Ken's Embarrassing Past, Our Video Was Too Dangerous, & Money Mike Strikes Again

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Ken's Embarrassing Past, Our Video Was Too Dangerous, & Money Mike Strikes Again
Date: March 12, 2024
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah (+ Jake, Gavin, Mike special appearances)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Life Wide Open brings the entire CboysTV crew together for a lively discussion blending behind-the-scenes stories, personal mishaps, business and wellness tips, and even reflections on embarrassing moments. Notable themes include Ken’s mysterious and “embarrassing” high school past, a debate around recent CboysTV video stunts being “too dangerous,” the ongoing legend of “Money Mike,” cold plunging adventures, and plenty of laughs about stickers, pranks, and hot dog eating ambitions.
The natural, unfiltered camaraderie of the group shines throughout, with recurring jokes and self-deprecating humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Importance (and Obsession) With Chairs

• The episode opens as the crew jokes about the expensive and “sponsored” computer/gaming chairs (00:10–03:35).

  • “You need a good chair in life, whether you’re just sitting at your computer or gaming…” (Evan, 01:38)
  • Mike describes his famous $700 chair and its “magnetic headrest" as a major life upgrade.
  • Ryan shares a story about ‘acquiring’ Ken’s office chair, confirming Ken is non-confrontational and just bought a new one rather than ask for his back (02:00–02:15).

• The CboysTV aesthetic apparently includes smashing plastic chairs, which leads to a behind-the-scenes design riff involving a “chair logo” for merch based on past videos (03:36–04:31).

2. Pranks, Stickers & Jake’s Driving

• Gavin gifts Jake a sticker: “If driven carefully, please report stolen,” referencing Jake’s famously urgent driving style (07:32).
  • “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you not driving like there’s an urgent activity happening.” (Gavin, 07:50)
• Evan reveals a “chubby chaser” sticker was mysteriously applied to his own truck, sparking a debate over the humor and social impact of silly car decals (08:33).
  • “It might honestly be a little bit more of a magnet now.” (Evan, 11:13)

3. Near-Disaster in the Skies: Jake’s Dad Blows Up His Plane

• Jake tells a harrowing tale of his father having to make an emergency landing after his plane’s engine went bad mid-flight (11:36–13:49):
  • “My dad blew up his plane while flying the other day... He called me while in the air… when I hung up with him, my first reaction, I didn’t even get nervous… I had so much trust in him." (Jake, 11:35)
  • Jake’s dad calmly lands at the nearest airport, which leads into a broader discussion about pilots, personal runways, and “business flexes.”

4. Ken’s Embarrassing Past Surfaces

• Jake recalls a run-in with Ken’s high school friends, revealing that Ken played the gong in band class:
  • “My last thought of him is he was playing the gong in band class..." (16:56)
  • “You can get away with doing basically nothing in band class.” (Ken, 17:11)
• Gavin drags up childhood video evidence of Ken aspiring to be “rich and famous or famous and good looking” in Sunday School (19:04).
  • “Dreams. I feel like that story’s been embellished to the point where it’s just not even true.” (Ken, 19:23)
• The group riffs on the myth of Ken's NDA-protected reputation and escalating pranks:
  • “Come to find out, Ken has the whole town NDA up.” (CJ, 20:14)

5. Money Mike & Luxury Obsessions

• Mike is razzed for his “Money Mike” persona – expensive chairs, beds, affinity for Red Bull, and desires to run a hotdog stand.
  • “If you guys buy me a hotdog stand, I will run it like the best hot dog connoisseur you’ve ever seen.” (Mike, 45:16)
  • Ken reveals he has purchased a Tesla Cybertruck: “I did just buy a Cybertruck yesterday... I confirmed my order.” (Ken, 68:28)

6. Boxing, Fighting & Athleticism

• Extended chat about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson and the spectacle of staged exhibition bouts (21:02–25:12).
• Jake shares his dad’s Golden Gloves boxing background (25:32), proudly referencing a tape from the 1987 nationals.
• The guys discuss the appeal, fear, and psychology behind boxing and MMA as amateurs and spectators.

7. Cold Plunges & Wellness

• Jake talks about making cold plunges (in icy lakes and later horse-troughs with ice makers) an essential part of his mental health routine (36:18–43:54).
  • “I want something super hard that you don’t want to do that I have to look forward to every day.” (Jake, 39:02)
  • The group discusses both physical (calorie burning, metabolism) and mental benefits (resilience, focus) – plus Wim Hof inspiration.

8. Stunt Videos & Danger Debate

• The group reflects on feedback that their latest video — featuring a dirtbike with a saw-blade wheel — was “too dangerous” for some viewers (55:54–61:58).
  • “Apparently that’s where they draw the line of safety. Too dangerous… what subs want us doing in those dirt bikes and quads, those were over the line.” (Ryan, 59:56)
• They discuss safety calculations, group decision-making for risky stunts, and viewer perceptions.

9. Creative Process & CboysTV Builds

• Inside scoop on brainstorming, working as a group, and balancing impulsive ideas with engineering skills.
  • “We’re pretty good at coming up with ideas, but Gavin and then Big Red, making them actually work… we’re like, saw-blade wheel. And they’re like, okay, it has to have a bearing and shit like that.” (Gavin, 64:50–64:56)
• The “stacking” of ideas — how simple concepts are gradually pushed to their entertaining limits (65:02).

10. Embarrassing Stories, Paintball Phases & Shirtless Antics

• Classic Cboys stuff: accidental destruction, wild pranks, and embarrassing stories:
  • The infamous paintball incident and Ken’s fury at ruined shorts ($50 shorts, 84:07).
  • Shirtless snowmobiling, paintball guns, and local legends like Zorbas, Nylander Hill (“All roads lead to Zorbas when it’s summer.” – CJ, 78:08).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Ken’s High School Gong Skills:
  • “You can get away with doing basically nothing in band class.” (Ken, 17:11)
• On Risk Calculations:
  • “Typically, if [someone objects], we don’t do it… but no one even had a second thought… it was very secure and just hopped right on." (Evan, 60:48)
• Jake’s Approach to Cold Plunges:
  • “The hardest part of your day is done. And if you enjoy the hardest part of your day, it makes everything else so much easier.” (Jake, 39:19)
• On Pranks & Decals:
  • “It might honestly be a little bit more of a magnet now.” (Evan, 11:13)
• On Creative Process:
  • “One of my favorite things is when you keep stacking and stacking and finding the limit..." (Jake, 65:02)
• On Embarrassing Content:
  • “I often wonder what’s going through people’s minds when they put the big, like, fuck it stickers... all you can see is that big one.” (Ryan, 10:22)
• On Hot Dog Stand Dreams:
  • “If you guys buy me a hot dog stand, I will run it like the best hot dog connoisseur you’ve ever seen.” (Mike, 45:16)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Chair Stories & Office Furniture Flex: 00:10–03:35
• Sticker Pranks & Jake’s Driving: 07:32–08:33
• Jake's Dad's Plane Emergency: 11:36–13:49
• Ken’s Embarrassing Gong Past: 16:46–17:11
• Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul Debate: 21:02–25:12
• Golden Gloves Stories & Amateur Fighting: 25:32–30:44
• Cold Plunge Journey: 36:18–43:54
• "Too Dangerous" Video Discussion: 55:54–61:58
• Paintball Shorts Incident: 80:53–84:07
• Paintball, Fireworks, & Reckless Youth: 82:19–83:20

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a perfect snapshot of the CboysTV dynamic — an energetic group blending business, friendship, and wild antics. It’s equal parts motivational, reckless, and nostalgic. For long-time fans, the in-jokes and stories build the CboysTV lore; for newcomers, it’s a high-energy behind-the-scenes ride mingling rural Midwestern life with YouTube stardom.

Ken gets roasted but takes it in stride, “Money Mike” dreams bigger than ever, and Jake’s cold plunging/wellness advice almost balances out all the talk of hot dogs and dangerous stunts. The stories weave through absurd childhood moments, accidental stardom, love for “track snacks,” and high-concept content creation.

Summary: If you love wild stories, Midwestern mischief, and the camaraderie of lifelong friends, this episode is an unfiltered blast — and proof that CboysTV never runs out of ideas (or embarrassing moments to revisit).

Transcript

[Jake]

Everyone's like, I can't believe you won. I'm like, I took second, dude.

[Ryan]

I haven't seen Ken in the last week.

[CJ]

Dude, money book.

[Ryan]

Apparently, that's where they draw the line of say too, too dangerous.

[Ken]

You guys love bringing up my embarrassing ass.

[CJ]

That is all you love bringing up.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Jake]

Oh, I'm sponsored now. Oh, I gotta plug back in.

[Evan]

Sponsored by Cheetos. I don't know if that's good, man. My friend Evan, he uses Cheeto like it's a bad thing.

[Jake]

So we're not doing that then?

[Evan]

No, I'm just saying, like, you being sponsored by Cheeto. I don't know if he would think that is Cheeto or not. You know, I. I think he'd say it's Cheeto, and Cheeto is not good. If I've learned anything from Evan, Cheeto's bad these days. Yes. Yeah, a lot of. He has a lot of things and people that he think are Cheeto. I mean, if Evan likes you or whatever your thing is, you're a delicacy, not a Cheeto. You're rare. Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't be Cheeto.

[Gavin]

God.

[Evan]

Mike got his $700 chair. It's a comfy chair, though. It's a hell of a chair, Mike. Yeah. How a magnetic headrest on that motherfucker.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Jake]

Such a flex. Look at that.

[Evan]

That's the softest pillow I've ever felt, by the way.

[Mike]

Yeah, I was like, if I could. If I could have, like, sleep on this at that pillow at night.

[Evan]

Mike, why don't you buy a bed made out of that pillow?

[Ryan]

You should buy a Red Bull bed.

[Mike]

If they made one, I would.

[Evan]

You'd think Mike was sponsored by Red Bull.

[CJ]

He's just that kid that just bought everything. Red Bull.

[Mike]

It's got so much adjustability. Like, the arms go in and out, back and forth, up and down, obviously.

[Ryan]

Yeah, man. You don't have to sell me on it.

[Evan]

Good chairman. You need a good chair in life, whether you're just sitting at your computer or gaming. Or maybe you could have, like, your whole, like, dining room set at your house just surrounded by those nice chairs. You're like, I bought the nicest chairs for our guests.

[Mike]

That'd be, like, a really good move for a streamer house.

[Evan]

I bet you Sydney would love it, though, having those chairs. It's stylish.

[Ryan]

My buddy Ken bought a nice chair for his office. I can't remember why, but I took it. And he just never asked for it back.

[Evan]

It's cuz he's a non confrontational guy.

[Ryan]

Straight up dude.

[Evan]

He just go and buy a new one.

[Ryan]

He did. That's exactly what he did.

[Evan]

It's amazing.

[Ryan]

I grabbed his chair and was using it for I think the day and he was like, you gonna just use that chair? I was like, yeah, I'm just. Yeah, today. Okay, well, I already ordered another one. I was like, oh, bro, I didn't plan on keeping it.

[Evan]

I was just. You.

[Ryan]

I was just borrowing it.

[CJ]

Had it for like 20 minutes and it's just like, well, I gotta get another one.

[Ryan]

It did work out pretty good.

[Mike]

Wait, so did he order another one?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I have the same chair as Ken.

[Mike]

That is how you acquired that chair.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Mike]

I just figured you liked it so much that you went and did like any normal person would do and order it themselves. Obviously he didn't give you the option. No.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it ended up working out.

[Mike]

No, I mean, this is justifiable to an extent. Obviously spending. But like, we spend a lot of time with our butts in office chairs. Unfortunately. You gotta have a good chair in your office if you're gonna spend a lot of time in there.

[Jake]

Yeah. Red Bull racing oracle secret lab chair.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you really do need a full on F1 NASCAR chair.

[Gavin]

Sometimes when I come in in the morning, my buddy Mike sleeping in his office chair.

[Evan]

I've had that a couple times. You walk in there, he's just kind.

[Mike]

Of like, you already know how. I. Yeah, I tested it, dude. I was like, all right, if I had to take a nap, how's it going to sleep?

[Ryan]

Oh my gosh, dude, that is legit. All right, well, welcome back to the lifewide open podcast where we love chairs. We actually, we love chairs around here.

[CJ]

Yeah, like all chairs.

[Ryan]

All chairs, dude. Yeah, we, we were working with one of our new designers and you know, kind of just gave him the reins of just like, hey, you're familiar with our style.

[Gavin]

You, you know what?

[Ryan]

We like, you know, kind of present us with some logos. Well, he gave us a chair logo, like, like Seaboy plastic white plastic chair on a bunch of stuff. And we were like, dude, that's amazing.

[Evan]

Goes hard. I don't know, show it or not. But it's. It's honestly sick. I don't. But we didn't choose it as one of our two, so we had to choose two and we didn't choose that one. Well, I thought it was sick. Maybe we'll do it next time. I just thought it was amazing that this guy was working so hard that he went back and watched all the videos and then like picked up on the reoccurring chair theme. That only happens once every. I mean it's not like it's reoccurring every video. He picked up on it. And then use integrated into a design without us even mentioning it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was good.

