and then it's like, a very beautiful area, especially this time of the year. Not it. It's not depressing and brown. You got the lakes everywhere. And then this guy's just putting up these steel buildings surrounded by gravel.

[CJ]

He's making a ton of cheddar, though. Ton of cheddar. I mean, we got a bunch of land, too. We could start doing it.

[Ryan]

That's why I was so excited. Like, I'm all for people putting up sheds. Houses. Houses, whatever. But just like. Yeah, not right next to the. I don't know.

[Mike]

I think landscape.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. Landscape it. And that's why, like, I'm so happy with our purchase of the farm. It's literally walking distance to Cormorant. And it's like we can kind of put up whatever we want and do whatever we want, and it's not in anybody's face, but we're still on prime real estate.

[Ken]

I think the thing about that, too, though, is, like, I just foresee enough people getting mad about it where then no one can do it.

[Mike]

Yep. You know, that's what I'm worried about.

[Ken]

No one can build damn near even a garage.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah. This law got put into effect because some guy was building too many garages.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Ken]

And then you can't build your own garage anymore.

[CJ]

Well, luckily, we aren't planning on building any more sheds anytime soon. If they were to put a law in place. But we got it. We got too many.

[Ryan]

You never know already. You never know.

[CJ]

Not too many. But we're already pretty tapped out on sheds.

[Ryan]

I mean, I might pop up a garage tomorrow.

[CJ]

Five or six.

[Ken]

Like, I think we could probably always use.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's gonna say, like, I. I wouldn't. I can't agree with that statement.

[Evan]

I'd have to sell stuff if we don't want more space.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Ken]

Yeah. Mike. Mike. At some point. Yeah. You might have to invest in your own.

[Ryan]

Actually, I'm. I'm fully wanting to do that.

[Evan]

Have you ever considered, like, selling some of the stuff?

[Ryan]

I just sold my Bronco officially to Randy today.

[Mike]

Oh, there you go.

[Ken]

Congrats.

[Evan]

And you bought Randy's Bronco So effectively net zero.

[Ryan]

But yeah.

[Ken]

If you had to sell one vehicle right now, which one would it be?

[Ryan]

Well, it sounds easy. The shitty BMW.

[Ken]

Okay. You can't.

[Ryan]

Yeah. All right. That one. No.

[Ken]

It'S met his match.

[Ryan]

I guess. I would probably sell the drift car.

[Ken]

Well, Mike, you can't sell that drift.

[Ryan]

I didn't think so.

[Ken]

I was gonna buy that.

[CJ]

Well, I'm surprised. That would have been your choice.

[Ryan]

Well, to be honest with you, I know I've maybe hinted at this before. I know I'm not allowed. And you guys tell me I'm not allowed. I will get rid of the BMW I got from my dad. It's a headache. I love it and it means a lot to me, but the car is.

[Ken]

Park it. Why don't you just park it and stop trying to, like, fix it and do stuff with it?

[Ryan]

I'm just trying to get it normal, and then honestly, I park it. I don't know.

[Mike]

And you don't want to sell it because it was your dad's.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And I think everyone, including myself, will be like, why'd you do that? It's not worth very much. It's literally not worth much at all. It really isn't, but it's just like a headache.

[Mike]

I think that is a tough spot. I think if it had a lot of monetary value that you could do something with that would make something else happen. But it is kind of the point.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Worth a little more. Like, it's not going to go up in value, obviously. But then you say, why don't I just park it? It's like, I don't want to burden the, you know, the limited space we do have with a car that I genuinely don't plan on driving.

[Ken]

You know what you should do, Mike? You should just get like your own storage unit. Kind of like the one that we surprised you with a couple years ago. You know, the ones that, like the classic, like, storage locker wars or whatever.

[Ryan]

Storage Wars, Yeah. That's a good idea. How much is like a one car per month?

[CJ]

He's gonna need like a whole block.

[Evan]

Yeah, those are like.

[Ken]

No, Mike, you should buy one. Like an actual, like, storage facility. Facility?

[Mike]

The whole facility.

[Ken]

You mean the whole.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

Because then you could just rent back to yourself cheaper. That's a good investment. Actually. Storage is an amazing.

[Ryan]

Is that like a tax play? Why the hell would I rent back to myself?

[Ken]

No, it's just if you're going to be buying storage units to put your in, you might as well just buy.

[Ryan]

The whole facility and Then rent them out.

[Ken]

Rent out 90% of them. And then you can just hold the 10%.

[CJ]

You know, he just fill 100%.

[Ryan]

Confused, you guys. How much stuff do you think I have?

[CJ]

A lot.

[Mike]

Quite a bit.

[Ryan]

Like. And how small are these storage units?

[CJ]

I expected them to be like, kind of like the ones where we surprise you with.

[Ryan]

Yeah, like you couldn't even fit a car in the one you said.

[Mike]

Yeah, no, I don't think so. But that'd be good because then you could put all your non car stuff in there.

[Ryan]

Right. And I could make those go a long way. Non car stuff. But I just.

[CJ]

What did we end up doing with that storage locker we surprised Mike with two years ago?

[Ken]

We sold it.

[Mike]

We're just like, no, no. So what we did.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I took what I wanted and then we just were like, all right, you just throw it all. I don't know. We sold it.

[Mike]

It actually worked out pretty good. So what? I bought that on a storage locker auction where the store. The guy who owns the storage unit doesn't want to deal with what's in there because it's always junk. So he sells it to an idiot that thinks that there's going to be good stuff in there because that's what people do on the Internet. And then we went there, and we didn't want to haul all the out of there either. So I called him and went, hey, you just want to sell that thing again? He goes, sure, if you pay one month's rent. So we paid $60 for one month's rent and the $40 for the building to make the video. And then somebody else bought it.

[CJ]

Wow, that was a cheap deal. That was way better than trying to.

[Mike]

Yeah, getting like a whole year or whatever.

[CJ]

Get all that crap out of there. There was so much junk in that one.

[Ken]

Yeah, Mike got to get loot from that, too.

[CJ]

What'd you end up keeping? You kept that scrapbook, the gnome, you.

[Ken]

Kept that sweater, Kept that fish. Tackle box.

[Ryan]

Tackle box.

[Ken]

And there was like a box of light bulbs. Half of them burnt out. But you didn't know that at the time, to be fair.

[CJ]

Dude, I don't even remember. I think you took a bike, too, with a flat tire.

[Ken]

Bike, pedal.

[CJ]

Bike.

[Mike]

Yeah, we brought the whole trailer, didn't we? No, we had the sprinter van. Sprinter van with a little trailer.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Good times. Yeah. I'll get a storage unit settled.

[Mike]

It's settled.

[Ryan]

I'm just going to. I'm going to start with renting one and see how I like the Vibe before you.

[Mike]

The neighborhood.

[Ken]

Before you buy the. The whole block, the whole.

[CJ]

You could just build one. Honestly, at this point, I would love to do that.

[Ryan]

I'm going to need a business partner for that.

