CboysTV Is Never Allowed Back In Vegas

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: "CboysTV Is Never Allowed Back In Vegas"

Date: November 15, 2022

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Episode Overview

This episode finds the CboysTV crew (CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah) reflecting on their chaotic, fun-filled business trip to Las Vegas for SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) and recounting the illnesses, questionable financial decisions, wild nightclub misadventures, and behind-the-scenes moments that resulted in the tongue-in-cheek conclusion: “We’re never allowed back in Vegas.” Alongside Vegas tales, the guys chat about burnout competitions, car culture, business, video games, neck brace woes, and some truly questionable health advice.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Las Vegas Aftermath (00:20–06:00)

• Everyone’s Sick or Hungover: Most of the crew comes back from Vegas feeling ill, debating whether it’s Vegas germs or simply the classic hangover.
• Vegas as a Productivity Trap: Their illnesses leave everyone “down bad” both physically and financially; Ben reportedly lost upwards of $2,500–$3,000 gambling.
• Moral of Gambling Woes: The boys reflect on hating wasted money, with CJ noting, “I was, like, ill on the way home with myself.” (03:28, CJ)
• Micah’s Vegas Spending: While most blew cash at casinos, Micah lost his money "on random stuff" at SEMA booths and felt compelled to pity-buy from small-time vendors.
  • Notable anecdote: Buying "Rare Cloth" sweatshirts and plastic repair kits from charismatic salesmen.

2. Vegas Hustle Stories & Sucker Purchases (04:04–07:55)

• Micah’s Social Purchases: Micah gets guilted into buying novelty items and clothes from various “hustlers”—from SEMA booths to trunk-peddling taxi drivers.
• Small-Time Hustle Respect: The group jokingly respects the hustle of people selling wares out of their car trunks.

3. SEMA Show Highlights & Carnage (08:26–16:16)

• The Hoonigan Burnout Pit: A major highlight was the burnout event, where a Challenger lost half a tire, sending debris over the crowd and into a show car—highlighting both the thrill and the real danger of SEMA and car culture.
  • “I can't believe they're allowed to do that show. I want them to be able to do it, but it is so dangerous.” (10:17, CJ)
• Street Takeovers: Group discusses increase in street takeover videos and accidents in car culture.

4. Wild Vegas Purchases: The Bugatti Scooter Debacle (15:35–23:44)

• Drunken Impulse Buy: CJ and Ben impulsively purchase a $1,500 “Bugatti” e-scooter after drinks. The process involved confusion, fake accidents, and nearly scamming themselves by forgetting the charger.
  • “We were basically...we got conned, but you got a really good excuse.” (16:01, Micah)
  • “Sorry, man, real bad. I wrecked it real bad...Yeah, I hit a wall. It's in like three pieces right now. And I think I broke my arm...” (17:55, CJ)

5. The Strip Club Table Fiasco (24:44–27:58)

• VIP Denied: Despite being promised a VIP table thanks to their influencer status, the crew is summarily denied at the club due to arriving as an 11-dude group—"Not a single table had anyone sitting at it." (26:11, Ben)
• Observations on Club Culture: The team laughs about not fitting the influencer mold, “We looked like a bit of a motley crew...Ken's in a neck brace.” (26:28, CJ)

6. Diplo’s Club Set & Lewis Hamilton Cameos (28:52–31:33)

• Front Row Experience: Some members bail early, while others end up having a blast up front, interacting with Diplo and F1 superstar Lewis Hamilton. Ben gets into a dance-off and even catches a cake.
• Celebrity/Fan Divide: The crew jokes about trying (and failing) to get Hamilton to party with them.
  • “Me and Lewis Hamilton, Diplo are best friends now.” (31:10, CJ)

7. Back to Regular Life & Project Woes (31:53–35:47)

• Returning Home: The crew is happy to be back to their “Minnesota nice” home and away from Vegas stupidity.
• Project Cars Blunders: Micah’s drift car remains perpetually “not ready,” paralleled with a running discussion of weather and upcoming winter stunts.
• Thin Ice Contest: Group proposes a fun contest to guess when their local lake will freeze over.

8. Wild Taste Tests: Apple Cider Vinegar (37:22–41:16)

• Spur-of-the-moment Health Challenge: The group bravely tries apple cider vinegar shots, with mixed (mostly disgusted) reactions.
  • “My insides feel, like, warm. Like, I feel it going down. That's weird.” (39:47, Micah)

9. IRS Audits, Taxes, and Custom Tees (41:44–43:29)

• Merch Gags: Ken gifts Micah a custom “Life's too short to pay taxes” tee in light of his ongoing IRS audit stress.

10. Gaming Nostalgia (49:06–54:02)

• Favorite Childhood Games: The group reminisces on most-played games—Call of Duty, Need for Speed, Burnout, Skate 3, Tony Hawk, Forza, Flight Simulator, etc.
  • “The most played video game for you growing up?” launches an enthusiastic round of nostalgia.

11. Car Talk: The Worst Cars Ever (55:16–57:31)

• Simulators & Real Cars: Discussion about building a driving sim turns to banter about the worst car ever made—shoutouts to Pontiac Aztec, Prius, and Chevy Volt.

12. Idiot of the Week: Burnout Disaster (57:47–60:12)

• Viral Video Breakdown: They share and roast a viral burnout fail where a driver blacked out and smashed a compact car: “Can you imagine? Had to have hurt how pissed you're getting out of that car.” (58:54, CJ)
• Shop Burnouts: Plea to fans: “Please don't do that. People don't, like, when they drive by and see a bunch of burnout marks in front of our shop.” (59:47, CJ)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I was, like, ill on the way home with myself.” (03:28, CJ)
• “This guy lost $1,500 in like a minute and a half.” (03:05, Ben)
• On the Hoonigan burnout pit: “I want them to be able to do it, but it is so dangerous.” (10:17, CJ)
• On impulse buying: “We basically...we got conned, but you got a really good excuse.” (16:01, Micah)
• “They saw us, took one look, and were like, ‘no tables left.’” (26:49, Ben)
• “Me and Lewis Hamilton, Diplo are best friends now.” (31:10, CJ)
• “Life’s too short to pay taxes.” (42:13, Ken’s T-shirt)
• On their video game nostalgia: “Simpsons Hit and Run…Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4…the best games.” (50:09, Ben)
• On burnouts in front of the shop: “Please don’t do that…People don’t like when they drive by and see a bunch of burnout marks.” (59:47, CJ)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Vegas Sickness & Gambling Losses: 00:20–04:39
• Micah’s Pity Buys & Vegas Hustle: 04:04–07:55
• SEMA & Burnout Carnage: 08:26–16:16
• Bugatti Scooter Story: 15:35–23:44
• Club Entry Fiasco: 24:44–27:58
• Diplo & Lewis Hamilton: 28:52–31:33
• Back Home & Winter Contest: 31:53–35:47
• Apple Cider Vinegar Challenge: 37:22–41:16
• IRS Shirt & Taxes: 41:44–43:29
• Video Game Memories: 49:06–54:02
• Driving Simulators Talk: 54:52–57:31
• Idiot of the Week (Burnout Fail): 57:47–60:12

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Tone & Vibe

The podcast is full of lively, sometimes self-deprecating humor, relentless storytelling, Midwestern camaraderie, and genuine affection. The crew laughs off their Vegas mishaps, shares unfiltered opinions on car culture and life as Youtubers, experiments with (disgusting) health hacks, and never takes themselves too seriously, rolling with the wins, losses, and all the stories in between.

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For Listeners Who Haven't Tuned In

This episode is a high-energy, storytelling-heavy look at the wild, weird, and wonderful world of CboysTV: from reckless Vegas nights to burnout pits and close encounters with F1 stars, to reminders about the perils of clubbing with all dudes, winter in the Midwest, and the eternal question—what terrible car would you turn into a simulator? It’s a classic slice of CboysTV: irreverent, honest, and always entertaining.

Transcript

[A]

Alrighty, guys. Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. We always remember to say this at the end, but never in the beginning. So if you are watching and you enjoy the show.

[B]

I just hit the thing on my chair and made it go down.

[C]

Carry on.

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

Please subscribe or if you're on Spotify or Apple, rate us five stars. Whatever those things are, please do them. We would really appreciate it. Let's get into it.

[C]

Let's get into it. First off, can't believe you're drinking a beer, cj.

[D]

I know. That's what I said.

[B]

I was thirsty.

[C]

Yeah, I just. I just actually can't. So right now we have Ben mad, like, under the weather.

[B]

He's got really sick.

[A]

He's got the.

[C]

Yeah, I guess if you guys can compare it to anything, if you've ever.

[B]

Seen spongebob when they get sick. Yes.

[A]

Evan's down with the suds. I believe I'm coming down with the suds. So I am drinking a healthy drink for once.

