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Ryan
People say we're the nicest up in the Midwest. I'd argue that the south is nicer.
Ben
I didn't want to, like, get arrested at BUC EE's, so I just played Dead Attack.
CJ
I just couldn't help myself. So I got back on. On the liquor. I'm not sure if you meant that as a compliment. I know CJ Wouldn't need it as a compliment.
Ben
Thanks for reaching out. And he said, calm down. Thank you very much. I miss Sean Kingston.
CJ
Yeah, you guys really hit it off when we met.
Ken
You guys didn't stay more in touch.
CJ
What's up?
Ben
What's up, Kingston?
CJ
Hey, these are the Seaboys. Cool. What's up?
Ryan
What's up was probably the most awkward interaction we've ever had. Maybe not ever with person.
CJ
Definitely up.
Ken
He definitely didn't care to meet us.
Ryan
In the locker room of the civic center, of all places. Yeah. Yeah.
Ben
Welcome back to another Ripper episode of Lifewide Open Podcast. Good to be here, boys. How it is.
Ryan
Great to be here.
Ken
Happy Saturday. Feeling good.
CJ
Feeling good.
Ken
You talk about Micah, how he almost.
Ben
Killed us on the way here. I just went for, like, a classic, you know, pass. And I. My eyes were deceiving me. So I thought the car that was on the oncoming lane was in the right hand lane, like, because it had red headlights. It's happened before. I don't know. Well, no headlights at all, but. Oh, I suppose she's just like, ah.
Ryan
And I'm like.
Ben
I mean, to the point where I dang near had to cut the guy off. That I was. No, I felt like an asshole.
Ken
You had the Bronco floored.
CJ
Floored.
Ryan
And it got that wapta.
Ben
Yeah. But it still was, like, bogging.
CJ
Almost.
Ben
Like, you know how they have the electronic. It's not like a cable anymore. Yeah. I was sketch. I get all hot.
Ken
Really?
CJ
Yeah. And then you're. And then you're embarrassed, too, because now you're in front of this guy and you're like, oh, I feel like I gotta go fast.
Ken
Did you just speed? Get out of there.
Ben
Who the hell is Steve? Steve.
CJ
Where's Steve Wood?
Ken
Driving like an asshole. He goes.
Ryan
He lost his first leg driving like that, dude.
Ben
I just felt bad. Yeah, I was dumb.
Ryan
Well, it's funny because a launder will do that while we're driving. Sometimes it's because of a threat that is within three quarters of a mile away. And sometimes it's like she'll just remember something. She'll go, and I'll, like, be driving, you know, You Kind of get in like a zone, right? You just like, you're just driving. Whatever. She'll go. And then you go. You like it scares you. Joel, what was happening? You like, you put yourself on high alert. I feel like it's a. It's a female.
Ken
Yeah, they all do that.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
Just treated standard procedure.
CJ
Closes her eyes and goes. Whenever I'm passing somebody and I'm like, you relax.
Ryan
Really?
CJ
You're stressing me out right now. And I'm just passing.
Ryan
And you're a pretty slow driver too. Like, I wouldn't say you're too aggressive.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
Thank you. I'm not sure if you meant that as a compliment. I know CJ Wouldn't need it as a compliment.
Ryan
It depends on the scenario. Are we trying to get home from the airport after a long day? You're a slow driver and it's annoying.
Ken
55 and a 60.
CJ
You guys might be very appreciative of my slow driving when I have to take over the entire insurance policy for the company.
Ryan
Exactly. It is a positive there. And I. I always trust you. You'll get us there safe. Someone's got to drive safe around here.
Ken
Somebody's got to drive.
Ben
I was just thinking about that on my way here. Like stuck behind some dude pulling a fish house and then a couple people behind him. So fish house stuck. Yeah, stuck driving 55 in the 55. And I thought very deeply about how I'm not an angry person. I'm a very happy, happy, optimistic person. Had if for some reason they like put a regulation on our cars or we had to drive a speed limit, I would not be as nice of a person.
Ryan
It would stress you out.
Ben
Yes. It just drives me nuts. Driving 55. Feels like you're driving a golf cart. Might as well be.
Evan
I pull out of the shop the other day and our local state trooper whipped up right behind me. Oh, and I. I had to set the Cruise control at 55 and I felt like I was just crawling.
Ben
Like, you're not moving.
Ken
He whipped out behind you or.
Evan
Yeah, he just whipped out right behind me.
Ken
He was waiting or what?
CJ
I don't know.
Evan
I think like a mile away and just accelerated. What were you driving on my bumper? I was on my Bronco.
Ken
So he was just.
Evan
I couldn't see his car out of the back of my car cuz he was that close to my bumper.
Ryan
Well, you probably were out causing a ruckus.
Ken
Damn. Maybe he was thinking you were driving too slow. Well, I think that a lot speed though.
CJ
When I was coming home Last night, I was. I was doing, like, six over. There was somebody just, like, riding me. And Greta's like, how fast are you going? And I was like, I don't know, like, six over. I was like, I don't think it's a cop, but if it is a cop, I think they want me to go faster.
Ben
Because they're riding you. Yeah.
Ken
So I, I.
CJ
Is that a good excuse? Like, if you get pulled over and they go, why were you going so fast? And be like, well, you were on my bumper. I figured you. I thought you were drafting off of me.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
Yeah.
Ben
I think you could get away with that and then say like, I didn't know you were a cop. Like, I just saw the headlights.
Ryan
It.
CJ
That is scary.
Ken
That is annoying, though. Like, when you got someone right behind you and they're driving too close, but they won't pass. And you kind of almost inherently.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
Try to speed up. The next thing you know, you're speeding. You're kind of like, frick, is there any cops?
CJ
Yeah, they're riding.
Ken
You can pass me so I can go back. Yeah.
CJ
But then you do get past, and you're like, God damn, dude, I'm getting.
Ken
Passed by a minivan right now.
Ryan
I thought about it the other day when I was driving, and there was a copy going down the interstate, and it was from, like, out of town, out of state. It wasn't doing anything. He was driving somewhere, right? And everybody, like, traffic is just, like, bottled up around him. And he was doing, like, 65 in a. In a 60. Like, he's going fast, and I mean, he's just. He's just driving as a normal dude, just in a cop car. And I go, I wonder if they get annoyed that everybody around you, like, tenses up and just forgets how to drive and, like, slows down.
Ken
I know. I'm sure everywhere they go, everyone just stomping on their brakes, checking you, like, sitting at a stop sign for one minute.
Ryan
Ye. If you're like, like, no, no, you go first.
Ken
Yeah.
CJ
It's just like.
Ryan
And you're like, dude, I'm a detective. Like, I'm solving murders today. I don't give a. About your.
Ken
I was wondering if, like, police officers, like, in their world, obviously they don't drive around their car all the time, but, like, to them, they're like, yeah, everyone's really good drivers because everyone around them is.
Ryan
I would love to have a police officer on this podcast, just chat with things. Things like that.
Ben
Last night, one's out there at Ben's birthday dinner. There's a fellow wearing the same hat as me.
CJ
See?
Ben
Boys hat, but try to win the truck. Respectable. He looked very young, like 22 or something. And he's like, oh, yeah, I pulled Ben over the other day.
Ryan
Oh, it was him.
Ben
Whoa. Yeah.
CJ
And I knew it. Yeah, I knew it.
Ben
But he was wearing, like, a sweet windbreaker in the sea. Boys hat.
Ken
So he's a cop.
CJ
I couldn't figure out why he looks so familiar.
Ben
Like, you don't look like a cop at all. Like, does he know he's.
CJ
Yes, he has a mustache.
Ken
So does he.
Ben
CJ's not a cop.
CJ
Oh, well, he's got a mustache. Makes so much sense, that guy. Okay, yeah, carry on.
Ben
I just was like, all right, well, your secret's safe with me, bro. And he's like, well, I mean, he's.
Ken
I didn't care.
Ben
He's also like, I. I didn't.
Ryan
Secret's not safe. All right, wait, so said right here.
CJ
Yeah, I told you guys about this.
Ken
Yeah, I didn't hear about it.
