Frankie LaPenna Has The Most Viral Butt on The Internet

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Episode Summary
Episode: Frankie LaPenna Has The Most Viral Butt on The Internet
Release Date: September 24, 2024
Host: CboysTV

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1. Introduction of the Guest

At the beginning of the episode, the hosts welcome Frankie LaPenna, renowned for his viral online presence, particularly his distinctive physique that has garnered over 20 million followers across various platforms.

• Ryan: “[Frankie] has the most viral butt on the internet. Welcome, Frankie.” ([00:21])

2. Frankie's Background and Rise to Fame

Frankie delves into his journey from a car enthusiast in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to a social media sensation. Initially focused on car photography and modifications, his unique physical attributes became the cornerstone of his viral content.

• Frankie: “I need extremes to feel something... I was definitely in the car scene, going to all the little car shows around town.” ([00:03], [03:02])

• CJ: “Before you started showing off your butt, you were a car photographer.” ([03:02])

3. Content Creation Process

The discussion highlights Frankie’s approach to creating viral content. Unlike traditional content creators who may follow a strict schedule, Frankie emphasizes spontaneity and constant ideation, often finding inspiration in everyday moments.

• Frankie: “It's constantly in the back of your mind... sometimes inspiration comes right before you go from being conscious to asleep.” ([08:21])

• Ryan: “Don’t think about when to post, just ensure your video is either good or it’s shit.” ([05:01])

4. Interactions with Celebrities

Frankie shares his experiences collaborating with high-profile celebrities like Hulk Hogan and John Cena. These interactions range from casual off-camera moments to strictly business-oriented engagements.

• Frankie: “With John Cena, he was strictly business... He’s probably seen so much nonsense that he doesn’t want the big butt guy coming up to him.” ([47:18])

5. Personal Anecdotes and Stories

The hosts and Frankie exchange numerous personal stories, including encounters with fans and the challenges of maintaining privacy despite massive online recognition.

• Frankie: “90% of my followers on every app are male... Just bro, bro.” ([44:21])

• Michael: “He was all pumped about his new car and then needed gas after doing burnouts.” ([63:05])

6. Views on Current Affairs

Frankie expresses his pessimistic outlook on global matters, particularly the looming threat of World War III and distrust in mainstream media narratives.

• Frankie: “World War 3 [is] literally right around the corner.” ([00:18])

• Frankie: “Don’t trust anything you’re hearing from mainstream. Figure this out on your own conclusions.” ([58:05])

7. Social Media Impact and Challenges

The conversation touches on the perils and perks of viral fame. Frankie discusses the misconception that his success is solely due to his physical attributes, emphasizing the effort and creativity behind his content.

• Frankie: “Most of the shit that I do is still like impressive and dangerous and crazy... even if I didn’t have the big butt.” ([04:12])

• CJ: “Even a tenth of the fame you have doesn’t matter if people don’t know you beforehand.” ([44:32])

8. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

As the episode wraps up, Frankie reflects on his content’s intent—to entertain and inspire resilience. The hosts express admiration for his dedication and unique approach to content creation.

• Frankie: “A lot of the videos will be me trying to overcome being scared... such a great feeling when I can take the hit and come out on the other side.” ([10:53], [11:26])

• Ryan: “Hey, Frankie, thank you for coming on. Good boys.” ([68:44])

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Frankie: “I need extremes to feel something.” ([00:03])
• CJ: “20 million followers. Dude, that is insane.” ([04:04])
• Frankie: “I often wonder what the difference would be if I had started and I was built like a regular guy.” ([04:33])
• Frankie: “Every Blue Nile order is insured and arrives in packaging that won't give away what's inside.” ([01:36])
• Frankie: “I just want to make sure that I am not forgetting... I am aware of it throughout each week, month.” ([59:42])

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This episode offers an insightful look into Frankie LaPenna's influencer journey, his creative process, and his perspectives on broader societal issues. Frankie’s candidness about his motivations and challenges provides listeners with a comprehensive understanding of what drives his viral success.

Transcript

[Ryan]

People were stopping you to take pictures like you're so recognizable.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I need extremes to feel something. If one of the Seaboyz were to go trans, who would it be?

[Ryan]

What's on your for you page?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Dude, I am on a watch list.

[Ryan]

Really long until you think like the.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Next World War 3 literally right around the corner.

[CJ]

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[CJ]

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[Mike]

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[Frankie Le Penna]

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[CJ]

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[Mike]

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[Ryan]

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[Ryan]

All right, we got Frankie Le Penna on the pod today. Known for his ginormous hinder, he's been dubbed the male Kim Kardashian. Welcome, Frankie.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Thanks for having me, boys. Car guy, first and foremost, you go back on my Instagram, like three years, four years, it's literally just straight car content.

[CJ]

I took a little deep dive in your Instagram. I did notice that you were like a car photographer before you started showing off your butt.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I had this Infinity G37 that was slammed on the air ride and big three piece wheels. It was an atrocity, looking back now at it, but I was definitely, definitely in the car scene, going to all the little car shows around town and doing, you know, mods like the air intake and exhaust, whatever I could afford.

[Ryan]

Don't get C.J. going on those, dude.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Waste.

[Ryan]

Don't get him going on those.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, dude, we should talk about your Subaru. I think it's sick.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude. Finally got my Subaru back after. Did the math. Ten and a half months and that's.

[Ryan]

How long it's been gone.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, wow.

[Mike]

Frankie was here for the reveal, but, I mean, that's what I was most excited to learn about you, is that you're like, you're into cars and motorsports and something a lot of people wouldn't know. But yeah, Subaru is back and you guys will see it in upcoming video or put in this pod. Who cares?

[Ryan]

Can't confirm. Is sick.

[CJ]

Is sick somehow. If you live under a rock or don't have access to the Internet, Frankie Le Penna is the man with the world's most famous behind. I thought, you know, before you came on, I was like, all right, what are some famous butts? Obviously Kim Kardashian, you know, JLo, if you're like in a fitness. Jen Seltzer, Beyonce, the Charman, Ultra Bear, and Frankie freaking Lena. Dude's got over 20 million followers across all of his platforms. 20 million followers. Dude, that is insane. As CJ said, by far our most famous friend.

[Ryan]

5.3 billion views on YouTube last year. What? That's insane, dude.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Shorts are different than long form, but yes, still insane.

[Ryan]

Our channel has 1.4 billion and we've been at it for eight years.

[CJ]

Eight years.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So just put that in context.

[Frankie Le Penna]

It's completely different, though.

[CJ]

You're ma.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I'm making 10 second videos. You're making 10 to 30 minutes.

[Ryan]

But it's Still. It's still crazy though.

[CJ]

Absolutely.

[Ryan]

Still absolutely crazy. And that's just YouTube. Not including Instagram, not including Facebook. TikTok.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. I often wonder what the difference would be if I had started and I was built like a regular guy and had done everything that I've done up until this point and posted online. How many less followers I would have than I do now with having started with the big butt and having the big. But the whole time. You think it would be a lot less, probably. But a lot of the shit that I do is still, in my opinion, still like impressive and dangerous and crazy. Even if I didn't have the big butt. Big but just like big bonus into.

[Ryan]

The video, what you do is. What you do is you just make viral videos. And the second that the viewer sees the hinder, they're, they're even more hooked. But how good of ideas your videos are, they're gonna go viral no matter what.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, just being built different weird helps.

[Ryan]

Can you, I don't know, is this too much to ask? Can you like stand. Stand up for the people watching on YouTube right now that haven't believers, like. Yeah, just to keep them on the video from like, you know, going over.

[Frankie Le Penna]

All right, we'll let the real deal, if it is real or fake.

[Ryan]

You can like rest it on the table if you need.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I don't know if I'm tall enough.

[Ryan]

Don't leave any sweat on the table though. I guess. You're a guest.

[CJ]

You can sweat wherever you want, brother. My God, dude.

[Ryan]

Oh my God. Look at that thing. Look at the recoil on it. Oh my gosh. I just cracked my back. I cracked. Holy shit. Holy shit. You hear that? Yeah, with the headphones on.

[Frankie Le Penna]

It was like a crack.

[Mike]

So that's what we're working with here.

[Ryan]

What is that just God given or a little like, have you been working at that? Like with the spots and everything?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Diet, sleep, recovery. I mean, mainly genetics. Yeah, I mean, you go to Brazil, you'll see some people walking around like this.

[Mike]

That's right.

[Ryan]

Do you have a little bit of that? I thought you Brazilian.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I am a bit Brazilian.

[CJ]

Yeah, but you were born and raised in Michigan of all place, so you're kind of a Midwest kid, just like us.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, no, we're from pretty much the same state. I mean, we have the same exact winters.

[Ryan]

Does it kind of piss you off when you see like women going in and getting like implants?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, it doesn't.

[Ryan]

Well, I don't know because like some people have to like, you know, piss Me off.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I mean, if they were stealing my thunder online. And I mean, the thing is, I'm in such, like, a weird nation.

[Ryan]

Like, there's enough. There's enough to go around.

[Mike]

Keep in mind, Ryan's list didn't include any other males, so.

[CJ]

That's true. Someone truly has to be built different to do the stuff you do. We kind of got into it, but, like, you're darn near a stuntman. We don't like when people go like, oh, you're so crazy. You just are trying to hurt yourself every week, because we're not. But the things that I have watched you do time after time, week after week on Instagram, TikTok, whatever, is insane. Dude, you got literally uppercutted by a professional MMA fighter. And that is probably the base level of what you're getting.