[C]

I'm a heavy believer of. On the vitamin C. Lots of it. You can maybe not surpass getting sick, but it helps. Like, I'm a big believer.

[B]

Yeah, Ken's. Ken was laying down before this, too, and he's thinking he's sick. You see, I was feeling pretty sick on Sunday, the last day of Vegas. So we just came back from Vegas, and that is where everyone got sick, because we were doing a bunch of running around. We were flying. We were getting a little sleep, and on top of that, we were drinking and having a blast.

[D]

I don't know if Ben's actually sick or if he's just that hungover.

[A]

No, I thought that at the concert because he was talking how he didn't feel good, all this, and I was like, that's what it feels like to get old, buddy. Like, your hands are worse. And then, yeah, it turned out to be real, real sick. So definitely a bummer. Definitely not good for the productivity, which we needed after Vegas because the boys did not do so hot.

[C]

That's. I think the worst part is, is, like, we get back, you know, it was. We went to sema. It was amazing. Kind of a business trip. Got to enjoy ourselves. Then we come back, like, all right, let's, you know, let's kick it back to it. Get back to it. And then everyone's just like, not only down bad there. Down bad financially, you know, some of us lost a lot of money.

[B]

Yeah, dude. I think Ben really came out the worst on the trip. I hate to speak for him, but I feel like I have to, because I don't know if we're going to come back to this on the podcast. Basically, Ben lost, at least visibly in front of me, $2,000. He lost more than that. I think it was probably around somewhere between 2,500 to 3,000.

[D]

Oh, my gosh. I thought I lost a lot, but then I dropped all my cash off at the bank and I was like.

[B]

Well, actually, because you said you were.

[A]

Gonna bring like ten grand.

[D]

No, I said five.

[A]

Five, sorry, five.

[D]

And I only lost twelve hundred dollars.

[B]

Okay. Pretty bad.

[A]

So Pretty bad.

[D]

It's better than I expected though, because I was thinking it's gonna be closer to two. But I just straight up didn't count the cash until he went to the bank.

[B]

So I don't want to, like, lock in that Ben lost that much. But I watched. He said he was down, I think, a thousand or maybe a little more than that. And as we were walking out the door in the casino, we were already outside. He said, let's go back in. I'm gonna put a thousand on red. I think you did. I did the same thing as well.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

And they lost. They lost that thousand. And then Ben took 500 out again and put it on red and won that. And then he got all hyped up. He's like, I'm gonna do it again. I think he put the other 500 down and then lost it. So he lost 1500 in like a matter of a minute and 30 seconds on our way out the door.

[A]

I was actually legitimately sick, like, visibly sick after we did that.

[B]

Because maybe that's what it is.

[A]

Maybe that's what it is. If we're down bad on gambling, it just like ruined our emotions. Because, like, as much as we kind of spend money on things that probably wouldn't be considered good investment, such as cars and four wheelers, dirt bikes. We at least can use them for fun on videos. It's where we spend all of our money. So it's a bit justified. Cause I hate wasting money. I hate having to spend money on shit like that that I don't need. And I was, like, ill on the way home with myself.

[C]

I acted like I didn't know you guys were gonna go do that, so.

[B]

That way you didn't have to partake.

[C]

I knew what was going down. Had my thousand dollars with you.

[A]

Ended up.

[B]

How.

[A]

How did you end up on the whole weekend?

[C]

Eh, well, so here's. Here's my take on Vegas. You guys know, don't gamble that much. Gambled the most I ever have for sure. I ended up as far as that goes, believe it or not. Probably like total. Probably threw in a total of 300. Came out with a total of 350 over the entire week.

[B]

50 bucks.

[A]

There you go. Dude, you are the only winner.

[C]

But here's where I go down in Vegas. Is that you? I'm a sucker to give money to someone in need, but, you know, homeless people or whatever. So when we were wandering around Sema, Kevin, Evan and I were hitting up all the small kiosks, or not even kiosks, booths. You know, there's guys there, like, there's Dodge and Ford and they have the biggest booth ever possible. And then there's guys with legitimate. An eight by, you know, eight foot table selling one product, no one speaking to them. One guy there, maybe a banner in the back. Are you going around?

[A]

Pity bot from them.

[C]

Pity bot from one guy. And then some like, DeWalt drill holders. Oh, and Kevin, Kevin was the one instigating that. He was like, are they indestructible? He's like, well, I've never broken one. Kevin puts it on the ground, stomps on it.

[A]

No way.

[C]

Break it. But we're like, geez, Kevin.

[B]

Kevin's a savage.

[C]

Yeah, whatever. Whenever he gets like, just out in that setting, like our buddy Kevin. Yeah, he. And then I bought these things that when you take it out, it's like malleable and it's like plastic, but when you take it out and expose it to light, it turns hard. So you can like fix bumpers with it. But that one was my funniest because those guys were the best, like, salesmen. And then I'm like, these guys, they got like chains and like, maybe kind of expensive watch. And then I seemed interested. I'm like, genuinely. I could see my. I could see myself using it. Like, this is. I've never seen anything like this. It hardens and you can drill into it and it's cool. And then he's like, sweet. Starts showing me. I'm like, I'll take like the smallest pack or whatever. And the smallest pack was 150 bucks for like, you know, like. And I was going to bail out, but I was like, just that screw it. And then the guy just like starts bickering back with the other guy who's also wearing chains and a watch. And. And he's just like, why don't you just help this guy out?

[B]

He.

[C]

I gotta help these guys.

[B]

They have a New York accent.

[C]

Yeah, like, you could just it was just so funny. So anyway, catching guys like that. So I lost my money on random. Oh, like this, you know, none of.

[B]

This stuff seems that bad, dude.

[D]

No.

[C]

Evan and I are at the Liquor World, and we're waiting for. We're waiting for our Uber driver back, and a cab pulls up. He goes, yo, what's up? You guys got. You guys got some of that? And we're like, ah, nah, sorry. And then he's just like, you guys look like you're into cool clothing. And I'm like, yeah, who isn't? And then he's like, I got a brand. You want to check it out? And then I'm like. He, like, gets out, starts going to his trunk. I'm like, of course.

[A]

What the fuck?

[B]

This didn't happen.

[D]

I would run if he's like.

[C]

He seemed. Again, it's just the vibe you give off.

[B]

I. I feel he seemed easily startled, though.

[C]

On the street, he seemed pretty nice.

[A]

He doesn't have much of a peripheral right now, dude.

[D]

He's like, you can't trust people in these big cities like that.

[C]

His name was Gus. But he opens it, pulls out a. He's like, it's called Rare Cloth. Wait, right? Yeah, Rare Cloth. And then he pulls out. He has, like, two designs. And I'm like, they actually kind of fire, though. All I got is 47 bucks. He goes, they usually 50, but I take that.

[A]

I got bad news for you, dude. That. That's an online brand.

[C]

Really?

[A]

Yeah. I've seen and, like, bought.

[C]

I like it. But that's. That's just funny.

[A]

It's probably. Honestly, he might have been getting a deal because there's no way that that sweatshirt would be less than $50 on the Internet.

[C]

Right as.

[B]

I thought that. Honestly, you might have still came out on top with that, because watch, in like, five years or something, or even a year, that that rare clothing brand is just going to shoot up. It'll be like the next Gucci. And he was.

[C]

That would be wild.

[B]

He'll be like, yeah, I bought something back when he was selling stuff out his trunk. Just like, driving taxi cars. Just like, what's that one brand? The guy was selling shoes out of his trunk. Tom Ford, was it, or really the Nike guy? No, there was. It was, like, bougie brand, I think, also.

[D]

Also the Nike guy.

[B]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, a lot of people were selling stuff out of their trunks, so you got to respect the hustle.

[A]

Yeah, I guess so.

[C]

That's where I'm down on the weekend, though. Moral of the Story.

[A]

I'd say at least you got something instead of just putting it in a video machine and watching it disappear.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So breaking down the weekend could be probably put into three parts. The. The gambling, slash, the gambling. And then sema. Sema is awesome as always. If anybody ever has an opportunity to go, it's really cool. But there is the Hoonigan burnout pit. And this is something that I have not seen too much on the Internet other than like the day it happened. So they have this burn yard or whatever they call it. People bring out crazy built up cars and basically just drive them until either the wheels explode or the engine explodes. Last year, an engine exploded so hard that parts of the engine, like the pistons blew out and like went into the crowd.

[B]

So you're really close. I mean, it was in our last SEMA video.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It was how close you were to it.

[A]

So this year, some guy comes out in just this big boat of a challenger. And it seemed to have stock suspension, but he had like a lot of other stuff done to it.

[D]

Full wrap and.

[A]

Yeah. So he turns the corner and instantly the diff breaks. So that's why he was only spinning with one wheel. So he's doing like a one wheel wonder burnout and blow to the max. To the max. Yeah, to the. To the floor. Rev bombing. One wheel burnout. And it basically the tires started getting taller and taller and then it exploded. Blew the whole side of the car off and flew like 75ft over a semi and landed on top of a show car.

