CboysTV on Difficult Pranks, Ken's Dating Show, and Durability Of New Vehicles

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: CboysTV on Difficult Pranks, Ken's Dating Show, and Durability Of New Vehicles
Date: January 31, 2023

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, the CboysTV crew dive into untold stories from their personal lives and behind-the-scenes of their channel. The conversation weaves through reality TV commentary (specifically The Bachelor), the complexity and ethics of reality show participation, pranks gone wrong and right, dating show fantasies, evolving technology in vehicles, and the growing impact of artificial intelligence. There's plenty of candid laughter, playful self-awareness, and classic CboysTV banter.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Reality TV & The Bachelor: Behind the Scenes

[00:00–13:12]

• The episode kicks off with commentary about The Bachelor, prompted by Ben knowing a Fargo local who appeared on the show.
• The Cboys dissect how reality TV contestants get cast and strategize their on-screen personas:
  • To succeed, "you gotta stand out on one end of the spectrum"—be the "bad girl" or the "sweetheart" (Ben, 03:13).
• They discuss the manipulation inherent in reality TV:
  • "A lot of this stuff I'm pretty sure is so set up" (Ben, 03:26).
  • The Fargo contestant was positioned as a villain, edited for drama, and eliminated early.
• The group reflects on hometown backlash and the challenge of trying something “different” when everyone is watching:
  • "Whenever someone tries to do anything other than the norm and it doesn't work out, everyone bashes them..." (Ben, 10:14).
• Key advice for anyone facing public embarrassment:
  • "If you just keep at it, keep moving forward, in one week something else will happen and everyone's gonna forget about it" (Ben, 13:12).

Notable Moments:

• CJ on Reality TV Roles:
  "Some people get a really bad role... but you have to make it look like it's you saying it." (CJ, 10:55)
• Support for Taking Risks:
  "If you're a hater and you haven't done, you don't have any right to hate." (Ben, 12:03)

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2. Pranks: The Art, Failures, and Realities

[14:10–52:32]

• Discussion shifts to their own lives as creators: staying "polarizing" and memorable.
• CJ regrets getting his nipple pierced for a video that never made a big impact, highlighting the unpredictability of viral moments.
• The crew debate stepping up pranks and dares (e.g., tattoos), but note their style is more goofy than hardcore.
• Prank culture in content is analyzed:
  • The appeal isn't about humiliating others; it's about lighthearted confusion or making themselves the butt of the joke.
• Reflections on failed and successful past pranks, and the anxiety they feel pulling them off:
  • "Something about messing with other people just ups the personal anxiety." (Ryan, 43:14)
• The group entertains the idea of doing more improv to improve their live-action bits and gain confidence.
• A potential "Ken’s Dating Show" is brainstormed as a comedic spinoff from The Bachelor.

Notable Quotes:

• On Pranking:
  "If you can kind of do it in a way where the joke's on you and they're more so just like this guy's a idiot, then I think it's funny." (Ben, 43:41)
• On Group Dynamic:
  "I want to see Evan and Ken prank someone. Like a duo of those two together." (Ben, 44:42)
• CJ on Improv:
  "With an unlimited budget, going to Hollywood to train these two just to go prank someone... would be so funny." (CJ, 46:26)

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3. Ethics and Hilarity of Cart Narcs and Citizen Enforcers

[29:44–41:31]

• Evan shares a story about New York incentivizing citizens to report cars parked in bike lanes for a cash reward.
• The group debates the ethics of citizen enforcement, likening it to "Cart Narcs" on TikTok—a man who confronts people who don't return their shopping carts.
• They watch and react to Cart Narcs videos, noting the humor but also the tendency for such interactions to escalate.
• They wonder if similar pranks would work in their Midwest community—“Midwest mad” isn’t as dramatic as in California or Florida.

Memorable Exchange:

• Ryan: "Anyone familiar with dystopian future type of things, that's gotta be somewhere along the progress line. When you turn people against themselves to help the government, that's gotta be in there." (41:49)

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4. AI, Technology, and the Future

[61:44–68:51]

• The crew marvel at recent AI advancements, like generating 80s-sitcom versions of Family Guy characters.
• They discuss how chatGPT passed law and medical exams, and the emergence of "DoNotPay," the world’s first robot lawyer:
  • "It can pull unlimited information in the smallest amount of time." (CJ, 65:12)
• They joke about future AIs handling not just legal cases, but everyday annoyances.
• They reflect on how technological disruption seems slow in the moment, but looks fast in hindsight, comparing it to how the internet was perceived in the 90s.

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5. Durability of New Vehicles vs. Outdated Tech

[71:25–77:46]

• Shifting gears, Ben raises concerns about the lasting quality of high-tech new vehicles versus the simple durability of older models.
• Observations:
  • "My BMW has... 85,000 miles on it, it's like falling apart just from the weather, just from existing." (CJ, 72:40)
  • "What's going to happen with these screens and like technology... almost stops working." (Ben, 71:38)
• They discuss companies like Toyota and Porsche offering retrofits and how luxury brands avoid “dating” their vehicles by keeping tech minimal and timeless.
• The concept of “restomod” (modern mechanics in classic bodies) is pitched as a possible future.

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On Being a Standout in Reality TV:
  "You got to stand out on one end of the spectrum."
  —Ben, (03:13)

• On Public Judgment:
  "Whenever someone tries to do anything other than the norm and it doesn't work out, everyone bashes them..."
  —Ben, (10:14)

• On Cart Narc Culture:
  "You turn people against themselves to help the government, that's gotta be in there."
  —Ryan, (41:49)

• On Enduring Internet Hate:
  "Keep at it, keep moving forward... in one week something else will happen and everyone's gonna forget about it."
  —Ben, (13:12)

• On Pranks as Content:
  "If you can kind of do it in a way where the joke's on you... I think it's funny."
  —Ben, (43:41)

• On AI Progress:
  "It can pull unlimited information in the smallest amount of time."
  —CJ, (65:12)
  "ChatGPT has now passed a Wharton MBA exam, the BAR, and a US medical license exam."
  —Evan, (65:01)

• On Vehicle Obsolescence:
  "What's going to happen with these screens and... technology? Like stuff gets so outdated so quick, and it almost stops working."
  —Ben, (71:38)

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Memorable and Fun Moments

• CJ’s Regret:
  Owning up to getting his nipple pierced for little payoff—"That was the only cool thing about it, being so tough and not even flinching." (CJ & Ben, 15:34)
• Defending the Villain:
  The group’s sympathy for the hometown Bachelor contestant as social media piled on.
• Ken’s Dating Show:
  "Instead of a rose, she gets your vape."
  —Ben & crew, (29:25–29:38)
• Cart Narcs Bit:
  "He's got a playful attitude with it, which is kind of what helps."
  —Ryan, (35:58)
• AI’s Future:
  The gang joking about AI “walking in here with a puff stick…” and speculating what courts, jobs, and future pranks might look like.
• Old People Homes in the Future:
  CJ muses about how retirement homes will be “lit” for their generation, focused more on video games and YouTube than bingo (70:49–71:25).

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Segment Timestamps

• Reality TV & The Bachelor: 00:00–13:12
• Pranks & Content Strategy: 14:10–52:32
• Cart Narcs & Citizen Enforcement: 29:44–41:31
• AI and Technology: 61:44–68:51
• Vehicle Durability: 71:25–77:46

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Closing Thoughts

The CboysTV crew wrap up, observing how their conversations often start with one topic (The Bachelor) and end somewhere wildly different (car tech), reflecting the spirited, wide-ranging discussions their fans love. As always, there’s a sense of camaraderie, offbeat humor, and motivational encouragement to take risks and not fear public opinion.

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"Welcome to the Life Wide Open podcast. Thanks for listening, viewing, and subscribing."
—Ryan, (78:10)

Transcript

[Ryan]

Alrighty, everybody. Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast.

[Ben]

Hello.

[Ryan]

So I like to consider this podcast, you know, a pretty inclusive. We're for men, women, not really so much children, but old, young. But I would like to start out this podcast with something just for the boys. Okay. All the ladies right now. You just. You skip ahead 5, 10 minutes. You don't need to hear this.

[CJ]

That's nice of you. Yeah, knock it out right away. Yeah.

[Ryan]

So yeah, all lady. All the ladies are gone. Just skip on. You guys watch the Bachelor this week?

[Evan]

No. No Bachelor or.

[Ben]

Why would you get rid of the ladies for this?

[Evan]

This is a boy TikTok. It was like the TikTok trend of like, start talking about.

[Ryan]

Okay, yeah, now this, this. This is just for the boys only. It's a boys discussion about the Bachelor to answer.

[Ben]

I actually did watch it.

[Ryan]

Okay, good. So.

[Ben]

Which I never do. And I only watched the first.

[CJ]

I've never seen a full episode of the Bachelor. And I'm not even saying, oh, because. Because you're kind of a wuss if you watch it now. I just never.

[Ben]

You want to know why I did? Because one of Alex's, my girlfriend's friend, was on the Bachelor. So I was like, well, shit.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Ben]

I'll watch it with you.

[Evan]

So she.

[Ben]

She had it on. So I was like, well, I'll sit down. It's pretty cool. Like someone you know. And it's on the Bachelor from Fargo.

[Evan]

So what ended up happening?

[Ryan]

And also before anybody listening home, that goes. I don't want to hear the boys talk about the bachelor. It's basically 30 chicks trying to fuck one dude. It's great. It's great tv. Like, when you look at it that.

[Ben]

Way, it's a good.

[Ryan]

Pretty cool to watch. You just watch of your good imaginary friends just living the dream.

[Evan]

I've actually, I. I haven't watched a single episode of it, but I've heard pretty good things about it from. From a lot of guys.

[Ben]

It was. It was good, I thought.

[Evan]

How. How many seasons? Ken, look up how many seasons the Bachelor or the Bachelorette has been going.

[Ken]

The current season is season 27.

[CJ]

Oh, my.

[Ryan]

And they do like Bachelorette, So that'd.

[Ben]

Be 27 years, basically. It's been going on, wouldn't it? Yeah, because they only do one a year, don't they?

[Ryan]

They do the Bachelor, the Bachelorette, and the Bachelor in Paradise. Oh, and.

[Ken]

And the Bachelorette is on season 19.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[CJ]

But it must be.

[Ben]

When did it start?

[CJ]

There's a shitload of shitty dating shows like A lot.

[Ben]

Modeled so many after, too. Like, I remember Flavor of Love when I was a kid. And they'd like, like, Flavor of the Hard Rock with Chris. Fucking Kid Rock. I mean, Kid Rock.

[Evan]

Well, what about the. The one that. That my buddy Jace got too hot to handle?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

There's so many. Love Island.

[Evan]

F Boy. Or maybe it was Love Island. I don't know. It was something, though, that they hit him.

[CJ]

Probably F Boy Island.

[Evan]

Yeah, it might have been that, but they were.

[CJ]

When.

