CboysTV Answers Your Questions

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: "CboysTV Answers Your Questions"

Date: October 4, 2022
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah

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Overview

In this lively episode, the CboysTV crew dives into fan-submitted questions, offering candid insights on their business, friendships, creativity, and personal growth. The conversation roams from Evan’s surprise truck upgrade and behind-the-scenes YouTube pranks to sincere discussions about work-life balance, hometown living, content reinvention, and staying grounded. With trademark Midwest humor and transparency, the guys let listeners in on what makes their group (and channel) tick.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Evan’s Surprise Raptor Truck [00:00–09:00]

• The episode opens with a recap of the group’s elaborate prank on Evan. They staged a fake vehicle theft, only for it to be a cover for gifting him a fully-kitted Gen 1 Ford Raptor.
• The prank involved hiding the truck and his dirt bikes, with full commitment to making it believable—including checking Evan’s location to keep the surprise.
• The emotional rollercoaster had Evan feeling sick over the apparent loss, only to be overjoyed at the surprise.
• CJ and Mike muse about the suspense and logistics of pulling it off, joking about how easy (and tempting) car theft felt.
• Evan's gratitude is clear, and the group reinforces their camaraderie:

  "You've been here a short time, but you've made a big impact, and we love having you around." — CJ [08:14]

Notable Quote:

"The low of, like, no insurance on my bikes ... to, like, gaining a sick truck. That’s a big turnaround in like two hours." — Evan [03:27]

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2. Finding New Hobbies & Work-Life Balance [10:00–12:20]

• The group explores the search for hobbies outside work and the challenge of separating fun from filming.
• Golf and personal tinkering projects are floated as ideas, with tongue-in-cheek suggestions about car theft as a “side hustle.”
• They joke about the trials of finding activities strictly for leisure, given how work and play often overlap.

Fun Moment:

“Stealing cars. Oh my gosh. Stealing cars. Yeah. Want to do this? Mike, me and you could be your… new side hustle.” — CJ [12:22]

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3. Staying (or Leaving) Your Hometown [17:00–21:00]

• A listener asks about the pros and cons of living where you grew up.
• The Cboys discuss the strong appeal of their small Minnesota town, but agree it’s valuable to see the world—even if for a year.
• Discussion about possibly buying/renting a place in Florida resurfaces, reflecting their ongoing debate about chasing sun versus sticking to their roots.
• Nostalgic and genuine, they note how community bonds anchor their love for home.

Notable Quotes:

"If you're happy where you're at, stay there. I personally love it here." — CJ [18:44]

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4. Florida, Hurricanes, and Weather Realities [21:30–26:27]

• The recent devastation in Florida by Hurricane Ian is discussed, with personal anecdotes about friends affected.
• They compare Midwest winters to hurricane risks, admitting their relief at missing certain natural disasters.
• The limitations of insurance coverage for Florida homeowners catch their attention.

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5. Drinking Culture & Its Impact [27:20–30:36]

• A fan asks, “If you couldn’t drink, how would your lives be different?”
• Universal agreement that life would be healthier, more productive, but perhaps a little less fun.
• Candid admissions about bar tabs, with CJ revealing he’s spent $10,000 at a local spot since 2019—a stat that shocks and amuses everyone.
• Reflection on how social drinking blends into their local culture and downtime, but also on its financial and time costs.

Memorable Exchange:

“How much did I have to spend to get this? $10,000. I've spent $10,000… and I got my Rewards card in 2019.” — CJ [30:16]
“That is disturbing because we only go to Zorbas like 25% of the time.” — Evan [30:16]

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6. Behind-the-Scenes of Content Creation [33:52–55:33]

a. Family Reactions to Content [33:52–36:40]

• The crew discusses how parents respond to their more outrageous podcast and video content.
• Most are comfortable with family knowing, and note their content has matured over time.

b. Using Personal Vehicles in Videos [37:17–41:21]

• Inquiry into whether members get compensated if their cars/toys are damaged in videos.
• Broadly, everyone accepts it as a collective investment ("for the greater good").

Quote:

"Many days someone else is doing more than me. So if that's my thing, it's my time to shine." — Ryan [39:09]

c. Dealing with Repetitiveness & Longevity [43:39–49:59]

• They explain efforts to avoid repetitive content, keep creativity fresh, and justify reinvesting in bigger, more inventive video ideas.
• Past experiences of resisting algorithm pressure in favor of authenticity are shared.

“We just keep reinvesting... and keep reinventing and growing.” — Ben [43:50]
"Other than the thin ice vids, we've never really repeated ourselves." — CJ [46:02]

d. Merchandise & Design Process [50:13–56:10]

• Mike (Ben) delves into the creative process for merch—finding inspiration everywhere, using an ever-growing “puke board” for unused designs, and curating what feels fun and authentic.
• The balance of originality vs. drawing from what’s already recognizable (parody, classic logos) is addressed.
• Simplicity often wins:

  "Just a basic font right on the shirt. Simple. People love it. Goes. Sells out three times in a row." — CJ [54:20]

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7. YouTube and Hunting [57:46–59:41]

• While fans want hunting videos, YouTube’s policies make this nearly impossible.
• The team is candid about the pleasures of going hunting off-camera, respecting platform guidelines while finding fulfillment outside filming.

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8. Reflections on Success & Starting Out [61:04–68:39]

• The gang reflects on not knowing if CboysTV would work, initial doubts, and the motivation that kept them grinding.
• They agree that focusing on one step/goals at a time—and enjoying small wins—was crucial.
• The group emphasizes gratitude, the importance of celebrating milestones, and staying humble.

“You gotta just keep focusing on that next step. Don’t focus on three steps ahead… just take it one step at a time, no matter what you’re doing.” — CJ [66:48]

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9. The Story Behind the "Dog" in their Outro [69:13–71:14]

• The “dog” is a nod to Duke, the late canine mayor of Cormorant, MN—immortalized as the channel’s quirky copyright mascot.
• The idea was inspired by classic TV outros, adding a hometown touch to each video.

“The mayor of Cormorant was a dog... So really funny, Duke.” — CJ [70:09]

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10. Lighting Round: Hottest Female Celebs [73:09–74:03]

• Megan Fox and Anna de Armas get top nods.
• Mike confesses a long-standing Emma Watson crush.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On YouTube longevity:

  "I think we’re only getting better." — Ben [45:53]

• On small steps:

  "Better take a really small step and then be happy that you made that step than ... being scared to take a big one and then not doing it at all." — Ben [67:15]

• On authenticity:

  "We've just done it this way for so long ... all these bits ... I feel like it's just more entertaining and it's more, like, personable, and it just makes for a way better show..." – CJ [49:23]

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Episode Timestamps

• 0:00–9:00 — Evan’s truck prank story
• 10:00–13:20 — Hobbies & healthy balance
• 17:00–22:00 — Hometown vs. moving away
• 21:30–26:27 — Hurricanes in Florida
• 27:20–31:21 — Drinking culture, funny money spent
• 33:52–36:40 — Parents & CboysTV content
• 37:17–41:21 — Using personal assets, compensation
• 43:39–49:59 — Content creativity & avoiding repetition
• 50:13–56:10 — Merch design process, favorite collabs
• 57:46–59:41 — Hunting on (and off) YouTube
• 61:04–68:39 — Success, motivation & mindset
• 69:13–71:14 — The outro dog explained
• 73:09–74:03 — Favorite female celebrities

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Tone and Highlights

• Warm and irreverent, with lots of storytelling riffing and inside jokes.
• Honest about the challenges of being content creators, especially around revenue, motivation, and YouTube’s constraints.
• Underscored by recurring gratitude for the journey, each other, and their loyal fanbase.

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Conclusion

This episode offers a transparent, playful, and sometimes surprisingly deep look into the world of CboysTV—balancing high jinks, business, growth, and their love for their hometown and channel. Whether you’re a long-time subscriber or just getting started, this is a quintessential peek behind the handlebars.

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Transcript

[A]

Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, Good morning Cormorant to the three people in Cormorant listening. We got a great podcast for you guys today. We're going to be answering some of your guys's questions that you had asked a couple podcasts back. We missed it on the previous one. And then obviously we'll be talking about Evan's new truck and all that. I don't even know where we want to begin. Probably on the truck. Yeah.

[B]

Avoid.

[C]

How does it feel, dude? Are you sad that your Chevy's gone?

[D]

I may be a little bit sad because it was a good truck and.

[A]

It never really kind of the end of an era.

[B]

Mm.

[A]

Evan. A Chev.

[B]

Yeah. But before that you had a Chevy too, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

So it's almost like I've been driving the same truck for like five years.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

For those of you that don't know what we're talking about, this morning Mike and I hijacked full on Grand Theft Auto'd Evans truck out of our driveway as. As well as his dirt bikes. Both of them. And then we basically kind of punked him and ended up surprising him with a new. Well, new to him, Ford Raptor that we had just like spent the weekend building up. It's in our most recent YouTube video. It should be live now, so you can go check that out.

[B]

But so we were looking to buy. Having a new truck. For a while all of us were on the same page. Yeah, let's get him another Chevy. That makes sense. But then we were like. And that's.

[A]

There's nothing wrong, Chev. It just made sense.

[B]

Right? There's nothing wrong with a fresh Silverado. But we're like, what is something that could kind of generate more content? And that's when we started moving towards the Raptor.

[A]

Well also though, I think the main thing was we were like, shit, like, I want to get him some cooler.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

There was like nice trucks and there's not nothing wrong with those. But we're like, I don't know, like we drive around cool cars. He should have a cool car, you know.

[C]

Exactly. Didn't feel quite as special or exciting.

[B]

Got a good deal on that. It's. Pop a picture up here. Stock silver Raptor had Crandall come down wrapped. It had new wheels from custom offsets, some of the sickest ones we could find. Wheels, tires, sick headlights from Morimoto. It is sharp looking.

