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Jake Sherbro
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CJ
Prices may be higher in Hawaii, Alaska and California.
Ken
And for delivery. You guys getting into Fortnite? You guys are like 10 years late. Oh, Jacob Ryan, you're almost 30 years old. Fortnite at your. Jacob, stop this. I'm kind of on edge.
Ryan
We're in your head rent free.
Ken
Yeah, 100. Not gonna lie.
CJ
I'm looking over at Alex right now. She heard two million dollar life insurance policy. Is this something I need to be watching out for?
Ryan
She's got a twinkle in her eye.
CJ
Yeah, she's smiling. Look at the laundry. Now your vaping's costing me money.
Ben
I actually was thinking this week, I'm.
Mike
Like.
Ben
It'S time to stop.
Mike
I have these same shoes, but in men's.
CJ
Oh, yeah, good one, Mike. Actually, I have three pairs of these.
Mike
I really like them.
CJ
Yeah, I do too. I don't know why, but this color might have came smaller. Maybe because it's a women's.
Ryan
I don't know.
CJ
Yeah, no, these. I got a Facebook ad. They were like 40 bucks a piece, dude. And so I'm just like, okay, I got to get these. And so I'm running around wearing $40 shoes and Dalton's walking around wearing thirteen hundred dollar shoes. It's insane. Like there's a big switch up and it's. It's funny cuz technically I'm his boss. Like he's dressed nicer. And me, he's got a Rolex on. Fucking Thirteen hundred dollar shoes.
Jake Sherbro
It's insane.
CJ
And I'm happy to see it though.
Mike
Well, I mean, you. Let's not miss here that you probably bought in like 200 pairs of dunks in your life for sure.
Ryan
Maybe. Have you perhaps spent all your money on Fortnite skins instead? Is that where all you.
CJ
Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot I had this soon. No, I actually have not been buying any Fortnite skins. I just been. I earned the homer skin. Oh, that's actually hard to get.
Jake Sherbro
He's just been losing all of his money in crypto.
Ryan
Oh, well, everybody has that too.
CJ
But no, as far as the, the gaming, no, I don't believe in buying the skins just because it kind of defeats the whole purpose of the game.
Mike
Yeah, maybe one or two or three.
CJ
But it has to be like something really rare. But yeah, I don't know. I'm just. Maybe I'm old school. Maybe I'm old school. I like earning it, but yeah. Ryan, I saw you were getting into Fortnite, dude.
Ryan
It was actually pretty bad. I had like a moment actually. Pretty bad. No, no, I did great. Me and Spenny were running. We won like 15 out of 18 games we played.
Mike
It was an insane lobby. Were you in?
Ryan
I. I don't know.
CJ
Like, Ryan was the host.
Jake Sherbro
Oh, were you the host?
Ryan
No, no, Spenny was.
CJ
Oh gosh.
Ryan
I think I'm actually higher than Spenny, but he had a friend that was really good. But yeah, I had a realization. I'm building my house now, so it is torn down and gone. So I moved back in with my dad so I could live at a place for cheap while it's being built. And I had a realization that I'm 29 years old, living in my dad's house, playing Fortnite a Tuesday evening.
Mike
Happens more than you think though, brother.
CJ
Tough, tough.
Jake Sherbro
Look, tough.
Ryan
Wander walked in and was like, want to hang out? And I'm like, no, babe, got a couple more games to win.
CJ
Yeah, dude, that's. I've. I've had the same realization. I'm like, I'm 29 and I'm sitting here playing a kids game.
Mike
I know.
Ryan
I feel like I'm like literally 10 years late on it too.
CJ
Yeah. But also I feel like it's coming back around to us. Like, I almost think it's more immature for us to just be hanging at a bar. It's probably worse, you know what I'm saying? Like. Like I would say you're getting less done hanging at the bar. Like.
Ryan
Oh, the hot dog bandit.
CJ
Hot dog perpetrator.
Ryan
Yeah, make sure this guy isn't keister in a hot dog over here.
CJ
What, are you trying to distract us while your homies spray this shop now, too, or what?
Ken
We got a little plan in place.
CJ
Oh, do you?
Ken
Yeah, I got to keep you guys here for a little while.
Jake Sherbro
Let's do it.
CJ
Do what we did to Cody, by the way. Cody. Sorry about that, man. We totally forgot about, like, how long was he on that pole? That had to be so uncomfortable.
Jake Sherbro
At least 45.
CJ
That's crazy. And he didn't complain once. Dude, I would have been kind of freaking out. Like, if you held my arms, I would be like, I got an itch on my nose, and I would start freaking out.
Ryan
Was he in there for the whole drifting session, too?
Ken
I. Well, yeah. I think my favorite part about all of it is he missed all of it.
CJ
Like, he was just hearing it. They just heard it. Just hearing madness outside. What's going on? Well, you had an idea what was probably going on, but yeah, I think.
Ryan
We fully intended to cut him off the pole and kind of just forgot. Such a good kid.
Ben
Well, we got distracted with the hot dogs being sprayed at our building.
Mike
I've seen so many AI videos of me and fricking hot dogs and doing whatever that. The video of us shoveling that Ben took. Shoveling all the dogs in front of your door, Literally, I was there, and it looks AI.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
Yeah, that does look AI. And then when you come out, what are you guys doing? That also looked AI. I was like, what is this? Like, what is real life anymore? I mean, our whole life doesn't even really feel like real life.
Jake Sherbro
No.
CJ
But, yeah, it's. It's very strange.
Ken
I think this whole freaking cormorant scenario is the strangest thing ever. At, like, what point in time would anyone believe any of that story? Like, yeah, we dropped off, like, 4,000 hot dogs on his doorstep, and then he put them in a giant truck and sprayed them over the entire.
Ryan
Yeah, the law of Kormran is pretty crazy. Like, even if you go back, you know, obviously there was the dog mayors, there was Dave terrorizing the town. Like, there's just so much lore in such a small town.
CJ
It is insane. Like, not to. And I say this humbly, but we're, like, getting pretty famous. We're getting pretty famous, and it's all just localized in this little ass town. Like, this little town. And we don't really associate with other, like, big celebrities or famous people or big influencers and like we, we have the opportunity to like, we get like, people hit us up and, and oftentimes we're just like, ah, we kind of just like it here. We, we got, we need here and we just stay here and just keep doing our thing. And it's just funny. Like, it really is just funny. And like sometimes people want to come up here. Like, we just, we're okay. Like, we're good here. We got our friends already.
Ryan
We got our stuff. The YouTuber per capita rate of cormorant is insane.
CJ
It's got to be.
Jake Sherbro
I think it's capped out bigger than la. I think it's capped out like there's actually no more room in just being.
CJ
A normal person in Cormorant though, where you're just like, you know, you grew up here or you moved here cuz you were like, I'm trying to live that. And then say, what the fuck is going on? Like, everyone a YouTuber nowadays. Like, you guys running around doing all this crazy shit all the time. I can't even drive down the road because they're someone's hot dogs. Fucking hanging out in the middle of it.
Jake Sherbro
So that is the thing though is people that live in Cormorant probably think that like everyone's YouTubers these days. Like, they're like, all right, we got 17 people that live in this town, two of them are YouTubers. So that's got to be how the rest of the world is you, you know, you got YouTube. Every single town is just getting taken over by YouTubers. No, just Cormorant.
Mike
Yeah, I did have that thought though. Like, what if someone moved to cormorant? They're like, yeah, the YouTuber per capita there is. I'm going to do well.
Ryan
We become like the new L. A. Everyone's moving here because it's like a little.
CJ
The success rate was very high.
Jake Sherbro
No, I don't think that there's actually any more room though.
Ryan
We got the south side of cormorants full in the north side of.
Ken
That's.
Jake Sherbro
It's, it's full.
CJ
It honestly would be bad for the town. Like, you know, we joke, but we're pretty respectful of the town. And that's the thing is like other people come in and maybe they think like, oh, you can just do whatever you want around here, but you can't, you can't. Like, you gotta.
Ken
We're almost walking on eggshells a lot. We're like, okay, get. Wait till they go. Be respectful.
CJ
We know how to like navigate It. So we're not inconveniencing really anyone?
Jake Sherbro
I think we've been doing it long enough where people expect it from us. And you're last Name is on 90% of the streets around here.
Ken
So, like, get them out of here.
Ryan
When you were growing up, they knew. They're like, oh, well, there's a Sherbrooke kid in town.
Ken
Yeah, we're cooked. Oh, my God.
Jake Sherbro
Dude. Thanks for coming, Jake.
Ryan
Yeah, thanks, bud.
Ken
Yeah, thanks for having me. Kind of showed up unannounced, but, you know, it's kind of what we do in this town anyway.
CJ
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
Appreciate you pulling up.
CJ
Welcome. Besides, when you have hot dogs that you're spraying all over our parking lot.
Jake Sherbro
Besides for spraying our entire compound down with hot dogs.
CJ
What.
Jake Sherbro
What have you been doing?
Ken
Just waiting for you guys to maybe do a little rebuttal. So, you know, I'm not really. The amount of times I've been in bed and I will hear someone outside, and I have sprinted outside to grab the keys out of like, my truck or put it inside or make sure my doors are locked. Like, I'm kind of on edge. Like, I woke up at like three in the morning to the neighbor guy just opening his garage door, thinking it's my other garage door opening. I'm like, no, it's happening. I got something.
CJ
So we're.
Ryan
We're in your head rent free.
Ken
Yeah. 100. Not gonna lie.
Jake Sherbro
Well, it's good to know.
CJ
Let us tell you something. When we strike, we're gonna strike hard.
Ken
I.
CJ
And fast.
Ben
I know.
Ken
Like, I. I just know it's coming, and there's nothing I'll be able to do about it.
CJ
So just stay on edge. It might be. It might be a month, might be three months.
Ben
It could be this afternoon.
CJ
Could even be this afternoon.
Ryan
It might be right happening.
Ken
You're afraid of snakes, Jake the snake, bro. I'm not afraid. Your guys's entire plan is just to break me down mentally.
CJ
Yeah, basically. Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
So after we had dropped the hot dogs off, thinking it was just a light little joke on the neighbor, we were like, oh, should we go back and pick those hot dogs up? And I was like, nah, leave them. I want to see what he does with them. Little did I know that you were going to mulch them up and spray them over every square inch that we own.
Mike
That was awesome.
Ken
When we were coming up with the idea, there was a few people over there, we're like, is this too far?
Ben
Is this.
Ken
Is this too far? And we're like, no.
CJ
It'S a massive mess, dude. Yeah, debatably one of the biggest messes.
Jake Sherbro
It still smells. Have you been over there?
Ken
Oh, yeah, no, I've been over.
Jake Sherbro
It still smells.
Ryan
It's good that it hasn't been 85.
