Evan on Being Deaf

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Evan on Being Deaf
Release Date: February 14, 2023

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew dives into personal stories, with a particular focus on Evan’s experience of losing hearing in one ear. The gang weaves through hilarious and heartfelt anecdotes, covering everything from childhood pranks and injuries to snowmobile mishaps, legendary birthday parties, hypnotist experiments, bull riding, and even absurd speculation about horse riding and Canadian travel plans. As always, the dynamic is fun, full of good-natured ribbing, and deeply personal moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Evan’s Experience of Being Deaf in One Ear

00:53–04:45

• Discovery & Cause

  • Evan recounts losing hearing in one ear at around age 12 after a bout of illness that affected his equilibrium:

    “I was, like, 12 years old and I got really sick... Kind of just realized I couldn’t hear out of it.” —Evan [01:16]

  • The loss was due to a rare, non-contagious viral infection damaging his inner ear.

• Living With It

  • He describes the sensation of partial hearing, noting he sometimes feels vibrations or bass but no clarity:

    “It’s just so smothered and muffled, like you could never make out words.” —Evan [02:23]

  • The group notes how easy Evan is to sneak up on, fueling a running joke among the friends.

• Social Impact

  • Multiple funny references to Ben “picking on the handicapped kid” and how the group frequently teases (and startles) Evan as seen on their Snapchat stories.

2. Ken’s Birthday & Legendary Parties

04:45–08:10

• Ken’s stoicism about birthdays becomes a discussion point. The guys joke that he’d rather be left alone than celebrated.

  “Maybe we should just leave him alone all day... Not invite you to dinner.” —CJ [06:08]

• Reminiscing about past birthday bangers, escalating in intensity to the point where the police were called.

• Ken embraces being more laid back, enjoying a “dry January”—his first birthday in years not marked by drinking:

  “I like visibly you look healthier too.” —Ben [08:03]

3. Snowmobile Adventures & Ben’s Lake Crash

08:16–13:53

• The group logs a “hundred mile ride” (99.4 miles, to be exact), with Ben describing a hard crash on a slower sled, breaking his visor and helmet:

  “Hit this bump... and the suspension... hit another one and it threw my hand off... sled legit went like roll.” —Ben [10:08]

• CJ and Ken tease Ben about his “crash to ride ratio,” and how he shouldn’t ride that particular sled again.

• Ken insists these “leisurely rides” are, in fact, aggressive and fast-paced, much to their surprise.

4. Hypnotist Experiment: Vaping and Attitudes

16:24–21:26

• Ben and CJ tried to get Ken and Evan to quit vaping by hiring a hypnotist—unsuccessfully.

• Gavin, an especially positive member of the group, appears to be susceptible to hypnosis, but no one can tell if he’s just playing along.

• Discussion about how hypnosis might work—and how influential attitudes, especially Gavin’s positive energy, can be:

  “If everyone could adapt a little bit of his traits... world would be a better place.” —Ben [21:26]

5. Gavin’s “Zoomies” and Three-Wheeler Stories

22:20–24:32

• The group recounts Gavin’s relentless, energetic riding, impossible to film because he’s always ahead and nearly causing accidents:

  “He was going so fast that the wind was vibrating the camera.” —Ben [23:03]

• He’s compared (fondly) to a dog doing zoomies—infectiously amping up everyone else’s speed.

6. The Great Ladder Incident

24:49–34:53

• A borrowed 100-year-old family ladder is accidentally destroyed during excavator shenanigans.

  • The story unfolds in classic CboysTV fashion: miscommunication, escalating tension, and guilty laughs.

    “I thought this whole... dude, it wasn’t even funny. I was just like, Jesus, dude.” —Ben [30:49]

7. Evan’s Youthful Ordeal: Stitches “Down There”

36:15–41:34

• Evan tells the story of how, in sixth grade, he suffered a split and required stitches on his scrotum due to a failed jump onto a trailer.

  “I ran at a full sprint and just jumped... did the splits... Like a 90-degree steel edge.” —Evan [36:36]

• The story is graphic but sprinkled with the group’s trademark laughter, discomfort, and empathy.

8. Boxing & Bull Riding Dreams and Fears

42:16–53:09

• The group discusses boxing (Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury), fighting for the “bag,” and personal limits.

  • The conversation segues into their own macho exploits: CJ and Ken reminisce about riding bulls, sharing the adrenaline rush and dangers.
  • Ken explains his experience and the sense of “dueling” with an animal:

    “I think it’s confidence in yourself that you’re not gonna get hurt, that you and this animal can duel it out.” —Ken [52:23]

9. Upcoming Revelstoke Snowmobile Trip & Travel to Canada

54:00–59:04

• CJ, Ken, and others prepare for a snowmobile trip to Revelstoke, British Columbia, discussing their excitement for world-class trails and “breathable” elevations.

• Jokes and confusion about Canada’s political structure (king, queen, prime minister) ensue.

• Discussion of border crossing mishaps and travel logistics:

  “They want you to pay the taxes on it. And I'm like, no, we're just going for fun.” —Ken [59:00]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Realizing Deafness:

  “I just felt sick... maybe for a couple days until I really realized that I couldn’t hear out of it.”
  —Evan [01:55]

• On Sneak Attacks:

  “Backstory. Evan is, like, extremely easy to spook, almost to a point where even when you’re not trying to spook him, you do.”
  —Ken [03:55]

• On Legendary Parties:

  “When I look back at people’s birthdays, I think Ken’s are the most notable. The cops came to your birthday party every time.”
  —Ken [06:33]

• On Hypnosis Skepticism:

  “I still haven’t gotten a truthful answer out of him because I asked Gav, were you hypnotized or were you just going with it?”
  —CJ [17:07]

• On Gavin’s Positivity:

  “He’s a positive person to have around and he’s nice to everyone and he has, like, no ego.”
  —Ben [21:26]

• On Unintentional Destruction:

  “I thought everyone knew, like, you know... don’t break Ken’s 100-year-old family heirloom ladder. Which also, it’s very odd to have a ladder as a family.”
  —Ben [29:45]

• Evan on Bike Jump Accident:

  “I ran at a full sprint and just jumped... did the splits... Like a 90-degree steel edge.”
  —Evan [36:36]

• Bull Riding Memories:

  “It’s a badass thing to do. Debatably one of the most badass things you can do. It’s just really like UFC fight, box, ride a bull. I’d say they’re all up there.”
  —Ben [50:42]

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Important Timestamps & Topics

• [00:53] Evan’s hearing loss origin story
• [02:23] What partial deafness feels like day-to-day
• [04:45] Ken’s birthday: low-key vs. high-key celebrations
• [08:16] 100-mile snowmobile ride and Ben’s crash
• [16:24] Hypnotist attempts to stop vaping; group thoughts on hypnosis
• [22:20] Gavin’s wild three-wheeler antics
• [24:49] The ladder incident (Ken’s family heirloom destroyed)
• [36:15] Evan’s sixth-grade accident and hospital trip
• [41:34] CboysTV discuss boxing, bull riding, and doing dangerous things for fun/self-worth
• [54:00] Anticipation for the Revelstoke snowmobile trip
• [56:01] Musings on politics, Canada, and travel logistics

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Tone & Vibe

The episode is loose, boisterous, and packed with inside jokes, but also reveals surprisingly genuine moments of vulnerability and camaraderie. The CboysTV crew thrive on playful teasing, swapping stories of triumph and embarrassment, and never shy away from the most cringe-inducing (or gory!) details of their lives. If you enjoy authentic friendship, misadventure, and honest reflection—often all at once—you’ll feel right at home with this episode.

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For New Listeners

You’ll learn a lot about the group’s authentic bond, their willingness to laugh at both mishaps and misfortunes, and the uniquely wild way they approach everyday life. Evan’s story of being deaf in one ear gives the episode real heart, while the unpredictable tangents on birthdays, wild rides, and extreme pranks deliver plenty of laughs and “did they really?” moments.

Transcript

[Evan]

I. I know what you're talking about. Not like, every year, but a handful.

[Ben]

Yeah. They come in, you'd go to, like, the school gym, and you. They'd test your eyes and they would test. Maybe it was in middle school, I don't know. But yeah, they basically found out he was legally deaf. Actually, there's a pretty funny story that too. He was always my line mate in hockey, and I'd be like, sean, Sean. Or I'll. I'll use a different name here just so we don't, like, exploit him.

[CJ]

Probably. Okay.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I can't imagine this.

[Ken]

He's not listening to any podcast.

[CJ]

He probably doesn't care.