[Ryan]

Or was that like, like a part power? Did you play into that?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Any of the fight videos that you have seen of me getting hit is. The heavyweights are told, or I tell them to go like 15 to like 40% effort.

[Ryan]

Holy fuck.

[CJ]

It probably, like, more. Trying as hard as I could is a lot.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I mean, I look at it as if in an average. Given. Any given fight, you have somebody getting hit like fifty to a hundred and something. Times like, I could not be a little bitch and take one hit.

[Ryan]

How many takes did it take?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Three.

[CJ]

Oh, my gosh. I thought that was a one and doner.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. If you look at the video, like, frame by frame, you can see that my chins already split and bleeding before he, Jesus, hit me.

[Ryan]

And he's. And you just took it? You didn't even, like, move with it or anything?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, I kind of just closed my eyes.

[Ryan]

And what's the idea process look like when you're coming up with. With most of your videos? Like, you just sit down and. And just throw a bunch of ideas at the board and pitch it to a team or what.

[Frankie Le Penna]

It's probably the same thing you guys do for your idea process. It's like constantly, every day, all day. It's in the back of your mind and you're thinking. You're like taking a shower.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You're taking a. You're eating, you're driving. It's just you're constantly thinking, like, what's next? Big idea. That's the only way you can keep it going, you know, with any channel, any account. And sometimes we'll get inspiration from videos that I see online, too. Very rarely do Clayton James and I sit down and then actually, like, try to think of ideas. It's almost the worst time to think of an idea is like trying to force it. A lot of times they'll come to me right before I go from being conscious to asleep.

[CJ]

Right as you're like almost asleep.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Frankie Le Penna]

And then asleep.

[Mike]

Same happens.

[Ryan]

Same dude. Now fire checks. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

That is cool that you said it is similar. I'm sure it is similar to ours. And another thing that is similar is that like one post you're riding a rocket powered skateboard. Next post you're getting punched in the face. And I love the catching the viewer off guard.

[CJ]

You never know what your next move is going to be.

[Ryan]

You're not boxed into like a certain category or really anything like that.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yes, that is tough to do because they kind of want to come back for something that's similar in genre. People follow you guys for automotive content. So if you were to be running around the huge ass.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But a lot of the stuff you're doing takes a lot of skill.

[CJ]

100% dude. The Giga ramp at night. Nitro circus.

[Ryan]

Yeah, like that's and nuts. Do you like the hinder almost overshines it?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, I don't think so. You definitely, definitely funnier. A lot of people will not know who I am in the FYP when they're seeing the videos come through and then they'll think it's a normal video of like just a normally built guy. And then they'll.

[CJ]

They see you and they're like recognize it.

[Ryan]

That's what they almost remember. The video of you running down the hill holding the coffees at that festival, the Cokes. And then you face plant and you slide down and then you just get like a little glimpse of the hinder as you're sliding hinder aside. It's hilarious.

[Frankie Le Penna]

There's so many cringe, inappropriate, annoying people I'd slap in the face if I met in person type of pranksters that do stuff online. I try to never be that guy where I'm bothering somebody. They're always harmless to anyone that's around, you know, which is something to be said with that's so true.

[CJ]

I never look at anything you do and go like ooh. That was like. You know the feeling you get when you watch someone be a little like embarrassing. Flinging yourself down a hill could be portrayed as that. But like you just do it in a way that just makes sense to people and it's just funny to watch.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. I hope that people don't watch the videos and come to the conclusion and I'm like desperate for Attention. A lot of the videos will be it's me trying to overcome being scared of whatever it is. Xyz. And it's like, am I strong enough to do it? Am I skilled enough to do it? Or am I too much of a to do it? And it's like, such a great feeling when I can, like, take the hit from the freaking UFC fighter or fall down that hill and not break all my bones. Be like, come out on the other side. Be like, fuck, yeah.

[CJ]

Sweet.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I did it. I succeeded. And I was strong enough, brave enough, or even dumb enough to, you know, it.

[Ryan]

So you're chasing that. That thrill too. Like, not only are you chasing, like, the viral video, but you're chasing just like the.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, I've gotten really numb too. Just regular daily tasks, not getting tackled. Yeah, I need extremes to feel something.

[CJ]

What's.

[Ryan]

What's, like, the most pain you've ever felt?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I think my worst injury was the nitro Circus. Gigantic. I had a giant. I can send you the file. Well, I don't even know if I posted it online. Like, hematoma.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you posted on your Snapchat. I think I responded to your Snapchat. Was like, this is the gnarliest thing you've ever done. Yeah, 100%. You had a baseball on your leg.

[Frankie Le Penna]

It was so big, dude.

[CJ]

So what. What went wrong there?

[Ryan]

Just.

[CJ]

I mean, I saw you nosedive, like.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Literally just gave me a trike, and they're like, good luck.

[CJ]

They're just like, just hit the ramp and don't. Don't put your feet down.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Only told me, do not go off the side of the ramp. Like, keep the tire straight because we have no guardrails.

[Ryan]

Don't turn right down.

[Frankie Le Penna]

The one guy. Juliel plug that video. It's horrific. He goes off the side and just. Yeah. Destroys his face. And they said, just keep it straight.

[CJ]

I was like, fine.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Where's my center of gravity? Like, give me a reference on where to lean. Because the lip is so gnarly. It's literally straight, and you don't want.

[CJ]

To go like this and land on your back or your head.

[Frankie Le Penna]

So I kind of like, dove a little forward, just a tiny bit on the lip, thinking that would be enough. And it was way too much. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Had you ever hit in a ramp, like an FMX ramp like that?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, I skateboarded for a long, long time and have done a lot of dirt bike jumps, but never a trike. Who jumps a trike?

[CJ]

Yeah. On a gig ramp.

[Mike]

So that. That's saying a lot Because Ty Roberts, they have another show in Fargo coming up, and they're like, you guys gotta come be in it. And I was like, ah, I'm good.

[CJ]

I don't know if I can do that.

[Mike]

So.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, you guys go, yeah. And then do, like. There's no little jumps.

[Mike]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's all gnarly.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Don't be, dude.

[Ryan]

That's gnarly, bro.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. You guys got too much on the line.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

But, I mean, same for you. I didn't realize how, like, talented you were across so many different things. Like, I've seen you ride bikes. The trike thing, obviously that's a little trial by fire. But the skateboarding over Steve's was a Pagani. Yeah. You jumped over it on a skateboard in a garage.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I mean, I'm, I think in a similar category to you guys, like, Midwesterner type of dude. Growing up, where I didn't do any traditional sports, was all action sports. Yes. How I was only doing, you know, dirt bike, skateboard, any board sports or anything with a vehicle or a motor and vehicle. I would. I was doing that. So I got good at that growing up. And, like, still have it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

But I do not have the right build for a skateboarder.

[Ryan]

So what kind of brought you into, like, the filming then? Was that part of skateboarding? Because, I mean, a lot of skaters are filmers.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, I guess it probably was seeing dudes at the skate park. Skateboarders, for whatever reason, are always, always filming, filming and. Yeah. And that was like, my first exposure to somebody that had a camera. And I thought it was sweet. That's probably where it started. But the social media thing with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube was just for fun in my spare time. It was actually a bet in the beginning. My buddy Jaden was showing me these TikTok videos in 2020. He was like, look at these. These are so funny. I was like, this is most degenerate, nonsense, fucking brain rot, stupid thing I've ever seen. I could do something way better than that. He's like, I bet you couldn't. And then I think was like three posts in. One of them went viral. And I just kind of kept going with it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

And here we are, I guess.

[Ryan]

What was it?

[Frankie Le Penna]

It was one of those green screen, virtual call.

[Mike]

That's the video genius.

[Ryan]

Yes. First thing that I'd seen you do, hitting the car.

[Frankie Le Penna]

It was in a car.

[Ryan]

Oh, in a car.

[Frankie Le Penna]

From a car. And there was like a.

[Mike]

That is interesting to think of when you did the dirt bike. Jump with a green screen.

[CJ]

I was like that too.

[Mike]

Green Screen Guy just dropped another video zoom call. Green Screen Guy.

[Ryan]

But yeah, I think the first one I saw was when you were going down the hill on the bike with the green screen and you ran into the back of the car. That was a hard hit.

[Frankie Le Penna]

That was my.

[Ryan]

That was my car. Is it?

[CJ]

That was your car?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You're just like, sacrifice it for the bit.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, it got like a tiny D. Yeah, I mean, Chevy Blazer, that thing.

[CJ]

So what was funny is I had seen like your videos before, but probably attributed more to just like, oh, Green Screen Guy, you know, whatever. But the one that, that really made me follow you was your personal hype reel that you made for yourself that you posted. And it was like this whole thing that it was almost like someone had done it about you, but you had made it. And it was like how you had just meteorically risen, if that's how you say that we're to like this new level of fame. And I was like, damn, this is a crazy video. And then I was like, who posted this? And then I saw it was you. And I was like, that's funny. And then I. I followed you.

[Frankie Le Penna]

All the top comments were like, bro made a video about himself. This is how I look at it. You guys have probably had these fuckers reach out to you too. The advertising, like PR agencies.

[CJ]

Yep.

[Frankie Le Penna]

We're like, we just want five grand a month and we'll get you PR and magazines and news articles and whatnot. I had some people reach out to me. I almost did it. And I was like, you know what? This, I'm just make my own pr.

