Kens Hiring A Robot Maid, CJs Embarrassing Purchase, & Bens Dangerous Road Trip

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Ken's Hiring A Robot Maid, CJ's Embarrassing Purchase, & Ben's Dangerous Road Trip
Date: February 24, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively and unfiltered episode, the Cboys crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah—dive into behind-the-scenes chaos from their recent ice fishing trip, share hilarious gas station mishaps, discuss the pros and cons of robot maids and emerging technologies, and reminisce about questionable purchases and bachelor party shenanigans. There’s plenty of banter about gas station cuisine, fishing (or failing to), moon real estate, and whether anyone can be trusted (or left alone) on the road or at a party. The group also celebrates CJ’s wedding party with personalized (and sometimes dangerous) gifts.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

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1. Ben's Dangerous Road Trip & Gas Station Misadventures

• Recap of the Road Trip

  • The crew recounts their harrowing drive home after a fishing trip, complete with nearly running out of diesel, getting lost in a blizzard, and discovering a blown tire only after arriving home ([34:55–37:04]).
  • Ben: "You guys just drove the whole way home with a blowing out tire." ([34:55])

• Gas Station Escapades

  • The group spent an inordinate amount of time at rural gas stations, hunting for snacks and confronting quirky locals.
  • The famed “coffee cup incident” resulted in confusion, embarrassment, and uncontrollable laughter ([24:13–30:10]).
  • Evan: "I'm looking at him like he's dumb. And then we walk over and he proceeds to like put his hand under... I'm like, how did I miss this? And he pulls out a... No, a traveling mug. I'm like, no, just the cheap one. A coffee cup!" ([24:39])
  • Dalton: "The original spoon was in the cup holder with the parfait the whole time." ([31:10])

• Fishing Trip Chaos

  • The team filmed a cheap vs. expensive ice house fishing video, resulting in questionable fishing success, lots of gas, and four frozen, deliriously laughing dudes trapped in a smelly vehicle in sub-zero weather ([08:00–20:34]).
  • Evan: "It was the smelliest vehicle in existence. It was so bad that the windows had to constantly be cracked. After, like, four hours of it, we started hallucinating." ([07:56])

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2. Bizarre Gas Station Food Knowledge

• Evan's Gas Station Food Wisdom
  • Evan’s expertise in gas station cuisine is celebrated—and survived by the group, who discuss “chuck wagons,” rib sandwiches, ham triangles, and the art of microwave timing ([04:13–07:10]).
  • Dalton: "You just know what to get when you walk in the door." ([04:19])
  • Evan: "No, 50 seconds. Right on. I ran it 60 seconds, and it cooked it too much." ([06:21–06:27])

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3. Personal Fails: Food, Drink, and Strange Purchases

• Food Aversion Stories
  • Traumatic childhood and college food/drink experiences are recounted—hot dogs, chili, Smirnoff, vapes, and more ([10:07–13:30]).
  • Mike: "He had his big box mod. We thought it was so funny and fun. And then you got really sick and never vaped again." ([12:28])
• CJ's Embarrassing Purchase
  • Talk turns to “the green suit” purchased for a Super Bowl punishment—only after CJ’s unsuccessful and awkward trip to a sex store:
  • Ben: "So I'm checking out and all of a sudden this old man comes walking out of the basement... She goes, 'There's a movie room downstairs.' That's insane." ([108:56–111:35])

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4. Knives, Swords, and Bachelor Party Invitations

• CJ Surprises Crew with Knives & Gift Ceremony
  • CJ presents custom knives (and, for Ken, a samurai sword) to his wedding party, resulting in gleeful (and slightly dangerous) demonstrations ([40:08–47:47]).
  • Ben: "Ken, you got the most expensive piece! That's why I had to mess with you at the beginning." ([47:54])
  • Ryan: "The fact that you guys made it all the way home alive is astonishing..." ([31:17])
• Roles Revealed
  • Best man and groomsmen invitations, with Ken assigned as the "flower boy" (to much banter) ([40:25–43:29]).
  • Ben: "Ken, I want you to be the ordained person, but you didn't want to do that. I want you to officiate the wedding." ([42:42])
  • Gavin: "I'll be the flower boy though." ([43:16])

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5. Automation, Technology & Societal Shifts

• Robot Maids, AI, and Sex Robots

  • The group debates the upcoming wave of humanoid home robots—to clean, cook, or otherwise... Intended uses are quickly (and hilariously) questioned ([112:05–114:27]).
  • Evan: "But are you getting a robot? A house made robot would make a pretty good housewarming game." ([113:54])
  • Ben: "Would you let... Would you be interested in it pleasing you romantically?" ([113:59])
  • Ken: "That's way too up and weird. I don't know. I. I just think these robots maybe does like the laundry or the dishes, but I don't know." ([114:04])

• Population Decline & Dating

  • Reflects on dropping sex rates, rise in robots/AI, and what it might mean for the future ([111:45–112:13], [114:41–114:51])
  • Ben: "You think we're going to have like a decline in the population eventually? Like if people are having less and less sex, like, what's the population—is it rising or is it technically decreasing?" ([114:41])
  • Ryan: "Going down." ([114:50])

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6. Moon & Mars Colonization Banter

• Would You Move to the Moon?
  • Spirited debate on whether they’d leave Earth if colonization started, the practicality of living on the moon, space resources, and the chance of moon casinos and gas station food ([91:03–99:53]).
  • Ryan: "Is there gonna be a gas station with roller dogs? 'Cause if there ain't, I ain't going." ([97:06])
  • Ben: "What kind of government is going to run the moon? Obviously, there'll have to be some kind of system." ([100:27])
  • Dalton: "Seems like a pipe dream." ([99:54])

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7. Vehicle Tech, Emissions, and Riding

• Diesel Laws & Emissions Tech
  • Short discussion on changing EPA and diesel tech ([83:15–85:11])
  • Ben: "Emissions equipment deletion is still illegal federally... but if they do get rid of it, you get better miles per gallon which then lowers your emissions." ([85:03])
• Snowmobile Innovations
  • New start-stop features and custom builds ([86:01–89:09])
  • Ryan: "If you're a trail ripper, think if you pull up next to each other and instead of hollering over your machine... you just pull in the brake and then it turns off and you can talk and then you, you can go." ([86:32])

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8. Flying, Pilots, and Paranoia

• Helicopter & Air Accidents—Should Ben Buy One?
  • After recent aviation accidents (and a close call with an acquaintance), the group debates the risks of aircraft ownership vs. utility vs. YOLO ([71:41–78:43]).
  • Ryan: "I do not want to ride in a helicopter ever again." ([71:49])
  • Ben: "Not after seeing all this." ([73:33])
  • Mike: "I don't think I'm locked in enough to acquire a pilot's license... I don't think I'm taking life serious enough." ([76:46–77:03])
• Paragliding and Skydiving
  • Paragliding versus skydiving discussed, with Dalton pointing out the relative comfort of having a parachute ready to go ([78:43–80:50])

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9. Classic Cboys Chaos & Behind-the-Scenes Laughs

