Hiring Back our Ex-Business Partner, Do We Fight? & Our Towns New Mayor

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Hiring Back our Ex-Business Partner, Do We Fight? & Our Town's New Mayor

Date: July 2, 2024

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Episode Overview

The CboysTV crew reunites with ex-business partner Justin, now their new merchandise manager, in a lively episode full of behind-the-scenes stories, business wisdom, playful banter, and small-town charm. The guys reflect on hiring Justin back, business lessons from the past, wild mayoral tales in Cormorant, product launches, staff dynamics, local family celebrity moments, and the enduring camaraderie (and occasional “fights”) that keep CboysTV rolling strong.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Justin's Return: The Full-Circle Hire

• How Justin Came Back
  • Justin, previously part of the team, noticed a listing for a merch manager and reached out despite not actively job-seeking.

    “I wasn't even looking for a new job…my wife, Megan, was like, if the opportunity ever arose, would you want to get back on the team?...I’d love to be able to help out.” — Justin (08:58)

  • The team was surprised but unanimously agreed he was the “corporate degenerate” they needed—someone with both business acumen and CboysTV DNA.

    “We need somebody who's corporate to fix these systems…But also a degenerate.” — CJ (13:30)

• Impact of Justin's Role
  • Massive improvements in operations, faster and more reliable merchandise fulfillment, and better balance behind the scenes.
  • First major merch drop with Justin ran shockingly smooth—everyone was not “about to explode with stress” (14:14).

    “It feels so good having someone that we trust and we also know is going to do a good job…I just never once have we had any hesitation.” — Mike (12:51)

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2. Team Chemistry & “Fighting”

• Brotherly Banter, Not Serious Fights
  • The crew discusses their dynamic: frequent teasing, calling out each other's mistakes, but rarely real conflict.

    “We fight like brothers, basically. Like, you all know whatever you’re doing, we all do it with each other’s best intentions in mind…but we are with each other all the time, so we get on each other’s nerves.” — Ryan (53:26)

  • The importance of roasting and controversy for both humor and audience engagement; “controversy sells” (52:47).
• Notable Quote

  “People love it when we make fun of each other…If we cut all that out, a lot of the funniness, people just love that.” — Mike (53:16)

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3. The Cormorant Mayor Saga

• Mayoral Election After the Dog Mayor
  • Discussion of the infamous “Mayor Duke”—the dog who once “ran” their tiny town (04:15).
  • New election: speculation about entering their own candidate (Ken, a random dog), potential town improvements (“Tesla chargers on every corner”), and the value of Cormorant’s “blank slate.”

    “Our original mayor used to be a dog...the first famous thing to come out of Cormorant.” — CJ (04:15)

  • Talk of erecting a dog memorial and how local folklore (and humor) give the town its unique flavor.

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4. Life Wide Open as a Brand

• Evolution from “merch” to a lifestyle brand — products now include skateboards, backpack coolers, party suits, and more (07:48–08:10).

  “Life Wide Open is becoming more of a brand than merch…I think it's really cool.” — CJ (08:10)

• Seeing the brand out in the wild, people living the ethos, and even tattoos commemorating the motto.

  “The more I see it out in the world...the more I love it.” — CJ (16:03)

• Justin’s “big braining”: forecasting warehouse needs, logistics, and growth (17:13).

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5. Local Celebrity: Grandpa Ron on the News

• CJ’s grandpa, “America’s Grandpa,” receives a heartwarming feature about beating cancer and sets a wild goal: water ski behind the world’s fastest pontoon.

  “After he completes his treatment, Grandpa Ron says he wants to be the oldest man to go water skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon in August.” — Mike (20:02)

• The news segment includes both inspiring and hilarious footage (“the news just had to show him eating shit on the bowling alley” — CJ, 20:59).
• Family pride and the funny side of fame in a small community.

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6. Merch Drop Tales & Product Experiments

• Behind-the-scenes pressure preparing big drops, now alleviated by Justin’s organization (14:14–15:06).
• Expansion to a new warehouse, reinvesting in the business, and “building out the back end” (15:24–15:48).
• Wheelie Trainer story: A custom product for learning to wheelie dirt bikes, including multiple scam attempts buying them online, before building their own (25:19–28:25).

  “There is no company out there that makes one that actually will deliver it.” — CJ (25:47)

• Lively debate about actually marketing/selling the trainer and the universal appeal of learning wheelies safely.

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7. Personal Growth: Phone Screen Time & Habits

• Crew compares screen-time stats for laughs and (maybe) self-improvement.

  “Some people can change over time, I guess so.” — Ken (39:24)

• Ken, previously the “scroll king,” now has the shortest daily screen time, to everyone’s shock.

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8. Memorable Moments & Callbacks

• Historic Incidents:
  • Editing their earliest videos on barely-working laptops (56:58–57:59).
  • The “incident”: Justin fiercely advocates with a supplier, an episode that now makes him “sweat” just remembering it (60:23–63:02).
• Nostalgia:
  • Reminiscing about the first CboysTV “shop,” the tiny loft, and how far they’ve come (63:35–65:00), soon to celebrate the channel’s eight-year anniversary.

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9. Other Highlights & Running Jokes

• Tech Talk:
  • Mac vs. Windows debates: “Macs are like Mercedes…” — Ryan (58:46).
• Good-Natured Roasts:
  • “Granola ass” banter about Ben’s teenage diet/lifestyle (52:10–52:24, 53:01).
• Hot Dog Addiction:
  • Whether eating hot dogs is a "problem" or "lifestyle."

    “It's not a problem. It's a lifestyle.” — Ken (54:52)

• Bull Story:
  • Commentary on a viral video where rodeo attendees get blindsided by a loose bull (41:28–44:02).
  • Lessons on dodging bulls (“do turns, zig zags!”) and bad ideas.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “[00:16] Justin: I'm so much happier doing this. Dude. When your friends are your co workers and your co workers are your friends, it's the best possible scenario.”
• “[08:45] CJ: So when we were looking for somebody to fill the position...Justin actually reached out because you saw the listing.”
• “[14:14] Ryan: …this last merch drop before the R8, our biggest giveaway yet…should be 10 times as worse as it's ever been in the past. And about four o' clock rolls around and I had all my stuff done, I walked back and Ken looked like he wasn't about to explode with stress.”
• “[20:02] Mike: After he completes his treatment, Grandpa Ron says he wants to be the oldest man to go water skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon in August.”
• “[25:47] CJ: There is no company out there that makes one [wheelie machine] that actually will deliver it.”
• “[39:24] Ken: Some people can change over time, I guess so.”
• “[41:07] Mike: A billboard. [Referring to Ken's leaked phone number and too many calls.]”
• “[53:16] Mike: People love it when we make fun of each other...If we cut all that out, a lot of the funniness, people just love that.”
• “[53:26] Ryan: We fight like brothers, basically...so we get on each other's nerves.”
• “[60:43] Justin: When you were, like, referencing that, I was like, I think that's blacked out of my memory how aggressive that was.”
• “[65:26] Mike: July 20th of 2016 when the channel got made...we’re actually coming up on eight years.”

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Segment Timestamps

• Justin’s Return, Personal Growth: [00:00]–[13:47]
• Mayoral Stories & Town Talk: [02:39]–[06:24]
• Brand Expansion & Merch: [07:25]–[17:13]
• Grandpa Ron’s Feature: [17:27]–[22:33]
• Wheelie Trainer Saga: [23:04]–[30:00]
• Screen Time & Habits: [36:55]–[40:08]
• Bull Rodeo Video/Bad Ideas: [41:18]–[44:53]
• Nostalgia, Old Shop Stories: [63:35]–[66:12]

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Tone and Style

Friendly, energetic, self-deprecating, with quick wit and “brotherly” banter. The Cboys blend business smarts, genuine affection, and classic small-town humor.

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For Listener Takeaways

• Insight into CboysTV’s unique work culture and why having a friend as a business partner is both fulfilling and functional.
• Why behind-the-scenes roles (like Justin’s) make a crucial difference.
• Playful perspective on handling local politics, entrepreneurship, and keeping life “wide open.”
• The value of learning from mistakes—and not taking yourself too seriously along the way.

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Next Episode Teaser

A possible OG-crew reunion episode—comment if you want to see the whole original gang back for classic storytelling!

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Transcript

[Ken]

People can change over time.

[Justin]

This is a big personal growth moment.

[CJ]

Look at Dalton's his 15.

[Ryan]

I bet.

[CJ]

I think of half of, like, the video ideas I come up with driving.

[Mark]

We get along a little too well.

[Mike]

So we might have to change something about that.

[Justin]

I'm so much happier doing this. Dude. When your friends are your co workers and your co workers are your friends, it's the best possible scenario.

[CJ]

I don't know if we can talk about this on the pod, but did you guys watch the debate?

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[Mike]

Yeah, bro.

[CJ]

Dude, I've been getting so many. That was so many. Just videos from it, and it's amazing that that was. That was, like, actually something that happened.

[Mike]

That was great TV in my.

[Ryan]

Was it. I couldn't watch.

[Mike]

God, it's so entertaining.

[Ryan]

It literally.

[Justin]

It's like a South park sketch.

[CJ]

Yeah. I got served, like, a South park reel right after I was watching debates, and it was like, all right. The giant douche against the turd sandwich.

[Mike]

That's an old one. That's an old one. Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

I was like, dude, man, what is it? Reality imitates art. Art imitates reality.

[Justin]

Whatever it is.

[Ryan]

If a South park sketch hasn't happened yet in real life, it's only a matter of time.

[Mike]

No, it was genuinely entertaining, though. I'm only about halfway through it. It was like a movie. Like, I would say, if you have an hour and a half, like, just sit down and it's just genuinely entertaining.

[CJ]

Wow. Here's my opinion. Like, the Democrats knew what they were doing. They were throwing Biden to the wolves. There's no surprise.

[Mike]

I'm surprised.

