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Ben
Ken, do you feel uncomfortable with Mike being here?
Ken
You're gonna be the reason I'm fat again one day. No, no. Excuse me.
Mike
I'm being a degenerate.
Ken
I caused a car accident the other day. Wait, wait, what?
Jake
Like, I'm in no spot right now to get after Ken, but after putting.
Ken
These headphones back on, I'm a little pissed.
Evan
Fired up. Yeah, fired up. Round two.
Ken
What?
Evan
This is round three now.
Ken
Round three, baby.
Evan
We.
Ben
We just filmed the entire podcast and Ken forgot to hit record.
Ken
It was so good. It was so good.
Evan
Funny jokes, too. Like, funny jokes that just won't ever hit the same.
Ken
You can't recreate that.
Evan
Like, it's just in the garbage.
Jake
Like, I'm in no spot right now to get after Ken, but after putting.
Ken
These headphones back on, I'm a little pissed. Fired up.
Evan
Yeah. Fired up.
Ben
Yeah. We had to get up and walk away, you know, let it cool down and sit back down. And it just got. Just got real again. Dude. I'm pissed off.
Ken
I just bing at a whole box of Cheez its down there.
Evan
I was kind of.
Mike
I wasn't going to drink this morning.
Evan
Yeah, dude.
CJ
No, it was funny. You guys all walked off, like, blowing off some steam, just getting reset. CJ goes. Should we just run it tomorrow? Like. No, we're good, we're good, we're good.
Ken
Ken, just get out of here, bro. You know, it's.
Evan
Hey, he feels bad though, and he knows he messed up cuz Evan put him over his knee and gave him a bare bottom spanking.
CJ
Oh, my.
Jake
Yeah, before we do start, though. Weird. Are they recording?
Evan
Yeah, we get someone else to check. Yeah, it says record on there. Now he's like, what does wreck mean?
CJ
So we're live.
Ben
Yeah. All right, so we're back. We got Jake on the podcast. Not necessarily as, like a interviewed guest, but you're more of a homie guest today.
Ken
Thanks, bro.
Jake
Good to be back.
Ken
Round two.
CJ
Wait, why'd you leave, bro?
Ben
Yeah, yeah, just ask him that again.
Ken
Yeah, yeah. That was the opener and it really threw me off guard and everyone laughing. It was so funny.
Jake
But you missed it because Ken in here before.
CJ
Almost as funny the second time.
Ken
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CJ
Good to have you. Look at the setup right now.
Evan
And we're rolling five mics deep.
CJ
I love it.
Evan
At least on this side. We had to take the mic away once. Ken, you know, messed up. I'm sorry. But yeah, this is nice. We got to get another mic. So we have six. And then we'd have Jamie over There he could defend himself a little bit.
CJ
I would have been really scared to have six mics or five at the first start, but we've gotten really good at, you know, letting each other talk. Like, at the beginning, I don't think I would have been able to, like, it's just a lot of, like, it's a big group. How are you going to do it? But I agree.
Evan
Ryan, can you get us another mic for next. Next week?
Ryan
Yeah.
Jake
Ryan, you missed out. We were kind of talking about you're kind of ballin and everyone's wondering where their podcast money is.
Ken
And I just envision you looking like.
Jake
The Bang Energy owner at one point.
Ken
Just getting out of your TRX just with a big Life Wide Open podcast chain and everything.
Evan
Ryan's running it like a true boss. He's just sitting back today, not doing anything, watching, you know, counting his honey count his money.
Ben
Yeah, yeah. Ryan wearing an iced out chain. This is Life Wide Open podcast.
Evan
Meanwhile, we're all like, hey, have you gotten paid at all for the podcast yet?
CJ
Now you'll know when. When Ryan's really ballin. When someone else starts doing the ads.
Evan
Yeah, really hands on. He'll be on an island in like, yeah, yeah.
Ben
Puerto Rico.
Evan
Yeah.
Mike
All jokes aside, I think I kind of want a lifewide open chain that might go hard.
Evan
That would go. If anyone's going to pull it off.
Ben
It'D be you, Ev.
Jake
Dude, we like in your donk, bro.
Mike
That's what I'm saying.
CJ
Like, but that's Evan's next surprise. But we accidentally make it say Life.
Ken
Wide open podcast 20,000 Grinder cut the podcast, and with T Voice T, it's like the whole perfect thing.
Evan
Yeah.
Ben
The chain goes, like, weirdly hard, but it said podcast at the bottom. And everyone's like, what the Ev.
Evan
You really could pull off, like, a chain, though, especially one with like a. What do you call diamonds medallion. Like, I could see it like a Steve will do it style, like, heavy chain with something because it just fits your, like, vibe, you know? Like, it doesn't look off you driving the donked out El Camino. Like you're saying, oh, yeah. I mean, that's what I'd expect to hop out of there if it feels.
Mike
Wrong and right at the same time. Equal mix.
Evan
But you love that, don't you?
Mike
Yeah, I do.
CJ
Quite literally. I'm not poking fun. I'm just entertained by it. But the one times that I've caught you leaning up against something, you know, 10, 20, 30ft away from the El Camino Just smiling, staring at it, taking it all in.
Mike
I came out of Menards the other day and looked across the parking lot and laughed, like, just a little bit.
Ben
Now you got the thing, like, it's like the most car guy thing ever where you hop out of the car and then as you're walking away, you're, like, constantly staring at it.
Evan
4 Look back on the way in.
Ben
Yeah.
Evan
You ever done that before? I suppose you never would have done that with your rap.
Mike
Glance at the raptor a time or two.
Ben
Yeah.
Evan
Just like, making sure you didn't leave the door open. Turn the key off.
Mike
Yeah, I only leave the fridge door open.
Evan
That's true.
Ben
I did have to get after you. Yeah. I came to the shop the other day, morning, and the fridge door was open. I said, there's only one little gremlin running around here late at night, leaving fridges open.
Mike
Honest mistake.
Ben
I was driving Ryan's TRX earlier today that he bought with all the podcast money that he doesn't pay us.
Evan
Right?
Jake
Yeah.
Evan
I was wondering that. I parked next to him the other day. I looked at his truck and I looked at my. I said, something's not right here.
Ben
Something. Something feels off.
Ken
He's getting some extra money somehow.
Evan
You got nice wheels.
Ben
Lift it up.
Evan
It's already a nicer truck.
Mike
More lights than a Christmas tree.
Ben
I mean, it's a fast truck. So, like, every single time that you come to a stop sign, you have to do like, a full throttle pull away from it.
Evan
Yeah. He noticed his tank was empty when.
Ben
He got back, actually. Right. Sit in on this because I'm curious to hear your take on it. It's got 37s, which are massive tires. I think they're what, 13 wide? It's a big wheel. I was fighting for my life just to keep that thing on the road. I was darting from lane to lane. I was hitting. I was hitting, like, each. Each side of. Of the whites.
Ryan
Really?
Mike
Yeah.
Ben
Bro, that thing is pulling all over the place. What'd you do to it?
Ryan
I didn't do it.
Evan
I drove it.
Ryan
It drove fine when I. When I drive it.
Evan
It is a little dirty when I drove it back from heydays, but. But, I mean, you get used to it.
Ryan
Yeah, I mean, it's just a. It's just a big truck with a big motor in the front, you know? I mean, it's just something you got.
CJ
To get used to.
Evan
I think it's the wheel. I think it's gotta be the tires and the lift, but this is safety. You just need like a alignment legit.
Ben
Like bobbing and weaving just to keep that thing straight.
Evan
It's got two extra cylinders in your little waft. Yeah, that's probably what it was. Couldn't handle the extra two cylinders.
Ryan
No. Yeah, I mean, if you want a highway cruiser, 37 by 13 and a half, ridge grapplers is not your ideal tire choice.
Ben
I suppose it does make sense. It's fun, though.
Jake
Yeah. I will say I must be nice.
Ben
Yeah, must be nice, right?
Ken
Dude, all those ads that everybody hates.
Ryan
They'Re finally starting to pay off.
Ben
I'm surprised you're here right now. You're not sitting on an island.
Evan
I was sitting on the beach drinking a pina colada.
Ryan
I was trying to get out of here, but my truck was out of gas, so I had to come do a couple more ads so I could fill it up.
Ken
You know, one of the comments I.
Jake
Laughed the hardest at the last time we did the podcast is when you had like a back to back ads and someone's like, I feel like Ryan's ads is when you wake up at 2am and George Lopez is popping up on the screen.
CJ
Honestly, that's flattering compared to like, them being like, I hate ads. I hate when Ryan does ads.
Evan
Ryan does have some serious hype behind his ads. Like, everyone's talking about him. Yeah, I mean, it's a whole topic. We could dive into it. We don't need to today, but we'll just let them Saturday, you guys. Through this podcast.
CJ
You guys are lucky. You might even hear a couple today, I think.
Ken
Right there, right there.
Ben
I think Ryan should start his own podcast, but just do ads.
Ken
Can you pull up bills or what, Ken?
Evan
As if you hadn't done enough.
Mike
What do you.
Ken
Don't touch anything.
Ben
Trying to get me to pay for his bills. Are you pulling up invoices right now?
CJ
As like the most. Easily the most tech savvy person in the group, I still don't know how you struggle to fill Jamie's shoes.
