Ben Blew Up His Raptor, Micah's Junk Tank Regrets, Success VS Fame

Summary

Podcast Summary: Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Ben Blew Up His Raptor, Micah's Junk Tank Regrets, Success VS Fame
Date: December 25, 2024

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Main Theme & Purpose

This festive year-end episode blends holiday cheer with behind-the-scenes stories from the CboysTV crew. Topics range from epic (and expensive) car mishaps and Christmas gift exchanges to candid discussions about work-life balance, YouTube success, and the pitfalls of fame. The episode is filled with banter, memorable anecdotes, reflections on business, and a look ahead to future adventures.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Ken’s “Secret” Vegas Trips & the Cowboy Hat Dilemma

• The Mystery of Ken's Trips:
  The group jokes about Ken’s frequent, unexplained Vegas excursions, questioning what he’s actually doing there—beyond a little gambling. They comically speculate but ultimately agree nobody really wants the full truth.
  • CJ: “Wouldn’t get a straight answer either way.” (01:43)
  • Ben: “I think we're all slightly afraid to ask him.” (01:35)
• Traveling With a Cowboy Hat:
  A sidebar emerges about the struggles of transporting a cowboy hat through airports, highlighting Ken's no-care confidence.
  • CJ, quoting Ken: “I think you're mistaking me for someone who gives a…” (04:42)

Gaming, Work-Life Balance, and Staying in the Gym

• Gaming Discussions:
  Ben talks about his rekindled passion for Call of Duty and the shift from viewing gaming as a waste of time to embracing it as well-deserved downtime, echoing broader themes of self-care.
  • Ben: “Honestly, who gives a if it's a waste of time?... as long as you're having fun, that's what life’s about.” (07:48)
• Advice From Gavin:
  • Ben quoting Gavin: “Stay in the gym and keep having fun, baby.” (08:13)
• Shoveling and Adulting:
  Playful ribbing about house chores symbolizes growing up and taking on responsibility.

Annual Holiday Gift Exchange [11:00–19:00]

• Thoughtful & Hilarious Gifts:
  Ryan coordinates a gift exchange, with gifts tailored to each member's quirks:
  • Dalton: Heated gloves for winter camera work
  • Mike: A mobile alarm clock (“Clocky”) that runs around the room
  • Ben: One-year membership to the Lamborghini Club of America (plus a hat)
  • CJ: Single-serve “nut dispenser” (after much inside joking about his homemade nuts)
  • Ken (in absentia): Clip-on toilet table for multitasking in the merch bay
  • Ryan on the nut dispenser: “It’s a single serve nut dispenser.” (16:06)
• Most Extravagant Gift:
  Evan receives a signed 2004 Bam Margera skateboard, causing envy and a candid talk about gifts versus budgets.
  • Ben (jealous): “That’s gotta be a thousand bucks, bro.” (21:48)
  • Ryan: “It was $500… I spent my hard-earned money.” (22:07)

YouTube Year-in-Review & Business Reflections [31:37–40:45]

• Channel Growth:
  2024 was a banner year: +1.2 million subscribers, 550 million views, and crossing the 1.5 billion total views milestone. The group discusses the hard work behind the scenes and the difference between viral fame and sustained success.
  • CJ: “We did so much awesome s—t.” (31:46)
  • Ben: “Those who blow up quick—there’s often more luck than strategy, and they have the hardest time hanging around.” (35:24)
• Work-Life Balance Challenges:
  The crew candidly admits to struggling with enjoying life outside of filming, as most of their fun ends up on camera, blurring the line between work and play.
  • Mike: “You almost forget what living is like unless there’s a camera rolling.” (26:36)
  • Ben: “I want to do things just for fun… not to accomplish something.” (28:13)
• Building a Sustainable Team:
  Even after expanding the team, everyone’s workload has increased, prompting hopes for a better balance in 2025.

YouTube Strategy, Consistency, and Group Dynamics [36:02–40:45]

• Advice for Aspiring Creators:
  The importance of studying successful channels, refining video ideas, and learning from both mistakes and successes.
  • Ben: “I was studying successful YouTube channels… you gotta figure out how to evolve your content.” (38:22)
• Friendship Before Business:
  The group emphasizes their chemistry stems from being friends first, not assembling purely to make content—citing this as a reason for their long-term cohesion.
  • CJ: “Don’t get together to make YouTube videos. We were together and decided to make YouTube videos.” (39:15)

Ben Blew Up His Raptor [41:25–44:44]

• The Raptor Tragedy:
  Ben recounts how his Ford Raptor blew a head gasket days after a major repair, and the ongoing cycle of maintenance woes. The group trades war stories about destroying rigs for content.
  • Mike (matter-of-fact): “I was hooning the shit out of it… this is 100% on me.” (43:41)
• Car & Junk Tank Regrets:
  Chatter about questionable car purchases, overpaying, and regrettable deals (notably CJ’s BMW and the “Junk Tank” video). The panel debates what constitutes a good advisor and how liquor and peer pressure influence buying decisions.

"Junk Tank" Reflections & the Quest for Better Advice [50:43–54:07]

• Panel As Advisors:
  CJ describes feeling both guided and steamrolled by his friends during the “Junk Tank” challenge.
  • CJ: “My advisors… weren’t like, real… it was happening however it was rolling in my head.” (50:53)
• Craziest Entries:
  They describe failed attempts to buy weirder vehicles, including a rare electric S10, and sketch out ideas for future challenges (“Junk Tank 2”).

Big Purchases & Looking Ahead: The New Race Trailer [56:27–65:39]

• Massive Trailer Upgrade:
  The team invests in a 48-foot enclosed car/race trailer to support ambitious 2025 plans. Discussion includes tales of past road trips, nearly-destroyed RVs, and the practicalities of hauling equipment nationwide.
  • Mike: “Hundreds of thousands of miles… across the country, probably 50 times.” (57:30)
• Acknowledging Community Support:
  The segment closes with gratitude for fan support, which made these upgrades possible.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On self-confidence:
  CJ (quoting Ken): “I think you’re mistaking me with someone who gives a…” (04:42)
• On the reality of work-life balance:
  Mike: “You almost forget what living is like unless there’s a camera rolling… it’s not like you’re living really for yourself.” (26:36)
• On advice from Gavin:
  Ben: “Stay in the gym and keep having fun, baby. That's his advice to everyone. And honestly, I think that's great advice.” (08:13)
• On Christmas gift envy:
  CJ: “C.J. got a nut dispenser and Evan got a signed deck.” (23:30)
• On overnight fame:
  Ben: “Those people that blow up that quick… there was more luck to it than strategy and those people have the hardest time hanging around.” (35:24)
• On content creation teams:
  CJ: “Don’t get together to make YouTube videos. We were together and decided to make YouTube videos.” (39:15)
• On car maintenance regrets:
  Mike: “I was hooning the shit out of it… this is 100% on me.” (43:41)
• On their new trailer:
  Ryan: “It's gonna be a game changer for us, though, because we can fit everything.” (58:17)
• On gratitude:
  Mike: “Thank you guys for supporting us and buying our merch… putting us in a position where we can buy cool things like this trailer.” (63:45)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Ken's Vegas Mystery & Cowboy Hat: 00:29–04:42
• Gaming, Adulting, Advice: 05:37–08:13
• Christmas Gift Exchange: 11:00–19:00
• Signed Bam Margera Skateboard Reveal: 21:26–22:12
• YouTube Year-in-Review: 31:37–35:24
• Work-Life Balance & Fun Off-Camera: 26:36–30:28
• Success, Slow Growth vs Overnight Fame: 34:24–36:02
• Group Dynamics & Friendship: 39:15–40:40
• Ben’s Raptor Head Gasket Story: 41:25–44:44
• “Junk Tank” Lessons: 50:43–54:07
• Race Trailer Upgrade & Reflections: 56:27–64:25
• Final Thanks & Wrap-Up: 64:25–66:36

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Recap & Takeaways

This episode offers a festive yet introspective capstone to 2024 for CboysTV:

• The group balances lighthearted stories (Ken's Vegas jaunts, Christmas pranks) with real talk about the pressures of success and sustaining long-term creative endeavors.
• Their chemistry and banter showcase the value of deep friendship and keeping it fun amid the grind.
• The massive new trailer signals bigger plans and greater freedom for 2025, enabled by a supportive audience.

End Note:
The crew signs off wishing listeners a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, promising a brief hiatus before returning in late January with renewed energy and adventures.

• Mike: “The boys are taking a little bit of a break, do some traveling, just kind of refuel and… come back with some really good stuff.” (66:15)

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Transcript

[Mike]

He's not a super talkative guy until he's had one sip of alcohol and then you can't shut him up.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'm never concerned about what you're doing.

[CJ]

Never. Come on now. Saturday morning I had to. I Woke up at 7:30 and then I was like, this is my life now.

[Mike]

Well, I walked in on you guys doing it, but clip it, clip it.

[Ben]

Oh, no way. Oh, dude, you shouldn't have.

[Dalton]

The fact that he's not actually sick right now. He just saw everyone else getting sick, so he turned his location off, took a hot shot to Vegas for 48 hours.

[Ben]

Yeah, I know it might be something.

[Mike]

That when I be some truth.

[Ben]

When I pulled up on Friday and you know, everyone was sick, I see Ken leaving the Merch Bay at 9am in the morning with a backpack on. He's got this look on his face. He's like. And like, he's like going. He's like going to his. And he kind of does one of these.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then like he almost couldn't hold back like smiling as he hopped in the car. And then he started got his backpack.

[Ben]

And everything and he like starts loading in the back of his Tesla. I'm like, oh, what are you leaving? He's like, yeah, I feel like. But when I was like asking him, are you Leon? I was like, no way is this guy going to Vegas again. This guy's going to Vegas again. Like, I just assumed he was because it's been so frequent.

[Mike]

It's been so frequent, so frequent and so suspicious. Yeah.

[Ben]

But I.

[Mike]

We kind of dance around it when Ken is on the podcast and Ken just kind of goes like this and he never answers our question of like, what you're actually doing there. We don't know what he's doing.

[Ben]

I think we're all slightly afraid to ask him though. Like, because we could very easily when he's on be like, so what are you actually doing there?

[CJ]

But I think wouldn't give us a straight either way.

[Ben]

I don't know if we want to hear the answer though.

[CJ]

We wouldn't get it.