[Ben]

Yeah. So I'm like, sean, Sean, pass the puck. And, like, he would just be looking down and, like, do his thing. And everyone. Like, I was on his line since I was a little kid. We'd always be on the same line for some reason, and everyone thought he was a pug hog. But it turns out we found out in high school that he's just legally deaf and he couldn't hear me yelling.

[CJ]

Did he not know that he. Yeah, he didn't know I was yelling at him. Yeah, but. But wasn't he, like. I literally can't hear you.

[Ben]

Obviously. It's not, like, fully deaf, but he just couldn't hear very well clearly. And it was. It was bad enough where he was legally deaf, so.

[CJ]

So are you legally deaf?

[Ben]

So that's what made me wonder, when did you find out that you were legally deaf because you can only hear in one ear?

[Evan]

Well, I'm not legally. Or what do you mean when you say.

[Ben]

Well, I'm sure.

[Ken]

I don't know.

[Ben]

I would imagine that you would be legally deaf if you can't hear out of one ear.

[Evan]

Because I was, like, 12 years old and I got really sick, like, vertigo or whatever. Like, inner ear thing. Kind of just realized I couldn't hear out of it. Went into the doctor and they said I had a virus that messed up my ear.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Ken]

I thought it was just from, like, loud noises and maybe a firecracker or something like that. But it. So it was a sickness, Like a fluky virus.

[Evan]

Like, they explained it. A virus that's not contagious. But I don't know how you get it if it's not contagious. It's not something you can, like, fix with a hearing aid. I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. I don't even know what it's called. All I know is I just, like, can't hear out of it.

[CJ]

How fast did it hit?

[Evan]

That's what was kind of weird. I. I just felt sick. And I don't know how long I couldn't hear out of it before I noticed because I kind of just felt crummy. And your head was kind of stuffy, so maybe for a couple days until I really realized that I couldn't hear out of it.

[CJ]

So I noticed that when you listen to music, obviously you only listen to music with one earbud in, but do you feel. Hear like vibrations or like bass or anything like that going from the other one?

[Evan]

I do some. I'll run. If I'm listening to music and stuff, I'll run the other one both ears. And I can kind of tell it's there. But if anything, it's. It's just so smothered and muffled like you could never make out words.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Evan]

But you. I guess you kind of maybe pick up the bass or the beat a little bit.

[CJ]

Well, see, that's why you're so easy to sneak up on and scare. Not to be a dick.

[Ben]

Ben just finds a weakness like a deaf guy, and he's the perfect person.

[Evan]

Picking on the handicap kid.

[Ben]

Actually, I don't think you would be considered legally deaf. Cause I'm pretty sure you'd have to get like hearing aids.

[Evan]

But you can't get hearing aids because like the thing that you would make.

[Ben]

Louder, I suppose it would be no point for your case.

[CJ]

How common is that?

[Evan]

I think it's actually pretty common.

[CJ]

Really?

[Ben]

It's pretty crazy. How old were you again?

[Evan]

Sixth grade. 12 or 13.

[Ben]

That's kind of a tough, tough age to lose hearing in one year.

[Evan]

Honestly, I don't think I was sick for like a week because it messed up, like my equilibrium sick. So like, I would lay in bed and watch TV and I'd feel fine.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I'd stand up and just be super sick. So like, once I got over being sick, I kind of just felt fine. And the ear thing was just whatever.

[Ben]

Then you got your balance back, I guess.

[Ken]

Apparently.

[Ben]

Yeah. Dude, that's. That's a big thing. Like when I had a. When I was in my really bad post concussion phase, it was the same thing, except I felt like I was moving at all times. And I. I truly don't think there's anything worse than that. Miserable. You can't get away from it. It's like being on a boat. Oh, it's terrible.

[Evan]

So there's just nothing you can do?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Do you think that's why you're so jumpy. Backstory. Evan is, like, extremely easy to spook, almost to a point where even when you're not trying to spook him, you do. Like, you just walking up to tell him something, he kind of jolts and goes, whoa. And Ben has found that weakness in him. And now our Snapchat story, at least once a week has a spooking Evan when he's working on something.

[Evan]

That was a good one, Ben. That one. I kind of saw you sneaking up. I just flinched. I think it's my cat, like, reflexes. Like, if you wait for something to happen, we're an attacker instead of a pranker. I'm, like, ready to go, but then when I see it's Ben, I just stop. So he thinks I flinch, but I'm really ready to attack.

[Ken]

It is actually Ken's birthday today. Not when you're watching this, but on the day of filming. It is Ken's birthday. So every wish. Ken, happy birthday, Ken.

[Ben]

He doesn't like it.

[CJ]

He's not gonna respond, but you can wish it.

[Ben]

Ken, do you have a problem with your birthday?

[Mike]

It's like just another day sometimes.

[Ben]

I agree with what you're saying, but, like, when people are just, like, saying happy birthday to you.

[Mike]

And I responded to everyone that said happy birthday today.

[Ben]

Oh, you didn't. You didn't respond. You couldn't even respond in our group chat when we were trying to figure out where you wanted to go to eat or even if you want to go.

[Mike]

That just took a little bit. But, like, this morning, Sydney texted me Happy birthday at 12:10, and I responded at 12:10. Thank you.

[Ben]

Well, you didn't say. You didn't say thank you to any of the boys in our. In our boys chat. We said happy birthday.

[Mike]

I said thank you in person. And even I feel like saying thank you in person is more genuine than saying thank you via text.

[Ben]

Do you have beef with your birthday, though?

[Mike]

Oh, it's just another day.

[Ken]

Do you have people. You have beef with people wishing you a happy birthday? No, because we always wonder on your birthday because you go so radio silent, we wonder if you don't like it and you don't want to, like, make a big deal about it because I. I love spoiling you for your birthday.

[Mike]

Well, like, today you guys text me happy birthday, and I slept in and laid in bed until, like, noon. And by that. By the time that rolled around, by the time I got back texting people, it was like, ah, that's like 20 messages ago. I really don't want to reply to this message from 10am so to know the thought process.

[CJ]

We thought what could we get Ken for his birthday that he would appreciate more than anything? And we thought maybe we should just leave them alone all day. Not invite you to dinner, just bother you with anything, don't even say hi.

[Ben]

To you if they see you in person.

[CJ]

We were like, we'll go out to dinner and we'll celebrate Ken's birthday without him. He would appreciate that more than anything.

[Ben]

It's a great way to honor you.

[Mike]

Still, it was beautiful. It was nice.

[Ken]

Today Ken, we do have a little history of throwing you the most legendary birthday parties ever. Like when I look back at people's birthdays, I think Ken's are the most notable cuz I don't think I've thrown you a birthday party when you turn 21, 22 and 23. I don't know about 24. But those three years the cops came to your birthday party every time Ken has bangers.

[Mike]

They, they were like the peak birthday years. Those were the best.

[Ben]

I feel like people without even your consent or asking, they just set you up for this extreme birthday party.

[Mike]

And then the closer I get to 30, it's just been a slow decline. And 27, that was a low point.

[Ben]

With the cake smash by Ben.

[Ken]

That was.

[CJ]

Yeah, that was bad.

[Ben]

The cano to the eye.

[Mike]

And this year not drinking, that was just beautiful.

[Ben]

That was a. So is that part of the reason why you're not drinking? You're like I don't want to be drunk on my birthday and have my guard down in case Ben comes out with another cake again?

[Mike]

No. So it's kind of like a few other people. They did dry January and I was like, ah, I'm starting it late but whatever, I'll just go into February. So then I get the full like 30 days one month thing and it's been nice. Just happens to be overlaps my birthday.

[Ben]

You seem like you've been in a better mood and also I like visibly you look healthier too.

[Ken]

I will say I'm very, very proud of you.

[Mike]

Very proud of you. My apple watch notified me this week that my resting heart rate has been lower for the last 30 days.

[Ben]

I'm sure feel good. Damn. So yesterday we went on the snowmobile ride. We logged 100 miles. Actually it was 99.4 to be exact because I hopped on the XCR which had zero. So I was like, perfect, we'll know exactly how many and I was really hoping to get over that lump. I Don't know if we can claim that the hundred miles, if it was.

[Ken]

A hundred mile ride, but it was.

[Ben]

So fun because, you know, it was cormorants, pastime, snowmobiling and drinking and everybody was out and everyone was doing it. They had all the classics out and the trails were groomed and everything we were cruising around. It was, it was honestly a lot of fun. I end up taking a pretty hard crash, dude. Hard enough to break my visor. Evan, it broke my visor. I don't even know how fast I was going.

[CJ]

I don't.

[Ben]

I had to.

[CJ]

Still don't know how, how you even managed to do it.

[Evan]

What sled were you on?