Evan
Damn, that was harsh.
CJ
Okay?
Evan
That was harsh, bro. I was harsh, Mike.
CJ
It genuinely surprises me.
Ken
Dude, leave the guy alone.
Evan
Jesus, dude, that was toug on him.
Ryan
He's already had a hard morning.
Ben
Mike, what's your deal?
Evan
Just tell him he's bad at his job, right? On the podcast with all these people. That was.
CJ
No, I'm saying he's got big shoes to fill.
Ken
Yeah, he said that he can't fill him.
Evan
Leave.
CJ
Oh, okay.
Ken
Okay then.
CJ
It is a little bit of a soft spot. I didn't realize that he Came out and said that I can't fill those shoes.
Ben
No, you.
Ken
You said that just out of nowhere.
Evan
Everyone was having a good day. I feel uncomfortable now.
Ryan
Just laughing, you know, having a good time.
Ben
Time, I guess.
Evan
Can you grab can of tissue, please.
Ben
If we're in the mood of calling people out.
Ryan
Oh, no.
Ben
Jake, what's up with the shirt size over here?
Ken
Dude, come on. I thought we were going to forget about this. All right, it's fine. I'm. I'm in between sizes. I thought I was like a schmedium large.
Ben
No, you ain't in between size. Yeah, you're just watching the wrong size.
Ken
Okay, well, I used to be like xl and I used to love, like super baggy shirts, right? Like 4X. Remember? All the rejects still wear the shirt.
Evan
They weren't baggy on you, though. They were just fitting.
Ken
Yeah, thanks, bro. I know, I know. But then, like, now a large, it.
Jake
Felt too big, so I put on the medium. It felt good. But then when you wash it, it goes.
Evan
So what are you doing? Are you trying to work your way down to a small or what?
Ken
No, that's what.
CJ
Yeah, you threw the schmedium large in just in case. You can dabble in the small.
Evan
Yeah, medium large. He's covering three sizes of shirts right now. What size T shirt are you? Small, medium or large?
Ken
Whatever you got.
CJ
I'm in between.
Ken
And I just trying to fit in.
Evan
It's your own brand, man. It's your own brand. You should get your own shirt in your own size.
Ben
You should start by trying to fit into your T shirt.
Ryan
But you're down to a medium because.
Ben
No, how much?
Evan
He's more down to a large. But you're looking great. You lost Damn near what, 50 pounds now?
Ken
Yeah, two pounds away.
Jake
My goal is like.
Ken
My goal is one.
Jake
So I was 225. My goal is 175. Just to say I actually lost 50.
Evan
That's crazy.
Jake
177 last Friday.
CJ
Yeah.
Ben
That's actually insane. What are you doing to lose £50?
Ken
I basically.
Jake
So what I do is jerking off.
Ken
Yeah, you kid me knocks. All the people had my back last video.
Mike
Go.
Jake
So me and Cody go to the gym every morning.
Ken
I'll, like, run.
CJ
Yeah, it's not considered. It's not considered jerking off if you have help.
Evan
Next up, feeling my back last video. What do you mean by that?
Ken
What does that mean?
CJ
What?
Ken
Like, they're like, yo.
Evan
Hold on.
Ben
Do you think people were against you?
Ken
No, no, I was just like.
Evan
They were like, I can't get behind J comment section.
Jake
Yeah.
Evan
Now that I found it acceptable, but Jake doesn't jerk off anymore. I've really lost a lot of respect.
Ken
Unsubscribed because of no jerks. No, I meant, like, the guys that just thought it was funny. They could have left that out, but. Good, good. Obstinate.
Jake
No, Whatever.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
Sorry. I'm sorry.
Ken
That's all right.
Ben
Okay, good. What were you saying?
Evan
You lost £50?
Ken
Yeah. Yeah. And you asked how I did that? Quit jerking off? No, I literally all I just started.
Jake
Doing was just, like, kind of, like, overdid. I just started, like, running two miles every day and then eating better. I. Like, whatever. And then I started just boxing at night and stuff. So I just, like. Two workouts a day. Yeah, two workouts a day. And then I try and, like, limit myself. It was like 1800 calories a day.
Ben
Hell, yeah.
CJ
That is overdoing it, folks. Yeah.
Ryan
Yeah, that's impressive.
CJ
You led with that. You said. So basically I just overdid it, you know?
Ryan
Yeah.
Evan
How long did it take to lose 50 pounds? Like, how long have you been doing this for, dude?
Jake
So the craziest part is, like, the last 10 has been, like, the hardest. So I lost maybe 40 in, like, two months.
Evan
You got to probably chop off a limb at this point.
Jake
Yeah, yeah. Like, the last £10 took forever. And I'm just literally, at this point just trying to force it to happen so I can say I did it and then I'm just straight cheeseburger.
CJ
And now I'm actually wondering, like, how funny of a battle would it be if you're like, yeah, I got two pounds left. Like, you're going to be battling now with, like, gaining muscle weight?
Evan
Exactly.
CJ
Like, you know, like, there's not much fat left on you.
Evan
Quit eating. Go frail. Like that. Frail.
CJ
Look, just to get that brittle and bone.
Evan
We could get you in the sauna, you remember? I bet you could lose two pounds right, in the sauna today after this.
Ken
Honestly, maybe if I did start, you.
Jake
Know, boinking it again.
Evan
Yeah, maybe you're nuts.
CJ
Maybe. Maybe.
Ryan
But that is wicked impressive.
Ken
Yeah, it felt good.
Jake
It's probably the only time I'll do that in my life. At least it did it.
Ryan
What's like, your goal? Get back to weight. Like you said, you're like, I'm gonna lose £50 and I'm going back to cheeseburgers.
Jake
Where do you want to be to be like, a good 190? Like a. A muscle 190? Yeah, just under, like, 200. Because after that, dude, it just kept going. Like, the scale. When I almost saw 130, I was just like, damn, that's big.
Ben
Oh, two, three, two, three.
Ken
No.
Jake
230. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. And I just like, the reason I wanted to do it. I, like, ran to the end of my driveway one day to get the mail, ran back, and halfway I was like.
Ken
And I was like, holy. This ain't cool.
Ben
It wasn't the let's Fiesta.
Ken
No, no, no.
CJ
That was a long time ago. It is funny that, like, that can go a long ways. Like, you're like, why am I gassed right now? And it can change your whole mindset. But we do that when we go snowmobiling and we're just dead compared to people who do it, like, all the time. And then we're just like a couple more days of this shit.
Ryan
Working out.
CJ
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We never really do, but it's the altitude.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
Always blame it on the altitude.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
When in doubt, blame it on the altitude.
CJ
I like that. It's a good remix. Blame it on the altitude. How have we never sang that when we're on the mountain?
Ken
So what.
Ben
Cj.
CJ
I love that. I can tell.
Evan
All of us marching a little line.
Ben
Altitude.
CJ
No, there's no way we can march.
Ben
I can't believe we've never marched to this way.
Evan
We haven't seen marched.
CJ
Who's trying to march out there? I'm not. Dude, it's going to gas me out, bro.
Evan
Then you blame it on the altitude.
CJ
I'm really. I am really looking forward to every. Every time I look right. Every time I look right over to Ben and I'm, like, saying some shit that obviously could be laughed at or scoffed at. I can see when CJ makes a face based on Ben's face.
Ken
It's back.
CJ
Yeah. I don't even have to look at him.
Jake
You guys ready for a new topic?
Evan
Yeah, sure.
Jake
Okay.
Ken
I. I caused a car accident the other day.
Jake
Wait, wait, what?
CJ
Could you maybe airdrop that video to Ken?
Evan
Yeah.
Jake
Oh, Actually, we caused two car accidents, me and Cody.
Ken
Okay, so the first car accident we.
Jake
Caused, me and Cody were downtown being mischievous. And anyways, our buddy Tom was, like, rolling through town.
Evan
You guys were taking out stop signs, weren't you?
Ken
No, no. Yeah, that have been pre good, though. We got a whole bunch at home.
Jake
So Tom never sees us downtown because I just don't like to go downtown that much. Cody starts going all the time. He's like, yo, come with Me and obviously you and Ryan convinced me. You're like, dude, if I was you, I'd be going downtown. Well, I'm like, yeah, you know what? That's right. Yeah, I know.
Ken
This is you guys.
Evan
Yeah.
Ben
You guys are in the police report.
Evan
Yeah. Yeah, they. It says they encouraged him to go out.
Ken
Who is they? Ryan and C.J.
CJ
Although they weren't present.
Ryan
Yeah.
Evan
All right, so go out and find a nice gal.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
So we just got dropped off, and.
Jake
We'Re walking down the sidewalk, and our buddy Tom sees us, and he's hanging out the window.
Ken
He's like, yo, what up? And we're like, screaming like, yo, we're downtown. And he's, like, not paying attention, and there's a car in front of him, and he's, like, looking at us, and he just fully rear ends the car.
Jake
In front of him.
Ken
We're like, oh, man, that sucks. Then we just go into the bar and ditch him.
Jake
We're like, we don't want to be part of that.
Ken
It's not our problem. And the second car accident I caused is.
Jake
This isn't my fault.
Evan
All in one night.
Ken
No.
Jake
This is like a day later.