• Bunkbed Drama and Home Security
  • The debate over bunk beds, lost bedroom “privileges,” and Ken’s soon-to-be completed, fortress-like house come up ([54:33–58:10])
• Housewarming Plans
  • Ken's party: tactical guest list, security, and moon-themed jokes ([58:26–60:04])
  • Evan: "Invites will go out next month." ([58:47])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Road Trip Survival:
  • "The fact that you guys made it all the way home alive is astonishing..." – Ryan ([31:17])
• On Being Left Alone:
  • "I truly think that you guys cannot be left alone. Ken keeps us alive, dude. You guys are like children." – Ryan ([27:50])
• On Being Flower Boy:
  • "I'll be your flower boy." – Gavin ([41:26])
• On Knives:
  • "This is actually the most expensive piece that I will be giving out... Bronze blade. Samurai sword, bro. It's sharp too." – Ben ([45:11])
• On Robot Maids:
  • "But are you getting a robot? A house made robot would make a pretty good housewarming game." – Evan ([113:54])
• On Population Trends:
  • "You think we're going to have like a decline in the population eventually...? Is it rising or is it technically decreasing?" – Ben ([114:41])
• On the Moon Casino:
  • "Evan finds out they made a casino on the moon—gotta go hit it." – Mike ([92:45])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:27] — Episode Content Begins
• [08:00] — Fishing Trip Chaos
• [24:13] — Gas Station Coffee Cup & Spoon Saga
• [31:17] — Road Trip Safety Questioned
• [40:08] — CJ Hands Out Custom Knives
• [45:11] — Ken Receives Samurai Sword
• [71:41] — Aviation Fears, Helicopter Accidents
• [91:03] — Moon Colonization Banter
• [112:05] — Robot Maids & AI Relationships
• [114:41] — Population & Dating Decline
• [115:07] — Outro Banter/End Content

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Tone and Style

• Authentic CboysTV: loose, friendly, off-the-cuff, sometimes gross, mostly hilarious, and always loaded with inside jokes.
• Fast-paced banter, quick story pivots, and lots of group laughter.
• Willingness to poke fun at themselves and each other with no filter.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a perfect example of the CboysTV brand: wild storytelling, unfiltered takes on technology and life, and group dynamics ranging from childish to remarkably insightful. Whether reminiscing about gas station food, debating the future of society, or gifting swords to friends, these guys keep it real, keep it funny, and never take themselves too seriously. If you want a mix of YouTube behind-the-scenes, Midwest chaos, and sometimes surprisingly deep observations—all wrapped up in a group of friends you’d want to ride shotgun with—this show’s for you.

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Transcript

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[Ben]

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[Mike]

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[Mike]

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[Dalton]

Well, you're going to take a left

[Evan]

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[Dalton]

No, I'm just kidding.

[Evan]

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[Ben]

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[Evan]

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[Mike]

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[Evan]

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[Dalton]

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[Evan]

Okay, here's those directions.

[Mike]

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[Evan]

Oh my God. I almost put the sheet through the drywall.

[Ben]

You guys just drove the whole way home with a blowing out tire?

[Dalton]

I couldn't stop him if I wanted to. I didn't want to, but I couldn't have.

[Mike]

I don't think I'm. I'm taking life serious enough for me to be doing that stuff.

[Evan]

Are you getting a robot? A housemade robot.

[Ben]

What's Ben doing here?

[Dalton]

Pooping.

[Mike]

I mean, you like to think at this point he's been done because he's been in there for about 10.

[Gavin]

Well, it's about three minutes of pooping and seven minutes of scrolling on your.

[Mike]

What I'm getting at.

[Dalton]

Is he running your program now?

[Mike]

We're just waiting on him.

[Gavin]

He doesn't run that program.

[Ben]

How much scrolling do you do on the toilet, Ken?

[Gavin]

Mostly looking at my phone.

[Ben]

Really? So you're saying you're doing majority of damage.

[Dalton]

I don't know if that answered the question. How much scrolling do you do?

[Gavin]

Mostly looking a little extra time and make sure you get everything out. Not have to go back back twice. Then like go super quick and then have to go back.

[Mike]

I'm sure Evan knows about this, but, like, I think it is funny. Like, the thought of having to go back, like, it's just.

[Ben]

That's pretty impressive.

[Evan]

I gotta go.

[Mike]

Like, I gotta go. And then I'm. I went. So I'm not gonna go back.

[Ben]

Have you ever thought about, like, just getting your gut checked for like, something that you're. Well, I wouldn't even say there might be. There seems to be something that you're eating that is making you have to blow the toilet out a few times a day.

[Gavin]

Well, it's when we're doing all this, like, travel stuff and doing that we

[Dalton]

haven't traveled in, like yesterday we were

[Gavin]

out on the ice and we kind of. The diet was off.

[Ben]

He clogged his. Yeah, he log jammed it.

[Dalton]

He ate so what, nine uncrustables. And. But you blame it on the fish house.

[Gavin]

It's not part of my normal diet.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So he was a deliberate Log jam is what we were calling it. So Ken requested, make sure you have uncrustables for me in the ice house because obviously we weren't going to have a toilet. And I picked up two boxes. I mean, right away we were out there probably 6:30. Ken was. Was putting on crust down.

[Gavin]

Well, absolutely. I don't want to, like, get to a point where it's like, okay, I got to go do this on the ice.

[Ben]

It was very.

[Dalton]

You were eating them intentionally knowing that it would plug you up.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Ben]

It was very strategic. I don't know. I could appreciate it. I thought, wow, Talk about being forward thinking. Forward thinking.

[Dalton]

My friends Ben and Dalton had their first chuck wagon sever.

[Gavin]

So what is a chuck wagon? I've heard you've been talking about it. No clue what it is.

[Dalton]

It's like a bologna and cheese microwave sandwich at the gas station.

[Ryan]

And what makes it a wagon versus just.

[Dalton]

Just the type of meat they just call it. It's like a couple meats and a couple different cheeses and there's seeds on the bun. I don't know why they call it a chuck wagon.

[Ben]

How did you feel it was Because. So Evan, for contact, context to the listener, loves gas station food more than.

[Ryan]

More than normal.

[Mike]

He.

[Ben]

He would rather eat there than fine dining. I would say quick and convenient.

[Dalton]

Does the job and if, and if you know the right things to get. You know, like certain gas stations have good chuck wagons, other gas stations have good pizzas. You know, you just know what to get when you walk in the door.

[Gavin]

So you're going to, you're going to go out of your way to go to a quick trip because it's better.

[Dalton]

They don't have truck wagons at quick trip, but okay, they got it. They got a hell of a rib sandwich.

[Ben]

Wow. So you know all the gas station food, what to get where. How do you feel on the chuck wagon?

[Mike]

Ben, before we get to your thoughts, welcome to the Life Wide Open podcast. Good to have you guys here again. Thanks for coming.

[Ben]

Thanks for having me.

[Ryan]

Yeah, thanks for having us.

[Ben]

We've just been sitting here talking for like 30 minutes. I don't know. We were waiting for you to get out of the toilet. That's how we got on the. On the poop topic. Sorry about opening up. I don't know where we opened up, but I'm assuming at the poop topic. That's probably one of the better ones. But anyways, how'd you feel on the chuck wagon? What is that a gas station sandwich?

[Ryan]

Ben?

[Evan]

Yeah, I was rolling like Evan yesterday. I was rolling on his diet. We got to the gas station, he was like, grab one of those ham sandwiches. You know the ones that are pre made.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Evan]

You know that come in like the little triangle.

[Ben]

Triangle.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Evan]

Run that. Might want two.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Evan]

Chuck wagon sandwich. You're going to want that for breakfast. And he's like, microwave right there. It's like this guy knows.

[Ben]

So you microwaved it at the gas station.

[Evan]

It's like he knows the map out of. Of gas stations I've even been to before.

[Ryan]

Talk your strat on this about getting the. The war ones that you have to warm up versus the ones that are already warm. I like this tech.

[Dalton]

Oh, yeah. It's like I'll just go to the fridge and grab one and warm it up myself because then it's like freshly warmed. They sit on the little roller grill too long. You know, it could be a crusty bun or I don't know. You just don't know.

