How Ken Flirts, The Making of Quad, & Moving Back In With Our Parents

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Life Wide Open with CboysTV
Episode: "How Ken Flirts, The Making of Quad, & Moving Back In With Our Parents"
Date: December 16, 2025
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah, Justin, Mike

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Episode Overview

This lively, loosely-structured episode captures the CboysTV crew in their element—hanging out in an ice house during their "second annual fishing podcast." The conversation ranges from betting mishaps and unexpected home disasters to the birth of Ryan’s alter ego "Quad", wild stories about family and friends, and very questionable flirting tactics by Ken. True to form, the group serves up plenty of laughs, pranks, inside jokes, and stories from behind the scenes of both their daily lives and their content creation process.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ice House Antics & Aggressive Conversations ([03:13-05:59])

• The guys reflect on how conversation gets especially wild in the ice house, with Justin remarking:

  “I think the conversations we had before the cameras turned on prove that point.” ([04:37])

• Banter revolves around aggressive group chats, signing skateboards, and a hilariously inappropriate road trip with Justin’s grandpa.
• Notable Quote:

  "He started the conversation. Well, it doesn't mean you have to carry it on at an accelerated rate of the aggressiveness..." – Justin ([06:08])

2. Gambling Gone Wrong: The $5,000 Vikings Bet ([07:28-12:19])

• Justin and CJ share the story of betting $5,000 (combined) against the Vikings, rationalizing that they’d either win money or be happy if the Vikings won.
• The Vikings crushed the Commanders 31-0, and Grandpa Ron was delighted, only to be let down when told about the real bet.
• Memorable Moment:

  "We put it on the Commanders, and he literally looks at us and goes, 'You guys couldn't be more stupid.' And it just goes silent." – Justin ([12:17])

• CJ attempted to recoup his losses by betting on the Eagles but failed, compounding his bad luck.

3. Mold Disaster & Moving Back Home ([13:10-17:03])

• CJ’s house is found to be loaded with black mold, forcing him and his girlfriend to move out.
• This contributes to a running joke: "Three out of six Seaboys living in their parents' basements" ([15:24])
• Ken, now living back with his parents, walks into his folks fighting over Christmas ornaments, making for a painfully relatable return:

  “I walk in the door and they’re fighting about Christmas ornaments … I just brought my stuff down to my room and shut the door.” – Ken ([15:53])

4. Ken’s Temporary Living (Boathouse, Plumbing Needs, and Toilet Incidents) ([17:18-22:27])

• Ken considers alternative living arrangements, including his boathouse, but asserts,

  “As long as there’s a toilet, I can shower at the shop or the gym ... literally just a toilet and I’m good, bro.” ([17:18])

• A hilarious segment about Ken “rifling down the stairs” to the bathroom, and the aftermath.
• The discussion evolves into technicalities of using buckets vs. real toilets for a more "civilized" life on the water.
• Running Joke: Ken’s bathroom exploits and the elusive search for a tolerable living situation.

5. Dad Life, Team Dynamics, and Grind Culture ([22:09-29:44])

• Mike reflects on being a father, night shifts, and the unexpected joy (and exhaustion) of caring for a baby.
• The group discusses warehouse work ethic, giving props to team members like Darius and Damien for pulling brutal holiday hours ([26:13-28:36]).

6. The Birth of QUAD: AI, Karaoke, and Going Viral ([29:46-45:47])

• The group orchestrates a prank to make Ryan perform as an invented rock star alter ego "Quad" at karaoke.
• Using AI, they generate a custom rock song (“Hummerheart") for Ryan to perform—having never heard his actual singing voice before.
• Notable Lyrics Read:

  “I got a hummer heart, loud from the start, roaring like an engine when the music hits hard…” – Quad Lyrics, Ryan ([44:32])

• Ryan is a hit (with a suspiciously young fanbase), and the Cboys are highly entertained by both the performance and the AI songwriting process.
• Standout Quote:

  "I just blacked out after my performance.” – Ryan ([29:59])

7. How Ken Flirts: The Greg Incident & TV Destruction ([46:03-68:05])

• The group exposes Ken’s drunken alter ego “Greg,” revealing tales of destructive flirting—namely, blackout drop-kicking a TV at a girl’s house "so he could buy her a new one."
• Cody (Ken’s brother) calls in to confirm and expand on Greg’s antics, including flipping her furniture and shutting off the water the year before.
• Key Exchange:

  "Ken's version of flirting is just going into a chick’s house and just destroying everything." – Justin ([67:01])

8. Random Stories, Drift Car Purchases, and Reckless Pranks ([70:14-78:08])

• Ben details his impulse purchase of another drift Corvette and the merits of winter tire smoke.
• Evan’s KTM dirt bike explodes after a five-minute chase on the ice ([77:06]).

9. Handshakes, Group Dynamics, and Social Anxiety ([78:08-82:09])

• Ryan shares that there are “too many handshake options” for guys and recounts frequent social awkwardness.
• The group jokes about replacing handshakes with group hugs for efficiency—an idea that quickly devolves into typical Cboys absurdity.
• Ryan’s Hot Take:

  “Take less handshake options for men!” ([81:47])

10. Meeting Buddy Rocket Man: Stuntman Legends & Bizarre Home Tours ([82:02-92:02])

• The crew visits "Buddy Rocket Man," whose father was a legendary Hollywood stunt coordinator.
• Buddy’s house is full of rockets, chrome, a heart-shaped Jacuzzi, and a pool (sans water).
• Buddy’s dad shows home-movie stunts from the '80s-'00s, claiming “not a single person got hurt.”
• The crew compares past stunt culture to today, reflecting on how skill and risk used to matter more than marketing.

11. Final Ice House Reflections & Classic Sea Boys Gross-Outs ([92:32-End])

• Less fishing, more chilling—no one catches a fish, but the crew reminisces about old challenges, like the legendary minnow shot (swallowing a live minnow with a shot of Fireball).
• Ken adamantly refuses a repeat minnow shot (“No, I’m not just eating a minnow, that is disgusting.” – Ken, [96:11])
• The episode closes with the usual ribbing, overalls critiques (“Ken, you have severe moose knuckle.” – CJ, [95:52]), and yet more calls for everyone to “just do a minnow shot.”

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On Betting Against Hometown Teams:

  “You guys couldn’t be more stupid.” – Grandpa Ron ([12:17])

• On Pranking Within the Group:

  “I don’t know if people experience the feeling of knowing you’re about to be fucked with as much as us.” – Ryan ([32:00])

• On Ken’s Flirting Style:

  “Ken’s version of flirting is just going into a chick’s house and just destroying everything.” – Justin ([67:01])

• On AI-made Rock Stardom:

  “I got a hummer heart, loud from the start, roaring like an engine when the music hits hard…” – Ryan as Quad ([44:32]) “Live grenade with a good dude’s heart is a bar.” – Mike ([45:08])

• On Living with Parents Again:

  “I walk in the door and they’re fighting about Christmas ornaments… I just brought my stuff down to my room and shut the door.” – Ken ([15:53])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:13] – Episode officially starts, ice house banter
• [07:28] – $5,000 Vikings bet story
• [13:10] – CJ’s black mold house disaster
• [15:24] – Ken moves back in with parents
• [17:18] – Boathouse/plumbing/toilet stories
• [29:46] – Karaoke, AI, and the birth of Quad
• [46:03] – Ken destroys a TV / Greg alter ego
• [70:14] – Drift car impulse buy / snow drifting
• [78:08] – Handshake analysis / group hug debate
• [82:02] – The Buddy Rocket Man house adventure
• [92:32] – Minnow shot, overalls, and classic Cboys gross-outs

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The episode is classic CboysTV: irreverent, rapid-fire, and full of both wild stories and self-deprecating humor. It’s packed with memorable group dynamics—nonstop teasing, inside jokes, and the sense that nobody escapes the group’s pranks or grilling. Despite the chaos, their camaraderie and authenticity shine through, whether recounting lost bets, recounting parenting struggles, or launching a new rock star alter ego powered by AI.

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Best For:

Fans who love the Cboys’ blend of storytelling, pranks, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans, or anyone looking for a glimpse inside the creative and slightly unhinged world of YouTube’s favorite Northwoods crew—even if you have no intention of slurping a live minnow.

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[End of summary.]

Transcript

[Justin]

Dude, we just found out Ryan was like an Insane hit with 15 Year Old Girls. Ken, I heard you kick the TV the other day.

[Ken]

I was hoping that wasn't gonna come out.

[CJ]

You could clog her toilet and then do her plumbing for her.

[Ryan]

This is how Ken flirts. My hot take is there's too many handshake options for guys just eat the minnow.

[Ken]

No, I'm not just eating a minnow. That is disgusting.

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[Ryan]

I'm gonna need to disrobe.

[Evan]

Hey, yo.

[Mike]

We just got started.

[Ken]

I was expecting something a lot more special than a regular sweatshirt when you said that.

[Ben]

All right, well, while Ryan disrobes, I'm going to bring us in. Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast on Thin Ice, Boys.

[Justin]

We're back. This is the second annual fishing podcast.

[Ben]

And I believe last year when we did this, this ice house is not like a permanent. It doesn't have hard walls, and it was freezing. And it's feeling much better in here today, boys.

[Ryan]

It was 20 below last year, but it is a legitimate snowstorm this year. We've gotten probably at least six inches. Six inches of snow. And six inches is way too much.

[Mike]

That's a lot.

[Ryan]

That's way too much than anybody would ever need.

[Justin]

Six inches more than we had all last year. I think it's looking promising for being a snowy winter, boys.

[Ryan]

It is looking pretty good.

[Ben]

So good we do for it.

[Mike]

We're supposed to get a foot tomorrow.

[Justin]

No, that was a blatant lie.

[Ken]

Yeah, I was trying to find where you reaction. Trying to find where you saw a foot. I went through a couple different apps and I was like, there is nowhere saying a foot.

[Ryan]

I know this is going to be kind of hard, but I feel like when you're in the ice house, the most crazy conversations happen because with the exception of the whole podcast thing, you think no one is listening.

[Justin]

Yeah, no, I think. I think we've already proven that.

[Ken]

I'm pretty sure the first five minutes.

[Ryan]

Of us being Jesus, the propane fumes are what makes it good.

[Ken]

That's what I was trying to prevent.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's the key, is you just need to get. Have too much carbon dioxide in the air.

[Cody]

Yep.

[Ken]

You're trying to, like, asphyxiate yourself slightly.

[Justin]

I think the conversations we had before the cameras turned on prove that point. Right.

[Ryan]

Straight to jail, at least, hopefully before the cameras.

[Justin]

Ryan just kept saying telling to bounce on it. Bounce on it.

[Ryan]

Dude, that's not a direct quote.

[Evan]

That's not a direct bounce on it.

[Ken]

I Heard that.

[Ben]

I think about that we have like, there's certain instances when the conversations just get really aggressive. One would be when we're like all collectively signing stuff. Like when signing the skateboards, we're all just sitting at a table together for a couple hours and the conversations gets pretty aggressive. When we're changing wheels, we really get into it, hey, like, would you rather type stuff or like what would you do if.

[Justin]

Dude, I'll tell you an example of some aggressive conversations. And it was two days ago when me and CJ took my 83 year old grandpa Ron to a Vikings game and we brought with Dalton to film it the shit he was saying.

[Ryan]

Which one? Grandparon or Dalton? I'm still confused.

[Justin]

Saying to my grandpa, like jail time. Let me say it was like the most aggressive. Like you're going to have to be half of this shit. But like I can. I pulled her all at the same time, like saying that shit to my.

[Ben]

Grandpa and he was scared.

[Justin]

No, Grandpa Ron started it.

[Ryan]

He started it.

[CJ]

He started it. And I was just telling my half of the story. He started this whole conversation.

[Justin]

I mean as an 83 year old unhinged man, it's hard to blame him for your.

[CJ]

He started the conversation.

[Justin]

Well, it doesn't mean that you have to carry it on at an accelerated rate of the aggressiveness of what you were saying. It got to the point it was so bad where it, it ended actually with even my grandpa going, jeez.

[Ben]

He sat back.

[Ken]

Ben sent one snap of what you were saying and I was like, how did this conversation even start?

[Justin]

Oh, that was the whole, that was the whole road trip down there. The entire time at the Vikings came and then the entire road trip.

[Evan]

Oh, this was for hours.

[Justin]

Yes, it was the whole day. All I was saying, one split second that I caught on camera.

[CJ]

The dad lore is going to go crazy. The dad lore is going to go absolutely insane. Just like his does. That's how it got brought up.

[Justin]

Justin is not making the most like sexual no shot of all time to an 83 year old man.

[Mike]

I'm just the dad.

[Evan]

Lord.

[CJ]

Like, like the stuff that you've done before you came to be a dad and then you tell your kids you ain't going to.

[Ken]

You're going to tell your kids that.

[Ben]

You were talking about you have to come to be a dad.

[Ken]

Technically.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that is.

