Exposing Our Childhood Youtube Videos

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Podcast Summary: "Exposing Our Childhood Youtube Videos"

Life Wide Open with CboysTV
Date: November 21, 2023
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah (CboysTV)

Overview

This episode takes listeners on a nostalgic and humorous journey through the CboysTV crew's childhood and early YouTube days. The group reminisces about their formative years, viral trends, wild stunts, and the evolution of internet culture. Alongside these stories, the group touches on recent internet phenomena, dangerous adventures, and the unique identities of being Midwest boys growing up online.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. TikTok, Social Algorithms, and Trends

• Personalized Feeds: The guys discuss how their TikTok feeds differ, often reflecting their humor and personal interests—or, in Ken's case, being inexplicably full of dancing Latina women.
  • Ken: "Weird. Mine's only Latino women dancing." (02:00)
• Algorithm Issues: Sharing accounts and refusing to reset or retrain one's feed leads to entertaining frustrations.
• CboysTV’s TikTok Deleted: They share the recent, abrupt deletion of their TikTok account (600,000 followers) with no explanation, and joke about the inconveniences it caused (03:06).
• Time-Wasting & Fast Content: Commentary on how TikTok and similar platforms have refashioned attention spans, including the prevalence of fast-forwarding and why creators make longer videos for monetization.
  • Evan: "We're intaking these short videos at double time... now we're getting through twice the TikToks in half the time." (04:02)

2. Viral Internet Trends from Their Childhood

• Planking and Other Fads: The crew recalls the planking trend—lying stiff as a board in random places—and how each trend was accessible to everyone, unlike many TikTok challenges now (13:13).
  • Ryan: "This is, you know, some real taste of a trend where you'd just go to random places and you would just plank as a board." (13:59)
• References to Tebowing and Faith Healing: They discuss the order and absurdity of various trends.
• Old YouTube Videos: Several anecdotes about their earliest Youtube uploads, including stunts gone awry, like bike and pogo stick accidents (15:18, 17:52).
  • Ken: "I titled it Funny Bike Crash 3x4 exclamation points. You did turn off comments, though. Why?" (15:25)
  • Ryan: “Me and CJ had this friend, Matt... the most interesting man alive. He went through his stunt phase, fashion phase, dirt bike, workout..." (15:43)

3. Local Hangouts, Childhood Freedom, and 'The Spot'

• Each member describes their own "spot" growing up—a makeshift hangout for bike jumps, bonfires, and secret stashes (11:06, 11:48).
• Stories highlight the universal childhood experience of making an outdoor "base" with whatever could be scavenged.

4. YouTube, Monetization, and Internet Fame

• The team criticizes former YouTube and TikTok monetization tricks, like stretching content unnecessarily.
• They express gratitude for never falling prey to obvious internet money grabs, such as NFT shilling.
  • Ken: "A lot of these YouTubers are pretty quiet that sold NFTs. Doing anything with them? They just pocketed the money and half of them don't even post." (40:26)

5. Wild Stunts, Parkour, and Physical Risks

• Parkour Fails and Danger: Fascination and fear of parkour, with admiration for viral parkour stars, but acknowledgment of the real dangers.
  • Ryan: "Can you look up a stat for me and just see how many people die a year from trying to parkour?" (07:47)
  • Ken finds a “42 a year” figure—dubiously sourced.
• Personal Stunt Phases: Sharing how their own youthful attempts at stunts (wall flips, backflips, pogo and bike tricks) rarely achieved the viral success seen on YouTube and often ended with minor injuries (17:52).
• Cliff Jumping & Heights: Some guys admit they're not fans, others (like Evan) loved it (10:53).

6. F1 in Las Vegas and Motorsports

• Vegas F1 Complaints: Dissection of the controversies around the recent F1 race in Vegas, including massive disruptions, ticketing snafus, and technical mishaps (27:07–28:13).
  • Ryan: "Everyone that paid like thousands and thousands of dollars straight up just got, like, booted out... offered $200 for a merch voucher." (28:03)
• Motorsport Culture: Differences in racing cultures, discussing how F1 is seen as a hobby for the wealthy while off-road events like the Baja 1000 are more accessible and raw (26:47–27:39).
• F1 Technology and Physicality: The physical demands of being an F1 driver (not just driving at 200+ mph but enduring 4–6 Gs in corners) and how most drivers are small, lightweight, and insanely fit (32:13).
  • Ken: "They can pull four to six Gs while cornering." (32:10)
  • Mike: "Pretty impressive for sitting in a seat. That's more than a full blown workout." (32:30)

7. Baja 1000, Off-Road Racing, and True “Built Different” Mentalities

• Solo Rider Legend: Inspiring story of a man who bought a dirt bike in San Diego, rode to Baja, and completed the 1000-mile race solo, relying on strangers’ support (34:15–34:56).
• Dangers and Documentation: Baja is incredibly dangerous, under-documented, and often fraught with unpredictable hazards like trophy trucks overtaking motorcycles (35:44–36:12).

8. Changing Retail: YouTuber Merch in Malls

• YouTubers at Zoomies: Noticing the normalization of YouTuber merch in formerly skate-centric retail stores like Zoomies and Spencer’s—contrasting current acceptance with past skepticism (41:41–42:21).
  • Ryan: "Who would you rather buy merch from...a YouTuber that you actually get free entertainment from...or a random brand?" (41:59)
• Malls as Outdated: Mild mockery and nostalgia for mall culture and skate culture gatekeeping (“kick-flip on the board in the shop or get bullied”) (43:01).

9. Evolving Language and Social Labels

• Cultural Shifts: They joke about "Cheeto" (as a term for something bunk or uncool), the demise of names like "Karen," and the midwestern origins of certain name trends (44:03–47:14).
  • Evan: "You got some Cheeto shoes on. What does that mean? Then you're just like, ah, it means you got like bunk ass shoes." (44:19)

10. Dreams, Sleep, and Random Tangents

• King Beds & Big Nights’ Sleep: Evan proudly unveils his new king bed, with the group riffing on fitting Ken’s "big nuts" in it (50:32).
• Dreams & Memory: The group discusses whether they remember dreams, with Mike vividly recalling his and the rest usually forgetting (52:06).
  • Mike: "It's a bummer, too, because nobody gives a shit about dreams. I could tell a lot of interesting dream stories..." (52:57)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On TikTok Trends:
  • Ken: "Weird. Mine's only Latino women dancing." (02:00)
  • Ryan: "That's so annoying, man." (02:16)
• Old YouTube Glory Days:
  • Ken: "I titled it Funny Bike Crash 3x4 exclamation points." (15:25)
  • Ryan: "Me and CJ had this friend, Matt. ...the most interesting man alive." (15:43)
• Parkour Dangers:
  • Ken: "There's a Reddit stat that is completely made up, but it says 42 a year." (08:24)
• F1 Racing Physicality:
  • Ken: "They can pull four to six Gs while cornering." (32:10)
  • Mike: "Pretty impressive for sitting in a seat. That's more than a full blown workout." (32:30)
• NFTs and Blindness:
  • Mike: "NFTs. ...Board Ape had this festival...used the wrong type of UV light...60 some people sought treatment because their corneas were burned." (38:01–38:53)
• Childhood ‘The Spot’:
  • Ryan: "Just a classic. And we just called it the Spot. You go into the Spot after school?" (12:16)
• Cultural Gatekeeping:
  • Evan: "If you go to the local skate shop, they're like...kickflip it right now." (42:51)
• On YouTuber Merch in Retail:
  • Ryan: "Who would you rather buy merch from...a YouTuber that you actually get free entertainment from...or a random brand?" (41:59)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:59] – Ken's gambling winnings & TikTok account deletion
• [03:28] – Screenshots & time-wasting on TikTok
• [07:47] – Parkour death stats & stories
• [11:48] – The childhood “spot”; makeshift hangouts
• [13:13] – Planking and other viral trends
• [15:18] – Reviewing and laughing at old YouTube stunt videos
• [23:03] – Drag racing stunts and consequences
• [27:07] – F1 in Vegas: event issues, social commentary
• [34:15] – Story of the Baja 1000 Ironman solo rider
• [40:26] – NFT festival accident and the fate of internet cash-grabs
• [41:41] – YouTuber merchandise in mall stores
• [47:00] – Decline of the name "Karen"; census discussion
• [50:32] – The joy of having a king-sized bed
• [51:31] – Remembering (or forgetting) dreams

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Tone and Style

The episode is casual, self-deprecating, and full of the unique Midwest humor that defines the CboysTV brand. Banter is rapid-fire, playful, and filled with inside jokes, nostalgia, and gentle ribbing.