[Gavin]

You don't think that the ones sitting in the fridge are going to be soggy? More soggy than the ones that have been sitting in little.

[Ryan]

No, because they just take them out.

[Mike]

Well, the ones that are sitting get like a soggy hard vibe.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

They get more bricks.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Yeah. I've never really had to deal with the soggy, but yeah, it's more of the hard factor when the bread sits too long.

[Evan]

Yeah. So, you know, I, I. Okay, I'll grab this. Grab this. He's like, microwave 50 seconds. Like 50 seconds. Isn't it just easier to hit the 30 twice? You know, get a minute.

[Ryan]

Always do that.

[Evan]

No, 50 seconds. Right on. I ran it 60 seconds, and it cooked it. Cooked it too much.

[Ryan]

Really.

[Evan]

I did. And I went, too much cheese.

[Dalton]

Melt up.

[Evan]

Yep. I went.

[Ben]

Should have gone.

[Evan]

It was seconds. Yep. And then, you know, I proceed to grab coffee, but it was like one of the pre made, you know, coffee dispensers, where you just hit the French vanilla.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Evan]

Or it's got like, the different flavors. I run the French vanilla.

[Mike]

Pacino, brother.

[Evan]

So I run the French French vanilla, like, by my choice. I made that decision for myself. Oh, this is what I want.

[Ben]

And that was the wrong one, I'm assuming.

[Evan]

Well, I get. I get into the car, and he goes, what'd you get? I go, french vanilla. And he goes, all of it? And I go, yeah, it's a lot of sugar. Yeah. He goes, should have gone half and half.

[Mike]

Are you saying. Are you run half coffee, half French vanilla?

[Dalton]

Yeah. It's too syrupy otherwise.

[Evan]

And I take one sip and I go, yep.

[Mike]

Too sugary.

[Evan]

Should have. I should have asked. I should have asked. It's like we pull up to a gas station. I'm gonna just let this guy do the ordering.

[Ben]

Tell the listener where it is that you learned.

[Evan]

I'm just taking being a construction worker

[Dalton]

and just running out of the gas station, like, constantly.

[Mike]

You're working, man.

[Dalton]

You got like a half hour lunch. You don't have much time, and it's like you just hit the gas station.

[Ben]

No, I already knew that. I just wanted them to understand where you're background knowledge.

[Dalton]

Yep. Lots of traveling. A lot of traveling for work, and just. Yeah, there's always a gas station.

[Evan]

Yeah. So, you know, I mean, the viewers know this. Like, Evan is, Is. He's rancid.

[Mike]

Like, his.

[Evan]

The smells that come out of his body are horrendous. They are not human. And there was three of us that ran Evan's diet yesterday.

[Ben]

Yeah. Dalton was saying he had terrible gas.

[Evan]

Oh, it was unbelievable.

[Mike]

Does anyone.

[Evan]

It was unbelievable. Right? So there was three of us together, all run on the same diet, and it was. It was the smelliest vehicle in existence. In existence. It was. It was horrendous. It was so bad that the windows had to const. It was freezing, but the windows had to constantly be cracked. So it was like the heat had to be turned up more to get more heat in because so much heat was leaving. There was no insulation in the vehicle either, but it was. It was like if they weren't cracked, we were just sitting there basking in it. And then after, like, four hours of it, we started hallucinating.

[Mike]

Oh, no.

[Evan]

It got. It got to the point. It might have been a. It might have been a mix of, like, the. The gas station gas coming out of the bodies and then maybe a little bit of, like, carbon dioxide from his toots. Well, I was going to say from the vehicle.

[Ben]

Well, that'd be carbon monoxide.

[Evan]

Or carbon monoxide.

[Ryan]

Carbon.

[Evan]

What the hell is carbon dioxide? That would be.

[Ben]

Would be his gas. His toots.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Evan]

So carbon monoxide.

[Gavin]

You were.

[Ben]

You were breathing both.

[Evan]

Ye. Are they breathing both?

[Mike]

Is there any context to this?

[Ben]

They were in a fish house. Are we. Are we on track?

[Mike]

Is this too early to lay out?

[Ryan]

What we lay out in this is not who won.

[Mike]

Yeah, right.

[Ben]

Or how big a fish you caught.

[Evan]

How big?

[Ryan]

Yeah, And. And stuff like that. But, like, the. Behind the stuff that's probably not gonna end up in the video. I assume Evan's toots aren't gonna end up in the video, or are they?

[Evan]

No, they're in. It couldn't even. We couldn't film around it, really. So it was like every. Every.

[Mike]

Yeah, it was.

[Evan]

It was literally like every two minutes.

[Mike]

Are we gonna give any.

[Ben]

So for context to the listener, we just got back from filming a cheap versus expensive mobile ice house fishing video.

[Mike]

Yeah, a little different.

[Ben]

Evan and Ben were on the same team.

[Dalton]

Very confined space.

[Mike]

You know, that's why it was 2 to 4.

[Ben]

We're not gonna say who was in the cheap one. We're not gonna say who's in the expensive one. But anyways, they were in a confined space together with just Dalton, and. I mean, you guys were really. Things.

[Evan]

Things got weird. Honestly, things did get weird.

[Gavin]

So I know one of Evan's favorite gas station items is the egg salad and. Or deviled eggs.

[Evan]

They were eating deviled eggs.

[Dalton]

Or hard boilies.

[Evan]

Hard boiled.

[Dalton]

Hard boilies.

[Evan]

Hard boiled eggs.

[Dalton]

No, I've actually. I don't think I've had an egg salad sandwich since the houseboat experience.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Do you ever.

[Dalton]

Yeah, it wasn't the egg salad. I was tuna. No, it was oysters.

[Ben]

Oysters.

[Dalton]

I was just sick, and this happened to me when I was a kid. I had giardia, like the water thing where you get really sick. Catch that from Unintentionally drinking lake water. No, not like Superior. Just like a 4th of July weekend or whatever. But either way, I got violently ill. But the last big meal I ate, I had sucked down like three hot dogs. So that was like. I related hot dogs to six. So I went like five, 10 years, I could not eat a hot dog. But now I'm a little bit on the egg salad.

[Evan]

Wow.

[Mike]

With that.

[Dalton]

Which sucks because I love egg salad, but just a lot of it.

[Evan]

Good for all of us.

[Ben]

How do you feel on deviled eggs? So good.

[Dalton]

All those. I love.

[Evan]

I love deviled eggs, especially.

[Dalton]

You got to have a little paprika on there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Maybe go crazy with bacon bits. It's good.

[Ben]

Amazing.

[Evan]

Yeah. Mine was chili for a long time. I got sick off of chili. Like I was in a restaurant and I projectile vomited chili all over. It was crazy, actually. Yeah.

[Dalton]

Kind of traumatic. Honestly.

[Evan]

It was. It was. So I went a while without eating.

[Ryan]

Mine was Raspberry Smirnoff.

[Mike]

Come on.

[Evan]

Mine was Ron Diaz. Oh, I still can't. I can't even be downwind from around.

[Dalton]

Uncle Ron's never done me wrong.

[Ryan]

Never.

[Evan]

What was that? Edward Ron hands.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Oh.

[Mike]

Which is insane. That didn't exist until we made this little thing. Well, because it only existed for one night.

[Ryan]

For one night by. For good reason. But Jake and I took. Well, obviously you have a bunch of empty bottles in your college apartment on your.

[Evan]

Split it up high.