Ken
Oh, yeah.
Mike
Yeah.
CJ
Okay.
Jake
But I got new tires put on my Mustang, and I called this place. I'm like, hey, I need tires put on and oil change. I'm like, I have the tires in the back car, have the oil. You guys gotta drop it, do it quick. And he's like, yeah, I'll fit you in.
Evan
Just.
Jake
He's like, come in at 2. I'm like, cool, bring it in. They do it real quick. And he's just like, hey, my guys have been, like, busting ass, you know, and we kind of like, fit you in. He's like, would you ever just do a burnout for everybody? Like, as you leave?
Ken
I'm like, hell, yeah.
Jake
I got brand new tires. I'll do a burnout. So I'm, like, swinging it around in the. Okay. Parking lot and whatever.
Mike
Just.
Evan
That's how he repays his work.
Ken
Well, they were all like, would you.
Evan
Ever just do a burnout for me?
Ken
They, like, you know, I wanted to hype them up. Kind of something to see for the day, right?
Ryan
I'm with you.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
Ryan gets it. I don't know where you get off.
Ben
That guy didn't even have to pay him.
Ryan
Didn't have to do a pizza party.
Evan
Hey, guys. Yeah, I gave him. I gave you guys a burnout. Hope you all enjoy that. Get back to work.
Ben
Hey, man. What a really strange thing to say to a guy that you just put new tires.
Jake
To get a new customer.
Ken
Though, you know, like, get me back in there. So I swing it back onto the.
Jake
Highway and I'm just leaving, right?
Ken
Well, this dude, like, rubber necks me and comes flying in the parking lot and just hits a random parked car there. I'm like, oh, here we go. Oh, my God, that was that. So I was. I just.
Evan
Did you leave?
Ken
Yeah, hold on.
Ben
So you just straight up cut him off?
Ken
No, no, no, no, no.
Ryan
He was looking back.
Ken
Yeah, looking back like, yo, that guy was doing donuts so those guys didn't have to get paid.
Ben
Holy. Was that V6 Mustang burning the tires?
Evan
That is more impressive. Honestly.
CJ
Those are fighting words.
Evan
Doing a donut. I'd probably more like opt to look. I'd be like, holy, that thing is ripping, actually.
Ken
Yeah, that's how I caused two car accidents last year.
CJ
Should have gone for the 3p.
Ben
Didn't you almost cause a car accident?
Ken
Jesus Christ.
Ryan
I mean, I didn't almost cause a car accident. The driver who didn't know how to zipper merge almost caused the accident. I mean, do you guys know how to zipper merge?
Ben
I don't even know what that means.
Evan
It's like one guy goes, literally, revoke this man's license.
Ben
So Mike says, you last podcast, you didn't even know what a zipper was.
Evan
That's true.
CJ
That was the best fucking callback ever. That was so funny. But, yeah, if you don't know how to zipper merge, like, get effed.
Ryan
Yeah, you gotta. You gotta get on the page. So anyway, there's a ton of construction in Fargo, the town next to us. And so it's one lane, you're coming around on the highway, and then the other southbound lane merges on to the other lane, which then merges another one. So I'm coming in and I see, you know, there's a line of cars. So I flash my headlights, let this lady in the CRV in, and this guy in, like, a nice red Charger tries to kind of bop in. And I'm in my truck, which, as you know, it's impossible to drive. How am I supposed to get out of his way? Yeah, so I'm like, this guy. And so I just keep driving and, like, get right up behind the lady in the CRV and, like, block him out. And he's like, coming in like he's going to sideswipe me. And I was like, do it. I don't know. You know, I was having a bad day. No, not that.
Evan
I don't give a fuck. It would have been him who merged off the podcast.
CJ
Reed kind of lit, though, in the snap Ryan sent us about ranting about that. You're like, I got my dash cam on. Hit me.
Ryan
Yeah, I mean, I did. It would have been his fault.
Evan
And he was. New wheels and tires that don't pull this hard.
Ryan
Yeah. So he's, like, flicking me off through the window like he was all. All hot about it. And I, having a really bad day, immediately caught Joy out of ruining this guy's day. So we hop in line. He's behind the trailer flicking me off, and I, like, throw my hand out the window, give him the banging, you know.
Evan
Thumbs up. He looks over at the passer. Was that Jake Sherbrooke?
Ben
The fact that this driving bang, and it's legendary. All right, sorry, what?
Ryan
We get into the lanes where he's about to come around, so that I see him do a hard merge across a white line that you can't merge across. And then he's going to fly up next to me. So I'm looking to grab my phone to put him on the news, and I see him roll down his window, and he's got his phone out. He's trying to put me on the news.
Ben
Oh, man, I'd love to see this video.
Ryan
I know it's got to be out there somewhere. And so I see it, and I just give him the biggest thumbs up and smile. And he looks at me like this, and the phone goes on.
Ken
He goes, see, boys?
CJ
And you're like, everything about what you just did is just, like, blown out the window.
Ryan
Yeah, I just looked at him and I kind of, like, shook my head and laughed and just, like, I was, like, in shock as well.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
And then he just hit his brakes and followed, like, way behind me the rest of the time in embarrassment.
CJ
Amazing.
Ken
That guy realized he effed up.
Jake
But I will say, no, no.
Ben
I think he just goes, oh, he's stupid.
Ken
Oh, this guy's a psycho.
Jake
I gotta say, I was just gonna.
Ken
Say, if that video ever surfaces, I guarantee Ryan's just going, you looking at my shirt again, bro? Stop, stop.
Ben
No, I can't stop.
Ken
Okay, Stop. Be proud of the guys.
Ben
I know.
Evan
I am.
CJ
Get some help.
Ben
I am.
Ken
You're gonna be the reason I'm fat again. 1.
Ben
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Evan
I'm fat.
Ben
Hey, hey. If anybody can laugh at you, it's me.
CJ
I was valid.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
I was just saying I envision this video surfacing. Ryan told it his way, and it just Ryan. Screaming, I put that window down.
Ben
I gave him the biggest thumbs up.
Ken
It's just like. Yeah.
Ben
As he's like.
Evan
It was a replay of him telling the story. And then next to it is Ryan. Figure it out, dude.
Mike
Oh, man.
Ben
Yeah, we gotta get that video. It's got to be out there somewhere.
Evan
Well, it might come back around now.
CJ
Ryan was obviously having a bad day because he was doing Ben's errands. It was even funny. I was on the toilet yesterday and Ryan calls me and goes, dude, tell Ben to answer his phone. I'm at Best Buy. I'm like, all right.
Evan
All right.
Ryan
That's after I called him like 17 times. I was like, what in the.
Ben
What is he doing?
Ryan
So important.
CJ
What were you doing standing at the.
Ryan
Line of Best Buy, trying to get. Holding up a whole line of TV's for him? I was trying to pick up Ben's TV's. I was trying to pick up ben's.
Ken
TV's at Best Buy.
Ryan
Holding up the line, he's not answering his phone.
Ken
Got some unchecked aggression going.
Evan
To be fair.
Ben
To be fair, I was a little busy. I was just avoiding your phone call.
Ken
I think you were.
Ryan
You just wanted me to struggle.
Ben
No, man, they. Yeah, they were not gonna let those TVs go with the wrong guy if they were in my name. And they. They were not gonna let Ryan speak for him.
Ryan
I even gave them like your Social Security number and stuff and they wouldn't.
Evan
Give me the tv.
CJ
Yeah, I was saying, they're like, listen, we'll have to put them in your name. You have to do a title transfer later.
Ben
Title transfer? The TVs. Yeah. Thanks for getting that taken care of, brother.
Evan
No problem.
Ben
Then you came over this morning and helped me hang them up.
Evan
How big of TVs did you get?
CJ
They're nice. They're nice.
Evan
They're big boys.
CJ
They're nice, I think like Sony Bravias, dude. The best TV in the game.
Ben
Damn, Mike. I didn't want to flex my TVs, but I guess I'll let you do it.
Evan
You got some good ones.
CJ
Yeah.
Ryan
So that's what you're into.
Ken
You got.
Evan
Is it amazing though? Like straight up, like a mid grade TV is like awesome nowadays. And they're like.
CJ
And so cheap.
Evan
Couple hundred bucks are cheap now. It used to be like such a big deal, but they're cheap as hell. It's amazing. So I was asking what size you got. Yeah, what size you get?
Ben
Like 75 inch and 65 inch.
Evan
Damn. Jacob didn't you get a really big TV.
Jake
Yeah.
Evan
So.
CJ
Oh yeah, you did on order.
Jake
Yeah, yeah. Big Flex 120.
Evan
Ben's got those little baby.
Ken
You got the little boy TVs, bro.
Evan
Hold on, Jake.
Ben
Hold on, Jake.
Evan
120.
Jake
Hold on.
Evan
How much was.
Ben
Hold on, Jake. Is it one TV that's 120 or is it the four?
Jake
No, yeah, it's a water.
Ken
It is one hundred and six on.
Jake
The top and one hundred and twenty corner to corner.
CJ
Is it a TV? Yeah.
Ben
Is it a projector?
Jake
It ain't a projector.
CJ
Wow.
Evan
I didn't know that they.
Jake
So basically what we wanted is when you open the door to our shop, you just see a TV and you're like, this is sick.