[Evan]

When Jace called me was like, dude, I just got hit up by this talent agency that was like, we're looking for candidates for this show. I was like, bro, you got to play into just being the biggest douchebag. We were like, bro, you got to just play into that character so you get a spot on it. Because they're obviously looking for, like, the most extremes. That's why I was very interested that the chick from Fargo got one of the spots. So how.

[Ben]

How did that.

[Evan]

Well, one, how did she get the spot? And two, what ended up happening, honestly?

[Ben]

So when I found out that she was going to be on it, I. You know, I've never even talked to this girl, but I was telling Alex, I was like, she needs to, like, either go on there and, like, be one side or the other, like, pull her up, like, either be like the.

[Evan]

The.

[Ben]

The bad girl or the, like, sweetheart. Because it's always like, they. They seem to pitch people against each other, and those people make the furthest, and then they almost get their own show after it.

[Ryan]

And if you're in the middle, you don't stand out.

[Ben]

Yeah, you got to stand out on one end of the spectrum is kind of what I was telling her, which I don't even think she did that. I don't think she told her or anything like that, but I'm sure she already knew. One of the story is, like, she came in and honestly, I feel bad for her because, like, a lot of this stuff I'm pretty sure is so set up. Like. Like, I was watching all the shots, and as, like, someone who makes a video every week, I was like, that was so set up. But you don't just have, like, these, you know, still reality tv natural.

[Evan]

Right.

[Ben]

But she kind of got depicted as, like, they just. They chopped it up and didn't make her look, like, by any means, like, awesome. I thought they were, like, setting her up to be kind of like the antagonist of that whole season, and then the guy just, like, let her go first night. So, like, they just kind of made her look bad.

[Evan]

And then I feel like you're beating around the bush here. Ryan, what was your take on it?

[Ryan]

Well, so CJ is definitely right when, I mean, her intro was like up in Fargo we say UFTA and like.

[Ben]

They were all the producers. Cringy. They were all cringy.

[Ryan]

They were. I mean, I, that's a tough position for the girl to be in and stuff like that. And you know that they were like, oh, they say oofed up there. You need to say that. And she's like, okay, well I got to make the show, whatever, do it. So she does that and she kind of had like an iffy one on one. It's a difficult scenario for sure. Then after that, things kind of started to twist and you could tell they were probably trying to feed her. Like, oh, you need to, you need to be pushy. You want, you're out here getting what you want. You're from a hard working area, you go and get what you want. She starts doing that. And then it appeared in the show. You know, I'm watching, I'm excited. North Dakota get represented all that. It appeared as if she started to get really drunk. I'm not sure if she did, but you know, they, they, they run them all night and they're drinking and whatnot. And then he's talking to another girl and she's like, I'm gonna go interrupt them.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Which I think is like a. No, no, it was kind of weird. So she goes interrupts them and then they cut to her doing like a, a side interview. And she's like, I'm gonna get what I, I'm going to go after it. So she interrupts the conversation, which is really awkward. And then see they gritty together. Which turned into quite a meme. The whole like, whatever.

[Ben]

To be fair, she was depicted very cringely, but every single girl on there, the whole thing is cringy. That's like part of the whole, that's.

[Ryan]

Part of the show.

[Ben]

You know, it's the whole shtick of it. So I'm sure they were kind of like setting her up to it 100%.

[Ryan]

So then she goes in and kind of does this thing and she kind of forces a kiss on the guy and the guy was just not having it.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was really strange.

[Ryan]

And I don't know if that was her. The show, whatever I'm watching, I'm just like, oh, wow, this is just not going well.

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

After that, all the other girls are like, holy, what's this chick doing? Then eventually after that, she was the.

[Ben]

Main character of the first episode. She was.

[Ryan]

She made that was.

[Ben]

She made the whole episode, by far better. By far better, which is what I was. And when I was watching it, I'm.

[Evan]

Surprised they didn't keep her around.

[Ben]

That's what I'm saying. When I was watching it, yeah. I was like this. Like, she's doing an awesome job because you're standing out. That's basically what you need to do if you're going to get an opportunity like this. You got to stand out.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, So I was thinking she.

[Ryan]

Was doing a great job, 100%. So that happened. She goes, ah, that didn't sit well with the guy. Then she kind of goes off, cried a little bit, appeared to maybe even get a little bit more drunk, did a couple interviews where it. It didn't go so well. And whatever.

[Ben]

Alex thought she was fake crying.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Evan]

So that is interesting.

[Ben]

Like, I would. I don't. And honestly, who knows, you know?

[Ryan]

So then she does.

[Ben]

To be clear, Alex does not know anything. She hasn't asked her.

[Ryan]

Okay. And then she goes and interrupts a third time in this same guy.

[Evan]

The.

[Ryan]

The guy talking to the other guy before the rose ceremony. She comes up and goes, listen, I'm here for what I want. All this kind of just lays it all in line. She goes, am I getting a rose tonight? And he was like, nah, no, you're not getting a rose.

[Ben]

Like, literally just turned her away.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And. And he was, you know, super nice. Pretty awkward position to be in for all of them. And then they. She just kind of like walked off, which I'm sure was part of the show.

[Ben]

Crying and stuff.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like this big, dramatic walk off.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Evan]

So.

[Ben]

But I feel like it was like a setup. I kind of feel like she was put on to this. You kind of can push your own way. But then they are producing it, so behind the scenes, they're like, oh, go. Do you know?

[Evan]

Yeah, they're making good TV works. That's how to make good tv.

[Ben]

And at the.

[Evan]

At the expense of this.

[Ben]

Honestly, it's weird because if she wouldn't have gotten let go, she would have been, I guarantee you, to the end, because it was like the main character. So I don't know why he let her go. Or if maybe that was just a produce of, like, the producers, like, play in, like, we're going to have this first episode absolutely crazy. And then, boom, throw everyone for a twist and. And she's gone. First episode. Which is another thing, you know, because it's like, it was very engaging. It was very 100. Yeah.

[Evan]

If she's interrupting three times, interruption might have been the one that put him over the edge of being uncomfortable versus the producers being like, it was never.

[Ryan]

It was never going from this.

[Ben]

I feel like it's all just a big scripted show, personally, dude.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, when I was watching it, I think she went in there and she knows. She's like, okay, I don't know if I'm going to make it to the end. We. They started down that road, she's like, I'm going all in on this. And they worked out a deal, and now she's going to come back in one of the later episodes where they pull people back that are like the villains or people that got let go early that have a story. So I think she went in, negotiated. I mean, she owns a marketing agency. Like, she's smart. Comes in, I think comes in, negotiates a bag to embarrass herself, comes back later in the season and then redeems herself and goes, oh, I'm sorry. I did all this. I just.

[Ben]

Wrong.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I was emotional. All that comes back, redeems her personality, redeems herself with the guy, and then maybe even continues on.

[Evan]

Oh, my gosh.

[CJ]

I mean, if that's the case, that brilliant.

[Ben]

That was.

[Evan]

That was brilliant. If not, they better be listening to this right now being like, holy shit on the team.

[Ben]

She definitely got chopped up as the. As the villain of the first episode or like, the crazier girl. But the only thing that, like, really bugged me about the whole thing was that all these. So I'm so friends with all these people that are Fargo locals or whatever, and they were on, like, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, just like, bashing her. And I was like, like, they're just, like, talking and all this. I'm like, what? It very much so irked me because I feel bad for her in that regard because it's like you go and you try to get something going, and whenever you're doing anything, maybe it's. It's probably not just like Fargo or these smaller town Midwest areas. Probably happens a lot of other places, but like, whenever someone tries to do anything other than the norm and it doesn't work out, everyone bashes them and tries to make fun of them when, like, they're just sitting at home the whole time not trying anything new. Not trying to, like, watching them different. Yeah, exactly. So it's kind of like, I don't know, it just irks me that she's getting Bashed by like, other people. And to be clear, I've never even said a word to her. I didn't even know that she was friends with Alex until she said that. But yeah, I feel bad for, in that regard because it also is really easy to like, make someone look bad through the power of editing or make someone look really good or we kind.

[CJ]

Of know from a little experience about reality TV and now we like, know more, is that sometimes the group, let's say it's a group of us that were so stoked to be on the show that someone, the producer gives them a really dope role. And so they're stoked. They're like, yeah, yeah, I'm going to go be the badass or be the funny guy. And then some, some people get a really bad role and they still like, play it out because they're getting the bag option too. Like, okay, but you have to play like a dweeb and you have to say stupid stuff you don't want to say, but you have to make it look like it's you saying it.

[Ryan]

And that's what I think happened to her. And I think to go with CJ's thing, I think people from around here got way too tore up about it. So, yeah, for everybody else who isn't from around here, she got like shit on Facebook. And I was like, from, from literally.

[Ben]

People that went to school with her, like, I think she was like above me.

[Ryan]

That was the biggest thing is like she made Fargo look so bad. I'm like, I, I never associate a character with a town like, that's just kind of like a. Maybe a little too self centered. Too self centered of something to think, you know, like she. I don't think anybody really cares. And I think people should be nice to her because I agree, you know, it was, it was like for her.

[Ben]

For going out and trying something. Yeah, if you're a hater and you haven't done, you don't have any right to hate.

[Ryan]

But I mean, if she wants to continue her journey in behind or in front of the camera. We got a buddy, Big Ken, he's single, so you can.

[Ben]

Yeah, we could do our own version of the Bachelor with Ken.

[Evan]

Dude, people love to see other people fail much more than they like to see them succeed.

[Ryan]

More interesting.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah. So I'm sure that they were, you know, pretty excited to see this chick go on and, and get made, look like a fool. And they were like, told you, told you, like, that shit isn't worth it.

[Ben]

Or like winners like to see other people win.

[Evan]

It's always interesting too when something happens to us or bad publicity comes out about us. Just like the people that come out of the woodworks to show love. And then you see so much, so much of like, how people really feel because then they start talking shit because they feel like they have like some ground, like, like I told you that they were idiots or things like that. So, I mean, it is always interesting to see the, the people that have your back on, on the Ls.

[Ben]

And to be fair, there's nothing wrong with, with just living a normal life, working a normal job. But I just don't like people that hate on other people for going out and trying to do something different. Different. And yeah, like, I mean we've all been at, at the mercy of that probably still now, but especially when we were even smaller than now. And yeah, I mean if my only advice to like, especially in something like that, it's. It might seem like a big deal now, but literally in one week it. No one's gonna remember, no one's gonna care, you know, and that, that could go with like literally anything. Even if you're in like high school and maybe like some big drama scandal or something happens and you feel like everyone is talking about you or making fun of you or whatever and you're, you feel very insecure. Guarantee you if you just keep at it, keep moving on, keep moving forward, in one week something else will happen and everyone's gonna forget about it, gonna.

[Ryan]

Say, you're not going to be the center of attention for long. So. Yeah, it's good advice.