[Evan]

That's like doing your due diligence and, you know, understanding your really, really going above and beyond. No years.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Made like 30 designs for us to.

[Ryan]

Pick two many chairs. Do you think we've smashed hundreds in in our channel?

[Gavin]

I'm having like Vietnam flashbacks.

[Ryan]

I just remember that we were watching back when we had a our 1 million party and we went pretty rogue. I ended up like hitting a stack of 10 of them with my three wheeler and then it was just like everyone was standing there just picking them off, chucking them at the ground. But I bet we've in our existence of the channel probably at least 100.

[Jake]

Oh, I bet it's more easy. I bet minimum. I bet it's. Yeah, I bet it's minimum 150.

[Gavin]

Throw in at least 10 tables that have been smashed through 15.

[Evan]

That's standard.

[Jake]

There's just something about it. When it hits the ground, that initial snap, you're just like, I'm powerful. Yeah, like that you just feels right. It does, it does.

[Evan]

They're just so brittle.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

We need to find a more cost effective way to keep doing that.

[Evan]

We could start selling our own. We start making the perfect chair for breaking.

[Jake]

I think the problem with that is you get high on your own supply and that back very fast and dude.

[Ryan]

We would run ourselves dry so fast.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Oh, man. So is Ken not gonna be sitting in on us with today?

[Gavin]

No, I don't think so.

[Ryan]

I haven't seen Ken in the last week.

[Gavin]

Dude, me either.

[Evan]

Last week here for one hour.

[Gavin]

I know.

[Ryan]

What about the.

[Evan]

I heard Jake had a story. I don't know what the story is, but I want to have Ken in on this.

[Gavin]

Oh, we got.

[Evan]

It's a true story. I think Ken needs to be here to defend himself for sure.

[Ken]

Let me call.

[Evan]

So I mean, whether he can maybe pop in at the end of the podcast. We can carry on, but this is.

[Mike]

Actually how we communicate with Ken now.

[Jake]

Act like we're not on the pod.

[Evan]

Aw, He just like gets on. What the.

[Mike]

We're like.

[Evan]

Yeah, that's how he acts always. He's just in a bad mood at that one moment.

[Mike]

Your call has.

[Evan]

Just keep, keep calling him.

[Mike]

Man.

[Jake]

That was the long ring.

[Ryan]

I know. He's down there. I guarantee he goes, give me a couple minutes.

[Evan]

10, 15 minutes where he's in the bathroom.

[Ryan]

He hates taking phone calls when he's in the bathroom.

[Evan]

Hey. Disturbing his peaceful time.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Your call has been forwarded to voicemail.

[Gavin]

He's a busy man.

[Evan]

Your call has been.

[Ryan]

What could he possibly be doing?

[Gavin]

Yeah, last weekend we went bowling. The whole crew, we were all together. We're going bowling. He's like, no, no, no. I'm gonna go to bed. Hired from all my shipping. We're like, all right. Understandable, you know, disappointed. And then after bowling, we come and find him at the bar.

[Jake]

I think he just needs his alone time.

[Evan]

No, he. He just wanted to hang out with his favorite friends.

[Jake]

Oh.

[Evan]

We're like, his work. He just works. Just works with them, you know? I don't really know those guys.

[Mike]

Can you imagine asking, why? Why would you not go out with them?

[Ryan]

Well, are you gonna go have beers.

[Mike]

With your co workers every weekend? I don't think so.

[Evan]

I'm not going to my friends.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Well, Jacob, thanks for being here today, dude.

[Jake]

Thanks for coming.

[Gavin]

I have a gift for you. I saw this, and I thought of you, and I. I think you need to put it on your car.

[Jake]

It says, if driven carefully, please report stolen.

[CJ]

That is awesome, dude. Thank you.

[Mike]

That's great.

[CJ]

That's dynamite.

[Jake]

Yeah, that's going right on. That is honestly very truthful.

[Mike]

Right on what?

[Gavin]

I don't think I've ever seen you not driving at a. Like, there's an urgent activity happening.

[Jake]

Yeah, well, the thing is, it's like, I still have that, like, little, tiny, little ping in my brain if I see one of my friends. I'm like, oh, I got to do something. Like, I don't know what it is, but, like, anything.

[CJ]

I'll look for something in my vehicle.

[Jake]

Or I'm just like, if I got nothing, I'm like, I'll just floor it. I'll just.

[CJ]

Oh, here we go.

[Mike]

Hello.

[Jake]

You called.

[Ryan]

What are you doing?

[Ken]

What do you think I'm doing?

[Ryan]

Why so mysterious?

[Ken]

I've been doing all day.

[Ryan]

You're still in the bathroom. You got me. Come be on the podcast.

[Evan]

Okay. I'll be up there in a second.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Jake]

Okay.

[Gavin]

Nice. You got him down for a minute.

[Evan]

You know, I. I walked out to my truck this morning, and there was a bumper sticker or I should say, like, a back window sticker on mine, and it said, chubby chaser. I don't know who put that on there or how long I've been Driving around with it. But I was like oh. And I tried taking it off and I couldn't get it off cuz it was so cold. It was literally right on there. It was one of those stickers that's like, you know, you take it off or you can just get like a little like string of it. And I was like well this sucks. And now it's still on there. Chubby chasing Chubby Chaser. Not sure who put it on. I just don't know who put it on.

[Mike]

That just goes to show that like just simple pranks. I mean what if you want to call it a prank?

[Ryan]

I thought it was funny.

[Evan]

I'm not mad.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean it's just so, it's like never not funny. I remember like couple years ago somebody hit me with some good old window paint that just said honk if you're horny. And it's just like that's still funny to me. Like just stuff like that. A window sticker that says Chubby Chaser.

[Evan]

The only thing I can think is Evan has been kind of like putting Castle X stickers on all of his stuff. And he was like, I saw he put one on the back of his truck, so maybe he put that on mine. Which doesn't really make sense.

[Ryan]

You've been putting it on his stuff. Okay, maybe I was like don't you see what I was doing? I don't think so. I don't think that's how that's going.

[Jake]

I think you're trying to self sabotage in the fact of you thought that sticker was cool and you're trying to be like haha.

[CJ]

But you wanted us to be like nah man, that's sick. And you'll be like all right, you know what? It is sick. I'm gonna leave it. But you want a justification before you.

[Jake]

Said I put it?

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

As my girlfriend sitting right next to us off camera. I, I nothing wrong with Chubby's though.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I, I often wonder.

[Evan]

There isn't. There's nothing wrong with Chubby.

[Ryan]

No, no, no, no. Big girls need love too. I often wonder what's going through people's minds when they put like the big like fuck it stickers. You know, like the guy where it's like you can't even see out that window. All you can see is that big one.

[Evan]

Yeah, like the big one. I think they only have one response to your question. Fuck it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, that makes sense.

[Evan]

Exactly.

[Mike]

That's why it's interesting on your truck too. So like CJ's truck fully stock, doesn't have a sticker or chubby chain.

[Evan]

You'd thought like a 50 year old dentist drives my truck.

[Mike]

That's why any sticker that just the singular sticker has so much value, whether it's a brand or a funny thing. Like when you see a Chevy with a bunch of aggressive stickers on it, you just go, huh. That's the type of guy that guy is. He put all those on himself.

[Evan]

Come to think of it, I was filling up and I was. There was a couple gals that came and talked to me. Like it might honestly be a little bit more of a magnet now.

[CJ]

You know it's the only thing on.

[Jake]

Your truck that defines who you are, right?

[Evan]

Yeah, that's true.

[CJ]

They're just like, that's true. He's that guy, dude.

[Jake]

Anyways, I got a couple things I didn't talk about before Ken gets here. Something crazy that happened. My dad blew up his plane while flying the other day.

[Mike]

That's so scary.

[Jake]

Yeah. When he, like called me and told me he was in the air, like when I hung up with him, like my first reaction, like, I didn't even get nervous, nothing. Because I think I had so much trust in him that like, oh, he's gonna be fine. He's gonna put this thing down wherever. And then after I thought about it once I like saw the block. I'm like, man to like any other person that's probably not normal. Like, just like think of, you're like over water.

[Evan]

Definitely bad.

[Ryan]

So what did he do?

[Jake]

He was just like on the radio, like, hey, I'll be home in 26 minutes. Hey, I'll be home in like 20 minutes. And all of a sudden he's just like, hey, I gotta land, like right now. Like, something really bad's happened. I don't know what. And like he sent me a video and it literally sounds like, take any motor you guys have messed up. What it sounds like when it's blown up. That's what his plane sounded like. But you're flying. So it sounds like the thing's falling apart mid flight.

[Evan]

Right?

[Ryan]

Did he land it on the highway?

[Jake]

No, no, he didn't. He didn't land it on the highway.

[Ryan]

Where did he land it?

[Jake]

He turned around and just landed at like the closest airport, which, like, he could coast to. But like, he's like, yeah, I think I can make it home. And then it just got worse and worse and worse and worse. And it's just like, you put like so much trust in like, oh, he's Got it. Because he's just done it forever, you know. And then like, I was just thinking, I'm like, dude, if that was me, I'd probably be having a panicking dude.

[Evan]

Yes. In a small plane with a propeller. So the propeller quit spinning then?

[Ryan]

No.

[Jake]

So like it was still running, but it was like it was just running rough. And you don't know. Yeah, anything can happen and get out of balance and stuff like that. But like, statistically he beat the odds, you know, like his motor quit. So now it's not going to happen for another 40 years. So he should be good to go.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because what, he's got to have that thing rebuilt every two years, every five years, or like, you got to take certain precautions.

[Jake]

It goes by hours. So they make you like, once you hit so many hours, I don't know what the number is. Let's say it's 2000 hours on the motor no matter what. You just need a whole new motor.

[Evan]

You can't mess around with it.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

The older I get, the more I realize how cool it is that Dave has his own Runway. Just like at the shop there with the hanger. And like, you know, he can fuel up and fly out right there. Like, that is so sick.

[Evan]

So handy.

[Ryan]

That is so sick.

[Jake]

Anytime he wants. And it's so funny you say that cuz, like, it's just been like a part of his business. But so many people are like, where's your dad going? I'm like, oh, he's just got to fly here and fly back. And he can just do it within a matter of like a couple hours.

[Ryan]

Well, uses like a, like a Uber. Like he just like straight up, dude, you know, I worked for Dave for four years and dude, the dude would just fly in, grab lunch, and fly out. I still to this day don't know where he was going or what he was doing, because you can't. You got to just like, kind of fly around. I'm like, what's he doing up there? He's just like keeping an eye out for the sky. But like, I, I do realize too, like, most pilots just also just kind of do it for fun too. Because it's fun. Like flying's fun. And you know, the more I think about, I'm like, I wonder if Dave was just like flying around all day just to fly. How much can he do from the air?

[CJ]

Yeah, I'm working. He's just burning fuel, just driving around.

[Jake]

But I was like thinking about him. Like, I think when he does, if he ever retires, Which I don't think he will, but if he did, that.

[Evan]

Would be his hobby.

[Jake]

He would just fly places because he just enjoys it so much.

[Ryan]

Yeah, most. Most pilots do.

[Mike]

Dude, I was cracking up last night when it said. Jake was telling me that Dave was on an 80s cruise with his wife. And that's just funny in itself. He's like, but he's been gone for 10 days, man. Has it been nice having him gone? I'm like, well, why?

[CJ]

He's full, dude.

[Mike]

And I'm like, well, why is that? Like, it's not like you work for him anymore. And he's just like, dude, if we don't have. If me and Tony don't have our radios on us, he, like, we get in trouble just because he can't radio us. And then he called them. He got done with the cruise last night and is on his way home. And he's like. Calls him junior.

[Ryan]

I sold you another pair of sunglasses.

[CJ]

Better ship those out right now.

[Ryan]

Well, he texted me, look the order up. He texted me a picture of him. Let me just show you guys this picture. He texted me. He sends me this picture, right? Classic. I'm standing in front of this phone, and he just goes, look, my glasses. That was the three words he sent. I said, looking good, Dave. Still don't know what he meant or why he felt like I should get that.

[Jake]

That is such a him thing.

[CJ]

Like, what you mean by that?

[Jake]

I don't know.

[CJ]

I just. I thought you should know.

[Jake]

I'm like, all right, cool. Thanks.

[CJ]

Like that.

[Jake]

That was it.

[CJ]

He just had, like.

[Jake]

He made a connection somehow that I don't think you could make again. Had to send it to that person, and that was the end of the conversation.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

What's up, Ken?

[Gavin]

You made her.

[Jake]

What's up, Ken?

[Evan]

Welcome back.

[Jake]

I just so happened to be at the Roadhouse and find out. Found out some pretty crazy information about you that, like, I just thought I.

[CJ]

Had to share with the world. It's pretty simple.

[Ryan]

About me.

[Gavin]

About you.