[Ben]

No, so my dad came with because he likes snowmobiling, so. And he hasn't ridden anything, you know, like new, like what we got. He has a, like a 2010 Skidoo XRS6 sled. Anyways, I, uh, and I used to ride that all the time. So we were leaving one of the spots and I was like, hey, you should ride this sled and, and try it out, you know. So I hop on the XRS and like it's significantly slower. It's a 600, but it's still a nice sled and nothing wrong with it. And I'm riding it and I'm just following Ben across this lake. Just a flat lake that we literally already went across. So like normally when you go across the lake you're kind of like looking for ice ridges. You gotta be careful. But we already had gone across it and I was following Ben, he was here. I was like, here. And I think what ultimately happened was I put my guard down because I was just thinking it's just a flat lake and maybe I wasn't holding on tight enough. Anyways, hit this bump and the suspension on that, that xr. I don't want to blame the sled, but the sled was set up like super, super soft and it hit this bump and it's like out of nowhere and it's boom. And then I hit another one and it threw my hand off. I like was hanging off the sled and I tried grabbing the brake and when I grabbed the brake, I think I grabbed it too hard and it like went. Did one of those where it slid out the back end. Yeah, the sled legit went like roll.

[Evan]

No way.

[Ben]

Three times. And I full on face planted at probably like, I don't know, pretty fast because I mean we were cruising across.

[Ken]

The lake at least like 45.

[Ben]

I mean enough to break my My.

[Ken]

Helmet and blow the windshield apart.

[Ben]

Blow the windshield apart.

[CJ]

Dude. I was very surprised you're.

[Ben]

I. I was. I was surprised too. I'm going out there for an amazing leisurely ride and I'm thinking, like, I wasn't. Even though I was mad about two things, I was like, I can't believe I just did this because obviously I'm conscious about like, hitting my head. It's like the last thing I want to do. I end up, like, somehow hitting my head on just a nice cruising day, smashing my face and. And then the. I rolled the sled, which I felt bad because it was like my dad's sled. So I'm like, back to handlebars. It's also. Yeah.

[Ken]

But are blown off. The bars are blown.

[Ben]

I was, I was surprised that everything was actually fine because I kept asking, like, what's wrong with it? I will pay to get it fixed. The only thing that happened was one of the plastics was. Was cracked. So realistically, not that bad. But I was just mad that at those two things. But yeah, I don't know how it happened either. I was just as. It happened so quick. And it just goes to show I. I shouldn't have let my guard down.

[CJ]

Yeah. How. How fast shaking go south. Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

No, I, I was.

[CJ]

Because you were right behind me and, And I remember turning around, seeing you there and then get to the other side and turn back and everyone's like, huddled around you and I'm like, how could something have. Have gone wrong within like a hundred feet? And I came back and I, I. Dude, I went and looked.

[Ben]

There's no bump.

[CJ]

I don't know what you hit. Yeah, you don't know what happened.

[Ben]

Legit just went like. I, I'm not trying to blame the sled. It's. It's completely my fault. But I know for a fact if I was on the. The Polaris that I was riding, it wouldn't have happened. I don't know. Something just. It just like it was.

[CJ]

It's just you and that snowmobile.

[Ben]

I know last time, the last time.

[CJ]

You rode that thing, you.

[Ben]

A couple times since, but yeah, I do not. I just came to a conclusion after I said, I'm never riding that sled again.

[CJ]

That's probably a good idea. Jeff is probably like, okay, yeah, finally. Let's make sure that happens.

[Ben]

Yeah. I really wouldn't ride it that much ever.

[Ken]

But yeah, just he's got a bad crash to ride ratio on that sled.

[CJ]

Yeah, definitely, man. Just like rolling up and, and seeing like that there was a crash. I was like, of course, dude. Like, I could just try and go for like a leisurely ride doing something. That's usually how it goes.

[Evan]

It always happens.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Being that we're here in the subject of discussion, we call it a leisurely ride, but that was one of the most aggressive snowmobile rides I have ever been on. Dude, following you, you were on, first of all, literally on a rocket ship. But it was like 8,000, 590 across every lake. We're hitting every approach, 55 miles an hour. It was like we were in a race. And granted, I was on some older iron, but like me G reg Jeff in the back, every time they were like, holy crap, we are really moving. And I just.

[Evan]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[Ken]

And. Which is not. Not a problem of how fast you were driving. But I was like, we were riding like, you guys are in the truck next to us filming. It was like that pace for the entire hundred mile ride.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Ken]

Yeah, it was pretty aggressive. I mean, of course the jumps were bigger and stuff like that, but I mean, you start going 55, 60 across lakes, accidents are gonna happen. And I'm. I'm very glad that you're even like.

[Ben]

Doing anything like that. Crazy though. I think I. It just literally fucking the biggest fluke thing. But also, I just wasn't really used to that sled, which also really is an excuse. But it's strange, dude.

[CJ]

It was such a great day, though. In the middle of it, I was just like, it's really fun to. To go out and ride without a camera. Not saying that, like filming it isn't fun, but just like not thinking about anything besides for just having a good time. Or like when we go out in snowmobile a lot of times, like, especially on like mountain. Mountain trips, you're just constantly looking like, all right, got a set up here. Here's going to be like the shot. I'll whip out the camera. And you're just constantly kind of like making the video. But yesterday was just like strictly snowmobiling and just like pure enjoyment. And it felt like very refreshing. It made me, like, excited to go ride again.

[Ben]

Got pulled over by the dnr, of course.

[CJ]

Yeah, of course. But that is going to happen and it's going to happen and what do you do? What do you do? But no, it was, it was a good time. It was just like a very Minnesota thing.

[Ken]

It was.

[CJ]

And like, it reminded me one of like, the great parts of living here.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And there were so many people out riding and I was like, this just makes me so happy to see, like, the industry is just like, like flourishing. And like all the bars were popping and people were just like, out having a good time.

[Ken]

It was our, like, local trail club. It was the old Timers run, so they call it. So everybody was out. They all had their old sleds out. Went to that hill and it's the biggest hill in Cormorant, I would say, arguably.

[CJ]

And we didn't make it up. Me and Ryan too.

[Ben]

I was a little bit disappointed in that cuz there was other. Other people were like making it up just fine. And you two were going, I'm like, nice, they're going to do it. Whatever. I'll take a Snapchat start. And you guys didn't make it to the top. It was very icy, these two, like the big backcountry riders.

[CJ]

Very icy.

[Ben]

No, I was like, you guys are. I. I thought this hill was small for you. But the worst, there were people doing it like freaking 85, like 82 with.

[CJ]

It wasn't a good look.

[Ben]

Three people. Three people.

[Ken]

But the worst part is, is you.

[Evan]

You come.

[Ken]

There's. It's on like a pond and the whole pond has probably like, I don't know, 150 people. Everybody's watching, sitting there, cracking cold ones, whatever. And if somebody doesn't make it up, the whole crowd, oh, what'd they do.

[CJ]

When we didn't make it?

[Ben]

Did they go? They just started Yawn.

[CJ]

As the XLT is dragging us down the hill.

[Ken]

We made it up the second time though. If we'd add studs, do we would have torn right up that thing?

[Ben]

Of course. All right, so part of my stop Ken and Evan from vaping campaign last week, I hired a hypnotist to come to the shop and surprise them and try to hypnotize them to not like vaping anymore. And did not work. Did not work one bit.

[Ken]

Well, they did. He did say that people with low IQs couldn't get.

[Ben]

Yeah, that was one of the biggest things. But I got to say that was. That might have been one of the funniest things I have seen in a while. You two were not having it and Ryan was relaxing and Gavin was full on. Hypnotized.

[CJ]

Gavin was in it.

[Ben]

And I'm.

[CJ]

I still haven't gotten a truthful answer out of him because I asked Gap, were you hypnotized?

[Ben]

Were you just going with it?

[CJ]

Because I was like, if you were just going with it just for the video. First off, you did a great Job. But second off, were you actually hypnotized? And he would be like, no, no. And I'm like, no, no. What?

[Ken]

Huh?

[CJ]

What are you saying now, Gav?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

No, baby.

[CJ]

Yeah. I'm like, what are you? Were you hypnotized or not? I still have not gotten a solid answer out of him. I'm gonna just assume that he was. Ryan, you had the craziest look in your eye, bro. You were like staring through me.

[Ken]

It was like an out of body experience. That's how I truly felt. I remember the camera being there and.

[Ben]

I just was like, I thought you were just relaxed. When I was editing that segment, I was finding myself relaxing when he was like saying like the breathe in, like most of it got cut. But he'd be like, dude, I was thinking, I was like, am I getting hypnotized editing this or. But it was relaxing me because he was like talking about like, now it's moving up to your knees. Oh, your, your knees have had such a hard life, man, pounding on this, rocking around on this concrete. And now it's. Now it's moving up to your shoulders and you're just like kind of.