[CJ]

Yeah, you can do it yourself better.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Made the videos and edits of what they would. Had people writing articles on and just posted it myself. And I don't care if people talk shit. Yeah, video, dude. Great.

[Ryan]

I saw it and I thought it was. I thought somebody made it so good. Yeah, I didn't even. I didn't even know that you made that about yourself.

[Frankie Le Penna]

And I have all the files.

[Ryan]

I was literally thinking that when I was watching, I go, man, how'd this guy get all this footage?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, high res, original 4K. No, I was not my voice. It was my buddy Kevin's voice too. So people thought I did the voiceover too. I was talking in like first person was not me. That would have been a little bit weird.

[CJ]

That would have been before the AI voiceovers too, even. So you had to find a guy to do the voiceover.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

One time, one of our Buddies did a voiceover, but he hired a fake Dr. Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman. Dr. Morgan Freeman. And then he burned our merch.

[Frankie Le Penna]

What?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Dude, burned your. Like, literally. Yeah, he got a voiceover and then burned your merch, Morgan.

[Mike]

Because he got Morgan Freeman and he told everyone it was Morgan Freeman.

[Ryan]

No, no, no. It was a guy. I know it wasn't AI, bro.

[Mike]

He told.

[Ryan]

It was a guy. Just a dude who sounds like somebody or something.

[CJ]

He left, and then now we're friends again.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, it's mostly. It's just funny.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Interesting. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Say it, Mike. Say it, Mike. You normally. You handle this.

[Mike]

A couple shirts. Couple for fun. He clearly wanted to make a statement.

[Ryan]

He had beef.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Oh, he did it to, like, get back at you. Yeah.

[Ryan]

It was out of spite.

[CJ]

Yeah. Because he left.

[Mike]

We're just. We're just never going to let him live that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he'll probably actually be pulling up. I bet. Like, before this podcast, you can call him out. This dude with the huge hinder came out and started pressing me.

[Mike]

It'd be another instance where he would be like, what do I do? What's going on with your ass, man? So swing.

[Ryan]

Were you in film school then when you started making the TikToks and all that? Or were you out or what was the scoop on that?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, so I did the four years at GVSU and like two months prior to graduating, started posting on TikTok December 2020. That was my first post. That was. Yeah, that's right around the time that I made the bet with Jaden. Just started going from there. It wasn't until like a year and a half in that there was millions of followers and, like, pretty real serious traction. I had nothing to lose. I lost a couple hours of spare time if it didn't pan out. So if anybody watching this is, like, contemplating, you know, do I want to try to go the social media route? Just fucking make posts in your spare time.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's not like you have to, like, quit everything you're doing and then.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Commit to it to make the transition from quitting a real job. That is. That's different for sure. But you got to try to. I mean, if you're, like, really passionate about something, then you should be, you know, doubling up on your work that you hate and what you really want to do until you quit that work. Do you hate and take over the thing you love?

[Ryan]

Do you have a posting schedule? Do you try and, like, post consistently?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, I. It's just too chaotic to any of this.

[Mike]

A time frame on A post. I post between four and a thing.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Definitely a conspiracy if you guys want to get into that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, really well.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

How's it real doing? The Mike posted at 1 in the morning. Go check it out.

[Ryan]

Not bad. It caught back up. So it doesn't matter. When you post, you don't think your.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Video is either good or it is shit.

[Ryan]

I stand with that because that first.

[Mike]

24 hours is something, but in short form content, it's got to mean even less.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Maybe, I don't know. Maybe I take that back. I would for a long form, for long format video, which I do not do. You guys would never post something at 3am it does matter.

[Mike]

You're right, it does.

[Ryan]

We've gotten damn close the last couple weeks.

[Mike]

It does matter. The long.

[Ryan]

It definitely does matter. I think it's more so just off of like the start though, and then it goes into what you're saying. If it's a really good video, it will eventually just snowball.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. People probably have no fucking idea what we're talking about because they're not even remotely close to this world.

[Ryan]

So the first time that we met Frankie, we were together on a trip to Disney World. And it was. It was quite a collective of people together as us, Frankie, Steve Hamilton, the owner of Custom Offsets and then the CEO of Bugatti.

[CJ]

Crazy statement.

[Ryan]

Very, very interesting group of people. We still laugh about it.

[Mike]

I wasn't there.

[Ryan]

It was so fun.

[Mike]

And Frankie and then who Ben just listed. But I love how it's. It's still like not a lot of people.

[Ryan]

It's just like.

[CJ]

Yeah, it was an intimate crew.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was an intimate crew. Like never met each other or anything. And then we just ride every single ride at Disney World.

[Mike]

That's what I've always gotten a kick out of from the stories. Yeah, it's just like, dude, Matt or.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Rimac, what's mat or mate, said that that was his first vacation in. In like two years.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he brought his. He brought his chick with and his chick was like I being on a beach in France, not at Disney World.

[CJ]

He said the last vacation he took before that was on a yacht.

[Ryan]

Dude, I was just doing my best not to really like talk because I was like, I don't want to waste his time with some stupid ass.

[CJ]

But then we saw him once, but.

[Ryan]

Then we started talking.

[CJ]

Yeah, he really was just one of the boys.

[Ryan]

He was chilling, dude. He was. Yeah. But during that trip, man, did I realize how famous you are, Frankie, bro, We couldn't walk any well I shouldn't say we. You could walk anywhere because people were stopping you to take pictures. Like you're so recognizable.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, like no one was expecting to see them there.

[Mike]

It's just.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. Like I said earlier, the outfit and the build and like the one of one but that you can't.

[CJ]

And also you're always wearing that fit online.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like you're just.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was exactly. So like when you try to discount the, what was it, 4 billion views or something like that you did last year? 5. 5. People remember. And it's definitely doing something. But yeah, dude, that was insane.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Brand recognition. I look at it as if, you know, Superman is wearing the same outfit every movie. I look at it. This is like my Superman outfit. Yeah. Put this on, I could do any jump, any need of strength, any.

[Mike]

A boy can't go undercover with that ass.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If you're trying to roll low key, like you gotta wear like a couple pairs of sweatpants. Just baggy.

[Mike]

Yeah, There you go.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[CJ]

A poncho, parachute pants.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like if I ever wanted to exit, like an exit strategy would be a BBL removal reduction surgery.

[CJ]

There you go.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You know, and then document it and be like, here I am on the operating table and this, this is the end.

[Ryan]

This will be my last or the.

[CJ]

Start of a new chapter.

[Ryan]

I'm moving to Puerto Rico.

[CJ]

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[Mike]

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[CJ]

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[Ryan]

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[Frankie Le Penna]

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[Ryan]

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[Frankie Le Penna]

Happy price Price line.

[Ryan]

Did you guys see that Steve O. Backed out of getting the boob job?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Oh, yeah, I saw that.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ryan]

So, yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

Why? He's been talking about that for, like, five years.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I never heard about him getting a boob job.

[Ryan]

No. So he was gonna get, like, boobs for, like, more of, like, a gag and then, like, have them for, like, 30 days or something like that and then get him removed. But he just wanted to do a bunch of, like, stunts and just funny little with boobs, pranks and stuff.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Have boots.

[Ryan]

Very ridiculous. I don't know if I necessarily thought it was super funny, but I definitely was interested to see that. Yeah, I mean, you know, like a car crash. Can't look away. You know, everyone that would have gone.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Around the world takes more than 30 days for that surgery to even come close to healing.

[Ryan]

He had, like, a hyperbaric chamber. Like, he was ready to go. He was ready to go because he wanted to heal as fast as possible so he could go on, like, a whole media tour.

[Frankie Le Penna]

That's a little bit too far. Glad about that.

[Mike]

But then you back out.

[Ryan]

Well, allegedly, this is what. What I heard just from listen to his podcast, but he just felt like it was offensive to, you know, like, trans people.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Everyone's offended.

[Ryan]

So he didn't want to. He didn't want to, you know, whatever. And then he just backed out.

[CJ]

Interest.

[Ryan]

Said it was also very difficult to find a doctor that would do it. Yeah. And he had it all lined up, and then, like, the person that was doing, like, the anesthesia backed out the night of or the night before. Then the plastic surgeon that was Going to. Yeah, they didn't like that. It was going to be like a gag that was doing it, even though they would do it for anyone else.

[Mike]

Pretty surpr.

[Ryan]

They just don't like that.

[Mike]

They can always find someone to do.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Especially in la, there's hitmans that exist.

[Ryan]

You know, most of them probably are plastic surgeons, though. I don't know. So you think that's messed up?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, not messed up. I mean. Free country.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I don't know if it's much of, like an offensive thing because it's not like he's like, claiming to be a woman. Like, he's just getting a set of tits.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Female tits.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Some of them don't like that he's making a joke out of it where some people do that as like a serious thing because they feel like they need that.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Speaking of, like, if one of the Sea boys were to go trans, who would it be?

[CJ]

Dude, you look sick with boobs.

[Frankie Le Penna]

That doesn't mean.

[CJ]

But you might as well if you're gonna.

[Mike]

Oh, it's just. It's just a joke. Okay.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like If I'd say Mr. Beast, like, if we were to have asked them before transition, would they have guessed him?

[Ryan]

Well, it sounds like they kind of knew. I think so. Yeah. He's under some serious fire. Who is?

[Mike]

Yeah. I don't accept your guess, but my guess is you. Then fudge you, man.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's hard to say. I'd probably say Evan, just because he's probably like, I know it's most, like, into chicks. Like, maybe he's the horniest. Yeah, like he'd just do it for himself.

