Getting Caught Sneaking Out

Summary

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Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Getting Caught Sneaking Out
Date: October 3, 2023

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Episode Overview

On this week’s episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, and Evan—bounce from hilarious personal stories and all things behind-the-scenes at CboysTV to unfiltered hot takes on YouTube pranks, life as a content creator, music trends, and good old Midwestern teenage rebellion. They share business advice, memories of sneaking out, cautionary tales from YouTuber mishaps, and even throw in discussion about electric vehicles, nightmares, lightning strikes, and near-cringe wedding moments. The banter is true to form: fast, irreverent, and peppered with quotable moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Midwestern Sneaking Out Experience

• Stories & Tactics:

  • The crew swap their best (and, sometimes, lamest) adolescent sneaking out adventures—using neutral gear to roll cars away quietly, the challenges of having loud exhausts, and how some were just "allowed" to come and go.
  • Evan: "I did the typical car—put it in neutral, push the car as far... and then start it." (36:07)
  • Ben: “Push it a couple times. And then I got an exhaust, which made it harder.” (36:58)
  • Ryan reminisces about creative signaling systems with his parents, like turning hallway lights on and off to notify them of his arrival. (39:49)

• Parenting Styles & Rebellion:

  • Differences in household rules (“be home by 1”) and attitudes towards authority.
  • Evan: “I think I’ve always just hated, like, listening... time frames? Yeah, sure. Scheduling.” (38:45)

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2. YouTube Pranks, Clout Chasing & Real Consequences

• Recent Shooting Incident:

  • The crew discuss a recent viral incident where a YouTube prankster was shot during a “prank gone wrong.”
  • CJ: “That was the worst prank I’ve ever seen.” (12:08)
  • Ryan: “Definitely don’t think he should have gotten shot... but there wasn’t much finesse.” (11:22)
  • Ben on YouTuber reputation: “It gives YouTubers a bad rep. That’s tough.” (11:18)

• The Ethics of ‘Prank’ Content:

  • The trend of disrespectful, low-effort pranks is critiqued. The guys recall another infamous local incident where a couple attempted a deadly stunt for views.
  • CJ: “You’re purposely trying to piss people off... I just don't think that’s funny, man.” (14:03)
  • Ben: “That’s desperate—when you’re shooting a phone book.” (15:06)

• Collateral Damage to the Cboys' Reputation:

  • The Cboys talk about unfairly getting lumped in with reckless or disrespectful creators due to geographic/genre proximity. (15:39)

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3. Music, Harley Speakers & FM Radio Lamentations

• Music Trends:

  • The crew vent about the state of new music and the dominance of “aggressive” female rap on major playlists.
  • CJ: “These female rappers are taken over... I just can't get down with what they're saying... this ain’t hyping me up.” (05:00)
  • Ryan: “Maybe when people put out TV shows... they know it's not their best work but it'll get us through to next season. Some music is so bad, I can't believe they released this!” (04:23)

• Harleys & Music Taste:

  • Evan tells a hilarious story of leathered-up Harley guys bumping “Bottom Jeans” at full blast, making him question biker music etiquette. (01:55)

• FM Radio Gripes:

  • Jokes about radio programming being mostly ads, and how that compares to their own approach. (00:47)

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4. Tech Upgrades, Jailbreaking, and Electric Vehicles

• Old School Hacking:

  • Laughs about jailbreaking iPhones, rooting PSPs, and their failed attempts to resist modifying every gadget/car they own.
  • CJ: “I did jailbreak my phones too... always ruined your battery.” (24:24)
  • Evan: "Why can't I leave things normal?" (24:09)

• Ken’s Brand-New iPhone:

  • The guys roast Ken for always having the latest Apple device (“Flash it to the camera—no case!” (26:25)). They also envision Ken as a tech reviewer. (26:46)
  • Ben: “You should do a Marcus Brownlee review on it.” (26:38)

• Electrification Everywhere:

  • Electric boats, mowers, and the future of snowmobiles, trains, and more.
  • Evan: “Dude, if it gets better and better, then not much bad to say about electric.” (34:28)
  • Ben: “I think it'd be cool to ride an electric snowmobile.” (35:06)

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5. Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On prank culture:
  • CJ: “He shouldn’t have shot him, but he should have punched him in the nose.” (11:40)
• On staying up late and hustle culture:
  • CJ: “If I get six (hours of sleep), I'm like, okay, I’m good. I can keep going.” (44:12)
• On creativity and work-life flow:
  • Evan: "When we're filming, it's so hard to go from okay, we're filming this bit from 10 to 3, and then we're getting on another bit... I can't get on the computer and hunker down." (45:58)
• On “influencer” as a job title:
  • CJ: “You’re either going to be one or you’re not. You can’t go to school for it.” (22:05)
  • Ben: “I hate the word influencer.” (22:32)
• On sleepless teenage hijinks:
  • Ryan: “Would you, like, walk in the room and you... They just want to know you’re home but they’re asleep and you feel kind of bad waking them up... your dad wakes up: ‘What the hell’s going on here?’” (39:20)
• On the power of nightmares:
  • CJ: “I hear about it more so. I have nightmares, I run around, really. I stand up, I jump, I shout, I scream.” (52:13)
• On old-school pranks gone wrong:
  • CJ: “I just remember one time I touched an electric fence—like getting tased, scary, but I was like, whoa.” (49:07)

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6. CboysTV News and Upcoming Videos

• Most Viral Video Yet?

  • Preview of upcoming Thursday’s video: “We hired 100 people to mow our lawn...”
    • Ben: “It was so efficient.” (28:57)
    • CJ: “You couldn’t have done that with a pull-behind full-size tractor in the time that we did it.” (29:17)

• Wedding Antics & Fails

  • The group reminisces about cringe and creative bridal party entrances—Harley stunts gone wrong, toy tractors, and dream grand entrances.
    • CJ: “Next time I’ll bring a Harley.” (20:14)
    • Evan: “As long as you guys are down.” (20:33)

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7. Bizarre & Hilarious Tangents

• Flooded New York:

  • The guys discuss Casey Neistat’s video of floods in NYC, driving through water, and which of their vehicles would survive.

• Lightning Strikes & Electric Fences:

  • What it felt like to be (almost) struck by lightning or shocked by a childhood electric fence story.

• Nightmares & Being Easily Spooked:

  • Ways they handle nightmares and a running joke about Evan being the easiest to scare in the group—leading to talk of giving him a (scaredy) service dog. (54:50)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• FM Radio and Biker Music — 00:17–02:31
• Music Trends / New Music Friday — 04:09–06:35
• YouTube Prank Shooting / Ethics of Pranking — 09:39–14:10
• Viral Wedding Fails — 17:09–20:14
• The ‘Influencer Degree’ Debate — 21:14–22:40
• Old Tech Hacks & Jailbreaking Stories — 23:31–25:02
• Mass Mowing Project Preview — 28:42–29:39
• New York Floods & Submersibles — 30:28–33:13
• Sneaking Out Stories — 35:53–41:09
• Electric Fences & Pranks — 48:53–51:09
• Nightmares and Sleep Schedules — 52:13–54:08

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Tone and Style

The crew’s banter is loose, good-natured, and brings a familiar small-town, “Midwestern boys” authenticity. The language is irreverent, sometimes crude, and utterly unfiltered—just as their YouTube fans would expect.

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In Summary

This episode captures the full range of CboysTV’s spirit—ridiculous high jinks, honest talk about online culture, growing up, and the creative grind—all delivered with a blend of nostalgia, dry humor, and heartfelt camaraderie.

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Favorite Quote:
"You’re either going to be one or you’re not. You can’t go to school for it."
— CJ, (22:05), on becoming an influencer

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Listen if:

• You love wild “back in my day” tales
• Want unvarnished opinions about YouTube and social trends
• Appreciate a podcast as real, goofy, and restless as your own friend group

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Transcript

[Ryan]

This is a classic example of F around. And find out what you guys have.

[Ben]

To do to sneak out.

[CJ]

Dude, this wedding will for sure have us on dirt bikes driving in.

[Ken]

I do hear C.J. occasionally, like, in the middle of the night, just scream.

[CJ]

That's just nightmares.

[Ryan]

Good.

[Evan]

Vikings won today, so we're good.

[CJ]

One in three, baby. Let's go, let's go. Welcome back to 101.5 Seaboyz TV Radio. You're listening in. We got Micah Salmon over here.

[Evan]

Someone intro it.

[CJ]

That was my intro. Did you not like my intro?

[Ben]

I didn't like it.