[Ken]

Yeah, technically you do have to come and then you can be a dad. Potentially.

[Ryan]

I knew it was to happen. I knew it was going to happen. It's getting western.

[Justin]

So yeah, it was Some aggressive. But that was actually not the dumbest thing that happened at the Vikings game, which was me and CJ bet $5,000 on the commanders to.

[Evan]

You bet against the Vikings, bro.

[Justin]

All right, let me. Let me explain how this goes.

[Evan]

I'm happy for you.

[Justin]

Let me explain how this goes. I'm on my way to the shop. It's like, six in the morning. Me, cj, Dalton. They're about to go down to the Vikes game. Grandparents coming. We're fired up. And I'm like, Yo, CJ, I got this idea. Let's both put up 2,500 bucks and put it on the Vikings, have a little sweat. And if we win, if the bet hits, we give Grandpa all the money.

[Ryan]

Oh.

[Justin]

And. And he. And he just goes, brother, I am not betting on the Vikings. And I go, which, dude? Aren't they valid? Yeah, it is, but I go, aren't they favored to win? And he was like, doesn't matter. They'll disappoint you every time. I'm not betting on the Vikes.

[Mike]

I mean, he wasn't wrong.

[Justin]

And so I go, do you think it's a lock on the Commanders? And he goes, yeah. I go, all right, let's put the money on the Commanders then. And then we look at each other, and we're like, oh, this is pretty funny. It is. This is pretty funny.

[Ben]

Entertainment value high.

[Justin]

Yeah. We were like, all right, we bet on the Commanders to win. If they do win, Grandpa's gonna be bummed. But then we're gonna be like, here's the money. If they lose, we'll just be stoked because the Vikings won. That was our mentality.

[Ben]

Right.

[Ryan]

That kind of makes sense. The fact that Grant, if Grandpa was bummed out because the Vikings lost, you guys would at least give him the money.

[Justin]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I was like, why would you bet against the home team?

[Ben]

Well, I just feel bummed either way. Why so much?

[Justin]

Yeah, that's my only question.

[Evan]

I think everything else, just to feel something, just.

[Justin]

I don't know. 5. $5,000 seems like a lot more of a rounded off number than, like, putting a thousand. Yeah.

[Ken]

Like 10,000 on the Vikings.

[Mike]

A good, nice number.

[Justin]

Yeah, it should have.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Yeah. It was just. I was just fired up. I was just fired up. So is C.J. and, yeah, we made a bad decision. We went to the Vikings game. I guess it started with us going to Grandparon, and we go, hey, Grandpa, we got five grand on the game. Oh, man, you guys didn't learn from the last time, did you? Because Last time we went to a Vikings game, five grand up and they didn't clear the spread.

[Ryan]

They pushed.

[Justin]

Insanely lucky.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Justin]

And. And he goes, oh, you guys didn't learn from last time. Oh, well, this will be entertaining. Nevertheless, we didn't tell him that we bet on the commanders. So the whole game. So. Yeah, so the whole game. We. We get to the seats. He was just fired up from the get go because the seats were awesome. Shout out, Ken for booking those seats. And we get there, the Vikings come out and look like a Super bowl team.

[Ryan]

They really did. They knew that CJ had money against him. Dude, I thought you were cursed. CJ's cursed. That guy should not be allowed to sports gamble. Someone else take away his phone.

[Ken]

I wish I would have paid attention and heard what your bet was ahead of time. Because I didn't pay any attention.

[Justin]

We didn't tell anyone.

[Ken]

Yeah, no, I wish you would have. So I could have bet the opposite of you because I could have profited.

[Justin]

Yeah, it would have been smart. So we get there, we're watching the first drive, or like the first drive of the game. Vikings come down and score, right? And me and C.J. look over at each other and we're like, what the hell was that? And like, I mean, we've said on the podcast or CJ has made it insanely clear that he thinks JJ McCarthy is the worst quarterback of all time.

[Cody]

Right?

[Ken]

Yes.

[Justin]

And so that's why he was like, I'm not putting money in J.J. mcCarthy's hands. And so he comes out, he looks like freaking Tom Brady. And I'm looking over at him, I'm like, what is this? And grand is fired up.

[Ryan]

Oh, no. Because he thinks you guys are winning.

[Justin]

He thinks we're winning. So Vikings proceed to beat them 31 to 0.

[Ben]

Did you know you were cooked, like, halftime?

[Evan]

Halftime.

[Justin]

Yeah, yeah, halftime. And C.J. and I are just, like, looking over at each other the whole time, just like, dude, what are we doing? Grandpa's freaking out. Every time they would score a touchdown, we'd cheers. And I. It. It was fun because, like, the bikes were firing, but I thought that it would be more like, well, the Vikes.

[Evan]

Either way.

[Justin]

And I'll be happy. Or I make five grand and I'll be happy. It wasn't. Yeah, I was, like, way more fixated on, like, losing the money.

[Ryan]

Yeah, for sure.

[Justin]

Yeah. So, like, we went into it like, this is a win, win situation. It wasn't. It was a loser not going to make that mistake again. And then. Yeah, it Ended with Grandpa Ron just being like, this was the best day ever, boys. The best game I've ever been to. Had so much fun. And to make it even better, you guys won five grand. And we go. We just look at him and just go, yeah, Grandpa, we got something to tell you. We lost five grand. We put it on the Commanders, and he literally looks at us and goes, you guys couldn't be more stupid. And it just goes silent. We're like, no, no, we couldn't.

[Ryan]

You're right, Grandpa.

[Ken]

Okay. I respect the thought process because the Vikings have sucked the last, like, I don't know how many weeks, but the commanders are also a trash team.

[Ryan]

If you even Google the Washington commanders, their quarterback got hurt, and their whole line was hurt, literally the last game.

[Justin]

That's what I said. Yeah, that's what I said. That's why I went to cj. But one thing. But CJ said Commanders is a lock.

[Ryan]

Thought the Eagles were too. I watched them lose yesterday. I go. I literally was sitting on the couch, and I watched the Eagles turn over the ball twice in one possession. I went, O. CJ's gonna hate that.

[Justin]

Yeah, CJ. CJ put a bunch of money up on the Eagles game last night trying to win it back, and then lost that. So the kid's actually so down.

[Ryan]

He's pretty down. He didn't even show up. He was like, I can't show my face on this podcast.

[Justin]

And then he just found out that his whole house is riddled with black mold.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's a huge. I got a phone call from CJ yesterday. So they did some mold tests last week, came back today, and they were like, yeah, you guys should not be living in that house. If I were you, I would move out. But Alex and I are moving out of the house.

[Ryan]

What the fuck? So before we get to you moving in with your parents, lucky for you guys, there's someone smart. And I bet on the Vikings.

[Justin]

Oh, did you?

[Ryan]

Yeah, of course. I not only bet on the Vikings, I bet the under.

[Ken]

Oh, that's a good bet. What was the payout for that?

[Ryan]

I put $20 on the Vikings to win and $20 on the under.

[Justin]

So what was the payout?

[Ryan]

I think I made, like, 60 bucks back, so, yeah, 40 bucks.

[Justin]

You know what, Ryan? Smart. Yeah, smart.

[Mike]

Grandpa Ron would be proud of you.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I should call him and tell him that I knew one of my grandsons was smart.

[Ben]

CJ is on a losing streak, though, because think when we. Our buddy got his big gooseneck stuck, and then I Was like, well, I'll grab my truck. And he's just like, you're gonna pull.

[Justin]

It out with your truck?

[Ben]

And I'm like, well, we could use yours too. He's like, no. What I'm saying is no truck's gonna pull that out. And we all look at him. What should we do? Call a tow truck? And he's like, probably. And then I'm like, well, we gotta at least try. And then he's like, it's not gonna work. And so Ben goes, 100 bucks. I think it'll work. And I go, well, I'll put 100 on it too. It's my truck. And it yanked out. First try.

[Ryan]

First try, baby.

[Justin]

Needed that one, Mike.

[Evan]

I was standing next to Bobby, and when CJ saying that, he's looking at me, he's like, dude, we can pull it out.

[Justin]

I know. And when he was saying that, the kid actually has been making some bad decisions this weekend.

[Ryan]

I'm gonna literally take away his wallet.

[Justin]

Yeah, you gotta, like, protect cj.

[Ryan]

Nervous.

[Ken]

CJ said he's gonna bring, I think five grand with Gary.

[Ryan]

Vegas drywall. Dude, his whole house is moldy.

[Justin]

The kid quite literally can't afford it after the week that we've had.

[Ryan]

Literally can't.

[Justin]

I think that before we made a couple bad decisions.

[Ken]

He's gonna turn it all around in Vegas, bet it all on, and he's going to double it up and keep going.

[Ryan]

Let it ride. Yeah. So we're three out of six that are back.

[Ken]

We got three seaboys living in their parents basements.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly three, seven.

[Ken]

You were down back.

[Justin]

Move back in with your parents?

[Ken]

Yeah, I moved back in with our parents.

[Justin]

How is that going?

[Ken]

First off, I text my mom and my dad is like, hey, CJ. CJ's house is moving back in. CJ's house is full of mold. So I am going to move back.

[Ben]

Into an hour before he moves back in.

[Ken]

No, it was in the driveway. This is in the morning. And I didn't show up till late, late at night. So I.

[Ryan]

It was literally the day of you.

[Justin]

Showed up and they had already turned your room into.

[Ken]

I walk in the door and they're fighting about Christmas ornaments. I was like, oh, my God. Literally getting in a full blown, like, verbal altercation. I was like, what are you. And I was like, maybe a good.

[Ryan]

Thing you move back in.

[Ken]

And I was like, you guys are fighting over Christmas ornaments. This is so stupid.

[Ryan]

You should see what me and my friends fight about every day.

[Ken]

And then I finally were the mediator then I tried to be, and then eventually I was just like, this is stupid. I just brought my stuff down to my room and shut the door.

[Evan]

Why did you just help them find.

[Mike]

Like, you never left, bud?

[Ben]

No, it wasn't. It wasn't an ornament issue. It was. We have plenty of ornaments. No, I want new ones.

[Ken]

Was like, no. Apparently my dad put some ornaments away last year out of order and they couldn't find them. So I was like, it's fine. It doesn't matter.

[Justin]

Does your mom still have all the in her kitchen?

[Ken]

Oh, no. She got rid of all the cocks. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Really? After you moved out? Other than that, though, I mean, how many nights have you been there?

[Ken]

I've been there one night.

[Justin]

Oh.

[Ken]

I'm considering finding other places to live, like where I heard there's a couple of rental houses available. Hopefully my contractor can get me in my house in an expedited fashion.

[Ryan]

It's going to be when there's like no sheetrock in there and you're just like laying on the floor, Ken's going.

[Justin]

To be helping them lay the floor in there.

[Mike]

Ken's literal words to me in my office, where as long as they put a toilet in, I'll live there legitimately.

[Ken]

As long as there's a toilet, I can shower at the shop or the gym. I've got a fridge in my my boathouse. So literally just a toilet and I'm good, bro.

[Mike]

Imagine the echo in your house. No drywall, just porcelain splatter.

[Justin]

Oh, speaking of, pull up the video, play the footage.

[Ryan]

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[Justin]

Yeah, you scared Evan with that one.

[Evan]

We were just having a conversation. We were talking, and then I thought, Ken went back into his office. That's why I just stand there. I'm staring at him because we just got done talking, then he's just rifling down the stairs.

[CJ]

Bro.

[Ryan]

They heard it in Ottertale County.

[Ken]

She told you. Walked by like, toilet is spray, dude.

[Ryan]

It looks like a battlefield.

[Justin]

It's bad, Ken.

[Evan]

What happened?

[Ken]

I'd been kind of holding it in for a little bit. I was just like, okay, I gotta go, bro.

[CJ]

I walked by 20 minutes later, still smelt like just one of those toxic waste bits. It was, like, leaking up into my office, and I turned the air purifier on and did nothing for an hour.

[Ben]

So, yeah, to answer your question, Ben, to answer your question, Ken cannot live in the boathouse because there's no toilet.

[Evan]

You can run the bucket deal from the houseboat or just stay in the houseboat.

[Ken]

Either one's a decent option.

[Evan]

There you go.

[Ryan]

What's worse? Living with my parents or not being able to relieve myself?

[Ken]

Boathouse is a solid option, though.

[Ryan]

I've been telling you that. I'm like, bro, move into your boat house. There's a bar.

[Ken]

There's a bar. You're good, full of liquor.

[Evan]

No, no, no. The boathouse next to the Merch Barn. You should just.

[Ben]

That, too.

[Evan]

If you.

[Ben]

If you ran a heater, you know, 247 in there.

[Justin]

I think you could in the house.

[Ken]

Might get above freezing if you run a heater 24. 7.

[CJ]

Maybe there's a little bit of insulation in there.

[Mike]

Yeah, there's a couple Tony still in.

[Justin]

The wall or what?

[Ben]

Yeah, it wouldn't hurt to probably get that thing heated up before those things explode.