[Mike]

Ben would make by far the prettiest one. But obviously that's idea. Maybe it is. I don't know.

[Ryan]

As an outsider, who do you think?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I don't know. Probably Ken. There's a lot of Ken memes and, like, suspiciousness around Ken.

[Ryan]

You know, he is the most mysterious man. Not many people know what anything about the guy.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

I don't know if we do hot dog thing.

[CJ]

That's Mike's.

[Ryan]

I think Ken might have some kind of hot dog thing.

[Mike]

I mean, I thought you were talking. I'm like, damn, Frankie did his research. Because Ken is easily like the second hot dog lover in the crew. I don't even like hot dogs, so I just don't understand.

[Ryan]

Also, we. We can't do this. We gotta go on podcast. Yeah. And we didn't even try. We're talking about.

[CJ]

No, the hot dogs.

[Mike]

Every podcast. And then they're like, Micah you always bring them hot dogs. And I was like, no, it's you mother truckers.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Son of a. Right. What's our next subject?

[CJ]

My bad. Well, I am interested in your cars. I didn't realize you're such a car guy. You talked about before the pod that you actually started filming cars back in Michigan when you started out.

[Ryan]

So did somebody take a picture of you, like taking a picture of the car and is that what like went viral?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, no, no, no, no. The when I was doing car videos was very long ago when I was 17.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Frankie Le Penna]

So before I got on the exercise and squats really heavy. But I have a 2021 Audi RS6 Avant wagon.

[Mike]

Oh, it is an Avant. Is there such a thing as an RX6 that isn't.

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, dude.

[CJ]

It's like a kind of the vaunt of man.

[Mike]

I'm not trying to put prices out there, but that's like $120,000 wagon. And it's the coolest wagon in the world.

[CJ]

It is sweet.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Last week, two weeks ago, I got a 2013 BMW M3 widebody Liberty Walk.

[Ryan]

Oh yeah, it's badass.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Not wrapped, painted. Very, very nice. It's like a Nardo gray looking color and things. Sounds unbelievable. The naturally aspirated V8 in that thing. All the new ones.

[Mike]

Because that's back when it has a V8.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yes. All the new M3s and M4 sound gay.

[Ryan]

So you're a European guy.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I guess so. If I had 600 or 500 grand, I'd probably buy a 4 GT.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Really.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Wow.

[Ryan]

That's the Michigander in you. Probably like the new ones.

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, those are a million. Oh, those are even the old ones OG like 2006.

[Ryan]

Did you ever see Steve's?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I did. Are those cool that I mean, I'd have to send you the one that I would get. It's like a. Like an all black. Lowered more horsepower than the default supercharger and much more aggressive looking. I mean, they sound insane.

[Ryan]

That is a pretty cool car.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I like being the only guy that shows up at the car. Me that has the that car versus show up with a Hellcat SRT Challenger Charger. Talk about gay.

[Ryan]

Dude, you're not from Detroit, but holy shit, Detroit's a shithole. I just felt like I need to say that being that you're from Michigan.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You're not. You're preaching to the choir. No one is disagreeing with you. Everyone kind of already knows that's been there.

[CJ]

How far are you from Detroit?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Two hours.

[CJ]

Where'd you grow up or. Where do you live?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Grand Rapids, Michigan. Oh, okay.

[CJ]

That's a cool town. How big is that?

[Frankie Le Penna]

200, 000. Detroit's too big and gross and abandoned.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So what do your parents think about, like, this whole Internet thing that you got going on now? What they think at the beginning and what do they think now?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I should say, yeah, we're never, like, outwardly, like, verbally opposed to it. They were probably definitely concerned, but, like, keeping it to themselves where they're thinking to themselves, what the fuck is our son doing? But then again, you got to remember I had been doing videos way before the social media thing for me started and wasn't wasting a ton of time with social media, was in the spare.

[CJ]

Time, still studying or still working.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, I still had a real job.

[Mike]

And I wasn't spending, like, ever a point. You had to be like, trust the process on this one. Your parents, you're already grown at that point. So.

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, I never had to convince them. Yeah, never had to. I mean, you guys parents were probably concerned a little bit at one point.

[CJ]

Probably still are.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'd say they still are. More than ever.

[Mike]

My parents were never considered concerned about our content. Besides, when we swore too much, they're like, oh, dude, it's sweet you're doing the YouTube videos, but, like, don't swear. That was really hard to. To show them our videos because, oh.

[Ryan]

Man, dude, I wouldn't watch. I wouldn't watch one of our older videos. And dude, we are all just potty mouth and I could see where they would have a concern about it.

[Mike]

We were.

[Ryan]

Bunch of potty mouths.

[Mike]

Cut it out for nothing.

[Ryan]

But to be fair, we probably speak worse now on the podcast than we.

[CJ]

True.

[Ryan]

Does your mom listen to the pod?

[CJ]

No.

[Mike]

Thank goodness. Hi, Mom.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Swearing that much?

[Ryan]

No. Yeah, we try our. Try our best.

[CJ]

Try to keep her moderately clean.

[Mike]

I think it's like one of those, like, when your parents grow up religious, like, I think an F bomb is.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like, whoa, could be worse.

[Ryan]

But to a religious mom, is there the Holocaust?

[Frankie Le Penna]

What are topics you guys aren't allowed to venture into?

[Mike]

That's that one.

[Ryan]

Probably a couple that you brought.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Talk about those.

[Mike]

You've been by far the most savage guest we've had and I love it.

[CJ]

No, we typically don't really get, like, too political. Don't get too, you know, political.

[Ryan]

What do you, like, get your news source from?

[CJ]

Tick Tock?

[Ryan]

HE LAUGHS There's a lot of good.

[Mike]

Stuff on Tick Tock.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I can't even say names.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Right, you got that, you got that, like back alley news?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, dude, it's canceled.

[Mike]

True news.

[Ryan]

Oh, really?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Do you believe in aliens?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Interdimensionally, yes.

[CJ]

But what does that even mean?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Dude, we can see in three dimensions, correct?

[CJ]

Yes.

[Frankie Le Penna]

There's like technically infinite dimensions and so I forget which one they say it's if it's like five, six or seven, seventh dimension that the aliens exist. So you take DMT to unlock that part of your brain that you can see into that dimension and to communicate.

[Ryan]

Have you ever done dmt?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No.

[Ryan]

So you don't want to do that?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I wouldn't be. Well, yeah, I'd probably be opposed. I don't need to go talk to the aliens.

[Ryan]

So like you just get like so unbelievably high, like you think that you're seeing aliens. Like, is that a possibility?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, because when people are in groups and they do it together, they all see this exact same thing.

[CJ]

Really?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Wow, that's crazy then. And that's just dmt. What about like ayahuasca? What's the differences there? I mean is.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I think it's very similar. Yeah, Same chemical, same gateway. Do you believe in them?

[CJ]

Yeah, I think there's probably no way that in the whole everything that there's not aliens. Yeah, I probably believe in outer space aliens.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean I've this. That was the first time I've ever heard that take and it makes still more sense to me than aliens.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I mean, imagine if we didn't have a smell and somebody just ripped ass and then that smells literally right here with us. But we can't.

[CJ]

But you don't smell, sir.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Oh, so that's what it is.

[Frankie Le Penna]

They're like here dimension.

[CJ]

Oh, but they can see ours Almost.

[Ryan]

Unlocks it or activates it.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, we can change topics.

[Ryan]

No, I'm curious.

[CJ]

Yeah, now you kind of got me going.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You guys never heard that theory until right now?

[Ryan]

No, I guess I have heard that. I didn't know the dimensional side.

[Mike]

Yeah, I just like that more than.

[CJ]

Believing they're coming from a planet far.

[Mike]

Far away, million light years away. What about like, humans will never achieve UFOs? Have you ever seen a UFO?

[Ryan]

Yeah, but classified.

[Mike]

Have you ever seen a proper quality video of a ufo ever picture they're out there though? Oh yeah. If you guess they are, that's fine, but never.

[Ryan]

You think we'd have to have one by now.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ryan]

But you know, back in the day.

[Mike]

We, you know, they're just as quality as the Sasquatch videos.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, I mean, the second the government and the Pentagon started saying that UFOs are reals. Second that I stopped believing in it. Anything that the establishment says, I will believe. The opposite of.

[Ryan]

Oh, you should meet my buddy Evan. So you straight up, you don't think that there's aliens in outer space?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I would not be opposed to it. Like, statistically speaking, I've heard that it is more likely that they are out there than not.

[Ryan]

Well, dude, have you ever looked at the sky and been like, oh, wow, we are tiny?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. I mean, who do you think would kill who?

[CJ]

We kill them. They kill us.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Them kill us. Okay.

[CJ]

I feel like that's the general sentiment.

[Ryan]

I mean, if they venture here, that's the only way we're probably gonna have to deal with true.

[CJ]

Unless we go there.

[Ryan]

I don't think we're going there anytime soon.

[CJ]

The first billionaire just walked in space. Or SpaceX. First commercial spacewalk.

[Mike]

Why was his arm like that?

[CJ]

Apparently it takes a lot of motion, but his other arm was going crazy. So I don't know, there's. There's conspiracy.

[Mike]

Just like pops out of the Shadow ship and then his left arm looked like it was legit in a full arm lock.

[Ryan]

So it's like just shitty AI possibly.

[CJ]

And he's like, I've seen better AI.