[Jake]

So I was at the Roadhouse and there was, like, a bunch of your old friends from high school.

[Ken]

Okay.

[CJ]

And they were all like.

[Ryan]

Like, I thought I had them all sign NDA.

[CJ]

And anyway, so I was, like, sitting.

[Jake]

There, and they were, like, asking how everything's going, just chopping it up, and they're like, yeah, it's just so, like, crazy how. How far, like, you guys have come. And, like, it's crazy. We used to know Ken in high school and, like, how.

[CJ]

How good he's doing.

[Jake]

I'm like, yeah, he's doing great. And I don't know how it kind of came about, but I basically they said something like, yeah, I just can't believe how far he's come. And I'm like, well, what do you mean? And they're like, well, I just remember.

[CJ]

My last thought of him is he was playing the gong in band class and that was like his thing is.

[Ryan]

That like rock bottom?

[CJ]

Like, well, I don't.

[Ryan]

You are the easiest instrument to play.

[Evan]

You just hit it one time.

[Ken]

You could get away with doing basically nothing in band class.

[Ryan]

You've been doing this your whole life.

[Ken]

Cuz it was like basically a free hour to sit on your phone in high school. Like, what kid doesn't want to do that?

[CJ]

So you can play the gong like a son of a guy.

[Ken]

Oh hell yeah. I haven't done that in years.

[Mike]

That's.

[Evan]

So did you have a certain technique with the way you'd hit it or what?

[Ken]

No, no, just like, oh, like my part's coming up. Oh, I think this is right. Hit it.

[Evan]

So do you practice that?

[Ken]

I didn't, I didn't do.

[Evan]

So why did you get to choose that or did you get that stuck on you by the teacher?

[Ken]

I honestly don't remember either way.

[Evan]

I think it's hilarious that you ended up like whether you chose it or the teacher chose it for you.

[Ryan]

There's got to be some videos out there.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Telling like some, some parent filmed it.

[Jake]

I thought they were kidding. They're like, no, for real.

[CJ]

Like he crushed it.

[Jake]

And I like when, when they initially said it, I was envisioning like Ken just having a panic moment, not knowing.

[CJ]

To hit it and just smash that. Just like the total wrong time.

[Evan]

But yeah, you've come a long ways.

[Jake]

They made a really weird connection with that as well.

[CJ]

They're like, he's came a long ways.

[Evan]

I'm like, I was really expecting some, like I was expecting this a little more than that every day in the morning.

[Ryan]

Like Ken is like, that's it.

[Evan]

That's, that's the worst thing they could come up to say. He's like, perfect.

[Ken]

I got off clean then.

[CJ]

Yeah. I love how I totally should have said he there so overhyped. You're like, guys, I got the best story.

[Ryan]

Yo, yo. Impromptu podcast. Yeah, everyone.

[Evan]

Yeah, he played the gong in high school.

[Ken]

Your dad in you is really showing through.

[CJ]

Yeah, I, I, I, 100%.

[Gavin]

I don't remember it because I guess I was too young. I've been trying to find the video, but I Haven't been over there in a while, so it's kind of hard to ask, but apparently when you graduated Sunday school, which is like, what, like third grade?

[Evan]

Fuck.

[Gavin]

That was, I don't know, like a long time ago. Obviously, he stood up in front of the church and they, like, said, like, what you want to be when you grow up? And you said you wanted to be like, rich and famous or like, famous and good looking or something like that. I'm trying to find the video, but I got to go to church to do that, Man.

[Evan]

Ken, you're doing a great job.

[Ryan]

You have come a long ways.

[CJ]

That's what I'm saying.

[Ken]

Dreams. I feel like that story's been embellished to the point where it's just not even true.

[Gavin]

You don't even remember what it.

[Jake]

What.

[Evan]

Was pretty and famous.

[Gavin]

Okay, that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Randy talks about that all the time.

[Gavin]

It is one of his favorite stories about you. And I wanted to get the video to have proof, so I'll work on that.

[Ken]

But I feel like that was like the very beginning of video cameras. I doubt that exists.

[Mike]

Well, either way, if you said the.

[Ryan]

Church signed an NDA, if you said.

[Mike]

It or not, like, you got it. You're famous and you're good looking.

[Gavin]

Yeah, dude.

[Evan]

You did do it all. You did it.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

God blessed you.

[Jake]

Ken.

[Gavin]

Oh, you. You nailed it.

[CJ]

You know what's gonna happen? We're gonna, like, find all this stuff out about Ken. You're gonna start digging around trying to.

[Jake]

Find it, and they're just like, I cannot talk about that.

[CJ]

Come to find out, Ken has the whole town NDA up. They're just like, you gotta sign this. You gotta sign this.

[Ken]

It's a huge payday if they talk.

[CJ]

So that's true.

[Mike]

True.

[Evan]

Ken walks into a gas station, buys a candy bar, leaves two lawyers coming.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you're gonna.

[Evan]

Were you the one that talked to Ken Matthews? We're gonna need you to sign.

[Mike]

I was just thinking that, like, what. That'd be kind of a. A pretty abstract prank, but you just meet someone for like a couple minutes and then you have them sign an NDA out.

[Ryan]

That's actually a funny idea.

[Mike]

If you could just not repeat that. You even know me, that'd be awesome.

[Ken]

It's gotta be lawyers, though, behind them.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

How's it been going back there, Kenny?

[Ken]

We're doing great back there.

[Mike]

It's.

[Ken]

We're. We're crushing it. We're getting some stuff packaged up every day, and that's good. It's a lot of volume moving in and out of that place.

[Evan]

Got a good team though, back there working with you.

[Jake]

Okay, so there's a fight coming up. Jake Paul, Mike Tyson.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Jake]

As soon as that got announced, first person to call me, my dad, he goes, we're going. I'm like, what? He goes, yep, I want to see it. He goes, I want to.

[CJ]

He's like, someone's gonna beat that kid and he's gonna be Mike Tyson.

[Ryan]

The side Dave is on.

[Ken]

Mike Tyson, like 60.

[Jake]

Yeah, but dude, I don't care.

[CJ]

What is it like if it was.

[Jake]

Like an actual, like I don't know if it's going to be staged or how it's set up excavation. Like if you were put those two people in a room, Mike Tyson's gonna walk out.

[Evan]

I, I'm gonna watch it and I'm like, I think it's gonna be really cool to like watch that. But it's not the same as Mike Tyson in his prime. You know, Jake Paul is really, there's nothing to like slough off about his boxing. He's good. He's gotten way better. He's beating like actual pro fighters. You can't talk. I think Jake Paul is a really good boxer. Mike Tyson obviously was a really good boxer, but he's old now, dude. And like I feel like there's going to be some kind of rule where he can't get hit in the head because I remember when him and I can't remember Jones Jr. Yep. John, John, who is it?

[Jake]

Roy Jones.

[Evan]

When him and Roy Jones Jr boxed, it was an exhibition. An exhibition. And there was no shots to the head.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Evan]

And honestly, I mean my definition years old. Who wants to see a six year old man get knocked out?

[Gavin]

What I know, I like.

[Evan]

Why he's already got enough damage from all his years of getting hit in the head. I just so, I don't know, I have a feeling he's got a pretty good team behind him. Is probably worked out where Jake's not gonna knock him out.

[Gavin]

Do you think he could if he wanted to?

[Evan]

Jake Paul? Yeah, 100.

[Jake]

Do you think he could knock him out if it was just like one on one full on?

[Evan]

I think so. I think so.

[CJ]

I. Dude, he's so fast.

[Ryan]

Still like you just how many times has he been KO'd?

[Evan]

I'd say, I mean, I don't know the exact, but I can at leave name like two for sure. Like I know Buster Douglas knocked him out in China. That's how he pretty much is downfall. It was Japan and then I know there's like towards the end of his career when he was broke, he should have been retired a while ago. But he was just fighting because he needed money and like he got, you know, knocked out a couple times.

[Ken]

Saying he's been knocked out five times.

[Evan]

And that's just in an actual boxing match. So you got to consider when you're sparring, you know, all the years of training.

[Gavin]

You see this video of recently of him fighting.

[Evan]

Dude, dude, he's pretty. Absolutely. He's vicious. He's. But he is a 60 year old man.

[Ryan]

I agree.

[Evan]

For, for his age. That's crazy. Yes, it looks really good. But I still just to me it's kind of a stupid fight. I think it's going to sell a lot of tickets. A lot of people are going to watch because you have to. But you know, it's a young guy in his prime versus a. So that clearly out of his prime. You know, he's nothing like his prime. Like, yeah, he's looks. He'd kick the out of 99 of people. But like a trained boxer who is in his prime. I just don't think it's a fair matchup. But I think it's an entertaining one.

[Gavin]

Right.

[Mike]

That's why we're talking about it. But that's where it opens up. Where you mentioned earlier, can't hate on Jack, Jake, Paul. I don't know who initially. No, I don't know who initiated. No, I'm not saying anybody is. I'm just saying like. And then you kind of finished up with it's not a fair fight.

[Evan]

It isn't. It's just not right.

[Mike]

I mean, in that terms, yeah, it's tough. I am just here for it. I'm here for it. I'm. I'm so excited. We all are so excited. I'd love to like go to the fight but yeah, you'll see the Instagram comments like, no one's happy. No one's ever going to be happy.

[Evan]

Yeah. But the problem is Jake gets so much hate the way it is, which I think he doesn't deserve. He's proven himself already. All I'm saying is like I just don't think it's the same as any of other, the other matches that Jake has had. Like, I don't think it's going to be the same intensity or like, I don't know, I just find it hard.

[Jake]

To believe that be the vibe they want to kill each other.

[Evan]

I just feel like it'd be hard to believe that, that there is not a rule in there where Jake can knock Mike Tyson out or he can't knock him out because, like, I feel like he'd be protected. Mike Tyson's making a lot of money now. He seems to have a really good team behind him. So I doubt they would want to get in there. But that's what makes it kind of lame because, like, who wants to watch a boxing match or, you know, it takes away from it like an exhibition boxing match where you can't strike to the head and, you know, actually go full on. But it's still going to be super fun to watch, I think.

[Gavin]

Jake, did your dad ever fight Mike Tyson?

[Jake]

Fight Mike Tyson?

[Gavin]

No. Who was the guy that he was in the same thing as? Obviously, Roy Jones Jr. No, but was it.

[Ryan]

If Dave would make a lot more.

[Evan]

Sense when he was in.

[Jake]

So my dad won Golden Gloves in 1987. Their heavyweight champion Golden Gloves, 1987. And then in 1984, Mike Tyson won. And then in 1963, it was Cassius Clay, which is actually Muhammad Ali. But the same year that my dad won is the same year Roy Jones Jr. Won. But he was not heavyweight.

[Gavin]

Always weight class.

[Jake]

Yeah, I got a picture of. It's pretty cool there. And the dude Dave is like the. I don't know if this is bad.

[CJ]

Or he's like the only white guy there. Just like, it's all. He's just beast. And then you just see David.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, that is crazy.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, that's insane. From Cormorant, dude. It is fighting out of Cormorant Village, dude.

[Jake]

You guys, I have the. Like, I just, like, I don't know why I didn't watch this a long time ago, but I like, I have the whole nationals tape of when he fought on, really, dvd. And it's like the coolest video of all time. Like, there's a huge arena and everybody's like screaming my dad's name. And I'm really.

[Evan]

That.

[CJ]

So sick. That is pretty sick.

[Ryan]

Where was it?

[Jake]

Knoxville, Tennessee.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Mike]

Were they screaming like sheriff, or were they going, Dave?

[CJ]

It was Dave. Yeah, but it was.

[Evan]

He fighting for. It was like, amateur. Yeah, Golden Gloves.

[Jake]

Yeah, it was just amateur Golden Gloves. And then if you won that, you got to go to the Olympic trials and then.

[Evan]

Olympic trials. To the Olympics.

[Jake]

Yeah. So he was supposed to go to the Olympic trials. And it is so funny at the end, he's just like, oh, my goal is to win three fights. I won five. But now I'm gonna go back to work. Like, he's just like, they're like, you thinking about going pro?

[CJ]

He goes, no, I gotta go back to work.

[Ryan]

I gotta get back to turban.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, that is just like, wow. Dave Duarte, he's like, yeah, dinner.

[Jake]

And then he never fought again.

[Evan]

Wow.

[Ryan]

So he went out on top.

[Jake]

Went out on top.

[Ryan]

That's pretty sick.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Was it pretty crazy watching him beat the shit out of people?

[Jake]

Dude, it was just weird to watch because, like, I was literally like, when you watch it, he looks just like me, but he's frickin yoked. Like, I'm like, he's in my shape times a million. Like, he just looks like a big scary dude.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Jake]

But, yeah, it's really cool to watch.

[Ryan]

Are you still going to fight him?

[Jake]

He won't do it. He's got arm problems and shit. He's like, it's not worth it. He goes, and he goes, I don't want to burst your bubble because I'd kill you. And I go, yeah, I know. I'm like, I kind of want just a slow mo clip of you just rocking my dome hitting the mat. I'm like, I think it'd be cool. Like, how many people can say they.