[Ryan]

So we took an empty one down and then we took a fresh bottle, duct taped it to my hand, and then poured half of it into Jake's bottle and then duct taped that to his hand. We just walked around the party with a bottle of Ron duct tape to our 17 lethal. And then both of us.

[Mike]

It was died. You guys did.

[Ryan]

We were the life of the party until about the bottom of the label. And then neither of us were a fun time.

[Ben]

That was bound to happen. But that's what you do in college.

[Evan]

Yep.

[Ryan]

That's what you learn in college, what you do.

[Evan]

Mine is also ice hole Plum.

[Gavin]

Where.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

I had a traumatic also experience.

[Mike]

I know we're talking about alcohol. That kind of happened to you with vapes too.

[Ben]

With Jake.

[Mike]

He had his big box mod.

[Ben]

That's probably one of the best things that ever happened.

[Mike]

We thought it was so funny and fun. And we just look passing around doing big clouds. And then you got really sick and never vaped again. And that was years ago.

[Evan]

I think I was just like a young, impressionable kid.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And I was Ripping the vape. And, and maybe it was one of the, one of you guys that was like yeah, yeah, if you, if you do it like more you can get bigger cloud. Bigger cloud.

[Mike]

But we weren't. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, normally if you're trying to do season.

[Evan]

And it ended so bad. It ended so bad where I just, I got a insane head buzz. Was like, oh this isn't good. Started throwing up and then I was like, oh yeah, I don't think I like vapes. And then I, I haven't smoked vape since.

[Ryan]

Maybe there is some truth to the. You know, like if your dad caught you smoking and then he'd make you smoke a whole pack and then you presumably get sick. Maybe there is a little truth to that. 200 something is a bad thing.

[Mike]

Yeah. So I mean can you imagine making

[Ryan]

like your 16 year old sitting there while he chain smoke cigarettes?

[Ben]

That's what some parents did back in the day.

[Ryan]

You'd be looking at me.

[Ben]

So if they caught their like child sneaking cigarettes, they'd make them smoke the whole pack and then you'd get sick. Cuz like you're not obviously not a avid smoker at that point in your life. And then it'd make you not like it. Like dude, when I, I tried grizzly wintergreen chew in the ninth grade, threw up all over the hockey parking lot. Never was a chewer. I mean it was like, you know, it was a great way of basically never being interested in again. It's the same thing like you're saying about hot dogs. It just gross you out. You can't do it.

[Dalton]

But I'm glad I bounced back though.

[Ben]

Yeah, that'd be a shame. Not being able to eat hot dogs and being friends with this guy Mike.

[Evan]

I think that's like the biggest thing about alcohol is like it's almost just built in to make it less addictive more than it already is. Of like there's got to be some drawbacks to this, this product. Right.

[Ryan]

It can't be perfect.

[Evan]

It can't be perfect. Well, what if we make people violently hungover the next day?

[Dalton]

I don't think they intentionally.

[Evan]

I know that if they got a hangover there they will but, but it's, it's like the only thing, I guess that reminds you. Oh yeah, this isn't, this is bad. Yeah, this isn't a good idea all the time.

[Dalton]

What goes up must come down.

[Ben]

But alcohol is so a part of like society. Like you don't think anything of it, you know.

[Mike]

Yeah, I was going to say for the most part we're lucky that it doesn't necessarily taste good and I'm talking in its raw form. But then I was like, but beer is pretty damn good.

[Ben]

Moscow meal is pretty.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And a margarita. Again.

[Ryan]

Everybody listening to this on Tuesday morning, driving workers.

[Ben]

Like

[Mike]

I. I was laughing pretty hard when we were doing our fishing challenge because I stayed up a little too late the night before and we had to be up at 5:15 ish. I stayed at the late morning bite. Yeah, I was just like, there's no way I wake up in time. So I just stayed.

[Dalton]

How many hours, how many hours of sleep are we working with?

[Mike]

0000.

[Dalton]

That's not staying up too late. That's no staying.

[Ben]

I told him that's a terrible idea.

[Mike]

I like I stay. I was working on the brunt promo and then come, you know, midnight, sent it off at 2:30 and I'm like, I can't. I'm not gonna be able to wake up. So I just stayed up and so then it was like 7:30am and since I just drink n a beers, I just started cracking and it was the weirdest feeling ever.

[Ben]

I was wondering that too.

[Evan]

I was like, yeah, it just seems

[Ben]

like a weird thing to start drinking that early. Like normally you're drinking coffee but like. Or if you were hungover but you're

[Mike]

not hungover, but you're fishing. I already got my caffeine in me at about 6 6. So it was just funny. I was like drinking na beers at legit 7:30 in the morning. But to me it felt like, I don't know what time.

[Ben]

I just thought you were getting into the fishing mood. I mean, Ken was drinking so I

[Gavin]

mean I, I started the day with mimosa and I just let it.

[Mike]

Oh yeah, you did. No, you didn't.

[Gavin]

Yeah, I did.

[Mike]

You did not. You drank one mimosa and then two

[Gavin]

plus just the rest of the champagne bottle. And then I just. Beer.

[Mike]

And then you didn't have a beer again until like 4pm I gotta say,

[Ryan]

whatever the Ken was doing, it wasn't catching. We can talk about that. Ken did not catch a fish until. What time was it? 6pm no, it was like three or four. Did you on the ice for 12 hours.

[Evan]

Did you have a hole drilled?

[Gavin]

Yes. Every stop I had a hole drill

[Evan]

and you had a hole and a pole.

[Gavin]

I had bait on the, on the line and then the fish I caught. I thought I felt something. So I started reeling up and I was like, ah, there's not Enough resistance. I didn't, you know, I didn't catch anything. So just let it go back down. Eventually we're, like, reeling the lines up to move to the next spot. And I was like, holy, I actually got a fish on here.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Me and Ben this big.

[Ben]

You want to know something that. I don't know how. Well, it got caught on camera, but Ken was telling me everything what to do from the moment we got out on the ice.

[Evan]

And then it's, you know, six o' clock at night. I'm like, ken, you haven't caught even a fish yet.

[Ben]

And you were sitting here telling me what to do. The whole. I caught the most fish out there.

[Dalton]

I'm just going to say that I

[Gavin]

know some things to get me in trouble. I don't know enough to actually catch.

[Ben]

What the fuck Are you going to get in trouble in fishing? Like, with another.

[Evan]

Get you in trouble. Why would you tell C.J.

[Ben]

that?

[Gavin]

I was like, okay, I know you want to be, like, on this kind of zone in this area at this depth. And then I don't know what I'm doing.

[Evan]

But, like, you know that now. That is why we are split up between Evan and Ken. He was like, I mean, that's. That's pretty, pretty accurate as to what we assumed was gonna happen. Everyone's always gonna catch fish. Ken was not.

[Gavin]

I did learn a lot by having a fish house out because I. I just.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah. Did you learn anything about fishing?

[Gavin]

Not fishing itself. I just knew the spot because I drop it. I drop a spot. And then Gavin be like, oh, you're in a terrible spot. You need to move about 15ft this way where you're on this break over here and blah, blah, blah. I was like, oh, okay, dude. Picked up a few. And then I picked up a few things there.

[Evan]

I will say this. Fished on the channel. I don't know, call it a handful of times.

[Ben]

Five times.

[Evan]

Fishing is hard.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it is.

[Mike]

And I'll second that. The sea boys are very bad at it.

[Evan]

But, dude, even yesterday, like, we were putting in. We were. We were on the. The best lake that you can fish on.

[Dalton]

We were grinding.

[Evan]

We were grinding. We're drilling holes and we were moving and. And trying to find them. We could not find them.

[Dalton]

Debatably, we were finding them. They were just small.