[Ken]

Yeah, well, I heard that there's a guy that's looking to put up some. There you go.

[CJ]

Ken goes to the meeting to dispute this guy, put in more sheds, and Mike's on his side, like, yeah, I'm putting up half.

[Ryan]

What are you doing? Just investing, man. Just looking out for my future kids.

[Mike]

Then Ken's all torn because he's like, it gets Mike's stuff out of my shed.

[Ken]

But, yeah, look at it. Yeah, you almost got to let it happen at that point. Ken. Ken just doesn't want these storage units put up because it's right across from his bar, and then he has to, like, get drunk and look at storage.

[CJ]

Yeah, that'd be a shame.

[Ken]

That's where they draw the line.

[Evan]

Like, even if it was another block away from the lake, they're waiting his bar, once it's out of the Shoreline Impact Zone, there would be zero fuss because he wouldn't have to do any of this, like, go to the county stuff.

[Ken]

Man, we are turning into locals, aren't we?

[Mike]

Yeah. There you go.

[Ken]

Ken just said Shoreline Impact Zone.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but watch out. It's coming for the Shoreline Impact Zone.

[Mike]

Is that what you call your boathouse?

[Evan]

No, but that's what I had to deal with. That's what I do to get my photo.

[Mike]

That was pretty good.

[Ryan]

Come on in there. But there is no bed, so how can it be in it?

[CJ]

That doesn't matter.

[Mike]

He's got a couch.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Gosh. That is the Shoreline Impact Zone.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Mike]

That's pretty good.

[Ken]

That's his.

[CJ]

That's the new name of his. Ken's boat house is now the Shoreline Impact Zone. Let's get him a sign. So, Ken, what the frick's up with? We surprise you. We put the mom chaser out in front of your Shoreline Impact Zone, AKA his new boat house. And literally two days later, I pull into the farm, and it's on a trailer. You took the. Yeah, he pulled the mom chaser out and put it back at the farm.

[Evan]

Well, you know, I. I did try and take it out, and then the motor wasn't running right. And, you know, it's just so much easier for Gavin to work on it in his own shop than it is to, like, come to the lake. Just said, I can do all that.

[Ken]

Try and take it out, and it didn't work.

[Evan]

Yeah. It didn't work, so I had to, like, okay, what?

[CJ]

You wrote it up with a.

[Evan]

It would only, like, idle. Pretty much. It wouldn't. You couldn't give it any throw.

[CJ]

I would have paid money to have just seen Ken on a Sunday just by himself putzing that thing over.

[Evan]

So I was like, okay, let's take it out. Let's let Gavin mess with it.

[Ken]

Hurricane wins.

[CJ]

What's the real reason? Okay.

[Evan]

My neighbors are showing up from Arizona, and I don't want a pontoon that says mom chaser parked out front. My house is on instruction.

[Mike]

Why?

[Ryan]

Neighbors, like, very impressionable.

[Evan]

Yes, they are impressionable. Very impressionable.

[CJ]

You think that just because you're under construction, you're like, oh, I better not have this out front.

[Evan]

Oh, no. I just don't want a boat that says mom chaser out in front of my house. And I was considering taking the. I was considering taking the stickers off the mom chaser and just running the boat. But you can't take the stickers off because it's. That's what makes it funny.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

So it's okay. I'll just take the boat out.

[CJ]

It was just funny, though. Like, you drive past your house, and you got the tiniest dock, and then also the tiniest little boat. Like, it looked pretty good. And then it. I feel like you need that out front because it lets the women know that's the shoreline.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I was cracking up because C.J. kept going, oh, look at this. The tiniest dock I've ever seen. And I was like, dude, I don't know what you're talking about. I can't even see a dock. I see the lift. I see the boat. And the tiny little boat was covering the dock.

[CJ]

The docking log, it was less. I think it was five.

[Ken]

Yeah. A lot of guys feel like they need to compensate. On the lake, Ken feels so secure in himself. He goes the opposite direction. Smallest boathouse, smallest dock. A little lift with a tiny shoreline impact zone.

[Mike]

You were just worried about your neighbors thinking maybe you were too rich.

[Evan]

Yeah, I know. I don't want a bad impression for the neighbors.

[Mike]

Don't want to flex on them that hard.

[Ken]

The upside down pineapple flag or you driving that.

[CJ]

Driving that Chevy through your house a.

[Ken]

Week after you bought it.

[CJ]

That was not a. That was. I think they already have their ideas on you.

[Evan]

The neighbors actually loved that because every single one of them hated that house. They were. They're happy to see, but then they.

[Mike]

See you should have tiny pontoon.

[Ken]

What the is that? They're all coming home and be like, I'm so happy that we're, you know, finally back at our lake house. And then your wife walks in before you. Oh my God, honey.

[CJ]

What?

[Ken]

Oh my God.

[Ryan]

I think the neighbor's gonna chase next door. I think the neighbor's gonna try to chase me.

[Ken]

The neighborhood's gone to shit.

[CJ]

It's not even a 27 footer.

[Ken]

I thought the poors weren't allowed to live on this beach.

[CJ]

And then they see Ken walking down, hopping it and putzing it to the.

[Evan]

Yeah, that thing's not seen from my house.

[CJ]

We bought you a lift, bro.

[Ken]

Yeah, what do we do with that lift?

[Ryan]

We gotta get the motor fixed.

[Evan]

Well, it's just not.

[CJ]

So we got a bigger motor, it would work.

[Ryan]

So the truth came out. Cj, you asked why he really didn't want in front. He just doesn't want it in front.

[Mike]

You could get a cover.

[Evan]

And then the more you laugh about it, the more it's not staying in the front of my place.

[CJ]

What if we install the post and we'll put it up on top of the post?

[Ryan]

There we go. I like that idea.

[Mike]

Yeah. Instead of on a big pole like.

[Ryan]

My hummus do that. Screw it, let's just do that. That's a good idea. I mean, obviously Ken's not going to let us put it on a post yard.

[Ken]

Ken, I don't see what the big problem is with the neighbors. It's like they already know that you live next door. It's like you do realize that everything we do is on the Internet.

[Evan]

Yeah, but it's kind of like sometimes you don't want to bring work home with you. And then it.

[Ken]

You never shit where you sleep.

[CJ]

That's true.

[Ryan]

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

[CJ]

That's true. I mean, yeah, I think as soon as you got the place, the whole neighborhood knew that you bought it. Well, actually they thought that all of us bought it. They were like, yeah, I heard the Sea Boys bought it. And then when we took a break in between running that car through your house, when that nice lady and her husband were on a walk, they were like, yeah. So you guys all bought this? We're like, no, no, just him. And like, they were. They felt a little better. But yeah, they already knew everything about you before you moved in.

[Ryan]

That happens a lot, actually. I mean, like when we bought our house, I think just they assumed all the Seaboys. And now I'm thinking of it. I really appreciate that all of you guys are well behaved because that happens. To us all the time. If, like, if you do something, people are like, the Sea Boys did that.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It's all associated, you know, good or bad.