[Ryan]

Welcome back to 101.5 the Sandman.

[Evan]

I just felt like I was listening FM radio.

[Ben]

And well, that's what I was in their car right now. Are like, what the hell? The radio.

[CJ]

Back to fm.

[Ryan]

Before we continue on with the radio show, we got to do 55 minutes of ads.

[Evan]

I love that the radio shows that.

[Ryan]

Are like, you ever listen to the radio? It's all ads.

[Ben]

You guys should be thinking.

[Ryan]

You said you only get a few minutes. That's right.

[CJ]

I agree.

[Evan]

We could take the approach. Like, some of the FM stations, they do all their ads in, like, their. All the ads that they have to do in an hour in, like, you know, 15 minutes.

[Ryan]

You ever have to drive to work, like, during that time, and it's just solid.

[Ben]

Yeah. You guys ever watched a football game and realized that the majority of the football game is. Is. Commercial break. Yeah, hold on. They dropped the football. Let's go to a commercial break. Yeah, why not?

[Evan]

I just was at the gas station filling up two funny things. I'm in the mini truck. Ken's dad comes up to me and just goes, why are you driving around this piece of shit?

[Ryan]

Actually, yeah, you tell him it's not.

[CJ]

And I wasn't like, say, this is my vehicle.

[Evan]

Yeah. I wasn't, like, offended, but I go, I like driving it.

[CJ]

You should just be like, I don't get paid as much as your son.

[Evan]

That was good. And then I look up a couple of Harley riders driving by. Like, these are like, full blown, you know, nice paint. Full blown. Bagged Harley, whatever. Everything guys got leather on.

[Ben]

Good.

[Evan]

Guess what he's jamming to, like.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Speakers playing out loud. 101.5 bottom jeans booth with the fur cormorant. But it's just like, you know, the song did not match the home.

[CJ]

That's embarrassing.

[Evan]

No, he was owning it. He was like, yeah, smile.

[CJ]

I don't think I could ever do that, man. Even if it was a great Song. It's just. That's a little much.

[Evan]

So that's kind of what I was, like, getting at too. Was like. Yeah, that when you're playing like, AC dc, it's like. I don't know. I. I think it's cool. They put some loudspeakers on those Harleys, but, dude. Yeah. You can't really get away with listening to much else than, like, hard rock, bro.

[Ben]

I was on my way to the shop the other morning too, and there was a guy. We were stopped at a red light, and the guy right in front of me was on a big bagger and big speakers, which is weird. You don't really see somebody riding a Harley at like 7:30 in the morning. I was on my way.

[Ryan]

You weren't coming to work at 7:30?

[Ben]

I was coming here today, going home. Anyway, this guy's listening to music, and he started listening to a song and then change it. Start listening to. Change it. And. And like, it's like somebody just sitting in their car, like, flipping through. Yeah. You know, you can hear this. But like, he was.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

Every single song. And he probably went through, like, 15 songs just, like, trying to find the right one. I can't remember what he landed on, but it was like, maybe like Ed Sheeran. And then he ripped off and I was like, what a strange song to land on.

[Ryan]

To choose events.

[Evan]

That's like the tip to. To when you're DJing just in front of anyone or playing music where anyone else can hear it and you start, you're about five songs deep and you're not finding anything, just go ahead and press pause. You know, Press pause. Then people don't have to go, oh.

[Ryan]

I feel like you gotta at least add to cue when you're.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Something.

[Ryan]

Yeah, if you're.

[Evan]

But I'm saying, even in the car. Even if you're just playing music in the car and you're running into like 10 songs that are just whack. Press, pause, pick a song.

[Ryan]

Reset, reset, Collect yourself.

[Ben]

That's like how my brother was. I used to get a ride with Sam into school every day when I was a kid, and I swear I've never listened to a single song through.

[Ryan]

Oh, really? Adhd type of, like, just. Oh, dude.

[Ben]

Just like, even if it's a good song that I know he likes or like a band that he likes, halfway through, change the song.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Ben]

It just always drove me nuts.

[Ryan]

You guys ever listen to New Music Friday?

[Ben]

Oh, like on Spotify or Apple Music.

[Ryan]

You ever, like, roll through that place?

[Ben]

No, it's never good.

[CJ]

It is awful downhill lately. Lately it's been terrible. Alex and I were just talking about that couple days ago. It's like, dude, there's no good music out right now.

[Ryan]

Maybe when people put out, like, TV shows or movies or YouTube videos, like, maybe they know. They're like, hey, this isn't my best work, but it'll, you know, it'll get us through to next season type of deal, Right? What the. Some. Some music is so bad, and it's on New Music Friday. Go. I can't believe they even thought to release this.

[CJ]

I think it's just limited choices for me.

[Evan]

It's like, so I see the artists. So I'm checking out New Music Friday. I see the artists. They have the artist line. You know, new from Doja Cat, new from whatever. Um, so I'm like, okay, sweet. It's gonna be good. But it seems like they're just taking all of the top artists and then just giving you whatever they're making. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's good, right?

[CJ]

These female rappers are taken over. Like, I'll go to rap caviar on. On Spotify or get turned or whatever type of rap, but it's all kind of the same songs. Half of them female rappers, and they're great, but I just can't get down with what they're saying because they're just.

[Ben]

Talking about so aggressive.

[CJ]

They're pussy basically the whole time they're wet P. And like, all like. I'm not even kidding you. Like, that's literally like, the type of. They're saying. And I'm just riding in the car. I'm like, what am I? They're like, talking about, like, you know, just, yeah, guys gonna be able to handle them and stuff. I'm like, I can't get down to this. Like, this ain't hyping me up.

[Ben]

There's no way you.

[Evan]

Yeah, but it's just crazy. It's changed a little bit, like, since so, like. But since Rihanna to, like, now. So Rihanna is about the same thing, kind of. It makes different stuff. There was. Now it's taste.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Now it's just, like, to the point, man.

[CJ]

I think, honestly, it was bound to happen, though. Now it's, like, coming around. It's like, now the girls kind of have that aggressive type of rap that the men used to listen or are used to listening to. Because.

[Evan]

Yeah, what you're saying.

[CJ]

I'm talking about getting women you just can't listen to.

[Evan]

You know, you can't hate on it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

No, you can't.

[CJ]

You can't. No, I'm not hating on it. I'm just saying it's tough for me to get down to. So when I'm trying to find some new music and I'm flipping through all these songs of these girls singing about this stuff. Yeah.

[Ben]

So skip, I guess.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

When you're listening to, like, next. Next on, like, hip hop radio or.

[CJ]

Like, they're taking over, they're killing it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

There's no denying that.

[Ben]

What I don't fully understand is when you do listen to the radio and they're taking songs like. Like when every single word of the song is just beeped out and that's.

[Evan]

Been a thing forever. A lot of babe them up. Problem. Problem it is. That was on the radio, bro.

[CJ]

I kind of have a funny story about that, actually. So over at the farm, we're having lights and stuff.

[Evan]

Oh, that's what we're calling the. The new shop, by the way.

[CJ]

The new shop. Anyway, so we're getting new lighting installed just because it's so dark in there. And Brian's been over there working on a secret project for the last three weeks. So anyways, my buddy Simon, he. He is an electrician. He actually listens to the podcast Shout Out Simon. So he was over there wiring up some lights, came up to me this week and goes, what the. What's the deal with that Brian guy? I go, what do you mean? He's like, really quiet and like, I was just surprised by his music taste. And I go, oh, yeah, he's a big hip hop guy. Because I think he just goes on serious and lets it run. But he's listening to or Pandora and he's listened to so many full rap songs. Soon, like, through that, I guess when Simon walked in, it was Cardi B Wap and Brian was just listening to it. And the Simon was like, what? Like he didn't really know what to do. And. And he just listened to it full through and he was just surprised that.

[Ryan]

Then it moved on to some.

[CJ]

Moved on. Yeah.

[Evan]

But in. In his defense, I had that thought, but a little smaller, multiple times, week in, week out. When he first started with us, I was like, man, the dude listens to anything, but especially hip hop. But I mean, like, just anything. And then I hear a song, I go, brian's listening to this. Happen again. Listening to this. Okay.

[CJ]

Pretty much any artist with little in front of it.

[Ryan]

He's got good shop beats, you know.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Wherever you walk in, wherever he's working. It's just a nice, like, oh, it.

[CJ]

Is all kinds of music. But it was just funny to me because he was like. Yeah, like, was kind of taken off guard. I walked in, and he was listening to Cardi B.