[Ben]

Yeah, pretty much every. Yeah, they were.

[Evan]

They were small or they. They weren't biting. And we didn't know why. Like, there was, like, so many things. And my cousin who lives there was like, this is the worst fishing day. I've ever had.

[Ben]

It was because of the weather, dude. It was like pressure changes, was making them not.

[Evan]

He was like, there's a, there's a full moon or something with the moon.

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah, full full moon coming in.

[Ryan]

He's in us into astrology.

[Evan]

A full moon and a storm coming. Like these are two things that usually get the fish to bite.

[Dalton]

Oh, but he, well he, he prefaced with it is not the past week has not been good. But hopefully because of the full moon and the weather moving in, maybe that'll cause things to change. Which big but was what it was.

[Mike]

There's a maybe.

[Evan]

I think we're so used to it though. Like we're, we're so used to just not catching like big fish.

[Dalton]

I'm not. Just kidding.

[Ben]

I'm sorry.

[Mike]

I'll.

[Evan]

I'll resay that. I'm used to that. So he was like, this is insane. Like we normally have like 20 massive fish. He was like, this is not normal. And I was like, oh really? Because this is like every single time I've ever gone fishing. Like this is normal.

[Mike]

Just have rough luck and I mean we don't put a lot of time into it, but like, you know, after so many times of doing it, somebody's got to snag something.

[Evan]

Yeah, you would think. But I told him, I was like, dude, honestly, I don't care. Like this is the most fun I've had in a really long time. It's just so fun. Like we're not doing really anything besides, we're just like hanging out laughing.

[Dalton]

The amount of laughs that we had, I don't know when the last time that we've laughed for like 15 hours

[Evan]

continuously, like the whole time. That's what I was saying. It was a combination of like delirium. Yes. But all the fumes that we were inhaling in there from a combination of different things and it just, everything was funny.

[Ryan]

I'm excited to watch your guys side of it. Like obviously I know mine and I heard some stories about the gas station and what was the deal with the guy with Dalton. But like I'm very excited to hear what happened, happened on your side of the fishing. I'm actually excited to watch it. But, but actually what did happen with all that?

[Evan]

We were in the gas station and there was this old man, you should

[Dalton]

say we, we're at the gas station twice actually because we forgot to get gas. We were so concerned about the sandwiches that we went to the gas station and got the food and then got to the lake. And realized we had an empty gas, so we had to go immediately back.

[Evan]

We got back. But, you know, Dalton's just like this young boy prancing around and shit. You never know what he's gonna.

[Ben]

Dancing.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

You never seen a guy like that up in.

[Dalton]

Bought at overpriced trousers on.

[Evan]

Yeah, he's wearing these overpriced trousers and his whatever. Whatever personality.

[Dalton]

And my boots, for some reason he's.

[Evan]

He's wearing, you know, this. This assortment of different pieces of clothing. And the old man in there had never seen such a young boy looking the way that he did, apparently. And, well, I was checking out and he goes, is that your boy?

[Mike]

You're like, define mine.

[Evan]

I look over and he. And he looks over and goes, can I run him?

[Ben]

What?

[Evan]

Oh, what do you mean, run them?

[Mike]

I don't believe that.

[Ben]

Like, probably beat him up.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

For looking like that, walking around there,

[Evan]

just prancing around, playing with a little microwave and his fucking vittles, right? I said, no, you can't run him. He said, he's a nice boy.

[Ben]

Oh, wow. So he was kind of.

[Mike]

I don't believe that.

[Dalton]

I mean, he might have been talking about the checkout. He might have been talking about other things. We might never know.

[Ben]

Can I run him? Like, run them through the checkout?

[Mike]

Or maybe he has like a.

[Dalton]

Or the ringer.

[Ben]

He wants to race him.

[Ryan]

What a crazy thing.

[Dalton]

Maybe it was just a good old fashioned foot race. I don't know.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

No, I'm just kidding.

[Evan]

He didn't say that. But I don't know how. Oh, Ryan was. That's way funnier, right?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I was maybe gonna just let it slide, but he might have an actual life that he doesn't want people knowing.

[Dalton]

But he did get after that young kid that was working the register.

[Evan]

Yeah, there was like this kid working the register and he was. He was ringing everything up with his.

[Dalton]

A big. A lot of stuff, like 30 items,

[Evan]

a lot of stuff. But nothing had like a barcode on it. So he had to do it all by hand. You know, everything had a price on it. So he's typing everything in, and we're standing there, he's going through everything. And this is just, I don't know, younger, younger guy run. Running everything in. And the old man. There was an old man standing there who must been the owner. And he's kind of like leaned up. He'd stand up, then he'd sit down in his chair, and he stands up and he goes, did you get the sandwich? And the guy's like, well, I'm working on it.

[Dalton]

He's halfway through 30 items.

[Evan]

There's 20 other things that I'm getting through here. And you could tell that this, this guy, it's what seemed like to me was very clearly a micromanager of like,

[Ryan]

you micromanage a cashier.

[Evan]

Yeah. Making sure that he was ringing everything up properly.

[Dalton]

I was assuming he was a new hire.

[Evan]

Must have been. But I, I got out and I, I looked at Dalton and was like, don't get mad at me for micromanaging you. That guy, that guy didn't even trust him to ring up a sandwich. We were chuckling about it in the car, man. And then we were leaving the town and we were at this gas station.

[Ryan]

Who's your whole trip gas station.

[Dalton]

Our fancy meal was Taco Bell.

[Ryan]

Oh my God.

[Evan]

And so, so we're, we're leaving and we're leaving at like midnight. So I'm like, oh, I gotta go and get a coffee. Because I was driving and we're leaving in the middle of a snowstorm. I was like, oh, this is gonna be so brutal. We're gonna get home at like 5am and so I go in and I'm trying to get a coffee. Once again, they got like the different coffee machines with the pre made coffee, right? And usually they just have the coffee cups right next to the, the coffee machines.

[Mike]

Right.

[Evan]

So I'm looking around this gas station, I can't find a coffee cup. All they had was just like the clear ones for like iced coffee. There's this worker and I'm like, hey, I'm looking for a coffee cup. And he looks at me like a traveling coffee cup. And I was like, no, well, no, like a stationary. It was like a. No, like a coffee cup. He's like, oh, like a ceramic cup. Yeah, I was wondering. And I was like, no, no, no, a coffee cup. And he's like looking at me like I'm dumb. And I'm looking at him like he's dumb. And then we walk over and he proceeds to like put his hand under. I'm like, oh, how did I miss this? And he pulls out a trap. No, a traveling mug. And I'm like, no, just the cheap one. A coffee cup. And. And he like kind of looks at me confused. And this guy was like fully American. But I'm like looking at him like, oh, he must not speak the same language as me. And so I go to the coffee machine and there's like a little cup logo on the back of the coffee machines that, you know, it's right in line with where you fill it up. And I point at it, I go, coffee cup.

[Dalton]

And bro, mind you, holy. I understand what's going on. And I can. I'm like a few steps back. I can see the coffee cups are next to, like, the creamer and the sugar and the mixers and the lids. Everything's right there. So I see what's going on. But Ben, so balls deep into this situation, I'm just standing back, and then I'm just trying not to crack up laughing. I don't want to intervene, but, yeah, when you drop the point in the

[Evan]

machine, point at the machine, I'm like, coffee cup. And I'm like, like giving hand signals to try and show what I'm saying. Two people short of a brain cell guy. And this guy is looking at me like I'm the dumbest human on planet Earth. And I'm looking at him like, holy, this guy's incompetent. And he looks at me on drugs.

