CJ is A Bad Neighbor, Micah's Missed Flight, & Legendary Dually Ranger

Summary

Podcast Summary: Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode Title: CJ is A Bad Neighbor, Micah's Missed Flight, & Legendary Dually Ranger
Air Date: June 27, 2023
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah

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Main Theme and Purpose

This episode of Life Wide Open is a classic hangout with the CboysTV crew, offering a blend of wild storytelling, lighthearted debate, and candid glimpses into their lives. The guys riff on recent headlines (like the Titanic submarine incident), reminisce about chaotic childhood neighbor drama, and trade airport mishaps and creative business hacks. The spirit is playful, self-deprecating, and honest, underpinning why fans tune in for the group's behind-the-scenes camaraderie.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Ocean Fears & The Titanic Submarine Incident

• The gang opens with jokes about Henry Ford visiting in a dream, but quickly pivots to real talk about the recent Titanic sub disaster (00:59).
• Discussion of public cruelty toward those involved, especially the billionaire victims.
  • "People are so cruel. They're like, 'It's a billionaire. Who cares?'" — Ben (01:18)
• Mike recounts their own fleeting idea to build a submarine for content, which they immediately rejected:
  • “We all thought about for like, literally five seconds. We go, and not worth it. If it went wrong. It’d be just—that’d be bad.” — Mike (01:28)
• Observations about the janky technology used in the ill-fated sub and the anxiety-inducing reality of deep-sea exploration.
• CJ declares, “You literally couldn't pay me a billion dollars to hop in that submarine and go down there.” (03:16)

Memorable Moment

• Conversation about the billionaire’s son going to a Blink-182 concert during the search, triggering dark internet memes.
  • "It just made me think this kid had the diamond spoon in his mouth and has no sense of reality." — Mike (12:26)
  • Group riffs: “Where are you? I feel that, dude.” — Ben, referencing Blink-182’s lyrics (12:50)

2. Adventure Talk: Climbing Everest, Surviving the Elements

• Question: Would any of them climb Mt. Everest? Most say no, preferring comfort over danger (05:07).
• Mountaineering is contrasted with their kind of thrill-seeking: “Get me my dirt bike or snowmobile and I’ll get to the top way faster.” — Ben (06:51)
• Ken and Mike joke about survival myths, like sleeping in underwear in freezing conditions, and how their own camping experiences usually ended up just being uncomfortable stories (07:34).

3. Weather Mayhem & Red Rocks Concert Hailstorm

• Ben brings up a recent hailstorm-pummeled concert at Red Rocks (10:20).
• Debate on whether venues can ever really prepare for nature’s curveballs.
• Quick philosophical detour: “The ocean and mountains—those are probably the two greatest forces on earth.” — Ken (11:23)

4. Storage Unit Finds & Hoarder Stories

• Ken reflects on the birthday “gift” the guys gave him—a mystery storage unit they bid on (13:55). The unit’s contents were mostly junk, but it became a fun project.
• Discussion about what type of people default on storage payments, with consensus that valuable things are rarely left behind.
• Behind-the-scenes: Evan gets called a hoarder for getting excited over trash finds (14:16).
• Mike and CJ swap stories about encountering real-life hoarder houses during Craigslist car pickups, highlighting the sadness behind such scenarios (20:04).
• Ben describes a neighborhood house that devolved from being occupied by a hoarder, to homeless people, to vandals, and finally burning down—a “real wild occurrence” (20:37).
• The group muses on how you can't pick your neighbors, leading to a series of neighbor war stories.

5. Bad Neighbor Chronicles

• CJ, Mike, and Ben tell stories about neighborhood beefs growing up—awkward run-ins, old grudges, bird-shooting as kids, and “firework scandals” (26:29).
• Mike’s tale of refusing to buy a lakeside phonebook and then accidentally snubbing the neighbor, not realizing it was a beach fundraiser, is a highlight of awkward Midwestern relations (22:26–26:29).
  • “I think we’re good. We don’t need a phone book.” — Mike describing his social misstep (23:46)
• CJ and Mike detail escalating incidents with a notoriously cranky neighbor: from shooting birds (“You did it, dude. It wasn’t me.” — Mike, 27:17) to shooting fireworks over his house as a “young and dumb” act of rebellion (29:13–30:55).
• Reflection on how little things snowball into years-long tension between neighbors.

6. Fireworks Stories & Explosions

• The group reminisces about their love/hate relationship with fireworks, seeing them both as a waste of money and a uniquely satisfying tradition ("Burning money, man." — Mike, 32:05).
• They look up stats: "$2.3 billion dollars' worth of fireworks consumed on July 4th, 2022." — Ben (32:34)
• Wild tales of using fireworks to blow up microwaves, couches, trash cans, and even an old jet ski at their workshop; with much laughter at how unsafe, yet memorable, these stunts were (33:13–35:06).
• YouTube’s distaste for fireworks content has pushed them toward safer, less explosive video ideas ("Maybe we can do it on Snapchat now." — Ben, 36:05).

7. Travel Fails and Airport Chaos

• CJ describes nearly missing a Vegas flight after misplacing his ID, frenziedly driving home and back to the airport, and barely making it—only to discover that Ken, ever-efficient, had already rebooked his seat (41:52–43:27).
  • “Somebody already kicked you off this flight. They said that you weren’t gonna make it. So quick—Ken was so quick to reschedule me a flight.” — CJ (43:24)
• Ken's infamous logistical sense is praised and gently roasted. When traveling, sticking by Ken ensures you’ll never get lost or miss a flight (49:11–49:39).
  • “Ken’s like a bloodhound searching for a fugitive that escaped a prison. He just...gets off the plane: ‘delta club.’” — Ben (49:11)
• The group shares rookie mistakes (leaving an airport, missing connecting flights, waiting at the wrong gate) and how they've become savvier flyers—mainly by following Ken.

8. Business Behind-the-Scenes: Credit Card Points, Merch, and More

• Ken’s expertise in maximizing credit card points and business travel perks is admired.
  • “Ken knows every single credit card option and benefit and hack…all these credit cards that like, maximizes points for every single dollar that we spend.” — CJ (51:13)
• Much of their company’s travel and hotels are offset with points, a perk of smart adulting.

9. Legendary Dually Ranger & Viral Moments

• The episode closes recapping their viral video of towing a massive boat with a legendary, customized dually Ford Ranger, leading to salty comments from those who “don’t get it.” (52:25–54:01)
  • “This is why you don’t make that truck into a dually and think that it’s a tow rig.” — Ken, quoting internet haters (53:21)
  • “When the haters roll in...that’s when you know it’s really doing well.” — CJ (54:10)
• The group delights in reading negative comments and highlights that virality means reaching people outside their core audience.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments with Timestamps

• CJ on deep-sea fears: "You literally couldn't pay me a billion dollars to hop in that submarine and go down there." (03:16)
• Mike on the billionaire’s son at Blink-182: "It just made me think this kid had the diamond spoon in his mouth and has no sense of reality." (12:26)
• Ben on small-town neighbors: "You can pick a lot of things in life, but you can't pick your neighbors." (21:44)
• Mike’s awkward phonebook moment: "I just basically said, no, I don't want it…No, I think not that either." (23:46–24:35)
• Ben describing Ken: "Ken's like a bloodhound searching for a fugitive..." (49:11)
• CJ explaining firework stunts: “We put this firework in the jet ski hull. We start it. Everyone’s just running in all directions...Jet ski goes higher than all the shops. I’ve never seen it.” (33:52–34:16)
• On the viral Ranger video:
  • "Spend all this money on the boat, couldn't afford a big enough truck to pull it." (53:48)
  • "When the haters roll in...that's when you know it's really doing well." (54:10)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Intro / Titanic Submarine Talk: 00:59–13:12
• Climbing Everest / Mountaineering: 05:07–08:14
• Red Rocks Hailstorm: 10:17–11:39
• Storage Unit Find & Hoarder Stories: 13:55–21:06
• Neighbor Feuds & Firework Scandals: 21:44–31:44
• Fireworks, Explosions & YouTube Restrictions: 32:03–37:31
• Travel Fails – Lost ID & Airport Snafus: 41:52–51:06
• Business Tips: Credit Card Points & Merch: 51:06–52:24
• Dually Ranger & Viral Content: 52:25–58:54

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Tone and Atmosphere

The group's trademark blend of Midwest humility, jokey bravado, and honesty keeps things rolling. There’s plenty of ribbing and laughing at their own missteps. Long-time listeners will feel right at home with the casual vibe and fast, overlapping banter.

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Summary

This episode encapsulates the CboysTV experience—part adventure, part adolescent mischief, and part business-savvy hustle. Full of stories both grand (blowing up jet skis) and mundane (accidentally snubbing a neighbor), it highlights the crew’s chemistry and knack for finding the funny in everyday chaos, always with a lesson (or cautionary tale) attached. Whether you’re here for the nostalgia, the internet insight, or the business tips, there’s an anecdote for everyone.