CJ
I said, I got pulled over on my way here. I was. I was. I think I was coming here. I can't remember what I was doing. My raptor. I pass him, whips around, pulls me over. And I was like, I wasn't speeding. I wasn't, like, doing anything. He, like, comes up.
Ken
I was like, hey, it's crime to have red wheels.
CJ
He was like, I pulled you over for no front license plate.
Ben
Oh.
CJ
And I've never been stopped for that with my truck. And I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. He was like, oh, didn't you used to have, like, a license plate, like, in your windshield?
Ben
Which I did.
CJ
Yeah, a while ago.
Ben
You did.
CJ
I was like, yeah, I did. But it got, like, annoying. So I took it out because it would, like, like, rattle. And I was like, how did he know that?
Ryan
Or maybe he'd seen to you around town, maybe.
CJ
And then he. And then he came up and then he, like, said something, but he, like, kind of smirked last night, almost, like, holding back, like, a smile, like he, like, knew me. And then he, like, he was.
Ben
Yeah, he's waiting. Just, like, walked away.
CJ
No, not last night. When he was, like, giving me a ticket. And I was like, that was. It was a little different of an encounter that I've had getting pulled over. I was like, I wonder if that guy was, like, a fan. I was like, there's no way. And then I just kind of went on. And then I saw him last night. Why does that guy look so familiar. Also, what's up with his mustache? I looked over at CJ and then I got nervous working with him. He's undercover. C.J. goes undercover.
Ken
I'm trying to get you more speeding tickets, Ben. You can't hold mine over me.
Ryan
No, CJ's trying to get out of tickets, dude. They'll pull him over and they'll go, oh, oh, brother. A fellow brother.
Ken
Oh, yeah, Undercover. You're good to go.
Ryan
You're like Paul Walker, dude, in Fast and Furious.
CJ
Yeah. He walks up and CJ's, like, combing his.
Ken
I need to get some.
CJ
Hello, officer. I didn't see you there.
Ken
I need to get something just for men and, like, diet so it's more noticeable. Dude, yesterday we were so blonde. You were sitting over there, right? I don't even know if these guys can see it.
CJ
Yeah, you gotta catch it with.
Ben
It is tough to see.
CJ
Definitely.
Ben
It's there.
CJ
Light. I'm not sure if they can even.
Ryan
See it when you were sitting over there, dude. Like, there was stuff in the way, and I was like, what? What's on that guy's face? Realize I was a little caterpillar coming in.
CJ
Hell is going on with that guy.
Ryan
I like it, though. What. What caused you to be like, I'm going, mustache.
Ken
I just didn't shave for, like a week. And then I was shaving, and my mustache was, like, the last thing I was going to shave. And I was like, eh, I'm just going to leave it.
CJ
I love that feeling. Risque.
Ryan
Yeah, I've done it a couple times where I've left it. And then I just go, no. Sometimes I'll even walk over and show laundry.
CJ
I'll go look.
Ryan
And she'll go, oh, wow, looks good.
CJ
Really?
Ryan
She'll give me, like, a nice compliment. She won't be mean, but I can kind of tell deep down, she's probably like, you should get rid of that.
CJ
Really?
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
She did ask me the other day. She goes, I wonder what you look like with just a mustache.
Ken
Maybe like a Hulk Hogan type of like. Oh, yeah, you could do that.
CJ
I was hoping that, like, I was gonna get, like, a late in life GROSSBERT 1 and then a late in life. Like, my facial hair was gonna start coming in.
Ben
Yeah, well.
Ken
Well, Ben, you did just turn 25 yesterday, so, I mean, I'd imagine puberty should be right around the corner.
CJ
So I shouldn't give up?
Ken
No.
Ben
I don't know.
Ken
That's what it's going to happen. They say 26 is when it happens.
Ben
I couldn't do this. I couldn't do this until I was, like, 25. So, like, the fact that I. I'd say, yes, give up now. I had hope.
Evan
It starts, like, migrating from your head down to your face. So the great. Like, the hair follicles, they migrate down from your head to your face the older you get.
Ben
Really?
Ken
Yeah, they migrated like birds. They go south.
CJ
Yeah, they go south. Like, weather pattern. Yeah.
Ben
They. They don't go back.
CJ
Me and C.J. going bald.
Ken
We are. I'm probably going to shave my mustache before this, though.
Ryan
I just feel like I can't be.
Ken
Bald and have a mustache.
Ben
Oh, I think. Hey, I think you guys need to give a little context here. I don't know when you said.
CJ
I think we'll just explain in the video.
Ben
No, that's fine. But you said we're going bald. Most people are going to take that as a.
CJ
Well, yeah.
Ben
No, I know.
CJ
Yeah. Yeah.
Ben
No, cj, it's news to me that Ben is true.
CJ
It'll make more sense in a video.
Ken
I'm wondering, though, like, so we're gonna go bald here, right? And we're, like, halfway through filming some of these videos because it takes so long to film these videos. People don't seem to understand, but, you know, things are getting built, and we're in this process. It's just gonna go from, like, we're not gonna have this segment in between these other segments. So, like, it'll be us talking to the camera like this, that.
CJ
Whatever.
Ken
And then next. Next shot is, like, both of us looking like Dr. Phil.
CJ
Well, it's going to be me, you, and Gavin, so.
Ken
No, they're going to mistake us three.
Ryan
Right.
Evan
You wear hats enough where I think nobody's really going to notice.
Ken
I think you'll be able to tell, though, with the side and, like, the front. But who knows?
Evan
Ben's definitely going to be the most noticeable look. Like chopping that mullet off.
Ryan
Yeah. You went from mullet to ball, dude. That doesn't happen very often.
Ken
Worried about is how long it's going to take to grow back, you know? Like, I think it's going to be quite the journey just in, to get back to a normal hairstyle. It's just gonna.
CJ
You're gonna be a warrior brother.
Ben
It's gonna be fun. It's fun to see, but I do. I love that you brought that point up. Like, whenever we are filming a video over time and, you know, just anything could happen, like, halfway through, like, a build. You could have, like, a Broken arm. Yeah, something, you know, that happens on.
Ryan
Your knee or something like that.
Ben
You know, like someone's all bandage up or something. Or halfway through the video, Ken only has one eye.
Ken
It's gonna be like jumping, you know, from us bald to, like, now we got hair. And then it's, like, going back. We'. It's like, God damn, these guys grow their hair.
Ryan
But we should go get wigs for you guys. Oh, you guys should, like, try out a new hairstyle.
Ken
I'd go red. Sexy reds wig. That looked unbelievable.
Ben
That's gonna weave. That's a wig, dude.
Ken
Yeah, she's got, like, a number two haircut.
Ryan
Look it up.
Ken
No, I'm not kidding you. It looked like it was coming out of her scalp and everything. It looked, like, unbelievable how much it looked real.
CJ
1. One time we were at this concert, we actually opened up the. The podcast, talking about when we met Sean Kingston. It was the same night that we met Sean Kingston.
Ken
It's not real.
CJ
Oh, that's crazy.
Ken
And it even looks like they have the hair sprout. There it is.
Ryan
Oh, you're the one where she's taking it off. Where she's.
Ken
She just had it on our story the other day, like, putting it on and then off, and it was crazy.
CJ
CJ's dream girl right there.
Ryan
Sorry, Alex, I do want to say that siege you. You a lot of times will be ahead of curve, ahead of the curve on a trend. And I think. I think you really led the charge into sexy red. Being like, everybody loves sexy Red now, and I think you were slightly ahead of the curve on that.
Ken
You know, I appreciate those kind words, Ryan, but I. I don't think I like, I think she's just been crushing it. She was destined for stardom 100%.
Ryan
But I think you recognized that a little bit earlier than everybody else. I don't think you led the charge over.
CJ
I don't think he was necessarily, necessarily like, this woman is, you know, gonna be like, something special. He was just like, this is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.
Ken
I'd say I was both.
CJ
But she was special, too, right?
Ken
But, yeah, and she makes good music. So, I mean, what's not to love?
Ryan
I mean, even walking around nascar, dude, people out there are listening to Sexy Red.
Ken
Yeah.
CJ
Oh, yeah.
Ken
I mean, she's just possibly the biggest artist right now.
Ryan
She's trans fucking forming uniting cultures.
CJ
Yeah. There's some people in this room that still don't get it.