CJ
Degrees because it maybe would have been good, though, if it was summer, just because I feel like birds and stuff would have ate them. Instead, they just kind of, like, are hanging around in our neighbor's dog, Doug. Doug has been just eating, like, dude, madman all day.
Ryan
He's just over there eating.
Ben
Doug, he's up, like 15 pounds.
Ken
He's eating like a king. Every time I'm over there, he's, like, sniffed around the woods.
CJ
I was worried he was gonna get sick, but then I also saw him eating a. A dead deer in the ditch, like, the other day, and I was like, this guy's fine. Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
Hot dogs are the least of his problem.
Ken
Yeah, dude, I was watching your Snapchats. I didn't realize, like, you like foam cannon the whole building.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah. Had to.
Ken
Nice.
CJ
It was a mess.
Ryan
It was very greasy.
Jake Sherbro
It was so bad.
Mike
It was. Yeah. So, like, I just got my truck detailed, and I was like, I'll park it right here. It should be good. No dust on it. And then the hot dog dust from the ground, like, flew up onto it and left, like, gritty spots.
Ryan
Oh, no, that's my bad. When I was sweeping, or was it just the wind?
Mike
You did what you could, brother.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah. Well, have you guys. Have you guys seen the van that you bought?
Mike
Yeah. Is it full of hot?
Jake Sherbro
Have you looked at it? It never got cleaned off. So what's happening? So the.
Mike
It landed on the Corvette, and we probably waited a day to clean that off.
CJ
Did a full buff job on it.
Mike
Really? Yeah, it was. Whatever is in hot dog water is not good for your car.
CJ
I had all of our pressure washers were being used immediately after, and my truck was absolute cake. And I was like, okay, well, I'm gonna just drive to the car wash real quick, run it through, come back. I ran it through seven times.
Mike
What?
CJ
Yeah. And then I had to go to the self serve. I had to go to the self serve thing and pressure wash it again.
Mike
You got eight washes under his belt.
CJ
And then there was still stuff on it. And I was like, whatever. I'm just gonna do this tomorrow. I got the majority of it.
Mike
Did you elbow grease it?
CJ
I had to, yeah.
Jake Sherbro
How did seven car washes not get rid of it?
CJ
Dude, touch free. Just, you know, they weren't like the.
Mike
Touchless, but the film on it.
Jake Sherbro
It was just this film.
CJ
And there was also chunks. Like, the chunks stayed. It was very interesting. Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
I had to get within like a foot with our pressure washer. Yeah. That's a heavy duty pressure washer on the side of the building. And that was an hour after it happened.
CJ
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
I was like, imagine if we would have left this for like three days or four weeks.
CJ
20 minutes down the road at 6,65 mile an hour. And it all dried on there.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah. Pretty corrosive, though, if you. If you want to dog water.
CJ
I was worried it was maybe going to be like eggs on paint, you know, where it just literally peels it off. Why does that happen?
Jake Sherbro
Eggs, literally.
CJ
If you egg a car, peel the paint.
Ryan
What do eggs do to paint? Why do they do that?
Mike
Same for bug guts and also tomatoes. When tomatoes dry, I don't know what it is about it, but it's just like, hardens.
Ryan
Yeah. Yeah. Tomato sauce. Had to tear my whole house down.
Ben
Eggs are. Eggs are acidic and have abrasive solids that can ruin the clear coat on car paint.
Ken
Pretty sure baloney is the same thing. Wasn't that like a prank? Once upon a time, a long time ago, people would baloney the side of someone's car.
CJ
Oh.
Jake Sherbro
I mean, that's pretty funny, though, when you're driving by. I've seen it. I don't know if I've seen it with baloney, but yeah. You do it with the kraft cheese.
Mike
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
And then you drive by, you look at somebody, and then you throw a big slab of cheese on their window and drive off. It's pretty funny.
Ken
It is. Solid break.
Ryan
I was. I've been driving the giveaway car lately, the Yukon. It's extraordinary. It's literally the nicest car ever.
Ken
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
I don't know if you should be.
Ryan
I know. Don't worry.
Jake Sherbro
Like, legit. Anybody else so nervous?
Ryan
So nervous driving it. You have no freaking idea. Like, it's. It's fun and I'm enjoying it, but I am nervous. Every mile that I put on, it.
CJ
Would suck of a deer ran inside.
Ryan
I'd feel like such a mega idiot. Like, I would be.
Jake Sherbro
I mean, the odds are in the dummy zone.
CJ
This.
Jake Sherbro
The odds are pretty good that that happens to Ryan.
CJ
This is what we'd have to do. Ryan, you'd have to buy that Yukon from us and then deal with. Probably just drive it around with the busted upside. Probably we'd replace it with another Yukon. Exact same spec.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
And then, you know, the winner doesn't have a crash vehicle.
Ryan
And yeah. And then everybody wins except for me right now.
CJ
You got another vehicle.
Ryan
Well, that's true. That's true. And it's better than.
Ken
Ryan's track record with deer is to the point when if I'm, like, opening Snapchats and he's like, cool, check it out. And his camera flips around, I just know one of his vehicles are gonna be total. Like, it's just like, the amount of deer you've hit is 10 to 1.
Ryan
I mean, it's. Yeah, well, it's just two in the last year, so it feels extra bad.
CJ
Dude, you know what you need to get is a Urus, like, Ben's car. I just found this out yesterday. But his has, like, a camera system in the front. Obviously has a camera system, but it's some kind of.
Ryan
What is it, infrared or night vision?
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, it's like night vision infrared.
CJ
It sees the deer before him, he was saying, and, like, dings and makes a bunch of noise.
Jake Sherbro
So, like, crazy. It's really good, too. It works really good.
CJ
Saw yesterday. That's so nice.
Jake Sherbro
Next time you look at my car, there's, like, this little.
Ryan
The ball in the front.
Jake Sherbro
Ball in the front, yeah. If you're driving at night, it'll pick up deer in the ditch or on the road, way ahead of my headlights, and it'll show the deer on the center screen, and then it'll start popping up and dinging at me like, deer, deer, deer, deer, deer.
Ryan
And you can lock them up, and.
Jake Sherbro
Then I can lock them up, and then. And then I lock them up, and I'm like, where is this thing? And then I'll drive slow, and then.
Ryan
It runs right into the side of you.
Mike
That's pretty sweet.
Jake Sherbro
Hasn't happened yet.
Ryan
Yeah, but. No, that's so nice, actually.
CJ
Dude, I bet you, like, it's gonna work its way down the ladder. Like, obviously, the Urus is. Is more towards the top, but, like, give it four or five years, a Raptor is gonna have that.
Ryan
That would be nice.
CJ
That'd be amazing.
Ryan
It comes standard around here. The deer are so dumb.
Mike
So why'd you end up going with the Urus? Oh, the animal detection.
CJ
That's what you should do, Ryan.
Ryan
I saved so much money by not hitting deer that I could buy a Lamborghini.
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Jake Sherbro
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CJ
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Ryan
That'd be pretty scary going on and.
Ben
The deer just runs across in front of Me.
Ryan
Wow. So Tesla can do it too.
CJ
It has infrared.
Mike
No.
Ben
Just like the cameras picked it up.
CJ
Yeah, I feel. I was going to say I feel like the Tesla cameras, no shade towards you, Ken, but I'm not that impressed with them. They're very grainy. You think Elon would put some better cameras?
Ryan
I do agree. Like your backup camera and stuff you think would be like 4K.
CJ
That impressed.
Ben
It's good also. It's good when it's clean. It's just they get dirty really easy.
CJ
The thing we forget though is like it's not necessarily supposed to be this high end car. Like Teslas aren't supposed to be high end cars. They're supposed to be mass production.
Mike
Which that's what I thought about too when. How many cameras like does your Cybertruck have?
Ben
8 or 10?
CJ
Quite a bit.
Ryan
It's got the one inside too.
Jake Sherbro
Right?
Ryan
It's watching.
CJ
You know you are right. The Ryan, it's still. Well if you get the top model, it's 100 grand.
Mike
Backup camera.
CJ
Majority of them are also.
Mike
I wish that was the thing when you were like specking out a vehicle. If I could like pay extra to have high def backup camera versus crust ass back backup camera, I would do.
Ryan
They put the. The AI driving or the thing that you have in your car, but they put it in a Mustang and it just like turns the wheel to.
Jake Sherbro
I noticed you're around a crowd. Would you like to turn into the crowd or cancel that?
Ken
It's just a yes or no button. I was gonna say. So you were saying like technology in cars. Like I've never had like a newer truck or whatever. The amount of technology going into new vehicles is insane. So I think I saw this from you a while ago, but I took a water bottle in my Gen 3 and put it in the steering wheel and put it like just in like the full lane assist mode. It is borderline self driving. Like when I went and got Cody's drift car, I didn't touch the wheel really. Like it just drove it all the way there and it's got like the start stop and then with the water bottles in the steering wheel, it. Yeah, it literally brought me all the way there and all the way back. I'm like, at what point is it just like not going to drive anymore?
CJ
Yeah, it's easy to get lazy.
Ken
Oh dude.
Mike
It's crazy that the different tiers of it though. Obviously Tesla has like its full driving or whatever. In my Bronco, I was like so excited. I'm like, oh, I Got lane assist. It's not self driving and it's not even close. Like I set it on, come up to a curve, just don't. Wait, what? Like all the other, the new Ford, the Ford we were giving away, like that had the like the real lane assist which where you could pretty much just drive.
Ryan
Yeah, it is.
Jake Sherbro
There's a lot of tears to it.
Mike
I was confused.
Ryan
But it's all the same button. So you don't really know how well it's going to work exactly.
Mike
Like some literally drive themselves and some just vibrate your seat when you hit the.
CJ
So the Yukon literally drives itself?
Ryan
Yeah, it has, it has super cruise. So on the interstate or county highways, no state highways, you can press a button and it will like legitimately drive itself. No hands on the wheel.
CJ
For how long?
Ryan
Generally until there's like an intersection. But I mean it'll drive you all the way through Fargo. Like all the things and everything. And if the GPS has it on, it'll take the corners for you. Like it'll take your exit, change lanes, do everything. It's pretty sick.
CJ
They keep saying, they keep saying in year, like sooner than you think, all cars are going to be self driving. Like you know all this. And I'm just like, that sounds terrible. Like that really sounds terrible. Like let's just say 20 years from now all the cars are self driving and they're electric.
Ryan
Like completely.
CJ
It sounds boring, dude. Like you're not even driving the car. Like, or they're all just robo taxis. Like that sounds really boring. But obviously there's for, for other people that don't really care for driving.
Ben
If you're just commuting, like does it matter? Like you're driving the same road every day and it's kind of boring and just you're not really paying attention anyways. Like does it matter if it drives itself?
Jake Sherbro
Is that good?
Ryan
Reels?
Jake Sherbro
Is that good though? Yeah, but like something about like being engaged when you are driving, like it wakes your brain up or. Yeah, I should say you're. You should be engaged. Most people driving probably aren't though.