Transcript

[Ben]

Henry Ford actually came to me in a dream last night.

[CJ]

He was feeding birds and CJ shot one of them off of his.

[Mike]

What do you mean, cj? You did it, dude. It wasn't me.

[CJ]

Travis Parker's back there just ripping a solo and he's like, I needed this.

[Ben]

Where are you? I feel that, dude.

[Mike]

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[Ben]

Yo, I just got a call from one of my buddies, got a really good deal on a. A submarine trip to the Titanic. If you don't want to go.

[Mike]

Really?

[CJ]

You're sending in a. A rescue mission for the first.

[Ben]

No, just the. Yeah, the next. The next tour. Highly discounted.

[Ken]

Overall consensus on that is people have no sympathy for these guys.

[Ben]

I agree. I didn't want to jump. I wanted to make a joke. But I did want to get into that, that it is still five people down there. And people are so cruel. They're like, it's a billionaire. Who cares?

[Mike]

That's why people are, like, being so cruel about it. Like, they don't have a little bit of sympathy. They almost don't treat him as if he's a normal person or any of the other people around. You know how terrifying that would be? Like, just trapped in that little vessel. And you want to know what's a weird coincidence is before this all happened, like, I think the day before, we were running through with Brian and we were jokingly like, we should make a submarine. And he goes, I could make a submarine. We all thought about for, like, literally five seconds. We go, and not worth it. If it went wrong. It'd be just that be bad. And then we just scratched the idea. And then literally, like the next day or two days later, this all comes up.

[Ken]

I think submarines are going to get a bad rap after this, but I think that submarine was just shitty.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, they were just going to, like, the most extreme depth.

[CJ]

Yeah, they were going dude, if you.

[Mike]

Watch the video though, they got like a fucking universal game controller controlling the thing. It's so cramped in there. I was like, holy shit.

[Ken]

That's what surprised me is it looked like they were sitting in like a tube, a culvert.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He's like showing all these things, like, they're not custom, like fabricated, like pieces that are on it. He's like, yeah, this handle's from Camper Camping World.

[CJ]

The whole thing doesn't really make much sense to me also, I know it's like a massive. Where it could be. But, like, didn't they just drop in over the Titanic?

[Ben]

Well, I think it's so far down, I don't even know how far. But it's basically like if you were going to shoot a rocket into the sky and then to try to shoot a rocket at the exact same spot, it's so far. And then there's currents underneath, there is pitch black. I mean, you would think they'd be able to just be like, yeah, he's right there. But I guess not.

[CJ]

Dude, the ocean is so scary to me. Like, I won't. I don't even want to go swimming.

[Ben]

You are scared of the ocean.

[CJ]

Like, you couldn't. You literally couldn't pay me a billion dollars to hop in that submarine and go down there. No, you couldn't. Cuz I'd be like, no, no, literally, it's not. Well, no, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But not. But like, I just don't trust anything when it comes to the ocean.

[Ben]

I did look into that because Alondra brought up. She's like, oh, did you see, like, the kid? And so the kid and the dad, like, went on all these adventures together. The dad, like, everybody of course, assumes billionaire, he was some total asshole. He like, pillaged poor people for his money. He sold airplanes. You know, it's kind of a noble business to make money. And I feel like. And so he and his son did all these crazy adventures. They went from the North Pole to the South Pole and then back around. Like, they set a Guinness World Record. They went on all these expeditions to Antarctica. They climbed mountains. Like, they did all these cool things to get together as father and son. And then on Father's Day, they went and did that. And so, like, it was kind of like another thing for them pretty much if.

[Mike]

If anything went wrong on any of their previous things they did, people would be like, well, that's what happens. Because that's how the general public is, you know. But granted, this one seemed, when you watch it, it does seem a little bit more sketchy.

[Ben]

Yeah, it does seem sketchy.

[Mike]

But it is easy to be like, we'll be fine. You know, and just kind of brush it. And you're like, it'll be fine because you know, we do stuff like this.

[CJ]

I don't know how many expeditions had this submarine done?

[Mike]

Years, I think.

[Ben]

Not very many. No, no. And they were saying this was going to be the only one this year because the weather currents were bad or something like that. Interesting.

[Ken]

Are they gonna get sued, like the owner of said company? I heard they were cutting corners and then it's like, okay, you can save a hundred thousand, $200,000 a year, but then you get sued for $50 million for.

[Mike]

And your dad.

[Ben]

And your dad. Yeah. Most importantly, you guys think you'd ever climb Mount Everest?

[CJ]

I don't want to say never, but I guess I don't really enjoy like hiking outside.

[Mike]

Is it hiking other mountains?

[Ben]

But it's a climb.

[Mike]

Is it hiking or like full on, like doing.

[CJ]

Yeah, but you gotta hike to get there. It's not right.

[Mike]

No, if it was hiking, I think I could do it.

[CJ]

Well, he's not hiking. Yeah.

[Mike]

If you're doing this with the ice picks, there's not. I mean, I can do. I mean I'm sure I could if I really train for it, but I don't want to do it. If you were just taking a week long hike up it.

[CJ]

You guys ever watch 14 peaks? So good Netflix series or the Netflix movie? So I mean that kind of shows more people climb it than you would think.

[Ben]

That's what I was seeing that Everest. The more people climbed Everest this year than ever.

[CJ]

Do you know how many I got.

[Ben]

To look it up? But it's like an astonishing number. Like many, many more people. And like say in the 70s, like three people climbed it and now like thousands.

[Mike]

You got to look though the technology, like how much technology has changed and like coats and tents and whatever else. It's probably not as hard because you have the luxury of these tools to help you. And I mean I feel like if you're not. Besides the climbing, if it was just like a, a hike if. And you don't have a time limit. It's like.

[CJ]

And you do, you do have a time limit though. Like you only have like such a small window because of the blizzards. And then you have to like spend a certain amount of time at a certain elevation because of your blood cells and then you have like only so much time to like get up there.

[Ben]

And get down pretty.

[CJ]

My understanding that's the part where I.

[Ken]

Get nervous is all the waiting. Okay. There's a storm that's probably gonna be rolling through in three days. So if we can make this last stint until then, there's always a countdown.

[Ben]

I think in my brain, I like hiking. And then I literally could hike up DL Mountain and I'd be like, fuck hiking. Get me my dirt bike or snowmobile and I'll get to the top way faster.

[CJ]

You guys follow our buddy Stein on, on Instagram.

[Ken]

He's a venture and a half.

[CJ]

Yeah, we have a, we have a friend that is like a mountaineer. Believe that's what they call him. You know, he. He does like all these crazy expeditions and Antarctica hikes and like climb up with like skis on his back and then ski down. I'm like, man, you really gotta enjoy the grind of it to get like a four minute ski down this mountain. Yeah.

[Ben]

After hiking for like two days.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Camping with everything on you but the.

[CJ]

The pictures of him sleeping in a tent in Antarctica. Like, his face is like fully frost covered, probably frost bitten. Like, and then you're sleeping in a tent. And I was talking to him, I was like, dude, what do you sleep in? And he was like, bro, just like, my underwear. Like if you're wearing like layers, then you get like hot and then you sweat and then you get cold. What? Crawl into your, into your sleeping bag in the frost covered tent? Tent in your underwear. But like, I don't know, bro. We've slept outside a couple times and every time planned. Every time planned? Yeah.

[Ben]

Like the whole day is just built around sleeping in this location.

[CJ]

I guess I understand like the whole if you sweat thing, but like, it still doesn't make that much sense to me. Like every time we've done it, I like bundle up in like four different layers. I wear shoes.

[Mike]

I remember the first time we did it in Utah. I don't know why, but I was freezing. And I think it's because I don't know why I went down to like maybe my underwear or whatever, because that's what I was told to do. And I don't know if I didn't have the proper gear or what, but I ended up like waking up in the middle of night, like frantic. I think I ended up just going over and going to the fire.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's weird. I grew up with them telling you that too. They tell you sleep in your underwear as less clothes as possible. And then I did it and I hated it. Ever since. Ever since Yeah, I wear a hoodie. Maybe even a coat if it's winter.

[Mike]

Mike, you sleep in your clothes when you're sleeping up here even?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Stay warm. I'm pretty cold overall. Like, I grew up wearing pajama pants. Not to school, but to bed. Really?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Like, I wore. Yeah, like, pajama pants like, every night. Maybe not in the summer, but, like.

[Ben]

Full kit, matching top and bottom.

[Ken]

No, no, no, no.

[Mike]

Dinosaur.