[Dalton]

I don't know what he get out of him is he does a little gambling, but I know there's more than that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but then you even ask him, how was the gambling? Good. Lost a little.

[Mike]

Really? Did you win?

[Ben]

Tell me some numbers. Some hard numbers, man. Just tell me, you know, like, if I win, I talk about about it for an hour at least.

[CJ]

When Evan goes gambling, you hear the.

[Dalton]

Highest dude play by play.

[Mike]

Every little card that he Pulled.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And then I found a dollar bill on the floor. Fired that in. That was a loser. Then put another 20.

[Mike]

Yeah. So I was out at the bar and I saw the pull tabs, and I thought, okay, well, I've only had a couple drinks. Exactly how you sound. Went in And I put 20 in. And I said, hey, would somebody else like to throw 20 in? So next thing you know, we were $7,000 in. And there was there, but there was $6,000.

[Ben]

Slim said he had $50 left. So we threw that in. We won 300. So then we had to try and get it back. So we put it all 300 back in.

[Mike]

Evan is unbelievable. He's not a super talkative guy until he's had one sip of alcohol, and then you can't shut him up. You cannot shut him up.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Kind of energized as your bunny.

[CJ]

Ish.

[Ben]

But I will say, you are very, very friendly. Like when you drink. And, I mean, you're always friendly in general, but you're maybe not as talkative, but, like, you could talk to just about anybody.

[Dalton]

I do sometimes find myself doing that.

[Ben]

Yeah. But I wouldn't say it's a bad thing.

[Dalton]

Do you ever just, like, hang out with people? They always end up being fine, but, like, you don't even know how you got into that situation.

[Ben]

Yeah, like, no, never me, but you. Yes.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Like, why did I end up in this guy's garage till 4 in the morning? Yeah, like, just hanging. You're just eating. Eating brats or something.

[Ben]

You're just hanging, man. Ye. You're talking. You can talk about anything, man.

[Dalton]

I just talking about Ken in Vegas. The one thing he said the other day I thought was very funny was he was complaining about how hard it is to bring his cowboy hat to Vegas.

[CJ]

Actually.

[Dalton]

I mean, I think he could just get a proper hat. He has one tote.

[CJ]

He has a hot. Like a hard bro.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Dalton]

Well, apparently he. He didn't mention that to me because he said he has to wear it through the airport, but then he has to put it in the overhead bin and then, you know, make sure that no one else piles it up and smashes it because you obviously can't wear it while you're sitting in the seat, cowboy.

[Mike]

You could.

[CJ]

I would bring the hard hat or the hard case and then a backpack.

[Ben]

I do like wearing a cowboy hat, but it's so inconvenient. And also at the same time, I just don't feel like I'm deserving to wear a cowboy hat, especially through an airport.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And like a non. Nobody's dressing up cowboy in the airport.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

But I think unless you're truly that guy.

[CJ]

And as a guy, people have been pretty quick to. To pounce on you if you're not a real cowboy. So, like, not. Not a bad idea.

[Ben]

Thing is, though, it's like, literally, you can wear whatever you want, and it's just as long as you wear with confidence. Like, Ken wears that shit. He does not care one bit if you say anything. And he wouldn't care what you think. He just likes wearing it, you know?

[CJ]

Still, one of his most favorite lines ever, that I use all the time is that you say something to him, and then he's like, I think you're mistaking me with someone who gives a. That's the coldest line ever. And that was a Ken quote.

[Ryan]

That's Ken in the cowboy hat.

[Mike]

Dude. I was driving here this morning, and I passed somebody that was pulled over, and the cop that was pulling him over hopped out of his car right as I was coming by. And he was wearing a cowboy hat.

[Ryan]

The cop was wearing, like a sheriff?

[Mike]

I think so. Yeah. It was a town cop.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Mike]

And I was like, what's that guy doing wearing a cowboy hat? I thought it was a little suspicious.

[Ben]

You would have thought he's like a bad guy in a movie or something. Something like that.

[Mike]

Dude, last night I watched the movie Carry On.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, I got to watch that.

[Mike]

It's on Netflix, bro. Your heart is, like, thumping the whole time. It's two hours long, and it was like I. I couldn't fall asleep for, like, three hours afterwards because I was just like. It was still going.

[Ben]

That's how it is that I play my box.

[Dalton]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

I can't play Call of Duty. Too late now.

[CJ]

Really? That's. I had a little, like, moment last night. It was 11:30, and I was like, I'm gonna play PS5. I'm getting on COD.

[Ryan]

And then I. PS5.

[CJ]

Yeah. And then I was like, he's playing on PS4.

[Ben]

He's Money Mike.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I'm just surprised you can get an Xbox.

[Ben]

Yeah, he has five more expensive, actually. So. Are you that surprised?

[CJ]

I started out as a PlayStation guy. But anyway, I was just like, you know what? I'm going to bed. And then. Because, you know, like, if I would have started.

[Ben]

You're growing.

[Mike]

Wow, Mike.

[CJ]

Yeah. I mean, Saturday morning, I had to. I Woke up at 7:30, and then I was like, it's my life now.

[Ryan]

Proud.

[Mike]

Yeah, Like. Like right now.

[CJ]

Cuz. I had to get gas and then I had to shovel driveway and I had to leave.

[Mike]

Now this is my life started. Mike should have started doing that two years ago when he moved into that house. But now, now he's finally like, yeah, I decided, I think I'm going to start showing up on time.

[Ben]

I decided this winter I'm going to shovel.

[CJ]

Shovel the.

[Ben]

Not just pack it down and drive over it.

[CJ]

Like I should have started doing that two years ago. For the record, bin shoveling.

[Mike]

Cj, do you get online and just. Just dice up some 12 year olds?

[Ben]

I don't know if they're 12 year olds or what, but you let them.

[Ryan]

Have to be done.

[Ben]

I, I'm honestly, I'm good. And I'm not just saying. It sounds so lame to say, but I am actually really good. And I even have like a couple snaps and I was going to post, I was like this too lame. But I have like documentation of me just tearing it up.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, like, I'm just, I'm pretty good rank.

[Dalton]

Like, what level are you?

[Ben]

I mean that's, that's rather irrelevant because.

[Dalton]

I don't have a low level. You're in new block.

[Ben]

I'm like a level 42 already.

[Dalton]

First prestige.

[Ben]

I haven't prestige yet. I'm just. Yeah, so you're. No, no, Once you play long enough, it doesn't take that long. Like if you're dicing up right away, they're going to put you in with the better players.

[Mike]

Dude is passionate about this shit.

[Ben]

No, dude, I honestly have always loved Call of Duty. Like I've. Like I said a few podcasts ago, I used to play a shit ton of Call of Duty. Ryan knows for a fact when we were in college, I just gamed because I didn't have anything else to do.

[CJ]

And then like you said even a closer a few podcasts ago, gaming is a waste of time.

[Mike]

It is, it is following CJ's trajectory of like, it's fun and then.

[Ben]

I never said it wasn't fun. I never said it wasn't fun. And honestly, who gives a if it's a waste of time? Like everything. Everything, dude, everything's a waste of time. It just depends about what you care about, honestly, like if you're having fun, there you go. That's what life's about. You know, Gavin was leaving yesterday and he left some really good advice to Mike. Snapchat followers.

[Mike]

First time leaving he said this advice.

[Ben]

I hear him say it all the time to people when people ask him for Advice. He goes, stay in the gym and keep having fun, baby. That's his advice to everyone. And honestly, I think that's great advice.

[Mike]

It is pretty good.

[Ben]

Stay in the gym and keep having fun.

[Dalton]

I'm going to do one and skip the other.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's what I said too.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Before.

[Dalton]

I don't even know any gyms.

[Mike]

Stay in ship.

[Ben]

All right, here we go. I'm just gonna text this in the filming for you guys just so I can back up some of my stats. Oh, I was going to send it to you guys. Everyone get on. Dude.

[CJ]

Yeah, I was gonna say. You don't even have to say.

[Mike]

You don't have to convince me. I know that you dice them up.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, I was. I was gonna text you guys.

[Ryan]

Gaming monitor.

[Ben]

Yeah, I bought one. Dude. I told you guys, you can't fucking play competitively when you're on a big TV on a couch with a TV up a. Yeah. Above your fireplace. Is this. Although I was tearing it up even when it was. Was there.

[Ryan]

Is that set up on your kitchen table?

[Ben]

Yes.

[Dalton]

Do you have a dot on your screen?

[Ben]

No, that's fucking Cheeto. That doesn't work.

[CJ]

That's cheating.

[Ben]

It does work, but it's cheating. It doesn't work that good. I used to try that when I was a kid.

[CJ]

All right.

[Mike]

Oh, for no Scopes.

[Ben]

Yeah, it doesn't work like that. It doesn't stay consistent.

[Dalton]

But even for hip fires, it helps. Maybe I never do it. I just was curious.

[Ben]

I tried that back when I was. Yeah, I remember I had one. I had a tube TV and I. Yeah, I. I wanted you guys to play with me, but then I just realized, eh. I kind of like just not talking. Just silence.

[CJ]

Turn your mic off.

[Ben]

Yeah, but still, what's the point?

[CJ]

No, I think it'd be fun if we were all chatting and you just had your mic on. Just.

[Mike]

Just focus.

[Dalton]

Just laying on his own.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that would be all right.

[Mike]

Well. Damn, boys. Hey. Merry Christmas.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Yeah.

[Mike]

Christmas Eve.

[Ben]

This is live on Christmas Eve.

[Mike]

This is great. This is a great set, Ryan. I like it a lot.

[Ben]

Fantastic job.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I was just kind of doing some end of the year books on the podcast and was just looking at all the ads that I love to read. Probably right about time for one of.

[Mike]

Those now end of the year books did we make?

[Ben]

This is what we got.

[Mike]

We made transition wasn't. What. What books are you looking at?

[Ryan]

No, no, no. There was some money left over.

[Mike]

Somebody made some money.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So I went Out. And I bought these decorations. But don't worry, I wasn't selfish. I thought of you guys, too.

[Ben]

Oh, wow.

[CJ]

So you got us decorated?

[Ben]

No way. Oh, dang. This is. This is really nice, Ryan. I really hope I should have got you something. I feel bad now.

[Ryan]

I guess I didn't write on this one. I think this one's CJ's.

[Dalton]

Ryan, you can fit classic Christmas mix up.

[Mike]

Dude, you can fit a check in it.