Mike
That is true.
Ben
You look at how many people. You look on the road, how many people are using their phone on the road and it's just like if the car is doing it by itself, then you're kind of eliminating that risk factor of somebody not paying attention. You stop and then they just run into the back of you.
CJ
I mean there's no doubt it's probably much safer, especially in like big cities. And I'm sure It's great in big cities if you're just like. If it's just like inching along traffic, you just hop in it.
Mike
But that is true.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Driving while you're on your phone is probably safer than you, that's for sure.
CJ
All I gotta say is, Mike, hold on to that. That Viper, you know, manual V10 is gonna be gas.
Mike
I do. I think about that a lot. I think about, like, in 10 more years, even that.
Jake Sherbro
This.
Mike
Yeah.
CJ
I mean, realistically, so sick.
Mike
It's gonna be like. Like I mentioned whatever podcast on the iRobot when he breaks out the crotch.
Jake Sherbro
Rocket, and they're like, is that a gas bike?
CJ
It's got gears, dude.
Mike
That.
CJ
I would love to have like a V12 Aventador just for that purpose as well. Like, really. Like, they don't make V12s anymore, I don't think. Just everything's moving down cylinders. So, like, having something like that, you know, you hold on to it.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Invest and drive it when it's insane to drive it.
Ryan
Speaking of bigger motors, Jacob, trx. What's better? Have you not answered that in your video yet? Are you working there?
Ken
No, I have. Here's my thought on the trx. I think it drives like a lumber wagon, but it's fast as.
CJ
Like, you should get a Raptor R.
Ken
That is literally what everyone in the comments is saying. They're like, just get a Raptor R. Then you have best of both worlds. I'm like, yeah, the problem with the Raptor R is there's still 100.
Mike
Still 100.
Ken
Something like that TRX. I think we only picked up like 50 something. That's pretty awesome for a TRX.
Ryan
That's a.
CJ
That's a lot of truck for the price.
Ryan
Yeah, that's for sure.
Ken
No, it. It hauls, but other than that, like, I don't think it's gonna be that good off roading. Like, we're gonna go take it down some trails.
CJ
I always thought the TRX was pretty floaty when I would drive yours, Ryan. Like, it's just as fast as the Raptor. Like, literally the same. But I was. I did always think there was like a little, like.
Ken
Yeah. And don't get me wrong, they are extremely nice trucks.
Mike
We're just.
Ryan
Oh, yeah.
Ken
Back in here. But like, yeah, I just thought I was like, yeah, the Raptor, for a daily driver, way nicer trx. Absolute monster on wheels.
Ryan
What the. What the. Did Tony do when he. He hit like a tree or something. And there was no outside footage of it.
Ken
Right.
Ryan
It Was just the inside.
Mike
Yeah.
Ken
So basically, we were trying to take, like, a shot of just his corner up there and whatever. Tony thought the camera was over here, so he's like, oh, I'm just gonna start swinging this thing. Totally lost control. He says he had it dialed in, and he basically, like, drove up a tree and it bounced off. And I was like, he's. He's rolling. Like, I literally straight up thought he was gonna roll.
Ryan
You see it with your eyes?
Ken
Yeah. I was right behind him, and I was like, oh. I just couldn't. It literally looked like Monster Jam. But the trees.
Ryan
It's good to see Tony breaking something.
Ken
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
How many trucks you guys got?
Ken
I don't know.
Jake Sherbro
Like, what are you doing, dude?
Ken
I. We don't.
Jake Sherbro
Like, how many trucks? Like, legit. How many trucks?
Ryan
10.
Ken
Oh, it's probably more than that.
Ben
We.
Ken
Yeah, let's see.
Ben
Hold on.
Jake Sherbro
It's a full on. It's a full on dealership.
Ken
We have five Raptors. Trx Obs, the giveaway Raptor.
Ben
I swear, I see you in a new truck every three weeks.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, well, Ken, that's what happens when you're rich. Sunglasses the way he is. Yeah.
Ryan
Putting bums on your face. Bums Dot com, baby.
Ken
Yeah, baby. Right here. No, I don't know. I think our goal is just like, I want to try them all and whatever I'm gonna have. My goal is to have a shed of 10 raptors of all kinds of generations.
Jake Sherbro
You're pretty close. Yeah. You should be there in the next, like, four months.
Ken
Just every single combination. Like, my dream is we have people come out, right, and they're like, oh, we need a vehicle. I'm like, oh, just go in the shed, and they open the door, and I'm just like, pick one.
Ben
That's what I want to do.
Ken
Just all rap.
Jake Sherbro
Dom Toretto.
Mike
I just. I love that you did pick the best truck ever made for it. And you've obviously been living that. It's the best truck ever made ever since Dave got his first one. Really?
Ken
But, dude, that's what started it all for me.
Mike
Like, it's just awesome. It's the best truck ever made ever.
Jake Sherbro
Since stealing Dave's Raptor. As soon as he would pass out and go to bed and we would hop in that thing, and we would go and hit the ditch at 90 and then go and jump it and then hit every snowbank in the county and then bring it home before he wakes up.
Ken
Yeah, I think it was you. And you. I didn't have my driver's license, but Ryan did. So I'm like, hey, dad, can we take your Raptor? And I'm like, ryan.
Mike
Ryan's got it.
Ken
Ryan will drive. Wait, Walmart? What are you talking.
Ryan
We said where we were going. Walmart.
Ken
We always said we were going to Walmart, but we were just going in the backfield, burying this thing up to the doors. And I remember me and Ryan, and I think you were there. Got so stuck. Yeah. That we were wearing flip flops and, like, shorts, and it's like, negative 20. And I'm like, I have to run all the way to the shop and get a skid steer right now. Like, this is bad. And, like, we couldn't even open our doors. And when my dad got it back the next day, he's like, this thing.
Ben
Drives like, wheels are.
Jake Sherbro
No, I didn't remember that. He comes out to the garage and it was. It was still packed full of snow.
Mike
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
And he goes, walmart. Yeah, Walmart. Oh, I bet. Junior Walmart.
Ryan
We all just.
Jake Sherbro
I just remember that.
Ken
Yeah. We're all just like, oh, messed up.
Jake Sherbro
So we had our buddy Adam Peterson come over the other day. He's a professional snow cross. Snow cross racer. We filmed a great video coming up. But that night, we were sitting around the tv, and Ken did what has become our favorite way to pass time, and that's watch Ken gamble. So Ken will start live streaming his blackjack up onto the tv, and we'll just sit on the couch and watch, Right. Ken proceeds to take, like, a hundred bucks, turn it into a thousand, and then turn it back into zero. And then I think he puts another couple hundred bucks in, loses that, and then he gets up and goes home. So he just lost a bunch of money, but he fired us up in the process. So we go, all right, let's start rolling some dice, boys. So the whole crew gets up, and we get around the pool table, and I'm like, all right, what do you guys want to start shaking for? 50 bucks? And I was like, ah, I don't have any money. And I go, perfect. ATMs right here, brother. And he goes, this is weirdly convenient.
CJ
Okay.
Jake Sherbro
Goes in, tries pulling 100 bucks out, gets 20, gets charged for 75.
CJ
I got that thing rigged up good, don't I?
Ken
That's making money.
Jake Sherbro
That is straight bank fraud, cj.
CJ
All right. Don't put this on the car.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, so I guess. So he was pretty upset that he just got gypped out of 50 bucks or 55 bucks.
CJ
I'll send him 55 bucks I paid him.
Jake Sherbro
So you owe me money? Actually, no.
CJ
But then we gambled and then I gambled and then I took the money from you. So now we're even.
Jake Sherbro
Is that how it works?
Mike
I owe you 100.
Ryan
Does anybody owe me any money right now?
CJ
That had my kick back to you in there, so thanks.
Jake Sherbro
Oh, okay.
Mike
All right.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah.
Mike
So we're. We're all square.
Jake Sherbro
Raw square. What kind of business you running over there, CJ?
CJ
Well, a very profitable one.
Jake Sherbro
One time it's charged 75, gets kicked out 20.
Mike
You have one time customers, though. He ain't never coming back. Well, maybe.
CJ
Unless I'll tell him I reloaded it. No, you want to know what actually happened? There is. So there was no money in it because honestly, we just haven't been rolling dice and it's a really big pain to reload that thing. I hardly even remember how to do it. Like there's like a code and then there's another code and then you got to like get into the back it. Like I was chat GPT in it and it was a pain in the ass. And also, you have to reconcile all this with the bank. There's an LLC attached. It's not as simple as you'd think having an ATM.
Jake Sherbro
Look, CJ's just trying to talk down his business.
CJ
It's not as simple as you think. It's a very harsh business. So I could use the profits. Thank you, Adam. But. So anyways, we were doing that auction, which you guys will see soon, which I have something to take up with you about that, Jake. But anyways, so I was trying to get the ATM to the farm so I could have another successful day. And I figured people.
Jake Sherbro
Some more people in the nuts.
CJ
Well, I figured people need the cash. So I go through all the work trying to get this thing unlocked, trying.
Mike
To remember the code, that it's empty.
CJ
Well, that was the thing. So sometimes if like a dollar is like slightly crinkled, it kicks it into this separate jar. So there was like, I don't know, apparently only 20 bucks, $20 of those in. So I like took them, straighten them out.
Jake Sherbro
We need to put these. We need to put these dollars to work.
CJ
Put them back in. And I was testing it more. So like seeing like, okay, let's see if this thing works. Started working. And then basically I. I never got around to getting bigger dollars to bring to the auction. Left. And then I. When I saw that Adam was using the atm, I was like.
Jake Sherbro
Hope it works.
CJ
Well, let's see how much money Is in there. I couldn't really remember how many. How many dollars there were, but. Yeah, sorry about that, Adam, but hey, man, you know, he should have showed up with cash, but. Yeah. Jake, speaking of the auction and Mustangs, you show up to our auction, raise all this noise, and then you just didn't buy a single thing.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, what was up with that?
CJ
Didn't buy a single thing.
Ken
Okay, here's my deal. The thing I wanted, I found out wasn't even getting auctioned off. It just happened to be in the lineup the day before. What was it, Ryan? C4 Corvette. It was just sitting over there.
CJ
First off, why didn't you.
Ryan
I want to sell it right now. What do you want to pay?
Ken
No, I was waiting for that.
Jake Sherbro
Fire it up.
Ben
All right, can we get $500?
Mike
$500.
Ryan
Can we get $500,000 right here?
Ben
$5,000.
Mike
$5,000.
Ben
$5 thousand dollars.
Ken
$15,000. $15,000.
CJ
$10,000.
Ben
$15 thousand dollars. You want $16,000? $16,000. $16,000 once.
Jake Sherbro
No, no, no, no, no, NO.
Ben
15,500. Come on, come on.
CJ
Jake.
Ryan
Jake.