[A]

Yeah. And it's like a 10 out of 10 gen 1 raptor as far as condition goes. I'm not used to seeing them in that good a condition, dude.

[D]

And I think that's how it's like. I can't really be sad about the old Chevy going by when this Raptor is so sick.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Ev, you've been just grinning all day, and I've been grinning too, dude.

[D]

If someone just gave you a truck, you'd be cheesing for at least 24 hours.

[A]

I would be too, dude. It was nerve wracking for us, though, leading up to this. Cause, for one, we had to put it all together and then keep it a secret from you.

[B]

And we've had the truck for, like, three weeks now.

[A]

Yeah, but, like, we finished wrapping that thing an hour before you got here. So, like, we didn't even have time to enjoy it. We had to pull it out, get a couple shots, and then hide it away.

[D]

You guys are lucky I don't come into work early.

[A]

I was checking your location the whole time. We're like, he's an hour out, he's an hour out.

[B]

And yeah, usually we send Evan home for, like, I mean, anywhere from two days to four days at most. And then we sent you home. It was. You almost spent, like, a week at home.

[A]

Week vacation.

[D]

Six days at least.

[A]

Comes back and gets a new truck.

[C]

I gotta go on vacation.

[A]

Come work at Seaboy's tv.

[B]

Dude, it was so awesome. And the best part for me was I was hoping you'd shed a tear. And you were so close, and I'll take it.

[A]

Dude, Evan, you were about to cry when you.

[B]

A lot of emotions in general.

[A]

Yeah, you were at. At the low, and then you went straight up to the highest high.

[D]

Well, dude, the low of, like, no insurance on my bikes. Insurance probably not covering my truck because I left the keys in it. So I just lost everything to, like, gaining a sick truck. That's a big turnaround in, like, two hours.

[A]

Yeah, it was such a perfect storm, too, because obviously we had the golf ball bandit come last week and. And leave the golf balls. And then that same day, some random person, which I'm assuming as a podcast listener, came and dropped off a lemonade stand that they had built for selling lemonade as well as the golf balls. There was no chubby kid with it, though. That was where I was confused. I was like, what do we got to find?

[C]

This isn't Wayfair.

[A]

So it was like, wow, that's weird. And then when Mike and I came in the night and dumped balls and stole it, it was just like, wow. Like, it had to have been the same person. It all made sense.

[B]

We're wearing masks and everything we could possibly do to make it look legit. So like, I mean I had a good time. I'm gonna.

[E]

So fun.

[B]

I think I'm gonna start stealing cars.

[A]

Yeah, I think Mike and I might turn to a life of crime after this. Cuz it's just.

[B]

It was so easy now.

[A]

We might hypothetically. But yeah, it was easy too. So like dude, when we were get. We got up at like 5 in the morning and. And like got all of our stuff on black. Our frickin. We had mass and we're driving over there and I don't know about you, but I was like just like kind of trying to get in character for.

[C]

It in the zone.

[A]

And I legitimately felt like man, my life took just a turn and now I have just resorted to stealing vehicles. And I was just like we're doing this and it worked.

[B]

I mean just the best part about all of this. It's really hard to something that big, especially like pan it out without any sort of sussed vibes or anything. It's really difficult to do.

[A]

Yeah, there's so many variables. That's why it was so nerve wracking because it's just one little thing goes wrong. It's like the whole thing shot and kind of the surprise is shot. It's like we got. You just wanted it to be good for the video and just everything and.

[D]

You looked so natural. Like I watched that security footage, you know, a bunch of times and I'm really looking for something in it and all I could see is two hoodlums making off with my truck and just getting more mad not thinking, oh that's my friends just being like these pieces of crap.

[A]

The best part is when we rolled up and you still had your bike in the back. I was like this is perfect. And then your pitter was leaning on it and we both just looked at each other and grabbed it up to just took everything you owned.

[D]

Left me with nothing.

[B]

If your bike would have actually gotten stolen, that would have been equally if not more sad than the truck. Yeah, you just got that pride and joy. Yeah.

[A]

I mean you're getting mad too Ev. Because I was laughing because I was like this is so funny because he's buying in on it. But also then I had to play it off and you're like, oh my. So funny cj.

[C]

I know dude. I did feel bad because you could just tell that you were getting really rattled. And I was like, it'll be worth Because I know we're doing something good, but if we're just doing that and just stealing it just to play a prank on you, I would have felt so bad because I could see that you were obviously quite upset, and it sucks when someone steals from you to use. Feel so violated.

[D]

I felt like I was going to puke. Like, reality had set in that my truck actually got stolen. My bikes are gone. Maybe we're going to recover my total truck, which. What's that worth?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And just like, I guess I'm just gonna have to try to. You know, I thought we were gonna go film something else today. So it's like, how am I gonna act normal while taking this big loss? Like, I don't want to rub off on the crew.

[B]

But that was a total roller coaster there. It was like, part of you was about to vomit because you were so. Just anxious and upset, and then the other part of you was like, well, you know, we're gonna get this figured out. I got. We got a job to do here. We got more things to film. Like, you. You were ready to, like, go, we're gonna film rollers of the Broncos. And you're. You're ready to, like, just accept it.

[A]

Just take the L for the like a man.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Like, once it's gone, short of like, calling the cops, I guess, and reporting it, I mean, you can't. You could drive around and look, but that's a waste of time. You're never gonna find it.

[A]

Is park it out down the road right in their front lawn.

[D]

So, yeah, I just figured it was a loss and just had to move on.

[A]

God, that was funny. That was fun, though. Straight up. That was a lot of fun. Being that it all came together right.

[B]

Yeah, it was one of the bigger, like, surprises we've done.

[A]

Pretty intricate prank. I mean, we had to hop in that other car, and there's a lot of moving components.

[C]

Well, have you deserved that, Raptor?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yes. You've been here a short time, but you've made a big impact, and we love having you around.

[A]

No, you 100% deserve it.

[C]

The worst part was having you be gone for seven days.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, that was rough. I think Nikki appreciate it, but I was getting lonesome.

[E]

That's good. Hey, did you tell.

[A]

What's like. Like, did you tell Nikki or your parents or anything?

[D]

Yeah, so I told Nikki because I actually called her this morning when I thought it was sincerely stolen, and. And she was like, oh, those guys are probably playing a prank on you. And I'm like, no, like, and then I explained all X, Y, and Z on the security footage, and we've already, like, whatever, talked to the sheriff, and, yeah, it's not a prank. This is real. So then when I told her afterwards, I mean, she was super hype. She's been on me to, like, buy something nicer anyways. And, yeah, I called my mom and she was super hype.

[A]

What'd you say?

[B]

She.

[D]

Well, I actually let her down the trail that it got stolen. Like, I went for a few minutes and she's like, what's going on? Oh, well, this morning or last night, my truck got stolen and went through the whole thing, said whatever, and we pulled up. And then I, like, flipped the FaceTime around to the truck and confused.

[C]

She's like, what?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And so she was super hyped, super happy for me.

[A]

And what'd she say?

[D]

I don't even. Just that it's awesome. Just super happy, I guess. I don't even know.

[B]

Cool.

[A]

That is awesome. She didn't say anything about me, though.

[B]

Nothing.

[D]

She said something about that annoying little Ben.

[A]

I asked. And then, because I'm out, comes to Ben. Maybe this is just big news for me, but last night I discovered something that I feel like could help a lot of people. You know how when you're, like, laying in bed and your girl is like, I want to go to bed. But you don't want to. You want to keep watching YouTube on, like, the TV. You can connect your AirPods to the TV. Did anyone else know that? How fucking cool is that? Maybe it doesn't know.

[C]

I didn't actually.

[A]

That's a big impact on my life because I don't have to stop watching then and go to bed.

[D]

But I could relate to that, though, with using the Xbox and the headset. But I've never thought about watching TV with a headset.

[A]

I'm laying in bed with my AirPods. It was the best.

[C]

And it's just right there.

[A]

Yeah, connect it. Bluetooth. I was amazed, actually. I don't know. Maybe it's not as big. No, that's pretty cool. I thought it was a big deal. Let's move on to the. Some of the questions that we had been asked a couple weeks ago. I actually had something written down because I was genuinely curious because I've been thinking about it myself. I want to find something that's like a. Like, a hobby that has nothing to do with work. Like, nothing to do with work, nothing to do with, like, drinking, anything like that. Just, like, a new hobby that I'm doing strictly because I enjoy it. No camera, nothing.

[B]

And you. Oh, and you're. This is open ended.

[C]

You.

[B]

You haven't found it yet.

[A]

No, I was going to say golf.

[D]

But you said no drinking.

[A]

Yeah, that's true. I guess you can drink and you're.

[D]

Thinking, okay, then golf. Golf would be a good one then.

[B]

And you're thinking, you want to find something completely fresh.

[A]

I'm just curious.

[B]

I got a big list of hobbies that. Yeah. That I already have, that I'd love to tackle.

[A]

But what is some.

[B]

I mean it would be like. It'd be like golfing, fishing. Two things that take a lot of time, that I really enjoy doing, that I strictly just don't do. Because they take time.

[A]

Yeah, too much time.

[D]

You could like build one of those ships in the bottle.

[C]

I mean.

[A]

Yeah, like I'd be so mad doing that.

[B]

Like welding would be fun. Tearing down like my old like my 150 and painting the frame black like that. That, that to me seems.

[C]

Seems like a good time throwing rocks at trains.

[B]

Right? Throwing like hitting rocks with big baseball bats.

[C]

Throwing mailboxes.

[A]

Stealing cars. Oh my gosh. Stealing cars. Yeah. Wanna do this? Mike, me and you could be your.