[CJ]

Got beat up by their dad?

[Jake]

And I'm like, wait a second, why.

[Evan]

Do you think he'd kill you? Just because it boils down to technique.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

Like, then you wouldn't have that technique, right? I just, like, be more conditioned, but.

[Jake]

I'm getting trained by the guy that I'm gonna fight, you know? Like, I only know as much as he shows me. And, like, so he'll, like, set up a movie camera and they'll be like, all right, let's do this, this, this and this. And then we'll watch it back. He's like, okay, see that right there, I would have knocked you out. See this right here? What a knocked out. And like, Ryan, actually, I sent him the video when I was hitting mitts with him.

[CJ]

He's still so fast.

[Jake]

He can, like, catch my punches and sneak a punch in and hit me across the head. And it's like light speed and you just don't even see it. I'm like, how did you know how to do that? And he's just like, it's just like, you learn it just there and like, it's just so cool how he, like, sees it. And I'm like, I would never want to fight you. I'd die, dude.

[Gavin]

Dave would walk in the ring eating gummy bears, put the bag of gummy bears down and Knock you out and then have gummy bears. You'd be, like, training super hard. That's the thing. Like, if you want it, be like, damn, dud, you. You knocked your dad out.

[Mike]

Yeah, I know.

[Jake]

So I said I was losers, but I told him, like, I'd love to do it. He's just like. But he's got such bad shoulder pain, and he might feel like surgery and stuff.

[Gavin]

So I was like, damn, not worth it.

[Jake]

Maybe one day when he's, like, in a wheelchair.

[Mike]

Reminds me. Reminds me a hot rod.

[Evan]

Then you're, like, ready for this?

[CJ]

Yeah. That's literally what I remember. I'm going to get you better so I can kick your ass.

[Jake]

I'm going to fix your heart so.

[CJ]

I could beat you to death.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude. Fighting's big. Fighting's big, dude. Like, one of our workers. I won't say who or and what's going on, but one of our workers, like, signed himself up for a real boxing match. Mma.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Mike]

Even more corrected that. That's. That's even more.

[Evan]

I'm definitely going to that.

[Mike]

Yeah. I'm like, dude, if we can make it, like, that's awesome.

[Evan]

Yeah. As long as we can. Two is one in Grand Forks and, like, one in Minneapolis, but that'll be cool to watch.

[Jake]

My goal, Ken's bodyguard.

[Evan]

Actually.

[Gavin]

Ken's been paying him on the side.

[Evan]

He's a lot. He's a lot smaller in Ken, but clearly trained. He's lethal.

[Jake]

My goal is, like, I just want to do one amateur fight. Just one. Just, like, that's all I want to do.

[Mike]

Here's what I wonder is, like, is that first one. Is that where the addiction happens, though? That's like, you might end up really liking it, and you'll never know until that first one.

[Evan]

Yeah, I feel like a lot of it you might just have built into you, though, too, you know? Like, you got to be the type of person to even want to do that in the first place.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Like, that's such a crazy. The balls to go get in the ring, whether you're good or not good or whatever.

[Jake]

I think what you're saying. Serious takes a special type of someone to just want to get punched in the face and stay there.

[Evan]

Absolutely.

[Jake]

I don't know. I just think it'd be cool. Like, I just want to try it because my dad did it, and I freaking love, like, freaking training with him and stuff. And it's just fun because it's something. Like, we started bonding over. Over time. Like, all we really did was together is Work or just f off and destroy his trucks and stuff. And then we started boxing together.

[Evan]

And we enjoy it, but, I mean, everybody did. Whether you want to do the fight or not, like, pretty much everybody likes watching fights.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You know, it's just like, we got, like, our girlfriends. All of you guys are now into it. Like, we started watching, like, the big UFC fights, the bigger boxing matches, but even if you were just driving down the street and two guys started fighting, it's just your nature. You're going to watch. Like, everyone will watch.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It's, like, built into your human instinct.

[Evan]

You just can't turn away.

[Jake]

It's something bad.

[CJ]

You don't see it every day.

[Jake]

You're just like, I got to. Got to get me a part of that.

[Ryan]

I never had fights in school, but CJ used to always have.

[Evan]

Sometimes in. In middle school, there was a lot. But, like, most of the kids who were, like, fighting in middle school, then by the time they turn, like, 16, they're out of there. You know what I'm saying? So that's why it seemed like there was more in middle school than high school, which is interesting, but I was never in one. One time, though, there was a kid on my. On my hockey team. He, like. It was, like, interesting. He, like, was a new kid. He, like, joined in, and for some reason, we were beefing. And, like, I felt like there was a locker box coming up. When people propose that, you can't really back down. Luckily, it didn't happen, but I. I was, like, you know, kind of concerned. Like, I should probably, like, know how to do a little bit of boxing.

[Ryan]

You're just wearing your hockey gloves.

[Evan]

Hockey gloves and a helmet. And Which. That used to happen a lot more in the locker room before there was phones, and then when kids got phones, you'd videotape it, put on Facebook, whatever.

[Gavin]

Then you got in trouble.

[Evan]

Then you then, like, parents came in and stopped it. And, you know, you could get, like, in really big trouble, get kicked off the team and all that, because people were actually getting, like, really hurt. Which is funny because you still got a helmet. You're hidden with gloves, but doesn't matter. You get, you know, still get rocked. So anyways, I went home, and, like, my dad is a black belt in Taekwondo, so he knows how to, like, you know, technique and into that kind of fighting. So we like. I put my helmet on. Get my gloves. And he's like, all right, I'm gonna show you. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

He was, like, trying to get me ready.

[Gavin]

Picture this, dude.

[Evan]

I Was in the eighth grade and it was maybe only like your mom walks down. It was like five treats, five, 10 minutes. But like, it was the same thing as yours. I knew no technique, knew nothing. And like he, he like tagged me a couple times and I was like, damn, maybe I should just do anything to avoid this.

[Gavin]

I don't like this.

[Evan]

Yeah, I just realized. And yeah, that was pretty much that. But never had to box. But yeah, that goes back to the technique thing. Yeah. Take me up a couple times and I was at no crazy.

[Mike]

No real fights aside, your stamina is boosted because when you told me the whole, yeah, I got second in the ditch banger, you went to that at.

[Jake]

Dude, just being in shape.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm like, how happy?

[Mike]

I'm like, when did you, like, get good at snowmobile racing? I know it's on vintage and you're like, no, I just outlasted everyone because I had really good stamina. I'm like, dude, it makes sense, dude.

[Jake]

The prior years that I've done it, I haven't even been able to finish the race. Like the one time I just fell off the sledge because I couldn't hang on.

[Mike]

Gassed out.

[Jake]

Yeah. Also, everyone's like, I can't believe you won. I'm like, I took second.

[CJ]

I have so many second place trophies. They're basically like, congrats on finishing, man. All I saw, dude, was you holding.

[Gavin]

That above your head cheering. I was like, first.

[Evan]

Who'd you lose to? Like a professional?

[Mike]

No, he lost to one of the guys who owns erx.

[Evan]

Oh, well, then he was professional.

[CJ]

I wasn't even in his class. Oh, Andrew's in the pro class.

[Mike]

You weren't even in the pro class.

[Evan]

Amateur. Were there like 12 year old take.

[Mike]

This man's trophy away.

[Ryan]

No, honestly, Jake, I saw that and I was just so happy for you because, like, I know how much that means to you because you love racing and it just never seems to go that way for you.

[CJ]

No, it never works out, ever.

[Ryan]

And so I saw that and I considered second place first, you know?

[CJ]

Yeah, it was.

[Ryan]

You had something over your head.

[Evan]

I'd be happy with second.

[Ryan]

I thought it was funny when there was that girl coming up to you, dude, and you were like, yeah, what's up, baby? Yeah, I won the dish bank. So you were just, you were just like, ah, first, second. What's the difference?

[Evan]

First, second. Yeah, close enough.

[Jake]

I will say, like after that moment, like kind of hit hard. They just kind of came out of the woodworks.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Evan]

The trophy for Taking second.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Track snacks.

[Jake]

Yeah, I don't think they.

[Evan]

That's what they call them.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like girls that chase after like the winners.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ryan]

At the races. Track snacks.

[Mike]

I actually never heard that until today.

[Ryan]

It's a fun one.

[Ken]

Did you just come up with that?

[Evan]

No, that's a.

[Jake]

That's a known thing, I guess term. I didn't even know that. I've never won, so.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Jake]

I'm just learning about it now.

[Mike]

Jake, after his next one. I'm getting kind of hungry. He could use his snack.

[CJ]

Jesus.

[Jake]

But yeah.

[Ryan]

So they were flocking.

[Jake]

Oh yeah. There was like undeniably hundreds of them.

[Mike]

Really?

[Evan]

Yeah. I thought you were gonna say two.

[Jake]

I think there was two.

[Mike]

Yeah. You said there's 4,700 spectators.

[Jake]

Yeah. That was actually crazy old school snowbird.

[Mike]

That just shows 5,000 people.

[Ryan]

People were hungry for some snowmobile entertainment this winter.

[Jake]

It was a perfect storm because it was 50 degrees. Perfect day, no snow anywhere else but ERX because they made so much that it lasted so long. And just everybody and their brother came and brought all their snowmobiles. And I was like, this is packed. Like there was more people there. They announced it. It was the biggest snowmobile event of the entire 2020. Is it 2024?

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the season.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Evan]

That's cool.

[Jake]

It was like the biggest one of all of them. Bigger nationals. The what?

[Mike]

All of them.

[Jake]

The drags, those everything.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

That's pretty cool.

[Gavin]

That came off for years. Seconds too.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

That's so cool.

[Ryan]

They're all there for you.

[Jake]

I don't think so.

[Ryan]

Are you still doing the. The cold plunges?

[Jake]

I am, yeah.

[Evan]

It's.

[Jake]

It's a grind, I'm not gonna lie.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So like in the mornings though?

[Jake]

No, I. I actually switched tonight because you'll change. Yeah, I had a schedule change because like we all used to meet in the mornings and then everyone kind of dispersed and had to get back to like real life stuff. And now just like sleeping.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Well, everyone's just like. And then me and Tommy were the only ones going at like 5:30 in the morning. I'm like, there's no reason to do this.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Which one said that? Cuz I feel like, you know, you're both like grinding out. Like, yeah, this is crazy.

[Mike]

Right?

[Ryan]

And then one person's like, yo, what if we just like didn't do this?

[CJ]

Yeah, Well, I think me and Tom looked at each other and we're like, this sucks. Like, let's just do it at night.

[Jake]

And I'm like, yeah. But, yeah, I still try and do it every day. I'm gonna do it probably after this, and I love it.

[Ryan]

The fact that you and Justin did, like, 17 minutes.

[Jake]

I'm not going to lie. I was worried about Justin's health.

[CJ]

Like.

[Jake]

I don't know. Like, I was like, I'm in this to win it. And then I realized, like, Justin still next to me. I'm like, this is his first.

[Evan]

He was trained. He was untrained. He did not look well, though.

[Gavin]

After that, he looked sickly.

[Evan]

I had it on my Snapchat story. Like, the whole document, the whole thing. And the thing is, is after four minutes, you're pretty numb, and it actually gets easy. It doesn't get easy, but it gets a lot easier. But the problem is the longer you stay in there when you come out. I mean, my first time, I was in there for 4.4minutes, and it took me, like, the whole day to warm back up, like, my toes and stuff. But Justin, man, he just looked disheveled after that. He was just like a shell of a human walking around.

[Jake]

His hands, like, against the pool table, and he's leaning against it. And at that moment, I'm like, dude, are you actually going to be okay? Because, like, I. There's, like, stories of, like, so once your body goes into, like, hypothermia or, like, organs start shutting down, like, sometimes they won't fire back up. And I was like, dude, are you good? Like, are you good? And he's like, yeah, I'm just. I'm freaking cold. I'm like, yeah.

[CJ]

No, like, yeah, we were just in the.

[Evan]

We should have hopped. Had him hop in the hot tub or something.

[Jake]

But now he's good. He's tough kid, dude. I props to him. 17 minutes. First time. I ain't doing that.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's insane.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Have you done one in the lake yet? No. You got to join, man. It's. It's honestly fun.

[Gavin]

It is.

[Evan]

I don't. Don't do 17 minutes, but do three or four minutes, and it's honestly enjoyable. I like it.

[Ryan]

I'm down. Let's do it.

[Jake]

Yeah, I'm super down for one.

[Evan]

I think that you're on something because you were telling me that you think the cold plunges are helping you, you know, tone. Tone up. Like, you've definitely just, like, lost a lot of weight and, you know, toned up. It makes your metabolism fire up to basically burn a bunch of calories to warm your body back up.

[Jake]

Correct.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Evan]

Yep. And honestly, it makes a lot of sense. And I think it's been proven just by seeing you. Like, I believe that.