[CJ]

So speaking of like, kind of what you said earlier about how you in, in the limelight, in the camera, you need to be polarizing. You got to be like one or the other.

[Ryan]

You gotta be one or the other.

[Ben]

Otherwise you're nothing.

[CJ]

I made a mistake. So I don't think it was worth it for me to get my nipple.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Evan]

I was gonna say is this.

[CJ]

And like, and, and I'll hear it from you guys. But like, I already know. I know the whole story. Like, I know, I know that I didn't react good enough. The whole like, everything about me getting my nipple pierced was bullshit. Like it didn't even make. And it didn't make it in the year end recap, which I get, yeah, I get that. But it didn't make it in that. And then also, like, I didn't do it during the summer, so no one like saw it in person. The reason that I got it was parking in front of the door. Like, total.

[Evan]

It's total. It's barely. We had to like, cut it up to make it even at all interesting.

[CJ]

I remember even at the time being like, should I just, you know, lay down and be like, I'm not doing it. I'll do it for a better reason.

[Ben]

But you could have probably said that. But also at the same time, we were staying so true, right? Like, this rule.

[CJ]

I was like, kind of like, I think it's dumb. I'll still do it. And then I was like, I'm gonna be a badass and not make a noise. And then it was just like, he pokes a needle through my nipple. And then everyone's like, ah, you got it.

[Ben]

There was something cool about, like, how you were so tough about it, but it definitely.

[CJ]

That's the only cool thing.

[Ben]

The only positive about you being so, like, tough and not even flinching about it was that it was different than everyone else absolutely screaming their lungs out.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was like a good conspiracy comparison to. Right. But no, at the end of the day, like, when we were making the year end recap, we had all these different ones. There was what, six of them? And, well, five. There's five of them. Ryan didn't have his. And we were like, man, I feel like this is just like kind of getting repetitive and.

[CJ]

And if there was anyone to cut.

[Evan]

Out mics and I'll just take pride.

[CJ]

In that, then I'll take pride in that.

[Evan]

I remember just being like, damn, he's gonna watch this and be like hour.

[Ryan]

And 45 minute long video. I couldn't get three seconds for his nipple getting pierced.

[Ben]

Are you guys nipples up after that?

[CJ]

That. And that was like finishing. Thing is. Yeah, my left one is a lot less attractive than my right one now. Was it really Matt? Yeah, it's just. It's like bigger now.

[Ben]

Yeah. Mine looks like kind of gross, dude. Like, not gross, I shouldn't say, but it. I thought doing. Having both of them get done, I was like, well, at least they'll be even. But this one's like, something's up with it, dude. It's like bigger now. And this one. And I'm like, God damn it. I've also gained some weight too, so it's not helping.

[Evan]

You think it's going to your nipple?

[Ben]

Oh, possibly. Possibly.

[CJ]

So you know, that's one consequence, Quince, that none of us ever thought about. Like, it doesn't really matter either. Like, you're.

[Ben]

You're.

[CJ]

How it's a little different.

[Ben]

We should start doing Tattoos next.

[Evan]

That's. That's.

[Ben]

If I do tattoos, I want to be, like, permanent.

[Ryan]

No, I was just like, sounds like a more permanent.

[CJ]

I've always.

[Ben]

That idea face on my arm.

[CJ]

That'd be cool idea. Always intrigues me. But I simply. I couldn't even let, like, someone who doesn't have a mean bone in their body pick my tattoo. I just.

[Ben]

And then let alone your best friends.

[Ryan]

That are definitely gonna pick a funny.

[CJ]

Tattoo, I just couldn't do it.

[Ben]

It's just. I don't know if it fits our look, though, like, being all. If we were all tatted up well.

[Evan]

With, like, these random tattoos all over.

[Ben]

I mean, even if you did it, like, cool, like you did, like a full sleeve, it just would, like, almost. I don't know. I feel like it just is too badass of a look, and we're just not badass enough.

[Evan]

Well, dude, I could be, like, having tattoos.

[CJ]

I'll get some tattoos sometimes. I was just thinking the other day, someone asked me if Cody ever got his. He has brap on his. I guess it's on his right hand and it says Brad because the P, D or P looks like a D. And it's just really interesting to me. He, like, went in, got a tat, and it was like his first tat ever. Still his only tat. And it was on his hand. And then just never no more. He didn't have any more. No urge to get even another one anywhere.

[Evan]

Most people say once you have one tattoo, they're very addicting.

[Ben]

Well, you might as well just lay them on.

[Evan]

Yeah. After a point. Mike, the thing that you said, though, like, I wouldn't let anybody pick tattoo even if they were the nicest people in the world. I get that. But the other side of things is, like, if I picked a tattoo for cj, I know in like three weeks time, I'm going to lose something where now tattoos are an option and then he gets to pick one for me. So it's like, how hard do you want to go on it?

[CJ]

Well, and I agree with that too, but it's like sometimes people's levels are just different. Your understanding of, if I'm picking a savage tattoo for you and you're picking a savage tattoo for someone else, they might just be much different. Different realms where I'm like, that is savage. And then you're like, no, he's got to get just dick and balls right on his shoulder. Like, that was a horrible example.

[Ben]

But honestly, though, if you were fully tatted up, I'm not letting my.

[Evan]

Could, like, put.

[Ben]

If you were fully tied up, you could put, like, a dick and balls on someone and it literally wouldn't fucking matter because they're so tattoo. Just probably blend in, you know? Like, yeah, you know, like, after a point, you would hardly even notice half the shit, you know? It's, like, crazy.

[CJ]

But it is interesting how you said Miley Cyrus, how there's, like, a new kind of age of tattoos, like, where you just get, like, little ones.

[Ben]

All those look so dumb, dude.

[CJ]

I think, like, on, like, certain girls, it can be an aesthetic, but other than that, I think they look kind of silly.

[Ben]

So this is going to probably tick a lot of people off. Do you guys think Miley Cyrus is hot? It seems like all of our girlfriends think that she is so hot, but I'm just, like, not with her cry. She's that hot, dude. She looks like. No offense, but she looks like a lesbian, which there's nothing wrong with being, but she does. She's got, like, this grease, bro. I'm just like, what the fuck?

[CJ]

This isn't hot.

[Ben]

Random ass cats.

[Evan]

And, like, she's just, like, kind of greasy. Looks gross.

[Ben]

Look like I haven't showered, dude.

[CJ]

I do love that new song, though. Flowers.

[Ben]

That's a banger.

[CJ]

It's a banger.

[Evan]

I think that our girlfriends think that MILEY Cyrus is 10 times hotter because she stands for, like, women power. And she kind of. And she, like, came out with, like, these songs and she's like, fuck, boys and all these things. And I think a lot of girls think that's hot. That, like, women are standing up for other women. I think that adds to it because if she came out and was, like, pretty, like, acting masculine and, like, didn't stand for, like, things that they believe in, probably wouldn't be as hot in their eyes.

[Ben]

Her voice is kind of manly, too, even a little bit.

[Evan]

She sounds like a smoker.

[CJ]

Yeah, but that's hot, I think.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

In some songs.

[Evan]

Oh, you think that's hot? Because I guarantee CJ does not think.

[Ben]

A manly voice is hot.

[CJ]

Well, no. And do I. I guess. Yeah. Do I think, like, a female with a lot. Yeah, I guess.

[Evan]

If.

[Ben]

Owners.

[CJ]

Yeah. If a female sounds like a smoker and a man, that's hot. No, no, but, you know, if she sounds like Miley Cyrus. Yeah, well, singing or talking? Definitely singing.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's. You take that with talking, the talking.

[CJ]

Oh, I guess you kind of take that. If someone has that type of voice and they can sing like that, how could you not think it's singing at least halfway.

[Ben]

Well, yeah, definitely having talent.

[Evan]

Yeah. I mean, talent is attractive, but I mean, if you're just a. Just a bar rat just ripping darts with the boys out out front.

[Ben]

She's like, hey, welcome. Welcome to the Roadhouse. Mike's like, oh, my God.

[CJ]

She.

[Ryan]

Miley Cyrus is so good at acoustic covers of sometimes male songs, but more like old country or rock.

[Evan]

I mean, have you heard, like, Post Malone?

[CJ]

No. She does a cover Nothing Else Matters by Metallica.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And it's extraordinary. It's amazing. So. I don't know. There's things I, I. She's not my style, but she's probably.

[Evan]

Somebody'S style, you know, very hipsterish style.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

With, like, the tattoos.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

But we cannot. I just. I'm like, that all being said, we can't forget about, like, Jay's On My Feet.

[Ben]

That's a little song.

[CJ]

You know, that era Like Jays on.

[Ben]

My Feet was a lit song.

[CJ]

I don't know if you think that.

[Evan]

I'm 23.

[Ben]

That's right.

[CJ]

He likes it. I. I wasn't necessarily hyping up the song. That was an interesting time.

[Ben]

Dude, you're in the. You're in a vehicle of subs. Some. Somebody's in high school that happened to have a subwoofers, and you're just, like, rattling the whole car apart.

[Ryan]

You're like, this is lit to Miley Cyrus.

[Evan]

No, I want to know. It wasn't in that position.

[Ben]

I just don't know. My song wasn't just Miley Cyrus. It was Jay, who's like, Jay's one of the most popular rappers.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like, you throw on, like, little Lil Wayne a Millie or something like that.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I can picture myself and Justin's Beamer dude shaking tomorrow.

[CJ]

You just pick, like, just the most.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You guys know who's such an underrated women rapper? Bad Baby. What happened to her, Dude? She started doing Only Fans and she got a bag. She made $53 million on only fans. So I don't blame her for probably what happened.

[CJ]

Probably just legitimately probably what happened.

[Evan]

That's crazy. But she had some bangers.

[Ben]

Do you see what she said? Yeah, she did have good rap music. But I watched this interview with Caleb Presley on barstool. Would you speak about chopped up stuff that's, like, highly, like, chopped up and edited to make it more funny, but it was really funny, good at it, and intriguing. Yeah. And they didn't even make her look bad. So when she turned 18.

[Ryan]

18.

[Ben]

She dropped her only fans. That Night. So as soon as she turned 18, only fans pictures up, go subscribe like that minute. And then I guess she like made a statement saying that anybody who subscribed to her only fans that night or that first night or whatever should be in jail.

[CJ]

And she just said it herself. Yeah.

[Ben]

How did people have helped create that bag for.

[Evan]

Yeah, that's.

[Ben]

It is a weird thing though if you think about it. It's kind of fucked.

[Evan]

Well, it's like when Millie Bobby Brown from stranger things turned 18 and like all of these people were like finally she's 18 and like just basically just making. Commenting how like she's hot and now she's finally 18 and then everyone's like.

[Ben]

Like you were scoping her out.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Were you just looking at her and then you just didn't say anything until she turned 18. But you thought that.

[Ben]

I don't know. Yeah. But to answer your question though, she's probably just chilling, dude, in some big ass house.