[C]

Guys'S new side hustle.

[A]

Fuck. We know it'd be profitable until we go to jail.

[B]

I was just gonna say, I was like, if you didn't get caught, it'd be a very good investment return there.

[D]

And you guys kind of only did do the easy part. Like turning the stolen vehicle into money is probably harder than getting the vehicle.

[A]

Yeah, I agree. You just gotta know the right guy.

[B]

Yeah. At the scrapyard.

[A]

No, dude, you don't want to just scrap it. You want to sell it. If you steal a nice enough vehicle, you bring it to the chop shop and they'll take certain parts off. Or you put it in a container and you get. You know what? Never mind. I don't want to. Don't want to get in the container you ship it over to. Like where do they send it? Yeah, they send it to just like third world countries. Pretty crazy. No, I mean, and they do that a lot with like the mopar vehicles. Because they can steal them. Yeah, just like an iPad. Like it's basically some kind of. I don't know what, what's it called?

[C]

It's like a code repeater.

[A]

Yeah, what's it called when you have like, like the RFI code? It's basically just like you have just like a key, but you have it on your iPad and you can have it in There. And it'll unlock the car, start it, and they drive that thing off so crazy. Like, for a while there was like a ring of people that were going around and hitting, like, dealerships. They would, like, be in and out so goddamn fast with these, like, hellcats. More so.

[B]

But can you imagine that being your line of business?

[A]

It's like modern day fast and furious.

[B]

I don't know why you do it. If you're. If you weren't, like, if it wasn't your business, you know what I'm saying? If you weren't making money off of it and doing multiple. I don't know why you do it. Like, why would you steal a car and flip it and just be done after that? I guess that's quick cash, but I.

[A]

If you need it.

[B]

Yeah. People who, like, steal cars and flip them, like it's a. An ongoing thing.

[C]

Well, I always think this when I watch, like, movies when there's like big drug dealers and stuff like that. Do you ever watch one of those movies and they get super loaded and you're like, they just stop.

[B]

Just quick, never stop.

[C]

You're already good, dude. You got more money. Your whole family's.

[B]

All the brothers, they're tearing off drywall and putting money in the walls in certain. Certain, you know, drug related. It just doesn't make sense. Like they can't stop also. Well, whenever. Whenever it's drug related. And then there's the higher up boss. And then you say, I want to get out. And they're like, well, if you want me to shoot you, yeah, you can get out. You know, like, that's sometimes how it is, but yeah.

[A]

So anyways, that's what you do with the vehicle after you steal it.

[B]

Send it to Zimbabwe.

[A]

So you just need to make some connections in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. Then find a shipping guy. Also some shipping containers. We could probably use the ones down below us.

[C]

Well, fellers, you want to get into some questions?

[B]

Yes, I would love to.

[C]

Got a good. A good handful of some good ones. I filtered them out here. We'll pull Ben in here too.

[B]

Howdy, Ben. All right, hit us.

[E]

Good job, Ev. Congrats on the raptor, dude.

[A]

The only thing your raptor needs now I realize it, is this shocker on the back.

[E]

Well, we were gonna. We were actually gonna get a sticker for the back. This is hog on board. You guys listen to the podcast? You know, Evan's hog. And then we were thinking, well, what if we just went a step far, farther, and then we just got a license plate made for him that just said Hog or Big Hog or the Hog, something like that.

[A]

Honestly around town back goes back on Big Hog. He thinks he's just the man or.

[E]

Something changed the dude rolling around with a neon green dirt bike in a bright red fire truck. Raptor. The dude's ego is just massive.

[A]

Now he's a part of Junior Firefighters Association.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The Junior Firefighters of America.

[B]

But also, I mean I forget about this sometimes too because there's the fun aspect of it and all of our fans seeing it. So like Steve as my license plate. I love it's hilarious. And then people who also watch the channel and this and that. That's funny Steve. Then I forget random people that see it then I don't. Maybe it's not so funny.

[E]

That's anyone ever say anything about think.

[A]

That'S nobody is ever fucking custom license plate.

[B]

No. Yeah, totally. The Hog or Big Hog. But so again if he fans are seeing him, it's all good. We're seeing them all. All the people that know what's going on don't think anything of it. Haha. That's funny. Other people are like this dickhead drive. Yeah. Driving a bright.

[E]

You think people look at like hog like he's a dick.

[B]

Well, yeah.

[D]

It says Big Hog. I jump out of the.

[A]

He goes.

[E]

They're gonna look at him.

[B]

The.

[E]

I don't know. It's just an idea. Sleep on it.

[C]

What's it like staying in your hometown as adults? I'm from a small town and think about whether or not I'll stay or leave after school. Where did all you guys want to end up?

[B]

I've heard this many times. I think they. People are like, no matter what you do, you don't have to move away forever, but move out of your hometown. I definitely believe in that. It can be for a year, move somewhere else at some point, for some period of time. Get away from your hometown. Just so you know something else. So I believe in that. So I think I would. But I have no idea where.

[E]

The thing is, is if we weren't doing YouTube the only other occupation we could do is like work at a gas station or be like a bartender.

[B]

Okay. I mean.

[E]

I suppose. Yeah.

[A]

You can drive back and forth.

[B]

A lot of. A lot of stuff you can do.

[E]

I guess I was just thinking of like what you would do like living directly in cormorant. Like there's not. It's basically a village. You don't have a whole lot of.

[B]

Options, but definitely do well having a lawn mowing business or being A bartender.

[A]

True.

[E]

Honestly, I get asked that question by my girlfriend a lot because, you know, like, she's like, I don't know if I want to live here in like this small town like the rest of my life or if I do, like, come back here, you know, will I regret not leaving for a couple years if, like, I want to come back and like, start a family and like, here forever? Like, would I regret not leaving for a couple years? I'm like, honestly, I understand. But like, now where we're at is like, I don't really have an option, so I don't even think about it.

[C]

Yeah, definitely.

[E]

Where it's like, what am I going to do? Just up and sell the shop, quit the YouTube channel and then go and start a completely different occupation? Otherwise I have to convince five of my best friends to move with me somewhere and hey guys, let's just, let's move somewhere else and just keep making videos.

[A]

I think that you should go wherever you want to be. If you're happy where you're at, stay there. I personally love it here.

[C]

Me too.

[A]

I love it here. And, and we're legitimately the youngest people here that walk around at least and socialize with other people. Because, dude. So for instance, there is a. There's a benefit at one of the restaurants that we go to a lot of and they asked if we'd donate. So I went over there and brought a bunch of merch and 509 helmets and stuff from all of us to donate to the benefit. And I walk in there, it's already hopping at the restaurant. I've never been there so early because it was at like 5 o'. Clock. Normally we're still filming or working or doing something, but I went in to step, you know, just drop stuff off. Everyone there is probably 50 plus average age over 60 because they're all retired, you know, and they, they retired and they had money and they got these lake homes. They're just about to leave and go to Florida for the winter. But everyone's hey, how's it going? You know, And I'm talking to them and I was like, honestly, before I even got there, excited to go in to see who I would see. And I just, I don't know, I just love it here. I like the people, so I wouldn't want to go anywhere else.

[E]

That's still an option though. If you guys have been listening for a while, last year we talked about after we went to Florida, we were like, shit, we should buy a place here. That's still an option. We might do that. But then again, if we get like wifed up or have kids, then we're.

[A]

Kind of back to like travel back and forth.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, we were still.

[E]

Yeah. Could they do that? Like, I don't know if we have, like that.

[A]

If you go for certain periods of time, think about actors or other businessmen or whatever, they sometimes have to go for the week and then they come home for, you know, another five, another week.

[E]

And how do you think they feel about us just going to Florida for a week?

[A]

Well, how do you think they'd feel when we're.

[E]

I, I know what you're saying, but I'm just thinking about it.

[C]

Yeah. That was actually one of the questions. I'd forgotten to copy it in, but it was like, what happened to Florida? Because last year we were so hooked on it.

[B]

That's still in the cards. And like you said, we are tied at the hip and the only way that it would ever work is if we all do it together. And I. That we, we would, we would do that because we talked about it. And logistically that would work. Yeah, it would actually work for us to rent, lease, possibly buy a place in Florida and do a month or a month and a half off and on there in the winter.

[C]

Yeah. I was driving around thinking why nothing has progressed on Florida. And I thought about us and I go, we kind of tend to deal with whatever's in front of us. And once summer came, we went, ah, we're not thinking about Florida, but like, December is going to hit and we're going to be like, yo, we need to get a place in.

[B]

Totally, totally.

[A]

I don't know why. And I know renting is not ideal. I just kind of like the idea of at least the first winter doing it.

[B]

Getting your feet wet.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Exactly.

[A]

How often you use it, if it's actually something that would be good, but then you don't really have your own land type of stuff, which is a problem too. But I don't know. And it turns out, thank goodness we didn't buy a place in Florida.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Because.

[A]

Not saying that we would be on the water, but it sounds like, I mean, obviously there's a lot of damage and that. That sucks, dude. Like, I, I feel bad for anybody who's in Florida or owns property there that has taken a loss right now because as we've been finding out, at least I newly found out, if you're close to the water and your house gets messed up, insurance don't cover it.

[E]

Like leaving your Keys in your truck.

[A]

Yeah, same thing.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

This is worse.

[C]

Well, so, yeah, we have like, our friend Levi, he's down in Sarasota, um, and he's an apartment building and he stayed and he's been sending me videos. And it is crazy. I never realized, really. Like, so Hurricane Ian. Freaking Ian. Ian hit and it was, I think, like 100 and like 40 mile an hour winds. And it's been. Have it. They've been having 140 mile an hour winds for like 4, 14 hours at the point.

[B]

That's not the gust. Like, it's a steady.