[Evan]

And it's also. Yeah, like, all that rap music going on doesn't. You know, it doesn't bop his head, maybe even.

[CJ]

No, I don't think he's even really listening to it. I think he's just.

[Ben]

Just so focus on the wrench.

[CJ]

Yeah, he's focusing on that wrench, man. Background music, wrenching.

[Ryan]

Ken, I have some videos on your laptop. Put them nice neatly in a folder in the middle so you can't mess.

[Ben]

Up and get bullied by Mike.

[Ken]

Videos. What else are you doing?

[Evan]

I'm gonna be. I'm being nice to this podcast.

[CJ]

Okay. That's the wrong folder. That. That's Mike's Social Security number.

[Ryan]

You know what? Surprise me.

[Evan]

Got to give them clear instructions.

[Ben]

Just top one, Mike. You just have to throw that in, didn't you?

[Ryan]

Although I was. When I was operating your computer today. Do you have your mouse sensitivity turned up higher?

[Ken]

Yeah, way up there.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

That's why it's so hard to operate.

[Ken]

For what I do every day. It's super nice.

[CJ]

He doesn't have to move his finger much.

[Ryan]

He's using paint. He's just one.

[CJ]

Like this.

[Evan]

Yeah. He doesn't even have to use angles. His angles finger, that's like the old IBM.

[Ryan]

The track ball in the middle. That was always so intense. You can never.

[CJ]

I always thought those were lit.

[Ryan]

Okay, here we go. This is a classic example of f around and find out. Have you guys heard about this?

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. I saw this in the news, but I didn't really want to dig in deep as being a kind of a YouTube prankster. Yeah, it felt a little. Felt a little dark. Yeah, this could.

[Evan]

Something already tells me whatever this guy's doing that that you know was shot will never be anything close to what we're doing.

[Ryan]

Honestly, it wasn't as bad as I thought. I've seen worse.

[CJ]

It was unjustified happen.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I definitely don't think he should have gotten shot.

[CJ]

It was unjustified.

[Evan]

Capping unjustified. Caps were popped.

[Ben]

We do want to warn you that viewers might find this video disturbing. What?

[Ken]

What's that?

[Evan]

No.

[Ryan]

Touch, though, to the prank, unfortunately.

[Evan]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, that's unjust.

[Ben]

Whoa.

[Ryan]

Just shot him in the middle of a mall.

[Evan]

20 seconds.

[Ben]

It was 20 seconds from the moment.

[Evan]

Cook approached Coley before Coley pulled Again, so fast too.

[Ryan]

But I feel like you've got to.

[Ben]

Kind of pick your defense. And since this happened, the social media.

[Evan]

World has really gotten Coley saying, okay.

[CJ]

That was the lamest prank.

[Ben]

What was he doing?

[CJ]

He was just harassing that guy. That's all he was doing. It's not even a good prank.

[Ryan]

Just pop some dude. Cameraman got it too. Gotta give him credit.

[Ben]

Cook for his part, says he plans to continue making his YouTube prank videos.

[CJ]

Gives YouTubers a bad rep. Yeah, that's tough.

[Ryan]

Definitely don't think me should have gotten shot. I don't know what the prank was, but it didn't really look like there was that much finesse.

[CJ]

I.

[Ryan]

Or maybe was that fun?

[CJ]

There was no finesse at all.

[Ryan]

And what was.

[CJ]

He was just shoving the phone in the guy's ear and then the guy pushed it down and he did it again and then he pushed down.

[Ben]

I get.

[CJ]

I think one more time.

[Ben]

And he did again.

[CJ]

He shouldn't have shot him, but he should have punched him in the nose.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there is.

[Evan]

Or even. So I'm. I'm just wondering like as a, you know, a guy with a concealed and carry and I know it's like you're in a mall, you can't just pull it out, but it's like, where's the. Like, what if you pulled out and then like, dude, don't mess with me. Like, I think that guy might have.

[CJ]

Had something wrong with him.

[Evan]

Yeah, I know.

[Ryan]

I feel like you got to pick who you're pranking because if you prank really whack looking dudes, like, that guy looked like it was his first time out of the house in a couple years. Yeah, you might get shot.

[CJ]

Straight up. That was the worst prank I've ever seen. That was the worst prank I've ever seen.

[Ryan]

Do you think they like high fived and stuff like that after he's like, yeah, you got a banger.

[CJ]

That was a lot better than anything they would have gotten, I'll tell you that.

[Evan]

So that's actually shot. That was what I was gonna say is like, so had he not gotten shot, had this knock get on the news. Like, we ain't never hearing of his content.

[Ken]

So I don't know if this is actually his. His username, but if it's. This is my username.

[CJ]

That is. Has a shitty username too.

[Ryan]

Even I think it's kind of like it up. Oh geez, your computer. And look up.

[Evan]

You know on Xbox and PS4 when.

[CJ]

You had like a name with no.

[Evan]

Numbers and no underscores.

[Ryan]

Guys don't remember your Xbox gamer tech.

[Ben]

My first one was.

[CJ]

Was Unwary Meteor.

[Ryan]

It was.

[CJ]

It was one of the first, like, you know, when you just, like, you couldn't think of a name, so you did. Random one. I just wanted to get to playing. Yeah. On where a meteor popped up, took it, and. Yeah. I changed it. Probably two years later.

[Evan]

Nice.

[Ken]

Classified goons.

[Ryan]

How many subscribers does he have?

[Ken]

I didn't get that far on it.

[CJ]

He has 57k.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Ryan]

I wonder if he's gone up recently.

[CJ]

39 videos detained at the airport 4 weeks ago. Hasn't posted in a while. I got shot two months ago. 242K, man. That was highest viewed videos.

[Ryan]

That's tough. Getting shot for 240,000 views.

[CJ]

Angry guy, chargers, cameraman. I think it's just more so, you.

[Evan]

Know, it's kind of wild. Obviously, if it's entertaining, it is. And if it isn't, it isn't. But you got people, like, out there making fake, like, neighbor stole my dirt bike because he was so mad. And then they. They. Those are like the old era of YouTube. But they garnish, like 10 million views or more. And then that one's, like, fully legit. Got shot. Yeah. His YouTube career.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Impulse less than deliberately filming in people's faces. Prank.

[Evan]

I already don't like it. I already know. Like, it's just no wonder.

[CJ]

You're obviously. You're purposely trying to piss people off. And that's. The video is like, when they get mad. I just don't think that's funny, man.

[Ben]

Okay, so like seven years ago, it was like, right when we started making videos, and there was some couple from the, like, the town that we were going to.

[CJ]

Far from us.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

The guy was holding, like, a big, thick book, and he had his girlfriend.

[Evan]

Shoot a phone book.

[Ben]

Was it a phone book?

[CJ]

Yeah, it was a phone book.

[Ben]

The girlfriend shot him with, like, a desert.

[Ryan]

Yeah, a desert eagle.

[Evan]

Sorry, whatever.

[CJ]

That was a desert eagle.

[Ben]

And he died.

[CJ]

Obviously. He did it for a YouTube video. Yeah.

[Ben]

And then we were getting contacted, like, as a YouTuber, like, what do you guys think of this?

[CJ]

And we're like, oh, we think it's a.

[Ben]

A terrible idea. What is that even supposed to mean?

[Ryan]

I remember the news, like, dragged us for it. They were like youtubers doing anything for views. And it was like us jumping the road or something like that. Or just our daily shenanigans.

[Ben]

Yeah. We're like, what? You can't even compare us to someone like that.

[CJ]

That's desperate when you're shooting the phone. Shooting a phone book.

[Evan]

But it's like. So it's one of those things, like we like to do full send things. And I'm not talking anything about that, but you know how then we. We come up with our huge idea. It gets bigger, it gets smaller. But for that one, there's not a whole lot of factors. Phone book, gun shoot.

[Ryan]

You could have maybe tested.

[Evan]

Could have maybe not used a Desert Eagle. Yeah, probably maybe not used a Desert Eagle.

[Ryan]

I mean, like.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

They only had one phone book. They're like, we only got one take at this.

[Ben]

Sad situation.

[CJ]

It is. But.

[Ryan]

But make too much like.

[Ben]

I don't know, though. I mean, there's like, a couple people in the area that have, you know, tried to make YouTube videos as well. And like, prank style videos very similar to that, where they're very, extremely distasteful and, like, disrespectful. Like blatant. Blatantly disrespectful and, like, involving cops and like, trying to do, like, certain things like that where then we always catch it, catch wind or catch heat because of other YouTubers in the area, like, doing things that are, you know.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Pretty disrespectful.