[Ben]

I'm gonna get, like, a vape. Ryan. Oh, that was forever.

[CJ]

I'm gonna get a king crab leg.

[Dalton]

Can we Yankee swap?

[Ryan]

No. They're very tailored to you.

[Dalton]

A little office reference.

[Ben]

Why does Ben get the big one?

[CJ]

Ben's is definitely a mini flamethrower.

[Ryan]

We'll start out with Dalton in the back.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Everybody's got a story. Okay, this wasn't just about the money.

[CJ]

It's a Rolex. Sorry, sorry.

[Ryan]

Oh, man. Well, don't undershine my gift like that. So Dalton's been grinding out there all year on the camera. Now it's cold, and I see him running around with no gloves on.

[CJ]

Oh, perfect gift.

[Ben]

That's awesome.

[Ryan]

Ryan's watching, so I got you this pair.

[Dalton]

Are they fingerless so we can run.

[CJ]

A camera just pretty much useless?

[Ryan]

No, they're the. The thinnest heated gloves on the market.

[Ben]

Wow, that sounded really nice.

[Dalton]

Take him for a test drive.

[Mike]

Yeah, let's see it.

[Ryan]

Oh, do you have big hands or something? Oh, we might have to return them.

[CJ]

He is not looking, like.

[Ryan]

Not looking like they're going to fit.

[Mike]

They might fit me, though. Let me try.

[CJ]

I might as well keep them in the company.

[Ryan]

I'll get you some bigger ones.

[Dalton]

Those do look a little taut.

[Ryan]

Dude, those were extra larges, I think.

[CJ]

Really? Yeah. Sometimes it just be like, maybe they're youth.

[Ryan]

Jesus.

[Mike]

Youth. So, Ryan, I mean, it's just like, O.J.

[Ben]

Simpson case over here.

[Mike]

All right, well, Dalton, get the shot.

[Ben]

My glove. My glove hand.

[Mike]

It's the thought that counts. Thank you very much.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'll get you some that fit because I actually think you need them.

[Dalton]

Once they're on, though, it's looking a little better.

[CJ]

It looks like you could definitely run a camera in those.

[Ben]

Like, so I thought for sure, dude, once you're in, dude, I can. I can appreciate a nice thin pair of gloves.

[Ryan]

Mike, you can open up yours next, since Ben's monkeying with this.

[CJ]

All right, what do we got?

[Dalton]

It's a box clocky.

[CJ]

The alarm clock.

[Ben]

Let's go.

[CJ]

I knew it on wheels.

[Mike]

So it Runs around.

[Ryan]

It's a mobile alarm clock. Sorry.

[Ben]

You have to chase it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you have to chase it down. It runs off of your. Your night stand and then runs around your room.

[Ben]

That is so good.

[Dalton]

Your cat is going to love that.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's really fun.

[Ben]

Oh, my gosh, Ryan, that is actually genius.

[CJ]

I hope it's just like, just screaming.

[Ben]

That is awesome.

[Mike]

I think you almost got to, like, hook that up to some part on your body, though, because Mike doesn't really just wake up to noise.

[Dalton]

I know where you should hook it.

[CJ]

Yeah, I get. I got a longer bird and I.

[Mike]

We come into Evan's room, and he's got seven of them running all tied to it.

[Dalton]

All right, guys, I'm just trying to wake up.

[Ryan]

Just five more minutes.

[Mike]

All right, I got the gloves on. I got them. I got them cranking. Can confirm they are great.

[Ben]

They fit great. Looks like you just got to get them on.

[Mike]

Yeah. And you just can't take them off ever.

[Ben]

That's fair.

[Ryan]

Once they're on, I mean, but you think you'd run a camera in them, right?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Perfect.

[Ben]

Awesome.

[Dalton]

Does look like just an unnecessarily tight cuff on there.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, it does.

[Dalton]

Maybe if you put the battery in after you put the glove on.

[Mike]

Oh, maybe, Maybe.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Mike]

Can I open it up?

[Ryan]

You know, yeah, you can open up yours, but yours comes with a little story. But you can start opening because it's inside of the box. You know, like, you used to be a. You used to be a fellow Corvette owner. I know how much you love the Corvette culture, Going to the car meets, wearing the gear and stuff like that. And I feel like ever since you switched, you haven't had the same experience.

[Mike]

So.

[Ben]

Hey, just let everyone know, you dick. I have a Lamborghini.

[Mike]

What else we got?

[Ryan]

I also got you a one year subscription to the Lamborghini Club of America.

[Mike]

What does that get me?

[Ryan]

It invites you to Monterey Car Week, and then you also get a sticker for the back of your Lamborghini, and you get a little black card. Apparently that comes in the mail.

[Ben]

That's actually pretty sick, dude.

[Mike]

Thank you, ryan. How much, C.J. that you don't ask somebody.

[Ben]

I gotta ask somebody. When they bought you a membership to the Lamborghini Club, I wouldn't get too excited.

[CJ]

I bought Ben a Lamborghini gift and he never used it.

[Ryan]

That's right.

[CJ]

Sat in his office.

[Mike]

Dude. Thank you, Ryan.

[Ryan]

No problem, buddy.

[Mike]

Thank you, bro. Here, let me toss it on.

[Dalton]

Let him know I'm drawing a blank. Mic what was?

[CJ]

Your lamb holders.

[Ben]

That hat ages you.

[CJ]

I think it looks great.

[Mike]

Like I own a Lamborghini.

[Ben]

Yeah, you kind of make me not like you.

[CJ]

Like, you put it on, and your profession does not look like a YouTuber.

[Mike]

What would you think that I do wearing this hat looking the way I do?

[Ben]

Professional nerd.

[CJ]

I think you. You honestly look like you're. You're in, like, a buy sell supercar business.

[Mike]

Like, I'm just. You own it till I own it.

[CJ]

No, you own a Lamborghini, too, but you just help people.

[Mike]

Do I know a lot about them?

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, but.

[CJ]

But you also look like you. You learned everything you know about them in, like, the last two years.

[Dalton]

No. You read every brochure.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I'm probably going to just take it off then, if you guys are cool with it. But thank you, Ryan.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no problem. The hat was actually just from Amazon.

[Ben]

It would have been really funny, too, if you had the hat and then you had, like, a Lamborghini jumper. And, like, imagine you pulling up in your Lambo and walking out, like, in your lamp. Like, everyone be like, what the heck? You went from being cool to just so lame.

[Ryan]

Well, you asked about how much this gift was, and it's not the most expensive gift at this table. So without further ado, siege, open up yours.

[CJ]

Me.

[Ben]

It's always the little ones that are the most expensive. Nuts. Whoa. Oh, no way. Oh, dude, you shouldn't have.

[Dalton]

It's a nut maker.

[Ben]

So I can't eat too many nuts at once?

[Ryan]

No, it's a single serve nut dispenser.

[Ben]

That is brilliant.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Ben]

I actually will use this.

[Ryan]

I know, because.

[Ben]

Oh, my gosh.

[CJ]

And he doesn't break. He doesn't like anyone else's fingers in his.

[Ben]

I don't. I don't actually.

[Mike]

Really nice beaters out of his.

[Ben]

I will use this.

[Ryan]

I know you.

[Ben]

It's gonna fit my cup holder. Yeah, let me. Let me load it up. Thank you, Dalton.

[Ryan]

So how sick is that? That's what started this whole thing. Shout out to Teemu.

[Ben]

This was Teemo.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Five bucks.

[Ben]

Wow. I feel like I should wash it first.

[Ryan]

Probably should.

[Ben]

We'll test it out.

[Ryan]

Pretty sick, though, right?

[Ben]

If you want to give the backstory on my nuts.

[CJ]

Homemade nuts.

[Dalton]

I mean, I don't think I really know the backstory.

[Mike]

You're the one who seems to care.

[Ben]

The most about my nuts.

[Dalton]

You eat an ungodly amount of nuts, and what are you caring about? The germs.

[CJ]

You.

[Dalton]

You raw dog. Nuts out of Your denim pockets? All the time.

[Ben]

My pockets?

[CJ]

My bucket.

[Dalton]

Did you ever put money, your cell phone, any other items, car keys in your pockets?

[Ben]

For sure.

[Dalton]

Are those all dirty? Yeah.

[Ben]

I know it doesn't make much sense. For reference, I was using this spoon to eat the nuts, like, out of the bowl like it was cereal while I was editing, because I didn't want to get my fingers grimy and then touch my laptop. But let's load it up.

[CJ]

And the best part was we would kind of. We would try to eat CJ's nuts here and there because they're pretty good.

[Ryan]

And.

[CJ]

And then he's like, dude, don't finish them. And we're like, just get more. And then you're like, they're homemade.

[Ben]

No, that's the thing. Jen, our chef, makes these for me. So they're raw cashews. She, like, roasts them in avocado oil, and then, like, does this homemade seasoning on them. And they are actually super good. So anyways, everyone was making fun of my nuts for a while, like, you know, cracking jokes about it. And then finally I go try some. Everyone starts trying them. Next thing I know, I got my nuts down. Table. People are walking over, put them in their hands. So I had to take my nuts and hide them.

[Mike]

They just have just, like, the most distinct smell, like, you know, that CJ's eating his nuts. If you're in the same shop as.

[Dalton]

Him, you had the glass jar. Now they're coming in a bowl. I think, what, the glass jar can't fit enough at once?

[Ben]

Or.

[Dalton]

I don't know why, but you had a glass jar, nuts. And I didn't really know they were just yours. And I walked up and I grabbed a handful, and before I even get done eating them through that lid on them so quick, and sealed it up.

[Ben]

Getting the hell out of here, dude.

[Dalton]

My bad.

[Ryan]

Kind of want to see how it works?

[Dalton]

Go straight into your mouth.

[Ben]

Kind of, like, hungry, you know? Like, the camera goes down for a second. You're just like. You pull this thing out.

[CJ]

Nice.

[Mike]

That's pretty good.

[Ryan]

Not bad, actually.

[Ben]

Back to the action.

[Mike]

You could even maybe put, like, a. Like a fingerprint reader at the top so it won't even dispense unless your fingerprints on it.

[Ben]

I know you want some? It's Christmas, man. Enjoy. Pretty damn good.

[CJ]

All right, five bucks. Five bucks on teemu. It clearly was not the most expensive.

[Ryan]

No, it wasn't. And so before we get to Evans, I probably was tell you guys what. I got Ken, since he is sick, and Couldn't come today. I figured, you know, he's been working a lot here.