[Evan]

I occasionally will get recommended her Instagram photos and it's her like really standing on top of a Bentley or like standing on top of a Lambo. And I'm like, that's awesome.

[Ryan]

I can imagine that is exactly what Dr. Phil would have not imagined.

[Ben]

She's holding up a reputation, man. Being a bad baby.

[Evan]

Talk about taking something that usually like for the instance of. Of the girl going on the Bachelor.

[Ryan]

So I mean made a moment, but.

[Evan]

Making a moment and like running with it, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah, because she could have just been like a.

[Evan]

Like a kind of one mean one, average.

[Ben]

You could have been just in another episode, but you stood out so much.

[Evan]

You imagine being 18 years old making $54 million.

[Ben]

Like people like that where you made that much money so young. You must have no perception of just like reality. Yeah, reality. And also just like how I wonder if they even realize how lucky they are. Because obviously you got to be jaded to it because you never really even had a. I know it's.

[CJ]

It's like whenever the cutoff age of whenever you get that money. So she got that money really early. But when she was 15, like she was mostly she was just bad.

[Evan]

She's a bad.

[CJ]

But yeah, she was like, you know, she was like stealing her mom's car and stealing other people's shit and stealing stuff from stores and that comes from kind of trying to just hustle and.

[Ben]

Having no money to work with being a bad baby.

[CJ]

But she like came into money shortly after that, so probably forgot everything about that and forgot everything ahead of her that she Needs to learn.

[Evan]

You know, it's crazy though. You see these rappers making extremely large bags, but they never really give up the street lifestyle. Like Gunna and Young Thug, I guess I don't know a whole lot about it, but I think they went to jail for racketeering and RICO charges.

[Ryan]

RICO charges, which is like the worst you can get, apparently. Apparently RICO charges are just like everything. They can just charge you for everything. Like if you got charged for possession, they can't also attack your business. You get charged with rico, they're like everything we're going out of. This dude's driving record is.

[CJ]

I've never actually even heard of that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, everything.

[Ben]

To answer your question, I think it's because they, they stay hanging around like the same crew and maybe they stay going back to like the hood and, and all that. And also like, I don't know, I feel you probably can't take it out of them after a certain point. You know, that's just like what you know and what you do.

[CJ]

As bad as it sounds like a little bit of pride. I mean, we take pride in what we do and we try not to be different than we were when we first started. And there's. He's probably there. These rappers are probably not trying to be very different. Yeah, well, what if I, if I just like got the money, got a mansion and then just didn't do anything? They'd be like, yeah, this guy's soft.

[Ben]

That's true.

[Ryan]

Changed.

[Evan]

That's. That's very true too.

[Ryan]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Evan]

Yeah. I don't know if we've ever talked about on the podcast, but Lil Baby has a documentary showing like his come up story. And Lil Baby is one of like the biggest rappers right now. But dude, he was making like million bucks a year selling drugs before he even started rapping. And he started rapping.

[Ben]

You unmute that, turn your ringer off.

[CJ]

Trying to mute that, buddy.

[Evan]

He started rapping like three years ago, just like the wildest.

[Ben]

Yeah, they kind of like forced him to rap too, because he was in jail or something. And then once he got out, he was hanging around, you know, his buddies who I think were also maybe selling drugs, but they were doing music on the side and he was just chilling. They like got him in the booth one time and they're like, you're pretty.

[Evan]

Had a big rapper. I think it was Young Thug. Oh yeah, he was buddies like his boys. Yeah, they were like, dude, your Instagram captions are fire. You got pretty good, like Flow and rhythm. You should try rapping.

[Ben]

It's pretty amazing. He's now literally the biggest rapper of 2022.

[Ryan]

And then you said that young thug paid him to not sell drugs, right?

[Evan]

Or something like that. Yeah, because then he was like, well, it's just so easy to, like, make a quick bag off of drugs. He was like, no, no, no. Just stick with rapping. You're not going to make shit for the next year, or you'll be in jail. Yeah, but I'll pay you to just stay off the streets.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Wow.

[Ben]

That's pretty crazy.

[Ryan]

You get on the. Those cameras look good, Ken. Sweet.

[Ken]

All right, Mike, did you want me to pull up that link you sent me?

[CJ]

Not right now.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Ken]

But, yeah, yeah, I've got it ready to go, but whenever you're ready.

[Ben]

Ken, would you be interested in doing that, going on the Bachelor?

[Ken]

No.

[Ben]

What if we did our own version of the Bachelor? We got just, let's say 15 girls, and we do a speed dating. Like, it's like a quick little. Like, I'm not talking. Clapping, obviously. Like, that's kind of the noise I made with my mouth there, but I'm talking just like, you know, maybe like a one minute, like, boom, boom, boom. Like, conversations. And then at the end of it, you give one girl a rose and. And go on a nice date.

[Ken]

I could see it. Could be. Could be a good little bit.

[Ben]

That'd be a great bit. And you might find the love of your life.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we'll ask your old girl from Fargo. She wants to be on.

[Ben]

Instead of a rose, she gets your vape.

[Evan]

Evan goes. Instead of a rose, she hits his vape.

[CJ]

Gets it.

[Evan]

Oh, she gets the vape.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Oh, Ken must really like her to give away the vape.

[CJ]

I'll cherish this forever. Well, it's only 2,000 puffs, so.

[Evan]

The other day, I saw this. This news article saying that people will get 20% of the revenue made if they start narcing on people for parking in bike lanes.

[Ryan]

I saw this in a Casey Neistat video.

[Evan]

Yeah. And it's like, 125 or $175 ticket, I believe. And then if people narc on them, they get 20% of that. So, like, you just go around the city, take pictures of people parked in the bike lane, turn them in, they get ticketed, and then you get 20% of the revenue.

[Ben]

It's just like, you make, like, 30 bucks.

[Evan]

Yeah, but, I mean, you could just go around and do it all day. Like, that could just be 10 of them.

[Ben]

You got 300 bones.

[CJ]

I was like, for a stint. I'm sure it'll change and get saturated, but that could be literally people's jobs. That's Ubereats money.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I'm sure people would take advantage of it, but I don't know. There was, like, the argument of just like, is that morally messed up for, like, everyone to become kind of like a parking police?

[Ben]

Yeah. You're gonna switch up, I think a rat.

[CJ]

It's tough because if I were in a situation where I needed to park in a bike lane, you know, things were going on, I'm in a hurry, and then this and that. And you got caught by someone like that, I'd be like, screw this guy. However, that's one of those things that's like, have you seen the. The shopping cart police? Kind of the guy on Tick Tock?

[Ryan]

So funny.

[CJ]

So funny. He just goes around and just harasses the. Out of people that don't put their carts back.

[Ryan]

Cart narcs.

[CJ]

Cart narcs.

[Evan]

That's what it is.

[Ben]

Funny.

[CJ]

Same vibe. It's like, these people are getting so mad, and they're like, get out of my way.

[Evan]

And.

[CJ]

And he's just like, just put your cart back. We'll be good. We'll be good here. And he's putting magnets on their car that say, like, I don't know, all kinds of stuff, and it's the same thing. So I thought you're gonna say that they're paying people 20 to, like, catch people doing, like, bad, but they're just catching people trying to take the easy route. So I don't mind.

[Ben]

Pay a ticket.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah. Because they. They.

[Evan]

That is, I guess, something wrong.

[Ben]

Yeah, I guess they are parking in the bike lane. That could be kind of annoying.

[Ryan]

So anyone who's familiar with dystopian future type of things, that's gotta be. That's gotta be somewhere along the progress line. When you turn.

[CJ]

True.

[Ryan]

When you turn people against themselves to help the government, that's got to be in there.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's very true.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean, and I wasn't thinking about turning people against themselves for the help of the government, but that's exactly what that is.

[Evan]

Yeah. Evan's like, what's wrong with being a rat? Oh, my God. Evan moves to New York.

[CJ]

Evan. Evan shares. Evan shares a few video ideas with people he maybe shouldn't have. That didn't ruin a whole lot. And now he's forever known as a knock.

[Ryan]

We should pull up a clip of cart narcs. That shit's funny.

[CJ]

Yeah. Look at you, Ken.

[Ryan]

Jiminy.

[Ben]

See it's. I think it's kind of funny being a narc. If it's like light hearted like this, like there's really no consequence.

[CJ]

Well that's kind of why you. I use this as an example because it truly is like one of those things. Unless you're physically incapable and handicapped. Just put your cart back.

[Agent Cameron]

Weep, skeep, wheedle a deep dupe. Agent Cameron here with the car narcs. I saw where the cards go. That doesn't. That's not where the cards go. No, but there are people they pay people. Okay man, let me explain.

[CJ]

We hear this all the time.

[Agent Cameron]

Oh listen buddy, listen. I get what you're saying.

[CJ]

Thank you.

[Agent Cameron]

I get what you're saying.

[Evan]

But.

[Agent Cameron]

But there's no. I don't really give. You don't care.

[CJ]

No.

[Ben]

This seems fake.

[Agent Cameron]

Well now ma', am, when you go to the collect sure that I got to get back. Oh, is there death or something?

[Ben]

Kind of.

[Agent Cameron]

But this doesn't seem. Do you pee on the seat when you use a public restroom? Cuz they pay people to clean that. That's the same idea. Ah, gotcha.

[CJ]

Then he put some magnets my life.

[Evan]

That's why.

[Agent Cameron]

And don't listen to music while you're in your car. That's not safe. And it's against.

[CJ]

What kind of car was that?

[Agent Cameron]

Not supposed to. What do we got here?

[Evan]

Oh, she's stuck in traffic now he.

[CJ]

Puts these magnets on their car.

[Agent Cameron]

The back of your car here for you madam. Right now. I will if you take your card back. Would you like to do that for me? Knock it off. Knock what off? Being a responsible person. My stuff.

[CJ]

That's okay.

[Agent Cameron]

It's for you See he's got her.

[Ben]

Phone number on it.

[Agent Cameron]

You call bother me right now.

[CJ]

I mean it.

[Agent Cameron]

But you're bothering. People are blocking the spot. You understand the correlation Madam, you're starting this back the off. All I did was ask you.

[CJ]

But ma'. Am.

[Agent Cameron]

What you mean Leave the alone. I mean it leave me.

[Ryan]

I got more.

[Agent Cameron]

Get the away from me. You're starting.

[CJ]

And people just.

[Evan]

He's got to be in Florida. It is gotta be in Florida.

[Ryan]

It's in Naples, Florida.

[Evan]

Oh yeah.

[Agent Cameron]

Like a big old sour puss me. Did you see her what she did with her car? See now here we go. Reacting. You're falling for her tricks. They give you one right there talking about. That's what I'm talking about is the.

[Ben]

Car dude got him slapped.

[CJ]

Holy Crap. She is.

[Ben]

Why doesn't she just drive away?

[CJ]

That's my favorite part. So many people are like, I'm in.