[B]

Like a whole half a tire.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Like just what it looked like. Yeah, just like the. The tread of it.

[D]

It looks like they sliced the tire.

[C]

Like basically like RC card. You know when you rev up an RC card.

[A]

Yeah. So it messed up his car really bad, but thankfully didn't mess anybody else up. Apparently when it flew over, it hit this like early 2000s truck at the mother's booth. It was like perfect.

[C]

Flawless.

[A]

Yeah, flawless. And it like hit the roof and left a big tire imprint and then dented up the hood and like messed up the bumper. But it like ro into a guy in a wheelchair. Like, he was okay, but it was like that. I can't believe they're allowed to do that show. I want them to be able to do it, but it is so dangerous. I was nervous after that.

[D]

I was like, anytime like a car had like the back end towards us, I was like, oh, I'm gonna duck down here. I don't want to.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Like if that tire. Different trajectory bad News Bears.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I don't know if I have anything of me on camera saying it, but last year I was saying like, dude, I can't believe we're able to get this close to these cars. Like you're literally just a little barrier, cement barrier and like they trophy trucks and stuff out there and they could.

[C]

If they.

[B]

If the trophy truck hits that cement berry, it's gonna at least get half the. It's probably gonna go over it. At least half the truck, dude.

[A]

It kind of actually reminds me they've become really popular, at least for me on Instagram. Is those sideshow videos where people are just whipping it in the streets and like. Or a street takeover video and then dudes are always getting hit at those.

[B]

Is it just me or have you noticed like more and more people are getting hit because. Yeah, because the videos of it happening are hap. I'm seeing more and more and more.

[C]

And more of them.

[B]

Or they fall out the car when they're trying to freaking hang and they.

[A]

Get freaking run over people.

[C]

I feel like we used to see him like a few and far between, you know, once. Once or twice a year. Let's. Oh, that, that was a good one of the guy getting his pants ripped off. That's a classic. But now I swear I've seen five in the last two weeks.

[A]

I used to watch this guy on YouTube. It was called Super Supercar Suspects and he kind of started with car shows and then he started going to those and like filming them, which I thought was really cool. And never at those did anyone get hit.

[C]

Right.

[A]

I feel like the earlier people were the people that found out about it through somebody and they were smart. And now people are just like, it's getting too big. The drifters are getting bad and the people there are such idiots.

[B]

Well it's like the bigger it gets, the higher the odds of someone being in the circle trying to drift their frickin Nissan. Maximum.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

The bigger it gets, the higher their odds there's going to be a higher percentage of crappy drivers. And think of this, you like 10 years ago when these maybe are. This has probably been a thing forever. You're not getting. You're not getting in there risking it for the shot because you don't have a nice phone. Maybe you don't have a camera with at all. Maybe you have. You're like, I'm gonna get in there with the wide angle.

[A]

Yeah. I'm gonna make some real. That's gonna make me go viral. And then it ends up being the dude behind you, watching you get hit by the car.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

My favorite's when the guy gets hit by the car and then he grabs like his gun falls out and he grabs his gun. Yeah, it was crazy.

[C]

Did he ever start shooting?

[A]

I don't know actually.

[C]

It's just still so funny. Like it's literally bopped across like skids 25ft and then takes out his like Mac and first throws his.

[A]

Grab his gun.

[B]

You get hit by a car, which is obviously. But those guys get just booted. Like obviously you're going to get booted, but I just have never seen anything like that. Did you guys ever see the one where the guy kids. This has happened multiple times but they get like ran over by like the back swinging. And the guy's pants get like. Rips his pants off. He gets back up. He seemed to be okay.

[C]

Dude, I hope they get to keep doing it. But that definitely is the craziest part of sema, you know, it's like that's cool. The event wise, they have some racing, they have some like drifting and that's all really sweet, but the Hoonigan burnout pit definitely tops it.

[A]

Yeah. Watching some dude go out there with like some built whatever and literally that guy in that Silverado, I think it was legitimately did not lift off the floor the entire time he was out there. And I think he just kind of gave up because nothing. His tires didn't blow and his engine didn't go up. But he went for like three minutes.

[C]

And I remember him last year he went like. That's when they like went head to head with another dude. Like, you know, single cab, short box, whatever. And they just literally sitting there head to head, not even hardly in the car, on the gas for I don't know, five, ten minutes.

[A]

Gnarly. It's amazing that like. Well, there's a perfect example. My dad doesn't drive his Camaro that he has. And I drove it to go bring it to the detail shop today or the other day and it filed a plug and would hardly run to the detail shop. And it has like 600 miles on it. And then you got dudes out there legitimately rev bombing their cars for 10 minutes and they're fine. Yeah, I mean obviously they're built and all that stuff, but shit, we can hardly get a racing lawnmower to run.

[B]

Right. I know. I feel like once it's good, it's normally good, it's good.

[A]

But if it's not, then you're screwed.

[B]

It is amazing. With 600 miles. How do you have trouble with something like that?

[A]

Yeah, honestly, no idea, but.

[C]

And then to top it off, as far as the crazy side, the motorsport side, the F1, they block off all the streets. I'm sure they. Does this happen a lot in Vegas?

[A]

No, this is like, they don't know.

[C]

I'm not saying F1 in general. Like, I feel like they blocked the street off for, like, lot of things, like, every week, probably. I don't know. Maybe.

[A]

But anyway, you see it.

[C]

They start blockading all the streets. And then I was like, this will be cool. This will be cool. F1 car. And then once, the first time I saw it drive down, and it didn't just drive fast, it drove and did crazy donuts. I've never heard anything like that. I've seen enough. One race on tv, and I know they go, but I've never heard, like, anything like that.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Did you guys see the video of it driving through the casino at the win?

[A]

Oh, yeah, I did see that.

[D]

The one dude is just sitting at a table, like, what the is going on here?

[A]

Wait, they drove a car right down a main hallway.

[C]

It was like, that's cool.

[A]

Limited amounts of people there, but it was, like, set up for that.

[B]

Yeah, that reminds me of. Of driving my Bugatti. Well, our Bugatti, down the hallways of the casino.

[C]

Oh, gosh.

[B]

Jumping stairs.

[D]

When's that thing get here?

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

The real question, Ken, is, will it get here? So we. Ben and I, you know, if it was anyone else, I would say you got. Got scammed.

[C]

We got conned, but you got a really good excuse.

[B]

But we. We got to get the thing. So we were basically. Ben and I were going back from. We were going back from sema. It was just us, too. We got separated from the group, and we were like, well, you know, we're in Vegas. So we start picking up drinks along the way, and it's kind of a long, like, walk slash tram ride. And we're going past this thing, and we see these. This Bugatti scooter, which has kind of been popping up. I've seen online, like, Stradman has one, Jake Paul has one. And we see the Bugatti scooter, and we go and look at it. Honestly, like, it was pretty well built. Like, it was pretty nice, and it was sturdy. And supposedly it is endorsed by Bugatti. They probably don't make them in the factory, but I think there's some kind of connection. Like, Bugatti, obviously, they had to have been like, yeah, We're. We're cool with working on with you guys on this. You put your name, our name on it. Anyways, Ben and I bought it from these two guys. Debatably.

[C]

Was it more than the Cyber quad?

[B]

It was 1500 bucks. Oh, it's really not that bad.

[C]

No, the Cyber Quad cost really, like cheaper than a one wheel.

[B]

Yeah, 1500 bucks. It's pretty nice scooter, but. So we go and these guys are trying to upsell us on frickin everything. He was trying to get us to buy this shitty little projector. Shitty headphones, shitty phone chargers.

[A]

He.

[B]

The only thing that was pretty decent was these phone cases, but he didn't have anything that fit my phone. But anyways, Ben, I like, this is whole commotion. We end up getting the thing from him. We leave. He was trying to get us to like get a new one and then have it shipped or just have us unbox it, but I was already on it and we're kind of on. So I'm like, oh, I'm taking this one. The one that you had literally sitting on the showroom floor. I just like left with it after we paid. And then he called my phone and because I gave him my number, because you had to like have it shipped and I was gonna drop it back, I don't know. He had me fill out this whole thing. I was just like, oh, I'm buying a Bugatti, so it makes sense why.

[A]

You gotta fill out some identification?

[B]

And he calls me, he's like, you need to bring this back. Yada, yada, like, I can't have you driving. And I was just like, you'll just have to watch the video. But I was like, sorry, man, real bad. I wrecked it real bad. And he's like, what? And I'm like, yeah, I hit a wall. It's in like three pieces right now. And I think I broke my arm. He's like, oh, God, man. And he's got this accent and it was pretty funny.

[A]

The best part is when you go, can I get a refund?