[Mike]

Is Ken's here?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Can I just open it?

[Ryan]

Yeah, of course. It's kind of hard to tell what it is, but you can open it.

[Mike]

Where is it? Because I'll just try and give my best Ken reaction.

[Ben]

I love that idea. I love Christmas.

[Dalton]

Why is there a warning?

[Mike]

Warning? Should I be concerned, Ryan? A toilet table? Really?

[Ryan]

Well, Ken, I know you've been so busy in the merch bay that I figured I'd get you a table that you could attach to the toilet so you could be on the toilet and.

[Mike]

Work so he can prop his computer.

[Ben]

Oh my God.

[Mike]

And work from the toilet.

[Ryan]

I bought that on Amazon. They make everything, bro.

[Mike]

What?

[CJ]

I gotta say, he might use that.

[Mike]

Where does this go?

[Ryan]

It like this goes on the side of the toilet bowl and then this attaches with this screws on the bottom.

[Dalton]

I think Ken's gonna melt that plastic down. It's not gonna withstand the heat.

[CJ]

The heat.

[Dalton]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

You like that, Ken?

[Ben]

You're supposed to go give a good sigh.

[Ryan]

And then what I was gonna tell him is since I feel bad about borrowing this car for the last month and a half, I was gonna give him a buy one, get one free ticket to Vegas because I, I have a companion certificate, but it expires at the end of the year, so he's got to travel soon.

[Ben]

But I figured you'll maybe.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I already had one planned.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Well, thank you, Ryan.

[Ryan]

No problem, buddy.

[Dalton]

All righty.

[Ryan]

Now, Evan, I was telling you earlier this week you kind of got schwanked cuz I purchased yours off of ebay.

[Dalton]

Classic.

[Ryan]

And you know your favorite website?

[Dalton]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

I, I, I just was trying to think. I'm like, what does my friend Evan like? Obviously he likes drinks with the boys, gambling, dirt bikes.

[Mike]

Dirt bikes, recreational sports, vaping.

[Ryan]

And so I go, okay, well, you know, I should try to get something, you know, that I'm not really that involved with in his life, you know, and really try to bridge the gap in another way with him. So I thought, oh, maybe I could find him like a cool pair of a knees or something like that, you.

[CJ]

Know, can't go wrong with that.

[Ryan]

Maybe a signed pair perhaps.

[Dalton]

Wow.

[Ryan]

Let's just put it this way. Things got out of hand on ebay. And although it's not here, this is what I have purchased you.

[CJ]

It is.

[Ben]

What?

[Mike]

No.

[Ben]

Yes, bro. How much was that?

[Ryan]

It is assigned by Bam Margera, which he does now for money in 2024. He'll just sign a skateboard and go. But I thought, that's lame. This one's from 2004.

[Ben]

Real F. That's got to be a thousand bucks, bro.

[Dalton]

That's actually insane.

[Ben]

I want that, dude.

[Ryan]

I knew everybody want it. I felt kind of bad. No, it was more.

[Ben]

I know for a fact it was more cuz I was looking at buying one for my house. I want to put it up on the wall. I was like, dude, that'd be sick to have a damn sign. That's got to be 750 bucks.

[Dalton]

Dispenser.

[Ben]

How much was this?

[Ryan]

It was 500 bucks.

[Ben]

Damn. That's sick, dude. But that's sick, Ev. That's so sick.

[Dalton]

You know what the craziest part is? Dalton doesn't even know who Bam Margera is.

[CJ]

That is crazy.

[Ben]

He doesn't. That's because he was born in 2006.

[Ryan]

That was two years after this board was signed.

[Ben]

You actually.

[Mike]

I'm uncultured, but I think it's very common that guys my age don't know who that.

[Ben]

So you've never seen Jackass? I know. I know you haven't because you told me.

[CJ]

Yeah, you didn't know what?

[Ben]

You looked at me like a deer in headlights. And then your mom was there because she was making us food. Jen is our chef. Jen is Dalton's mom. And she goes. She's like. Basically chimed in like, he wasn't allowed to watch that. And then she also mentioned that he wasn't also allowed to watch us as a kid. Yeah, true story. I was.

[Dalton]

Dude, perfect only. Right?

[Ben]

Dude, perfect only.

[Mike]

I wasn't allowed to watch you guys until I was like 12 or 13. Well, Dalton did turn out like a pretty good kid, so maybe there is some truth.

[Ben]

Definitely. Definitely.

[Mike]

It's hard to focus on anything except for the smell of CJ's nuts now.

[Ben]

They smell good, though.

[Mike]

It's just such a distinct smell.

[Ben]

I normally hear they smell great.

[Mike]

Congrats on that, Ev.

[Ben]

Can I see that? That's a really good gift.

[Dalton]

That is one of the best is this news that I've been get given my entire life.

[CJ]

I say, okay, one great Christmas gift and two, it almost.

[Ben]

So it has been skated.

[CJ]

What could I get Evan that CJ would be 10 out of 10 jealous of?

[Ryan]

I felt bad. I gonna be so jealous.

[Mike]

C.J. got a nut dispenser and Evan got.

[Dalton]

A sonic te nut dispenser.

[CJ]

Do you see his face when he. You first saw it?

[Ben]

I was actually.

[Dalton]

I'd be pumped like if I'm not acting that pumped. Like, I, I, I am that pumped. That's very sick.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I don't really know what happened. It just that one, just 10x the budget. But when I went to check out, I like had a conversation with myself. I go, if this was my money, would I spend it instead of the company's money? And I go, all right, it's going to be pretty legendary. I'll do it. Then I went to him, put the company credit card. And ebay doesn't take amex anymore.

[CJ]

Yes, that's right.

[Ryan]

So I did spend my real hard earned money.

[Ben]

Dude, that's a nice Christmas gift.

[Dalton]

Thank you, Ryan. It's, I appreciate it.

[Ben]

That's really awesome. Yeah, dude. I, I was looking at getting one of those and then I also wanted like a Rob Deerdick signboard and I was looking on ebay and they were like a thousand bucks if you wanted one that wasn't skated. And I was like, okay, I don't know if I want it that bad.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's pretty cool though.

[Ben]

Very cool.

[Mike]

Skateboards do make really cool art core. Obviously they're behind you guys right now.

[Dalton]

I run the hookups boards on my wall.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Because as a kid I always thought those, they had the sickest graphics and I guess I still do. So I have a few of those.

[CJ]

It's pretty insane how much we've been skateboard. I guess like Evan and I, but just like in general, we release skateboards in 24. We got a skate park, we got skate ramps. We got a bunch of skateboards.

[Dalton]

CJ doesn't even know about our latest purchase. I think everybody else does except for cj, I suppose.

[CJ]

We haven't had anything on Snapchat.

[Ben]

Your little rail you bought.

[Dalton]

Exactly.

[CJ]

It doesn't all I saw.

[Mike]

Well, I walked in on you guys doing it, but clip it. But I, I just saw the Snapchat of Gavin trying to drop in on it. Who really let him do that?

[Ben]

He ate. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I love how you put a helmet on this.

[Mike]

He dropped in on a quarter pipe, but it's a mini quarter pipe, dude.

[Dalton]

Like two six foot, two tall, six foot wide quarter pipes.

[Mike]

That's sick.

[CJ]

Like flip up on caster wheels. So you just put them in the corner and then like pull them. Really?

[Dalton]

And they, they're behind my cj.

[CJ]

You could skate it very easily. You could skate it.

[Mike]

Yeah. Start skating, dude.

[CJ]

Like, it's very tame. And we got skateboards for you.

[Dalton]

20, 25 is going to be skating Call of Duty. Maybe some fishing we kind of did some fishing a week ago.

[Mike]

I like it completely.

[CJ]

I mean, all things. And then, like, we actually all get good at golfing.

[Ben]

I would love to be good at golf, actually.

[CJ]

I just want to perfect my swing.

[Mike]

Well, Mike, you should start walk before we get run. Learn.

[Dalton]

Yeah, Learn how to swing and then perfect.

[Mike]

Okay.

[CJ]

But that, I guess that's what I'm.

[Mike]

Well, yeah, I guess I just want to do the most important, like the hardest thing to do in golf. Have a good. Want to get that right.

[CJ]

That's true. I feel like we only walk and don't do much swinging, you know, or drive, I guess.

[Mike]

But 2025 should be the year of side quest.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know that I think that, like, over the last couple years, but really 24, we tried to just double down on just like building the team out so we can almost just kind of get our lives back a little bit while kind of just going on the same trajectory of. Of making better videos and just growing the business and. And doing everything better. But with that, we want to just be able to live.

[Ben]

We have not done a great job at all of that.

[Mike]

We have not, honestly, like, our entire eight years. The last eight years have just been basically just like everything you've seen on camera is pretty much everything that we've done. Very, very rarely do we have a good time when the camera isn't rolling. To you guys, it's probably, well, what's the problem in that? Well, the problem in it is you almost forget what, like, living is like. Unless there's a camera rolling when you're doing that, it's not like you're living really for yourself. You're living for the content or you're living for just, like, you know, the sake of the video. And I think that we're doing a job of bringing people on the team to continue to make better videos. But now we have a little bit more free time, or I'm hoping that we have a little bit more free time in 25 to, like, have more time to ourself. And then when we are on video, it's even better.

[Ben]

People aren't going to believe it, but even when we added all these people to the team, we're still working just as much, if not more.

[CJ]

Like this year scaled up.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

As we added this year, we're still.

[Ben]

I feel like, was heavier than 23, 22, 21. Like, those. Those years were like. I kind of look back at them, I was like, man, like, that was like a lot of fun. Like, it just seems like we were having more fun. Granted we're doing a lot better, but like we're here. Saturday I found out we were running the pod cuz I missed and I had jumped out of bed and you know, I was planning on like lounging around, but now I'm here again. Worked all day yesterday obviously because it was Friday, but we're always going, which I. I want to do this, you know, but that kind of goes back to why I'm trying to get back into Xbox is doing things that don't necessarily have a result. Just doing something for fun.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like when I'm sitting there, I'm just like. I'm just doing this literally for fun. Just to enjoy myself. Not to like accomplish something, you know, or get something done. But yeah, no, it would be amazing to like be able to have a little bit of a life outside of this. Which at the same time like the line just became blurred because our life became what's on camera. So. So like you're like almost. You know what I'm saying?

