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Alrighty, guys. Welcome back to a very special edition of the Life Wide Open podcast. And you may be asking, why is it a special edition?
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I am.
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I'm.
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I'm asking that as well.
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It's just gonna be posted the day before my birthday. It's really not that special.
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Oh, okay.
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Yeah.
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Pretty big day, huh?
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No, you're right about it not being that special.
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Yeah, you could celebrate with me.
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We'll go to your birthday party. I just don't want you hyping up these guys about what you know.
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Dude, your 26th birthday is a big deal.
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What day is it on?
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I would assume a Wednesday.
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Not bad.
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I'll celebrate it with you.
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Okay, sweet.
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Happy birthday, Ryan.
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Thanks, guys. Thanks.
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Appreciate that. Yeah, it was just me that said it, and C.J.
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Said he'd celebrate with me.
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Okay. Okay.
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Mike's not coming though.
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Did you guys see Mr. Beast's failed video on Tik Tok?
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No.
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So he apparently was going to do one of those, like, where you go to a supermarket and then you pay for everybody's stuff while they're there. And so the supermarket leaked it. So the supermarket was full of people and they were all loading their up because they knew that Mr. Beast would pay for all this stuff. And so they actually, Mr. Beast didn't even come because of security issues. But I mean, I'm sure probably such a show to film if the whole thing was already packed.
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Why would they leak that?
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I don't know.
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They totally blew. It would just be like, hey, check. Just maybe don't mention this. Otherwise like 10,000 people are probably going to show up.
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I'm sure it was one worker. You know, like, that's all it would take is one worker and then the whole thing.
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But they definitely, like, ruined it in the process. And I don't think other grocery stores and whatnot are going to make that mistake again.
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I.
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It just like I watching the video and watching all the people that maybe someone looked like they needed help, but they're loading in like one dude was pushing around a cart of like 50 steaks, so they grabbed the meat market and threw it in his cart. And I don't know, something's always rubbed me the wrong way about that. Like, taking advantage. Like, you're buying.
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You wouldn't even buy Steve.
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You start buying like four TVs.
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I'm like, Bro, yeah, he.
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I think Mr. Beast talked about that. He's like, yeah, you see a kid checking out, he's buying like four Xboxes. It's like such a odd human Trait that. That when you get something, like, given to you, that you want more of it.
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It's like when people have the honor system of putting candy out on their front doorstep for Halloween, and then kids will come and just, like, grab the whole thing in there.
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Dude.
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But to be fair, those are children.
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Like, do you do that, Mike?
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No, I just had a little. I did it.
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That was the best.
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No, I didn't. I was very. We're on the page. I was respectful of that. Take one, maybe two. Maybe two. But there's a bunch of memes going around. Just a little side note on the whole. Leave the candy bowl out and. And it's like it was a bowl of guns. Please. Only one gun per kid. You know, bowl of. Just, like, a case of beers or anything.
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Please.
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Only one per kid. So funny.
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Speaking of Mr. Beast, isn't it insane, the magnitude of the businesses that he's building? Like, have you guys seen. So he just opened up Mr. Beast Burger, like, the first, like, physical location. Did you guys see the. Like, the meetup in the mall or.
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It wasn't like, the whole mall. People, like, multiple floors.
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Yeah.
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Like an insane amount of people. I think they came out and said that they did a hundred million dollars.
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What?
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And Beast Burger last year.
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Burgers.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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That's all that many cheeseburgers.
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Well, people. Well, that's the thing about, like, the food industry or the drink industry. Yeah. Is they're going to just continue to buy and buy and buy.
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Can you break down what the Beast Burger is again? Like, I'm not even super familiar. Right. Because there was no brick and mortar stores up until no first one.
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Yeah.
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I think there was, like, a couple thousand orders just through, like, grubhub, Uber Eats. And then basically, if people wanted and they have, like, a mom and pop restaurant, they could sign up for Beast Burger on that. They would send. Get the ingredients, they would. They would get the recipes, and then they could just deliver it. So they were doing, like, you know, insane amount, and I think they got to keep most of the revenue.
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Were they allowed to sell those Beast Burgers in person or. Or it had to be a door dash.
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I think it has to be through doordash.
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I remember, like, it's like part of.
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The ghost kitchen thing. There used to be, like, all those kitchens that took off. I think it was, like, during COVID stuff. But they would have just, like, kitchens, no restaurants, and they would just be shipping door dash y.
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Now, I'm sure there's a bunch of regular regulations about it. Now, but I remember when it first started, it was pretty loose. Like, I mean, I heard stories of people, like, legit getting the ingredients somehow and just, like, making them at their house and stuff. Oh, yeah, I'm sure that happened.
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A little control, right. On that many.
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That's true.
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Like, if someone can get their hands on the ingredients, they basically can get their hands on the profits of it.
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Yeah, I suppose, but.
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But yeah, that's just fine. Mike. That's just one of them, though. He. It seems like he has a successful business popping up, like, every. At least every year he does.
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But it seems like there's so many different YouTubers creating massive businesses right now. So, like, Logan Paul and his prime drink. So we just got, like, the prime. Prime drinks. Came to the cormorant store, of all places.
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I was surprised.
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So. So we, like, had our first drink of that, which is pretty cool because, like, you see it on the Internet and then, you know, they're all promoting it. And that was the first time I've.
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Seen it in Minnesota, up north. That's why I was surprised.
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I was like, I think he is in some Walmart. But, yeah, I don't know how this is pretty.
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The sea store comes through with it and then, like, trying it for the first time. It's, like, really good. Yeah, it's really good stuff, which is, like, so cool to be.
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If it was shit, he'd be in trouble, people. That's just terrible, you know?
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Like. Yeah.
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Even if it was just average, I feel.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so then there's got to be good. Remember when, like, Travis Scott made a drink? I mean, it just.
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It fizzled out really fast because they didn't care.
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It was, like, really bad. I heard, like, from all angles. Everyone's like, yeah, it sucks. And then it just immediately dissipated.
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Yeah, it wasn't working.
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It's just funny. Like, you think you're sitting down at the taste meeting and you're like, it's all that good. You can market it.
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Yeah.
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Like, guys like that. Like, how many celebrities have alcohol? Like, all of them, they have, like, a whiskey or whatever. How many of them actually go there and sit down and go, like, this is good, but how can we make it better and this and that? Or do they just go, hey, listen, Travis, we're gonna give you 40% of the profits if you let us put your name on this drink and you endorse it. They go, great.
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Yeah, there's a lot of that.
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I'd assume most of them.
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I think the thing about the artist Having like their own brand that they just put their name on is like they're the musicians first. Right. But like YouTubers. Most YouTubers are like business people first. And then. Or you know, it might not start that way. It might not start that way. Yeah, you start as a creator, but then eventually, you know, it all turns into a business. So then if you're starting a business, like you can't just kind of like half ass that.
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Yeah.
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Either a creator of videos or a creator of art or creator of business. Feel like that's the direction. Like, I feel like that's how your mind has to operate to do this because you just constantly have to be worrying about multiple things and like growing and looking at it different ways.
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100%.
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You know who I look up to a lot as a, I guess businessman at this point? Jimmy Buffett. Dude, the like Margaritaville.
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That's true.
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Like, you know how many Margaritavilles there are? I mean, I actually have no idea, but I think there's like 50 and there's Margaritaville, you know, like, like Senior Frog vibes, if you guys have ever been to one. But you got like your standalone restaurants. But then he's got Jimmy Buffett resorts Hotel and like.
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Yeah, it's a full blown.
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And yeah, he's building like this thing in Fort Myers beach where I've gone. And it's like huge. It's like three or four city blocks. They just like completely.
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And to be able to do that in the Mecca of any beach town. Yeah, it's just insane. And like the fact that he. That's just Margaritaville. Like think of all the music. Like he's got his own station on xm.
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But also my. My parents were pretty big. What are they called? Parrot Heads.
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That's what I did not know. That's a thing.
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That's like their thing. They used to like travel around and go to all those concerts and stuff like that. Yeah, but Jimmy Buffett had some hardcore fans.
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Definitely. And he just, he was. He was a good musician. Well known.
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Readerville.
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Yeah, Mike, that. That is actually a great example. And it kind of just debunked my, my.
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Well, there's my thesis on.