[Mike]

We're all intertwined.

[Ryan]

Exactly.

[Mike]

Mostly. Mostly good.

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[Ken]

Yeah, I think every, every time that one of us have like moved somewhere, like the whole neighborhood has like Seaboy's box. They shake, shaking, just rumbling. And like Ken buys, I hear a neighbor saying something about us. And then it gets to me or Ryan buys and somebody says something to me, I'm like, their minds immediately go to like probably every cooked distraction. Like they're gonna drive, they're gonna drive through the house, my house.

[Mike]

What's the worst that could happen, Honey? He drives a pickup through the house.

[CJ]

Like in two weeks in literally driving a truck through it, they're like, holy shit. And then we just pack up and leave. Yeah, so I guess I say that.

[Ken]

Now I'm kind of retracting my statement because what they would think of like the worst that could happen did happen.

[Evan]

Or you bring the, the farmhouse to the neighborhood and.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah, I actually really like that now that I think of it. When we move in summer, which isn't going to happen all that often, you hit the prank hard at the beginning and then you just like don't really.

[Mike]

Start off on a bad foot.

[Ryan]

Start off on a bad foot. But I'm saying that we haven't done really anything to spark anyone's interest in the neighborhood ever since then.

[CJ]

It's not like we're home that much is the thing. You know what I'm saying?

[Mike]

Yeah. I finally met one of my neighbors from a few doors down. He walked over and goes, you must be the Sea Boy. I was like, my reputation precedes me.

[CJ]

Did you say that?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That's a good answer. I don't like it when people come up and say that. It's kind of, like, cringy. Yeah, you must be a Sea Boy. Or thus. Which is true, I guess. But I'm just like, yeah.

[Ken]

All my neighbors found out that we had a podcast because I was telling some, like, hoa drama. Oh, yeah, that's right. Right after I moved in. And it just spread like wildfire.

[CJ]

Then what they hate you did you could take.

[Ken]

I don't get as many as I used to. And I. I think that I might have. And I also think that, like, they look at me as, like, a loose cannon of, like, spreading the information to.

[CJ]

The world about, like, neighborhood.

[Ken]

The neighborhood drama, basically. And so, one, I think I might be excluded from some emails. But two, I think they maybe, like, let some things slide because they run a pretty tight ship, right? And, like, I've never had any problems. And, like, I've heard a couple of my neighbors have been like, oh, the. This so and so say this to you?

[CJ]

I was like, no.

[Ken]

What?

[CJ]

Really?

[Ken]

That's surprising. And then I started thinking about, like, oh, maybe they just, like, don't want me to go on and just, like, exploit them on the podcast now, I don't know, which I wouldn't, but they're.

[Mike]

Only doing three fertilizer applications each year to save money or something.

[Ken]

Or what. That was what happened when I moved in.

[Ryan]

That does happen. On the podcast, you'll say something about someone or about a situation, and in your head, you're just expecting or hoping that they don't listen to it, even though you know damn well they. They're gonna have someone that sends it to them or whatever. Like, it's not hard to intake that information.

[CJ]

Dude, anyone who's around us, doesn't matter who you are. There's that possibility that we're gonna talk about you on the podcast. You're gonna get roped into something that's told to the whole world. Normally, we're good about leaving names out, but, yeah, your story is not safe with us.

[Ryan]

The worst part is, even if you think you might be good, I was good. I didn't do anything too crazy or mean or bad or funny or outlandish.

[CJ]

For them, it's always a hyper deal.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, then we can make a meme about anything, man.

[Mike]

Turn you into a meme.

[Ken]

A lot of times it's when people don't even know, which is they might have think that they were perfectly well behaved. And then we walk away. Like, that was funny. Did you notice this? Yeah. Last weekend, I went out with Evan. I mean, I went out with you two, but I stayed out with Evan. No, really? Me, C.J. really, me. C.J. and Evan and Ken went golfing, and.

[Mike]

My phone must not have been working.

[Ken]

And then after we went golfing, we then went to the bar, and, like, usually I'm pretty well behaved. You know, I went. No one to, like, hang it up, go home.

[CJ]

The problem was we stopped at the Shoreline Impact Zone. Ken's boathouse before. Yeah, Ken started pouring shots, set the.

[Ken]

Tone for the whole thing, actually. We were, like, kind of rolling, being productive, filming. We stopped at Ken's place, started taking shots, and then, like, the whole night was just like, all right, this is the direction that we're going in. And so I'll just stay at the shop tonight and just like, I'll just be, like, Evan's intern, basically. Just. I got to see what this dude is up.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ryan]

Has been a while.

[Ken]

Yeah. Yeah. Very rarely do I just, like, fully commit to just like, all right, I'm with Evan tonight. Because that usually does not end well. Like, it's just like, it's a crazy.

[Mike]

Boat to tie yourself to.

[Ken]

I had.

[Evan]

I had enough for the night, and I just packed up my things and went to bed after.

[CJ]

I didn't even associate with us. Once we got to Zorba's, his go to bar, like, he didn't even sit with us at the bar counter. And we were us three.

[Evan]

There's people I wanted to chat with, so.

[CJ]

I know, I know.

[Ken]

So we were sitting at the table, and I was just trying to keep up with ev. It just progressively got worse. Like, we got, like, more and more liquored up, lost more and more money gambling.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

I was like, dude, how do you, like, Is this enjoyable to you? Like, we're dumping money, and I ran out of. I ran out of money. And then Evan, he just started floating me, and he was like, I'll. I'll handle it. I just want you to enjoy this. And I was like, I'm not enjoying this at all. I'm just. Yeah, but you guys had.

[CJ]

You had so much money. In that you had to keep going. So this is how it worked. It went. We walked in. This is the short story. Evan immediately goes to the pull tab machine to start gambling. He does that every time. And I was like, you know, I should play too. I go, hey, I'll go in with you. And then Ben's like, yeah, I'll go in too. So us three are gonna all go together. And Evan wanted to play one side. And I was looking at the thing, and I was, like, looking at the potential winnings and how many tickets were left. I'm like, I think there's better odds over here, guys. No, no, no. We're playing this one. I go, all right, you guys play that one. I'll play this one. So Ben and Evan are going in on one jar together. I'm going on the other. I ended up pulling eleven hundred dollars out of this jar before they pulled a single dollar.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

The whole time, Ben's just like, what the. Why didn't we go in over there? Evan. Evan's like, no, no, this jars. I promise it's gonna hit. Yeah, it's gonna hit. So then, like, at. It got to a point where he was. They both had so much money in that I started doing the math of the jars, and I go, you guys are gonna just have to buy the whole rest of the jar out because there's less tickets than winnings in here. So they had to put, like, another fourteen hundred dollars in.

[Mike]

Oh, my God. On pull tabs, again, these guys were there.

[CJ]

Alex came and picked me up because it was taking him so long. They pulled, like, a hundred dollars finally, after two hours.