[Mike]

It is almost hard to disconnect too. Like when we are doing something fun, it's like might as well film it. But when we are filming it, like we're just focused most of the time on making a good video.

[Ben]

Yeah, there's a lot more you have to cover.

[CJ]

There's so many things that we do. I mean, especially like Evan and I late at night. Like most of them we're just randomly. We're having fun. That's our hobby. But a lot of times we're doing something that's like, that would have been so good on camera. But bringing a camera in and creating a storyline out of whatever we're doing changes the entire dynamic of the activity you're doing. Not a bad thing, but changes it completely.

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, you guys do a great job of having fun, I think.

[CJ]

Yeah, I wasn't gonna say anything, but.

[Ben]

You guys are always having fun.

[Dalton]

You can have a, have a 1am skate sesh anytime you want. With a siege.

[Ben]

Yeah. But the thing is I gotta get up and be here at 8 or 7 or whatever because I either gotta edit. We have meetings, Ben and I are in, meet probably do seven meetings a week with like different people calls, you know, brand deals, lawyers, financial. Yeah, like we always got something so it's like I gotta go do that. And then it's like, then we got film. So like me staying up till 1am to skateboard with you guys or hang out, it's kind of counterproductive, you know, I Gotta be able to get up and do some shit and.

[CJ]

Yeah, I guess. Well, 1am was a bad example because sometimes it's 1am but like lately, dude, it gets dark at frickin 4:30 at 9.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Since the summer ended we really have been shifted the scale way back.

[CJ]

I know it's the same every year but it just is like that in the summer when it's gets dark at nine. We don't really call it a day until like nine and I'm not saying we call it a day now at 4:30, but I mean it kind of.

[Ben]

I like it.

[Mike]

Yes.

[CJ]

It's different.

[Ben]

Said it a while back. It's nice to get home.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Sometimes it feels like 1:00am and you're like, oh, it's only 10.

[CJ]

Exactly.

[Ben]

Nice.

[CJ]

Yeah, I do like that.

[Ryan]

But yeah, Evan's ability, mainly Evan's ability to like be up late and then get up early is actually remarkable.

[Dalton]

Dude, thank you. I was going to say, I know I'm not always the best, but I usually get the ball rolling at a relatively decent time. Not that I'm always firing on full cylinders, but you're there.

[Ben]

I'm never worried about you. Like, like you could go out and be drinking till four in the morning and I know that you'll. If we already had plans set to be filming by 8. Like I already know that you'll be there. Yeah, like you're probably going to be feeling like shit and they'll be pretty visible but it doesn't really affect any of like you just still can just do everything and you know, it just works fine.

[Dalton]

I would, I would hate to have my good time take down the whole crew. So I need to try my best to avoid that, you know, know. Because that is, we all rely on each other.

[Ben]

That's very true.

[Dalton]

So it'd be pretty selfish of me to.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'm never concerned about what you're doing.

[CJ]

Never.

[Ben]

I'm really not. I mean.

[CJ]

All right, I gotta disagree on you there.

[Ben]

But I'm not worried if he's, if he's out at the bar. I'm not like, oh, Evan's not gonna be there tomorrow.

[CJ]

Oh well, I mean, I guess that in that particular aspect. Yeah, no worries, dude.

[Mike]

2024 was insane for the channel though. Gained 1.2 million subscribers and we pulled 550 million views.

[CJ]

223,000 comments, which is kind of a. That's just on YouTube. Like we try to go through them all, but that is a lot of comments out of words. Yeah, a lot of Words. Yeah, it was, it was epic. I mean it was like our best year. We're going to top it next year. But like, dude, we did so much awesome shit.

[Ben]

Insane numbers. We also rolled over a billion views on the channel. So like that kind of show is like.

[Mike]

We did over a billion or we rolled over a billion. And in March. In February, I think.

[Ben]

February, yeah.

[Mike]

So what is it at now?

[Ben]

I think it's at like 1.5. Like it's pretty crazy.

[Dalton]

Dude. I didn't know that. I remember us talking about that a while ago. That we were getting like close to a billion.

[Ben]

That many views on YouTube is actually pretty insane. I think people maybe hear like 550 million views and then they compare it to like TikTok views or like Instagram or Facebook. But those are much easier to get because they're just served as you scroll. And they're also loops so they're shorter videos. So like if you have a 10 second TikTok, it can get looped 20 times by one person or it, it gets served, you know, to people. So like whether they watch or not, there's a view, you know, that's more. So they seen it. Whereas like YouTube, you click that thing, you gotta watch it. It's. It's much different of a number. Like the metrics are much heavier.

[Mike]

I think we're for sure in the top 1,000 YouTube channels.

[Ben]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Mike]

Subscribers, I think like 900 something. But it's pretty wild to think like how many YouTube channels are there?

[Ben]

I'd be more concerned about like views per month. That would really show your relevance because like you can have a shit ton of subscribers but don't post anymore. Yeah, so like, I mean, yeah, like we're in the top 1000, but I would say like views per month would be how you determine how relevant you are. Like Mr. Beast is pulling like I think a billion views a month.

[Ryan]

Holy crap, dude, that's.

[Mike]

I think multiple billion.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's insane.

[Ryan]

You guys watch your show yet?

[Ben]

No, I haven't switched.

[Ryan]

I watched the first episode. Yeah, I mean it's crazy. It's like watching a Mr. Beast video. But that's longer. Like it's just a little more drug out. But it was good like he said. But it's freaking crazy.

[Ben]

So what's it on on Amazon?

[Mike]

Number one, 1.7 billion views. That's what he did.

[Ben]

Well, check what, what like the number two is. Because there's probably after Mr. Beast. It's a drop off, big drop.

[Ryan]

He's the 13th for view rank it said wow. I don't even know that's possible. What is number one for social blade even do shorts.

[Mike]

Yeah any who I think we've just like put so much time in and it's. It's like so nice to see like the fruits of our labor like kind of like proving to you know be successful now.

[Ben]

Like it's all happened so slow. Like I don't feel like oh this big thing happened and we finally like quote unquote made it like it was just like such a slow rolling and like it doesn't really feel like much has changed. At the same time I think about.

[Mike]

Like all the tiktokers that like blow up overnight or just like anyone that's a big change anyone I guess that just becomes like an overnight sensation or a social trend or a meme even like the boom guys or a hot to a chick like all that happening in a couple months you know, like imagine that where you have like zero time to get just like kind of used to it or or like learn you know who's taking advantage or who's not or like how should my voice be online or what's some things that I shouldn't do like hawk to a drop like her meme coin. Whoever. Whoever advised her to do that they better get fired. I can't believe now she's getting sued.

[CJ]

Like she was like sold it and then pulled money out of it which is. Yeah she did.

[Ben]

Yeah sure. She doesn't know what she's doing. That's the thing is like the most those people that blow up that quick it did happen by luck which I think there's luck to everyone becoming successful on like one of these platforms but like when they blow up super quick you know that there was more luck to it than like thought and strategy and those people most of the time seem to have the hardest time hanging around. Whereas like us for example took so long we had a lot more thought and like had action with purpose you know to make things happen. So like we, we have a little bit better of an idea as to what's going on and it didn't just happen, you know.

[Mike]

Well I mean yeah we have 500 some videos that we've uploaded. Basically every single video we upload gets a couple more people like added to.

[Ben]

The or like same with like Cletus or whistling like they do things with like intention. Like they're not just doing stuff you know exactly like no one at the top is. Is just there by accident.

[Mike]

Yeah it's not really luck, once you get to that point.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And you stay relevant, you know?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Probably most important, like you said, after many years of it, if you were.

[Ben]

Able to, you know, they know what they're doing. They're not just doing stuff, getting lucky.

[Mike]

Every once in a while, there will be a group that comes along that's like five guys that are, like, kind of doing the same thing that we were doing, like, back in the day. Like, same style of video. Like, somebody, you know, was like, hey, we should do that. Gets a camera and just starts filming them, Right. And they'll pop up on a recommended and I'll watch them. They got like 150 views and just like, see what. What it's all about. And it is, like, kind of refreshing to see, like, oh, yeah, this is, like, what it used to be like for us. I just. I remember it. Each person has, like, their own, like, character or friend group. Even, like, in all these different random channels, like, you can immediately just, like, pick out, like, who kind of does what.

[CJ]

Who.

[Mike]

Who is the brains of, like, picking up the camera. Who tells people, like, no, we should do this? Who is, like, the kid that just shows up on, like, the weekend and has, like, the. The fun time or, like, the charismatic attitude. And if they would just stick with it for, like, long enough and just, like, do the right things of, like, coming up with good ideas and, like, being okay with making zero money for a long, long time. And, like, I don't know, I think you just, like, stay consistent. Like, it's not really a secret.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And the hardest part, too, is, like, getting along like the group, not, like, falling apart or, like, there was, like, a one channel or Instagram page that was, like, I thought, doing a pretty decent job. And then, like, three months in, I saw they were making, like, why I left something something, and I was like, dude, you guys have been doing it for, like, three weeks. Yeah. You guys are already making, like, why I left this channel videos.

[Ben]

There's more to it than just staying, though, consistent, I think, obviously.

[Mike]

But you figure it out, like, if once you do it after long enough and you just continue to chip away at it, you just kind of figure it out. Like, we figured it out just by doing it ourselves. And then once you do it long enough, you meet people and then you can get some tips and tricks there.

[Ben]

And I mean, we were sitting down, though, like, I'd say about 2019, and was like, okay, we need to make some changes here. Like, this is not working. How can we make this work? And then it was like, at least I'll say for myself. Like, I was studying, like, successful YouTube channels. Like, what are they doing that makes it work? And, like, that's honestly what you kind of have to do. And you have to, like, pick apart those things and compare it to your content. So, like, whether it's your thumbnail, your title, your idea, camera work, the editing, all that, and, like, you kind of gotta figure out how to take that and evolve your content as well as staying consistent, like, what you're saying.

[Ryan]

What do you guys feel like you learn more from something when somebody does it well or when somebody does something poorly and you see the poor, like, the bad side of it and you go, oh, we definitely, like, don't want to do something like that.

[CJ]

Probably the. I mean, a mistake, for sure.

[Dalton]

I would say the mistake. It seems pretty easy to see when someone does something wrong and go, yeah, don't do that.