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Summary

For fans and newcomers alike, this episode is a warm, hilarious trip down memory lane and a sharp look at how internet culture, viral trends, and boyhood antics continue to shape the CboysTV crew—and, by extension, a whole generation who grew up online. With memorable anecdotes, discussions of the dangers (and joys) of stunting for the camera, and plenty of asides about merch, names, and dreams, it’s both an entertaining episode and a celebration of the evolving story of being a content creator in the Midwest.

Transcript

[Ken]

Ken, I saw you, like, getting robbed by some chicks last night or what was the deal there? What, like, taking your money?

Oh, yeah, your. Your girlfriend's friends. She was. She was just like. Kept asking for money and I just had to keep giving her cash.

[Ryan]

Why?

[Ken]

You didn't have to. Yeah. What?

Yeah, she had a. She had a. Under the table.

Did she really? Or was it. Were you just giving her the money because she's cute?

You caught me.

[Ryan]

How much money?

[Ken]

Like 600 bucks.

And she just like, hey, just keep handing me cash. And I was like, jesus Christ. Okay, so just.

She was not only using it for your clout, but then she kept the money.

[Ryan]

Damn.

[Ken]

No, no, I took the money back.

[Ryan]

Oh, you did get the money back.

[Ken]

Okay.

Wow.

The way Alex was telling me about it was that you. She just took the money and you. You gave her a bunch of money.

That was my. My gambling money.

[Mike]

So do you always keep a couple hundred on you for gambling?

[Ken]

Well, no, I won, so I had.

Some cash on me and giving it out to the ladies and always strapped.

[Evan]

Yeah, Ken won big on pull tabs last week and was just flexing it to everyone. So I'm not surprised that people know you have money.

[Ken]

How much money do you win? Can.

700 bones.

Damn, Ken. Wow, Good for you, man.

[Ryan]

Dude, I'm on a complete different social trend than my girlfriend. Like, everything that she says, I have no idea what she's talking about. Same with Ryan. I'm on a complete different social trend as Ryan too. Like, he's always talking about, like, these TikTok tick tock trends, and that's going on. One, I'm not even studying tick tock, but two, I have no clue what anyone is ever talking about, ever, when it comes to tick tock.

[Mike]

I think my tick tock is vastly different than my girlfriend's. My girlfriend's has, like Alondra's has, you know, people that she follows and keeps up on. It's food reviews and like, fashion stuff and all that. And all mine is. Is like classic dudes like us with just one off Tik Toks doing something really funny. Like, I saw one and a guy, he's holding a deer head, and then the deer, like, comes around the corner and sees it, and it's like a mounted deer, and he's holding the mounted deer head, and the deer looks at him and then runs away. Like, that's my type of humor, you know?

[Ken]

Weird. Mine's only Latino women dancing.

[Ryan]

That's interesting.

[Mike]

I don't. I don't know why?

[Ken]

Cuz I don't like it, you know?

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's weird that they would keep serving you. I don't know why.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Do you and anybody share an account?

[Ken]

No.

[Mike]

Just you?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I don't know.

[Ken]

It's weird.

[Ryan]

Like, God, that's annoying.

[Ken]

Everyone gets their own thing.

[Ryan]

That's so annoying, man.

[Evan]

I'm like, yeah, okay, so long. Press it and then press. Not interested. CJ's like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to.

[Ken]

Like, it'll eventually figure itself out.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Trying to mess up his algorithm. That is perfectly crafted. Yeah.

[Evan]

If this is what it's serving me, this is what it served. That's how mine is. Mine is just like, whatever.

[Ken]

Latina women.

[Evan]

No, no, no. But whatever it's giving me is like, whatever. Like, I really do enjoy. Like, I don't really scroll past a lot, which maybe is a bad thing. But, like, you know, I watch some people watching their TikToks, and they're like, me, me, me, watch them. Me. And I'm like, I'm watching almost every single one because it feels very curated, very entertaining to me.

[Ryan]

Our TikTok got deleted the other day. Our C Boys TikTok, which is really weird. I really don't understand that app and what works and what doesn't, but they just straight up just deleted our account.

[Mike]

600,000 followers to just gone.

[Ryan]

No explanation or anything. So after that, like, I. I didn't even have, like, that's like, the only account that I had access to. So, like, every time my girlfriend would send me a TikTok, I'd be like, I can't watch it. I don't have a TikTok. Because I would just use C Boys. And then it got deleted. So she would just send me screenshots of, like, the most important part of it.

[Mike]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

That's dedication. I'd be like, okay, all right, I'll just explain this in person. But. But here's like, the. The gist of the Tik Tok. I'm like, why are you sending me this?

[Mike]

And you just couldn't download your own Tik Tok?

[Ryan]

I just didn't want to.

[Mike]

Yeah, I feel that it's a pretty big time waster.

[Ken]

Huge, huge time waster.

[Mike]

It is funny, though, that you watch them all, Mike. I mean, I would agree. I do too, but people's attention span has gotten so short. Whenever there's a long Tik Tok. You can fast forward them now. They're like a minute max. I mean, you can, you can make them longer, but typically they're under a minute and people fast forward through that.

[Evan]

They just, if you hold the screen, it'll go twice as fast. I'm like, now, now we're intaking these short videos at double time. It's just insane.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Ken]

Get through twice the tick tocks in half the time.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's good though, because these, some of them tick tockers are so goddamn annoying. Like I was watching one yesterday that Greta was showing me and it was this guy like cut his railing and he was like, put this thing off of the ceiling. And he was like, all right, I'm gonna, gonna hold on to this and it's gonna lower me down to the second floor. And he wasted a minute being like, oh, this is crazy. This is crazy. Should I do this? Should I do this?

[Mike]

Oh, it's the hype, dude.

[Ryan]

It was like the hype up and I was like, oh my, this, it was driving me insane. I was like, I wish I could just, just one, not even be watching this right now. But two, just skip to the end if it does happen.

[Evan]

That whole toxicness was actually born on Facebook and it is violently worse. Bad dude. I, I mean I've. I don't let it happen much or ever again. But like I really, I really remember sitting through like an eight minute video where they were gonna do something and they didn't do whatever they were gonna do. And it was so lame until 7 minutes and 30 seconds.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I believe the reason that they do it on TikTok is because anything over a minute you can monetize on. So they just, they just stretch it out to be over a minute. Like YouTubers used to do that when, when a video had to be 10 minutes. If it was a nine minute video, they would just do a black screen for the last minute.

[Ken]

That was so dumb.

[Ryan]

It's so dumb.

[Evan]

I'm glad we don' to ever do anything of the sort of that.

[Ryan]

No, no.

[Ken]

I mean, you might as well just quit doing it if you're doing that.

[Mike]

That's what I'm saying.

[Evan]

It's like you're truly in it. I guess for the money could make a couple more minutes of content or could do nothing and reap the benefits.

[Mike]

No, what I love about Instagram and TikTok basically is it's just you can find little things that you would never actually watch, but you get little taste of them. Like I found this guy doing Parkour and I would never watch Parkour. Saw that Kalyn Chan Guy when we were in Utah one time.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Incredibly talented, but not really my goat. I almost said goatee. Not really my go to of things to watch. But I watched this guy in New York and it is certified the craziest shit I have ever seen. I'm about to pull it up for you. Is this Roku? Where the hell's a Roku?

[Ken]

We had two bottom of the line TVs on this podcast.

[Mike]

We got an Amazon Fire TV and a TCL.

[Ken]

The worst. The two worst T TVs you can buy.

[Evan]

The best part about that is Nowadays the worst TVs you can buy nowadays aren't even bad.

[Mike]

Are pretty decent. I saw still pretty Snapchatter that I follow. I don't.

[Evan]

I don't think they are.

[Mike]

And he, he's moving into his like million dollar condo and he's like not going and buying a new TV and he picked up like an 85 inch TCL. Bro, what are you doing? Buy a Samsung Anyway, I got that.

[Ken]

For like 500 bucks though.

[Mike]

Probably because it's only worth 500 bucks. Anyway. Look at this guy jumping off of a building to a pole.