[C]

That's the wind. Like, this storm is literally moving at 10 miles an hour. So it's effectively like having a tornado over you for an entire day. And it's raining. It rained like 15 inches. When around the wall. 15 inches of rain.

[E]

So is this a bad hurricane?

[C]

It is.

[E]

Like, how often does a hurricane of.

[C]

This size something like this has never hit Florida. And I believe this is one of the most powerful hurricanes ever.

[B]

Oh, wow. Yeah.

[E]

Like, it really bad.

[B]

Historical, I should say.

[A]

No one's getting hurt, obviously.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, I mean, hopefully people were able to evacuate. So what was like, they had a good warning.

[C]

Yeah, they definitely had the warning that came up.

[E]

What was Hurricane Katrina? Because when I think of like the.

[A]

Worst hurricane devastation, that was that Louisiana, right? That was New Orleans, I thought.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I think they. It seemed like. I remember that as a kid and seeing it.

[B]

Yeah, that was.

[A]

Were they caught, like, were they not suspecting it? Were they caught off guard? Because there was like, people. So many dead.

[C]

It's because New Orleans sits below sea level and like all like the levees failed.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

People were like, trapped on their roofs. People died. There is always terrible.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

And I think it's just because it was. There are so many people, they just can't, like, what are you going to do? I mean, obviously you should leave.

[A]

And some people don't have anywhere to go.

[C]

Yeah, you can. It's like, what are you going to do? Or you'll sleep in your.

[A]

You don't have money miles away. You don't have a car. You're like, what do you do? Straight up. And everyone's trying to leave. You can't leave, you know, so.

[E]

But so like, what's going on now in Florida to, like, all these buildings so flooding or I'm just ripping the roofs off.

[C]

The worst part is this storm surge, which I believe this is like the worst storm surge storm ever. And they're getting like up to 15ft. So like the ocean is rising 15ft. I'll pull up videos of Fort Myers beach, which is a place like I vacationed. And like it's getting into the second level of houses across the entire island.

[A]

What?

[C]

Like the island's pretty small, like probably a mile wide. So the entire island is covered like probably 10ft of water. And it's just like literally ocean waves just rolling through the town. Like it. It's the most crazy thing I've ever seen.

[E]

It's like complete destruction.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And I mean all those places, I don't even know like what that town's going to be like. Like I don't even know how you.

[A]

Because insurance doesn't pay for if you're in a certain zone. You were telling me, like, dude, where.

[E]

Do you go from there?

[A]

Fucking money down the drain.

[C]

Yeah. So that's the worst part. No insurance will cover it. You get like, FEMA will pay for some of it. But I think it was like 200 grand, best case. And that's like if they give you everything. And he's like, you. You don't really get that. You know, you never get the max.

[B]

Like at the end of the day you probably just have a bunch of, you know, if it's as bad as it's gonna be and is bad, the country comes together just like Katrina. People come down, people come to visit and help out and do whatever, volunteer. It's all volunteer. People donate. But like that money goes to the worst of it.

[C]

But it's still. It's like, what are you gonna do? Is everybody gonna rebuild the houses?

[B]

Exactly, exactly.

[C]

So this. I'll put this graphic.

[E]

Is it only hitting the Gulf?

[A]

Yeah. What's Miami looking like?

[C]

Miami's on the other side. I think Miami will be okay. We can go.

[B]

I think one of the craziest. I haven't seen a whole lot on it, but I saw this is the craziest gravitate.

[C]

This is how much of the area will be flooded. Like that's like legitimate underwater flooded.

[B]

No way.

[C]

Nasty.

[B]

My.

[A]

My girlfriend's dad actually lives.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

They're up in here, Cape Coral. And he's got a boat on the list, like a nice ass boat. So I don't know, maybe insurance covers that.

[E]

I mean.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So in summary, Minnesota can suck. We got blizzards, we get rain. It's not all that nice here always. But there's two things we don't have. One, fucking hurricanes and two, we don't have every bug can't kill you.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

I think that about Like Arizona too. I'm like, at least I don't have to worry about being stung by a scorpion in my sleep, you know?

[E]

And big ass snakes.

[C]

There's a big ass snakes. Exactly.

[B]

Yeah. Well, definitely be thinking praying about them.

[C]

Yeah, the whole Florida.

[B]

All of them. Like. Like that map that you just showed is. That makes me way more heartfelt about it.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

I had no idea it was that bad.

[C]

Yeah, it's pretty. And of course, you know, there's media always sense sensationalizes things, so it'll be interesting to see what really happens. But yeah, it's crazy. Click around and snap maps and it's like everybody. Like a foot of water in their front yard, you know? Yeah.

[E]

Crazy.

[C]

Okay, so I gotta. This is actually one of my favorite questions by OG Rippers. If you guys couldn't drink, how do you think that would affect your life?

[B]

We'd be fine.

[E]

I think we'd be like, way better off killing it. We'd be so much more productive. Our relationships would flourish.

[A]

Probably not as happy, though.

[E]

Yeah, I don't think we'd have as much fun.

[A]

Yeah, we would. Okay, that's the end. Yeah, we wouldn't have as much fun.

[E]

Probably be happier maybe, but we'd live a much healthier. Healthier and happier.

[B]

Yeah, I guess it's like a boring answer, but it's like, exactly what you think would happen.

[A]

Yeah. Do any of us, like Mormons?

[B]

Dude.

[A]

All the. We already pretty much only work now. I think about, like, straight up. But you would really only work. Like, you would just, like, get done working here and then you probably go home and start working on something else.

[C]

What else are you gonna do? We just work and play. There's no in between. There's no relaxation.

[A]

And the line sometimes most times blurred from work to. You're already kind of doing it. Yeah. Anyways.

[C]

But start playing.

[B]

Or even. I think there's something to be said about. I mean, Evan can definitely contest this, but we all can. So if you're about to mow the lawn, you're like, well, it's a little loaded up on tees. That's. I mean, like, I'm the same way with. If I'm going to work on my dirt bike, I will start cracking them. And it's like, what? How much faster could I work on my dirt bike if I wasn't cracking open teas or beers?

[E]

Yeah, you'd have that 150 frame powder coated by.

[B]

Yeah, like, stuff like that.

[E]

CJ would have already found his other hobby. Yeah, it is Funny though, I'd have.

[A]

A lot more money in my bank account, I'll tell you that.

[E]

So how much did you spend at Zorbas this year?

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Oh, well, I don't know how much I've spent this year but. So the way Zorbas works is it's just like this restaurant but also a hopping bar for a lot of the summer people that come around here. Because keep in mind we live in a vacation area but we still go there a lot anyways. And our buddy Brian owns a bar. Anyways, so they give you these cards if you're a local and it's like a benefits type of card. So basically every time anybody can have it. Yes.

[B]

No, it's a local card.

[C]

It's called the locals card. Anyone can have it.

[E]

Makes you feel better.

[A]

Never mind. Anyone can get this rewards card. You swipe it every time that you spend money there and it keeps track of it. And then they'll like, when you send spend certain amounts, it like adds up and you can win like a free T shirt or like a free beer or a free pizza. Anyways, I got a hundred dollar gift card which is like the end of.

[E]

The road rewards card.

[A]

That's like the highest reward you get.

[E]

You are a top tier customer.

[A]

And I asked him, I was like, what, what? How much did I have to spend to get this? $10,000. I've spent $10,000 will I when I swipe my rewards card ads. And I got my Rewards card in 2019, so that means I've done that in three years.

[E]

That's disturbing because we only go to Zorbas like 25% of the time.

[C]

That is true. Dude.

[A]

There's so much other restaurants you got by groceries. I don't know, I just, I was just pretty happy about it. I said, hey, you know, thank you for. I'm, I'm, I'm glad I'm able to help support and thanks for the good times.

[E]

So good at supporting local businesses.

[B]

That stressed me out when you told me that because I, I don't know when I got my locals card. It was before 2019, but I've also hit that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So yeah.

[B]

And I was like, oh, they used to give a bottle of Dom Perry on.

[C]

Oh, that's cool.

[B]

Cool. I thought that was cooler because, oh, I got $100 gift card to a restaurant I eat and drink at all the time, dude. Like, who cares? It kind of, but the Dom kind of cool. Pop it up with your friends.

[A]

Our buddy Ben, he's a little bit well, he's probably got, I don't know, eight years on us. He's done it four times.

[C]

Whoa.

[A]

Four times. He's gone around the sun is what they were. Yeah. That's 40 grand.

[E]

You've done it three.

[A]

And I've done it three years.

[C]

Three years.

[E]

Don't give up, man. Don't give up. By the fourth or fifth one, you might have found that hobby, though, you know? All right. I don't know, though, to answer the question honestly. We have a lot of fun outside of, like, filming and everything that is just kind of, like, brought out not by booze, but just, like, because of us. Just like, kind of being in, like, a different atmosphere and, like, more relaxed.

[A]

True.

[E]

It's like we're always just like, go, go, go. Grinding, grinding, grinding. And then that's like, our time to kind of just, like, chill and just, like, cut loose and have a good time.

[A]

We still sometimes are working while we're drinking or partying.

[E]

Yeah, we're connection. We're making connections and we're, you know, hobnobbing.

[A]

And I feel like it's a nice little reward sometimes because, like, you're working hard, like, throughout the whole day, and you're like, man, like, when I get done with this and I have a beer with dinner, it's like, you're looking forward to that. And you're like, we got to work hard and get this done, make this happen.

[E]

This is how we justify it, I think this is.

[A]

That's. Yeah, I don't know, but it's, like, a nice way of rewarding yourself for doing good.