Jake Sherbro
Just don't buy a truck for 20 minutes.
Ryan
Sold.
Ken
15,500.
Ben
Sold to Jake Sherbro. Congratulations.
Jake Sherbro
Thanks.
Ryan
Good deal.
CJ
You got a great deal.
Ken
Oh, I'm sure I did.
CJ
Great deal.
Ken
Yeah.
Mike
Wait, it's an auto.
Ken
Yeah, I know.
CJ
Ryan, why did you buy that thing if it was an auto?
Ryan
I thought that maybe it would just be. I thought it would be okay.
Mike
Okay, you thought it was maybe gonna be like more fun? Because you can't lie. It is fun.
Ryan
It's super fun. And it's great. It actually runs and starts up every time. Doesn't overheat. It's great.
Jake Sherbro
Can't put a price on really any.
Mike
Of those overheat things. Seems like a fat lie.
Ryan
But I did that one day when it was hot. But now I've been. I've been running it pretty hot.
Jake Sherbro
I had a crazy dream that your.
Ryan
Drift car was on fire. I know that that sounds like, funny like cuz it's been real so many times. But dude, I did. And everybody was running around Mike's like fire extinguisher, but it was like really on fire. And we're all like. I think I remember Ben just laughing. And then all of us like running. But nobody was running anywhere. We were all just like zigzagging around it.
CJ
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
Like.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
I mean, it's also something that could happen in real life because like, we don't really have like safety meetings, like the extinguisher is by the third door, right inside. You know, like that by every day. But when we. When I was watching the last video or whatever, when you guys reference my car starting on fire for the 9,000th time, I just look at Sydney and I'm like, I'm going to be like, 40 and on my, like, fifth drift car, and they're still going to be referencing this drift car. Starting off.
Ryan
Entertaining one.
Mike
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
You think you're going to have four more drift cars after that piece of shit?
Mike
I should at least start with a number two, huh? Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
As you guys saw, when Jake came after us, we were. We were just trying to think of, like, how we could batten down the fort, right? And we were like, well, we got all these fire extinguishers sitting by the door that have been here for legit nine months. And so a safety. We used those to try and defense. Yeah. Put up some defense against Jake. And then after that, Mike was like, so just me, I guess, huh? All my fire extinguishers. I think we just used up all my fire extinguishers that I had for my car.
CJ
It is crazy how many you have, Mike?
Mike
I had.
CJ
Well, I think most people just have one for.
Mike
I have one in the car still, so that's good.
Ryan
We're.
Mike
We're safe for one more fire.
CJ
Seven sitting at the. In the farm, though.
Mike
Yeah, I had a lot. I got them for free, so it's like. I'm not gonna say. I'm not gonna be like, I'll just take three. They're pretty expensive.
CJ
Take them all.
Ken
Yeah, that guy commented on the video and he's like, yo, I just gave all those to Mike. Glad to see they were used for their purpose.
Mike
They were like, expired, you know, like, you can't use them in a commercial area. But yeah, I went to school with him.
Jake Sherbro
He just hooked you up?
Mike
Yeah, he just brought over like, 10 fire extinguishers. And I was like, like, genuinely, we might not use these for fires, but defense against hot dogs.
Ken
You guys don't understand. When I exhale, finally getting off the truck, the amount of fire extinguisher that came out of my throat was concerning, like.
Mike
And it's got such an interesting taste.
CJ
I terrible.
Ken
Was having, like, breathing troubles for, like. I'm not gonna lie. Like, the rest of the day, I was just, like, coughing. And then I'd, like, hawk up a loogie and it'd just be like a chunk of fire extinguisher.
Jake Sherbro
Dude, I am sorry about that. No, it's Watching it back, I. I genuinely thought that once you started getting hit with it, though, you would have stopped.
Ken
Yeah, no, I wasn't losing, bro. I was like, I will die.
Jake Sherbro
And you didn't stop. So, I mean, like, it's hard to be mad about it because you could have just stopped and we would have stopped, and then that would have been that. But, yeah, you didn't.
Mike
Of when Evan did a heater in Pizza Ranch, and he, like, I was in there filming him, and he, like, if he would have done five more seconds of heater, I legitimately think he would have tipped over and we would have had to drag him out.
Ken
Ah, dude.
Jake Sherbro
Ev's a beast. Those lungs, bro. Are you kidding me? You know what? Those lungs endure every single day.
Ken
That smoke wasn't nothing to him.
Mike
Well, he's. Well, okay. He said that. I'm just like, bro, I would have tried to drag you up, but I probably would have gone down, too.
Jake Sherbro
Between asbestos as his baseline and then his. His little. His little robot dick that he sucks on every waking second of the day.
Mike
Remember when I remember when Big Rent, we were talking about, like, having to get some tires changed on the dirt bikes. He's like, big wrenches goes, well, maybe Evan can do it. Between vape hits that killed me.
Ryan
Speaking of putting poisonous things in your lungs and reaping the ramifications of it, I have been working on getting us life insurance because we're working on our buy cells. We're working on becoming a proper company with proper benefits, right? And so I've been meeting with all these different guys, and the general theme is, you know, you really only get paid out when you die, but you. But you have to pay before that. And all of our rates are pretty similar, except for one.
Ben
Oh, God.
Ryan
Our buddy, Kenjamin Kendra.
Mike
Mean. Okay, let's.
Ryan
So these are all of our things, right? They're all together. Notice this because it's just presumed they're in the same room. So.
Jake Sherbro
So sit down again. Sit down.
Ryan
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CJ
So no matter where you go in.
Ken
Every bar, you'll always know someone by name.
Jake Sherbro
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Ken
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Ryan
So preferred is like the best non smoker they said is probably will get. So it's about eleven hundred dollars a year for two million dollars worth of coverage, per se. Something about rapping. Anyone want to guess what? Oh, Kenjamino's is? Because I had him. He's a known vapist. And I asked him, I said if he quits, you know, for like a test and whatever, and they said if he was to say he quit and then started again and there was nicotine in his system, they could deny the claim. So I was like, all right. Probably not worth it.
Ken
Is he over?
Jake Sherbro
Double, triple. Holy shit, Ken.
Mike
What?
CJ
This is all because he's a vapist.
Ryan
Pretty much. Three times.
CJ
Is it worth it, Ken? Now you're costing me money. Now your vaping is costing me money.
Ben
Okay, so I hear this. I actually was thinking this week, I'm.
Ryan
Like.
Ben
Before you even brought this up, I was like, it's time to stop.
Jake Sherbro
What? Because now's the time, Ken.
Ryan
660.
Ben
I've been trying to cut back alcohol in my life. And then I was like, okay, well, what's the next thing I'm gonna cut back that. Honestly. So, yeah, honestly, it's. It's time to cut that.
Ryan
Yeah. For literally sixteen hundred dollars a year or two thousand three hundred dollars.
Ben
Jesus Christ.
Ryan
This was actually one of the better quotes.
Jake Sherbro
Dude, this is a huge moment.
CJ
This is. This is a huge.
Jake Sherbro
The billboard didn't do it.
Ben
This is it.
CJ
This is it.
Ken
This moment.
CJ
Throw it away.
Ben
I. I actually don't. I don't have one right now. I'm talking about because I. I just don't have one now.
CJ
Now you don't even have to be worried, Dude, Congratulations.
Jake Sherbro
Congratulations.
Ryan
Holy. After everything we've done over the last five years of trying to get you to quit, fifteen hundred dollars did it.
Mike
That is pretty funny.
Ben
I'm just trying to make better choices in my life, and that's. Honestly, if that's what happens, then that's. That's just what it is.
Jake Sherbro
Smart.
CJ
So, dude, you're probably just thinking about it now too, with how much you're working out and you're breathing hard. You're probably like, damn, like, why am I putting this into me?
Ken
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ben
That is. That was kind of one of the thoughts. And it was just kind of turned 30, and it's just like, I need to not be a lazy piece of. In my life and Just make better choices.
Mike
All right.
Jake Sherbro
I will go to defend you against yourself on this one. I don't think you are.
Ryan
So many things, but not a lazy piece of. So many things.
Ben
I didn't go to the gym for, like, so.
Ryan
Oh, my God. Okay.
Ben
I was like, I. I need to, like, make a change in my life, and that was kind of the first.
Ryan
One, and I'm trying to make better.
Ben
Better choices in my life, and I think this is kind of the. That's that next little better choice, so.
Jake Sherbro
Good job, Ken.
CJ
Congratulations.
Ryan
Good job, Kenny.
CJ
I don't know if we'll ever have that video drop the workout challenge video just because it's just kind of gone by the wayside. But if there's one major positive almost better than the whole video is. Ken is, like, legitimately changed his life.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
Like, you have, like.
Ryan
He just quit vaping.
CJ
Well, he quit vaping. He. Like, you've just turned around completely, like, 180. I mean, people do it in the comments. Everything. It's. It's insane. I mean, I think it's pretty inspiring. So maybe we will be. It's gonna drop something. We gotta. We gotta make it happen.
Jake Sherbro
It's, like, gonna be one of the best videos ever for the story that's. That's kind of playing out.
CJ
It's just tough, I think, for us, because it's, like, it's tough to film working out every single day because it's kind of the same thing. And so, like, we were just trying to figure out how to put together what was it.
Ben
I don't think it's like that. Not the doing it every day. I think it's more so like, that there's the time lapse, like, what Evan was trying to do, like, the progress photos throughout the.
CJ
The updates.
Ben
The updates. And then the. The end of it was the. The challenge we were trying to.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah.
Ben
The show.
CJ
Our trainer's name was Evan.
Jake Sherbro
Not.
Ben
Not Evan.
Ryan
Ev.
CJ
Want to do progress.
Jake Sherbro
How am I looking, guys, to make that very clear?
Ben
So I think it's more. So, like, the end result is, you know, because we did the beginning part, and then we got to do the. The actual show at the end of it.
CJ
Yeah. No, we got to finish it. You're right.
Ryan
You're right.
CJ
We're gonna. We're gonna pull together. But the thing is, it takes time, and, you know, big changes don't happen just overnight.
Ken
Ryan.
CJ
I'm looking at this, and, you know, I'm looking over at Alex right now, and I think she heard Two Million Dollar Life Insurance policy if I die. And now I am slightly, you know, is this something I need to be watching out for?
Ryan
She's got a twinkle in her eye.
CJ
Yeah, she's smiling. Look at the laundry. They look. They're like, holy. This would be great.
Jake Sherbro
Perked up.
CJ
Yeah, they did perk up.
Ryan
I don't think you get it. If you guys are convicted of murder, you don't get it. So you better work on your plan and make it really good.
Mike
Accidentally off. C.J. before the wedding.
Ken
She's like, CPR. And you.
Jake Sherbro
Once you read the way too excited back.
Mike
Well, that's cool. So probably not the conversation to have on the podcast, but we keep getting emails about life insurance. And then I asked everyone about it.