[CJ]

They thought that was going to go. They let it go. They want them to maybe step down, like, whoever's pulling the strings. So they were like, oh, yeah, yeah, let's 100% send them to a debate early enough so then, like, they can put no in.

[Ken]

I don't know if you guys watch, like, the commentary afterwards, but that's the only thing people were talking about.

[Justin]

I think it was cnn that was the one that was, like, broadcasting it. And before they were talking about how, like, yeah, this is going to be a great thing. Earliest presidential debate in history. It's great. And then immediately after, they're like, yeah.

[Mike]

That was a big.

[Ryan]

That was a mistake and that was a bad idea.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I don't know, though. Like, why would they agree to do that if there wasn't some, like, hidden agenda like that?

[Ken]

It's still like a month or month and a half out from, like, the convention, like, still Technically has been nominated as the.

[CJ]

Yeah, I think this was, like, a trial to see, like, if he. If he had the chops or. Well, that gives us enough time to maybe get somebody else in there. Yeah, because, like, it makes no sense to me. Like, I'm just trying to make sense.

[Mike]

Avoid it for forever, though, you know, like, is inevitable. How do you, like, avoid it for forever? So they probably just had to start. They had to eventually face it head on. I don't know. You know, I'm not going to take sides on either. Either side. It was great tv. That's all I got to say.

[Ryan]

You guys see, there's another big election going on. They're looking for a new mayor of Cormorant.

[Mark]

Whoa.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That's really.

[CJ]

That's big news.

[Ryan]

First time since Mayor Duke. Biggest thing to ever come out of Cormorant. Actually, it was in the paper. Read the Cormorant paper.

[Mike]

Yeah, there's a paper I nominated.

[Mark]

Did they mention what species they wanted to be?

[Ryan]

They said anyone of any age, shape, size, or fur.

[Mike]

I nominated a guy by the name of Grant Matthews. You're running, Ken.

[Ryan]

Can you imagine? Ken is the mayor. What would be your first thing? Tesla chargers on every corner.

[Ken]

Absolutely every single.

[Mike]

He's blowing through the budget.

[Ryan]

Would be the first thing you change about Cormorant. Can make it, I don't know, great.

[Ken]

A little less depressing.

[Ryan]

Damn, Ken. That's our town, dude. Can't believe the mayor would say something like that. Put around.

[CJ]

Say cormorant is to put around.

[Mike]

That'd be great.

[CJ]

I wouldn't say cormorants depressing. I would just say there's nothing there. Yeah, I would say, like, the nice part about Cormorant is you kind of a blank slate. Like, you're not working with much. It's not like you have to rebuild anything.

[Justin]

There's nothing to rebuild.

[CJ]

There's nothing there.

[Mike]

You just get the title and that's it.

[Ryan]

Just.

[Mike]

You're chilling.

[CJ]

What if we got a dog and we elected him mayor? Maybe he wouldn't be old enough by the time as a puppy there was an election. When's the election? November.

[Ryan]

I'm sure it's a summer.

[CJ]

Yeah, like, because he would.

[Ryan]

It's during corn.

[CJ]

Four months. Oh, okay, so he'd be, like four weeks old.

[Mark]

I mean, who got to get a puppy?

[CJ]

But that's true. Yeah, we could adopt.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we got to find an old dog, dude. Anybody that's running for election has to be damn near dead because they're so old.

[CJ]

I don't know how well we've explained this on the podcast, but our original mayor used to be a dog. And it was like the first famous thing living being to come out of Cormorant. The reason that he got elected, it was because of him or our friend Jake's grandpa. And nobody wanted our friend Jake's grandpa to win.

[Mike]

And no, it was another guy.

[CJ]

Two guys and one other guy. And so they said, well, we should elect the dog that always just roams the neighborhood. And that's. That's what they did.

[Mike]

Imagine that you two are going at it, and then some dog ends up beating both of you. You're like, what the fuck? Wow. They really didn't want either of us in there. Yeah.

[CJ]

But when they did that, I think that, like, they were the first people to ever elect, like, a dog into running the town.

[Mark]

And.

[CJ]

And so it kind of took over the Internet.

[Mike]

Well, that. And I think it just created a little bit of magic in Cormorant, you know, a little bit of magic. And now there's just that you can just feel it in the air, and that's why so many great things happen here.

[CJ]

Yep. But he was on Duke. The mayor was on Ellen. I want to say maybe Dr. Phil.

[Mike]

I don't know if it was on Dr. Phil.

[CJ]

He kind of went on, like. He went on, like, a media tour.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Talking about policies.

[Mark]

Ah, that was great. Yeah.

[Ryan]

He started saying he's like, never mind.

[Mark]

He had a Chrysler Sebring that he'd taken all the parades.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Mark]

He was driving it, too.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He paid for it with his media money.

[Mark]

That's what I would do if I became mayor. I would just blow. Maybe not the whole budget, but I would blow the budget on.

[Ryan]

Hell of a campaign.

[CJ]

I would Duke on hot dogs. No, no.

[Mark]

Yeah. Could use a heart. No. I'd be a giant Duke memorial. Like a giant dog.

[CJ]

I still think that we just got to do that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Where do we put it?

[Mark]

In Cormrant.

[Mike]

Yeah, obviously.

[CJ]

But maybe the Cormorant park. But ideally, if we had a spot in Cormorant, then it could live there forever. But I don't know who else is going to do it. So we got to step up and get memorial.

[Mike]

That's also why we have the dog with the dog bark at the end of every video or podcast for the copyright, the picture is. Is actually the dog. It's just a nice tribute, a little special touch.

[CJ]

It just makes Kormod just that much cooler, in my opinion. Like, it's just funny. It's got a little bit more depth to it.

[Mike]

Absolutely. Totally forgot to do a little special introduction for our special guest special.

[Mark]

Our.

[Mike]

Our homie. Our friend, Justin Hanson, as you guys all know him, on the podcast today. You've been on the podcast many times before, but yeah, I mean, if you've.

[Ryan]

Been watching Seaboy TV for a long time, you would obviously recognize Justin. He's been on the pod a couple times as well. But you've taken on a new role within the team, which I don't. We haven't really talked about. But you. You guys can probably, exactly. You guys could probably tell from the outside. Justin is now on as what's technically the title merchandise manager. Yeah, Merchandise overlord. And so he's been on the team now for the last couple months. Absolutely reinventing what we're doing, getting it streamlined because, you know, we're all creative and, and business minded in our own ways. But some things need, like, an engineer's touch, a little bit of systems put in place. So he's been able to help us get things in on time, create new products, and it's really exciting to have.

[Mike]

Him and better serve you guys at home. So, I mean, just from having better products to better service and faster shipping and doing a great job. Justin, we have some new stuff dropping. Is it this week or would it be next this week?

[Justin]

This week.

[Mike]

I mean, we've had really, really cool custom.

[Mark]

Lots of good stuff already. But yeah, something that he had a hand in. And we've had some awesome help getting. Like we have skateboards coming out, which.

[CJ]

You see on the wall.

[Mark]

It's actually not. That one's a prototype. That one, and then another Duck Camel one. But just so much cool stuff that we got to bring to life.

[Mike]

The coolers, the backpack coolers are my favorite.

[Justin]

So cool. I love those.

[CJ]

Chuck buddies.

[Mark]

Impact vests.

[Mike]

Yeah, we have life jacket. Impact vest, life jacket.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

All the party suits are still coming to. The party suits.

[CJ]

There's so much. I think it's really cool. Like, the Life Wide Open is. Is becoming more of a brand than merch. I think that's really cool.

[Mark]

That is the goal.

[Justin]

It's really cool. I mean, to give you guys credit, like, when I started, I have no idea how you guys were as successful as you were because none of you have any time to manage some of the, like, details of what, like, goes on behind the scenes. And I was shocked at how much like, of a backlog of work there is and still is. But also you guys have so many ideas and really good ideas. So it feels good to be able to, like, bring some of those to life.

[CJ]

So when we were looking for somebody to fill the position, you know, we had it posted out there, and. And Justin actually reached out because you saw the listing.

[Justin]

Yeah, I saw the listing.

[Mike]

I was like, you just happen to be looking for a new job or additional work.

[Justin]

I wasn't even looking for a new job. And the whole backstory of it is when we were going out to. Out to iworks for the super bowl, my wife Megan and I were talking about and, like, you know, it's so cool to see all the guys, like, be as successful as they are and how much the business has grown. It's, like, so cool. And she just asked. She's like, if the opportunity ever arose, like, would you ever, like, want to get back on the team? And I was like, yeah. I mean, if it ever, like, came about, like, I would love to be able to help out and see what they're doing and do whatever I can. But a couple weeks later, I saw the listing. I just saw. I don't know if it was on Google or wherever, but I was just like, huh.

[CJ]

Indeed.

[Justin]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Justin]

And so I just asked him, like, hey, I'm working from home. Like, I've got spare time. Is this something that you want me to do in the spare time that I've got until you find the candidate that you need for it? And then, yeah.

[CJ]

Well, when you were like, so you text me and you go, hey, have you found anyone for that merchandise manager? And I was like, yo, cj, I think Justin's got somebody for us.

[Mike]

Yeah, we were sitting there.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Which we had actually a fair amount of people applying, and we were going through the applications, but we weren't by any means, like, oh, this is the guy. So we're like, oh, Justin's got somebody.

[CJ]

And then I text you back, and I was like, hell, yeah, bro. Who you got? Like, actually, me and I. I remember, like, sitting there. I was like, on the plane with C.J. and I was like, dude, you won't believe this, but Justin is interested in the merch manager.

[Mike]

And we were.

[CJ]

And we were immediately like, oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense.

[Mike]

I think my first thing I said was, how didn't we think of that? Yeah, because we were sitting there under.

[CJ]

Our nose of, like, who?

[Mike]

Like, who do we know? Do you think that'd be good at this? And then he says that, and I go, why didn't we think of that?