Evan
You're looking at me or Mike?
CJ
Both of you.
Evan
I I get it.
Ben
I don't get it. What?
CJ
Don't. What's not it?
Ben
Just the amount of height, that's all. That's. I should say.
CJ
You can't tell me that you don't put on Get It Sexy. And you.
Ryan
You don't just immediately start something.
Ben
I've never fed a Sexy Red through my phone. A Sexy Red song.
Ryan
Maybe that's why you haven't experienced it yet.
Evan
I am not quite to the level that CJ is, but. But I. I get sexy.
Ryan
Is you put it on in the Tesla when you're driving home sometimes?
Evan
No, I usually do podcasts, but he.
CJ
Does Ben Shapiro podcast. Is there any way to pull up how many times CJ's play get it Sexy?
Ken
Let's just, you know, assume thousands. Yeah, I'd say in thousands for that one song. Get It Sexy.
Ryan
Just this year.
Ken
A banger.
Ryan
Dude, it is a banger.
Ken
I mean, the woman's rap scene, I wasn't too keen to it at first, but it is getting better and better. Like, they are evolving. And if you go to, like, rap caviar, like, half of them are women's rappers now, which in theory, there really was never a lot of them up until this time.
Ryan
Remember how much Ken used to hate Bad Baby?
Evan
I still don't like Bad Baby.
CJ
Really?
Ryan
When we play Gucci football, I always thought that turned this off.
Ken
I always thought that Jake Sherbrooke and Bad Baby would have been a good combo back when he, like, was going by banging, Banging and Bad Baby. Like, that's a. That's a couple.
Ryan
What's your beef with Bad Baby?
Evan
I just don't think your music's good. I think it's trash.
Ken
I don't know if she really had that good of music.
Ben
Gucci flip flops was a banger. And we know bangers.
Ryan
Yeah, And I know bangers.
Ken
It's tough because, like, nowadays, I don't even think your lyrics matter that much. It's more so just the beat being good and then the way that you, like, melody your voice to it and, like, how it sounds to it. Not even necessarily what you're saying. Yeah.
Ryan
If you really listen to lyrics.
Ben
I was like, Sexy Red to a tee.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
I mean, it just sounds good. Yeah, I mean, I'll agree. It's just different time for music.
CJ
It's evolving time. Power to the women. We went to NASCAR last weekend. We talked about in the last podcast we were fired up for nascar. Evan wasn't super lit. Probably top five coolest things that we've gotten to do since, like, starting sea boys.
Ryan
Yeah. 100.
CJ
Such a good time.
Ryan
And I love to see that Evan came around to it, too, at the end.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
Even he was always such a.
Ken
You know. What would be the word? Hater. I don't want to say hater, but he's like. He's hard to, like, get him to go on to a. A trend or a train or whatever. But he did come around to it. On the last day, he was like, all right, this is pretty sick.
Evan
He'll warm up to things.
Ben
But I've just been so enjoying lately, like, all the experiences that he's gotten to undergo, and he just, like. He just doesn't know, like, I don't know who that. We're all, like, tripping, like, whoa. Did you see?
Ken
We.
Ben
We just got to rub elbows with so and so.
Ryan
Alvin Camara, the running back. Yeah. For the Saints. He's like, who?
CJ
What's that?
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
I didn't know who that was either.
Ken
So I was.
Ben
I kind of felt how he felt. But, like, we're meeting all kinds of people all over the country, and he's just like, you guys got any tease?
CJ
I like that about him. He's like, so.
Ken
He's chilling. You don't even know who they are, and he doesn't even care, which is cool. I would say it was, like, one of the coolest. Like, luxury in treatment, like, special treatments. Sometimes when you are in, like, this position. That's what I would say it was like. It was definitely like. Because we normally don't get to, like, experience or where they're. Hey, like, we're gonna have this peep. This person's picking you guys up. They're driving you here, and then they're gonna take you in the golf cart, and you get to go and meet behind the lines and. And meet the drivers and. And then we got these RVs set up, and you're, like, in this, like, hangout area with a bunch of other. I don't know what you want to call them. Celebrities.
CJ
Group of groups.
Ken
It was a very, you know, Creator. Yeah.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
So we, like, get. We're at this. This spot, and we got Elvin Camara, who's, like, the running back for the Saints, hanging there. Then you got the barstool crowd. So you had Brianna Chicken fry, and then her. Her friend Grace and. And, you know, like, some other barstool people there. It's not necessarily, like, our. Like, I don't necessarily watch them, but the whole time they're just, like, tick Tocking. They were tick tock. I swear, every time. God, these, these guys are just tick tocking. The whole time I go, that was maybe statement I've ever heard you say. They just never stopped Tik Tok.
CJ
They didn't the whole time.
Ken
And like, we just would be in the background. We aren't tick nonchalantly. Like, I'd be chilling. Next thing I know, I'm in the background of a tick tock that's going up and it goes, it goes up right that moment. You know, it's just that style of making content, but it's like throw it up and you run and it. If it's good, it's good. If it's bad, it's bad. Either way, it's getting posted and pretty, Pretty scary.
CJ
Yeah.
Ken
And yeah, so that was interesting to like see and be a part of. But it was funny because now, like, for instance, I've been in. I was in the background of a couple of them and like all these girls that I haven't talked to since high school, you know, I was friends with them, whatever, but they're like sending it, like, do you see her in the background? It's like, apparently this girl goes a long ways with the woman community. Because then like, like, I know, like your girlfriend was like pumped that we were there, like, with them. Yeah, these girls got some serious weight, dude. Like, weight. And you know, it's not really.
Ryan
We.
Ken
We didn't know, but very influential.
CJ
No, it is always cool to see.
Ken
Like, so it was cool.
CJ
Different people that we, we get to meet. And then like, we have something.
Ken
Not our crowd at all.
CJ
Biggest fans of them. And they're like, what were they like, what? Like, what did you talk to them? Like, Greta. I texted Greta and was like, hey, Brianna, Chicken fry is here. And she was like, oh, my God, oh my God, please send me a picture with her. And I was like, oh, God, I really don't want to ask her for a photo. And Greta was like, just get a. Get a picture with her. And she was in there. And our friend Jeff, who we brought with, was like kind of like fanboying. And we were like, yo, you gotta just. Yeah, chill out, Jeff. And then he was like, it, I'm gonna do it. Yo, can I get a picture? And I was like, God, yo, can I get a picture too? My girlfriend's a huge fan, dude.
Ryan
You know what you hit her with? I was thinking about this when you, when you said that people will walk up to us and they'll go, hey, man, my Little brother's a big fan, and it's always the same thing.
CJ
I go, yeah, but it'd be like. It'd be like a girl coming up to us, hey, my boyfriend's a huge fan.
Ryan
That's true.
CJ
I looked at it more like that.
Ken
It's a little better, though, when you're in, like, that Vi sounds so corny to say, but when you're, like, the VIP section, like, the whole point of, like, secluding off those people is that way they're not getting bombarded by fans and pictures. Yeah. And then when you're, like, supposed to be in the same category, and you're just like, hey, could I get a in your fanboy? And that's. That's probably why you didn't want to do that.
Ben
Exactly.
Ken
And kind of why we were like. We were telling Jiff. We're like, you gotta give it a little bit of time. Let it.
CJ
Let it.
Ken
Let everyone settle in here, you know?
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
But it was so fun having Jeff with. Which you guys will see in the video. He's just one of our friends. He's never really been in YouTube videos with us, but he is the most outgoing, positive, electric, lovable person I know. He is so lovable, and he is the life of the party. Like, I've never met a single person that doesn't like him, and he makes friends like that Instantly. Instantly.
CJ
That's amazing.
Ken
And he's just genuine. Whatever. So, of course, by the end of. Of that, he was, like, the superstar in the VIP area and dancing on.
Ryan
The table every day.
Ken
Everybody was like, where's Jeff?
CJ
Look for a table.
Ken
Look.
CJ
Dancing on.
Ken
Look. And it was so much more fun having him there with us because his excitement rubbed off more. I was excited, but his excitement rubbed off more on me and made me really excited about it, like, even more excited. And, like, just, like.
Ben
I don't know.
