How Ken Almost Ruined Ben's Proposal

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV – Episode Summary Episode: How Ken Almost Ruined Ben's Proposal (April 29, 2025)

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This episode centers on Ben’s recent engagement proposal to his longtime girlfriend Greta, and the wild, hilarious, and nerve-wracking story behind how he pulled it off without her suspecting a thing—despite near-misses and Ken’s notorious inability to keep secrets. The Cboys break down the behind-the-scenes drama, share relatable banter about relationships and car/boat purchases, and joke about life, surprises, nicknames, and more.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ben's Proposal Story: The Ultimate Surprise

• Ben reveals the planning and anxiety: He describes feeling immense pressure to surprise Greta, who believed it was impossible ("She told me a while back, she was like, there is zero percent chance that you will be able to surprise me. Zero." – Ben, 00:53). Despite Greta’s daily hints and even checking in about ring shopping, Ben kept his plans super secret.
• Strategic misdirection: Ben went out of his way to appear disinterested in further ring shopping to prevent Greta from suspecting a proposal, even suggesting a future ring-shopping date to throw her off the scent.
• Selective secrecy: Ben admits to telling only a small, trusted group about his plan, specifically excluding Ken ("The sole reason I didn't tell you, Ken, is because you got a loud mouth." – Ben, 00:00, restated at 05:20). Dalton, the videographer, was brought in covertly to capture the moment.
• Staging the moment: The proposal took place in Montana near Greta’s parents' house. The elaborate ruse involved getting Greta to dress up under the guise of a family dinner, with only her parents informed.
• Dalton in the bushes: Dalton hid camouflaged in the trees for hours in the cold to get hidden footage and photos ("I, like, run out of the house and I meet him there, pop up this video of, like, actually how camouflaged Dalton was in the trees. Like, dude, I knew where he was and I couldn't even find." – Ben, 09:21).
• The proposal itself: Ben blacked out from nerves and cut straight to the proposal, barely remembering what was said, while Greta, thinking it was a prank, was left speechless ("She thought that I was playing a prank." – Ben, 12:46). Once the photographer emerged from hiding, Greta finally realized the moment was real.

Notable Quotes

• “I live my life for surprises.” – Ben (01:25)
• “The sole reason I didn't tell you, Ken, is because you got a loud mouth.” – Ben (05:20)
• “She has so little trust in me...she thought that I was playing a prank.” – Ben (12:46)
• “That was the happiest moment of my life.” – Ben (18:48)

Timestamps

• Ben recounts surprise pressure: 00:38 – 04:45
• Why Ken can’t be trusted with secrets: 05:20 – 06:26
• Proposal setup in Montana: 06:43 – 11:07
• The actual proposal (Ben blacks out): 12:09 – 13:43
• Family celebration and relief: 16:04 – 19:40

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2. How Ken (Almost) Ruined It

• Ken almost spills the beans: Though not officially told, Ken learned of the proposal from overhearing Ben and then nearly spoiled the surprise by texting Ben and FaceTiming Greta’s sister right before the proposal ("Ken calls Carly...did he do it?" – Ben, 21:38).
• Drunk texting from Florida: Ken admits to being “browned out” while on vacation, highlighting the risk of telling him any secrets while he’s “on the juice” (hammered) (20:30–20:31, 22:32).

Notable Quotes

• "You weren't very secret. You were, like, mildly secret." – Ken (20:45)
• "If Ken would have [messed] that up, like, the only thing you can do is laugh." – Ben (29:14)

Timestamps

• Ken's almost-spoiler moment: 20:12 – 22:28

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3. Reflections & Relationship Talk

• What the engagement meant: CboysTV discuss waiting nine years to propose and how such moments carry real weight. Ben and Greta’s families immediately start wedding planning—including appetizers—minutes after the engagement (26:49–27:36).
• Advice: Ben urges others not to feel pressured by others’ opinions or timelines, prioritizing the moment's authenticity.

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4. Car Shopping Debate: Lincoln Continental vs. Pontoon

• Ken's purchase dilemma: The crew hilariously argue over whether Ken should buy a vintage Lincoln Continental or a pontoon (“Ken, there’s so many pontoons...but there’s only one Lincoln Continental!” – Ben, 31:30). A poll is suggested, and CJ offers: “If you buy that Lincoln...we will pay for the Hellcat swap.” (33:14)
• Classic Cboys banter: They roast the looks of Ken’s preferred pontoon and scheme about Hellcat-swapped classics and viral builds.

Timestamps

• Car vs. pontoon debate: 30:04 – 35:10
• Ken loses the Lincoln by waiting: 39:51 – 40:25

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5. Miscellaneous Hilarious Tangents

• Toilet habits & etiquette: The guys riff on bar bathroom scenarios, whether they sit or stand to pee, and the unwritten rules of communal bathrooms (42:36–47:08).
• Nicknames galore: Running jokes about Ken’s name morphing into Greg, and how nicknames become brand identities (52:00–54:03).
• New purchases and project updates: Discussion about recent builds, car challenges, and staged videos (58:19–63:00).
• Random: Church phone etiquette, signature skills, and more.

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Memorable Moments & Quotes by Timestamp

• “The sole reason I didn’t tell you, Ken, is because you got a loud mouth.” (Ben, 00:00, 05:20)
• “Nothing gets me off more than a good surprise.” (Ben, 01:25)
• Ben blacking out during the proposal: (12:09–13:43)
• Greta thinking it's a prank: (13:00–14:56)
• Ken’s FaceTime near-miss: (21:38)
• “If Ken would have [messed] that up, the only thing you can do is laugh.” (Ben, 29:14)
• “Damn, Ken. That car is going to be older than the moms riding in it.” (Ben, 36:44)
• Running “Greg” gag: (53:05–54:17)
• “That was the happiest moment of my life.” (Ben, 18:48)

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Episode Flow in Sections (with Key Timestamps)

Ben’s Proposal Journey

• Planning, anxiety, secrecy: 00:38–06:26
• Execution in Montana: 06:43–14:56
• Family’s reaction and celebration: 16:04–19:40

Ken’s Antics

• Why he’s untrustworthy: 05:20, 20:12–22:28
• Near miss with FaceTiming Greta’s sister: 21:38

Aftermath & Reflections

• Relationship takeaways: 25:08–27:36
• Weddings and family reactions: 26:49–27:36

Cboys Banter & Life Stuff

• Boat vs. Car, Hellcat swap plans: 30:04–35:10
• Losing out on the Continental: 39:51–40:25
• Toilet etiquette tangent: 42:36–47:08
• Nickname saga (“Greg”): 52:00–54:17
• Misc. jokes, project car updates: 58:19–63:00

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Conclusion

This episode is a classic CboysTV rollercoaster: Ben’s heartfelt (and anxiety-laden) proposal story, near-misses thanks to Ken’s reputation, and signature group banter covering cars, pranks, friendship, and even bathroom philosophy. Along the way, the contagious camaraderie and inside jokes make it a must-listen for fans and newcomers alike.

Advice to listeners: Subscribe for more, and if you see Ken, make sure to call him Greg.

Transcript

[Ben]

The sole reason I didn't tell you, Ken, is because you got a loud mouth.

[Ryan]

Someone else go buy this thing so Ken can.

[CJ]

Hey, Greg, what was his name before.

[Ben]

On a.

[Ken]

No, no, it was not.

[Ben]

Blacked out. Drifted his cybertruck into my Lamborghini. Damn, Ken, that car's gonna be older than the mom's riding in it.

[CJ]

Finally proposed to his girlfriend. What'd she say, Ben?

[Evan]

So how's everybody's Monday?

[Mike]

It's going great, bro.

[Ben]

Happy to be here.

[CJ]

Yeah. A little round of applause for Ben. Thank you, guys.

[Ben]

Than, guys.

[Ken]

Big weekend.

[CJ]

Finally proposed to his girlfriend, his longtime.

[Ben]

Girlfriend of nine years, emphasis on finally.

[Mike]

It really was insane.

[CJ]

And what'd she say, Ben?

[Ben]

She said yes, boys.

[Ryan]

Yeah, if she didn't, dude, that would have been more surprising.

[Ben]

I would say I was assuming that she was going to say yes, but it definitely did not make the whole experience less stressful.

[Mike]

Like, if anything, you. There was more riding on it.

[Ben]

I wasn't concerned about her answer. I just was concerned about everything else going right. There were so many moving factors. And she told me a while back, she was like, there is zero percent chance that you will be able to surprise me. Zero. She was like, I know you so well that there is no chance that you can surprise me. And I was like, okay, bet. Like, those are fighting words, right? Yeah, especially. Especially for me, like that. I live my life for surprises.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Nothing gets me off more than a good surprise. I mean, you guys see it in the videos. Like, it doesn't really matter who it is, whether it's Gavin or you, Mike.

[Mike]

It'S not an option for it to. To be leaked.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, exactly. So I took that, like, very seriously. And when I tell you guys, Greta said something about, like, not being married or, like, me proposing or somebody saying something to her about us not being married a lot. Like, she said something every single day for the last. For the last, like, year.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Holy.

[CJ]

Really strong. You held out a while.

[Ben]

Like. Like, she'. I wouldn't say like, nagging, but, like, mentioning probably not a good term. She made it very clear that, you know, she wanted me to get it done. And so it was really tough because I've known about it, you know, for the last, like, six months, that I was gonna do it, you know. So when she brings it up, what am I gonna say?

[Ryan]

Yeah, you're saying I'm gonna do it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, yeah, it's coming. Just chill. Yeah.

[Mike]

You just have to steer her almost away.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And like, a couple of weeks ago, she was like, really? On one. Because, like, we've gone and looked at rings, like, a couple times, but she's super. Wasn't sure what she wanted. Okay, Indecisive. She was like, the fact that you haven't asked me to go and look at rings again.

[Ryan]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

Puts it back even farther.

[Ryan]

And you've already made the call and.

[Ben]

I already had the ring, so. You already had.

[Mike]

You're probably like, yeah, it does.

[Ben]

And she was like, like, every time we go to town, she'd be like, is there anything else you want to do? Like, because she wanted to, like, keep looking at them to, like, make her decision.

[Mike]

Did you ever think to go look with her to, like, keep her off your trail?

