Ken’s Fractured Rib, Ryan Blew Up our Ex-Business Partners Truck, Ben Saves the Hoonicorn From Being Totaled

Summary

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Episode Title: Ken’s Fractured Rib, Ryan Blew Up our Ex-Business Partners Truck, Ben Saves the Hoonicorn From Being Totaled
Release Date: January 28, 2025

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1. Utah Trip and Truck Troubles

The episode kicks off with the hosts reminiscing about their recent trip to Utah, highlighting various mishaps with their vehicles. Ben shares his experience of accidentally damaging Jake's truck while handling the "Hoonicorn."

• Ben: "I blew up Jake's truck on the way out." [03:26]
• Ken: "It was like Gavin and I were like, frick, what do we do? Like, this is a bad problem." [07:52]

They discuss the technical issues that led to the truck's failure, primarily focusing on the Exhaust Gas Temperature (EGT) rising beyond safe limits, which ultimately caused the motor to overheat and fail.

• Ben: "I think literally, like, 700 miles." [08:02]
• Ken: "It makes no sense." [08:02]

The team reflects on the financial strain caused by towing and transporting the damaged truck, emphasizing the importance of proper vehicle maintenance.

• Ben: "We spent $4,300 to transport them halfway across the country." [10:27]
• Ryan: "Jesus, we are spending so much goddamn money." [10:29]

2. Groomsmen Gifts and Wedding Planning

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing upcoming weddings and the selection of groomsmen gifts. Mike surprises the group with Nike shoes, leading to humorous exchanges about shoe sizes and responsibilities as best man.

• Ben: "You're the only one who can fill the shoes of my best man." [00:00]
• Dalton: "He was like, come and film my bachelor party. That's what it says, bro." [25:40]

They debate the practicality and style of the gifts, considering functionalities like comfort and aesthetics, while also planning for their respective bachelor parties.

• Ryan: "So, yeah, those things. And then if everything falls together and then might happen." [54:01]

3. Social Media and Climate Change Discussion

The hosts delve into a discussion about the impact of social media platforms like TikTok and the broader implications of climate change. They express concerns about the addictive nature of these platforms and their effects on mental health and societal intelligence.

• Ken: "TikTok's the worst because it's just constant scrolling and all these people just doom scroll." [60:13]
• Ryan: "People are getting more and more stupid, stupid. And it is alarming." [60:15]

They also touch upon global pollution issues, particularly focusing on how actions in countries like China and India offset local environmental efforts.

• Ken: "People are getting more and more stupid, stupid. And it is alarming." [62:08]
• Ben: "Our electric cars. Yeah, but obviously dispose of your batteries, you know, all the same shit." [21:43]

4. Accidental Mishaps and Friendly Brawls

The conversation shifts to recounting personal accidents and playful fights among the group members. Mike discusses his fractured rib caused by Evan's playful tackle, leading to a humorous yet slightly concerning narrative about their physical antics.

• Mike: "I think it is." [34:43]
• Ken: "It wasn't even a tackle. It was a WWE body slam." [35:13]

They poke fun at each other's fighting styles and recount past incidents, emphasizing the camaraderie and light-hearted nature of their interactions.

• Ryan: "Evan is such a scrappy little guy." [35:29]
• Dalton: "Evan's like one of those scrappy. He's like one of those, like, little. This is a very obscure reference, but he's like a bionicle." [39:29]

5. Planning for Helicopters

A lively debate ensues about Ryan's intention to purchase a helicopter. The group weighs the pros and cons, including the financial implications and practical uses, with some members expressing skepticism about the feasibility.

• Ryan: "What is the percentage chance of you buying a helicopter?" [53:05]
• Ken: "I think it's a great idea, and I think it opens the door to the helicopter world for us at your expense." [48:56]

They joke about the logistics of operating a helicopter, from maintenance costs to potential uses like quick trips to Costco, highlighting both the allure and the challenges of helicopter ownership.

• Ryan: "It would let you. Yeah, so that's. That is the thing that I've been wondering and talking to Cletus about." [51:24]
• Dalton: "It was fine. But that's." [43:01]

6. Reflections on Current Trends and Events

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts reflect on recent events such as the TikTok ban and Elon Musk's actions during political events. They express mixed feelings about the direction of societal trends and technological influences.

• Ryan: "With like the whole Tick Tock getting banned, which it got banned... and then I started seeing things that people were like, assuming that it was maybe some kind of publicity stunt." [64:30]
• Ben: "I think really good. I just think we're cooked, man." [59:14]

They engage in light-hearted conspiracy theories and observations about the impact of influential figures and policies on everyday life.

• Ken: "People are getting more and more stupid, stupid." [60:15]
• Dalton: "He's like, yeah, it's really awesome when you're owning it. It's really not awesome when it comes time to sell." [46:52]

7. Upcoming Projects and Giveaways

The episode concludes with excitement about new projects, including building another boat with U Motors and planning to attend a boat show. They also announce ongoing giveaways, encouraging listeners to participate for a chance to win snowmobiles and other prizes.

• Ken: "Our Centurion that we built with U motors has been sold. Went to a guy in Philadelphia, 26." [68:38]
• Dalton: "We are giving away a snowmobile right now. A 1:46 assault boost." [71:48]

The hosts emphasize community engagement, urging listeners to visit their website and social media platforms for more details and participation in giveaways.

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Notable Quotes

• Ben: "I think America's just cooked." [00:22]
• Ken: "It wasn't even a tackle. It was a WWE body slam." [35:13]
• Ryan: "People are getting more and more stupid, stupid. And it is alarming." [60:15]
• Ken: "TikTok's the worst because it's just constant scrolling and all these people just doom scroll." [60:13]
• Ben: "When your computer breaks, you don't wait for it to magically start working again. You fix the problem." [01:33]

Conclusion

In this episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV, CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah navigate through a mix of technical challenges, personal anecdotes, and broader societal discussions. From dealing with vehicle mishaps in Utah to debating the merits of helicopter ownership and reflecting on the impact of social media, the hosts provide a candid and engaging conversation filled with humor and insights. Their camaraderie shines through as they plan future endeavors and interact with their community, making this episode a rich and entertaining listen for both regular fans and newcomers alike.

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Transcript

[Ben]

I kidding. You are the only one who can fill the shoes of my best man.

[Ryan]

Do you have a crush on Dalton? No, I saved the hoonicorn from being totaled.

[Ken]

It wasn't even a tackle. It was a WWE body slam. Chance of you buying a helicopter, right?

[Ryan]

Probably 75%.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Me and Ken have been in a couple scuffles, and I finally feel like I really, like, got him.

[Ben]

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[Dalton]

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[Ben]

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[Ryan]

Just making it feel more comfortable.

[Ben]

It was too clean, too organized for you?

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was a little too clean for. For our shop.

[Dalton]

It looks amazing in here. Yeah, and feels amazing, too. I know that we're pretty much the only ones that get to reap the benefit of that, but this is pretty relaxing. We've been meaning to do a couch setup for a while. We did repurpose the desk in the merch bay, so that's great because that thing was cool. It was just time to move on.

[Ryan]

Yeah. If you guys are audio listeners. You have no idea what we're talking about, but you also don't know what we were sitting on before this. So just disregard everything we just said.

[Ben]

The next few minutes don't apply to you.

[Dalton]

I guess I know there's audio listeners of the podcast. Are there people that just never dabble in the video ever?

[Ken]

I'm sure you.

[Dalton]

There's got to be a couple of.

[Ken]

What it looks like.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You got to make a trip over. At least watch like a. Because I. I'm an audio listener, but for our podcast, I'm a video listener. Right watcher.

[Ryan]

That's interesting to think about though. Like people that only know what our voices sound like, just no clue what.

[Dalton]

We even look like.

[Ryan]

Dude, I always used to think that about like radio pod or radio hosts. Yeah, you never know what they look like and they face for radio. When you do see a. A picture of him, you're like, oh.

[Ken]

Luckily, I don't think anyone listening or watching this is watching or listening because of our look. So it's okay.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's true.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we got. We got faces for audio only podcasts.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Well, we're back home from Utah. I do want to chit chat about our Utah trip a little bit because we have to do something. I'm going to have to start reading some ads or putting even more in or something. I know the people love them because. Because I blew up Jake's truck on the way out.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Hey, man, thanks for letting us use the truck. Appreciate it. Taking good care of it.

[Ken]

I feel like they handed you a freaking grenade.

[Ben]

I don't know. I don't want to. Like, what were you doing?

[Ken]

Burnouts? Did you put gasoline in it instead of diesel? Like, you know, imagine I go home.

[Dalton]

But the reason that it really can't be pegged on you is because you found out you were driving that truck like four hours before you left.

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, I. I chatted with Tony and he. He was pretty chill about it, but apparently Jake has broken every other truck they own, including his raptor, in the last week.

[Dalton]

So they're broke in or broken?

[Ben]

Broken. Like now they're all broken. Says whole, whole shops full of broken diesel trucks.

[Dalton]

Dude, I. I actually went in there last night and he. He got his second bay of his shop. He'd been waiting to buy that part out, and it filled with raptors and diesels. That's all broke. Sure, he's keeping a big truck guy now because his content's doing really well.

[Ken]

He just Likes it, dude. Him and then his business partner Tony, who loves trucks as well, he helped basically set up the whole cummin swap on Gavin's 12 valve. Honestly, trucks are. Are awesome. And they're so appliable to, like, everyone because, like, if you can only really have one vehicle, you might as well just have a sick truck. And like, you can get the same amount of joy, I think, out of a truck as a car, if you're the right person. But anyways, so what's the deal? You're driving that thing down the road and starts ticking or so, like, was there any telling signs that it was going to blow up when he handed it to you? So you should have said, okay, I don't want this. Like, tell me.

[Mike]

I did drop off some cash because they. They got it delivered back to North Dakota today.

[Ken]

Dropped off cash where?

[Mike]

At Halco.

[Ben]

Oh, you already paid for me. Sweet.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Thank you.

[Mike]

I drove down to Wahpeton this morning.

[Dalton]

Wait, so you're paying?

[Ken]

We're paying for the motor. We're.

[Mike]

No, no, for transport.

[Ben]

Oh, I thought you just paid for the motor.

[Mike]

Oh, no, no, no. That's on you. But the guy that I talked to when I was there, he was saying that. Oh, yeah, he was doing 95 for like a while.

[Ken]

Who?

[Mike]

Whoever the guy at Halco was.

[Ken]

What do you mean he was?