CJ
Like, you know, being in calls, like, up the wazi, but.
Mike
But it wasn't like, hey, we're trying to sell you life insurance. It was like, make sure you sign into your portal. Life insurance. And then I asked, like, our accountants about it, and they're like, don't sign into that. That might be a scam.
Jake Sherbro
But we keep getting Mike, and then.
Mike
Our financial advisor, he's like, hey, have you guys signed into that? And no one says anything. And then I'm like, I keep getting emails, and still nobody says anything.
CJ
And then.
Mike
Yeah, then we were talking.
CJ
That's on me telling them what. And I'm like, what not to do.
Ben
I asked Ryan about it, and he's.
Ryan
Like, I don't know.
CJ
Yeah.
Ken
So.
Ryan
So then our account told me to get life insurance, and then I went through. And then basically the week that I set up all the meetings, he just, like, went to our other guy and just was like, just book it.
Mike
Got it.
Ryan
And so, like, one guy just did it while I was in the meetings with everybody else. But we still have options. We still have options. Which we will have a formal meeting with minutes and a conference table and decisions. Real business stuff. But I'm trying to think, how can we name it?
Jake Sherbro
It is good to have options, because in this line of work, too, there's a lot of shady characters in the insurance world. Yeah, that's for sure. And they will. They will run you hard. They can.
CJ
You know what they say about insurance? It's there until you get hurt. Oh, no, actually, you weren't covered for that.
Mike
Is there possibly somebody else that could pay for.
CJ
Yeah, yeah. And then they're gonna try to pass it off to someone else and. Yes.
Ben
Whose property were you on when you did this? Do they have insurance? What does their policy cover?
CJ
Was Ben Roth driving by down the road, when you happen to fall.
Mike
Did you happen to shop at Walmart that day?
CJ
Let's go after him. Yeah, it's kind of.
Ben
Was your coffee too hot?
Ryan
So if. If our retirement account was a CMN. Retirement account. We name. Everything that's for the future is a C. Men. This is all C Boys stuff.
CJ
But maybe.
Ryan
So how do we. How do we put the life insurance? I was thinking about this while I was driving. I was like, how do we put the semen. Life insurance. But, like, how do you know?
CJ
Like, I think you should do it. I think you should do it. Like, name it as if we're older.
Ryan
Yeah.
CJ
Because then that's just better.
Ryan
Even older.
CJ
I mean, this is just better luck. Like, when seaboys are 105 years old. Life insurance policy.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah.
CJ
So, you know. You know, like, we're gonna be.
Ben
This is something we technically don't want to ever have to.
CJ
Exactly.
Mike
Just like avalanche. It's just like equipment.
CJ
Like how we name our hard drives. Like, back in the day, we were naming them, like, millions because we're trying to get a million views. And then we started billions. Trying to get.
Mike
My favorite. My favorite name is still the Banger Bank.
CJ
Banger Banger bank is great Viral Vault. Like.
Jake Sherbro
Like, you name them. Beef Squash. We got a little. A little off track on that one.
CJ
Mega drive.
Jake Sherbro
We got hard drives.
Mike
His name. Beef Squash.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah. But we were going through, like, a reconciliation phase of our life where we were trying to, like, put out fires. I think that's probably when we were trying to be friends with Jake again. All right, we gotta squash all beef.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
It's like, what video is that on? Oh, maybe Beef squash.
Ken
What?
Jake Sherbro
Arrow of Sea Boys was beef squash.
Mike
You could almost accredit that.
Jake Sherbro
What video?
Mike
Okay, so that's gonna be in Viral Vault. No, that's.
CJ
I can tell you, Beef squash was actually 2019 era. Yep, it was around 2019. And. And the beef squash actually came from. Because we had beef with Larry and Tyson. We actually started it. To be fair, we kind of did him dirty. He was at heyday doing his meet and greet, and we were just, like, kind of new to the game back then. We were new to the game and we had Murf Tupperware. That guy. Is he still in jail or where's he at now?
Ken
I haven't seen him lately.
Jake Sherbro
I think he's rehab.
CJ
He was just this guy that was.
Mike
Kind of to your point of the. At the beginning of us in corout, we didn't interact with a lot of other Personalities.
CJ
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
We didn't really understand people in general.
CJ
How to do it respectfully. Like, I'd be. I can understand why he wouldn't like us. He was there doing his thing, and we just basically pulled up with Murph Tupperware. It was a shirt off, like, a stupid helmet on. And he starts like, hey, you want a shotgun? A beer? And he's just like, no. And we were like, what the. Like, that's what you do. You don't want to shotgun a beer. And he's just like, no, I'm good. It was probably, like, 10am I didn't want it. Yeah. It literally was. It was like.
Jake Sherbro
He's also doing, like, a meet and greet, too.
Ryan
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
And I'm sure every other person probably asked him. He's like, dude, if start. Yeah, everyone's gonna want me to do. I'm gonna be plastered in 10 people.
Mike
And that was during the time where I think I caught wind that he was feeling like a zoo animal. People were poking the monkey. Because everyone's just like, send it.
Jake Sherbro
He's like, just. He's literally, like, in people's eyes, a fictional character.
Ryan
Do you think he created, like, send it. Full send.
CJ
Just gonna send it. I mean. I mean, he's the first person I.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, just say it. I think so.
Ryan
Honestly, like, that's pretty crazy.
Mike
Pretty legendary that he created. Still gonna send it in a way.
Ryan
Full send.
CJ
It was. It was like everyone was saying it back then.
Mike
Yeah.
CJ
And then full send kind of came around from the trend of saying it. But, yeah. So anyways, he didn't really like us after that, and we. He turned down the shotgun beer. We walk away with Murph Tupperware. Murph Tupperware is like, that guy. Like, that guy. Like, we. We all like, yeah, screw that guy. What the. Like, we started talking kind of crap on him, and then for some reason, he was in Fargo. He. He, like, had showed up to Fargo.
Mike
And.
CJ
He was, like, hitting the bars. And I thought this was pretty lame. Like, the bar people that owned them. Because, like, we. Around that time, we were always running around the downtown Fargo scene, but, like, Larry and Tyrus was there, and he was like, the Sea Boys. And, like, they were all laughing with them and stuff and, like, like, encouraging it. And I was like, what the. So then we really had. Then we were, like, really happy for this guy.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah.
CJ
And then I think for, like, a title and thumbnail. Well, then he was in DL doing the snowmobile thing, and we, like, basically rolled up on him again. And and, like, redid it. We're like, hey, we want to make amends. We wanna. And then he accepted.
Mike
Gave him back a bush.
CJ
We titled. We titled We Squashed the Beef with Larry and Dicer.
Mike
Wait, can we please find the clip? The very short clip of Ken going.
CJ
We squashed the beat.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
Yeah, we squashed the beef. I remember I was so sick that day. But Larry tys, like, I was like heavy flu. And I was like, it. All right, we gotta go. So it's freezing cold. Then I shotgun this beer and I'm just like, super sick with them and.
Ryan
Stumbling around on the lake.
CJ
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
Larry and Tyson, he just, he just didn't want to be famous. He didn't, he didn't want to be famous.
Ryan
Just wanted to send it.
CJ
From what I heard is like, his, his brother was kind of like the mastermind. Yes.
Jake Sherbro
Driving factor.
CJ
He was kind of like, let's make the videos. Let's. He was filming it and all that. He was kind of just, you know, around, joking around, but I'm sure he was just like, screw this. Every time I show up to a show, I gotta hit a massive jump on this old ass sled. Like, he would crash, like, pretty much every time, dude, he was crashing hard.
Ken
His sled would explode upon him.
CJ
Like, like, even if he, if he hit it perfect, the sled was going to explode either way.
Ryan
Yeah, they weren't really successful jumps. They were like a freaking pile that he would just.
CJ
Yeah, it was a tough. But I remember hearing from, like, people around him, like, he was like, I mean, Larry Tyser was super famous. Like, that was back when Dan Bilzerian was, like, at his peak and having these crazy parties. Like, Dan Bilzerian was inviting him out to, like, come to his LA house to do parties and stuff. And this guy didn't want to go. Larry was like, it, I'm not going. Which honestly, we can kind of relate to as we were talking about that at the beginning. But yeah, dude, he was a big deal. And we were these small, literally idiot disrespect. So I could understand why he wouldn't like us. But we squashed the beef, and that's why one of our hard drives is called beef squash.
Jake Sherbro
That's a great story, cj.
Ken
It is.
Ryan
I hope Larry's doing well.
CJ
I do too, dude. I do too. I, I, he's actually a really good motocross rider. From what I.
Ryan
He had to have some talent.
CJ
You put, you put anyone on a piece of sled and tell him to hit a huge jump like, it's not going to go well, you know?
Jake Sherbro
You know who that kind of reminds me of is Evil Knievel. So, like, people used to go and watch Evil Knievel hit jumps to, like, be successful, make the jump, do this huge feat. And then they started watching him hit jumps to see his crash.
Mike
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
And then the. The crash became more entertaining than the actual, like, feat of whatever he was trying to successfully do. And we met somebody last week that knew Evil Knievel.
Ryan
His family knew that as well.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, it was so interesting. Like, I just look at Evel Knievel as, like, a fictional character. Yeah.
Mike
I was just about to say that Larry is in the same genre as Evel Knievel, because although he may not land all of his jumps, nobody else is trying to do that, bro.
CJ
There were stunts. There's. Yeah, it was a stunt.
Mike
Dude.
Ken
He was going huge on those old sleds. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
Way bigger than those things.
Ryan
Should kind of random sidebar, but my friend Grant is in Vegas for F1, and he was standing next to the blue man group.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah. Saw that.
Mike
I responded.
Ryan
And I was thinking about how fucking weird it would be to be the blue man group. Like, you can't be four bald guys not painted blue, because people are going to be like, you guys look like the blue man group, even though you're not blue. But then you go out and you're blue and you can't talk, and you can't talk bright fucking blue. Like, everybody's going to know who you are, but you're this fictional character. People want take pictures.
Jake Sherbro
It is strange. And there's.
CJ
Could be good.
Jake Sherbro
I think there's been a bunch of different guys a part of the blue man group. Like, it's kind of just been like, a rotation, but, like, how crazy is that? What's better than banging on drums and being in sync of weird? Yeah, acting weird. Oh, what if we just shaved our heads and painted our entire bodies blue?
Mike
Oh, what if we didn't speak to anybody?
Ryan
That's what I was thinking. They're watching F1 and they. The four of them have to stand there completely silent. Like, they can't even talk to each other.
Jake Sherbro
I would explain. What do you think could do that? I don't know anyone that could do that. Ken could maybe do it.
Ben
Not for that long, honestly.
Mike
I'd have to get some big.
CJ
Get some drinks, like, just chatty blue.