[Ryan]

He.

[Evan]

No, so he looks. Yeah, he looks at me and he goes, this. And he points at the coffee cups. And I'm like, yeah, those will work. They're coffee cups. They're exactly what I was looking for.

[Ben]

You just couldn't see them?

[Evan]

No, they're. They looked like, like, if you go to Subway and you get like a fountain cup, he could see them.

[Ben]

Essentially, they.

[Evan]

They were like. There were some cheap ass coffee cups where they. They looked like more like fountain soda cups.

[Dalton]

They were the standard circle cake coffee cup that they run everywhere forever.

[Ben]

1992.

[Evan]

I don't have an inventory at every single gas station in the Midwest at any point.

[Mike]

Did you say Styrofoam?

[Evan]

No, because I'm not looking. I wasn't looking for, like, a styrofoam cup.

[Ryan]

I'd love. That's what they're made out of story.

[Dalton]

Might be cardboard, but. Poor Pond. I'm not sure.

[Evan]

It's got a little insulation on the outside. Like, that's what I was looking for, you know?

[Ryan]

Like, I can just imagine. He went home and I go, honey, I met the dumbest kid today. He looked, you know, like maybe he'd be okay.

[Ben]

That probably he was with just that guy.

[Dalton]

Tell him about the spoons and how we had to park across the street.

[Ryan]

Jesus Christ. Was your whole.

[Gavin]

Might have had carbon monoxide.

[Evan]

So.

[Ben]

So

[Gavin]

might still have it.

[Ryan]

I truly think that you guys cannot be left alone. Like, there is. There's people in this group that, like, Ken, when we are in an airport. Ken keeps us alive, dude. You guys are like children.

[Dalton]

We may have been dysfunctional, but we

[Evan]

had the best time.

[Ryan]

It was like you were let out of the house and went to go get ice cream.

[Evan]

All right, so. So he. He points me to the coffee cups, and I'm like, fine. Those will work, right?

[Ben]

No. Damn.

[Evan]

Well, that's what I was looking for. I just didn't see him the first time. And so I grab it, I fill up my coffee, and I'm looking over, and Dalton and Evan are, like, hiding be underneath. Well, I should say Dalton's hiding underneath the aisle. Evan gets off of his tippy toes because they were, like, so uncomfortable watching this whole coffee cup encounter go down that they were like. They didn't want to claim me so much so that, like, Evan just checked out himself, and he hits the road. And so I'm walking around with then Dalton at this point, and I get a parfait looking for some snacks, and I grab a spoon because he knew where they were. I grabbed a spoon. I knew the spoon was. I'll show him. And I. You know, I check out. I'm walking out. I start laughing. I just go, coffee cup. At this point, don't. Then Evan start laughing because they're like, that was insane. I was like, yeah, I don't know what that was all about.

[Ryan]

You guys definitely lost brain cells up there.

[Ben]

And I just looked at each other.

[Evan]

So then we proceed to get in the car.

[Dalton]

Well, no, but we needed diesel that stationed in. So we, like, pull up. They don't have diesel. We have to leave, go to the gas station across the street that's closed to get diesel. Walk across the road in a blizzard, Go through this whole scenario. Now walk back to the other gas station, get in the truck, and that's now where we are.

[Evan]

Holy shit. We spent so much time at gas station. So we get in the car, we are just dying, laughing about this whole coffee cup encounter. And in the process of that, I lose my spoon.

[Ryan]

Is this a prank?

[Ben]

Yeah, is this.

[Ryan]

Is this a prank?

[Ben]

We're. We're all sitting here just like, you guys are just dying.

[Evan]

I lose my spoon, and then it's like, spoon gate where we can't find the spoon. We're like, what the hell happened to this spoon? I'm looking through everything. I'm like, I don't know. I just had it. So I have to go back into. I have to go back into the gas station that I. I just looked like a total idiot. Oh, this guy again. What do you want another coffee? So I walk in, I just ignore the people. I just walk straight up, grab another spoon and walk out without making eye contact like, holy. This is like they're gonna be talking about me for a while after. After what, what just happened in here.

[Ben]

That happens all a lot of places you go.

[Mike]

He probably thought that he. Oh, he probably wanted to share that parfait with his buddy.

[Dalton]

The original spoon was in the, was in the cup holder with the parfait the whole time.

[Mike]

Even better.

[Evan]

It was, it was very dark, but they were probably the black spoon. You couldn't see it.

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[Ben]

You guys just drove the whole way home with a blowing out tire.

[Evan]

First of all, there was a lot of things going down well in the whole, in the whole cup ordeal of us laughing about this cup incident. Well, the diesel pump shut off at a hundred bucks. I didn't, I didn't check to see. I just figured it was done filling up. And so we're, we're buzzing and we're like rolling back roads to try and get home just like quicker. And also it was snowing so hard. I'm just trying to keep this thing on the road working with the brain cells that I had and we, we were running like such back roads that we didn't have gas stations until we realized that we were like running low on fuel because we were so far away. So I was just solely worried about getting to a gas station.

[Ryan]

And my God of course you were. Of course. All you could think about was a gas station.

[Gavin]

You guys just want a tour of the gas stations of rural Minnesota. That's all you did.

[Mike]

Was Evan pretty scared?

[Evan]

Yes, he was.

[Mike]

He was running out of cash, freaking

[Evan]

out in the back. He was like, who do you think we can call?

[Dalton]

Well, I'm like, I'm trying to think ahead in the morning, 3am like, how are we gonna get diesel? Like, I'm trying to get the wheels rolling rather than just be dead on the side of the road. Well, not dead, hopefully just out of gas.

[Evan]

I was like, bro, I think I think we'll make it. And he's like, well, what if we don't? Who are we gonna call? I'm like, I don't know. We could probably call Gav. I bet he'd answer.

[Mike]

Whoa.

[Evan]

How long do you think we're gonna be sitting on the side of the road? I don't know, 45 minutes, maybe an hour. Well, who else could we call? Oh my God. Yeah, so we thankfully made it. I and we didn't realize that there was a blown tire on the trailer. There's four tires on the trailer. One of them blew and the whole trailer was covered in ice and snow, and I think that was maybe covering it up.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, the tires were covered in ice and snow. Snow.

[Dalton]

Our rig was slightly too wide for the trailer, especially when it was loaded. Caddy wampus. Cuz I did this once with the skid steer where if the item on the trailer touches the fender, the fender touches the tire.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

And we loaded it up and I gave a quick inspection. I went, ooh, that's pretty close. But I'm assuming it just shifted ever so slightly.

[Evan]

And yeah, there was just so much shit going on. And it was also fun. 4:30 in the morning and we were just trying to get home.

[Ben]

Well, that video drops this week, so that's something for the, the viewer to look forward to.

[Evan]

Well, pretty much everything we just explained was off camera, behind the scenes, not supposed to be funny or entertaining at all. And it just so happened to be the highlight of our trip.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, podcast makes a great time to talk about it. I, we, I, I, I can't lie. We moderately enjoyed it at best.

[Ben]

But what I was having a hard time following, I was still funny.

[Evan]

Oh, the story.

[Dalton]

I thought you meant you're talking about your, your experience.

[Mike]

Oh, that too.

[Ben]

Mike didn't have fun.

[Ryan]

He wanted to be on your guys.

[Mike]

I really don't want to come across as mean. We had a Good time. We just probably didn't have as much fun as you. We had a good time.

[Evan]

Well, we missed you, Mike. We did things in honor of you.

[Mike]

I just. I'm so versed in, like, it. I'm riding. I'm usually stuck on, like, the shitty. The old version. So, like, I'm pretty versed in what it takes to, like, have a good time on that. You know, like, whenever we do that.