[Ryan]

The job a bad name. Yeah.

[Ben]

Not saying that. You know, we're perfectly squeaky clean and don't do stupid too. Yeah. But it's just exactly. It's always like, damn, man. It's always tough. Especially with, like, the golfing, too. Like, oh, yeah, one of the last reckless golfing videos. Like, we caught a bit of heat because other people were apparently, like, doing it.

[Ryan]

I don't.

[Ben]

They never even said, like, reckless golfing. They were just saying, you know, people are getting wild on the golf courses in the area.

[Evan]

One of our neighboring courses, carts got totaled.

[Ben]

Yeah. It was like a couple months after the video. We were like, july, bro. Yeah.

[CJ]

It was a.

[Ben]

Probably a bachelor party. We're like, we're not the first people to go out on a golf course. And like, we were probably the first.

[Ryan]

People to do it sober, though.

[Ben]

Yeah. Seriously. Yeah, but whatever.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't know, Ken. Play. Pop up that video that I sent you, man. This is. This is tough.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

This is so tough.

[CJ]

All right.

[Evan]

I'm like, I want to do this.

[Ryan]

I love how he just picks her right up.

[CJ]

Everybody bad is that dude.

[Ben]

The I.

[CJ]

That's a vibe kill.

[Ben]

There was a couple angles of it, and it was this angle that I noticed. He was riding a Harley. The dude had to rev that thing up and drop the clutch. What was his plan either way? Like, it's not like you can just like very subtly wheelie a Harley in a small confined area and then put it back down.

[CJ]

I would have thought the tire would have spun out.

[Ryan]

Me too. I'm sure that's probably what he thought. And I don't think he took into account that with a passenger there was more weight on the back. So your. Your trajectory, your thing.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Evan]

Totally the passenger. Like, otherwise it would have just.

[Ryan]

We blame the passenger for the guy wheeling over backwards.

[Ben]

I don't think in that angle you can see it very clearly. But the. The gal obviously gets absolutely bodied and then the guy is like stands up and like tries to like spin her around and do like a, like a dance move afterwards.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

To save it. And the woman's like, dude, out of here. You trying to. There's no coming back from that. Like, actually, how do you come back from that?

[Evan]

Take a seat and say I'm sorry to the crowd. And I'm especially sorry to the girl that I just bodied.

[Ryan]

Especially because it's likely that it was like one of the bride's friends and he was one of the girls. Yeah. It's not like they were like boyfriend and girlfriend and they're like, they can have a fight about it later. She was just some random lady that had to get on the back with Jimmy. Dude.

[Ben]

That's always a tough, tough spot. Pretty much every wedding I've ever been in or gone to where they do like the bridal party coming in and. And they have to do like a dance or something like that. Very rarely is it like show stoppingly good.

[CJ]

I cringe at that day comes, like, what do you.

[Ben]

What do you have to do it like? I don't know.

[CJ]

I don't know if I would do it. We did it with Justin.

[Evan]

Right, right, right.

[CJ]

I don't even know what I did. When the wild guys blacked out, I just blacked out. I got nervous. There was like 50 people looking at me.

[Evan]

And it's the worst part is everyone. I mean, at least at Justin's wedding, everyone chooses like the whitest dance moves ever.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Or like shotgunning a beer.

[Evan]

Like.

[CJ]

It's always so cringe though.

[Evan]

Every time we're gonna. This is what I remember doing. Should we go back to back, like spin around and then put up like pistols?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Classic.

[Evan]

Yeah, a classic.

[Ben]

But I had a pretty good one though. Last wedding I was in, my. My friend Sam was a farmer and so I put on, like, overalls and got, like, pushed in on a toy tractor. So I literally didn't have to do anything besides for just sit on this toy tractor. And then, like, the. The gal, like, pushed me in, and I got to kind of, like, roll pretty low. So, like, you know, everyone's sitting at their tables kind of just looking at.

[CJ]

Her, and everyone was just looking at her and.

[Ben]

Yeah, they could probably just see, like, the top of my head just going by.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's pretty good. But it took prior planning.

[Evan]

Exactly.

[CJ]

That's the way to do it.

[Evan]

Planning. Any of them would be good.

[CJ]

Next time I'll bring a Harley.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So I can get in quick, get to the spot.

[Evan]

No, I love that. Based on that video, I, like, saw the first dirt biker going. I could see the other bikers coming in. I go, I love the idea. I would love to do that. Probably won't. Then I saw the guy loop out.

[CJ]

Dude, sweating. Will for sure have us on dirt bikes driving in.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

As long as you guys are down.

[Ben]

What would be, like, a pretty solid entrance that wouldn't be cringy and you're kind of not setting people up for failure.

[CJ]

Skydiving.

[Evan]

Yeah, that'd be good. Or, like, run in and throw, like, a bunch of, like, fake $100 or stack or whatever.

[Ben]

What if the first person going in, you hit them with a flash grenade, and then everybody. And then everyone else runs in. And then once everyone is like, oh, what the heck? All the smoke clears, everyone's sitting at the front.

[Evan]

You want a flashbang or a smoke grenade?

[Ryan]

Both.

[CJ]

Hit him with the double whammy. By the time they come to, wedding's over.

[Evan]

Perfect.

[CJ]

Everyone get on the bus.

[Ryan]

So I know you guys, like, don't want to go back to college, but there is a degree we can't.

[Ben]

We're literally banned from going back to.

[Evan]

Not true. I mean, how many colleges are there? Apply somewhere else.

[Ryan]

That's true. There is a university that is officially offering a full degree.

[CJ]

No.

[Evan]

What a joke.

[Ryan]

To become an influencer. And I can tell you already, money.

[CJ]

Off all these people, huh?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

This is, to me, like a degree where it's kind of like a lottery. Obviously, the work you put in and your creativity are a massive part of it. But when you go to school to be a doctor, you most and you finish the program, you will become a doctor somewhere.

[Ryan]

That's a good point.

[Evan]

And it is kind of like graphic design or anything in the arts. Like, you could do jack shit with your graphic design degree, or you could go work for, like, Nike. Yeah. You know, it is kind of a lottery. And this is like. I'm not saying this is a full failure, but what a joke.

[CJ]

You're either going to be one or you're not. You can't go to school for it.

[Ryan]

I feel like that's the new communications degree or, like, university studies degree. Like you.

[Evan]

Yeah. Wait, you should blend this in with, like, a market.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

Because then you can just go run the Facebook page for, like.

[Evan]

And then until you're business. That's kind of how it is. Until you're ready, you can then freelance. That's essentially what being an influencer is. It's like a freelance marketer.

[Ryan]

I mean.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess so.

[Evan]

That's funny.

[CJ]

That is a good point.

[Ben]

I hate the word influencer.

[Ryan]

Me too.

[CJ]

Same. I do not want to be associated with that.

[Evan]

Should we come up with a new one?

[CJ]

I go by podcaster now.

[Ben]

That's pretty respectable. Until they listen to the podcast.

[Ryan]

I never have liked the word podcast. I think it's weird. Kind of just gives me, like, an icky feeling.

[Ben]

What a strange thing to say on a podcast, really. Right?

[Evan]

I do remember cast.

[Ryan]

No, the word.

[CJ]

I had an ipod Nano, so you couldn't have, like, TV shows or whatever on it. But I remember I had podcasts, and I remember, like, downloading something because I was trying to, like, get a. Like, Family Guy or Simpsons, and. And I looked it up and I ended up downloading a podcast. I had something to do with it. I'm like, oh, my God. Like, I think I worked. I can watch it now. I click it. And it was just them talking about. And I was like, what the heck is this?

[Ben]

Why would anyone want to listen to this?

[Evan]

Exactly.

[CJ]

And I was like, years ago. I mean, that would have been like, 2007.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Podcast has been a thing for a very long time. It's just now recently so popular.

[Ryan]

I feel like life was more fun when you had to hack your phone to make it do the things you wanted to do.

[CJ]

Jailbreak.

[Ryan]

Jailbreaking. Remember laying in bed at night when you're supposed to be sleeping, Jailbreak your phone.

[Evan]

And Brick obsessed with it, Mike.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. You used to jailbreak.

[CJ]

Jailbreak your phone right now, Mike.

[Ryan]

I don't live on air.

[Evan]

I don't think you can anymore.

[Ben]

Is it illegal? I bet you jailbreak.

[Ryan]

But I do it.

[CJ]

I like, no, it's not illegal.