[Ken]

Just like a free. A free shirt that I got with my football cleats in fifth grade. That was a medium, so it fit me for the rest of my life.

[Ben]

Okay, got it. But honestly, going back to the mountain things, the mountains is too unpredictable for me to, like, actually go out there and do mountaineering. I think.

[Mike]

I think mountains all the time.

[Ben]

What do you mean? Yeah, but not. I'm on, like, a powered machine with plans to go home, you know? Like, can you imagine doing, like, a hike and go way out? I don't know if that's for me.

[Mike]

Ken had to stay out sleeping.

[Ben]

I know. I wish he would tell that story.

[Mike]

Never been the same since.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's. That's why you remember him before, he.

[Mike]

Had plans of doing backflips and that's what did it. Doing all these crazy stunts.

[CJ]

Can you guys picture Ken spending the night in the mountains? Like, unplanned?

[Ken]

I don't think they slept. I wouldn't probably.

[Ben]

Well, they were there the whole night. I mean, spending the night so shitty.

[Mike]

I can't believe I left my BlackBerry at home. My phone's dying.

[Ken]

My phone. I can't operate it. With his cold fingers.

[Ben]

Did you guys see the. The concert at Red Rocks with the hail?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So there was this giant storm that came through Red Rocks. Everybody, of course that was there is pissed because they got no warning and that just. The storm came out of nowhere.

[Mike]

Have a weather app on their phone.

[Ben]

That's kind of what I thought. But look at this, dude. I've never seen hail or rain or anything like this.

[Mike]

Look at that shit, dude.

[CJ]

Damn, dude.

[Ken]

I mean, yeah, that's like. You can't be holy at all.

[Mike]

At least it's not, like, freaking baseball size. That's. Look at it.

[Ben]

And everybody stuck outside. And apparently Red Rocks doesn't let you bring umbrellas. Kind of fucked up. Everybody's pissed at Red Rocks because they didn't, like, give them notice and stop the weather. And Red Rock's response was, we'll talk to the. Or we'll talk to Mother Nature next time.

[Ken]

He'S supposed to do.

[Ben]

Yeah, Exactly. They would have been pissed if they canceled the concert. They would have been like, oh, and it didn't rain.

[Ken]

You know, overall, some crazy phenoms of outside. I don't blame you for being scared of the ocean and I don't blame anyone for being scared of the ocean or mountains. Those are probably the two greatest forces in on the earth.

[Mike]

Or even red rocks now.

[Ken]

Or even red rocks and hail going.

[Ben]

To a gosh dang concert.

[Ken]

Yo.

[CJ]

Before we completely move on from the submarine story though, one of the billionaires son was caught at a. Caught at a Blink 182 concert on like while they were in search for his dad. I think they were all just making jokes like, this dude is just waiting for his inheritance.

[Mike]

Did you see his caption?

[Ken]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

Yeah. He wasn't caught. He posted a picture of himself with.

[CJ]

A caption saying, like I say caught.

[Ben]

If he was there, then I think it'd be one thing I. If I was to mysteriously disappear, I wouldn't want my family to. I mean, like, what are they going to do? Swim down there and get me? Yeah. If I'm lost in the field back there. Yeah, come look for me. But like, you can't swim to the bottom of the ocean. Yeah, go live your life, you know? But that he posted like they would want me to do this.

[Mike]

Like so strange. It just made me think this kid is. Had the diamond spoon in his mouth and has no sense of reality.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Probably barely even knew his dad. Who knows, you know?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I just thought it was funny because it was Blink 182. Like I. I picture them just.

[Mike]

Yeah. Blink 182 of all things to just jam.

[CJ]

And Travis Barker's back there just ripping a solo and he's like, I needed.

[Ben]

This when they went, where are you? I feel that, dude.

[CJ]

Oh my God.

[Ken]

That was so funny.

[Ben]

Oh my go see you guys gotta.

[Ken]

Do it one more time. Where are you?

[CJ]

He's like, I know the Internet memes, man. Oh man.

[Mike]

Yeah. There is no sympathy, man. Crazy dude.

[Ben]

People. People are tough on them. So I don't want to be. Don't want to be tough on them. They're real people.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Who lost family members and. But yeah, apparently don't go in a submarine that's built by parts from Camping World.

[CJ]

It's crazy that you have to tell people that, dude.

[Ken]

So you know how. So we're don't have much retirement set up yet, but we're working on it, which makes me happy.

[CJ]

Hold on.

[Mike]

What do you mean you're A water truck? Yeah.

[CJ]

Your storage unit.

[Ken]

I'm working on it.

[CJ]

You're relatable.

[Mike]

I got a DM this morning from some gal and she was asking if you'd be willing to set to sell the Guitar Hero set.

[Ken]

Oh, what, go to ebay? Yeah.

[Mike]

I feel like it wouldn't be that hard.

[Ken]

But adding a little context, the guys completely caught me off guard and surprised me with a birthday gift of a storage unit. You know, they bid on it, they paid 300 bucks. We open it up. It was fun, I'm not gonna lie. But it was like. It was full of. Of mostly.

[CJ]

You did have a little twinkle in your eye when you were looking at it. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ken]

I can't deny that I had fun.

[CJ]

And I don't know, we found out Ev's a little hoarder too. Right in there was. Ev was crawling in the back. He was all sweaty. Took his shirt off at one point. Cuz he was getting so hot and excited.

[Mike]

The way you guys would like find something, you'd turn around, oh, look, and then like you're like expecting like a nice. And like we're all kind of just chilling there.

[Ken]

I don't think we were like, we never did that to you. We would just do it to each other.

[Mike]

You guys would look back, back.

[CJ]

Like.

[Mike]

I think there's even one cut where Evan finds a broken picture and he's like.

[CJ]

And then like.

[Mike]

And then he's like. Slides it a little bit. He's like looking up, like expecting someone to be like. Yeah. He's like, oh, maybe they didn't see it. Yeah, he pushed it a little more.

[Ken]

He goes, so yeah, that was. It was pretty fun. It was mostly full of. But the person that used to have the storage unit is in jail, so Arson.

[CJ]

Ken found that out real quick.

[Mike]

She looked like she was. Yeah, she was in rough shape.

[CJ]

Who is buying these things and like sifting and sifting through it and finding anything valuable and then what they said they put it up on. On ebay or do they bring it.

[Ben]

To like, it's got to be someone with that owns a junkyard because there's no way you could offset the cost of your work. And then disposing of all the.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's what worry me is like that you're throwing away so much. I mean, it's coming from me.

[Ben]

Yeah, maybe they don't throw it away. They just pile it up in.

[Mike]

When you watch the show, they like only pick a few things, then they're out of there.

[CJ]

They don't grab it probably filmed it like us. They have the same mentality. But also these boys get it right back to the storage unit.

[Mike]

I think they're a little bit more deliberate and they go to, like, probably better storage units. Definitely, like, rather than.

[Ken]

And they're paying more than 300. Well.

[CJ]

And it's fake.

[Mike]

It's fake. But even like. Like I watched Danny's and he did the same thing a while back and it was just like, obviously a different type of renter that was renting his. So like, there was like computers and shit. I'm pretty sure all the stuff in at least the place that we went is just junk. Yeah, I don't think anyone's keeping much nice stuff in there.

[Ken]

And if they are, they're not defaulting on their payments. Yeah, that's the biggest thing. That's the other time when they're like losing their unit.

[Mike]

It's like, why would you ever put something nice in a storage unit anyways? Once you like something really valuable, you'd probably want to just keep.

[Ken]

Well, it depends on.

[CJ]

Yeah. Really anywhere to put it. Yeah. Yes. But imagine a lot of times they just like, don't know what they have or if they inherited it from someone. I think that in those shows they. They obviously plant things. And we were thinking about we were going to plant something in there, but we were like, what would Mike get excited about? And we're like, we couldn't come up with anything that would, like, on the spot.

[Ben]

Funny.

[CJ]

Make you more excited than like the next thing in there. We're like, junk. Let's just roll the dice, see what's in there.

[Mike]

We figured you'd find something in there you'd be excited about.

[Ken]

Kind of thought I would too. I mean, not that I didn't, but.

[Mike]

I think you're pretty excited, Mike, and you were fair.

[Ken]

I got some fish, some fishing tackle boxes.

[Ben]

Oh, that's good. Go fishing.

[Ken]

And that way, since I'm such a bad fisherman, if it gets caught in the weeds and just cut the line, I'm just constantly. Ah, another snag.

[CJ]

The owner messages Ryan like, hey, thanks for clearing everything out. We're like, we didn't clear everything out. Never know what happens. We go up to Evan's house in a couple months, we're walking around. Hey, wasn't this the stuff from the storage unit? That poster? Yeah. Evan went back there. We thought he was going home. He was just really cleaning up the unit.