[Evan]

You do have a challenge.

[Mike]

I usually do. So I just in my head came into it thinking that, yeah, Mike's just

[Gavin]

mad that CJ bought brats for lunch and not hot dogs, bro.

[Mike]

Ken, I brought brats. And then CJ is like, brought hot dogs for you. Hey, by the way, my hot dogs. Hot dogs. And I opened the bag and they're brats. I'm like, what is this? What is going on?

[Ryan]

They weren't hot dogs.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean, sure, sure. But it just makes no sense. And then the brats that I brought were shitty. I probably should have just brought hot dogs. CJ bought $5 steaks that were gas. I didn't even know they could make steaks that were five bucks that were good.

[Evan]

So that was a.

[Ben]

Probably cheaper than your guys's gas station food.

[Dalton]

I mean, that chuck wagon was 5.99.

[Ben]

Yeah, they were cheaper than you and I too.

[Mike]

Stakes we had were good. We ripped some fortnight. That was fun watching Ryan just in his element playing Fortnite.

[Ben]

We were zooming around, checking holes too, but we caught quite a bit of fish. We did good time. So, dude, you'll have to.

[Mike]

This.

[Evan]

This. Like, this split up, divide and conquer style of video is so much fun every single time. Like, it's. It's like, it's my favorite form of video to. To film when we break into teams and then it's your team against the other.

[Mike]

Yeah, Love it.

[Ryan]

Competition.

[Evan]

Yeah, it's so much fun.

[Gavin]

Play little mind games here and there.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah, maybe. Maybe a little bit.

[Dalton]

You don't play mind games. Can you just call and hang up?

[Gavin]

Well, Ben. Ben was clearly playing mind games with his little fidget clicker that gets your mind spinning. I immediate like, oh, there's no way those guys have caught that many fish.

[Dalton]

He was counting how many sandwiches you

[Mike]

ate, how many gas station stops you guys had in your belt. See that? 17. So what's in the bag siege?

[Ben]

Oh, the bag. I. I came bearing gifts, actually.

[Mike]

Rolexes. Let's go.

[Ben]

We're not gonna open them all at the same time.

[Mike]

The boxes look pretty fancy.

[Dalton]

Is it safe to Shake like the Christmas deal? I can try to guess. Well, I'm not gonna break it.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

Let's start with Ben.

[Evan]

No way. Will you be my best man. Best man.

[Ryan]

Let's go.

[Ben]

Actually, you guys can all just open at the same time. It'll be.

[Evan]

It'll be good, bro.

[Mike]

Well, you be my groomsman. And it's a.

[Evan]

A knife.

[Mike]

Oh, and a giant cigarette.

[Ben]

Cigar.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Gavin]

I'm a flower boy.

[Ryan]

Let's go, Ken.

[Ben]

Cigar? No. There's a knife in there, too, Ken. I got knives for everyone, bro.

[Evan]

Hey, of course, dog. Thank you.

[Dalton]

Yes. Cj, I will get drunk at your wedding.

[Ben]

Wait, everyone snap your knives?

[Mike]

I can't snap mine.

[Ben]

Yo, yo, check out everyone's knives.

[Mike]

I can't snap mine. Mine won't even open.

[Ben]

Oh, no. You gotta press.

[Dalton]

Mine's kind of a Homer Simpson.

[Ben]

It's locked. Yeah. I got you the donut. One, Mike or Ev. It was fun. I got everyone personalized knives. You got a Benchmade. Ben, yours is automatic. Boom. Appreciate you guys.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude, this is dope.

[Ben]

Thanks, Siege bro. What do you think?

[Gavin]

I'll be your flower boy.

[Ben]

You will. Thank you, bro. I appreciate that. I think that'll be beautiful.

[Ryan]

A lit picture of us riding quad.

[Mike]

Not as.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Not as much pressure being the flower boy as it is the ordained.

[Ben]

I know. I wanted you to be that, but you didn't want to do that. Let's see yours, Ken. Snap.

[Dalton]

I think you just don't know how to snap.

[Ben]

It.

[Ryan]

Was this all employed just to get us all our own knives so we don't steal yours.

[Evan]

It was pretty fun shopping for knives.

[Ben]

I bet. How you buy for. Okay, Ken's might be small, but it's pretty sharp.

[Mike]

That's what we want here. Ken's got a tiny knife that. That's pretty sharp.

[Ben]

Straight up, though. I actually am sorry to Evan and Ken. Alex just doesn't have enough friends, so, like, you got to get drunk. You got to throw the flowers.

[Gavin]

It works.

[Dalton]

I'm still.

[Mike]

I gotta say, is your invitation for Evan, you gotta be careful with.

[Ben]

Yeah. How drunk? It's a given. It's a given. But.

[Mike]

Well, he.

[Dalton]

He here said get drunk at his wedding. I got drunk before Mike's wedding, so. So I'll wait if you wait.

[Mike]

He should be good.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I'm good for at least six hours.

[Gavin]

Get lightly buzzed before and fully drunk at the wedding.

[Dalton]

No, I'll roll up sober.

[Ben]

Yeah. I'm just bummed, Ken. I didn't want you to have to be the flower boy. I want you to be the ordained person minister. But you didn't want to do it. You didn't want to be run the officiate the wedding.

[Gavin]

I just think it would mean a lot more for someone who actually knows what they're doing. No, because I don't know what I'm doing for that.

[Dalton]

Well, you don't know how to fish, but you're giving everyone instruction.

[Gavin]

Well, I. I had a. I knew enough to slightly know what to do, just not fully know what to do for that.

[Evan]

And you could have Learned.

[Ben]

You got 10 months, bro.

[Gavin]

True. We could have. I'll be the flower boy, though.

[Ben]

Everyone snap your knives real quick. Just. There's some good action on all these knives. Like, I mean, I. I really liked. Okay, yours is kind of stuck again. But this was all. Yours is supposed to be nicer.

[Dalton]

It's not the biggest knife, but he'll know how to use it.

[Gavin]

Well, you just gotta.

[Ryan]

You gotta know how to snap it pretty bad.

[Ben]

You actually have.

[Ryan]

I got nervous. There we go.

[Ben]

So it was super fun for me because I love knives, obviously. It's my new thing. And, you know, Mike got. He gave everyone shoes. Give it a good snap. Yeah.

[Mike]

Shoes, Knives. I am so sorry, cj. I was not on the last podcast where. Where you kind of got called out in the comments for it, but you really should just say knives. Knives. I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry.

[Ben]

That's how you do it when I just get you a gift.

[Mike]

Mike, I got the squad a bunch of knives.

[Ben]

No knives. I got them knives anyways. Yeah, Ben. No, yours is kind of actually weak because it's a Benchmade. This is supposedly, like, the nicest knife everyone. And I custom made that red with the dot and the bronze thing for you.

[Evan]

Yeah. And I get it.

[Ben]

And I'm. I'm like, what the. This thing's, like, kind of shitty. Like, why is it not snap? So I'm sorry. Like, I don't know what. What the deal is.

[Mike]

Okay, so that's what I was about to say is that we're almost in a world where the better the knife snaps, the better if it is, the better it is. Maybe the most important knife is probably the most expensive one here.

[Ben]

It's actually not. Mike, that's not the most expensive knife.

[Mike]

Kenzie.

[Dalton]

It's the donut.

[Ben]

Isn't it Ken's. Ken's is. And Ken, that isn't your actual knife.

[Evan]

Oh,

[Mike]

he's got another box.