[Ken]

And then, like, as I said, I ran out of money. So I was just like. I was just riding with ev, and I'm pretty sure he hit, like, his debit card max pull out for ATM or whatever.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And so then he ran out of money, and I was just like, bro, what are we doing here? It's like, what are we doing here? Yeah. Pretty funny, right? And we're both down, like, a lot of money. And I'm just, like, over it at this point because I was like, bro, I trusted you. I thought it was gonna hit. I thought it was gonna hit. At this point, CJ's gone and, like, Ken's gone, and I'm just sitting there. It's the two losers out of money.

[CJ]

Drunk, drunk.

[Ken]

So I can't even just hop in my car and leave.

[CJ]

Like, see ya.

[Ken]

I was like, I'm stuck with you after losing.

[Mike]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

So you cleared.

[CJ]

So you didn't even make it home before you were regretting your decision.

[Ken]

Yeah, I was sitting there because, like, there's only so many people I can go and beg for money. Like, hey, can I have some money?

[Ryan]

Good.

[Ken]

So like, I swear it's gonna hit.

[Ryan]

I swear.

[CJ]

Yeah, no, it's not a good look. Right.

[Ken]

And it's like one thing. If my partners floated me and then he ran out of freaking money. And that's, that's just never a good. It's just never good. Right. Sure enough, the next day, Ken puts 20 bucks into the same jar and pulls a 500.

[Evan]

No, it was fantastic.

[Ken]

Yeah, I bet it was fantastic.

[Evan]

I'm sitting there looking at the, looking at the thing and it's like, okay, there's fourteen hundred dollars worth of winners. There's only nine hundred worth of tickets. You almost gotta throw money into it.

[Ken]

Yeah. Which is the mentality I had the night before, but I ran out of cash.

[CJ]

You didn't have that mentality though. I couldn't believe that you guys were so loose with. Or that at least Evan, who does it. Evan does it so much that he was so loose with it because I just literally looked at the thing and then I looked at the tickets. I was like, well, it looks like there's better odds here. But he wanted to do that one.

[Ken]

Yeah. I was just riding with my partner. Shouldn't have done that. And then next thing you know, Dalton comes and picks me and Evan up, thankfully. Like. Because then I was asking ev. I was like, how we getting home? And he was like, that's the fun part. I was like, that is not fun at all. I want to know how I'm. Where I'm sleeping tonight. Or like, are we. How are we getting home? I was like, what do you do? So I'm calling Dalton like, bro, can you please just come and get us? And he's like, yeah, I got you. Thank God. He comes picks us up. Next thing, like we're going to bed at like 3am oh my God. Like, it.

[Mike]

This is a shift.

[Ken]

It was a full on shift, right? And then Evan, sure enough, like I stay at the shop and the next morning I hear Evan wake up and he. He dips out. I've been down so bad ever.

[Mike]

I'm saying you've been sick ever.

[Ken]

I've been sick ever since. And I thought I was just like hungover, but I think I just like.

[CJ]

I just week long hangover, dude.

[Ken]

I think I just sent my body into shock.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ken]

Just trying to hang that's what happens.

[CJ]

When you start at the Shoreline Impact Zone.

[Ryan]

Rich did basically the same thing. He tried to be Evan's intern and it ended about the same.

[Mike]

It's like going to work out with like a crossfitter.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But like the opposite. Like Evan is seasoned in training athlete. He is at the, the peak performance of that type of activity. You can't just show up one day and decide you want to do it. You have to train for stuff like that. You're just gonna hurt your body.

[CJ]

You gotta train, gotta build up a immunity.

[Ken]

Yeah. Tolerance and. Yeah. So it's been pretty. I've been down bad.

[Ryan]

Pretty down bad to hear that, bro. You'll bounce back.

[Ken]

Thanks.

[Ryan]

We know Evan already did.

[Ken]

Oh yeah, he bounced back that afternoon. Yeah, he was texting me that night like, like, dude, I might have. I might have had a couple beers and bought a bunch of new golf clubs. It's like we just lost already after one, the night we had. You're drinking beers already. And two, you have money still.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Yeah.

[CJ]

I was like, he just reached his ATM limit.

[Mike]

Yeah, it resets.

[Ken]

Yeah, I guess it just bounced right back.

[Mike]

I saw this thing in Massachusetts. Proposed affordability checks for anyone who loses $2500 in a three month span. Gambling.

[CJ]

Holy. So what's that?

[Ryan]

What's an affordability check?

[Mike]

If you lose more than $2,500, they will give you money back.

[CJ]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's. It's to like help with the risk free bet scenario, you know.

[Ryan]

And what is that scenario?

[Mike]

Like different sports bettings will say that there's like a risk free bet, you know, you bet five, you get 200 back. That type of scenario. This is for an in person casino type of thing like that. So then I think that is a.

[Ken]

Thing like you can negotiate like basically your losses. I don't know. 2500. 2500 bucks isn't gonna really move the needle for like a slight casino in Vegas.

[Evan]

But is that a no sweat bet or is that just a marketing ploy to get you back in the door after you lost so much money?

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I mean they know like if, if we give them $20,000 back, dude, I'm like, well, I got this free $20,000, so I might as well gamble.

[Ryan]

I finally ripped all the togi videos. Road to 10 million. It is awesome. It's like such different content and it was just pure entertainment. But he. Yeah, he talks about it like he's not even sweating. He was like on a Podcast. They asked him, like, what would you have done? He's like, well, I've been down. Like, I've been. I've been like, down a million. He's like, you just borrow from the casino.

[CJ]

Yeah, you can go even more.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. And he's like, you. You could go deeper.

[Ken]

Yeah. I also just saw Toby's Snapchat that he said, so Togi made. Like, it's just. It's this YouTuber guy. He's a streamer too. And he goes on, like, these gambling benders where he'll make or lose, like, millions of dollars within, like, 40, 48 hours. Like, it's like the craziest swings.

[Mike]

The blackout method.

[Ken]

Yeah, but the dude was, like, completely poor. Like, had no money. Like, a year ago. Like, the road to 10 million was like a series of videos of him basically trying to make $10 million in a matter of a month. I think he did it in, like, two months. He didn't make $10 million, but, like, he did. I think he made like $4 million in two months.

[Mike]

Still pretty.

[Ken]

Most of it was gambling.

[Ryan]

And then he was doing a bunch of different ploys, but he made a painting too. That made a painting sold for 150.

[Ken]

Yeah. K. Yeah, it was crazy. I think. Yeah, he just, like, set out to make as much money possible and legal different ways, and it's definitely entertaining. But, like, when I was watching it, I was like, there's no way this dude is taking taxes into account. And sure enough, on his Snapchat yesterday, he said, yeah, I haven't paid my taxes yet. And I just made like, all this money, but now I owe, like half.

[CJ]

Of it to taxes and he doesn't.

[Ken]

Have any, and I spent all of it already.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they said that on the podcast and it was a weird interaction because he's like, yeah, dude, you're like, gonna have to pay like 50% of that. And he's like, I can't do that.

[Mike]

That.

[Ryan]

And he's like, I don't know what to tell you. He's like, yeah, no, like, I actually. Yeah, I gotta figure something out because I can't do that.