[CJ]

One last thing on kind of what CJ was saying, you guys, like, I just had this thought that something that would help. It doesn't mean you're going to fail. But don't get together as a friend group. If you're trying to do a group and get together to make YouTube videos. Like, that was the kind of beauty of us. We didn't get together to make YouTube videos. We were together and decided to make YouTube videos, which I'm sure would be the case for a lot of friend groups. But, you know, it'd be like, oh, yeah, should we call up so and so and be like, yo, we're gonna start a YouTube channel and then have them, like, come start doing videos with us and stuff, and then, like, build your crew off of the idea of a YouTube channel. That is probably when you'd run into some arguments because you were never just.

[Ryan]

There for that reason.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Not there for, like, the friendship.

[CJ]

So your family, your baseline personalities might be, like, too different or whatever.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's like. It's like content houses.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

Never been a single content house that works.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. Because, like, they're just too different. Like, I already know your guys's opinions on things. So, like, that helps. Like, I don't need to be like, oh, I didn't know you felt that way.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think we just got, like, pretty lucky with our dynamic of, like, there's not too many people that are, like, think the same exact way that would, like, butt heads, you know, like, everyone kind of has, like, their different lanes and different roles, and, like, you kind of just trust the other people's opinions. And very rarely is there like opposing views that like collide because I think.

[CJ]

To the point where we're like not on board. Yeah, Almost never.

[Mike]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Ryan]

Yeah. We all, we don't bounce like this. We like bounce ahead right now. Like just off each other and keep going.

[Dalton]

Deflect forwards.

[CJ]

Hey, Ryan. What, what, what did you get for your gift? We haven't opened it yet.

[Ryan]

Oh, I didn't give myself to gift. I just wrote myself a check. Money I don't need. Classic need a little money.

[Ben]

Been writing those. You've been gifting yourself all year.

[Ryan]

No, that's the first. First year end bonus. I mean, obviously the quarterlies and the.

[CJ]

Bi weekly payments, but yeah, this is my hammer. But you can have it.

[Ben]

Mike's gonna give you his hammer tonight. You Mike? Oh no, his used dirty hammer.

[CJ]

That was my hammer.

[Ryan]

Thanks, dude. What should I do with this?

[Mike]

Well, keep it. Don't be rude.

[Ryan]

Thanks, Mike.

[Mike]

Wow, dude, I. I blew the head gasket in my Raptor this week pretty bad.

[CJ]

Like oh, three days after he got it back from getting the timing chain replaced in the cam phasers. And that was a $4,000 plus job.

[Ryan]

Never maintenance anything.

[Mike]

I know, dude. Yeah, Benny. Oh, no, that's jes brother. Oh, it's fine. Just a little fitting.

[Dalton]

No, you blew a head gasket and you're pressurizing your cooling system. That's a V6 thing.

[Mike]

Now get the hell out of here.

[CJ]

I pick your wrapped up, I'm like, damn, Ben's doing some solid maintenance on this thing. I love this, dude. Getting that chunk out of the way is a hefty repair bill. And then head gasket blown.

[Mike]

Yeah, later.

[Ben]

You just had her on the chip for too long. I don't know if you can you definitely.

[CJ]

60 seconds, dude.

[Mike]

No, that's the crazy part is like you can't have your V6 Raptor bouncing off the chip for. For 45 seconds, dude. The V8. What world are we living in?

[Ben]

Your head gasket was probably already like on its way out and then your.

[Ryan]

Cams were phasing so good and.

[Mike]

Yeah, they were almost phasing too. Well.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think they faced too hard.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, that's maybe possible. You made. You made the one part of the engine run strong and then this part was like not able to keep up.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude, after it happened, yeah, I was out of vehicle because I was getting winter tires put on my Urus. And so I was like trying to figure out like, oh, I need a. I need A vehicle to drive. I was like, ryan, when is your Hummer gonna be done so I can start driving Ken's Bronco? So, made a couple calls and I was. I texted, actually the shop that did my rebuild on my Raptor. I was like, yo, get me back on your schedule. I'm pretty sure I just blew a head gasket. And then the owner called me like a couple of minutes later and was like, dude, what. What happened? What happened? Like, I just don't understand. And I was like, oh, this isn't on you guys for. For fixing it last week. I was bouncing her off the chip, like, this is 100% on me. And he was like, you sure? Like, it's you. You don't think it would, like, could have been like, from what we were doing? I was like, bro, no, I was hooning the shit out of it. And then this happened. And he was like, okay, that makes a lot more sense because I felt really bad at first, but, yeah, pretty unfortunate. Trucks are fortunate to find that you can't do that.

[Dalton]

That truck has probably spent hours on the rev limiter. If you added up all the time. You're talking about the two minutes when it blew straw that broke the camel's back.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. So I was doing it actually on Gavin's video. And so I kept telling him, I was like, dude, you break so much stuff on our videos and we pay for it. You know, it's just the cost of content, right? Is our roles reversed here or where are we at here? Because. Because, you know, I was hooning out for your video and then I blew it. And he was like, oh, all right, baby.

[CJ]

Half.

[Mike]

And I was like, that's the best you can do? Half.

[Ben]

We just built your truck.

[Mike]

Yeah, we get. I'm gonna start giving you stuff and then be like, all right, you got. You're gonna pay for half, right?

[Ryan]

That's funny.

[Ben]

Love that guy.

[Ryan]

Are you thinking about maybe looking to a Chevy now?

[Mike]

I almost should. I've seen what Evan has done to those things and they keep on chugging.

[Dalton]

At the very least, you know, just grab a five thousand dollar Chevy as a backup. Keep it open.

[Mike]

Can I just borrow one?

[Dalton]

Well, unfortunately, most of mine and just need a little bit of work at the moment.

[Ryan]

You just need another $5,000 backup.

[Dalton]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Mike]

We've been going through some rigs.

[Ryan]

I know, dude.

[Mike]

We've been going through some rigs. Mike hasn't had a car to drive here the last couple, which is crazy because Mike's about like seven.

[CJ]

I Was gonna say that. Like, it is pretty comical when, like, I'm out of car.

[Mike]

Like, it's actually.

[CJ]

Sometimes I get careless with it.

[Mike]

So Subaru. No, you don't say Subaru needs something.

[CJ]

Goes in the shop. And then they're like, when do you need it back? And like, I got cars.

[Ben]

And then.

[CJ]

But get the Bronco in the shop. Well, when do you need it back? I got cars. And then like, you know, the BMW just got ceramic coated. I think I got to park this thing. And like, I can't drive that in the winter. But then I'm just like, damn, I got no cars.

[Ben]

Dude, what happened to your other BMW about on tank shit to shit. So what do you mean? Why'd you.

[CJ]

What?

[Ben]

What? How is it?

[CJ]

The drive shaft is.

[Ryan]

No.

[CJ]

And then.

[Mike]

Dude, who would have thought too.

[CJ]

Yeah, I know.

[Mike]

So you got sitting in the shop.

[Dalton]

The drive shaft is probably like, if that's the only problem with it.

[CJ]

No, that's cheap.

[Dalton]

You'd be lucky. But yeah, I have a feeling that's not the only problem.

[Ryan]

So what else? Because I've seen you, I saw you drive it around a little bit.

[CJ]

The rear diff is welded. And you know, like, when you weld the rear diff, it just doesn't mean, oh, it's welded. I mean, you could weld it bad, you could weld it good. You could weld a shitty rear end. You could weld a good one. But I think it needs a new diff. I don't know. Well, but here's what I'm scared. I want to just take it to Scott and be like, I just want it drivable and not have him be like, well, dude, this thing needs everything. Just not worth drivable. But that's the thing is, like, what do. Like, I overpaid for it, realistically. And so, like, what do I just excel for? Pennies on the dollar?

[Dalton]

I still like five, six grand into it.

[CJ]

Keep it light.

[Ben]

And no, don't be done listening to this guy. If there's anything you can learn from watching it back, do the opposite of what Evan suggests financially.

[CJ]

And we were having a good time, though.

[Ben]

Yeah, that was awesome, dude. I was trying to help you too. I was sitting behind the camera like this. Just don't do it. No, don't buy. Like, I'm trying to help you on. Especially on the BMW. I was doing it with the snowboard, with the BMW.

[CJ]

It was very polarizing. I put on my story and was trying to. Most people agreed. They were like, yeah, dude. And you know, they're like, I can't believe you bought that piece of. And then other people probably. BMW guys are like, nah, dude, that thing is sick.

[Mike]

Dude is so funny. BMW guys are so stupid, though. They think that, like, that's the greatest car ever made and the thing doesn't even go down the road. There was so many comments like, that thing will go forever and it couldn't even leave the garage.

[CJ]

But okay, I mean, I guess that is not true. But it went down the driveway.

[Dalton]

It went down the drive.

[Mike]

It went down the driveway. You turned around and you said, this thing has some serious problems.

[CJ]

Yeah, I mean, I still like, drive. Drove it to the C store. I drove it to TJ.

[Dalton]

That's three miles.

[Mike]

That's one mile to the left and two miles to the right.

[Ben]

It's got 199,000 on it.

[CJ]

190. Oh, just a baby. Yeah, it's better than not being able to drive out of the shop, I guess. But yeah. Anyway, I don't. I don't know what the plan is with that. Also, that doesn't have winter tires. So, like, it's rear wheel drive.

[Ben]

I could have saved you some serious money if I was on that panel, but honestly, it probably wouldn't have been as funny.

[CJ]

The video would have been tank.

[Ryan]

Everybody didn't know.

[CJ]

There was a few. I mean, there was a few other ones that, that we didn't end up going with and like, you know, like, can't have the bit. Freaking 25 minutes long. So, like, those didn't make it in. But like, I had to notice some of them.

[Mike]

Like, it was a 25 minute long.

[CJ]

Yeah, it was. So like I said no to just a Jeep.

[Ben]

There was just one thing that you didn't buy that we didn't show was a Jeep.

[CJ]

Oh, okay. But yeah, the electric S10, man, that thing was like. I just wanted to be like, don't even.

[Mike]

Oh, really? That. You hated that from the start.

[Ben]

That was the only one that weren't.

[CJ]

Like a thousand dollars for an electric.

[Dalton]

There's only 17 in existence.

[Ben]

That's probably the only good investment to be.

[Dalton]

There was no.

[Ben]

That electric S10 was probably the only good investment out of all of those. And you hate that one the most.

[Mike]

Dude, I did.