[B]

Yeah. He was like, it's cool. Like, Bugatti have like. Does Bugatti have a warranty on it? And then I was asking if I could bring it back, yada yada. But then basically Ben and I go to go charge this thing, plug it in so we can go rip it around some more. And we realize we left without the charger because we frickin took the one off the showroom floor.

[A]

I asked what.

[C]

I was like, oh, you at least.

[B]

Got chargers now we're like, God damn it. We just trolled these guys. How are we going to go back there and get the charger? We need to get the charger. So. And I'm like, well, dude, I can't go in there. I just told him I broke my heart, so I at least walked down with Ben. I wait around the corner, and he goes walking in there. I wish he was here because the way he told me the story of what. How the interaction went was really funny. You basically just told him, like, yeah, dude. Like, he hit this wall so hard.

[A]

And like, oh, my God.

[B]

I don't know. Like, his arms in pretty rough shape, but I think he's just being a big baby, and he does this all the time. And they were just, like, rattled. And the whole thing was super confusing because, you know, we were filming it and, oh, my God, like, they're gonna be talking about the interaction.

[C]

Cj, this is what I pictured. This is you. Oh.

[A]

Dude, he was moving. Honestly, you've never seen that before.

[B]

Okay, I gotta get a replay. Dude, this guy's got his wind knocked out of him so hard.

[C]

So, yeah, next week. This is you when you told him you crashed.

[B]

Oh.

[C]

I feel so bad for laughing.

[B]

Let me just hear this.

[A]

Oh, dude picks the bike back up.

[C]

Like, he. I don't know if he can breathe yet.

[B]

He's just trying to breathe. Not a sore inside. He's okay. He's doing it.

[A]

I feel like I remember getting hurt like that as a kid. There's just nothing you can do but just audibly scream and hop when he hits.

[B]

So my question is, this ring video his house? Like, he said, I hit this, or did these people. Were they just at work and then they got a notification? They. They click like, what's going on in front of my house? And they just see that.

[C]

I also wonder that too, because if you found that in the second scenario.

[B]

Way funnier, just me.

[C]

Oh, my gosh. So that. I mean, yeah, that could happen.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. So anyways, basically, we bought that scooter. We overpaid on it. I think it was probably worth maybe, like twelve hundred to a thousand bucks. Which, honestly. Yeah. To have it at the time and be able to rip it around Las Vegas. Evan was, like, trying to grind it. I jumped down some stairs on it.

[D]

Paid the fee to wait, get it now rather than wait three days.

[B]

It was pretty fun. It was a lot more fun riding in Vegas than it would be around here, I'll tell you that much. Some dudes tried stealing it from us. You just have to watch the video. I'm not going to explain the whole video, but, yeah, then we went to go ship it back, and the guy working at FedEx might have been the laziest or the stupidest dude I've came across the whole time.

[A]

Dude, I was so thankful to get back to Fargo and deal with, like, competent, nice people. I can't even, like, explain how nice it was. Like, the gate attendant at the airport, at the Fargo airport shout out to that guy. So nice. I was like, man, yeah, it was.

[B]

It was refreshing to be back home.

[A]

Every interaction I've had since then has been someone who seems like they are not 10,000 brain cells short.

[D]

Extremely stupid.

[B]

Well, it's Minnesota. Nice. And also North Dakota. Like, yeah, I think it's just these. You know, the northern Midwest is known for being super nice.

[A]

And also, I'd probably get sick of dealing with people in Vegas, too.

[B]

Dude, the guy was. He wasn't even in a bad mood. I think he was either just really, really lazy or really stupid. And I'm sorry for him if he's really that stupid. But, like, we brought it there, so we bring the scooter there, and we're trying to ship it home. And I didn't want to deal with the guys anymore because we just trolled them.

[C]

So you didn't have a box?

[B]

No.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

And I'm like, we will just go to FedEx and buy one and have it shipped back. And this guy's like, oh, I don't.

[A]

Know if it'll fit.

[C]

I'm like, bigger box.

[B]

Well, go and grab it. Let's see if it'll fit. He's like, oh, I don't think it will. I'm like, let's try, bro. Let's try. So then he goes and gets this like, dude, it was just this whole fiasco. And then he was like, I think you better just like. He just didn't want to ship it. I don't know how much work it was for him to ship it, but, like, he was acting like it was just the biggest. The biggest pain and. Or even just undoable. And we ended up getting to fit in the box and shipped it, but hopefully he was able to put it in the right area where it's supposed to get sent out.

[A]

Yeah, hopefully we get it back. Also, it reminded me, Mike, when you talked about F1 in Vegas. So we went to Diplo, which was an electric shows in this really small club. Basically, it was one of the smaller ones. So we ended up getting there really Early. So we got front row. Some of the crew hung out the whole time. Some of you guys didn't. You guys dipped.

[B]

I think Ken and I were there for a total of four minutes.

[D]

It was. It was 45.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We weren't there for 45, I'd say.

[D]

Before I looked at my watch and.

[B]

I was like, ah, wow, that was 45 minutes.

[D]

Yeah. I was like, ah.

[B]

Did you include how long we stood in line for?

[D]

Including standing in line.

[B]

Okay. We stood in line for probably 20.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

No, I watched my watch when I. When I walked in, I was like, I'm gonna stand here this long, and then I'm gonna leave.

[A]

I'm gonna gamble. That's funny, Ken, because you normally like shows.

[B]

Well, he's got a broken neck, Ryan.

[A]

Fair enough.

[D]

I really didn't want to stand around, like, getting pushed around by people. And then I just. I was not having fun standing there, like, getting pushed.

[B]

Well, we weren't supposed to stand, Ken.

[D]

We weren't.

[B]

So should I just say. So basically, we got a table given to us, which we never go to the club. We don't know. And also, like, I don't.

[C]

We're not really.

[B]

We don't. So, Mark. We're pretty.

[C]

Mark didn't have to pay.

[B]

No. So. Oh, you didn't even know. So Matilda had talked with. We'll bleep them. But the win. And they were like, oh, yeah, yeah, we're gonna give you guys a table. Because they, like, wanted us there. Because, you know, basically it's just like, get well. They, like, they legit cared about how many Instagram followers. Yeah. Which I mean, I respect. They want influencers or whatever. And they had this whole table set up, and we got a table for all of our dudes and all that. And we go showing up with our posse, which, keep in mind, we didn't bring our girlfriends with 10 dicks deep. Obviously, we're not rolling around with stray girls because we have girlfriends. So we roll up. Basically. I think it was 11 of us. 11 dudes. And all of us just. And they. They looked at us, and I go, yeah, we got a table. It's under seizure.

[C]

That's so funny.

[B]

Lots are. And he. He goes back to the thing. I'm like, watch him talking to the guy. They look at us, look back, and then he just comes back and goes, oh, yeah, there's no more tables left.

[C]

That makes so much. I didn't think about that.

[B]

They just looked at us and, like, we're not giving these guys a table.

[D]

Walk in there. Not a single table had anyone sitting at it.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, like. Like a freaking goon. I got, like, a mop haircut.

[C]

You should have saw I was dressed well. I look good, but I also look like an idiot.

[B]

I mean, we look. We think we look good. I don't know what people in clubs in Las Vegas think we look like.

[A]

We looked like a bit of a motley crew. Yeah.

[B]

Ken's in a neck brace.

[A]

Yeah. We didn't look like we were coming there to, like, get a bunch of bottle service and stuff like that.

[C]

Yeah, well, I mean, we would have.

[B]

Paid and whatever, but I don't know. We were trying to have. It would have been nice. We could have sat. Get a little taste of, like, this royalty treatment, luxurious Vegas. Yeah. Of being an influencer.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But they saw us, took one look, and we're like, no tables left.

[C]

That makes total sense. And we got there early because we then told us we need to be.

[B]

There at that time.

[C]

Okay. Because I was wondering. I was like, damn, we got here so early. And normally I'm all about it. I didn't even make it the whole night. But we got up to the front because we got there so early, and. And again, normally, like, I don't. I wouldn't try to get to the front because you get beat up up there most of the time when the opener is there, we're chilling. Every time there's a little bit of hint that diploma might come out. Get a little push. Get a little push. Dude, I wish Ben was here, too. We'll have to talk about this. Ben did not know how good he had it where he was.

[A]

Oh, yeah, he was.

[C]

We were originally perimetering the whole group. We're perimetering. And, like, that's. It's hard to do once the opener comes out. Anyway, Ben's chilling on the rail. Just chilling. Just, like, ass out, sipping his drink.

[A]

He's got, like, Mark on his right, butch behind him, you behind him, like security. We had this whole little, like, security bubble around. It kind of ended up being a little bit of Justin and Ben. That was like, they were on the inside.

[C]

And I. I even kept telling Ben that. I'm like, dude, that you. You're just. Just enjoy dancing stuff because you don't get to do this.

[B]

Kidding. Tell me.