[Mike]

Imagine learning about taxes on a podcast after you've already made 5 million.

[CJ]

That's a bad deal. It's a bad deal. You just have to sell a lot of your.

[Evan]

Or just double down.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

For him, that might be his strategy.

[Evan]

That is 100 gonna be a strategy.

[CJ]

It's not as cool a gambling to be able to pay your taxes, though.

[Evan]

You also have to use your gambling money that you just won to pay next year's tax bill.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But it's funny for him because he buys, like, he always wears two watches, like, super iced out. And he buys jewelry. And he's like, this actually is a. Whether I lose money on it or not, this is a good investment. Because when I turned it into jewelry or the house, he's like, I can't spend it because if it's in cash, I will spend it.

[CJ]

You should watch, dude.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Money Mike has an iced out rolly or something super. And then like a iced out chain that says money mic on it.

[Ryan]

I would love to. As a joke. I. I would not want anyone to seriously look at me and be like, is this dude serious? I like that idea.

[Mike]

Money Mike would do that type of an expensive joke.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

Like, imagine wearing an iced out, very expensive watch. Only to meme those who do start with the freaking.

[Ken]

Oh, there we go.

[Ryan]

On the T shirt.

[Ken]

All proceeds from this T shirt go directly into Mike spending it.

[Ryan]

I couldn't do that to you guys.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

The new merch drops live and new giveaways.

[Ryan]

Freaking heavy giveaway, bro.

[CJ]

The best giveaway we've ever had. I mean, two, the choice of either a Lamborghini Huracan or a Lamborghini urus.

[Ryan]

And I think we have with those two vehicles, the base is covered.

[CJ]

Yeah, I mean, that. That's a. That's a duo. That can go to anybody. I don't know what I would choose, though, honestly. Like, I've been driving them both. But, I mean, the urus is luxury and the Huracan is a race car.

[Ryan]

I think. Whoever. Yeah. If you're looking at it and you're like, if you even have a shred of thought that the Huracan might be a little too impractical for you, then the urus is for you.

[Ken]

Yeah. I think it's just like.

[Mike]

I guess we should probably zone both.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I think it just depends, like, who wins it. If it's like a kid. You're taking that hurricane.

[CJ]

Yeah, for sure. The hurricanes.

[Ken]

You're taking that hurricane all day, dude. Like, it is such a sick car. It's like the pinnacle of Lamborghini. It's red, it sounds insane. It backfires every single time you let off the gas. It's fast, and it's just like the classic Lamborghini that you'd have as a poster on your wall, right?

[Mike]

It is, yeah.

[Ken]

It's so unbelievably sick. But if you're a mom and you have some Kids that you gotta trek around where you're not obviously driving a two seat car, I guess or a dad that you gotta trek kids around and you want like the most comfortable vehicle ever made. Like it's like legit, such a cruiser. It's so smooth. It's quiet until you like open up the valves. Then it backfires. And it's fast and it is a ripper. It's also 750 horsepower. Like that's.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's still fast.

[Ken]

I don't know if you guys have driven it and like got on it, but like it is equally as fast as the Huracan, which is crazy to think that it is SUV as fast as like a small sports car that is literally just made to look cool and go fast. If I was me though, and I won both of them, I would take the Huracan just solely how sick it is.

[Ryan]

Just.

[Ken]

It's just cool. But there's so many different people that would take the Urus. Also, if you're that are just in a different position, if you're taller or.

[CJ]

Like just bigger, you're gonna fit in the Urus way better in the Huracan.

[Ken]

True.

[CJ]

Like a lot of bigger people. Like, Ken's too tall for really the Huracan.

[Evan]

I'm like, I'm right on the edge of not fitting in the Huracan. So like just riding around that Urus though, so sick. I love that car.

[Ken]

It's got the starlight. It's a liner in the, in the ceiling too. You got the stars above you.

[Evan]

The executive package, rear seats, executive. So unique.

[Mike]

Still never seen another one for sale with that. And I feel like I'm always looking at different marketplaces of cars.

[Ken]

Yeah. Super rare. And like everything on the inside is carbon fiber. And then everything on the outside. See the red or carbon fiber, like is. The package is insane.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

The MSRP on the car was probably like 280, I bet. Yeah. It's crazy spec. Crazy spec. So it's a hard, hard choice.

[Ryan]

Luckily you got options.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And as far as merch goes, you got lots of options there too. I think we say this every time, but it's probably my favorite drop.

[CJ]

Yeah. This keep getting better and better.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we got some awesome like reckless golf. We got a bunch of reckless golf stuff actually. So we're hyped on that. We've been golfing a lot lately. We actually copped ourselves a membership to the local golf club, which is like leaps and bounds compared to us. Reckless golfing once or twice a year to like, golfing. I mean, Evan and Ken have been golfing, like, 10 times in the last three weeks.

[Evan]

Yeah. I think Evan, since we got the membership, every day, Evan has been in the area. He has gone to the golf course.

[CJ]

He's good, though, too.

[Evan]

I've golf more in the last month than I have my whole life.

[CJ]

Yeah, Ken's been. He's getting better.

[Evan]

I'm figuring it out slowly.

[Ken]

Greatest game ever played.

[CJ]

It's really fun.

[Ken]

Yeah. We sponsored a golf hole, so we got a reckless golf golf sponsorship. That's pretty. At our local golf course.

[Ryan]

What number hole is it?

[Evan]

Number 12.

[Ken]

Which has got the best terrain. 12 at Wildflower got the best terrain of any hole on the whole course.

[Ryan]

That's awesome. Awesome.

[Ken]

The most bunkers, the most elevation change, you know, because we told good hill to drop in. You know, if we. If we sponsor a hole, it's got to, like, be a good hole for golf carting, you know, so it only makes sense.

[Evan]

We played that hole a couple weeks ago or actually earlier this week, and I went. Just went from, like, one bunker to the next. Oh, so frustrating.

[Mike]

But it was maybe sponsored next year. They'll move the bunkers for you.

[CJ]

It's gonna lip up the bunkers that clear it.

[Ken]

That hole actually does have some significance on the channel. The last reckless Golf video that we dropped that has, like, 6 million views was the thumbnail was shot on that hole a couple years ago when we did Reckless Golf 4. And we opened up with, like, sitting on the road and honking the SEMA truck horn and messing with people. That was on that hole. For people golfing, like, I don't know, there's just a bunch of. Bunch of good mems on that hole. So it's pretty sweet.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Ken, you might have heard about this, because we were just talking about how people sometimes shouldn't have high horsepower cars like the 700 horsepower Urus. But I think it comes into play with, like, the Tesla's. Like, my hummer is a thousand horsepower, and it weighs 9,000 pounds. Like, it could get out of hand pretty easy. The plaid is super fast, but apparently there's this Chinese car. I don't know how to pronounce it, called the Xyoma SU7 Ultra. And they released it, and it has 1526 horsepower.

[Ryan]

How holy.