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But I wasn't trying to. And also I feel like the transition time between Jimmy Buffett like being like, all right, I think I'm ready to be mostly done being a musician and then Margaritaville being what it is that.
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Also 50 cent owns vitamin Water. Says another artist and another.
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I didn't know that. But did he start Vitamin D Water?
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I don't know. I kind of shot. Kind of shot from the hip on that one. Just thinking of Travis Scott, I think.
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It boils down to if you. If you care and you're passionate about it, if you care about it, you can make it good.
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Yeah. And lastly, there is a difference between them coming to you and be like, can we put your name on it? And you going, I want to start a drink brand. That's where it really.
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It's different.
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Right.
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Or if you care if it's good or not. If you just go, yes, I'll take the bag.
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Yeah.
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I think. I think that Happy dad, which is Nelks Hard Seltzer prime and then Beast Burger or Feastables. Those are all going to be huge, huge, huge brands, though.
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Yeah. Like household 100%.
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Yeah, they damn near are.
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Yeah. They practically are already. It is. It is cool to see, because even still, much, much less now, but the term YouTuber can come with a little bit of, like, negative connotation.
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Yeah.
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They downplayed a lot. Like, when we were watching the Jake Paul fight, they're like, you're not just a YouTuber anymore. I'm like, yeah, I mean, he isn't just a YouTuber, but also, like, in. I was just like, I fucking love being a YouTuber. Why would you not want to be a YouTuber? This is the best.
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And there's lots of people that have, like, been wildly successful of it. So I think it's kind of cool to see also people like that that definitely have a lot of power, like, making a good name for the brand or the job title.
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Job title.
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Oh, did you know what's going on?
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My Mike's foot just touched my leg, but it was like, I'm scared.
C
What are you. Are you trying to play footsie with him over there?
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Mike, I wasn't expecting.
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I was waiting for that question. My leg touches.
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Ben.
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What are you guys doing? Playing footsie.
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Yes. To be.
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What else are we doing?
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I have a hair in my mouth. Or at least I did. Now I can't find it.
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Oh, that's the worst.
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So if I've been acting a little weird over here, I literally have been trying to get this hair out of my mouth. Like, I'm put. I'm trying not to dig around my fingers because that's super obvious, but I can't seem to find it with my tongue.
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CJ's got three fingers in his mouth.
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I think I might have swallowed it at this point. Carry on. Sorry, dude.
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You know where. I think, like, the. The Negative connotation on a YouTuber. Being a YouTuber that as a profession slightly comes from kids, like a magnitude of kids going, I want to be a YouTuber. Now one, what's wrong with that?
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It's like, no, no, no. Astronauts. Back in there we were kids. But from the astronauts, from our point.
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Of view, yeah, there is nothing wrong with that. We're stoked to hear it. But from a parent who is not about it and then they have to hear, let's say they have three kids and they all want to be YouTubers.
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They're like big something else.
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You know, be a banker or something or just anything.
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I mean, I think it actually comes from like the negative. No, I think, yes, like bad things like that. You know, a few people have made big mistakes, which roped in the rest of.
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I think everyone. No, it's mostly that I'm just thinking like of a new kind of a negative connotation is, is like a lot of parents hearing a lot of kids or teachers. Teachers get it a lot. I don't think they're annoyed or like think it's a bad thing. But if a teacher like half, if half the class like says they want to be a YouTuber, you gotta drop out.
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Do it.
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Do it right now. They're in second grade.
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You won't.
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Most YouTubers are dropouts, so do it, dude. Yeah, they're like eight this dropout.
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You asked me what my dream was. That's like a South park episode.
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Is that every. Yeah, the teachers are super mean to the kids who say they want to be youtubers.
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It is like a weird stat.
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Like 75% of 12 to 18 year olds. Like something crazy. You know, some kids might start saying podcaster though.
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Yeah, seriously.
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I knew, honestly I would have probably put. When I was a child, the podcast really didn't exist. So I'll put radio host. I would have put radio host like pretty far down on the list for sure, dude.
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Me and Ryan went on the radio show the other day with our boy Jay Thomas.
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He.
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What, what does he host?
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The J. Thomas Show.
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That's his radio show. And then he also has.
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And he has R, which I watched on Sunday morning. Super.
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Yeah, but what, what, what is his like genre?
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That's a good question.
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Right sided. Men. Probably middle aged men.
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Yeah.
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Who like classic cars as well.
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I tell you what, this guy was born for it though. Just like so good sitting down and kind of just watching like the behind the scenes of how radio goes. It was basically just like me and you sitting here Talking. Having a conversation. But if you're not here. But I'm still having this conversation. Like, when he's just talking about himself. But it was like he would answer his own questions. Like, he would set it up like he was playing volleyball and then just spike it down.
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Yeah.
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And I was, like, just watching and, like, just amazed because obviously, you know, we've been doing podcasts for a while, and it's. It's not easy. And it's not easy to have a conversation with four people. So for one person to just sit there and be entertaining, it was. It was really impressive. And.
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And that's usually all live, right?
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Yeah, yeah, it's live.
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That's the whole of.
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Way more. Way more stress. But it was hard because on this, you know, we always try to go back and forth and, like, keep an engaging conversation, but I was like, hey, this is his show, and he's kind of just talking to himself, so I'm just going to let him do his thing. You're like, where do I jump in? Do I jump in? It was different, but a true talent.
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I agree. Especially, like, sports commentators to be able to call what's going on, know the names of everyone, no matter what sport it is, know the moves, know what calls the refs are making or what disqualifications are happening. Like, all off the cuff. All trying to be funny, too.
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Yeah, man. There is so many just, like, interesting jobs, too, especially. Okay, what about Bruce Buffer being, like, the voice that guy's killing.
C
He's still doing it all. A ton of money.
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How. How much of a legend do you have to be to just. Everyone wants you to introduce them for their.
C
He's lost charge.
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What's he charged, I wonder? See if you can look it up.
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Just saw the, like, the intro to this huge. Huge, like, edm, like, excisions thing. Like, huge festival. And he used him. Not in person, but he had, you know, this, like, edited, massive screen.
C
50,000 for per UFC fight and a hundred thousand for special UFC events.
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Wow. And obviously 50,000 a week or whatever. Yeah. Like, obviously he's doing more behind. Behind the scenes other than his six minutes of introducing the two people. But that. That's a pretty good bag for being a legend.
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Did you guys watch the Andrew Schultz comedy special? Yeah, he had the intro for that.
C
Really?
B
Yeah. So it's like a comedy special, but you got Bruce Buffer intro.
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That's what I love.
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That's pretty legend.
C
It got me pumped up when they were starting it and he just came out and now it's Time.
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It's lights go.
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Exactly. Whatever it is, whatever he's announcing before, you're just like, obviously, this is going to be amazing. Like, I mean, usually if he's doing the mood for it to be right.
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Yeah. You got to follow it up, though, if you're being introduced by Bruce Buffer, like, you better have the pretty funny jokes. That's true for a comedy special.
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Did you guys see all this stuff? Apparently, I haven't looked into it that much. So if you have that the Jake Paul fight was rigged.
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Oh, my. They all.
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I mean, they always are saying something. I think that's a classic case of bad news traveling faster than good news. But, like, why is it rigged now?
C
Oh, they said that for every single one he's ever.
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And they always definitely not rigged some little thing. Like, they make a move like this and then they go like that, and they're like, see, that was them, like, agreeing on what was going to happen. Such bs.
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I don't know. Honestly, I don't agree that it was completely rigged, but I was wondering if the judges were like, all right, Jake Paul is like boxing's gravy train and he needs to win. So maybe just keep that in the back of your mind when you're, like, scoring him.
C
I think it was pretty obvious that he won, though.
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Yeah, but it wasn't that. But if there was anything, I didn't think it was, like, man, he dominated the fight. Besides, for, like, not the knockdown at the end, but even before the deal. Even before that, he was, like, in the lead, and it didn't really seem like he was, like, dominating the fight.
C
They count, like, punches and, like, significant lands and also punches throwing and, like, blocks and, like, they have this whole thing scoring.
B
Oh, yeah, no, I know that. But still, I don't know. It didn't seem like a complete, like, blowout if it were, definitely. I'm sure people also probably felt that way. And then they saw that he kind of, like, he beat him up quite a bit, like, points wise. And they were probably like, it's rigged.