[Evan]

That the way he hopped off was casual. Yeah. I've seen some nutty ones. I saw a guy jump off of a three. It was either three or four story building onto a sand pile.

[Ryan]

What the.

[Ken]

That's not just freaking get shredded.

[Ryan]

What about his back too?

[Mike]

I mean, he just slid down a brick building four stories. And this is honestly not the crazy nuts, man.

[Ken]

These guys just. It's like that feeling when your balls are in your stomach. They're addicted to it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And they have to do something crazier and crazier every time to get that feeling.

[Evan]

Wow. I'm actually really impressed. This guy is a massive resume of scaling multiple story buildings.

[Mike]

This one's crazy. Front flip to the pole. Wow.

[Evan]

I've seen a handful of parkour stuff on Instagram, of course. And this is no joke. This is some of the craziest.

[Mike]

This one's nuts too.

[Ryan]

No, no, it's like what.

[Mike]

What are we doing here?

[Ryan]

Ken, can you look up a stat for me and just see how many people die a year from trying to parkour?

[Ken]

Yeah, that's an interesting stat.

[Mike]

Wait, over under pickleball.

[Evan]

No pickleball. Over. Under pickleball.

[Ryan]

Over pickleball.

[Mike]

Over pickleball. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Die playing pickleball.

[Ken]

I don't know if there's any deaths in you. Just tear your acl.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Scratch up your elbow, maybe take a tumble.

[Ryan]

Well, I'm curious How many people?

[Ken]

I feel like people that die in parkour, they maybe just label it as suicide. Like, they're like, there's no way he was trying to do this.

[Ryan]

He was part.

[Ken]

He was.

[Ryan]

You know.

[Ken]

Is there a stat.

There's a Reddit stat that is completely made up, but it says 42 a year.

[Evan]

That sounds about right.

[Ken]

No, that is literally just somebody throwing a number out there.

42. 42 deaths a year due to parkour.

All Russians.

It's a rather. Rather niche sport.

[Mike]

That's what I figured. That, like, the masses that play pickleball, more people have to.

[Ken]

There is a great danger to parkour.

[Evan]

Yeah. But I feel it is a niche sport. There's a lot of people doing parkour, but it's like more like a wall flip and, you know, like a little gainer off something and pretty chill. That's being like, oh, there's a bunch of people that ride motocross, and then there's like, 10 guys in the world who are doing, like, Mike long distance jumps.

[Ken]

Did you ever have a parkour phase?

[Evan]

Of course.

[Ken]

I could have seen you having a parkour face. Like, you and your buddies going out around town and, like, you, like, tied your shoes super tight, and you were just.

[Evan]

I was like, never. Like, I wouldn't even consider it that, though, because, like, I could never even do, like, a wall flip or.

[Ken]

So you did try.

[Evan]

Yeah, and I. I, like, used to be able to backflip on the ground for, like, a little bit, and then I had one sketch moment where I, like, land on my head, and I'm like, I don't like that anymore.

[Ryan]

Then you had a backflip block.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah, like a. Only like a on the ground backflip block, though.

[Mike]

And you went back to just planking.

[Ken]

Did you get that video I sent? Pull this thing up and watch this guy. This dude's nuts, too.

[Mike]

Oh, this one's crazy.

[Evan]

This guy. And this guy is pretty consistent with his uploads.

[Ryan]

People are like, dude, he does not.

[Ken]

Like, this goes wrong, you're done.

[Ryan]

Well, how does he even know where he's going?

[Ken]

That's what I'm saying is dark.

[Mike]

I mean, restart it.

[Ken]

He jumped over that sidewalk. Like, if he wasn't running fast enough.

[Evan]

That's y.

[Ryan]

That's insane.

[Ken]

You got to.

[Ryan]

Wait, wait, wait. Look at how freaking high that is, dude.

[Evan]

And he has a bunch of those. This one is insane.

[Ken]

He lands in between that. He was perfectly centered.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, he went exactly where he wanted to, but still, dude.

[Evan]

And. But the sheer Height, too. People got to keep in mind, like 150ft is. Is doable for humans, but not if you don't know what you're doing. Just as landing wise and everything.

[Ryan]

Like, you could even landing.

[Ken]

Yeah. That's why, like, he's risking it by having to aim.

[Mike]

I. I'm not a big heights guy. I can't even jump off of like a. Like, I've never even done the high dive at the pool.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well, that hurts.

[Ken]

Yeah, I've never really been a fan of it. Just slap your nuts on the water.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Unless you go, if you got big sack, you're going to slap it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah. Some of us have bigger sacks and all.

[Evan]

Dude, I love it.

[Ken]

I've avoided it.

[Evan]

I love cliff jumping.

[Ken]

Ken uses the stairs to get into the pool.

[Evan]

That stuff is highly addicting. But I mean, it's not for everyone.

[Mike]

I'm intrigued, Mike. What'd you do when you were just. When you were a little fella running around Holly?

[Evan]

Well, there's nowhere to cliff jump. Although I don't know if I've ever talked about this, but we had in Holly, we had a thing called the Spot. We just called it the Spot, and.

[Ken]

Yeah, keep going.

[Ryan]

Sorry, I'm just letting you guys. I just picturing Ken taking the stairs into the pool because his nuts are too big.

[Mike]

And then the pool starts overflowing.

[Evan]

But yeah, I can't even risk, like, just jump in.

[Ryan]

All right, carry on.

[Evan]

No, dude, when I was younger, when me and my hood rat friends doing hood rat stuff, we just had a place called the Spot. And it was next to the river, and we had, you know, bike jumps and bonfire pits and then on.

[Ryan]

Oh, is that where you did your graffiti bridge?

[Evan]

Yeah, like on garbage week, you know, you go grab like couches and chairs and whatever else, and you just. We just bring it there and we would chill there. You know, it's like the classic. Like, someone would bring like a nudie magazine. Oh, really? Nice. Stash that in that tree in the hole so that it doesn't get wet. And just like, we did a lot of BMX stuff. A lot of, like, swimming in the river, jumping the river, like just a classic. And we just called it the Spot. You go into the Spot after school?

[Ken]

Yeah, we had the Spot too. And it was. It was like this, like a dumpster behind this building. And they had tried throwing out a couch. So there was like a couch sitting next to the dumpster, but it was kind of like covered because it's behind the dumpster. And there's like these walls and. And that was the spot for like a week because. Until the garbage man came and took the couch.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

What the hell were you doing there?

[Ken]

You just sat there, man, just chilled. It was like, we're going to the spot.

[Mike]

There's nothing like being a 13 year old boy sitting on an old couch looking at a nudie magazine.

[Evan]

But I mean, it is. It's like every, every young dude's dream to have like your own space. I mean, it's kind of like our dream, you know, I have our own land that you could. So it's like when we could build our own stuff. I don't know who owned the land.

[Mike]

But I was gonna say nobody ever kicked you out of the spot.

[Evan]

It was crazy. It was just across from the trailer park, so we needed to go back to my friend's house. Sometimes we just swim across the river and go to his house.

[Ken]

Oh, cool.

[Evan]

That was great.

[Mike]

Across the river from the trailer park.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Ah, trailer park adjacent.

[Ryan]

Do you guys remember planking?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah, I had a pretty good video.

[Mike]

Did you really?

[Ken]

First videos on YouTube, actually.

[Ryan]

Well, me, you and Matt.

[Mike]

Oh yeah, that's what I'm.

[Ken]

Classic song, man.

[Evan]

Oh yeah. Like the dreamscape or whatever, dude.

[Mike]

Tell me about it. What, what, what happened?

[Ken]

The blanking or the video with Matt?

[Ryan]

It was just insane.

[Ken]

Crazy.

[Evan]

Was the plank a big trend? Because anyone could do it.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's a thing. I never got into it because I. I don't think I could ever really get my body the right way here.

[Ryan]

For, for those of you that don't know what we're talking about. Right?

[Mike]

Yeah, I have.

[Ryan]

There used to be this trend before these stupid ass TikTok trends were a thing.

[Mike]

We had this type of stupid trend.

[Ryan]

Yes, yes. This is, this is, you know, some real taste of a trend where you would just go to random places and you would just plank as a board. You'd be real stiff. Face, face down, face down. And you just prop yourself up in weird places and it's called planking.

[Mike]

And some people did it a lot better than others. Some people would balance. Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like my.

[Mike]

Oh shit.