[Mike]

His arm was just like this.

[CJ]

Someone said it was a doll.

[Ryan]

How do you think these AI things are gonna tools are going to be able to take over the movie industry?

[Frankie Le Penna]

The AI just generates the whole movie, just everything.

[CJ]

Like writes it or just someone.

[Ryan]

But someone would. Would input that or.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, you plug in the script and.

[CJ]

It plan shots or what.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Also ask it to write the script.

[CJ]

My girlfriend Alondra uses AI or like ChatGPT. Like if she's writing like an email, she'll use ChatGPT to make it better, like daily.

[Mike]

It's not AI that's going to take your job. It's people who know how to use AI that are going to take your job, who know how to plug in the right AI to get the right things out, to get the best things you can possibly get out right now that are going to take your job.

[CJ]

Dude, it'd be pretty crazy going to space because you've got to come up with a good quote. He says, back at home, we have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth look sure looks like a perfect world. Like, you got to think of a good quote if you're going to be in space.

[Mike]

That's it. I like that quote.

[Ryan]

What would you Say Ryan?

[CJ]

No idea. Like, toss me a beer. Okay, so look, his. His left. His left arm kind of just sticks.

[Ryan]

What? Has he got it maybe like cuffed to the post?

[Mike]

Dude, he's trying to get it off and then he does and then he. So it looks like his arm.

[Ryan]

What if he would have floated out there?

[CJ]

That's. He doesn't look like he's super strapped in.

[Mike]

Like I gotta disconnect my suit so I can go save someone and then they like come back in the last second of air.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I don't believe anything I see. Dude.

[CJ]

I'm a flat. You think Earth is flat?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, dude, that's a ridiculous video.

[Mike]

They put an electric motor in a quad. Yeah, right.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Pull up the why are you gay video. You know that guy? It's so funny.

[CJ]

Okay, interesting.

[Mike]

So I wonder where the original is. I just kind of want to see this.

[Frankie Le Penna]

35 million views.

[Ryan]

There it is.

[CJ]

We bring in the studio this morning one of the gay rights activists, Mr.

[Ryan]

Should I call you Mr. Pepe? Julian Onzima. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. Good morning.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Why are you gay?

[Ryan]

Who says I'm gay?

[Frankie Le Penna]

You are gay.

[Ryan]

You are a transgender. What shows that I'm gay?

[Frankie Le Penna]

You are a transgender and you're a gay rights activist and an outspoken.

[Ryan]

Lesbian homosexual.

[CJ]

How can I describe you?

[Ryan]

Now we're looking at the raging debate.

[CJ]

Is this fake? Because of. I was reading the bottom.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Completely real.

[CJ]

The bottom things were like really out there.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Bottom things like the.

[CJ]

Go to the first second of it.

[Ryan]

This turns out to be fake. And Frankie thought this was real.

[CJ]

Go to the first.

[Frankie Le Penna]

The first minute and a half long interview. It's real.

[CJ]

Christina Aguilera and others is jailed for 10 years. NASA's Ebb and Flow gravity mapping satellites and they're highly successful.

[Frankie Le Penna]

What are you talking about?

[CJ]

At the bottom here. Scoring NASA's highly successful mission to moon by crashing into a mountain.

[Ryan]

Bro.

[CJ]

You thought this is real?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Real? That's edited.

[Ryan]

Frankie's whole life is a lie. Everything.

[CJ]

The one thing he believed. The one thing he believed.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You guys are crazy. This is some idiot re uploaded. This is not the original. Look it kids. The person got 51k subscribers. And it's an American that you got.

[CJ]

34 million views though.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, cuz it's a great video.

[Ryan]

What's on your for you page?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Dude, I am on a watch list.

[Ryan]

Really? So bad. Let me see it.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You do not want to see it.

[Ryan]

What is it? What's on there?

[Frankie Le Penna]

It's crazy. Just low quality memes and like people with deformities Geez, dude. A lot of like, crazy racist stuff.

[CJ]

I'm coming. I'm coming. To terms with why Danny had to cut so much of your podcast.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I didn't ask for the.

[Ryan]

I'm pretty sure that is just curated to your personality. What you like watching you guys.

[Mike]

It's AI curated. You can't. No one decides that.

[Ryan]

There's a reason why racist. Certain people, their whole Discover page is just chicks with big boobs because they keep clicking on them.

[CJ]

Mike is all.

[Ryan]

They keep staring at them.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. What's on your guys? Just all car stuff. Fyp.

[Ryan]

I feel like pretty normal shit. I have to like, look, you got.

[CJ]

A lot of hawk to on your dude.

[Mike]

On my Snapchat. Like, I scroll over and they have so much hawk to a girl. And guess who it was before that. The cop chick who effed the whole.

[Ryan]

The whole force was her name. You've had that on there for the last, like, still. No.

[Mike]

I mean, yeah.

[Ryan]

Mike's been just really investigating more and more.

[Mike]

You. No.

[Frankie Le Penna]

No.

[CJ]

Funny. I don't have any. Dude.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

How crazy is the hawk to a girl, though? Like, she's like all over the place. Yeah.

[CJ]

The guy.

[Ryan]

She's got her own podcast now. I think she's just like three months away from making music. Like, I feel like that's like. Like the end of next thing. Like a viral sensation. Yeah. Like making music.

[CJ]

The guy at the One of the local.

[Mike]

What is.

[CJ]

What does Gaga know about camera?

[Ryan]

Know about making music?

[Mike]

You know, what's that.

[Ryan]

What's that even mean?

[CJ]

Brony west clip. Never mind.

[Ryan]

What do you think about cameras? Have you ever met her? I mean, I feel like you could easily run in the same world. Like, you guys could probably collab on some short video.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. She did a video with Hulk Hogan like, two days after I did a video with him. But we were indifferent. Different locations. Which is shocking.

[Ryan]

That.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Why would she be doing a video with Hulk Hogan?

[Ryan]

Right.

[Frankie Le Penna]

First of all. But question is, does she deserve her fame? I'm happy for her. She is making money. She somehow made it out of the crap job at the Spring Factory.

[CJ]

I'm intrigued by that. What the is a spring factory? Like, she's making spring springs.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Spring. Really?

[Mike]

Spring factory. Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Coilovers.

[CJ]

Oh, coilovers.

[Ryan]

Probably not all coilovers, but mostly just, oh, yeah.

[CJ]

It's like I quit my job at the Spring Facts Factory. I'm like, I mean, I guess there's got to be spring factories, but, like, I'd like a little more context on the Spring Factory.

[Ryan]

Like, her I don't dislike.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I've never.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think it's cool. Like I'm happy for her too, but I guess, I don't know, I wasn't.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Sure what you think. I'm happy for anybody that can succeed on the Internet. I just don't know how sustainable.

[Mike]

Right.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Her freaking program is that she's developed.

[Mike]

And then you know what? We said the same thing and I know this might be slightly different. We said the same thing about Bhad Bhabie. Same thing about she's crushing girl. I did.

[Ryan]

She already exited, man.

[Mike]

Yeah. I was like, dude, this girl, like she says one thing and then. And then here we are bopping to Gucci flip flops.

[Ryan]

Told you. Music. Yeah, she went music. But bhad baby made $54 million. Yeah. You're done.

[CJ]

You ever thought about doing.

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, I'd rather stick to feats of strength.

[Ryan]

I feel like. So you farting in Bob, take the bag. If they're like, listen, we have so many women here that want to pay a premium fee to get some scandalous photo photos up here.

[Mike]

I feel like if you didn't, it'd be kind of sketchy.

[Ryan]

This is kind of like a two part question. So you'd say, no, you're not. You're not taking that bag. Because there's got to be talking about millions. Yeah, but you have to do, bro, you for sure could get make millions of dollars, but sell your soul.

[Frankie Le Penna]

So yeah, for sure. At the end of the day when you're.

[CJ]

It's a good point.

[Frankie Le Penna]

The money in the account, like, are you actually happy, dude, I hate to.

[Ryan]

Say it, but if people. No one wants to see me. I can't sell out for only like two people to buy the thing. So you imagine I sell out. I'm like, no one bought it. This was supposed to be the exit. Now I don't have anything.

[CJ]

But the pod's like, fuck you, I'm leaving. Go follow my only fans next week.

[Ryan]

You back? No one. But so that's great. Yeah. You guys must not have stayed till the end. This is my next question now. Frankie, walk around with a hinder like that going all these different places. Are you picking up chicks, dude? No. Like you got this. You're. You're clouded up. You got all this fame and followers dude, now. And you got a big hinder.

[Frankie Le Penna]

90% of my followers on every app or male and the videos that I put out are total. Just. Bro, bro.

[Ryan]

But that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you're A famous, well known individual.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Even. Even like a fucking tenth of the fame that I saw that you have. It doesn't matter if the girl didn't even know who you were until that moment. They go, you're famous. And they see how famous they're like. And then, I mean they just would see your hinder, obviously. Sorry to keep resorting back to that.

[Frankie Le Penna]

But the location of where I am is the problem, I guess because in Grand Rapids, Michigan, they all know who I am, but kind of the girls are clout chasers. Like they are in Los Angeles. Los Angeles girls would be throwing themselves.

[CJ]

The problem with Cormorite.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yes.

[CJ]

No cloud chasers here.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Desperate for attention and clout where they'll just be doing anything to get near a person with followers.

[Ryan]

Yeah, fuck. I bet you have a couple girls. You're down in la.