Ken
It just made it more fun, you.
Ryan
Know, because he's like, the sunshine dude. You feel it radiate on you. Makes you excited.
Ken
You guys are gonna love the video. I don't know when that will come out, because we literally have so many segments film. But, like, you're gonna love it.
Ben
Living like a rock star. When he's a lot of elevated surfaces.
Ryan
He'S dancing, and he'd find him if there wasn't many.
Ben
And, like, anyone who, I guess dances like that knows how much energy it takes. And he was just gone and going.
CJ
He never ran out.
Ken
He's got. He's like the freaking Energizer Bunny.
CJ
Dude. Yeah.
Ryan
Impressive.
Ben
And we're all like, cheering him on. Like, it was pretty electric. And this gal comes up and goes, who is he? And I'm like, what?
Ryan
And as Mike's filming them, you know.
Ben
To the big camera, I'm like, my buddy. My buddy Jeff. And she's like, yeah, but like, who is he? And then I'm like, like, he's famous. Well, I didn't know what she was getting at. I'm just like, I don't know, dude. He's just crazy. He just danced. And then she's just like, like, is he famous? And then I was like, oh, no, he's not famous. And then she's like, he sure looks like it. And I'm like, you know, he really does.
CJ
Yeah.
Ken
It was funny though, because the NASCAR workers and, like, marketing team that would be like kind of taking us around. I think it was on the last day, one of the girls, like, asked something about Jeff and I was like, oh, no. Like, he's not. He's not like in the videos or any. He's just our friend. Like, we just hang out all the time. Oh, wait, so he's not like famous or anything? And I was like, no, no, no, he's just.
CJ
Just a good guy.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
And she was just like, like, wow. And like, I'm not kidding you. I think the bar stool workers were like, they were taking videos. I think they were like sending them back. Like, we need to hire this guy. They hire people like that and like, you know, make little shows out of them. Like side, side things. Like just like Brian Chicken Fry, for instance.
Ryan
You think you could do a roofing? A con, bro, he could construction bar stool.
Ken
Yeah, dude, I think he could take.
Ben
Over the construction side.
Ken
They were just like, you guys should hire him. I was like, yeah, honestly, we should.
CJ
Well, Jeff would just be like, he could even be like a behind the scenes hype man.
Ken
Just take him with us everywhere.
CJ
You just come, just hang out, just.
Ken
Bump up the energy, let him do the talking.
CJ
Yeah, no, he would just like fire us up.
Ken
Like he's screaming character. He'd end up just being the main character. And then we'd have to change the channel to Jeff. Jeff. That'd be the name.
CJ
Jeff.
Ken
Jeff. Just be Jeff.
CJ
Jeff. TV.
Ben
Getting a kick out of the, you know, this party scene afterwards. Like the. The Kyle Busch guy, the really big fat guy. And dude, people were just like, just on some different energy. And like some guy comes up to me with a microphone. He's like, how you doing? Or how you doing. And then he like puts it to me. I'm like, good, how you doing? And he's like, I'm doing pretty good. Back to me. I'm like, what? Why you got a microphone? And I'm like, that's not even connected. He's just like, one up, brother. And then walks away and interviews someone else. That's kind of fun.
Ken
It was fun. It was like a different, a different type of party scene. It was interesting because it was like wild. But then there's like a family with like two young kids there and they're like riding their trike. And then you got like.
Ryan
You also have middle aged women drinking, riding large trikes.
CJ
I laugh so hard. I posted that on my story. And somebody just responds. These middle aged women doing anything they can to not lift a weight like that, that's their form of working out.
Ken
Those are some badass trikes. I don't like LEDs.
Ben
And those are probably harder to ride than walking, to be hon honest.
Ken
Because getting him started, sure, you gotta get that momentum.
Ryan
No, what I liked about NASCAR is it's, it's this like crossover between two cultures. You've got dudes that are sitting there in like very expensive RVs. Like a million dollars in, in an RV. They got a trailer, they got their frickin F450 platinums pulling it.
CJ
Yep.
Ryan
And then right next to them you have some dudes that bought a Winnebago for $1,000 off of Craigslist or maybe just had it in their back 40 and just aired up the tires and put some seafoam in the gas tank and drove it there. And they're right next to each other sharing beers, having fun. Like it's, it's such a good crossover of culture. Like everybody's just there to have fun.
Ken
There really was the extreme of both ends of everything. Like you had, yeah, you had like, you know, a standard redneck and you had like a wealthy businessman.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
And everyone was having a blast though. Everyone was just getting down, having fun. And I would like to make that a tradition. Even if, like NASCAR doesn't give us the special treatment again, I, I don't even care. I would, I would go just to even sit in the general admission. It was so fun.
Ryan
So fun.
Ken
And it's like, you know, it's so easy to downplay it. Like, oh, all they're doing is just going in a big circle, turning like. It is not. Dude, it is just, I don't know, it's just amazing.
CJ
Great. It's one of Those. It's one of those things that you have to experience in person to like feel it. Because it's like, it sounds insane when they come by. It's like nothing you've ever heard before. And then you feel it like in chest.
Ken
It gave me like this weird energy. Like when they would rip by in their pack, there was like this energy that would like come off into you. And like every single time it was weird. Like it gave me like a tingling sensation inside my body.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
By far my favorite part.
Ken
Yes. You got that too.
Ryan
Oh, yeah.
Ken
It was like I couldn't figure it out though.
CJ
I was.
Ken
It was when we were super close.
CJ
I mean, they're coming by at 200 miles miles per hour.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
Like 190.
Ken
Something about them all being together so close. And I don't know, it was very. It was just like you could hop.
Ryan
Theoretically, if it was legal, you could hop in your car and floor it and drive home.
Ken
GTR.
Ryan
That's what I mean.
Ken
It goes 200 mile an hour.
Ryan
It does. But like you could drive really aggressively, go faster than a normal person may ever in their entire life. And you'd be like, nice. And you could sit down on the couch, watch TV and fall asleep. Like, we're pretty. Yeah, we're a little like callous to adrenaline and stuff like that. You could take the shift to car. I'll do a bunch of burnouts. But that type of energy was just different.
Ken
Yeah. No, I just think that cars were like. There was something about them all being together. There was just like literally like an energy coming off of like the pack when you were that close. And I. I could not figure out what it was. Like. It was interesting. Like every single time I was. It was just.
Ryan
You know what it was America.
Ken
Yeah. It was sick.
Ben
Like they were saying how every track's different, every, you know, vibe is different. But that's what brings people back, dude. That feeling of all the cars.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
You know what also was a night. A nice little cherry on top for me was when my guy won me 700 bucks. So we did bet everyone. Everyone took a person. Everyone took a person and I won 700 bucks. So not only did I get to go there for free and have a blast, but I walked out $700 in my pocket.
CJ
Yeah. Must have been nice.
Ryan
Did I pay you for that? I think I gave you cash.
Ken
I don't know. I think I was pretty tuned.
Ryan
I don't remember.
Ken
You know, I just collected a few hundred bucks from everyone, got some venmos and I was just. I packed up and was just happy. As happy as a clam.
CJ
Dude. It was just like such a classic NASCAR experience too. Of like, you know.
Ken
You know.
CJ
And then crash at the very end.
Ryan
Dude.
Ken
Yeah, I know.
CJ
It's such a gnarly pile up where like a guy went across the finish line on his driver side door.
Ryan
He was riding the wall at 100 miles an hour.
CJ
We're just watching it like, oh my God, this is insane. Michael Jordan's team won. We saw Michael Jordan.
Ken
We always.
CJ
Think, yeah, that was so sick.
Ben
So I think a lot of the. I just saw the. The finish of the last NASCAR race, the most previous one. One that just happened. The. It was a three way finish. Like neck and neck, like all within like a tenth of a second. And I think that does come down to the fact that they made all the motors the same.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
And stuff.
Ken
So like they have to be.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
People.
Ben
It is kind of lame, but in general, like the finishes should be a lot better because it's all built off of.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
Drafting and whatnot.
CJ
So. Yeah.
Ben
The finishes of that was crazy.