Ryan
Yeah, yeah.
Evan
And then just a couch and you just sit down, just watch.
Ben
Yeah.
Jake
That way when you have friends come over, they're like, what are we doing? And be like, you kidding me?
Evan
You see that 120 watching TV? Who wants to come over and watch TV?
Ben
Once we got the TV hung up in my house, Evan Ryan goes, man, that's an awesome tv. And I go, that might be the most American thing I've heard you say.
CJ
Also the sizes have always been like that. So you can get a 65, a 75, let's say maybe an 85 now at a pretty decent price. And then you go up. So let's say the 85 inch is 2 grand. 2,500, 3 grand. And then you go up to that like 100 inch and it's just like 8,500.
Evan
I don't know what size TVs you can get like a friggin 75 for like probably 800 bucks.
CJ
Yeah. And as soon as you go up to that massive size. So like I'm a little bit concerned for you. And you're spending.
Ken
I'm just worried.
Evan
How much is that? Yeah. How much is 120 inch TV?
Ken
They're a lot.
Jake
I just.
Evan
10 grand.
CJ
Under 10?
Jake
Yeah, they're under 10.
Evan
7 grand.
Jake
Somewhere in that neighborhood.
Evan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CJ
That's what I mean.
Jake
Yeah. It is a supercharger.
Evan
I'm just glad to know you're spending your money wisely.
Jake
Yeah. You kidding me? You could have. You could have did way worse stuff.
CJ
If there's one thing I know about 50 inch TV.
Evan
Yeah.
CJ
One thing I know about you, Jake, you always love watching tv.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
Man, I almost wanted to be on there one day.
Evan
Yeah. Hey, okay. Yeah.
Ben
Do you think that maybe that's too big of a tv, Jake?
Ken
I've thought about it.
Jake
But at the same time, it's just going to be like, are you ever going to be like, man, that 120 inch is an inconvenience?
Ben
Well, yeah, when you're sitting, like, four inches away from. You can literally only see, like, 17 pixels in front of your face.
Ryan
You got a big. You got a big room in there. You'll be fine.
Jake
We'll worry about it then we'll see who's laughing when you come over and we're watching games at my house. Okay. One thing I really want to say.
Ken
And I'm so mad I was not a part of it.
Jake
You guys, I don't know how many podcasts ago, but when you guys talked.
Ken
About when I posted a story on Ken's phone, I wanted to be here. No, we gotta get.
Evan
Dude, Ken probably on here.
Ken
Yeah, Ken, can you get in here?
Ryan
Career.
Evan
Now you're back to bullying him? This guy?
Ben
Yeah. I was like, hey, what is your.
CJ
Deal, you know, being up on him? I was like, maybe I should step out.
Evan
Are you gonna say some mean again?
CJ
I just. I don't want to.
Evan
No, you don't want to be nice?
CJ
For the record? No, I'm not gonna say mean again. And also, I just. You know, I just figured maybe Ken could open up a little bit more if I'm not here.
Ken
Oh, it's fine.
Ben
Do you feel uncomfortable with Mike being here?
Ken
Sometimes, yeah. Right now, he hasn't said anything quite to that level yet.
Ben
Like, you're lucky that CJ is in between you two.
Evan
I think Ken's lucky, actually.
Ken
It's by design.
CJ
Yeah. But, yeah, fun story, and bummer that you weren't here. So if you guys didn't hear, you'll.
Jake
Have to go listen to the pod. But basically, what I did in hindsight is I.
Evan
Not in hindsight. It's what you did. What you did.
Ken
What I. What I did is I.
Jake
Before Snapchat was, like, big. What it was before it was, like, monetized, was just you and your friends, and that's all you had. And then.
Ben
Quit trying to downplay this. You posted a picture of your dick on Ken's story.
Mike
Yeah.
Ken
There's nothing more, nothing less to it.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
You just took my phone, opened up Snapchat, and that's what you did. Yeah, And I said, what's up, dudes?
Evan
Yeah, it was on a story. It was the funniest thing.
Ken
I think the.
Ben
The caption might be the most disturbing part.
Evan
I think the best part was that he was stretching his dick. I don't like it made it a little fucked up. You're like, what is this guy doing? Not only is he posting this, but it's just some fucked up, like, what's he doing to himself? You know?
Ken
So I do got to say now I'm sincerely sorry for that, but I do still think it's super funny. Yeah, it's, it's. It's good. In hindsight, it is kind of funny. But it, it did tick me off pretty bad. I could tell.
CJ
And I think what I really want to see an apology for is like. Yeah, it's funny enough that, that I appreciate you apologizing for that, but what about beating him up?
Evan
Yeah, that was.
Ken
I think.
Ben
I think that's where it was.
Mike
In a park.
Jake
I don't.
Ken
We were just wrestling around, you know.
Evan
I don't know if it was called wrestling. You just flat out assaulted, bro.
Ken
I'm not gonna lie. After re watching that arm bar, I'm like, dude, that guy is an a hole.
Evan
You're gonna break his arm.
Ken
He's like bending backwards. I'm like, I don't even know if I can do that now. Yeah, you don't have the right to be mad for this. I'm gonna. Yeah.
Evan
Literally beat your ass on top of it. Beat some sense into you.
Ken
Maybe I am the bully of the story.
Evan
You know, I do have video actually of kind of bullying Ken the other day. The other day Ken was stuck in this ball and you were like making it so we couldn't get out and he didn't realize it. Like he's trying to get out, but the ball. Yes. Figuring out Ken couldn't get out for the. To save his fucking life. And then look at this.
Ken
Wondering why I couldn't get out of there.
Evan
Ken couldn't get out and he just literally thought he was stuck. But Jake was just behind him the whole time.
CJ
Yeah. My favorite. Yeah, we pull it off and you're like, dude, something about the ball was just pushing down on me.
Ken
Didn't even notice it.
Ben
Dude, those orbit balls are fantastic inventions.
CJ
Yeah.
Evan
Super cool. I just wish they were more durable. Like, I guess they didn't. That one didn't break, did it? Did it pop when the mini truck hit it? That's awesome. But we managed to pop it in our shop right out the gate.
Ken
We got metal floor.
CJ
Yeah, that's what it was. But other than that. Yeah, they. They weren't cheap, but 1200 a piece. Glad that we got. Cuz they make all different sizes. But did the big. Honestly coming into it, I was like, dude, this is going to be, like, kind of silly until we had people done it on YouTube. And I was just like, this is going to be kind of like.
Ken
Till we had them blown up, I was a little worried they were going.
Ben
To be too small.
CJ
I was just like, this isn't going to be that funny. And they are the most fun ever.
Evan
They're lit. I'm glad that we still have them. Like, they're so. They're still usable. I thought they were going to be broken after the hour of filming.
CJ
Dude, we pulled them behind the boat. Dude, it was like the most fun ever. And I was trying to get you guys to do it. Someone, obviously you were driving. But I was like, someone else has to do this. Everyone's like, dude, I am good. You guys are crazy M effers, bro. And I'm like, no, seriously, someone's got to get in.
Evan
I think if you could just get past the idea of it popping and you being stuck in there and basically sinking, like, that's the only thing that would have been.
CJ
Which I didn't see happening. But it was.
Mike
Yeah.
Jake
I don't know from your perspective, like, your hole was pretty open, but when you were pulling Ryan, you couldn't get out of that.
Ken
Dude, it was like. It was tight.
CJ
Why would I ever try to get out of it while. If it was. While we're getting yanked.
Jake
No, like, let's say if it was.
CJ
Sinking, it would take so long to deflate.
Evan
Yeah. As long as it didn't, like, detach from the rope. And then you got. Somehow it popped. But then now we don't have any way to, like, grab it and just start sinking.
Ben
But hell, it'd be a hell of.
CJ
A way to go.
Evan
I was. I was trying to do a mixture of driving like you did. Driving crazy, but not too crazy, where it's just like, this is just not.
CJ
Yeah. You know, Great.
Jake
You know, those would have been awesome when we did the slip and slide a long time ago. That have been so fun. Pile like five people in one of them and just.
Evan
We got to bring them to a big hill.
Ben
I feel like this winter.
CJ
Yeah. I was just wondering.
Ben
To a ski hill mountain.
Jake
Yeah.
CJ
Yeah. So we definitely have to do that. It looks so fun. I was just watching the Sickos video of it. They, like, went to the back country and did it.
Ben
Oh, really?
CJ
Yeah, they did. I was like, still, it looks so fun because they actually got cruising. I mean, it was like a full blown.
Evan
It was pretty gnarly. I saw that.
Jake
Did you guys ever See the video of the dudes and the ones in Russia.
Ben
Oh, man.
Evan
All I know is they do different in Russia, so I already know it's good they died.
Jake
Oh, oh, yeah.
Evan
So I'm talking about different.
Jake
So they're going down this ski hill, right? And there's like a barrier along the bottom. Well, at the bottom it's open, flat. He goes off the side of the mountain and it's like, I'm talking thousands of feet and he is just. No coming back.
Ben
What a terrible place to do it.
Jake
Yeah, no, Russians are like that.
Ben
Like, they couldn't find a single better spot.
CJ
I don't know.
Evan
It was part of the moment on.
Ben
The side of the mountain.