[B]

There is, like, truth to that, because there's plenty. I wouldn't. I almost called us athletes, dude. But there's, like, a lot of events that we go to. Let's just say, like, snowmobile athletes, some of them don't drink for a good reason. There's whatever. They're keeping her fit, keeping her good. But we go to. We. We go on trips and stuff, and if we didn't do that aspect, like, go out, booze it up, like, we wouldn't meet the, like, fans that we meet, like, other, you know, Otherwise, we would just, like, hang out, I guess, like, in our hotel room or. Or, like, go bowling or something. I don't know. But, like. But we go, like. I don't know, when we went to, like, Revelstoke or something. We just end up, like, having the craziest times, and we wouldn't do that if we weren't planning on going out to drink. Right. Like, I agree.

[E]

I agree completely.

[A]

Fuck, dude.

[C]

You talked. Talked me into it. I'm.

[E]

You kind of got me fired up there, Mike.

[B]

Kind of got a thirst. Those are some of my, like, favorite times. Like, I just saw, like, a clip of Axel Hodges at Red Bud, and he's like, you know, I'm pretty sure he wasn't the only one to use this line, but he's like, I came here to ride dirt bikes and drink beer, and I'm done riding dirt bikes for the day. Everyone's like, yeah, they're just, like, so pumped. Well, people like that. And everyone was so pumped that he said that. And they're like, yes, we're all this, you know, we're all the same. So, yeah, it's a good aspect of it.

[A]

What's. What's another question?

[C]

How do you guys have these hilarious podcasts knowing your parents are just listening to everyone?

[E]

Hey, mom.

[B]

Act like they're not.

[A]

Evan's mom listens.

[D]

Yeah, my dad told me this weekend, like, yeah, me and your mom were watching some of the podcast, and she said, you can't tell Evan we watch these.

[B]

She said, you can't, dude.

[E]

Honestly, I'm pretty used to it at this point. Like, everything we do is basically online for the world to see. And, like, the parents have been watching. I would much rather have my parents watch these podcasts than our old videos.

[C]

That's what I was going to bring up, dude. I remember when we first started making our old videos, we would. We had such potty mouths, and it was just not even, like, they weren't even good swears. We were just swearing to swear. And I remember my family telling me to. Us to, you know, oh, it'd be better if you didn't swear. And we were like, no, fuck that, dude. And then now I look back and I go, oh, yeah, I wish we didn't maybe swear as much.

[A]

Honestly, me, personally, I just don't really have any problem with it. Just comes with the territory. And my parents are. I mean, I think they're all supportive. I'm 26 now, like, and I really haven't ever hid that much from them. Like, I remember, like, when I was a senior in high school, I'd been drinking beers and stuff, and it was no, like, hidden thing in our family. Obviously, they didn't support it. It's like, I really haven't hid that much. I was like, yeah, I'm going there to drink some beer. And, like, that was always your great. I've always been transparent.

[B]

Yeah, no, it's Quite the opposite. Because, like, I mean, I don't know if anyone knows this. I know you guys do. But for the first, like, year, I would say year of our channel, maybe more, I didn't even tell my parents that it existed.

[C]

No way.

[B]

Yeah. I didn't know that because I knew we were not clean at all as far as language and a few other things, but mostly language. And I just was like, if they. They're not watching the videos, I'm in better shape. So I just. They didn't know the channel existed until after a year of it, but also do.

[A]

It's like, this is. You know, if you're not relying on them, like, realistically, like, once you're an adult, you can do whatever you want, dude. Like, yeah, it might be, like, embarrassing.

[C]

It's still embarrassing.

[A]

Like, you can have that. But also, it's just, like, it's the same thing. Like, I remember when I was a kid, I used to be, like, so, like, embarrassed of the idea of, like, having a girlfriend. Because, you know when you're, like, when you go to, like, your. You go to, like, your family events, like, you got a girlfriend yet? And they kind of, like, razzie a.

[E]

Little bit and stuff.

[A]

And I always just think, like, this will be so embarrassing, like, when I grow up and actually get a girlfriend, like, have to bring her, like, around and stuff. But, like, I don't know. They're just people, too. Like, your parents have probably done all the same stuff that you've done.

[E]

Did your parents say anything about the Evan Hogg podcast?

[A]

I don't know if my parents honestly watch all of them.

[C]

Yeah, my dad always says it's tough for him to keep drive, so. Yeah, he misses some.

[E]

Some. That was, like, the one that my mom was like, I had to turn it off.

[C]

Really? Yeah, that one.

[A]

You didn't want to hear about Evan's hog?

[E]

My dad thought it was so fun.

[A]

Yeah, it's hilarious.

[E]

I think he congratulated Evan next time he saw him.

[D]

Every time I see him, he makes a comment like, the hog.

[A]

Yeah, everyone loves Evan's hog except for Ben's mom.

[E]

Thank God.

[A]

All right, what else we got?

[C]

When one of the boys uses their own vehicle, toy asset in a. In a video, do they get more of the ad rev from that video than the other boys? For instance, the main bit in the video is Ryan doing a burnout or flipping a jet ski, causing to pull up and cost him thousands. Does he get compensated?

[B]

Almost never.

[A]

No. I mean, my back bumper's all burnt and on fire. I had to buy a whole new back bumper. I was like, five grand for the gtr and it was kind of part of it.

[C]

It was a.

[A]

It was a risk I had to take.

[B]

Right. And I, I was willing to do the racing, Ken. I was like, oh, that, that was an iffy one too. Cuz I was like, completely my fault. Whose fault is it? Clearly mine.

[A]

It's like one of those things that.

[B]

I could have paid five GS for. And then next thing I know, I'm like, I just spent $10,000 to race. To race Ken, essentially.

[A]

But you also like benefit from it. And also at the same time, it's. We do determine certain things. We're like, oh, like, hey, let's say Ryan had his TRX or something and let's say it wasn't under warranty or whatever. And we were like, go drift it through the snow. And he ends up messing up a CV axle or even the tires.

[C]

Where you're going to break your tire, your destroyer tires.

[A]

Well, yeah. So like for instance, on Ryan's Camaro, this is a better example. He went and did a drift course with it and then he also did the burnouts. When you first bought it, we said we'd buy you the, you know, new set of tires for that.

[B]

Stuff like that.

[A]

But stuff like that, that's like predetermined. That is a good question.

[C]

I would.

[E]

It would also be a nightmare from the accounting side.

[C]

Oh yeah.

[B]

Oh.

[E]

Because like what you guys got to realize also, or the guy asking the question is like, the videos make money forever. Like they make money forever. So it's like, that's true. So whatever the last 400 videos are broken up into percentage of like, who.

[C]

Gets what, I always look at it as it's for the greater good.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Yeah. Many days someone else is doing more than me. And so if that's my thing, it's like, this is my time to shine. This my time to pull my weight.

[B]

Totally.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

I think everyone's kind of at that point too.

[A]

Like, I don't, I don't want to.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Has anyone ever really lost out other than like Ryan's Jet Ski?

[B]

I feel like other than that, really.

[C]

The only time, your transmission, for sure, I'm still.

[A]

But I feel like his transmission, he bought a 2002 WRX and launched it a couple times. Like that was bound to happen.

[B]

At the end of the day, I think it's just your jet Ski. Other than that, I think, like, think about my clutch.

[A]

Like my clutch went out in The Evo when I raced Mike. And like, Like, I need a new one. Yeah, but that's like a wear part, you know?

[C]

Yeah, it's true.

[B]

They think this is the wrong word to use, but, like, we keep it pretty loose as far as everything goes. Definitely the wrong word to use, but, like, we. We keep it loose as far as what we. Nothing's cutthroat. Oh, well, seriously, like, I feel like I should get some money for that. There's none of that. There's. There's nothing. There's no.

[A]

We're not. Yeah.

[E]

Like, if.

[A]

Honestly, if someone was, like, pretty entitled to, like, some kind of earning.

[B]

It's already there.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, it's already there. Yeah. There never has to be a. I don't think this is fair. Like, which is incredible.

[A]

I would say, honestly, we're pretty lucky. Like, we never really fight about money. Like, no one. We're all very, very giving. Like, I was thinking about this today. Relative to other YouTube channels that are way bigger than us, make way more money than us, we give away more than a lot of people. I would say 99 of them. And we give away, like, bigger things too. Like, I don't know, I just feel like we're very gracious and I. I'm not saying about me, but just everyone, like, we are. We just give away a lot.

[B]

It's more fun. But yeah, what Ryan said to recap like that, I mean, for the greater good. That's you. That's all of our moods. For the greater good.

[E]

I think the other thing to reflect on what you said, cj, is everyone has like the same ownership in the bank account, right? So it's like, it hurts a little bit less because it's only 1/5th yours. So it's like, oh, let's give away a $10,000 unit. Well, it's like you'd be only in like 2 grand, personally if you were to, like, take that 10 grand and pay it out. So it's like, you know, it's like a little bit less, like, personal wise.

[A]

Right. I guess you still have skin in it.

[E]

Yeah, you still have skin in it. But it's not just like straight yours. But then on the other side of that, like, dude, if we were just like a one solo YouTuber, like, even just making. Making, like, what the company makes for us and grand. We spend so much money. But like, one solo guy. Like, I think about, like, Brain Price talking to Miller last time. Like, we know how much he's making and he's one guy. Like, that Dude's ballin', right?

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

You know, and then it's really hard to get in their mind of like, damn, why don't they like, spend more on videos or like reinvest more because you know how much they're making.

[B]

I agree. I've thought about that for sure too. As a single or a duo group pulling the exact same numbers, doing the same things we are as far as numbers, it'd be unreal. And then I'm like wondering why they would, you know?