[Ryan]

A hurry, I gotta go.

[CJ]

And they're like, okay, just put your cart back.

[Agent Cameron]

I'm not coming near you. Do not come near me.

[CJ]

Two minutes already. Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

This lady's going intense.

[Agent Cameron]

They pay people. I told you the analogy. Do you throw trash on the ground? Because they pay people to pick that up too. No, they don't pay people to pick it up.

[Evan]

Now.

[Agent Cameron]

What a garbage meant for. Shut the up.

[Ben]

Dude.

[Evan]

Man, he had to have just. Just unlocked something, just hidden in this lady.

[CJ]

Yeah, but I think that's what I mean. Like, he. He unlocks that out of a lot of people.

[Ben]

This guy must have been like a former cart boy that had to go.

[Ryan]

Out and get him.

[Evan]

Yeah, you know. You know what I love most about this guy is that he's acting very Karen ish by going up and basically telling people no, but then card away. And then he brings the Karen out.

[CJ]

Of not being a Karen.

[Evan]

It's like two Karens going at each other. And then pretty soon he looks pretty normal.

[CJ]

He's like, he's.

[Evan]

What he said wasn't even out of line. The way that he came up kind of reminds me of that. That police officer. That isn't a police officer. It's like super heated.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

But it's not his job, you know, so he's kind of got like the same. Like, it's not my job, but I'm going to.

[Ryan]

I'm going to do it anyway.

[Ben]

We should do this for a bit. The nice thing is hilarious bit, dude.

[Ryan]

He's got a playful attitude with it, which is kind of what helps.

[Ben]

It doesn't sound like he's going to be very playful.

[CJ]

I like what Ben said. Him telling them to put their cart back is a Karen move. But he's not a Karen. He just very civil about it and just like pushes back lightly. But he's not a Karen.

[Ben]

Do this. This would be a great bit.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

This would be good.

[Ben]

When you put a magnet on someone's car, can you get in trouble, though? I feel like I'm pissed. Well, we know Ken would be pissed if someone put it.

[Evan]

But if.

[Ben]

If someone did that on, like, my gtr, I'd be like, don't fucking touch my car.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I wonder if cart narcs was a thing before he was recording it.

[Ben]

Let's go to the climate.

[Evan]

I wonder if he used to just do it without making a video. Of it just for the love of the game. He was like, man, I should. I should make content out of this. Or if he was like, this would be pretty funny. And then started doing it, you know, like, what came first? The chicken or the egg here?

[Ryan]

The cart or the narc?

[CJ]

You know, it's amazing.

[Ben]

We got to order some of these.

[CJ]

Ken just skipped forward six minutes into the video, and this guy's just getting like, he's our customers.

[Agent Cameron]

Yeah, I'm trying to de escalate, but.

[Ben]

No, you're making the situation. No, you're escalating it by just not turning around.

[Agent Cameron]

I'll happy to leave.

[CJ]

I don't want to make her. I don't want to make your job any harder.

[Ben]

We'll just go ahead and walk away.

[CJ]

I will.

[Ben]

That'd be great.

[CJ]

Thank you, sir. Appreciate that.

[Evan]

Thank you.

[Ben]

Damn, this is dinged up too.

[Ryan]

Did she.

[Ben]

Don't want this.

[Ryan]

Okay. He is more of an I remember dude.

[Evan]

Why. Why is this the most Cali guy ever?

[Ben]

Ever? Look at his post.

[Evan]

Kelly lives in California.

[Ben]

It does do him kind of dirty, though, because it's like you catch someone at the wrong time having a bad day, and then 1 million people watch. They look freak out. Yeah, exactly. You know, it is. It is kind of that, like we talked about on a couple podcasts back, you just. You're, like, pushing someone's buttons to hopefully get them to freak out at you.

[Ryan]

And then they finally do something that you want.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

That's where it could get a little loose. Yeah. Yeah.

[Evan]

I wonder.

[Ben]

Fucking funny. I'm not gonna lie, though.

[Evan]

It's hilarious. But I wonder what ended up happening, because that guy had to have seen that, you know?

[Ryan]

I know. I wonder what happened.

[Evan]

It's got a million views, dude. One of his friends saw that, sent it to him. Here's your. Here's your guy. Right? And, I mean, it's the same thing with, like, any prankster, really. The video is gonna get back to the person that gets pranked. So it's like, if this guy is that pissed about it and he sues, well, I mean. Yeah. How much ground does he have to stand on, like, where it goes? Because, dude, I don't think that'd be worth getting sued over if the guy's that fucking mad.

[Ryan]

I love how he had a plug, though, for his lawyer.

[Evan]

Even if you're going to win, do you still got to go to court and all that shit?

[Ben]

Dude lawyered up just to tell people to bring their cards back. Well, yeah. Got him on Retention.

[Evan]

Yeah, Seriously. Retainer.

[Ben]

Retainer. Sorry.

[Evan]

So, yeah, I. I, like, wonder. And not just for him, but for other pranksters, too. Because, like, if you technically don't get permission to use the video footage of them, then they. They could come at you for even just that. Like, I just want. I just wonder, like, what ends up happening?

[Ryan]

What didn't, like, Jake Paul get sued because he uses train horns by a train track or something like that?

[CJ]

What was.

[Ben]

No, he did it in, like, a. Like, at, like, a grocery store. Which, to be fair, reason why we were so careful when we did ours is like, you had to be so far away from someone, like, damage someone's ears or like, imagine you gave someone a heart attack.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You spook them.

[Ben]

And basically he got sued. Which also, it's like, there's a point where you're a dude like, Jake Paul doing it. Everyone knows, like, okay, he's got tons of money. I could right, get something out of him for this.

[Evan]

Do you guys think that we could get good reactions doing that? Around here? People are generally a lot more nice. But in California or Florida, you got either crazy or you got psycho.

[Ben]

That's true. I bet if you did it, I bet you could. I bet you it would take five times.

[CJ]

It'd be like Midwest mad.

[Ben]

I bet it'd be funny. I bet you'd get at least one good one.

[Ryan]

It is interesting.

[Ben]

I'm trying to maybe do it in the. In the warmer weather, though, just because otherwise they're just gonna be like, get out of here. Close our door. I'm trying to get out of the cold.

[Ryan]

I feel like people would be more likely to literally just get in their car and drive away or even if you threw the sticker, they just, I'm not dealing with this. I'm leaving. But it is. There is something about being caught when you know you did something wrong. Like, Even if that guy 99 of the time puts his cart back, but, yeah, he has a bad day, feeling lazy, doesn't put his cart back, and then gets caught. And, like, you're embarrassed about it. I feel like that invokes a different reaction. And people that really get some upset like that, you know, And I'd say.

[CJ]

No matter what your mood is, the greatest success for, like, us doing it or anyone is they don't want to put their cart back. You know, no matter how they're freaking out, they could be even be calm. But if they're, like, staying around talking to you and not putting their cart back, it's like, that's yeah, that's what that think.

[Evan]

It's the way you approach it too.

[Ben]

If you approach it like a dweeb, then they're just gonna be pissed. But if you're like, hey, dude, come on, put your cart back. Yeah, you should put your cart back because.

[CJ]

And also, people just really don't like those magnets on their car. Like, they're about to leave.

[Evan]

They're.

[CJ]

They're all. It's all gonna be like, that's the end of it. They're gonna leave out of the parking lot, and he throws the magnet on, and then it's free.

[Ben]

The magnet might be too far.

[CJ]

Double revs it.

[Ben]

If someone actually did put a magnet on my car, it's not like I'm gonna go and fight them. It's not worth it, you know?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Over a magnet that probably didn't really.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You're like, okay, I'm mad. But it's like, you drive away, what am I really gonna do? You know?

[Ryan]

That's the logical response. But you get it. Someone in the moment like that, and then you never get the logical response. It's kind of how the hindsight's 20 20.

[CJ]

That's funny. It's another way to bring out new content.

[Evan]

I wonder what these people go home and tell their family or their friends.

[Ben]

Well, I got YouTube today.

[Evan]

I was the victim of somebody's YouTube prank. It's like when we went and did the. The shambo prank, I got a.

[Ben]

When we were messing with the dudes over at Kia Caleb. Remember our boy? I don't know if he still works there.

[Evan]

We tried getting him to buy it.

[Ben]

Alex went to go buy a Kia and she bought one from there. And I had to go in there.

[Ryan]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

And they fucking recognized.

[Ryan]

They did. Were they like, are you gonna fuck with us?

[Ben]

The manager, like, yeah, Walked up and, like, had it. Had, like a shit grin on his face like, you're not pulling a prank.

[Evan]

On us today, are you?

[Ben]

And I was like, no, no. And like, I was just like, God damn. And then, you know, you just end up chatting me. He's like, you still have. And I was like, yeah, yeah, we do. And, you know, he was just kind of asking just general question. He's like, so it's like, how would that start? You know, just the typical questions. But he wasn't mad. But it was like, when he did that, I was like, oh, your heart kind of sinks.

[Ryan]

You're like, I'm just here trying to buy a car with my girlfriend right now.

[Ben]

I should have Asked him if Caleb was still there, gave him the business.

[Evan]

Yeah, I don't think he's still there after that. He was like, I'm over this.

[Ben]

It's probably his first day. Dude, we roll in there with a fake Lamborghini and try trading it in on a Kia.

[CJ]

And they were like, they were pretty chill about it. They were just like, dude, we can.

[Ryan]

We know.

[Ben]

The worst part was the mics were fucked up during that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Our prank mics have never worked.

[Evan]

That's like an art.

[CJ]

Until we bought new ones.

[Ben]

Yeah. And then those even kind of didn't work. But dude, pranking, I need to get back into it. I want to get back into the pranks that show.

[Evan]

I think you should.

[Ryan]

The thing that has been nice that we have been saying that, that I like because I always, I've said it before. I get so nervous during breaking. Something about the messing with other people just ups the personal anxiety. But I do like that we've went away from pranking around people because they are like, like we've said, they're the innocent bystander that you're trying to get a reaction out of so you can take advantage of them. I always just feel like it's kind of like a one sided, almost like a little bit of an immature.

[Ben]

But if you can, if you can kind of do it in a way where the joke's on you and they're more so just like this guy's a idiot.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Or they're just kind of like confused and it's like you're kind of the one that looks weird. But it's just like a funny situation overall then I think it's funny. But if you're like, you know, making someone mad and then. Have we had any videos?

[CJ]

Like, yeah, I was like, for us.

[Ben]

I never really ticked anyone off. We just like make funny situations where people are just like.

[CJ]

I love when we do that. I love when we mic up. I love filming it. I usually say that because I'm not very good at it. But I think the reason we don't do it is because none of us are really good at it. And we all know who, like, who.

[Ben]

Is better at really our style though.

[CJ]

And it's not. But I still really enjoy doing it.

[Ben]

I mean it is funny. It's like something about. It's an adrenaline.