[Ben]

Yeah, I, like, looked at a couple different places, right. So, like, these people knew that I had already, like, pulled the trigger on them. So I was like, oh, is there any more in town that we could go to that would be like.

[Ryan]

That they don't know?

[Ben]

Yeah, that they don't know. We went to town a couple weeks ago and was like, kind of just like, are we going to go and look or not? Like, why? Why have you not asked me to go and look again? And I was like, you know, you gotta call ahead and, like, make an appointment. And it's a little short notice and I'm, you know, I'm busy next week with things.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[Ben]

And stuff. And I was like, how about, like, we go and look on, like, the 26th when we're home, which would be next week? And she was like, okay, all right. That sounds good.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's good. I was wondering if you got in the doghouse then.

[Ben]

So she was, like, under the assumption that we were going to look at rings when we got home, which is next weekend or this weekend, actually. And so, like, after that happened, I was like, okay. I think I'm, like, in the clear where, like, she won't be spooked because, like, she's, like I said, just antennas have been up. And she was, like, just waiting for it. After that, I was like, I think, like, now I'm a little bit more in the clear, where she's not going to be quite as, like, is it coming this trip because she thinks we're going to look at rings, like, when we. When we get home.

[CJ]

It would have sucked, too, if you would have, like, gone beforehand. And then, like, for some reason, she was like, I want this and just completely change up what you already have. I was concerned about, like, in that moment, like, they're all good, you know? But then Just, like, fully changes up, and then you're like, well, I'm sitting here like, you can't really bring it back.

[Ben]

Yeah. So, yeah, no, I was. I was definitely nervous about just, like, all of it going well. And I didn't tell many people. I told you guys, like, right before I had no idea I left. Why? Did you know? I was pretty selective of the people.

[CJ]

That I told and probably did not know. Did Ken know?

[Mike]

Know?

[Ken]

I. I did know.

[Ben]

I did not. You tell Ken? I did not tell.

[Mike]

I mean, I knew.

[Ben]

So, so. So keep in mind, me, Ken, and Gavin just spent, like, right. 48 hours in the car together.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And me and Gavin were talking the entire time. So I told Gavin, but the car is so loud. The car is so loud. I figured Ken was in the back seat, just, like, one, not paying attention and two, couldn't hear me to begin with. Apparently he could. The sole reason I didn't tell you, Ken, is because you. You got a loud mouth. Like, we've been saying. We've been saying that forever.

[CJ]

I just assumed. I wasn't even. I didn't even ask.

[Ben]

When we have a surprise, make sure that Ken doesn't find out.

[CJ]

It's not that you deliberately tell. You just would forget and then, like, maybe say something at, like, dinner or something.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. So let me remind me. I'm going to circle back on this. Okay. There's a reason I didn't tell Ken. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I kind of, you know, mentioned it to a couple people, and I told Dalton, and I was like, how do you feel about, like, coming out and being, like, the videographer and photographer for it? And, you know, Dalton's a beast. He was like. Of course he had some experience with Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah, he was camelman.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. He was camoed up in the woods for Mike. And so I flew Dalton out and. And then he shot all the photos for it. But, yeah, I was pretty selective of, like, who I told. And I tried to keep it low, but, like, I don't know. I. I feel like I have so many surprises. Like, I'm sitting on, like, 20 surprises right now just for, like, future videos. But for some reason, that one I, like, couldn't help myself, but, like, tell at least a couple of you guys. And then I didn't tell you, Mike, because I didn't know. You're not that good at holding surprises either.

[Evan]

And you didn't tell me why you.

[Ben]

Kind of fell into the same bucket as, like, these guys, where I was like, ah, I trust you. But I don't trust you. Liquored up where I was like, I was like, I don't know what could happen when you get liquored up and then it's just like a flip of a switch where it's just like all.

[CJ]

You just might start blasting on Facebook or something, you know? Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Evan]

Download Twitter.

[Ben]

Kind of a wild card there. So you kind of just fell into that bucket. But yeah, so I did it out in Big Sky Montana. We've been like gone out there for forever and like, I just like love that area. So I had to figure out where I was doing it. And I was doing it like right on the ski hill next to Greta's parents house. So I had to think of a way to get Greta like one like dressed up without being like, hey, like, you know, we're one of the hardest parts. Well, yeah, so not. I didn't want to do it like skiing on the ski hill because I figured she'd want to be like dressed up or like, you know, looking cute for like the photos and everything after. And so like the whole trip I just kept being like, hey, Greta, can you like take some snaps for me and try and like get her used to just like taking snaps, like basically whenever we're hanging out, like, hey, take a snap for me.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So like Greta was kind of on like snap duty through like the training of like, you know, we'd be skiing. I'd be like, hey, get a photo of me. I'm just standing there. She's in, just trying to keep it cool. And then like when the time came, her parents were like, who were in on it. They were like, you know, we're going out to dinner at 7 o'. Clock, everybody be ready at 6:30. So like the whole family was out there for Easter. There was like 20 of them. None of them knew except for her parents.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Ben]

Yep. So everyone was in the dark except for her mom and dad. And did they play it off well? Oh, they played off the best. Yeah, it was so good. But they were like, you know, everyone get ready so we can leave the house at 6:30. And so like the whole family gets ready. All for just like Greta was the only person that technically needed to like get ready. But like the whole family gets ready. Nobody has any idea like what's coming.

[Ryan]

And.

[Ben]

And like of course everyone's ready except for Greta.

[Ryan]

Oh no.

[Ben]

So keep in mind, I fly Dalton out. He shows up. Here we go again. He shows up at like 5:30, right? And I like tell him all right, this is where you got to get to walk in from the backside, walk down the ski hill, and then me.

[CJ]

And then I'm up into a snowman.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yep. Roll around in the snow, disguised as a snowman, and then stance up in the trees right here. So he's like, okay, I'm like, sending him screenshots over Google Maps. Like, drop off here, walk here. It's about three miles. Not that bad, but, you know, so he's trucking through the snow with his tripods and three cameras and all this stuff. And so I, like, run out of the house and I meet him there, pop up this video of, like, actually how camouflaged Dalton was in the trees. Like, dude, I knew where he was and I couldn't even find.

[Mike]

Really.

[Ben]

Like, did you have a ghillie suit on? I just had normal cam on this time. I should have worn the gilly suit because it was freezing. Yeah, so. So he stances up at like, 5:30, right? And I was like, okay, bro, I'm going to have her out here by like, 6:15. I brought him up a couple blankets and everything. So I'm going to have her out here by, like, 6:15. So I'll. I'll try and be like, as on the ball as possible. But of course, like, things just, you know, happen. Greta's the last one to get ready. Her dad's running around the house being like, all right, people, let's go. We got dinner plans. And I'm like, he's looking at you. Yeah, exactly. You know, Greta's like, I just don't know what to wear. And I'm like, oh, my God. She, like, goes up to her mom's bedroom, and she's like, looking through her clothes and, like, doing her hair. And her mom, like, walks in and she's, you know, starting to get antsy too. And Greta's, like, trying to do this new, like, blow dryer hair thing.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[Ben]

And Cindy's like, what are you doing? Today is not the day to be trying new things with your hair.

[Ken]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

So Cindy's, like, fixing her hair for luckily. I mean, she wasn't, like, suspicious of all the things happening because, like, it's pretty standard of, like, everyone's, you know, like, trying to, like, hurry the whole family up. And finally she's like, getting ready, and I'm like, hey, can you. Before we go, can you come and take a Snapchat for me? And she's like, of, like, both of us or just you? And I didn't want to be like, both of us, because then her sister would have been like, oh, I'll come and take a snap. And I was just like, just me. And she's like, okay. She's sick of being my personal Snapchatter at this point. And so we, like, walk out, and we, like, go to the ski hill and then, like, start walking up the ski hill, because I had Dalton stanced up the hill, and she was like, what are we doing? I was like, oh, it's a better view. Like, up the hill a little bit.

[Ryan]

How far was it?

[Mike]

I love it.

[Ben]

Not that far. Like.

[Ryan]

Like.

[Ben]

Like 50 yards, maybe, or like, 25 yards up the hill?

[Ryan]

Far enough.

[Ben]

She's like, the view is no different. Oh, up the hill 20 yards than it is right here.

[Mike]

There's so many things you say and do that, like, make no sense at the time. Like, to you, it makes all the sense in the world.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You have a mission.

[Ben]

So I'm just trying to get her, like, into the spot, right? Because Dalton's like, all right, I need you right here. Because he's filming and taking photos. The film was on just a tripod, right? So it was just in a fixed position, and we're, like, walking up the hill, and she's, like, nagging me. We really need to go up the hill for this. And I'm like, oh, it's a better view up here. And then she's like, well, give me your phone. And I, like, just texted Dalton, like, all right, we're on our way. And I was like, I didn't want to give her my phone because I didn't want Dalton to be like, all right, I'm ready for you. Or something like that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, I start playing all these things out, and then she's, like, doubles down, like, come on, give me your phone. And Dalton's got photos of, like, her going, give me your phone. And then her going, all right, come on, give me your phone. And then, like, I had a bunch of things planned to say, right? So this big moment.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Blackout, blackout. No, dude. 1. I didn't even get to the right spot that Dalton wanted me, so, like, he was taking a video. I don't. I'm, like, barely half in the frame is what it is. I'm an idiot. And then I'm like, you know, she's pressing me for my phone, and I was just, like, it dropped down on a knee.

[Ryan]

Really? She looking at you, or she's looking away?

[Ben]

She's looking at me at this point. And you just And I was like, I was going to say a bunch of stuff before I dropped down, and I was just kind of getting pressed, so I was, like, getting nervous.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[Ben]

Blacked out, dropped down on a knee. It was just like, greta, will you marry me? Right to it. Just right to it.

[Mike]

Right to it.

[Ben]

Just right to it. And then, like, she has so. I don't want to say, like, little trust in me, but she has so little trust in me. She thought that I was playing a prank.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ben]

Snapchat.

[Ryan]

Diabolical.