[Jake]

Yeah. So I do it for that. But I more so do it for the mental fact of, like, I want something super hard that you don't want to do. That I have to look forward to every day. Like, I. Jumping. Jumping in the lake, you know, like, make it part of your schedule. Like, this is going to suck. But, like, now I look forward.

[Evan]

Does it suck for you?

[Jake]

No, that's the thing. I enjoy it. Like, I almost turned something into, like, oh, this can be miserable. This is going to be miserable to now, like, man, I just can't wait to, like, jump in the ice bath. And it's almost like the hardest part of your day is done. And if you enjoy the hardest part of your day, you know, it makes it so much easier. But yeah, there's tons of, like, stuff behind it. Like you said, like, it. I don't know which part of it, like, basically helps burn the brown fats or takes the brown fats out or something behind it. There's.

[Evan]

Makes sense.

[Jake]

I didn't do all the research, but I just listen everybody talk about basically.

[Mike]

You're also touching on the fact that it is mentally helping you to just mentally overcome, you know, the hardest part of your day is now the easiest. Yeah, that's a. That's a good way to look at it.

[Evan]

I truly believe that doing it in the lake with the ice around you, out in the. In the elements of Minnesota winter is the hardest way to do it, I think. So what are you gonna do now that it's getting like. I mean, the water's only gonna get warmer eventually.

[Jake]

Yeah. So I think I'm literally just gonna. I got an ice maker plunged in for my shop, and I think I'm just gonna have to get it. That's big ice box.

[Evan]

That's great.

[Jake]

Yeah. So, like, I'm. Because, dude, I was buying bags, ice, and it got expensive.

[Evan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gavin]

10 bucks a day.

[Jake]

So I just want to get, like, a big horse trough or something and just. I'm gonna have to let her rip.

[Evan]

That'll be easier because, like, you don't even have to leave your home. You just hop right in. That's the hardest part for me about it is, like, you got to go over there, you know, have all your.

[Gavin]

Get back in your truck.

[Evan]

Get back in. You're all wet. Your truck's.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Jake]

You know, something that sucked. The heater went out on my truck, the blower fan.

[Evan]

So you're really cold.

[Jake]

So When I had to drive over there, my truck was as warm as it was outside. Like it doesn't warm up. So I drive over there, jump in, plunge, and then have to drive all.

[Ryan]

The way home crazy.

[Evan]

That's got to be the harder. That's how it's getting harder right there.

[Jake]

And that like was the, the, the hardest one I did. I went and jumped off Longbridge. It's already open. I wanted to be like the first person sick.

[Mike]

Yeah, you gain it off of like Longbridge in, in February. That's pretty sweet.

[Jake]

Sweet. Yeah. Little cannonball gainer. But like once I was driving home.

[CJ]

I'm like, I don't got any drive home really cold.

[Evan]

But yeah, I should have walked into Long Bridge. Got a couple cocktails, warm yourself up.

[Ryan]

Could have gone into my house.

[Evan]

That true? You could go use Ben sauna.

[Ryan]

I come home, your truck is parked sideways, doors open, wet little footprints. That boy, he did too much in that lake again there.

[Gavin]

Have you looked into like the physical benefits? Obviously it's working good for like your mental health, but there's no way that it gets any better for you spending 10 minutes a day in the lake.

[Jake]

I don't think anything past 10, but I do think between like 4 and 10 there's a little difference of like I notice when I do four and I get in my truck, not enough. I don't shiver. Like, I'm not like. But like when I get past.

[Ryan]

Man, you are just seasoned, honed in, dude.

[Jake]

Yeah, but when I do past 10, you start shivering and that's when you start burning like calories and get your. They say you're supposed to do it until you shiver. Nobody's gonna build a tolerance to sit in sub degree water forever, you know?

[Evan]

Right.

[Jake]

But like minutes.

[Evan]

But you definitely have built it.

[Jake]

Oh, that's what I'm saying.

[Evan]

I'd say even I have and I haven't done it much.

[Jake]

But the thing I think behind it though is your tolerance is like a more mental thing. Like obviously maybe it gets a little better, but what's his name? Hoff or whatever he did three and a half hours.

[Gavin]

That's nuts.

[Jake]

In the glaciers.

[Ryan]

Well, there's a, there's a video. Yes. Theory made where they went and visited and lived with Wim Hof. They show like the mental aspect of like getting ready and like you're basically doing like meditation, breathing exercises. Breathing exercises. And then they show going for like a hike through the mountains where you.

[Evan]

Don'T have shoes on and.

[Ryan]

No, they're just hiking through the Mountains, barefoot man. Maybe they had shoes on.

[Evan]

I don't think you could lose your shoe.

[Gavin]

Your feet, I would seem.

[Ryan]

And they're just like, in their shorts, but they're hiking through the mountains. Like, you know, I guess getting wet and being submerged in the water for 10 minutes is one thing, but that's not going to kill you. But getting hypothermia out. Out there, like, how do you do enough, like, breath work where you're straight up, like, telling your mind, okay, don't get hypothermia. Like, how does that work? It's not like, mental toughness at that point.

[Jake]

No, but it's weird because, like, it obviously works. He didn't die, like, and he's like a freaking. I don't. I don't understand how it works. And I've always wondered. I'm like, if I were to go in the lake for three and a half hours, I'd probably be dead.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Just anybody.

[Ryan]

Yeah, most people. And. And that's like, very common when people go overboard on, like, cruise ships or, like, you know, out. Out in the ocean. It's like, you know, it's not the fact that you drowned immediately, it's that you freeze before they can, like, get you out of the water. Yeah.

[Evan]

I mean, eventually, though, like, your. Your muscles and everything start just like, getting so slow because. Which is what happens even after three minutes. That's why it almost get. But like, you start moving. It's like a delayed reaction. So imagine you had to tread water eventually stop. Stops working, let alone you get tired. Even if it was warm water, you can't tread water for forever.

[Ryan]

God, that was.

[Evan]

That'd be the worst absolute. That'd be the worst way is drowning or burning.

[Jake]

Oh, I'd say burning over drowning, but my. Yeah, probably my goal is before the ice is off Pelican, I want to do 30 minutes, half hour.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Well, I was going to say, like, last. Last thing on this as we final goal. What are you going to do when it gets warmer and how are you going to transition to, I guess, not doing in the lake anymore? I think it's going to be sweet as the lake, let's say the lakes at 40, 41 degrees. You'll be able to sit in there for quite a bit longer than you do now. And then as it gets to 50, still very cold. You'll be able to like, literally chill in there for as long as you want, I think, at that temperature.

[Ryan]

But we should get like a bunch of grandstand stadium seating and put it.

[Evan]

Around the hole and sell tickets.

[Ryan]

Yeah. When Jake.

[Mike]

Jake's longest lunch.

[CJ]

Yeah, the longest plunge in cornbread.

[Ryan]

Everyone's just sitting there silent for, like, 30 minutes.

[Gavin]

Just isn't Jake screaming.

[Evan]

Dude, that could be a hot dog stand. Mike's manning. He's selling.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but he's eating all of them, bro. He's just buying.

[Mike]

If you guys buy me a hot dog stand, I will run it like the best hot dog connoisseur you've ever seen.

[Ryan]

Well, I can't believe that we haven't yet. That's actually.

[Mike]

That's a really good idea.

[Evan]

Good video.

[Mike]

I'm, like, studying.

[Ryan]

What if we win?

[Mike]

What are you doing, Mike? I'm taking a trip to New York to study the best hot dog sellers on the street.

[Ryan]

Dude, I was gonna say, what if we had a trip where we go to New York City and then we see how many hot dogs you can eat in 24 hours?

[CJ]

Mike would buy that city out of hot dogs.

[Mike]

No, I love hot dogs because I hear that idea. Like, I have the same excitement for that as if you're like, let's go, like, snowmobiling in the powder, deep snow. I'm like, yes, I'm in.

[Evan]

Let's do it.

[Ryan]

Writing this one down.

[Ken]

This one.

[Mike]

But I. I let. Hey, let's take that one further. Like, I like that idea. And then, like, then the next day, like, I should open my own hot dog stand.

[Evan]

You start running one, you'd be good.

[Gavin]

At having, like, one of those hot dog standards they do downtown that's open from, like, 11pm till 3am like, bar time.

[Evan]

It is kind of your hours of operation.

[Mike]

Yeah, that'll be.

[Gavin]

I'll be like, how do you, like, you know, your job? Like, it's great. I only work from about 10pm to 5am get to talk with drunk people all night and eat hot dogs.

[CJ]

Literally your life's dream, bro.

[Evan]

Mike's just, like, giving them away for free because he's like, that guy was hungry and he didn't have much money.

[Gavin]

Yeah, all his money. He bought all his boys great shots. I just want to help.

[Mike]

I love that. I'm, like, full of dumb ideas. I'm like, I was trying to just figure out a good way to market. How do I be different than any other hot dog stand? So I went for the 2.5 foot hot dogs. They're selling pretty decent now.

[Ryan]

Jesus, that's a huge.

[Evan]

I'd like to see you eat one of those.

[Ryan]

Mike, how many hot dogs in 24 hours do you think that you could eat.

[Gavin]

I'm so glad we're over that.

[Mike]

24 hours, dude. I mean, not that many. Like 25.

[Jake]

It's a hot dog an hour.

[Evan]

I'd agree with that.

[Mike]

Yeah. Like, I think by then I would be like, I feel like throwing up even though I'm not that full. Like 20, like one an hour.

[Gavin]

That's a lot of dog.

[Ryan]

It is.

[Gavin]

Cuz you're not awake for 24 hours.

[Mike]

True.

[Ryan]

You know? True.

[Mike]

I got a double.

[Evan]

All right.

[Gavin]

25 dogs.

[Ryan]

25 dog dogs. Yeah.

[Mike]

And.

[Ryan]

And for every everyone that's at home, like, oh, I could eat 50 hot dogs or I could eat 10 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

[Gavin]

Give her a try.

[Evan]

Try it hard.

[Ryan]

I guarantee you can't much harder than.

[Evan]

When you should recommend.

[Mike]

When you put a time limit on it, it gets really difficult.

[Jake]

You guys ever watched a hot dog eating contest?

[Ryan]

Joey Chestnut's one of the greatest athletes of our generation.

[Mike]

I put him up there with Tiger.

[Jake]

Okay, that is unhealthily next level. Like just. I've seen him just take out a literal buffet of hot dogs and he is just.

[Evan]

My only question on it is why has it got to be hot dogs? Like, why not cheeseburgers or something like hot dogs?

[Jake]

I think the hot dog was invented first.

[Evan]

Why?

[Ryan]

I'm sure they're there, that's why. Yeah, I don't know if get a fact checked on that. I. I think it's because it's just like, it's funnier. Maybe that's not why they do it, but like to the general public that's like interested in. In that being a thing.

[Evan]

Like they have hot wing eating competitions too, I think. But I suppose it gets a little bit harder because there might still be some meat on the bone. You got to really be where the hot dog. It's like the whole thing's gotta go.

[Gavin]

I could put a pretty good run in, I think at a watermelon eating contest. Hey, I think I could.

[Jake]

I'm not laughing at you. I'm just.

[CJ]

I'm just laughing with you, dude.

[Ryan]

I'm just picturing just going ham, dude.

[Gavin]

Yeah, there's no way to do that.

[Evan]

Cool.

[Ken]

But typical for me, hot dog was invented in 1484.

[Gavin]

1484.

[Ken]

Hamburger. Hamburger was invented in 1885.

[CJ]

400 years, dude.

[Mike]

What the. That makes no sense to me. So let's say, let's say when they invented it, it wasn't a imagine gross hot dog.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but it wasn't like, it wasn't Oscar minor.

[Mike]

No, it wasn't a gross Oscar. Like. Like a shitty one. It was a. You know, I didn't know this. When they. When they make brats, they really, like, wrap them in, like, intestines.

[Ryan]

Is that.

[Mike]

That's how they encase them. Okay. Seems insane to me. I still love them. The fact that they came up with that 400 years before they came up with just grinding up some hamburger.

[Gavin]

Nobody think of the cheeseburger. Until the 1800s.

[Ken]

Hamburger was invented in Wisconsin.

[Gavin]

We invented electricity before that, didn't we?

[Evan]

That is nuts. Honestly, when you look at, like, how long the world's been around, to think how long burgers that are part of it.

[Gavin]

200 years.

[Evan]

So a part of our life today. Everything's really new, even hamburgers.

[Gavin]

What year was the hamburger again?

[Ken]

1885.

[Mike]

That's like 150 years ago. And the hot dog was like 500.

[Jake]

And I feel like right now the whole world is on the hockey stick curve of, like, technology improving. Like, think about when we were kids for sure versus now versus, like when our parents were born versus we are like. It took like. They are just coming out with new stuff so fast, so crazy. And there's like no limit anymore. Like, dude, people driving around with these apple goggles and stuff and like just gambling casinos while they're making breakfast and cryptocurrency.

[Evan]

Yeah, I mean, everything is just. Yeah, it's. It's. It's exponentially faster right now. It's just. It just keeps building.