[Mike]

I guess electric. It looks kind of like a Kia stinger. But where it came into play is apparently overnight. They just sent out an update, and they cut the horsepower in half. The 888 horsepower happened.

[Evan]

Somebody crashed one, and they Threatened a lawsuit, I bet.

[Mike]

I'm sure. Because they were like, nobody should have this much power. You have to go to a track and do a qualifying lap time to prove that you can drive that car fast enough.

[CJ]

That's worth it.

[Ken]

And I mean, Chinese car.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And you can't really complain that hard because you still have 800. It's not like it's on eco mode. Yeah, but you buy a car for the.

[CJ]

What's that thing cost? Can you get in America?

[Evan]

You can't buy a Chinese car here. I gotta say though, like, when I had the plaid doing launch mode was. It was pretty fun. Just blowing the doors off everything.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah. And I. I still talk about it to people. I'm like, if you haven't experienced electric car, it will taint you. Obvious, blah, blah. And then Dalton, you know, I was being a sarcastic or whatever, correcting him, but he's like, this is the fastest truck I've ever been in. I'm like, you're Cummins. I'm like, you've lit. Have you ever ridden in Ken's cyber truck? Because it's definitely faster. It for sure is fast.

[Ken]

You couldn't just.

[Evan]

Just don't tell him that. Maybe.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What do you think would win My truck or Dalton's?

[Evan]

Your truck.

[CJ]

In a race Raptor.

[Evan]

Thousand percent.

[Ryan]

Your track.

[Ken]

What do you think it would win? Our new Miata or your truck?

[Ryan]

Your truck?

[Evan]

CJ's truck.

[Ken]

I think so.

[Ryan]

The 10 speed is.

[Ken]

I don't know. The Miata's fast, bro. Dude, it's so light. It's a go kart.

[Evan]

There's no way raptors got the right transmission. It's never gonna miss a shift. Well, seven shouldn't miss a shift. It's got four wheel drive.

[Ken]

It'd be a good video where we go to the drag strip and you line up like unsuspecting cars.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Or if you lined up all we drag raced every single car in the fleet.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

All different.

[Evan]

Just get like a massive airstrip.

[CJ]

Yeah, that'd be cool, but it could be boring. It just depend on how it was set up.

[Ryan]

But yeah, that seems. That's giving. Yeah. Cut it fast.

[Ken]

I think a good race.

[CJ]

You almost know what's the fastest car right off the jump.

[Mike]

I think where it gets interesting is you have the Miata. Yeah, that beats out the Viper because.

[Ryan]

I missed a shift.

[CJ]

What do you think is our fastest car right now? Is either the Huracan or probably Mike's Viper.

[Ken]

My. I bet my Urus is faster than Mike's. Viper.

[Ryan]

And I bet if Mike's. I bet if I went shifting, even if I was shifting like good, I think Ryan's vet could beat the Viper.

[Ken]

Yeah, I bet.

[Ryan]

I really do. True. It just is a probably.

[Mike]

Yeah. I figured out that on our track day, I just put it in track mode, but I didn't know that track mode is just road. It doesn't do any of the traction control things. You have to put it in race mode.

[Ryan]

Ah. So I fast.

[Mike]

I left some. I left some skin on the table there.

[Ken]

Yeah, we gotta roll around too. What was that?

[CJ]

I took first. What was second again?

[Ken]

Well, I don't know if we need to talk about what was.

[Mike]

I took second.

[Evan]

Third was Mike in the gtr.

[CJ]

And you took the last time.

[Mike]

Yeah, dead last.

[CJ]

That was a fun day.

[Ken]

I bet you guys did have fun.

[Mike]

That was a fun day.

[Ken]

Yeah. We gotta run it back. Run it back. But no, I think that Miata is actually like. I think it would surprise you guys straight up, dude, it's got like 450 horsepower and it weighs like 1800 pounds for sure.

[CJ]

It's fast. There's no doubt about that. But I just think it's gonna be spinning. There's no technology to keep the wheels down, you know?

[Ken]

Yeah. Oh, it'd be sketchy.

[Mike]

The Miata frame is not built for speed.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's like just a classic. Like, you can have so much horsepower, but it just boils down to. A lot of. It's like the computer nowadays is what makes cars really fast. Like, Ryan's Corvette is so fast because of just the tuning and the transmission. And obviously it's got a ton of horsepower, but like. Like it's got such good traction control too. Like, he can just stomp on it and it's gonna correct itself.

[Mike]

Yeah, go.

[CJ]

Like, versus Mike's car is a driver's car. Like, you need an actual really good driver to it to actually drive it to its fastest zero to 60 or quarter mile.

[Evan]

Even with the launch control in your car, I was surprised at how much wheel spin it let happen. Whereas like Ryan's car, it's basically. It's just going.

[Ryan]

I turned traction control off, but I was happy with the traction that it still gave me. Me, I was just happy not to be in the ditch.

[Mike]

For real. That's like one of those cars that you, like, give it too much throttle and it bites.

[Ryan]

And. And many rear wheel drive cars are like that. But that nightmare of when it starts to go wrong, you're already. I mean, there's A. You're already total.

[Ken]

There's a stat, Kenjamino.

[Evan]

Yeah, I. I know exactly the stat you're looking up.

[Ken]

It's like, within 10 miles of the dealership.

[Mike]

Shut up.

[Ken]

A certain amount of Vipers have been destroyed.

[CJ]

Any of the generations prior to Mike's, none of them had traction control because they prided themselves on being this, like, race car.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Ryan]

So.

[CJ]

So people would just wreck them.

[Evan]

This isn't applicable to, like, Mike's generation, but the original generation of Vipers, 30, were crashed on the way home from the dealer buying it.

[CJ]

That's insane. They have to tell them before, like, hey, I just want to let you know, almost half the people crash on their way home. Just try to get it home. Really, really ease your way into this car because it's fast.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Goes to show, though. It had a lot of horsepower, but, like, not the tuning and the. I mean, there's the electronics, the technology to. So they make it super friendly for the masses.

[Ryan]

There's a really good donut media video about it, actually, but they have, like, a whole, you know, spiel on it. If the whole project was under 50 million, he didn't have to, like, get it okayed and, like, do a bunch of stuff.

[Evan]

They didn't have to go through committee. They could just. It was basically just a slush fund of money that they could just burn.

[Ryan]

So, like, they just made the Viper and they just cut. Like, cut anything they didn't need it on it, like, traction control, all this. And then that's why there's so, like, few of them produced. I mean, there still was quite a bit, but, yeah, they just, like, sent them out and said, here's a race car for the street.

[CJ]

Dude, I think what makes your Viper so much cooler for me, like, it already looks amazing. Sounds amazing. It's fast. Like, it's got everything. But what really makes it even cooler is just, like, the culture of it. Like, these stories. Like, there's so much to it, you know, and there's so many stories to it, and, like, I don't know, it's just a lot of substances. True enthusiast car.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. I definitely agree. Like, sometimes I feel like, obviously, I'm obsessing over it a little bit, but I love the whole story behind it, and I hope for my sake that they don't make any more.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's just an enthusiast car, and anyone who owns a Viper owns it because they're an enthusiast. I feel like.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You know, like, you don't just.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Buy one because you were looking for a cool car.