[Ben]

I was doing 95 for a while.

[Mike]

Yeah, because apparently they've got like trackers and everything in those trucks.

[Dalton]

Huh.

[Ben]

Definitely wasn't doing 95. That would be. That would be impressive.

[Ryan]

Oh, so they were.

[Ken]

Maybe they're. They. Hold on.

[Ryan]

They were pegging it on Ryan.

[Mike]

I don't know that. I just talked to this dude briefly. I gave him cash and then I.

[Ben]

Was like, hey, he works at How CO with Tony.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Okay. Okay, got it. Not the transporter. I go, what the. Does the transporter know about what I did?

[Ryan]

So then Ryan, he was. He was coming at you for.

[Mike]

No, no, he was. He was. It's funny that it broke, but he's like, yeah, I heard he was doing like 95 for a while and then.

[Ken]

It makes no sense.

[Mike]

And then blew up. The next thing.

[Ken]

Ryan was texting us before it blew up. Like, yeah, this thing is unsafe for the roads right now. Like, I mean, we have the text and he's like, the. The tires just weren't good for the road, so I can't imagine you were.

[Ben]

Doing on the glare 95.

[Ken]

Yeah, I mean, big trailer.

[Ben]

I definitely take a lot of credit for it because it was the trailer. Like, normally If I had not been pulling a trailer, the strain on the vehicle wouldn't have been that heavy. But, like, it has this screen on the right, you know, like a diesel tuning screen. And it tells you the temperature of the EGT or whatever, which I. I guess it's the exhaust temp that was rarely above 1100. As the dial went up, it started to turn orange right around, like, 1300 degrees. And we saw that going up a hill, like, right away. And we're like, all right, we're gonna have to take it easy on this thing, because I'm used to our trucks, the stock ones, that you literally just floor it. It just downshifts, and it just drives up the hill, you know, that's just like, what trucks do.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Ben]

And so I wasn't used to having to baby a little Ford because it's got this. The dually and the tuned F450. I didn't know it needed to be babied. And then driving totally normal downhill into Bozeman, and it is ticking like a. Like, we pulled up off the exit. It's like Gavin and I were like, frick, what do we do? Like, this is a bad problem. It sounded like my Hummer, if you can imagine that. Like, literally exactly like my Hummer. And then Tony said, oh, it's fine.

[Ryan]

Just drive it.

[Ben]

And then about 900 miles later, it just came to a shuddering stop on the side of the road.

[Dalton]

The gap between. Because you sent us updates, and you're like, this thing's ticking. Not. Don't know, but we're gonna keep trucking. So that was a huge stretch between the ticking and the blow up.

[Ben]

Yeah. Like, I think literally, like, 700 miles.

[Dalton]

Guys made it damn close to what, hour and a half outside of the destination?

[Ben]

Yeah. Less.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ben]

But, yeah, Tony talked to me, and he was like, yeah, I was for sure that the EGT temps were too high. Basically. I, like, melted the motor down.

[Ken]

Like, he's saying due to user air, then.

[Ben]

Yes, due to it running too hot is why it blew up.

[Ken]

I don't know. It just seems kind of like it was probably on its way out. I don't really think it's your fault at all, to be honest.

[Ben]

Thank you.

[Ken]

Like, that's how I feel on it. But I don't know. I think there's just something going on with, like. I think that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I think that maybe Tony getting screwed by Jake because he just. He's hanging around him and it's rubbing off on, like, if you look at Jake, everything He touches the motor, blows on it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

So how about this? Like, yeah, there is a blurred line of, like, the responsibility, so I think we got to take some of it. But so what we'll do is we have Gavin's old 12 valve motor laying around. We'll give them that they can put in there, they can make a hole. We come and swapped it. It's gonna be absolutely fucking terrible. But then they get, you know, they got Cummins, Ford F450.

[Dalton]

And I mean, their Cummins.

[Ken]

Yeah. At that point, don't bother pulling anything, but, like, you at least be able to kind of move it around the parking lot.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Tony's like, you guys already owe me $20,000 for Gavin's build, and now you're just giving me the motor that we took out of it.

[Ben]

Just so sad to be back.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[Dalton]

We all had a pretty good crack up when he was like. Ever since I started involving myself with people around Cormorant.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

My bank account is going lower and lower.

[Ken]

You know what they say, you got to hang around the right people because it rubs off on you. So he's choosing the wrong people, quite frankly.

[Ryan]

And that's really on him.

[Ken]

That is on him. He's a full grown man, so he makes his own choices.

[Ryan]

I mean, who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to lend their truck to us?

[Ken]

That is a bad idea to me. It sucks too, because, like, we could have just hired a transport, transport it both ways, would have saved us all this money because we ended up having to transport the truck and. And the trailer back. So it was like a double transport.

[Ben]

Yeah, the tow for a 45 minute tow, which was sitting on the side of the road. 18, 1900 bucks.

[Mike]

It cost $1,900 to tow that thing. How many miles?

[Ben]

Truck and trailer.

[Dalton]

And trailer.

[Ben]

Save me off the side of the road. We.

[Mike]

We spent $4,300 to transport them halfway across the country.

[Ryan]

Jesus, we are spending so much goddamn money.

[Ben]

Yeah. I was like, don't. Don't tell the accountants over there that we're in trouble.

[Ryan]

Like, I'm just saying right there and just moving shit around.

[Mike]

Like, we spent damn near, okay, 2,000 to move it like 100 miles.

[Ben]

And yeah, no, trust me. When he gave me the bill, I thought about, hmm, maybe I shouldn't do this. But I thought, what the fuck am I going to do? Leave this truck sitting on the side of the highway for the five days it took you to align your transport?

[Ryan]

It really is, you know, we got.

[Ken]

To figure out a way to make this right. So how about you guys go to bums.com and buy yourself a pair of sunglasses or even two or three. I'm sure they got a deal going.

[Ryan]

We have a code, actually, right here that Jake's gonna give to us after this so we can track how good of a job we did. Seaboystv to make sure that we don't owe anyone.

[Ken]

Yep. Go over there and. And get yourself some sunglasses. We wear them. We love them. If you don't want to do that, just go to seaboestv.com because we're gonna have to cover this bill somehow.

[Dalton]

But we made it there.

[Ken]

That was an awesome trip. Like, obviously, we did a lot of fun stuff, but honestly, the best part of the whole triple was when we were just doing, like, basically what we're doing right now, except without microphones and cameras and just hanging with, like, everybody. Cletus, Heavy D, his whole crew. And then obviously, like, Whistling Robbie Late Robbie Grindhard Plumbing Company. Like, I mean, that is the kind of crowd you want to hang with. Not.

[Dalton]

And conversations like that are priceless.

[Ken]

Yeah, they are.

[Dalton]

And they felt priceless.

[Ken]

And you don't really get to have conversation like that, really, anywhere. And especially for us, we don't spend a lot of time hanging with other YouTubers. It seems like more and more now we are as we get bigger. But, yeah, it's just. It's really fun off that time with.

[Dalton]

Them when we were, like, all sitting around the table. We're not, like, clicky by any means, but we, you know, move as one sometimes, and we're all sitting around the table. And it's so funny because we all, like, have a conversation with one person sometimes more than one people, but we're like, one person too. It's just so funny because we don't.

[Ken]

Have anything else to really talk about amongst each other anymore, being that we've spent so much time, like, you know, I can't remember who I was telling. I think it was your dad. I don't know what we were talking about. He's. I just like, yeah, I don't really drink much anymore, and there's not really much to talk about with the. With the boys anymore. We spend all day together, so I just go home and, like, spend time by myself.

[Ryan]

And we have to save our conversation.

[Dalton]

That we start telling a juicy story and someone's like, stop. Yeah, so that was the best part of it. Content went well. The snow was a little low, but, like, the snow was still Great. And did it.

[Ryan]

Did it go well?

[Ken]

I'd say, yeah.

[Ryan]

About everything that could have gone wrong.

[Ken]

We were working for it, dude.

[Dalton]

No, we were working for it. No, I thought it went great.

[Ken]

Our stuff basically kind of just wasn't running right, which is normal. And then it would break, which is normal. I mean, this is all standard procedure. Yeah. Wouldn't start. And then it just so happens that when we go to Utah, it's like the coldest freaking two days of the year. So it's like. It's amazing how we just can't get away from the cold. It's like negative 12 out literally right here in Minnesota right now.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, we're sitting there trying to get our Harley Davidson snow bike and our R1 snow bike to start doing everything we can.

[Ken]

Freezing.

[Ryan]

We're putting all the. On it. We're putting guns, torches, torches. Battery packs were blown through. Battery packs. So we're putting, like, four at a time on it. Nothing was starting these things, and then.

[Ken]

We get them going, then it gets stuck, and then we have to call somebody to come over with a proper rig to get it unstuck. And, like, the whole time I'm sitting here like, God damn. We are just working for it, which is normal. But then I look at the other YouTubers and, like, they were done with their videos in, like, the first day. We were, like, three days in, still grinding, not sure if we're gonna get done. Cletus, man, that guy, he just. He's got it made, man. He just does such a good job. He rolls by in his TRX on tracks, which is working phenomenally in his heated cab with his wife next to him. You guys are still working on that thing? All right, see you.

[Ryan]

You know, it is still not going well for you, brother.

[Ken]

Like, we're just all out there freezing.

[Dalton]

I loved all of his chart. Like, he pulled us out once, and he's like, that'll be eight grand, fellas. And then the next time he pulled us out, he's like, now you gotta sing to me. So we sang. Hated.

[Ken]

We didn't have any money left.

[Dalton]

Yeah, right. And then. And then the third one. We didn't have anything to offer, so he just told everyone to unsubscribe to us. He was joking, but I thought that was hilarious.

[Ken]

I saw a small dip, actually, after his video went live.

[Ryan]

It's kind of on us, though. I mean, what. What were we gonna do, Lose a couple subscribers or. Or we'd still be there. Were kind of cooked there a little bit. Thankfully, thankfully, we were in, like, the best zone that you could have been to have something rescued. Like, pretty much everyone there had been, like, a rescue YouTuber at one point in their career, so. So we were in good hands. But yeah, we.

[Dalton]

We brought some. Some sweet toys and. And everyone thought so. That was really cool. And Heavy D rode all our snow bikes and, like, rated them.

[Ken]

Dude, he rated them high.