[CJ]

And the Simpsons is still on track.

[Jake]

Dude, they make an episode in 2006 about people running around with goggles on and what do you know?

[Ryan]

It really happened.

[Evan]

How the heck, man, that's so amazing.

[Gavin]

Are they still thinking of shit to do for that show? I watch it. I watch the whole new season.

[Evan]

Simpsons is a great show to just have on in the background, you know, It's a feel good vibe. For some reason, it just makes me feel all fuzzy and warm and it reminds me of my childhood. It's like having it on, like, at night and just. I don't know. Same with South Park.

[Gavin]

Oh, South Park's the best. They still make enough of them anymore. Yeah, I was watching the Minnesota state hockey tournament last night. The high school boys. It's a big deal.

[Mike]

How bored were you, my guy?

[Gavin]

Pretty bored. My cousin was in it too. Not this place, not this year, but.

[Evan]

A previous year, 10 years ago. He's like, oh, I gotta watch the Minnesota state tournament. My Cousin played in 2004.

[Ryan]

Yeah, so did me and CJ's cousin.

[Gavin]

Yeah, so you guys should be supporting the boys out there. But anyway, I didn't really realize this, but it's, I think, mostly exclusive to Minnesota is the hair tournament.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

And like, because you skate up to like the line when they introduce you.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Mike]

I've seen.

[Gavin]

It's like a thing that everybody does. The craziest hair you possibly can.

[Evan]

Hockey in Minnesota is crazy. I mean, they pack the entire Alara center that. The NHL Wild center, which is like 35,000. Excel Energy XL Energy. I mean, for high school, it's packed. There's not an open seat in the place. Yeah, that's fucking professional stadium for high school hockey games.

[Gavin]

My friends in college used to say that North Dakota was a state of hockey. We used to get in fights over it.

[Ryan]

I. I don't know that for North Dakota's, you know, per capita of how many like professional players come out of it though, it's probably pretty close.

[Evan]

Like out of grand. Not as many as. There's not as many as. As Minnesota, for sure. Like actual Minnesota natives.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

More hockey in Minnesota. But there definitely is some, some NHLers that have came and came out of North Dakota.

[Gavin]

Just love me some hockey. I do love hockey. Favorite sport to watch.

[Evan]

I've kind of come back around to hockey too. I was watching. Watching something the other day. It's fun to watch.

[Ryan]

You like watching that more than football?

[Evan]

I like football.

[Gavin]

I like football more. I was going to go to an event live. I've never been to UFC fight, but if I was going to go to an event live, hockey is the best live event to go to. And people will dispute me on that with football, but there's always something happening with hockey. Football.

[Jake]

I agree.

[Evan]

Hockey runs in person.

[Gavin]

In the. Yeah.

[Evan]

I mean, I still think I'd choose football, but like, if it was down to watching like, you know, a big, big game, it'd go probably UFC football 100. A major like UFC fight or boxing is like such a special. You know, there's only so many a year, maybe like three, four of them that are like a really big hyped up deal.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Instead of like 80 of them a year.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

But the thing is, like with UFC and with football, football comes on Sunday morning. No better time to sit down Sunday afternoon, you got nothing else to do. You sit down, you watch football. Like, who's going to leave work at 5 on a Friday to go catch a hockey game? Like, I'm not going home today.

[Evan]

Too many games. That's why they got too many games. There's only 14 or what is it, 14 or 16 games in the NFL?

[Gavin]

Yep.

[Ryan]

What's the worst? Baseball.

[Gavin]

Baseball, dude.

[Evan]

Gotta be the worst.

[Gavin]

That's why they have empty stadiums every freaking.

[Evan]

Well, I mean, NFL, you can't have 80 games a year. People are. You can barely do 15, you know, like, they're getting so beat up. It's honestly impressive with hockey, though, because hockey is extremely physical, too.

[Gavin]

I think it was ranked the number one most athletic sport. Or actually, it might have been something really ridiculous like golf or something like that.

[Evan]

Yeah, I think motocross.

[Jake]

Motocross.

[Mike]

Motocross.

[Evan]

I believe that.

[Gavin]

Yeah, it was.

[Jake]

This was physically demanding or something.

[Gavin]

I would 100 agree with that.

[Evan]

Yeah. It is amazing to think about because a lot of people just think you're just turning the throttle. Like, you know, you're just riding the thing.

[Jake]

But, dude, you're. Hey, like, you get arm pump, you're dead. Like, yeah, yeah.

[Gavin]

They should start.

[CJ]

I don't.

[Gavin]

They should do it with those saw blade wheels. Dude, the arm pump was insane. So they're shaking the whole thing.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you just get an arm pump holding on.

[Evan]

That thing was shaking so bad that it was running bad. Like, I don't know if it was shaking the freaking piston in the cylinder. So, like, it was just, like, rattling the whole thing loose that it sounded like crap.

[Gavin]

I know.

[Evan]

Like, I don't know what was going on there, but that was. I've never seen that before.

[Jake]

I can't believe it worked.

[Evan]

They were good.

[Gavin]

Were heavy, dude.

[Jake]

When Gav was putting them on, he's like, here, like, I'm holding the bike and he puts that freaking nut through for the front wheel and it just goes to. I'm like, dude, that thing's like £200.

[Evan]

Yeah. Work great.

[Gavin]

It's real tough riding next to Evan because, like, he's just an extraordinary rider, but I felt like I did pretty good on that quad. I felt like I was going fast.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you were.

[Evan]

Thing was. No, you're doing great, Ryan. The thing is, is the dirt bikes just. You can do so much more with it. So much better, honestly. Go watch even, like, quad fmx. Like, the quad just can't do as much. It doesn't go as high. It's just everything is kind of just like. It's not the same. I mean, they can, but it's just. Just not as good. And that's kind of thing. But how about the sheriffs pulling up on us last video right after we had our last podcast, kind of talking about how they thought we were unfortunate Timing the suspect driving through the cormorant store. We dropped that podcast and, like, we're not trying to, like, talk on them or anything.

[Gavin]

We're not trying to make them look bad.

[Evan]

We're not. We don't. Like, we have friends who are sheriffs and police officers and even state troopers, but, like, we're in favor of. Of.

[Gavin]

Absolutely.

[Evan]

Then they come pulling up when we're having the fire in the video. It's like we weren't even trying to do it, but now it's like they're just God dang well and get away from it, dude. Yeah.

[Mike]

Wait, wait, wait. What weren't we trying to do?

[Gavin]

Wasn't trying to get in trouble.

[Ryan]

Like.

[Evan]

Film a video, like, using them in the video.

[Ryan]

But then it's like, it was just such unfortunate timing being that we dropped a podcast earlier that day, kind of.

[Evan]

Making fun of the fact that they thought we were possibly a suspect of something that we didn't do.

[Ryan]

Well, dude, I just think it's crazy that you have to get a. A fire permit and then call it in. It makes sense, honestly. It does make sense because you could just get it and then it varies dayto day.

[Evan]

Right? Yeah. But I get it because if it's super dry, be a big deal.

[Gavin]

You could start down a lot of.

[Evan]

You could have a lot of, you know, a wildfire, basically, which makes sense. But we. We didn't realize it was too dry because Ryan got the permit, so we thought we were doing things right.

[Gavin]

It wasn't too dry, too.

[Evan]

We did fair and it wasn't too dry, but. But yeah, that guy pulled up and he was a little short. He wasn't maybe trying to be a dick or anything, but he was being a little short, which then didn't help his case in the video. Yeah. And then the fire department shows up, and that guy was just like, oh, yeah, you're good. Just activate the thing tonight and we're good. See you later.

[Gavin]

It's tough, too, because he probably didn't want to, like, act like it was no big deal. True. And then the fire department gets there and then is in trouble. I'll be like, wait, he said it wasn't a big deal, so it really isn't a tough spot.

[Evan]

I think the other thing is you can't get mad at the sheriff for doing that, because he was probably called in to go do that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly.

[Gavin]

He didn't want to be there.

[Mike]

Is.

[Evan]

He is getting a lot of hate in the video, which is. Was not by any means the goal it was just kind of like. I don't know, it was just a funny little thing to have in it, you know, like anytime you're having something like that happen and you're already filming, you kind of gotta. It's just. It makes a video more interesting. But yeah, he got a lot of hate. But honestly, it probably wasn't even his decision to go there. I'm sure someone just called it in. They said, you know, who's. Who's in the area. And I don't know how exactly how it works, but then those two went, you know, don't got you.

[Ryan]

Can.

[Evan]

We can lighten up a little bit. But yeah, last week we. We just didn't like being a suspect. Nobody wants to be a suspect of something they didn't do, you know, like, it's not a good feeling.

[Jake]

Ryan was the guy.

[Evan]

Ryan was the only suspect, clearly, because they didn't even look at any of our.

[CJ]

They're just like, trx. We got them.

[Mike]

But it was. It was a little awkward then. So it's like that, right? Police came and then the. The fire department came. They're all on call. It's a small area, obviously. And they came and then everyone was just kind of in limbo. We're like, are we good? And they're like, yeah, this. This fire is clearly not out of control. But they kind of stuck around. And then I was like, I had.

[Evan]

Some wieners, you know, hot dogs.

[Mike]

I gotta clear it up, boys. Is. They were like way goo.

[Evan]

Big game wieners. Literally, it was big game wieners. And that's why I didn't want you burning yours. It wasn't on the camera, but Mike was roasting it. I was afraid it was getting a little burnt. And I had already had their gourmet gourmet. I don't know how much they costed. We were giving them as a gift. And I was just like, mike, don't let that thing burn, because I want you to have. I just wanted you to eat it in its prime.

[Ryan]

Yeah, like, it was like so good.

[Mike]

I was roasting it, like, while the.

[Ryan]

Like, cops are there.

[Evan]

Yeah, they're still there.

[Mike]

And I was like, well, I was planning on roasting these on the fire. That's clearly not too out of control.

[Ryan]

Out now.

[Mike]

And then I did, and it was amazing.

[Evan]

Did you offer them.

[Mike]

No.

[Evan]

Maybe you could have offered them a bratwurst for their time.

[Gavin]

Yeah, Mike's upgrade. He only likes good wiener now. Or do you still like big game?

[Ryan]

Yeah, he'll still eat it all.

[Gavin]

Yeah, Just prefers the big game. Wiener.

[Evan]

I saw. I saw a comment. It was like, did Evan rip his hammer off and put it on a stick?

[Ryan]

I thought that was hilarious.

[Mike]

That's what we call out of pocket.

[Ryan]

I almost replied.

[Evan]

Way too small to be his hand. Or is it good?

[Ryan]

It was. It was funny reading the comments for that video just in general, because apparently that's where they draw the line of safety. Too dangerous, you know, for what subs want us doing in those. Those dirt bikes and. Or the dirt bike in the quad. Those were over the line.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Too dangerous.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was a couple.

[Gavin]

Like, please keep making videos. We love you guys, but, like, this is too far. This is too rich.

[Mike]

We weren't particularly expecting the magnitude of.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah. There was a lot of it different.

[Ryan]

Because, like I said in the video, if things go so south, like, on normalized tires, where you get, like, sucked up into it, it's a bad day.

[Mike]

Right?

[Ryan]

Right. Yeah. That's never happened. That will be a really bad day. Right. But you also got to kind of play the odds. Like, is it gonna happen?

[Jake]

No.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It did feel pretty secure. Like, everyone's riding that thing, like a normal.

[Evan]

To be fair, when we were building it and when we were doing it for how bad it could have gone, and. And, like, we've done a lot of other things where, you know, someone's about to do something dangerous, which happens a lot around here. And before that, you're kind of all sitting around on camera and. And, you know, we're. We're weighing it out. We're calculating how things will go, you know, trying to get a feel for it. And. And people are, like, tense. There's sometimes, like, one person or two maybe will be like, I don't think it's worth it. I don't think we should do it. And typically, if that happens, we don't do it. But, like, no one even had a second thought. No one even thought once about it. We were like, yeah, this is dangerous. But it was, like, very secure and, like, just hopped right on. I remember when you were grabbing the bike and revving. I did yell at you, though, Ben. I was like, watch your foot. Don't let your foot get in there, Ben. Because you were revving in. It was, like. It was pretty close, dude. But otherwise, I mean, yeah, if it fell off. If you think about it, though, like, our insane ice pick tires that we had on the side. Sandra and the Razor are very similar. Like, if. That'd be pretty similar. Yeah. Which it did fly out. Like, imagine that. Freaking.

[Jake]

I think that never cease to amaze me. So, like, not being totally disconnected but not seeing what you guys are doing every single day is so funny because, like, if I'm ever gone for, like, a week or two weeks, and I'll just see a thumbnail, and I'll be like, huh.

[CJ]

No, like, it's just, like. It is so clever. Some of the things you guys come up with. I'm just like, that's awesome. Like, I'm literally, like, it is so fun to see because, like, yes.

[Jake]

Or whenever I came in, and I'm like, holy. What are those saw blades for? And Gav goes, oh, we're putting them on a dirt bike.