[Ken]

I avoids the warranty.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's like putting exhaust in your car.

[CJ]

Jailbreaks his phone. The cops show up.

[Evan]

Jailbreaking was like the most, like, simple. And then you can root your Android phone. I did that. And then you can, I think the same term, root your psp. I did that.

[CJ]

How long did these.

[Evan]

Why can't I leave things normal? They. They. I actually never bricked any of them. And the one that I did, I was able to fix, so. But it's like, dude, that definitely goes on the same trajectory as me not being able to leave anything stock.

[CJ]

Like, I did jailbreak my phones too. Like, I remember I had my iPhone 4 jailbroken and then whatever I had after that, but it always ruined your battery.

[Evan]

So I would like running in it.

[CJ]

Yeah, he would just kind of ruin it. But you'd have like Infinity scroll or you could do like the Android unlock.

[Evan]

And yeah, my favorite thing though, download music for free. Was that was just weird that they couldn't do it in phones because, like in snowmobiles and cars, I get it. Like you. They have to put the exhaust on and then as soon as you get the sled, you take the exhaust off and put a good one on and we go like, yeah, this is lighter. Gives me more power. Why wouldn't this just be on from the factory at least close? Well, there's rules, I guess.

[Ryan]

Well, I'm sure it's for like emission. Well, emission. Sorry, I blacked out. It's because like CJ said when your phone battery would get toasted with it, it's probably because they just cranked everything up. I remember my Android had a feature and it was called like pocket warmer or something like that. And it would just like put everything into overdrive and your phone would just get really hot. So whenever it's cold, like, you know, like before, I'm going to go walk to my mom's car in middle school, like fire that thing up that it all hot. Walk to my car, keep my hands extremely. It sounds ill advised.

[Evan]

It sounds like your. Your Raptor can actually power an entire, like, concert event. It just has to run at red light.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was maybe not the best idea.

[Ben]

Simpler times.

[CJ]

Ryan and Ken were always in tune with like, the latest tech of like, just phones.

[Ryan]

Absolutely.

[Ben]

Well, Ken still is that. I don't know when the last time I've seen that dude not have a brand new iPhone.

[Evan]

That's what I wanted. Ken, do you have a 15 on order?

[Ken]

I got it last week.

[Ryan]

Nice.

[CJ]

You already have it.

[Evan]

You already have it.

[CJ]

You didn't even mention it to us.

[Ken]

What?

[Ben]

All right, bro.

[Evan]

So I'm on top of it. I ordered it the day they come out. I know there's other things I could have done to get it faster, but mine doesn't come for another month because Ken is.

[Ben]

Is one of their most valued customers.

[Ken]

I thought I. I thought I didn't order it because it said like the order filled or something.

[Ryan]

Can you imagine?

[Ken]

And then, and then I got another email like two days later that it did go through.

[CJ]

Ken, flash it to the camera. Flash it to the camera. Take it off. No case. No case. Flash it. Let's see that thing.

[Evan]

When did you unbox that? I swear you just had your 14 like a day ago. Whoa.

[CJ]

Holy shit.

[Ken]

It's an iPhone, Ken.

[Ben]

You should do like a Marcus Brownlee review on it. I could see you doing that.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

We could put in this Thursday's video.

[Ryan]

Ken's Tech Reviews.

[CJ]

Oh my God. Ken's Tech Reviews. So it's an iPhone and it's like hits like there's a big intro and then it just hits an outro like screen, tech, fashion. Ken's Tech Reviews.

[Evan]

But you're different color.

[Ken]

That seems like that's the only difference.

[Ben]

I've been waiting for the time that Apple has like, you know, their big release of an iPhone and. And there's like a projector on it like goes up on the wall and is in is like like so groundbreaking. And they make it a new shape. Like I envision them making it like the pear shape back in like an icarly days. And like I would hate that. Yeah, it would suck, but it would just be nice to like just have something different.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, and then you'd have the purist like Ken coming out and being like, you got the pair. I don't like the way that it feels in my head, but it's brand new for me.

[Evan]

It's just like I just want all the memory and a good camera.

[CJ]

Do they still make blackberries?

[Evan]

I don't think so. Nor should they.

[Ken]

Those were bankrupt a while ago.

[CJ]

BlackBerry. That'd be a flex.

[Ryan]

Did you ever have one, Ken? BlackBerry.

[Ken]

Never did.

[Evan]

I had a BlackBerry.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Evan]

It was a hand me down for my dad and. And it felt as cool as the day I got my first pair of at knees.

[CJ]

They do still have them.

[Evan]

They do. Yeah. I felt like a cool guy with a BlackBerry. And it's wasn't text on like a.

[Ben]

Full like without having to like double tap.

[Evan]

And I'm like, dude, I. I had a stylus in there too and I'm like, I can go on the Internet. It was not enjoyable. It was like, it was like having to jump through hoops to, to go on the Internet.

[CJ]

It was like going on the Internet on the psp.

[Evan]

It was just like that. Yeah.

[Ryan]

They say it's a secure. It's a secure phone.

[Evan]

Oh. So they're coming with a different approach.

[Ryan]

So that was why they're like, it sucks, but it's secure. Interesting. Someone should buy one and then just have it.

[Ken]

My backup phone where everyone that I don't know.

[Ben]

There you go.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

If you get a business phone making a BlackBerry.

[Ben]

We have a video coming out on Thursday. I think it's potentially our most viral video that we've ever made. And I'm very excited for you guys to see it.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Ben]

Honestly, I'll just tell you. We hired 100 people to mow our lawn and it worked fantastic.

[CJ]

It was super efficient.

[Ben]

It was so efficient.

[Evan]

Fun from start to finish. Just a bunch of people with the same passion.

[Ben]

Dude, it was beautiful site. It was a beautiful site.

[Ryan]

I drove by the farm and I, I smiled again just looking at how good the yard looked.

[CJ]

It looks so good.

[Evan]

That's the other thing.

[CJ]

It's not a hack job.

[Ryan]

You can't replicate a hundred talented people.

[CJ]

You couldn't have done that with a pull behind full size tractor in the time that we did it with a hundred John Deere.

[Ben]

Just 10 minutes to mow 10 acres. It's pretty, pretty good.

[Evan]

My favorite thing is I'm not 100%.

[Ben]

Sure, but I think it's pretty good.

[Ryan]

It was like satisfying. It was like one of those ASMR things, you know, where they like almost every video game. Yeah, it was, it was beautiful.

[Ben]

Yeah. That was electric. We were just laughing though, because like we, we went from one shop to the other and we're like, man, the neighbors got to just be like, what the. What is going on?

[CJ]

Would have just stopped at some random person's house and done their yard in one second.

[Evan]

Yeah. No 100.

[Ben]

It would literally just been air. Everyone get in position and turn it on.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

All right, turn it off. Let's go.

[Evan]

Large handful of those guys that were there on Saturday. Go. Gotta make this an annual thing, man.

[Ben]

Yeah, we need to have them come back every two weeks.

[CJ]

I had a blast too, honestly.

[Ben]

No, bro.

[Evan]

That's what C.J. was saying. Like, okay, we have him come back. We like do it again. And then pretty soon, like, it's just a thing. Like we're not even there. Yep. Do. Do the thing every month.

[Ken]

Gave you the pointers. Now you just got to do it. On your own?

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

You guys see that? New York is underwater.

[Evan]

Did see that.

[CJ]

I heard about it. How bad is that? Like what do they mean by it looks bad.

[Ryan]

So I watched Casey Neistat's video and the way he described it is the whole city was not like this. Not like the whole island of Manhattan is under bus deep water. But there was parts where it got out of hand. Yeah, I mean this is craziest. You gotta remember that half of New York City is underwater. The whole subway system.

[CJ]

So is the whole subway system filled to the brim?

[Ryan]

No. So it didn't happen. What's that one movie? Day of Tomorrow.

[Evan]

No, the day after tomorrow.

[Ryan]

The day after tomorrow. It didn't happen like that style where it filled.

[CJ]

I was envisioning tsunami.

[Ken]

What the water is dripping on right there is. That's electricity.

[Ryan]

That.

[Ken]

That's what moves the train.

[Ryan]

Classic. But what pretty fucking chaotic. It basically didn't stop raining. Yeah. It rained for seven days straight in New York City.

[Ben]

Oh wow.

[Ryan]

Is what Casey Neistat said.

[Evan]

Oh wow.

[Ryan]

There is this really crazy video that's not unfortunately in this. It's of the walls in the subway station are just like it like split and it's just like geyser out of it.