[A]

Yeah, people.

[C]

And that's what, like, it was tough because I knew I'm not too pushy. I can't get back to the front. So, like, Tint and I finally tapped out after about an hour in a diplo. Keep in mind, an hour in a Diplo, he starts at one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

One sole.

[C]

That's tough. And then this dude in a. In a wheel well. A bunch of people behind us were like, there's a guy in a wheelchair trying to get to the front, you dicks. And then I was like, okay, yeah, let's. Where's he at? Okay, he's right there. Honestly, I was thinking about leaving, so you can actually have the spot. We'll kind of shuffle him in. Thank you.

[A]

And I was like, chicks were dead.

[C]

Like, sorry. I mean, yeah, we'll get him in the front. And so then we did give them our spot, but you guys stayed. I mean, it was fun, but, like, I feel like there's so many other shows you go to for so much less money that would be more fun. But I had a really good time. Diplo bumps.

[A]

So what was fun about it is me and Ben were front row and Justin. And so, I mean, you're probably six, seven feet away from Diplo. And then Lewis Hamilton showed up. Who's the F1 racer?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

If you don't know. So being that we were so close, dead center, front row, like, the lights kind of were coming on us. So, like, we, like, almost got into, like, a couple moments where, like, they were looking at us. Like, Lewis Hamilton was looking at Ben going like this. And then Ben was dancing back.

[C]

That's fun.

[A]

That was sweet. And, like, you know, I mean, yeah, they're normal people, but also, they're not. They're freaking superstars. So it was really sweet to kind of get that type of interaction. And then they go like, you guys down in the front, like, you guys are raging. Blah, blah, blah. And then they brought shots around to us. And, yeah, they. I mean, they probably bought, like, 20.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But they went pretty cool, right to us. And then people, like, attacked them.

[C]

That whole experience couldn't happen somewhere else. Like, I was just explaining, oh, he goes somewhere else. Bad experience.

[B]

Having a good time. You. I saw the video. You're on his story, and you were fist bumping so goddamn hard wearing my pink shirt.

[A]

I stood out.

[C]

I was having a blast on Diplo story.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, dude.

[B]

I don't know why I just don't enjoy when I'm sitting there and getting pushed around in, like, the thing.

[A]

No. And see, honestly, if I'd even been for a while, I was one row back.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And that was not a tenth as fun as it was being on the rail, because then it's only people from behind. You just grab, like. Yeah, and then you kind of only have a little bit to block. But when you're.

[B]

Maybe I just wasn't on the right level.

[A]

Yeah, that too.

[D]

And I used to like that, but I feel like as I've gotten older, it's less and less enjoyable. Whereas I can stand back a little further and not have to be right at the front.

[A]

If we weren't on the rail, I would not have been anywhere near the front. I would have been standing in the back. Yeah.

[C]

Oh, yeah. I agree. It's either, like, to the very front or just don't get. Yeah, it's not fun to get pushed around.

[A]

Just same thing. I wish. I wish Ben was here to explain his interaction with Diplo or then he.

[B]

Threw the cake at him.

[A]

Ben caught the cake. What's up?

[B]

They always have cakes there. Why?

[A]

Well, it was Diplo's birthday. Steve Aoki does that.

[C]

Take this thing. But yeah, yeah, they all have cakes.

[B]

That they throw into the crowd. Yeah.

[A]

So it was. It was quite the experience. Me and Lewis Hamilton. Diplo are best friends now.

[C]

That's amazing.

[B]

Damn them. Tell him to come hang.

[A]

Ben said he was like, put on there. He's like, you'll say, louis, let's party tonight. I was like, he doesn't want to party with us. He's like, yeah, I will.

[C]

We're boys.

[A]

And I was like, no, he doesn't. I was like, I guaranteed. Look at us. No, he doesn't want to party with us.

[D]

Look.

[A]

Look at the. All the chicks he's with. You think he wants us there?

[C]

Dude, meet us back at the. We're on the ninth floor. We got. We sharing a king right now. But, yeah, come party.

[A]

Yeah, come back. We can, like, hang out in the casino floor or something. We were planning on getting free drinks at the slots, playing plenty.

[C]

He's just like, no, I'm good, man. Thanks.

[A]

It was a pretty fun trip. Glad to be home. Glad to be back to work.

[C]

Yeah, glad to be back at work. Still taking Ls, though.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

We were supposed to go drifting today, take my car to the drift track, and it was running like shit. And then it actually started running halfway. You know, I got to basically get it fixed. I don't know what's wrong with it. Get it tuned. But it started running like shit again today when we're supposed to go to the drift track.

[A]

Keep in mind, that thing just doesn't want to go to the drift track.

[B]

Dude.

[C]

I know. And the worst part is this is just. It's starting to feel like my whole Life. And this is partially me and my planning, but just I've been trying to get this thing for a while and get it going. And we have other like, things, but, you know, like, I end up wrapping my sled at the end of the sled season and wrapping my bike right before winter and getting a drift car right before winter. A lot of things right before winter. But, dude, it was like 29 as a high today and, like, super windy and, like, trying to freezing rain. And tomorrow is double that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Even worse.

[D]

I think you might be.

[C]

I'm scared. Yeah. So then I look at the weather, and then the high for the next 10 days is like 27.

[D]

The low is like negative 5.

[A]

Which reminds me, thin ice is coming, coming. And I think we should do a contest of who guesses when the lake freezes over. They get something, I don't know, Instagram, like, picture thing you make.

[C]

I'm just gonna make a slightly guesstimated guess here based on the crowd.

[A]

Yeah, like, everybody.

[C]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[A]

I don't know. I was just thinking about it. We can implement it, I think, with the weather, with the way the weather is gonna be. Dude, I have confidence it's gonna happen, like, soon. But a lot of people on, like, the big corner Facebook page were saying, like, a month.

[C]

Oh, wow. Then you're talking the whole lake.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Yeah, dude. I would say I'm forecast.

[D]

There's like, two days above, above freezing and then below freezing for, like, 24 hours of the day for a week.

[A]

It's pretty good.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm.

[C]

I'm mostly.

[D]

I want to say the 20th.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

Of November.

[A]

Of November. Oh, also, that reminds me. Last podcast, I said, hey, guys, this is great. It gets posted the day before my birthday. All that. I totally lied. This podcast gets posted on my birthday. I don't know what happened. I think I looked at the wrong calendar. Oh, yeah, it's on whatever today.

[C]

Did you leave that part in the last one? I did. Right.

[A]

Because it was the only. It was how we intro.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I was like, well, it's sticking, so. Thanks.

[C]

That's even better, though, that the fact that if this next one was the day before it, it'd be like, yeah, yeah, same difference.

[A]

But it's actually on the day.

[C]

But it's on the day, so. Happy birthday, Ryan.

[B]

I'm gonna go late. Happy birthday. I'm gonna go later. I'm gonna say December 2nd.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

I'm gonna say the 21st. November 21st.

[A]

And I'm going the 25th.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Which is Late.

[A]

I don't know. I honestly, depending on what happens the next week and weather, you could be right. So, yeah, we'll end up posting a contest around that somewhere. I don't know. Throw your guesses in the comments and we'll figure it out from there. You'll win something.

[C]

We'll see how windy it is. I want it to freeze over. Perfect. The more perfect it freezes over, the more fun we can have on it. I'm mostly just not. I'm not ready for the cold weather. Yeah, cold weather sucks compared to warm weather. But I'm just like, this is the most fun I've ever had, ever. Playing in the dirt this summer. Easily. You know, I'd say like two summers ago we did a lot of boat this summer we got plenty of it. But a lot more playing in the dirt for all of us. Yeah. For the track to land. So I think that's what it is. It's. Everyone's excited for slumbing. Yeah. I always am, but a lot less than.

[B]

Well, now you'll have a track, though, for hitting jumps. I think our tracks going to work great for like snowmobiles.

[C]

I agree.

[B]

So wide and just like jump. Such perfect trajectories.

[C]

Yeah. I might have to put some studs in, but that's true. Yeah. I guess I didn't start thinking about thin ice until now. Now you got me kind of going.

[A]

We got a lot to do on it for sure.

[C]

We got all of our street bikes that we're going to be putting on ice, which that'll be fun in itself.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Got to get the tires changed over and of course.

[A]

Okay. Speaking of street bikes, this reminded me last week you said we should start a segment called do a wheelie. Right. And I found the perfect clip to kick off the segment. And people should send it in. They can DM us on the Life Wide Open podcast Instagram channel. And then we'll see them if they're. If they're good. And then we might use them in the video. But.

[C]

And in the video, do they have to say do a wheelie? Because that's. I was just wondering that, like, someone sent me one and it was super funny. And like, you don't necessarily have to have someone in it saying do a wheelie right beforehand. But it is the vibes.