[Evan]

I don't think you can post a video of that. But if everybody gets hypnotized that watches.

[CJ]

Them, because you'll imagine, well, when, when. When hypnotists do it in front of a crowd, people in the crowd get hypnotized.

[Ben]

Yeah, supposedly, dude. I don't know. Like, I. I do believe in it. It does seem like they all kind of have the same routine.

[Ken]

So I wonder, you know, the guy who came out was a great dude, super nice and pretty normal, but do these people, even if. Say that Ken and Evan weren't technically hypnotized and they didn't. They could so control everything they were doing, but they were listening to him. You know, he's like, all right, you're going to fake have a baby now. And they're like, okay, I'm going to do it. Whether it's the pressure of the situation or just because they don't want to let him down or something like that. Is that still being hypnotized? You know, like, you're listening, Trance.

[Ben]

You're just.

[Ken]

Because they're telling you to. So I wonder if, like, I wonder the percentage of people that actually get hypnotized to the people that just are following direction.

[Ben]

I don't know. I kind of believe in like the hypnotized thing maybe. Like, I guess I think it, I think it is kind of happening but like, Rob Dyrdek, he went to a hypnotist and got hypnotized for success.

[Evan]

Really?

[Ben]

At, like, a young age.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What? Yeah. And he talks about all the time. And I was thinking about going and seeing that guy.

[Ken]

Hypnotized for success?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You got hypnotized for success.

[Ken]

Like, so what?

[CJ]

Like, what does that look like?

[Ben]

I don't know. He just, like, does something and just, I think, tries to change your mindset or like, he basically just programs you for success, supposedly. And who knows if it works or not. But, I mean, you definitely taking a good step in the right direction, getting hypnotized for success. I'd do it if it was convenient. I think he's based out of la.

[CJ]

I think when he. When the hypnotist that was here, Freddie, he was talking about, like, everyone's been hypnotized, whether you know it or not. But let's say you drive home and driving at night, you pull into your driveway and you're like, holy crap.

[Ben]

I do that all the time.

[Ken]

I don't.

[CJ]

I. I think I just blacked out from. For the last 20 minutes, I don't even remember driving. Right. And he was like, well, that's. That's. You're technically in kind of a trance. You're hypnotized in a way, but mostly, like, your subconscious, it just takes over. So I wonder when you're saying that when you get hypnotized for success, you're just like. You're just telling your subconscious, like, you will be successful, you will be successful. And your subconscious, like, your deep down soul is hypnotized, but you come out of it and you're just like, nice. I was hypnotized for success. I believe in it now. I believe that I'm in the past.

[Ben]

And as long as it's got the attitude.

[CJ]

And it probably didn't really change much besides for the fact of, like, somebody just told you and you were like, nice, I trust them. And now I'm good, dude.

[Ken]

It almost. You could sum it down to. It didn't change a thing. But your attitude and your outlook on something, which after having Gavin here. Holy shit. I. CJ and I have said it to each other, but we're like, we're going to try to be more like Gavin and not be more. I don't want to be incredibly unique. And you can't be like him, but just his. His good attitude and, like, the energy he brings to people. And like, yeah, he's a positive person.

[Ben]

To have around and he's nice to everyone and he has, like, no ego. I don't know. I just liked a lot of his. A lot of traits. And I think if. If everyone could adapt a. A little bit of his traits, whether it's, you know, being nice to people, having a positive attitude, liking three wheelers, the world would be a better place.

[Ken]

I think so too.

[CJ]

When we were working on the three wheelers and like, everything was going wrong, I remember Gavin was sitting there and. And our mechanic buddy was like, well, here's the issues and this and that and just like, basically just saying, like, how much of a pain in the ass it was going to be. And Gavin was like, yep, yep, yep, this is going to be fun. This is going to be fun. And I look up at it. This is going to be a fun one. What do you like? Like, what's going to be a fun one? He goes, making this work, baby. This is going to be a task. And I was like, damn, that kind of fired me up right there, Gab.

[Ben]

That's what I mean. The only thing that. And I think it's funny. I'm not mad at him for this, but I told him explicitly multiple times because I was like, we don't. We spent two days rigging this thing up. We don't need to take it out and start ripping on it extremely hard right away and break it. Because I want to at least get a majority of the shots covered. So that way we have a video before it breaks or whatever.

[Evan]

But.

[Ben]

But we can progressively ramp it up and. And rip it. And you told him in the video too. But I told him so many times.

[Evan]

I told him a few times just off, just on my own. Like.

[Ben]

Yeah, he was acting like he was racing.

[CJ]

You brought to keep up.

[Evan]

So I'm going fast.

[Ben]

We were.

[Evan]

He's going fast. We were losing.

[Ben]

We were out there 10 minutes and he legitly was going 70 mile an hour in the ditch, and we couldn't keep up in the pickup to film him. And he was going so fast that the wind was vibrating the camera. And I couldn't even like, it was just. And he's just out there just hitting bumps, tacoing the thing. I was so worried that, like a track. I was worried that the front ski was gonna break and it was gonna pummel on him because he was going so fast. I'm like, dude, you don't need to go this fast.

[Evan]

A mailbox or a signpost. Gavin did. Could not remember how wide that thing was. Like, he ran my Ski over. He ran up on my track, like just pulling up to say hi. Like, he. It was through four feet wider than he thought. But just. Yeah. Ripping past these mailboxes and. And signposts, electrical boxes, and thankfully didn't hit any.

[CJ]

I would compare Gavin to a dog that sees another dog. And then they like make each other get excited. And then pretty soon they're both just like, like doing zoomies around the entire house. And they're just riling each other. They're jumping on the couches even when they know they're not supposed to. And that's exactly what Evan and Gavin were doing. They would start going, and pretty soon Gavin would grab third.

[Ben]

Yeah. God damn.

[CJ]

And then he'd look over in the truck. He's going pretty fast. But we're just keep up with him.

[Ben]

And he's outrun the truck. I'm like, bro, I'm trying to film you.

[Ken]

You don't need to go so fast.

[Ben]

Dude, I love that guy. He's a good, good kid. Good kid.

[Ken]

Kid. All right, Ken, throw up this video, little backstory. It never, it never hit the light of day. And sorry to bring it up on your birthday, Ken, but when we rented the excavator to build our track, we borrowed a ladder.

[Ben]

Oh, no. Oh my gosh.

[Ken]

And this ladder caused significant quarrels within the group, to say the least. It. We borrowed it from Ken's parents shed because it's tall. And it. It would work good to set up the time lapse. Well, Ken told us, don't break that ladder. It was my grandpa's.

[Mike]

Multiple times.

[Ken]

Multiple times.

[Ben]

Well, to be clear. So I don't know who went over with me to get it in the first place. I went because I was told to go get a tall ladder. And was it you or was it you or was it Mike?

[Evan]

It could have been me, but for sake of the story, don't involve me.

[CJ]

I think it was Mike.

[Ben]

So we sit here and we go to grab the normal ladder we always grab. And it's sitting there and it's this aluminum, really big ladder that's very heavy. And then there's a wooden one that's just a little bit shorter than it sitting next to it. And we're thinking to ourselves, I'm like, well, they probably don't want this old. Like the old wooden one probably is. Won't be needed to be used in case they somehow need this one and it's gonna be lighter. So like. Well, it seems like we should take the less nice one. So we Take the less nice one, put it in the back of a truck, and we bring it over to the shop. Ken immediately walks outside. Why'd you grab that ladder? I'm like, I don't know. It's just that I told me to grab a ladder. He's like, that's my great grandpa's ladder or your great, great grandpa's. And don't like. He goes, don't break that ladder. I'm like, well, we'll just bring it back right now. Let's just go and bring it back right now. We'll swap it out. He goes, no, it's fine. It's fine. Like, like, like, son was like, don't bring it back. But that's the wrong ladder. And I was like, what do you want me to do? He's like, it's fine.

[Ken]

Just use it.

[Ben]

Just don't break it. Yeah, that was the thing was don't break it. And I am. Okay, so we bring it out to the field. I don't know why anyone break this ladder. And to begin with. And I tell everyone, I say, no one break this ladder. I don't tell them the whole story. I just figured, you know, I'm not filming.

[CJ]

I'm not doing anything.

[Ben]

I say, nobody break this ladder. Don't break it. We're under strict instructions. Do not break this ladder. Okay. You know, day moves on. Ben ends up in the excavator.

[CJ]

When he said that I was not there.

[Ken]

Unfortunately, the excavator operator did not hear the story about to not break the ladder.

[CJ]

So Ken's saying, I told you to not break this ladder. Never told me.