[Ryan]

Mike's planking. Mike's planking on the podcast Table Spin.

[Mike]

So like you're. You're hanging off more. There you go. From my view.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's a plank. That's a great plank. It's stiff as a board, man.

[Ryan]

So I think it got to the point of like, where's the craziest places that you can plank? And I'd imagine people were probably getting murked off planking in crazy places, too.

[Ken]

Had to have blanking happened after Tim Tebowing, because Tim Tebow was. He was a college quarterback at the time. He was one of the best in the nation. And every time he'd score a touchdown, he'd go like this.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And like, take a knee and do that. And then everyone started doing Tim Tebowing everywhere. They called it T boing. And then it was like planking was next. And then they did faith healing, and faith healing was when you, like, put your boobs up to the area. Stupid, stupid stuff. That was electric, man. It was electric. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Did you find the planking video?

[Ken]

I can't find the planking video, but I did find the video when Matt tried jumping through the swing.

[Ryan]

Oh, play that. So that I sent it to. That's great.

[Ken]

Yeah, 11 years ago. It's got 199 views.

[Mike]

It's.

[Ken]

It's a very clickable title, too, so I don't know why it doesn't have more views. Because it's. I titled it Funny Bike Crash 3x4 exclamation points.

[Mike]

You did turn off comments, though. Why?

[Ken]

We were getting a lot of. A lot of hate.

[Mike]

Yeah, it was a goodn.

[Evan]

Take it, man. I'm excited to see this. It's been a while. This is a. It's a true classic from the Vault.

[Ryan]

Me and C.J. had this friend, Matt. He lived in between us. We've talked about him multiple times on the podcast. He's the most interesting man alive. Actually, I would just love to get him on podcast and just. Just.

[Ken]

Spam call. Sorry.

[Ryan]

It's okay. But anyway, this is Matt. Matt went through a stunt phase. You know, he went through his, like, in weird places phase. We had a planking phase. He had a fashion phase faction.

[Ken]

Oh, fashion. Yeah, that's right.

[Ryan]

A dirt bike stage, workout, everything.

[Ken]

Fishing, all that fishing stage.

[Ryan]

Anyways, but this was his crazy stunt.

[Ken]

Look at. He's wearing a wife beater.

[Evan]

Oh, my. He's got the bars proper on that thing.

[Ken]

Oh, you might have to turn this song off. So this song was, like, popular for montages at the time. And it just.

[Ryan]

That's me. That's me. Oh, you can tell by the Brother J.

[Ken]

He's going to jump through the swing.

[Evan]

Dude.

[Mike]

See, you've been a cameraman.

[Ken]

Terrible camera work. So he gets clipped. He gets clipped. And I panicked and turned the camera. But then here, you can see we're laughing.

[Ryan]

You're literally on the ground laughing. And Matt got The wind knocked out so bad.

[Ken]

God, Ben and I were such little kids.

[Ryan]

Yo, yo. The best part about this is he did it successful the first time.

[Ken]

And then we had him and we.

[Ryan]

Go, yo, you should do it again. Because we knew there's no way he jumped twice.

[Ken]

We were trying to go viral, man. Like, look at those shoes I'm wearing. You just know I'm a little kid with AS6 on like that.

[Evan]

AS6. And the ankle.

[Ken]

And the ankle socks, like the mid ankle socks showing.

[Mike]

Dude, we've always kind of been. I have quite a few videos. Let me pull up. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Do the Pogo videos I've posted to YouTube. Wow.

[Ryan]

Wow, right?

[Ken]

We've been doing this.

[Mike]

We've been doing this. One of them is just my Traxxas RC car driving around in the basement for 23 seconds.

[Ryan]

Do you have the pogo stick video?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Pogo stick. That shit is funny.

[Ryan]

So this is also in Matt's stunt phase, where, okay, so this is like an extreme pogo stick where if you like air it up properly and you weigh enough, you can jump like 10ft in the air. Matt hops up on this retaining wall to jump off of it to try and get more air. And me and CJ sitting in the background right now, who's.

[Ken]

I think I'm in like fifth grade here.

[Mike]

Yeah. So I was behind the camera here. And very shortly, I make a huge mistake and switch to vertical. This was like the biggest stunt too. We couldn't believe that he was pretty stupid that he was about to do such a thing. This is probably a three foot on me. Yeah, that's. That's a three brick. Three high brick retaining wall with a cap. I can't even pogo stick. I can't even pogo stick.

[Ken]

Remember, Ryan, you had a way deeper voice than everyone else.

[Mike]

The damn puberty. That hit me. Oh, yeah. And then C.J. does it first put a flip down.

[Ken]

God dang, dude. What am I doing?

[Evan]

Come on, guys.

[Ken]

Me coaching.

[Mike]

Come on, guys. No way I could even hop on that thing on the ground. Oh, my God. This is. This is not. This is not a good idea at all.

[Ken]

I'm like, cheering and Matt's like, oh, I gotta do this now.

[Ryan]

I got one of them.

[Mike]

Dude, that is so funny. Then I got an old video of C.J. and Ben wakeboarding. Double wakeboarding behind X Star. This is back when we're in our wakeboarding phase.

[Ken]

Oh, so that's pretty fun.

[Mike]

Here's a pretty legendary video. I believe that Ben stole Ken's car in this. I don't know. Ben looks to be legitimately 10.

[Ryan]

I had to have been like 11 years old. Are we listening to Thriller?

[Mike]

I think so, dude. And Ken is nowhere to be seen.

[Ryan]

Where?

[Mike]

Where do you think we stole your car from, Ken?

[Ryan]

I think he was in the back seat. No, that was Justin's BMW.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, that's Justin's BMW.

[Ryan]

Dude, you can hear the subs.

[Ken]

You know that one time.

[Evan]

This is great.

[Ken]

You were about that size, Ben. And then you and Ken were arguing and Ken threatened to like beat you up. But he was like way older than you.

[Evan]

I don't know.

[Ken]

I remember that. And you were like, you can't beat me up.

[Ryan]

I'm too young. Matt went through a workout phase too, where he wanted to get super jacked. So he would do a thousand sit ups and a thousand push ups every single night. But the thousand sit ups was to try and get ABs.

[Mike]

He's in like that David Goggins face.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I thought it probably worked.

[Ryan]

Fucking pissed.

[Evan]

That's a lot.

[Ryan]

That's a lot.

[Evan]

Like, I'm like, how long do you.

[Ryan]

Stick with it for a while? Long enough that like, he should have had abs.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You guys can attest if you're doing a hundred push ups a day, you're gonna notice.

[Mike]

Oh, my gosh. Dude, Matt was the king of phases.

[Ryan]

Dude was.

[Evan]

He had that ROTC phase, the policeman phase. Yep. Dr. Phase.

[Ryan]

Yep. He was going to sniper school. He became like one of the top, top snipers in the nation.

[Ken]

Yeah, he did, actually.

[Evan]

Did he ever have to go overseas?

[Ken]

No, he never got to.

[Ryan]

No. They kicked him out because he wouldn't get the. The backs.

[Evan]

That's right.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

He was one of the top snipers. And they. They kicked him out because he wouldn't get vaccinated.

[Ken]

That's pretty insane if you think about it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

What a wild time to.

[Ken]

And now none of it matters because I don't think they push that on him anymore, do they?

[Evan]

I don't think so.

[Ryan]

I would imagine not.

[Ken]

Yeah. So he should just go back to that.

[Mike]

Yeah. Could he go now?

[Ken]

He's onto it.

[Ryan]

He's a plumber now. I'm sure he's doing it in the most extreme way. Dude, I've been blowing up. Oh, my God. Dude, I bet he's the best plumber in the world, dude.

[Evan]

Yeah. Like, his butt cracks never shown in his life, but now it's just always out.

[Ryan]

He's got his whole ass.

[Ken]

Like, no pants on. He showed up, no pants.

[Mike]

Did you guys see the video of the guy who rode in the back of the drag car at that dragway? I believe it was in Darlington.

[Evan]

Like wrote. Yeah, yeah, like he wrote on the back.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ken]

No, I didn't.

[Evan]

I saw that, bro. Honestly, I was, I was pretty hyped up when I saw it, but even I went, oh, that was kind of stupid, dude.

[Ryan]

They don't even let Ken run his Tesla because it's under a 10 second car and it doesn't have a roll cage. But this guy can somehow hop in the back.