[Mike]

I'm sure like the level of women throwing themselves at anyone in LA has to be astronomical.

[Ryan]

You can always find I think a girl somewhere that's into that. But like it's just obviously the wrong.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Reason almost all of you are dating, correct? Yeah.

[Ryan]

So like I already had a girlfriend before we really had any kind of following. But I'd imagine even if you were around here, you could still probably find some shallow girls that are trying to date you to get some clout or whatever.

[CJ]

Do you feel like they're ever intimidated, like by your butt? They're like, damn, I don't know if I can hang around this guy.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, definitely intimidated at first. But then they, you know, get over it and they're pumped about it.

[CJ]

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[Mike]

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[Frankie Le Penna]

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[Ryan]

Wait, he's powered up all the toys. I think that means we're done for the year.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I love this buddy. He's the hardest working helper the North.

[CJ]

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[Frankie Le Penna]

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[Ryan]

We are Marines.

[Frankie Le Penna]

We were made for this.

[Ryan]

When you do these videos with, like, big celebrities, like, I know you've done one with Hulk Hogan, you've done one with John Cena. Like, what's that look like? Like, how do you coordinate that? Like, how.

[CJ]

What?

[Ryan]

That's so sick, dude. Yeah, I mean, like, how much time do you spend with them? Do you talk with them? Or is it pretty straight to business?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like, straight to business? Well, with John Cena, at least I got to hang out for a while off camera with Hogan, and dude is an absolute G, total bro.

[Ryan]

I bet.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like, same as, like, same type of energy as this podcast. But John Cena, he was like, strictly business. Didn't want to do any small talk, was hiding in his trailer unless we had to be on camera at that moment. It was like a pretty big commercial. Okay. That we were on. And yeah, I mean, I can't blame him. He's probably seen so much nonsense and Dallas so much BS that he doesn't want the big butt guy coming up to him and trying to small talk. There's a wide variety of interactions I've had with celebrities where I, like David Dobrik. I was never off camera when I was hanging out with him, but he was, you know, super cool on camera. But if the camera stopped rolling, I don't know what would have happened.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Just turned into a completely different person. Who else? Marshmallow. I only got to talk to him for, like, five minutes.

[CJ]

Do you see him without the helmet?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, but I actually, I shouldn't say this. No. There's no way that somebody's gonna see this. One of his photographers got some video files of me at the shoot that we did at Live in Vegas. And when I got the files from him, I got his whole card, and his whole card had a bunch of photos of Marshmallow without his helmet. High res photos. I still have them.

[Ryan]

Geez, dude.

[Mike]

Just kind of sick.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. And I was not supposed to have.

[CJ]

Those, but now say that you deleted them.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I delete them. I think I'm selling them on Reddit for the highest price. I'm just kidding.

[Ryan]

What the hell would Marshmallow be getting photos of them? Like.

[CJ]

Yeah, true.

[Ryan]

What's he gonna post those on? Like, why would you ever know?

[Mike]

Maybe.

[Ryan]

Why would you ever want those photos?

[Mike]

Some behind the scenes stuff. I always think about that.

[CJ]

Like, when he does the Reveal stuff.

[Mike]

We shoot that, like, clearly isn't gonna see the light of day.

[Ryan]

I wonder what that's like, being Marshmallow, being as famous as he is. But when he takes the helmet off, like, he goes to the grocery store, and somebody could be, like, listening to his music.

[CJ]

That's his Clark Ken.

[Ryan]

Look him straight in the eye and be like, are you going or not? Like, that's got to be so interesting.

[Mike]

It's got to be refreshing to rock that I do. Don't quote me on this at all. I just remember, like, Justin, he's super into edm, and he was like, oh, yeah, he rebranded. He used to be like, dot com. And again, just throwing that out there. I don't even know. But he was like, that's who he used to be.

[Ryan]

I just watched an Air Rack video where he tried sneaking into a nightclub as Marshmallow, wearing just the helmet.

[Mike]

Did it work?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think. I think he got in, and then he got blacklisted.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Dude, that is a crazy niche to just try to sneak into events.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah. And then I watched the next one. He snuck into another nightclub as an Olympian, like, just wearing, like, a fake gold medal.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I mean, I watch them for sure.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You know, it's kind of interesting. I don't know if they gotta be real, right? Not fake.

[CJ]

Yeah, I think so. Yeah. It's cool. He's always like, we bought the ticket just so we don't get in trouble, but have you ever seen the guy who tries to leave the stadium last? He goes to, like, big concerts, big stadium, stuff like that. He's banned, I think, from all the NFL ones now. But he, like, would kind of not hide, but he would just try to, like, make himself inconspicuous enough that he could stay. Like, the latest. And he has a timer. It's really, really cool.

[Ryan]

How late is he staying?

[CJ]

I mean, hours after the game where, like, he'll be one of the last people, and, like, a security guard will catch him on the last sweep. There's been some where he's like, yeah, I'm at Lambeau. I'm here four hours later, everybody's gone. I'm just gonna go home.

[Mike]

Like, no overnighters.

[CJ]

I don't think he's ever done an overnighter.

[Ryan]

Man, it's amazing how many. Just different niches there are that you could, like, you know, kind of go into. You know, like, there's so many options because you can just reach so many different people that are going to find, you know, whatever it is that you're Doing Interesting.

[Mike]

I genuinely didn't even want to bring this up. At least at the wrong time. You know how you said you like. Yeah. You know, do some mean farts? That might be funny, but I'm not trying to get into that content. And I don't even know. I don't even know his name. I don't know his name. But there's this dude on TikTok. They're fake farts, but he has in his sweatshirt pocket. It sounds very real.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I'm sure. I've seen him.

[Mike]

He does weird stuff. And again, it doesn't really piss anyone off. He'll run in front of someone and go, like, yeah. And fart and people. It just makes their day. And they have millions of views and.

[Ryan]

It makes their day when he farts on them. I would expect someone to get up and want to punch me.

[Mike]

Exactly. It's not like a real fart. It doesn't actually smell. Well, maybe ruin.

[Ryan]

Some people, they probably think it's real, though.

[Mike]

They zoom in on their faces and people are just like, laughing. They're just laughing and it just like, genuinely looks like there. Makes their day. Like, you're not gonna believe this dude rolled up in front of us walking down the stairs and he fell and then he farted like six times.

[Ryan]

Farting. Are they real or do you got a little pooter, you know, making the noise?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Some of them are real. Yeah. Some of them are fake, though. When I add reverb, they sound very realistic.

[Ryan]

Really? Well, the Karen that was like, yelling at you for skateboarding aged.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Oh, yeah. But I mean, we did a hundred takes before I liked. I liked one of them and people bought it.

[Ryan]

I thought it was legit.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, no, people are like 50. 50.

[Ryan]

When you, like, ran by her and.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Then farted Karen's ear. The best thing that could happen for a video. I mean, it's very hard to stage a Karen attack.

[CJ]

Karen attack.

[Ryan]

You almost just gotta find one in the wild if you really want to get it.

[Frankie Le Penna]

That's hard to do.

[Ryan]

Well, we managed to find them. Yeah. Everyone every now and then. Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

The one at the boat launch.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I just. Just saw her the other day too.

[CJ]

Really?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It was awkward. Yeah, I mean, like, cormorant's pretty small, you know? Yeah. She was eating with her family.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I was like, she recognize you?

[Ryan]

Yeah, you could tell. I think she was maybe a little embarrassed and like, I don't know, I felt bad. I thought about, like, maybe paying for their meal or something, but then I was like, ah, I'm just gonna just let it move on.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Damn. Yeah.

[Ryan]

We weren't trying to ruin anyone's day. Like most people really thought it was funny and like they'd go down like they just scored like a goal in soccer, like high five and everyone and. And whatever. And they're like cheering and you know, just made. But she might have just been having a bad day. And then you run into us and we just were the. The cherry on top, you know, like.

[Mike]

Yeah, not speaking on her. She might have been having a bad day. But some Karens are just Karens.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, for sure.

[Mike]

They're not having a bad day and they're just Karen.

[Frankie Le Penna]

They have a bad life.

[Ryan]

Dude. I saw a video yesterday on Instagram of this guy that he was at a car wash going up to people and taking out a thing of gasoline, but he had just had water in it and started dumping it all over himself. Yeah, himself. And then he would like, like take a lighter out and start lighting the light. And like the people with like washing their cars would like, you know, start like spraying him down like, no, no, no, don't do it. Like, don't do it. And then he would start like chasing after them with the gasoline can. Yeah. And that's a good way to get shot, dude. I was like, this guy was so aggressive. And then he'd be like pouring it on their car and they'd be like trying to like spray them or like throw like the.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Oh my God.

[Ryan]

I was like, damn, these are like going really. Sure, that's real.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Too far.

[Ryan]

That sounds like. That sounds like a prank that would have happened in like 2014 through 2017 maybe. Yeah, it seemed pretty real. Cuz like the guy doing it like, didn't speak English, where he was like trying to like, talk, I don't know, a lot. Especially Facebook.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Set up. You know, it's so easy to see.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Through all of my videos. Pretty much 99 of them are staged and set up.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

People all think that they're real.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I don't know if I would go like, yours isn't really like fake though. Like, you can't say that word, which obviously you're not. Like, I wouldn't. I wouldn't put it in the category of those. Of those, like, fake pranks exercises. Like, yours is just like a skit with a stunt. And the stunt is as real as it. Fucking kids.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, have you seen the RC cars when they're shot super tight and they look like they're like real monster trucks and they have like monster truck noises to them.