[A]

No, you don't have to. But it is perfect that this one does. Yo, wheelie. Why would you tell him to do. It's my favorite party church. Why would you tell him to do that in the poor kid Kids rattle. He's like, oh, no. I didn't know that could happen.

[C]

You told him too go to his.

[B]

Face with his hand above it. That's funny to see a little kid like that. That guy's smiling in the back. He thought that was funny.

[C]

You think of it like, the dude would never have done that if they weren't cheering for it. But that was a perfect kickoff.

[A]

Just a classic example of don't do something that you shouldn't be doing.

[C]

All right, I got some for you guys.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Have you ever drank apple cider vinegar? I want to say, I would have guessed.

[B]

Isn't that really good for you?

[A]

Supposedly, but it does not vinegar. It does not sound good.

[D]

Doesn't it taste weird?

[C]

Yeah. So I brought some, and I would love for us to take some small shots of it to see how it really is. I've never had it either.

[B]

Isn't it supposed to actually, like, fight sickness, though? That's the point.

[C]

Supposed to improve your taste test? No, no. Originally, it was just gonna be a taste test. I was like, I've never had it perfectly. Neither of you guys either. But the fact that everyone's about to. To potentially come down with some sickness could be perfect.

[B]

Let's run it. Let's do it.

[C]

Well, I poured some rather small shots. You don't have to finish. Does not smell good. It smells like vinegar, dude.

[D]

Just smell it.

[C]

I might have that.

[B]

I can't smell this. That. Well, that is alarming.

[C]

Is alarming. I might have to plug my nose.

[A]

My heart is racing.

[C]

Yeah, that was gnarly.

[B]

I haven't done it yet.

[C]

All right.

[B]

I was like, well, you're on for it maybe once.

[A]

All right. If you gag, don't gag into the mic. No one likes to hear that.

[C]

Yep.

[D]

Make sure you throw up into the mesh trash can. Wow, that's bad. I didn't even drink all of it.

[C]

I didn't either, but I did.

[B]

Happy.

[C]

Happy. I tried it.

[B]

Oh, why does it not taste that bad to me?

[A]

The worst part is the remaining vinegar.

[C]

It's really funny. The best part is the apple cider portion of it. The worst part is.

[B]

Oh, you guys drank the whole thing. That's why I didn't taste it.

[C]

I mean, I almost did. I'm gonna.

[D]

I. I barely took any.

[B]

Are you sure it's good for you to drink?

[D]

I. I think I've heard this about.

[C]

Before, to be honest. No, I'm not sure I'm gonna do it. Here we go.

[A]

Here we go.

[D]

I almost threw up.

[C]

That's Nasty.

[B]

That wasn't that bad.

[A]

You also drink tons of healthy. That tastes gross.

[B]

That's true. Yeah.

[C]

Like, you're trained. That's why I just assumed you had, like, CJ's, you know, tried. Not a tried at all, but some algae stuff that you keep in the fridge or the freezer.

[B]

It's like green grass or something. Bluegrass, algae. I don't even know.

[C]

Yeah, and that stuff's.

[B]

That stuff's a lot worse than that.

[C]

Really?

[B]

Dude.

[A]

According to this thing, I'm alarmed.

[C]

My insides feel, like, warm. Like, I feel it going down. That's weird.

[B]

It's actually alarming to me that I couldn't taste that.

[C]

Like.

[D]

Yeah, I didn't smell that either.

[C]

You can.

[B]

I could smell it. Smell it reminds me of when you dye Easter eggs.

[A]

Yeah, that's. That's the smell. Because. Yeah. Use vinegar. It's funny. It has 0% everything other than 1 milligram of calcium and 10 milligrams of potassium.

[B]

So what's the point of it?

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

There must be something in vinegar that's good for you. And the apple. Apple cider must make it taste not to be concerned.

[C]

Wait, really?

[A]

Just. I was great for food, dude.

[C]

I don't know. There maybe is the drinkable stuff and not drinkable stuff.

[A]

Who's the guy that used to drink apple cider vinegar?

[B]

Alex Ernst.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Dude. Is that every day on the Internet?

[B]

Not really. Gave up after.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Basically got exposed.

[C]

David Dobrik's best friend would make, like, kind of pretty funny vlogs, but they're really, like, random weird out there. I, like, he would drink that every morning.

[B]

And he's from Minnesota, guys.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

Really? I wonder if he's back home now.

[C]

That's right.

[D]

It aids in weight loss, reduces cholesterol, lowers blood sugar, and improves symptoms of diabetes.

[C]

All right, so it's more of a longevity health than a potential immune system boost.

[A]

I'm all about short term games right now.

[C]

Like, my insides are, like, warm right now.

[D]

Yeah, I don't need to do that again.

[A]

Well, I'm glad we did that.

[D]

That is.

[A]

I'm good. Never doing that again.

[C]

I might have to make the rest of the boys do it.

[A]

You pretty much have to.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I feel like Ben could do that one easy. Yeah, he's always taking vitamins.

[A]

He's like, oh, yeah. We never had apple juices, kids.

[C]

Literally. Yeah, it's super good warm. You guys drink it cold?

[A]

Oh, yeah. No, you got to heat it up and mix it in with some shavings from your lawn.

[C]

Ken, what do you got for me?

[D]

Well, I'm going to preface. I'm going to preface this with, have you had any updates on your IRS audit?

[C]

Unfortunately not. I. Yeah, I mean, I can get into depth of it. Sent this stuff in. Tried to update my address so they could send it here. Haven't heard anything.

[D]

Okay, well, I got your T shirt.

[B]

Oh.

[D]

Should help with it.

[C]

It's just the same. It's. It's just the Barney T shirt.

[D]

No, no, this one's. This one's better.

[C]

Life's too short to pay taxes.

[B]

Let me see.

[C]

Oh, that's good.

[B]

That's really awesome.

[D]

Another great.

[B]

That's a Ryan type of shirt, but it fits Micah's lifestyle a lot better.

[A]

I pay my taxes like a great human being. Beautiful. Life's too short.

[B]

What is that, a Lamborghini on the back?

[D]

It's the Jordan Belfort car.

[B]

Yeah, it's Lamborghini Countach.

[A]

Why is that like a knockoff version of the guy from American Psycho?

[C]

Yeah, it's not Christian Bale, but it's somebody else knockoff.

[B]

Pam Anderson.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I love it. Thank you, Ken.

[B]

It's actually a sick shirt.

[A]

I'd wear that because especially on the podcast, all you see is too short.

[C]

That is true.

[A]

Life too short, and then all that burns too short. It's perfect. Just like, we have that poster.

[D]

It says.

[A]

It doesn't even make any sense, but it says, everything will kill you, so choose something fun. And then it ended up in our Fargo Inc. Thing. I just, like, it bought, like, a $5 poster. I was so embarrassed.

[C]

What does it say again?

[A]

Everything will kill you, so choose something fun.

[B]

It's like, we just, like, look at it every day.

[A]

Like the motto, hit it.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

It's like a sports team. When you walk out of the locker.

[C]

Room, you remember that when they took a picture of it, we were almost like, maybe. And then he was like, no, it's, like, perfect for you guys.

[B]

That's a joke.

[C]

Everything will kill you, so choose something fun.

[A]

That's up. Ken, how. How are the. The final weeks of the neck brace?

[C]

It.

[A]

It didn't seem to slow you too down too much down in Vegas, but it definitely did.

[D]

I'm ready to be done with this thing.

[A]

I bet. And it is nice to see some light at the end of the tunnel there.

[D]

Going to the doctor tomorrow.

[A]

Really?

[B]

Is it sore?

[D]

Not bad. It's mostly like, if I get, like, some weird angles and it's bad or like, rolling over in Bed. Like, I gotta, like, twist a certain way or else it. Like, I can really feel like something hurts back there.

[A]

Did anybody ask you about it in Vegas?

[B]

All the time.

[A]

Because you.

[D]

Most annoying thing, you.

[A]

Because you looked really hardcore walking around like, I'm trying to think of. I did not see a single other person in a neck brace the whole time.

[B]

I saw one chick. Oh, I. I saw her walking by. I was like.

[D]

I did not see her. Because you're in this neck brace. You are, right?

[B]

He probably didn't see you either. But I think me and. I don't know if it was Kevin or who, but we saw another girl, and you guys walked right past each other because you probably both.

[A]

Both you two are like horses.

[B]

She had a different one, though. She was in, like, a rubber one. Oh, it was like a donut.

[D]

She got the cheap one.

[C]

Yeah. Like, sometimes I'd roll up to Ken at the blackjack table where I could find you a lot, and I. I'd be like, in my head, you know, just a little schmoozed up. He's like. I'm like, why is he not, like, talking to me? But he can't turn around. He's like. He was responding, but I just couldn't hear him. He's like, how's it going, Micah? I'm like, dude, what's up?