Jake Sherbro
Oh, the big blue is at the bar chatting now. Their manager is like, God damn it.
CJ
Everyone else is this high. And then. Yeah.
Ken
So why are you all blue? Oh, I'm not supposed to talk. Oh, damn it.
CJ
I mean, Mark could do it.
Jake Sherbro
Our friend Mark could do it.
Ryan
Yeah, he could do it.
Jake Sherbro
He's probably the only guy I know that could actually do it though.
Ken
The craziest blue group. Here we go. Mark. Tony. Who else?
Jake Sherbro
You're Tony.
Ken
Yeah, well, Tony hates talking to people.
Mike
I know.
CJ
Big wrench.
Mike
I know.
Jake Sherbro
Big Ranch.
CJ
Yeah.
Mike
I would love to see Dave in there. Obviously. I know he can't shut the.
Jake Sherbro
Dave would explode. Yeah, Dave would actually explode. Jake's dad.
Mike
Dave really looks good in blue.
Ben
The blue paint would like drip off of Dave.
Jake Sherbro
What do they get painted with? And do you think they get painted every single day or do they go to bed like that? And if they're like rocking back to back shows like it's Vegas, you know, they have a bunch of shows every week.
CJ
The thing is, is I was going to say there is the benefit of like you have complete anonymity. Like people won't know you when you go like compared to like, you know, a super famous person or really anyone with some, like, if you go into a high populated area, you're going to get pictures, you're going to have to talk to people, whatever.
Jake Sherbro
It's like marshmallow. I guess people know kind of who Marshmallow is now still. But the DJ Marshmallow, he's one of the biggest DJs in the world. When I don't know how long without doing like a face unveil.
Mike
Like five years.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, a long time.
Mike
He. And it was just also cool, like he originally, I believe, started out as the like a dj. He was dot com. And then he's just like, I'm going to rebrand helmet on now. Lots of DJs do it. And then all of a sudden he's just massive and he has an anonymity or whatever.
Ben
The anonymity.
Mike
Anonymity. See an enemy.
CJ
Yeah.
Ben
Oh, he only went two years without revealing him.
Mike
Okay.
Jake Sherbro
What about dream? There's like a streamer dream or he's. Yeah, Minecraft.
CJ
I think he's YouTuber.
Mike
Yeah.
Ryan
He showed his face. He did a face reveal.
Jake Sherbro
How long did he go without it though?
Ryan
There's over a hundred blue men, by the way.
Mike
Oh, wow.
Ken
It's a lot of blue men.
Jake Sherbro
Do they all kind of look the same? I feel like they all look the same. Like big white eyes, like so it's.
Ryan
It's actually kind of funny. The creators of Blue Men Group Dream.
Ben
Went for about three years.
Ryan
Three years A pretty long time. Not sure face. These are the blue men group. Like, they have hair except for the one guy they kind of just base it off the middle guy.
Ben
I'm assuming it's just like a bald cap they put on and then just a ton of face paint.
Ryan
Do you think they just have like a bathtub that's just like covered in blue paint? They just like blop in it and then get out.
Mike
I'm picturing them, those first three guys painting up and then the two guys with hair. Like, yeah, bald is the move.
CJ
The thing is though, is like, realistically, who would give a about three Just normal looking white dudes banging on some drums.
Mike
Agree.
CJ
Paint them blue. Amazing branding. You're like the blue man group. You never forget about them. I remember when I was a kid and I found out about the blue man group.
Mike
It's kind of generation.
CJ
I was like, holy.
Mike
When did the blue man group start? Like, think we're clearly they're recruiting new ones. They're not all the same, so they can probably do this for as long as people are entertained by it.
Jake Sherbro
1987.
CJ
Holy.
Mike
80S, baby.
Ryan
Man, they've been blue in themselves for a long time.
Jake Sherbro
What blue Each other. The blue paint that they paint themselves with. Like, how is it, like sweat resistant? Like it's crack resistant. Like around your, like your lips. You think like, granted, they're not talking, but it's true. It stays.
Ryan
I saw a thing about the Insane Clown Posse. You know, they always had their faces painted that like their faces look young because it was covered from this.
Ken
Really?
Ryan
Yeah, I think I saw it on a podcast.
Jake Sherbro
So, you know, I would think the exact opposite.
Ryan
They've lived pretty hard.
Jake Sherbro
No, like the chemicals on your face, like, you think that that would.
Mike
But yeah, there's two.
CJ
Two sides to it. I see what you're saying.
Mike
I'm sure we could look it up, but like, it has gotten so good, I have no idea what's in it. I just like watch this video of this guy. He's covered his entire torsos covered in tattoos. And then they like paint him over with literally a primer. And then they like paint them over again with skin color and then they like blush in all, like the shadowing all to get rid of his tattoos. And it looked so real. And like imagine you sweat on set and all that. Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
You know what I bet they do is I bet they just do like a spray on the blue guys.
Ben
It says it's like a grease or cream based theatrical makeup paint. And then plus a Bald cap to.
Jake Sherbro
It's gonna be a lot of, you.
Mike
Know, whose face reveal I think a lot of people in our genre of content are looking for. Yeah. Sorry, Sir Onstair. Like, he's gone. I don't know how, you know, two.
Jake Sherbro
Years or so longer than that.
Mike
He's been around and he's just really. But it's just cool. Like, he'll go to do these. Like, let's say he's doing, like, a photo shoot for a glove brand or a goggle brand or something. And he just keeps his helmet on the whole time? Like.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, I think at this point it's just, like, recognizable. Well, for sure.
Mike
But also, like, he still is hiding his face.
Ryan
Been wanting to do a pod with him, but I'm wondering how we get the mic without sounding like he's talking to him.
Mike
Yeah, that'd be cool.
Jake Sherbro
I saw this tick tock the other day that it was Sir Ronster and Evan together, like, in the same frame. And it just said, I like both these guys, even though they vape. I don't know. I guess.
CJ
Well, he should consider changing because his life insurance policy, if he were to get one, would be astronomical.
Ken
Yeah, we gotta talk about that thing right there. What you guys getting into Fortnite, bro, You guys are, like, 10 years late. Jacob Ryan, you're almost 30 years old. Fortnite. Stop this.
CJ
Stop this. My girlfriend, Fortnite at your dad's house. Ed is a tough look at your age.
Mike
Yeah. Jake's a man. He plays Tarkov.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
At your work. You got to couch at your work? No.
Ken
Well, dude, at least I'm in my own. That's the equivalent of just, like, living in your mom's basement. And 400.
Ryan
My dad's.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
Upstairs. Yeah.
Ben
My credit card attached. My live account, like, got replaced, so my. My payment failed on there, and I got emails that I needed to update my payment or my subscription was gonna be canceled, and I just. I just let it cancel.
Ryan
Glad you didn't lie about that.
Ben
I haven't turned my Xbox on.
CJ
Like, 2 really is changing his life.
Ben
My Xbox has just been, like, sitting in the corner of the. The basement for, like, two years.
Ryan
And I was, like, touching Xbox in six years till this week.
CJ
Dude, I was on a. A big hiatus from gaming, too, from probably, like, 2016 to last November. But honestly, it's just nice. It's something to do when you're at home. I love it.
Mike
We're gonna be having the same conversation for the next 10 years. The CJ take a hiatus Come back.
Jake Sherbro
Gaming is great, though.
CJ
Anyways, hold on, though.
Jake Sherbro
Cj, you said that you've been gaming at home, but I walked in on you in your office and you were playing Fortnite on your little Nintendo.
CJ
Yeah. So it's not a Nintendo, it's a Xbox Rogue Ally X, so.
Jake Sherbro
This dude's such a sicko. Keep in mind that the video was just rendering. So, like, if we're in the middle.
CJ
Of an edit, exporting.
Jake Sherbro
All right, it's a 12 minute exit. No, no, 12 minute export.
CJ
35 minutes. And it's.
Jake Sherbro
It's exporting to CJ. I guess that's a quick part I gave.
CJ
Well, the thing is, I can't do anything else on my computer because when it's exporting out, it's just like. And I'm. It's an hour long video that takes forever to export, so you can't touch it. So I'm sitting here, I'm like, okay. So I could scroll on my phone or I could rip some Fortnite or Call of Duty, whatever on my portable xbox.
Jake Sherbro
You know, he was like, kind of like, embarrassed when I walk in and, you know, I walk in expecting him to be like, ripping out the video. I knew it was exporting out and he's like, the video is exporting right now. Caught him freaking watching porn or something.
CJ
Yeah, no, I. I did. It did feel wrong. I was like, but what. What else am I gonna do right now? You know? And honestly, who's gonna tell me I can't? Yeah, I did think about that. I go, I think I. I can.
Jake Sherbro
Do whatever I want.
CJ
So I started.
Jake Sherbro
Cj, what are you doing?
Ken
If it feels wrong, bro, it's probably wrong, but stay gaming.
CJ
Well, maybe I should tell you about what? So this summer, there's this kid that works at the golf course. He's a major Seaboys fan. He's a really nice kid. And let's say I'd be playing by myself, nine hole, or I'm playing 18 holes. I'd be going past, he'd like, be getting off work. Hey, crap. Hop on the last nine. With you. Do you mind? I'm like, yeah, sure. You know, and it was fun because he's such a big Seaboys fan. And ask good questions. No, he would be asking me questions, but then I would almost be asking him. And like, also, he's just a good talker. Like, he likes talking. So he'd be kind of like, yeah, you know, that bit? I. I didn't really like that that much.
Jake Sherbro
Oh, really?
CJ
Why? Why did. What'd you think about it? Oh, no, but I like this one. So I'm kind of like gauging interest, you know, and he's being pretty transparent about it.
Jake Sherbro
He's got his ear to the ground.
CJ
Yeah, he's got. I mean, he's fully got his. You've met him. He's a nice kid. Really nice kid. He's smart. But the one thing I'll say about him is he comes from a really good family, like, which is great, but you can tell he's just like, he's still innocent. He, like hasn't been exposed to real life or anything like that, but he's just so nice. Like, I feel like when I'm talking with him, I'm trying to be, you know, just good or whatever. So anyways, I don't know really when or how, but I must have gave him my phone number. Like, I'm sure I was. 18th hole. I've had enough drink maybe. I don't know. So he had my phone number and. Well, I don't know. So anyways, he texted me. He's like, hey, you want to hop on Xbox? I was like, you know, I am playing Call D. Yeah, sure. So I add, is. Is we added each other's gamer tags and I'm sitting there playing with this kid online, right? So we're. We're on the headset. We're on the headset, we're talking. And basically immediately when I got in the lobby, going back to what you said about, does it feel wrong? It probably is. I go, man, imagine if this kid's mom comes down and goes, who are you playing with? Oh, I'm playing with this 29 year old man. He's like, he's like, I don't know, 15 or 16. I'm just like, what the fuck is wrong with me? But anyways, he's just a good kid. He's a cool kid. I like him. The last funny thing he told me, because this was just the other day. So the. The video with Mike's junk tame dropped. He was saying that he started watching it when he was in the car with his mom, right? And Dalton's edit came on with like the most aggressive song ever. And his mom was like, what are you. What are you watching? He's like, oh, the Sea Boys. And then. But he was like, yeah, I didn't really like that song that much. My mom didn't like it. It was just funny. It was really funny.