[Ben]

So she was, like, in shock, right? And then she, I think, was, like, questioning it. And then I, like, you know, you didn't really change. Yeah. Stuck with it. And then she was double in shock, right? And then like, literally out of body experience at this point, and she's like, oh, my God. Like, she doubled down. Like, is. Is this. Is this actually happening? Like, this isn't a joke. Like, this is. This is happening. And so, like, I, I, I don't even know if I put the ring on. I'm still trying to figure out what I said at this point and what she said. Like, later in the night, she was like, did you put the ring on me? And I was like, did you say yes? It was like, it was so. Just, like, things were happening, which is.

[Ryan]

Saying something for you to get, like, so in the middle of this surprise that you got so, like.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, you don't blackout. Yeah. You're like a professional in these pressure situations.

[Ben]

Yeah. And I.

[Ryan]

For you to black out, saying something.

[CJ]

Setting up a surprise like this.

[Ben]

Yeah. No, I know. It was. It was like the most rookie thing I've ever done. And, like, we stand up, you know, we're hugging and kissing, and she did say yes. We figured out she said yes, she's got the ring on. And we're like, oh, my God. She's. Or she's like, oh, my God. And I'm just like, Just like the biggest relief of, like, wow, this just happened. Right. Still out of body. She goes, does. Does anyone know? Because she was like this. Like, it was so random. And, like, she was so surprised. No inkling at all. She was like, does anyone know? And I was like, well, your parents know inside. And I was like, oh. And Dalton knows. And I point over. I point over into the trees. And then.

[Mike]

So classic.

[Ben]

That was her reaction to seeing Dalton, which is like, the greatest, like, carousel of pictures I think I've ever seen in my life. Right. So this is me saying, happy you are. This is me saying, Dalton knows. And Then she's looking, and then she's like, what? And then she sees him.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Ben]

And then she freaking out. And then it gets even more. Where then she's like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. And then it was just like, oh, my God. This is act. This is just happened. Yeah, because, like, I think up until that point, she still wasn't sure if this was, like, a prank or not.

[CJ]

That is just sad, Ben, that you put through it so much to this point that she thought it was a prank.

[Ben]

So once she realized Dalton was there, and then at this point, Dalton comes out, and he gives us a hug, which is so funny. Like, always the first guy. Yeah, Dalton's the first man on the.

[Mike]

Scene, but so it must be something about seeing the photographer that makes it legit. Oh, he really did plan this out.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It wasn't just, like, you just randomly spur the moment.

[CJ]

They're probably like, oh, I was hoping a camera guy would be here for this. And then they see, like, oh, perfect now really happy.

[Ben]

And then, yeah, after that, like, Dalton comes out. He's, you know, gives us a hug, and then he's just. He's the man. He was just like, you on the ground, you right there snapping photos, and he's like, really? You guys up there hold hands, and he's running around circles, and he's snapping these photos. I'm like, God, dude, I've never seen.

[Mike]

You direct as hard as when you're doing exactly that. Yeah.

[Ben]

So. So he's just dialed in. And then at that point, we walk down, and then we get, like, back to the house. And, like, her whole family was, like, filled in on. On it at that point, because my parents also came out and then, like, and surprised everyone. Her parents knew that they were coming. But, like, as soon as my parents walked in, I think, like, the rest of the family was like, oh, like, what?

[Ryan]

What's happening?

[Ben]

And then they put two and two together. So, like, once we came down the hill, everyone was there waiting for us.

[Ryan]

I can see your dad just walking in.

[Ben]

As big as possible. Exactly. And, like, her dad and brothers were popping champagne. It's. There's a photo of, like, both of her brothers spraying champagne. I'm like, we are gonna be good family because I. I spray champagne every time any chance I get. Exactly. In the last podcast, we talked about me spraying champagne, and then, yeah, we just celebrated, like, with the whole family. And Greta was surprised. Like, my parents were there. Dalton was there snapping the whole thing.

[Ryan]

Dude, you kind of got, like, a frickin knack for this. The hiding in the bushes for hours now. Somebody's got to do it. Like, we did this warm the winter. What's like, the next one you're underwater?

[Ben]

I don't know. I'm going to have to go to SEAL training for, like, all the girlfriends are going to be expecting. I got to figure out I'm going to be in an airplane next. Yeah, it does give me a carousel. Yeah, right?

[Mike]

He's got. Yeah, you have a. You have, like, night vision goggles and a parachute and all this stuff. You're like, dang. Were you in the Navy or something? No, I'm just a really good wedding.

[Ryan]

Or you're underwater and you're like, all right, I only have 20 minutes of air. Not, like, 25 minutes. Somebody starts walking out, and he's just like.

[CJ]

You still hold his breath for 30 seconds? Yeah, for like, another couple minutes.

[Evan]

He's running the Amazon scuba tanks we got for Gavin.

[Ben]

Dude, that was one thing.

[Evan]

Ben, it's been.

[Ben]

I've been in the woods for, like, you know, 25 minutes at this point. And he texts me. He goes, sorry to mic you.

[Mike]

Not like, oh, gosh, yo, we're not even close. Yeah.

[Ben]

I was like, is this gonna be two or three hours?

[CJ]

How long were you in the bushes for mics again?

[Ben]

Two change. Holy. I think two hours, 90 degrees out, dude. I think I pulled, like, eight ticks off of me.

[Mike]

But for the record, he showed up hella early, which I can't say no to, but I'm like, I don't have to show up that early. And you're like, I don't want to fuck it up.

[Ben]

This is true. Yeah, this is true.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I did do that to myself. It's the severity of it where it's, like, the biggest moment, like, to date of my life, right? Where. I don't know.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Ben]

I guess a lot of people put, like, less emphasis on the surprise factor of it, but, like, I don't know, I just wanted it to be, like, as organic of a surprise. And, like. And it was. It truly was, like, she had 0, 0 clue that it was coming, which felt so good. Felt so good.

[Ryan]

Like, you got her.

[Ben]

That made me so happy. And, yeah, she was. And she still is. She's still, like, in shock, and I was even in shock, but it was, like, out of body. It was, like, truly, like, one of, like, that. I think it was the happiest moment of my life. And, like, in the moment, it just felt, like, so out of body. And then I watched the photos back, and I was like, oh, no. I was. I truly was. Like, I could not stop smiling. I was so happy, and I was so happy that Dalton was there to, like, capture the moments, because in the moment, I was still just, like, blacked out. Like, what's a blur? It was like. It was, like, so much, like, weight. And then after it happens, it's kind of like a sigh of, like, relief. But it's hard to, like, you know, be present for a moment like that because of how much is happening and, like, how overwhelming it was. But then, like, just watching the videos and pictures back, it was truly just, like, the happiest moment of my life.

[Ryan]

I could tell, too, when you called and you were smiling.

[Ben]

Yeah. You know, like, you could stop smiling for, like, the next three days.

[Ryan]

You still have.

[CJ]

Happy.

[Mike]

Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

That was exciting.

[Ben]

We were.

[CJ]

We were sitting at dinner. Ryan and I were actually with our girlfriends, eating dinner, and I knew that you were going to do this. I told Alex the night before, because I was like, all right, I think we're in the clear. I said, ben's gonna, you know, propose Greta here, like, either tonight or tomorrow, so I'm sure we'll get a call. And then I saw the group FaceTime call, so we all hopped in. But, yeah, you were beaming.

[Ryan]

Beaming, dude.

[CJ]

From cheek to cheek.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was. I was so happy I had mentioned that I didn't tell Ken for a reason. Right. So Ken is in Florida, hammered on a beach.

[CJ]

Three days straight at that point.

[Mike]

So.

[Ben]

So Ken is blacked out on a.

[Ken]

No, I was not blacked out.

[Ben]

Brown browned out. And the dude messages me at, like, 5:30 and just goes, is it done? And I'm like, like, damn it. Ken does know.

[Ken]

And you weren't very secret. You were, like, mildly secret.

[Ben]

I figured if I just didn't tell you, though, you wouldn't feel like you had information to share.

[Ken]

Did I snap you that or.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, you did. Yeah, you go around. You go, is it done? And I was like, no, doing it in an hour.

[Ryan]

I really wanted to ask because I'd been thinking about it since the moment that you left. I'm like, oh, shit, it's going to happen. I don't want to spill anything.

[Ben]

I appreciate that.

[Ryan]

I was nervous, too. I was just waiting for it to happen, but I didn't want to text you and be like, when's it happening? Like, why not? Yeah, exactly.

[Ben]

So I was like, no, it's happening in an hour, Ken. Well, I think over that next Hour. You know, Ken. It was still on Ken's mind, apparently. Who's he call? Carly. Greta's little. Greta's little sister. Like, dude, I. I grabbed Greta to, like, go and do it, basically. And I think, like, three minutes later, Ken calls Carly.

[Ryan]

Holy smokes.

[Ben]

And Carly answers the FaceTime. FaceTimes her. And Ken goes, did he do it?

[Ryan]

No.

[Ben]

Before that, he texted me, too.

[CJ]

And he goes, is it done?

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ben]

Ken, brother. And Carly's like, do what? And at that moment, like, my mom and dad walk in, and Cindy and Mark, Greta's parents, you know, it's all, like, happening. And Ken's on FaceTime for.

[Ken]

That was fantastic timing there.

[Ben]

They could not. Like, if it was three minutes earlier, Greta and her sister would have been, like, getting ready together.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And even if Greta didn't hear that, I don't think Carly could have kept the secret. I think she would have. She would have been so excited. She would have worn it on her face. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

I'd blame that on the, like, a hit.

[Ken]

I would blame that on the.

[Mike]

Can ever spell spills on the juice? It's always on the juice, Ken, you.

[CJ]

Were so happy, though. Like, you were calling everyone, everybody. And, like, when you were on the.

[Ken]

Juice, I had a few. Well, Ben, just to add one more thing to your story, you did also lose your car keys.

[Ben]

Yeah, so when I was. When. When I was getting to Big sky, we flew out there, and I was so worried about getting this ring through tsa. I didn't put a single thing in my backpack except for the ring box, because I was like, I don't want anything to flag tsa, to, like, pull my bag aside.

[Mike]

You were flying with Greta.

[Ben]

Yeah, Yeah, I was flying with Greta.

[Mike]

That went over my head the first time you told me that.