[Evan]

Pretty confident in a lot of vehicles capabilities and what they can do and driving through water is one of them. But I do remember a similar like you know, streets flooded. I remember Jake was. He actually had his mom with him but they were driving in his mom's outback, an older one. And it, you know, air water in the intake. Like if it gets in the intake, it's up at the edge of the hood.

[Ryan]

It.

[Evan]

It completely bricked the whole motor. You know, like water. Yeah, you can drive through water but like just know where your intake is. Like these things don't have snorkels. Like if it goes in you're just going to be stuck and you're going to have a blown up car and you're going to stuck in the SEMA.

[CJ]

Truck would have been good out there.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's what I would have been untouched or the donk.

[CJ]

The donk would have been fine.

[Evan]

Oh yeah. Where's the air filter? Oh yeah. That's what I'm saying though. Oh. Unlike the air, I think my truck.

[Ryan]

Will go through like 32 inches of water.

[Evan]

That's pretty good stock.

[Ben]

That truck shouldn't be going down the road, man.

[Ryan]

You just don't know how to drive.

[Ben]

It shouldn't. That thing shouldn't be on the road.

[CJ]

Without water, how do you think your truck handles, Ryan?

[Evan]

I mean, I don't know.

[Ryan]

I think fine. That's what matters, right?

[CJ]

Yeah, it is. Sorry.

[Ben]

Carry on. Sorry.

[Ryan]

Ain't no goddamn Lamborghini.

[CJ]

Ken, does it. Can your Tesla go in deep water?

[Ken]

Like, it can go shortly, and then it's gonna destroy all the electronics.

[CJ]

How short are we talking? Like, couple minutes underwater?

[Ken]

Like, you shouldn't drive underwater.

[CJ]

I thought, what about, like, that actual definitive answer for the people?

[Ken]

Like, it's gonna destroy everything.

[CJ]

Let's go out there right now and see how long you can do underwater.

[Evan]

Why?

[Ryan]

It's all water tight.

[Ken]

Yeah, but, like, all the stuff that.

[Evan]

Controls all the stuff that's water talking fully submerged. Are we talking, like, this New York flood?

[Ken]

Like, you drive through, like, I saw videos where, like, people drove their Teslas through that, and then it, like, just bricked it. Like, it's still turned on, but it wouldn't drive.

[Ben]

What about when it rains?

[Ken]

Well, then it's fine. It's not like, submerged in water. There's not like, you can drive anything when it's, like, just raining, but you submerge it in water and it's going to, like, water is going to get into spots that it's not supposed to be.

[Ben]

It would be really cool if you straight up drive those things, like, on the boat. Should be that way.

[Ken]

Dude, you can drive a boat on the water, but try flooding it. It's not going to work.

[CJ]

Do you know they're actually making electric boats now? Like, I saw. I saw Natique now has a fully electric wakeboard boat.

[Ben]

Really?

[CJ]

But that's pretty sick. But also, like, I don't know what that would look like.

[Ken]

They sell it. They sell it 300 grand for.

[CJ]

Pretty standard now for.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

But for, like, a normal gas boat, I think that boat starts at, like, 100 and something.

[CJ]

Oh, damn.

[Ken]

So it's like you're effectively doubling the price.

[Evan]

Wow.

[Ben]

That's pretty cool, though. I can't think of many downsides to it besides for obviously having to, like, charge it back up.

[Evan]

It's still been so interesting, the whole, like, tab. I got the electric lawnmower, and everyone's like, electric. Well, you got.

[Ryan]

No, I feel like they're good.

[Evan]

Just a battery then. And then I'm like, yeah. And then I use it and it's super quiet. And I thought the battery was going to, like, not last that long, but I could probably, like, mow my lawn four times with one battery. Really blew me away. It just all comes down to just, like, how TVs have came down because it all comes down to the battery. The smaller, more powerful, faster they can make batteries and the faster they can charge. Dude, if it gets better and better, then not much bad to say about electron.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Electric.

[Ben]

I think it'd be cool to ride a electric snowmobile. I know they make those. It'd be sick when Polaris comes out with one of those.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Trying to think what isn't. What isn't electric right now that like one day will be like.

[Evan]

Like what are they like besides, I guess like trains and planes.

[Ryan]

Well, they make electric trains.

[Ken]

Don't do electric trains here.

[Evan]

But the electric trains are. Those are powered. Those don't have batteries. Those are powered.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they do.

[Ken]

They do both.

[Ryan]

Wow. Interesting.

[Evan]

I really don't understand me on that one. I don't know like what I saw matter of time.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I saw a tweet that said thank goodness they invented cars. Could. Because could you imagine waking up your horse at 3am to go to your chick's house or go to a girl's house?

[Evan]

And I was like, never thought about that. That's funny.

[Ryan]

MF is in like 1938, I think there was cars then.

[Ben]

Would you guys have to do to sneak out?

[CJ]

You'd have quite the hike if you were sneaking out.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Where were you going? How?

[Evan]

Anywhere, bro.

[CJ]

Walking. Or was dropping a car.

[Evan]

I did the typical car. Put it car neutral, push the car as far and you know, like as hard as I could, but as far as away as I could. Then start it.

[Ben]

Yeah, I. I did that a couple times. And then I got an exhaust. Yeah, it's just loud, man.

[Ryan]

You hate.

[Evan]

That's what I should say. Yeah, I still did when I had an exhaust. And then I remember being like, this.

[Ben]

Is not quiet, bro. Ken had that Tesla back in the day. You could come and go creeping, man. Please, dude.

[CJ]

Just besides for the reversal.

[Ryan]

Except for Ken's parents didn't care. He could leave whenever he wanted anyways.

[Ben]

Well, Ken's always been a full grown man. You know, that's the nice part about.

[Ryan]

Even as a boy.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

An adult.

[Evan]

And honestly relatively responsible too. You know, it's like, what are you going to go to? Well, I don't know.

[CJ]

So how do something fun.

[Ryan]

How did you sneak out, Ben? Like what was your process?

[Ben]

Push it a couple times. And then I got an exhaust, which made it harder. One time I. I took my dad's bike.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Bicycle.

[Ben]

And came back and he was like awake, which was tough. Because then I had to, like, sneak his bike back in.

[Evan]

I remember you saying that. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Gosh.

[Ben]

I didn't. I don't think I ever got caught sneaking out, though.

[Evan]

Really. I just remember having the one time where, like, this is actually why overall in my life, I. I dislike light sleepers because both my parents were light sleepers. You know, I am not like, I have nothing truly against you as a person. I'm just like.

[Ryan]

I just don't like you.

[Evan]

Just come on, sleep a little harder. But, yeah, both my parents were light sleepers. I just remember one time he was just stand. And he's a tall guy standing in the kitchen, towering over, silent. And I'm like, I'm. I'm serious. I'm like, not make. Yeah, very quiet, like, walking through the kitchen like this. And he's just standing there watching me look like an idiot. And then he just goes, what are you doing? I'm caught. I'm caught. I'm in trouble.

[CJ]

How big of trouble are you in?

[Evan]

You know, the typical. Like, I just. Just, like, grounded for a week.

[Ryan]

Did he yell at you then? Or did he make you go back to bed and then speak with you?

[Evan]

It was like a mutual. Like, I knew. Yeah, you know, I fucked up. Yep. Yeah, it was mutual. I just did not like to come home when they asked me.

[CJ]

Oh, so you just come home, like.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was always.

[Ben]

Oh, you didn't have to wake.

[CJ]

I should say.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, dude.

[Evan]

It's like, really? Did they not let me go somewhere or. Or, like, rarely did I ever really have to sneak out or maybe dared. But yeah, it was always like, be home at 1. That's reasonable. All right, sweet. I'll be home at 4am like, you've.

[Ben]

Just hated for authority your entire life.

[Evan]

I think I've just hated, like, listening. Time frame? Yeah, sure.

[Ken]

Scheduling.

[Evan]

Scheduling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

I always had to wake my parents up.

[Ryan]

Dude, I hated doing that. Would you, like, walk in the room and you. They're already asleep, and, yeah, you. They just want to know you're home, but they're asleep and you feel kind of bad waking them up. And then every time, no matter how quietly, I would try to wake my mom up. And, like, nicely. I just, like, you know, maybe tap on the door, hi. Hi, Mom, I'm home. And. Your dad wakes up.

[CJ]

What.

[Ryan]

What the. What the hell's going on here? And he, like, flicks on. They're like, okay, it's just you. You're home. You're home now. You're scared. You're Like I thought I just came home.