[CJ]

It's a different. With anything. You know how like you can like dirt bike enduro or you can supercross. There's different disciplines. You can different disciplines in content. And one of those is live True reaction. Not always pranking, but, like, person to person.

[Ben]

I want to see Evan and Ken prank someone. Like, a duo of those two together.

[CJ]

This is about how you want to see that.

[Ben]

I do.

[Evan]

That would be funny in itself.

[Ben]

You guys could not even do that good. And it'd be hilarious.

[Evan]

Would you guys. At least would you guys feel comfortable being, like, partners in crime in a cart narc?

[Ben]

Oh, my God. Yeah. One of you.

[Evan]

Yeah, but. Oh, like, we put cart narc magnets on somebody's car, and then, like, they come up, and then they call in backup. They. One of them calls it back up. Yeah.

[Ben]

What's going on here?

[Ken]

Like a Crown Vic in there.

[Ryan]

What if we set it up and as Ken was. And Evan was the guy who didn't bring his car back, and then Evan and Ken dueled out a scenario, and then the other people around were reacting to those two doing something.

[CJ]

Be very difficult that because of people being around. But I like it. I think, just as a skit, that.

[Ryan]

It'S just hard to get people around in this area.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

We gotta go to Fargo, dude.

[CJ]

I some reason. Imagine, like, Evan's hair is getting super long. He's got to take, like, a comb and part it right here and just grease the out of it, both sides.

[Evan]

Dude, you're.

[CJ]

You're backup. You're the manager.

[Evan]

Backup cart narc, bro. It's hilarious. One is funny, but having a backup cart narc.

[CJ]

You guys would make a great duo in that. I just know it.

[Ben]

Something I just had that came to mind. Before they do their prank, these two. We go to improv class, practice train.

[CJ]

And do we have those around here?

[Ben]

We'll find one.

[Evan]

I don't care if we got to.

[Ben]

Go to la, Bring these two to Hollywood. We're doing it.

[Evan]

I love that idea. I think that's a great idea.

[CJ]

With an unlimited budget, going to Hollywood.

[Evan]

To train these two just to go.

[Ben]

Prank someone over in cormorant.

[Evan]

And then, yeah, we're in the central.

[Ben]

Market parking lot just for a dumb prank.

[CJ]

It's like five out of 10.

[Evan]

They're still bad, but just, like, a tiny, tiny bit better.

[Ben]

And at the end of the video, we, like, chalk it up. Like, we're so proud of these two.

[CJ]

Go check out the journey.

[Ben]

They really accomplished something great today.

[Evan]

I think that's a great idea. Yeah. No, I. I think I do love.

[CJ]

The idea of an improv class, too. I think for everyone.

[Evan]

I think 2023 is. Is we're gonna do more pranks, and. And that's Definitely for everyone in this room. Probably not going to be good.

[Ben]

Yeah, it'd be funny. Dude. I feel like pranks, the very few that we've done, it's like. It's kind of like going in to do reckless golfing. You're really nervous because you're like, this is like, kind of like you don't really know and whatever. It's like a different type of nervousness. But then once you're in, once you do it, you're so happy. Like, it feels so good when you, like, get it done because you're just like, oh, my gosh, that was funny.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Or even midway through. I mean, I cannot. I can't speak. I don't have any grand to stand on here. But, like, once you're halfway into it, you're almost like having in your head, you're silent, you're here.

[Evan]

This is so perfect.

[CJ]

They're just like Jonah and Cheddar at the. At the One Car dealership, for example. Like, once you guys were about halfway in it and basically fully locked into your characters, it was flawless. People still talk about that at the.

[Ben]

End of it, though. Like, let's just say it goes wrong. Like, you can just like, be like, sorry, just walk away.

[Evan]

And then they're just left confused.

[Ben]

Remember that time we pranked that guy down the road with the lawnmower? That you were a professional lawnmower racer.

[Evan]

And, like, I was your mechanic literally lives away.

[Ben]

He's like, you're betting your cj.

[Ryan]

I go, your dad's my chiropractor. I go to church with your parents, probably.

[CJ]

And then you guys just go, no, no.

[Ben]

But we're like, yeah, it's on ESPN12.

[Evan]

Or whatever.

[Ben]

We just made up this thing. And then you were in the back filming of the truck. Like, it was tinted windows. And then Ben just at the end of it goes, hey, by the way, this is all just a prank for YouTube.

[Evan]

And he didn't.

[Ben]

And we just hop in the truck and go. We never show the video, never show a mic, never show anything. And he was so confused while we.

[Evan]

Go, yeah, hey, you're on camera. This is for a YouTube video. We are the Sea Boys. Because he was like, are you guys the Sea Boys in the middle of it?

[Ben]

We're like, nah, all of that.

[Evan]

And then at the end of it, though, we were like, yeah, you're being filmed over there. We point over there. Mike never hops out. He didn't know where, just pointed. The truck looks at the truck, looks at the bushes, looks at the Tree.

[Ben]

And he's like, we pulled out, he was scratching his head, like, what just happened?

[Evan]

But, like, it was the weirdest conversation.

[Ben]

Talking about taking his lawnmower and going.

[Evan]

50 mile an hour.

[Ben]

Buy the thing from them.

[Evan]

The only way I can drive it away.

[Ryan]

Have you guys ever had any moments where you've thought to yourself, like, where's the camera? Like, in normal life, somebody randomly that you don't know. Like, you look around, you're like, what is.

[Ben]

All the time? Whenever, like, something weird is happening, I'm always like, am I being set up? I hear like a noise in my house at night. I'm like, yeah, someone's pranking me.

[CJ]

For me, it's like, I. I hate that I do this, to be honest. But like, me and Cody and Evan will always bullshit really funny scenarios. And I, every time I go, oh, that'd be such a funny skit. How do I say that? I just can't. I'm like, oh, that'd be such a funny little video. That'd be such a funny tick tock. But I can't just appreciate the, the made up scenario in my head as it is. I can't.

[Ryan]

The only time I've ever really thought or had one of those moments is. Remember last year when we were walking around Deal. Or we were driving around DL and we saw the guy that was blindfolded. Oh, walking around town. We never showed a YouTube video. I don't know. We'll talk about it.

[Ben]

Yeah, but it's just a weird.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but I have, I have all the video of him walking blindly across busy streets, uncontrolled intersections, and through parking lot stuff like that. And he's blindfolded.

[Ben]

Just how funny would it have been? Like, Ryan was like, I think out of the truck, like filming with his iPhone, like, sideways. And then like, imagine the cops pull up and we're just like. He's like, what's going on here?

[Evan]

I don't know.

[Ben]

These two are making some kind of video.

[Evan]

Okay, what if, what if we, me and CJ were behind it and we had the guy. There's Ryan standing there. We're like, ryan, get in there, get in there. And the guy's walking across the intersection and he stops and he just turns, looks at Ryan and just starts running after.

[CJ]

You can see the whole time?

[Evan]

Yeah, you can see the whole running, the whole prank. No, pretty much everything weird that ever happens, I'm always like, I am the joke. And then as soon as, no offense, guys, but as soon as I realize that CJ is also not behind it. I'm like, oh, there's nothing. Because you two and Ken usually. Well, Ken can't keep it a secret. So I usually always find out before he ever tries to do anything.

[CJ]

I never actually go through with anything. The few things that I do.

[Evan]

You know, honestly, you guys just aren't like big enough dicks to like pick up and do a prank on one of.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's what I mean. Like the worth it. The thoughts and that.

[Ben]

They're not big enough dicks. Well, I mean the folks that make me a dick for making funny little.

[Evan]

I guess in a way we're constantly just trying to with. With each other and usually it's for the sake content of. It's for the content. Yeah, I get that.

[Ben]

I better good.

[Evan]

Yeah, but like they don't have like the mindset of like.

[CJ]

I think you can admit both things. If it's for the better, it's. Yes. It's still maybe a mean prank and it's for the better good.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I like the better good.

[CJ]

Oh yeah. I don't know.

[Ryan]

I think it's greater good.

[Evan]

The greater for the greater.

[Ryan]

But I like better good.

[Evan]

I was thinking about this and obviously it's just an idea, but I want to get your guys's opinion on it. Do you think that we would ever do some kind of like live podcast or just some kind of show in general? A lot of YouTubers will go on tour and do kind of like a setup show or. Or if they're comedians, they'll do like comedy shows. I don't really know what that would look like for us if it would be a live podcast or just like a show kind of like Danny Duncan does where you just set up and do like fun shit, jump around. I don't even know what he does.

[Ben]

We, we have like an hour long venue set up, just thousand people in there and we just get up on stage jumping around.

[Evan]

I don't know what else we would.

[CJ]

Do but I mean a genuine answer is I think it'd be something in between that. It's really weird because I was just thinking about that literally last night. One of my favorite podcast bad friends, they do a live show. They go around. They basically do live podcasts. I'm sure they switch it up and I go, man, you know, so many people are doing tours. I was like, what does that look like for us? We've talked about that before but like. And it does, it looks like a little bit of jumping around, a little bit of like almost this and Then a little bit of.

[Ryan]

I think we just set up a bunch of stuff and then have Evan ski over it. Pull up in buying skis.

[CJ]

He's a good skier, and I don't even think I'd pay for that.

[Ben]

Our little skier.

[Evan]

Evan's like, why am I skiing? We're on a stage.

[CJ]

It's not even any snow.

[Evan]

I could do so many other things.

[Ben]

Skiing is definitely. You guys are very good at it, but it's definitely like one of the more uncool things you. That you guys are good at. Like, when you do something really cool on a dirt bike, it's cool. Or a snowmobile. But on the skis, there's something a little bit anticlimactic.

[CJ]

You have a little bit of a old head way of. Of thinking about it. And I used to be that way. But like, skiing school now, but even.

[Evan]

Like, hard to cool skiing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You have to go to my point. Like, on skis, you just don't look that cool.

[Evan]

I think we've gotten to point where.

[Ben]

Like, you're on a skateboard, you'd look cool.

[Evan]

Yeah. But if we were to have a professional skier come out and do like, what we were doing in the last video. But they are, like, professional and can do it. I mean, it's just the same thing as, like getting on a dirt bike track, us going around it. It's not that cool, obviously. And then we get a. A really good rider out there. Makes it a lot more entertaining to watch. Same situation skiing and full transparency.

[Ben]

I was blowing away at the. You guys are doing on the skis. I. I did not expect that. Especially the Smart car. That was unbelievable to watch in person. And I've watched a lot of unbelievable stuff, but I did not expect that you guys were fucking high.

[Evan]

Yeah, it's insanely high feet up there. I think it's really cool that Evan is such a good skier. Obviously, he's really talented at everything, but, like, it's always interesting to find somebody that you're interested in or you watch do something.

[CJ]

And.

[Evan]

And like, all these people are like, oh, Evan's a dirt biker and a snowmobiler and all these different things.

[Ben]

Very badass things.