[Ken]

I was. I thought about jokingly do it, but it's. It's not worth the Work. But going there and, like, clearing it out and then, like, I mean, I don't know, bring it to the trash. But then having you guys come up to it to go handle it and then be like, oh, yeah, no, I grabbed most of that stuff.

[Ben]

Yeah, we ended up here.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, man.

[Mike]

If you, like, filled your whole office full of it, like, you, like, could barely walk, like, only it's just like a small little path right to your chair, and then it's just, like, piles around.

[Ben]

It was actually a real concern when we started noticing things of, like, moderate value, like the cooler and the bike and stuff. I go in the plant. I go, dude, that plant's gonna be in Micah's office in about 24 hours. You know, we're like, man, maybe we should try to find something either nicer or even more shitty. That you can't have any of it.

[Ken]

I think I gotta figure out my life. If you guys think that plant actually might have ended up in my office. Dude. We put all that stuff in Evan's trailer because there was so much stuff that it, like, fell out. So we just threw some of it in there and the trailer stunk. Trailer didn't smell all that good before.

[CJ]

But that was Evan's trailer.

[Ben]

No, it's.

[CJ]

No, it works that bad.

[Ben]

It's.

[Ken]

I disagree. But, yeah, it's done so bad.

[Ben]

Well, it went from smelling like dirt bikes and Evan sticky hider to old storage unit.

[Ken]

Smoky clothes.

[Ben]

Yeah, smoky.

[Mike]

Honestly, I'm a little, like, weirded out with the stuff after, like, seeing the gal and, like, she looked like she was possessed, dude. Now she's in, like, prison. Was lighting on fire. She's definitely on drugs. Yeah, definitely Nothing around, but, like, I don't know. It's just like, I didn't like it.

[CJ]

I. Yeah. Yeah, it is weird once you know the person behind it. Yeah. Okay, so with hoarders, big wrench. Our mechanic was. Was. He's got a couple apartment units, and he was saying that he has a hoarder in one of his apartments. No, he had to go in there and fix some stuff in the unit and, like, opened up the door and, like, legit tunnels to get through the unit. And he was like, I. I don't know if this dude leaves and he leaves everything. Like, I don't know what the process would be like. Yeah, yeah, you'd have to.

[Mike]

One time when we picked up, it was just like, a shitty car for a video. I think it was me and you. Ben, do you remember going inside that guy's house?

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

He was a hoarder.

[CJ]

Like in the country.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

Like, had nice, very nice cans.

[Mike]

Like, like it was just throwing, like it was just garbage, piles and piles and like, it was like, really sad. Honestly, I couldn't believe that he even like invited us into. To. To like sign the papers. It was just kind of like.

[Ben]

Did you have like.

[CJ]

He obviously had not really signed it on the kitchen.

[Mike]

I would say it was like a health hazard.

[CJ]

Living in. Yeah, for sure.

[Mike]

Like, it was mold. It smelled so bad I couldn't believe it. Nice guy. But yeah, I was sad.

[Ben]

Yeah. My mom used to have one across the street and then he died, unfortunately. And then homeless people took it over and then they kicked the homeless people out and then vandals took it over and then turned all the faucets on and then the house flooded and then got. It basically froze into a brick of ice. So then the city turned everything off and then left it. And then when the spring came, it started on fire. So then they tore it off. Real, real wild occurrence going.

[CJ]

Vandals took it over. Like just some degenerates.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like punks. I don't know what type of person, but people, like, would come over and spray paint it and tag it and then they would go inside and fuck with it.

[Mike]

It's so weird how you can have like nice, well kept, like pristine.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

House and then right across the street.

[Ben]

It'S like drug dealers and.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And if you go a block north, where like my aunt. Uncle live, shit's nice up there. Like, you drive through and you're like, whoa. Block one block south with my mom's on, it's like, I mean, you know, her house and the neighbor's house is fixed up decent, but like, some of those houses are not. Not good.

[Mike]

No, it's very. It's weird, dude, how that can happen.

[CJ]

You can pick a lot of things in life, but you can't pick your neighbors.

[Mike]

No, that's true.

[CJ]

You hear about people all the time getting in issues with their neighbors and like killing them. Not maybe not that common, but like, you hear about neighbors murdering each other. Yeah.

[Ken]

Because they just.

[Ben]

I. I feel like it just starts this animosity that you see each other and then you like, think that they don't like you more than you don't like them. And you just like build and then just grow to hate each other.

[Mike]

Yeah, you gotta break that. You gotta just try to live in peace. For sure.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

We had like a little bit of an awkward situation with our neighbors. Well, one of them when you didn't.

[CJ]

Buy the phone book from them?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

Yeah, dude, I'm not kidding. We didn't talk. I mean we didn't talk since that was la. So we've been in that house for three years.

[Ben]

Damn, dude, just go buy the damn phone book.

[Mike]

No, I did so get this. So we've been in the house for three years. Well, that's what that said.

[Ben]

It's not the point.

[Mike]

Let me just tell the story. Or do you want.

[Ken]

Sorry, no, I actually haven't heard this story.

[Mike]

Well, you're.

[CJ]

That as a joke. I didn't even think was going to be the issue.

[Mike]

Mike, myself and Ken, we own a house together. Mike never stays there, but Ken and I do. I'm out there doing something with the yard. I think I was trying to put fix this jet ski lift we were going to film at like 10, so it's hotter than out. I'm probably hung over. I'm wrenching on this thing, I got no time. And the neighbor comes over who like great guy. Like we've been like buddies and nice, you know, whatever. His wife would bring us cookies, all this really nice guy, bird watching type fella. And he's just like a. The sweetest old man. And he comes walking over and he's like, hey. You know, he starts chatting to me and I'm kind of like in a rush, like I don't really got time but. And then he starts talking to me about the, the lake. Like the phone book for the directory for the beach. And I'm. And he, he asked if I want to buy one. I don't got my wallet on me. I don't want to run inside the house and get it because I'm all dirty.

[CJ]

It's a, it's a fundraiser though.

[Mike]

I didn't realize, I didn't realize that. And I just basically said, no, I don't want it. Like I just say, I, I don't. I think we're good. We don't need a phone book.

[CJ]

Like I, I got.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Well, I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, I'm. I don't need to call these people. Like, why would I look, someone's like, I got no reason to. And then he goes, well, okay, so what do you want me to put? Should I put your name in the directory or all three you like, it's right next to our address. And I'm like thinking to myself, I was like, I don't really want my name or Mike or Ken's. Name with our address. Double turn being given out to the. Yeah. So I just go, no, I think not that either. So I basically did the double turndown. And he was like, I definitely wasn't expecting it. And I feel bad about it.

[CJ]

Can't imagine anyone has turned down.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

The. The. Their number. Then it's like, I don't want the neighbors.

[Mike]

I don't think he realized that. But I'm just like, I don't. Don't want. Because then it's like, no. For you.

[CJ]

It makes total sense.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But he maybe didn't understand that. So I'm thinking like, the next door neighbor could. Or 10 houses down, their grandson goes, you know, oh, well, that's CJ's number.

[CJ]

Right.

[Mike]

You know, and then next buddy's got it everyone. And then my number's leaked like big Kens. And so anyways, I just say, no, no. And it was like. I could tell right then and there. It was like something switched. And he kind of was, okay, well, I guess we're done here. And that's literally what he said. He walked over and I'm like, whatever. You didn't think anything of it. And then Mark, who lives two houses down from us, starts talking to me. He's like, oh, yeah, dude. By the directory or the phone book, whatever the. They call it. And I go, no, no.

[CJ]

I told him.

[Mike]

I. He goes, oh, yeah, that's like the whatever. You know, you pay. That's just like. You pay to this association. It's just like your donation thing to do for the. Yeah, it's like everyone has to chip in for the fireworks or whatever. And I go, no, I didn't. I. Now I feel bad or whatever. And it was very obvious because we didn't talk all last summer. That happened in May. And then I made sure I felt bad about it, but I just never went over there. And I should have just gone over right away and cleared it up and bought one.

[CJ]

I made you buy this year.

[Mike]

I texted them. I go, hey, want to get some phone books? I'd like to get a couple more. You know, like I said, I missed.

[CJ]

Out on something big.

[Mike]

I can't remember exactly what I said.

[Ken]

But the first time you've ever sent a text that said that.

[Mike]

Yeah. And then it's like 80 bucks.

[Ben]

Dang.

[Mike]

Which isn't. I mean. Yeah, it's like, it's not cheap.

[Ben]

Maybe can like guys throwing a 50 for the fireworks. I don't even need the phone book.

[Mike]

Yeah. So I was. Yeah. Anyways, cleared it up, but yeah, that's good here.

[Ben]

I figured the neighbor that didn't like you was the one that. When you shot the firework over their head.