[Mark]

Things did move fast because you were like, I wasn't necessarily applying for the. A full time thing. And then we kind of were very quickly, like, that's what we need, bro. And like, full circle. I just. I'm so happy that you said yes and we were able to offer you that position because, I mean, you. You had a good thing going. And I just got to say, you. You're onto another good thing, if not better. I mean, full circle, dude. I just, like, it's the coolest thing ever.

[Justin]

Yeah, dude, it's. It's so cool. Like, full circle is such a great way to describe it, where it was just like, the door open, and I was like, yeah, why not? I didn't even put in, like, a two weeks at work. Like, I told him, like, I have another opportunity. Like, I'm able to start immediately. Like, do I need to go through a full two weeks? And they're like, oh, whenever you're done with your stuff, you're good to go.

[Ryan]

All right.

[Justin]

So I think I started like, six days after I did the application or quick turnaround time. Yeah.

[CJ]

I just remember talking with the guys and saying, we need somebody who's corporate to fix these systems, you know, to keep everything in line. But also a degenerate.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

We were like, all right, so they fit in with degenerate. Oh, God. And we were like, okay, we're kind of getting hung up on just corporate people, which we don't want, or it's just a degenerate. And we were like, we got enough of those around here. And then you texted me, and I was like, there it is. The corporate degenerate that we've been looking for.

[Mark]

Justin's always had a term called big braining, and that's what we all collectively were like, Justin's gonna come in here and big brain some of this.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Justin]

No, it's been so fun. Like, well, you guys were all gone on a trip when I started.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Justin]

Like, because you guys were across the country and it was just me and Ken here for the first couple of days. I just, like, sat next to Ken and asked him 100 questions a day. And he's like, God, this was a mistake.

[Mike]

He just puts his AirPods in one time while you're talking to him.

[Justin]

It feels really good. I know. Like, there's a lot of stuff that's still in process, but yeah, it's. I am so much happier doing this, which was like, I don't know. I was very fulfilled doing the work that I was doing before, but I didn't have any Emotional connection to it, really. Like, I had great coworkers and I liked the work that I did, but do when your friends are your coworkers and your coworkers are your friends, it's the best possible scenario. So it's been really. I enjoy it.

[Mike]

And I mean, just speaking from, like, our side, it's like the flip of a switch putting you into the team. Everything is doing so much better. But also it just feels so good having someone that we trust and we also know is going to do a good job. Like, I, like, just never once have we had any hesitation about that. And that made it so easy and just feels good.

[Justin]

Yeah, no, I. I'm glad that you guys trust me to, like, make some of the decisions on the stuff that has been moving forward. And in, like, the corporate world, you guys are all at like 180% capacity of workload. Like, you guys work 14 to 16 hours a day, every single day. You never stop. So, like, if I have, like, a hidden agenda, it's to, like, pull that back so you guys can live and breathe a little bit outside of the insanity that is your day to day. And trying to get stuff in line so that everything can run a little bit more autonomously. And it's good to see that it's working so far.

[CJ]

I would love to be able to chill out a little bit. I don't really foresee that. I don't really foresee that happening in anytime soon. It's not because of you. I think they're just so, like, it seems like hiring you on. And then I was like, all right, sweet, that's covered. Now what's five other things that can just fill that void? Like, all right, you got like 14%, you know, open now, and then it's like, fill it up with another 45.

[Ryan]

You know, when we release the products to you guys, it's obviously a ton of work in the back end. So, like, that moment at seven o', clock, video ready or not, is like the deadline. Like, everything has to be 100 perfect at that moment. And normally is me and Ken literally just furiously working at the last second. And this last merch drop before the R8, our biggest giveaway yet, you know, all these big advancements, like, it should be 10 times as worse as it's ever been in the past. And about four o' clock rolls around and I had all my stuff done, I walked back and Ken looked like he wasn't about to explode with stress. And I go, you good? You need anything? He goes, no, I think I'm ready. I go, I think I'm ready, too. And I called you. I go, we good? And he goes, yep, yep. Got a bunch more things to handle, but we're good. And I'm like, holy. Is this what it feels like to have things ready?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Justin]

I'm glad it went as smoothly as it did, you know, like, for my first time being on that side of it in however many years, like, to see how much you guys have grown and how much that process has changed, it was good to, like, get it all smoothly ran out for that first time, so it was good. And it's still been going really good.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's crushing, but, you know, something that we're trying to do is, like, build out the back end. Like, we're building this new warehouse right now, and it's just going to be for merch, and then we're going to move it from here, actually, over to the new spot that we're building at the farm right now. But we're just kind of trying to, you know, reinvest back into what we're doing, and that's why we brought, you know, you on and turning this into more of a brand, like I said, than. Than just merch. And I think we're on the right track.

[Justin]

And you guys have a fantastic brand, and you've got a lot of aspects that you're going to and plan on expanding on.

[CJ]

So, dude, the more we do of it, too, and the more that we get for products that aren't just T shirts and sweatshirts, like, no, the more.

[Mike]

I love life wide open, like, it's.

[CJ]

Like, seriously grows on me, like, as a brand name, like, every single day, like, it is just so cool. And the more I see it out in the world of people wearing it and tagging us in pictures of them dirt biking or at a concert or, like, so many different things that are, like, actually, you know, seeing it in the real world is just so cool to me. And the more I. The more I love it.

[Justin]

Yeah, it's. It's awesome.

[Mark]

It's.

[Justin]

It's such a great. I mean, there's a reason so many people get that tattooed that's like, that.

[CJ]

That's one of the biggest things, so.

[Justin]

Universal and, like, such a great, like, motto to go by.

[Ryan]

And there's a life Wide open homemade tattoo kit coming.

[Mike]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, Just a little stencil. But no, seriously, like, the more and more people I just keep coming across as, the more it grows. There's so many people that Literally live by that. And then, I mean, it seems more and more evident to me that anything moving forward with products should be something tied in with that just to move backwards a little bit. One thing also I love about Justin is he'll like do these crazy like calculations. He's like, yeah, so we're going to need a warehouse by this much square footage and, and then you'll be outgrowing that in about this many months. And like he's just so dialed, you know, like, like it's just, it's just great. But going back to life wide open when grandpa was on the news. Yeah, dude, dude, he's living life wide open. He even like, he's like the biggest frickin advocate and like merch plugger for us.

[Ryan]

Did you guys know that was happening? I did not.

[Mike]

Yeah, not until like the day earlier my mom had texted and asked if we could send this photo or something. Which they didn't end up using.

[CJ]

But he had called me last Friday, so a week ago.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[CJ]

And was like, hey, so you know the Roger Maris Cancer Center, I don't know if they've just taken a liking to me or, or if they heard my story, but they're doing an article on prostate cancer and, and prostate cancer awareness and they're wondering if they can use your guys footage of the haircuts. And I was like trying to kind of put two and two together. I was like, so they're doing a article or what now? And he was like, I don't really know much. But yeah, I mean I'm assuming that he walks into that place and it's just like so grandparent about it. Has made friends with everyone. Well, he has made friends with everyone. My aunt, his daughter was telling me that, that when he walks in there, everyone, you know, giving them hugs, they know they love them, they know him by name. You know, the nurses that aren't even working with them and they did the, the news article on them and dude, I was watching the news before that. Like what a depressing. Oh yeah. I don't know the last time that you guys like watched all the news, but it was like, dude, they were talking about drug charges and homicides and all these things that they were just like trying to get clicks off of. Right. That are like happening, you know, local or even just like in the state. And then it was just kind of, kind of refreshing that it was like an actual like heartwarming story. And I'm, I'm sure they.

[Mike]

Positive.

[CJ]

I'm sure they too.

[Mike]

His was the longest one.

[Justin]

Long.

[Mike]

Long. It was two minutes. Everyone else had, like, 15 seconds.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

But I was just watching it, and. And then that came on, and I was like, ah, maybe there is a. A little bit of hope for the news here. But it was. It was a great article.

[Mike]

I bet you what happened is they were planning on writing an article on prostate cancer. They maybe went to the, you know, the clinic and was like, hey, like, we're trying to do this. And. And they're like, maybe asked for, like, do you have, like, a certain patient who would be, like, a good spokesperson or whatever? And they're like, ron.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Mike]

And then he just also happens to be YouTube famous and have all this footage as well and just have an interesting story.

[CJ]

America's grandpa.

[Mike]

I loved when they had Ron Schmidt. And then, like, it had, like, the quotations. Grandpa. Yeah, that was funny.

[Ryan]

I literally burst out. I don't know if it was laughing or in shock when he said, yep. And when he's done with treatment, he wants to go skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon.

[CJ]

I know.

[Mike]

I called him. I was like, dude, come on, you can't just go around saying that kind of stuff now. You got to do it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

After he completes his treatment, Grandpa Ron says he wants to be the oldest man to go water skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon in August.

[CJ]

Well, so he was saying that to me when I. When I talked to him last week when he was asking if they could use the footage, and I was like, you know, I kind of just brushed it off because I don't really want him doing that. I was like, yeah, Grandpa, yeah, we can talk about that. Just hoping that it would kind of just end there. And then he says it on the news, and I'm like, dude, we're actually gonna have to do this.

[Mike]

Now you can eat water skiing.

[Justin]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

You're going pretty fast. Yeah, it's just not. Seems unnecessary. And let alone, why do you need the world's fastest pontoon? You're not gonna be going full speed.

[CJ]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

That's the one left that in, though. Not just behind a pontoon or with his grandkids behind the world's fastest pontoon.

[CJ]

You know, I was watching the. The news and watching the segment play out, and I was like, oh, this is great. And then they show him eating shit on the bowling.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And I go, the news just had to do that, didn't they?

[Mike]

I'm just curious how they knew to find that footage, because unless he mentioned it to him, because you it's not like that's labeled in a video.

[CJ]

Like, he would.

[Mike]

They would have had to go to a video that doesn't have anything to do with grandpa.

[Ryan]

You're right.

[Mike]

Out of, like, 500 videos, go to the back end. He must have mentioned it.