[Mike]

Look at him, dude. It's just, I don't know, like a 50s. Excuse me if I'm wrong, but 50s truck that's obviously really souped up. And he's just hanging on to the bed.

[Evan]

Yeah, he's got his fingers, but they're cool with it.

[Ken]

There's like, oh, he's a helmet on.

[Mike]

Yeah, he's got his helmet on. He's good. And blue jeans, dude.

[Ryan]

Can you imagine this guy tumbling down the dragway?

[Mike]

Just wait, just wait. No, that's a freaking wheelie, dude. No. So he ends up being okay. And it happened at some like exhibition drag night. And it was a YouTuber who did it. JJ. JJ, the boss green. And they ended up getting in a ton of trouble.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Mike]

This dragway got in trouble? They used to have like whatever the drag sanctioning, you know, body is like, cut this dragway off for letting them do that.

[Evan]

Insurance pulled like everything. Yeah. Just for that stunt. Which in my opinion is pretty lame.

[Mike]

That's what I thought.

[Evan]

It's like, okay, we need a slap on the wrist. Probably don't ever let a human be not strapped in.

[Mike]

But like off the bat, I was kind of like, yeah, you know, of course, like they mistreated it, all this stuff. But upon further research, had signed waivers. The track people okayed it. He was like willing and consenting to do it. It wasn't like they put two of them out there. It is kind of messed up sometimes the consequences of an action that someone who's higher up can just decide and pull something away like that. Even though all of the proper things were in place to do such thing.

[Ryan]

Besides, I can't say I'm that surprised. Like, Drag Race guys seem like such hardos.

[Mike]

Yeah. I don't think that's a sport you really mess around in.

[Evan]

That's why I think it was a surprise to see something like that. You, you'd see something like that at A mud fest, like every second.

[Ryan]

Exactly.

[Mike]

You know, the guy would just get away with that.

[Evan]

Right, right, right. And it's just. There's just almost no rules there. But yeah, the drag strip seems like very rule oriented, as it should be.

[Mike]

I feel like mud fests are one of the last uncontrolled, unregulated grounds.

[Evan]

And the most of.

[Mike]

For sure, like the most you see there is just. It's just bananas. It's like Glamis times 10.

[Ryan]

It would be actually pretty different breed. It'd be pretty cool to go to rednecks with paychecks. It's like the craziest mud fest. I believe it's in Texas. That would be insane.

[Mike]

Do like this Barbie race downhill. Looks gnarly. Like nobody makes it.

[Evan]

Oh, they did that when I was in Oklahoma too.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Evan]

They were asking me, you want to do it? We'll let you in on this. It's just a giant massive hill that they spray water on and then you just die at the end. You just like get. You just eat and then you fall in the water and you have cuts everywhere. And everyone's just like, yeah. I'm like, no, count me out on that.

[Mike]

Different breed.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they love that.

[Mike]

Did you guys see all the stuff about Vegas? F1?

[Ryan]

I saw. I saw a little bit, but I don't really understand, like, what the real issue is.

[Mike]

Well, that's the thing. It seems like everybody hates it.

[Ken]

Look like a fun time to me.

[Mike]

That's what I'm saying. I. I feel like it looks like it's went off without a hitch.

[Evan]

I've just seen, I saw. Yeah, a few, like, let's just call her a Karen. She's making a post. She's like, they're ruining Vegas. Look what they did. They drained this entire fountain to put up grandstands. And people are like, raw. They'll be gone two weeks after F1's done.

[Mike]

And it was desert Prior, dude.

[Evan]

Well, yeah, I mean, it's like they'll. They'll just take the bleachers down. They ain't going to leave that shit.

[Ryan]

So. Okay, a little bit of context to the listener. F1, which is Formula One. How do you even explain F1 people that don't know little race cars. Little race cars that has like a cult following.

[Mike]

Little.

[Ryan]

I mean, they're big. There's. They're short.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

They're low.

[Evan]

Very fast.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like 200 some miles per hour.

[Evan]

Giant super car, shifter carts.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good way to put it. Massive cult following. But I've never met anyone that likes F1.

[Mike]

Well, you maybe have. Maybe it's just not someone who's like, I love F1. Here's my F1T shirt. Rah rah.

[Ryan]

F1 maybe.

[Ken]

I think F1's a rich person thing.

[Mike]

I think it is just like they.

[Ken]

Don'T even know shit about. And now obviously plenty of people do, but it seems like you don't even know. Know much about it, but you just go for the social aspect.

[Mike]

Yeah, it seems like a hobnob.

[Ken]

Yeah, you're just hobnobbing. You got some expensive seats. You're sitting there in some suite with people serving you crab. You're taking videos and stuff.

[Ryan]

It came to Vegas, which is the first time, which is kind of shocking to me because Vegas is like the entertainment capital of the world. It seems like 40 years.

[Mike]

First time in 40 years is not the first time ever. But they, they put it on the strip for the first time this year. It's a much larger track that upset way more people.

[Ryan]

And they like straight up shut down Vegas for the last year to, to build out everything for F1. So like when we were there, the Blagio fountains, like Ryan said, were straight up drained because they built grandstands in them. And like you could barely go down half the streets because everything was like being shut down for, you know, part of the course. And like it kind of halted Vegas for the last like year for construction and everything like that. So I thought it was going to be like a huge success in like, massive event. I'm sure there was a bunch of people, but what I saw is that they straight up closed it down on Thursday. It's like a two day event and they closed it down on Thursday. So like everyone that paid all the money to go there straight up got like kicked out of the stands because a pothole popped out or a manhole. A manhole popped out in the course.

[Ken]

So.

[Ryan]

And they closed it down. So like everyone that paid like thousands and thousands of dollars straight up just got like booted out. And, and they were offered $200 for a, like a merch voucher.

[Ken]

But they continued like after everyone got kicked out. They continued like the, the, the testing phase or whatever they did. They did continue after everyone gotten kicked out like an hour later.

[Mike]

Oh man.

[Ken]

Popped out.

[Mike]

Yeah. So they actually weld them. They like, you know, there's obviously the metal cover that comes off and then there's the metal ring. They weld it to the outside and then they cut them open because the cars are Going so fast it'll suck the caps off. And one of them, it sounds like the metal collar actually came out of the concrete and like ruined a couple million dollar car.

[Ryan]

Which is probably guy crashed.

[Mike]

He didn't crash. But it on video.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Security camera footage from one of the buildings, like grainy gray footage. All you see is a bunch of sparks flying.

[Ryan]

That seems bizarre.

[Mike]

That's what I'm saying.

[Ken]

There were some like cell phone videos but it's like it's covered by the, the protection walls and everything. And you can just see a car driving by with sparks.

[Mike]

Yeah, I did see a lot of videos of people like in their seats. One of them was trophy Burrow who I love following. Cuz they follow, you know like Baja is going on right now. A lot of off road racing. Really legit exciting sport to watch that you're up close and personal to. And he's like all the capture is Vegas F1. And it's just everyone going like this.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude.

[Ryan]

That's what I don't really understand. There was like three car.

[Mike]

It doesn't seem maybe at different tracks, but I think it's the be.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. But we've been there a couple. Let's see about one year ago. One year ago when we were there in Vegas they were doing like a promo shoot. So Lewis Hamilton who's one of like the best racers and some other guy, they like shut down all the streets and they were just getting like video footage of it. But that was pretty cool to see. But we were actually like up close for that. Yeah, we were like straight up on the side on the sidewalk while they were racing by. So I get that. But like standing up and they call them like paddocks or whatever. Bleachers and all that social thing.

[Mike]

Yeah. Although the sound of them NASCAR is pretty gnarly. But that is next level.

[Ken]

Is that sound?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Like how do you make that sound is what I wonder.

[Evan]

Yeah. What are Those? Are those V16s?

[Ken]

How the heck do they get those that sound out of those F1 cars?

[Evan]

I mean they're revenant to what seems like 15, 16,000 RPMs.

[Ken]

This year they're using 1.6 liter turbo four cylinder cylinders.

[Mike]

Interesting.

[Ken]

How much horsepower?

[Mike]

Sounds like the lamest engine ever. But they also use hybrid, right?

[Ken]

Yeah, they're. They got electric stuff in there.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay. But how much horsepower are they pushing out of these suckers?

[Ken]

This one says a thousand.

[Mike]

Jesus.