[Dalton]

That was fun. Like, everyone was really loving our stuff, but I. I sometimes I look at other people's builds and then I, like, think about if we were to have done that. So Robbie's limo, for example. Like, Robbie really knows what he's doing when it comes to building things for destruction, burnouts, sturdiness. And that limo, like, if we try to build a limo, no knocking Gavin or Big Wrench, I think it would fall apart in, like, the first hour.

[Ken]

Well, that's what we were initially planning on doing, was putting tracks on our giant limo, our lifted limo. What technically now it's a. The world's longest truck bed. Yeah, we were going to do that, but just the logistics of shipping that thing down there and also shipping, like, tracks or having the tracks on when it gets there, it was just not worth it.

[Ryan]

And then we heard this money.

[Ken]

We already. Yeah, probably would have at this point, but then we heard Robbie was doing it, so we're like, well, we'll not do it because we can't have two.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was fun, though. It was. It was a great time. My favorite part of it was sitting in the hot tub with. With Heavy Dude.

[Ben]

I'm so bummed we missed out on that.

[Ryan]

Probably could have done it for like an hour and a half less.

[Ben]

Once people started coming back in, I wanted to go out and go, there's no way they sit in there for any mom. She's already been in there for an hour, dude.

[Ryan]

Three hours later, we sat in a hot tub that was like 308 degrees. It was hotter.

[Ben]

Nuts, dude.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And we sat in there for, like, two and a half. Yeah, two hours, dude.

[Ken]

I couldn't. Luckily it was cold out, so we were kind of like sitting above and then going back under. But it was like the same situation of, like, just really good conversation was going on and didn't really want to leave.

[Ben]

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[Ryan]

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[Ben]

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[Ryan]

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[Ken]

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[Ryan]

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[Ben]

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[Ryan]

Ice cream to cool things down.

[Ben]

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[Ryan]

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[Ben]

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[Ben]

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[Ryan]

Yeah, so at the end of it, me and CJ are just, like, crawling out of the hot tub.

[Ben]

Dehydrate.

[Ken]

We're about to, like, like, crumble. And we had to run, like, up that mountain. Well, we were supposed to ride the Mega Quad up the mountain, but the Mega Quad didn't start. So Ben and I literally had to run up this quite a ways.

[Ryan]

Dude, that's probably, like, yards my lungs.

[Ken]

Dad did.

[Ryan]

I was actually so cooked for a while.

[Ken]

The thing is, is, like, what the hell does Heavy D not have? When his guys pulled up with that thing and started unloading, and I was just like.

[Dalton]

I mean, we posted all of our Snapchats and everyone posted up because it was everyone's favorite thing. But it's this huge tank. It was basically like, picture the size of, like, whistling tank. It's called a mud puppy.

[Ben]

Mud puppy.

[Dalton]

But it was like, twice the size. Just this giant tank.

[Ken]

Yeah, with a sauna, a hot tub, and a cold plunge on it. And then he drove it into the backcountry and so cool. I mean, the way him and his crew and Team move. It's. It's really like an art. And just the they bring out like, I'm sure it'll be like what we're like when we're his age, honestly, like we're gonna just keep a cube at.

[Ben]

This rate the that we accumulate.

[Ken]

Dude, the problem is ours will probably be shitty. You'll have like stuff that runs, but like most of ours, we'll just have a lot of it sitting around.

[Ben]

It'll be like a cool graveyard. You can come around, look at it. Can't use any of it. But yeah, it's pretty tough to film around here now because it's so freaking cold. I mean, I put on my story and it is kind of a thing. I get it. But you go, oh, wow, it's really cold. I post like 29 below. It's like 66 degrees in my house because the heater can't keep up all this. And someone's like, oh, that's not that. It was 45 below where I am, you know, whatever. But we're going to go to Florida next week, which you guys will see. You see, it's snowing in Florida.

[Ryan]

I saw that snow on the beach.

[Ben]

Wherever we go, we just bring the cold weather, I guess.

[Ryan]

And we're not even there.

[Ben]

We're not even there.

[Ryan]

Thinking about about it, I'd like to.

[Ken]

Be a part of snow on the beach. That'd be cool.

[Ben]

Pensacola, Florida. Two and a half inches of snow. Lafayette, Louisiana. 10.5 more snow in Louisiana than we have in Minnesota, which is fried.

[Ryan]

So what's up with fried then?

[Ken]

I don't know. Global warming. I don't know.

[Mike]

I literally just saw before I came in here, Disney World had a bunch of snow on the ground too.

[Ben]

Dude, Disney in the snow would be sick. Steve Hamilton would love that.

[Ryan]

Have they had snow before? Like, when's the last time it snowed in.

[Mike]

In Orlando? Probably a while.

[Ben]

You should look that up.

[Dalton]

Disney World, Louisiana was 15 years.

[Ben]

Really?

[Dalton]

Such a stamp. Yeah. I saw a video of people sledding in Houston and dude, they were using anything because people don't own sleds. So they were using little plastic pools, suitcases, street signs, like metal pans.

[Ryan]

Yeah. They also don't have snowplows. Houston county doesn't own snowplows. I saw.

[Ben]

So what do they do? They just like sit and wait for it to melt.

[Dalton]

That's.

[Ben]

It sounds kind of lit. It'd be like a snow day for the whole.

[Dalton]

They have a true definition of a snow day.

[Mike]

The last time it snowed at Disney World was 1977.

[Ken]

Wow. Dude.

[Ryan]

So what's up with that, Ken? Global warming.

[Mike]

It's so hot. It's so cold.

[Ryan]

What do you think?

[Ken]

Yeah, I guess that doesn't really make sense.

[Ryan]

They say global warming is extremes in temperature and weather.

[Mike]

That's just called climate change now.

[Ryan]

Or climate change.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Mike]

Climate's always changing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Who knows though? Honestly? I mean, I probably lean more towards like. Yeah, we probably are causing, you know, the earth to get warmer due to all the shit we're doing that probably shouldn't be here.

[Ben]

Well, you guys are not me.

[Ken]

Not canon.

[Ben]

Our electric cars.

[Ken]

Yeah, but obviously dispose of your batteries, you know, all the same shit.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm in the ocean. Have you guys seen like how much smog there is in China though? Like, it's mostly how bad it is and they just like throw their garbage in like the ocean, like that's pretty. They do. So I tell Greta this all the time. It drives her berserk. But I go, yeah, I don't think you're making a difference to your. No offense. So I'm like, why waste time recycling this water bottle when it's super inconvenient, when it's not going to make a difference?

[Ken]

But if everyone thinks that that's.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's the problem.

[Ken]

So it's like you need everyone to think like her and then it will make it.

[Ben]

But I also act local, brother.

[Mike]

So it's like the US pollution levels have been declining for. For years on end.

[Ken]

It's good.

[Mike]

But China and India are just like. They don't opposite. So it's no matter what you do, it's going to be offset by the. What's going on in Asia.

[Ben]

Y'all ever seen your garbage truck pick up your recycling? Mine literally comes up, grabs the garbage can, moves three feet forward, grabs my recycling can.

[Mike]

Recycling is a total scam.

[Ken]

No, I don't get that. Why is it a scam? And why do they.

[Mike]

Because they used to export it to China and then China stopped.

[Ben]

Shut up.

[Ken]

Really?

[Ben]

We used to ship our plastic to China.

[Ken]

They're not dealing with no sense. Honestly. China does always get the shit out of the state. They got to make all the stuff for cheap and like all this.

[Ben]

And then they just start shipping our plastic to China.

[Mike]

They stopped accepting. It's now just nothing. It just goes in the trash.

[Ben]

Why did they want it?

[Ryan]

Dude. Okay, so how about this? I've actually seen them do that with full on recycling bins. Yeah, like the recycling bins that are like in Counties that. Yeah, they're like, set aside. It's not like a landfill. It's not a dump recycling center. The same trash company comes over there, picks them up and throws them in and looks around like this, dumps it.

[Ben]

Backs up and goes to the next one.

[Ryan]

Nothing happened.

[Ken]

Are you positive? Are you positive?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Same exact spot.

[Ben]

And I've seen them do it at the bins, too, where they go to the cardboard, dump it, and then they move over to the plastic, dump it, and they move over to the cans and dump it. I mean, I'm sure it makes it easier to sort because it's kind of in a clump. I don't like.

[Mike]

The only thing they're recycling domestically is, like, paper. And I think metals, like, all plastic is just garbage.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I heard that. For, like. Especially for, like, mainlanders, like, you know, we're really landlocked, and that just all goes to one place. What do we got over there? Oh, I got a gift.

[Ken]

What the frick is this, dude?

[Ryan]

Money Mike. Money Mike does.

[Ken]

Are you serious?

[Ryan]

All right.

[Ben]

For you audio listeners, three gifts in a row.

[Ryan]

Our boy Jackson just walked in with.

[Ken]

Five Nike shoe boxes that I'm assuming Mike is buying.

[Dalton]

Yes.

[Ken]

Or bot.

[Ben]

Hey, yo. These are sick. You're the only one who can fill the shoes of my best man.

[Ken]

Dude.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Dalton]

Right?

[Ben]

Yes. Yes, I accept.

[Dalton]

Awesome.

[Ben]

Dude, this is so sick.

[Ryan]

Damn, brother. So Ryan's your best man, huh?

[Dalton]

And now he is. Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude.

[Ryan]

Oh, look at that.

[Mike]

I was getting nervous.

[Ben]

You weren't gonna ask me.

[Ryan]

Look at that, dude.

[Ken]

What's good? Damn.

[Ryan]

I think I owe somebody some money. I took it the over.

[Ken]

Let's go, baby. Yeah.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Oh, my gosh. Dude, these are sick, too.

[Dalton]

Yeah, so I got. That was the. Dude, it was so much fun ordering. Like, I got everyone different pairs. Obviously, dude, that grooms, dude.

[Ryan]

Thank you, Mike.

[Dalton]

Of course, bro.

[Ryan]

I'd be honored, bro.

[Ken]

Absolutely, man.

[Ryan]

Dude, these are sick.

[Dalton]

Those are sick.

[Ken]

Those are.

[Mike]

Those reflective.

[Dalton]

Yeah, the. The Nike signs reflective.

[Ryan]

Oh, these are so sick. Thank you.

[Ken]

I'm just. I'm more pumped about being a groomsman than, honestly. The shoes. The shoes are great, Mike, but, Ken, that is awesome, dude.

[Ryan]

Mike, I really didn't know where.

[Ken]

Dude, we're gonna have so much fun.

[Dalton]

I got Dalton a pair, too. Look. Look at what Dalton says. He's not up here. He was.