[A]

Yeah, when we were eating dinner at the bar, too, and you were like, hey, good to see you. And he turned back, and then I was, like, trying to talk to you, and then I could kind of just tell it was a major inconvenience. Also, at sema, I saw you, like, walking around and you just go like this. To try to look at everything, which was hard enough to look at everything. So I can't even imagine walking around.

[C]

Oh, I just thought of a really funny thing that would have been really easy because you wouldn't have needed to do anything really, Ken, we should have Mic can up and then have him go up to people who are next to their builds really casually and go kind of go, damn, dude, your ride broke my neck. Yeah, just see what the reaction. That's all you need. You get in a conversation if you wanted.

[B]

Cam dude over with papers. I was here yesterday and I saw your ride. Anyways. Yeah, my neck's pretty fucked, dude.

[C]

That would be really funny.

[B]

You have to talk with my lawyer.

[C]

Yeah. So when you do, you. You know how, like, when you go into a cast and then after that, you can kind of go into a soft brace? Is there something like that for you or is it straight to physical therapy?

[D]

I have no idea. He, the doctor like didn't mention anything.

[B]

I think he goes into physical therapy.

[D]

I think it's physical therapy, but I honestly do not know.

[A]

Ken's like, once the doctor told me I could still drink, I basically turned him, tuned him out the whole time.

[D]

It's funny because the first like couple days I didn't. And then I saw him at the bar and he's like, yeah, you can get, you can get, you can drink. Why aren't you. I need.

[C]

See, it's going to be weird having Ken with a working neck.

[A]

Yeah, I can't wait. Whatever happened with not going to the Palmers?

[C]

So Rich, Evan and I were going to go to the Palmer. They had their last pit bike race there on Saturday. And it's like at first he asked me, I was like, ah, well, I mean we'll be in Vegas. He's like, it's like an hour and a half drive. Okay, cool. And then apparently they're having Rich build a track for them. Um, so they, they basically had the race Saturday and then they wanted Rich to rebuild the track for them Sunday. So he's like, I don't want to go Saturday. I have to be there at 6:30. But I still want to be there Saturday night. But he didn't even do anything. I just think Rich just wanted to keep gambling.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So we never went. Looked lit like they have some crazy pit bike races now. They do the E bike races, I mean, but I don't think I would have entered.

[A]

It's really too much.

[C]

I don't know. It's like. No, maybe not the jump size anymore, but like the competitiveness.

[B]

Yeah, that was kind of the thing.

[C]

Like it's the, I mean, and I would have loved if I would have been there. I would.

[B]

So goddamn quick on pit bikes and every other bike compared to us. But when you compare them on pit bikes, I don't know if there's really anyone that much faster than them.

[C]

No, I mean especially their home races, they always win top tier riders.

[B]

I mean that's, I swear that's all they do is just rip their pit bikes around their track. And they're so fast and so good. It was just like Evan is, is the best pit bike rider I know. And he, he, I don't even know what place he would have gotten.

[C]

Yeah, right. And they're like, yeah, we got pit bikes for you and. But yeah, I just, I, the level of competitiveness seems like I, I basically I'll Be straight with it. I wouldn't want to go out there and then have a bunch of people. I mean, it was kind of like when we were there, even though that was fine. But I thought these guys were pit bike guys. They suck like we are because they. Because we're kind of being compared to the best. They suck. Like, I don't want that to be said about me. Like, I.

[B]

So we are pretty open about, like our skill level. We've never been like, we're good.

[C]

Yeah. Right. So it's like I'm always just stoked to progress and then stoke when people are about us progressing or anyone. But yeah, I never made it to that, actually.

[B]

Home track advantage.

[A]

Yeah, that's true.

[B]

I wanted to go, if you guys are gonna go, just to film it. But then at the same time, I feel like races don't make a lot of, like.

[C]

Yeah, it would have been more for this. Like, it would have been more for the connection. There's a lot. You know, I like those guys names that go there. Yeah, it would have been fun.

[A]

Yeah. Maybe this winter when we do. If we do another RV trip or something. Try to plan that in because that'd be pretty sweet to like, end up at one of those things.

[C]

Yeah, I agree.

[A]

Just for the experience. Because they look gnarly. Dude, There's. I feel like there's always a fight or at least a fairly gnarly crash or some type of, like, competitor fight. There's always something going on.

[C]

Yes. Side events that just somehow happen.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Because there's just so many people like minded. Yeah.

[A]

Like that.

[C]

All right, enough about our trip. I've. This is just a very basic question that I wanted to ask for a long time. What. What was the most played video game for you growing up? Ooh. Like, you know, you don't need to go too in a depth. Just why what it was and why you played it so much more than every other game.

[B]

Call of Duty. But obviously there's so many different ones.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, I played them all pretty fair amount, but some of them, like, definitely outshined.

[A]

Dude, you and I used to play together or we did play together on Modern Warfare 3. You remember that? Yeah, way back in the day. Yeah.

[C]

And yours and you. And obviously, like, I played a lot of Call of Duty too. Mine is skate three. Probably logged like, even more on that than like GTA and again, I guess CODs. But you played a lot of. What's the NASCAR?

[A]

Okay, there's two games and then burnout. Oh, okay. Three games. And they Were all racing games. I was really into racing games. One is need for Speed. You can't really go wrong with that.

[C]

No.

[A]

Burnout paradise was sick because you could crash and like there really wasn't anything with that good of graphics back then. So, like to have a game where like when you crash the car, it actually fell apart. Like normally it was just like a brick that hit something.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So that was sick. But definitely. Probably my most played game was when I was like 12 and I had a Gamecube and I played NASCAR Thunder 2003 or something like that.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

Starts out with Magic Carpet Ride playing. It's. That game is so lit.

[C]

Nostalgia, for sure.

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

I feel like nowadays, and maybe I'm just completely wrong, but back in the day before like Xbox Live or PlayStation Live or really it was like a thing everyone had, you would almost go through so many games. I felt like you needed so many more games because you would kind of get bored of them relatively quick. I love James Bond Simpsons Hit and Run. Oh, fun. God. Was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Tony hawk's Pro Skater 4, and Tony Hawk's Underground Underground 2 the best games. I actually went and bought Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and then was going to play it on my Xbox One like last spring when I was sick. And it doesn't work. It's not compatible because it's an Xbox original game and you can't pop in. I just assumed that because you used to be able to do that on the Xbox 360, but I think it's.

[C]

Like, yeah, you can play.

[D]

You can only play one generation older or something like that.

[B]

Yeah, but that game was lit, dude.

[A]

The worst part about trying to turn on like a game now is you turn it on and then it's like your Xbox has to update. That takes an hour. And then you get in, it's like the game's got to update and that takes an hour. And then you're just like, all right, never mind, I don't want to play anymore. Like, the two hours that I was going to play are already gone. And then before you know it, it's another month till you have time to play Xbox.

[C]

Yeah, that does happen. Ken, did you game at all ever Forza?

[D]

And why, why can't I think of it?

[C]

Clearly wasn't too important.

[D]

The freaking LA driving. Why?

[A]

Oh, midnight. No, Midnight club.

[D]

That too.

[B]

What's the crazy? Taxi.

[A]

That's a good one too.

[C]

Wow. Oh.

[B]

Gta.

[A]

Holy.

[C]

Thank you for that beautiful piece of entertainment, for not being Able to remember gta.

[B]

I sometimes walk downstairs and. And see Ken playing his airplane game.

[D]

That's fun. Yeah, I got airplane game. The Microsoft flight simulator thing. It's kind of fun.

[A]

No way. Yeah.

[B]

I'll go downstairs to do some laundry and Ken's kind of post up on the couch just playing, flying around.

[A]

Is there like missions or do you just like.

[C]

They.

[D]

They have like a Top Gun update and it's like you gotta like do the low flying thing, go around that. And then there's like a. Whatever, like supersonic plane that he flew. You can fly that thing because. Really boring. Really quick. Because it's like real time. And it's just like.

[B]

I mean, moral story is if Ken is on a flight and someone needs to land that thing, I'm pushing him.

[D]

There's no way I crash every time.

[B]

True.

[D]

It's fun.

[A]

Well, you should keep us alive for a little bit longer. Do you. Can you fly around here? Does it look real? Like there's our shop on it?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Like what, to take off from like the DL airport and.

[B]

And see our shop?

[D]

I never really looked, but didn't think.

[A]

To take off from the dealer point. Look at your own house.

[D]

No.

[B]

What?

[C]

That's really cool.

[B]

I didn't know that.

[A]

Yeah, that is pretty cool.

[C]

So where do you usually take off from? I don't know.

[D]

Somewhere interesting. Like Florida. Why?

[C]

Some of the school makes sense otherwise.

[D]

Like around here it's just like flat. It's got like satellite pictures of the ground.

[A]

Okay. So it probably would have. Yeah, the shop in there.

[B]

But it's not like in our parking lot.