C
I think actually, like, I saw that it might have been. The president of the World Boxing Committee tweeted at Jake Paul and just said, like, great fight. Like, like, he really, like, commended him for the fight. So, I mean, that guy tweets you, he must not have thought it was rigged or that he didn't win or.
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Examine or it's all party.
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Yeah.
C
Jesus, dude.
D
Did you guys see rigged? This is WWE at this point, side note, but our buddy Rich, Rich Stagram Rich, the Graham who built our track, he was.
B
He.
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Jake. He got like, an invite from Jake, which is pretty legit. And he had. He got a sweet with a couple.
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Buddies, and he was down in the locker room with.
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With everyone. And he was wearing a seaboise TV lifeline open shirt.
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It was lit.
C
Yeah, it was on Logan's story.
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We were loving it.
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Yeah, I thought it was sweet.
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That's pretty cool.
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But it's also super funny to, like. It pan. It pans past Jake and Logan, and then that's the best thing about him. And anyone could take anything from him is like, he literally, like, the most. The least clout chaser, just the most chill. And he finds himself in those situations. And then we're like, how did you. How do you do it? He's just like, I don't know, man. Just chill. I mean, basically good guy, right?
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He just is a good guy.
C
Next, Jake, Paul fight. Mike's in the locker room with him somehow just by himself.
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Mike, dude, how'd you get there?
C
I don't know. This might be a better question for Ken, but he's not on the podcast. Did you guys see that? The whole Tesla battery scandal thing going on? Well, not really a scandal, but ordeal going on in Florida?
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Not just in Florida.
C
So basically, okay, so saltwater, you know, flooded these Teslas and then the water went away. And these Teslas were covered in salt water, and the salt water obviously started corroding the battery. And these. These Teslas are starting on fire from the corrosion because the battery's corroding.
D
And so I take it people are trying to drive them after they've been floated.
C
I'm not necessarily sure, but they'll just be sitting there and they start on fire. And because it's a battery fire, they keep burning and keep burning. And like, the fire department has to put like 1500 gallons of water to put out a Tesla because they. They have to just keep soaking it. But it's a, like, battery list. I'm probably not the best person explain this, but this is just what I saw and is that it just keeps burning.
D
That's funny.
C
And now, like, they have all these, you know, damaged cars in these, like, lots, and they have, like, all the normal cars together and then the Tesla 50ft or something like that, apart from each car. Oh, because they don't want to spread.
A
And start the whole lot on fire.
B
Yeah. So how. How many has that happened to?
C
Enough for it to be a pretty big news topic, or is this like.
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The u. S. Bank Bird Stadium killing machine.
C
No, it's a real thing. It's happening. Yeah.
B
So when you're driving about.
C
Elon apparently didn't think about it either.
A
When you're driving in the winter, but it's happening.
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Vehicles.
C
Sorry.
A
Okay, well, I guess that makes sense.
C
Tesla, it's most.
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It's. I.
C
Seems to be all the evs.
A
But what about in the winter here when you're driving on like a wet road and then there's salt on the road from the thing? I think extremely fast.
C
The whole car was probably flooded. Yeah, pretty submerged. So that's how it would happen. It would take a lot.
A
Ken, yours was under that lake for a bit. Oh, yeah, we backed a boat in.
B
Ken.
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Yeah, that you said it wasn't, but it wasn't. You want me to show you where it was?
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Yeah.
D
Okay.
C
Still mad about.
D
I cannot believe that, to be honest.
C
Ryan told him.
B
What are you talking about?
C
Hop in here.
B
What are you talking about?
C
How it doesn't matter.
B
No, no, no.
A
Well, it seems like it does if you still had heated about it.
B
What do you hold up? What?
C
So, long story short, we filmed the YouTube video where Ken tows my wakeboard boat with his Tesla. Ryan told him to back. Keep backing in. Keep backing in. And Ken claims that Ryan escorted him deeper into the water than he was supposed to go, but. And he claims that he backed in his car so deep that that's why his car ended up.
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I'm not saying that's why it was in the tow truck. What I'm saying is, you know, the bottom of the bumper is here, and then there's an angle. There's like a 45 degree angle to the back wheel. And there was water pouring out of that panel when I pulled the car.
A
Out, which it does the same thing when you wash it and then back it out of the driveway.
E
But you were saying it wasn't in water.
A
It wasn't in the water.
B
Okay.
A
Your tires were in the water. That's not in the water.
E
The tires were in the water. That panel was in the water.
B
So is it. Is it more important than just a plastic panel?
E
I don't know what's under there.
B
Well, what's under there?
E
I don't know.
B
The battery isn't under there.
E
Motors, the motor and everything's under there.
B
There is no motor. It's a battery.
E
What do you think moves the car?
A
No, it's in a. It's a. It's a motor.
B
Hope.
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It's an electric motor and it's a. A gasoline engine V8 owners, tears.
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I. I'm just saying.
D
I.
E
When. When I'm physically watching water come out of a panel because it was in the lake.
A
Go run a garden hose over your car.
E
Let me finish talking. And you're saying that, no, it wasn't in the water. I'm just like, don't lie to me. It's like. It's not. What. What gain do you have to get out of this?
B
Got a point, Ryan. You get off online again.
C
It wasn't in the water.
B
I agree.
A
I don't. I'm just confused at the situation. I don't think it was in the water.
D
It.
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I don't even think. Your back tires were hardly touching the water.
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If they were, there was water coming out of this panel. Where. Where would this water have come from?
A
I don't know, dude.
C
It could have been tires, like, scooped it into.
E
When we go outside, I will show you the. What I'm talking about, because I know.
A
Exactly where it is, and I. I know exactly. I watched the water come out, too. So obviously, it was physically, yes, technically in the water, but it was not in the water any farther than it could have been.
B
You know, like when your iPhone gets water damage, and then you take the screen off and then there's, like, a little red dot on it? Is that.
E
I don't know. I'm just saying. It's.
B
Ken brings it in for the next maintenance. Water damage we can't service.
A
Dude, that was the worst. You were a kid, and your ipod got wet, and you were like, oh, I'll get. I'll get a new one. Or your phone, the battery. And then you knew your sol.
B
All right, so to change the subject, get something off. So hot, Ken. You know what pisses me off?
A
Oh, boy.
B
And I want to know what you have to say is when people come up and they don't know the story of how you broke your neck or like, that you have a broken neck, and maybe it's the first time that they. They've seen you, and they go. They make some kind of backhanded, like, comment about, oh, that's what happens when you're a Seaboy, huh? Or, like, so have all of you guys broken your neck? And then, like, laugh, and then, like.
E
That'S where the conversation ends for me, and I. Yeah.
C
All right.
E
See you later, dude.
C
Yeah.
B
How often does that happen?
C
I walk away.
E
Not very often, actually.
B
Oh, really? Okay. It must tell you when I'm with times, because it's probably happened with me and you, like, seven different Times Ken.
D
And I were out to eat this, he kept coming up to us, and he goes, hey, you got to get a normal job. You guys got to get some normal jobs. And, like, again, he was trying to be funny, and then we're just like.
A
What that be like, that wasn't a funny joke, that guy.
E
We run into that guy all the time, though, and I'm like, I can stand about five minutes of him before I'm like, ah, how do I get away from you? But without being, like, a total.
A
Once again, this is one of those things that we talk about on the podcast. And there. There we do live. We are real people that live around other real people that might hear that right now.
B
Probably. Probably will.
C
Yeah.
A
Maybe he'll learn.
C
Just talking to Ken, just bleep out.
E
His job description, and I'm good, dude.
B
Yeah. It's not even me, and I get annoyed. You honestly handle it pretty good.
E
And you do normally, like, yeah, I'm going to go sit down over here. Yeah, I just avoid my neck.
A
I got to go like, oh, I'm gonna go get a normal job over.
E
There Also, Mike, did you, like. Why is this chair so up, Mike?
A
Now you're messing up the chairs. You put it in the water. All right, you can hop back in, Mike. Unless you'd like to stay, Ken.
E
I can sit here for a little bit.
A
There we go. You haven't been on in a minute.
C
Ken, did you hear about the Tesla batteries exploding?
E
I did, yeah.
D
Really?
C
It is a thing. Yeah. I told you guys. Sorry. On fire.
E
It's like, you throw any battery damage, any battery, it's gonna freaking start a fire and explode.