Ken
It basically boils down to strategy. I mean, we talked with the crew, like all the drivers are relatively the same skill. And they said that there was an exceptional top tier. Maybe like four or five that are like just. Actually just naturally better for whatever. But. But ultimately it boils down to strategy and just luck and. And how the car performs that day. And you know. Yeah, it's a game plan.
Ben
We got to meet Noah Grogson. He got. He got third, which.
Ken
Yeah, dude, that was electric. We were hanging before and he was chilling, just chilling. And then he goes out there and he was at the top three and I was chilling. This is so sick.
Ryan
I was more stressed out before Cletus's race. He's sitting there in his trailer talking with us. Jabroni.
Ben
I was more popping Zen for him.
Ryan
Yeah, exactly. Me too. And he like raced in like two hours.
Ken
I know.
Evan
Chilling.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
I was like, do they gotta like get in the zone? Asking the guy who was kind of like, should we get out of here? It was cool though, because I think he. He knew who we were.
Evan
Yeah.
Ken
Like he had seen the videos and a sword and.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
And then we signed a sword or just collectively. Seaboys TV signed the samurai sword he had in there.
CJ
And it was so sick. Also so fired up.
Ryan
I think, you know, Minnesota nice is a thing. Right. People say we're the nicest up in the Midwest. I'd argue that the south is nicer.
Ben
I think them people were sweeter than an Alabama sweet tea.
Ryan
Exactly.
Ben
I really did.
Ryan
I really enjoyed people in the buckies. It's freaking 2:00am yeah, man.
CJ
And that was amazing.
Ryan
We're causing a ruckus in this BUC EE's, which is the size of a freaking Walmart, dude.
CJ
Can we talk about that? Yes.
Ryan
We have to.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
Hey, honey, how you doing tonight? And like, they're chipper. You walk into a holiday around here and the guy looks like he might stab you.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
You know, like, they're just. They're.
Ken
They were. They were like a serious. Like, they took a lot of pride in there. That. That place is like a mall. It was like a mall of the gas stations. Like, they had. You could buy. I swear, you could probably buy new. New furniture for your living room in there.
Ryan
100.
Ken
Like, they had everything.
CJ
How many gas pumps do you think they had?
Ken
600.
Evan
To be at least 100.
CJ
So we're pretty larried up and we're on our way home.
Ryan
It had been a long day.
CJ
We pull into this gas station thinking that it's just a normal gas station. Look out the window and there's like, gas pumps for his. Far as you can see, Both directions.
Ryan
Like 120.
CJ
120 gas pumps.
Ryan
Yep.
Ben
The way our jaws were on the.
CJ
Floor, it was amazing. I was walking around just like. Did you guys go in the bathroom?
Evan
No.
CJ
Okay. I. I took a video of the bathroom. Let me just show you guys this.
Ryan
Whoa, look at this.
Ken
This huge.
CJ
Oh, damn those.
Ken
It's a truck stop, but it's like.
CJ
It's like this on both sides.
Ken
Whoa. Wow.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
I mean, I'm not surprised. The place was huge. Should I show? And then.
CJ
And then me and Evan were wrestling. And the. And the woman.
Ken
Well, I was gonna just show. I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind, but he was having a really good time by the time we got to Bucky's.
Ryan
And.
CJ
Yeah, someone over served him.
Ken
He should. Yeah, I think he overserved himself.
CJ
Let me. Let me preface this. So I've been sober for the last four months. I haven't drank since. Since December 31st. And at NASCAR.
Ken
Yeah.
CJ
Obviously it's gonna get peer pressure. Very, very difficult. Very difficult. And I, like, went into the weekend like, I'm just not gonna drink because I feel so bad after it. And I just couldn't help myself. So I. I got back on. On the liquor at nascar and. Holy crap. Was it a good time. Definitely felt like the next couple days even more hungover Than normal, but didn't regret a second of it. It was like one of those things. I wondered if I went sober for that long, like, the next time that I drank, I'd be like, oh, I don't know. It's just, like. It wasn't as fun as I remember it to be, bro.
Ken
It was way more fun.
CJ
It was more fun than I remember.
Ryan
It would have been nice to just be like, oh, yeah, it wasn't that good. I'm good for a while now, but okay.
Ken
So I don't. I don't know. We might have to shift. Shuffle through some of this just because haven't watched it back, and it might be. Someone Just might be. Flat out nonsense. God, I hope this is funny.
Ryan
At least the end of it will.
Ken
Be if we watch nothing worse than. Than just showing someone a video you think is gonna be funny, and then it's not funny.
Evan
It was extremely funny in the moment.
Ken
Yeah, it was funny.
CJ
I took a video of us celebrating at the very end of the race, like, on my phone, unable to connect. I thought I got the crash in there. I thought I got everyone celebrating. And I turned to Matilda. I go, I just recorded the best video I've ever taken in my life. I watch it back with her, and we both are just silent after she goes, yep, that sucked, because it was so bad.
Ben
The good news was I was filming on the Vlog camera, and I literally didn't get to see the crash with my real eyes because I was getting.
CJ
Shot on you guys, let's go.
Ben
And I was like. It was such a. Just like a moment because I was like, dang, that was the most insane finish ever. And I didn't see it, but I did get a video of my best friends cheering their asses off.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think I saw the crash with my eyes either.
Ben
It just.
Ryan
Everybody was screaming, and, like, it kind of. I could see some smoke down there. And then I just started screaming, too.
Ken
It happened so fast. It was like I was trying to watch and I couldn't and.
CJ
Oh, my.
Ryan
Oh, my goodness. I can already tell this is going to be rough.
Ken
Okay, so Ben was, like, roughing up Evan here. What?
CJ
Where's Justin?
Ken
Justin. So for reference here, Evan thought that Justin was HR.
CJ
Oh, Justin.
Ken
Justin's not gonna help you here, Evan.
CJ
I think he's on my side.
Ken
So Evan was so larried up that he thought that we actually had HR Here at Seaboys tv. Well, and Justin was in charge of it, but he's He's. He's the merchandise manager. He is not hr, but he would be a good HR guy, probably. So we get in this. This.
CJ
Look at it.
Ryan
Look how big it is.
Ken
Gas station in the world.
CJ
Unbelievable.
Ben
Everyone who.
Ken
Dude, we gotta go back.
Ryan
And they actually make BUC EE's bigger than this.
Ken
Already finding himself around. What do you got there, Ken? Fresh food.
Ryan
Fresh food, too.
Ben
All at one. It was like one in the morning.
CJ
Almost.
Ben
Actually, almost two.
Ken
I gotta find Evan here.
Ryan
There was furniture. Why, golly.
CJ
Yep.
Ken
They're selling furniture. Here comes Ben and Evan. Jeff. I'm like, oh, better get over here. You guys found your way here too. I didn't realize Chase and Haley were gonna be here. Ed, how you doing?
CJ
Look at this guy.
Ken
He was a shell of a human being. Oh, my good.
Ryan
Oh, my goodness.
Ken
Ben starts choking him again. Beating him up.
Ben
Did you?
Ken
If I fought back, I'd get fired.
Ryan
We went wide angle here.
Ken
I. I thought maybe video this might go in the.
Ryan
She's smiling.
CJ
It definitely should attack. I never tap out.
Ken
This dude over here didn't know what to think.
Ryan
He's like, are we cool? And he's like, I think we're cool.
CJ
What's wrong with you? That was so inappropriate.
Ken
Goes back to pan. Then you're chasing them around out here.
Ryan
Dude, Ben noggin did almost get bonked on this pole.
Ken
Evan couldn't believe how much it costed. It cost.
CJ
Sorry.
Ben
If his head would have got bonked, I mean, he was smacking that $13 sandwich out of Evan's hands.
Evan
Dropped about half that sandwich on the ground.
Ben
It was a sad sight.
CJ
Dude, I don't know what got it. Actually, I do know what got into me about 14 high noons.
Ryan
I just can't explain how you. You go from standing in a field all day, you haven't seen, like, a real bathroom, and then you just think you're stopping at a gas station. You pull up, and the thing is 40, 000 square feet. It was the craziest experience.
Ben
Anyone who has been to a Buc EE's listening to this is like, yeah, yeah, obviously. But anyone who hasn't been to a bucky's listening to this should just try experience.
Ken
It's an experience for sure. Shout out.