[Ken]

What's it say? Filmer.

[Ryan]

My bachelor party.

[Ken]

Hold on. Let's get Dalton in on this.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Come and film my bachelor party. That's what it says, bro.

[Dalton]

So Sick.

[Ken]

Dude.

[Ryan]

Thank you, Mike.

[Ken]

Yeah, Mike. Thank you, bro. This is sick. Yeah, Mike. Dude, these are so fresh.

[Ryan]

Right?

[Dalton]

Got the blues for you.

[Ken]

Thank you, bro.

[Ryan]

So sick, dude. Hey. Absolutely.

[Ben]

Damn, dude.

[Ryan]

Where are we going?

[Dalton]

I don't. I. Like, I was thinking, actually for Ryan. Yeah, I know, right? It is.

[Ryan]

As the groomsman, right? Or as the best man, you are responsible for lining up the bachelor party.

[Ben]

I did pretty good with Justin's, I guess, dude.

[Dalton]

Yeah, he did amazing.

[Ben]

Well, I did hear you talking suggestions in the car, so. I mean, it's yours.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

The thing is, is you have to know it's. It's not for the bachelor. Bachelors. It is for the man who's getting married.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Sometimes. Like, I know CJ's bachelor party and your bachelor party are two completely different things. So you really gotta curate to the crowd. Well, I'm. I'm just gonna blurt it out now. Maybe it's gonna be a surprise. Or maybe Mike's gonna tell me what he wants to do.

[Ken]

Probably be more ideal. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Dude, I know exactly what we're doing for CJ's bachelor party.

[Ken]

What's that? What's that?

[Ryan]

We're going to Vegas.

[Ken]

Yeah, I suppose we could maybe do something.

[Dalton]

So then what are we gonna do for yours, Ben?

[Ryan]

For mine?

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Probably go back to Vegas, dude.

[Ben]

What are we gonna do for Ken's if he's getting. We can't go where the wedding is.

[Mike]

You do the bachelor party and the Wed. One weekend.

[Ryan]

Yes. One night. Ken's gonna find everyone time, dude. Yeah, that's the thing, bro. I. I don't know if it's just that time of the year, but I opened up my mail and I had four wedding invites the other day. That's four weekends in the summer. Right. Obviously, if there's someone special, then it's, you know, you want to go to them. As a Minnesotan, you only have so many summer weekends. Right. So it's very special. That's very special. To be spending your time at somebody's wedding. Right. But, yeah, Greta was like, oh, my gosh, we have four weddings. And I was like, great. Now we have to say no to four people because I. Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Were they all your friends or more so her friends?

[Ryan]

Mostly hers.

[Ken]

Yeah. She's always got the friends getting married.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And that's the nice part about not having any friends.

[Ken]

Well, you only know 2. Two people that are Justin's married and Mike's getting married.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And also not that many people want you at their wedding.

[Ryan]

Right? Yeah, exactly.

[Ben]

So after the whole Cabo incident.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Kind of stealing the show.

[Ken]

Dude, when you brought those out, I was like, these late Christmas gifts, I didn't even for one second think, like, oh, we're getting group. And then I saw Brian. I was like, what?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I thought you were giving us Heelys. For sure. I thought the boxes were just like.

[Dalton]

That's why I felt awesome. Our boy Jackson came through and surprised me with a pair of Heelys. And then I'm like, I feel bad. I'm like, literally surprising the whole crew with shoes today. Except for you. But yeah, we were healing around last night and it. I felt like I was 12 again.

[Ryan]

Dude, is it tough picking, like, who's in your wedding?

[Dalton]

Yeah, I bet. Yeah, it was tough.

[Ken]

How many people you got? You got.

[Dalton]

Are you saying, like, pick my groomsmen or pick the people?

[Ken]

Groomsmen going.

[Ryan]

I guess both. Both.

[Dalton]

Yeah. It was harder to pick who to invite to the wedding. Pretty easy to pick.

[Ryan]

How many groomsmen are there?

[Dalton]

Six.

[Ryan]

Six groomsmen. See, that's the issue, dude. I think, like, I'm gonna have like 10, 11, 12.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Dude, I've already been thinking about, like, who gets the ax.

[Dalton]

Yeah, dude, it's. It was. It's really hard. So I got. Haven't asked Jake. Haven't asked Justin yet.

[Ben]

You have to do it before Tuesday, I guess.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Otherwise we can cut that.

[Dalton]

No, I will.

[Ryan]

Well, appreciate the shoes, bro. They don't fit, but.

[Dalton]

Really?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Wrong size.

[Ken]

What size are they?

[Dalton]

I asked Greta, so pick that up with her.

[Ken]

She was airing on the smaller foot size. She didn't know off the top of the hammer. She's like, well, I'm assuming it's small.

[Mike]

Mine smaller than average. Mine is also a size and too big.

[Dalton]

Size and a half. You wear 12 and a half, Ken.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You nailed mine. Perfect.

[Ben]

Yeah, mine's perfect.

[Dalton]

Yeah, but every time we ask Ken what size he is, you're always like, I'm not going to fit into those. I'm like, 14s.

[Mike]

You got those 14 boot.

[Dalton]

Okay. Yeah, it's fair. Cuz he got those red. Those crazy.

[Ben]

Loosen them up, slip into them.

[Dalton]

No, we'll. We'll get you new ones. He got those red boots and I remember they were like, you're like, they only come in 13s and they're tiny.

[Ken]

Wait, so they're too big?

[Mike]

Yeah, he got me 14s.

[Ken]

I think Ken's inflating his shoe size because I've heard him say 14 years.

[Dalton]

Tens was like, the only one I was sure Of I didn't know he.

[Ken]

Asked because he tells everyone.

[Mike]

Yeah, these are 12 and a half.

[Dalton]

And these are perfect.

[Ken]

That'd be like me going around saying, I'm a. I'm a eleven and a half or a twelve.

[Dalton]

You're a ten and a half, Ben.

[Ryan]

No, I'm just at the ten.

[Dalton]

Dang, bro.

[Ryan]

That is pretty bizarre that you do that.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I've Never bought a 14 size.

[Ken]

Says that a lot. The reason why he says that when.

[Dalton]

He'S like squeezing, it's whenever I think.

[Ken]

It'S normally when we got a costume for him and then he's like, okay, what size is this? Well, that's not my size. I can't be the guy to do it.

[Ben]

Like, Ken, they're slippers. They're just covers for your shoes.

[Ken]

Nope, I'm a 14.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Ken]

These are actually fire, though.

[Ben]

Those are fun.

[Ken]

Pumped on these.

[Ben]

You really nailed the style.

[Mike]

Like, these are so sick.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Ken, have you ever even had a pair of dunks?

[Mike]

High one's not low.

[Dalton]

Oh, that's what's ironic is.

[Mike]

Some suede on there.

[Ryan]

That's sick.

[Dalton]

I've never owned a pair of dunks. I, of course I bought myself a pair of some sbs, of course. But yeah, it's just funny. Like, you guys have had how many pairs of dunks? Like, that's why I knew like to do that. It was also funny because, like, still a bargain shopper when it comes to shoes. And like, dunks are by far some of the most expensive footwear I've ever. Really? Yeah, yeah.125.

[Ken]

Holy shit. Or take some of them. Yeah, but it was just.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I was just like, dang, this is going to be kind of dropped a bag. Ultimate Money Mike move. Yeah.

[Ken]

At least, at least you got it on on camera, so it makes it worth it.

[Ryan]

I mean, sure, you were going to be like buying all of us dirt bikes or snowmobiles.

[Ben]

They're stand up jet skis.

[Ryan]

Money Mike buys all of us stand up jet skis or drift cars.

[Dalton]

Hilarious. No, I think I was going to do that if I was going to do.

[Ken]

That'd be fun.

[Ben]

That would be sick.

[Dalton]

That would be fun. Oh, we go to the drift.

[Ryan]

Mike invites us to a drift weekend for his bachelor party.

[Dalton]

My car is the whole.

[Ryan]

Making fun of him the whole time. Time for his car being on fire.

[Dalton]

Yeah. It's just Jake non stop drifting in circles. You guys laughing at me the whole time.

[Ben]

Your car on fire?

[Dalton]

My car on fire.

[Ben]

Like, not what I had pictures.

[Ryan]

This is actually gonna Be so lit so we can film it.

[Dalton]

I. I would. I encourage it.

[Ken]

Okay.

[Dalton]

I mean, I think it'd be a shoot.

[Ryan]

I think it gives us, like, the perfect excuse to just, like, go overboard and way over the top for something.

[Ken]

Yeah, I agree.

[Ryan]

Like, oh, dude, gonna be sick.

[Ken]

Makes the budget a little bigger. I mean, I don't know if the budget can get bigger than Money Mike's budget, but, like, with the company and all, like, now it's a little bigger budget.

[Dalton]

Yeah. I just love, like, when we were at.

[Ben]

Just start double reading ads, dude, we.

[Ryan]

Should just invite Tony and have him pay.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah, I like that.

[Ryan]

Maybe he should invite Tony.

[Ken]

We'll borrow his rigs to get there.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ken]

All of us were like, we just go to the nicest dinner, and then it's like, time for the bill. Everyone's like, I don't have anything.

[Ryan]

He's like, oh, are you kidding me?

[Ken]

Like, Tony, you want to get it?

[Ryan]

The classic Pat.

[Ken]

And, like, Tony goes, oh, shit.

[Dalton]

Yeah. I think we got to have Spenny and Gavin. I tag along to.

[Ken]

For sure.

[Dalton]

That Gavin guy is pretty funny.

[Ken]

We just have so many awesome friends.

[Ben]

That's what I mean. Yeah. When you really start getting down to the nitty gritty of even seating them all at a table, you go, man. Ben and Spenny at the same table. Are they going to have a wine night?

[Ryan]

Oh, we might. Yeah. When I think about my wedding, I'm like, fuck, dude, I got so many good friends. Like, where do I put them, like, in the wedding? And I'm like, like, asking Greta, like, do you think Mark and Tink could be our ring bears?

[Ken]

That'd be great.

[Ryan]

How funny would that be, really? A ring bear has to be 3 foot tall.

[Ken]

They're fine. They can go on their knees. Yeah, Mark and true help.

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An amended return, but, yes, they would make great ring bearers.

[Ryan]

I think so. And then Mark could pay for the ring. The rings.

[Ben]

Oh, perfect.

[Ken]

Yeah. So are we done on the Utah stuff? Do we have anything else to say?