CJ
I gotta have Evan step in here for a real, real fun story again. You know, it happened. I'm not mad about it. I was like slightly made into an accomplice for this. But you guys might be, I don't know, like what Evan was thinking at the time, but this happens all the time. There was just way higher consequences this time. That's what I should say.
Jake
Man, what a.
Ben
What a lead in.
CJ
I just couldn't believe my eyes. So basically, after we did the. The four wheeler snorkel, we have this four wheeler with a bunch of weights all over it. It still is outfitted fully with sandbags and weights and all this and that.
Mike
But we didn't really strap the weights down because we were just driving it low speed in the water. So the weights were kind of just sitting there.
Ben
So, like where this is, you can.
CJ
I mean, you can see in that other view Ken just had, you can see that there is $350,000 worth of cars sitting. And he's like, I'm going to do donuts, bro. And I was like, I. It was like the most skeptical I've ever been. And I still. I shame myself for not just stopping you.
Ben
Okay.
Evan
I would. I. Now I'm worried. I know everything should be okay.
Ken
Have you guys seen this?
Evan
This was a while ago. If we had that four wheeler. Excuse me, I'm being.
Ken
I got something.
Mike
My bag in my mouth.
Ben
Man, we got Dumb and Dumber here.
Evan
They're actually the two smartest.
Mike
Mike is barefoot. He kind of looks like a barbarian.
Evan
So this is why you guys have to sleep in so long. Oh, this is what you're doing at night?
CJ
Yeah.
Ken
I love the snorkel, dude.
CJ
And it's so heavy. This four wheeler weighs like 2,000 pounds. Four wheel drift, he says. That's all he says. And I'm like, bro, you're insane.
Ben
You had to have thought that this was a bad idea.
Mike
That thought never crossed my mind at that point in time, believe it or not.
Ben
Concerning. That is so concerning.
Mike
Well, I mean, nothing got broken.
Evan
All right, so the first burnout, a weight flies off. I see. I think I flew in the right direction.
Mike
I think I thought, like, oh, the loose weight already came off. Now we're good. I don't know. A Ziploc bag of some sort.
Evan
Switch views. Switch views. Switch views.
CJ
No, don't do it yet.
Mike
The way it's gonna come off. Into the shipping container. Smashes.
Evan
Oh, man.
CJ
Dude. So, like, that weight could have hit either of the cars.
Mike
Could hit anything.
Ben
Could it hit anything, man, have you really just live your life one bad decision at a time?
Mike
Sometimes it pays to be lucky.
Evan
You're literally doing a burnout within a foot of my side of my gtr.
Ben
Like, go, go.
Evan
Throwing rocks all over it.
Ben
Other camera, how the floor was clean. Yeah, I'm sure it was. That's why the Zorba got popped.
Mike
I do remember the next morning, Ben goes, why is there black dust all over my white car, man?
CJ
What? But basically, I just couldn't believe that this is happening.
Ben
Is. Is extremely bizarre, is it not?
CJ
Yeah, No. I. Yeah.
Evan
Gets back on. He's cheesing.
Mike
I don't even have pants on.
CJ
No, dude, who would have paid for that?
Mike
Oh, I think I'd just be working for free. For free. For quite some time. I think that's how it work.
CJ
I think that is how that would work.
Mike
I mean, maybe pawn the Raptor.
CJ
That would have been tough.
Ben
Then one of us has to drive them back and forth.
Mike
At this point, I'd probably sell the wheels off the donk. That could replace some pretty serious damages.
Evan
Hey, I'm just glad nothing happened.
Mike
You know, Everything always buffs out one way or the other and usually finds a way to. So, like.
Evan
Yeah, I don't think that's why you don't have to think about anything.
Mike
Yeah, exactly what I was saying.
Evan
Do whatever you want. It'll all buff out in the end, dude.
CJ
Oh, man. Three years ago, Jake whipping out his credit card. You'd literally, like, take your credit card out and be, like, future Jake's problems.
Evan
Yeah.
Ben
Okay, so now that you're future Jake, how. How it.
Jake
I'm not gonna lie, I ran into some issues.
Evan
Debt collector came showing up.
Ben
I just wish somebody would have told.
Ken
Yeah, dude, I wish.
Jake
Yeah, it caught up to me for sure. But, you know, we got it cleared up by now. We were making Some good moves.
Ben
So when we were growing up, Jake used to work, like, the most gnarly manual labor job. So, like, in return, get paid the best, but it was still, like, the worst. It was just, like, a couple dollars more an hour than, like, the rest of us would make.
CJ
And, like, a lot of hours a week. A lot of hours a week to keep that.
Jake
It was just a lot. And, like, because I only worked three months at a time, because then afterwards I'd be either going to high school or college.
Ben
Jake had all this money, and, man, did he spend it. The dude had. The dude had packages coming every single day of. Not like, the most pointless shit. Like, Jake was on Amazon before Amazon, before Jeff Bezos was on Amazon.
Ken
I'm the reason that Jeff Bezos is where he's at today.
Ben
I strongly believe that.
CJ
I remember you being like, if I can average 30 to 31 packages a month, I'm doing good.
Evan
Yeah.
Ken
What a day, baby. I will say I've been finding around.
Jake
My house, I'm like, why do I even have this?
Ken
I'm like, oh, yeah. It was like 2018Amazon stuff there.
Evan
Just trinkets.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
So many trinkets, dude.
Jake
I got, like, a bunch of different.
Ken
Recorders and just like, you know, the little flutes.
Jake
Because I wanted to learn how to play candy shop on the recorders, which I did.
Evan
I learned.
Jake
Me and Mike did together.
CJ
Yeah, you put. Dude, put that video up.
Ken
Yeah, it's a good one.
Jake
I'll give it to you, Ken.
Ken
Why, Dude? I don't know.
Evan
Looking at. He just is trying to laugh. And then I'm getting blamed where I wasn't looking at him there.
Ken
You got a grin going today.
Ben
What?
Ken
I want to know what's going on in that brain. You're just like, I'm just smiling, dude.
Evan
I'm having fun sitting here with you guys.
Ben
Oh, I'm not like this great.
Evan
Yeah. You're telling the story about the recorder. I'm just like. I'm just pissed. Yeah, I'm cheesing, man.
Ken
I like that he's smiling. Give the guy a break.
Evan
You're like, oh, are you laughing at my haircut? Is that what it is?
Ben
Like, is that.
Ken
Are you self conscious?
CJ
Man acts like. Man acts like we can see his hair.
Evan
Well, I don't know.
Ben
He's like, you're.
CJ
Oh, looks. It looks great. I love.
Evan
I've been wondering why he's been laughing and looking at me so much, too.
Ben
No, you're just funny, bro.
Evan
I love that.
Ben
Just sitting there. Just.
Evan
It's awesome.
Ken
Funny.
Evan
I'm not even trying right now.
Ken
That's how you know you're funny if you ain't even trying.
Evan
At least funny looking. That's. That's for sure.
Ben
But, yeah. No, and then. Yeah. You used to always have, like, depending on the season, the toy of the season. Yeah. Quads in the fall, snowmobiles in the winter, and then, I don't know, car in the summer.
Ken
Yeah. What are you going with this story, man?
Ryan
I.
Ben
That's a good saying.
Mike
Yeah.
CJ
I had.
Ken
I was a kid with no bills. I had an abundance of cash at the time, so, yeah, I'm gonna buy the stuff I've always wanted and saw on the Internet.
Ben
I know. I guess it's just me just, like, saying, like, I'm, like, so proud of you.
Ken
Yeah, thanks, dude. Like, you. You guys are the same way. You're just doing the same still. We all are.
CJ
I was always just proud of your motto. It may not be the best motto ever as far as financially, but you were like, run out of money, just make more. Yeah, but there's a lot of truth to that.
Jake
And you, like, run out of money, you make more.
CJ
How do you make more? Work harder, you know, work faster.
Evan
Go back to work.
Jake
Yeah, work hard, play harder.
CJ
That was a reckless financial motto. But I. There's a lot of truth to it.
Ben
I've. I've looked up to you over the years for, like, your lack of care of certain things, and that was just like, one of them, of just, like, man, why you can always just make more and then, like, truly just enjoying.
CJ
Yeah.
Ben
The present and not worrying about the future.
Evan
Never giving a fuck.
CJ
No. Yeah.
Ben
Remember when you quit college and we had decals made that said come home banging?
Ken
You guys don't know something funny? There's still one of those decals on the ford Edge Mirror. No.
Ryan
1.
Evan
Yeah.
CJ
Yeah.
Ben
So when Jake quit college, he, like, went rogue on us.
Evan
Yeah, he just stopped going in the middle of, like, the semester.
Jake
I ran out of money.
Evan
Oh, really? That's.
Jake
Yeah, so I had, like, an operating loan just to, like, live. So I got, like, 20 grand to pay for both semesters. Spent that 20 grand in one semester. Where they messed up is they're just.
Ken
Like, you can take it whenever you want. I'm like, oh, really?
Ben
So how'd you burn through?
Evan
What were you buying?
Jake
You want to know what, the last.
Ben
31 packages a month.
Ken
You want to know the last thing.
Jake
I bought before I dropped out?
Evan
Out?
Jake
I bought a VR system for my.
Ken
PlayStation with the last grand while I was in, like, chemistry.