[Mike]

That was at my parents house. Well, that was the 1 4th of July. I don't know. Do we tell that?

[CJ]

Well, that was a build up.

[Mike]

That guy's always been a dick though. He's just like a dude that just kind of.

[CJ]

He's like one of those dudes that like sits in his yard and is always doing something in his yard. And just every single time that I drive by, I'll wave. Never get anything back. Like one of those kind of guys.

[Mike]

Because Ben's parents and my parents live on the same road. So we. Ben and I basically would go past him, but I would grew up right one house over from him. So there's like a neighbor, but then he's the next house.

[CJ]

Well, the issue is, is. Is what started the. The. The problem with that guy is when he was feeding birds and CJ shot one of them off of his.

[Mike]

What do you mean cj? You did it, dude. It wasn't me.

[CJ]

I remember you.

[Ken]

I'm.

[Mike]

Why would not do that.

[Ken]

And also I remember you and I.

[Mike]

Would go around with our BB guns and shoot birds.

[Ken]

Would Ben lie about it?

[CJ]

Maybe it was both of us.

[Mike]

I think. I think we possibly unloading.

[Ben]

Like we both had her.

[CJ]

I didn't know it was his lever action.

[Mike]

I don't even know what everybody. But they were just chilling. It was just like a black bird. Who gives a.

[CJ]

Well, when you're yellow, when you're feeding them.

[Mike]

You.

[CJ]

You are probably the one that gives a. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

I agree that that wasn't cool. But also we were little kids like probably fourth grade. Yeah.

[CJ]

Being 18 and shooting birds, like what's the problem?

[Mike]

Ben and I walk around the neighborhood with Red Rider BB guns at 18. No, we were like elementary probably.

[CJ]

That's where the problem came from though. I think, dude, that guy's got to get over it.

[Mike]

We're little kids, like oh, Tweety. And I'm sure they don't like because we'd always be going past on loud cars or our dirt bikes, whatever.

[CJ]

Yeah. To be fair, we probably like terrible neighbors.

[Mike]

Yeah. So.

[CJ]

And then the whole fireworks scandal.

[Mike]

Well, let me get to the fireworks scandal. So is 4th of July I come home early because I'm pretty laried up, if you know what I'm saying. And not this. I would have been like 22 probably and not 21. I don't know how it's stupid yeah, yeah. You're like, young, stupid, and I still am, but not the young part. And so my little brother is. Him and his buddies are, like, standing around. They got all these fireworks sitting next to him. They're probably, I don't know, 8th grade.

[Ken]

CJ grabs them. Yoohoo.

[Mike]

I go, what the hell are you guys doing? You're not shooting off the fireworks. They go, oh, no. The neighbor said. He got mad and told us to stop because, I don't know, like, the noise. They said.

[Ken]

They said.

[Mike]

They said the Fourth of July was over, and it was like, literally 12:01. I was like, no, you. You don't stop shooting fireworks at. Just because now it's technically July 5th when it's 1201. So I go, I. I start taking the fireworks, and I'm shooting them off, and I'm like, if. If a guy like that tells you to do something ridiculous like that, don't listen to him. Like, I'm telling them all the wrong advice like this, but, you know. And so I'm shooting. They start shooting fireworks off. I'm shooting them with them. He comes and he comes back over, and he goes and, like, yells that. He's like, didn't I just tell you to stop? And I. Now I'm there. And I go, it's the Fourth of July.

[CJ]

And he goes, there, idiot captain is here.

[Mike]

He goes, no. He goes like, oh, you're a big tough guy now, huh? And I was like, no. And I just. It's the 4th of July. We're gonna keep shooting fireworks off. And then I take the bottle rocket and I shoot it over his house right out of my hand. I shot, like, probably four or five of them. And then my. Like, I start.

[CJ]

Really.

[Mike]

I'm like, I'll show you loud. I start shooting him off over his house out of my hand.

[Ken]

What the.

[Mike]

Yeah, it was pretty bad. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, but he's. He's being a fun hater on the 4th. Like, if it was June, August, even the July 7th, like, let the kids have their fun. So I start doing that. And then finally my dad comes out because I think he's like, oh, I think Jake went and got my dad because he was like, oh, he's maybe being bad. And my dad came. He's like, hey, see? Come on, let's go. But even my dad agree. He goes, no, that guy was in the wrong to tell them to stop. You know, like, let them have their fun. Anyways, I had to go over there and apologize like a day later. Two days later.

[CJ]

Yeah. What'd that look like?

[Mike]

Very awkward.

[CJ]

Really?

[Mike]

Well, it was him and his whole family sitting down out front. And I walked over and I was like, hey, you know, I'm sorry. Yada, yada.

[CJ]

I was so laried.

[Mike]

I didn't say Larry, but I just, you know, and I don't know, they said it was cool, but his wife was just, like, glaring at me the whole time.

[CJ]

Well, that's probably the reason that he came out. He was. He was getting his ass chewed inside.

[Mike]

Oh, those little kids.

[Ken]

Shut up.

[CJ]

He's just sick of listening to her. And then he goes out and then he got Captain idiot out here. I still picked up.

[Mike]

I don't really think I'm in the. Not looking straight for shooting fireworks off. I think maybe the way I handled it was poorly, but no, I'm an advocate for that.

[Ken]

I'd say fourth of July, let it rip till as late as you want.

[Mike]

I think.

[CJ]

Yes.

[Mike]

People, like, not even that far down also were like. They constantly shoot fireworks off. I'm like, you're coming at us when little bros got some bottle rockets. Like, I'm glad I don't live over there anymore. I don't have to see them.

[CJ]

Fireworks are such a strange enjoyment. Like a bunch of folks just all sitting around enjoying some colors in the sky.

[Ben]

They bring something out of you, dude.

[Mike]

Burning money, man.

[Ken]

Yeah. So I was trying to kind of grasp it. I didn't even know what look up because I wanted to know the whole number. So it's like. So fireworks are expensive. Everyone knows that. How much money per year is being blown up in the sky? Like, I just. I just want to know, like, worldwide.

[CJ]

I don't know if that technically, though, it's.

[Mike]

It's just going in the economy. But yeah, other people are, you know, because.

[Ken]

Well, yeah, yeah. No, it's not just, like, people money.

[Mike]

It's not like you just took 100 bucks and lit it on fire.

[CJ]

25 grand a night for Disney's fireworks show.

[Ben]

Wow. It says in 2022, the total consumption for fireworks on the Fourth of July reached $2.3 billion.

[Mike]

I don't get super off on, like, the. The lights and stuff in the sky. I like, like the loud ones or like, actually using them to blow stuff up. Like old microwaves or, you know, whatever. We used to be on that.

[Ben]

No, I wish we could do that. Our explosion era.

[Mike]

Yeah, we would. Like, if there was anything, like, you had garbage, you could. Yeah, blow it up.

[CJ]

It was out back. Oh. The next time we get some fireworks, this couch is.

[Mike]

You know, we got a new one. We could maybe give this to the neighbor or whatever. Or sell it on craigslist. Blow it up.

[Ben]

Blow it up.

[CJ]

We did that with a jet ski. So at our old shop, if you guys have been watching for a while, legendary video.

[Ken]

I have it.

[Ben]

I'll find it.

[CJ]

We had this old shop that was a part of shop association. Hoa. And we had an old jet ski, and our buddy tint got, like, these insane fireworks. Like, they were M80s.

[Ken]

Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, they're crazy. And so we put one of them inside this firework hull.

[Ben]

It was a jet ski. That's what we called the firework hall.

[CJ]

Yeah, Firework.

[Mike]

You're looking at a new jet ski. So is the firework hall reinforcement.

[Ken]

Where is going to be the best place to drop those in?

[CJ]

We put this firework in the jet ski hall. We start it. Everyone's just running in all directions. You didn't have to go very far because there were shops everywhere. It was just in the middle of them. Right. You just had to get behind one of the shop shops.

[Mike]

Boom.

[CJ]

Firework goes off. Jet ski goes higher than all the shops. I've never seen it. To this day, I haven't seen anything explode quite like it.

[Ben]

That was perfect.

[CJ]

Fiberglass everywhere. Landing on all the roofs. There's little jet ski parts.

[Ken]

Ben, you're making me miss blowing stuff.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude. We would take the garbage cans and we'd put them. We put it under and it blow them up so high. And then pretty soon, we had no garbage cans. So we had, like, if you wanted to throw your trash where you to walk outside and actually go to the dumpster, because, I mean, you know, it was a little bit tighter times, so buying, you know, four new garbage cans.

[Ben]

We had money for the fireworks, but not enough for the garbage can.

[Mike]

Took a week or two.