Ryan
Sponsor us.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
Yeah, dude.
Ben
Evan was pretty torn up when we got back to the hotel room about the whole wrestling incident. He's like, dude, Ben doesn't understand that this is. This applies for most people. But he's like, where I come from, when you want to wrestle if you put me in a headlock, that means we fight until someone taps out.
CJ
Well, that was a very. It was a very light headlock. It was more of just like a bear crawl onto him, right?
Ben
One of them of the five that were put down on him. But he's like, dude, I so badly wanted to, you know, put him in his place, but I didn't want to, like, get arrested at BUC EE's, so.
CJ
I just played dead. That's what he's doing.
Ken
Gets arrested. Evan fights back, takes Ben down. Once Ben calls the cops. I'm calling the cops.
Ryan
Cops were in the parking lot.
Ken
Is taken away. After. After seven takedowns on, it's like, hey, so mad. All right, what else? What else we got? So we're not talking.
Ben
So have you guys ever sold anything on ebay?
CJ
Okay.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
It's kind of funny. You have?
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
That's cool. I've never sold anything on ebay. Ebay's been around forever. So I'm like, well, I'm gonna sell some exhaust that I have from one of the dirt bikes. Brand new. Throw it up on there. Don't want to haggle around. Don't want it to sit up there forever. So I look at everything. Everyone else is selling it for around 200 bucks. I'm gonna sell it for 125, shipping included. Gone, put it up, and then it sells, like, right away. I'm like, okay, maybe it went too low on the price. Maybe didn't need to include shipping. Homie from Puerto Rico buys it.
CJ
No.
Ben
And I'm like, why did I do free shipping?
Ryan
Why?
Ben
No, I go to the UPS store.
Ryan
To ship it, and the UPS store, we got Ken back here.
Ben
Well, I know I was tough because a couple days had gone by, and I'm like, well, I gotta get all shit on. You can't just ship it out when you want. Like, you know when it says five to seven days, you should honor that. So I go to the UPS store, and they're like, oh, yeah, Puerto Rico. Dang. Yeah, it's pretty heavy item. $247. So I didn't do that. But then I went to the USPS store. So I sold it for 125. Ebay takes like 25 bucks of that, of course. And then it was 106 to ship.
CJ
You know what?
Ben
And I mostly just went. Went through with it.
Ken
Paid money.
CJ
Paid money for a nice Puerto Rican man. So, yeah, I thought two things.
Ben
I'm like, one, I, I.
Ken
Why don't you just Cancel it.
CJ
You can cancel it.
Ryan
I know he didn't want to ruin accelerating.
Ken
You can make a new account.
Ben
I also knew that too.
Evan
I was.
Ben
Was like, I. I know I'm one sale, and I could just make a new account. But instead I was like, you know, I'll pay six bucks to. To keep my cell rating up.
Ryan
Keep this account, go to Puerto Rico and figure out all that time you.
Ken
Took, too, for the one thing you're.
Evan
Probably gonna sell on ebay in the next 10 years.
Ben
But, I mean, not. Not true. It was a bad experience. But, like, I definitely want to do more of it. But also because it was actually really easy.
CJ
This is why Mike doesn't sell things. Things.
Ben
But, yeah, this is why you're a hoarder.
Ken
The honest haze to sell them. So he loses the item and he pays them to take it.
Ben
Does ebay take, like, less of a fee when you, like, start to sell more stuff?
Ken
No, I remember that. I was very disappointed. I sold some wakeboarding.
Ben
I know, but you. You were never, like, a. Selling thousands of item sellers.
Ken
I think I sold a few things, though.
CJ
Steve Hamilton, our friend Steve, he owns custom offsets. He started his business selling wheels and tires on ebay. That's the only place that he sold for, like, a while. But they.
Ben
Yeah, I just.
Ken
I just.
Ryan
They.
Ben
They do take a lot. I just wonder if you're getting to the point where you're selling, like, let's say, hundreds of items every month. Is there. Do they. Can they work through a little less of a percentage? Because that means if you're selling, you know, something for $1250, it will take 250 of those dollars.
Ryan
That's crazy. There's no way. If the percentage is the same, I guess. Yeah.
Ben
$125. They took 25.
Ryan
Wow.
Ben
So I was just like, dang, that's steep. You know, I mean, maybe I will just stick to Facebook Marketplace. Even though it was much easier than selling something on Facebook.
Ryan
You gotta text that Puerto Rican guy, be like, listen, man, I. I paid $6 to give you this.
Ben
I know.
Ryan
Just at least send me a video of it on your phone.
Ken
Just the fact you drove all the way to UPS, then he drove to USPS. He dealt with those guys when they're 13.
Evan
If you get over 7, 500 in sales, then it drops down.
Ryan
Okay, 15 of books and magazines. That' does it.
Ben
What does it drop down to after?
Ryan
We should start an ebay. Screw all the other things we're doing.
Ben
I just got to hit 7,500 bucks.
Ryan
Per item, dude, that's what the seller.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
Like, was he cool to deal with?
Ben
Oh, yeah. No, he was.
CJ
He was.
Ben
I mean, he didn't say much, but I do want to know if, like. Okay, so if he just got the thing down to Puerto Rico because he knew he was getting a good deal on it and then he was just going to flip it to someone else, then that's just bummer. But if it is on his bike.
Ken
Then that's Isn't just a stock exhaust. Yeah. What the.
CJ
Mike, you are such an interesting.
Ken
From the.
CJ
The bike that I sold last weekend, where the guy wanted the exhaust.
Ben
Oh, yeah. That was the other funny thing. So, like, yeah, I don't get rid of much. We don't really get rid of much. And then I just. Just. I'm like, yep, I'm just gonna sell this stock exhaust.
CJ
Just.
Ben
I just don't.
CJ
I just don't get why you would do that. Because it was like. It was like. It was a company exhaust. Yeah. You were gonna make the company.
Ryan
We paid $6 to ship the exhaust.
Ben
No, no, no, I didn't. I didn't put that on the company card. No, it was a company exhaust. But here's what happens with all of our shit. Nothing. Garbage.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
Give away. So I'm like, I'm gonna make some.
CJ
Money because it's efficient. Throwing things away, seems like.
Evan
How much time did you spend creating the listing?
Ben
I would say, going to go shipping, 10 minutes.
Evan
And then how much time did you waste going to go ship it, talking with this guy.
Ben
Wasted probably 15 minutes going to UPS and then succeeded probably another 15 to 20 minutes at USPS.
Evan
Almost an hour into your time to lose.
Ben
Yeah, I didn't know I was going to lose $6. You act like I planned for that.
CJ
I guess.
Ken
Even if it would have made, like.
CJ
500, Micah's like, damn, it's a pretty good deal.
Ben
No, no, I'm not that stupid.
Ryan
So was the guy, like, cool at least? Like, was he excited about the stock exhaust? What do you need it for?
CJ
No, he needed three days before.
Ben
No, when they. When they, like, buy. When you buy something on, you don't, like, say what you need it for?
Ryan
So I didn't know if he was like, hey, man, I need this exhaust for my bike.
Ken
His pickup.
Ben
He said, when will they send my item? And I'm like, hey, I apologize. First sale on ebay, but shipping it out tomorrow. I said, exhaust? Yeah. Just basically explained it then. I'll send you the track tracking number. They said, thanks for reaching Out. And he said calm down. Thank you very much. What did he say? Calm down. And that's the only thing he ever said. I sent him down.
Ken
It's a great experience.
Ben
I thought it was so funny.
Ryan
Yeah, you gotta message him now and go. Can I at least get a 5 star seller rating, please?
Ken
I should imagine he gives you one star.
Ben
That would.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
Then I'll just delete my account. Never sell anything on ebay again.
Ken
Seller was slow and late.
Ryan
It is true.
CJ
I do love that you do things like that though. Mike. Gives us a great. Gives us a great podcast conversation. That's for sure.
Ben
That's what makes you. You. It's funny that I still do want to do it more though.
Ken
I mean ebay's been around for so long and honestly they have. They have done a good job of evolving and like they. They are slightly irrelevant, but they are evolving with the times and like sticking around, you know, like they make a.
Ryan
Hell of a YouTube episode with us at Monster.
Ben
They did.