Jake
I'm like, this would be sick.
CJ
The best part was you installed that at home in your mom's basement and put some serious timing on it after you dropped out.
Jake
Yeah, no, it was. It was so worth it. I just knew I needed it.
Evan
Right? Yeah, I remember that we hadn't seen you in a couple weeks, but, dude.
Jake
You know, it worked out. Everyone's like, oh, I got all these, like, college loans. I paid off all my college debt in the summer, and then we got a Mustang. So it worked out.
Evan
Yeah, exactly.
Jake
Speaking of which, we need to. Me and Ben were talking about the Roadhouse. We got to do this. We got to do a big trip together, And I think we have the best idea of all time. We got to do, like, a Cannonball Run, and we pick our stops, and we tell people we'll pick them up along the way. So we start here, end in Vegas.
Evan
Yeah.
Jake
All the boys and everybody.
Ben
As we go, the group gets bigger and bigger.
CJ
Oh, like, they drive their own.
Jake
It'd be like a. Yeah, they drive their own car. So be like, hey, we're gonna stop here, here, and here.
Ken
You can wait for us.
Jake
Join the crew. And we just roll into Vegas like, 100 cars deep.
CJ
Because I was like, keep in mind, like, these three here can only fit literally, one other person in their car. That makes sense.
Ken
Evan has to drive the Donk. That's the rule.
Mike
I'm down.
CJ
I love that. It's a great idea, you rolling around.
Ken
In Vegas in the dunk. We might not have a local dude.
Mike
I might hop out and walk next to it as it rolls down the street.
Evan
Just let everyone know, that's my ride. It's my ride.
Ben
The only thing that I can think of is just, like, how chaotic it would be. Like, the closer we got, just mobbing in a crew like that.
Ken
Yeah.
Jake
You know, someone's gonna do something reckless.
Mike
What do you think?
Evan
Yeah.
Ben
Jake is like. Because it's good. It's like, I'm gonna do something, right?
Ken
Yeah. If one of us do something, everyone else with us and be like, oh, I could do that, too.
Evan
Yeah.
Ben
It would be fun, though.
Jake
Yeah, I think it'd be super fun.
Ryan
Fun.
Jake
Like, I want to, like, call ahead, and if there's, like, a drift tracker or a course open, be like, yo, can we rent it for the day? And then people have something to do.
Evan
How many miles is it to Vegas?
Jake
Like 759.
Evan
That's not even that much. That's actually not that. That much. What? It's only like 759 miles.
Ben
It's more than.
Ryan
Yeah.
Evan
I don't know. I was gonna say let's look it.
CJ
Up, but either way, I feel like the drive would be so much fun. Even though they were all stuck in our own cars. It'd be so much fun.
Ken
1600.
Ben
So a little bit more than pretty.
Evan
You put like, 3. 3200 miles on your car in the trip, which is fine for Ben. That's about 20 grand in depreciation.
Ken
Yeah.
Evan
But just kidding.
Ken
I don't know what it would be.
Evan
But that'd be a blast. I'd love to.
Jake
Yeah, I think it'd be fun. Just get the whole gang and. But you got it. So, like, our thought behind it was it's a contest between us. So, like, last person there has to do this when we get there or something. Like a destination race.
Evan
Well, you know, Ben's getting drives five miles under the speed limit.
Mike
I think I might be at a disadvantage.
Evan
Yeah, yeah, you'd still be, bro.
CJ
That don't gonna be on the limit, but yeah. A bunch of different other challenges too. Yeah. Like, last one there. Has to do something, and then you like another idea.
Evan
Cheap car. Like, you have a spending limit. Like maybe it's 500 bucks or a thousand bucks, and then you got to go to Vegas because then people are breaking down along.
Jake
Yeah, that's.
Evan
That would be interesting. That'd be good. You break down in like a. Like a bad area, get beat up, robbed like that. That's what people want to see, you know, some drama.
Jake
Yeah.
Ken
They want to see some failure along the way.
Mike
I'll revive the old bourbon. That was a 500.
CJ
Yeah. Just needs.
Evan
That would go the whole way for sure.
Mike
Well, I mean, with some big wrench time into it, probably.
Evan
Yeah. I guess we maybe allocate some wrenching time to it. But yeah, I love both those ideas.
Jake
Either way, just a big boys trip.
Ben
We cruised to dinner the other night, and like, we all drove separately. It's kind of. I was honestly like the first time we've ever gone for like, a little cruise in the area where, like, everyone's mobbing, man. I shed a tear. It was so beautiful.
Mike
Sunset really painted.
Ben
Pop up this clip right here going over this hill. The Donk crest in the hill. Then you got a Mustang. You're not sure if it's going to stay on the road, going over it.
Evan
Everyone's going to hit you or something.
Ben
Always on your toes. Yeah, that was. That was a beautiful moment, dude.
Evan
Cormorant has great Car culture really does. I mean, it's pretty much not to pump our own tires all because of us, but, like, we got.
Ken
It is just us.
Evan
To be fair.
Ben
There's no one else here.
Evan
We got a lot of variation in cars and a lot of different cool cars and all these different sorts of genres, you know?
Ben
Yeah.
Evan
Like, you went to Fargo. We'd have a better car show right here than you'd ever see in Fargo.
Jake
When the whole band's here. We were talking. The only thing we're literally missing is a Porsche. Like, we had a corvette. You had a camaro.
Ken
There's pretty much everything.
Jake
Gtr, Lambo.
Evan
I feel like none of us are Porsche guys.
Jake
Yeah.
Evan
Maybe I could see maybe like, Ryan or Ken having one, But I could whip a 911.
Ben
I could see Evan, that.
Evan
I just feel like Porsches are for, like, you gotta be, like, proper, you know? You know, like, you're just like, I'm not proper. You're more of a el camino kind of guy.
Jake
Yeah.
Mike
I mean, I understand. Yeah.
Evan
Or like, honestly, like a Lamborghini. Like huracan. Like, that's your style, you know, like punk. But like the Porsche. Yeah.
Jake
I mean, Evan's more Gallardo. Yeah.
Mike
What did bam. What was bam's purple one? I could run one of those.
Evan
Yeah, that too.
Ben
Cut the sunroof in it.
Mike
I don't need a sunroof.
Evan
Ev would look good in a Gallardo.
Ben
Yeah, you would. Purple.
Evan
You could probably honestly trade your raptor and the el camino for a gallardo.
Jake
And it's all wheel drive. You should do that. That'd be super sick. Put your snowmobile on.
Evan
You could. It just would not be nearly as reliable, and it probably break down and cost you a ton of maintenance.
Mike
Most fun car decisions aren't based off reliability exactly.
Evan
Well, I'm just saying it's something you got in your back pocket. Trade them both in.
Mike
Maybe make it through winter.
Evan
Yeah.
Mike
Run the trucks for the winter. It's nice.
Evan
Now.
Mike
I got a few options. Got the Chevy that's running great now. So maybe a different truck every day of the week Coming up here soon.
Ben
Are you gonna drive the el camino this winter?
Jake
Is it four wheel drive?
Mike
No. I want to say no, but I think I'll have to put a few miles on it this winter.
Ben
Throw the sled in the back.
Evan
Oh, my gosh. Or you could get some, like, off road tires, Put it on, like, just smaller wheels, bigger tires. And now it's lifted and has more clearance and, you know, usability.
Mike
Very easy conversion from Donk to dirt.
Evan
Yeah. Swap it. You could keep.
Ken
No one has said that in the back.
Evan
You could always be able to swap.
CJ
It's the title of, like, your article from Donked Dirt. Evan Chef.
Ryan
Yeah.
Evan
On motorcycle car world.
Mike
Imagine, like. Like, driving it on Donk, set up, like, to the Moab and then just swapping the wheels on the parking lot and going up all the hills. Drive it, pull out, switcheroo, and take off.
Ken
Switcheroo.
Ben
Yeah, that'd be. That'd be pretty sweet, though. It's like a little Baja build.
Mike
It's just like the ultimate. Everyone would be ripping, like, what can you do with that, Don? Give me two minutes. NASCAR pit stop. The wheels, unstoppable rig.
Ben
I've had a little bit of downtime since my surgery. I've been watching a lot of football documentaries and a lot of Of NASCAR documentaries, and here's what I've learned. Little spark notes. Dale Earnhardt senior was a legend. I just watched. No, no, no.
Evan
I saw his entire life story.
CJ
He like, as like, you're just born knowing. Dale Earnhardt senior is a legend.
Ben
Do you know why, though?
Ken
He was the best.
CJ
Yeah, I guess he was just.
Evan
Have you ever watched him race?
Jake
Have I ever watched him race? No, I haven't watched him race, but.
Ken
We just know he's the best.
CJ
Yeah, true.
Evan
All right.
CJ
If you do ask a lot of people about that, they'll be like, yeah, I mean, I got. I saw the crash.
Ben
Ryan maybe cut the nascar. Okay.
Ken
He's like, that was trash.
Mike
I wish the mic wasn't recording for that one.
Ken
Yeah.
Evan
Ken, you already stopped and started it again, right? Yeah, he just saw Ben open his mouth. He hit the fucking.
Ken
We're done here.
Evan
I'm going to save Ryan the time.