Jake Sherbro
It was so aggressive. He. So he made this edit for the giveaway vehicles. And he sent it in our. Our group chat as we just play the song for basically like, for approval of like, not even approval. He was just like, here's the editor. It was locked in. I just text back and I go, we should probably use a less aggressive song. And that's. I'm an editor, so I know what goes into having to re edit something. It's pain in the ass. Last thing you want to hear. But I was like, bro, this is so aggressive.
CJ
We can't.
Mike
Thank goodness.
Jake Sherbro
We can't put this at the beginning of a YouTube video.
Mike
I mean, thank goodness there was a clean version.
Jake Sherbro
There was a clean version.
CJ
No, it wasn't. We just literally some of the.
Jake Sherbro
But I was like, there might be too many. There might be too many like, like vulgar words in this song that it's gonna sound weird when you people mouth because then it's like when you listen to like a radio edition song of like a lot of bad wet ass. Like that song. Yeah, it's like, let's just. Yeah, there's no words.
CJ
Let's just listen to this one line.
Jake Sherbro
That's how my team coming. I'm popping out and blonde money like I breathe money I the good off the honey now she walk funny.
CJ
Jesus, dude. When I heard it's an edit.
Mike
Funny.
CJ
I'm like, and this is the hardest edit ever. But I'm like, bro, this is like the two most basic cars we've ever given away. We just put the hardest songs ever. Not saying they're basic, but like, we've given away like, you know, built GTRs, Lamborghinis, R8s. And then it's like a Yukon.
Ben
They haven't had a single thing done to them yet.
CJ
But I will say, though, I will say that edit was lit. I. I like the song, but I agree initially when I heard, I go, oh, man. Like, I don't know. It's not a kids show what we're making, but there risk families and like be conscientious. Stay in the pocket banging her so good that now she walks funny is.
Ryan
Just listens to in her mouth. Get in.
Jake Sherbro
And then she opens up the door and it's still playing until she shuts the door. And that's the line that you hear. That's the line you hear.
CJ
It was funny though. I did. I. I actually laughed pretty hard. He's like, yeah, that song, dude, I don't. I don't know about that. I didn't really like that song because, like, like, he's just like, like, you know, like, he doesn't talk like that. He doesn't swear. He's not. He's just a good kid.
Jake Sherbro
We asked Ken how much money it would cost for him to make that. I her. I just say it. I her good now. She walked funny as his Instagram caption. Oh, my God, again, he's like, no amount of money. And Dalton comes in and goes, I'll do it for free. And we go, oh, no, you would.
CJ
Do it for free.
Jake Sherbro
That would just be a normal caption for him. But we're like, don't that. Maybe you shouldn't do that for free.
CJ
I think. I think he was down to do it for, like, 100 if he had a wife beater in the gym. And then that's his capture. I'm like, bro, I can't even.
Mike
Dude, can.
Ryan
You should do it. You should just post, like, a really hard picture.
CJ
You looking good.
Ryan
Yeah, that would be insane for the kenlore.
CJ
And I'd pay the height after so good. Now she walk funny, and it's just Ken in the gym just looking like that. Dude. Honestly, that pick would go hard. And the cat, the, like, I guarantee you that would probably be your highest.
Ryan
Maybe when you're in Vegas, take one of you, like, dripped out, we could.
CJ
Maybe get you next to, like, some street performers or something. And, like, you could just be like, hey, could you just pretend like I'll.
Mike
Snag some pics of you at the high stakes. Ken's been loving that. I'll get you a chain too, brother.
Ben
Yeah, let's go do a little bit of high stakes baccarat.
Ryan
We're.
Ben
We're going there pretty quick.
Ryan
So it's just Ken's sitting at the table with, like, three chips next to him.
Jake Sherbro
It's like 75 bucks.
CJ
He's not even playing. Playing, like, everybody free, certain amount of hands. And there's like, sir, are you gonna play? He's like, oh, could I get one more drink? And they're like, no, like, you got to be playing if you want the free drinks. So we got friends giving tonight. Friends giving over at Mark's house. Mark's house. Jake, you coming?
Ken
I didn't even know.
Mike
But yeah, right now.
Ken
All right.
Mike
You bringing Tia?
Ken
Yeah, I think she's here right now.
Mike
Perfect.
CJ
She's here.
Ken
Yeah.
Mike
We're going lurking around.
Ken
No, we're going to a birthday after this.
Mike
Okay. You got a busy day.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
You got any plastic chairs?
Ken
Not that kind of birthday kid. And the kid's like four. We could actually Bring him some plastic chairs and show them early.
Mike
Yeah, that would be sick.
CJ
Maybe some kid sized ones.
Jake Sherbro
How is your love life after this year? After the boxing video?
Ken
I mean, it's good. It's strong, dude. The Tick Tock.
CJ
That's why.
Ken
Yeah, we, we. We get a gig. A lot of it.
Jake Sherbro
It, dude, I see it. I'm just like, I feel bad about it. Honestly, I don't like it, dude.
Ken
It's Tick Tock, though. Like, no one really goes.
Mike
Her Tick Tock name is pretty funny.
Jake Sherbro
I know. But she also didn't, like, volunteer for it.
Ken
No, but.
Jake Sherbro
Which is what I don't like.
Ken
It's just the baggage that comes with it, you know.
Jake Sherbro
Unfortunately, that is true.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
That is a YouTuber in Corma. You know, the drama.
Mike
If she's able to, like, I guess take those comments and just like not be phased by them, I think that's impressive.
Ken
Yeah, no, she's.
Ryan
She's.
Mike
I think it is.
Ken
What is it called?
Jake Sherbro
I think that says a lot too.
Ken
And also strong, thick.
Mike
She like made you eat a tomato on her Tick Tock.
Ken
That was disgusting.
Mike
Yeah, it wasn't that impressive, but it was funny.
Jake Sherbro
Slammed a pie in your face.
Ryan
That was pretty fun. Yeah, that.
Jake Sherbro
She's just kind of bullying you. Yeah.
Ken
Honestly, I was like, what are you doing right now?
Mike
That's the dynamic.
CJ
You got a boxing glove. All right, today we're gonna come in and do the Rocky Balboa on Jake out.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah.
Ken
Honestly, could be a solid, like, series on our Tick Tock. Just beating the absolute out of me.
CJ
People probably love to see.
Mike
Oh, man, I love when we were hooking up those speakers for the auction and like, I got the speakers hooked up. I'm like, gosh, we gotta do karaoke. And then I take a snap of me singing many men by 50 Cent, put it on Tick Tock, and it blew up. Yeah, it got like a million views. I was happy. I'm like, tick Tock is doing its thing. Stupid video.
Jake Sherbro
So, yeah, we got friendsgiving tonight. And Friendsgiving has been like, traditionally, it's gotten a little bit more tame, but for like a couple years in a row, it was like, all right, friendsgiving is coming up. Are we stocked up on plastic chairs? How many tables do we have? Like, who's bringing food? Is anybody gonna be mad when the. When the. Nobody eats a single bit of the food and it just ends up in a food fight? Like, it was basically like our 1,000,000 subscriber or 5,000,000 subscriber parties, but it was just us I don't think we filmed it breaking everything inside.
CJ
It was like 2018 through maybe like 2020.
Mike
Well, because when we were at the original shop and it was like, when we were fresh out of white chairs, we just were like, well, that's fine. We'll just break the other furniture.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, we were breaking. We were bringing office chairs. We were breaking desks, we were breaking couches.
Ken
I had videos of CJ borderline naked, just holding a chair above his head, going, I'm going to do it. Nice chair.
Mike
I remember seeing a video, like, stomping one of our lounger chairs or something, probably. Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
Everyone was getting into it.
CJ
We don't get quite that crazy anymore at them.
Jake Sherbro
It's changed a little bit.
CJ
Did I hear we just do it tonight at Mark's? Are we? Yeah, when Mark volunteered, we just up his house. All right, thanks for having us, Mark. See you.
Ryan
So you guys said to me, go look around.
Jake Sherbro
Did I hear we're doing white elephant gifts? Whose idea was that?
Mike
You hear? I hope you have one.
Jake Sherbro
I don't have one.
Ben
I don't have one either.
CJ
Just go somewhere and buy one.
Ryan
I had to buy a trinket.
Mike
Ken has a little bit of defense because he doesn't have his girlfriend telling him to get a white elephant.
Ryan
That's true.
Jake Sherbro
Well, my girlfriend or my fiance has been telling me to get a white elephant gift.
Ryan
You just don't listen.
Jake Sherbro
That's the problem.
Ken
You should just wrap that minivan that got sprayed with hot dogs up and just pull it out.
Ryan
$30 maximum.
Jake Sherbro
So here was my ide. Actually, my proposal.
Ryan
Okay?
Jake Sherbro
None of you guys need anything. I don't need to buy any of you guys gifts. Right?
Mike
The gift I got, you're gonna.
CJ
None of you guys need anything I need.
Mike
I promise.
CJ
Okay?
Ken
All right.
Ben
White elephant gift is something you don't need, but is funny.
Jake Sherbro
All right, so what if everybody had to just bring one thing from their house that they already owned and it was like trading. I like that.
CJ
Change up, man.
Ryan
Yeah, I already bought something, and I think people are gonna like my gift. I gotta.
CJ
I agree. I.
Ben
Right.
CJ
Well, I shouldn't say.
Jake Sherbro
I didn't know you guys put this much work into your freaking. I didn't know I was gonna offend.
Ryan
You by this store that went to the largest store in the state, cost.
Mike
For like an hour.
CJ
Alex put together a list of five things and asked, which one do I want to give? And I said that one.
Jake Sherbro
How the hell do you guys have time for this?
CJ
Well, it took me about two the.
Mike
Same thing about Fortnite.
CJ
I was busy gaming.
Ken
Stay gaming.
Ryan
Alondra wanted me to get a candle. Just gonna blow her out here. I, it was, I, I, she wanted me to get a candle and I was like, I'm not buying a candle. Someone's gon just throw it away.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah.
Ryan
No.
Jake Sherbro
So is it, is it for, for funniness? Are these gifts funny?
Ryan
For real? The guys are doing it to 100 bucks.
CJ
That actually, people would like that though. Then people would actually want your gift.
Ben
I went to one lot.
Jake Sherbro
It's a great point.
Ben
The one I went to last year, somebody got a giant blow up joint. It was hilarious kind of parties.
CJ
You going?
Ken
What kind of parties?
CJ
And this is why you couldn't make last year?