[Mark]

Knowing him, he knows. He knows every single video that he's a star. And.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah, Dud dude, though, I was like, you. You really had to mention that one. Out of all the things that we've done with Grandparad. And you gotta go, if he's not playing golf, he's out. Blind man.

[Mike]

Bowling.

[Ryan]

Being blind.

[CJ]

Yeah. I was like, all right. I'm not sure if that was necessary. You could have left that out, the rest of it.

[Mark]

Because that is also my favorite grandparent. Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean, we're guilty of always showing it, too, but it's always, like, adding context to him being, like, a creepy, crazy bastard. Like, the guy is just off the handles. You never know what he's gonna do. And that's a perfect example of it. Right. But as far as, like, the news article of, like, a heartwarming. You know, this guy.

[Mike]

This guy just hit him with it.

[CJ]

Jump.

[Justin]

Scare. In the middle of that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I was like.

[CJ]

I was like, that was just not tasteful. So unnecessary.

[Mike]

I was recording it just on my phone, and then that pops up, and I'm just like, ooh.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I just can't help but just still go, that's bad. That was bad.

[CJ]

Yeah. I mean, the dude can eat a fall. Like Gavin.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And.

[Ryan]

And not the same thing.

[CJ]

And after it happened, we bring him back because we were trying to bring him to the hospital to just get him checked out. And he was like, Evan refusing to go, but he was actually, like, putting down his foot. He was like, I'm not going. If we're going anywhere, we're going to the bar.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And we were like, well, we're not doing that, so I'm going home. I guess we'll just bring you home. And we bring him home. We walk in, we see Grandma. Grandma just sees it on our face immediately of, like, something happened. And we go, he. He ate, like, really bad grandma and grand wine. Her first words are, well, he's pretty tough. Yeah. And I was like, no, Grandma, you don't understand how hard he fell. And she's like, I don't think you understand how tough he is, to be fair. I mean. Yeah, he never did complain about it.

[Mike]

Like a rock.

[Ryan]

Exactly.

[CJ]

So he knows how to take a fall.

[Mike]

But I'd like to Talk a little bit about last video for one. You mentioned Evan's back.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, dude, that guy. So he injured it on the Sandra. He is actually gradually getting better. He's been going to the chiropractor. You can see him getting better as he goes. And he said literally he went there felt like. And he like noticeably feels better after leaving. But we still went to go get him X ray just because the chiropractor actually suggested. Just to double check, just to make sure. Cuz like he was seriously, he was hobbling, laid up. He was walking around curled over. Yeah. And then the freaking little toy car in his hinder.

[Justin]

So good.

[Mike]

That's something else. So he thought that we were going to do like a X ray and then Photoshop a really small penis in there because like X rays. But you couldn't put that on YouTube. That was the initial plan.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So we settled with toy car.

[Mike]

Yeah, we were.

[CJ]

It was an actual debate. We were going back and forth with.

[Mike]

Well, we were fogging with him like, oh man, I hope your X ray doesn't show your little dick and all this stuff. And he's like, oh my God. He already knew where he thought that's where it was going. And then just a toy car up there. And it was funny.

[Mark]

They got it out and they. They found out that it was a sip Honda Civic.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

It wasn't like a Gen1 Cummins or something? Yeah, I know. Gavin was here during that time.

[Ken]

It was still a Honda though.

[CJ]

After it, Evan goes, well, maybe I could shove a tow truck up there.

[Mark]

Yeah. After Evan wheelied the Sandrael, you know, it's like weird to throw your back out. It can happen on anything. And that's what had happened on. And he was like bedridden, AKA we're out in the mud and he's just laying on the ground.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mark]

For the next hour while we're filming, Ken and I were mobbing our Broncos around.

[Ken]

I hit him.

[Mark]

I too. I legitimate. Because he's wearing brown overalls, laying on the ground all muddy.

[CJ]

Can you imagine how mad he would be actually? Like, you got.

[Mike]

Yeah, he wouldn't take it. Wouldn't take him out. He'd just be fucking pissed.

[CJ]

Dude.

[Mark]

I thought he was.

[CJ]

Seriously, what the fuck you doing? I do love when he bend your wheel.

[Mike]

Mike's got a bent rim.

[Mark]

I thought he was a pile of logs.

[CJ]

Oh my God.

[Ken]

Lane. It just looks like another clump of mud.

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah. That would have been really bad.

[Mike]

The wheelie trainer.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

A lot of comments about the wheelie trainer. People are loving that, and they want one of their own. I think it'd be great. That'd be something for us.

[Mark]

You guys, you. You two really have a passion for it. So, like, I mean, you're like, we really got to sell these things. The thing about it's making a ton of money on them. Obviously, that's not what it's about. It's about training people, giving people the.

[Ryan]

Gift of a wheel.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So the thing about it, though, is we got scammed three times trying to buy one.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, there is no company out there that makes one that actually will deliver it.

[Mark]

You got scammed, like, where you paid them money?

[Mike]

Yeah. Can we need to get that money back? Can you refund that on the credit card or dispute it?

[Ken]

I mean. Yeah, just let me know.

[Mark]

Yeah, well, it happened three times. Like, I got quite a bit of shit for my whole surround deal, which was pretty stupid, but you got scammed three times. I think you guys might spend in.

[Ken]

Total trying to buy one.

[CJ]

I don't know, five, six grand. Oh, well, we were trying to make this video, and obviously you think one.

[Mark]

Of them, like, the first. You know, one of them's got to work. But, like, did you pull the trig on the second one before you knew the first one was a scam?

[Ryan]

No, the first one probably was wondering how that happened.

[CJ]

I don't know the context of it. Mike, you got a good point. You got a good. It's a valid argument, especially when you bring your sir.

[Mike]

Three times. As an exaggeration, the first one was like a legit. It looked great. The site looked legit. And I ordered it.

[Mark]

Remember?

[CJ]

That's the one.

[Mike]

It said it would be here in seven to 10 days. I'm like, perfect. You guys will be ready to roll on this video, whatever. It was ordered, like, in April.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Still never came. And then I was like, fuck, what the hell? Maybe. Maybe it's going to come. But customer service wasn't working. I'm calling them, emailing, couldn't get anything. Start looking at other options that people that build the same thing. And it's typically just like some sketchy Bike Life guy on Instagram. You DM them. It was a Venmo type of situation. Didn't send him any money. Just was kind of like, that's. I mean, I'm sure they'd probably do it, but big wrench. And Gavin said they could build it in, like, two days, so that's what we ended up doing.

[Mark]

But on the first one that you Found that you did pay for and never came.

[Mike]

That one's.

[Mark]

It's just crazy. Yeah, that was like. You're showing it to me. I'm like, wow. You know, it's got the adjustable whatever and it's got the swivel wheel. And it was just sick seeing Big Wrench and Gavin being able to look at that. And they recreated it like to a.

[Mike]

T. And I mean, I've been vocal about it from the start. I don't see how. You guys don't think that we could sell that many of them.

[Mark]

I'm not worried about how many we could sell. I'm just not trying to jam up Big Wrench and Gavin.

[Mike]

No, no, no, no. You would have a different, like an actual manufacturer manufacture them at scale with correct equipment that they're laser cutting all these pieces and every single one is identical. And yeah, you're not going to sell as many of them as T shirts or whatever, but there is definite for them. And if you can set the price right, not price, gouge these people, obviously it's going to be expensive to build and whatever, so they're not going to be like, cheap. The competitors are selling them at like two grand. That's how much one costs or two or three grand. I mean, I think if you could do 1500 or even a thousand, thousand sounds a lot better, but who knows how much you'd have into it. I just think you could sell them.

[CJ]

You saw how well it worked.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

People blown out after that.

[CJ]

Really?

[Ryan]

What?

[Mark]

What?

[Ryan]

How?

[Ken]

I gotta go to the chiropractor.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Mark]

Dude. Hey, picture.

[CJ]

You wrote it down to the ground.

[Mark]

Picture how blowed out it would be if that didn't exist.

[Ken]

But it's been hurting for a couple days now.

[Mike]

Really? So that was a prototype. We'll obviously need to do a bigger pad.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Wrong time for that plug.

[Mike]

Bigger, I think. No, seriously. So many people are interested in learning how to wheelie, but they don't want to skid their back off.

[CJ]

I did tell you, Ken, whatever you do, don't let go of the handlebars.

[Ken]

And I did.

[Ryan]

Why?

[Mike]

You were popping some wheelies. You were at 12 o' clock at one point.

[Ken]

It felt cool until it was like too far and it was like, I can't save this.

[CJ]

Well, that's the beauty part of it. You don't need to save it.

[Ken]

Yeah, I know. And then I'm on my back getting dragged across.

[CJ]

Can I. I gotta just tip my hat. You still did it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And I can honestly say this, you would never Do a wheelie like without that?

[Ken]

No, no. I probably would never do one without that.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ken]

At all.

[CJ]

So I gotta, I gotta just say I was pretty impressed to see you out there hanging 12.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Even though it was only for a couple seconds, but still I. It was a sight that I never thought I'd see.

[Ken]

As I would say it was Cheeto, but I did.

[Ryan]

I don't think it was, dude.

[Justin]

No, I.

[Mark]

What if Evan got addicted to the wheelie machine? I can dance on the seat. It's great. But no for you.

[CJ]

Like I think about how good he could actually get at wheeling where you can like work out the.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Felt the details of it and then.

[Ken]

And then changing the full front tire on it.

[CJ]

It's like a sim. It's like a sim racer for like.

[Mark]

You know, Evan or really anyone. Yeah. No matter what your skill is, you could still learn something from it. But if you guys watch the video, Ken, before he fell off the back, did amazing. Like you went 12, you press the back break. And I think the beautiful thing about it is that it shows someone what the balance point feels like. That's what I think. I mean that's what you're not chasing.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Like our filmer Dalton, he's ridden dirt bikes before a lot and he was kind of in the power wheelie crew and he's like, oh, that's what the balance point feels like.