[Ryan]

Well, Justin, we probably should talk about how we're in a fish house since Justin's been out here camping on this ice hole since literally 10am and it's.

[Mike]

4, 5, 5, 17.

[Ryan]

How many fish have we caught here? Are we going to catch a fish?

[Mike]

This podcast, I'm not gonna lie. Not feeling super confident.

[Evan]

I don't like the sound.

[Mike]

So the bite window, definitely. It was hot from like three to four.

[Ken]

So basically right up until before we showed up.

[Ryan]

Correct.

[Justin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So maybe there was a walleye that came through right before everybody got here. So maybe we'll see what happens.

[Ben]

But, yeah, we can help. How's. How's dad life?

[Ryan]

Sick.

[Mike]

Honestly, being a dad is really big. Yeah, he's crazy. Like, he'll be 10 months soon, which is nuts. He's moving around all over the place, which is fun sometimes.

[Ben]

First word was da.

[Mike]

Yeah, he said. He says dada a lot.

[Ben]

That's amazing.

[Ryan]

Damn, you got him with the data first.

[Mike]

Dude, when. When Cletus, that's talking about, like, way back when Cletus was saying that, like, that's the best feeling in the world.

[Ken]

100.

[Ryan]

I've been trying to teach Daisy to say Dada. It's not working, dude. Not working. Did get her to start pooping outside. So that's a.

[Mike]

That's a big win. That's a big win. I can't get Hayes to do.

[Justin]

Mikey.

[Mike]

Cold, but, yeah, it's so much fun. He's like, watch. Just how quickly they grow is wild. I'm on nine months of, like, no sleep still, but it's just the time flies. They grow, they're happy. It's really, really fun.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, bro, the amount of texts we get at, like, literally 3:00am Any.

[Ben]

Time of the night. Really?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Because, I mean, the good thing is, is he's consistent. The bad thing is, is that he's consistent sometime between 1 and 3am every night.

[Justin]

Really?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I could literally, in the last nine months, I have slept through the night less than ten times. And that's. No. No exaggeration. That's. I mean, that's typical, like, first year of, like, parenthood, but you kind of get used to it, but kind of not.

[Cody]

So.

[Mike]

I tried. I tried this last week, just staying up after he would wake up. So it didn't matter if it was 2am or 3am or whatnot. I just stayed up.

[Justin]

What?

[Ryan]

Why?

[Mike]

Because I don't try it out.

[Ryan]

Four hours to drink caffeine.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, more hours to. More protein, more caffeine, more get, get done.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it worked pretty good.

[Justin]

Until when? Till one time of the day I.

[Mike]

Was up from, I think this last week, Monday through Thursday, I was up from like 3 until 10pm yeah.

[Justin]

The following day.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah, well, 3.

[Mike]

3Am to 10pm was like the wake hours.

[Justin]

21 hours.

[Mike]

And honestly, fine. Like you get a lot of done in the morning. Like it was an incredibly productive time.

[Justin]

No, literally.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. Everybody else is asleep.

[Ben]

You and, you and Megan have a pretty good system. Like you just always take those night shifts, which is nice of you, but also then she takes the evening shift.

[Mike]

This is a weird thing, like when you get to this point in parenthood, like it's almost like a negotiation of who wants to put him down at night, depending on what kind of mood he's in. Because if he's in a really good mood all day and he's tired and he's tuckered out and you get to put him down, it's like the highlight of your day. So it's like sometimes we have to go back and forth and like, oh, well, you put them down last night, I want to put them down tonight. So. Yeah, because it's really like, it is precious.

[Justin]

It's really precious.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So now the 3am time, that is. I don't know why. I just am wired for that. I guess I just, I wake up really easily and like I just get a bottle, put him back down. He's usually back down. Bottle for him. Yeah. Megan could sleep through a fucking freight train going through the house.

[Ryan]

She.

[Mike]

She does not wake up.

[Justin]

Mike's baby is going to be crying for 12 hours on end before Mike hears it.

[Ben]

Well, that's why. So our system will be like, I'll just already. I'll be up. If he wakes up at 1 or 2, I'll already be up, still awake. So then I hopefully I'll be like, I'll get him. I'll get her or him. I'll get him at that time. Now if it's like a 5am freight train could be running me over.

[Justin]

Hopefully that baby's cool with sleeping until noon.

[Ben]

Yeah, I don't do that anymore, dude.

[Ryan]

You really don't? Actually, yeah. Credit where Credit. I still live an hour away, but.

[Ben]

I don't wake up at noon anymore.

[Ryan]

No, a lot of times. I mean, you're ripping a monster at 5:30, which is a little crazy, but, like, the. The amount of times we get texts from you at like 7:38am I pre.

[Mike]

9 o' clock most days.

[Ben]

Honestly, today was earlier than usual. I got up at 7:45, which is not. Not early.

[Justin]

You said that. You said. I was like, oh, yeah.

[Ken]

Five years ago, Mike, that would have been completely out of the picture.

[Mike]

You wouldn't have been, like, fully in REM sleep yet.

[Ken]

That would have been you just going to bed at that time.

[Ben]

Which that is what's funny. Like, if I go to bed at three, I am hitting REM sleep at, like, seven. So. Dude, try not to keep it that late.

[Justin]

I was in the warehouse the other day talking to our warehouse manager. His name's Darius. He's a beast. Him and his brother, actually, they were both telling me their sleep schedules crazy because Darius's brother was like, yeah, just about to hit 70 hours. I was like, for the week? He's like, yep. I was like, isn't it Wednesday or maybe Thursday? But it was. It was. It was crazy. And he was like, yeah, I've been getting here at like, 3:00am I was like, what time you been leaving? And he's like, round eight. It's like, dude, you don't have to be doing that. I was like, I. No one expects that. Like, that is. That is crazy behavior. And he was like, yeah, packages got to get out. So the merch team is working hard. Just know that, like, that a long.

[Ken]

Long ripping rip from Black Friday up until. Honestly, it's gonna be the day before Christmas.

[Ben]

I was like. And it's. It's not slowing down anytime soon.

[Justin]

Shout out to you guys, dude, they're.

[Mike]

That whole team is just awesome. Like, the. Our core team that we've got is just fantastic. And then, like, the people that we've got, like our temp staff for the holiday season, are also just crushing. So we're very, very lucky to have that team. But Darius and Damien, I've known those guys for a long time because back when I worked at sga, I worked with them for a while. They're actually sick in the head.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Different kind of breed to do that.

[Mike]

I don't understand how.

[Ryan]

Because I think one of them had the caffeine in, like, the.

[Mike]

It was like.

[Ryan]

It was like. Like that.

[Ken]

A little, like, measuring thing that you're supposed to, like, add caffeine to, like, drinks or something.

[Ryan]

Oil to gas. Where like, you pour it and it, like, fills up the thing and then goes in. It's. But it's just straight caffeine.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, it's made.

[Ryan]

I was like, that's not good.

[Ben]

It's made to, like, make a five gallon bucket for, like, a crew, but, like, they just use it. Obviously, you can put as much or little as you want in it, but you know, when you put a scoop of whatever energy powder you have, like, it's like Pre workout times 11.

[Mike]

Yeah, those guys are nuts.

[Ben]

Which works.

[Justin]

So actually, their dad came in and is doing some temp work for us for the, like, holiday season, working in the warehouse. And so I was sitting there chopping it up with them and started with being like, dude, where'd these kids get their work ethic from? Like, this is crazy. You know? And I was trying to get to know him a little bit.

[Ben]

I was like, just saying, could it be you?

[Justin]

I go, yeah, like, what do you enjoy doing? And he's like, I really enjoy going and doing karaoke. And I go, where at? And he goes, oh, at the Eagles Bar. Every Friday afternoon or every Friday night, they have karaoke. And I look up and I see cj and CJ hears the same thing. And we're like, this Friday, There we go. Because a couple weeks ago, CJ and I were sitting there like, how can we get Ryan to sing? Because of Ryan's shirt. We found out that he wanted to be a rock star, and we didn't know that. We didn't know that about Ryan. But after you requested our designer to make him look like a rock star, we figured that out. So we're like, holy shit. We got to see Ryan in action. Right? So we've been trying to find a place to do karaoke. We heard that, and we were like, it's on.

[Ben]

And boy, did it evolve.

[Justin]

Yeah. Ryan, I think we. We found something. Quad. Sorry, Quad. I think we found something really special. Like, we unlocked a new version of Ryan.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Mike]

I haven't seen any of that.

[Ken]

Is it.mp3 or.mp4?

[Ryan]

It's.mp3. I just blacked out after my performance.

[Ben]

MPF4 is viddies. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, maybe I'll make.

[Ben]

But yeah, Just us all knowing what was in store for Ryan that night. Him not knowing. Him actually coming into it thinking that we had something planned for Ken. Completely off the scent.

[Ryan]

Could not have been more blindsided.

[Ken]

We came into that week. Ben just said, there's a video bit planned.

[Ryan]

Someone's coming on Friday.

[Ken]

Yeah. And then you just started. You just started antagonizing me to get me all wound up.

[Mike]

Pause.

[Evan]

Hey, you walked by six cases of water to drive to the cormorant store to buy.

[Ken]

I just needed. I just needed to go, like, go for a drive and calm down, because I'd been kind of getting a little.

[Justin]

Wound up there, which is wild, because you weren't even. You had nothing to do with it. How it started, though, is I. You know, I told all the guys, I was like, hey, Friday night, clear your schedule. And most of Friday during the day, we got something planned. And I didn't tell Ken, you know, loose lips thinks ships.

[Ken]

I've been good.

[Ryan]

I've been good lately, barely, but because you haven't known.

[Justin]

Stop telling you things. And cj New Ev. New Mike knew. But so. So everyone knew.

[Ryan]

So I even investigated.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Ryan started getting suspicious, right? He's like, what's going on here? And I was like, normally I would just tell him because 98% of the time, it's not a surprise for Ryan, for Ken. And I just go, oh, dude, yeah, Nobody knows. Nobody knows. I can't tell you. And he started, like, digging in, right? And so I was in.

[Ryan]

I never invested.

[Justin]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I thought it wasn't about me. That's how confident I was that I was off the hook this week.

[Justin]

I was like, I got to throw Ryan off this scent. So I just go, kenjamino, you ready? And then I start doing, like, airboxing. And then CJ goes from the other side of the shop, and then immediately, Ken just.

[Ben]

Oh, he's on alert, bro.

[Justin]

Just staring at the wall. Oh, fudge.

[Ryan]

I don't know if Nor, like, if people experience the feeling of knowing you're about to be fucked with as much as us. Like, everybody knows when your friends are kind of pranking you, but it normally happens, like, live and in a moment, like, you're out at some place and you can kind of tell your friends are messing with you. But, like, we have premeditated pranks and, like, scenarios that are going to, like, put you in an uncomfortable position. So, like, that's when you know that something. A whole evening is dedicated to it. You're like, oh, whoever this is is so.

[Justin]

And usually you're. You're on the inside. So you're just like.

[Ryan]

Like, oh, man, I'm glad to see what's happening, dude. When Ken walked in the door and we were all standing in a line, and the line moved and shifted towards me, I was just. I was like, no, no, you could just feel.

[Ken]

I didn't believe it for like, probably a good hour. I was like, okay, how is this gonna get twisted? How's this gonna get twisted and come back onto me?

[Mike]

I know they're trying to make it about Ryan. It's really about.

[Ken]

I was like, okay. I was like, okay, is this a psychological play? And then five minutes, this is going to be like trauma.

[Justin]

Oh, oh, give me some.

[Ryan]

Give me some.

[Ken]

You just got a weed.

[Justin]

Don't.

[Ryan]

Quit yanking your rod like that. Get me all excited.

[Justin]

Did you have a nibble?

[Ryan]

No.

[Justin]

I think I was caught on the ice.

[Ben]

But I just have to iterate. I mean, how legendary of a name Quad is. So like we were filming all day and Evan walks in and like accidentally calls Ryan Quad or something. And you're just like.

[Evan]

I tried to say, Ryan, I put a new battery in the quad.

[Ken]

Quad.

[CJ]

And I started.

[Evan]

I just.

[Justin]

Quad.

[Mike]

I put a new battery in the.

[Justin]

Ryan said that.

[Ben]

I just kind of looked at you and Ben. I'm like, that's his name. That's his artist name.

[Ryan]

Quad.

[Ben]

And Holy Boys. It just. It was the best night ever, dude. It was like the most fun ever at Ryan's expense, unfortunately. But Quad for life, bro. Yeah.

[Justin]

Four wheels down. Dude, we just found out Ryan was like an insane hit with 15 year old girl, bro. It was insane. Justin. Justin, it was seriously insane. I've never seen anything like it, bro.

[Mike]

Tell me, walk me through the like songwriting process here and like, you know, performance prep. Because, like, you know, karaoke, if you're, you know, half a bottle of Pendleton Deep isn't that big of a deal. But when you're the opening performance of Quad, there's a lot of pressure on you here. What is it? What does that whole process look like?