[A]

You wanna know why? Not all of them are into certain things. Like, let's say a lot of people, youtubers can't make videos on cars, so they can't really justify buying a dope car even. And maybe they don't. Maybe they're not super into it. We are lucky that we can pretty much make a video and make anything entertaining. Not trying to sound cocky or anything, but like, we just are good at having fun with legitimately anything. Like I can go buy 12 basketballs and we will make an awesome bit with them. Blowing them up. Like, it just, it's easy for us to justify pretty much anything. Like I, I can't think of anything that I've boughten that wasn't used for video straight up. Like it, it always is. It always turns back around and, and makes entertainment.

[C]

Even filled your house with barn animals.

[A]

Yeah. Like I buy a. The one thing I thought wasn't, and then that ended up being good too, you know?

[E]

Yeah. I had a meeting with our accountant last week and he was just like, look, I'm in the passenger seat. You're the driver, I can tell you what to do, but at the end of the day, you're driving the ship, you're driving the car, you make the decisions and I'll just tell you, I'll just be the passenger saying, oh, maybe do this or put your blinker on here. But you know what you're doing, it's good.

[A]

I think that's a good answer. I don't know.

[C]

How do you guys handle the idea of long term success with content and staying away from too much repetitive content? I feel like this kind of goes in with the money thing too.

[A]

We just keep reinvesting.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

And keep reinvesting and keep reinventing and growing. Because some there's. Sometimes we like to. I mean, everyone likes to do something that no one's ever done before, but there is such a thing as reinventing, especially on YouTube. Reinvent something that's been done, you're not copying it by any means. You're reinventing. So reinventing and reinvesting. But we're always pushing slogan how to.

[A]

Do stuff better, to do stuff bigger. How can we do this even in a. In a better way of filming it? How can we make the storyline better? You know, there's so many things that we. And we've only gotten better with time.

[C]

This is the first year that I can remember in a very long time. This is the first year I can remember us not having to like think of ideas. Like we have so many. There's so many possibilities and I think that is one us opening up our like span or our mindset in one. How much we want to spend on a video but also going down to one a week, taking more time, getting more creative, stuff like that.

[A]

So many ideas. It's just a matter of, of, you know, making it happen. Like it takes a lot to put together a video. Even like surprising everyone with this raptor. We had to find the raptor. We had to find a good one, get cran. Get all the parts. We had to get crandall here. Like there were so many moving components.

[C]

Been in the process for like a month.

[A]

We put the time in and yeah, I mean, I don't know. We make it happen, dude.

[B]

But yeah, I guess especially in the last six months it's been like normally it's like what are we going to do next? I mean it's. It's a fun thing but it's really stressful because it's hard.

[A]

We're like turning down videos right now.

[B]

But now, yeah, it's like, okay, we have. How do we schedule what we are about to do? Which is such a dope thing. That's. I like this summer, every summer has been great. All summers are great. But like this summer has been incredible because we have not really had to.

[A]

It's just like what video we do.

[B]

Scramble or stress ourselves out over what we're going to do.

[E]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

It's just like what can we get here? And like what's the best way to do this?

[B]

And how can we do. What are this idea the best?

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Yeah. So I mean as far as the question, like what do we think about the longevity of that? I mean I, I think we're only getting better.

[A]

Other than the thin ice vids, we've never really repeated ourselves straight up. We never have. And even if you watch all the like, I guess they might have gotten to a point where they started feeling repetitive. But that was just because at that time they were going so viral. It only Made sense to keep pumping them into the algorithm, but like, otherwise, like, you really don't see us do too many things twice other than maybe ride the track on like pit bikes or dirt bikes.

[E]

But even that, we've never done the exact same thing.

[A]

That's why it's like we, we don't. People always say, like, do more riding vids, for one. We feel like we're copying ourselves. We feel like we're just doing the same thing again. It's like we just did that two weeks ago. Let's do something new, right? To keep stuff fresh.

[B]

I'd say, yeah, that's the only thing that would ever get repeated. Like, you know, we, we probably do a little less snowmobiling videos now, but still a lot of snowmobiling that's going to feel like it's repeated. Because a video of a snow machine doing something is probably going to feel like another video of another snow. Snowmobile or snow machine, whatever. But other than that, like, yeah, we're only getting better. We're only progressing more and we're still.

[A]

Doing the videos with the snow machines.

[B]

You know, that's what I love about it. There's still going to be some space.

[A]

Them out so that way it doesn't feel like we're copying ourselves. Whereas if you're a YouTuber where you're like, all I do is make dirt bike videos.

[B]

And in the.

[A]

That's how you start repeating yourself. It's like, how the fuck. What do I do next?

[C]

You lock. You put yourself in a box.

[A]

Luckily for us, we like doing pranks and making our friend think his car got. Truck got stolen and blowing up basketball.

[B]

So, yeah, last thing on that. It's crazy to think way back, I know we've maybe mentioned this before, but the, the repetition thing, it's. It's how we got started doing just about everything. Like you said, made the shifter car video and we were so stoked because it blew up, got 30k views or whatever. And we were like, well, should we get another shifter cart? Should we make another video soon? Let's just, let's go rip that thing. Let's make another shifter cart video. And CJ said, no, if we make another shifter cart video, and let's say we make another one after that, guess what we are a shifter cart channel. You guys want to be that? No. And it was just some proper insight. And then what came to be, what it is now, like, where we don't repeat, we try not to repeat ourselves.

[E]

Yeah, that's the beauty of the channel. Also, like, dude, nobody knows what our next video is going to be.

[A]

Straight up.

[E]

Nobody knows what our next bit is going to be in a video.

[A]

I hate to drag this question on any longer, but I've gotten to the point where I look at, like, YouTube algorithm and like, the best way of maximizing your viewer retention. And obviously the higher your viewer retention is, viewer retention is the longer that a person watches the video. If they watch the whole video from start to finish, that's 100%. If they watch half of it, it's 50%. You want a high view retention because that makes YouTube push your video to more people. You can get more viewers, you can get more subscribers, more success overall. If we would just do one solo bit like whatever that the thing is titled and thumbnailed after we only did that, and when it's done, it ends abruptly, that'd be the best way of maximizing our viewer retention and possibly even just getting us more views, more subscribers overall. But at the same time, it's like we've just done it this way for so long where it's all these bits and I feel like it's just more entertaining and it's more, like, personable, and it just makes for a way better show if you can get into it and start connecting with the, you know, the characters and all that. And is made for a much slower route, in my opinion. But at the same time, it's like we got some of the best subscribers on YouTube, in my opinion, because they feel like they know us because they have been so involved in our lives, because we don't just go and do a video of us doing the one thing and keep it right to the point. Like. Like we add our touches in and. Yeah, so I don't know. I've thought about that, though, quite a bit.

[B]

Yeah, I agree that. I mean, the slow grow has built the best following, the best supporters doing.

[A]

It the way we have. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Mike, here's a question for just you. Where do you get the ideas for clothing designs? Slash, who would be a dream client to do graphic design or clothing work for?

[B]

Well, the ideas come from all over. Luckily, we live in a world surrounded by basically the Internet, you know, social media. Luckily, I have these guys sending me. They'll say, this is sick, and then send it over. And then I go, that is sick. You know, save it, Boom, onto there. There's plenty of places online to get inspiration. There's plenty of places online to get, like, design elements. But, dude, I don't know, it's always been. Just sit down. Okay.

[A]

What's cool?

[B]

I bring up the ones that I do have saved. Kind of go off there, kind of go. I don't even know, dude. It's weird. I. The process, it's incredible because you're putting.

[C]

Out, like, what, 30 new designs, like, every six weeks.

[E]

You guys should see Mike's font book.

[A]

You should also see Mike's puke board. Of the designs that don't get it.

[B]

Used, I call it the puke board.

[A]

Because, dude, like, sometimes he'll be like, oh, I feel like we should use one more shirt. And we're sitting in there in our merch, me and I go, dude, pull up your pukeboard. And we'll pull up his pukeboard and there'll be a thing on there from, like, four months ago. I'm like, dude, that's fucking sick. Like, let's do that. Or then we maybe alter a tiny bit.

[B]

But yeah, yeah, it'll pull or pull them. Pull up the puke board from four drops ago. Yeah. And then it's like, oh, wait, I never even saw that from last time. So that's fun. But, yeah, even the font thing, if those of you who don't know what fonts are, it's the. I don't even know how to describe a font, but the way people know what fonts are, I'd like to think so.

[E]

How many fonts do you think you have, dude?

[B]

Like over 2,000.

[C]

Holy shit.

[E]

Dude, talk about how I've just seen him type out. So I'll go, All right, Life wide open, three bars. Okay, let's look for a good font. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. When are we going to hit the bees?

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. B. Scroll, scroll, scroll. C. Like, it's like, it's starting to.

[B]

Get to the point now where, like, it takes me too much time because I go through all of them. There's a beautiful thing called control Z. So make, like, a logo or a design and then copy it and then change. Tweak it slightly, Copy it again, change the colors, Copy it again, change the colors again, copy it again, Add a different symbol. So that's. That is the process pretty random, but.

[E]

Also, like, how creative do you think you are? Or versus how talented at making designs are you? Would you say it's more creativity or it's just being better at running Illustrator?

[A]

Altering stuff that is already out there?

[B]

As. Yeah. As time has gone on, I'm not really ashamed to admit this. As time has gone on, it's Less creative and better at doing what I do. Better at finding the right shirt for this. Because, I mean, there's some designs that I completely knock off. You guys have seen that. And then there's other designs that I.

[E]

Those are like the dummy zone, like autozone, like people know they're nuts over and they love them.

[B]

Yeah. So those. And like the. The Coors light. One in particular I've loved since the. Since I finished it. Because the C for C boys and the L for life wide open, the light, like, it's perfect. So those ones, you know, you sit down. I'm still proud of that because, like, I changed a logo that isn't supposed to be blah, blah, blah into that. And sometimes, like, I can't draw at all. You guys know that. I mean, I really can't. So if someone else on Fiverr has to draw it for me, that's okay with me. As long as the design looks cool.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

We still pay for still curating it. You know, I think that, like, I almost consider myself like a merchandise. A merch drop curator.