A
It does kind of make sense. And, I mean, I can't imagine being submerged in salt water is really good for anything.
E
Like, every other car is toast there, so.
A
Especially those ebikes.
C
Oh, the one E bike that I had that I ran through the ocean and then returned back to the rental place.
B
Oh, yeah, yeah. They weren't too happy about that.
A
No.
E
Why is this thing of corrosion on it? We just bought these things before you took them away?
C
I rinsed it off in the community shower after I did it.
B
Yeah, you'd think that would do it.
A
Yeah, man. Weird.
D
The.
A
Did you guys see the McLaren P1 that was in the water, in the flood water?
E
The dude literally just bought it, like, literally that week.
A
Really? Do you think he just, like, left that there? Like, why didn't he think.
B
No, it was in the garage. I know it was in his garage. And somehow it floated outside of The.
A
Yeah, because it like literally got so much water, everything floats out or like pushes through the house. But still, like we. When us. When a hailstorm is coming, we go, better get the cars inside. Like, wouldn't you assume at this giant storm coming at you, you're like, I better get my million dollar car out of a flood zone.
E
But they thought the storm, like the worst part of the storm was going to go further north and then it kind of veered south. So it's like last second. Okay, I've. I've got all these cars. This storm is going to hit me direct on. I'm going to worry about myself before I worry about my. My stuff because the stuff is probably insured at that point.
A
So I sat there and videotaped it.
E
Honestly, you got great content. It was hilarious.
A
Yeah, he did that. And so that brings up. Do you think he did it on purpose? He was like, screw it, dude.
B
I think if you have a million dollar car, even if you get insurance for that, that's probably not going to be too good on your insurance.
A
No, I can't imagine the claim is very good.
B
I can't imagine many people want to make a claim on a million dollar car. Two million dollars.
E
That's like the one car. I'd be like, okay, he probably custom ordered this. He probably waited a couple years.
A
Yeah.
B
To get it.
E
There's either that's just total insurance fraud or it's just bad luck.
C
His insurance is going to be through the roof. Just like Evan.
A
Just like, just like Evan and Mike's.
E
So I was thinking this week, what, like, what are, what are the cars you guys think you'll buy next?
B
I thought you were going somewhere with that again.
E
That was a good.
B
No, that was a great. That was great. Dude. I have literally no idea. No idea. And I just sold my Subaru and now I don't have a daily. I actually, I don't even have a. I don't even have a vehicle to drive this winter. I think actually we covered in the last one. I get the Ranger because Ryan got his bag from Coors.
A
I think I've been I. Old trucks, like 80s 90s diesel trucks are finally coming down in price because they went through this really weird like kind of when all the. When the car market spiked for some reason, 80s and 90s trucks appreciated like they were made of gold. And I'm sure all the people out there that like kind of keep up on those or like maybe own one and got lucky enough to sell it for four times what it Was worth. They're finally starting to come back down, But I think it'd be so sick. I'm just like, a clean obs truck.
B
I could see that, Ryan.
A
Yeah. Ripping around an old truck.
B
Yeah.
A
Kind of fun.
B
I could see in that.
A
Just a good, loud diesel roll coal over all the electric car drivers in the neighborhood.
E
I've been watching Entourage. Oh, and like, a 67. What is it? Continental convertible.
A
Like the one Lincoln got shot in.
C
I could totally see you driving.
E
I was like, that is the most badass car, but people are like, just a boat. It's so cool. But it's, like, the most complicated car they said, like, Detroit ever manufactured in the 1960s. And I was like, ooh, that looks. That sounds like a headache.
A
Wait, why is it complicated? It does have suicide doors, which is.
E
Because it's suicide doors and it's convertible, and it's, like, the early version of, like, electronics, and it's just interesting. It looks like a nightmare. And they're, like, 90 grand now, so I was like, it's not worth it for a 60s car.
A
That is actually crazy. You probably have to go look for something that's not, like, the most famous car from that era.
E
But they look so cool.
B
They do.
C
Look, you want to know the problem with buying more cars? We don't have anywhere to put them. It is.
B
It's a weird problem to have nowhere. Just in the driveway, stacked up. And then when we do go to use them, they're filthy. And then we wash them off, we find out that they sat outside baking in the sun and lost an entire hue color.
A
Oh, dude, the sham.
C
Yeah. We just got done filming the car tour video today, which you guys already saw. It already came out, but it went.
B
From, like, a lime green to, like, a very, very faint green. We hadn't driven the.
C
The fake Lamborghini in over a year. I don't know why I don't come around to it. Basically, we just had other things we were doing and filming, and just time moves quick around here, and next thing you know, is a full year. And I was like, all right.
E
I think the only thing we did with that car this year was move it around to get it out of the way.
A
That was it.
B
Dude, that thing is a special kind of piece of.
A
It is driving it today.
C
It's time for us to let it go. Really? I don't know if anyone wants to buy it. I. I honestly don't. I just don't know if we're. We might be done with it.
A
Like, I mean, yeah.
C
What else do we have we can do with it?
E
I look around our shop at all the things that we're done with, and we still are holding on to them.
B
Yeah, that's true. We are kind of hoarders in that way.
A
But you never know when you might need something, right?
B
That's true. And it's, like, not really worth that much money, but it did increase in value, like every other exotic. Granted, it's not an exotic, but certain people think that it's worth something, because that same car, I think we paid 22 grand for it. I saw on Facebook, Marketplace, going for, like, 45.
A
No way.
C
Yeah.
B
I think they're like, ours ain't going for 45. No. I'm definitely, definitely.
E
I'm sorry, but if somebody's paying 45 grand for that, they're dumb.
A
Yeah, I think so, too.
B
Yeah.
E
I'm sorry, but that is a bad idea.
B
Okay, Ken, don't talk them out of it. We might sell this thing one day.
C
You should daily drive ours.
B
Get it back into shape. Just. It needs to get its legs stretched.
C
You know, stretch the legs.
A
Dude, I tried to rev it up in that thing.
E
I can't drive it because my legs are too long. I can't, like, work the clutch right and, like, get it in between pedals.
A
Dude, I revved it up today, and it shot rusty water all over CJ's car, which I'm really sorry about.
C
It was an accident.
A
I looked back, and so I did it, and I was like, I was.
C
Watching you do it, but it was too late.
A
And then I was like, like, should I just go wash it before he notices or do I tell him?
C
And then it really wasn't that bad. Took some instant detailer.
E
So we're flying out to SEMA tomorrow. You guys excited to see anything?
D
Vegas.
E
I'm excited. Vegas.
B
I'm excited to see Vegas.
C
I'm excited to see all the cars at sema.
A
Yeah. Initially, I was more excited to go to Vegas and do some gambling and stuff like that. And then I kind of started seeing the pictures now that it's going on. And now I'm pretty stoked to see. Mainly, I love looking at cars. Yeah, exactly.
C
So fun. So funny you see such crazy stuff. It's honestly inspiring because it makes me want to, like, do more car stuff. I feel like I've slightly kind of fallen out of it. And when I see that or when we do, like, our car tour video and I was, like, driving the Evo around, I was like, I love cars.
A
I felt Embarrassed being after you guys and not having anything done to mine. I was like, damn, dude, I'm really slacking.
E
I was really hoping my wheels would come, but next week, too late.
C
How much money you guys gonna bring to, like, gamble? Like, what's your. What's your limit here? Like, 5,000, 2,000.
B
5,000?
E
I. I think I don't want to lose. 5,000.
C
No shit. No one wants to lose, but I.
B
Feel like the amount of money you bring, you obviously have to be with. Okay. With completely losing.
C
Yep.
A
That's what they said last time I brought $300, so I am.
B
You also didn't even gamble last time.
A
300. No, I did.
C
I want anything in Vegas.
A
I won 700 right away, and then I lost it all.
E
You've kind of grown gambling, though.
A
Like, I have V. I'm a grown guy.
C
What are you gonna. So what, you're. You're bringing 5K again?
E
I, I now I think I'll bring.
C
Less, But I think 10.
E
We talked about this couple weeks.
B
Bring 10. Put five down on red when we get there. 10.
A
Yeah, yeah, dude can do it. But the five is for the first, and then either. We'll have a great time.