[CJ]

Makes wheeling so much easier.

[Mark]

So much easier.

[CJ]

But it's, it's scary to find, especially on a big bike. But if you're on like a little pit bike, finding the balance point is way easier because you're going like, you know, still miles per hour. You know you're not going to eat pavement quite as far if you slam. But yeah, like me and CJ when we used to wheelie back in the day, like you're just power wheeling and you're just chasing it. Like you're constantly just like running the front tire down.

[Mike]

Yeah. Next thing you know you're going 70.

[Mark]

I get to give you a little more credit. And one thing that you did forget to mention is that at least on a four stroke there's some engine braking. And that's where you guys finessed that.

[Mike]

You were like.

[Mark]

Cuz you could stand up wheelie for like honestly as long as you had a road for. So like there is some engine braking and then you obviously eventually chase it out.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

I feel like you guys are underselling yourselves a little bit for how you.

[Mark]

Guys could pre miles.

[CJ]

We just, we just drop back the Power wheel. We wouldn't drop back, drop back.

[Mike]

It was just like, you'd get to this point and you'd kind of just hold it. Like, it'd just be like idling.

[CJ]

I ate so hard back in the day. Do you guys remember when I was riding the 150, my 150, and I went over backwards, over by. Over by Jake's mom.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that was bad.

[Mike]

That's the thing with.

[CJ]

And I went through a. It was a jacket, sweatshirt, T shirt, and then into my skin. And now I'm still scarred, like, on my shoulder from it. But it just. Road rash.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Ken didn't even care about road rash. He was out there in those little shorts.

[Mike]

He had the wheelie trainer.

[Ryan]

It's just funny when you bring up, like, a wheelie simulator. Feel like simulator are getting crazy and everything. Obviously there's driving and flying and all that, but now with VR, dude, look at this. You can simulate working on an engine.

[Mark]

Oh, yeah, I've seen this. And it's like, it's all extremely realistic, bro.

[Mike]

If you guys need an engine to work on, we got plenty of broken. Come on over and you can work on.

[Mark]

Yep, no experience needed. You don't even need to have any VR training. That's the beauty of this is, like, there's no way I'm gonna, like, if. Even if I had all the time in the world, like, I can't just, like, take an engine.

[Ryan]

Can you imagine?

[Mark]

Yeah. I'll get it back together. But I mean, again, if I had all the time in the world, may. I don't think I would do this, but, like, at least you could learn something.

[Mike]

I'm sure it trains people. They could. I could see them using it. Like tech schools or something. But, yeah, you learn a lot better just literally working something.

[CJ]

They'd have those.

[Ken]

I just imagine Gavin doing like a full day of wrenching here, going home.

[CJ]

That guy lives for it.

[Justin]

Simulator.

[Mark]

Being a farmer and playing farm simulator. I don't think it happens, but it would be crazy.

[Ryan]

I love the comments. Little kid holding flash.

[Mike]

That's so funny.

[CJ]

Did you guys have, growing up, holding the flashlight for your dad and just constantly like, hey, no, over here, over here.

[Mark]

My dad would literally call me the gopher.

[Ryan]

Is it possible to lose the 10mm for ultimate immersion?

[Mark]

I was actually wondering that, like, can you drop a tool and, like, lose it?

[Ryan]

So circling back towards Justin. Justin, prior to working here, was an electrical engineer at a company, went to school for it, did the whole things. And I saw this. This reel where this Guy created this kind of like a Jarvis type machine. And Justin is always doing what we would call big brain activities. He's always big braining things. Look how sick this is, dude. So it uses chat GPT and then it like, it scans golf clubs and like knows what they are and what he wants to do to it. Let me go in a little bit farther here. I love that people are actually using this AI stuff for like something cool.

[Mike]

How come every time there's a computer like a voice you're talking to, they name it Jarvis?

[Justin]

It's kind of Iron Man.

[Mike]

Okay, yeah, but, but even, even in like the bench warmers, he was Jarvis. Jarvis Nick. I think they talked to like the house.

[Ryan]

Was it Jarvis and like Richie Rich or whatever?

[Mike]

There's a lot of Jarvis.

[Mark]

Started out as a butler name, Jarvis.

[Mike]

And then he's just like, yes, sir.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Mark]

I have this one kind of a dumb imagine on my phone named Siri. So they're not all names.

[CJ]

Yeah. Do you guys use here? He's a dumb too. Never ever works, ever, I guarantee. Watch this, watch this. Hey, Siri. Well, nothing.

[Mark]

I have that turned off because that shit's annoying.

[CJ]

No, mine just doesn't.

[Mark]

Listen, Siri, man, like, he's asking this thing. I know he has a set up. Yeah, he's asking it to do all this stuff and like, yeah, just build me this. And I. All I'm is asking Siri to do is make me a reminder for my haircut appointment on Thursday and don't forget to actually remind me. And then she'll just put it in my to do list and then it just. Never mind.

[Ryan]

My grandma uses Siri like religiously. Like, if we're sitting here and we're like, wow, I wonder how many gallons flow through the Hoover Dam. She go, hey, Siri, how much? Like instead of typing because, you know, it's easier for her to speak.

[Mike]

No, old people love it because they're just not super quick with the typing most of the time.

[CJ]

Every time that I try and use Siri or even type text. Oh yeah, talk to text. It always messes it up so bad. I'm usually driving when I'm doing it and I have to like then take my time to delete it and then try and do it again, I'm like, oh my God, this is not working.

[Mark]

Do you run like CarPlay when you have your phone in your car?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Okay, so that's another thing that I notice. If you're talking to your phone and you talk to Text, it's pretty Accurate. At least in my experience, it's pretty accurate. But if you're in your car, it goes through the mic.

[Ryan]

It's too much.

[Mark]

And so then I'm like, must just not work in the car. And then I'm like, let me try yelling. So I'm like, I'm on my way. And then it starts typing it all perfect, almost.

[CJ]

I won't back down.

[Ken]

I think it's just the mics and the Broncos are so bad because it's so windy in there.

[Mike]

They're just focused more so on performance when they build those vehicles.

[Mark]

Another thing I got to get off my chest is Ryan was scrubbing through that video. Quite literally not scrubbing, because Instagram took away the scrub feature. And in my opinion, makes the app way more trash. It makes them more money, I'm sure. More engagement long.

[Ryan]

Like, you have to sit there and watch it again.

[Mark]

A minute long video. Or maybe that was even longer. You can't scrub through it. And then there's the part that you want to watch again. Like, how dumb.

[Justin]

What did they get?

[Ryan]

Frustrating.

[CJ]

I did notice that I wasn't sure if my phone was just glitching.

[Mark]

Yeah, you can't. On the bottom.

[Ken]

My phone doesn't have videos that are over a minute.

[Mark]

Mine only does it on videos that are over three minutes, and at that point, definitely should.

[Ryan]

What?

[CJ]

You guys put that on YouTube?

[Mike]

Phone time.

[Ryan]

Oh, no. This again.

[Justin]

Oh, God.

[Ryan]

So I'm not gonna lie. Mine is gonna be horrendous, because lately I've been watching King of the Hill, and so I set it up, and then I fall asleep, but instead of turning it off, I just hit my phone down and then move my head on the pillow, and the AirPod falls out, and I deal with it in the morning. So it's gonna. How do you find it?

[Justin]

Just search screen time. Hey, Siri. Find my screen time.

[Ryan]

Dude, we're gonna be messing up everybody at home, dude.

[Justin]

Hey, Alexa.

[Ryan]

Ah, you're welcome.

[Mike]

Holy. I spent a lot of time.

[Justin]

Mine is almost double yours.

[CJ]

Oh, Yeah.

[Justin]

I have 7 hours, 48 minutes.

[Mark]

Holy.

[Mike]

What do you have, Ken?

[Ken]

2 hours, 56 minutes.

[CJ]

For the week.

[Justin]

What?

[Mark]

For the.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[CJ]

Holy. Look at Dalton's 15. What? What are you doing, Dalton? That's what you're doing in your office.

[Mark]

Shut it off.

[Ryan]

You know, does yours include your computer?

[Ken]

No computer Separate.

[Ryan]

How is that even possible? Are you awake?

[CJ]

Dalton's texting his girl.

[Mike]

Hold on a second. How do I know? Because, like, I do watch a lot of video.

[Justin]

Mine's all from watching podcasts on YouTube.

[Ryan]

Yeah, because like, I have eight hours of being on Max. That's just when I fell asleep. I mean, I got six hours and 50 minutes. And even if that is a little bit skewed by falling asleep, which looks like at least two.

[Mike]

What was yours, Mike?

[Mark]

Four hours and 55.

[Mike]

And what's yours, Ben?

[CJ]

4:30.

[Mike]

Us three are really in the same boat. Where are you at, Ryan?

[Ryan]

Seven hours.

[Mike]

Holy.

[Ryan]

But if you look at the thing, it's.

[CJ]

It's seven hours and it's down 150% from last week.

[Ryan]

That's.

[Mark]

That's good.

[Ryan]

Up 158.

[Mike]

Oh.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Ryan]

Cuz I. I started falling asleep to it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Mark]

So it's. It is skewed. But yeah, like mine says, up 9% from last week. It's one of those many things. Like you don't actually want to do the math on it because then you start looking at.

[CJ]

You go, dang, how many pickups do you guys have?

[Mark]

That's a thing?

[Mike]

I only have one pickup.

[Justin]

Ford Raptor.

[Ryan]

94 today.

[Mike]

Holy.

[Ryan]

20 pickups daily.

[Mike]

Average is 309 pickups.

[Mark]

Mine's 192.

[Ryan]

169.

[Ken]

Mine is 50.

[Ryan]

Damn. So, Ken, when you're ignoring us in the group chat, you're really just ignoring us. You're not looking at your phone.

[Ken]

Don't pick up my phone at times, man.

[CJ]

Are you on your Apple watch, though?