[CJ]

And I go, where's the creativity?

[Evan]

Stop.

[CJ]

Like, I'm just. Like, it never ceases to amaze me.

[Jake]

I'm just like, they never miss.

[CJ]

I'm like, they just got it going.

[Evan]

Thank you.

[Mike]

I do love that when you come in and you just so happen. Even if. Because some of the stuff we do, we. We execute Monday to Wednesday, and it's out on Thursday. But, yeah, you'll come in and be like, oh, yeah, so what have you guys been up to? And then I'm like, oh, dude, I have so much in my camera roll. And then you're like, holy.

[Gavin]

Just drove a truck through Ken's house on Wednesday. That's it. Other than that, nothing.

[Ryan]

Well, we have, like, so many builds going where, like, these builds take a long time.

[CJ]

You guys put a lot of work.

[Ryan]

Into it, and so we're, like, coordination as planned out as we can. You know, there's, like, certain times where we'll be in between things or certain things will fall through where we're, like, sitting down here. We're like, oh, what do we do this week? You know? And over the years, we've gotten better and better about not having to be in positions like that. But this time, it was last week, we were like, okay, we're kind of in between things. We got to come up with something. And the saw blades was kind of just pitch. And we're like, that's great. Let's do it.

[Jake]

How did. So, like, how did.

[Mike]

Whose idea?

[Ryan]

Yeah, that was EVs.

[Mike]

That's. That's one of those things that I hear, and I feel so bad about this. I hear that, and I go, yeah, it hasn't been done. You know, Like, I almost brushed over it, so I'm so glad that it happened.

[Ryan]

Done, but never, like, to that magnitude on it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And then that's what we. We knew that it would be better if you hollowed them out so they'd be lighter, but we were adamant that they had to be actually solid because it would look that the look was so.

[Ryan]

And one, once we were, like, kind of planning it after the idea, Ev really wanted to do two, because it would have been, like, more functional.

[Evan]

I don't think it would have been still.

[Ryan]

And we were just like, honestly, dude, I don't think it's gonna be that much of a difference. And it's gonna look way, way cooler with just one single saw blade. He was like, okay, well, let's just do that then. You know, so it's like kind of figuring out which direction to go.

[Evan]

It is a really a group thing, though. Like, someone might pitch the idea, but then executing that idea or like, how we're gonna go about it is. Wouldn't you know, it is a group thing. Yeah, there's a lot of contributors to. Even to the idea or after the idea and just everything.

[Gavin]

So, yeah, I mean, like, we're pretty good at coming up with ideas, but Gavin and then Big Red, making them actually work.

[CJ]

We're like, saw, blade, wheel.

[Gavin]

And they're like, okay, well, it has to have a bearing and shit like that. And that's some pretty crazy stuff.

[Jake]

But, yeah, that was the one thing I was going to say. One of my favorite thing that you guys do is when you take an idea and you just keep stacking and stacking and stacking and finding the limit. And just, like, when I saw the shirt that was the tiny truck, I.

[CJ]

Was just like, all right, the tiny truck's doing this now. And I was just, like, trying to think of, like, how easy was it.

[Jake]

To do that for, like, him? And, like, how much time goes into that? Because, like, when I was watching, that.

[Evan]

Was an easy one for them.

[CJ]

Well, I was going to say with.

[Jake]

The wheels, because when I was watching the video, I was like, they made that look like it was literally bolt on and go. And, like, I just didn't know, like, what else was there to do with it. And it's just, like, so cool how you can just boom. You know, and, like, just take.

[Mike]

One of my. One of my favorite parts of the process is the time between when we're all green lighted. An idea. Oh, yeah, we're all on board on that. That's a good idea. Let's plan for that next week or whatever. And then seeing it blossom into what it actually takes, everyone jumps on, whether it's getting some supplies, whether it's engineering, whether it's just firing dumb ideas that we know we probably shouldn't do. I don't know.

[Evan]

It's funny that we're talking about this now because I don't know if we're actually going to be able to post this next week because we're going to be traveling. We're trying to make happen and we're just so tapped out on time. I don't know. There might not be a video this Thursday. So we're sorry about that. But we will, we will be back.

[Mike]

The following and if there ever isn't a video, obviously like we'll try to tell you. And that means there's stuff in the works. Yeah, it means there's lots.

[Evan]

We're not just sitting around watching tv. It's like it just. Sometimes a build takes longer sometimes, whatever. But yeah, Jake's TV just got massive tv.

[Ryan]

So we might be just sitting around watching tv.

[Gavin]

That's what we're doing this.

[CJ]

Ryan's got the picture. Okay, next fight, I don't care what it is, you guys.

[Evan]

This Saturday we're watching Sugar Sean vs Cheeto.

[Mike]

Look at him.

[CJ]

Dudes look taller than.

[Evan]

Holy shit, that thing is huge.

[Mike]

So if you guys are seeing this picture, Jake, when got him, he finally got himself his 100 inch TV.

[Evan]

It's talked about it a while ago.

[Ryan]

So what is the, the dimensions of it?

[Jake]

It's just 100.

[Evan]

100?

[Jake]

Yeah, it's just, just 100.

[Ryan]

I thought it was 160.

[Jake]

No, no, it was going to be 120, but dude, I didn't fit the price difference. Three reasons.

[Mike]

Oh yeah.

[Jake]

First of all, did some measurements. Don't even know if it would have fit through the door. Second reason from 100 to 120 is like six to eight grand depending on whatever. The third reason, I'd put 120 on the wall. I'd have to put my couch like against my garage door.

[Evan]

Your head to watch? Yeah, turn your head.

[CJ]

So I was like, this will do.

[Jake]

And when I measured, I'm like, dude, this is still too big. But I'm like, this is so me.

[CJ]

Like this is a talking piece. When people come.

[Gavin]

I tell you what, Jacob, I just looked it up and for a tcl, they are not giving those things away.

[Ryan]

Two racks.

[Mike]

Huh?

[Gavin]

There was three. It's on sale.

[Evan]

Three racks.

[Mike]

I got.

[Jake]

I think I got this for like I did get on sale. It was like 2500 bucks.

[Gavin]

I got it for $83 a month.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Mike]

Well, I kind of feel like bought One of them Samsung Frame TVs that looked like a picture. It was like two grand. So I should have spot Mike. Yeah.

[Evan]

Holy.

[Gavin]

Can you imagine 100 inch TV on your house, in your wall?

[Evan]

Ran on TV, Mike.

[Mike]

It was close.

[Ryan]

He spent 700 on the chair that he's sitting in.

[Evan]

There's one thing about Mike, he likes luxury.

[Jake]

Broke it, dude.

[Evan]

He likes nice things.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And he likes a lot of them.

[Ryan]

And he likes stuff.

[Mike]

I learned that. Well, I learned that I learned the luxury from my boy, Ken.

[Evan]

Ken loves cheap out.

[Gavin]

Ken, what's the last luxury item that you just bought?

[Ken]

Oh, I did just buy a Cybertruck yesterday.

[Gavin]

Oh, really?

[CJ]

Oh, wow. Oh, I didn't buy it.

[Ken]

I confirmed my order.

[Mike]

But still, regardless, that's exciting.

[Evan]

When. That's huge.

[Ken]

Last night. But it's supposed to be here April to June.

[Evan]

April, actually.

[Ryan]

Valued Tesla customer. When he gets.

[Evan]

That's.

[Ryan]

I feel like that's pretty early.

[Evan]

And it's been. Ha. People have been asking since we made that video in 2019 of order or doing the hundred dollar deposit down wins. Ken. Cybertruck in a gator. We're like, bro, they're not even out.

[Ryan]

Yeah, now they're finally out.

[Evan]

But yeah, so it's actually happening. I'm not surprised one bit that yours is coming because I had so many.

[CJ]

But ahead of the curvy is like.

[Jake]

Didn'T you do it too?

[Gavin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

But I, I, He's a valued customer.

[Jake]

Ken's platinum. Somehow that's.

[Evan]

They just took Ryan's money.

[Ken]

Well, to pay another thousand dollars to potentially get it in the next three months. So we'll see if they actually get to that.

[Jake]

Did you see the problems that people are already having with them, though?

[Ken]

They're like rusty.

[CJ]

Yeah. Rust, rusty.

[Gavin]

Oh, my God.

[Ken]

Stainless steel. Some still rusting.

[Mike]

That's not the move, though.

[Evan]

I really like when they wrap them black. I think it looks so sharp. I think you got to do that, Ken.

[Ryan]

Did you guys see that, that Tesla posted a video of them going up Hell's Gate?

[Evan]

I did, yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Somebody stitched us. Actually. A guy was like, well, Tesla just dropped a video taking their new cybertruck up Hell's Gate. But did you know that Seaboise took a crotch rocket up Hell's Gate? So is it really that impressive, Tesla?

[Evan]

I didn't realize how iconic Hell's Gate is until after we had done it. Like, we were just kind of there and they're like, yeah, yeah, Hell's Gate. That's where we got to go up and we're like, okay, where is it? Or, you know, Gavin takes us there. Okay, this is the. Supposedly the hardest thing here. Evan, you know, almost does the whole thing. But then after I like, realized how much of like a statement it is, like manufacturers bring their vehicle there to, like, prove how good it is, which Akia Sorrento went up. You know, I'm sure Alex loves to hear that. My girlfriend, but she's a big fan of Kia's Sorrento.

[Ryan]

And that's actually.

[Evan]

The Kia boys are probably very happy to hear that too. Testament to their brand.

[Ryan]

But the short of Evan going up that on the crotch rocket has 162 million views.

[Gavin]

Gripes on naughty.

[Ryan]

On just YouTube.

[Evan]

I wonder if it helps if it. If it. If it made it better at the fact that he didn't do the whole thing. You know, the fact that he, like, put it down almost at the top.

[Mike]

I think he still.

[Evan]

It still haunts him. He's like.

[Ryan]

He loses.

[Evan]

Yeah. He's like mad about it. I'm like, I don't know, man. I think it works. Worked out pretty good.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but. But Hell's Gate, pretty legendary. We got to take something back there. We've been trying to figure out what to do with it next. We gotta figure that out.

[Jake]

What's the next item?

[Ryan]

What else do you do?

[Jake]

I don't know. I feel like Nylander is the Minnesota.

[CJ]

Version of Hell's Gate.

[Ryan]

The local snowmobile hill that everyone grabs a case of beer and goes and sits at the.

[CJ]

Bottom just watching people pile up.

[Gavin]

I was just somewhere and they go, yeah, how steep was that hill?

[Mike]

The.

[Gavin]

The hill climb hill that Evan went up on the. On the snow bike, the Harley snow bike. And he goes, yeah, like, compared to Nylander Hill, what was it like? Dead serious conversation. I went a lot worse. But it is funny.

[Ryan]

Maybe twice the degree.

[Mike]

But then it was funny to hear too. Dude, they were talking about so like, Nylander Hill, the local hill. It is nothing compared to that hill that Evan went up on that is so, so much less steep. And he's talking about. He's like, yeah, I pretty much built. I built this whatever old sled pretty much just for that hill. I.

[Gavin]

It's like a big deal around here. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Funny enough though, last year was the first time that I'd ever been to the hill. I was like, this is the hill that everyone's been talking about. This is the legendary hill. And we had with our. Our two seater xlt. XLT special. And so I think Ryan hopped on the Back right.

[Gavin]

It was.

[Ryan]

It was. I was driving, Ryan hopped on the back and we didn't make it. We legit didn't make it up. Up the hill.

[Mike]

But that's just funny.

[Ryan]

Back down and go back down.

[Mike]

It's not because it's too steep. It's the most Midwest thing ever. It's because it's too icy. So then, like, you're just committing to, like, probably not making it and probably piling up your sled or at least tipping it over onto no snow.

[CJ]

That's the only reason it gets destroyed. You're literally chuck it into rocks and trees.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Classic local legends.

[Mike]

Dude, I have a. I have a good story here really quick. So every once in a while, I'm not. I'm not that good of a drawer. I have told that before.

[Ryan]

So some.

[Mike]

Sometimes I get stuff made on fiverr. Send out, like an idea. Can you draw this car? Make some skeletons in it, whatever. I sent the order off like a month ago, and usually they sent it back within five to ten days, whatever their. Their thing is. And ten days came by and I haven't seen anything. And I'm like, dude, this is usually not okay. You usually can get your money back. And I'm like, where's my stuff? Still another almost month goes by, and I'm like, what is going on here? Like, I should probably get my money back. And then he finally reaches out and goes, I'm so sorry. And keep in mind, this is some. A guy in India somewhere, he sends me an X ray of his torso and was like, sorry, mate, I broke both my arms, so I couldn't finish your water. And he sent me an extra. And maybe this is some elaborate excuse. Seems too insane to be an elaborate excuse. But he sent me an X ray and both his. I don't know what this bone is called, but both of his arms were snapped in half. Like need surgery type of vibe. Like need screws and plates.

[Evan]

And then I'm just like, piss someone off.