[Ben]

And so I was just like, you know, as soon as I get to the airport, it's like, all right, just get through tsa, Right. I'm just carrying my backpack with just a ring in it. Gets through TSA didn't get pulled aside. Thank God.

[Ryan]

That would have been a dick move on that guy. You might have pulled out if that would.

[Ben]

If that would have happened, I would have been like, pull me to the back room. Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

You would have had to. Hey.

[Ben]

Or yelled, yeah, like, he's got a knob.

[Evan]

There's a gun in my backpack.

[Ben]

And so, like, in the midst of all of that, though, I lost my car keys. Like, no, I lost Greta's car keys.

[Mike]

You never even put them in the back.

[Ben]

No idea oh, yeah, no idea. I was, like, so. Just hyper fixated on just getting through tsa. Like, got to the airport, locked her car, lost the keys immediately afterwards.

[CJ]

Were you nervous leading up, like, for days in advance?

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. I slept, like, though. Like, really two weeks.

[Mike]

I was gonna say. That's some I would do as a TSA agent. I'd, like, take it out and be, like, just so stupid. What is this? And you're like, put that back in the bag.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, I was super nervous.

[Mike]

Well, congrats, bro. It was.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was insane.

[Mike]

I mean, I honestly like, not knowing because then, like, when I did find out, it was a surprise, and I was really surprised.

[Ben]

Good.

[Ryan]

It was funny. The day that you showed me the ring, I, like, had something, you know me, I get worked up about that doesn't even matter, but I had this thing that I, like, needed to talk to you about. Like, a work thing. Right. I walk in here, like, 9:30 in the morning, and I sit down in your office. I'm like, all right, let's hash out this plan. And you're looking at me like, you're just glowing. You're just glowing. And I'm like, what the up with this kid today? And I, like, tell you the whole thing. I'm all nervous about, like, we got to get this figured out. You're like, no. Yep, we got it. And you. We work through it together, and I go, cool. And I leave, and you come in a few minutes later, you're like, hey, bro, check it out, or whatever. Oh, dude, I was so excited for you.

[CJ]

Yeah, I'm excited to see everyone's reaction to the ring. You, like, had filmed a few different ones.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Who'd you show first?

[Ben]

You?

[Ryan]

I was just the nearest, I'm sure. But still excited to see it first.

[Ben]

She likes the ring, thankfully.

[Ryan]

That's good.

[CJ]

How could she not?

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

No, I'm excited for you guys to, like, get to experience that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you really romanticized that. It, like, sounds really fun.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't know. It's just, like. I mean, it's a big decision to be made, which is obviously, you know, why we've been dating for nine years. It's not that I, like, didn't know. It's, like, I've always known. Right. It's just, like, a big decision, and I think a lot of people maybe just, like, rush into it or treat it as, like, that it isn't. And I think it is. I think it, like, deserves that weight. So I think you guys will get that same experience. And, Mike, you've had it, too. But it's just like, if everything goes right, it's like the happiest moment of your life. After I did that, I was like, I can't wait for you guys to experience the same.

[Ryan]

I'm sure our girlfriends can't wait to experience it.

[Ben]

Not to put the pressure on you.

[Ryan]

No.

[Ben]

Like, there's truly few things more annoying than other people trying to, like, dictate your relationship or, like, make that decision for you. So don't feel like, like the pressure's on, but, like, I don't know, you guys, I'm just excited for you. Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

Thanks, brother.

[Ryan]

Thanks, brother. We're so happy for you. We were sitting at dinner. It's like, oh, we were just all stoked.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Alex started crying. It's funny she even knew when she started crying.

[Ben]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah, she was, like, just happy.

[Ryan]

Well, it's because, like, you guys have been dryer, though, the whole time. Like, I mean, I remember the night that I first met Greta at the freaking Jake's garage, 11 years ago. You know, like, it's been my entire life. I feel like you guys have been dating and I'm older than you, so, like, I feel like that says a lot. So it's a big, big, cool moment.

[Ben]

That was the thing, too. Like, it was so long time coming.

[CJ]

How soon do you think till you guys have the wedding?

[Ben]

Dude, like that.

[CJ]

Not even a thought.

[Ben]

Like, the minute after it happened, Greta gets the next question, and her mom and her and my mother, they're already talking. All right, where are we doing this wedding? Who's in it? What? What? Like, what's the appetizers?

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[Ben]

I'm like, already?

[Mike]

Yeah, but, like, are you thinking, like, next summer or.

[Ben]

Yeah, probably.

[Mike]

Yeah, that makes the most sense.

[Ben]

Yeah, I told her, too. I was just like, look, you know, I have to make a lot of decisions on the daily of just, like, you know, everything that we're doing here. So I was like, I will try and help you as best I can. But I did. I did what I did. Yeah. And now. Now, you know, whatever you want for the wedding, these are your choices, and I support you.

[Ken]

It's perfect.

[Ryan]

That's like telling a guy when he drives on the car dealership. I don't care what car you get, baby. Get whatever you want. It's like the perfect answer to the.

[Mike]

Thing that right now.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

You're not contributing enough to the wedding.

[Ryan]

Oh, fuck.

[Ben]

Oh, did you set that? And I'm like, did you Set those that, like, president.

[Mike]

No, I guess I should have, but I'm like, the checkbook's got to be worth something.

[Ben]

Yeah. Money. Money.

[Mike]

But I'm just like. Because there's some things, like, if I were to really sit down and put a bunch of time into, I think she'd be like, yeah, let's do that. But if I just put, like, a normal amount of time into planning it, and then she's like, I don't love those. Here's what I was thinking. And I'm like, we should have just gone that route.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we just done that at the beginning.

[Mike]

But yeah, that's good that you prefaced it, because, I mean, that to me is like, the fun part. Like, the wedding is for both people, but the whole, like, vibe of the wedding is usually up to the woman. And it's fun to, like, be in a position to let them do that, you know, kind of have their way with it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Whatever color scheme, flowers, outside, inside, destinational.

[Ben]

Yeah, I think she'll do a great job planning it. I just told her. I was like, look, I just want to have, like, a little bit of say on, like, some key details. I, like, make it like my wedding too.

[Mike]

Right?

[Ben]

Yeah. Of like, I don't know, just like, different things. That's like some shit a seaboy would do at their wedding.

[Ryan]

Pranks during the wedding.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. One guest has to have an airbag underneath their.

[CJ]

And it happens to be the one guy who almost spoiled the proposal.

[Ken]

Didn't get spoiled, though. It was perfect timing, dude.

[Ben]

If Ken would have that up, like, the only thing you can do is laugh.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, it would have been like. That sounds about right.

[Mike]

Oh, my God.

[Ben]

But it wasn't.

[CJ]

He managed to be all the way across the country, and he still got his big mouth on it.

[Ken]

I was very excited for him. I was like, oh, he's doing it tonight. It's gonna be cool.

[Ryan]

What a nice twist.

[Mike]

Time zones you were in two times. I think it was like, time zones over.

[Ken]

It was like 10 or 11. It was pretty late when I was there.

[Ben]

I think it was 8:30, Ken.

[Ken]

Sun was well set when I was there.

[Ryan]

It was 8:40 at home, sort of in 9:46 in Florida.

[Ben]

All right, what do you do? Makes sense. Then you're off the hook.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think everyone, you know, of course, is looking. Who's going to get next. I'm. I think it's probably Ken coming in hot.

[Ben]

Well, Ken, I tell you what would speed it up for you if you bought that Car.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

So last week, a. That convert. That Continental popped up. And then I also was talked into considering a pontoon.

[CJ]

From who? You Motors?

[Ken]

Jill wasn't a factor.

[Ben]

You do not have a linking content.

[CJ]

What more could you want?

[Ken]

But a pontoon that friends can come with, so it's not just me alone.

[CJ]

Yeah, but you got space for monsters.

[Evan]

Your friends are telling you to buy a pontoon to drive them around in. Well, them to buy their own pon.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's ridiculous.

[Mike]

Super real note. That car is insane. And you could get. I know it still costs a good chunk of change, but you could get a $30,000 pontoon and be chilling.

[Ken]

Also true.

[Ben]

On a real note, you need that Lincoln Continental.

[Ryan]

You do.

[Evan]

You need the car.

[Ryan]

And also. I really don't want to say this, but I'm going to say it. Judging by that picture, it might be the ugliest pontoon I've ever seen.

[Ken]

It's a very.

[Ryan]

With my.

[CJ]

You don't like it, right?

[Ryan]

Have you seen it?

[CJ]

I thought it was nice.

[Mike]

I thought it was unique.

[Ryan]

Isn't it, like, fake wood?

[Ken]

No, it's genuine teak.

[Ben]

Oh, it's real wood.

[Ken]

It's real wood.

[Ben]

Oh, it's real wood. Let me see this.

[Ryan]

Okay. Yeah, pull. Pull her up.

[Mike]

I love that.

[Ben]

Yo.

[Mike]

Is that a super air? No, genuine.

[Ben]

Genuine teak.

[Ryan]

I thought it was fake wood on, like, a normal pontoon panel.

[Ken]

No, no. They send it off to, like, this. This old school. Like.

[CJ]

What's a school kind of company.

[Ken]

They don't make. They don't make them anymore.

[Ryan]

That makes. Oh, it's a collectible. Just like the Continental.

[CJ]

What year is it?

[Ken]

It's like a 15. It's.

[Ben]

Ken, there's so many pontoons out in the world you could buy, but there's only one Lincoln Continental that.

[Ryan]

We've already filmed the intro.

[Ben]

Yeah, we've already filmed the intro that's bagged out that we had to push back into the shop, push that thing home.

[CJ]

Very few test drives. Do you actually get to push the car back and then make an offer?

[Evan]

Maybe we should settle this with a coin toss.

[Ben]

No, don't leave it up. I don't want to leave it up to it.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Mike]

No, it's.

[Ken]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Like, look at the front of it. Doesn't it look like a fake sticker on some plastic?

[Ben]

What? Ken, you going to plan on wakeboarding behind this thing?

[Ken]

What's up with the.

[CJ]

Yeah, what's up with the tower?

[Mike]

Dude, Based on the price of it, I figured it happen how much is that thing?

[Ken]

Jill wants 75 for it.