[Ken]

But it's super light. I wonder if we could pick up an old F1 car like we do with all our other stuff and then we're driving on the street.

[Ryan]

I, I saw that the Ferrari that got destroyed was like a 15 million dollar car.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ken]

Like that.

[Ryan]

That's pretty crazy money.

[Evan]

That's the other part. Yeah. Even for the teams. How. I think up until like this year there was no US made F1 cars. Now GM makes like a Cadillac or at least they're making the power plant for it. And it's like a huge deal. And they pour like millions and millions and millions of dollars just to develop motor for F1.

[Mike]

Well, like Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes are probably the biggest of them and they battle heavily. They have like secret air things underneath the cars. It's probably like the most technical racing sport, I'd have to say, because you won't. You really have that much you can do other than be a good driver and make them like minutely different. You know, it's not. You put a bigger supercharger on or something like that.

[Ryan]

I think driving those things is like insanely difficult.

[Mike]

Yeah. How many G's do they pull, Ken?

[Ryan]

Well, think you're going, you're going to 200 miles per hour around a corner.

[Mike]

With someone next to you with someone. An open wheel vehicle.

[Ryan]

Just think about your helmet, your head and your helmet like being pulled.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like what the core strength would take just to like stay in position.

[Mike]

I think they have some crazy stats.

[Ken]

What they can pull four to six GS while cornering.

[Mike]

Jesus Christ, dude.

[Ken]

Five GS while breaking. Two GS will. Accelerating.

[Mike]

That's insane. I mean, how do you even, how do you even put up with that for a long time?

[Ryan]

Probably in shape.

[Mike]

How many calories do they burn during the race?

[Ken]

I think burn around 1500 calories during a race.

[Mike]

Pretty impressive for sitting in a seat. Like that's a, that's more than a full blown workout.

[Evan]

Since they're professionals, they do make it look very finesse. Like it's just like, you know, 200 miles an hour. Just little wheel turns. But they're like.

[Mike]

Could you imagine it's like driving a shifter cart basically.

[Ryan]

Pretty much. And I think that's how they. They start. Then you work your way up the rankings.

[Evan]

It's kind of like that.

[Mike]

I think it's too late for me.

[Ryan]

No, I think you probably, you could probably do it, right?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I mean, start training.

[Mike]

Yeah. Real.

[Evan]

No, if you actually wanted to, I bet you totally could.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Just.

[Evan]

It would take.

[Mike]

No, I just need a time. But can someone want to sponsor me with $100 million so I can start an F1 team, please.

[Ryan]

You might be too big, Ryan.

[Mike]

No, dude, I think you have to be light. Like, that's what makes them good, is they're tiny. They're like horse jockeys.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Evan's kind of built like a stocky horse jock.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's too built, though.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, you have to lean them out. Yeah, you just really have to lean them out.

[Ken]

Yeah, I watched it last night. It was a Ken was interesting race. I don't know.

[Mike]

I would watch it again, like, 2:00am yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Ken was, like, sitting there. He's, like, got it on. Like, the girls are sitting on the couch. He's like, good. That's one.

[Mike]

Well, if they were there, they would be loving it. You know, they'd be hobnobbing.

[Ken]

I think they were just looking at their phones. But, yeah, if they were there, yeah, for sure, they would have been loving it.

[Mike]

You guys check in on the Baja 1000 at all?

[Ryan]

I saw that Greg Godfrey, our friend who started Nitrous Circus, he's, like, super big on the Baja. He's done it, like, multiple times. He wants us to do it, and every time, every time he brings it up, we're like, dude, no way. I'm not sure if we have it in us, quite honestly. It would be gnarly. That'd be so sick to do. But I saw he was there.

[Mike]

But other than that, there was a guy, Dutch, I believe he flew from Dutch.

[Ryan]

From. From Dutch Dutchland, yeah, from Dutcherland, I think.

[Mike]

No, he flew from wherever he lived to San Diego, bought a Husqvarna dirt bike, rode it to the start of the Baja 1000, and then iron manned it to the end. All 1000 miles, which, for, if you.

[Evan]

Don'T know, Iron Manning is just doing it alone.

[Mike]

Alone.

[Evan]

Completely alone.

[Mike]

No team, no. No support, nothing. Like, the pros have trucks that follow them with, you know, food, medical supplies, parts, all the stuff. This guy literally just did it alone on a bike. He just would stop at random people's camps, and they'd, like, feed him a T. A taco.

[Evan]

Yeah, dude. When he crossed the finish line, you can tell people were like, this guy's something else.

[Mike]

Yeah, he's like the hero of Baja this year.

[Ryan]

Just on a stock 450 or adventure, whatever, bike. That's insane.

[Mike]

Could you imagine traveling a thousand miles alone through Mexico, let alone at Mach 1 trying to win a race?

[Ken]

It's one shaved butt. You'd have a sore, actually in the seat that long.

[Mike]

Dude, seriously, takes what, like 40?

[Ryan]

I think Greg was saying like 42 hours or something like that. But you don't get any sleep, you know, you just keep going.

[Ken]

They just go straight through, don't they?

[Evan]

And that's like, that's where it stresses me out, seeing the videos. Okay, so let's say you had the stamina to do it, but just the balls to just be like, they're like on the back of their seat, just twisted throttle.

[Ryan]

Like, just like flying.

[Evan]

And like, I just think I would inevitably crash if I was trying to push it that far.

[Ryan]

I think, I think people do. I think people wad up pretty good.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Greg got ran over by a trophy truck. Really? Yeah. Because you're like out there with. With all the vehicles. I think you start in front and then the trophy trucks are obviously faster so they run you down, which seems.

[Mike]

Like a really bad.

[Ken]

Yeah, first.

[Mike]

Yeah. Send the fast people out.

[Ryan]

So Dusty too. You probably can't see. You got to worry about the cartel taking out.

[Mike]

I think it actually is like a legit.

[Ryan]

It is. It really is. Dude, that's insane.

[Evan]

One of the craziest of all off road races.

[Ken]

It's just such poor documentation, though.

[Ryan]

Like, that's what I meant that.

[Ken]

It just isn't.

[Evan]

When Ryan brought it up, I was like, damn. I mean, I haven't actually seen all that much. Just this guy, that Iron Man. That's about all I saw.

[Ryan]

No, you'd need like your own helicopter and a filmer in the helicopter to just straight up, just film you going down, like the whole thing, you know.

[Mike]

Make sure you're not freaking. Keep up, get run over. There's this really good video of a guy sitting in the back seat, like the third seat of a Baja truck. And then they're running down like a trail at night. Can you imagine doing this for a thousand miles?

[Ken]

Be scary.

[Mike]

94 miles an hour, dude.

[Ryan]

Dude, this is what those cartel members see when they're just running. But they're running like stock Toyota trucks. That is insane.

[Mike]

There's a big hole. Jump into it. Run over a few trees.

[Evan]

Now, are they on a trail right now?

[Mike]

I think so. I'm not really certain. But yeah, pretty nuts.

[Evan]

I think that's kind of just back to what I said before. It's like, I get that it's a long race and. And you gotta have a truck that's built right, or a bike. But like the whole just unrelentless 100 mile an hour average is just too much.

[Mike]

Gotta be built different. That's for sure.

[Evan]

Yeah, like that. You just gotta have a big balls.

[Mike]

Everyone.

[Evan]

Whenever balls are talked about that are large, everyone just looks at Ken.

[Ken]

Well, yeah, he's the man for the job.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

All you can think of, can't you, Mike?

[Evan]

No, I wasn't thinking of it.

[Ken]

You gotta get Ken's balls off your mind, Mike.

[Mike]

Sickening.

[Ken]

You got to get them off your mind.

[Evan]

Take up so much space in my mind though, Right.

[Ken]

They're very large. Obviously.

[Mike]

I've got something that I guarantee y' all haven't thought about in a while.

[Evan]

This is fun.

[Mike]

And don't, don't groan when I say it. NFTs.

[Ryan]

Oh, man, I almost found.

[Mike]

So apparently Bored Ape Yacht Club, you know, like the ones that were selling for like a million bucks. Still a thing. People are still buying and selling them. They had some festival in Hong Kong I believe can. Do you know anything about this?

[Ken]

No.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ken]

No, I do not entertain NFTs. So.