[Mike]

I mean, Evan did break or fracture my rib.

[Ken]

Oh, hold on.

[Dalton]

Hold on.

[Ken]

What? Your rib is fractured?

[Mike]

Actually, I. I think it is.

[Ken]

When you say I think it is. Evan right now, he doesn't know why, but he's like, scaffold wherever he's at right now.

[Mike]

So add a little context. We were trying to get Evan to go back into a helicopter.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Mike]

So naturally, I yank the key out of his snowmobile.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Mike]

And, you know, pull it away from him. And then he tackles me to the ground, and then his elbow ends up going straight into my sternum.

[Ken]

It wasn't even a tackle. It was a WWE body slam. It was what I would call his finisher, the double whammy.

[Mike]

And then he hit the ground, and.

[Ken]

Then he speared you with his shoulders.

[Mike]

Up with the. His elbow going straight into my sternum.

[Ken]

Or your elbow. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Dude. Ev is such a scrappy little guy.

[Mike]

And it just knocked the wind out of me. And then ever since it. It's honestly been getting worse the last couple days, but it's just, like, from the sternum, like, all the way around. Like, there's the. Where the rib meets with the sternum. Then there's one on the side. Maybe we should Also on my back, we should just.

[Ken]

Why don't we go film. We'll go get an X ray after this. Film it, and we'll find out if you actually got a fractured rib.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Mike]

I mean, Ben did tell me you don't want an X ray yesterday.

[Ryan]

Every time Ken gets hurt, we can't just be getting him X rayed up.

[Ken]

You're right. It's pretty expensive.

[Ryan]

It's expensive. It's not good.

[Ken]

Tony's truck to pay for that, too.

[Ryan]

But Ken was like, I think I'm gonna just go and get X rayed. And I was like, they can't do anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cannot do anything about a rib.

[Mike]

Yeah. I looked online. It's. You literally just can't. You just got to take it easy.

[Ryan]

For a couple worse or better, some peace of mind. Take it easy. Peace of mind from what?

[Ben]

Well, the story's a lot better if you say Evan fractured my rib instead of Evan might have fractured my.

[Ken]

Yeah, I agree with that. I do like the idea of, like, knowing whether Evan broke Ken's rib or not.

[Mike]

So that. That was the whole reasoning of. I kind of wanted to get an X ray.

[Ken]

Do you think you'll press charges if it is fractured?

[Mike]

Oh, abs. A full, full, full tilt.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude.

[Ryan]

Last time we went and got one of the boys X rayed, we found out that Evan had a Matchbox car shoved up his ass after your Sandrail accident. Why is there a little toy car? Well, I mean, you don't think.

[Ken]

That shouldn't have anything to do with.

[Ryan]

My back problems, though, should it? Like that. That shouldn't even be.

[Mike]

Normally, people take that out right away.

[Ryan]

But.

[Ken]

No wonder he's walking so funny.

[Dalton]

Matchbox, too. Not even.

[Ken]

Some people, dude. They'll just do the wildest to get off, man.

[Dalton]

When Ken, you were picking up a GoPro battery just before we started the podcast. And then my level of concern grew a lot.

[Ben]

Oh, dude. Just hear him moving around the shop from groaning.

[Ryan]

Ken, you are so accident prone, dude.

[Mike]

That wasn't even. That wasn't even my fault, though. That was just me trying to be a good friend, trying to have Evan had a good time.

[Ben]

Evan's one way to look at it.

[Dalton]

Evan said afterwards, he's like, yeah, me and Ken have been in a couple of scuffles, and I finally feel like I really, like, got him. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because he's never been able to really get underneath you like that WWE move.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You are top heavy, Ken.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

So and Evan, he's bottom heavy. He's scrappy, and he's bottom heavy. And like, he's like, dude, the way that kid moves felt like a stump. He's getting into it. I mean, we saw it in the middle of the road with. With Dalton, dude. Yeah, it's like the Tasmanian Devil when it's like, you don't know what happens. Dude, he spins and he's, like, spinning around, and he does, like, a somersault in there. And like, before you know it, somebody's face is bleeding or has snow, and Evan is already like, like 30ft away with his hands up.

[Ken]

I think it's more of a defense mechanism for him because, you know, his type of people, they've been getting picked on by people like Ken for basically people. And he springs into fight or flight mode. Blacks out. Might end up punching someone in the face, might end up double whammying somebody into the ground, and then he's out of there. But it's fight or flight, you know, that's why he's lived. And his ancestors have made it this far. Like, it's. It's like more of a genetics thing that has gotten passed down. Obviously, if he didn't have it in him, he probably wouldn't be here because. Not his fault, you know, it just would have gotten weaned out by natural selection.

[Mike]

I really want to see the side by side of Evan taking me down and Evan taking Dalton down because I feel like they're very.

[Ben]

There's something you could learn from very similar that you.

[Ken]

I mean, just the fact he took Dalton down. Dalton's a beast, dude. Like, he's a tough kid. He's lengthy, he's strong, he's young, he's quick.

[Ryan]

Do you have a crush on Dalton?

[Ken]

No, but I. I'm just telling you, dude, Dalton's a athlete. Dalton is an athlete.

[Ryan]

He is. And Evan, and he's in his prime. Evan is not an athlete, but he is.

[Dalton]

He's like one of those scrappy. He's like one of those, like, little. This is a very obscure reference, but he's like a bionicle. Those bionicles that would roll up into a ball and then spring back. Yeah, that's what he reminds me of.

[Ken]

Surprise attack.

[Ryan]

I don't know. Would you rather be built, like, small and stocky like that or tall and frail?

[Ken]

Definitely not frail. I wouldn't want to be frail.

[Ryan]

But you can't. You can be one or the other.

[Dalton]

Would you rather.

[Ken]

I'd rather be tough, dude.

[Ryan]

Well, yes. Small and stock.

[Dalton]

Would you rather have a Civic or a Camry? Lamborghini?

[Ken]

I mean. Yeah. Like, being tall and frail, it's not going to do much. I think 10's a tough guy. Would you rather be.

[Ben]

No, he's tough.

[Ken]

He just put once a year. Situations where, like, the average person shouldn't be put into. On the weekly, if not daily.

[Ryan]

How many fights have you unvoluntarily?

[Ken]

Ken does.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

A lot of scraps.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I was.

[Ben]

I was like, how often are you.

[Ken]

Or me wrestling one of the boys?

[Ben]

I know very frequently.

[Dalton]

Ben, do it a little.

[Ken]

I think Ken charges people.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Which is honestly the problem.

[Mike]

There's usually a reason why that gets brought. I get brought into this.

[Ben]

You're like a grizzly bear that fake charges and wants the person to back off. But then the. The thing Attacks you're. And you attack the lion, and then it fights back.

[Ken]

You shouldn't get.

[Mike]

Evan just fought back. Cuz he was. You had hard of not wanting to go on the helicopter.

[Ben]

True. No, I definitely, definitely like the direction you were headed with. But I told Evan that I go, there's one reason that you and I have never fought. And I go, it's because I'm not getting physical with you. I go, I'll. I'll berate you with my words.

[Mike]

I mean all you want, buddy.

[Ben]

I'm good at that.

[Mike]

He could have just taken the 75 other snowmobiles that were in the field.

[Dalton]

Too, like they were doing with Ben's. I was cracking up about that. Ben doesn't have a wrap on his sled, so maybe it looks like a rental. And just everyone was driving it this weekend. And he's kind of like, did you tell so and so. Yeah, did you tell that they could. And why is he driving it? And I'm like, dude, Ben, I don't know. You're gonna have to write your name.

[Ben]

They just wanted to ride your mod sled, dude.

[Ryan]

Can't blame them there. Yeah, I was. I wasn't too concerned about it until whistling came up. Riding it. And he said that he was just about to go and durability test it.

[Dalton]

Very concerning.

[Ryan]

I was at the farm the other day, and I was like, loading something in the back of this truck, right? And the garbage man was kind of like picking some stuff up and then going to the other dumpster. You know how there's two. And I was kind of right in the middle. I'm trying to stay out of their way. And this guy, like, comes up and he parks right behind me. And I'm like, am I in this guy's way? And, like puts down his window and he goes, hey, is that the Durango that hit the dumpster?

[Ben]

Oh, shit.

[Ryan]

And I look over and I see your Durango just sitting there running, right? Because it was when we were getting it ready. And I was like, yeah, wasn't me, though. That's the one. And they were like, yeah, hit that thing pretty fast, huh? And then I was like, oh, shit, that's their dumpster.

[Ken]

They're.

[Ryan]

They're like kind of pressing me about their dumpster that Ryan just smoked at 30 miles per hour. And then I was just like, totally didn't know what to do. Started kind of backing up a little bit. And they were like, yeah, those things are pretty durable, huh? And I was like, are they ever?

[Ben]

And then Durango or the dumpster.

[Ryan]

I don't know. He laughed, I laughed. And then they put the window up and rolled off. And I was like, I think we have beef with Steve's.

[Ben]

Oh, no, the Steve's guys are great. And they've been so waste management fucking sucked. Steve's is great.

[Ryan]

Well, Ryan, you hit their dumpster.

[Ben]

I know, but it was. Dumpsters are tough.

[Dalton]

It was fine. But that's.

[Ryan]

Imagine them watching that video. We've never had a dumpster get hit by a car and flip upside down like that. Of course, in the Sea Boys parking lot.

[Mike]

Didn't even put a scratch in that dumpster.

[Ben]

I got to see my first live action car accident yesterday.

[Ryan]

It was crazy.

[Ben]

It was right in front of me. I was driving home. You guys ever, like, watch one happen? Like, you know, watch someone get hit?

[Ken]

All the time. On the Weekly Honest. Oh, not filming. Yeah, still. I have. Yeah.

[Ben]

I was driving down Highway 10, and this guy just blacked out. Cranked the left in front of the car in front of me that was driving down the highway.

[Ryan]

It was.

[Ben]

It was at, like, 30 miles an hour, not at 50 on the big part of the highway. It was like, as you come into town, you're sitting at a light.

[Dalton]

Was it a Ford?

[Ben]

I don't think so.

[Dalton]

Okay. I just saw an accident that didn't.

[Ben]

I saw it after a different one, I guess. Anyway. Yeah, just turns right in front of him. Just boom. It was crazy.

[Ryan]

What happened? Is he all right?

[Ben]

Yeah, everybody was all right. The guy who pulled out in front looked pretty pissed at himself, I think. And then there was, like, 19 cops there.