E
Oh, I thought we had all agreed that, like, we were gonna walk into Vegas. All of us were gonna put thousand on red right away. Don't even put our bags away.
B
I'm down. I'm actually down.
C
I want to do that.
A
Are we doing it that. That fast? Like, legitimately we walk in and do it, or we just get all fired up and then do it?
C
If we can film it. I'm down.
B
Sneaky.
C
Or would it be better if we just all individually did a thousand rather than all of us doing it all at once?
B
What if, like, everyone stepped up?
C
What would the odds be? Rather than either all of us win or all of us lose or just be.
E
It's way more.
B
Few of us win.
C
Few of us.
E
I feel like it's way more fun, though, if all of us.
B
Yeah, you're right.
C
All in this together.
E
There's so much more suspense on.
C
We gotta be in it together. I agree.
B
Do you guys want to. I'm down.
E
I think it'd be fun. If we can film.
B
It'd be great.
A
Man, that really sucked.
C
If we can film it. I'm down.
A
I feel like it's one of those things that it would be like, either we're going up or we're all.
C
It's gonna be so electric.
E
Really gonna set the tone.
A
Oh, man, I'm nervous already.
B
I Think we should. I think that'd be a great way to start, dude.
A
You got gambling advice from that guy at the bar. What do you say?
B
Okay.
C
Yeah.
D
Yeah.
B
So get this, guys. So we're Halloween last weekend, and we went out to the bar, costume party, having a good time, ran into some of my old timer buddies, right? Made some friends. And I'm talking to him, and I was like, yeah, we're going to Vegas this week. And this guy pulls out his wallet, he gives me a hundred bucks. Chris Pondo.
D
What?
B
Yeah. Gives me a hundred bucks and goes.
A
I didn't know he gave you 100 bucks, too.
B
And he goes, all right, listen. And then he grabs a napkin and a pen and he starts writing down this bet in craps. That's the game. And he's like, all right, here's this, this, this. Put the money here, here, here. First hundred bucks is on me. And if you win, you're going to win, like, 2500 bucks.
A
Whoa.
B
And then he, like. I was like, dude, no way. And he was like, and if you lose, it's my 100 bucks, so have at it. And I was like, hell, yeah. What's your phone number? I'm going to FaceTime you in, and it's going to be electric.
A
Wow.
B
Yeah. So we'll see how that goes.
E
The Sammy.
B
No, if we want to do the same thing with that. No, I think we got to do roulette. Just put a thousand bucks. Boom, boom, boom.
A
Yeah. And then. Then we know whether we won or lost. Are we doing on red?
B
I think red.
E
Red's our company.
A
Red is our color.
B
Yeah.
A
Okay.
D
All right.
A
You're right. Now I'm all stoked on it. Before, it was all, like, luck and stuff like that, but look how much red we have.
B
Red, red, red.
A
Our shipping containers.
E
Red in the mug, red in the Corvette.
A
We got the Red Ranger, the red Raptor. All right, we're doing it.
B
We're doing it.
A
Oh, the update is either going to be so good or so bad. I might be able to sneak that in, actually, for later. In this, us winning or lose, it's.
B
Just the next clip. Us either celebrating hard or, like, if.
C
We can film it, I'm not down.
B
If we can't film it, we just sneaky film it.
E
I think you just pull out an iPhone and.
A
And do it.
E
Just do it. Don't even ask questions.
A
Yeah, you're right. So I don't know. We'll see. Maybe I'll be able to sneak it in this podcast and then people will know, watching it, either we're really happy or we're really sad. But I guess we have to live to see it. Powers of editing.
B
Oh man, this is going to be electric.
A
Ooh, this is fence. Got me excited.
B
I'm such a degenerate.
C
It's giving me butterflies in my stomach.
A
So what do you guys think? Our worst video idea ever. The worst video idea that we ever had that we filmed and did.
B
Oh man, we've had some real dumb ones. This is going to be tough.
C
Extreme tennis.
B
Oh, that was just a bad video.
C
Just a bad video.
B
But it wasn't a bad idea.
C
Yeah, it just didn't really go together. It wasn't edited right? Like it was like almost like just doing stuff was kind of the thing. And then it was just like.
A
I have a confession.
C
Tried making it cool. What?
A
That is, I think the only Seaboy Steve TV video I've never watched.
E
You're not missing it?
A
I don't know. I wasn't there and I'd never watched it.
B
No. It's funny Ryan, because the one Seaboys TV video that I have never watched is the video of you and Micah going to Michigan.
A
That was pretty good. Dude. We want a side by side blog.
C
Dude. Never watched it. That's actually surprising.
B
I never watched it and then it just like a couple weeks passed and.
A
I went, it just slips by.
D
I don't know.
B
It was like right after like the Michael and you just couldn't do it. And I was just like, eh, you.
C
Don'T want to watch it.
B
And you guys still reference stuff that like you would expect me to know that. I just don't know. And I just like have never really admitted that to you guys. You just go along with it. Like last podcast when you guys were like, yeah, like when we caught those fish in Michigan, CJ's like, yeah, that was crazy. And I was like, oh, oh yeah, that was crazy.
A
Have you ever missed a video?
C
Never.
A
No.
C
I watch every video probably multiple times. Yeah, actually when I like your guys snowmobile ones I'll maybe watch twice. But all the other ones like I've already watched lay's vid three, four times.
A
I wish I could do that.
C
Watch it probably two times a night.
B
Same. Three same. Yeah, I'll watch it like four times.
C
I watch it with you guys. Then I go home and I watch on my TV and then I watch it again on my phone because I want to hear how the sound sounds.
B
Actually I never rewatched after got. After we got done editing the video of Ken Breaking his neck.
C
That was still same.
B
I still haven't watched that video.
E
I haven't watched that one. I don't think I ever will.
A
I wouldn't honestly don't blame you. Maybe one day.
B
But that video actually got age restricted too.
C
I don't know if we know that.
A
I think we did talk about it.
B
Which, I mean, kind of makes sense. But also we still don't really know why it got age restricted.
A
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it was just maybe the promotion of danger, which we didn't really promote at all.
C
It's just that he got hurt. That's what. Yeah, man.
B
Dumbest idea, though. I wouldn't say the dumbest idea, but I'd say the most backlash we've ever had from a video is we had like a bunch of hot sauce. And we had all of our girls come over.
C
Dude.
B
And we told our girlfriends, like the last one standing to like finish all these hot sauces. It's 500 bucks.
A
Was it even that much money?
C
I thought it was 500.
B
I think it was 500. And we thought, you know, they would just slowly, one by one drop off.
C
We thought it'd be quick.
B
We thought it'd be quick. And then next thing we know, these girls, poor girls are eating these hot wings that should not be edible, like so soaked in. And we're like, why don't you guys quit? And they're like, I need the money.
A
Yeah, I want the. I want to buy.
C
Yeah, they more so just want it for the most.
B
And then it got to the point where it was like, really hard to watch.
C
I don't know if we actually got any back.
B
Yeah, no, people were pissed. Yeah, people were like super pissed about that. Like, they were like more so annoyed that we, like had our girlfriends on.
A
I think maybe it was because, like, we like dangled money in their face that the thought of that, like, oh, do this for money.
B
I don't even know if it was that.
C
I think they just people.
B
They didn't like the girlfriends, like, being in.
C
Really?
B
Yeah, I think they were just like, hey, this is Seaboy's tv. Who are these chicks?
A
This isn't Sea Girls.
B
That was pretty dumb.
A
Yeah, that one.
C
I don't think that was that bad of an idea. Just didn't work.
A
Yeah, that's true. There's maybe no bad ideas. Is bad execution.
B
Some bad ideas for sure.
A
I might.
C
I think we need to go through and like just unlist or private some of our old videos personally. Really?
A
So you.
C
Some of Them. I think we could maybe when you look back, like the ones where if you're just like, that thing's cringe and it doesn't even get any views, like, might as well just unlist it. But then pretty much everything within the last two years has been really good. Basically since we moved into the new shop. It has been amazing. I would say all those videos are really solid. You can watch any of those and they're all good.
A
Okay, this isn't maybe a bad idea. I can't remember what happens. And I know we go to X Games, but this is a funny bad title. I know what we were trying to do, but Jake has a kid. Baby daddy made him put a sandbag inside of his shirt.
C
No, that was funny. That was. That was a different time of YouTube.