Ben
All right, somebody else take over. I'm running over.
CJ
Oh, okay. I. I don't know. Can you articulate this story, Jake? So Jake learned to skydive alone, I guess.
Jake
Yeah.
CJ
Like, solo. And that was dope to me. I want to do that. And then you did it.
Jake
So. Okay, so when I went to Hawaii, we went skydiving there. It's tandem, you know, you're bolted up to someone. And so we go up to, like, 10,000ft. The door opens, and you are just looking at ocean. And I'm like, holy. Like, at that moment, I was like, all right, this is it. Like, and they don't let you, like, bail when you're tandemed up. Like, you're going, yeah. And so the first lady that goes. She was like, crying, like, this is it.
Ken
And the dude just yeets her out the door. She's gone. And I'm like, okay, this is sweet.
Jake
So I like, bail with the guy, and I just like. You know when you're like, breath takes away and you're free falling for maybe a couple seconds, then you get it back. And I was like, holy cow. That was the biggest adrenaline rush, like, I've ever had in my entire life. I'm like, I want to learn how a solo. Like, I love this. I'm in Hawaii. I sign up for back here.
Ken
I'm like, instantly.
Jake
I'm like, as soon as I get home, I'm learning to skydive. I want to do this. You take, like, eight hours of class. You learn, like. So for those of you who don't know how to parachute works like, you have two parachutes. Actually, you got one that is your main shoot. And if you're like a certified packer, you repack yourself. Yeah.
Ben
Hey, my buddy Ev's a certified packer.
Ken
Anyways, carry on. So.
Jake
And then over here. So let's say it's like a. A red and a green handle. You pull the red if your shoot fails. And like, let's say it gets tangled up, you pull the red and then you pull the green, which is your backup shoot, right? And that one is like, it. It never should fail it. It's like, you got to get it certified back perfectly. Packed perfectly.
Ken
You gotta. Will you just let this story go, buddy? What's going on? This is a good story.
Ben
Please just stop saying certified packer.
Ken
Okay?
Jake
Certified.
Ken
All right, so it's got to be.
Jake
Packed by someone higher up than just a normal.
Ken
Guys, this is a good story.
Evan
Keep going. Just don't. Don't let these guys ruin.
Ken
Okay. Yeah, don't. Don't ruin my moment here.
Jake
Anyways, you got. So I go through the class, and before you go up, you go upstairs and you just have. Yeah, here, I'll get this fixed real quick. Okay. So you go upstairs and you have to practice like, oh, you got a failure. Pull, pull, pull, pull. Right? So if you pull the back up. Well, this one's still connected. Now you're gonna have, like, a double tangle. So you practice that a whole bunch. And how it works is when you learn, you do static line first. So you just have your pull cord attached to the plane. And granted, when I was in Hawaii.
CJ
Makes sense.
Jake
When I was in Hawaii, we had like, the Mack Daddy setup. So it was like a gutted giant plane with a hatch door. Walk in the round room. You can bail where I was at. Get attached to the plane. They open the door and you hang from the wing and you let go. Like you have to. You like. It's no different than my dad's plane. You know how there's that little footstool.
CJ
Yeah.
Jake
They make, like, a bigger platform. You're flying. You open the door, you stand on the footstool, you grab the wing, and you crawl your way out to the end so you don't hit the back of the plane.
Evan
I've always wondered what happens if you fall. Then you'll get hit by the back of the plane. Like, if you.
Jake
You probably get lucky and you. You go down faster than you think, but. So they hook you up. Static line, which is like. There's no chord. Like pull cord yourself. It's just like when you leave the plane.
CJ
That makes me. I didn't know that. It makes me feel a lot better like, that it just happens.
Jake
Yeah, because you learn to fly before you dive.
CJ
Yeah, that makes sense.
Jake
So basically, when we were taking our classes, let's say this guy's name is Mike, and my other buddy's name is John. So John was in the army, and he's done, like, trooper stuff. A lot of static line, but they have round shoots, so they just go straight down. Mike was just, like, so worried. He's like, man, I just. I feel like my. My shoot's gonna fail. Like, I. I just don't know. And he's like, dude, it happens in, like, one in every 25, 000 people. It's not gonna happen to you.
Ben
That's how rare it is.
Jake
Yeah, I don't know the exact statistic. And there's probably tons of skydive people out there that. No, it doesn't happen often. It's like one in a lot.
CJ
Right.
Evan
Okay.
Jake
He's like, just worried. This is all he's talking about during class. All he's talking.
Evan
He needs to get out of there, man. Yeah, same for you.
Mike
Him.
CJ
A little bit. A little bit.
Jake
And he's just.
Ken
Yeah.
Jake
Kind of just like psyching himself out, you know, when you overthink something. So finally it's us three. We're going up. And John was like, yo, you want me to bail first? Just so you can kind of see, like, how to get out on the wing. So I've done this. I'm like, yeah, that's perfect. So you have a headset on with speakers, because then there's a guy on the ground telling you where to Go how to fly, where the landing zone is and all that.
CJ
This is your first solo?
Jake
This is my first solo ever. Static line, and he's crawling out in the wing, and the pilots, like, this.
Ken
Bails, and he is gone.
Jake
And I'm like, holy crap. I'm, like, trying to see him, like, okay, his shoot opened. He's flying. So I, like, get out there. They hook up my static line, and I'm hanging from the wing, and I'm.
Ken
Like, this is terrifying. I'm hanging onto an airplane, and he's like, let go. And I literally, like, close my eyes, and I just bail. And I'm, like, climbing an invisible ladder. I'm like, I knew I messed up because you're supposed to, like, get free. And also, my shoot opens, and I'm.
Jake
Like, I'm chilling, right? I'm flying, and Mike's way down there.
Ken
I'm like, yo, what up? Just, like, we're all chilling or. No, sorry, John's down there.
Jake
We're all chilling, and all sudden we're.
Ken
Like, trying to scream, like, where's John? We see just, like, shoots off. Like, holy. John's or. Mike's dead. Mike's dead? Yeah. Just, like, flew out of nowhere. Tangled shoot. Like, this is a mess. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And we can hear the guy in the ground. He's like, mike, green one, red one. Like, telling him how to do it. He's like, pull. Like, just screaming at him, like, pull the levers in order, like, green, red, or red, green, whatever it is.
Jake
And he's, like, getting closer and closer and closer to the ground. And we're like, like, oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Ken
Oh, my God.
CJ
Safe at this point. But you're scared.
Ken
Yeah, I'm scared. I'm just, like, flying, Like, I'm not even watching that. I'm driving a parachute right now. I'm watching Mike go to the ground.
Jake
At Mach 1000 right now.
Mike
Right.
Ken
Right before, like, I'm talking, he was.
Jake
Probably way closer or not as close to the ground as it seemed. But I'm like. I'm about to just watch a guy just hit the ground.
Ken
All of a sudden, we see a shoot disappear. Back up, shoot opens.
Jake
And he, like, made it to the ground way faster than us.
Evan
Us.
Jake
And we're like, okay, Mike's good.
CJ
He's.
Jake
He's chilling. So John lands. I come in. I land, and, dude, when I landed, here's the thing. So, like, when you come in, you're supposed to, like, flare it last second to like, kind of pick you up, and then you run out.
Ken
I did it way too high, and.
Jake
I just probably fell from, like, 8ft out of the air, and it. It hurts.
Ken
Anyway, so we're like. We get there, like, yo, that was sick. You know, we get to, like.
Jake
We get to go again. Do it a couple times, Practice, like, letting go and stuff.
Ken
Like, where's Mike?
Evan
He was done.
Jake
There's literally a parachute pile in his suit on the ground.
Ken
Dude, he crapped his pants in his suit, got in his car, left, told no one.
Ryan
Oh.
Jake
Oh.
CJ
Are we surprised that he pooped his pants? No. I would have, but the fact that he just dipped.
Ken
Gone. When you see someone hauling past you, you're just like, oh, man, that. That ain't good.
Mike
That is a truly crazy experience to witness. Like, that. Yeah, well, saying it's not.
Ken
It was sweet for us because we're.
Jake
Like, oh, another 25, 000 before that happens. So we're good to go.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
Oh, it is one.
Mike
That's kind of common. Yeah. Like, if the lottery was one in a thousand, I'd be buying so many tickets.
CJ
Big props to you for just. Just doing it. I'd say, from going tandem, like, lots of people do that. It's, like, almost a tourist thing. I know you still got to get your nerves up for it a lot, but, like, to go solo, I maybe.
Jake
Did, like, 10 static line jumps, which is just, like, alone. And you need, like, X amount of jumps before they teach you how to fly and pull alone. But your first time pulling alone, you got two dudes bailing with you. Just case anything goes haywire, they'll, like, straighten you out.
CJ
Yeah. Are you pulling out, like, a life insurance loan or.
Jake
Yeah, I don't know. You want to know something really funny? After I literally went skydiving, my mom did, like, have me sign a thing and put a life insurance policy on. Yeah.
CJ
That's honestly surprising.
Evan
It was fun. It was just then.
Ken
Yeah.
Jake
No kid.
Evan
She would have taken that out a while ago. Yeah.