[Ryan]

It was crazy.

[Ben]

It was so weird.

[Dalton]

I, you know, yelled out, he can't park there.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So apparently the guys that are working on our unicorn, Robbie, he's a YouTuber. He's our buddy. He was actually at Snowden, so he was giving us updates on what he was, you know, fixing at the moment and how he was going with the unicorn. Really excited. So, you guys, the video of it. But he was telling Ryan that I hit the tree with the unicorn straight on to the frame, the frame, you.

[Ben]

Know, like a Mustang frame. Well, I guess technically Crown Vic has, like, the two frame rails that come up and go forward. Just pegged it perfectly at, like, accordion back.

[Ryan]

So I missed out.

[Ken]

Good.

[Ryan]

I missed the motor. So he said that if I would hit the motor, it would have totally totaled the entire motor, and it would in. In return, totaled the whole car out.

[Mike]

But he was saying the motor is, like, fine.

[Ryan]

They got the motor going. Yeah. Yeah, it was just like a couple things that broken on the front, obviously, but they fixed it and the motor's running. But they said since I hit the. The frame dead on like that it had no give, which I can attest to. Didn't. But I saved the unicorn from being totaled.

[Ken]

Oh, good job, Ben.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So pretty good aim.

[Ben]

Yeah. I mean, he did say. He goes, I don't think you could have done that if you tried, you know, like if you aimed to just hit it. You're just that good at crashing shit, man.

[Ryan]

What can I say?

[Dalton]

Yeah, dude.

[Ken]

When's he thinking that's going to be done?

[Ryan]

You know, I think it's a little bit more of a job than probably.

[Dalton]

I think like my guess, early summer.

[Ken]

Which is just in time, honestly, for Ben to get it back out on the track.

[Ryan]

I don't think I'm gonna drive it. I don't think so.

[Dalton]

Don't blame you.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I don't think you guys are gonna argue that.

[Ken]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ben]

I think we should put someone a little more skilled behind the wheel.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, for sure. I don't know who that would be.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Ken, you ready to learn and that thing.

[Mike]

No, I don't fit in that with a helmet on.

[Ryan]

I think they're fixing that.

[Mike]

Are they gonna lower this?

[Ben]

Yeah, they're gonna drop the seat down.

[Ryan]

Fixing it up. They're fixing everything. That just didn't really work with it.

[Dalton]

Right.

[Ryan]

There's replica. Wasn't really meant to be doing what we were doing. And they're fixing it so it's a proper ripper.

[Dalton]

And I'm sure we mentioned this, but he will be twin turboing it too. So we're. We're nearing even closer to true unicorn replica.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It's gonna be sick. Did you guys see that? The unicorn truck. The Hoona truck sale is for sale. But like Barrett Jackson, it might.

[Dalton]

I thought it already closed.

[Mike]

I think it's this week.

[Ryan]

This weekend, isn't it?

[Dalton]

Yeah. I was trying to look up what it went for, but obviously if it.

[Ben]

Hasn'T sold, I'll put it in at the bottom what it went for here.

[Dalton]

But yeah, it's like it looked like they were asking 1.1.1.1.

[Ken]

I think supercar Ron should buy it.

[Dalton]

Same.

[Ken]

He posted like he was into it.

[Dalton]

Yeah. And I seem like everyone commenting content.

[Ken]

The only problem with like a car like that is it's so legendary that you actually probably can't rip on it.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

It makes more sense for him to drive His Pagani in the rain, in a sense, then that more replaceable.

[Ken]

And it's not as. Yeah, it's not driven by, you know.

[Ryan]

Oh, dude, if we bought that, there's no way we could even. We couldn't even look at it, dude. We couldn't even have it in our shop.

[Dalton]

Don't even look at it. Yeah, you're right in the vicinity.

[Ken]

If we bought that, there would be no way of us being able to pay Tony back for his truck.

[Ryan]

Dude, Tony, we want to pay you back for the truck.

[Ken]

We bought this really good for $1.1 million. Dude, you think we got extra cash laying around.

[Ben]

Speaking of, think you could maybe cover the insurance on that for a little while for us?

[Mike]

Hey, it's going up for sale for no reserve this weekend. So you might be able to get it for a deal or it could go for a lot.

[Ken]

Well, it's worth bidding on.

[Ryan]

What do you guys think it's going to go for?

[Dalton]

Over a million.

[Ken]

I think 750.

[Ryan]

You think so? Under a mil?

[Ken]

I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I'd guess 750 is mine.

[Ben]

It benefits the 43i foundation, which is Ken Block's foundation. Is that a charitable donation?

[Mike]

Think it is.

[Ryan]

Oh, so it could be a write off free then?

[Ben]

Yeah, it's just a write off.

[Ryan]

It's just right off.

[Ben]

It's a write off.

[Ryan]

The government pays you back. Yeah. So I got a call yesterday from Cletus. I constantly tell him, like, dude, I want to get a helicopter.

[Dalton]

You do?

[Ryan]

I think that'd be so sick, you know, Jake going. And so he does.

[Ken]

I sit there next to him as he talks about how badly he's going to buy or wants to buy a helicopter. And so he's very serious about it, though. So, like, Cletus takes you serious when you say this.

[Ryan]

So Cletus calls me yesterday and one day after we left, and he's like, brother, I love spending my friend's money more than my own. So I got a guy on the line right now and he's got a.

[Dalton]

Helicopter for like one day after being home.

[Ryan]

Like, like, brother, I gotta figure out.

[Ben]

How we're gonna pay for Tony's truck.

[Ryan]

And so this guy is on the phone and he's telling me all about his helicopter. And then I'm just like, well, shit.

[Ken]

You put yourself into a corner.

[Ryan]

I think I did.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I don't know what to do now.

[Ken]

I think you gotta buy. I'm gonna ride it with you.

[Ryan]

I'm not sure I have an option.

[Mike]

You've been talking about buying a chopper for years. At this point, you almost have to.

[Ben]

Can't argue with that.

[Ryan]

Can't argue sound logic.

[Ken]

I think it's a great idea, and I think it opens the door to the helicopter world for us at your expense.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I can see why you guys would be into it.

[Ken]

Like, I get to ride around in it, get all the benefits, no downside.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Mike]

Don't have to pay for the fuel.

[Ken]

I don't even have to deal with the responsibility of flying. It's.

[Ryan]

I should hit up Tony and see if he wants to buy. Yeah, yeah. Then I can do that same thing.

[Ken]

Starting to learn.

[Ryan]

No, I think it would be cool. I'm still trying to, like, make sense of it. Do it. Yeah, that's a good point. Just do it. Yeah, yeah.

[Ken]

Like Nike.

[Mike]

Wasn't Cletus saying you can write off an aircraft 100% in the first year?

[Ryan]

Something like that.

[Ben]

Yeah. And then just hoses you for the next years that you would want to write.

[Dalton]

That's what he said. He's like, yeah, it's really awesome when you're owning it. It's really not awesome when it comes time to sell.

[Ken]

Yeah. He told me you can't get your money back as easy as you'd expect.

[Ben]

No, just when you write it off, then it's income.

[Dalton]

Right.

[Ben]

But he was saying, he was like, brother, there's no way you can lose money on a helicopter.

[Ken]

Oh, well, then why even bother thinking about it?

[Ryan]

Expenses on it are crazy.

[Ken]

What's an expense on a helicopter?

[Ben]

I don't know how to fly a helicopter.

[Ken]

That is the thing.

[Ryan]

500 bucks an hour.

[Mike]

What kind of helicopter is this?

[Dalton]

Yeah, it's like our damn pontoon, but worse.

[Ken]

Holy.

[Ryan]

In like, just maintenance cost. So your operating expenses, because after a certain amount of hours, you have to do overhauls on them.

[Ben]

But, like, you know, this is a helicopter. How many hours are you going to be flying? Think about much time you're going to save flying from your house to the shop.

[Mike]

I foresee we don't maintenance anything. You just don't maintenance.

[Ken]

That's the end.

[Ryan]

Oh, I didn't even think of that, Ken.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Ryan]

They're always talking about the maintenance cost. They probably haven't thought, why not skip?

[Ken]

Save the money.

[Ben]

Yeah. Every time we maintenance anything, it breaks.

[Ryan]

That's a good point, Ryan.

[Ben]

So, yeah, why we'll just not do that.

[Ken]

That's pretty lame that it costs that much to fly the thing. I mean, I kind of figured that, but I didn't really think about it at the same time. So, like, you just fly me to the gym, landing in the parking lot. I work out, you fly me back. It's gonna be an expensive little trip.

[Ben]

I work, brother.

[Dalton]

If you ask me for a ride in my car to the gym.

[Ken]

Well, no, I was just thinking about that today. I was like, I wonder if Ben would be able to park his helicopter in the gym parking lot. I was like, I bet you. I bet you the guy who owns.

[Ryan]

It would let you. Yeah, so that's. That is the thing that I've been wondering and talking to Cletus about. It's is like, walk me through this. What does it look like if I own a helicopter, what am I doing? If I have a helicopter, like, where am I flying it to, what am I doing?

[Ken]

Whatever you want.

[Ryan]

I fly it to lunch, I fly it to dinner. I landed in my grandma's, in my grandma's backyard. Grandpa would love it.

[Ken]

Do it for grandpa. Land on the golf course. Holy somebody's balls around.

[Ryan]

Things like that. It would be sick. But we also don't have as good a weather in Minnesota. From my research. You need good weather. Fly.

[Ben]

Cletus gets to fly to Key west, you get to fly to Costco.

[Ken]

That'd still be sick, dude. Flying to Costco. We're just flying into Fargo.

[Ryan]

I think realistically it would actually be really sick. I don't know if you could go as like many cool places is like heavy D and his. All of his helicopter friends, they are like, yeah, this is the. They're the best. Because you can fly anywhere in the state and you have amazing like the best of all worlds that you could imagine living in Utah and you can get to them in like 45 minutes in a helicopter. And then Cletus is like, yeah, I can go anywhere in Florida, down to Key west or land in my grandparents backyard that are two hours away. But it's like, I don't know, it's a little bit different in Minnesota.

[Ken]

We're gonna be flying around, it's gonna be sick.

[Ben]

Could you put it on floats? You could land at the sandbar.

[Dalton]

Is that a thing?

[Ryan]

I don't. I don't know. I don't think so.

[Ken]

Maybe you have to build a barge then. Like heavy.

[Dalton]

Oh yeah.