[Mike]

Okay. They had this festival in Hong Kong and the theme of it was a bunch of UV lights. Well, they use the wrong type of UV light. So it was effectively like people standing.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Being in a tanning bed.

[Ken]

Oh, my hours.

[Evan]

That's not good.

[Mike]

And so everybody in the front row, they of course are minimizing it. But it sounded like 60. Some people have like sought treatment because their, like corneas were burned.

[Ryan]

Oh my God.

[Mike]

Cuz you're staring at it and it doesn't hurt. It's like the same thing apparently as snow blindness. Like it happens to people who climb Everest and.

[Ken]

Oh my gosh, that's bad.

[Mike]

Yeah. Who.

[Ryan]

So Board Ape was like throwing this.

[Mike]

Yeah, they were like throwing a festival.

[Evan]

Right.

[Mike]

But they just messed up and put in the wrong type of these NFTs, man.

[Ken]

Now they're taking. It started out with the finances, now they're taking out people's eyeballs so they.

[Mike]

Can'T see how far they're plummeting down. Who.

[Ryan]

Who was in charge of that production that didn't think, you know, maybe we shouldn't do these new. New lights that we haven't tried out or tested anywhere else.

[Mike]

Yeah, the UV lights that emit.

[Evan]

I'm just trying to figure out what they were supposed to be doing. Let's say they were the right ones. What was the spiel?

[Mike]

It kind of looks like black light. I have a couple pictures that I'll be popping up in here, but it just looks like a black light. So it, you know, they had greens and purples and pinks and stuff like that. So it looked Kind of cool when you're looking at it, but apparently not for your eyeballs.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Because everybody was really confused. They, like, woke up the next day and they were like, why do my eyes feel like they're on fire?

[Ryan]

Makes sense.

[Mike]

And they effectively got sunburned.

[Ryan]

NFTs, man. You don't hear much about those things anymore.

[Mike]

No. Which is honestly probably good.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that is that. That definitely shows, like, you know, the world's maybe going in somewhat of a right direction.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

For a while there, it was like. It was like, things are all going to be electronic. Art is digital. Then you had half the world being like, I don't get it, and the other half being like, I hate future or. Or it's the future.

[Ken]

A lot of these YouTubers are pretty quiet. That sold NFTs.

[Ryan]

Yeah. What's up with that?

[Ken]

Doing anything with them. They just pocketed the money and half of them don't even post.

[Evan]

And usually all youtubers that get a hold of any cash grab, no matter what it is, it fizzles out within a year.

[Ken]

All cash grabs fizzle out.

[Evan]

Yeah. Yeah, that's. I mean, yeah. So if it fizzles out, you know, it was bogue. Yeah.

[Mike]

It is unfortunate. Honestly, I'm glad we never succumbed to anything like that. But you never know when it's happening. Like, probably not all of the people were like, I'm going to make a ton of money and then leave my people stranded. Right. You know?

[Ryan]

Yeah. If it would have worked, you know, then they would have looked like geniuses.

[Ken]

Like, after the FTX collapse. Like, you just do not hear about that kind of stuff anymore.

No one wants to hear about it. So we should probably even stop.

[Mike]

We should probably stop talking about it. I just want to talk about them getting their eyes eyeballed.

[Evan]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Something that is cool now, like, that YouTubers are doing that is like a new age thing. Danny Duncan has done this for a while. He's had his stuff in Zoomies and Spencers. Now Adam L lz, he just did a deal with Zoomies, which is pretty cool because it's like before Zoomies was just like skate brands. It's just crazy to think, like, back in the day, there's no way YouTube merch would be in a retail store.

[Ryan]

But now makes more sense, though, because, like, everyone that goes into it's probably heard of, you know, every. Every YouTuber that would obviously have a brand there.

[Evan]

Right.

[Ryan]

And it's like, who would you rather buy merch from? A random ass, stupid brand that you don't even know who is behind that's.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Not any cooler.

[Ken]

Or.

[Ryan]

Or a YouTuber that you actually get free entertainment from week after week. And then a cool T shirt that you know who you're supporting and who you're repping and who you're repping in the brand that. That it represents.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Evan]

Yeah. So as far as, like, the retail stores, it is a no brainer. Like, them putting that in, they're just, like, enriching the. Yeah. The brands that are in their store.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It makes them look cooler too. When's the last time that you thought about Zoomies or talked about.

[Evan]

That's true. The last time I thought about it was seeing that Adam LZ got it in.

[Mike]

But other than that, the mall's a weird place, man.

[Evan]

Yeah, it is. I always remember, like, Zoomies was kind of against the. Against the grain to go to. Like, if you were a skater, they're like, support your local shops. Don't go buy your boards at Zoomies and your skate shoes at Zoomies. And I'm like, no, they got a point. I got a point. But sometimes if you go to the local skate shop, they're like.

[Ryan]

Hey, man, you legit? Yeah.

[Evan]

It was like going to the Salty Splatoon. I was scared. I was scared to go into this.

[Ken]

Very true.

[Ryan]

You take a board off and they're like, kick flip it right now.

[Evan]

Yeah. That's what I'd be seeing.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Oh, how cool would it be to skate, like, the mini ramp that the local skate shop has in the back? Oh, bro, I would never ask. Yeah, it's too scary.

[Ryan]

That'd be like. If Evan worked at the front desk of it, he'd be like, you look too Cheeto to be in here.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

He would just bully them out. You'd be like, I don't even want to take your money.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. Those at knees are too fresh.

[Ryan]

Those at knees are too fresh. Dude, I. I bet you can't even do an ollie. Let's see it. How tall?

[Mike]

Yeah. Culture of different things. I think that's probably the most important thing that you can ever do with anything is not try to be an. When someone likes what you do.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It's tough, though. You know, when someone tries to come in and. Never mind.

[Ryan]

Like what?

[Mike]

I don't know. You know, like, you got a guy who's gonna start riding dirt bikes and then you immediately start on him for sucking at D biking or wearing a cheap brand. It's like, damn. You know, he's just trying to learn and and progress in something new that he's trying to do.

[Ryan]

Then you call him a Cheeto.

[Mike]

And then you call him a Cheeto rider for having OGI waffle grips.

[Ryan]

Dude, there ain't nothing worse than being called Cheeto.

[Mike]

I know, dude. I've started using that term in other places and people are like, what? What does that mean?

[Ken]

Cheeto is a good term, though.

[Mike]

It is a good term, but nobody knows what it means.

[Ryan]

Means what?

[Mike]

Until now.

[Ken]

It's pretty cheap.

[Evan]

And then they're like, what does that mean?

[Ken]

It's not good.

[Evan]

Oh, you got some like. Yeah, you got some Cheeto shoes on. What does that mean? Then you're just like, ah, it means like, you got like bunk ass shoes.

[Ryan]

They just look down.

[Ken]

They just look down. They have like Cheeto branded shoes. Hot Cheeto shoes.

[Ryan]

They're orange. Yeah. Just covered in flakes.

[Ken]

They Cheetos. They got the Cheeto guy, bro.

[Evan]

Pair that with a freaking Cookie Monster backpack.

[Ryan]

You could actually get that at Zoomies.

[Evan]

Monster fox knockoff, lab brim and some pajama pants. You are set.

[Ryan]

You know somebody's writing this down right now. Like, damn, this is actually a fire idea. Cheeto shoes.

[Mike]

You like the head marketing thing when you walk into Zoomies, like the first stand. Cookie Monster backpack or what? What type of flat brim are you gonna put on? If you could put.

[Ryan]

I mean, the Cookie Monster flat.

[Evan]

That's right. Dude, you remember when the monster fox, like I. I was a part of that isn't like, I was like, I gotta have a monster fox. None of that was real. Like, I don't think, I think they did like one collab with each other and then the rest was just like knockoff, knockoff, knockoff. And like I had like a monster fox jersey that just came straight from China. Like, the print was like, over here. Like this stuff like that. But yeah, if you ever had a monster fox hat on, you were cool. But now if you have it on your.

[Ryan]

Kyle.

[Evan]

Yeah, you're Kyle. That sucks. Poor Kyle. Do you ever remember and Karen's, dude.

[Ryan]

Poor Karen's that aren't actually Karens.

[Mike]

They got kind of.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Just got jipped.

[Evan]

But you ever remember Kyle Demello?

[Ryan]

Like, he was. He was always repping monsters too.

[Ken]

But keep him sponsored.