[Ken]

Yeah, like, we got so excited about that. Like, the couch. The couch cushion blows up, and it's, like, spinning onto the roof, and we're.

[CJ]

Like, no, it landed. We could never do that again. The couch cushion landed on the roof. How did we end up getting that?

[Ben]

We left it up there until the wind blew it down.

[CJ]

Oh, is that what we did?

[Ben]

From the.

[CJ]

Yeah, you can see from the road.

[Ben]

Couch cushion and a burnt couch. Dude, it. We almost burned that shop down.

[Ken]

At least.

[Ben]

Like, seriously close calls. Four to five times.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

This one never. Insurance company. We're so.

[Mike]

No, We've never had any chance or anything like that.

[CJ]

Okay. We just are out of our firework days.

[Mike]

Yeah, we're not lighting stuff on fire anymore. We're not that cool.

[CJ]

I mean, what did we light off in the field?

[Ken]

Yeah, the.

[Mike]

Oh, that car. Remember that? And then it started on fire because that was another one of tints. Fireworks.

[CJ]

Oh, no, that one started from a gas leak.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Anyway. Oh, yeah. What about the time that we had big reno out and we. And we lit off that oven? Yeah. I still find oven pieces laying around in that thing.

[Mike]

Went high.

[Ben]

The oven was one of the best ones ever. It was after the slip. The circle slip and slide.

[CJ]

Basically. YouTube does not like fireworks. They probably don't even want to say in that word.

[Ben]

Maybe we can do it on Snapchat now.

[Mike]

Yeah, we should get back into it.

[CJ]

We should get back into it.

[Mike]

I feel like. Yeah, it's like as soon as we stop filming it, we almost just, like, kind of let it go from our life. It's kind of up of us.

[Ken]

Yeah, I was going to say we should. I mean, whatever you guys want, but I was like, I want to buy fireworks. And then. Well, at first we should put on a little show. I'm like, no, f that. You know, like, what are we going to do? Go buy $500,000 worth of fireworks?

[Mike]

I could see you.

[Ken]

No, I was just saying. I was like, yeah, I want to go get some fireworks and fireworks and.

[Mike]

Like, actually put a show on.

[Ken]

No, no, no, no, the opposite. Then I was like, no, I want to do some dumb shit with them.

[Mike]

Nice mike starts.

[Ben]

That's never went fires in the history of the world. Nobody's ever said, let's do dumb shit with fireworks.

[Ken]

I saw a picture of a guy giving a thumbs up. It's like, happy, happy fourth of July. But it was just like, he didn't have any fingers and it was just a thumb.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude, you got to be so careful.

[CJ]

Throw it in verse, Terry.

[Ben]

Back it up. Terry.

[Ken]

Terry, what is you doing?

[CJ]

Oh, God. Yeah. If we give tint the go ahead, though, you know, he'll be here tonight with. With a truckload of those fireworks.

[Ben]

God, yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I've been waiting for you guys.

[Ben]

We had sitting on our kitchen counter for quite a long time until Alex cleaned and it was like, I think if you lit it off in here, blow the windows out of the shop. Yeah.

[CJ]

It was hearing, wasn't it?

[Ben]

Yeah, that's why I can't hear.

[Mike]

No, this one's bigger.

[Ben]

No, this one's even bigger.

[Mike]

I'm a little scared to just have it sitting there.

[Ben]

I know. I was like, we need to get rid of this.

[Mike]

Yeah, we should go, like, that thing off right now after this.

[CJ]

Yeah, I'm down.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Mike]

We'll do it for Snapchat.

[Ben]

Perfect.

[Mike]

Another reason to follow us on Snapchat. We'll put every individual Snapchat in the.

[Ken]

Description we've all been posting on our personals. Dude, we even got Evan. Evan's got, like, an iPhone 8.

[Ben]

Evans is the best thing because he goes up north and he put his whole. The magic camping trip on there. And I was like, man, this is gold. I was laughing hysterically.

[Mike]

Yeah, I was laughing. The slim ones.

[Ben]

Yeah, slim. And then the van. They're in the astro van. Then they go. We call it Susie or something like that. And then two minutes later, Susie's got a flat tire on the side of the road. They're all drinking teas, and that's doing a burnout.

[CJ]

I know.

[Ken]

They're so Northwood.

[Ben]

But anyway, with that firework, I was it, you know, I was on the kitchen counter, and I was, like, holding my hands and playing with it. And then later that day, we went to the airport and, you know, they test your finger for, like, bomb residue. And I was like. I was holding something that, like, they.

[CJ]

Must be pulling you aside for something, right?

[Ken]

They always pull Ryan aside. Yeah.

[Mike]

Ryan willingly goes aside, test me.

[Ken]

I don't even. I don't know. Yeah.

[Mike]

He's like, hey, you want to just double check? I'm not sure if I left anything.

[Ben]

Pull me in the back room, pat me down.

[CJ]

You do get stopped every single time going through tsa, but to be fair, you usually get stopped and there is something in your backpack or, like, something in your baggage, and you're like, oh, fuck. Forgot about that.

[Ben]

Yeah. One time I went through TSA and threw my backpack on the counter, went through, and the lady goes, do you have something that you want to tell me about in your bag? And I go, oh, you know, did I questions that?

[Mike]

You better have something real bad in there.

[Ben]

That's what I thought. I was like, oh, man, I don't know. What is it? And I'm like, I don't. I don't think so. And she opens it up, and it was full of Gatorades. Like, I had, like, nine Gatorades in there. And she was like. I was like, oh, my God, I can't believe I forgot about this. And she looked at me, she's like, what? Like, wasn't it heavy?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And I go, yeah, now that I think about it, yeah, it Was really heavy, but I just forgot about all my Gatorades.

[CJ]

Slinging Gatorades.

[Ben]

And I think she thought it was like, yeah, get five bucks.

[CJ]

Five bucks.

[Mike]

She was probably thinking you had something else in there, because I'm sure, like, it doesn't show. Gatorade. So she's like, what has you got, some bottles?

[Ben]

Bottles? No, it was.

[Mike]

No.

[CJ]

Every time I go through tsa, I get this, like, little thing in the back of my head. As soon as it's coming through, I'm like, oh, is there something in there? Oh, there's.

[Mike]

Is it.

[CJ]

Is there drugs in my backpack? I'm like, I don't do drugs, but maybe I started doing them, and I can't remember. Or do I have a knife in there or something? I'm like, I don't. I don't. I don't think I even own a knife.

[Mike]

You're. You're like, in front of. We'll leave names on. On Said. And they go, oh, I'm hot.

[Ken]

I got all that.

[Mike]

That whatever in my backpack. And they just take it out and put it in yours, and then they go through clean, and you get stopped.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's. It is a concern. I think that's, like. That's got to be, like, the most generic thing of, like, everyone has that same feeling.

[Mike]

I never feel that way.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

I'm never worried about it. I'm just always like, we're. If we're running late, I'm like, God, I hope they don't stop me. Just that way I can make the flight, because it would suck if you guys all dip.

[CJ]

One time we were going to Vegas, I think it was two years ago, and I went to the bank beforehand, withdrew some cash to lose it all, put in my backpack, and then we're going through tsa. Get up to the TSA gate where they scan your ticket. Start panicking because I cannot find my ID anywhere. Looking through my wallet, I'm checking, dumping everything out. I'm letting everyone pass through. Couldn't find it anywhere. I'm like, oh, shit. I forgot my wallet in my car. Because I started thinking back to. I brought it. I had to use it to get money at the bank, and I just left it in my car afterwards. I go, boys, I'm not making it. I have fun in Vegas. And I go to Ken, our travel agent. I was like, hey, can you start, like, trying to find another flight? He's like, yeah, here you go. And he drove us there, and it's Tesla. He gives me his little Tesla Card. I'm driving home. It's like 4:30 in the morning. And I get like, 10 minutes down the road, and I'm like, replaying it back. I'm like, oh, my God, my ID is in with the cash that they give you at the bank. And I'm, like, driving down. I'm trying to get, like, my bag out. I unzip the bag and get the cash out there. There's my id.

[Ben]

Nice.

[CJ]

I hit like, the.

[Ken]

The.

[CJ]

Where like state troopers will sit on the interstate that you can't do a UE on. I hit that. Do a UE in it. I go, all right.

[Ben]

Tap the fence just for good measure.

[CJ]

Yeah, for good luck. And I max that Tesla out. I'm doing like, 120, bobbing and weaving traffic at like, 4 in the morning, right, Ken. Silent little Tesla. I'm sweating his white seats. I'm like, sliding all over because I'm getting so hot.

[Ken]

Ken was sweating because he got notifications.

[Mike]

Driving 100 right now.