[Ryan]

Well, it started with cornering me, riling me up and just making me very confused.

[Ken]

So then, welcome to the game.

[Justin]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

So then they start playing songs that I didn't know the words to.

[Ben]

And then they were non copyright songs, written songs.

[Ryan]

Nobody's ever heard them.

[Justin]

Well, Justin, let me also add this. You ever heard Ryan sing awful?

[Mike]

Fortunately, not exactly.

[Justin]

Well, that's the thing. Neither had we, right? So we were like, this dude wants to be a rock star so bad, but we've never heard him sing. Right? So we had to find his voice.

[Mike]

Yeah, we had to find it.

[Justin]

Genre was.

[Ryan]

Well, they played the Justin Starling song and I liked that song. And then I like sang most of it until I didn't know the words. And then C.J. was like, oh, you're probably more of a screamo guy. You psycho. And you're always angry and everything. Like, I was like having fun doing it and then everybody just, just laughed at me. And I was like. I was like, okay, well, I. I guess it's not gonna be that easy. I'm gonna have to do more to impress them. And then I was like, okay. And then you. He played screamo and I was like, or no, then he played country and I was like, I don't know the words. And then I got frustrated. And then he said screamo.

[Ben]

But very quickly we listened to like three songs. And then in that process, I think CJ had prompted his AI and it was generating at that point. And he goes, all right, all right, it's finally done. And just plays this insane rock song that he coined, Hummerheart. And we're like, wait, this is mind blowing. And then we're all like, yep, this is what you're singing. And a song that literally didn't exist four minutes before that.

[Ken]

The second we got in the car. That car. That song didn't exist.

[Ben]

Exactly.

[Justin]

Dude, can we talk about how crazy that is?

[Mike]

Yeah, you can just generate a song out of nowhere and it's like, but.

[Ken]

He song lyrics and then put those song lyrics into another AI.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was pretty crazy.

[Ken]

How did that actually work?

[Mike]

How was the performance on?

[Ken]

Performance was legendary.

[Justin]

Yeah, it was crazy.

[Ryan]

Electric.

[Ken]

There were so many people because you.

[Mike]

Had like, you guys said that there was a pretty decent crowd there.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Dinner at the.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Has everybody.

[Mike]

Has this ever been talked about on the podcast? Just the setup of karaoke at the Holiday Inn. How psycho that is.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I actually with the Holiday Inn and karaoke in general, they do karaoke every weekend.

[Justin]

Friday and Saturday.

[Ryan]

Friday and Saturday. Hire a band. You're one of like the biggest bars in the area. Hire a band.

[Justin]

Right?

[Ken]

He's like, hire me. Hire me.

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[Justin]

Ken. Ken, this is your time to put in.

[Ken]

Well, we. We got. We got a few more tour dates. Quad's actually going nationwide tour coming up, so.

[Ryan]

Oh, I figured we'd start with the county or something.

[Mike]

Yeah, no, no, we're going to next weekend.

[Ryan]

The song they wrote, it was a lot of words to remember.

[Ben]

You guys about to check it out, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like memory? Or did you.

[Ryan]

You ran actually, like, bro, you gotta remember. I'm like, there's a whole song that didn't exist three hours ago. How am I supposed to remember this? So I. I read it, and I was pretty good until I shook my phone and then it said undo, and then I undid my thing, so I had to undo the undo on stage. Live performance.

[Justin]

Yeah, you kind of fell apart there.

[Ryan]

In the middle. In the middle. But I. I think I finished strong.

[Ken]

There was. There's also a high school hockey team at the Holiday High School.

[Cody]

Bro.

[Ryan]

They were in elementary school, but they.

[Ken]

They saw.

[Justin]

They don't know what high schoolers look like.

[Ben]

Dude.

[Ken]

They saw. They saw Quad. They saw Quad walk in the door, and they were going electric over Quad.

[Justin]

Quad.

[Ryan]

The audience is a little younger than Quad would like, but he writes music.

[Mike]

It's just cool.

[Justin]

Honestly, it kind of makes me worried about the future generations if that's the songs that they resonate with.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So then cj, he. He's getting. He's so excited about this AI writing thing, and he pumps out another Seaboy song that I hope. Can we put somewhere that they can listen?

[Ryan]

Quad will put it on.

[Ben]

Yeah, I think we should get back on SoundCloud.

[Ken]

Is Quad on Spotify yet?

[Ryan]

I do got to work on that this week.

[Ben]

The song that he made, the Seaboy song, is insanely good. So we're, like, so pumped, and he's, like, got his arms crossed, like, yeah, I made this shit. And so now he's got a producer tag, CBDCJ. I'm sure he's got freaking 20 more songs because it's that easy to make.

[Justin]

Dude, he was so proud.

[Ben]

He was very proud.

[Justin]

I wish he was here right now because you would just see him glowing, how proud he was. Like, I haven't seen him that fired up in a long time.

[Mike]

Is this, like a hidden Passion of his. Like, he's big on music production or just like, you know, was he hitting ad libs in it or what?

[Ben]

Was literally just typing words.

[Ken]

But yeah, it's an AI prompt. You just tell it what to do and it does it. And then you try and slightly tweak it and it completely changes everything.

[Ben]

That was the interesting thing. There was a few words that he wanted to change in the song and he tried to reprompt it and it would just fire out a completely different song.

[Ryan]

Song.

[Mike]

Interesting. Yeah, because that's actually like, pretty legit to just be able to make a song on that.

[Justin]

But you make one.

[Mike]

If I could make a song, yeah, I would. I mean, what would it be about? Oh, God, I don't know.

[Ken]

What's your AI prompt? For the initial lyrics, Give me a.

[Mike]

Song that makes me scream happy thoughts.

[Ben]

I like that.

[Ryan]

Sorry. I laughed.

[Justin]

I laughed.

[Ryan]

And then no one else is like, oh, shit, my bad.

[Justin]

That was pretty similar to the prompt that C.J. gave his. But he. He mostly said, write me a song about a psychopath that loves Hummers.

[Ben]

And that's trying to.

[Justin]

Hummer was born.

[Mike]

Did you have to clarify, like, Hummer as in like the vehicle?

[Justin]

Well, that's why, you know, I didn't clarify that I might have to re. Listen to this. Yeah.

[Mike]

That'S the genius of Quad, man. You never know what he's actually.

[Justin]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

I'm like. Like the Scos Sabrina Carpenter dude. Innuendo is everywhere.

[Justin]

You know, I think somebody has to tell you that. I don't think.

[CJ]

What do you mean?

[Ryan]

Something that you can't call yourself Ryan. I just said it about Quad Ryan.

[Ben]

Are you able to read a couple of the Hummerheart Quad lyrics? Like any of the funny ones? There's quite a bit that are just. You can tell it's AI cuz it's like, why would you say this?

[Ryan]

I got a hummer heart Loud from the start Roaring like an engine when the music hits hard I might snap quick But I fight even stronger I might snap quick Bored for the spotlight Won't be waiting much longer My favorite part is when it cuts from singing to, like, a spoken word. And then it says, you hit slam.

[Mike]

Poetry in the middle of the performance.

[Ryan]

I try to chill but the world's so dumb Someone cuts me, someone cuts me off Heart pounded like a drum not my fault, man. That adrenaline's art. I'm a live grenade with a good dude's heart yes, that's. That's a bar.

[Mike]

Live grenade with a good dude's Heart is a bar.

[Justin]

Yeah, dude. Pretty stoked for that. For you, Ryan.

[Ryan]

Yeah, thanks, dude. It's really. So I made last or that night, I made quad quad mp3 on Instagram. And then a couple people started messaging me from time. They go, yo, is this you? Because all I did was just put the profile picture of me going like this in makeup and my hair all whack. And apparently it, like, connected my phone number and shared accounts to that.

[Mike]

It'll suggest it to everybody who follows you.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm not even really worried about all them. I just worried about people that, like, are around here. Like, I walk into the C store, and they're like, yo, is this you? And it's just me. And I was like, oh, yeah.

[Justin]

Well, Ryan, don't you worry, because in two days flat, everyone will know about quad. Quad.

[Ryan]

The world will know.

[Justin]

Speaking of being a psycho and breaking Ken, I heard you kicked a TV the other day.

[Ken]

I was hoping that wasn't gonna come out.

[CJ]

My defense. That is too good of a story not to tell.

[Ken]

Yeah, I may have blacked out and broken a tv.

[Monet X Change]

Why?

[Mike]

Take us through full story.

[Ken]

Okay, so starting with what you were. We were at it. We were at a. We were at the Chili Cook. Off.

[Justin]

Off.

[Ken]

And the person whose house it was at, she was like, yeah, I need a new tv. And it was like, it. I'll just buy her a new TV. Because it was Black Friday that weekend, and TVs were on sale.

[Evan]

This is before shaking the TV. You were already.

[Ken]

No, this was after the next day.

[Ryan]

Okay, no, no, no, no, no. You gotta go through the whole thing.

[Ken]

So I actually don't remember because I blacked out.

[Ryan]

Can you always say that when you do something?

[Ken]

I actually don't remember. I don't even remember. Remember. Remember doing it. This is like me after being told after the fact. The next day, I love.

[Ryan]

We're just sitting at the bar. Someone goes, yo, careful. Watch out that tv. Ken's here. We all look each other, go, huh? What? Wait, What? He goes, yeah, you kicked a tv. And we're like, ooh, tell us more.

[Ken]

I was like, I was hoping that was gonna stay a little quieter than it did, but, yeah, I. Apparently, we were cleaning up, and it was. It was like, oh, we're seeing. I don't even know what we were doing. We were doing something. I apparently kicked her tv. And then.

[Justin]

There has to be more.

[Ken]

No, no, that. That was. That was it.

[Evan]

How were you cleaning? And hit. Hit the TV with you.

[Ken]

Because, like, we cleaned up all the other stuff, I don't honestly know what happened. This is just me being told what I did the next day.

[Ben]

Is there anybody we could call that was coherent during this exact time? Who.

[Ryan]

Who was there? Ken?

[Justin]

Yeah, it was tv.

[Ken]

She was actually asleep.

[Justin]

Oh.

[Ben]

So it's fine.

[Ryan]

Let's see.

[Justin]

Who is there?

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[Ken]

I was blacked out.

[Ben]

You don't know who was there before at that time?

[Justin]

You know who was there?

[Ben]

He's like, I'm not telling you because.

[Ken]

I don't want this story, but I ordered her a new tv. A bigger. A Samsung.

[Cody]

A bigger.

[Ken]

A bigger and better Samsung. So it showed up today. No, we are not calling someone. We are moving on to the next topic. Ryan, you have an ad, and we're.

[Ryan]

Back from the ad.

[Justin]

All right, we're trying to. We're trying to call somebody that was a part of.

[CJ]

Have.

[Justin]

That was a part of.

[Ken]

I do, but I don't. I'm not sharing it. God damn it.

[Evan]

Who do you got?

[Justin]

Cody Matthews, Ken's brother.

[Ken]

God damn it.

[Ryan]

Judging by that response, he was there. Normally when I call Cody, I need something, so hopefully he actually picks up. Hey, you've reached Cody with.

[CJ]

One more time.

[Justin]

One more time.

[Ben]

All right.

[Ken]

There is not a lot to this story. I was not very coherent.

[Mike]

That sounds like there's so much more to this story.

[Evan]

You still haven't explained how your foot got to the TV while you were quote, unquote, cleaning up up.

[Ken]

There is nothing to the story. Why do you think nobody filmed it?

[Ryan]

That's unfortunate that no one filmed it. Ken, what's up, man?

[Justin]

Hey, bj, what's up? How you doing? Hey, I need. I need some more details on a. On a story.

[Cody]

Okay.

[Justin]

So I heard that Ken kicked TV the other day.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Bash it right in.

[Justin]

All right.

[Ben]

Okay, Give it.

[Justin]

Why?

[Ryan]

I heard after I left, I'm not even sure what happened.

[Justin]

Who.

[Monet X Change]

Okay.

[Justin]

Who was there there at that time? I don't know who was there. I think maybe Rachel and Cody, but.

[Ryan]

Actually just drop kick to tv and.

[Ken]

I bought her a new one and a drop kick.

[Justin]

Did you hear the reason for the drop kick? Was he horny or.

[Ryan]

I don't think he was because he. I think it's because it was a really old tv.

[Cody]

Deserve to die.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Okay. Okay, that's fair.

[Ryan]

Maybe it's not to get.

[Justin]

Lady, if you bought a new tv, though.

[Ken]

And I did buy a new tv. Showed up today.

[Ryan]

It did, but did you set it up, though?

[Ken]

No, because we've been filming all Day there.

[Justin]

Oh, that's the plan. He's going over there later to set it up.

[Ryan]

It's sitting in the garage, and he hasn't set it up yet. Sounds like you've only done half the work.

[Justin]

So something's.

[Ryan]

I wouldn't just. I would just send a new TV and not set it up.