[Evan]

And then you find out that he's also very talented at skiing. You might not even be that interested in skiing, but it's like, damn, this is like a. It was cool. Well rounded on being really good at a lot of things.

[CJ]

Or if you're a really good skier and you really like watching Evan, and then all of a sudden he's throwing that down your. Your day is made. You see your. One of your favorite.

[Ben]

We should go urban skiing. Imagine you're in town. There's like, some stairs, and you fucking went down it.

[Evan]

I mean, you don't mean, like hitting the rails. You mean.

[Ben]

I'm talking like, you're in town and.

[Evan]

There'S, like, some stairs.

[CJ]

I like that.

[Ben]

And like, people are, like, having to get out of the way. It'd be funny. I'm pretty sure Jackass did that like, back on their TV show. Yeah, okay. They did urban kayaking, but imagine the skiing version. I don't know if we got enough state. We'd have to go somewhere. It might be too short notice being that the video goes out tomorrow because it's built on a hill. We should go to Duluth and go urban skiing next. So when we go to Duluth next week.

[Evan]

Week that.

[Ben]

I don't know if you guys want to do it, but that'd be.

[Ryan]

That'd be pretty funny.

[Ben]

And you're wearing, like, your. Your skiing get up and you're very serious, and we're like, shutting stuff down. Like, hey, whoa, whoa.

[CJ]

We got no tricks.

[Ben]

Just going down. Just going down.

[Evan]

It. You're just, like, guaranteed to eat and it's gonna hurt. It will be bad.

[Ben]

Funny, though, because there's something funny about when you got those skis attached. You're just like, yeah, they're like, in the air.

[Evan]

And I can imagine you would think that was really funny because he goes.

[Ryan]

Yep, I'm gonna hold camera.

[Evan]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm a stand.

[Ben]

That's why I said I was like, maybe you guys. That would be funny.

[Ryan]

I. Yeah, no, I totally would, but forgot my skis at home. So.

[Evan]

It's very similar to being good at, like, wake surfing. It's just super anti climactic to watch.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's probably. I'd say it's probably very similar to that.

[CJ]

Maybe you'd have to compare that to wakeboarding at least, because I've actually.

[Evan]

A little bit more.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, I've had this. It's just random. I've had this in my nose notes forever. But how much more badass wake boarding is than wake surfing? But I mean, like, it's like, oh, cool, you're really good at wake surfing. That's cool. That's cool. And then someone does like, a fat backflip on a wakeboard, and you're just like, that's the coolest thing on water I've ever seen.

[Ben]

Now that you say that, honestly, our skiing bit in the last Video was probably the equivalent to having a wake surfing bit or, you know, a wakeboarding bit. Like, it's kind of a niche. It's a little bit of a niche thing that. It was great.

[CJ]

I thought, well, I had one of the most fun times ever doing it.

[Ben]

You guys are all having a blast. Evan didn't want to stop. He was having so much fun.

[CJ]

Yeah, we have fun, dude. Evan and I were chatting about it last night. Like, he's like, I really, really, really want to try front flipping off the Smart Car. I know I can. And. And he said, dude, I'm gonna lose sleep over it tonight. And I lost a little bit of sleep over it last night, imagining you front flipping off that just the way.

[Evan]

It is right now. You think you could front flip off that? Yeah, I don't want to open the can of worms.

[CJ]

Like, didn't even say anything. And it was cold out today, and.

[Ben]

I really didn't want to wipe out today.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I think it's so beyond.

[CJ]

So beyond possible.

[Evan]

So sick. If you did imagine that, that'd be so sick.

[CJ]

We were saying just a clip alone.

[Ben]

When Adam was here, we should have done. We should have had, like, a snow cross jump build for him to do that. What you guys did on skis.

[Evan]

Yeah. That would be insane. No, I wonder if you would just have just.

[Ben]

I wonder, keep the Smart Car up there, and then the spring, when it's dirt again, build the jump a little higher and. And step a pit bike up on top of there. That'd be ridiculous. Probably not. Yeah. I think the big bike would be too long, because you wouldn't. That you are so high. When you're on top of the Smart Car on top of the van, it's like, the van is high, but then the Smart Car on top is.

[Evan]

It's up there.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Second story balcony is, like, 12ft.

[Ben]

You guys are at least 12. Yeah, 12, 15ft up there.

[CJ]

I was stoked to see you guys conquer that. Like, that's never been done. We have. We always talk about hole. What if we jumped on top of the Smart Car and then it finally happened? It just felt like full circle.

[Evan]

I love that the vids have turned into showcasing other very talented athletes doing the exact same thing that we're doing. Because we're not, like, trying to be like. Yeah, we're not trying to be like, we are the show, but instead we are like. No, we provide the entertainment side, where these people provide. I should say the platform, but more along the lines of, like, environment.

[Ben]

Yeah. To make Something like that.

[Evan]

And then these people can show up and just do what they do best and then we showcase it and. And dude, it's like timeouts of people.

[Ben]

See it and they get exposed to millions of people that they.

[CJ]

And it's just all good.

[Ben]

Normally not have that bends over, like.

[CJ]

Promote, like to, I don't know, an athlete. Oh, I'm a promoter. Fun promoter. Give me a call.

[Evan]

Pretty much, dude.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's just fun.

[Evan]

It just adds to the element of just making these videos better and better, you know, because there's just like so many levels to it. And luckily we're kind of in like a position and mostly just like the connections that we've made over the years of getting these people to come out and. And really showcase their talents and have.

[CJ]

It be worth their time.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

It's extraordinary to watch them do things like that. Like things that you may see, let's say, like the jets. You see a million jet ski backflip videos on Facebook. When you watch that right there and film it the way that we like to film videos, it's so, so cool to be a part of that. And then you have, you know, snow cross riders like Adam, who's like, not always hitting the biggest jumps, but he's hitting them fast and he's racing next to people and then he's like, yeah, let's go out here, let's build some giant jumps. I want to throw some whips off of this. You know, I like the way you said that.

[CJ]

I like the way you said filmed in our style. And that's something that I love. That we can keep doing is not doing the same thing over and over again. But the sports are never gonna die, per se. Like, we film the sports in our own way and the activities in our own way. And then next year we film them in our own way again. But it's different. That's what I love.

[Ryan]

Like, did you have a video Mike?

[CJ]

I did, I did. It's a pretty random video. But speaking of, I will probably be talking about this from here on out. As far as the future goes. Like, AI is definitely living with us. And they created 80s style sitcom, like Real life Family Guy. And it just blows my mind. Like, none of these people are real. This is just Family Guy characters made to look like real people. So go ahead and roll, Ken. That's Peter Griffin.

[Ben]

I feel like Lois is hotter in the cartoon.

[CJ]

Really? I thought completely opposite.

[Ben]

Meg looks like that cop that was got caught with the five guys.

[CJ]

And then I'm like, Damn. Stewie just looks like a normal baby. Brian's a damn yellow retriever.

[Evan]

Wait, so, A.I.

[Ben]

Okay, pause it. Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?

[Evan]

Canon Evan?

[Ben]

Probably not. Well, they are getting. They are moving fast. They're only getting more smarter and more advanced, guys.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they're already writing TV shows that have already been written, but making them live.

[CJ]

Action. How long till they can 3D print their own penis? Or robot dicks?

[Ben]

How long till they come walking in here right now with a puff stick or whatever the hell you call your things just dangling?

[CJ]

Seriously, how long is that a puff stick?

[Ryan]

Are you just excited to see me?

[Ben]

Both.

[Evan]

Okay, hold up. So AI just made all this?

[CJ]

Yeah, this is basically. I mean, it just. It's just like intro scenes, but, like, none of those people are real.

[Ryan]

So what they did was give the AI The Family Guy, like, synopsis, basically, and some scripts and character descriptions and stuff like that. And this is what it made. And it said, make Family Guy and then gave information about it into an 80s sitcom. And it created all of that.

[Evan]

Wow.

[CJ]

And some of my favorite parts about the AI thing is that. So if it said make Ben into a cartoon, well, all you do is take a picture of Ben, and it would take about four seconds, you know, loading bar.

[Ben]

That's all it takes to make that.

[CJ]

No. Oh, but it would. And then saw someone making a song. They said, make this song sound like this band made it, but also about this. And it made it.

[Evan]

But.

[CJ]

But it took three hours to render.

[Ryan]

Oh, interesting.

[CJ]

Really interesting. Based on the information you give it. Yeah, it just works. But it's just cool. Like, some of them take four seconds, some of them take four hours.

[Ryan]

Pretty much everything that I've had any experience with, it's been almost instantly.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And that's what I thought is so crazy.

[Evan]

Like.

[Ryan]

Like, yeah, you could say, all right, Ken, write a three page letter in the style of Mozart or in the style of the Bible. And it would take him days. And he'd be like, all right, I'm gonna. I'm gonna work on that. Say, Ken's a writer, but you just give it to the AI and you're like, write the Bible in, you know, soliloquy or something like that. And it was like, do it in 20 minutes. Crazy.

[Evan]

You guys remember chat GPT?

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Evan]

Which I was showing you pretty much exactly what you were just explaining right now. So get this. Chat GPT has now passed a Wharton MBA exam, the BAR and a US Medical license examination.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ben]

It's like.

[Evan]

It's passing and doing all these exams that you need to become a professional lawyer, a professional doctor. Like, that's crazy.

[CJ]

Just nearing the point where it can pull unlimited information in the smallest amount of time.

[Ryan]

Yeah. You know, that's what I mean. It didn't take 22 years of or 25 years of studying law to get there. It did it in.

[CJ]

I love that.

[Ben]

How do you know an AI is defending you?

[CJ]

How do you know if that information.

[Evan]

That's becoming a thing? I think either look that up.

[Ken]

What I. I know I, I've seen. I forget what it's called, but I've.

[Evan]

Seen that it was like the first. There's been a trial that was represented. Like the defendant was represented by a robot.

[Ryan]

Oh my gosh.

[Evan]

They either said it's going to happen or it did happen.

[CJ]

The interesting thing part about that is that a lawyer can be most powerful when they know obviously they have to do two things. Personality, persuasion. And they can also be most powerful when they know everything. Every law and every book and every clause and every. So if you know it, you would.

[Evan]

Think that it would be for situations that like the county prosecutor is like representing a murderer, where they just need.

[CJ]

To know where they're like, well, I.

[Evan]

Mean, he clearly did it. I always wonder how these prosecutors do that, knowing that they're. They're. Whoever they're representing is guilty. Yeah. Because you got to like, set like emotions and any bias completely aside and just go off of facts. You have to just go off of. Of evidence and facts and that's like, might be what these robots are doing.

[CJ]

You know, that would make the most sense. Totally.

[Evan]

Like they don't have emotions.

[CJ]

Yeah. So.