Ben
No, that was a different party.
Jake Sherbro
Ken didn't come to friends giving a big yes.
Ben
I, I don't have two to go to in one night, so.
CJ
Hey, see what our priority is for Ken, we're number two. If there's one in the one I.
Ben
Went to last year, it was earlier in the day and I just had too many drinks. I'm like, I'm not driving 30 minutes into, into town to go to friends giving.
CJ
Obviously.
Jake Sherbro
No wonder I had too many drinks. Ken, you could have consciously made the decision to stop drinking.
CJ
Yeah. You could have just been like, oh, I got this other, you know, I.
Ben
Thought about that and then there was a couple rounds of shots and it was like off.
Ryan
That was old Ken.
Ben
That was old Ken.
Jake Sherbro
Okay, so I got to go get a gift after this.
Ryan
I thought you were going to say we should all put $30 into a live gambling pot.
Jake Sherbro
What if I, what if that was my gift? I just. You guys, one hand of black, $100 of entertainment.
CJ
No, no, no, no, no, NO.
Ryan
$30 max.
CJ
I think that should be $30 and it's going to be a blackjack hand.
Ryan
Yeah.
Jake Sherbro
Is there a limit on gifts? Are you guys in a group chat that I'm not. Where are we seeing this?
Mike
I like the blackjack.
Jake Sherbro
All right, okay.
CJ
So, so $30 and then, so if it hits, the upside is you let.
Ben
It roll into another hand.
CJ
But, but like any of the winnings you have to send to that person and any of the, obviously the losses is just done, but.
Ryan
Yeah, yeah.
Jake Sherbro
All right. That's a good idea.
CJ
Sick.
Jake Sherbro
See you guys keep hyping up your.
Ryan
Guys, people are gonna like lose their mind.
CJ
I want my gift.
Ryan
I want fights over mine.
CJ
I think, I think you're gonna want my gift.
Ryan
Yeah, no, it's gonna.
CJ
Cause how much was It. How much was it, Alex? 35 bucks.
Ryan
Okay, I went over budget, too.
Jake Sherbro
You got to bring a gift, dude.
Ken
I was thinking. I'm just gonna bring the statue.
Mike
Jake. You could just bring a pair of sunglasses and be locked in.
Ken
No, I already know what my gift is. I literally just thought of it. I'm gonna go get it right after this. It's gonna be awesome.
Mike
Okay.
Ken
Yeah, I'm gonna buy one for myself, too.
Mike
Actually, that's kind of what I did. I'm not.
Ryan
Can't.
Mike
No, Ben, you sound like Sydney. Whenever I.
Ryan
You got.
Mike
I get her, like, you know, like. Oh, yeah. Have you. You want my Christmas list? Oh, no, I already got your gift.
Jake Sherbro
What is it?
Ryan
So.
Mike
Alondra, I ain't telling you.
Jake Sherbro
Tell us, Mike. The people want to know, too.
Mike
No, I should say it's actually Sydney's gift that I bought two of. One for me, one. One for her to give away.
Ryan
Nice. It's very nice.
Mike
Yeah, I'm excited. White elephant's cheesy, but it's fun.
Jake Sherbro
Wait, so the couple had. I have to buy two gifts if Greta hasn't gotten one, too?
Mike
Well, if you cover her financials, then technically you buy two, but otherwise, she's on her own.
Jake Sherbro
Well, being that she told me to go and get the gift, it sounds like I'm responsible for both.
Mike
You should. You should find out if she got one.
Jake Sherbro
I don't think she did. Oh, my God, I'm so cooked. Oh, you could just get, like, wine or scratch offs. No, I'm not getting wine or scratch offs. After hearing these guys hype up there.
CJ
You're not gonna beat my gift. No, it's not.
Ryan
Honestly, don't even worry about it. Dude, like, with like.
Jake Sherbro
This is crazy.
CJ
You know what, Ben? Honestly, just don't even come.
Ryan
Yeah, more gifts for us.
Jake Sherbro
Hand me that quick.
CJ
You want to try it?
Ryan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ken
No, you don't even need to turn it on. You don't come. Just play with this for a while.
CJ
The last thing he needs. Dude, he. Dude is so bad at gaming. So bad.
Ken
Again, speaking of which, I played with Ben. He's terrible right now.
CJ
He got an Xbox at the same time as me and literally played one game and was like, all right. This isn't for him. Dude, I've never. For someone not.
Jake Sherbro
You can't just decide that for me.
CJ
I've never seen someone not get a kill.
Ken
I've never. He's like, I'm loving this. I'm looking at him, he's like, oh, and 74, bro.
Ryan
I'm glad you're good at doing.
Mike
For example, in Fortnite, you got your. Your group of four, and then Ben will hit you with the classic, where are you guys? The three dots are over here, and he's over here.
Jake Sherbro
Dude, I'm just not good at video games.
CJ
Well, anything else, Jake? You've been cold plunging.
Ken
Yeah. Did one this morning. I actually stole one of your guys's sweatshirt because I was, like, freaking out.
Mike
Over here because it makes you super cold.
Ken
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ryan
I love that you do it kind of just for clout. Like, you don't even do it in the summer when it's in the thing. You just do. When the lake gets a little cold, you make a Snapchat.
Ken
You want to know something crazy? When I was down there today, two people rolled up and took pictures. They're like, oh, my God. My buddies at the bar were telling me about you.
Ben
You're there.
CJ
Did you drive in and go past the guy that always is sitting in the lake?
Mike
Yeah, we saw him. That was awesome. I mean, I. It is cool that you do it in the winter.
Ken
My favorite thing is, like, so how long you go for? Like, minute or two? I'm like, ten minutes. No way. They're just, like, mind blowing.
Ryan
They just sit there and watch you.
Mike
You text in the group chat. Anyone want to hit a cold plunge today? Ben? Nope. Exclamation point. We all laugh.
Ken
You got. You got bonus points in the group chat today. When you get that many hahas on a single text, I'm like, yeah, that's. That's a win right there for that guy.
Jake Sherbro
Yeah, you got ratioed.
CJ
I'd come, Jake, but I already ripped one.
Ken
No, that's good, dude. I always just send the invite.
CJ
Appreciate it. I'll join you here one of these days.
Ken
But you guys, new shades look sick.
CJ
Yeah, they do. Oh, yeah.
Jake Sherbro
New bums drop. Yeah, somewhere.
CJ
You got them. Are those the new ones, dude, the new ones. Oh, there's.
Ken
I saw those and I, like, was like, damn, I wish I made those.
Mike
They are sick, dude.
Ken
So sick.
Mike
The red ones just came in, like, at the end of the day on Friday.
Jake Sherbro
So how many do we have?
CJ
4?
Mike
3.
CJ
We got a ton of good stuff on the website right now for the holiday season. And all of it gets you entered for our double Denali giveaway. His and hers giveaway. So go to seaboy tv.com, find yourself something. Find a family member, a friend, something. There's tons of good stuff, and you might just win our Denali giveaway.
Ken
So it's sick. I gotta. I gotta commend you guys. This drop is freaking sick. I need to come over and come close. It is a sweet drop, you guys.
CJ
Absolutely loaded. And if you haven't already, go to bums.com, get yourself some new shades.
Ken
Bumsour.com, baby.
CJ
Bums eyewear.com and yeah, sounds great to me.
Mike
Thank you, guys.
Ken
See at friendsgiving.
Ryan
Peace.
CJ
See you tonight.
Episode: "Ken Quits Vaping, We Started A Prank War, & Larry Enticer Beef"
Date: November 25, 2025
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah
This episode of "Life Wide Open with CboysTV" is a wild ride through friendship antics, personal growth, and the unique small-town YouTuber lifestyle. The crew reflects on their recent hot dog-fueled prank war, shares a big lifestyle milestone (Ken finally quitting vaping), dives deep into the lore behind their Cormorant community, and unpacks their history with viral snowmobile legend Larry Enticer. The tone remains fun, self-deprecating, and always tinged with the mischief that defines the Cboys' content.
The group laughs about being "10 years late" to Fortnite, with several members in their late 20s rediscovering the game.
They discuss the tension between the "maturity" of gaming versus hanging out at bars, concluding that gaming is probably healthier.
The team revisits their ongoing prank battle: dropping thousands of hot dogs on Jake's doorstep, which escalated when Jake mulched and sprayed them over the Cboys’ entire property.
Hot dog residue proved nearly impossible to remove, requiring multiple car washes and heavy-duty pressure washing.
The group acknowledges the pranks have become part of Cormorant lore, comparing their small-town YouTuber-per-capita to LA.
Ryan brings up new company life insurance policies and discovers Ken's vaping pushes his rate to triple that of a non-smoker.
This info provides Ken the push he needs:
The group celebrates Ken’s decision, noting that previous interventions never worked as well as the wallet hit:
The team discusses driving the Yukon giveaway car (and the associated nerves), plus high-end vehicle features like night vision for deer avoidance.
Discussion on varying degrees of self-driving in vehicles, with mixed feelings about a fully autonomous car future.
The group jokes about working out, ongoing fitness progress, and difficulty documenting positive personal change (esp. for videos).
Explains their recent auction, shenanigans with the ATM, and how their internal economy (dice game, ATM charges) leads to endless cycling of money and banter.
Anticipates an upcoming friendsgiving and white elephant gift exchange—with competitive bragging over who’s brought the best present.
The boys reminisce on early YouTube beef with Larry Enticer, which prompted them to name a hard drive "beef squash".
They reflect on Larry's viral cultural impact, “just gonna send it," and how fame can be unwanted.
On Hot Dog Pranks:
Ken: "I'm kind of on edge... I woke up at like three in the morning—thought it was happening. I got something." (09:00)
Jake (on hot dog cleanup): "How did seven car washes not get rid of it?" (12:27)
CJ: "Touch free just didn't do it... And there were also chunks." (12:32)
On the Small-Town YouTuber Life:
CJ: "We don't associate with other big celebrities… but people hit us up. We just like it here." (06:15)
On Quitting Vaping:
Ryan: "After everything we've tried... $1500 did it." (42:44)
CJ: "Ken legitimately changed his life... You have, like, 180." (44:01)
On Auction Antics:
Jake: "[Our ATM at the farm]—that is straight bank fraud, CJ." (29:12)
On Larry Enticer Beef:
CJ: "We kind of did him dirty… and then he accepted when we tried to make amends." (49:47–53:48)
Ryan: "Do you think he created 'send it' or 'full send'?" (50:41)
On Tech and Cars:
Jake: "My Urus has night vision infrared—sees deer before I do." (15:23)
CJ: "Sooner than you think, all cars are going to be self-driving… that sounds terrible." (22:00)
This episode is a rich snapshot of the CboysTV dynamic: mischief, growth, and small-town chaos—with a healthy dose of humility, weirdness, and admiration for viral icons (like Larry Enticer) who helped define their genre.