Jake
But it was crazy. Like, Hawaii was such a cool experience. So, like, I think when I jumped alone, we were between, like, I don't know, maybe 5,000ft or three or seven somewhere low. We were in Hawaii. We were like, 10, 12. You are so high and falling for so long. And the dude that I jumped with with had done over, like, 5,000 jumps, and he's like, how squirrely you want to get? And I'm just, you know, being like.
Evan
Dude, do whatever you want.
Jake
Like, just make us. He had me spinning so fast.
Ken
I think so.
Jake
He's had a watch to show your mile per hour. We were like going like 115 straight down. Spinning.
Ken
I'm like, just like hanging on for dear life.
Jake
And then he just rips cord and dude, talk about the biggest wedgie of your life. Like, going from that fast to just a shoot and, like, you are gone.
Ben
But yeah, I was gonna say, like.
Evan
Is it kind of whiplashy?
CJ
Like, in a way it looks like it kind of.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
You go from 115 to what, like, you know, 30?
Jake
I will say if you guys get the chance, I would just do tandem with someone. Like, someone's got a bunch. It's so fun. No, ev. You would? Nope.
Ben
You don't want to?
Jake
Nope. Why not?
Ben
Even if it was hard?
Mike
No.
Jake
What do we have to do to.
Ken
Get you to do.
CJ
How much money would it take?
Jake
Yeah.
CJ
How many El Caminos?
Ken
A lot.
Jake
What? Okay, let's start here. 10,000 bucks cash.
CJ
No, no.
Ken
Really?
Ben
Out of everything you do that's like wild and reckless?
Mike
Well, first off, I don't even like the thought I'd be going with someone else because I don't like. And they'll let this jack offs in control of my life. Highly experienced, knows exactly what he's doing. Still don't trust him.
Evan
Fair.
Mike
I don't. No, no. I don't like heights, dude.
Ben
I know. I just find that so shocking that, like, you're okay with doing everything that you do, but you wouldn't strap yourself to somebody who is, like, made their profession doing that.
Mike
I don't like roller coasters. Like, little kids enjoy those all the time. I don't like that.
Ben
One day when we take an R6 skydiving, then you'll do it.
Ken
No, the first R6 guy.
Mike
Because in order to take an R6 skydiving,' I'm probably gonna have to drive, get all certified and do a. I'll be like, yeah, no, I'd rather like jump it off like a couple hundred foot cliff into the water and roll the dice on landing, then jump out.
Ben
With a parachute with like 100%, like a 99.8% certainty that you're gonna be okay versus jumping it off into the water. That is like, guarantee.
Mike
I'm gonna dice on that.
CJ
The absolute gamble that all of those things are. And the one has such better odds. But you're like, no, listen, I like. I like my skydiving. How I like my pull tabs. Let's do.
Mike
No, I think it'd be the opposite.
CJ
Well, I don't like, pull tabs. Anytime you play pull tabs, there's, like, a one in thousand chance you lose or, sorry, you win. So there's 999 times that you lose.
Ben
Dude, me and Jake were on an absolute heater the other night.
Mike
Don't forget about me.
Ben
You were too f. Yeah. I don't know, though. I just. I get where you're coming from, being that you're, like, afraid of heights, obviously, but it just seems, like, so foolproof.
Jake
I smell a title and thumbnail coming up.
Mike
So all you guys are down.
CJ
Yeah.
Ben
To go skydiving.
Mike
She's, like, not even bad. And I, like.
Evan
I mean, run it tomorrow. Let's just do it.
Ben
I would do it if we were.
CJ
Like, but would you do it?
Ben
I don't think it's that crazy, and I don't think it's, like, special at all. The only thing that'd be entertaining about it is getting you. Yeah.
CJ
Yeah. Well, I was like, would you do it?
Mike
That doesn't sound bad.
CJ
Entertaining.
Mike
I don't even think anyone would want to watch that. It'd be.
Evan
Oh, it'd be hilarious. I can just see, like, the guy being like, all right, it's ready to go. We got a GoPro, like, just facing his face, and he's like, so.
CJ
I like to think I would have.
Mike
To shit in my pants. And my.
Evan
Shoot, you've been shitting your pants.
CJ
I like to think that if you guys ever saw Jackass 4, I don't know if it's in 4.5 or 4, but when dark Shark, when they. When they prank him into going skydiving, I'd like to think that if we. If it ever happens, it'll be as entertaining, if not more entertaining than that.
Mike
I'm gonna, like, bring a pair of handcuffs and handcuff myself to the plane so I can't possibly get tossed out.
CJ
Something tells me, like, you're not kidding about.
Mike
I don't like planes. I'd be pretty shitty to be stuck in a plane, though, man. Let's just keep that idea way on the back burner.
Ben
I would love to go skydiving with an R6, though. I think that's, like, the last thing to do with it. I mean, it's.
CJ
It's.
Ben
You know, it's been in the mountains, it's been in Moab.
Evan
Tried going on the water.
Ben
Tried going on the water. Last thing is air.
Mike
I mean, that was kind of, like, three locations.
Evan
Yeah. I feel like we're missing the moon.
Mike
Yeah, I. I'm down for like a spaceship ride up to the moon. Rip around up there. Probably be cool.
Ben
That would be so cool. That would be so cool. We'd do that.
Evan
And then people be like, wow, still only one. One video a week.
Ken
How do you guys not do all.
Evan
Week to make a video and all you can make is one?
CJ
It's up on the moon. Like, there's like no air. They're like. It seems like it's running a little rich. I think R6 is running rich.
Mike
We get to the moon and the master link comes off.
Evan
We didn't even bring an extra six.
Ken
Anyone got a spare master?
Mike
We start sourcing on R6, we go back to Earth.
CJ
Is there?
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
Venus is closer.
Ben
Can. All right, get on and find one. Looks like there's. Oh, there's one on Venus. There's one.
CJ
I love that.
Ken
Elon delivery.
Mike
One on Mars is a little pounded on, but we might be able to kick him in the nuts on it.
CJ
We got to the moon and like, yeah, Ken already had us in the back of the spaceship. And then the Airbnb kind of sucks. I'm not gonna lie.
Ben
The space station.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
Big wrench is out there with a full on space suit trying to work.
Ken
On this thing floating away.
CJ
Yeah. Believe it or not, he already knew how to space weld.
Mike
But we make a trip to the cormorant store from the moon for some wing nests.
Evan
Oh, that's good.
Ben
If there's anyone out there, though, that can take the R6 skydiving reach out to us.
Mike
I'm not coming with you. I'll watch it from the ground. Have a couple Tonys.
CJ
You'd have to have a couple Tony.
Mike
Maybe pile me up. Good enough. Strap me to the guy. Yeah, I'm probably short enough. I'd be strapped to the front of him like a baby carriage.
Evan
They land Evan speed on the ground. He's carrying him around, walking around with.
CJ
Him, but he's just.
Evan
He's just hanging. He's got the biggest wedgie. Reggie.
Mike
Do you think they'd let me do it like on anesthesia? Then I'm down.
CJ
Oh, my gosh. That'd be like disturbing you.
Ben
Just horse tranquilizers.
Mike
Yeah, that's fine. What are those? Quaaludes? Give me some of those and we'll run it.
CJ
Where the hell are we gonna get those?
Mike
I don't know. I was hoping you wouldn't be able to. So I don't have to do it.
Ben
Stay tuned for that. That'll be pretty good.
Evan
Shut up, Kenya. He's got a little smile. Ken tries going, oh, it stopped recording right before the end of the podcast. Honestly, guys, that went well. You know, we could have had two. We'd have been two podcasts ahead. Good job, everyone. Jake, I appreciate you coming on, dude.
Jake
Thanks for having me. I. Yeah, I didn't really. Ben hit me up. He's like, yo, we're running a pot at one. I'm like, I haven't even thought about it. But you really don't have to. And we get all together, it just kind of goes.
Evan
It's easy.
Ben
Damn, Mike.
CJ
Oh, that was too good.
Jake
Yeah.
Evan
All right, guys, thanks for. Thanks for listening.
Jake
Thanks for having me.
Evan
Peace.
Jake
Peace.
Episode: Evan's Late Night Stunt Caught on Security Camera
Date: September 26, 2023
This episode of the Life Wide Open podcast with CboysTV is a lively, comedic roundtable featuring CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah, and homie-guest Jake. The crew banters about recent blunders (including not recording the first run of the podcast), wild car stories, Cboys’ finances, weight loss journeys, viral social media mishaps, risky late-night stunts, and skydiving tales. The group shares business and life philosophies amid classic, chaotic CboysTV humor.
On Recording Mishaps
On Ryan’s Podcast Profit
Jake’s Weight Loss Tips
Joking about Car Accidents
Risky Stunts in the Shop
Financial Recklessness
Skydiving and Facing Fears
Trip/Cannonball Run Pitch
The tone is irreverent, sarcastic, and fast-paced—classic CboysTV—with the friends openly roasting and supporting each other. The podcast blends storytelling, confession, and classic “shop talk,” leaning heavily into the group’s Midwest bro energy. There’s frequent crosstalk, good-natured bullying, and surprisingly thoughtful reflections on ambition, risk, and friendship.
Overall:
This is classic Cboys content—equal parts hilarious, reckless, and weirdly insightful—managing to blend car stories, homegrown business, and life advice in a podcast that’s as much about group chemistry as its wildest stunts.