[Mike]

Listen. Yeah, so that was my next question. I'm like, dude, I. I asked like a local artist.

[Ken]

He did.

[Gavin]

I pissed somebody off.

[Mike]

He didn't share how it happened. I asked him. I'm like, dude, that's insane. Totally understandable. What happened? How did you break your arms? And so if I do find out, I'll give you an update. But, like, that's what worried me. I was like, what if whatever, making money online from people in the United States isn't allowed where he's from or something?

[Evan]

And maybe there's some racketeering going.

[Mike]

And they're like, dude, how you make money by drawing? We're gonna break both your arms.

[Ryan]

But Mike, Mike's like, remind me to never go to India.

[Mike]

No, it's just insane. Yeah. Like, can you imagine your way? I'm like, you know, hey, this drop. The drops coming up. I really want to see this design. Like, you haven't provided me anything. And he's like, I broke both my arms in half.

[Ryan]

I don't want to say that I don't completely buy it, but I'm 50. 50. Because, like, it could so easily just been like, look up.

[CJ]

I was going to say the Internet.

[Ryan]

The dude could have just totally been.

[CJ]

Like, oh, was it like, I was.

[Ryan]

Hoping this guy wasn't going to like.

[Gavin]

It could have been one of the many Instagram videos I've seen come out of India lately where people have worse happen to them. Did it look like this poor fella? It did kind of look like that, though. It's the same colors.

[CJ]

You can only see his bones, right?

[Gavin]

Or mate. He came up with a cool design, though.

[Jake]

So, you know, when you, like, on your Instagram, either post something or all of a sudden you see something on your feed, you kind of see is cool, and you go down the rabbit hole of whatever that may be, and your feed slowly becomes more and more and more and more of that for sure. So, you know, and like, Evan is like, hanging a crazy wheelie on whatever it may be. And now there's just like a bunch of people wheelie and stuff. My feed turned into that, but it was someone like Evan doing it with a tractor. Just down the highway after I posted my little tractor reel of Jimmy Drifting, my feed was just nothing but people doing raspberry tractors.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And I'm like, you can do with a stunt tractor.

[CJ]

Well, dude, there's guys like 50 miles an hour just hanging these things like, Bob.

[Evan]

Bob.

[CJ]

Like, it is crazy.

[Jake]

I'm like, where are. And it was like, it reminded me that because it was definitely not in the US but they got like these fully modded tractors, which is like V8 blocks. And they're like doing 360 wheelies on its back and just hauling down the road. I'm like, what do people not do in this world?

[Evan]

No kidding.

[Ryan]

Can we. Can we get a mark? You can get us a modified tractor? You're just a guy a wheel. Can you get us a wheelie tractor?

[CJ]

Got a guy for every work.

[Mike]

Very quietly, Marcos, I'm sure.

[Ryan]

Well, we don't have a tractor Mark, we don't need us.

[Mike]

I got a tractor.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's true. You do.

[Evan]

I don't like your wheelie. Oh, of course Mike has a tractor.

[Mike]

Yeah, I do have a tractor. I've actually been really meaning to bring that out for a video.

[Evan]

I could see it sitting out in front.

[Gavin]

Yeah, sitting in the yard.

[Mike]

I'll bring it over. I'll bring it over.

[Ken]

This parking next to your water truck.

[Gavin]

Can we put a mower on the back of it?

[Mike]

At least we could. Sweet. Yeah. It's a 1937 John Deere Model B.

[Evan]

So it's.

[Ryan]

It's two cylinder restored.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Oh, damn. Then you got to keep that thing inside.

[Ryan]

Who?

[Mike]

My dad and my grandpa.

[Evan]

That's pretty.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's honestly getting weathered now, but it's got the, the spoked wheels. So those are the sought after. I got it as my graduation gift. But seriously, I haven't meaning to take it out, but I'm like, what do we do with. I think probably wearing my. The same outfit as I wore when I was on the water truck. Overalls. Yeah. No, yeah. I'll throw this hat on.

[Evan]

That is.

[Mike]

And some ombre. And I'll drive the tractor and you guys can have a good laugh.

[Evan]

Good stuff.

[Jake]

I think you got to take it to Zorbas.

[CJ]

I love to see that.

[Mike]

Jake and I, he's literally like, dude, Jake and I were getting our drift cars going or Jake's got a kind of a borrowed drift car and I got. Trying to get my drift car going and he literally has said, I can't wait till this summer when we're tandeming to Zorbas.

[Evan]

Everywhere is just to Zorbas.

[CJ]

All roads lead to Zorbas when it's summer.

[Ken]

Dude.

[Ryan]

It's our local, local pizza establishment.

[CJ]

I just like. I think anything cool happens when you're.

[Ryan]

Rolling and you guys know I gotta surprise you guys or something. Go to Zorbas, sit on the patio.

[Evan]

And I'm gonna roll up. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Every time Jake has something to show, we're already there.

[Mike]

You actually know that that is a true statement because the fat kid wheelies a quad for Brian. That was the whole idea was based on.

[Evan]

Well, let's just.

[Mike]

This just wheelie to Zorbas. That was, that's where it started.

[CJ]

Yeah. It's just like the end goal, you know.

[Evan]

It's got a million views, I think.

[Ryan]

All for a fat kid wheelies for a burrito.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Jake is doing a wheelie and he's just got a little belly on.

[CJ]

Just a little tiny Bit just a little ass cracking out of your gym shorts.

[Evan]

Oh, no, it's fat kid rides with no shirt in freezing weather, 38 degrees.

[Ryan]

Jake's always been doing stuff with his shirt off, though, in cold environments.

[Jake]

Like, yeah, never changed.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, yeah. Now you're just cold, plunging. But you used to ride snowmobile with your shirt off. Everything you'd want to do shirtless. We're like, dude, just put a shirt on, dude.

[CJ]

I accepted my body, okay? I was just like, I am happy with it. And everyone else is gonna be too.

[Ryan]

Jake is just, like, a little pudgy, like a little bit of a muffin top. And we're like, all right. Our resident fat kid.

[Mike]

We were maybe stretching that one a little bit, but that's what made it so funny.

[Evan]

I think a lot of the comments are like, he's not bad.

[Mike]

So funny. I remember for a while, CJ couldn't keep his shirt on either, but it.

[Ryan]

Hasn'T been like, hot, dude. That was like, actually every time. All right, we're about to start filming. C.J. takes his shirt. We're like, bro, what the, dude, no.

[Evan]

We'D just be filming. We had no AC in the shop for the longest time. You're sweating your nutsack off.

[Ryan]

I was just watching, I think, the video of Ryan when he gets his, his new Jeep, and then he tries to do the donuts and goes through into the pine trees. I think C.J. was shirtless in that. I was like, why is C.J. shirtless? Right?

[Evan]

That was back in the gym.

[Mike]

That was the ongoing question was like, we turn around. Oh, why is he shirtless again?

[Ryan]

And then he went through the bro tank phase, too. No, just where you, you didn't wear sleeves for a summer.

[Gavin]

Really?

[CJ]

He was in biceps.

[Mike]

All right, well, I do remember that, but the tank tops you were wearing were cool as fuck, dude.

[CJ]

I've done some weird shit too. Jake's like, it's okay, dude. You're weird, man, brother.

[Evan]

Yeah, that's true. I don't know. I, I, I know I used to take my shirt off a lot, but that was back when we didn't have AC in the shop. Packaging orders hotter and, you know.

[CJ]

Oh, that's good.

[Ryan]

This one, when we were painting Tiny in the driveway, I can't remember. It was either right before you left or right after when we were painting Tiny in the driveway green. And then somebody shot Ken with a paint paintball gun, and Ken lost it. Sorry, I hate to bring this up.

[Evan]

Ken, but that was funny.

[Ryan]

Dude. I was thinking about that the other.

[Evan]

Day, because that was funny.

[Ryan]

So mad that he wanted a new shorts.

[Evan]

$50.

[CJ]

No, I was there for that because.

[Jake]

Tiny, you're talking about you painting green.

[CJ]

I was there for that.

[Evan]

Ken got the guns somehow. One of the paintball guns. And then he was chasing Ryan around and I tried helping Ryan and then Ryan turned on me. Oh, yeah, like helping Ken to get me when I was trying to help Ryan.

[CJ]

Dude, that's.

[Evan]

I was just like, I don't even know what to think right now. Ryan.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the loyalty. Do we ever end up buying you new shorts, Ken? If not, we owe you a pair of.

[Evan]

We didn't. We didn't know what's.

[Ryan]

We'll get you a pair. Yeah.

[Ken]

Can you matter at this point?

[Ryan]

Somebody pull that clip.

[Evan]

That one moment when Ken gets shot with the paintball gun and starts getting mad.

[Gavin]

Ryan, I'm so glad that we're over our paintball gun phase.

[Evan]

Well, we can't always do the paintball because we got limited ads. One time they got, you got, you know, trouble by YouTube.

[Ryan]

We can't do fireworks either. And Tint. Tint is our. Our fireworks supplier.

[Evan]

Yes.

[Ryan]

And so we went through a little phase where we were just getting like the craziest fireworks. But we had. What were they? M. Emmy. They were like M80.

[Gavin]

Some were like, they were 100% legal.

[Jake]

Do you remember we sent that jet.

[CJ]

Ski above the shop. I have the video. I have the video.

[Ryan]

So. So, so we, we. Our first shop was in like an HOA where there was a bunch of shops around. So like every time we would do something super crazy, it was like kind of in like the common grounds of like our community. Right. And this time we thought it was a good idea to blow up a jet ski hull. Like a jet ski. It didn't have a motor, just a shell. It was just a shell. Right. And we put one of Tint special.

[Jake]

Taped it to a 2 by Fireworks.

[Ryan]

In there, and it blew this jet ski hull like the moon.

[Jake]

Way higher than the building.

[Ryan]

50Ft high.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And it. It sent jet ski shrapnel basically everywhere. Everywhere. So I think when we like moved out of that development, there was still jet ski parts like on other people's roofs.

[CJ]

I think we were still in like our like reckless phase because as the video turns around, there's just a parking lot of people watching, like. Yeah, like entertaining. Just a crowd.

[Ryan]

Well, you find it.

[Evan]

Ryan shot him in the butt.

[Mike]

Look at ken.

[Ryan]

He was moving.

[Mike]

If Ken thinks his shorts are actually ruined, because they're definitely not Ken is.

[Ryan]

Pissed off right now.

[Evan]

He is pissed off.

[Ryan]

He's.

[CJ]

50 shorts.

[Gavin]

Honestly, you can't buy a nice pair of shorts for 50 bucks anymore.

[CJ]

That doesn't matter.

[Evan]

It comes off of water, bro.

[Gavin]

Like. Like Sid said it was five years ago. We all did a lot of embarrassing things. I loved it, Ken.

[Ken]

You guys love bringing up my embarrassing ass.

[CJ]

That is all you love br.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Gavin]

Unfortunately, we.

[Evan]

That was the best part of that whole video. The rest of it sucked.

[Jake]

Dick.

[Ryan]

You, cj.

[Gavin]

Unfortunately, Ken, we all have long embarrassing past that will probably continue to get brought up, but I appre. Like, I think a lot of people noticed you've. You've turned a real new leaf now. You're all happy. It's good. We love it.

[CJ]

Everything good just got.

[Evan]

I've liked you this whole time.

[CJ]

Yeah, the whole time. The whole time I liked him.

[Gavin]

Damn.

[CJ]

Is that what I said?

[Gavin]

That's not what I meant to say.

[Ken]

Thanks, Ryan.

[Evan]

To be fair, I think if you just watch any of our videos, there's plenty of embarrassing moments for all of us.

[Ken]

So much.

[CJ]

One time, Ben put his face in Ken's ass.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I was told if I didn't do that, I was gonna get tased.

[Mike]

I would have taken the taser.

[Evan]

No, you got tricked into it, Ben. Yeah, you're better off saying that.

[Gavin]

He told me in private one time that he wanted to do it.

[Mike]

Yeah, lots of embarrassing. I mean, you guys all know I eat hot dogs, so that's embarrassing enough.

[Ken]

Well, I mean, a lot of people eat hot dogs.

[Mike]

Really? You guys all act like you don't do it.

[Ryan]

I don't think that many people eat hot dogs.

[Mike]

Nothing.

[Evan]

No one eats hot dogs.

[Ryan]

Like, good stuff.

[Mike]

Well, Ken, what do you. You want to send us out?

[Ken]

All right. Thanks for tuning into the Life Wide Open podcast. Don't forget to like and subscribe.

[Gavin]

Nice.

[Evan]

Tv.com. get entered for the truck giveaway, dude.

[Jake]

Yes.

[Evan]

And check out Jake on his social media.

[Jake]

Thanks, boys.

[Evan]

Get yourself a new pair of shades.

[Jake]

Summer collection's coming.

[Evan]

That's right.

[Jake]

It's gonna be sweet.

[Evan]

And thanks, guys. We'll see you next week.

[Jake]

Later.