[Ben]

You could use Ken's. I'm assuming your helicopter is gonna be a hell of a lot smaller than the black.

[Ryan]

Give me a small helicopter. Yes. You could use Ken's mom chaser. Yeah.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. That'd be the perfect opportunity.

[Ken]

Upgrade For I was gonna say you could land on.

[Ben]

Ken would be sick.

[Mike]

So they do make, like, helicopter floats, but it's more of a emergency use case kind of scenario.

[Ben]

Well, if we're out of beer at the sandbar, it is an emergency.

[Ken]

Yeah. What is the percentage chance of you buying a helicopter?

[Ryan]

Probably 75.

[Ken]

75?

[Ryan]

I'd say in the next year. Probably.

[Ken]

That's pretty good.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You're better than I expected.

[Dalton]

I just can't wait to cheer you on as you're doing your lessons.

[Ben]

Me too.

[Dalton]

I mean, because it's cool. It's a cool thing.

[Ben]

I can't wait to ride with you once you get really good at it.

[Ryan]

I think it would be sick to have, like, a little hanger on the back of the merch barn. You would need a man in the merch barn. And I may put a little hanger door on the backside of it. Got to talk to obviously, you guys about that, but I think that'd be a good spot for it. And my buddy Mark. Shout out Mark. He's down to go in on the helicopter with me.

[Ben]

So does he know you're buying a helicopter? Are you just, like, preemptively saying.

[Ryan]

I asked Mark. I said, what's the percentage? And he said, 100%.

[Ben]

Oh, wow.

[Ryan]

So I was like, okay, Sounds like I'm the one holding us up then.

[Ben]

Sick.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, those things. And then if everything falls together and then might happen.

[Mike]

We're going to Florida in a few weeks. Is Cletus going to let you fly his.

[Ryan]

There's two sticks, so he's flying it.

[Ben]

You're just riding with.

[Ryan]

I'm just riding with to get some.

[Ben]

Of that cost back. You could fly around Khabib, see him get kicked off that frontier flight. No, I'll play the video here. He's sitting in a freaking exit row.

[Ken]

And why the is that guy sitting in an exit row?

[Ben]

Frontier Las Vegas to San Francisco.

[Ken]

Maybe it was just like, I just need to get there. Hopped on flight.

[Mike]

He opened the door.

[Ryan]

Ken hates us, and he doesn't even make us fly. Yeah.

[Ken]

That is.

[Dalton]

Ken does not hate us.

[Ryan]

Well, it seems like it sometimes when he puts us back by the toilet.

[Mike]

I do not choose seats when I book flights. I just.

[Ryan]

The whole thing, the whole plane is open, and he puts me and C.J. by the toilet.

[Mike]

I do not choose seats when I book flights. I just buy the flight.

[Ryan]

So not allowing you to sit next.

[Ken]

To row or you're gonna have to get off this plane in the block.

[Ryan]

Because they're not under which my flight attendants.

[Ken]

And unfortunately, it is fair.

[Dalton]

It's not fair.

[Ken]

Yes, it is.

[Ryan]

You guys.

[Ken]

You guys. When I was making. They asked me, do I know English?

[Ryan]

Yes, I said. And they said, yes, English. I understand that.

[Ken]

But also off of their judgment, I'm not going to do this back and forth. I will call a supervisor. You can either take a different seat, or we can go ahead and escort.

[Dalton]

You off the plane.

[Ken]

Which one are we doing? Okay, I'll call supervisor, and then we're going to have to.

[Ben]

I'm not really sure why they're kicking him out of the exit row, but.

[Ken]

It seems like feel safe with him being in charge of something on a plane. They probably didn't know who he was.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'm sure not.

[Ryan]

Dude, we should get Evan into the ufc.

[Ken]

He'd probably be really good.

[Ryan]

He would. Dude, he's short, scrappy. Have I mentioned that?

[Ken]

Tough.

[Ben]

He's got no concept of hurting himself.

[Ken]

Yeah. I cannot foresee Evan getting knocked out. I just could foresee him, like, literally acting like he's dying because he'd be so out of breath. Like, start taking everything off somebody in his corner. You know, when he goes to his.

[Ryan]

Corner, they have to have him be hitting a vape.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Every other guy's, like, all trained up and whatever. Evan walks into the ring with strutting, carrying. He's got a tea. He's on.

[Ken]

He's wearing just Ethicas as his. As his shorts. So I'm, like, blowing out Ethicas, you.

[Ben]

Know, while they're putting, like, the. The stuff on your face. You don't get cut. He, like, smacks the hand away, dude.

[Dalton]

That's when we would bring out his signature pro model, Ethicas that come pre poop stains. Can't see if you actually do put a real one there.

[Ryan]

Signature move is, like, put somebody in, like, a leg lock and fart on.

[Ken]

Them near his hinder. And there's like, tap, tap. They're not even being choked. They can still breathe, but it's just like, the fact that they're having to breathe that in. Did you guys see Conor McGregor with, like, Jake Paul and Logan Paul, and they're all on that bus going to Trump's inauguration.

[Ryan]

I don't know. I feel like they're always. There's so much, like, online beef between.

[Ken]

Those three, and normally it's fabricated, I think, but also I feel like some of it wasn't, like, initially, but, like, the fact that they were all just chilling on there.

[Dalton]

Did you guys see then? I See a video. This one. I had to like double check to make sure it was real because it just felt like a fever dream. Freaking. It's Logan Paul next to Jake and then he like pans the camera and then Theo Vaughn sitting in front of them. His chair breaks.

[Ken]

I know.

[Dalton]

And he like falls on the ground and it's just like that was fun looking around. And then Danica Patrick's to his left and Kyle.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Dalton]

From Nelk is to his right. And then. Yeah, he's just like super flustered. He's like, damn, Kamala. Kamala chairs. But yeah, just what a weird. Like it just didn't seem real.

[Ben]

I feel like that section of the. The inauguration, like everyone else is all, you know, serious and political, whatever and feels over there just like what?

[Ken]

Also like, has there ever been an inauguration like that? It seemed like such a celebration. It was like a full on party and it's like all these celebrities are there and like they're dancing. It was an event. Like obviously it was an event no matter what, but like it was like more of a, like cultural.

[Dalton]

Like it looked like more of a. Yeah, yeah.

[Ken]

All these celebrities were there but then it was like a party. Like they're at a dance and. Because when they all that. That, you know, I remember always culturally.

[Dalton]

I remember back though when Obama was inaugurated and I think he did it like out on like the front lawn of the White House and it was like a huge.

[Ken]

So that's normal crowd.

[Dalton]

Yeah, it's normal to have like a party. But it was as a lot different than what Trump did.

[Ken]

Biden didn't do anything.

[Ryan]

I went to bed. Did you guys see the video of Elon getting up on the stage?

[Ken]

It was like, bro, Elon's just sums up. You know, when you're that smart, it's just hard to be normal.

[Ryan]

Why did he do that?

[Ben]

He said his heart.

[Dalton]

He was like.

[Ben]

He was sending his heart out. I think America's just cooked.

[Ken]

Really.

[Ben]

I think what's happening is really good. I just think we're cooked, man. I think, I think it's beyond. We're cooked, dude.

[Ryan]

I feel like the opposite. I feel like so confident in like, I feel like the golden age of America.

[Ben]

Yeah. No, I think that's. I think that's going to happen too.

[Mike]

It's a brand new day the sun is just rising.

[Ryan]

Just pissed.

[Ben]

No. And I knew that was going to get twisted on me.

[Ryan]

I had to tell you just said it. Camela poster, dude.

[Ben]

No, I, I'm full, full blown. Very excited about the direction that the country has headed, you said. I just think, I think the long term direction of the country and what the fuck is happening here? We are cooked. Do you? Like, I would say 15 years ago we were less cooked than we are today. And I think 15 years from now we will be more cooked than we were today, is what I'm saying.

[Ken]

Well, guys, not to get political on this podcast, but at least no matter what side you're on, you have somebody to side with on this. Like when you're listening back at home.

[Mike]

Got everyone from both sides of the aisle here.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Ben]

It's not true, but.

[Ken]

I do agree though what you're saying, Ryan. Like, Dude, I think TikTok is cooking people the worst. But also just in general, it's, it's just the online shit. It really is. Like, I think that TikTok's the worst because it's just constant scrolling and all these people just doom scroll. They don't do anything outside of it. And it's like, it's almost a form of gambling because you occasionally get a good one and then it's like you scroll the next and maybe it's like some of it's sexualized and whatever. So it's like maybe you don't get the dopamine hit for like two, three scrolls, but then you hit, you hit one, you get a little bit of a hit and then it's like, oh, what's next? And then you never know what's next so you keep scrolling, scrolling and it, you're just paying with your time and you just get these little dopamine hits and it's the same thing with like even X. Like, I mean, I like that it has the freedom to post whatever, but dude, some of the stuff on there should not be on there. Like, like there's a lot of we'll say corn and, and also there is like just people getting in fights, killings. Like that is not good for to just constantly be seeing. And especially with like the younger brain who don't consciously think like, oh, like sitting here staring at this all day is not good. And it's so easy to get sucked into. But I'm like, I cannot, you know, I can stop myself. But I think a lot of people don't have that. So. So yes, I do agree. Like people, I said it not too long ago. People are getting more and more stupid, stupid. And it is alarming. And the worst part about stupid people is they don't know they're stupid.

[Ryan]

Pretty famous quote that you said for.

[Ken]

A While, yeah, it's the worst thing. Like, there's never any way to tell someone that. There's, like, some people are just too stupid to talk to.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's a famous Ken quote you're literally aimed at.

[Dalton]

Ben.

[Ken]

I think. I think just there's so much, like, comfort almost, you know, like, where you can get those little dopamine hits just by doing pretty much nothing, versus prior to now, you had to, like, go out and do something. And there still is plenty ways to go out and earn, like, a proper dopamine hit, if that makes sense. Like, go to the gym.

[Dalton]

Those things didn't go away.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, but they're hard.

[Ken]

People just choose the easier route because it's easier. And I think a lot of people don't even realize that they're doing it.

[Ben]

100. I was saying that about, like, when we had a little time off over the. The Christmas break. I, like, one day just sat on the couch. I was like, I'm gonna relax. And I sat there and scrolled on my phone for, like, a percentage of the day. And I was like, why do I feel like crap? Like, I was all anxious. It was all. I felt all worked up over nothing. And I was, like, irritable. I'm like, what the hell's going on with me? I was like, I should be happy. And then I was like, oh, it's probably one, because I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything. And two, you're just, like, just waiting. You just keep dipping back into Facebook marketplace, hoping something good comes up addicting.