[Ken]

No, I don't have. I never wear that. I. I lost it, actually. No, I found it in my car because it was under one of the seats and it's just dead.

[CJ]

I gotta say, I'm pretty surprised by that, Ken.

[Justin]

We used to give you so much crap for all the scrolling.

[CJ]

Yeah. We used to just call them scrolls. Literally are scrolls.

[Ken]

Some people can change over time, I guess so.

[CJ]

Actually I. I had 150 pickups.

[Justin]

This is a big personal growth moment.

[CJ]

I'm impressed.

[Justin]

He's always.

[CJ]

That makes me want to be better.

[Justin]

Ken started wheeling his phone down get.

[Mike]

Outside and ride a dirt bike. Something. I just learn how to wheelie maybe.

[Ken]

Like, my phone just does everything in scheduled summary. So it's like it just summarizes it every few hours.

[Justin]

How do you do that?

[Ken]

What you got going there then? It's not like a constant ding, ding, ding. It's like every hour, it's like, here's a summary of what you missed.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Mike]

Mine's like the Shopify orders and all that.

[Mark]

Like not the best for urgent stuff, but other than that. Amazing.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Can you push us through? So like our Texts that matter.

[CJ]

If I need to get a hold again, I usually call him. I don't even waste my time texting him.

[Ryan]

So I changed that on my phone. Where now, like, if any of you guys call. Sorry, Mark, I don't know if you're on this, but I'll get you on it. It rings.

[Ken]

Where?

[Ryan]

Like, if other.

[Mike]

You know.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, it's like an emergency bypass, right?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I grabbed Evan. I was like, hey, Evan, let me see your phone. And he's like, what?

[CJ]

Yeah, he probably didn't like that.

[Ryan]

No. And I was like, I'm gonna turn it on. So when. When I call, it rings so I can get through to you. You know, Like, I'm not gonna call you on Friday, talk about, you know, your week because you were here. You know, Like, I'm call you with something important so, like, you can go through. No, no, I'll. I'll just do it later. I go, I know. You don't know how. Like, I'll just do it quick for you, buddy. Like, let's do it together. He's like, no, we'll do it later. And he ran away.

[Ken]

Just gotta FaceTime him. Then it always goes through.

[CJ]

He had, like, every number blocked. I don't know. He said he gets, like, 150 calls a week. Really? Or. Or maybe a day or something. Something like crazy numbers.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And. And so obviously, if it was Ken saying that, I'd be like, well, yeah, we put his.

[Mike]

A billboard.

[CJ]

Like, no joke. It got. It got leaked. But for Evan, I was like, well, we haven't done anything with you, so I don't know who's calling you. Unless he's just a part of some, like, scam program that's like, hit this.

[Justin]

Guy gambling help hotline or something like that.

[Ryan]

But instead of help, it's just, like, people that call each other when they want to go gamble.

[CJ]

You guys watch this video I just saw on Instagram. It's of a bull.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, I saw this.

[CJ]

Dude, just watch.

[Mike]

Oh, no.

[CJ]

So this is like the national anthem where everyone's, you know, getting ready, fired up.

[Ryan]

Oh, boy.

[CJ]

Just wait.

[Mark]

Yeah, he don't wear red. Don't wear red.

[Ryan]

Oh, look at, like, Johnny Knoxville at that thing. Dude, is this one all right, dude?

[CJ]

I don't know. I don't know. I can't imagine.

[Ryan]

That was good, man. So many people had this on there.

[Mike]

He just goes and starts people up.

[Mark]

I think, where do you hide from a bull in a white T shirt?

[CJ]

I think, just in a black T Shirt. Or just run like.

[Mike]

Like, you gotta do circles.

[CJ]

I was so confused. But, like, look at this. Like, they don't even move, bro.

[Justin]

He triple tapped her.

[CJ]

They're just watching. Yeah, dude, I don't think they were pain. They literally just turned around.

[Mike]

You don't expect to have a bow runner.

[Mark]

Everyone has so much to say about three, but, like, really three hits. Dude, she was. She and her crew was laried, probably.

[CJ]

Yeah. And.

[Mike]

Yeah, you weren't paying attention.

[Ryan]

She's like, I didn't have.

[Mike]

You're not standing in the middle of the A ring. Yeah, but one thing, if a bull's ever chasing you. Not that I've had to deal with it. Ryan should be the one telling us. You're supposed to go side to side. Or like, you know, like, if you run straight, that's your.

[Ryan]

Because it's faster than you.

[Mike]

Well, no, I mean, you just have better odds going, not getting running in like zigzags or going, you know, go left or right or turns. Do turns. Because they like running straight.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Mike]

What slows them down is when you start turning because he's charging you. It's like.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's like you got to run.

[Mark]

A slant in mad like in Madden. You just can't beat the juke circles. Beat it.

[Ryan]

I guess that makes sense. If it starts getting close to you, almost like circle back around it and then keep going.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Don't wear red to the rodeo.

[CJ]

That's. Yeah, that's pretty. That's probably the best thing to take away from that video.

[Mike]

Fuck. Was she.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah, I guess you don't expect for a loose bull.

[CJ]

How common is that? Like, how many times does that happen where the bull jumps out of the head?

[Mike]

Solid. Yeah, I mean, that was that really bad.

[Ryan]

What's a bunch of. They're like, bad ideas. Okay, so you got wearing red to the rodeo. Yes. You got walking into your dentist holding Pop Sucker. Yes. Eating candy.

[CJ]

That's a bad idea.

[Ryan]

Taking your driver's test with a beer in your hand.

[CJ]

That's probably about pretty obvious. I heard one yesterday where this guy said that he failed his driver's test. It might have been Ed Sheeran because he picked up the phone when. When. When he was driving.

[Mike]

Well, what was he thinking?

[Ryan]

I slept through a stop sign in mine. Did you really go past? Not all the way through, but just, you know, like, farther than you were.

[CJ]

Supposed to in the winter?

[Mike]

Yeah, I did the opposite. I stopped and there wasn't a stop sign.

[Justin]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

I don't know. I was being Extra careful.

[Mark]

Have you guys seen the new trend? Raw dogging a flight? No, dude, I said sometimes, but then there. I think some of the guys are taking too far. Raw dogging a flight on a base level would be like, no headphones, no. No phone, no movies on your iPad, no book, like just nothing. You just sit there, you watch the flight thing and that's it. But then guys are taking it to another level. They're like, just raw dogged an eight hour flight. No water, you know, no snacks, no, not fast.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Oh, dude. And then I. I don't know if they're actually doing that. Pretty funny though. And then some. Dude, I saw a meme that was like just raw dogged a 15 minute drive to the liquor store. No music, no beer.

[CJ]

There is nothing quite more mind clearing than. Than rod dogging a drive though, where you're just like, oh yeah. Where you have no music on. And then just like kind of the background noise of. Of driving down the road and then you just like, dude, it's amazing the things that you'll think about.

[Mark]

Yeah, but I always hate when some of those drives I'll get done and then be like, what did I even think about? Maybe there's some beauty in that, maybe not. But then sometimes when I consciously try to think and then think about how I want to remember what I'm thinking about later and still don't remember about.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you got to write them down in the notes.

[CJ]

I bet I think of half of like the video ideas I come up with driving.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah. And I will always just either put them in my notes or text them to CJ if they're surprises or things like that. And that's where my Siri comes into play. Or my. My talk to text. And then I'm like, no, I'm like.

[Ryan]

Because it's like a big thought that you need to get.

[CJ]

I'm like trying to get it done and then half the time it probably comes across as like, makes no sense.

[Justin]

You ever watch the Lincoln Lawyer?

[Mike]

No.

[Justin]

That's the whole basis of that show. Or not the whole basis, but it's a lawyer who can only think effectively when he's driving in a car.

[Mark]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah, really.

[Mike]

So what's he do when he's in court?

[Justin]

He just pulls his Lincoln all the way into the courtroom.

[Mike]

Of course he drives a Lincoln. Yeah. What do you guys think you listen to more in the car nowadays? Podcasts or music?

[Ryan]

I always used to make fun of my dad as I got older or in my younger years because he would listen to the radio. I go, who in their right mind is listening to the radio? And now I would say for like, 90% of the time, I either do podcast if it's a long drive, and if it's a short drive, radio, and if not radio, nothing.

[Mark]

I thought you were just gonna say, I only listen to the radio. I'm like, we lost him, boys.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Why?

[CJ]

Why is that?

[Ryan]

Did I listen to the radio? Yeah, I think sometimes it's just a pain to find music. And the radio is normally awful music, but at least it's on. You don't have to connect your phone. You don't have to pull your phone out if you're driving.

[Mike]

I do the same thing.

[Ryan]

Just, it's either that or nothing. But if I'm gonna go for, like, a drive to the gym, throw on a pot on a podcast.

[Mark]

Because you're dating a little personal DJ too. Like, you don'.

[Ryan]

I don't have to think about music.

[Mike]

No, you don't.

[Ryan]

She's normal size, though.

[CJ]

My point was she's probably a normal, normal size DJ, but I kind of.

[Ryan]

5, 6.

[Mark]

I was gonna say this when you were talking about how raw, dogging and thinking of whatever the drive, like, that.

[CJ]

Is such an interesting way to say, like, yeah, you're not doing anything.

[Mark]

But podcast kind of ruined, like, my love for listening to music. Because before there was a time it was just. It was either music or nothing. And now.

[CJ]

And it was hard music.

[Mark]

Sometimes. Yeah. And, yeah, and I don't do that nearly as much. But if I, like, am not in the mood for a podcast, I'm still like, yeah, I'd like to listen to a podcast. I definitely don't want to listen to music right now, though. And I'm like, when? When did I ever say that? Like, it feels weird to say, like.

[CJ]

Do you still listen to, like, hard, hard EDM I hear in Justin's office.

[Ryan]

Sometimes you come in there, it's like.

[Mark]

I still get a lot of it from Justin.

[Ryan]

Someone sample that.