[CJ]

I'd hate to pull a sail away from you motors, but.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. Someone else go buy this thing. So Ken can.

[Ken]

I don't know, Ken. I, I did put up a Snapchat. I did put up a Snapchat poll and I gotta go through and like, count them out. Because I, I put it up as.

[Ben]

Like boat or boat.

[Ken]

And then people responded with like, you.

[Evan]

Want to borrow my.

[Ryan]

I bet you 90 of them just say boat.

[Ken]

They do.

[Mike]

Trying to figure out how to collage 2.

[CJ]

Ken was drunk when he made that.

[Ken]

Post, thinking I was actually. And then I, I, I figured out how I could have done a different. Which would have been easier, but maybe.

[Ben]

Maybe do a new poll. Do a new poll. Post that poll right now.

[Ken]

Okay. There are a lot of people saying car.

[CJ]

Okay? The only thing is, I am worried.

[Evan]

That car don't say anything. Negative.

[Mike]

Maybe.

[Ken]

I don't know if it's gonna be the most reliable.

[Mike]

Stay on the Continental word.

[CJ]

It's overvalued. But I also think, I mean, we could put a motor in that. You could put a Hellcat in that thing. Some new axles and some brakes, and you're going to have a, A Hellcat swap linking Continental that can do burnouts.

[Ben]

Holy.

[CJ]

While you got the top down. And that is insane.

[Ken]

I, I'd say that car is right on the money for the condition that it's in.

[Mike]

Really? Okay.

[Ken]

It's, it's right in the, it's in the right ballpark.

[CJ]

Maybe I'm speaking for Too soon for the rest of the guys, but if you buy that Lincoln Continental and if you have motor problems, which I'm assuming you will because we had to push it back on the test drive, we're going to get it fixed up.

[Evan]

Up.

[CJ]

You know, you'll, you'll drive it for a while, pick up a bunch of chicks. It's got six seats in it. That's five extra girls you can have with you. We will pay for the Hellcat swap.

[Ben]

Okay, hold on, hold on.

[Ken]

All right, let me, Let me call the guy.

[CJ]

I'll buy the motor. Wait.

[Mike]

We'll fix it up. I. Then my brain just went to Coleman in my.

[Ben]

Hellcat, but I will back CJ up and say we will put a motor into.

[Ken]

CJ Said Hellcat.

[CJ]

I think Hellcat's worth it.

[Ben]

And we will be square.

[Mike]

We should just.

[Ben]

We will be square. It would be insane.

[Evan]

It's gonna be that convertible top. It's gonna be all bags, all that stuff.

[Ken]

I'll buy that car that the top will never be up.

[Ben]

All right, call the guy right now.

[Mike]

I guess I was just gonna say maybe not lock it in on a Hellcat, just in case there's other options there.

[Ben]

Yeah, we could maybe look into electric battery swapping it. Well, yeah, Ken, I don't know. You can't. Well, I was gonna say you can't pull up to Zorbas in a boat.

[CJ]

But you already got a boat, bro. You can't walk across the road. Convertible.

[Evan]

You could park right next to the door.

[Mike]

That's true.

[Ken]

Okay, well, we'll do. We'll do the car. I'll text JoJo.

[Mike]

Hey.

[Ben]

That's all it took.

[Ryan]

And that's why you keep good friends around you that make you buy the right thing.

[CJ]

Seriously, imagine that thing, you cruising in it. But now imagine it next summer with a Hellcat motor in it doing rolling burnouts. Like that thing would look insane at. Like a takeover, just drifting. Ken's in that thing. It doesn't even have seat belts.

[Ben]

Like, as you say, takeover.

[Evan]

I just envision him in the crowd with a car the size of a pontoon.

[CJ]

So square and flat and low to the ground. It'd be amazing.

[Ryan]

Imagine he turns to do a drift, but like the passenger side way, and he slides across this because there's no freaking bolster. It's just a bench.

[Ben]

Last time I. I watched Ken try and drift, he almost drifted his cyber truck into my Lamborghini.

[CJ]

Yeah, I was a foot away.

[Ken]

And I freaked out after that and I walked away.

[Mike]

Don't forget to freak out.

[Ryan]

That's the last time you went drifting.

[Ken]

When we get the drift track done. Dude, I drifted it. Barely did it. And then Jake did it way better.

[Ben]

I'm so fired up right now. Picture this everywhere we go and Ken pulling up in that Lincoln Continental and bagging it out.

[CJ]

Bro, people are gonna go nuts. When I showed my dad and both my grandpa's in a picture of it, they're like, holy, that thing's nice. Like, they're like, that's awesome.

[Ryan]

It's a collector. It's gonna go up in value, especially if you put a new motor in it. Dude, if you put a Hellcat motor in it, it's probably $140,000 car.

[Evan]

Yeah, you're gonna need like a cane and a properly monocle, like a little Mr. Peanut outfit or something to drive that thing around.

[Ben]

Ken, I. I don't think that there's a cooler car on the market that you could buy.

[Ken]

I know there isn't. Right now.

[Ben]

I think that one is so hellcat.

[CJ]

Motor, and it's gonna be viral.

[Evan]

Technically, the motor that's in it is bigger.

[Mike]

A bigger cubic engine.

[Ken]

I think it was like an 8 liter or something.

[Evan]

72 or 82 or something. Yeah.

[CJ]

How old?

[Ken]

1963. So 53 years old.

[Ben]

Damn, Ken. That car is going to be older than the moms riding in it.

[CJ]

Ken, did you have any moms hanging with you in Florida?

[Ken]

Yeah, there was a few moms down there.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

How'd it go?

[Ken]

I didn't realize Easter was such a big travel weekend. So all the resorts. And I was in Clearwater, all the resorts were just littered with children. And it was. It was like shoulder to shoulder kids in this pool just splashing all over the place. And I was like, oh. So we had to.

[Ben]

Nothing kills Ken's buzz like some kids splashing.

[Ryan]

So we did yelling, mom, mom. As he's trying to.

[CJ]

Yeah, I'm trying to talk to him.

[Ken]

We had to sneak into an adults only resort. Just.

[Evan]

Why did you have to sneak?

[Ken]

Just because we didn't. We didn't stay at that hotel. So you got to have the key card to get in, but we just kind of snuck in as other people are going in.

[Ryan]

Which one did you go to?

[Ken]

It's called the Opal.

[Mike]

That.

[Ryan]

The one with the pool where it looks overlooks. Yeah, I snuck into that one too.

[Ken]

So cool.

[Ryan]

Pretty easy to sneak into.

[Ken]

Well, you just like, literally reach over, push the crash bar, and walk in. Super nice.

[Mike]

Super an issue, huh?

[Ken]

They were so bad.

[Ben]

Did you bark at them?

[Ken]

No, but we're like, where is your. This one kid?

[Evan]

Like, where's your mother?

[Ken]

We're in this. We're in this, like, circle in the corner of the pool, and these two kids, like, swim in between us and just start splashing each other. We're like, where are your parents?

[Evan]

Damn kids having fun. Don't they have a TV or an iPad or something they should be sitting on?

[Ken]

Exactly.

[Mike]

Gosh. I was in church the other day, but it was on a Saturday there. We, like, got a new building. So there's all these kids there because they weren't running children's church or Sunday school or whatever. There's kids everywhere. But I wasn't picking up on that. So I'm like, trying to hear what the pastor's saying. And I was like, what is going on in here? I can't hear anything. And I'm like, there's kids everywhere. I'm like, they're all on their iPads. I'm like, what is going on? And then Sydney's like, yeah, isn't it kind of annoying when there's no children's church? I'm like, oh, that's what it is. They're normally not here.

[Ryan]

I remember Ken could be on his phone in church. I thought that was just the most badass thing.

[CJ]

Wait, what do you mean, Ken could be on his phone?

[Ryan]

I don't remember that.

[Mike]

But you just, like, your parents didn't get after you about it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, like, okay.

[CJ]

Was just scrolling on his phone the whole service.

[Ryan]

Well, you probably, to be fair, had like a freaking Motorola razor, you know, like playing Snake.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Clicking around.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That is so cool.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I was like, damn.

[Ben]

Doesn't look up from his phone. He walks in scrolling, sits down. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Mike]

You're playing on it?

[Ben]

Still scrolling.

[Mike]

They get done praying. Amen. Still playing.

[CJ]

What could you possibly be doing on your phone at that age, Ken? That is important.

[Ken]

Probably just playing whatever game they had on there.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it probably was just clicking around. There probably was no games, no nothing. Back when you open up the Internet and go.

[Ben]

What do you mean, open up the Internet?

[Ryan]

Like, on phones before iPhones, if you opened up the Internet and, like, it loaded, it costed $10. Yeah, Ken, look up some old rates of data. You should be like, 10 bucks for a megabyte.

[CJ]

You'd get like two megabytes for free a month. That's how I remember it. And then, like, you could easily burn through that. But the phone was so slow.

[Ryan]

What just happened?

[Ken]

Dude sent him a wire on Friday. No, I lost the car.

[Ben]

You lost the car and you lose.

[Ryan]

What the.

[Evan]

Well, I guess I'll take that Hellcat motor.

[Ben]

Well, that sucks, Ken.

[Mike]

Okay, I'm not.

[Ben]

We told you to just write the check when we were there.

[Ken]

Yeah, but it was like it died. And I was like, okay, I'll give him. I'll give him, like, a couple days and then I'll message him back. Because they were gonna, like, look at the motor and, like, have a shop. Was gonna look at it.

[Evan]

I told you there was another guy that.

[Ken]

Yeah, I know, but he was. Yeah, I know.

[CJ]

That sucks, man.

[Mike]

It does suck.

[Ken]

All right, I guess I have to get the boat.

[Mike]

Now you start thinking, oh, no, no.

[CJ]

No, no, no, no.

[Ryan]

We'll find another one.

[Ben]

Yeah, we'll find another one.

[CJ]

What if we bought you, like, another little pontoon to pull behind your pontoon so you could bring more people with you?

[Ken]

Like an even smaller pontoon?

[CJ]

Well, it's like a trailer but it's.

[Mike]

Like the mini pond maybe.

[Evan]

It's actually a really big pontoon. Yeah, it's kind of like.

[CJ]

But you stay in the capture town.