A
Clicking on that shit, being like, what?
C
No, it's funny because what. What the deal was was we were going to exams, was hot as shit, and we were walking there and in Minneapolis and there was a sandbag just on the side of the road and. And someone said, jake, if you carry that sandbag for the whole day, I'll give you like a hundred bucks or something. I'll pay for your meal. Like, it was like a pretty minimal thing.
A
I think it was paid for his meal.
C
He just picked it up and started carrying it. And we all started cracking jokes. Like, you have to act like it's your kid when you go into the restaurant.
B
How about the one of Ken with the two chicks at Heydays? And it's titled Our first Time.
A
That was like, I see exactly.
C
What we're doing there too is like trying to just click bait them in.
A
That was five years ago. And it was a much different time on YouTube and after those videos. So our first time. And then we had every car owner needs this.
C
And then that's another one.
A
The next. The next video. 3.9 million views. Police plus shifter cart through college campus. So you were on the right track. It just was missing on a couple.
B
Yeah.
A
Remember one in that stunt ride. That was gnarly.
C
That was pretty cool. How many?
A
733. And then not many videos past. That was the worst Craigslist trade ever. When we traded a truck for a 450 that was 1.7. And then shift a car on thin ice. 4 million. That quad wheelies on ice. 5.4 million.
E
God, the further back this is. This does get more cringe the further I scroll back here.
A
The one thing is though, is like you look back. I mean, five years ago we were five Years younger. You're five years. I'm sure in any job you can look back at things you did five years ago and be like, man, I really wasn't as good at my job 5 years ago as I was now. So we've definitely improved and grown a lot, which is good.
B
Yeah. The evolution. But it is.
C
It.
B
It is hard to watch.
A
In those moments, did you guys feel like we were doing something cool or did you feel embarrassed about it?
B
No, I guess. Yeah. I mean, you are correct.
C
Both of our intros were a little bit relatively cool. Cringe. But I feel like the second one, when we, like, got the Corvettes and, like, Jake was with the guitar, like, and like, the song. And I was just from the get go. I've always thought that was just like. Yeah, just like, I still cringe. Thing about that.
A
It is funny to see some people still.
C
Yeah, there is people that request those. I know. But also at the same time, I feel like if we showed it to the master, like, hey, do you like this? They'd be like this.
A
What the hell is that?
C
Yeah, I don't know. That was just my thought. I've always felt that way on that, though. The first one was, like, cool and short, but also still cringe with, like, all of us dancing on the boat with, like, the girls. Oh, it was just like a phone clip. Like, that part right there ruins it for me. And then pretty much the whole thing of the second one, besides for the shot of Ben Wheeling, I thought was pretty. I don't know how to use the word online.
A
Man. I can't believe we use that video clip of all on the.
B
On the boat. Yeah, dancing.
C
Mike and I made that. Well, there's two of them. We did it again in the second one, but the very first one Mike and I made together and legitimately made it in probably, I think, 30 seconds. Like, like, I was sitting there and Mike was like, here, I'll show you how. And we just put, like, four clips together. That was it. And then I was like, how do you put text on it? And you show me how to drag text above? I was like, nice, C boys tv.
B
I wonder if we're gonna look back and be like, man, why did we have, like, an outro? And that's another thing. When we used to, like, end videos and be like, all right, guys, thanks for watching and shit.
C
And like, everyone, if you watch. I remember even at the time, it was just like, such a different time, though. But, like, Mike would be like, all right, that's it for today. Guys, thanks for watching. And then be like, all right, now Ben comes in. Thanks for watching, guys. And be sure to like and hit subscribe. And then I'd be coming in like, hey, guys. Like, it was like, everyone had to get their last word. And I'm like, what the fuck are we doing? Like, just one person ended and let's get on with it.
A
It was tough.
C
And I didn't want to cut anyone off because I was like, I don't want to, like, cut his screen time.
E
I remember so many times in the old shop where we spent like an hour just trying to film that. It was like, yeah.
A
And little.
E
Just getting old.
A
And I think same thing. Outros in YouTube at that point were normal. And now they aren't. Now I. I noticed we cut the dog from the last video.
C
Did we? No, we didn't. It was in the last video. I remember it and watch it till the end.
B
Then, yeah.
C
Somebody in the last video.
B
I guarantee it.
C
Because I think on the fence of why we. I think we should just cut the dog. I hate to say it.
B
That's what I was gonna say.
C
Purposes. I think we need to just cut the dog. And it sucks. It is a bummer. But like, as soon as it hits tbostv.com it should just go, boom, black screen. Hit him with the next ad. Because the dog goes. And then it's. There's like these four seconds roughly of people clicking off and we miss the very last ad. So I don't. I always. I'm always wondering, like, how much money have we lost out on over the years? Because most people click off before they get served that ad.
B
Yeah, I was going to say, you.
E
Also hurt in watch time percentage.
B
Are we. Are we going to look back once we know more in the future and be like, man, I was so dumb that we had a dog bark at the end for like five years.
C
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. At the same time, fuck. I guess I really have no idea how much money we're losing. But I would guarantee you most people click off. No, that's. How much is it?
B
I think we.
C
I think we might have to just call it. I think we gotta.
B
We. We stop. We stopped doing like the post clip outros or like the bloopers blooper, which is also.
A
I get that too. But it's also a bummer because I love that when you come in and you get that last laugh. It was that last hit of dopamine when you're watching the video and it's rounded out, everything's done, and you feel concluded with the video. Right.
C
Yeah.
A
This is playing devil's advocate here. No videos concluded, and you're like, all right, I'm done with the C boys now. And then this little bit comes in the middle and you go, oh, that was so funny. I want more. Yeah, there's. There's all that.
B
I get it.
A
It probably the seconds lost goes in the algorithm and we lose out. But I just.
C
I agree with what you're saying.
D
I just.
A
I just hate that YouTube has gone to that point where you have to edit so damn tight that you don't.
C
Yeah, I agree. It does kind of suck. I agree. Like, it's getting so fast paced that you have to, like, cut a lot of the. That almost makes it, like, so personalized. But at the same time, I personally have not had a clip where I was like, oh, this is not good in the video. And it should be possibly a blooper in a long time just because of the way we film. Yeah. That it's not as much goofing off, like, uncontrollably goofing off, where it's like, I have this, like, kind of funny, dumb little clip of someone, like, you know, or whatever. They'd be saying, like. Like, it's funny, but it's like, no context to it. And those are what we would use as bloopers a lot of the time. Or you would replay a really funny spot, which we do sometimes.
D
Still do.
A
Yep. Yeah. And I. Yeah, we're probably just getting better. We're probably just getting better at filming.
E
That'd be a drop.
B
Can you imagine? Okay, so right now we're having. Security cam, please.
A
Probably right out there.
B
He's in the ceiling, bro.
E
The shop isn't that quiet.
C
Breaks his legs.
B
Okay, can I. Can I say what's going on here? All right, so we're having security cameras put in. It's been going on for a while. Right before we start filming this, the guy comes in and he goes, oh, you guys are filming a podcast. Okay, well, I might be. I might be climbing up in the attic, running some gears. And then we just heard this loud crash. Is that cool? We were like, yeah, that's cool, bro. As long as you're over there. He falls through the ceiling. I would black out, dude.
C
Just Body slam through the table.
A
It's like that video where they go, like, the guy falls through and then the other guy's standing there, goes, oh, hey, Carl.
C
Hey, Ron.
A
And then he starts moving. He goes, oh, don't move now.
B
Dude. There's just something about falling that is so funny. I know, dude. It's like last week when Gavin hops on the three wheeler trike that we just give him and he hits that culvert.
C
It's just like, why is that so funny, though?
B
Like, I, I, that is the hardest I've ever laughed. I'm sticking.
C
And it was funny because he didn't.
A
Like, get hurt, thank goodness.
C
But also, even if he would have gotten a little bit hurt, it was like such a funny fall and funny coincidence of events that it would have still been funny. It wouldn't have been as funny. But like, holy, bro. It's like, it's like human nature to laugh at that.
B
You can't make that up. Like, you literally cannot make that.
C
I mean, they make TV shows of people falling and ridiculousness.
E
It was just.
C
You know them. America's Funniest Home Videos.
B
No, it is something about people suffering or, or getting hurt. Okay.
C
I don't know about the suffering. Pen's like, suffering.