[CJ]

Dude, Mark's in the back. Like, damn, that actually went kind of hard, dude.

[Justin]

I can't get away from it. Even with, like, podcasts, I still listen probably 20 podcasts, 80 music. And it's not all just mayhem music.

[CJ]

Justin, you got to get the subs back in the truck, dude. So Justin. Justin had a BMW. What was your BMW?

[Justin]

It was a BMW 325XI.

[Ryan]

God, that thing was awesome.

[CJ]

And falling apart by the.

[Mike]

Because of your subs, dude.

[CJ]

That thing. That thing didn't have a tight Bolt left on it, and then you have, what, 212?

[Justin]

Yeah, it was two competitions. Two Sundown SA12s and, like, a 3,500 watt amplifier or something like that.

[Ryan]

Those subs are actually in the boat.

[Justin]

Are they still running?

[Ryan]

I believe they both are new because they've independently quit. And then I buy a new one of the same thing.

[Mark]

But the amp program on those things.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Jake actually, for a stint before the boat, put them in his mom's outback. And, like, had he left them in there as long as Justin left them in his BMW also would have rattled that apart.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mark]

How's the boat doing then? Yeah, it's okay.

[Ryan]

When you turn it up, the side of the hull flexes so hard, the water, like.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Bubbles on the outside.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, that is awful.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I didn't realize probably how annoying it was until there was another boat out on the lake that, like, has a decent speaker system and you can hear the bass, like, in your house. And I was like, damn. Our setup was quite a bit better than that.

[CJ]

That.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude, it was. With your boat and the subs, the only time I didn't like it is when I happened to be sitting above them. Oh, yeah. That was just miserable. Yeah. And you got a pack boat. There's nowhere else to go. Yeah.

[CJ]

It just shakes.

[Mike]

You got to take it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But now we turn them down.

[CJ]

We've matured. The thing about the boat, though, is it's a open space.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Right.

[CJ]

But with Justin's BMW, for example, is. It's just such a confined area, you know? So, like, you. You feel the air next to your head shaking.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, you feel every single boom of the sub, like, in your chest, in your hair and your face, and, like, everything about it. It was, like, such a experience that only should last, like, 30 seconds.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Justin]

I had no business driving to school every day with those going.

[CJ]

But, yeah, I was gonna say so, like, that was just when, like, the homies were rolling with you. But were you rocking that when you were broad dog in it?

[Justin]

The raw dog that I had then was I would just sit, no music on, and it would just be the amplifier static, and the subs would still be firing. I was like, oh, my God.

[CJ]

Just to feel something.

[Justin]

Yes. You could, like, fold down part of the back seat in that car, and I cut out the foam in the back seat so that I could fold it down. It would be all the way open to the trunk, and I could float a piece of paper in my driver's side window. As the subs were going, because it would just, like, move so much air, and it would just sit there.

[Mark]

There.

[Ryan]

Mark is like, hell, yeah. In the back. Mark sitting on the couch back there. Did you have a concrete floor in your car? Yeah. You put a concrete floor in because it, like, to flex is the end.

[Mike]

Plexiglass, bulletproof windshield levels to it all.

[Mark]

Dude.

[Mike]

Mark Stone, he's lived a lot of life.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Your setup would.

[CJ]

Would put four 15s.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

I'm just trying to put myself in that position where that would be so.

[Mike]

Really be about it.

[Mark]

If you ate that, the age of whatever you would have been. When Mark had that, your granola ass would have disintegrated.

[CJ]

I'd imagine you were, like, saving up for each sub at that point, though, Were you, like, all right, Just made an extra 200 bucks buying another sub. That is insane. Did Tint have that, too?

[Mike]

Everybody did.

[Justin]

I mean.

[Mark]

Yeah, everybody. Everybody did.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Something to be said is that so many cars, their stereos aren't very easy to replace, so that makes it more difficult. But. But, like, they come with the factory sub, whether it's shitty and tiny or decent. But you're not gonna, like, pay a bunch of money to then replace that sub. Well, I got a sub. Most of the time, it's for the cars that just have no bass whatsoever, which, in my opinion, is a horrible experience.

[Mike]

Yes, I'd agree.

[CJ]

You call me a granola ass.

[Mark]

I just called you a granola. Okay.

[Mike]

I think he said granola.

[Mark]

Granola ass.

[Mike]

Like, why would he disintegrate just because he was so small?

[Mark]

Yeah, yeah. He.

[Ryan]

He.

[Mark]

He had no gluten in him and.

[Mike]

No glue, Nothing holding them together.

[Ryan]

There was actually a couple comments that was like, mike's got to throw it back. Ben's being hard on Mike this episode, I think it was when he was talking about maybe you almost burning your house down.

[Justin]

Mike's got to throw it back.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

The people will be glad to hear you did.

[Mark]

Everybody likes a little bit of controversy or this and that, which we don't have a ton of around here.

[Mike]

Controversy sells.

[Mark]

It does. Like, and we really don't. We get along a little too well, so we. You don't see it much.

[Mike]

So we might have to change something about that.

[Mark]

No fist.

[Ryan]

Granola.

[Mike]

Granola, Ben.

[Mark]

Granola ass.

[CJ]

Granola ass. It's more along the lines of just not always just being, like, on the exact same page. Like, at some point, you gotta disagree or argue or throw a shot just to make things a Little. Yeah, a little spicy.

[Mike]

People love it when we make fun of each other. Other, which we just do naturally. But, like, if we cut all that out, a lot of, like, the funniness, like, people just love that. People love it.

[Ryan]

We fight like brothers, basically. It's like when people say, like, do you ever get. Not get along? You go, yeah, kind of like brothers. Like, you all know whatever you're doing. Like, we all do it with each other's best intentions in mind, but we are with each other all the time, so we get on each other's nerves. I'm. No, I'm guilty of it. It's funny. One time I was hanging out with my other friends, like my college friends, and I was with him for a whole weekend, and nobody said any, like.

[CJ]

Mean things about each other to each other.

[Ryan]

I go like, holy, this is a positive environment.

[Justin]

Driving nuts. If no one's talking for a whole weekend, I would lose my mind.

[Ryan]

What do we say?

[Mike]

I messed up and no one called me an idiot.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah, that. That was strange.

[Ryan]

Self confidence was through the. Yeah.

[Mike]

I didn't get completely crucified when I dropped that. That thing.

[Mark]

Yeah, they actually told me it was going to be okay.

[Mike]

Yeah. I was just so caught off guard. I figured they had have been messing with me and something big was coming.

[Mark]

But if I'm being a little whiny.

[Ryan]

Then you're gonna get called out.

[Mark]

Well, I get called out. But also, like, if it's your significant other, you're like, oh, I got it. Whatever it is, I don't know what yet, but I gotta do something about it. But for us, you're like, well, yeah, give him a couple hours and then.

[Ryan]

We'Ll just get over it.

[Mike]

Yeah, just blow over.

[CJ]

Ben's going too hard on Micah about his hot dog addiction. It's not a problem.

[Justin]

It's a problem.

[Ryan]

It's not a problem.

[Ken]

It's a lifestyle.

[Mark]

I thought you were gonna be on my side, Ken. It's not a problem. It's a lie.

[Mike]

I thought you were gonna say, it's not a hot dog, It's a brat.

[Mark]

If there's anything that would be my line. That's my line.

[Ryan]

So, Justin, since we have you here, we'd be remiss to. To not bring up some things of the past. Oh, boy, oh, boy. I was reflecting the other day about when you edited one of our videos. You remember that?

[Justin]

Oh, my God.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Damn, do I wish you would have stuck with it.

[Justin]

I don't know if you do.

[Mike]

Dude.

[Ryan]

What was it? It Was Life of a Sea Boy.

[CJ]

Right?

[Justin]

It was one of the.

[Mike]

No, that was Mike.

[Ryan]

That was mine.

[Justin]

It was the one.

[Mark]

It was.

[CJ]

Ken edited a video too.

[Mark]

Air.

[Ryan]

Shut up.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's like.

[CJ]

What was the one that you edited?

[Justin]

It's like the third one.

[Mike]

It was Seaboys TV, Summer 16.

[CJ]

I thought that was Mike there.

[Mike]

It was more of a montage.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Summer 16.

[Mike]

Yeah. I. I hate to say it, Jay.

[Ryan]

But it might be our least viewed video. It probably at 119, 000.

[Justin]

Summer.

[Mike]

They were like. Well, I'm more interested in summer 17.

[Mark]

Had to put a year on it.

[Justin]

Yeah, the SEO on that video is pretty bad.

[Mike]

Ken edited a video. He edited the. When Spencer got his silver Mustang.

[CJ]

No, it was the snowmobile one. Yeah.

[Mark]

Winter when I know that we break too much stuff.

[CJ]

It was the old sled gets big air.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Blenders giveaway.

[Ryan]

Not bad. Ken. 651. He left.

[Mike]

Where'd he go?

[Justin]

The old intro.

[Mark]

It's like freaking. You wonder where everyone is. And it's like, Ryan's at work, CJ's at work. Justin's being a.

[Ryan]

There's no way he edited that. Because they added in cats.

[Mike]

I'm pretty sure it was the Spencer's Mustang.

[Mark]

No, I edited that one.

[CJ]

It was. It was the snowmobile one. We'll see if he remembers. Yeah, it was jumping the 370. Ken, do you remember which video that you edited?

[Ken]

I don't. I remember. It was a pain in the ass to upload, though.

[CJ]

Was it the old snowmobile gets big Air. Was it the jumping the 370?

[Ken]

I have no idea.

[CJ]

You don't have any. Any room? Nothing?

[Ken]

I think there's a couple I did.

[Mike]

We're gonna have you start getting back into that Ken next week. You're gonna edit on top of shipping and all that.

[CJ]

This super stress.

[Justin]

Holiday week.

[CJ]

A holiday week?

[Mike]

Yeah, that's right. We're all gonna be on the boat, so we're gonna have you go back into the editing.