[Justin]

So something's not adding up here, though, bj. Because I've known Ken for a long time, and I have never seen him purposely break something like. That's. That's Evan behavior. I would do that. Like, Ken knows trying.

[Ryan]

Unless you're trying to get laid.

[Justin]

Oh, that is what I was wondering.

[Cody]

If I break your tv, maybe.

[Justin]

I don't know. All right.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Justin]

Laughing about it too, myself.

[Evan]

Who does that?

[Justin]

All right, well, thank you. I got a little bit more details. We'll. We'll have to hear it straight from the source.

[Ken]

Maybe asleep at this time.

[Justin]

All right, thanks, man. So, Ken, I. I'm also a little confused as to why you didn't want anyone finding out about this.

[Ben]

Like, why is it?

[Justin]

It's like, oh, secret.

[Ken]

Oh, you do something stupid when you're blackout drunk. Oh, my God. I want the world to know about it.

[Evan]

You know what else was stupid? You thought the garbage man was gonna take it, and then he threw it into the.

[Ken]

No, that was. That was a different tv.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Why is that TV in the trees?

[Ken]

Well, that was just a. That was a TCL that CJ hated. That was just in the basement. It was honestly kind of a piece of, though. Like, it didn't. Didn't really work that well.

[Justin]

Could have given it to.

[Ken]

But I got her. I got a good deal on a Samsung.

[Evan]

And Black Friday would not buy one of his ladies a used tv.

[Ken]

No, like, they take everything. They took the TV from the other dumpster, which I also threw away.

[Evan]

I shouldn't talk about throwing TVs in the trash.

[Ryan]

You can't throw TVs in the trash.

[Evan]

No, that's why. But I told Ken, you can't throw away a TV in the trash. Oh, it's fine. It was sitting right on top of the can, and of course they took it off.

[Ken]

They take everything else except furniture, man.

[Ryan]

Soon you're not gonna be able to throw batteries in the ocean.

[Ben]

I heard in Sad Day in Canada, they only take your appliances after you jump them.

[Ryan]

Holy shit, dude.

[Ben]

Ray and the Plian One.

[Ryan]

Pug Life or something.

[Ben]

You guys gotta go watch that compilation.

[Evan]

How old is that? Is it gotta be like 15 years?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Such a legend. Shout out, Ray.

[Ben]

There's a. Yeah. Channel called One Pug, and he just has a character on there named Ray, and he just puts on a bunch of hockey gear and jumps an absurd.

[Evan]

Like, a mower type deal usually. Right. I mean, it's a go kart mower.

[Ben]

It's the most, like, high school shop class type thing. And he. I don't think he lands, like, any. That's the best part.

[Ken]

The.

[Mike]

The run up to those is always funny because the cameraman's like, oh, dick, dude. That has to be from, like, 2010.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Justin]

I'd say something around that time.

[Ben]

She's dick boys.

[Mike]

Yeah. Those pallet or those pallet ramps. Just absolutely insane.

[Ryan]

There's still gems out there. There's this guy with a trebuchet, which is like, a thing that throws. It moves like this.

[Evan]

Pumpkins and shit.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But he throws things, and it's just crusty iPhone footage. He's like, oh. Oh, my God. It's great. Honestly, I want us to go out there and throw things with him because he always stands right where it's gonna land. So he'll throw, like, a flaming rocking chair, and it lands, like, three feet from him.

[Ben]

It's big.

[Ken]

How big of a thing could we throw?

[Mike]

And follow up, can it be a tv?

[Ben]

The whole vibe of his page is just like, guys will see this and think, hell, yeah.

[Ryan]

Hell, yeah.

[Justin]

Did you guys see the tick tock of Gavin, his new truck? Dude, people are loving Gav's new truck, the white truck.

[Ryan]

Same dude.

[Justin]

I do, too.

[Ben]

And as time went on, yeah, I was just like, dude, the dude made the right choice.

[Justin]

Price 100.

[Ben]

Like, it has so much clout already. And it's. It's just a fun truck. The American force.

[Ryan]

And he still got to drive Ken's Bronco.

[Ken]

Yeah, I did have to repossess that, which.

[Ben]

Which, honestly, was fun too. You told him. He's like, yep.

[Justin]

I respect it.

[Ben]

Ken takes back the Bronco, and he's. He's working with the 8:1.

[Justin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I feel bad. Like, it was. I mean, it was on the seller, really, but it's got, like, a bad tail light on it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

We didn't have time to fix it, so he's really just got to fix one.

[Justin]

Is there one right below?

[Mike]

Right below you? Yeah, that's a fish.

[Ryan]

Holy tiny little bit. Don't. Don't spook it.

[Justin]

Perch isn't probably gonna bite.

[Ryan]

I see him. You see him say reads over there.

[Justin]

Come on, buddy.

[Mike]

It's actually, like, underneath you.

[Justin]

Oh.

[Ryan]

We traveled all the way across the Lake. Like, you. Obviously, you never fish in front of your own house, because that's lame. But, like, we went all the way across the lake just to sit here and not catch any fish.

[Mike]

I was gonna say I was catching fish all day today.

[Evan]

Picture. It didn't happen, unfortunately.

[Mike]

I took a picture of the first fish, and it was a tiny pike. Like a little hammer.

[Evan]

How coincidental.

[Ryan]

I should drop down. Holy Jesus. You catch a marlin?

[Evan]

I was already up here, and then I. I felt it, so I thought I had to set on it.

[Ben]

Holy. You almost just, like, freaking NASA took off through the roof.

[Justin]

I've never seen you move that fast.

[Evan]

Resistance.

[Ryan]

So, Ken, has it been, like, stressful not driving your Tesla now that you got evicted, so you don't have your Charger and all that?

[Ken]

No, because, like, I didn't charge it.

[Mike]

What don't you charge your Tesla when you're at the gym?

[Ken]

No. Charge it at home. Well, you're not at.

[Mike]

You're at your parents.

[Justin]

Who's this?

[Evan]

Gym.

[Ken]

I charged at the gym for the couple weeks. The driveway was under construction because I could walk from the Charger to the gym. But now it's cold, so I'm not gonna do that.

[Ryan]

And, like, I knew that the Tesla had a lot of features and stuff and, like, did a lot of things for you. So, like, has it been hard to now go to the Bronco? That's a little more of a raw driving experience.

[Ken]

It's kind of a little more fun.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Ken]

Because it's. It makes noise because the Tesla is kind of boring because you just floor it and it goes. This is like. It makes noise and does.

[Ryan]

Interesting. This video that I watched, it was a Tesla, and it. It did make some noises that I was even a little surprised with. And I figured this is why you didn't even care that your Bronco was gone.

[Justin]

So I got a long drive. Maybe you should keep me entertained. Tell me something about yourself.

[Ryan]

You know, I really enjoy quiet nights and good company.

[Justin]

And you N. I'm kind of kinky.

[Mike]

Like, I don't know.

[Justin]

I like to get freaky. Oh, I can get down with that.

[Ryan]

Tell me about your freakiest fantasy.

[Mike]

Nah, tell me about yours.

[Ryan]

I'll let you know when we're done playing. But tell me, me, would you rather I whisper dirty nothings or scream them?

[Justin]

Scream them to me, baby. Scream them.

[Ryan]

Oh, God, you like that, don't you?

[Justin]

Begging for more. This isn't real.

[Ryan]

Just wait.

[Ken]

No, like, gr. Grock is insane.

[Justin]

Say it louder. Say it louder, baby. Nah, louder than that, baby. Let the neighbors hear. Neighbors know my name? No.

[Ken]

Okay, so no, like, the. The grock on your Tesla. You can tell it, like, do you want normal? Do you want, like, conspiracy theorist grock? Do you want, like, playful? There's so many, like, different settings you can do.

[Justin]

Yo, Ev's gonna buy a Tesla this weekend.

[Ken]

But no, like, I got sick of, like, all the regular. The weirds. Like, the conspiracy theorist was kind of funny for a couple times. And it's just like, I just want a normal answer. I don't want to have, like, what.

[Ryan]

Are you asking, Tesla, while you're trying to answer?

[Ben]

I'm speaking to this thing.

[Ken]

Like, I don't know, like, you use chat GPT, like, four hours a day. You just push a button, ask it whatever you want to ask, and it just spits it out.

[Justin]

Okay, wait, you can just press a button and talk to it? Like, you can chat?

[Ken]

Yeah, you just say whatever you want would say to chat GPT. Then it just starts talking to you.

[Ben]

Incredible.

[Ken]

Which is incredibly convenient, and I do kind of miss that. But it's also like, I'd rather have.

[Evan]

I talked to my El camino. That's an 85. Come on, baby. Start, Start.

[CJ]

Come.

[Ryan]

Evan's always talking dirty to his truck.

[Evan]

Just one more crank.

[Ken]

But no, it's like, you ask Chad. You, like, ask rock. Oh, what's the weather? And you have it on conspiracy mode. And it's like, well, the government wants you to think it's whatever. It's 20 degrees today.

[Ben]

That's amazing.

[Ken]

That's not the real weather.

[Ryan]

Top comments. You never really know what's going on in other people's cars. You imagine Ken's driving to the gym. Just be like, top, talk dirty to me. I want you to kick my TV so hard. Tesla's like, crazy, dude.

[Justin]

That is insane.

[Mike]

I want to know what kind of directions it gives you on conspiracy mode.

[Ken]

Like, I need to get.

[Mike]

I need to get to Minneapolis. I'm like, oh, you believe in Minneapolis?

[Justin]

Would be like. What about, like, sarcastic? Like, call it the mic mode. That would be bring me.

[Ken]

Well, actually.

[Ryan]

Sorry, I got nothing.

[Ben]

I think.

[Justin]

Hold on, Tesla. Am I not supposed to be going left right here? Well, technically, you should have gone left last.

[CJ]

Left.

[Justin]

All right, do I go left over here or not, Tesla?

[Ben]

Well, do I turn. I turn left on Duck Line Road? No, it's Duck Lane.

[CJ]

Are you guys gonna catch a fish or.

[Cody]

No?

[Ken]

You know, adult sometimes. It's not about catching a fish. Sometimes just hanging out with the BO boys.

[Mike]

Yeah, says the man who has not hold a rod the entire time.

[Ken]

I've never been in a fish house and actually caught a fish.

[Evan]

Have you ever tried fishing?

[Ken]

No, I always just hang out.

[Evan]

I'm just here for the men, here for the beer.

[Justin]

Do you remember Bounce on it. Bounce on it.

[Ken]

Clip that.

[Justin]

Do you remember last time before, I guess the last podcast that we went. Went ice fishing. It was the day that we hit 1 million subscribers. And we go out and we borrowed Ryan's dad's ice house. We get out there and we go, all right, last one to catch a fish has to take a minnow shot. And Ken. Ken loses, takes a minnow shot, starts projectile vomiting, and then looks up at us and goes, I hate fireball.

[Ryan]

Said I hate cinnamon.

[Justin]

I hate cinnamon. And we go, oh, it wasn't the minnow that you had to just swallow that made you throw.

[Ken]

Still can't do a fireball shot.

[Evan]

Ken, you should. You should shoot a minnow right now.

[Ken]

We don't have fireball this with your beer.

[Ben]

Well, we wouldn't do it with fireball. You hate.

[Mike]

You hate cinnamon.

[Evan]

Just slurp it.

[Justin]

You.

[Ken]

You traditionally do a minnow shot with fireball.

[Ryan]

Traditionally. Randy, did he watch that video? Like, he had it. The fish house. And then he watched that video and the fish house was gone within a week.

[Justin]

He sold it because we were throwing up in the fish.

[Ryan]

Well. Yeah. Ken projectile vomited. All.

[Ken]

I was outside the fish house.

[Ryan]

It was a C.J. then that threw up INS.

[Ken]

Somebody else. Somebody else threw up inside. I at least made it out the door.

[Justin]

I think C.J. was like, I think I'm gonna throw up. And we're like, then go outside, bro. I think I'm gonna throw up. What are you doing? He's shoving fingers down his throat. I gotta throw up. And we're like, bro, what are you doing? He's like, just fist his throat sometimes.

[Ryan]

He just.

[Ben]

He likes to be a part of whatever's going on. Like, you know, he wanted to throw up.

[Evan]

Like that time that I was skateboarding naked and he wasn't gonna skateboard, but he still took his pants off.

[Justin]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

So I was at 5 milli.

[Ben]

That's insane.

[Mike]

That photo coming through primals was such a highlight.

[Ken]

Cuz, like, we were joking.

[Mike]

When I left, I. I planted the seed of. I. I planted the scene of when I was walking ae. I was like, holy boys, Mike is out skating naked. And then I just left.

[CJ]

So you did.

[Evan]

You know he did. And then did you think he was naked?

[Mike]

No, I knew he wasn't, because, like, I was just. I was chatting with him outside. Because then, yeah, 20 minutes later, I pull driveway when I get home, and I get a picture of Ev just blocking his johnson with the board.