[Evan]

Little truck pulls around a big plane.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, it's just this. Yeah, it's just every platform, everyone's on.

[CJ]

The back just having a ton of fun, and Ken's just sitting there like, hug.

[Ben]

Driving, Towboating.

[CJ]

Sucks, man. Do we get to use the footage still? Like, I don't know. Does that even work?

[Ben]

What's the point?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, what's the point?

[Ryan]

Honestly? Let's just quit. Shutter the YouTube channel right now. Dude.

[Ben]

Ken, I think we got to find you another one.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Trailer.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You've only been looking for five years.

[Mike]

It was cool that it was local, but, like, with a car like that of that caliber, I think it'd be worth getting it anywhere in the country.

[Ryan]

Wait a minute.

[Mike]

Mexico?

[Ryan]

Just message the guy who just wrote a check and then write him a check for a bigger amount.

[Ben]

Yeah, a little bit of money.

[Evan]

That's an idea.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Figure out who bought it.

[Ken]

Money.

[Evan]

Make this. Blow some cash.

[Ben]

Say, hey, you looking to make some money on this?

[Ryan]

Give them 10 grand over. And just remember, next time that we tell you to buy something and not wait.

[Ken]

He also. He also text me that had a. There was an issue with the air ride.

[CJ]

That air ride system was jankity. Yeah, like, that wasn't the air ride.

[Mike]

I figured that'd be, like, the one dialed thing.

[Ben]

No, they redid.

[CJ]

The air ride is like, the most finicky thing.

[Mike]

Well, I agree with that. I just figured it was like a new.

[Ryan]

Yeah, New system.

[CJ]

You would have thought that system was new, like, 10 years ago, man.

[Mike]

Not the car for you. Wasn't meant to be.

[Ben]

Well, it's a good lesson learned.

[Ken]

Clearly. I just got a money mic and just send them while you're on the spot.

[Mike]

Questions asked. Minimal questions asked.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

See, Mike, don't want to piss them off by asking any questions about this expensive thing you're gonna buy.

[Mike]

Yeah, I just ask him. Did like it when you had it. Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

This guy's just annoying me.

[Mike]

Yeah, I liked it. Sick. I'll take it.

[Ken]

Ryan, to bring back to your question, in 2000, Verizon charged $24 for 2 gigabytes.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[CJ]

To run the Internet probably was less.

[Mike]

Oh, for sure.

[CJ]

Like, I remember gigabyte usage, so it's probably quite a bit back then.

[Ryan]

So I got to run you guys through a scenario here. Maybe ask, like, what you're going to do, because I'VE been put in this scenario a few times. You know, like, when you're out late drinking, you're at a bar, and somebody pees on the toilet. Like, you kind of just go, like, all right, there's now pee on the toilet. You don't clean it up, even if you pee on it a little more. A little splash.

[Mike]

I'm weird, because if I got to take a. I'm definitely cleaning it up.

[CJ]

That's not that weird. You would sit on it otherwise.

[Mike]

Yeah, true. No, you said hover.

[Evan]

You flip the top seat up, sitting, never even an option, and then you just hover. And it's surprising how efficiently you can crap if you're not.

[Mike]

I think over in Asia, like, they just hover. Yeah, they just hover.

[CJ]

I've been removed all the time, just hovering.

[Ryan]

So, like, obviously in that scenario, you can get away with, like, nobody knows it's you.

[Evan]

What I just thought of Ken having to hover. That's all.

[Ben]

Just that.

[Evan]

Sorry.

[Ryan]

It'd be. It'd be like a freaking, like, doing a plank.

[Evan]

That is a workout.

[Ben]

An eight minute squat.

[Ryan]

Ken's in there for hours, still 90.

[Ben]

Ken installs, like, a little grab bar. Before he goes in, he puts on, like, those hand wraps for your grip.

[Ken]

Where were you going with that, Ryan?

[CJ]

Yeah, Ken's like, come on now, let's keep this moving.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we need to install one at the Merch Barn, too.

[CJ]

For you, it's just a harness system.

[Ryan]

Like one of those sex rings.

[CJ]

He gets a harnessed up. Like, he's going zip lining.

[Ryan]

Foot straddles.

[Mike]

Holy.

[Ben]

That would be something.

[Mike]

That'd be possible.

[Ben]

Where.

[Ken]

Where are we going with this, Ryan?

[CJ]

You walk in. You walk in to, like, prank him. He's, like, all tangled up.

[Ben]

Oh, it's on a winch system. I can't breathe. He gets it. He gets it up all the way. The winch battery dies. He's stuck.

[CJ]

He calls Darius in, the merchandise man, warehouse manager. He comes in, gets him down.

[Mike]

There's a manual release. Do you want me to pull it? I think it'll drop you all the way, though.

[Ben]

Let's keep moving.

[Ken]

Let's. Let's keep this train going. Ryan, where were you going with that?

[Evan]

No, I'm not wiping the next guy's pee off the seat.

[Ryan]

So the problem is obviously in the bar, you're not gonna.

[Mike]

Unless you.

[Ryan]

Then you need the winch setup.

[Ben]

Where are you going?

[Ryan]

So anyway, I was at a. At a home, and there's, like, three, four girls there, and there's two or three guys. And there's only one bathroom.

[Mike]

Decent ratio.

[Ryan]

Yeah, not bad. And so you walk into the bathroom and there's like quite a bit of pee on the toilet seat. And it's. There's one bathroom in the house.

[Evan]

Is it a strong flushing toilet? Because sometimes water, if you don't shut.

[Ryan]

The lid will come back up.

[CJ]

Maybe Evan tries to use this defense after he pisses all over the toilet seat and someone calls him out. Oh no, I just flushed it and it flushes strong.

[Ryan]

This looked like a normal flushing toilet.

[Mike]

So you didn't want to walk out of that bathroom and have everyone.

[Ryan]

Exactly. So I go to the bathroom. Don't pee all over the toilet seat. But then I'm looking at this pee on the scene. I go, I leave. And then one of these girls comes in. They go, what the fuck? Ryan just peed all over the toilet seat and left it. I just like loaded up with some toilet paper and cleaned it up.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. I was like, damn, I would have done that.

[Mike]

I would have done that.

[Ryan]

It's kind of a weird situation to be in.

[Ken]

So who was in there before?

[CJ]

You have toilet paper is not that bad.

[Ryan]

No, I mean, it wasn't. That's what I did. I just have.

[Ben]

Who the hell isn't lifting the the seat when they're going to the bathroom?

[Ryan]

I'm not a seat lifter.

[CJ]

Who the hell is standing up when they pee?

[Ben]

You don't lift the seat. No, wait, you don't lift the seat?

[Evan]

Well, I hang past.

[Mike]

Sometimes I don't lift the shirt. And then if you.

[CJ]

That seems weird. That just seems like you're for sure gonna get some on there.

[Ben]

Like.

[Mike]

Yeah, then you just have to clean it up. I mean, you don't lift the seat either sometimes.

[CJ]

Holy.

[Ryan]

Guys, I'd never lift the seat.

[Mike]

I mean, hell, dude, if I'm like half asleep at night, I sit down to honest be to pee.

[CJ]

Well, yeah, that's normal.

[Mike]

I always end up with piss on the floor.

[CJ]

Especially if you kind of are like.

[Ben]

You know, you got a little bit of like. It's not sometimes.

[Mike]

It's always.

[Ben]

After about 15 years, I'm either sitting.

[Mike]

To pee or peeing on the floor.

[CJ]

Also, if you got kind of like a stiffy, it's like you can't really stand, so. Or it's even like partially so. Then you're kind of like, you gotta.

[Ryan]

So it's better to sit.

[CJ]

Yeah. Because then you just lean forward pressed.

[Ben]

Up against the porcelain then.

[Evan]

That's terrible. No, you just keep it on Your own toilet. You don't want that.

[Ryan]

I don't know. You sit back far enough to get crazy.

[Ben]

I think that's a crazy fact, Ryan.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ben]

Not lifting up the seat just seems like more work.

[Ryan]

Then you never forget it up.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's true.

[Ben]

If you're eight years old, you should.

[Mike]

Some people really get after you. I think I give it up.

[CJ]

I think I would say lazy. Are you, bro?

[Evan]

Nine out of ten times, I think I can pee through the seat without a single drop.

[CJ]

Well, the worst theory.

[Evan]

I said I'm closer to the seat than the rest of you guys.

[CJ]

I'm.

[Evan]

I'm right there. Maybe if I was 7ft tall, there'd be more room to make a mess.

[CJ]

When Ken's peeing, it's like a cannonball, dude, hitting the toilet.

[Ken]

That's why you just lift it. It takes half a second to lift it and then it's fine.

[Ben]

Don't be lazy.

[Evan]

Like, your dick or the seat?

[Ken]

I mean, the seat, but. Yeah, your dick too.

[Ben]

Don't be talking about Ken's dick on the podcast.

[Mike]

Dude, didn't we, like, title a whole podcast around.

[Ben]

Evan's mess?

[CJ]

Turns out it turns out it was Photoshopped.

[Ben]

Wide angled.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that was the secret part of it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

There's anyone here that doesn't know how to use Photoshop, it's me.

[Ben]

So did you ever. You ever get a computer?

[Mike]

No. What was he talking about getting?

[Ben]

He was talking about it for a while. He said.

[Evan]

I thought, yeah, nice.

[Ben]

And then I think we all said, why?

[Ryan]

What would you use a computer for?

[Evan]

Apparently Photoshopped my wiener, I guess.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Shopping for parts and stuff.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I don't know. I could see myself getting maybe like, the iPad set up. Like Mike got. Or spenny with. Got a little keyboard. But I don't even know how to type. Like, I'm.

[CJ]

Can you type like this or no?

[Ben]

You do this?

[Evan]

I mean, I did. I think he was going maybe sixth. Sixth grade, middle school. We had to take a typing class. I made it through that, but I've never had to use it since that class. Like, I remember being like a senior in high school and like, yeah, still pecking.

[Mike]

Really?

[Evan]

I think you get a little efficient. Like, I would say maybe I'm like a hybrid.

[CJ]

You were kind of like, yeah, two.