[A]

It's not like. Yeah, can you land on Highway 11?

[D]

I never tried.

[A]

You should try that.

[B]

How much you play that game? You must really play it.

[C]

Seriously.

[D]

You come down like once a month when I'm playing Xbox and like you always time it just right where it's. Oh, he's playing that game. He must play that all the time.

[B]

I don't care. I'm not making fun of you at all. I just assumed you liked that game because I figured it'd be difficult or I don't know, I maybe turn my.

[D]

Xbox on once every two, three months.

[A]

Yeah, makes sense.

[D]

It is nice though. Like the. What do they call it now? The game Pass or whatever. You pay like 15 bucks a month and you get like all the games that you can download.

[B]

Yeah, but it's limited. It's not like you couldn't get Call of Duty. It's only at Microsoft exclusive.

[D]

Download this. I get sick of It. Delete it.

[A]

Download another one.

[B]

I agree with what you're saying.

[D]

You're not paying 50 bucks a title for something you'll play for two days and then delete.

[B]

I'm so old, I'm only interested in. In the classics at this point.

[C]

Yeah. And the only thing as far as being interested in something new is like, dude, Yeah. I mean we talked about it for simulator. Driving simulator. Not flying.

[A]

Oh, dude. I want a driving simulator here so bad.

[C]

They had a whole bunch at sema, I think.

[B]

How sick.

[A]

It'd be like right over there.

[B]

Honestly. It'd be a good spot.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Wood.

[A]

Or it could even go on our little.

[B]

They're pretty expensive.

[A]

I know. That's the problem. I saw one in this car club I'm in and they like made some exclusive one. And I mean it had everything but it was like 10 grand. I was like, holy shit. But I would like one just at least with the steering wheel and the pedals and.

[C]

Right.

[A]

Maybe like a little bit of feedback. It doesn't have to have the thing where the whole.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It doesn't have to tilt. But I mean so then you break it down. It's like okay for the cost of it. I mean I'm sure the PC doesn't even that insane to run like four games because you're not playing that many other games on it. But you get the cost of your PC, your monitors and this. That alone has to be three grand. I don't know.

[A]

That's true. We could just go buy like a beater Bonneville and then go drive around in the parking lot and do the same thing almost and get the real. The real life experience out of it.

[C]

I just love when people like cut cars in half and then actually put the simulator in it.

[A]

It's a lot of.

[C]

It's a lot of work for kind of for show, but still.

[B]

With a new Corvette, buy like a salvage one.

[C]

Anybody looking for the rear end, we got it for sale.

[A]

Buy a perfectly good one, chop it in half.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Do it with what's like the worst car ever made. Just have like a Pontiac Aztec. Half of a Pontiac Aztec City.

[B]

I wonder what the.

[C]

I hate. Yeah, my brain just went to Aztec.

[D]

Immediately before you said I thought Prius right away.

[A]

But okay. Yep. What? Yeah. What would be the worst car ever made?

[B]

I feel like you would. I would have thought that you would have some more appreciation towards Priuses, Ken.

[A]

Fuck.

[C]

No way.

[B]

I don't know. It's a fellow fuel efficient vehicle.

[A]

V rig.

[D]

It's ugly, slow.

[B]

Why Would I care?

[A]

Okay, fair enough.

[B]

All right.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Figured you guys all kind of rolled as one. No, you.

[A]

You feel Teslas are okay up here?

[B]

Up here.

[C]

I mean now if you're going to the store to. If you're like, I want something fuel efficient. We should get a Prius in 20, 23.

[B]

Still make Priuses? There's no way. I think they do. I think they do every crazy or something that have to be still just normal Prius.

[D]

Things they've been doing for 20 some years now.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know. I still don't think. No matter how bad gas prices got, I don't think I'd go Prius.

[B]

I'd ride a bike before.

[C]

That shouldn't.

[A]

Yeah, I, I mean, I drive. I drive in a Tesla or a Fisker, a Rivian or something like that. Some electric car. But I don't think I could go to a Prius.

[D]

Prius is like, I gave up on life. This is all I have left now.

[C]

Be surprised, Ryan, with a Chevy Volt.

[A]

I did.

[C]

That's got to be the worst full electric car ever made, right?

[B]

Keep those around.

[A]

Yeah, my neighbor has one.

[C]

I don't think they make them anymore, but I remember being like, whoa, Chevy's going full ev. Like, this is before Tesla even was a thing. And then they came out and they were like trash. Right.

[D]

It's still got a gas motor in it. It's basically.

[A]

Oh, it does. It's a Prius, but not.

[D]

Yeah, it's basically a Prius.

[C]

Yeah, Never mind.

[A]

I. I did manage to track down an idiot of the week, if that interests you guys.

[C]

It sure does for me.

[A]

So the caption is how to lose your license in five seconds. Which leads your brain to this guy doing a burnout on the road.

[C]

You think probably going to be some stupid.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. I saw this. Wait, no, maybe I didn't.

[D]

Oh my.

[B]

That is bad.

[A]

So with the caption how to lose your license in five seconds, I figure Buddy gets caught doing a burnout. Cop pulls up on him, pulls him over, and that's what the video is going to be. Some friends going, oh, not Buddy just completely blacking out on this burnout and clipping this car. Dude.

[C]

Dude.

[D]

Lucky they didn't hit that.

[B]

Why didn't that guy slow down? Why was he going like 60?

[C]

Seemed like his wheels were still like, you know, the turbo is spooling down and I don't know, but like that was horrible on that guy's part. Horrible. He literally rolled a compact four door car.

[A]

Just punted that thing. I mean, dude, can you imagine? Had to have hurt how pissed you're getting out of that car. Dude, I've had people, like, you know, almost hit me, like, running a stop sign or something. Think of all, like, immediately angry. That makes you, bro. Could you imagine someone doing that to you?

[C]

Yeah, I agree. Let's just say someone came into our parking lot. Even a buddy we know started doing donuts and just fully side type tapped a car. One of your cars. You would be livid. But he didn't almost kill you.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, at least that's one of those things that, like, money can pay for and not that money just appears on trees, but at least it's not you almost killed me and my family type of deal, you know, punting me across the road. But it does remind me that someone in a truck did a burnout or. Now there's more in front of our, like, driveway than the shop. Please don't do that. People don't, like, when they drive by and see a bunch of burnout marks.

[B]

In front of our show, like, it totally looks like we did it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, I was wondering who did that? I was like, who the heck did this? But it wasn't us.

[A]

No, no.

[C]

I mean, there's also, like, marks out there from us.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Evan comes in, hits the brake. That's all I remember. We don't usually put marks out there, but Evan came in and locked the brakes up on the Harley and skid it all the way in.

[A]

Still kind of same thing.

[D]

But there's more. More out there that we get blamed for that weren't actually from us.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, we've stopped doing the razor, pulling out on the road, because that leaves, like, the sky sideways, skid mark and stuff like that. But it's. This is one thing. If you do it in your driveway or at the end of your driveway, it's like, yep, I left burnouts at my house. Just don't go. Leave burnouts at other people's houses, please.

[C]

I always just get a. I mean, I'm not. Not encouraging it or being a naysayer. Just get a kick out of it, because it's just the typical, like, chopped exhaust, diesel, or gas. There's been a couple, and they just. You're like, kind of like double taking. You're like, jeez, dude. All right, get on with it.

[B]

Get on with it, get on with it.

[D]

I swear, they just drive by, throw their truck in neutral, and just, you.

[C]

Know, it's like, you get the.

[B]

We.

[C]

Evan took A snap of him doing it in there, and then Jake's like, you're not gonna believe this. He's just out in front of my place doing the same thing.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

That is a problem.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Does anyone feel a little weird after that vinegar I'm feeling in my stomach?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You guys feel it?

[C]

I'm good now, but for a little bit, I'm like. I didn't like that. Like, the feeling in my stomach.

[B]

I can't tell if that beer finally put me over the edge, and. And now I'm. I'm sick. Like, you guys feeling something overcome my body right now or if the apple.

[A]

Cider vinegar is doing something to you?

[B]

It's like a war going on in there. I was, like. Like, already battling the sickness, and then the apple cider vinegar hopped on my. My immune system side and just started attacking. They were kicking ass. That's why I'm just, like, something going on.

[C]

I might try another one after this. We'll see.

[A]

And on that note, we got to get out of here before one of us.

[B]

Yeah, I need to get off and sitting next to Ryan. He's sick.

[A]

Yep. Sorry. I shouldn't be talking.

[C]

Ryan's sick. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, I got the suds.

[C]

Ah.

[B]

I thought we should have put me and Mike next to each other. They're the only two that aren't sick.

[C]

I'm sticking to my guns. All the vitamin C. Cue the song.

[B]

Down with the sickness, down with the sick.

[C]

Happy birthday, Ryan.

[B]

Hit the subscribe button. Thank you, guys.

[C]

Peace.