[CJ]

It was like 25 grand for a literal paperweight. And even when it worked in its prime, when it was brand new, you could only drive it 60 miles total for. At 45 miles an hour. That is the biggest joke it was ever heard.

[Ben]

It was a lot of money, but realistically you just say you keep it. And I think it's, it's kind of a collector thing that you could possibly sell to a museum.

[CJ]

Going to collect a 25, 000 car. It just would never be that.

[Ryan]

What if it was an electric Ford Ranger?

[Ben]

Yes, but the thing is, is that was that. Honestly, can we Talk on that S10 for a second? That's so cool. What year was that? What year was that again?

[Dalton]

Mid-90s.

[Ben]

I don't know, 96. They were making electric. Like, I can't believe they tried doing that. And what do you say? That they made a thousand of them.

[CJ]

And they crushed back.

[Ben]

They took all of them back. Crushed them. And there is like only a few left in the batteries in the ocean.

[CJ]

That's what he said.

[Ben]

But yeah, dude, honestly, pretty cool that they were even thinking about that. But just technology was not anywhere near where it needed to be for that, actually.

[Ryan]

Truck bed.

[CJ]

Yeah. They basically just linked together a bunch of. Yeah, like regular batteries.

[Ben]

And they had the batteries in the truck bed, which I was like, so why is there.

[Dalton]

They're supposed to be under the truck. From what I remember the guys saying, they're supposed to be under the truck, but because they were maybe trying to get the batteries to work or whatever. They were like, temporarily.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Dalton]

In the back of the truck when it was new. They shouldn't have. You should have had a box.

[Ben]

It was cool, though, with the, with the plugin on the side.

[Ryan]

Like, I did like the logo though. Yeah, the cup with the logo.

[Ben]

That was so sick. I, I, I thought it was cool and it was. I mean, I'm glad you didn't buy it, though. Honestly. You could do it a lot better.

[CJ]

With 25, I guess. Also, we, we would have blown the budget, showed up with 25K.

[Mike]

You know, I mean, if you want.

[CJ]

Knows, I wouldn't, wouldn't have been able to talk them down.

[Ben]

We could have.

[CJ]

I got a handful of messages about that. Brother. We need to work on your negotiating.

[Mike]

You're telling me the people have spoken and they want junk tank too?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Well, Mike, you better start saving up.

[CJ]

Time to save up some money.

[Dalton]

Can I be on the panel again?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. So how do you new panel. How do you feel about your advisors? Like, did you think that your advisors. Did you.

[CJ]

Well, yeah, Yeah, I guess. I honestly, I do. But like, I also felt like my advisors weren't like, real no matter what you and, and Ken like said.

[Mike]

Yeah, the liquor was speaking.

[CJ]

It was just happening. However, it was rolling out in my head, so.

[Ryan]

I wonder what would have made it feel less real easy. Perhaps could have changed the perception of.

[CJ]

Yeah. So, I mean, like, anyone. It could have been like, you and CJ and it still would have been like. I probably would have listened to you this exact same amount of yes. No.

[Mike]

Yeah. Well, we thought that Ken was gonna be more of a no man, but he was. He was more for spending your money than damn near Evan was. Evan was like, tell him 750. And Ken is like, tell him 1500.

[CJ]

Yeah, that was funny. I love when Ken's like, well, let me look up what this cost. And then effing just like, take the.

[Ryan]

Money and go get it now.

[Dalton]

Do you think it would have helped if you didn't go on a 4am Bender night before?

[CJ]

I maybe.

[Ben]

I don't know. You kind of loosened that. Which helped.

[CJ]

I, like, I had a mimosa.

[Mike]

I thought that Mike was kind of in his prime in that moment. Oh, I thought he was like, you.

[Ben]

Were in the pocket.

[Mike]

I thought he was in the pocket as soon as I showed up the next morning. And you were just like. You were zombie mode. But you were there. And I was like, where's Mike? And you're like, dude, probably sleeping. We're out till 4am No, I wasn't with Mike.

[Dalton]

I went to bed like a good boy.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Dalton]

I was hanging with Slim. No, I was hanging with Slim and Stacy and my girlfriend Mike was losing his phone at the bar.

[CJ]

We come.

[Mike]

We come in and we're like, Mike was up till 4am he didn't know that. We had a big call time at 10 where he's got a. Mike is the show. It's money Mike's junk day.

[CJ]

I Was up at 9.

[Dalton]

Shows up the night before because they had said they were going to come back to the shop. And I'm watching the clock, and it's one, it's two, it's three, and I see Mike's location is still at the bar. Now I started getting worried. Start making calls ago. We got a big, big deal going on tomorrow.

[Ben]

You got to get.

[CJ]

I was home at 2:30 still latest. Heck. But you checked the location and it was still there.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Then the next morning when it's like seven, it says you're still there. I'm like, all right, something's up here. He's not still there at 7 when I showed up.

[Mike]

And Mike comes down the stairs and he was already in his suit. My suit, actually. That he's looking the way he does. He's still. He's still Drunk from the night before. And I say something and he responds with some witty ass response or like some smart ass response. I was like, oh, yeah, this is perfect. Yeah, Mike's in the pocket. I was like, yeah.

[Ben]

He's almost like, didn't really want to do it, but we're just like, all right, Mike, they're all here. Get in your chair.

[CJ]

It was one of those other moments where, like, I am learning to embrace it. But again, how Ken feels when we're like, ken, this is what we're doing.

[Mike]

You're the star.

[CJ]

Do the thing. Which he's incredible at. Yeah.

[Ben]

You did an awesome job.

[CJ]

Incredible. That's what. In situations like that, yes, you want to play into it, but you also, like, want to be yourself. Like, kind of convey, like, how you're actually feeling about the situation. I was excited to buy stuff, but I was also stressed. I didn't want to blow the budget, but I wanted cool stuff. I didn't want to get shanked. Got swanked pretty hard by a lot of people. I have one request for Junk Tank 2. I guess I can't stop you from doing this. We can't stop you. But, like, going to Facebook Marketplace, buying something for, like, Dirt Cheap and then, like, coming. It's hilarious. But, like, also doesn't mean they did.

[Dalton]

It directly for you. Maybe they just bought it.

[CJ]

I agree. So, like, it's a blurry line, but I was like, I kind of want to. I want someone to bring something that they had fun with with the story. Like, we tried.

[Ryan]

It was incredibly hard. Thousands of entries. Yeah, thousands.

[Ben]

Harley Drift Trike.

[CJ]

The scooter, like, that was a good. I just love that he's like, this is the death scooter. A lot of people crashed and really.

[Dalton]

Broke her teeth and broke her arm or something.

[CJ]

And so we're ready to let her go. And I'm like, all right. I like that story.

[Mike]

A lot went into that, though, of like, one. Finding the people. Finding them local. Seeing who's real.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then seeing who can come. Who can come at the right time.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know, there's like, so important things. And then when they do come, are they actually going to show up? Yeah, because we had a couple people that just like, that were.

[Ryan]

I probably, like, straight up, eight no.

[Mike]

Shows that were so good of, like, things that we thought would have added to it. Like, one was a wide body smart car. It was so good.

[Ryan]

A new. Fuck that guy.

[CJ]

Dang.

[Ryan]

Sorry. Unless you're real, I thought you're fake. I'm sorry. But he was like, I'll be there 20 minutes and never showed up.

[Ben]

He was with. Yeah, it was just some fake account.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, I'm just down the road, like.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm just late.

[Ben]

I think next time, though, we'll make sure it's some better stuff. Like, it won't be junk. Like, I think there should be like, a Viper that rolls in like you've always wanted the budget gonna be. I mean, it depends how money Mike's feeling that day.

[CJ]

We did preface that. Like, I love that idea, but I also hate it because, like, yes, I really want a Viper. So someone comes in with a Viper.

[Mike]

Like, you're gonna have to buy it.

[CJ]

Exactly. So, like, and then what if I'm.

[Ben]

Like, this isn't the color.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah, but you're gonna be so red.

[Ben]

I think you should just buy a Viper.

[CJ]

It's winter now.

[Ben]

No, it doesn't matter if it's winter. Your money, Mike, you do things that don't make sense.

[Ryan]

That's why, that's.

[Ben]

That's what you do. Buy one now.

[Dalton]

They make snow tires, don't they?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Mike, you need a car anyways. Yeah. You're down a rig. I not trade in the BMW. The tank one.

[Ben]

Find someone to take a junkyard. You'll trade it in there.

[CJ]

The tax title license doesn't even cover the tax title license. No. Yeah, I've been looking there. I don't want.

[Dalton]

Mike, I'll trade you a white Suburban for it. Just needs a transfer case for that BMW.

[Mike]

You're talking about the hinder finder.

[CJ]

Yeah. That thing's a piece of. You don't want it.

[Dalton]

Yours is a piece of. You don't want it.

[CJ]

No, that's what I said.

[Dalton]

Oh, I thought you meant the hinder finder was a piece of.

[CJ]

No, that's not a piece of.

[Dalton]

Oh, thank you.

[CJ]

Windshield's broken, but other than that, it's good.

[Mike]

Would have done that.

[Dalton]

Thanks, Ben.

[Ryan]

Well, fellas, Gav just walked in. That can only mean one thing. Is our new race trailer.

[Mike]

Here it is.

[Ben]

Hey.

[Mike]

Is it sick? It's sweet. Is it? Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

When the guy pulled up with a 34 foot trailer today and I went, oh, no, this trailer's big.

[CJ]

It's just huge. We've had one so big trailer.

[Mike]

48.

[CJ]

48.

[Dalton]

48. I was thinking 44. 48.

[Ben]

How long is a semi?

[CJ]

It's huge, boys. 48.

[Mike]

Yeah. So we. We made a end of the year purchase that we've been honestly wanted to do for a long, long time.

[CJ]

Five Years.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Mike]

And we finally said, you know what? This is the time we gotta bite the bullet, spend the cheddar. And we bought a 48 foot, fully enclosed race slash car trailer. So we were looking at getting like, like a decked out snowmobile trailer that would also work for, like, side by sides and four wheelers and all that, but heated and speakers and all that stuff. Right. Because we've been rolling around with our. Our bumper pole. 34 footer.

[Ryan]

32.

[Mike]

32 footer. And it's been great.

[Ryan]

Honestly.

[Mike]

We've put hundreds of thousands of miles.

[Ryan]

A lot of miles has been everywhere, dude.