[Evan]

Hand and then maybe a couple fingers, but definitely not. Not looking at all.

[Ryan]

Not, like, parked on. I mean, ASWF or whatever where you're, like, locked in right here.

[Mike]

You're not.

[Evan]

It's like Right now, could any of you guys write, like a full paragraph incursive properly?

[CJ]

No.

[Ryan]

I can't even write my name in cursive. Goddamn.

[Evan]

Just because you don't use it. I don't know.

[Ben]

But yeah, Ryan never learned cursive. And his signature shows.

[Evan]

I mean, everyone knows their signature.

[Ryan]

Not really.

[Ben]

No. Ryan. I tried.

[Ryan]

I practice it, and I just black out and forget it.

[Evan]

Do you say, I want to see your signature?

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

I mean, it's on thousands of garments.

[Evan]

I think different every time it looks close enough.

[Ryan]

The Ryan is pretty good.

[CJ]

They're gonna bring Ryan's, like, in 20 years. They're gonna like, show up on Pawn Stars. Like, yeah, I have this Sea Boys hat signed by the Seaboys. And they're gonna be looking at and be like, well, the Ryan I work signature is really hard to tell because every single one is different. It looks like in this era, he was attempting at cursive.

[Ken]

But this is Orion from 2022.

[Ryan]

Like, the Ryan isn't bad, but I don't know how to do.

[Ben]

We R. Let me see the Ryan. Let me see the Ryan.

[Evan]

Nothing there resembles an art. I think most of it R looks good.

[Ryan]

Oh, down here.

[Evan]

Yeah, the low.

[Ryan]

But my R up here's pretty nice.

[CJ]

You can just kind of just not crisp.

[Ben]

Do you want to do the same.

[CJ]

Thing every time you're good?

[Ben]

Doesn't really matter. It doesn't really neat, like, as long as it's.

[Ryan]

No, I did this thing where they wrote it for me and, like, where they'll, like, someone will design you a signature. It's like online they design you a signature, but it was way too intricate. Like, I can't sign it on a hat.

[Evan]

Then you'd, like, get that. Then you'd trace it a lot of times.

[Ryan]

Yeah, like, full blown elementary school style.

[Mike]

Well, I didn't even switch. I just did it for like the meet and greet, AKA like, heydays. But I just signed Mike and it's like, so much better.

[Ben]

Hey, Mike.

[Mike]

So much faster money Mike.

[Ben]

Are you switching from Micah to Mike? No. You're pretty heavy on the knife. I never call you Mike anymore.

[Mike]

Never. I've literally never, ever asked anyone in my entire life to call me Mike. Even I've never really been like, Micah or Mike. You can call me either. I've only ever introduced myself as Micah, so, like, I'm just gonna keep rolling that. Whoever they want can call me Mike, which is pretty much everyone. But that's not my name.

[Ben]

Oh, you don't like it when people call You, Mike.

[Mike]

I do like it, but I'm. I'm not publicly. Like, I like being called Mike, so call me that. I just like it.

[Ben]

Clip it.

[Mike]

Okay. Tell us something we don't know.

[Ryan]

Well, that's part of having a nickname is you have to not like it.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. Part of it is like, yeah, you didn't choose.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you didn't choose it. It's just birthed upon you.

[Ken]

It's like you don't like it for many years and then eventually just sticks. When they stop calling you the nickname, it's like, oh, that's weird.

[Ryan]

Before you know it.

[Mike]

Yeah, if you push back on it, it doesn't help.

[Ken]

The more you push back, the more it's going to stick.

[Ryan]

Ken, what do we got to do for you to change your legal name to Ken?

[Ken]

That sounds like a disaster.

[Ryan]

I don't think it's that disastrous.

[Mike]

It's probably easier than setting up, like, an llc.

[Ryan]

And it's probably easier to do now before you continue to acquire more things like a Lincoln. Like, then you'd have to title before you get.

[CJ]

You might as well just surprise Ken by changing his name legally for him.

[Mike]

That would be awesome if we could do that.

[Ken]

No, no, I'm not gonna legally do that. There's enough stuff out there already that I'd have to switch and. Yeah, it just doesn't sound fun.

[CJ]

What if we change your middle name?

[Ken]

Same thing. Exact same thing.

[Ben]

What are you thinking?

[CJ]

I was thinking, like, in the middle, Ken Matthews. Then if you're in that Lincoln Continental, you know, the jfk. Now you got kfm.

[Ryan]

Kfm.

[Ben]

Ken's other friends are trying to change his name now, actually, from Ken.

[Ryan]

What are they trying.

[Ben]

They're trying to hijack Ken's. Ken's nickname to what? Greg. Greg.

[Ken]

I don't know where that came from.

[Ben]

They just are like, well, is like, what the hell is going on? My new nickname wasn't good enough, so now I have a new one.

[Ryan]

Why Greg?

[Mike]

I think they're just kind of curving you back towards.

[CJ]

Picked it up, too, and just started calling him Greg everywhere. It's like, well, guess I'm Greg now.

[Ben]

What the hell are we gonna do with all this?

[Mike]

No can do merch?

[CJ]

No. Greg.

[Mike]

Dude.

[Ryan]

Oh, here comes Greg in his Continental.

[CJ]

Greg.

[Ben]

Honestly, I kind of. I kind of like. I kind of like Greg.

[CJ]

Hey, Greg. What was his name before? Greg?

[Ben]

How good is it gonna feel when Ken introduces himself in front of. In front of us is Greg?

[Ken]

Eventually, I'm just gonna have enough, enough, enough nicknames. Where I can say any word and it's just fine.

[CJ]

We're at some kind of thing where we gotta speak in front of a bunch of people when Ken goes like, yeah, my name's Ken, we should all stop. Like, his name's Grant. Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't know what, what, why you.

[CJ]

Say your name's Ken, dude, and then just totally switch on him.

[Ben]

I personally, I think Greg is great.

[Ryan]

It's nice, it's symmetrical. Mike Howell. Greg looking designs pretty good.

[Mike]

I think we could do good on this. It doesn't flow like no can do. But that's just a call for a whole new slogan.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, Greg will do it.

[CJ]

Greg will do it. And then we'll have like a picture of him with like a muscle. Like, like, you know, Popeye free.

[Ryan]

High five. If you call Ken Greg when you.

[Ben]

See him, Ken is like, I sit behind this desk for a reason. You guys need to focus on yourselves.

[CJ]

Wait, so why are they calling you Greg?

[Ken]

I was very drunk and I don't.

[CJ]

Remember why he started calling you Greg.

[Ken]

I think I was, I was carrying around a wine glass at that point, just walking around the hotel.

[Ryan]

So Greg.

[Ben]

Everyone listening right now? I was like, okay, He's getting up, he's walking out.

[CJ]

Ken would never wear those pants, but Greg would.

[Ben]

I think he's trying to get a.

[Evan]

Head start on us and make sure his toilets don't disappear.

[Ryan]

Now that was a Ken thing to do. Greg. I saw something of a. Of a quad guy saving the day. Ev, you might kind of like this on a street ride too, actually. Which is the most miraculous one of.

[Evan]

Him running into the quad guys do.

[Mike]

Save the day on bike rides.

[Ben]

Oh yeah.

[Evan]

Quad guys actually are very valuable bike life assets though.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Evan]

Not the factory, they said Yamaha.

[Ken]

Just cuz they're the first one to get pulled over.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Clean getaway.

[CJ]

What?

[Ben]

Oh my God. We have that same yfc.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, and then they start wheelieing.

[Ryan]

Dude, how crazy is that though, bud? Loops the bike and then the cop, no lights, no nothing, runs into him.

[Mike]

I've seen like, where the quad guys really do come through.

[Ryan]

Dude, that guy sacrificed himself. He was only like 6ft away and he's riding in a bike lane. I feel like I gotta get back.

[Evan]

I was just gonna say, can you just surprise us one day and show up with a, with a brand new quad?

[Ryan]

I was kind of always hoping that like I would get a surprise, you know, I mean like Ken gets so mad, like, whatever, you know, I was like hoping maybe one day you'd I'd get to come in, everybody smiling, and they'd, you know, everybody kind of look at you. Okay, put the blindfold on. You go, oh, what's gonna happen? Then? You walk in.

[CJ]

You just expect everything to be handed to you.

[Evan]

You need to buy the brand new quad so we can put a Coleman.

[Mike]

In it for you. Oh, my God.

[Evan]

That's how the surprise.

[Mike]

Pretty much every time I see a fresh Raptor, I'm like, I just think.

[Ben]

That, Mike, you should buy it for Ryan for his best man.

[Mike]

I think I want to surprise everyone.

[Ben]

With new dirt bikes. That's in your way.

[Mike]

I think I'm going to surprise Big. Not big wrench. Gavin. With a torque converter.

[Evan]

I actually support that. It is brutal.

[Mike]

I'm down.

[Evan]

Our mechanic has the worst running pickup in the fleet.

[Mike]

His torque converter, like, to be honest with you, I don't really know what it does. I don't know what a torque converter does, but it makes the truck shake really bad at 60 plus miles an hour.

[Ben]

That is one of those.

[Mike]

I forget what.

[Ben]

I wasn't expecting that money might go soft.

[Mike]

I wish I could surprise Cody Sherbrooke with the dirt bike and then also, like, probably get him to contractually sign. Like, I'm gonna not molest this.

[Evan]

I thought you're gonna say, don't sell. I'm like, no, just don't.

[Ben]

Just don't.

[Ryan]

Don't touch it.

[Ben]

Yeah, you can't wrench on it.

[Mike]

Wrench on it.

[Evan]

Anytime you want to work on it, you come on.

[Ken]

I'll change the oil for no aftermarket accessories.

[Mike]

Yeah, and I would love to buy Ryan a raptor.

[Ryan]

I see, Mike.

[Mike]

700. Dude, not a 660.

[Evan]

One of them new green ones.

[Ryan]

I think we're one year away from it being 10 years since my other one. So, like, it could be an anniversary edition.

[Ben]

We got to get you back on the quad.

[Evan]

Six months, they should drop.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, we have a couple, like, in the garage that you could ride.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. It's just their yfz. It's just not the same as the Raptor, you know, no reverse.