B
No, no, no. I, I mean, like, people, you know, suffering. How do I reword this?
A
The best part about it is, too, is when he kind of like hits the windshield and that just goes limp. It's like he hit it and then he just turned off because he was like, I don't want to do anything and mess it up further. So he just kind of like went limp and then just fell and then it falls on top, but, like, doesn't hit him. It like fell around him. Was. I got a cartoon when. And the window hole was there.
B
Yeah, man, that was funny. Yeah. No, I think that might actually be the hardest I've ever laughed.
E
I'm so sad I missed that.
B
I'm so glad you guys weren't there because it might not have happened if you guys were there. And just the slight risk of that not happening.
A
Something changing in the universe happened so fast.
E
I was like, he made it 5ft off the highway.
B
Oh, yeah.
D
Yeah.
B
Did you watch the video?
A
Yeah. You did?
E
Yeah.
B
Oh, nice. Yeah. Okay, so you had to make sure he saw it.
C
Yeah, he tuned in halfway through, but he heard. He saw it.
B
Ken, how many videos do you think you haven't watched?
C
Too many to count.
A
Be honest.
E
Like 10.
A
Okay.
C
Pretty good.
E
Definitely. I have to admit, I also didn't watch the salmon fishing video.
A
It wasn't the salmon fishing video. There was much more. More to it.
C
Mike and Ryan made this vid.
B
You could just skip it. Skip.
A
We, we hung out with the side by side Side blog guys.
B
I felt like I was missing a connection when I met them.
C
That's what I. Beauties.
B
Yeah, they were awesome.
C
They're the greatest dudes ever. But I'm. I feel like we're out of the loop.
A
Special me, Mike.
B
That ship sailed.
E
All right, get out of here, dude.
A
They taught me how to water skit, which I use later in the video.
B
He did almost kill me that one time, so I feel like we do have a special.
C
I think he almost killed all of us.
D
Almost.
C
Not me.
B
No, I. I'm not holding it against him.
C
That's one thing I want to fuck with. Hopping passenger in a razor or side by side.
B
Yeah, it is kind of one of those things that.
E
I'm never doing that again.
C
You don't need to say anything, but.
B
Yeah, no kidding.
C
If I'm gonna die or hurt myself, I want to do it to myself. Like, at least rather than. Rather than r passenger and be like, oh, I wish he would have gone a little faster.
B
I mean, that's true.
C
Like, I. I'd rather just be like, ah, I messed up and didn't go fast enough or whatever.
A
Or went too fast.
B
Yeah, yeah. There's not a whole lot of reasons to really hop passenger in something. And Evan's really kind of stuck by that too. Like, he's always said. Like, nah, I. I have literally nothing to gain by riding.
C
I don't know how girls ride on the back at crotch rockets with those freaking gomers that ride them around in Fargo.
B
Is that going to be you and.
A
Alex next year on your crotch rocket?
C
She'll be riding on the back. But I'm not a gomer.
A
Mike. And F laugh like an experienced crotch rocket rider.
B
Yeah, cj, dude, watching you ride that crotch rocket, I'm not sure if you can make that argument.
A
What?
C
Dude, am I actually bad?
A
No, you're not.
C
I was driving it just fine.
A
Bad at it, but don't have a lot of seat time.
B
Can we pop up some of the.
C
Roller videos of me on the crotch rocket?
B
Yeah, it looks sick.
C
What do you mean? I was flying by you guys at like 115 miles an hour.
B
Mike. And ever laughing in the back.
C
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with him.
B
Ah, nothing. It just doesn't look.
D
You just.
B
Never mind.
E
Are you thinking about the thing I'm thinking about?
A
That depends. What are you guys thinking about? Because I'm a bit in the dark here too.
E
Over by G reg and Shauna's house, and he little bike literally exploded.
C
Huh.
B
Never mind.
A
Oh, and the throttle came out.
B
No, that's not at all what I was thinking about.
A
Okay.
E
We're on different pages.
C
He's talking about when my zipper was down. I was riding. That's really their favorite part. They were pausing it, playing it back.
A
Like, really?
B
That's it.
A
I don't know why. Why? Can you explain why?
B
Nothing.
C
Okay, I will say, like, I. I do agree you feel a lot cooler riding it. And then when you watch it, you're like, I don't look that cool on it.
E
I feel like it's the helmet.
C
Well, yeah, our helmet's not the coolest.
E
Helmet'S kind of layer.
C
But yeah, I mean, it's a free helmet that Mike got back in like 2016 with his thousand dollar bike he bought off Craigslist. So, I mean, can I at least get an explanation? I think the podcast listeners deserve an explanation of why I don't look cool or why I look like a gomer on the crotch. Do you want to explain and why these guys don't look like gomers riding it?
B
I don't know, it just.
D
Oh, Ben, I'm about to out you. I guess just because we were a part of this. It's not that big of a thing. It was just really funny when we first got the R6. You're like, I'll do the rollers. And like, you know, somebody's got to do it. Course. But I remember because we didn't know either when you said, do I look cooler down down like this over the gas tank, or do I look cooler sitting up? And I genuinely didn't know.
C
I didn't either. That's what I was asking you, like.
D
Back and forth between it. And then I was so caught up with, like, making sure the stabilizer. Stabilizer and camera was working good. I was so caught up in that that I like, kind of forgot to tell you that it is looks cooler when you just go half between, way down and up. I was like, I failed to like, mention that to you. So, yeah, some of them you're like.
B
Making love to that gas like, like.
D
Holding it because, like, when you flew.
B
When you did wanted to leave the.
D
Flyby, that was like really normal because you actually had to concentrate. And so your riding position was really natural. But then it was when, of course.
B
When we're going, we're going 30 miles an hour, 25 miles per hour, and you over this thing.
D
But again, equally as funny when you stood up because it looked like you had like a back brace on.
C
You're like.
D
Well, that's the thing.
C
I was looking at the footage. I'm like, like, again, you fucking feel a lot cooler riding the thing than you look. Because, like, I wrote it in the other day, and Alex was here, and I didn't know she was here, and she started taking a Snapchat video or something to me for a story. And I saw. Saw she posted. I click on. I'm like, like, yeah, I'm gonna look cool in front of everyone pulling up on this crotch rock. I'm like, God damn it.
D
Why do I look so cool?
B
As soon as I saw it, I.
D
Think it is that I had an experience like that.
C
Like, I don't know when I got honest, though. When have you ever looked at a guy on a crotch rock and be like, God, that guy looks cool?
A
To be honest, those things.
D
I do it, like, a lot.
B
But you.
D
If you have a badass. If you have a badass rocket and you're, like, fully geared up and you have an actually sick helmet with a, you know, like a visor that you.
B
Yeah.
C
Mirrored.
D
You look badass. It's just. I think you do. But I remember when I had that stripe, like, black helmet with the stripes, the one that we use in the video when I got. When I got my, like, first street bike. Nothing fast. Not even considered a crotch rocket.
A
Hardly a moped.
D
That is a lie. But, Ryan, you want. You want me to get another one and put it up against a ruckus, right? Let's do it.
B
You calling Mike's first bike a moped is.
A
I owned a moped.
B
So expensive.
A
It was. How fast? It didn't go 55.
D
I put it up to 99.
A
Okay, I remember.
D
But, yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. It was a normal motorcycle. It just wasn't a rocket.
A
What?
D
CC500.
A
What was 500?
D
But I just remember pulling up to, like, the local, like, the Krolls Diner.
C
Can you imagine buying a 500cc motorcycle, like, nowadays?
D
Well, that's the thing.
A
But all the entry, 600cc?
B
Yeah.
D
Different. Just completely.
A
It's like an insane thing, but.
D
Right. Like, I couldn't even. I actually couldn't even get the front tire up. Not that I was, like, even able to.
B
It was like.
D
And you could maybe get the front tire, Like, I guess you were just.
C
Getting into riding, so it makes sense, right?
D
It was fun while it lasted.
B
Little beginner.
D
But I didn't have anyone to ride with. But anyway, I pull up to, like, the local diner on the Monday night when everyone goes for shakes. And this Chick takes a Snapchat of me and then said, oh yeah, like, you gotta let her get on your bike. I thought I was so cool. And then she sent me the Snapchat and I still. I was like, wow.