[Evan]

My favorite part is that's all happening. Like, you know, assuming this is every.

[CJ]

Time a night that dad's mad cuz he's not even, he's. He didn't want to hear that you're home. He's just like now I'm woken up and go back to bed. I got to get up in the morning.

[Evan]

That's what I mean. Like assuming like let's say you're, you're 10 minutes early, you're doing great and you're. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Early.

[Evan]

You're like, I really don't even need to wake him up.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Then we came up with this, this system where they would leave the hallway light on and I would turn the hallway light off when I got home so they could wake up, see that the light was off, and then be like, okay, he's home safe.

[Evan]

Much more efficient.

[CJ]

You just turn it off before you leave.

[Ryan]

Yeah, turn it off and then walk right back out the door.

[Ben]

Like one of those little things that like goes over the light switch and then it like turns the light off. I can imagine engineer like Ken would have one in his room so he doesn't have to get out of bed to 10.

[CJ]

Would I bring it to his phone? Yeah, but Ken was a teenager. These days he'd just have it to his phone. He just let me just turn on the hallway light.

[Ben]

He's got that thing on smart. That is, which is.

[CJ]

Yeah, everything is on smart switches. I love it.

[Evan]

That's what I would do though. I would, I would turn off the light. I would wait. I would just stay. Okay. I'm not gonna, I'm gonna pretend to leave now. Actually leaving an hour. Turn the light off and then I'm good. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Or sorry, that's if you were leaving late.

[Ben]

Yeah, for sure.

[CJ]

I don't even know if I snuck out really ever. Maybe one time from my parents house.

[Evan]

You actually didn't really have, you didn't have much.

[CJ]

I just didn't. I mean I'd be home and like I can't remember if it was one or two, but like what else was I gonna do past then?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It is funny when someone sets a limit. Like you gotta be home by 1:30. But even now I'm like what the am I gonna do past 1:30? Like straight up late. I'll go to bed.

[Evan]

You know, that's because also like you, you were like more grown up than I was. Like as in like I would like.

[Ben]

Let'S say if I was like going and doing Graffiti. I was like doing exactly what you would think.

[CJ]

But you're still doing that to this day. It'll be a Tuesday and you're out.

[Evan]

Till 4am Yeah, I think it's just like. Yeah, I don't know.

[CJ]

That's just how you are.

[Ben]

No, but I was saying I go home at 10. You got it. Yeah, man. You do go tomorrow morning. Yeah, like there has to.

[CJ]

Because I'm talking about tomorrow. Damn.

[Ben]

This is for sure.

[Evan]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Evan]

And it's. It's interesting, the varying levels to it, because yes, I think that. Yes, I know it's gonn happen. Yes, it does suck. And then I like, sometimes Evan can do the same thing, but even on like a higher level. And I'm just like, dude. And that. That was his best estate. He's like, yep, we used to go. And sometimes we end up up till, let's say four, five down the bar and we're at work at six, seven. And I'm like, that doesn't register. Sounds awful. Yeah, there's varying levels to it, but yeah, I mean, totally think that.

[Ben]

But in Evan's case, he's the type that can shut down the bar and then do something till 4.30am and then have to get up at 6.30am for his job. But he'll do it and then he'll just be like, you know, a little groggy, but just like that. That's just like what he. He does. And then the same thing will happen like the night or two nights later and he'll just continue to do it. But he's still like. Like even to this day. I mean, when he's. I literally don't know what he's doing till 4am on a random Tuesday around here.

[CJ]

And then with Mike and Cody.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't know what you guys are.

[CJ]

Doing on the track at water trucks.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

Riding golf carts around. Yeah, no, they're having a fun time for sure.

[Ben]

Yeah. And then the next morning, though, ev never misses a beat.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's up at night.

[Ben]

He's up and he's ready for whatever we're doing that day at nine when the rest of us get to the shop. But Mike is like the polar opposite of that. Like where if we were to let him, he would sleep until 3. 32 different types of people.

[CJ]

I think you've been great, Mike, since you've moved to Fargo. Cuz now. No, now you're in Fargo. You're not relying on us to wake you up almost. Or. I don't Know if you were relying, but it would seem like we always had to wake you up. Whereas now it's, like, on you. Or maybe just Sydney. Sydney's like, you need to get up.

[Evan]

And go to work, probably, but you.

[CJ]

You get here probably just as early. Now.

[Evan]

The only other times I'm getting, like, merch done is, like, when I just hunker down, stay up till, like, four. And so some of those mornings that it. It seems like I, you know, all right, call it a. Call it a night. If I sleep till 10, I'm just like, oh, man, I slept till 10. But also, I'm like, well, I only got, you know, six hours. And so it's just like, this is how. How it is now. But I. I'm like, I'm. I'm enjoying myself. We're all working hard. Like, you guys put in your, like, time. You know, everyone here is clocked in, working earlier than I am, and vice versa. I'm. Yeah, you're sometimes. Oftentimes here, like, working later.

[Ben]

But that's true.

[CJ]

I feel like six hours of sleep is the minimum.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, saying, like, any.

[Ben]

Like. Like, I.

[CJ]

If I get six, I'm like, okay, I'm. I'm good. I can keep going. And no matter what, you got to get up and keep going, whether you get two hours of sleep or nine. But, like, at six, I'm like, you're good. Like, yeah, you can go, but it's not ideal.

[Evan]

I'd say, like, eight is ideal still.

[CJ]

Eight is like, you're good.

[Ryan]

You.

[Ken]

You.

[CJ]

You hit a perfect amount. Not over overslept. You didn't get too little. Obviously, it's different for each person.

[Evan]

Eight is.

[CJ]

I think Elon Musk actually says that he sleeps six hours because that's his optimal sleep time, because he's trying to make the most out of obviously, his time. But have you ever thought, Mike, maybe if you just set a deadline for yourself, like, the end of the day, this needs to be done like this up to this stage, and I have to show this work maybe to this person. Then you would be able to do it within the daytime hours and have more of a normal schedule instead of stay up late, which I understand, obviously, at late hours, you kind of do have that creativity aspect to it. Because, I mean, I used to be the same way.

[Evan]

100 thought that. Yeah.

[Ben]

But I mean, that's something.

[Evan]

And I'm not riding it is crazy. It's like, so, you know, Thursdays are obviously great. Thursdays, you guys are editing. That's when I Get by far the most done during the day. Aside from that, like, I don't get very far during the day. I actually do. I'm like, I want to create this energy on any other given day, but when we're filming it, dude, it's. Yeah, it's hard. And you guys know that is like, when we're filming, it's so hard to go from like, okay, we're filming this bit from 10 to. To 3, and then we're at. We're getting on another bit real quick. At 6, it'll be like 6 to 8. I can't get on the computer, which I hate.

[Ryan]

I hate it.

[Evan]

I can't get on the computer and hunker down for like two hours even with a buffer on either side. I hate it. I hate that. I can't do that. I hate it.

[CJ]

I couldn't do it either even if we had some stuff pre recorded. Just to edit for three hours. It's too hard to get into the mindset. Yeah, that makes sense why Thursday is so much easier for you.

[Evan]

Yeah, I love Thursdays. I've grown to love them because, like, I do. I feel like I'm in a. I'm like, look at me being normal. It's like, you know, it's still not super early, but I'm like, look at it before noon. Just working on designs.

[Ryan]

Hey, Ken, pull up this video. It's the one with the hikers. So a few podcasts ago, it was actually a while ago already we talked about people getting struck by lightning and not in this video, but this TikTok has the story of the three people getting struck by lightning in the same group. The same group. So these people were hiking, like Half Dome. I don't know where it is, which I should know.

[Ken]

I think it's Yosemite.

[Ryan]

They apparently tried to climb it in bad weather and a storm rolled in and a bunch of them got struck by lightning. But here's like the videos of them hunkering in a cave.

[Evan]

All started last Thursday when six friends made their way up Half Dome. Once they reached the summit, around 12:30 in the afternoon, lightning started hitting the rocks around them. Two people in the group were actually struck by the lightning. One in the leg and the other in the back of.

[Ryan]

I don't know what I expected, but I expected more. Damage looks intense.

[Evan]

Somebody looks lit. I'm not trying to get struck by lightning, but that looks like really sweet to climb. So I just remember seeing the videos when the lightning will strike, it probably a dead tree and it Just explodes. And then that's like those few videos of them hitting inanimate objects. I'm like, I would die so fast and so hard.