[Frankie Le Penna]

And then on the. On my fyp. Yeah, maybe a couple deep in the.

[CJ]

Tick tock do you have to be to call your fyp?

[Frankie Le Penna]

How deep do you have to be?

[CJ]

Yeah, like how much of a tick tock do you have to be to go?

[Frankie Le Penna]

FYI, literally on the app at the top, it says fyp.

[Ryan]

Probably the same level of being on Snapchat where you say a public story instead of just story. When we were in Disney World walking around, he goes, you posting that to your public story? We're like, dude, just call it a story now. Every time I look at public story, I think of you.

[Frankie Le Penna]

That's my first public story ever.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Frankie Le Penna]

It was like the day after you showed me yours.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Wow.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, it was me doing the gritty down Disney World sidewalk.

[Mike]

You can gwitty witty.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Let's talk about something raunchy. You gotta up the ante.

[Ryan]

What are you trying to talk about?

[CJ]

Yeah, I'm intrigued.

[Frankie Le Penna]

World War Three. What if there was a mandatory draft? What are you doing?

[Ryan]

Well, what do you think the age?

[CJ]

Staying far away from Ken with a gun.

[Frankie Le Penna]

It's 27 right now, but they would up it.

[Ryan]

You think so?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Guaranteed.

[Ryan]

Wait, 27 is the drafting max. Oh, so.

[Frankie Le Penna]

So I'd be up it?

[Mike]

Yeah, I'd be feeling really bad for a couple homies in the room.

[Frankie Le Penna]

They would up it to 30. Something.

[Ryan]

They say you're not in your prime, like physical shape until like 30s. But you tell the draft board.

[Mike]

Yeah, no, obviously inaccurate.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think that's for like standard, like normal people because normally they just quit doing. But if you're like an actual, like athlete, like once you start reaching like upper 20s, like 30, you're kind of in your prime is what they consider you.

[CJ]

Didn't Elvis go to jail for dodging the draft or something like that? Ali and Muhammad Ali. Would you go to jail for dodging the draft or would you go.

[Mike]

I would go to jail for dodging the draft or not go to jail because I would still be dodging the draft. But I get away.

[Frankie Le Penna]

They say that the last necessary war was World War II. And I agree with it because any war beyond then was just complete corruption for like political gain or rearrangement of money. Like Vietnam, completely unnecessary. Iraq, Afghanistan, completely unnecessary. The wars that are currently happening right now, complete money laundering operations. Anything that's going to be here in the future is going to be a complete unnecessary war. It's like, why would we all go die for these hideously corrupt politicians that are drafting Us into a war that doesn't need to happen.

[Ryan]

Do you think about this every day?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Dude, we are doomed. Like, our generation, like, if it keeps going the way it's going right now, our kids are not going to inherit anything.

[Ryan]

How long until you think, like, the next World War three?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Literally, right around the corner.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Within the year or two.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Frankie Le Penna]

If it does happen. Yeah.

[CJ]

I really hope we don't come back to this clip and be like, Frankie was right.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Well, I mean, there's not gonna be much to come back to if it is a nuclear war.

[Ryan]

Are you a pessimist about everything?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Just when it comes to trust, yeah. Like, what I'm being told from. Never trust anything you're hearing from mainstream.

[Ryan]

Your parents tell you this, or you.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Figure this out on your own conclusions.

[Ryan]

Like, do you have. Have you been ripped off many times? Yeah.

[CJ]

Where were you hurt first?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Well, I mean, just the constant bombardment of lies from mainstream media from that one. History. History books in general. Just so many lies. It's like, how do you trust anything they're saying now?

[Ryan]

I guess I don't. But I also don't, like, care enough to, like, think about it.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

And if the kids aren't gonna inherit anything, what are we gonna do with Mike?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Subaru.

[CJ]

That's the whole reason he built it.

[Ryan]

He can't sell that thing. The whole plan is to hand it down multiple generations.

[Mike]

I'm never selling that thing. It's going to my kids. Yeah, Mike, about the only thing.

[Ryan]

And think about that. Did you.

[Mike]

Well, then I worry about they can.

[CJ]

Do driving their bunker.

[Mike]

Well, I mean, you look at, like, the movie Irobot, and then when Will Smith out the crotch rocket, and she's like, is this gasoline? And I was like, f. That. I. I never want to be a part of that. Like, the whole, like, if everything is.

[Ryan]

Electric, you go, no, it's E85 runs on corn. So are you, like, a doomsday prepper?

[Frankie Le Penna]

No.

[Ryan]

So what are you doing if it happens?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like, if it goes down, just dying.

[Ryan]

And just accepting it. So you think about it every single day, but you're not preparing for it in any way.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Every.

[Ryan]

So it's just, like. It's just making your life worse.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I just want to make sure that I am not forgetting and. And I am well aware of it throughout, you know, each week, month, that as it escalates, I'm not an uneducated idiot when it comes to how bad things are. I. I'm not trying. Not trying to be, like, negative or anything, but Getting crazy.

[Ryan]

You seriously got to meet my buddy Evan.

[Mike]

I think he maybe does know that if. If things don't have to be that way.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, they don't have to be that way, but they are because of the idiots that are in control of everything.

[Ryan]

You know, dude, you should get into politics.

[Mike]

That's the problem.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Takes a certain type of person to get behind.

[CJ]

You can get behind.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Oh, what about freaking. You're running for mayor?

[Ryan]

Well, Kendan, but then they.

[CJ]

But the establishment.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they didn't. They wanted a dog to win, so they didn't count as votes. Like, yeah, it is kind of. Because you spent a bunch of money. Like, I mean, it was all for.

[Frankie Le Penna]

The local level, dude.

[Ryan]

That's literally what we said.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Matter what level. Like politics. You're all crooks.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

You guys ever have kids that show up to the shop here that are.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Frankie Le Penna]

All time.

[Ryan]

Every week.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Every week.

[Ryan]

Safely.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Craziest thing that's happened when they.

[Ryan]

Dude. Oh, my God. I kind of got a funny story.

[Mike]

Where you go for it.

[Ryan]

Do you remember that one kid who years ago would just, like, pull up with his van?

[CJ]

I saw him.

[Ryan]

We did.

[CJ]

At Freddy' I saw him at Freddy's.

[Ryan]

Ben and I saw him driving, and we're like, was that. Yeah, it's been like four years. We didn't have to say who it was. I go, was that. And she goes, dude, the van. And I go, oh, my God. I think it was. I don't know. He's a nice kid, but, like, I don't really know what he was doing. He was. He had his license. He would come. Okay, so we have, like a. We used to have a GoPro right above the door and then a TV on the inside so we could see what the GoPro saw. Because we didn't have windows on the front of the shop. This kid would legit come knock on the door and then stare at the GoPro. And we'd be sitting on the other end looking at like. Like, stare like. Like, can you hear us right now? I think he can see. Oh, my God.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But he was a really nice kid. But, like, there was just something up with.

[Frankie Le Penna]

For sure. Watching this.

[CJ]

He had a dirt bike.

[Ryan]

There's a lot of. There was a lot of kids that have done this, though. Like, I mean, I'm talking. It doesn't happen as much anymore because we've been so vocal about not coming here. But it used to happen a lot more, I think when we were smaller. I think they felt like, like, oh, like I can just go pull up and, like, hang with them. But, like, I'm not kidding. There's been times where we had, like, the lights off and we were trying to act like we weren't here. And, like, they, like, started walking. Looking through the windows on the side, I'm like, bro, I mean, that was a different time. Nowadays, I'd be like, yo, you gotta be doing that.

[CJ]

Yeah, real good cameras, too.

[Frankie Le Penna]

So I guess it is crazy.

[Mike]

It's won't get specific, but it's just entertaining to see. Like, how delusional some people.

[Ryan]

Well, this kid pulled up one time. Anyways, here's like, my most memorable story about him. He, like, pulled up, the car was, like, kind of on its last leg, like, it. And he was like, I just got it. Like, it's his new car. He was all pumped about it, had all these plans, and he's like, you want me to do some burnouts here? And I'm just like, ah, no. Like, I want you to save the tires. Like, I was worried that it was gonna, like, break, you know? And I'm like, how the fuck is this kid gonna get home if he breaks it trying to do a donut here? He lived, like, a. Like an hour away. And he would, like, drive here. And then I'm like, don't, don't, don't. You know? And then kind of send him on his way. I'm like, all right, well, we gotta do this stuff. So it was nice seeing you. Like, see you later. Fucking drives down the road, like, couple minutes and then comes back and he's like, hey, do you guys have any gas? And I'm like, I don't think so. He's like, oh, because I'm on E and I don't have any money. So, like, I think we ended up, like, filling up his. Yeah, Mike probably went and filled him up gas.

[Mike]

And I was like, what are you doing?

[Ryan]

I think then. Then you maybe just said, like, hey, man, like, I don't think you can come back anymore. Like, it was like, he'd come back every day. He'd come, like, every single day.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ryan]

I mean, no one loves to drive.

[Mike]

The best also part about getting too specific, but showing him around. This is the first tour, and you. The computer was downstairs and you were editing the video, and you had just finished chopping up a good portion, and we're like, yeah, yeah. So this is the main part. You know, the Pine Bay, whatever.

[Ryan]

We.

[Mike]

We hang out here. You wanna. You wanna watch the new video segment? We're just about to watch it. This Isn't even out yet. And we're.