[Ken]

As you do this rotation of Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and you're just constantly looking for something that. To, like, give you that. But, like, realistically, it's never gonna, like, lead to any real satisfaction.

[Ben]

I have all my, like, social media apps, you know, like, when you put them in a folder, it says social. I change it to don't open. I don't listen to it, though.

[Ken]

And I'm not saying that.

[Ryan]

All easy to find.

[Ken]

You know, I'm not saying that you shouldn't go on it at all. I'm just saying, like. Like, if you spend too much time on it.

[Ben]

100.

[Ken]

You know, and. And honestly, like. But there is, like, the flip side. Like, you could have a podcast playing all day long if you're choosing the right podcast. Like, you can learn stuff, and at the very least, it can. It can elevate your mood. Like, I don't think that we're necessarily, like, giving people a lot of knowledge, but I Think we do like raise maybe their attitude and like just the vibes, you know, like, yeah, next time.

[Ben]

You have an hour of laughs or whatever.

[Ken]

Oh yeah. Or just like take that. And then when you're. Whoever you talk to next, if it's your spouse or someone at work and just like go in and, and be more, I guess, I don't know, positive towards them, it can help you, I guess, and just enjoy life in general.

[Ryan]

I don't know if you've guys seen this, but with like the whole Tick Tock getting banned, which it got banned, which was crazy. Last podcast we were talking about, I think Dalton was saying that Dalton was.

[Ken]

Fucking not going to cry, dude. I felt bad for him, honestly.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So when he got banned, we were all, all together and then the next day it came back and right away on both of the announcements when it, when it got banned, it said, hopefully president to be Donald Trump can save us, basically. And then the next day it came back saying like, thanks to Donald Trump, we're back. And then I started seeing things that people were like, assuming that it was maybe some kind of publicity stunt like from Trump's team where like, oh, I.

[Ken]

Don'T know, like how that was at a publicity son. If anything it was. I mean he, he is the reason why it came back. Like, if he wouldn't have.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Done something.

[Ryan]

Do you think he let it, he let it go away. Like he could have stopped it, but he let it go and then was just like, put, if, if you say this, I'll bring it back.

[Ken]

He wasn't the president yet, though.

[Ryan]

No, I know, but I, I just, I just wonder, like, why would Tick Tock, like say that unless either way, and maybe scenes. I don't, I don't know. They can maybe not though.

[Ken]

People that are addicted to doom scrolling can thank him.

[Mike]

I think it was Tick Tock trying to like butter Trump up, like make him feel good. Because they did that all before he was even inaugurated.

[Ken]

Yeah, they were saying they were going away and Biden was trying to make.

[Ryan]

It go away, but it came back before he was inaugurated.

[Mike]

Yeah, because they did that like Saturday, Sunday and he didn't go into office until Monday. So like, technically that law should have gone into effect on Saturday or Sunday. It's like he couldn't have changed anything until noon Eastern on Monday.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I don't know, maybe, maybe it has nothing to do. And, and if anything, like I, I liked it. Like, I thought it was good, but I did start seeing things and I started thinking like, maybe There was something there.

[Ben]

It is crazy. You can't. You can't download Tick Tock. Like, if you were to get a new phone, you can't download TikTok right now. You can use it when it's on your phone. It's like Flappy Bird all over again.

[Ryan]

So, yeah, I saw that. People are selling iPhones for $10,000.

[Ben]

I'll sell mine, dude.

[Ryan]

You realize that have Tick Tock downloaded.

[Ken]

If you have your same Apple account, though, I'm pretty sure you can still download it. You don't. You could delete it, but if you download it once off of your Apple, it's in your previous app. Like, I'm pretty sure I could download Flappy Bird right.

[Ben]

Right now it says TikTok and other bite Dance apps are not available in the country or region you're in.

[Ken]

Let me just double check.

[Ben]

Yeah. See if you can download Flappy Bird. If you get Flappy Bird back. Dude, you might have cracked it.

[Dalton]

I'm pretty sure they brought that back.

[Ken]

Wait, hold on.

[Ben]

Did they? It just never hit the same, actually. Why did they pull it?

[Mike]

Something like. The guy didn't want it to be too addicting.

[Dalton]

Yeah, he was like. He was like a movement. He was like, you know what?

[Ken]

Yep.

[Dalton]

This has got not addicted right here, guys.

[Ryan]

You can download it.

[Ken]

But. Yeah, April 11, 2014.

[Dalton]

But I'm pretty sure they brought that back. Like I said.

[Mike]

Yeah, he.

[Ken]

Oh, wait, hold on. I actually can't do that one. Never mind. I take it back.

[Mike]

Flappy Bird. The guy deleted it because he felt guilty that the game's addictive nature ruined lives.

[Ken]

Wow.

[Ryan]

That guy must.

[Ken]

What about Jetpack Joyride? That game was fun.

[Ben]

That game was lit.

[Ken]

You can still download that. I don't think that's on.

[Dalton]

That's a classic.

[Ken]

It just depends if they hold. Let me see.

[Ben]

That's what I'm saying, dude. 10 years ago, someone goes, oh, I think I'm up the world, dude. And now they're like, well, let's just make a couple billion dollars, and then I'll pull it.

[Ken]

There used to be so many fun apps that were games.

[Dalton]

They're probably still there, but, I mean, we've just outgrown them.

[Ben]

Balloons, Tower defense.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that's actually a great game.

[Ken]

We're playing Xbox now.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So Tony just texted me and Jake in a group chat.

[Ben]

Not me.

[Ryan]

Sent a video of the truck backing off the trailer, and it runs. It's running under her own power. And then there's a bunch of codes. Who would have thought? And Then he said, how did you guys break the air conditioner?

[Ben]

I. I don't know.

[Ken]

I broke the air conditioner just rotting on it. Huh.

[Ryan]

They were trying to cool the engine down.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I don't know.

[Ben]

I thought it'd be a cooler. No, it didn't. It couldn't go up on its own. It. We pulled it away from the trailer on its own and then it died and then it rolled back down the hill. But yeah, glad it's back.

[Ken]

If you guys didn't know already, our Centurion that we built with U motors has been sold. Went to a guy in Philadelphia, 26.

[Ryan]

And a half foot boat.

[Ken]

Huge big boy. Towed it with our Ford Ranger with our mini truck. Anyways, U motors hit us up again was like, hey, let's build another boat. So we were freaking stoked. So now we're being tasked with the hard decision of choosing what colors to go with on this thing.

[Ben]

The more we ask everyone the. The least.

[Ryan]

Sure.

[Ben]

I get.

[Dalton]

We specked out about six different colors and all.

[Ken]

So that's the thing is like. Yeah. So it's a. An Aaron antique. It's a G25. So. 25 footer. Yeah. I mean it's just. It's a super like you can't really go wrong with any of those colors. But I feel like we have to have a bold colorway being that we are. I mean we just like bold stuff. Yeah. So I don't know, we could pop them up on the screen. But we also need to make this decision soon in order to have this thing built and then be here by summer.

[Ryan]

But yeah, a lot of people are saying, at least on Instagram and TikTok they're saying that we should do the white.

[Ken]

I know.

[Ryan]

Which is probably the least likely, the.

[Dalton]

Most surprised by that.

[Ken]

I was too.

[Dalton]

I figured you toss that in there and then everyone's like, yo, white go hard.

[Ken]

Like the thing is is most guys that buy a boat like this are like a 50 year old dentist who like wants it to be like that. Yeah. They just want it to be more like not loud in your face. And we're like the opposite.

[Ryan]

And then another one that was pretty popular was the. The black with the red interior.

[Dalton]

Red was pretty sweet.

[Ryan]

That's actually the color combo of my boat.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So I like that one.

[Dalton]

That one good on me a lot.

[Ryan]

This one has still not that like.

[Ken]

As gold spec which looks sick.

[Dalton]

Oh, in other ones.

[Ken]

Yeah. The other ones don't.

[Dalton]

Oh, that's.

[Ken]

So that does have gold speck in it. Which is sick. But yeah, it kind of looks like it's basically the same as Ben's boat then. So it kind of put us at. We're either doing the green one or the Nardo gray with red and the green one, which I thought was pretty sick and bended too. Got like the least amount really of responses on my story.

[Dalton]

I will.

[Mike]

I. I think that red interior on the gray one, just hot.

[Ken]

It's probably the best of both worlds, honestly.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that's one still.

[Ken]

That's probably a safe bet.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that man. I'd say in the perfect world we just do the red one. Can't go wrong with red, dude. Why mess with perfection?

[Ken]

That one got the least out of all of them, really.

[Dalton]

It just had a few peppered in there of people going. Of course they're gonna get the red one. But other than that.

[Ken]

Maybe it looks too much like. But all these boats are sick, dude.

[Mike]

So.

[Ken]

Yeah, we're pretty excited about that.

[Ryan]

Leave a comment down below.

[Ken]

Yeah, comment down below. Tell us what you guys think. We're going to the boat show this weekend to check out the wild. So, yeah, we'll build that. And we have something to look forward to this summer.

[Ryan]

It's gonna be sweet. I think we gotta. I think we got the pontoon again, too.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Ryan]

We're gonna have to make maybe some changes to the mom chaser. Make it even smaller.

[Mike]

I was thinking make it faster.

[Dalton]

Yeah, faster.

[Ken]

You got that thing just sitting down the elements. You didn't put a cover over or anything?

[Mike]

You don't need to. You don't need to cover perfection. It's perfect as it is.

[Ken]

I think that's what he says.

[Ben]

The girls when they show up wearing no swimsuit.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah. You've used that line a lot, haven't you?

[Mike]

If we're going to change anything, maybe make it wider and shorter.

[Ken]

I was really hoping that.

[Dalton]

Wider and shorter. Well, sick boys, I love the new set. We are giving away a snowmobile right now. A 1:46 assault boost. So that's pretty sick. If you go to the website, $5 you spend gets you one entry and that ends soon. So you don't got much time.

[Ken]

Yeah, Mike, I'm.

[Ryan]

This Sunday.

[Ken]

I'm honored to be one of your groomsmen, man.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I'm excited to give it to the rest of the guys.

[Ken]

Great pod. Well, appreciate you guys. We'll see you next week.

[Ben]

Peace.

[Ken]

Peace.

[Ryan]

Later.