[Ryan]

I know that's not to minimize their getting struck by lightning, but I expected some more damage. Yeah, it's gonna explode a tree. It'll fry a whole system. But like, it just hits you and it just gives you a couple gray hairs or a little, like, burn mark. I've gotten burn worse from the cigarette lighter in a car. Yeah. Pretty scary, though.

[Ben]

I don't know. That would suck, though.

[CJ]

Got knocked out because you got hit by lightning.

[Evan]

Temporary memory loss. Really? It said. Yeah, which that would be scary. He's like coming to and then being like, we're on the.

[Ryan]

We're on the.

[Evan]

We're on the top of a mountain. Yeah, you know that.

[Ryan]

Why did I do this? I should be at home watching tv.

[CJ]

Interesting. So there must be some kind of obviously impact and then.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I suppose.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Freaking like the thing in Men in Black.

[Evan]

I just saw a video of a. I really wish I would have saved it, but it was like just two rednecks. They're probably drunk. And this guy, he. I don't even know if he's peeing or just like trying to beckon the horses, but he falls forward. Oh, no. Onto the electric fence. You know, like bends it over. He actually falls onto the trough and then he falls forward. But I didn't know what he was doing because I didn't know his electric. And then he's just like.

[CJ]

He couldn't get up.

[Evan]

Yeah, he's on the trough. Let's say this is a trough. A bunch of wires.

[CJ]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah, but you can't grab him because then you'll get the.

[Evan]

No, the worst part was the guy that was filming just was like.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm sure laughing at him.

[Evan]

And he's literally like.

[CJ]

Did you guys have any electric fences around your farm?

[Evan]

Yeah, but I. I don't remember. I did touch one and it was like. It was like getting tased. Scary. But I was like, whoa.

[Ryan]

Have you been taste.

[Evan]

Yeah, but not with a real taser. You know, Amazon and stuff. It was like that, but your whole body and you're like, that was scary. But you weren't, like, injured.

[CJ]

When I was a little kid, so my. My mom's side of the family, they had a farm and I accidentally, like, whenever me and my grandpa would go drive around on the four wheeler and like, look at the cattle and stuff, I would. I'd hop off the four Wheeler and unhook the fence. I think I was hooking it back up or something. And when it hooked, I like, brushed my arm against it, but it, like, at me and I dropped.

[Evan]

Really?

[CJ]

I was like a little kid. I don't know if it just scared.

[Evan]

Me or what, but some are turned up more than others. It all depends.

[CJ]

I dropped. I remember dropping. That was really the only time I touched one.

[Evan]

Wow.

[CJ]

But I was young, so I'd probably been. I mean, elementary school, so I probably didn't have much strength.

[Ben]

But.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Such a baby I was before the gym.

[CJ]

But if you pee on an electric fence, it would get you.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

If you pee on it.

[Evan]

It's funny. I swear, people, like old dudes or whatever, uncles everybody got.

[CJ]

Try to find out.

[Evan]

Not necessarily try, but I swear they warn you more about peeing on it than ever about touching it. They don't really. They're like, that's got to be such.

[CJ]

Yeah. Into your hole.

[Evan]

Into your, like, wiener sides.

[CJ]

Like, talk about getting you. Like, that's some serious.

[Ryan]

Maybe you could zap that third ball out of you.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Electric fence therapy.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah, maybe that would help.

[Ryan]

Well, I feel like they warn you because it's obvious not to touch it. But, like, all of them either heard the story of their buddy that did it and, like, you know, it hurt. And so you don't want to see your little grandson. Oh, man. His little pecker.

[CJ]

That would be a pretty funny video. But obviously you couldn't really show it. But, yeah.

[Ryan]

Peeing on an electric.

[CJ]

Yeah. I ended up giving Alex that taser she carries in her purse now. I was like, she had to use it.

[Ben]

No, Well, I don't.

[CJ]

I don't think so. But I just, like, take this with you.

[Ken]

I do hear CJ occasionally, like in the middle of the night, just scream for no reason.

[CJ]

No, that's.

[Ken]

I always wonder, is. Is that Alex Tasing him?

[Ben]

No, that's just.

[Ryan]

That's pegging.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's Peggy.

[CJ]

That's just nightmares.

[Ryan]

I feel like my dreams have been way more vivid and real and scary lately. I don't know what it is.

[Ben]

Like, why do you get closer to reality? Like, you're driving that big truck down the road, right.

[Evan]

And it's driving straight.

[CJ]

Nightmare. This is a nightmare. No, I gotta wake up.

[Ryan]

I did have one about lawnmowers this week. Pretty stressed about that whole ordeal, but just trying to get the people to there and, you know, it's just a lot. It was just thinking about it frequently.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't know. I. I think I kind of go through different. Different waves of having nightmares. They seem to, like, come, like, closer to each other.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And recently I haven't.

[Ryan]

That's nice. It's nice when you don't. But you. You deal with them frequently? All the time.

[CJ]

Honestly, I typically. I only sometimes wake up from. But yeah, I hear about it more. So. I have nightmares. I run around, really. I stand up, I jump, I shout, I scream.

[Ken]

Most common ones is he just, like, screams or shouts really loud.

[CJ]

I'm not, like, jolt me, but I'm not like. I'm not, like, angry shouting. It's more so like, I got scared.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Which is scary.

[Ryan]

Just as scary in the middle of the night.

[Ken]

What are you doing? What are you doing?

[CJ]

Oh, no.

[Ryan]

That is a scary one to hear.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Downstairs, like, I'm next.

[Ben]

You don't remember any of them, though?

[CJ]

Sometimes.

[Evan]

But I don't know if it wakes you up, I guess.

[CJ]

Yeah. I don't know. I'll be like, I'll, like, wake up and I'm, like, digging in a drawer. I'm like, what am I doing?

[Ryan]

Better than peeing in it.

[CJ]

Then I'm all mad. I'm like, God dang it. Now I gotta, like, I'm all fired up. Try to wind down and go back to bed.

[Ryan]

What do we have here?

[Evan]

I don't know if this is. This is a good podcast ender. It's just a real good time that I had yesterday morning before all the kids came over to Mower Lawn.

[CJ]

He for sure tried covering up his initial scare, I think his initial scares. But then he was, like, in the middle of screaming like that. He's like, oh. So then he tried playing it off like he was playing it up, and he just held it longer. He's like, to try and, like, make it seem like he.

[Evan]

And the word. The funniest part is it's pretty much exactly what he said after it happened. He goes, that was, like, kind of real. And then, like, I don't know.

[Ryan]

Nothing better than scaring Evan. Dude. That poor kid is so.

[Ben]

Dude, it's such a tweaker, dude.

[Ryan]

I know. I feel bad sometimes because, you know, you hate riling a guy.

[Evan]

I guess that that clip does remind me of some of the. You know, you'll see people make a compilation of scaring their aunt, their mom, whoever, on TikTok. Some of them are, like 20 clips long. And I just start to feel bad. I'm like, all right, like, let him live here.

[Ben]

Let the man live. That's funny, right? After you did that, though. And then we went over to the farm. He was standing. He was just standing, like, right on the driveway, right by the door. And me and CJ were just walking up, and I think there's some other stuff going on over here. He's right here. And we were coming from the other side, so he was looking that way, and we just walked up, and I go, all right, bro. And just me, like, getting close enough and then him not knowing I was there and saying that he was like, jason, dude.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You got to. You got to, like, let me know you're coming up. I guess he is deaf on one ear, so that. Does that make part of it. I'm so glad I'm not, like, jumped around. It was like, dude. I was like, bro, what? I didn't even try and scare you.

[Ryan]

We need to get him, like, a service dog that, like, will alert him to surrounding threats and.

[CJ]

A dog. Would it be a wiener dog?

[Evan]

Yeah, it just lets out, like, a singular.

[CJ]

Ow.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it just, like, looks and goes. And then he goes like, all right, great. Something's happening. But what if. What if we got him the service dog? But then that dog was also easily spooked.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So then they were both just too jumpy little.

[Evan]

They would be emotionally supporting each other.

[CJ]

Well, guys. Yeah. We good?

[Evan]

Yeah, we're good. Vikings won today, so we're good.

[Ben]

Yes, sir, dude.

[CJ]

One in three, baby. Let's go.

[Ryan]

Sorry. Never mind.

[CJ]

Oh, thanks for listening, guys. Subscribe if you have not. Give us five stars on Apple podcasts and Spotify podcasts, and thank you guys so much. We'll see you next week.

[Evan]

Appreciate y'.

[Ben]

All.

[Evan]

Peace.