[Ryan]

This was the same kid.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I don't remember this. Okay.

[Mike]

And we're watching it, and you're playing it, and we're all, like, very enthralled because that's what we do is, you know, banner. CJ finishes the. The edit of their segment, and we're like, yes, this is great, dude. And then he's just like, so you like to fish, like, completely unentertained by the video? And I was like, does.

[CJ]

Is he.

[Mike]

Does he even know we make videos?

[Frankie Le Penna]

What?

[Mike]

Like, it was so random. Like, he kept interrupting, like, because when we watched the new video segment, we're very in tune, watching, making sure. Oh, yeah, leave that in. Cut that. Whatever. And he was just like.

[Ryan]

So there's been way funnier things that happen. We've considered getting a gate, but now it's, like, a lot better. People don't really come anymore.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I'm shocked.

[Mike]

I mean, what else? You just said there's way funnier things that happen. What else?

[Ryan]

God. We'd have to go down the rabbit hole. But there was a similar time when we were watching a UFC fight, and this guy pulled up and he, like, kind of helped himself in. And we were, like, watching the fight, and it was, like, super in it, or maybe. No, we were watching a show, a movie, and Mike was sitting in the back, just, like, minds on business. The guy, like, kind of, like, just sat, like, sat on the floor with him. Right.

[Mike]

I was editing.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were in the couch kind of. And we were in the couch watching. He was gone on the back, and he just, like, pulls up and just starts, like. Like, talking the whole time. And then finally he goes, this is the most memorable thing he said, though. This was, like, in 2020, and we had, like, the newest GoPro, you know? You know, we don't. It was probably like, a GoPro 11, whatever. And he just looks at. He goes, this a GoPro 3. Who's in the front? I was like, what the. It was just the funniest question.

[Mike]

Oh, no. It says it's 11. Just like, what planet is funny?

[Ryan]

But, like, yeah, anyways, hilarious. Do you have random people?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like, I have nowhere for them to show up.

[Mike]

There you go.

[Ryan]

They don't follow. You ever have bad interactions?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I've never had a negative interaction.

[Ryan]

Anyone, like, slap your ass?

[CJ]

Yeah, they don't want to.

[Ryan]

Like girls.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, I guess, more importantly, not. You don't want to slap your ass?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Not as often as you'd think. There was this one, she was just, like, grabbing my pee pee and.

[Ryan]

Oh, really?

[Frankie Le Penna]

And, like, saying, I'll take you out back right now. And I was like. So, like, she was reversed right now. This would be headlines, right?

[Ryan]

No, 100%. But did you feel violated or were you kind of like, whatever?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Like, I mean, I am very hard to offend or make upset, so I didn't care, but somebody else probably would have. I was just giggling about it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. When you said I was very hard, I thought you were going. I mean, I was rock hard, so, like, I couldn't sit there and act like I didn't like it.

[Frankie Le Penna]

She was not cute. You would not want to bring her anywhere.

[Ryan]

The reason that brings Frankie out here is that we are filming with some racing lawnmowers tomorrow. The dream is coming alive. We've been trying to get into racing lawnmowers since probably 2019, and we've bought a few of them off Facebook marketplace, and they've just failed us every single time. They were just pieces of. They wouldn't work or they would work for a short stint, and they were pretty quick and then blew up. Like, we weren't even able to make enough for, like, a video with it. So anyways, we took the motor out of the 450s, the YFZ 450 that we had swapped with the electric stark motor, and we put that into our lawnmower. Trusty old John Deere lawnmower. Gonna be insane. Yeah, it works. He just drove it. He just. He just finished up on it. It's ready to rip. Just in time for tomorrow. But, like, it's gonna be gnarly, dude.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, you got to be careful. That thing looks like it could flip pretty easy, you know?

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, 100%. It's. It's lowered down.

[Mike]

Yeah. It's got to be one of the most flippable vehicles that we own.

[Ryan]

Short wheelbase, a lot of power.

[Mike]

The cool thing is Frankie has some experience driving racing lawnmowers.

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, not really. I mean, I was in a go kart.

[Mike]

I don't know. I think you took it for a rip.

[Frankie Le Penna]

No, no. That is their prize possession. I was just kind of choreographing the. The video. Really?

[Ryan]

She got to rip the go cart.

[Frankie Le Penna]

It wasn't even a shifter car. It's just a clapped, like, 100cc, no.

[Mike]

Gears, not even a property.

[Ryan]

But anyways, yeah, we got the dd. We got a bunch of. A bunch of kids coming out like. Like, young kids that are like, tick tock. Like, racing lawnmower. Yeah. But enthusiastic about racing lawnmower. Oh, yeah, they're gonna fire us. The ropes. Something we've never really been able to get into. And, you know, maybe we'll be able to move into that space a little bit after tomorrow is say, you know. Yeah, we're into racing lawnmowers. You know, I don't know. We're trying to get. We're trying to get 10 shifter cards, lawnmowers. Oh, they're bringing 10, so we're gonna have, like, five teen.

[CJ]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

Oh, dude, we better make some more friends, homies. Yeah, it's gonna be sick out on our drift track and then probably just, like, mobbing around. Cormorant.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, invite the GoPro 3 guy. I want to meet him.

[Ryan]

Yeah, dude, we could probably hit him up. Anyways, Frankie, thank you for coming on. Good boys.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Thanks for having me.

[Ryan]

We appreciate it. Appreciate you, bro.

[CJ]

Thanks for your conspiracies.

[Ryan]

Yeah, dude, I don't think half of the podcast is going to be able to go live, but, hey, if any of those things ever happen, then we'll. We'll post them. He said it'll be too late.

[CJ]

It'll be too late.

[Frankie Le Penna]

World War three one will be too late. But all the other ones, maybe real quick.

[Ryan]

All right, if we do go. Go to World War three. Hey, the guy. Hey, it's the guy that burned our merch. Jake, why don't you sit down? Actually, we do have a question for you right here.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Are you the guy with how we doing?

[Ryan]

Juice cannon?

[Frankie Le Penna]

I never heard that one.

[Ryan]

Juice cannon, the turd cutter. Did you hire Morgan Freeman to narrate the video of you burning our merch? Yeah, I'm just going to go with yeah. It's way cooler of a story. Definitely wasn't a guy that pretended like he was. It was the real one. Yeah, it was the real one for sure. Okay, that makes me feel a little bit better about this situation. Cool. At least it was cool.

[Frankie Le Penna]

How much money?

[Ryan]

Oh, we were kind of friends at the time, so we just hooked it up.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Damn.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, Morgan Freeman and his dad were hooking up.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I guess they're gonna write a.

[Ryan]

Movie about it soon, too.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Morgan Freeman lives in what country?

[Ryan]

Well, he's actually got a house on Big C, like, right here. No one knows that.

[CJ]

It's his vacation home.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Frankie's not believing that for a second.

[CJ]

Skeptical, man. Unless it comes to that one video.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, I mean, why would you believe in anything until you have, like, undeniable proof? Is mine.

[Ryan]

Were you a good Student, Frankie. Like, were you a super good student in school?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah. A's and B's.

[Ryan]

It seems like you're, like, you know, you just know so much about a lot. Random facts, you know, interdimensional beings. Like, how you would reach them. Like, things like that. Like, when do you have time between your crazy schedule to learn traveling, plane rides? So you just sit there and learn research.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I'm not gonna say who. They've all been canceled. The people I listen to. But if you are canceling people, that is who you want to listen to. They're silencing them for a reason. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Or they're missing mighty. But I'm not disagreeing with you. But, you know, there's two sides to it.

[CJ]

Do. Do you believe in ghosts? To find ghosts, spooky things that crawl around your house? I just bought a new house. It's old, and, like, the fans move and it casts shadows. And I'm. There's slight concern in a dark corner that there could be ghosts there.

[Frankie Le Penna]

I believe in souls that linger that didn't, like, go to rest.

[CJ]

That doesn't make me feel any better.

[Ryan]

Like, you thought so much about this. Like, I wouldn't be able to just give an answer like that.

[CJ]

Yeah, like, yeah, ghosts.

[Ryan]

You know, I'd be like, yeah, I believe in ghosts. You're like, I believe in souls that. You know, like, you thought about it.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, just thought, like, I, like, asked that. It's not a. Yeah, but I think.

[CJ]

You give a good answer. So what. What about the souls that haven't gone to rest yet?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Ah, that's a whole rabbit hole. I mean, I don't know all the specifics behind it from, like, what I understand, though, is when somebody dies in a brutal way, like a murder.

[Ryan]

I've heard about this. Yeah.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Or a.

[Ryan]

Like a traumatic.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Traumatic way that the soul is tied to that room or furniture or even, like, an object. The whole Annabelle series movie is, like, apparently super accurate. They have all the cursed items, and that's. That's what they say. And because it's all based on real stuff. Yeah. They actually. There's, like, shockingly realistic evidence, believable evidence that explains all the cursed items and why.

[CJ]

Last question. If your soul could be trapped in an item on Earth for the rest of life, what would it be?

[Frankie Le Penna]

Probably this outfit. Outfit I wear every single video, the same outfit.

[CJ]

There we go. It was a lot of fun hanging out. Can't wait to film some videos. So you guys have some stuff to look forward to. And go follow Frankie on all his platforms man.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yeah, thanks for having me boys.

[Ryan]

Good to meet you. Thank you brother.

[Frankie Le Penna]

Yes.

[Ryan]

All right, peace. Just don't give Jake any of your.

[CJ]

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