[Ben]

Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm just clearing my name before it.

[CJ]

Gets before straight through the mud, I think.

[Ben]

I didn't know you clearance.

[CJ]

No, you never told me.

[Ben]

You never told me. You thought I was joking. I said, don't break the ladder. And I think you might have not realized the seriousness. Seriousness. That happens. Well, as you're laughing, so I. I thought you knew because you were inching towards it with.

[CJ]

All right, all right, carry. Just keep on with the story.

[Mike]

So keep fit about this.

[CJ]

Oh, just hold on.

[Ben]

Well, hold on. We got to keep going to this.

[CJ]

We'll keep the progression of the story.

[Ben]

Now, Ben is.

[CJ]

Is in the.

[Ben]

In the excavator, and he's inching close, and he's like, measuring the distance that it can swing. And as long as he doesn't touch one of the. One of the, you know, buttons that either pushes out further or adjust the bucket it's not going to hit it. And he's got it within like a foot of this ladder and he's spinning around full speed and it's missing the ladder by a foot. And I'm like, I think everyone's sitting here watching and we're like, he's just messing with Ken, trying to get a reaction out of him.

[CJ]

So everyone was just silent.

[Ben]

I just like, I just kind of was like, he seems to know what he's doing. He hopped in here and just like has so much confidence and his operating ability. So like, who am I?

[CJ]

I've never driven an escalator.

[Ben]

I thought you were just trying to tick him off and like, he wasn't. He wasn't getting mad and giving you the response that you wanted to like, stop. So then Ben, like, stop.

[CJ]

No, no, no. I didn't know it was Ken's ladder, so I wasn't trying to get any reaction out of him.

[Ben]

Well, basically I was just. I was literally just doing it.

[CJ]

I was just doing it without a care.

[Ben]

Because you thought it was an old shitty ladder.

[CJ]

Basically, yeah, I thought it was just an old shitty ladder. I didn't know where it came from, but I was just up there just swinging around an excavator.

[Ben]

And then he stopped.

[CJ]

And to be fair, it was in the middle of a construction zone. Like, it was in the middle of. Of rich going with a bulldozer in between a bulldozer and the excavator and the skid steer. Like it was in the middle of the track being built. So I was like, it's like a hundred year old. Clearly this ladder does.

[Ben]

Ladder is 100 years old. Used to paint houses with it.

[CJ]

All right, okay.

[Ben]

So. So then there's like the little thing that comes out at the top of the ladder for like a paint bucket or a paint tray or whatever you want to call it to sit there.

[CJ]

And that's hanging out.

[Ben]

And now Ben has like the, the bucket and it's like he's like operating it, like flipping it up and down, inching closer to the within inches of it. And he's like going past it passes just like going like. And he's just kind of teasing everyone and we're all just like in silence.

[Evan]

Oh, Ryan just, I mean, staring in disbelief.

[Ben]

Well, we were under such like, I thought everyone knew, like, you know, like, I didn't think I needed to tell you. Don't break Ken's 100-year-old family heirloom ladder. Which also, it's very odd to have a Ladder as a family.

[CJ]

If I would have known your parents have old shit.

[Mike]

You just know I don't fuck with it.

[Ken]

Yeah, exactly. It's never good to break the family stuff. Even if the ladder. Even if Bob had literally taken that ladder and thrown it away the day. It's Bob's job to break the ladder, not ours.

[Ben]

I agree. I agree. Well, that's why no one said anything. Because we're like, well, surely he's not going to hit the ladder. But I was like, man, he is getting so close. He is really good at operating this thing and he has a lot of faith in it. Next thing I know, smack smacks. The ladder crushes the paint tray, wood goes flying. And. And then Ken says. And then I'm like, I thought this whole. Dude, it wasn't even funny. I was just like, jesus, dude.

[CJ]

Dude, I. As soon as Ken goes, that's my grandpa. That's my 100 year old ladder, I go, real funny, real funny. He thought he was real funny.

[Ben]

I thought Ken was. Told me.

[CJ]

And then I thought you guys were behind it, because then Ryan is. Ryan storms off. CJ is standing there with the camera, like, down low, which the only time a camera's down low is when you're trying to hide it.

[Ben]

It.

[CJ]

Because it's so uncomfortable to hold it up.

[Ben]

I couldn't believe it.

[CJ]

So he's just like holding it real low. And I'm looking at CJ just hoping that he's gonna go, it's a joke.

[Ben]

I told him. I was like, dude. And CJ is just shaking his head.

[CJ]

And I'm like, please tell me this is a joke. And Ken was mad. Understandably, rightfully so. And Ken Storm gets in his Bronco and he rips off at like 50 through, like, fastest I've ever seen. Fastest I've ever seen that Bronco go to.

[Ben]

And I'm like, in a quarter mile.

[CJ]

Time out there, it's just silent. It's just. It's just me, C.J. and Evan. And I think Mike might have been there. And I'm like, please tell me you guys are fucking with me. Please, somebody tell me this is a joke on me. And then Ryan comes back. You just have no fucking boundaries, do you? And I'm like, all right, this isn't a joke, is it? I'm like, this is real. I fucked up.

[Ken]

So anyway, I was watching Facebook because I do that sometimes.

[Ben]

And also, I want this to be clear.

[CJ]

I just broke the paint bucket holder. Like, the wood on the paint bucket holder. The rest of the Ladder is good.

[Ken]

His grandpa painted the Empire State Building the. The mast on the top of it and never broke the paint. I know it was all the way down for you to come around with an excavator.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I'm just kidding. So anyway, I was watching Facebook, as I do sometimes, and I saw this video that's about to play, and I thought about just sending in our group chat and going at, Ben could never do this. But then I thought it'd be funnier to talk about it on the podc. So roll, roll. 15 seconds of the clip.

[Ben]

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

[Evan]

Well, the brims are too big. This guy's cheating. I think my friend Ben could do this with factory hats.

[CJ]

You want me to test?

[Ben]

Oh, shit. I just love it.

[Ken]

This is just some really odd Chinese game show, Guinness World Records thing. Like fastest hats removed.

[Evan]

Ah, this is dumb.

[Ben]

That is true. Operators, it's like an extension of their body. But this, this also just shows like. I swear to God, Chinese game shows are so dangerous. So dangerous. Do you guys remember the show that used to be on Spike where they. It wasn't even in English.

[Evan]

Most extreme elimination challenge.

[Ben]

People just getting wrecked and it's all Japanese, and they'll just get up and then they go.

[Evan]

Oh, my God, that show.

[Ben]

And I would watch it. I would watch it too.

[CJ]

Spike tv.

[Ben]

What happened to them?

[Ken]

And it's funny because the announcer goes, right you are Ken in that. I've been waiting for a meme to use that.

[Evan]

Kenny, Blanketship.

[Ken]

Yeah, Kenny. Blanket ship. That's right.

[Evan]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Ken]

The fastest time to remove six caps using an excavator is 21 seconds. We got six guys.

[Ben]

Let's do seven.

[CJ]

You think operated, dude.

[Evan]

Uncle Rich, I think he could blow the doors off this record probably, man.

[CJ]

That's funny, though. Ryan, I'm glad that you brought that story up.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Pick it up from the archives.

[Ben]

Thank you.

[Ken]

Buried up beef.

[Ben]

There was so much weight to it. We couldn't even put in the video. It was just so bad.

[CJ]

I mean, Jesus, it was so stressful.

[Evan]

When it happened because usually when bad things happen, my go to reaction is to laugh. It's not a good reaction. Might not be the best emotion to show, but it happens every time. And it was so hard. Ken's like, peeling out in the Bronco. Ben's. I don't know. Everyone's fired up and I'm just giggling. I feel so terrible.

[CJ]

Where is Mike?

[Ken]

He bailed, dude. Mike. Mike's on the leash now. He Quit having fun with us. And he also quit working with us.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's like a 5050 if Mike's even going to show up anymore because.

[Ken]

He'S either sleeping in or he left.

[CJ]

Where's Mike? My co host over here. Had to bring in Evan, thankfully. Evan, he's doing great.

[Ken]

Evan's doing great on the Modelos.

[Ben]

Keep Mike's beers coming for him.

[Mike]

Mike, off the leash in Canada is going to be unhinged. Like he's going to snap back to somewhere even worse than he was before.

[CJ]

You think so?

[Ken]

God, we could totally just ruin Micah's entire day when he listens to this podcast and tell the full detailed story unabridged without him here to interrupt us. About that time when he hugged that one guy that was on like P. PCP in the bar.

[CJ]

I think we should. I think we've talked about that. I think we have too.

[Ben]

You showed in the video too? Yeah, they like hug each other and they like grab each other's shoulders and it looks like they're gonna kiss.