[Mike]

It's been across the country back and forth probably 50 times. Yeah. And Canada.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Mike]

But we. We bit the bullet and we bought a new trailer. And it is sick.

[CJ]

The reason we kind of went with the trailer that we got is because it's also car trailer, Right?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It was just interesting. Like, we've been wanting a trailer and we're like, should we do bumper pull? Should we do gooseneck? And we don't want it too big because, you know, we all want to essentially be. Have the ability to drive it, which, like, I mean, again, we know Ryan's got it, but 48ft. So when you're sending these in the group chat, I'm just like 48ft. Like, I just remember when we went. Remember our Sealy Lake trip with Sizzler, that trailer, which we thought was the biggest trailer we'd ever seen, ever been in. That's 48ft.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It's just.

[Ryan]

It's gonna be a game changer for us, though, because we can fit everything.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

In it.

[Dalton]

I'm already gonna put this out there. We're gonna run out of space.

[Ryan]

Oh, 100. We're just gonna bring more stuff.

[Dalton]

We're gonna be like, what are we taking and what are we leaving? We're capped out.

[Ryan]

We're bringing everything that can possibly fit in this trailer.

[Ben]

It'll be nice being able to have two cars in an enclosed trailer as.

[CJ]

Well, you know, and just everything. I mean, the. The heaters having a heated trailer to go into on chili days. Like, I mean, I'm just thinking, even when we were in Moab that one day and it was, like, raining and it's a little cold.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Everything on it outside the trailer that we have, just wood, couple lights. That's it.

[Ryan]

It was a trusty Steve, but yeah.

[Dalton]

Did it have a canopy on it?

[Ryan]

No, it doesn't. We could put one on.

[Ben]

Remember when we had. We were in Moab and we Left the canopy on the rv. We went riding and it ripped the whole thing off. Like, we messed that RV up so bad. Through the shower. First day, fucking broke the. Shattered the door. Then we rip the canopy off the. Like they were. We brought that thing back. Just like hubcap missing. They're like, what happened? We're like, yeah, we'll pay for the damages.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I was talking with the guy who rented to us, and he was like, yeah, they pretty much just come back and we just send them to auction.

[Mike]

Like every time totaled out.

[Ryan]

Like, we just send them to auction.

[Ben]

Because the thing's pulling a trailer that it's not supposed to be pulling.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that one might have just literally.

[Ben]

On the ship the whole time.

[Dalton]

That frame might have have been. Oh, you said it was compromised.

[Ben]

We bent the frame.

[Ryan]

Like, the frame was pretty bent just from pulling. Yeah, I mean, it was like a 10,000 pound trailer. I think it's rated for a bike rack.

[Dalton]

Well, that's kind of. That's kind of what I found out.

[CJ]

Rated for £500. And I was like, A trailer.

[Mike]

You're right, bro. How did we make it to California and back?

[Ben]

Did it twice.

[Mike]

Luck, brother.

[CJ]

Luck.

[Ben]

That was so fun.

[Dalton]

So I don't know how fun, how big exactly the gas tank is on the RV, but I know we're running like a 5, 4 Triton Frickin Ford motor. Pulling that trailer with an RV. And normally we trade off every gas stop. So in my eyes, when I'm driving, the quickest way I'm getting out of this seat is with an empty tank. So I literally would not lift my foot from the pedal. It'd be like two and a half hours.

[Ryan]

Oh, just 85 miles an hour. 65.

[Dalton]

Yeah. It would vary anywhere between 60 and 85. It just depended on what the road and the wind and the hills were. But never left.

[Ben]

Ben's Raptor could never.

[Mike]

Dude, it would be so cooked.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Shout out to the Triton. That's a.

[Ryan]

That is a good motor.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's pretty impressive.

[Ryan]

We took it over i75 with no trailer brakes. That's through like vale in Aspen.

[Ben]

Yeah, that was like.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's like the most.

[Mike]

And all of us sleeping, and I'm.

[Ryan]

In the front pouring sweat. It's a snowstorm at 6am we're like, we got to get to Moab tonight. You guys are all in the back snoozing. It's a blizzard and we're going down that hill with no trailer.

[Ben]

I got a video of it, I think, because I Was in there with you. I remember you were up front. The mindset when we're doing that is like, this is a really bad idea.

[CJ]

But we chuck them.

[Ben]

We just kind of accept it. Whatever's gonna happen happens. And we're just kind of in there and you get comfortable. So then you're just like, well, time to sleep.

[Ryan]

Might as well not be tired.

[Dalton]

Or some of the pickles we'd get into. Whether it was like the dead end streets in San Diego. That was gnarly. Or when we tried to find a locksmith because we wanted to get some keys for the trailer. And Ben pulled into like a little Chinese restaurant with a one one way in, straight up a hill, and like enough room for like 10 cars to park in this parking lot. And we got a 60 foot rig.

[Mike]

I think. I think that's also maybe one of the. The craziest stats is how many days that trailer spent unlocked in Vegas.

[Ryan]

Oh my God.

[CJ]

And also just kind of full of stuff.

[Dalton]

We've had flatbed trailers in Vegas, which is like pit bikes sitting on it.

[CJ]

Duffel bags in the freaking seats and everything. Whoa.

[Mike]

It's actually crazy, actually.

[Ryan]

I. I know people always say, like, oh, I can't believe you take your rigs to Vegas and park them. And I'm like, no, they're unlocked.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

They're sitting there with the bikes on the back. Like it's.

[CJ]

I've really grown to love that parking lot. I'm not sure what it's outside of.

[Dalton]

Don't. Don't say where it is.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

But I've really grown to just like. That's like stomping grounds in Vegas.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

We don't have to worry about it now.

[Mike]

Our new trailer has locks.

[Dalton]

The other one did too.

[Mike]

We just lost the keys.

[Dalton]

So we could truck.

[Ryan]

We sold the sema truck. I found them.

[CJ]

Found them.

[Mike]

No way.

[Ryan]

I go, why were they in the sema truck?

[Dalton]

Can we get a number lock, like a keypad or something? That would be good.

[CJ]

What are we going to pull it with, boy?

[Mike]

Oh, we also got a new truck.

[Dalton]

What Big wrench was saying we're gonna need a dually, But I think we prove them wrong with a normal pickup.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Is it even a 35?

[Ryan]

It is. Okay, so that's good.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

We looked it up and the trailer max loaded is 320lbs less than the max towing capacity of the truck.

[CJ]

Okay. So we're actually good. I was gonna say, like, is there interest, I think in the grand scheme of things, like an airbag setup on.

[Mike]

The back might be a good idea.

[CJ]

Totally worth it. But if it's under, we're good, dude.

[Dalton]

And the thing is, trucks are always way underrated. You can damn near double.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's what I pass.

[Ben]

Yeah. Everything's always.

[Dalton]

At least on half ton Chevy. So I don't know what you can do with a one ton. Probably triple it.

[Ben]

I agree. Normally it's like the manufacturers just playing it real safe, you know, so like you can, you can push it.

[Ryan]

But.

[Mike]

Yeah, man, I just, I just want to say like, thank you guys for like supporting us and buying our merch and like putting us in a position where we can buy cool things like this trailer because we've been just like grinding it out with our old one for so long of like, boys, I just don't think we can justify buying like spending this much cheddar on a trailer. And now we're just like, we're doing it, we're doing it.

[CJ]

I don't know.

[Mike]

It's just like a really cool, like just kind of splurge. I just, I'm just so happy.

[Ben]

Right?

[Mike]

I'm so happy.

[Dalton]

And definitely going to be worth it in the long run.

[Mike]

Yes, for sure.

[CJ]

Investment.

[Ben]

Yeah, big invest.

[Dalton]

Not a splurge. It's an investment.

[CJ]

Saving. I mean, time is money. And it weird enough to say will save us time.

[Ryan]

It'll just make me or all of.

[Ben]

Us a lot of less time.

[CJ]

No.

[Ben]

Oh, save more time.

[Mike]

More time. We've also like, man, we still ask like so many. We have so many good friends that just let us use their stuff and like, still. Yeah, still. But like our buddy Mark or Tony, Jake's business partner lets us use his gooseneck trailer or buddy Spencer lets us use his car trailer. So we do have like really great people around us that have just like really helped us out forever. And like it does feel good too when people hit us up now and they're like, yo, like our buddy Cody hit us up and was like, yo, I. I'm putting cabinets in my house. Can I use your guys's snowmobile trailer? Our old one? We're like, yeah, absolutely. He's like, not many people have that big of like an enclosed trailer. Yeah. Take it. He's like, thank you. It's like, yeah, that feels pretty good. Finally repay the favor. Yeah. Trailers are just like the most homie hookup thing ever. Yeah, they are like the dream would just to be a. Have a fleet like.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Essentially every kind of trailer. Yeah.

[CJ]

Your flatbed, your skid steer, your side by side trailer.

[Dalton]

I've been loving the fact that Gavin left his little aluminum trailer up here. I've been ripping that thing.

[CJ]

Thing is perfect.

[Dalton]

All the lights work, which is crazy. He just ripped the fenders off it for some reason, so it kind of makes a mess. And I don't think it's legal to not have fenders, so. But we got lights.

[Ryan]

Well, dang, fellas. Merry Christmas, dudes.

[Mike]

Dude. Merry Christmas. Love you guys. Yeah. Thanks for. Is this our last podcast of the year?

[Ryan]

It is. We have a Best of video coming out. Whatever the last Tuesday of the year is.

[Ben]

So 31st, right? On new Year's Eve.

[Ryan]

Yeah, New Year's Eve. There's. There's a best of video, which you guys ever look forward to, but not a. Not a new one until, I think, the third week of January. No ads till then.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Mike]

Same with the Seabo's videos, too. So if you guys are wondering where the new video is on the first and second third Thursdays. First or second Thursdays, for sure.

[Ryan]

First.

[Mike]

We're coming back on the 23rd of January. The boys are taking a little bit of a break, do some traveling, just kind of refuel and. And come back with some really good stuff. We're really excited. So.

[CJ]

So, yeah, if you're on YouTube and you're, like, wondering where we went, we'll be back. Just go outside or play Xbox. Yeah. Or stay inside.

[Ryan]

Follow CJ Stream.

[CJ]

Yeah, we'll be Snapchatting, I guess.

[Mike]

There we go. Yeah, Follow us on Snapchat. Stay updated, but love you guys. Thank you so much. And we'll see you guys in 2025. Happy New Year Christmas. Peace.