CJ
They did.
Ben
One of the best things.
Ken
Got quite a bit of views too.
Ben
Yeah, the. One of the best things that they could have done was the like guaranteed fit thing.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
Because so many people don't buy something because they're like I don't know if it fits. And I'm not trying to spend $200 and have to send it back just because it doesn't. Not even made for my vehicle. I think that helps especially like non car people. Okay. I need this new window actuator for my car and it says it fits. Most places do say that but ebay is like such a wild west. So for them to include that. Yeah. Yeah.
Ken
They do kind of still have that 2007 Internet feel to.
CJ
Yeah, it does. You know like when you're polishing my getting scammed here.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
You don't really know. Pictures are just never quite.
Evan
Hasn't migrated to Amazon so he still buys.
Ken
Evan stayed in 2007.
Ben
It's crazy.
Ryan
Well, ebay kind of reminds me of like Craigslist with the same feel. Like all the falling off. Yeah, Craigslist.
Ken
They're done, man. They.
Ryan
I mean remember Craigslist misconnections or whatever were like. Or men seeking women. Yeah.
Ben
You know, men seeking women was tame. But the other ones.
CJ
I'm gonna see if I can find Mark girlfriend there. Didn't you off Craigslist?
Ken
The look on Mark's face right now says it all. He's like, don't say this online.
CJ
I don't even. I'm not even familiar with this.
Ben
What?
CJ
What is it?
Ryan
So the premise is basically. Say it. It became popular, I think, when the Internet was a little less popular. You go out to the grocery store and you see this woman and you're like, wow, she's so pretty. You lock eyes for a minute and you're like, oh, I wish I could meet her again. No, you go on misconnections. Right. And then you would be like, we locked eyes in the grocery store. You were pushing a cart full of radishes.
Ben
Tell them things.
Ryan
You know, I had the Oreos, bro.
CJ
What?
Ben
Yeah. And then you hope that they see it, and then. Or someone sees it that knows them or something, and then somehow puts you in.
CJ
Have you guys used it? Anyone else here used it?
Ben
No. No. Yeah. Read it and laughed at it and was entertained by it.
Ryan
Yes.
CJ
Wait, that makes so much sense. Last night, we were at dinner and we were all sitting at this table, and C.J. says something about behind Justin, and Justin stands up and goes, we should buy that. And then just lock size with this very tall man standing there. And they just both stare at each other.
Ken
It's like. Like, they can buy me.
CJ
They stared at each other for, like, three seconds. Like, long enough where it's uncomfortable to look into somebody's eyes. And then he, like, turns around and walks away. And Justin turns around and is just like, oh, my God, what just happened? And then he goes, I need to find that guy on misconnection. That makes sense.
Ken
Go back to Ms. Connection. So, like, there'd be, like, listings like this. Looking for guy for fun. Click that one. Looking for a guy to have some fun with today. 50s guy here, mid-50s guy here. Like, that's like the. I can't imagine it's a pretty situation if you're linking up that way. Yeah, you know, it's just weird like that. And then there'd be, like, sting operations. Because, like, there's women that are basically running a prostitution business through Craigslist. And then there'd be, like, sting operations. Or the police would also go in and create their own listing and do a sting that way. So it's like they were busting both ways and. And then even the third.
Ryan
And here's one doordash driver you bought. You brought my Indian food to my house. You smiled and had some amazing legs. If you see this, tell me your name and what color your car was.
CJ
Exactly.
Ben
It's like, what are they?
Ken
I just feel like the odds nowadays of this actually working out.
CJ
Well, there's got to be some.
Ryan
Some beautiful woman In Cub Foods with my. With mom. I want to meet you Friday night at Cubs Foods in Maple Grove. I saw you in produce. I'm kicking myself for not approaching you. Let's try again this Friday night around 6:30.
Ben
Unreal.
Ken
Damn. So he's going back there with hopes of. Of running into this person.
Ben
That's got to be more of a waste of time than losing six bucks on eBay.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
I mean.
CJ
Good about it.
Ken
It's a chance for love, though, Mike.
Ben
Kenneth, that true?
Ryan
You are a beautiful black lady and you were in line with an older white gentleman. I talked to him about if this is where you pay my real estate taxes later. I did see you looking at me.
Ken
Well, what was that guy's name?
Ryan
Kenneth.
CJ
Things are adding up.
Ken
Hold on.
CJ
What was the.
Ken
Read that again.
Ryan
Now, you are a beautiful black lady and you were in line with an older white gentleman. I talked to him about if this is where to pay my real estate taxes later. And I saw you looking at me.
CJ
You just came into my office the other day and you were talking about paying the real estate taxes and you said you were headed off to do that. Where was that at? Where was that at?
Ryan
That was Detroit Lakes.
CJ
Right?
Ryan
Detroit Lakes.
Ken
Oh, my. Was it? Actually, yeah. Are you serious, Ken?
Ryan
Technically, the bubble is a little north of Detroit.
CJ
What day was it on?
Ryan
4:23.
CJ
Which. What day is that?
Ryan
4.
CJ
Tuesday. He came into my office on Monday. Probably just a coincidence.
Evan
Yeah.
Ken
Any explaining to do, Ken?
CJ
Probably just a coincidence, huh?
Ken
I mean, this is all lining up, especially after the speed dating.
Evan
This sounds like a. A reach, but I. I don't know. Maybe it will work out.
Ken
This is far from a reach. This is just like a. It's right there, sitting right in front of us.
Ben
Kenneth made the post.
Ryan
Yeah, his name was Kenneth. He said, my name is Kenneth. I kind of like Kenneth. Kenneth Matthews.
Ken
I call him Kenneth.
Ryan
Yeah, Sometimes when he's in trouble.
Ben
Kenneth Kendrick, Jen Drake, pull up some.
Ryan
Of the like ones on Instagram. We'll get. We'll get a couple of the good ones.
Ben
Yeah, there's some.
Ryan
Really?
Ken
All right, moving on. Okay.
Ryan
I've been down bad before, but not quite. Missed connections on Craigslist. Down bad, but I don't judge.
CJ
This is.
Ken
I don't judge.
CJ
This is something that I would imagine, like the people that leave, like, hate comments on our videos, like telling us how worthless we are.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
Although maybe somewhat true.
Ben
I would.
CJ
I can't imagine you would say that to my face in person, but you would make a post on Craigslist. Trying to get my attention somehow.
Ryan
So if you guys ever, like, looked on missed connections, hoping you'd see because, like, you know, there wasn't dating apps before. I've used dating apps.
Ben
It's cool.
CJ
Come on, Mark.
Ben
Oh, my God.
CJ
Give us your best, Mark. Give us your best misconnection story.
Ben
Like, some of these.
Ryan
He goes, I'm definitely not saying it now, so.
Evan
Because you can't say it, does that mean you have done it?
Ryan
Yeah. Well, maybe it'll work for Mark. Maybe it'll work for that random guy, Kenneth.
Ken
Yeah, good luck to that guy, whoever.
Ryan
He is, whatever he's doing now.
CJ
Dude.
Ben
All right, this one's wild.
CJ
The.
Ben
The tag is. You farted in Trader Joe's. You were the tall brunette with the near perfect body that farted in the bread section last night. I was the tall guy next to you and that looked over and asked you, was that you? You quickly replied, no, that wasn't me. You almost seemed insulted. I would ask. As the stink grew, you continued to deny your flatulence, but it was evident I tried to get rid of the stench by waving two loaves of caviata bread. You proceeded to storm off, angry manner. You are beautiful. And even if you are a liar and fart like a Clydesdale, I'd love to meet up sometime.
Ryan
That one definitely could have been about Ken.
Evan
Sounds like Evan.
Ben
As a joke, that's really funny. But as the real if that's real.
CJ
Although you're a liar, can you imagine standing there and it smells so bad? You have to start waving your two loaves of bread. Mark. Two loaves of bread. Mark, was that when you.
Ken
Yeah. In the bread aisle. No one loves bread. I loves bread. We can't even, like, at some of our favorite restaurants. I think it's just a rule to us. They say everyone gets this treatment, but, like, you only get one loaf now. And I think it's because Mark so many that they're like, this guy. We're losing money on him. So the complimentary loaves of. The complimentary loaves of bread, we're limiting them just to one when we walk in.