[Ken]

Then J. Jake's dick came out.

[CJ]

Ev. I hate to go this direction.

[Evan]

Oh, no, just kidding.

[CJ]

I hate to go this direction with the podcast, which it seems like they normally do, but the other day I heard the beginning of a story of you getting your nuts cut open.

[Evan]

What? Yeah, that happened.

[CJ]

And. And I said, tell me no more, tell me no more. I gotta wait till I hear from Evan on the podcast. So I've been waiting for this moment. What's the story?

[Evan]

Okay, so funny enough, actually, this is.

[CJ]

Where the pods always go.

[Evan]

I was in sixth grade when that happened. That was a hell of a year.

[Ben]

Tough year.

[Evan]

I deaf and blew my nuts apart.

[CJ]

Oh, okay.

[Evan]

Yes. So when we were kids, we were. We had a bike jump. We were jumping off of like a flatbed skid steer trailer over a little creek. So it was maybe 2 or 3ft tall, and we were just jumping out 5ft to get over this crick. It was kind of muddy where we were landing and my buddy had my bike, so I was just gonna run and jump with my feet over the creek up onto the trailer rather than off the trailer over the creek. So I just came running in full bar and jumped and I wasn't gonna make it. So I thought if I got one foot up on the trailer, I could pull myself up. And that foot that got on the trailer was just covered in mud and it just slid. So I basically, yeah, just ran at a full sprint and just jumped. Did the splits. Like a 90 degree steel edge.

[Ken]

You Know like the. The thin metal on the back of a flatbed trailer.

[Evan]

Yeah. I mean, just. Yeah. 90 degree angle. It's like the edge of this table.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ken]

So I.

[Evan]

So right away when it happened, I. I got just like a normal nutshot where you, like, kind of get an upset stomach. You kind of get a hot flash, whatever, And I just thought maybe I was okay, like, walk it off or whatever. And my upset stomach wasn't going away after a few minutes, so I'm like, wow, I'm just gonna go to the bathroom. I. I might need to take a poop. Maybe that'll make my stomach feel better.

[CJ]

But even at six years old.

[Evan]

No, sixth grade. I was like, 13, 12, or however old you are then. So I. And then, you know. But evaluate myself mainly. I just was gonna go do it in private and go get in the bathroom and a relevant part of the story by walking the bathroom and the toilet just happens to be flooded to the ground. And it's, like, not what I need, but it's just. That doesn't matter.

[Ben]

She was in there an hour before.

[Evan]

No, that was somebody else. It wasn't me.

[Ben]

Go in there.

[Evan]

Toilets already blown out.

[Ben]

I knew they should come back to bite me in the ass.

[Evan]

So just try to ignore that. Start. As soon as I start to pull my pants down or my underwear down, I notice there is. There's a bunch of blood.

[CJ]

Sorry.

[Evan]

No. So I'm like, oh, my God. And, like.

[Ben]

This is what I'm talking about. British Columbia.

[CJ]

All right. Okay. Sorry. Sorry.

[Evan]

No, no. So I know there's blood everywhere. So like, basically just kind of grab my sack and start, like, starting to look down, and there's like a little scratch or a scuff on top.

[Ben]

Little blood. Scuff.

[Evan]

Yeah. It was just like, a little abrasion. I don't really know what it was from, but I'm like, oh, this.

[Ben]

This is.

[Evan]

This is manageable. Right?

[CJ]

All right. I hate to. I hate to cut you off.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

But just getting a little too detailed, knowing that you're like, 16 or 13.

[Ken]

Years old for this, for the sake of the story. Evan is now 18 years old.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was 20 anyway, so. But either way, I thought I found where the blood was coming from pretty real quick. No big deal. Actually, like, was just gonna rock with it. And then something just didn't feel right. And I just, like, stuck my hand down further and I just felt like an open wound, which turned out to be like, six stitches, I believe. But, yeah. And then I checked again, found out that it was bad. Had to, like, go tell my parents. So we're at kind of like a barbecue with a bunch of family friends and stuff. And I, like, pulled my dad aside. I was like, hey, look at this. I think it's bad. Just like, oh, my God, get your mother. You're going to the hospital.

[Ken]

Dad, I blew my balls out, but.

[Evan]

I think they're fine. I think everything works like they're. They're supposed to now, dude. The honestly, almost the most pain, though, was I waited too long to get the stitches out. So there was a couple that were kind of grown in, and I could just. The doctor with the tweezers, he's pulling on that stitch. It's just stretching. Get your legs open before it finally, like, snaps out.

[Ken]

Like, it's just.

[CJ]

Oh, gets the sack.

[Evan]

Yeah. It was like if you were just plucking a pew boat, but then it's like ultra attached.

[Ben]

Just stretched from here to here.

[CJ]

But it's tried to get it working way out.

[Ben]

So this might be too graphic, I don't know. But was, like, the slice bad enough where, like, a nut could have just fallen out?

[Evan]

Nah, see, that's what's weird. I think there might be, like, layers. Layers of stuff. And honestly, I think it might have been a tear. Oh, like one ball went both ways. Oh, potentially. I don't know. I don't honestly know because, I mean, could you get truly cut? It's not that sharp of an edge. It's like. I kind of think it was a tear.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

But that doesn't make it sound any less painful, to be honest.

[Evan]

That was painful. I can't imagine if Ken would have suffered that trauma.

[Ken]

Dude never seen this type of blood loss.

[Ben]

He's way more probable for a nutshot. He's at way or higher risk.

[Ken]

Kennedy be a good boxer because they hit him anywhere below. Like, below the waist.

[Evan]

Yeah, that's why they always hike their waistbands up over their belly buttons. Right.

[Ben]

Cover maybe if they're not in shape. I don't know. Jake. Paul's fighting Tommy Fury now, I guess.

[CJ]

No, I don't think he is.

[Ben]

Oh, they backed out again.

[Ken]

Holy.

[Ben]

That guy needs to just not ever even talk to about it again.

[CJ]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Maybe double check on that. But no, I'm pretty sure he backed out again.

[Ben]

No, he's going to. I haven't heard anything about it.

[Ken]

Tommy Fury refuses to attend Face Off.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Evan]

Maybe this is a dumb question.

[Ben]

Professional fighter Tyson Fury is like, the heavyweight champion of the world. One of the greatest heavyweights to fight.

[Evan]

Boxings.

[Ben]

Yes, boxing. And his younger brother is Tommy Fury, who is kind of like this Instagram model. He was on like a love show.

[Ken]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. And he supposedly is a professional boxer, but it's tough because a lot of like, like he's kind of in the stage where he hasn't really fought anyone significantly prove himself. He's like. He's like undefeated, but he just fought a bunch of.

[Ken]

But Tommy and Jake have been supposed to fight, what, like three times is the third time they've been supposed to.

[Ben]

Fight, but he keeps backing out. They call him Tommy Fumbles, Ken. Tommy Fumble just fumbles the bag.

[CJ]

Just look up. Is Jake Paul.

[Ken]

Oh, it says canceled.

[Ben]

No fucking shit.

[CJ]

No, no, I think that was the.

[Mike]

Last one that was just saying the press conference.

[CJ]

No, up top. Yeah.

[Ken]

On the. About Jake Paul versus Tommy Fury. Builders of truth isn't up.

[Ben]

I feel like Jake Paul would be posting.

[Ken]

The boat is scheduled to take place 26th of February in Saudi Arabia. Date canceled.

[Ben]

Damn. No one even knows if it's happening. We don't even know. I hope it is because I'd love to see that. I like watching Jake Paul fight.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah. It is not. And the Google notices a mistake. I've moved out of my house. I'm living in a little apartment. I've gone back to the dog mindset.

[CJ]

I thought Tommy canceled because, like, his girlfriend is pregnant and she was supposed to have a baby like any day.

[Ben]

Well, Ben, I'm looking at Tommy Fury's profile and why the frick is Greta liking all his pictures? Shut up, dead ass. Dude.

[Ken]

What?

[Ben]

Why is Greta like this picture?

[CJ]

That's a good question.

[Ben]

What do we got going on over Tommy Fury fan? She's like two now.

[CJ]

What?

[Evan]

Would you fight him?

[CJ]

I might have to. He might. He might.

[Ben]

He might fumble it. I don't know how much of a bag there be, but he might. Might back out.

[Ken]

You might just do it for sport.

[Evan]

You guys grab in the Roadhouse parking lot. Biggest pay per view event to the.

[Ken]

2023 of the cormorant Time.

[Ben]

Holy shit.

[Ken]

It's advertised in the paper and we.

[Ben]

Have it in over at Cormorant Square. Just like the. The wrestling.