[CJ]

And I'm like. I'm like. I think I call Ken. I go, hold the fucking plane. And he goes, I don't think I can do that. And I go, well, tell him I'm coming. And I. I get to the airport, and the plane is, like, about to take off in, like, five minutes. I see them, like, out, you know, start waving this thing down as I'm pulling in, right? There's like, long term, short term, perky parking. I parked. I might have parked that thing in handicap. I was like, problem for Ken when he gets home. So we get to the front, get through tsa. Thankfully, no problems. I get to the gate, I go sweating. Okay, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. They're, like, about to close the door. Lady looks at me and goes, oh, yeah, somebody already kicked you off this flight. They said that you weren't gonna make it. So, so quick. Ken was so quick to reschedule me a fl. He booted me off of that one. He's not going to make it, so you can just take him off this flight. And they were like, well, let me see if there's room. And I was like, there should be room. I was supposed to be on there. And I had to call Ken. He had to rebook me a flight.

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

I literally walked on, and they closed the gate behind me. And dude, walking down the airplane aisle, though, and you guys didn't know I was going to make it. We make eye contact, and we're like, yeah, electric, dude.

[Ben]

We Cut it tight. I don't know. I actually don't want to tell people to do this because I want to be the only one to be able to do it selfishly. But, dude, in Fargo, we. We are going through. We're walking into the airport when our flights boarding, and you just, like, zip right through on the plane. It's so easy now.

[Ken]

TSA just pushes you right through. I don't. You don't have to take anything out of your backpack. They don't even touch you. And like, normally you do the thing and then they pat you down after, but now it's just like. Like, you're good to go.

[CJ]

Well, you guys have pre check.

[Ken]

No, that's what I mean. I mean, like, in Fargo, like, I was through in.

[Mike]

Dude, I'm like, right. Six minutes, you guys. Yeah, like, you guys go through and it's like, you guys hardly even. But obviously. Obviously it makes a difference at bigger airports.

[Ben]

But yeah, a big airports is nice and far. It doesn't matter.

[CJ]

TSA pre check is one line. It's maybe just straight and then over, and then the other line is like zigzagging back and forth. And at most airports that we go to, there's no one in line either one. But me and Ryan have TSA PreCheck. You guys don't. So we'll just walk. You guys zigzag. We walk straight. We get there at the exact same time.

[Ken]

Yeah, you'll get ahead of us. But yeah, I was like, you guys, we just got steps in and you guys didn't have to walk.

[Mike]

Yeah, we've definitely gotten better at flying. Do you remember that one time, Mike, I feel like you and I really didn't spend much time.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So we were going to Utah, and it was such a rush to make the connecting flight. So we go to Colorado and then we're going to Utah.

[Ken]

Yeah, I just don't think we were.

[Mike]

Mike and I were in the back.

[CJ]

We had. We have.

[Mike]

We didn't know anything about flying. We really don't know anything.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And. And we're just following the rest of the people because we didn't know where we were going. You had to hop on these trams. Yeah, hop on the tram and leave the airport when we're supposed to be hopping on a connecting flight that's already tight, like boarding. So we get. We leave the airport. By the time we're outside, everyone we're like, what the. We are so dumb.

[Ken]

It's like as soon as we stepped off the train, you're like, we gotta read tsa.

[Mike]

Yes. Then we have to. So we're like. The lady goes, no, you gotta go back through. And we go and turn around and look. It's the longest line I've ever seen. Do you remember that? It was like, the.

[Ken]

I pretty much accepted. Defeated that.

[Mike]

Yeah. I thought for sure we weren't gonna make it. I was just like, well, oh, well, I guess we'll. I don't know what we're gonna do.

[Ben]

But, yeah, we did end up making.

[CJ]

We did.

[Mike]

We did. And it was tight, but.

[Ken]

But, yeah, that's.

[CJ]

That was a first.

[Ken]

And hopefully a last is like. Yeah. We learned, like, walking. Yeah. Out of the. Through the security doors that only open one way. And then being like, what the Damn. I'm supposed to get on a flight soon. And now.

[Mike]

Yo.

[CJ]

How about a couple months ago when we hopped on the flight and Mike, you were with us. You were with us, and then you were just, like, distracted. We hopped on. We land in Fargo. Where's Mike?

[Ken]

I'll forever be flustered by that one, because. Yeah, like, we. We get in through tsa, and then you guys are like, sick. We're gonna hit the Delta Lounge. Okay, cool. Well, I'm just gonna go find the gate. And then I did, and I found, like, the one across from it. And it was so early that it didn't say, you know, to Fargo. It just said, like, to wherever it was going. And so I'm like. I'm chilling. I don't see any of the guys. All right, now it's boarding time. I still don't see any of the guys. Also, I don't see anyone.

[Ben]

So you knew it was boarding time?

[CJ]

No, he was at the wrong gate.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That's looked.

[Ben]

And you're like, it's boarding time.

[Ken]

Yeah. And then I was just kind of, like, wondering what was going on. I'm like, well, I'm definitely gonna see the guys.

[CJ]

And then no one came up.

[Ken]

And it's not like I'm looking at, like, E46 and it's supposed to be B12.

[CJ]

No, it's like you were in the.

[Mike]

One next to us, because I remember we saw you sitting in the chair. And sometime, like, some of us will sit in the. Because you're like, I don't want to sit on the airplane for 15 extra more minutes, so I'll sit here until it's, like, last minute, and I'll walk.

[Ben]

Hop.

[Mike]

I figured that's what you're doing. So I walk by. There's Mike.

[Ben]

Mike.

[Ken]

But, yeah, no one I. No attention.

[Mike]

How the hell did he miss this one?

[Ken]

It's no one's fault.

[CJ]

Every single day with you. I don't need to walk by and hit you on the shoulder.

[Ken]

Hey, buddy.

[CJ]

But. But there was hey, buddy hopping on this play.

[Mike]

How's it going? Hey.

[Ken]

But also, like, when there's five homies that roll by, the odds of one of them, like, being like is pretty high. If you guys. If you're already blown, it's like the odds of at least I would say.

[Mike]

Just saying.

[CJ]

I'd say, well, I keep an eye on Evan, though. I worry about that kid.

[Ken]

Well, then you should tell him to say, what up to me.

[Ben]

When you turn, like, 16, you can navigate the airport efficiently on your own. And I. So I figured my 28 and I pretty much, like, would get the notification on the app that's like, hey, your flight.

[Mike]

They yell, like, boarding last call and all this.

[CJ]

I think the worst part, I'm sure they hate your name too.

[Ken]

I usually know that's the other part. Like, I, you know, at that point.

[Mike]

I was like, airpod it up.

[Ken]

Where is everyone? No unair potted so that I could hear possibly look around. I was looking around. That's why I'm so damn confused.

[Mike]

I'm really confused too, because I just figured you were AirPods on, sitting there on your phone and just somehow I didn't know you guys were zoned in, maybe watching.

[Ken]

I didn't know you guys saw me.

[Ben]

I thought I see you because I didn't go to the club. It was just the four of us, wherever we were coming back from because Kenny was gone, man.

[CJ]

When I'm at the airport, though, I don't let Ken out of my sight. I know that he's taking the quickest route. He knows exactly where we're supposed to be at what time. He ain't wasting a single ounce of energy. And I'm like, if I just keep. If I just stay with this guy, I'm in the best hands.

[Ben]

Ken's like a bloodhound searching for a fugitive that escaped a prison. He just like, he gets this scent. He, like, gets off the plane. He's like delta club. And then he just takes off. And you see him, his head perks.

[CJ]

Up, you know, and Ken's chin works up a little bit, is in his shoulders, go back and he's just gone.

[Ben]

And you just. You just pick out the six foot five man in walking through the crowd. And you just. Just follow him and just try to keep up because he's on the case.

[CJ]

Dude, I. I've learned. Don't ask him questions.

[Ben]

Nope.

[CJ]

When he's doing that, too, because, like.

[Ben]

You stress him out.

[CJ]

You're just. No, you're just in the way.

[Ben]

You'll distract him.

[CJ]

Yeah, don't distract them. Don't distract him. And don't question him. Definitely.

[Mike]

Shut up. Get on Ken.

[Ben]

I see. My app tells me there's delta color here. You don't want to go to that one. That one's got the bad food. That's because you haven't registered.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

This one's got the cleaner toilets. We need to walk across the airport for that one.

[CJ]

Jesus Christ, Ben. How do you not know this yet? I've told you this 14 times.

[Ben]

He saved us countless. He's a good travel agent.

[Ken]

I mean, I. I absolutely couldn't ask for a better. Better travel agent, and.

[CJ]

Well, I could. I could definitely ask for a better. I mean, he knows his way around, but he, like, free.

[Ken]

That's free. Well, I got cut off.