[Ben]

So basically, Evan at that moment goes, you were skating naked? And I was like, what? And he's like, well, that's what Justin said. I was like, no, I wasn't. And he's like, we should. And I'm just like, ah, I wasn't drunk. And he's like, it sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

[Evan]

You don't have to be drunk to skateboard.

[Ben]

And then once we went out there and you stripped down, I was like, well, now out. I just don't feel comfortable. But I was like, still hanging out. And then CJ comes out and what.

[Evan]

Are we doing here?

[Justin]

He sees Evan.

[Ken]

He's like, no way.

[Ben]

He's actually skating naked. And then he's just like, I'm gonna get naked too. And he just drops his drawers. Like, pants and underwear. And then kind of.

[Evan]

But he left them around his ankles, which was the funny part.

[Mike]

Floating around.

[Ben]

And then, like, I forget who came out at that point, but they're just like, what the f are you guys doing? You were FaceTiming Pat, our editor.

[Evan]

And you're like.

[Ben]

You flip the camera around, you go, yo, look at this.

[Ryan]

He's just like, thank God I don't got to edit that.

[Justin]

You guys are learning more about CJ in this podcast. And he's not even the more that he'd like.

[Ryan]

That's for damn sure.

[Evan]

You know what he'd say, though? I don't give a.

[Ben]

True.

[Ken]

Should have left the whole thing in there.

[Evan]

Which is a respectable answer. I respect that.

[CJ]

The amount of times we do. Naked's crazy.

[Ben]

You bring that number up a lot.

[Evan]

The wood pile, Gavin.

[CJ]

The wood pile.

[Evan]

You and spending anytime you're together, bro.

[Justin]

Oh, man, Gav. Gav never really did recover from that. He's been a little off since that day.

[Mike]

You see how many Better Help ads he's done since that?

[Ken]

It's almost like he's a user.

[Mike]

Dude, a Gavin doing a Better Help.

[Ken]

Ad is also hilarious.

[CJ]

Just.

[Mike]

Just fast as hell.

[Evan]

Sweating Celsius.

[Mike]

You know that feeling when you drink nine Celsiuses in one day? If you feel like that all the time, use butter.

[Ben]

Help.

[Evan]

Should we.

[Justin]

Oh, oh, here we go.

[Ben]

All right.

[Justin]

Ken's brother's calling us back.

[Ryan]

Oh, hey, Cody.

[Ben]

Updates.

[Ryan]

We were just chatting on the podcast today, and we were. We were wondering about a little more Information on the whole Ken kicking in TV incident.

[Justin]

Sure.

[Cody]

I don't know why he had it in his brain that he needed to destroy the tv. I think maybe because she needed a bigger one or something. And so he just. He was like, oh, we should just destroy it. And we're like, no, no, no. Like, let's just leave it. And I. I thought we had him.

[Ryan]

Talked off the ledge, you know? Yeah.

[Cody]

All of a sudden he's, like, kicking the TV off the nightstand and, like, stomping on it and all this stuff.

[Ryan]

Holy smokes.

[Cody]

We'd originally gone in back to our apartment because we were gonna kind of clean up after the Chili party because.

[Evan]

So this wasn't at the Chili.

[Cody]

No. Last year, we flipped everything in in her house upside down.

[CJ]

What?

[Ryan]

Wasn't Ken a leader of that too?

[Cody]

Ken was a leader of this. Yes. He shut her water off. He was taking light bulbs. So we're like, oh, we should do something nice this time and, like, actually help clean up and stuff. And then you got Ken just drop kicking TVs.

[Ken]

And, you know, once again, I bought her a new one.

[Evan]

Ken is not the guy you invite to the after.

[CJ]

So.

[Ben]

Good.

[Cody]

We'll see if he gets invited back next year. I don't know.

[Justin]

Does this seem out of character for Ken? Because I don't know him to be the destructive type. Like, I. I'm just trying to figure out, like, what got into the guy.

[Cody]

I guess we're using the wrong name, though, here. We missed that part. So Ken actually didn't do this? I. I forgot this part. This was actually the work of Greg.

[Justin]

Yes.

[Cody]

Who is. Is Ken's alter ego when he's had some fun. Pops.

[Ryan]

I can't believe. Ke. Alter ego.

[Mike]

Another alter ego.

[Cody]

Yes, but no. So this was actually the work of Greg. And, you know, when Greg comes out, that's what happens. I mean, the way it works with him.

[Justin]

Greg sounds like a legend.

[Cody]

He is.

[Ryan]

Ken's happy to hear this because Ken, we asked Ken what happened, and he said, I was 100% blacked out. I don't remember.

[Cody]

Right. And I think he tried to maybe get one of us to film it. And I think we were all too intoxicated to also operate phones. So there's no. There's no actual evidence of it happening other than the broken tv. But we were kind of able to piece together what happened based off of what everyone said, who was there. And it was like, yeah, it was just Greg doing Greg things.

[Ryan]

Classic Greg.

[Ben]

Amazing.

[Cody]

Classic Greg. So, yeah.

[Ken]

All right, next topic.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Thanks for putting the puzzle pieces together, Cody.

[Justin]

See ya.

[Mike]

How many beers till we get Greg?

[Ken]

I would have to finish that case.

[Justin]

Ken's version of flirting is just going into a chick's house and just destroying everything.

[Ken]

Okay. Last year, Last year I wanted to.

[Evan]

Buy your gift, but you felt embarrassed about it, so you had to ruin it to justify the gift.

[Ryan]

You know what's actually funny is I still have you in my phone as Greg.

[Ken]

How did you get involved in that?

[Ryan]

I think we were on the pod and we talked about you being called Greg Greg. And then so I. I just added you as Greg. It's really inconvenient, but I'll ride with.

[Ken]

That's why you've answered the phone actually, when I call lately.

[Ryan]

No, I actually, I just. I just turned on. I turned my ringer on. I turned my ringer on now. So I. I answer the phone with everybody.

[Mike]

Such an insanely specific but accurate thing because Ryan screens everybody's calls, but he gets a call from Greg, he's like.

[CJ]

Hello.

[Justin]

And you should slash your tires next time.

[Ken]

No, no.

[Evan]

Ken, I'll come with. I'll come with you. We should do it. As long as you buy your new ones after. I think we should. That'd be great prank.

[Mike]

Trust me, she'll love it.

[Ken]

It's one of those things where you wake up the next morning, you're like, what the did I do?

[Evan]

I wish.

[Justin]

You wish? That's all you had to regret was taking. Wouldn't that be nice?

[Evan]

Oh, it was just a shitty TV.

[Ryan]

Samsung and we're good to go.

[Ben]

And I already ordered it last night.

[Ryan]

You could plug your Tesla in at her house and then run up her.

[Ben]

Power bill and then pay it.

[Justin]

Got him.

[Ryan]

Got her.

[Ken]

You got any ads I can read?

[Justin]

Okay, what's some other Ken could do to hit on a chick?

[Evan]

You could drive your Bronco right through the garage door.

[Ryan]

And then get him a new garage door.

[Evan]

And if her car is in there, you can buy the car too.

[CJ]

You could clog her toilet and then do her plumbing for her.

[Evan]

It's like puts in hotel plumbing.

[Justin]

It's good for like hundreds of people.

[Evan]

It's just industrial six inch pipes. Oh, my God.

[Mike]

Don't worry, sweetheart. I got the 6 inch diameter.

[Ken]

I'll be here a while.

[Ben]

That should be your leading thing when you run for mayor. We need better plumbing in cormorant.

[Evan]

Infrastructure.

[Ben]

Yeah, infrastructure.

[Mike]

Infrastructure's big.

[Ryan]

It's a big one. Word for Elmo.

[CJ]

Are you trying to find a wife, Ken?

[Ken]

After this podcast? Not for a Few weeks.

[Evan]

What are you gonna do for the next two weeks that's gonna differ from.

[Mike]

Like, after he had some crazy arsons planned.

[Justin]

To a chick's house, and she's gonna leave, like, all of her fine china out, Stage the whole house for ken to just break it?

[Ken]

Hoping other dumb. Has anyone in this. This fish house done in the last couple weeks that we can.

[Evan]

Nothing.

[Ken]

We've all been on good behavior, put on blast.

[Ben]

I did a dumb thing, but it actually turned out to be lit. I bought another corvette drift car.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah, that's.

[Ken]

That was pretty lit.

[Ben]

Thanks, boys.

[Ryan]

Doesn't seem like there's much to pick on there. Next subject. Just kidding.

[Justin]

Just kidding.

[Ben]

No, there isn't, luckily. But, I mean, it is dumb that I bought another drift car.

[Evan]

Are you glad?

[Monet X Change]

Does it?

[Evan]

You went down there with a trailer. Because that night you were picking up the drift car, you asked me if I could drop you off, and I started doing the math. And you would have been like, driving a drift car home for like, what, three and a half, four hours at like, 10, 11, midnight o' clock at night? I'm like, do you really want to drive a drift car under those circumstances?

[Ben]

I mean, it's lightly. It's got, like a light angle kit. It's a very streetable drift corvette as it sits right now. I think thought that I regretted bringing the trailer. I should have run, really.

[Evan]

So I just saw it. Yeah, I didn't get to see it.

[Ken]

Where'd you pick it up from?

[Evan]

You never know with a drift car, you know, I mean, some drift cars, you wouldn't want to drive across the state.

[Ben]

It's more or less. It's a corvette with a set of harnesses, a steering wheel, and a. A mild angle kit.

[Justin]

And winter tires, which is lit, Mike. Yeah.

[Ben]

It was like, did you buy those.

[Evan]

Or they come on?

[Ben]

No, they came on. What, you have winter tires on it? He's like, yeah, they're cheap and they're easy to drift on. Because he didn't actually take it to the track or anything.

[Justin]

Smoke good.

[Evan]

Winter tires. Smoked the best.

[Ben]

Okay. Yeah. And so it just so happened to have drift.

[Monet X Change]

Wow.

[Ben]

Winter tires on it. And we got a bunch of snow. And I. Boys, I messed up, too. I went and got it that Friday, and then that Monday was just amazing. We didn't film and the day got away from me, and I was like, that was my day. So we took it out in the snow, Busted the front lip off, had a day, Took the top off, filled it with snow.

[Ken]

Did you happen to look. Look at the passenger seat leather after we filmed with it a little more.

[Ryan]

Dalton, do it.

[Ben]

Oh, I was like, Dalton was sitting.

[Ken]

In it, but apparently Dalton was also standing on it. Oh, yeah, and he had studs in his boots.

[Evan]

Dalton, we need to revoke his stud privileges.

[Ben]

You were standing on the vet seats with studs in the boots.

[CJ]

Didn't do any damage.

[Ben]

You're right. I saw it. It looks fine. But I was already like, Dalton, you're. You're really crunching up the seats here. I didn't really realized you had studs in it, bro.

[CJ]

It's a salvage title.

[Evan]

I think when he gets his truck back from Tony, you should wear studs in his truck.

[CJ]

No, bad idea.

[Ben]

Stand on the.

[Ken]

What goes around comes around, and what.

[Ben]

Comes around is all around.

[Justin]

At least this one has a title. Mic. That's good.

[Evan]

That's a dirty title, but a title nonetheless.

[Justin]

I was wondering if. If it was registered.

[Ben]

Yeah. So luckily it is a rebuilt title, but I really just. I had been itching to get back in the Corvette game.

[Ken]

Did I see. Even had tabs on it.

[Ben]

Current tabs. Like I could legally. And now that I know that the snow tires were good, I should probably drive it. Who cares about a little rust?

[Justin]

100%. No, you got to drive that. That's sick.

[Ryan]

It's fiberglass.

[Ben]

Nonetheless, even better.

[CJ]

Damage or no damage. I'm sorry. You can stand in my seats with studs. I'll make a video on it. It'll go viral.

[Ben]

Yeah. You got a sunroof?

[CJ]

I do have a sunroof.

[Ben]

Perfect.

[Evan]

I'm just envisioning, like, the Dave Chappelle skit where he's Rick James grinding his muddy boots into Rick James. Couch.

[Ryan]

I'm Rick James.

[Evan]

Or Rick James into Eddie Murphy's coach.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What does he say?

[Evan]

Yo, couch.

[Ryan]

Oh, they said, I'm Rick James.

[Ben]

Yo, couch. Anybody else done anything stupid?

[Justin]

Tones Regretting the entire conversation he had with Grandpa Ron.

[Mike]

Are you actually regretting it?

[CJ]

Not really. Because, like, the way he makes it, I knew it sounded. It was like, all bad stuff, but it was like we were laughing the whole time he was laughing. C.J. was laughing.

[Justin]

Like, I was more laughing. I was more laughing at the situation at hand.

[CJ]

I mean, I guess I thought you were laughing with me.

[Justin]

No, I was more laughing just that the. That it was happening. I wasn't necessarily laughing at you.

[CJ]

What do you expect when you.

[Justin]

I was just like, what the hell is going on right now?