[CJ]

Would you. Would you guys hop in the ring to box?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

No, it probably wouldn't be a good idea for you, but would you have. Yeah.

[Evan]

It's all fun and games though, until you get punched right square in the nose.

[CJ]

Yeah, everyone's got a plan. Everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the face.

[Evan]

Dude, I can get hit in the side of the head all over the place. It's fine. You get Bob square in the nose and socks. Your eyes stare.

[Ben]

Water.

[Evan]

I don't want to do this anymore.

[Ken]

You're like a shark.

[Ben]

If it was like a very significant amount of money, I feel like you'd have to, though, you know, like, even I would have to. I don't know what that number would.

[Evan]

Be, but for a bag, I would.

[Ben]

Well, yeah, obviously, it's like you gotta.

[Evan]

Why wouldn't you?

[Ben]

You have to.

[Evan]

Might try to fight.

[Ben]

Depends how hard they can hit, you know?

[Ken]

Did you guys see in the paper? Someone must have listened to only just a fraction of this podcast and heard the story of talking of us talking about buying Tools and More. But they didn't even like a local. Sorry. Tools and More is a large warehouse in a town over that's been changed hands a million times. But they didn't even listen far enough for us to say, no, we'd never buy that place. And it was in the paper said seaboys to buy tools and more. We were like a headline. Front page news.

[CJ]

Yeah, I did see that.

[Ben]

And.

[CJ]

And I was not gonna turn down that rumor because I thought it was really funny.

[Ken]

We should start more rumors. What's another good one we can start up? We are going to open. Watch this. Something really open a bar.

[Ben]

It's always about drinking with you, Ken, isn't it? It's always about drinking, Ken.

[CJ]

There's no way that people would believe.

[Ken]

That we're going to open a horse breeding center. Evan is a. Evan. Actually, a lot of people don't know this. He's a studied equestrian.

[CJ]

I thought you were going a different direction. I thought you go in a different direction. So did everyone listening, you sick fox.

[Ken]

Well, you didn't let me finish. No, just kidding. Evan's actually an equine expert and we're opening up a horse stable where we're going to breed championship race horses.

[Evan]

I am the size of a proper lawn jockey. I could ride those horses around the track.

[Ben]

I guarantee you.

[CJ]

He'S going somewhere else.

[Evan]

Dude, let's do this.

[Ben]

I guarantee you, Evan could.

[Evan]

I'll drop off £50. I'm a perfect horse.

[Ben]

Guarantee you, Evan. Could he be able to hang on?

[CJ]

Have you ridden a horse?

[Evan]

No.

[CJ]

Really? You've never.

[Evan]

Why would I ride a horse unless. Unless I got to actually race around the oval. What do you normally get to do? Probably go ride around a pasture.

[Ben]

You think he's going trail riding? No, he's Going racing when it comes. Do you think we.

[Ken]

Is that, like, a thing that you could do for sport like horses?

[Evan]

Well, I think you have to buy a horse in a barn and a farm, and we need to get Evan.

[Ken]

On a really fast horse and then, like, I don't know what the.

[Ben]

What Dangerous, dude. Yeah.

[Ken]

Evan's good at holding on.

[Ben]

It is, dude.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Here's a Palmer trampled by one of those. They also run hella fast.

[Ken]

Ain't faster than any 450, that's for sure.

[Ben]

I know, but. But I mean, like, still, horses, like, you get really up.

[Ken]

It would be pretty funny, though, send Evan off like a bad cowboy in the west. You tie him up on the horse. He smacked the horse's butt and sent him off into the sunset.

[CJ]

Oh, my gosh. Wait until you slap the horse.

[Ben]

How do it kicks you? So they would tie him up on the horse and then just slap its ass and let it run off. Keep them on it. They just tie them.

[CJ]

I did put it maybe on, like, a wild mustang.

[Ken]

I think. I think you're, like, hog tied to the horse.

[Evan]

I don't think you want to be there, do you?

[CJ]

As in, like. Like, how do you get the horse back? Or what's your question?

[Ben]

Well, I'm wondering how they tie them to the horse.

[Ken]

I think you lose. I think you lose the horse. You maybe.

[Ben]

I understand. Yeah.

[Evan]

Punishment. Are you sending them out as a punishment? Right?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

It's like, you get. You get so out of town and they. I'm wondering how they strap you to the horse because it's pretty hard to, like, hang on.

[Evan]

Did you hang on when you're willingly trying to. They tie you to a horse.

[Ben]

They probably used to do that back in the day.

[CJ]

Dude.

[Ken]

I'm Richard ran this town, dude.

[Ben]

They do, like, the freaking horse where they tie your arms and your legs and. And lynch you. Yeah.

[Ken]

There was so few people here. They only had four horses. So they did it to one guy, and then they were like, oh, we're out of horses.

[Evan]

I can't afford to do that to everyone.

[CJ]

Yeah. Maybe it's just my lack of ability to properly ride a horse, but I hate. I hate horse. Like, they're scaring horses because I don't trust them and I definitely don't trust myself. You're to know what to do in a case of, like, a horse going rogue. Like, I would be like, yeah, you're on. Long for the ride. I'm along for the ride.

[Ben]

This.

[CJ]

Maybe this horse is just like, a little rebel. Piece of shit. And it's just like. It's like they'll do that.

[Ken]

And maybe the horse thought the same about you.

[Ben]

Maybe that's the thing is maybe he did.

[CJ]

And now I'm riding this massive horse that does not care how many and how many times I kick inside or whatever the hell you do.

[Ken]

Those things make the horse go faster.

[Ben]

Yeah, but.

[CJ]

But yeah, no, as a.

[Ben]

That's a why I said it is sketchy in its own way because you could have a fast ass horse and they don't want to listen and you're along for the ride unless you want to bail. And it's like bailing off that horse at.

[Evan]

It's already different than like the three wheeler and half the other stuff I ride.

[Ben]

I know for the ride.

[CJ]

That's true.

[Ben]

I'm not saying you should somewhat in control.

[Evan]

Am I though?

[CJ]

Huh?

[Ben]

Well, we did that. We've done horse riding. But is I. I thought it was fun. Wasn't really my rodeo.

[Evan]

Round two, right?

[Ben]

Ryan's done some. The bull riding.

[Ken]

The bull was scary, dude.

[CJ]

Ryan, I still can't believe you wrote a bull, bro. That was wild.

[Ken]

Very glad I got that out of the way.

[Ben]

It's a badass thing to do. Debatably one of the most badass things you can do. It's just really like UFC fight box rideable. I'd say they're all up there. If you ride a PBR bowl Paps Blue Ribbon. That's crazy.

[Ken]

It is a bummer too because some people be like, well, let me see your run. Oh, I ride on weekends and sometimes and I'm like, I. It. It fell over instantly.

[CJ]

Yeah, but you wrote it down to the ground, bro. You wrote it down to the ground.

[Ben]

He shoved its face in the dirt and everything.

[CJ]

That was. Yeah, that was wild, bro. I was so anxious, like for you.

[Ken]

Yeah, it was awful. We showed up there and then it was like. It's kind of one of those things. You don't want to get ice. Like when you're about to hit a big jump or something like that, you're like, I don't get here. Do it. Leave or not leave, but be done with the thing you're nervous about. And we stood around for like three hours and then the guy before me, the first, the last person to go before me who like does it for fun in sport, goes and held on a little too long and then went from the back of the bolt to the head and then like knocked himself out, broke his collarbone. All that got like really messed up. And then everybody came on, was like, listen, you don't have to do this. And I was like, you're trying to.

[Evan]

Hype yourself up to do it. And they're like, man, you really don't.

[Ken]

You really shouldn't do this. Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

The worst.

[CJ]

Yeah, man. I. I don't fully understand the. The mentality of the guys that go out and just do it for fun on the weekends that. I mean, talk about a hell of an adrenaline rush. But, dude, I grew up that way, though. Those dudes clearly are just. They're just built different.

[Ken]

I think it's confidence in yourself that you're not gonna get hurt, that you and this animal can duel it out. And you're like, the way that I come off is gonna be okay. Like, dude, our buddy Blaine rides bucking horses, which are arguably even more nasty, honestly. And he's just like, yeah, no, it's between you and the animal, you know? Yeah.

[CJ]

I guess you spend enough time like on the sea perfecting your craft, you're probably a little bit more confident going into it, but just as like a first timer. Especially watching it, dude, is so gnarly.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

If you guys. If you guys haven't seen it, you got to go and watch bull riding at least once and you'll have a whole new respect for it because it's cool. As soon as you get. As soon as you see how big they are, you're like, oh, this isn't. This isn't a joke.

[Ken]

And like you said, ev. I couldn't imagine riding, like a real competition.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Like, they basically just like grab some bull out of. And that's the one that I wrote. Is tiny compared to those beasts.