[E]

Yeah, you're like a merchandiser, right?

[B]

Like, I get the garments and get everything where it needs to be, but at the end of the day, if, like I'm just changing the words of a cool looking badge, that's okay with me. Like, because at the end of the day, we're just making merch that we want to wear that's cool. That we hope you guys want to wear too.

[A]

I think something maybe to add just that we've realized is it's not always about being the most artistic or the most creative. It's just like, like sometimes the most simple things go crazy. Like dirt bikes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Just a basic font right on the shirt. Simple. People love it. Goes. Sells out three times in a row. It's like no can do.

[B]

Creative in a different way. Yeah, exactly. Creative in a way that also brings in a character.

[A]

Like, look at Danny Duncan and Virginia rocks. Shit goes nuts.

[E]

I mean that.

[A]

What do you do this year? Like 40 million in merchandise sales or something like that.

[E]

Crazy.

[A]

I don't know where we saw that.

[E]

But Yeah, I saw 50. He said it's valued at 50 million. I don't know if that's 50 million revenue or just valuation. That's.

[A]

That's crazy. And that's something that we've learned over time is we used to think like it was all about how, you know, necessarily like putting like the most artistic touch. And I sometimes see that with like, even editors, they try to make this whole cinematic Thing out of something that it's just like. Just show the fucking thing, dude.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

You know, like, and we used to.

[A]

Do that when we were first like in our early stages of editing. I feel like we would make something that doesn't need to be this whole cinematic thing. Cinematic. And it's like oftentimes just make the thing, dude.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You know?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Just show what people want to see.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Don't overdo it. You know, I don't know. But also sometimes you got to overdo it. Like look at Yeezy. Like Kanye west. His shit is overdone yet simple. I guess some of us. But anyway, sorry.

[B]

That's why it's endless. Like it'll. That's the best part is that it's endless. It can be ever changing. We'll probably always do merch because I really enjoy doing it and it's just. It's fun. But I feel like we never get.

[E]

Like backlash on merch or anything like that either.

[B]

I really enjoy it.

[E]

I think people really like it.

[B]

It doesn't feel for me especially or for any of us, it doesn't feel like this money making thing we have going on like. Like it's for some YouTubers, it really is. It feels like a genuine like outlet. It's all we wear to support us and it really is all we wear.

[A]

Like when we were going to go rob Evan of his vehicles, I'm looking in my closet, I'm like, dude, I straight up don't have anything that says Seaboyz TV on it. So I had to wear a Seaboys TV sweatshirt with a flannel over it. Like that's the only thing I could find.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

God damn it. That reminds me. Ken, can you bring me that shirt? Or Evan, can you bring me that shirt?

[E]

Dream collab though, real quick.

[B]

Yeah, figure that out.

[A]

Mike.

[B]

And Kanye west, he said person that I would design for, like what's your.

[E]

What's your favorite brand that you would make a logo for or some kind.

[B]

Of design for me, I'd be like sick to collab with like vans.

[E]

Yeah, I can see that for sure.

[B]

Which is very skater esque. And it's not so much our up our subscribers alley, but drink apple juice because O.J. will kill you. Brilliant.

[C]

I love goofy shirts and that reminded me of it. And so I'm gonna start wearing. I've been curating a ton of goofy shirts that I'm gonna wear every podcast but I keep forgetting because I wanna put em on until you guys see me.

[E]

I love that my buddy Ken did that one time. Yeah. It didn't end up very well for him.

[A]

Yeah, I'm with it, though.

[E]

I saw a really funny shirt earlier that Ken I think would absolutely love. Let me pull it up here.

[B]

Yeah, dude.

[E]

I thought that this would just, like, resonate really good with you, Ken. Did you see it just says resonates. Resonate with you really well, Ken. It just says tax the poor.

[B]

It's, you know, like parody. I don't think they actually mean tax the poor, but it's just like, they don't mean commit tax fraud unless it's Canada.

[E]

It's just a joke.

[C]

Being that you guys are from the Midwest and most of your viewers could possibly be from the Midwest, where hunting is a big part of some people's lives. Have you guys ever thought of doing a video about hunting? Personally, I love watching your bow fishing videos and watch you guys shoot guns. Feel like some of your viewers would enjoy a hunting video from boys?

[B]

Short answer, yes.

[A]

Yeah, I'd love to do that too, but it's just not something YouTube accepts. You can't have guns. You can't have. They used to allow it, but you just can't nowadays. And that's just the rules. So we gotta abide them because we need to respect YouTube and their community guidelines.

[C]

Unfortunately.

[B]

Yeah, they got the way it is and it's.

[A]

Man, it's. I would like to do it.

[B]

Like, it's pretty clear that they don't. And I think the worst part is, so then you're going to get a handful of people that are like, no, still do it and just don't monetize it. Right. But YouTube still throttles the absolute shit out of it. So then it just seems like this video that ends up on our channel.

[A]

Working time, where I'd rather just go and do it and enjoy it.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Have to film it. Not necessarily having to film it, but.

[C]

Just your new hobby.

[A]

That would be fun.

[E]

Hey, you literally can't film it, so you don't have a choice.

[A]

I should.

[B]

Yeah. And also, like, we have. We just bought the new land where the track is, but there is hunting. Hey, I mean, I out there every morning. Yo, I'm not joking.

[E]

I think I'm like, Dude, you 100% could. Every time I go out there, I see deer.

[B]

Evan and I are going to deer hunt that this November.

[C]

Are you get that pass by?

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

What?

[E]

But yeah, you'll definitely see deer.

[B]

I looked. Well, so looking at the pond, the pond is full of deer tracks. I'm like, let's Just. Let's try it. Let's go.

[A]

You should.

[B]

We're like, now I'm like, can you imagine? I have my own hunting land. I think it's. I looked it up. I think it's rifle zone because I don't have a shotgun.

[A]

I'll come with as long as. Well, Evan, not to point you out, but I just. If he gets into the tease too much, I don't know how comfortable I feel with him having a gun around me.

[E]

Yeah. Is that something that you don't mix? Teas and hunting?

[A]

Is that even a question? Of course you mix.

[B]

No, I was like, I don't think.

[D]

You can hunt in Minnesota and not drink.

[A]

I don't.

[E]

That's a. Probably illegal to. Not I.

[A]

The other way around.

[E]

But actually, I just applied for my permit. To purchase is what you need to buy an AR15 in Minnesota. So hopefully, once I get that, I mean, go and buy one and hunt with it. No, just shoot. Like, shoot, like, set up targets. Tannerite. Yeah, but you can't even blow up tannerite. Like, we can't do anything with fireworks.

[A]

We used to. And that was, like. It does suck because, honestly, like, blowing stuff up is awesome. So, like, that is a passion of ours.

[E]

Yeah. It's exhilarating.

[A]

We've had to keep that off camera.

[B]

And it's something that I. That's something we'd probably repeat because it's just never not fun. We blew up the dishwasher.

[A]

We were blowing up everything for a while. Like, we blew up all our garbage cans, the cat, like, just the jet Ski. Jet Ski was awesome, dude.

[E]

And we were doing it all in an hoa, right? Development, Middle of people's sheds.

[A]

That was fun times. Fun times.

[C]

That was fun times.

[E]

Different times. We were still getting demonetized at that point, but I think we were just, like, video must have got demonetized.

[A]

We just didn't look into anything. We were so dumb, dude.

[C]

Well, it was different, too.

[A]

It was different.

[C]

Yeah, we cared, but it was like, well, I guess that's part of another step, right? Did y' all ever think you'd be successful and that this would turn into your business?

[A]

I don't want to say I knew, but I always just, like, was striving for it so hard. Like, making YouTube videos is the only thing I've thought about for, like, the last six years. Over the last six years now, you know? And it's just like, you just want. I just want it so bad, and. And. But no, I, like, obviously, you never know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, but all you can do is just dream and keep focus on that goal and keep working at it.

[E]

Like.

[A]

Like, I had a vision board I made, which is basically, you put up a bunch of things that you have that you want in life and whether it be, like, good health, which is one of the things on it. I had, like, a million subscribers on YouTube. I had a GTR on it, like, all these things. And I would always look at it every morning before I would go to work or whatever I was doing, you know, So, I don't know, it's just. There was a goal.

[B]

Yeah. For me, it was opposite. Well, right away, when you said, let's make a channel, I don't know if I've said this before, but I was like, dude, you know how hard it is to get big on YouTube?

[A]

I remember you telling me that you're like, we're gonna be able to get more followers on Instagram than YouTube. Yeah.

[B]

And I was just like. And I was still down. I mean, for a small moment, I was like. And, yeah, let's. I'll help you edit. Whatever, Whatever. But I was like, nah. And then, of course, this made me sound really stupid. I was like, dude, I've. I've tried YouTube before.

[C]

It didn't work.

[B]

Please don't go dig up my old videos. I mean, yeah, it's tough to watch those.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

But, yeah, I was like. I was the naysayer. I was like, dude, like, a lot of people say it's not you want to be a YouTuber, but the cool thing was is that you were driven, and it made me driven. And then once the. I guess the views, the slight amount of views and slight success came, I was completely changed. I said, we have something here, which you were already saying. And then everyone else has started saying it too. We have something here. And then the drive completely changed.

[A]

Like, looking back, looking back, I feel like. I mean, I was just at such a low. Just rock bottom. It was like, only way you can go is up from here. And it was just in. In a weird sense, it was very comforting. Like, I almost feel like that was, like, the most comforting time I've had even before now, because it was just like, I really didn't have anything to lose. And I just, like, had this idea, and I was just trying really work towards. And, Yeah, I don't know, it was just something comforting in that. I don't know. Looking back, I just remember just being very comfortable. Like, I felt good because it was like, I have something to aim at.