[CJ]

You gave him a beer at 7am of course he's Going to start talking about that stuff.

[Mike]

Pretty sure that's a pretty normal time for him.

[Ryan]

He was in the pilot pocket.

[Justin]

He was, yeah. You saw. You saw him.

[CJ]

Mind you, I woke up at like 6am to be there at 7, and then grandpa probably woke up at 6am to be There at 7 and then you give him a beer. So I'm delusional because I usually don't wake up that early. Then he's delusional because he's got beers in his. He drank eight beers in the way of the game.

[Ken]

That's a normal, like, life form, though. He, you know, Wakes up at 6, goes. Hits the golf course at 7, has a couple beers and.

[Evan]

Are you making this up?

[Ken]

Well, no, he's retired. I mean, I'm. I'm Ben's grandpa. He's retired.

[Mike]

I'm with Ken on this. This sounds like neutral. He's coasting.

[Ken]

That's a pretty normal schedule for him.

[Justin]

Yeah, this one was definitely more aggressive.

[Ben]

I just was cracking up. When you guys got to Pat's, we met up after we surprised our filmer with some wheels and. Sorry. Sorry.

[Justin]

Anyway, beefing.

[Ben]

I. I hopped in the sprinter van.

[Ryan]

On the same team.

[Ben]

He's. He's lounged out in the chair and he's just floating. He's absolutely just floating. And he's in the stage where all he had to eat was chilling chips. Like, so he's just eating. Eating these chips, like crazy.

[Justin]

How you guys doing?

[Ben]

And then he, like, he goes, oh, you guys need some chips? Hands me borderline an empty bag, and I like, just eat the last three. I'm like, thanks, dude. He just, He. He was out partying, all you guys, and I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just insane. He literally. And he's just rolling.

[Justin]

I go, crap. Well, how many beers have you had today? Knowing it was probably like 14, he goes, oh, not many.

[Ben]

Three.

[Justin]

Three. Like, he honestly thought that I believe that he had three. I was like, grandma, I'm not. I'm not. Grandma, I'm not.

[Ryan]

You don't got a logic here.

[Evan]

You can lie to your wife, but not to me.

[Ken]

I believe he had three at the game.

[Ben]

Dude, it's like. It's like shred 82, you know, just pounding beers all day and a couple shots, and you're like, dude, are you ripped up right now?

[Justin]

No, I'm good. If Gav was here right now, and I go, gav, I've never even seen you drive drunk. He would literally look at me and go, I don't really get drunk when, like, I've seen him just.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Hammered.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Blitzed, like, a hundred times.

[CJ]

For the record, me and Pat are not beefing. He was just more put off that I DM'd his wife.

[Ken]

And why did you DM his wife?

[Evan]

Rim job.

[CJ]

DM. Chill, chill. She is a very nice lady, very respectable.

[Evan]

I thought we were talking to Pat's wife about the wheels.

[Cody]

Oh, yeah.

[Justin]

Yeah. I thought it had, like, a little over my head. Yeah, it went over my head.

[Ben]

Sorry.

[Evan]

My bad.

[Justin]

I didn't even put. I didn't even. Yeah, I was like. That was. That was pretty outlandish to say there.

[Ben]

And still our editors. Sorry.

[Justin]

The fumes we got, the heaters barely.

[Evan]

Are these stupid things. My KTM is stupid.

[Ken]

It blew up.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Very.

[Mike]

You blew up the ktm?

[Evan]

Yep.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Evan]

Held it wide open for about five minutes chasing around some snowmobiles.

[Mike]

Blew up unforged.

[Ben]

And it was. It was.

[Ryan]

How many hours were.

[Evan]

Not that many.

[Ben]

It was interesting because Evan throws the. But, you know, you're just like, ah. And he wasn't mad that the bike blew up. He was just mad that he couldn't keep ripping ice. It was the first day out on the ice. We have a ton of snow on, and it was the one day of glare ice that we got.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was feeling good. It ran for, like, 10 minutes total, probably.

[Ben]

So you were right. Evan had been saying, like, he hasn't been riding the KTM because it's running, like. And then he got it out on the ice and kind of proved that.

[Evan]

Well, it was running good, and then it didn't run no more.

[Justin]

That's what they say.

[Evan]

Yeah. Run the best before they pop. Fortunately, I got the best mechanic this side of the Mississippi on it.

[Justin]

If you can slam out of the.

[Ben]

Chair, you got to get Slim out of the chair.

[Ken]

Technically, Slim's on the other side of the Mississippi. Mississippi.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

From where we're currently at.

[CJ]

True.

[Mike]

That was very Micah of you.

[Ryan]

Very geographical. You know what?

[Evan]

Honestly, fellas, I'm gonna say it. Both sides. Mississippi. How about you, Ryan? You've had to done something stupid.

[Ryan]

My hot take is there's too many handshake options for guys. I love it because I keep messing them up.

[Ken]

What made you think of this?

[Evan]

I'll go for an early fist bump just to avoid the whole scenario.

[Cody]

Agreed.

[Ryan]

And you always feel like the thing is.

[Evan]

Yeah, just. Just hit my fist, bro.

[Ryan]

Here's the problem. We meet somebody, and there's seven of us standing in a group, and so Ben and CJ walk in and they dap him up with like just a nice dap up. Okay, now you've got five more people. We've got 32 more seconds of dap up ahead. Do we need to dap everybody up and go, hey, hey.

[Evan]

Some sort of group consensus.

[Ryan]

Exactly. You don't know what's gonna happen.

[Mike]

Group hug.

[Justin]

Group.

[Evan]

I was going more for hug than consensus, but yes.

[Justin]

No, we just. If one person, we surround them and we all come together. What's up, dude? Hey, bud, bring it in.

[Ben]

You know how that people would be talking just in the like, I guess industry. Of all the people we'd hang like, can you imagine? We go, yeah, we group hug Cletus and then group hug Squirrel and group hug. Like all the guys in the shop and they're like, what the hell?

[Justin]

Yeah, I met the. I met the Sea Boys this weekend.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Justin]

How were they? They ended up being okay, but it started a little weird.

[Evan]

Think about in one year, how many people we meet and then you take the six or eight handshakes, dap ups versus one quick group hug. How much time we save in a.

[Justin]

Whole year, how much farther?

[Ryan]

Hours, days, Maybe we send out a representative. Like, we just send Ken in, say, hi, we are C boys, TV boys. And then it's quiet. And then we just basically back up.

[Justin]

And then everyone comes in and.

[Evan]

And yeah, we could all gather and hold each other's hands with like one a chain.

[Ryan]

Hands across America.

[Evan]

Like the Power Rangers where they form the Megazord.

[Ben]

Dude, you guys are on to something here.

[Ryan]

That's what I'm saying. But then if everybody else daps gets to dap someone up and then I go, great to meet you. And I give them a nuts. They're, they're like, they're like, what the is up with this guy? He doesn't want to dap me up.

[Justin]

Me and Ryan just didn't hit it up.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's happened.

[Justin]

All right. Who's the big dog then, huh?

[Ryan]

But there's many. There's so many options. Like if you come in like this, it's a handshake. But some people will take this and then they twist it into something dumb.

[Ben]

You're half nelson.

[Justin]

It's when you, when you bring it in and, and then you, you bring them in for the dap up. And if you're like confident enough with what you're doing, then it just all flows. It's when. It's when two people, people don't have confidence going into it. It's like if one person just takes control, they can just kind of, like, manhandle the situation. But I'm just seeing people just going.

[Ryan]

Ken there doesn't need to.

[Ken]

I've gotten a lot better. I'm way better than I was five years ago.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Justin]

Yeah. Ken. Ken couldn't dap for his. To save his life. Which you have gotten better.

[Ken]

Hell of a lot better, I'd say.

[Justin]

Yeah, but you couldn't make. It's because of the hand eye coordinate nation.

[Ben]

You know who's just got it down? Axel Hodges.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Everybody knows when they see him. To hit the. Everybody knows. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Maybe you need a signature move that people need to study about you.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because, like, you. You could do the. It's like handshake. This is the.

[Mike]

The hit.

[Ryan]

And then if you go like this. The problem is you could do the, like, you know, where you go like that. That and then the knucks. Or you go in for the hug. There's so many confusing things, and that's why I end up in a Nigel Houston situation where I make a fool of myself about this. Yeah, dude, it's my. It's my. Take less handshake options for men.

[Ken]

So what. What is quad's signature move gonna be?

[Ryan]

Yeah, do handshake.

[Evan]

Just throws foes.

[Justin]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Season goes like this. You do it in reciprocation if you respect vocab guy. Yeah. Like, who's smart? Who's smart?

[Justin]

Okay, so speaking of just meeting people, you guys would have seen it in the last video. We met this guy. His name was Buddy. Rocket Man.

[Mike]

Yes, dude.

[Ryan]

Buddy's a legend.

[Justin]

And so you were saying, like, we meet so many people, you know, think of all the time we would save.

[Evan]

So I don't want to save time with Buddy. I'll waste all my time with Buddy.

[Justin]

Something about the guy, right? Like, it's just like, I. I've met him once, but we went over to Buddy's house when we were down at the Vikings game after the Vice game. He lives in the same neighborhood as Pat, so we texted.

[Evan]

That's a crazy coincidence.

[Ben]

Yeah, it is.

[Justin]

It is, Bill. Bizarre. So, like, the first five minutes that we met Buddy, he was like, just immediately, one, our best friend, and two was like, you guys got to come to my house. And so we were in the neighborhood, we were like, oh, we got to hit a Buddy. We got to see this house. Not really knowing what to expect besides for the fact of. We were telling Pat and his wife, like, yeah, we're going over to Buddy Rocket Man's. And they were like, yeah, that's like a legendary spot. You'll have to.

[Ryan]

A lot of people get access to it or.

[Justin]

No, I don't think so. And so a lot, like, everyone kind of just wondered yet, like, what's. What's going on there, Right? It's like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, like, not knowing what's going on in Willy Wonka's rocket factory. And so I've met Buddy once. I just see him and I was like, we're not dapping up. And I just go in for like a bear hug. Not even like a dap up hug. I just go in for like a big hug. And he. He was expecting the dap up, so I caught him off guard. I caught him off guard for the hug. It worked.

[Evan]

It worked out, though.

[Justin]

Like, no, he. Both of his arms were down.

[Evan]

I was. I was hugging.

[Ryan]

You're like an aunt hugging a freaking juvenile.

[Cody]

What?

[Ken]

Hey.

[Justin]

Speaking. Yeah, but no, you guys.

[Evan]

I am.

[Justin]

Buddy's house with us. But I really wish that Mike would have been there. Mike, you would have been loving it.

[Evan]

When Buddy was up here hanging out with us, I did get the pleasure of about a 5 minute FaceTime call with his father. He gave us a little tour in the house, which I know can't compare to being there, but I did get the slight idea of what's going on there.

[Justin]

Yeah. So pretty wild the. The backstory on Buddy. So we meet Buddy. He comes out and he's like, hey, how's it going? My name is Buddy. And I was like, your real legal name is Buddy? And he's like, yeah, my middle name is Rocket Man. And I was like, your name is Buddy? Rocket Man. That's insane. Like, what's going on here? Right? So.

[Evan]

So clearly, rockets man.

[Justin]

Well, we spend the day with them. We come to learn that Buddy's dad was the stunt coordinator for, like, every movie made between the 70s to, like, the 2000s. So anytime that there was a stunt going on, Buddy's dad, who's a legend in the. In the movie world, was the stunt coordinator for it. So somewhere along the way, the dude found his love and passion for rockets and making sweet, sweet love. Buddy was one of 13 children.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Justin]

And the dude is just an absolute legend. An absolute legend. Right. So what is it?

[Mike]

His siblings? Buddy, pal, friend, Guy, Guy, gal.

[Justin]

So the reason I. I mentioned that he was into making love, right. His Buddy gives us a tour of his house. It was unbelievable. There was rockets everywhere. There was toilet rockets. There Was like jet pack rockets, I think.

[Ken]

Did you. Did you make an offer to buy the toilet rocket?

[Justin]

I think it was like 100,000. Yeah. Because we did ask.

[Evan]

Keep in mind, you guys should have got to.

[Ben]

You guys will see it on the video here. Every single rocket and piece of machinery. Imagine every build we did was chromed out, shot, shiny. Everything looked like Silver Surfer.

[Justin]

Yeah. And like, just like built to perfection. And so anyway, we're getting a tour of Buddy's house and we're just like, this is. This is amazing. Here's a picture of Buddy and Vin Diesel. Here's the very first photo of Buddy surrounded by rockets. And he goes, this is my dad's room. Heart shaped bed.

[Ben]

I. I got.

[Evan]

This dude is living.

[Ben]

Yeah, he is. I. Ben, I got a mica you on this. You're like, I thought we had a one off. Do you not know the whole era of heart shaped beds in the 80s?

[Justin]

Well, heart shaped beds are hard.

[Evan]

Hard to get.