[CJ]

I guess I have a lovehate relationship with it because, like, the dude is so dialed. But, like. Like, has obviously a personal vendetta against me and C.J. so, like, I wonder why. Yeah. So, like, every flight, every bus ride, any. Anything that you get to pick where you go. Yeah. He picks for us, and he puts us in the worst spot.

[Ben]

I. Again, when you book flights, you don't pick your seat.

[CJ]

He does. He does. And then picks it for me and CJ to make sure that we're in the back.

[Ben]

I. I think. I don't think he does. And then, like, me, I'll be sitting two rows beside you guys or behind you, and then I just go. I just go in the app like an adult, and then move myself to where I want to sit.

[Mike]

I didn't start doing that until recently. Now I know you can do it. I didn't know you could do that.

[CJ]

Ken, with, like, our company credit card, too. Little. Little tip and trick.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

Ken knows every single credit card option and benefit and hack and. And program that you can be on. So for, like, the company, we buy all of our merch and shipping and everything like that. And Ken's got all these credit cards that, like, maximizes points for every single dollar that we spend.

[Mike]

Our points. I'd say even.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Our flights and hotels usually are always free. Yeah. Which is super nice. It's like, such an adult thing, capitalizing on that kind of.

[Ken]

Well, and then he goes one step further on capitalizing on it. And then. Well, basically, certain cards, you can max out the amount of points that in the category that you pick to make the most points in. And then he'll just start another one.

[Ben]

Oh, he's got that shit dialed.

[CJ]

We got so many credit cards.

[Ben]

Comes. It's a stack.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ben]

Tall.

[Mike]

Oh yeah.

[CJ]

I started up a new account because, you know, we've been shipping a lot to Atlanta and we ship to Atlanta, we get four times points.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, he's got that dialed. And honestly it's good to know that we've got specialists in different parts of the. Yeah, exactly. You need somebody who just kind of obsesses over a. A obscure thing because then you don't have to worry about it.

[Mike]

Absolutely, absolutely. And he gets us set up.

[Ben]

Yeah, it does.

[Ken]

So you guys, you guys enjoying the new boat? Centurion.

[Mike]

Yeah, love it. Are you?

[Ken]

Yeah. Dude, I could.

[Mike]

How could we not?

[Ken]

I could shed a tear over it. It's so beautiful. It is incredible. And so we like did a video with that a couple weeks ago and you know, we've been posting a few more YouTube shorts. We just mostly were reluctant to do that because we love our long form videos. I mean that's our bread and butter. But posted the shorts and the video of the Ranger and also just the whole. Yeah, pulling it with a ranger was like so fun. Definitely the right move. Like and it did it just fine. Could it have pulled it out of the water? The world may never know.

[Mike]

Are we good?

[CJ]

Yeah, we have like I want to.

[Mike]

Go do this is the best truck you could. What else were we going to pull it with? Mike?

[Ken]

People were pretty aware that we did didn't pull it out with the Ranger.

[Mike]

Well yes. Sitting there till the end of summer and fall. They'll have to stay tuned. We'll pull it out with the Ranger. Then one is totally down.

[Ken]

So anyway the video, the real of it going down and like dude, when you know when your real gets like traction elsewhere and gets more views. Just like a YouTube short. This one got a ton of traction to a ton of people that have never heard of us. And it's so funny, dude. People are like like legit mad. This is why you don't pull it with a six cylinder truck like there. This is why you don't make that truck into a dually and think that it's a tow rig.

[Mike]

I saw a lot like spend all their money. Spent all this money on the boat. Couldn't afford a big enough truck to pull it. What an idiot.

[Ken]

I'm like that these, some of these comments are salty.

[Mike]

They're mad. Yeah, it's fun to read. I love it.

[CJ]

Funny, it's reaching a new audience.

[Mike]

Exactly. When they don't get it. Yeah, that's when you know.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. You just have like random, like haterish comments or when you. Yeah, when they just don't get it.

[CJ]

There's like a small window too when something's going viral or. Or so when we post something, you know, there's like the immediate love from the fans and then when it blows up a little bit, there's the hater comments and then the fans are always there to like defend and be like, no, no, no, this is why they did it. Or no, you got to watch the YouTube video or like, you know, sticking up for it and then the bigger it goes, then it just gets overtaken by hater comments and then that's when it's like, like, that's so true. Now it's really doing well.

[Ken]

All the top comments are not positive at all.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Either neutral or.

[Mike]

You want to know what's crazy? I was looking. We posted one video and between the Instagram reel, the YouTube video, and the YouTube short, we have 9 million views.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Mike]

9 million views.

[CJ]

That's.

[Mike]

That's fucking crazy.

[CJ]

In a week. That's just like, goes to show. It just takes like a little bit more creativity to put into it. You know, honestly, originally we got the boat and we pulled it with the SEMA truck and we're like, this just isn't.

[Mike]

It looks cool.

[CJ]

It looked cool, but it's like nothing that special or funny. And like, we put like the hitch receiver on the Ranger because for the longest time all it had was just like the Gooseneck hits.

[Mike]

And that truck is only for real heavy loads, like, just real heavy.

[CJ]

So this was a little bit lighter end. But we, you know, big. We had to explain it to Big Wrench and he was like, all right, you want to pull something smaller with it? Okay, I'll put the. Has its receiver on it. But yeah. And then that. And then it blew up. But so glad we did that. Like, just pop up a picture of it. Like, it's just.

[Ben]

It's a good looking unit.

[CJ]

Oh, it's a good looking unit. Right, but. And it's just so out of the ordinary.

[Ben]

Henry Ford actually came to me in a dream last night and he was, you know, from the spiritual world. And he came down, he said he was very happy what we were doing with the Ford Ranger and giving them publicity. And he said that he was going to speak to someone else and they Were going to make another dually Ford Ranger.

[Mike]

You're going to bring it back to. They're going to bring it back to the old style.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, they're just going to go find a 99 and then clone it and then, and put it back.

[Mike]

They just need to throw, you know, nothing. They don't need to change nothing about it. They just need to start making those again.

[Ben]

Yeah, they could maybe put like a Bluetooth radio in. But honestly, he said it was going to be like an upgraded feature that.

[Mike]

I do like fm. You know, when you're in the, when you're in the Ranger, Nothing better.

[Ben]

It's just whatever's on, well, static FM radio.

[Mike]

I'm out the window.

[CJ]

You guys know how when Disney died, he had this whole dream of like what he wanted Disney to become and still to this day, how big Disney is, It's only like 15% of what he dreamed. I believe that's the same thing with Henry Ford. But you know, some wrong people got in power at Ford and they took the company another direction. But that's not what he wanted, of course. Yeah, it's off course.

[Ben]

Need to get Back to the 1999 Ford Ranger.

[CJ]

I think we might have to get the four wheel drive working on that thing to do some real heavy lifting.

[Ken]

I was like, at this point we should spend the money and get that fixed.

[Mike]

And I think a, a diesel swap is in the future. Sadly, probably not a power stroke, either a Cummins or a Duramax, but a good motor.

[Ken]

I would rather do either of those than a power stroke. Just.

[Mike]

Well, it's just like power stroke. I don't know. It's not, it's not the most popular of diesel, you know.

[Ben]

Sounds kind of gay. Power stroking.

[Ken]

Oh yeah.

[Mike]

Well, it seems like, I mean.

[CJ]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

What are they doing with this? But yeah, I agree. I, I thought you were saying the sound of like the motor. I was like, I think the power stroke sounds just fine, but it just doesn't.

[Ken]

I did too because I was just driving the same truck the other day.

[Mike]

Sounds amazing.

[Ben]

No, it's good. It's.

[Ken]

It's hard to convince people of our, our marketing methods sometimes. Like, like, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we're gonna pull it with our dually Ranger and you know, it's gonna skid down the, the axis. Like that's just one example.

[Ben]

And it may crash into the dock. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

That was not, that was something I thought about and I was like, I, I didn't think about it too much. I said I'm gonna do my best to make sure that doesn't happen, but if it does, we're probably buying this boat.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, we're paying, obviously, I'm glad about.

[Ben]

It too much because that's when things go wrong.

[Ken]

Just. Just do.

[Ben]

Don't think right.

[Ken]

One of many examples of how we've benefited some companies, like, tenfold just because, like, we're like, we got a crazy idea, but it may not be orthodox, and then we execute it. And it does, like, way better than just like, if we were just like, we're stoked on the boat and just check it out. If you did it the normal way, like, what's the fun in that?

[CJ]

I don't think anyone questions it anymore. I don't think.

[Ken]

I don't think anyone questions it. But I think companies that take the risk on not questioning it are the best.

[Ben]

Yeah. God bless them.

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ben]

Let's do it. We got some two turns teas to drink.

[CJ]

Hey, the drop still going, though.

[Ben]

Thanks for watching, everybody. We will see you guys next week. Peace.