CJ
One time, Mark came down to the lake early because he was dropping off a couple loaves of bread at all the local restaurants that we're gonna go to that weekend.
Ben
We got three lows last night, all.
CJ
In front of my. Ate all of them.
Ryan
I really have been coming up with good, like, children's movies ideas. I think if we ever, like, quit doing this or the company is able to Expand. I think I'd like to write movies because I think you can write movies and be really stupid and then someone else smart makes them happen.
Ken
Probably, yeah. I mean.
CJ
Cartoons would be super easy.
Ken
Yeah, you can just.
Ben
The thing that scares me about writing a movie is like, let's say you fully committed, like you were really liking this idea, so that the idea is one thing, and then you turn it into a movie, like nights and nights and nights of writing. And then you like hand it to someone and they don't want to just revise it. They're like, nah, yeah. Shit, that would be heartbreaking.
Ryan
I'll just take this one and all the way home just by myself. I wrote it in the car to Fargo, dude. I, like, got in the car, was going to Fargo, and there was a fly in there with me, me. And I was like, damn, this fly. Like, I'm taking him 50 miles away from the home that he was at before. Right. And so the movie would be about this bug that gets trapped in a car and then it gets. It goes on a road trip with a family, right? And so the bug's stressing, it's like freaking out. And then they get to like an amusement park. The family in the car gets to the amusement park, opens the door, and there's a ton of other bugs there trying to find their way home. I don't know what you call it. Maybe a Bug's life or something.
CJ
It's actually pretty good, Ryan. Yeah. See that?
Ryan
It's like a character building event.
CJ
What's like the grocery store movie with like all the animated foods.
Ryan
Sausage party.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
It takes like a weird.
Ryan
Yeah, weird twist at the end.
Ken
At the end?
Ryan
Yeah, like an adult.
Ben
It's like, you know, like when. When the. In Toy Story when they get separated from the house, they gotta get back.
Ryan
Oh, yeah, it's kind of same thing.
CJ
Rip off from Toy Story.
Ryan
No, I didn't know that it was. But this one's different.
Ken
I. I obviously don't know how to make cartoons, but if I could just write the story for a cartoon. And the cartoon characters are just us, so it's just basically our show. But we don't gotta, like, coerce or like, you know, try and like, make this play out the way that we're hoping because oftentimes we're like, got an idea, but, like, no one else has filled in on it. And we're kind of hoping it's gonna go this way. So we're kind of trying to, like, maneuver so it. The outcome comes out to the way it. It. It does for the video. But if it was a. If it was a freaking cartoon, I could just be like, all right, so he says this. He says this, this, this, and then this happens. Like, it'd be. And so I swear we could make a cartoon show later on in life, and we just have all of our characters and we just embellish everything about us and make it a hundred times funnier.
CJ
I could see it, and it would.
Ken
It would be so funny, too, because you could just make whatever happen.
CJ
Like, Ken's just a little bit. Bit bigger and more of Ken, and then Evan's just a little bit shorter, but more.
Ken
But like, you just make it like everyone will just be kind of just clowned on and you can just make anything happen. Like, it would be.
Ryan
It is, in a way, kind of like South Park. Like, they based those off of characters that they knew.
Ken
Did they?
Ryan
In their town?
Ken
Yeah, they actually did.
Ryan
I mean, not like, exactly, but some of them are.
Ken
No, I didn't know that. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure, honestly, making cartoons will be easier and easier. Realistically, all. All this is all you need. Need a person who can write up, write the story, a person who does the animation. Some people doing voices.
Ryan
Dude, someone said, type in the AI.
Ken
Put it together.
Evan
Just gonna be.
Ken
Put it together, and then everything. Wherever you're distributing it. So whether you're going Comedy Central or just YouTube or Netflix, wherever.
Ryan
Actually a pretty good idea, I think we can make.
Ken
You don't even gotta do shit. You just.
Ryan
Just sit back, probably, and just think, be funny. Yeah, we are. You're already doing.
Ken
We could do that.
CJ
Cartoon Boys tv.
Ken
No. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe we go. Maybe we go children's show with it, and it goes on Nickelodeon. I'd rather. I'd rather be more adult humor. I think it'd be way funnier.
CJ
How about, like, all the weird kind of like, adult jokes that are in cartoons that. Like spongebob, I think was pretty notorious for doing that where, like, you know, there were so many different references that as a kid, you don't think twice about. And then as an adult watching it, you're like, is he, like, saying what I think he's saying?
Ben
And some of them are really hidden. I just remember seeing, like. Some of them are like, okay, I get that that's funny, that they're.
CJ
They were chill, putting, like, sandy cheeks.
Ben
But, yeah, just stuff like that. Like, that's funny. And it's like, it's fine. But I just remember seeing one. I Still don't know if this is real, but spongebob was, like, buried in the sand, and then crabs, like, grabbed him by the nose and pulled him out of the sand. And then when he was holding him, SpongeBob was upside down. And then it, like, pans down and his. His face is all, like, exposed. Like, his nose was just there. He was not holding him by his nose. What?
Ryan
Ken, could you look these up? Yeah.
Ken
Like, you ever. You ever heard of, like, they have all these conspiracy theories of, like, what the underlying message was for spongebob? Or, like, Rugrats has, like, these, like, they have these crazy things where spongebob.
Ryan
Conspiracy theories are crazy.
Ken
It's kind of like. Like, do I think that's actually the real underlying thing? Probably not, but. But it's easy to, like, you know, kind of. Oh, nice. I like this video. What are you doing, lad?
Ben
Squidward said I can help by burying myself.
Ken
Oh, my gosh, dude.
CJ
Nick, is that real?
Ken
There's no way. No way. That's right. That's funny, dude. The way they chopped it, I'm sure. Yeah, that's hilarious.
Ryan
Good jokes out there in kids tv.
Ben
Well, I'll catch you guys on missed connections.
Ryan
We chatted for an hour. It wasn't long enough. Let's do it again next week.
Ken
Yeah, let's do it again next week. Subscribe if you guys are not already. We post a podcast every week. And thanks for listening.
Ben
Cheers.
Episode Title: Ben & Evan Were Out of Control at NASCAR
Date: April 30, 2024
In this lighthearted, behind-the-scenes episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah—recap their wild experience at a NASCAR weekend. The conversation spans hilarious travel stories, close calls, midwestern vs. southern hospitality, interactions with celebrities and influencers, party antics at the legendary Buc-ee’s, and even a deep dive into the world of eBay sales and Craigslist missed connections. With their signature camaraderie and playful ribbing, the episode delivers a blend of outrageous tales, friendly debate, and insight into their creator lifestyle.
On NASCAR’s Appeal:
“It’s one of those things you have to experience in person…when they come by, it’s like nothing you’ve ever heard before and then you feel it in your chest.”
— CJ, (26:39)
On Influencer Events:
“They just never stopped TikTok.”
— Ken, (18:23)
On Southern Hospitality:
“Them people were sweeter than an Alabama sweet tea.”
— Ben, (30:56)
On Trying to Stay Sober:
“I just couldn’t help myself, so I got back on the liquor at NASCAR...Was it a good time? It was more fun than I remember.”
— CJ, (33:17)
On Partying at Buc-ee’s:
“I didn't want to, like, get arrested at BUC EE's, so I just played dead.”
— Ben, (38:50)
On Craigslist Oddities:
“As the stink grew, you continued to deny your flatulence, but it was evident. I tried to get rid of the stench by waving two loaves of bread.”
— Ben (as Craigslist poster), (53:06)
The episode is relaxed, irreverent, and filled with good-natured teasing. The CboysTV crew’s friendly banter makes every minor mishap or social interaction a source of collective amusement. There’s plenty of genuine appreciation for the unique American experience of NASCAR and southern culture, and for their own offbeat adventures.
Even without prior knowledge of CboysTV, this episode delivers a vivid slice of Midwestern creator life—complete with road trip blunders, YouTube stunts, influencer parties, and earnest debates over eBay, TikTok, and adult cartoon humor. If you tune in, be ready for laughs, self-deprecating stories, and the feeling of hanging out with longtime friends after a wildly memorable weekend.