C
I think it might be like just a permanent motorcycle thing. Maybe Harley's, though.
B
You do look a little.
C
You can look badass on a Harley.
B
That one's a little bit of a better position. Like. Yeah, natural position.
D
The handlebars for sure.
B
Ryan, Speaking of mopeds.
A
No.
B
Can you pop up the video of you wheelieing your ruckus through campus?
A
Oh yeah. Attempting in front. Ah, man. This is just when you're young and you think you're so cool.
D
Jake.
A
Jake had an SSR and I had my ruckus. And so we were driving around. We're going to the dining center in like a. A big auditorium. Class had just gotten out. Probably like 50 people, maybe even more, honestly. And I just was like, I'm in a wheelie. And I stood on the back on my moped.
D
My two feet on the back.
A
Yeah.
D
On the back bar.
A
And I wheelied for a bit and then looped it out in front of like a lot of people.
B
And we're like, oh, that's saved it.
D
That's never not going to be funny.
A
No.
D
Like, anytime anyone does, the sound of.
C
A bike hitting the pavement will make everyone turn around.
A
Yeah. And a good crowd around sliding.
D
Well, when it's a moped at 10, when you said that, then I'm starting to picture, like, can you imagine some guy like loops out going like 60, and you're all like, haha, that's always funny.
B
Yeah, that's always so funny. I actually laugh.
D
Okay. And to elaborate more on that, dude, I actually. So that's why I'm not the type of person to yell like, wheelie it. I remember. And so you guys.
C
Yeah, Wheelie it went down. The guy loops it right there.
D
I would feel. It just wouldn't feel good. Because like, when we were with Buttery, Buttery always does it. But it's like there's always bikes when we're riding around California. Every guy that comes by Papa Wheelie, it's a pretty normal, funny thing to say, but if. What if one dude that really didn't know what he was doing, which Buttery would just love or anyone. But like, if someone looped it out trying to wheelie it just because you said Papa Wheelie, I'd feel so bad.
B
I think that's exactly what people want that say papa exactly. Like they'd rat.
D
Yeah, you're right. They'd rather see a loop than a decent wheelie.
B
That could be a series on this show. Like, a little bit just called Wheelie it. And it's us just reacting to people. Oh, my God, their bikes. Maybe we'll do it in the next podcast.
C
Do we have any idiot of the week?
D
This one could be it. He set me up for it.
C
Ryan's the idiot of the week.
A
Jumping in the pool. Is that the one where he face plants and it's age restricted everywhere because he, like, should have died?
D
Yeah, I only watched that one.
A
You, like, double front flips to the.
C
Yeah, that guy's gotta be.
D
Yeah, I only could watch that once.
B
If anything on Instagram says, like, do you want to see this video? You know, it makes you, like, verify. I don't watch it.
C
Oh.
A
Oh, this one's different.
D
That one. That was a bat's not him. That was a different guy.
C
Yeah, cut that in.
D
That was a bad idea gone bad right there.
A
A bad idea gone bad.
D
You know, because some kids, sometimes they can go good. Yeah.
A
If he did it.
B
Parkour bad idea.
D
It's a fun slogan.
B
That is a fun slogan.
A
I found it. I posted on Instagram, actually. I said, miss my ruckus because it.
D
Got stolen, by the way.
A
This is so.
C
My gosh, why throws the arm up?
A
And this. You did say there's a lot of people. And this. That was just a. A random person that posted it on, like, the snap map.
C
Oh, seriously?
B
Yeah.
C
I think Jake was embarrassed to be with you. He stopped. He's like, I don't know that guy.
D
Yeah.
A
Then my ruckus got stolen.
B
Were you able to wheelie that thing good, or were you just. Were you just going for it?
D
That was my favorite part.
A
Is it? Not really. I was not. I was not do it in front of a crowd of people.
B
Good.
A
No, for sure.
B
And you were just like.
A
I was all hyped up, dude. I was leaving the dining center. I probably had three Mountain Dews.
B
Dude.
D
It's funny how CJ just said even Jake was embarrassed to be with you. It's really funny how when Jake got that, it was like a thumbstar. Same thing as an ssr. When he got that. Oh, no.
B
I was like.
D
I thought it was like a. Slightly. Anyway, it's the same thing.
A
Okay.
D
I just remember when he could wheelie it, he would two foot down.
B
And.
D
I remember being like, damn, dude, you're so good at it. You know, like, oh, I can't wait till I get a pit bike one day and be able to do that. And then when we went to Andrew Carlson's and we rode real 110s, he had it down. Double your tripod, just rolling around. I'm like, look at it. Just circles all day. How does he do it? And then I. And then we learned how to wheelie pretty quick. And then I was like, jake. Yeah, Just, like, take your feet off and, like, put them on the pegs. Oh, absolutely not. Jake would wear through his.
B
Yeah, yeah.
D
Like, I can't believe that. I was like. I mean, I did, but I like that I looked up to the fact that he could do that. Like, it was a real skill. Sorry, Jake. It's the tripod.
C
It's harder than.
D
Than riding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. Gosh, that's funny.
A
Oh, man. Well, I really got a pee.
B
Should we end on that? Idiot of the week.
D
Sorry, it is tough.
A
Can. Yeah.
D
I'm honestly, if you ever want to rip me for idiot of the week, you can. Ryan just comes up with the whole podcast, Diving deep into the idiot of the week. That'd be pretty good.
A
All righty, fellas, we're gonna wrap up. We're headed off to Vegas this week, so we will be back next Tuesday and the next Tuesday after that and the next Tuesday after that and for the foreseeable Tuesdays. So please subscribe. Yeah. Forever. Please subscribe. And thank you guys for watching.
Episode: "CboysTV Is Embarrassed Of Old Videos"
Date: November 8, 2022
In this episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah—gather for a candid, often hilarious conversation about the highs and lows of YouTube stardom. They touch on everything from business ventures of YouTubers, their own embarrassing early videos, business advice, memorable mishaps, and car talk, to Vegas gambling strategies. The group reflects on how far they’ve come, laughs at their old mistakes, and shares behind-the-scenes insights into building their brand.
MrBeast’s Failed Supermarket Video (00:43)
YouTuber Brand Expansion
Insight: “Most YouTubers are like business people first. Or, you know, it might not start that way… but then eventually, it all turns into a business.” — Ben (06:37)
Jimmy Buffett & 50 Cent: The group discusses crossover examples with Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville and 50 Cent’s involvement with Vitaminwater.
Negative connotations attached to being a YouTuber, especially from adults or teachers.
Reflections on Podcasting vs. Radio
“It’s not easy to have a conversation with four people. So for one person to just sit there and be entertaining, it was… really impressive.” — Ben (13:47)
Unique Professions: Chat about iconic job roles, e.g., Bruce Buffer, the UFC announcer, and the kind of legacy he’s built.
The Jake Paul boxing phenomenon and allegations of rigged fights.
Community Connections: They recount a friend wearing a CboysTV shirt being featured in Jake and Logan Paul’s fight story. (18:06)
Discussion around Teslas catching fire after being flooded with saltwater in Florida.
Personal Anecdote: Debate about whether Ken submerged his Tesla too deep while launching a boat for a video (21:10).
Ken shares frustrations about people making comments about his injury and associating it with being a “Seaboy.”
The crew talks about awkward or annoying fan interactions and reiterate the challenge of being in the public eye locally.
Reflecting on Old Videos & Intros
Specific Cringe Moments
Hardest Laughter & Fails: Recounting the funniest moments—especially involving falls and wipeouts.
Quote: “There’s just something about falling that is so funny. I know, dude.” — Ben (51:44)
The potential for a recurring podcast segment just reacting to "wheelie" fails.
Lighthearted, self-deprecating, and full of camaraderie. The team doesn’t hesitate to roast each other and themselves, often breaking into laughter about their old mistakes. There’s nostalgia, pride, some business insight, but mostly authentic banter that invites listeners into the “back room” of the CboysTV world.
This episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the CboysTV crew navigates the transition from goofy, sometimes cringe-worthy YouTubers to legitimate business owners and internet personalities. Expect insights into influencer entrepreneurship, candid reflections on past embarrassments, plenty of inside jokes, and stories of both wild success and monumental fails. Whether you’re into YouTube culture, cars, or just enjoy a good laugh about growing pains, this is a quintessential CboysTV episode.