[Evan]

They're not narrow and tippy.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. They're not worse in almost every other way. I got it on the Stark one. That was actually pretty fun.

[Ben]

You did.

[Evan]

That was actually very refreshing.

[CJ]

The Stark's the best one, dude.

[Ryan]

It is.

[CJ]

That's better than anything you can buy.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That is literally the best ever. At least for wheelies and jumping.

[Evan]

Yeah. But I mean, it kind of. When we took it out to the dunes and stuff.

[CJ]

We're okay there. But, yeah, this could have a broken radiator.

[Evan]

Fair enough.

[Ben]

Last week, we dropped our first cheap car challenge video. If you guys haven't seen it, go and watch it. It's part one and part two. The second part is coming out this Thursday. But are we going to talk about how Ryan just completely fucked me over and just threw the race? Just make me look like an absolute idiot?

[Mike]

It's funny because, like, I didn't have any clue that he was doing that. And then when he came back and said that he was doing that, it's pretty funny, right?

[Ben]

I will give it to you. It is hilarious. And I don't think that you needed to do that to make me look like a worse driver. Like, I don't think that.

[Ryan]

It was a nice touch, wasn't it?

[Ben]

It was a nice touch. Yeah, it was definitely a nice touch. I guess those that don't know. We ended the first video, part one, with a. A race around the track with our three cheap cars. And the first place was Ryan. Second place was Evan. Third place was me. And the loser had to spend the night camping while first place got, like, the nicest hotel and the best dinner in town, right? It was great.

[Evan]

But after about second place, we got some McDonald's.

[Ben]

Second place got McDonald's in a motel. But. But after we did the race, the guy that, like, kind of got us under the track was like, he's just kind of just big dick in me, where he just thought I was just such a bad driver, where he was just like, oh, I could. I could win in your car. Because I was just like, dude, my car is so slow. Like, there's no.

[Ryan]

Nothing you can do.

[Ben]

No chance I could have won. Like, I was in the back from the. The jump of the beginning, and, like, the first chance I had, I was going to try and hit Evan, like, pit him out, right? It wasn't. We weren't racing at all. Like, it was not like, switch. It wasn't up to the driver, or at least I thought it wasn't. And so the dude was just like, I could. I could beat Ryan, like, in your car. And I was like, what do I have to gain by doing this, right? Like, Ryan either wins and I don't look like a bad racer, or you win, and then I look even worse. And everyone's like, yeah, let's run it. Let's run it. And then Gavin. Gavin actually was getting pressed because he's like, we don't have anything to gain by doing this. He's gonna just ruin our car. We have to use his car for the next week.

[Ryan]

Honestly, it was a valid concern. Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah. And everyone's like, run it, run it. Just could not wait for me to look like a terrible driver. And then, sure enough, on the. On the back side of the track, couldn't see it. Ryan waves them by. The dude comes in the front. Ken's, who's my teammate, could not stop laughing because he was the first one to see it.

[Ken]

I just. I could not believe. I could not believe that dude came out in the front. It was like, oh, my God. This is so, so amazing.

[Evan]

Let's not forget about the hundred dollars. It made me.

[Ben]

Yeah. And it made Evan $100 richer, which I'm glad that it was a hundred dollars, because I initially bet in 5,000. Whoa.

[CJ]

Whoa.

[Ben]

That's how confident I was in this car, not being able to beat you. I was like, this thing sucks. There's zero chance. And thankfully, Evan didn't take that bet, which was crazy, because we just spent the last, like, three days in Vegas, and Evan, like, just for the money we would allow it was.

[Evan]

It was throwing off the whole team dynamic of the whole challenge. That's why I didn't do it. If it was strictly a money, money bet, I probably would have gambled. But you were throwing all these curveballs in, and I'm like, oh, no, no.

[Ryan]

The only thing I messed up is I forgot to let him pass me twice so I could fake it and then show you the clip of him passing me. So it kind of spoiled it.

[Ben]

It was almost. I. I knew it was just too good to be true. But, yeah, the guy comes across the finish line in first, and Ken is just loving.

[Ken]

I couldn't believe that car somehow made it around the track that fast. And once again, it clearly was fake.

[CJ]

But I hate to say. I hate to break it to you, but it was completely real. We didn't even set that up because there's nothing. There's no footage of us being like, hey, Ryan's gonna throw the race. It just. He was going hard.

[Ben]

I mean, you can see Ryan wave him by. Could you?

[Ryan]

I don't know. I guess it depends how much you.

[Ben]

See Ryan put his hand out the window and wave him.

[CJ]

No, we did up not telling the camera that Ryan was going to throw the race.

[Mike]

That's all you really have?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I kind of just, like, thought about it when I was heading out. I was like, it'd be way funnier.

[Ken]

If it really.

[Ben]

Afterwards, I was like, holy, I suck. I was like, God, I suck. What do I. Why do I even try?

[Ryan]

There is. I can't remember who says it. Brian Scotto says driving a slow car fast is more fun than driving a fast car fast. And driving on that track, those slow cars fast was so fun. It was more fun on doing that track day. Maybe. I guess not for you. Maybe yours sucked too much. But it was more fun than driving, like, our supercars.

[CJ]

Really? Yeah.

[Mike]

Holy.

[Ryan]

I mean, because you weren't really worried about piling them up and, like, you couldn't drive so fast that you were terrified of, like, what was happening. Like, worst case, you just squeal some tires and slide off.

[Evan]

I was terrified my brakes were gonna light on fire.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, yours were.

[Ken]

Freakers. Did get hot.

[Evan]

They just smelled so bad. I've never smelt that much breaks.

[Ryan]

Crown Vic was fine, obviously.

[Ben]

Yeah. Ryan was just having the time of his life.

[Evan]

I just remember how giddy CJ was when he came up to me to inform me that he put a little word into the driver.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah. It was partially my idea for Ryan to throw it. I was like, dude, just let him win. It'll be even funnier.

[Ben]

Yeah, those jokes, though.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude, that whole video, I can't believe that was only half of it. Have anything set in stone on your El Camino?

[Ryan]

What?

[Mike]

Mexican ot?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Hell, yeah.

[Evan]

Well, I mean, I think it's set in stone.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I just figured I want to speak it into existence here because I really want to see that happen.

[Evan]

Apparently, like, the first week of August, Mexican OT is playing a concert in Fargo, and they want the El Camino as a stage prop.

[CJ]

That's sick.

[Ben]

As Dog said.

[Evan]

Could hook us up with a little meet and greet and a VIP table for the concert.

[CJ]

Let's go.

[Ben]

That's lit.

[CJ]

Who hit you up next?

[Evan]

You know, T actually Brandon, because he knows the promoter, and the promoter is in charge of, like, just have having it ready. I'm sure the Mexican OT has no idea about any of this. Still seems legit that the promoter is looking for a car to have on the stage. So I'm like, it seems legit if.

[CJ]

You stat in the car the whole time.

[Evan]

I'm with the window now I'm thinking about hiding in there at least long enough to jump out. Even if security tackles me, it'll be.

[Ben]

You should be in, like, a little underwear.

[CJ]

When you hop out, pop the trunk. You pop the trunk.

[Mike]

There you go.

[Ben]

Yeah, that would be hilarious.

[Evan]

Harness jump out of the truck.

[Ken]

Start that Thing up, like halfway through and start revving it.

[Mike]

You should put some hard tunnel cover on it.

[Evan]

It's on it right now.

[Mike]

Oh, hell yeah. That's literally so cool. And then Evan was saying how he's thinking about kind of not changing it a bunch, but undonifying it and making it a little more drivable. Now you can.

[Evan]

Now it has to happen after.

[Mike]

Of course. It's gotta look sweet.

[Ben]

Look, if you.

[CJ]

If it wasn't donked out, you'd never get an opportunity like that like this.

[Evan]

Also true. It would be fun to have a car that performs just a little bit.

[Ryan]

You might have to buy another type of vehicle. I don't know if the el camino was ever known for performing a big.

[Evan]

Motor in a straight line.

[Ryan]

That's true. Yeah.

[Ben]

I think it just needs an LS in it in a cam. You see that thing just shaking?

[Evan]

It does have a cam in it. Does look bigger.

[Mike]

Yeah, it sounds good, actually.

[Evan]

No, it needs like a turboed six.

[Mike]

Liter, where we have a six liter going in the original red miata, but.

[Evan]

It'S blue now, so I still don't understand.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah.

[CJ]

We got a red one to replace the red one. Now we got red and blue. I kind of like the blue better in the red.

[Evan]

I mean, I like them both because it's fresh paint. It looks better than the old one. But I. I was just so in love with the OG Miata. I think I just had a little bit more of a bond with it, maybe, for sure. So I was just really saddened to see it just is no longer what it was.

[Ryan]

Well, I have to get you one of these hats, but in blue and some blue atne. We all capped off again.

[Mike]

I got my drift car back. Just got a tune spun like 10 laps. It was so far from overheating, and I didn't start on fire.

[Ken]

I almost don't believe it.

[Ryan]

Kind of lame.

[Mike]

I had to quit because my entertaining.

[CJ]

Four years later and she's finally running.

[Mike]

She's good to go. Like, really good to go. Like, it feels almost too easy. I was fighting it before. I don't know.

[Ryan]

I'm excited now watching that video that you sent. Like, the entry speed was actually. I looked to see if it was you driving or Jake driving because it looked really good.

[Mike]

Well, I rarely even went into second gear before. And now that's just like you just ride second. Yeah.

[Ben]

Congrats, Mike.

[Mike]

Thanks.

[Ben]

Been a long time coming.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

All right, I think that's a wrap, boys.

[Ryan]

Good stuff. Funny congrats. Benny.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Ryan]

Congrats, Mike.

[Ben]

That was a funny pod, wasn't it, Ken?

[Ken]

First half was great.

[Mike]

It was like a serious emotional roller coaster with you. Literally. Solidified. Yes. I'm buying that car to. Never mind. I'm not.

[Ben]

And I think you should keep looking.

[CJ]

You already got a pontoon.

[Ken]

There'll be more that pop up.

[Ryan]

Yeah, more pontoons. Yeah.

[Ben]

Okay. There we go. Subscribe if you haven't, boys, and we'll see you next week later.