[Mike]

Yeah, a fancy, expensive car.

[Ryan]

That's what I was just talking to Ben about it. It's insane that they compare it to the Corvette. I'm not saying it's insane. Like, I'm offended. Back in the day, they're like, yeah, the Viper, the Corvette, it was a very similar. You know, some people, most people pick the Corvette and like, dude, they're like not the same. A Corvette is a car that an older gentleman could get in and drive very easily. And I feel like a Viper is not that.

[Mike]

No, it is funny. Even with cars with more traction control. Ben, you've been looking at getting an RS or been dreaming of one. You see this video yet?

[Ryan]

This is what is.

[Ken]

Oh, this is tough.

[Mike]

Oh, oh. Just the longest crash of all time. Time.

[Ken]

Like, see it's like that was like.

[CJ]

It looked like he was on ice, bro.

[Ryan]

Yeah, like he's like clearly trying to stop there. Clearly trying to stop there.

[CJ]

You would have thought if he would have just slammed on the brakes, he.

[Ken]

Had to have blacked out. What's the top, what's the top comments on this?

[Mike]

Yeah, it sucks. Apparently the comment on here was that it was an 18 year old.

[Ryan]

Get this kid a Calvo Viper, bro.

[CJ]

That would be bad. You get to drive someone's car and crash it at 18. That's a nightmare.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it 15 business days to prevent this.

[Mike]

Well, did you see when Cleat almost piled up that Cohen's egg?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I didn't think it was. Wait, maybe I didn't.

[Mike]

Maybe if he wasn't a good driver, he would have piled up the Cohen's egg.

[Ryan]

Okay, but you're saying when he like, yeah, that was crazy to see a car that has that much plantage, bro.

[Mike]

He had to his like asphalt.

[Ken]

Steve had to have shit his pants. Yeah, for sure.

[Mike]

But like when you look at that, if you panicked and overcorrected, let off the break and then turned up the track, you would have hit the wall so fast.

[CJ]

I could just see Steve like and then he's just like, yeah, yeah, that was crazy. Like you'd just be pretty chill out, dude.

[Mike]

Wow, you really bang that wall harder than I banged Tommy's mom say some like that.

[Ryan]

Dude, it was pretty funny when I watched the video and they went up in the blimp and then everyone was just stoked on that because like, if you've ever watched a single NASCAR race, you're just like, ah, blimp would be cool to go in.

[Ken]

What is up with blimps?

[Ryan]

Dude, it was. It actually flew a lot faster than I was expecting. Like it wasn't like a hot air balloon. They were like flying. They flew out over the ocean and they were like kind of turning, you know, it wasn't fast, but it wasn't like a hot air balloon. They were flying it.

[Ken]

How many blimps are there?

[Evan]

There's not a lot.

[Ken]

I think five in the world.

[Evan]

Goodyear's got like four of them.

[Ken]

Why does Goodyear invest in these blimps?

[Ryan]

Best advertising straight up market ever spent.

[Evan]

I mean look, you look at every major event and they've got one there.

[Ryan]

I would say probably ever.

[CJ]

I feel like they're probably really smooth.

[Mike]

25 registered and potentially useful blimps in the world.

[Ken]

Floating and who makes blimps? Blimp?

[Mike]

No, it's called.

[Evan]

It's like Zeppelin.

[Ryan]

Zeppelin?

[CJ]

Yeah, it's way better than a hot air balloon.

[Ken]

How fast are blimps?

[Evan]

So the Goodyear blimp can typically goes like 35, but they can go up up to 70.

[Ken]

Yeah, I guess it is pretty smart. A good year to have blimps. And like can anyone just buy a blimp and use it as advertisement? You know, it's just in the sky above like a NASCAR traffic.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's a great question. Could you just like. Yeah, hire another. Yeah. Blimp that says freaking. I don't know. GoDaddy.com I don't know.

[Evan]

GoDaddy CBOTV.com yeah, that's Mike's next business venture is rebranding blimps.

[Ken]

Can you buy a used blimp?

[Evan]

I feel like is that even something you would sell?

[CJ]

Used exchanges hands.

[Ryan]

Yeah, dude.

[Ken]

Yeah. You really got to have fuck you money to have a blimp. Like there's no point in having a blimp besides for just like letting people know that you can.

[Ryan]

And then can you imagine having a blimp that's not some sort of advertisement? What's the point?

[Ken]

But like actually yeah, imagine like, hey honey, you want to fire up the blimp and take it to dinner a couple towns over?

[CJ]

Land it pretty nice.

[Ryan]

I'll work on it on Saturday so that we can go out on Sunday. You know, a lot of prep and.

[Evan]

Then they'll be to the restaurant by Wednesday.

[Mike]

There's people that buy fighter jets. There was a guy of a large business that we know that I was hearing him talk stories about it but apparently there's this canyon that they like modeled a Star wars or maybe filmed a Star wars scene in. They call It Star wars canyon, and there's a guy that videotapes it very similar to the wavy boats guy, if you've ever seen him. And he just sits there and films people flying their private fighter jets through the canyon.

[Ryan]

It's only fighter jets because they're the only ones capable of doing.

[Mike]

Yeah, like, it's like a maneuver thing. It'd be like taking your freaking minivan to the racetrack. Like, you typically take a performance vehicle.

[CJ]

Aren't fighter jets just two people?

[Evan]

I think it's usually like one or two.

[Ryan]

One to two. Yeah.

[Evan]

So heavy d got his blackhawk through, like, what was it, a government auction or something? Are people getting a hold of these fighter jets the same way?

[Ken]

Yeah, anyone can buy a fighter jet.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

How much is a fighter jet?

[Evan]

There's a 1974 Canada CF5D for 2.2 million.

[Mike]

It looks pretty legit, dude. Like, if you had this thing. Oh, payments as low as $46,000 a month. If you had this sucker parked out front, dude, that's fighter jet. Like, you don't got to explain what that is to anybody.

[Ryan]

Yeah, dude.

[CJ]

It's insane. Like, military equipment, like, how old it is, but you don't think it's that old. Like, when you're looking at it, like, heavy d's Blackhawk. What year is that thing?

[Evan]

I think it was from the 70s.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That's insane, bro. You think it's like, you know, a 2012?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I guess. As far as how it looks, like they did a good job designing it, but, dude, for stuff for the military, the biggest thing they have going for it is that it's actually built well. It's built not sparing any quality parts. It's built with people being paid well, you know. You know, like, it's just built well.

[Ken]

It'S built to last with something like that, though, with the Blackhawk, like, a lot of the money is in the instruments. And then, like, those things have to go through so many different, like, checks and balances before they can even, like, get off the ground. You got to assume, like, you know, if they do that every five times that it flies over the last 30 years, not many things are getting overlooked. It's kind of true with most planes. Like, it really doesn't matter, like, what year the plane is.