[B]

Yeah, I was like, I was confident that we could get views, and I know that's not what it's all about, but I was confident that people would be somewhat interested in something we're gonna do. I was confident in that. But never turning into a business, you know, never, never making an llc. I mean, that even that when it changed, okay, we need to make a business so that we can get a joint bank account and that money, the small amount from YouTube and go in there even once that happened, I go, oh, this is cool.

[A]

Honestly, I didn't know that it even was possible to be as big as we are now. And we really aren't that big in the grand scale of YouTube. But, like, so to be honest, I didn't know we'd be like, this level. You know, I thought maybe, like, coolest would be, like, buying some cool parts for my Subaru at the time and, like, just dirt biking and stuff.

[B]

I don't know. But yeah, that's awesome.

[E]

I don't know if you guys feel this, but I've always felt like every single step of the way at 10k, 100k, 500amillion. I've always felt that we are doing such a good job and I'm so proud of us. I've never been like, man, I can't wait till we hit 1.7 million subscribers. Like, I bet. I wonder how that's going to feel. Like, I've always just, like, focused on the present and how good it feels just to, like, have what we have. Yeah, I always, I guess, thought about, like, man, a million is going to be cool. But even at that, I was like, I think even right now at 250,000, like, I'm just so proud of, like, where we're at.

[B]

I definitely like that outlook.

[A]

Grateful.

[B]

Yeah. Like, every time it happens, I mean, when. Especially a million, that's huge. We're not like, all right, 2 million it is. I mean, we. We dwelled and celebrated like, genuine, genuine celebration for, for not only a million, but for everything. 250, 500, everything, like, every, like, honestly.

[E]

The entire step of the way. And I always knew, like, dude, we're killing it right now. And I just can't wait for, like, this to just continue on with just like, this mindset and this, like, everyone's attitude towards it. Because I think what we have is great. And I mean, we could go into. We could go and do anything. I think going to, like, any industry with, like, the same attitude and work ethic. We could kill it. Like I said on like this talk show I was on the other day and I was like, honestly, I think if we wanted to be like a lawn care crew, we could be the best in the area.

[A]

Honestly, kill it. Yeah.

[E]

And he was like, we'd be working.

[A]

Our asses off, dude. We'd be showing up like plowing driveways.

[B]

As long as we got Evan on.

[E]

The team, he goes, you guys would have those, you guys would have those laws. Lawns done in record breaking times, dude.

[A]

I. I think that the, out of. I guess my piece of advice for no matter whatever it is you're doing, you gotta just keep focusing on that next step. Don't focus on three steps ahead. Just. Well, I mean it is good to consider that. Consider that. But just take it one step at a time, no matter what you're doing. And you will very slowly grow and, and do something. But you just don't wanna, not even take a step at all. Cause then nothing happens.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Like straight up, better take a really.

[B]

Small step and then be happy that you made that step. Then. Yeah. I mean then, yeah, then being scared to take a big one and then not doing it at all.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, you got to have some. If you want something, you got to just go and take initiative and go and try and get it, you know, try and start working for that's the first thing you got to do, you know.

[E]

And that shit happens fast. I think like the smaller steps you take, the faster things happen.

[A]

No 100% and you're focusing on just when you're in goes by so quick. Dude. I don't know.

[C]

I heard this really good analogy. It was, I believe it was a kid and it was the older sibling was stressed and said, I have to find a new apartment, I have to graduate from college and I have to get a job. And the kid goes, that's just three things. And like you look at your life and just. You don't look at them as all they are. You just look at like, I just got to get this one thing done and then you get the next thing done. You get the next thing done, you get through it.

[E]

Boom. Inspiration.

[B]

Love it.

[C]

We occasionally we do get inspirational on here.

[B]

It's good.

[C]

We got depth, right?

[E]

We got depth.

[A]

The only thing I don't, I try not to do when we're doing inspiration. I don't want to sound like we're being cocky. Hopefully no one's taking it as that at home. I guess we're just trying to help and give inspiration and tell you the straight up truth of what exactly we are thinking?

[E]

Well, this is just like our business, and our business is online. And it's very transparent. Whereas, like, I don't think our story is very different than most businesses. You know, it's like. It's like the same grind. It's the same start from nothing, go broke for the first three years, fake it till you make it kind of thing. Like every business kind of has that.

[C]

Ours is just public.

[E]

Public. Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Success isn't really accidental. Like you gotta make it. You guess, like you work for it. I don't know. Is that.

[C]

Yeah, absolutely.

[B]

There's meant much truth to that.

[C]

All right, I got one last question. It's fitting because it ends every single one of our videos. What does the dog at the end of the videos mean to Seaboys?

[A]

Can I answer it? Since I made it, I have no.

[B]

I have no idea.

[A]

So the reason why. So I. You know how like whenever you watch a tv, never.

[E]

Oh, that is a good question. I've always wondered that.

[A]

There's. There's really not a whole lot of mean to it, I guess I remember I made it in our college house just because I was like, I feel like this would be a cool little touch to end each video on. And basically it's just like a copyright thing of the date when the video was made, the year that it was made. Just like any TV show, like if you watch it like a spongebob episode, there will be like a little thing at the end that would play. Or like Jimmy Neutron. They always had the monkey. Hi, I'm Paul. Yeah, exactly. That's just like that have the date on it? I think so. Yeah. So ours just has a copyright sign of the year. I don't know if I'm doing it right, but I just did that at.

[B]

Now it's our own thing.

[A]

And the dog is actually. It used to be the mayor of Cormorant. The dog is now passed on. But when we started, the mayor of Cormorant was a dog. It's public, like, look it up. Dog, mayor. It'll be Cormorant, Minnesota. Lex Dog as mayor. His name was Duke and he had served for like four years as a mayor in Cormorant. And the whole reason he got elected was because there was two dudes that were like trying to run for mayor and no one really liked either of them. So then they were like, hey, let's just elect this dog. And everyone voted for the dog. So really funny, Duke.

[B]

It is funny that you protected that you say it like that. Though you're like, I didn't really mean for it to be a thing. We've always. We've always loved Duke the mayor, but we didn't. I mean, we saw him walk. Wandering around.

[E]

One photo with him. We've met him one time and.

[A]

No, I. I met him more than that.

[E]

He used to just walk around. Like, he would just straight up, like, walk around the corm. Rod store, walk from, like, the liquor store right down, like, Main Street. You'd always see him. He's kind of a celebrity. Like, you had to get in line to take pictures with him.

[B]

But we never had, like.

[A]

We have a picture, like, one of our first days filming with him.

[C]

Yeah, that's right.

[E]

That was the Bonneville day.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Really?

[A]

I got a freaking camera strap around my neck because I was like, this camera, $500. You gotta. You gotta wear the strap if you're holding.

[E]

Ken said he was gonna drive up the Peanut through the pit.

[B]

We never.

[A]

C.J.

[E]

Said he was gonna buy a GTR or train up to a GTR. There was, like, a lot. If you go and watch that first video, there was, like, so many things that were like, damn.

[A]

And that's crazy.

[E]

Kind of what's, like, came from that.

[C]

Dude can't drive his car through the pits.

[A]

No.

[E]

But one day, I think he will.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

And it's gonna be very suspicious when we're, like, seeing cars buzzing around and, like, police, and there's, like, a giant hole in the side of the pit. 611 and no car. And, like, we're gonna be like, Ken.

[A]

Going back into that, though, you finally fulfilled your dream. It's crazy how what you say, what comes out of your mouth, it goes. It goes out into the universe, and it always comes back around into, like, to you. So if you mean it. Me personally, I'm extremely careful about what I, like, say. And, like, I don't know, just because I personally feel like. What'd you say? It manifests into reality. So I don't know. And I've believed that for the longest time.

[E]

So you can be a little suspicious, but not superspicious on certain things.

[C]

Think it's stitches, but suspicious is nice, too.

[E]

No, I agree, though.

[A]

Cj.

[E]

Law of attraction. Good and bad.

[A]

Yeah, it's the law of attraction. Yeah. Good and bad. Exactly. That's why you gotta be careful.

[B]

Those were all great questions.

[A]

Yeah, it was kind of fun.

[B]

Obviously, you picked the more, like, in depth ones. They were all great.

[A]

I think we had even more. We just. We had to cut it Yeah, I.

[C]

Mean, there was some, like, who's the hottest female celebrity? And worst dating story, stuff like that. But there's always. There's more podcasts.

[A]

Let's end it. Hottest female celebrity.

[E]

Megan Fox.

[A]

I was gonna say Megan Fox, too.

[E]

Or Kim K. Yeah, I'd agree.

[A]

I. I think Megan Fox, though, takes the cake.

[C]

Well, you both can't have Megan Fox.

[A]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[E]

I'm sticking with mine. I don't know why I went first.

[C]

So I don't even know how to pronounce her name, but, like, Anna De Arms. Anna Damas. She's a fucking babe.

[E]

Let me just.

[B]

Kidding Up. I don't know who the hottest celebrity right now.

[E]

Oprah Winfrey.

[B]

Oprah Winfrey. No, I. I already. I always had a picture, Mike. I always had a crush on the Harry Potter girl. Like Emma Watson. Emma Watson, Yes. But then she got this short haircut and I got scared, and then she grew her hair back out, and then. Things are good.

[C]

I'll find it later. We'll talk about it later.

[A]

Cool.

[B]

Well, on that note, hit the copyright, Duke and.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I'm putting that in there.

[E]

Okay.

[A]

I don't know if it sounds like that, but thanks, guys. Hey, subscribe.