[Justin]

Damn. I can't believe I was even able to edit that video on the laptop that I had. That laptop had no business editing anything.

[Mark]

And I looked every single one of us. You were probably like, it' you for sure.

[CJ]

It was good until.

[Justin]

This one has six gigs of ram. It's gonna handle it.

[Mark]

Great.

[CJ]

It was great. I didn't have any problems with it until Jake put Gabe Corn on oh, my God. On a Friday and then left it open all weekend. Yeah.

[Mike]

Did that have something. How long it was open for?

[Justin]

That laptop ended up dying very soon after Jake messed with it.

[Mike]

Yeah. So that's right.

[Ryan]

And he's.

[CJ]

Could have.

[Mike]

Jake watched that corn on your computer.

[Justin]

I knew it.

[Mike]

Well, he was, he was doing it to mess with him. I think it was like a prank and then it toasted it.

[Justin]

Yeah, it, it got so many.

[Mike]

But that's because you like Windows, dude. If you were on a Mac, you'd been just fine.

[Ken]

Well no, he's on like 10 years.

[Justin]

I'm on Mac now.

[Mark]

We.

[Mike]

How do you like it?

[Mark]

He's fully converted as a. I like it.

[Mike]

Do you rather have a Windows?

[Justin]

If I were to build like a PC that, that was going to be like, I don't know like a crypto mining one or like a gaming PC, then I would want it on Windows. But I don't know. Mac is great for everything that we do here.

[Mike]

He's just saying that because we gave him a Mac.

[Justin]

No, once I got used to it like the keybinds and everything are different but it's, it runs great for. That's a 2018 and it still works.

[Mike]

Awesome. So they last a long time.

[Ryan]

I feel like in that type of deal it's like Macs are like Mercedes. You don't really mess with them. They just, they come and they, they are what they are. And then a Windows is like a 2006 Corvette or Subaru. Sure. It's just like as it is, it's. It works. But if you take all the pieces out of it that it comes with and custom make it to your liking, it's a pretty good rig.

[Mike]

Yeah, it seems like to me.

[Justin]

And not nearly as reliable.

[Mike]

Exactly. Yeah. And my experience with Windows computers is like, like, yeah, they're better probably right out the box if you get the right one. But they don't last as long.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And they, they seem to only last like two years, maybe three max. Whereas like a Mac just lasts for a long time.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

And that's, I mean in my opinion that's honestly changed here in the last couple of years. Like now that Apple makes all their own silicon. Sorry, this is getting nerd but Apple makes all their own silicon for their chips now and they function way better than anything else. Like they, they all perform most things on the market.

[Mark]

Circuit silicon.

[Justin]

Do you want to know like the.

[Mike]

Plastic wrap that they wrap it in?

[Justin]

Yeah. So like they make the custom. No, that's what they make the, the integrated circuits out of. So they have their own chip that is their gpu, CPU and RAM all in one chip, I believe. And it like it's incredibly efficient.

[CJ]

Ryan. I thought now that.

[Justin]

Now that all the listeners are.

[Mark]

Because, you know, like, Apple's always like, they just like to go, iPhone 7, 7, 8, 9. They're like, we went from the A16 ship to the A17. Obviously it's gonna be better, but I don't know anything about that stuff.

[Ryan]

That's all you need to know.

[Mark]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Ryan, when you said that you were digging up some old stories from Justin's past, I thought for sure you were gonna talk about the incident. Oh, God. I thought that you were, like.

[Justin]

When you were, like, referencing that, I was like, I think that's blacked out of my memory how aggressive that was. I was like, oh, man.

[Mike]

God.

[Justin]

We were on the phone with them, right? That was that all over the.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Justin]

And I was just.

[CJ]

Thank God it was on the phone. Otherwise I don't know what would have happened. We would have had it.

[Justin]

I don't even remember what they had.

[CJ]

To call you in, Dustin.

[Justin]

Like, I don't even remember what the background of it was. I just remember there being a phone.

[CJ]

I just remember. That's it.

[Mike]

He didn't even know, dude.

[CJ]

It was so passionate.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You didn't know what you were talking about or who you were talking to, but you were fired up.

[Justin]

Yeah, it was. That was bad.

[Ken]

That was really.

[Mike]

That was pretty funny. It was funny.

[Justin]

I. I don't think I could unloc. Being that mad, like, anymore. I don't think I've got that in me.

[CJ]

Fired up context. We were talking to, like, a supplier that we had worked with for our old.

[Ryan]

Well, we just got in this big jam up. And then. Because we were trying to fix it.

[Justin]

And maybe I'm forgetting, but, like, weren't they in some, like, weird type of.

[CJ]

Like, it was some. Some cahoots.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Some weird background relationship and we were just getting shafted on it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And I would.

[Justin]

Now I'm getting mad again.

[CJ]

All right, all right. Maybe change the subject. Just as getting. Getting fired up.

[Mark]

There's a couple ounces of whiskey in your tummy.

[Mike]

I don't remember exactly, like, the details of it, but I remember asking Jake, because I was like, man, like, maybe we really, like, overstepped on that one. And I was like, who's, like, a successful business guy? Like, and how would they handle it? I was like, hey, Jake, what would your dad do if that happened to him? He's like, he would have probably hopped in his plane, flew right to wherever they were at, and be like, what the is this?

[CJ]

I was like, oh, maybe we did.

[Mike]

But I was like, man, if you had a plane, then we probably would have done that.

[Justin]

Dude, I'm glad we didn't have a plane.

[Ryan]

I think of that in so many things. I'm like, oh, it's a good thing this was a slow grow because, man, there could have been some. Some mistakes like that that were just good to make early.

[Mike]

Dude, 100.

[CJ]

Yeah. I think we've made so many mistakes, and I'm. I'm very happy that we got them out of the way.

[Mike]

Grant.

[CJ]

We still make a mistake every single day. I think back to how many things that we've done wrong, and there's no way that you can learn that without just doing it.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[CJ]

Nobody can teach you that or tell you that to, like, how to avoid things unless you just go through it. That was just one of them. But because we were talking about that a couple podcasts ago, and Justin then texts us the group chat afterwards and he goes, just listen to the podcast. Kind of blanking on what story? What story you guys are talking about. But I think he's coming back to me.

[Justin]

I just started sweating in my bed.

[CJ]

I'm like, God damn it, that is so funny.

[Ryan]

Your voice just kept getting higher as trying to not like, yell like, what the? You're like, what the are you thinking?

[CJ]

It kept going higher and higher. By the end of it, you were.

[Justin]

Like, I couldn't breathe. Cuz I was probably so mad that I was just running out of breath.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Oh, man.

[CJ]

We had to step out too.

[Mike]

I think we were all in it.

[Justin]

I'm pretty sure scared you all out of the room.

[Mike]

Well, we were like, I think he's handled it.

[Mark]

No, I was definitely scared. I was like, I. I don't know what to do.

[Mike]

You know what be fun is to go back to that old shop, that first shop, and just see it.

[Ken]

It.

[Mike]

I don't know. For some reason, like, I remember a lot of it, but also, it's like it never even happened. And we were in there for so long.

[CJ]

I can still feel like walking on that carpet and, like, going up to Mike's office or bedroom, bedroom slash office. And being crunched over CJ falling down the stairs. Yeah, I hate bringing them in. Getting stitches.

[Mark]

I think it feels like I have more memories there because, like, we still here. If we move from here, I go, like, man, the memories at this shop are away that. But yeah, there's some really good memories at that first shop, especially because it was so small. Like, we quite literally had to stand Closer to each other when we were like in the kitchen area and stuff.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, you live there, Mike, so you spend more time.

[Mark]

That's true. But I lived here too for just as long as I lived there. That's maybe longer true.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'd love to if the people want to see it. Maybe we'll do like an unlocking memories of the old shop and we can go through some stuff and talk about it. Because man, carpet in the bathroom. Open the bathroom.

[Justin]

Diabolical decision to have carpet in the bathroom.

[CJ]

That was good times though. I was just at my parents house the other day and I went upstairs to the loft where it all started. Oh, we're like, Mike, you used to live there too, man.

[Ryan]

Mike.

[CJ]

Yeah, kind of bounced around. He's like a nomad.

[Mark]

Some might call it a couch surfer.

[CJ]

Couch surf.

[Mark]

A little more dialed in that, but pretty much couch surfer.

[CJ]

And I was just up, I was up at in the loft where we used to, you know, first started editing the videos and shipping the merch out and Mike lived there and it was just like. It seems like an eternity ago. Yeah, I guess thinking back to like nine years ago, that is a pretty long time ago. Like think about nine years before that. I would have been like eight.

[Mike]

We're actually, we're actually at eight years. You said nine?

[CJ]

Eight.

[Mike]

Yeah. July 20th of 2016. Sixteen when the channel got made. So we're actually coming up on eight years. Coming up on eight the next month, like you know, 20 days.

[Ryan]

Got it. I've been saying it's wrong. I've been saying we're coming up on nine.

[Mike]

I don't know if we're boosting or hurting our stats. Yeah, you know, probably better off saying eight years.

[Ryan]

You know, with the journey of, of people leaving, coming back, all the things that have happened along this. I don't think. Well, I know for a fact if it had happened differently, we wouldn't be here right now. But I, I, I truly think if things hadn't went the way that they did, I don't know if we would all, if we'd all be here right now. So thank God it did happen that way. Justin, it's fantastic having you back around and we're a great addition to the team. We're thankful to have you.

[Justin]

It's awesome.

[Ryan]

Good times.

[Justin]

It's awesome to be back.

[CJ]

Well said.

[Mark]

Stronger than ever now.

[CJ]

Next time we run a pod like this, we'll have to have Jake on too. It might get a little tight, but we'll go back to the just be like the old to the original. Yeah, leave a. Leave a comment down below if you want to see that. That pod with the OG crew. Yeah, back at it, but yeah, we'll see you guys next week. Subscribe if you haven't.

[Mark]

Peace.

[CJ]

Peace.