[Ben]

Right. So. So what time do you guys leave for British Columbia?

[CJ]

Like, fly out at 9 tomorrow morning.

[Ben]

9Am do we have to get to the airport? Benjamin bring you.

[Mike]

I can either bring you or you can leave a truck there. It doesn't matter. I do need a pickup here this week.

[Ken]

What's up?

[CJ]

What?

[Ben]

Oh, just one.

[CJ]

What are you playing?

[Ben]

What's your guys now?

[CJ]

My guard's up.

[Ben]

You're going to be there for six days, probably snowmobile. Six days of snowman.

[CJ]

I don't know.

[Ken]

Well, it is a bummer. We lose two days of travel. Basically, we're going to Revelstoke, British Columbia, which we went to. What was it already, like, four years ago?

[CJ]

Yeah, 2019.

[Ken]

2019.

[CJ]

Yeah. Four years ago.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It's gonna be a really good time. I'm excited to go too. I wish. I wish the rest of the boys could have came. You were trying to come, but your passport didn't come.

[Ben]

Yeah, I. I want to come so bad. Just because it just would have been fun. It sounds like a pretty good time. You guys are talking up the bars and all that. It is.

[CJ]

The snowbilling in in Revelstoke is like, the best in the world.

[Ben]

And what makes it better.

[CJ]

Really good snow, really good terrain, and you're not that high. You're riding at like 3,000, 4,000ft, and usually you're riding at, like 10,000ft. So, like, you can actually breathe. You can actually, like, breathe.

[Evan]

This is the best news I've had, Ev.

[Ben]

You're gonna have to to the vape man for at least the next. Let your lungs breathe a little bit.

[Evan]

I'm gonna be good here. We were in Idaho. I thought I was gonna die.

[Ben]

You considered quitting there?

[Evan]

Quitting my life. Not the vape.

[Ben]

Going down with it.

[Ken]

Maybe that.

[Ben]

So just the snowmobile is better, huh? Yeah.

[CJ]

And then, like, when you get up on the top of the mountain, you look around, and there's just like, massive mountains everywhere. And usually when you're out west, like, you get to the top of the mountain and, like, you're kind of up top, and then you're kind of looking down on everything else out there. It's just like, huge country everywhere. Yeah, it's just like a whole new world.

[Ben]

You guys gonna link up with Brett Turcotte?

[CJ]

I think so.

[Ken]

Yeah. I think we're gonna meet Brad up there and hopefully a couple other guys that are kind of local to the area and are just, like, ridiculously gnarly.

[Ben]

That'd be sweet.

[Ken]

We gotta get Brett to do a backflip.

[CJ]

That would be so sick. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that consists of.

[Ben]

If, If.

[CJ]

If it's like, snow conditions or we just have to take the time to, like, build a booter.

[Ben]

Probably a bigger.

[CJ]

That'd be so sick. To see a dude huck a back country backflip. That'd be badass Canon.

[Ken]

I mean, we. We're lucky enough we get to fly up there. We still have to drive, like, six hours. Ken, you got us first class, right?

[Mike]

First class was not available back of the plant.

[CJ]

It was. He wouldn't have put us. He definitely wouldn't put anything. He's still. He's still thinking about that.

[Mike]

Even in economy class, your stickets were. Your tickets were still twelve hundred dollars a piece.

[Ken]

Jesus Christ. Maybe we should have sent Evan up in the truck.

[Evan]

Crepes.

[CJ]

Evan's like, no, dude, doing a 24 hour drive alone.

[Evan]

I'm gonna need Slim for this one.

[Ken]

As if we leave right now, we can probably pick them up at Calgary tomorrow.

[CJ]

What's up with these Canadian roads being so shitty too?

[Ken]

They are shitty. I. I don't know what they do up there. If it's like the Queen spends all the money back home in Europe or something like that, but the roads are. I don't even know how you guys drive up there.

[Ben]

It's not a priority, probably.

[Ken]

I think, yeah, the Queen owns everything, dude.

[Ben]

I think there's a Prime Minister hold.

[Mike]

Up now because the Queen is dead too.

[Ben]

Justin Trudeau.

[Ken]

Well, there's another one that came back, right?

[Mike]

It's the King.

[Ken]

Oh, now it's a king.

[Ben]

Is he the Prime Minister or the king?

[Ken]

Wait, because, wait, they.

[Ben]

Canada, though.

[CJ]

No.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[CJ]

I thought Canada was independent.

[Ken]

No, that was the thing. We went through the whole war to, you know, no taxation without representation.

[CJ]

I thought, I thought Canada.

[Ben]

We sound so dumb being that we are only. We're. I mean, we are on the northern half of the United States. I mean, most northern hours, we're a couple hours away from Canada.

[CJ]

We're not Canadian.

[Ben]

The Prime Minister. Two hours. I know.

[CJ]

They don't have a Prime Minister. Yeah, Justin Trudeau.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

Basically their president.

[Ben]

That's their president. Yeah, yeah. He makes all the decisions.

[Ken]

So.

[CJ]

Yeah, but hold up.

[Ben]

What you.

[CJ]

Are you saying that England owns Canada?

[Ken]

I'm not really sure.

[Ben]

But what are you saying here?

[Ken]

But I. I do know when Ken and I booked the tickets, there was some weird thing that Evan wasn't able to get in or something. There was something back with his ID so he was gonna have to finger blast the Queen. But now that she died, is he gonna have to jerk off?

[Ben]

The King, probably. No, it'd be the. The Prince, wouldn't it?

[Mike]

Oh, no, no, it's the King now.

[Ken]

Oh, how old is he?

[Evan]

It doesn't matter.

[Ben]

He'll do it.

[Ken]

How old?

[Ben]

He'll do it.

[Ken]

The king is 74. Charles, you're always into some older ones.

[Ben]

That's pretty crazy thought. Like you, you don't even really have to be. You don't have to earn it over there. You can just be born into it. Be a total idiot and you're like.

[Evan]

It is pretty messed up.

[Ben]

It is pretty.

[CJ]

Fuck.

[Ben]

I wouldn't like that. I'm glad we live where we do, honestly. Or at least it's like, you know, a democracy and you have a Chance or a choice or the illusion of it. Yeah. Do we though. I know. Yeah. Somewhat of it.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

King and queen seems so, like, medieval, archaic. Like, it's just so old. Like, the fact that anyone still runs that in whatever country or in Especially one that's, like, pretty developed. I mean, extremely developed. But also I'm probably wrong, so don't crucify me, because I said that the.

[Ken]

2% of Europe listeners are like, what the.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Evan]

That was.

[Ben]

They might.

[Evan]

Not. A European.

[Ken]

Oh, no, I wasn't trying to.

[Evan]

Oh, then what was that?

[Ken]

I don't know.

[Ben]

You know, guys, it's been fun and it's been real. I hope you get back in from Canada so we can run another one of these.

[Ken]

Yeah, maybe we should wait. We'll wait to drop this one until after we get back from Canada so we don't get stranded up there.

[CJ]

Like, they don't let us back into the United States.

[Ben]

They might look you up and down. I. I mean, if I was a guy that was making a decision, I wouldn't. I suppose they'd probably want you out of your country. Their country. They'll probably push you back in. No, it's hard.

[CJ]

I.

[Ben]

It's.

[CJ]

Well, actually, do you remember last.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Last time we.

[CJ]

We got into Canada, or trying to get into Canada, it was kind of a process.

[Ken]

It's because. I think I know why. It's because I was driving, and then Jake kept doing all the talking from the back. And I think they thought there was something really weird going on. And then they pulled us aside and we had to explain this whole reason why we're going up there. And it's like kind of a gray area being that we're filming, so we're, like, there for business. Yeah, they don't like that. They want you to pay the taxes on it. And I'm like, no, we're just going for fun. And they're like. They checked all of our luggage, all the stuff. It was really weird. Like we were drug smugglers or human traffickers.

[Ben]

Ev, you better be careful. Don't have your vape stash. They don't let. They don't allow vapes in Canada. You know that, right?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You're gonna start smoking cigarettes like a man.

[Evan]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

For this trip.

[CJ]

No, they didn't go. They pull us.

[Ben]

He's got a passport.

[CJ]

He said, fuck that. They pull us aside and they're like, oh, these stupid Americans. They must not have heard about the future. Robots are coming.

[Evan]

There will be no robots coming anywhere.

[Ken]

Let's wrap it up. All right, guys, thank you for listening, thank you for subscribing, and thank you for watching, viewing, and. What else? What? What else do people do? I don't know me, dude.

[Ben]

See you guys next time.

[Ken]

I'm tired.