[Mike]

This is so sick. Could you imagine have a jet cleats got to get a jet. So until cleat to get a fighter jet.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I could see that.

[Ken]

That'd be a really good video.

[Mike]

Yeah, I bought a fighter jet.

[Ken]

Yeah, well, Our buddy that had that fighter jet said that he sold that fighter jet because he kept passing out.

[CJ]

Because he would just like go so hard.

[Ken]

Yeah. And I'm assume, but I'm assuming like he was riding passenger like in the, in like the back part of it. If it's a two person and then maybe you got a more qualified.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think you must fly with somebody else that isn't going to like his better train. But that's the way it made it sound. I was like, what do you mean you passed out while flying your plane? And he said, well, you have someone else that, like, you know, like, you probably go into maneuver and you're like, all righty, when I pass out here, take the controls and don't let us crash. But you measure how wild that be. Just freaking that he pass out and then you wake up and you're just flying.

[Evan]

Like, do the guys in the military, do they do like training for that or what do they do?

[Ken]

I doubt.

[Mike]

No, they just, they just rot.

[CJ]

You ever seen it when they get those little things and it goes in circles?

[Ryan]

I knew they do that for astronauts, but I'm assuming do that for fighter jets too.

[Mike]

There's like breathing techniques and a bunch of stuff. You think they could just throw us in a G chair?

[CJ]

Yeah. Dude, I'd be so dizzy.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

I, I, if I went on the teacup, if I went on the Teacup ride at Disney World, I'd think I'd throw up. I've always been like that since I was a kid. I just can't do spinning. Yeah, roller coasters are fine, but spinning.

[Ken]

What are the GS of a rocket ship taking off? And then what are the GS for somebody flying a fighter jet? And then what are the GS for somebody launching a 0 to 60 car in like 3 seconds?

[CJ]

And then what are the GS of the teacups at Disney World?

[Evan]

Typical fighter pilot, like, a typical fighter pilot can experience like up to nine GS.

[Mike]

Okay, I got rocket launch about three GS before engine cutoff.

[Evan]

And a Model S plaid can do 1.3 GS.

[Mike]

That's about similar as what a rocket experiences at liftoff.

[CJ]

That's insane.

[Ken]

And then what's a teacup?

[Mike]

Oh, the Rock and Roller Coaster has the highest GeForce at Disney World with a positive 5G's experience after launch. What?

[Ken]

Oh, yeah. C.J. stay out.

[CJ]

Wait, didn't we go on that one?

[Ken]

The Rock and Roller Coaster?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

There's no way that it was you.

[CJ]

Know, when we went to Disney World, like, the rides were obviously insane, but they didn't seem that insane. Like, I was thinking they were gonna feel like more acceleration, but I think just due to driving all the super fast cars we have around here, they were pretty tame.

[Ken]

A little bit, yeah.

[CJ]

Like, I was always like, okay, here we go. And then it was kind of like, okay. I mean, it's fast, but they say.

[Mike]

About 1G in a teacup.

[CJ]

Holy shit. That's pretty good, dude. I feel that rides overrated.

[Ryan]

They need an underrated, bigger scale here. You know, we're at 1g for the teacup, and then we're at 1.3 for the plaid.

[CJ]

5G'S is a lot for a roller coaster. That does not seem right.

[Evan]

That can't be. That can't be right.

[Ryan]

One I always give respect to is a top fuel fuel dragsters.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah. How many?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

5.6 GS at launch.

[CJ]

That roller coaster is not doing 5 GS.

[Mike]

I don't think so.

[Ken]

Yeah, the top fuel dragster is 0 to 300 and like a couple seconds, three seconds or something like that.

[CJ]

You don't even know what happened. Is it Boom, you're at 300 and you're done?

[Ryan]

That's why I don't know how more.

[Ken]

People don't die doing that.

[Ryan]

Being in it, like, just watching it, it's like, you know, dude. Dude, Done.

[Mike]

We got to go to EP Brainerd this year. I really want to see it it in person. I've never seen a top field dragster run.

[Ken]

Up until like a year ago, I didn't even know that was possible to go zero to 300 in a vehicle, period. John Force. Let alone like three seconds, four seconds. And how. How long is that Runway eighth mile. And how do these brakes not freaking explode?

[Mike]

Parachutes.

[Ken]

What happens when the parachute.

[Ryan]

Damn. These guys thought of everything. They have a second parachute, and if.

[Mike]

The second one doesn't work, I don't know what's the. What's the thing in skydiving, you pack your first parachute in 10 minutes and your second one in two hours or.

[Evan]

Something like that reserve parachute Google is broken.

[Ryan]

Oh, shit. We broke.

[Ken]

We broke Google.

[Evan]

It doesn't want to give me top fuel Dragster facts.

[Mike]

Just. It says no results found.

[Evan]

Server error.

[Mike]

You know what's funny? I was reading this about. I learned today that you can type any nonsense into Google followed by meaning. And I will assume you're searching for a well known human phrase and frantic come up with what it thinks it could mean. So in this case, they googled. Two dry frogs is a situation meaning and then it just has an AI interview overview to Saying two dry frogs is a situation is a metaphorical expression often used to describe an awkward or difficult social situation. It's a playful way of saying that a group of people, particularly two, are in a precarious or uncomfortable predicament, but that's just straight up made it up.

[Ryan]

That sounds very accurate. You know, like if two people are having a really awkward conversation, like it's like two dry frogs over there trying to chat it out.

[Mike]

The phrase not every insect has a mortgage is an a humorous way of stating that not everything is as simple or as complex as it may seem. Not every insect has a mortgage.

[Ken]

Okay, where are we going with this?

[Mike]

That AI isn't a reliable narrator for reviewing information.

[Ryan]

You're right. I do find it incredibly handy. Like for numbers stuff, you know, like top fuel Jaguars can reach 300 miles per hour in under four seconds. Some records even show faster times 0 to 300 in just three seconds. 0 to 60 miles per hour in 0.4 seconds.

[Mike]

Well, I know what where we're going with this. We're going to cboys tv.com.

[Ryan]

Yes, we are.

[Mike]

You're gonna buy some t shirts. $5 entry.

[Ryan]

It's on the side of the blimp. Don't miss it.

[Ken]

Yeah, if this merch drop goes well, we should buy a blimp.

[Ryan]

I'm not on board for that. Believe it or not, the one thing money.

[CJ]

That helicopter. Ben.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah. This merch drop's got to go really well so we can buy a blimp and a helicopter.

[Ryan]

We still need a well over at the dirt bike track.

[Ken]

Oh, it's gotta wait. Mike.

[Evan]

Mike's down for a lot of stuff, but blimp is where he draws the line. I never thought I'd see that.

[Ken]

I figured there'd be a couple no's, but not from you.

[Ryan]

I know. But yeah, go check out all the merch. New giveaways live subscribe if you haven't. Appreciate you guys listening, commenting and see you next week.

[CJ]

Peace.

[Mike]

Peace.

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