[Justin]

Like, we had to like custom make cards. You can't just buy a heart shape better. At least we couldn't. We couldn't find one. And so world's first. It was like one. One of one, we thought, because you can't. You have to like, get them close. Yeah. I don't know. Stupid. Yeah. So anyway. Oh, this. His dad was in the COVID of Playgirl. Look at him. That's what legend don't show, Ken. And then here's a rocket powered pencil sharpener.

[Evan]

Nope, that.

[Mike]

That's egregious and awesome. I need three of them.

[Justin]

And then this is his bathroom. You're gonna love this, Ev.

[Ken]

That's a bunch of dinosaur bones.

[Justin]

Sorry. This is his bathroom. Heart shaped Jacuzzi surrounded by mirrors everywhere.

[Mike]

Yo, that noise was crazy, bro.

[Justin]

Here's CJ and Buddy lounged out in the tunnel.

[Evan]

I heard there was a photo of all three of you fellas in the top there.

[Justin]

Might have been my favorite part.

[Evan]

See that photo?

[CJ]

It's on the big cam.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Justin]

We can pop it up here. Pop it up right here.

[CJ]

Yeah, pop it up.

[Evan]

Cj, Hands on your thighs.

[Justin]

But yeah, they might have been cj. I don't know, dude. I gave him a hug when we. You know, something about Buddy. You just feel comfortable around the guy.

[Mike]

Buddy's powerful, man. You gotta watch out around this guy. What is that?

[Evan]

Rocket launcher?

[Justin]

Yeah.

[Cody]

What.

[Justin]

What were we saying though, Dalton?

[CJ]

Just what you said. Like, you and C.J. get in the tub and then Buddy slides in between you and CJ kind of snuggles up next to him. And CJ goes. Taps his thigh. And then Buddy puts his hand down there.

[Ryan]

Oh, my go.

[CJ]

I didn't want to take any more pictures, but I had to.

[Justin]

Here's a rocket powered blender.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Justin]

And then Buddy's dad comes out. We meet him and grandpa just hand him money. Yeah, yeah. Why? They were gambling. They were making bets. And. Anyway, can you show the pool? Oh, yeah, yeah, there was a pool. There was a pool in the middle of Buddy's power pool.

[Ben]

There was a balcony.

[Justin]

A literal pool in the middle of Buddy's house is unbelievable.

[Ben]

And there's a balcony on top. You could jump off of it.

[Justin]

It was deep, Mike, you would have.

[Ben]

Oh, I would have loved it.

[Justin]

Yeah, you would have loved it.

[Ryan]

That smell like pool.

[Ben]

Pool in there. Do you think he would have let me jump off?

[Ryan]

Well, there's no.

[Justin]

There's no water in the pool.

[Ryan]

Oh, damn.

[Mike]

You would have loved it, Mike.

[Evan]

You definitely would have jumped.

[Ken]

That's a one and done kind of jump.

[Justin]

So you got my cord. So we're sitting there talking to Buddy's dad, and this guy is like, I know you know all of the. The greatest stuntmen of.

[Evan]

Did he mention shred 80 of all time?

[Justin]

And I go. I go, yeah, my buddy is the best stuntman I know. Shred80. Ever heard of him? And he goes, never heard of him. Let me show you what a real stuntman does.

[Ben]

Because I.

[Justin]

He was like, what kind of stunts is he doing? And I was like, well, a lot of them doesn't land most of them, but most of them involve three wheels and some kind of jump. And that was all he needed to. To prove me wrong. I bet Shred 80 was no stuntman. He goes, take a seat. And at this point, I'm like, he's coming with receipts on this one. Well, he proceeds to show us all of the stunts that he coordinated in, like, the 80s 90s. Yeah, dude, they. They were really, really impressive. And the entire time I was just like, how did that guy not die? Like, how is that stuntman not dead? And he was like, not a single person got hurt under my supervision. Wow, that's.

[Ryan]

That's pretty cool.

[Justin]

That's pretty crazy because, like, dude, they were doing stunts like jumping 15 cars on a motorcycle and blowing up in.

[Mike]

The middle and the riders on it.

[Justin]

Stuntman's on it. Jumping rock.

[Evan]

Does he land on the motorcycle?

[Justin]

No.

[Ken]

Where's he?

[Justin]

I don't know, Ben. I don't know.

[Evan]

This isn't Chris Angel.

[Mike]

Nobody got hurt because they all fucking died.

[Evan]

Zero injuries, 37 deaths, but not a single go big or go home.

[Justin]

At the end of it, he goes, now those are stunt men. Can your boy do those? And I was like, no, no, he can't.

[Evan]

Probably give it a good run though.

[Justin]

Yeah, yeah, he would.

[Ryan]

He would give it a shot.

[Justin]

He would give it a shot.

[Ben]

But part of you also is like, I'm glad he's not, because you kind of posed the question, how did. No, none of these guys die.

[Justin]

He said that, like, stunts nowadays are so much different because back to then, there was no suspension, there was no like foam airbags or, you know, foam pits or, or airbags to fall into. Like, everything had to work because if it didn't, they would die.

[Ben]

Was he doing like math on, on some of this? Like, math and physics go a long way.

[Justin]

He's a literal rocket.

[Evan]

No, he's guest.

[Justin]

You know how the 80s went batting.

[Evan]

Up thousand ideas into a bingo wheel and just cranked it. Whatever came out, they ran for the day.

[Justin]

Oh, that's sounds like car fire.

[Evan]

Backflip.

[Ryan]

Perfect.

[Justin]

We asked him like, what he thought of Evil Knievel and he did not speak highly of him.

[Ryan]

No, they do not with Evil Knievel.

[Ken]

Nope.

[Justin]

And, but he was just like the. He wasn't that crazy. No, he didn't speak poorly, I guess, of Robbie Knievel, but he spoke poorly of evil. He was like. And evil just rode the coattails of his son and took all of his money too. Like, oh. Just didn't like the guy. But. But yeah, he was like, he wasn't a good jumper, he wasn't a good stuntman. He was just a good marketer. And.

[Ben]

And yeah, it's like, it's like now.

[Justin]

People come to see him in the skate community.

[Ben]

Someone blows up on Instagram and they're like, they're not even that good at skating. They shouldn't be pro. It's like that. Well, if you have the clout.

[Mike]

It's crazy because Evan's got a pro.

[Evan]

Doing it before everyone else was. And most of his just ended in a spectacular crash.

[Ben]

Yeah, true.

[Evan]

If he wasn't wearing those leather suits, he would have been ripped to shreds. He some somehow survived.

[Justin]

Yeah, he did a great name.

[Evan]

He's a legend.

[Justin]

Legend, Absolute legend. I'm not taking anything away from evil.

[Evan]

If you even just look at like, what I mean, I hate to say, but like a really good, like 15 year old dirt bike motocross kid nowadays was. Is probably doing jumps bigger than what Evil Knievel was doing. But it was just a different time. Maybe that was an aggressive statement, but they weren't that big, you know? I don't know. It's just things have changed.

[Ryan]

He was on just garbage bike, though.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It was so much sketchier. Like, everything he did was so sketchy.

[Ken]

Sketchy.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

But you had the sickest name.

[Ryan]

True, Ken.

[Justin]

I think that was a successful ice fish boy.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, we didn't catch a fish. I did have a couple beers, which was good.

[Evan]

I thought.

[Ryan]

I think we're going to do this again. And no offense, Jay, but we might hire a different guide.

[Mike]

Dude, honestly, hire a coordinator on getting here on time.

[Ryan]

Dude, don't make me do this again.

[Justin]

Justin is like, buddy, I. I'm doing you a favor by doing this. You think I want to be out. Out here setting this up for you?

[Cody]

No.

[Ken]

Don't make me sit in the ice all day and go fishing.

[Mike]

See, Ken's right. I'm sitting here, I'm like, I'm not complaining. I got to fish all afternoon. I'm chilling with that. I just feel bad when you guys don't catch fish, because I want you guys to catch fish, but you need.

[Evan]

To slurp a minnow before the pod.

[Ryan]

Yeah, let's do it. Ended out, Ken. With. With the minnow.

[Ken]

No.

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

Why not?

[Evan]

I'll do it with you.

[Ryan]

Put in your cars.

[Mike]

You won't even know.

[Ken]

No, I'm. I'm not doing a mental shot, but if you don't have anything fireball, you just.

[Evan]

Just eat the minnow.

[Ken]

No, I'm not just doing. Just eating a minnow. That is disgusting.

[Ryan]

It's either either do that or a cold plunge.

[Ken]

We're not doing either.

[Evan]

That is just ridiculous.

[Mike]

I mean, there's a crappie.

[Justin]

Minnows and suckers.

[Ryan]

We need a title. We've only got our first two titles. We need a third.

[Justin]

Oh, those are some big.

[CJ]

Look at that.

[Mike]

I mean, there was some chunkers in there.

[Ken]

I do have a potential location for our next podcast on the ice.

[Ryan]

No.

[Justin]

Oh, no.

[Ken]

That was incredible.

[Ben]

Come on, brother. Get some beer down you.

[Ken]

Yeah, he just.

[Ben]

He slurped it.

[Ken]

Did you slurp it, or did you.

[Ben]

Just, like, you turn into the shadow.

[Ken]

Suck and then throw it on the floor?

[Ryan]

No, I.

[Mike]

That's gone.

[Ryan]

You slurped that thing. I can see in your eyes.

[Ben]

Well, Ben, now is not the time, bro.

[Ryan]

The.

[Mike]

The velocity was incredible on that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, I. I think when I.

[Evan]

Was a kid, my dad, he might have had a couple beers.

[Mike]

Crazy.

[Evan]

He found out he Could. He did it once, and we were all tripping out. They did it again, and then I was trying. A few of us kids were trying. We couldn't do it. We just put in our mouth, and we'd be gagging, and he'd do another one. He probably did a half a dozen plus minnows and was just laughing that. And none of us kids could do it because it's disgusting.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah, it is disgusting.

[Evan]

All right.

[Ryan]

That was a fish talking.

[Evan]

Come on, rip one. You just slurp it down.

[Justin]

Come on.

[Evan]

I can't do it head first, or else the scales will catch in your throat.

[Ken]

No, I'm.

[Ryan]

Come on.

[Ken]

We don't have any fireball. I'm not gonna.

[Mike]

You don't like cinnamon.

[Ken]

I. I do, but you can't do. You can't do a cinnamon.

[Justin]

That's.

[Mike]

That's the line.

[Ken]

A minnow shot with fireball is just like the classic.

[Mike]

What if it was Zambuca? The minnow or the Sambuca.

[Ken]

The sambuca. It would ruin the Sambua.

[Mike]

What about Ron Diaz?

[Ken]

Oh, that's just gross as it is.

[Ryan]

All right, this minnow is about to come back.

[Evan]

No, I'm chilling. I think someone else needs Mike.

[Ken]

Thank you for. Thank you for listening. Don't forget to like and subscribe.

[Mike]

Ken's cutting this off before he's got to drink a minnow.

[Ken]

Yukon Denali giveaway is ending soon, so get entered. Every $5 gets you one entry.

[Mike]

Ken, acting like we're not going to sit here for another hour.

[Evan]

Yeah, you actually got a slurp a minute. I did it.

[Ben]

Why?

[Ken]

Just because you did it, I have to do it, too. Just because you jumped off a bridge, I have to jump off one, too.

[Evan]

It was part of the deal. It was part of the deal.

[Ken]

There was never a deal.

[Evan]

I said, hey, Ken, I'll do it with you, and then I did it.

[CJ]

It's punishment for wearing those overalls.

[Ken]

What's wrong with overalls?

[Evan]

You have sever moose knuckle.

[CJ]

The moose knuckle.

[Ken]

Where's the moose knuckle?

[Ben]

Is it in the room with Ken has been.

[Justin]

Ken has been getting cooked on his overalls.

[Ryan]

Your lower body's too strong. You need to size up.

[Mike]

Saw you on leg press this morning.

[Ryan]

Good. Thanks.

[Justin]

Sorry.

[Mike]

I'm going to support the way overdeveloped underbody. Because I'm with Ken on that.

[CJ]

I'll do it with you.

[Ken]

No, I'm not doing a minnow shot. That's just. End of story. We're going to sit out here all night bickering about it.

[Evan]

Strip one.

[Ben]

Ken.

[Ken]

We're going to sit out here all night bickering about, oh, why don't you do a minnow shot? No, that's just what we're going to do.

[Evan]

Why don't you just do it?

[Ken]

We can keep going this podcast for another three hours. Going. Just do a minnow shot. I'm going to be like, no, why.

[Evan]

Don'T you just do it?

[Ken]

I don't want to do a minnow shot.

[Evan]

Why?

[Ken]

Cuz I don't want to do it because it's Tuesday.

[Evan]

You know, what is that?

[Ryan]

This is ridiculous.

[Evan]

Ridiculous.

[Justin]

It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday. All right, again. That was good. That was funny. Tuesday. That was funny.

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