[Ken]

So this thing is called Do Not Pay and it's the world's first robot lawyer. And it's. There's so many different things that you can just have it do and it like. Such as fight medical fraud, fight bank fees, fighting wave fees.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Ken]

So cancel anything. Like they can get on the phone with a company and like, cancel shit.

[CJ]

It's called do not. Dude. Can it fight my high school bully.

[Ben]

I feel like in court, I feel.

[Evan]

Like we are in, like this is something that we're living the future right now. You know, you always think.

[Ryan]

You ever see those videos of like the Today show trying to explain the Internet and they're like, yeah, so everybody go try getting on the Internet@www. You know, like, make sure you type www.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And that's how people are gonna look back about us. Us. Well, they won't look back on Us. But how we talk about it like this, you know, like, yeah, they're just like, man, they just did not get it.

[Evan]

Those.

[Ryan]

They were so dumb. But it's like we just didn't know, you know?

[Ben]

I'm sorry.

[Evan]

Yeah, we knew we were stupid. No, Trent, our buddy Trent sent a video of that exact situation being like, what even is the Internet? And like explaining the Internet back in 94 or something like that. And was like, this is like so funny to look back at. And I was like, I'd imagine then we're going to be looking back at half the shit we said and be like, man, it's crazy. We just didn't get it.

[Ben]

It is crazy though, because just with the way that the world moves, it doesn't feel like it's happening fast in the moment because there's never. There's like a boom now this is here. It's just like such a. Everything's just like such an ease and like a slow build up or integration that you don't even most time think much of it. You don't realize it until you look back. You're like, whoa, we used to not have Internet on our phones.

[CJ]

It's like slow, but it's fast because I think everything's coming at us so fast that everything's like beta, where we're like, wow, I'm not surprised that's happening. We'll see how it unfolds.

[Ben]

Like AI Speaking of bringing things back from the past, this is probably the last thing we'll talk about on here, but you guys ever played Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64? I did like a legendary game. They're bringing it back to the future and you can play it on Xbox now. Dude, same old golden eyes. Not redone or anything.

[Evan]

It was like one of the first.

[CJ]

It was probably the first like role playing shooter game I ever.

[Evan]

First person.

[CJ]

And it legitimately looked like Minecraft, not boxes. But like it was so bad quality that. Yeah, I love that game.

[Ben]

I keep Getting served Nintendo 64s on my Facebook marketplace is really weird. Like refurbished or just like Nintendo 64 for like 150 bucks.

[Ryan]

Quite a bit of money.

[Ben]

Been thinking about picking one up. But like, when am I gonna play that?

[Ryan]

At least it'll never have to update.

[Ben]

So you're like really close to your tv, just like back in the day. But. But yeah, it would be cool though. So when I saw that, I was like, that's pretty sick.

[Ryan]

That is cool.

[Ben]

That was.

[Ryan]

That was legendary.

[CJ]

No, I'll leave us on one last Note, I mean it's kind of a big idea, but it was such a good transition off of like what we were. So technology moves fast. We all know that. It's exponentially moving fast. So I've brought this up before, but old people homes are kind of depressing right now. In this day and age, these generations, they are depressing. So it's like, like because we're on the last generation, I think of elderly people not being in touch with technology. Right. When we're in manners and old people homes and stuff are we. It's way different. I'm gonna wanna play video games if I'm capable. I think a lot of people are gonna wanna play video games. But that's not just like it's anything you're gonna want to, whatever you do to pass your time, watch YouTube videos even as far as it like learn like apps that help you play the guitar, anything. But like right now there's nothing. They just watch tv, eat food. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like when.

[CJ]

Read the paper. Bingo and bingo. I mean there's stuff they do, there's plenty of stuff, but not what we have to do. When you ask someone that age, what do you do for fun? They're like, oh, read the paper. Yeah, we play bingo.

[Evan]

You know, imagine the old time.

[CJ]

So I think you could get ahead of yourself and make an old. What is it? Assisted living. Whatever. You could make an assisted living home lit, but not like super lit. Like oh yeah, we're have dance parties. No, you just make it new age. This is for people that have, that have grown up and they know how to access technology and they have like. Or maybe it wouldn't work at all. Maybe they'd still be like, nah, I'm senile.

[Ben]

This is a little bit off topic. But you know what that reminds me of is I always wonder to myself, what. Let's just use my Ford Raptor as an example. What is my Ford Raptor gonna be like in 30 years?

[CJ]

Also one like because it's like this.

[Ben]

Touch so much and technology gets outdated so quick. Whereas like 1996 Ford Ranger is just fine.

[Ryan]

You can.

[Ben]

Everything works because it's like very simple in that respect. But like what's going to happen with these screens and like technology and like even like boats, like, like stuff gets so outdated so quick and it almost like stops working and I don't know. So I feel like a lot of these vehicles won't be usable.

[CJ]

I saw a comment, I mean I've thought that same thought so many times. I saw this comment when Toyota Built their. That's not the forerunner, it's the bigger one. Oh, Sequoia. They have their new Sequoia that just came out. It's the highest trim one you could get in this guy like that. Taking a video of it, I'm like, wow, this thing is nice. I've never seen anything quite like that out of Toyota. Same for the new Tundras. I've never seen anything quite like that. And someone comments. Toyota learns how to build the cars to last longer than the. It's like luxury things they put in them or then they put the luxury things in them.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And I'm like, okay, that is accurate or has to be accurate because they kind of do they make their cars last long. And my BMW has. It's a 2006 sits most of the time. So you get that. That has like 85,000 miles on it. It's like falling apart just from the weather, just from existing. Dude. I'm like, what the. Like make your. Yeah, you make features and make the product last longer than the engine and stuff.

[Ben]

Yeah. My dad has a toy or he got a Toyota Sequoia in 2003.

[Evan]

Bulletproof.

[Ben]

Still has it. We even sometimes borrow it. Like we would. We've used it to pull a trailer up to Akley and stuff.

[CJ]

Could still be used as a family rig.

[Ben]

Drives it around all the time. It fires up, everything works.

[Evan]

It's.

[Ben]

It's actually really amaz. It's got, you know, I don't know, 250,000 miles on it. And that thing's a tank.

[CJ]

Yeah. I wonder that too though, with all the more bells and whistles. Like what does our ram look like? 25 years old.

[Ben]

Yeah, because I mean especially with how much like, like doesn't matter. But like even like a newer, like they have problems with it now. It's like you're gonna be like, my screen quit working, I can't use the radio. And you bring in. They go, oh, we discontinued making that 75 years ago, you know, 10 years ago or whatever. So like. Well, but I'm sure there'll be room for other companies now to like come in and make their own version to like replace it. Yeah. So obviously they'll probably work.

[Ryan]

But I saw Porsche is doing a thing where you can retrofit your dash and I mean it's made by Porsche. It is a Porsche kit, not, you know, alpine and you put it in, but it is a, it's a double din screen with double carplay. All the nice stuff, all updated new climate controlled buttons. So it looks like it's from that era but just a little bit more updated with a nice screen and it's made by Porsche. So I could see that happening where they're like, yeah, you almost have upfit kits like they do for planes and stuff like that. They go, okay, we take the old technology out, screw in the new technology. Good to go.

[CJ]

I feel like, I know, I love.

[Ken]

The company that's going to do that though. Like your Toyota Camry, they're not going to do.

[Ryan]

It's a disposable car also.

[CJ]

I love that. But that's almost opposite of what we're talking about, correct. Yeah, yeah, but we're like worried about those new features. I mean like the headlights in my BMW that they turn when you turn, they don't work anymore. How do I get them to work again? I don't know.

[Evan]

I think that a lot of these manufacturers put technology in it knowing that it's going to be outdated in 10 years, hoping that they, I worry that.

[Ben]

Realistically they don't, they don't care once you buy the car if the, the, the value of it plummets.

[CJ]

If you think to an extent.

[Ben]

Yeah, they probably don't to an extent because I mean.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, I mean like, like they're.

[Evan]

Not making any more money on it.

[CJ]

After you like, I think like Subaru, I know for a fact takes pride.

[Ryan]

In their, in their resale and how they last.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But yeah, it's true.

[Evan]

It is interesting though because a lot of the like high end manufacturers and brands, they don't necessarily like lean on technology as much as is like the masses do. Like, you know, Ford, Chevy or Dodge are pretty heavy in technology versus like even Porsches, Lambos. Bugatti is just those three for example. I don't know if any of those threes really have screens in them. Like my car doesn't have a screen in it.

[CJ]

Timelessness is a factor in their vehicle making versus a consumer vehicle.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Which always, yeah, blew my mind when I saw Bugatti and I saw the interior of a Bugatti that, that was like brand new basically. And I was like, why does it look like that? And then they said, well, they're trying to make it timeless. I'm like, I respect it makes sense.

[Ben]

It, it is a little weird now I think about it like that like your Lambo doesn't have a, like a bigger screen there. And same with like the R8. Same with the Bugattis, I think because it's like the standard almost. But they didn't do it there.

[Ken]

That's what dates the car the fastest.

[Ben]

I'm. Yeah, that's right. Basically, Bugatti doesn't have a screen because.

[Ken]

Then it's a timeless piece of art.

[CJ]

That, like, it always works.

[Ken]

Isn't gonna make it dated.

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah. Even that. That's a good point.

[Ben]

Complete sense. Yeah.

[Evan]

So I. When you hop in our Ford Ranger that doesn't have a single screen, like, so timeless. This is nice.

[CJ]

The only thing that truly, like, dates the Ranger is the pattern on the seat. It's a very 90s pattern.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Other than that, just wait another couple years, it'll come back around.

[Ben]

They gotta bring the Ford Rangers. You know, obviously they're making them now. It'd be sweet if they, like, brought back the. The 2000. Early 2000, like late 90s.

[CJ]

I agree.

[Ben]

Style. I don't know what generation that is.

[CJ]

But they're just exactly what you're doing.

[Evan]

Small, they're smaller. The new Ford Rangers are almost.

[CJ]

They.

[Evan]

They are like, getting a little too. Getting a little big.

[Ryan]

Wait, you know how, like, they do resto mods. Like, you can buy old Camaros and you.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Or you buy a new Camaro, you put the old body on top of it so it drives like a new Camaro.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. What do they start doing that with? Rangers.

[CJ]

That'd be sick.

[Evan]

That'd be smart.

[Ryan]

Put a nice drivetrain underneath it. You got a old Ranger, you got a resto mod. It's a Ranger.

[Evan]

Million dollar idea right there, dude.

[CJ]

I love that idea.

[Ben]

I love that.

[Evan]

We started this podcast out talking about the Bachelor, and then we end on. On Rangers and cars and technology. It just makes me think of. In the last podcast, there was a comment that said. Said, man, you just never know what they're gonna talk about. And I just thought it was so funny from just like the random. We do talk about, but I'm not well rounded.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Welcome to the Life Wide Open podcast. Thanks for listening, viewing and subscribing.

[Ben]

Yeah, hit the subscribe button if you're not already.

[Ryan]

See you guys next week.