[Evan]

This is where it's tough for him. So he's rocking a monster hat. The real one that you get when you're sponsored. And everyone's like, you're like, monster Kyle. And he's like, yeah, yeah, I guess. And they're like, yeah, you Just love monsters since your name's Kyle. But he's like, no, I mean, I mean like a professional motocross rider just gets diminished.

[Ryan]

Dude just do a mean.

[Ken]

His parents did that to him though.

[Evan]

They didn't know that was going to happen.

[Ryan]

You think people Karen's got to be the least named baby name?

[Mike]

Oh yeah.

[Ryan]

Like for 2022 and on.

[Evan]

I heard that the male version of Karen is just Darren. And I'm like, I don't know.

[Ryan]

I know a couple of Darren's and they're really nice guys.

[Evan]

Yeah, usually Darren's are nice. Well, usually Karen's are nice. But.

[Ryan]

No, no, no, that's not true. That's not even remotely true.

[Evan]

I think it is true. Usually Karens are nice, but this name got put on them.

[Ken]

I don't know, man.

2020, 325 people were named Karen.

[Mike]

New babies comparatively to like how many?

[Ken]

20, 19, 439.

[Mike]

What about.

[Ryan]

What about like 2000?

[Mike]

Find a peak for me, Pete.

[Ryan]

Karen was probably 1983.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

1974.

[Mike]

What makes 1974 Karen year?

[Ryan]

Actually I'm thinking 1969. I bet that was Pete. Karen.

[Evan]

That's too early.

[Mike]

What a summer to live through, man. Can you imagine being 21 years old in the summer of 69? No.

[Evan]

And if I had a time, I had a time machine, I would definitely be trying that out.

[Mike]

How old do we have to have kids at to have our kids be in the summer of 2069?

[Ryan]

It was summertime in 1969.

[Ken]

Gotta subtract 21 from 69.

[Mike]

69 right here.

[Ken]

48.

[Mike]

I don't know if. If I can wait that long.

[Ken]

So 2048, you have a kid, that's fine. They could be 20 in 2069 and they're good to go.

[Mike]

They'd be pretty legendary.

[Ken]

It would be.

[Mike]

It'd be like a nice thing I could do for my future child. Would be future Brian is like, you.

[Evan]

Just know that year is going to be.

[Mike]

Am I 33 in this year?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

We'd be pretty old if we're having kids at that age.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You know, you're better off like popping a kid out now and then. That kid. Having a kid.

[Mike]

I could have grandkids I haven't even gotten first thing done, you know, can't be a virgin.

[Ryan]

Yeah, maybe start there, Ryan. Maybe focus on that first. Ken, you got any stats for us back there?

[Ken]

The most Karens are in Wisconsin.

[Evan]

Okay, that's not surprising at all.

[Ken]

And Minnesota. Minnesota is a hot second. It's a very Midwest name Karen peaked in 1957.

[Mike]

57. Damn. Hey, do we still do the census?

[Ryan]

60?

[Ken]

I think so.

[Mike]

I feel like that was such a big deal in 2010. Did we even do one in 2020?

[Evan]

I think so.

[Ryan]

But like, focused on other things.

[Evan]

Yeah, but it was a lot. Did.

[Ken]

Did you do it?

[Mike]

I don't think I did it.

[Ken]

I didn't do it.

[Mike]

Isn't that like your American duty?

[Evan]

No, I think I did it. They called me and they're like, hey, we're with the census. Are you alive? And I'm like, yeah. And they're like, sick. We got you down.

[Mike]

Really? It was that simple? Because that's what I'm saying. The next census that happens in 2030, there's going to be a pretty dramatic change in cormorants population with all of the YouTubers that have moved there. Like, we've. We've got to. I mean, between the crews, we got a damn near doubled, and by that time it could be tripled the population of cormorant. We go.

[Ryan]

We hire a lot of people.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We're already up seven or eight.

[Ken]

What?

[Ryan]

Exactly. Our census again, that's when you just keeps track of your population.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

How many counted how many people and where they live, essentially.

[Ryan]

It seems like a little bit of a violation.

[Evan]

Dude, they already know where you live.

[Ken]

It's basically like you live in like, this township or county or state. They're not going to your specific address. They know it.

[Mike]

That's for the irs.

[Ken]

Yeah, I was like, like the primary thing is, like, drawing district boundaries for, like, elections and stuff like that, but.

[Mike]

Those don't really mean anything anyway.

[Ryan]

Oh, hold on now, Ryan. It's like a cancel here, America.

[Mike]

Mike, what are you doing on X?

[Evan]

I thought I was like, bro, I'm. I'm not on. I'm on Twitter. Here's something that no one will care about, but I'm really stoked on. I'm pretty sure I'm like, the last.

[Mike]

One.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You guys are laughing already. I unboxed, actually, Sydney did. But I got a king bed.

[Mike]

Oh, nice.

[Evan]

And it is. It is all the rage. I love it. It's massive. I'm like, damn, I think I'm the last one. I have a king bed. Like, you got a king bed. You. You have a king bed. Ken's got a king bed.

[Ryan]

You know, Ken's nuts ain't fitting bed.

[Ken]

Yeah. Reinforced frame too.

[Evan]

It's amazing. It is just like, just all the room in the World good. So I just. I had quite literally, one of the best nights.

[Ken]

Did you get the reinforced frame, Mike?

[Evan]

No, it's rickety. Really?

[Ryan]

You don't need that reinforced frame.

[Ken]

Ryan can only hope, but.

[Evan]

Yeah, I got a. I got a wonderful night's sleep last night on that thing.

[Mike]

Well, interesting.

[Ryan]

What are we at?

[Mike]

In your dreams. Do you guys fight in your dreams or do you run in your dreams? Like, you guys ever have in your dream when you're, like, either trying to fight or run away, but you can't? Like, as fast as you're trying to move, feels like something's holding you back?

[Evan]

I'm trying to think. Like, I don't think I have to run or fight in my experience.

[Mike]

Interesting. Mine is almost always. I'm trying to get somewhere running. I don't. I don't know what's going on up here. It's all messed up.

[Ryan]

Closes his eyes. He's like, fuck, here we go.

[Mike]

I mean, yeah, going to war tonight sometimes. And, like, I don't know what's going on, but, like, yeah, sometimes you have the dreams where you're like, you either have to get somewhere or you're trying to run away from something, and, like, you can't move. You feel like you're underwater.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I mean, I guess, sometimes.

[Mike]

Interesting.

[Evan]

But can you get, like. I know you can. Can you guys, like, remember your dreams? I wake up, and they're just like, delete.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Evan]

Every single morning, I'm like, I did just have a dream, and I did remember this person. That's it.

[Ken]

You get woken up so abruptly. You're just like.

[Ryan]

You're not thinking.

[Evan]

Even if I don't. Doesn't process, you know?

[Ken]

Got so much going on.

[Ryan]

If you're, like, filming and then you shut it off really quick, it doesn't save the last clip. That's like Mike, when he's. He's dreaming, when he gets woken up by water.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. I feel like some people wake up, you know, they're like a tractor. It kind of like takes, and they got to get coffee. They get going throughout the day, and they warm up. Mike's like, bump starting a car. Everything's already moving, and then it's like, boom, Mike's away.

[Ryan]

Yeah, a good way to put it.

[Evan]

Yeah. But I mean, like, that's like, I had a dream last night, and I woke up, and I was like, what was that about? I just. Frustrating. Especially when you're like, dude, my dream. And then you're, like, going on. I'm like, how much do you remember and you're like. Well, pretty much all of it.

[Mike]

Yeah, pretty much everything. I always remember.

[Evan]

Weird.

[Mike]

It's a bummer, too, because nobody gives a shit about dreams. I could tell a lot of interesting dream stories and. But they're fake, so why would I even bother telling anyone, though?

[Ken]

Oh, yeah?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know, kind of a bummer.

[Ryan]

It's like NFTs.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. Or like nobody wants to hear about them. Or about Mike's stupid fucking king bed.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Pretty good story. Nobody wants to hear about it. No, I'm just kidding.

[Mike]

Why are you telling me this?

[Evan]

Yeah, it goes back to that. Why are you telling me this, man?

[Ryan]

Well, on that note, I think that's a wrap.

[Evan]

Yeah, I think so too.

[Ken]

All right, guys, thank you so much for listening. We will see you next week. Peace.

[Ryan]

That's a wrap.