[Ben]

So I was thinking to myself, like, big Ken, he's a big guy, you know, we go way back. He needs a lot more in a little pocket knife.

[Mike]

You know, I'd have to agree. There's no way a Japanese samurai sword.

[Ben]

A Japanese samurai sword.

[Mike]

That's awesome.

[Ben]

So this is actually the most expensive piece that I will be giving out.

[Mike]

Holy.

[Ben]

Let's open this thing up again. Look at how beautiful this box.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Evan]

Boom.

[Ben]

What's that say?

[Gavin]

Oh, I can't be a groove.

[Evan]

Holy.

[Ben]

It's sharp. Bronze.

[Mike]

Ken, you gotta hang that in the boathouse.

[Evan]

That thing is sweet.

[Ryan]

And it's a bronze.

[Ben]

Bronze blade. Samurai sword, bro. It's sharp too. It's sharp.

[Gavin]

Thanks, dude.

[Ben]

You bet, man.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ben]

You bet.

[Mike]

So.

[Evan]

Wow.

[Mike]

Somebody's gotta say it. Ken, be careful with that.

[Evan]

Get like a good, good.

[Ryan]

Can I move?

[Evan]

Oh, my God. Can almost put the sheet through the drywall.

[Ben]

Yeah, dude.

[Mike]

So this.

[Gavin]

I didn't think that thing was going to fly that far.

[Dalton]

What did you think was going to

[Evan]

happen when you threw it across?

[Ben]

Handcrafted.

[Ryan]

Wow. And you know Ken, he loves the Japanese.

[Ben]

Dude. This is not only a decorative piece, but home defense.

[Evan]

Let's see this. Is it sharp?

[Ben]

Sharp? It's very sharp.

[Evan]

Well, we should maybe change that.

[Ryan]

I'm not sure if Ken, can we dull it?

[Dalton]

Can we get a couple of pumpkins or watermelons or something? Honestly, we can chop it up.

[Ben]

We could.

[Mike]

Little fruit.

[Ben]

I think it would. It's oiled because it's handcrafted, so it's

[Evan]

like oiled and don't want it to rust or anything.

[Ben]

I don't really know.

[Dalton]

I don't think bronze rust does it.

[Ben]

I don't know. Probably steel either way.

[Mike]

I mean, the brown blade is sick.

[Ben]

Yeah, dude. There was a bunch of options. I just thought to myself, I think I want to get him something nice that he would. He would show off in his house. So, like, Ken, I'll be extremely disappointed if this isn't hanging somewhere. Yeah, like above your fireplace, something like that. I mean.

[Mike]

Or one better get a little belt loop for it.

[Ben]

We get him karate lessons and he learns how to use it here.

[Gavin]

I think we have some fruit on the side.

[Ben]

Go grab some fruit.

[Evan]

See if Ken can operate.

[Mike]

He doesn't need to be swinging that thing around.

[Gavin]

We need a little more space. It's a little too confined.

[Ben]

It's pretty sharp, man.

[Ryan]

Maybe let me go on the back camera. Get at least 10ft away from you and see if you can cut that liquid death in half. Give it a good chop.

[Gavin]

Let's maybe do it downstairs. Oh, Fuck it.

[Evan]

All right, all right. Okay, everyone, maybe.

[Ben]

Hold up, hold up. Wait, wait, wait. I gotta get out of here, bro. I gotta get out of here. A firm.

[Dalton]

A firm grasp on it.

[Evan]

Are you throwing it or you want me to?

[Ryan]

Oh, you're gonna throw it. We're doing it through a Fruit ninja style.

[Gavin]

Just going through it. That's what I mean.

[Ben]

Here we go.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Ryan]

Holy smokes. That was so worth it.

[Ben]

Clean in half. Clean in half. All right, back to the podcast. Wow.

[Evan]

We turned the TV on. It doesn't work.

[Ben]

I. I actually. You would have been pissed if Ken's didn't cut it in half. Like I said, big Ken, you got the most expensive piece. But that's why I had to mess with you there at the beginning. But thank you, but. Yeah, no, that's a. That's a.

[Gavin]

That's a.

[Ben]

That's a bad.

[Gavin]

It's a badass gift.

[Evan]

When Ken got us to be the flower boy, I was like, that's what happens, Ken, when you don't invite him. But that's what happens when you don't invite him to your birthday. Did you break the table?

[Ben]

He hit the table and he. He broke the table even.

[Evan]

How did you hit. At what point did you hit the table?

[Gavin]

I. I don't know.

[Ben]

I love you guys. I want you all to be there. And, you know, Mike, he gave us all shoes. And I was sitting there thinking, I'm like, what could I get these guys?

[Mike]

And I hit you.

[Ben]

You know, it's like, I like knives. I need to share my love of nice with them. Yeah, Mike's got an automatic knife, so that's actually kind of illegal, Mike. But he lives, so just don't get caught with it.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'm out of state, so I got you that.

[Ben]

And I even got some knives. I got. I got one for Dalton. I got one for Gavin. The wrench tint mark.

[Mike]

Dude. Yeah. This thing has a safety.

[Ben]

Yeah, you need a safety, man. Yeah, Ben, Dude, I'm sorry. What the fuck? Benchmade. Kind of shitty. I'm kind of disappointed.

[Gavin]

So what. What makes a knife a Benchmade?

[Ben]

I guess it's the brand that's called Benchmade. And they're like, pretty expensive.

[Gavin]

Okay. So it's not like a process.

[Ben]

A couple hundred dollar knife, you know,

[Gavin]

it's not a process. It's just that's their brand is.

[Ryan]

That's not. Yeah, that's not a lot of knife.

[Ben]

Ben's got the worst snap on all of them, and I was hoping he'd have the best probably lube it up.

[Mike]

Maybe.

[Ben]

Maybe do something that's custom. Dude. Custom builder.

[Evan]

It's a nice knife, though. Thank you, bro.

[Ben]

Yeah, man. Ken, what were you thinking? When.

[Evan]

When. When you saw.

[Gavin]

I was kind of, like, excited to be flower boy.

[Ben]

Throw the flowers.

[Gavin]

I don't know. You throw flowers?

[Ben]

Like, what?

[Gavin]

Then you go stand in the back. Then you go throw some more flowers. Be kind of cool.

[Ryan]

You could do double duty.

[Gavin]

Technically, I did get the job for both, so, yeah. Might have to double.

[Mike]

I love the plot twist. That was fun.

[Evan]

Ken came out as flower boy and was thrown little rose petals.

[Ben]

You would make the wedding 100 times better.

[Gavin]

I. I guess it sounds like it might have to now.

[Ben]

I guess. Be careful what you say, Ken. Yeah, you're right.

[Ryan]

I just figured that Alex has, like, a few of the cutest nieces and nephews ever, and I figured that it was going to be them maybe doing it now.

[Ben]

Get him out of there. Put Ken in.

[Ryan]

I was picturing Ken walking them down, and they're like, this is one giant man and a few little children.

[Gavin]

I can tell them they're fired. If you. You haven't told them already or if you have told them. I'll just tell them they're fired. Their presence is no longer needed.

[Evan]

Show up in a full ninja uniform.

[Ben]

Ken. Ken's up there. It's, like, going down the camera, and Ken's just, like, fully in ninja form. Like, you can't see. You just see his eyes.

[Dalton]

He could cut the cake, and you

[Ben]

could bring that and cut the cake.

[Evan]

This guy's really taking.

[Mike]

But only minutes before he's standing up there in a suit with all of us. When the hell did Ken turn into a ninja?

[Ben]

Yeah, that's what makes the thing.

[Gavin]

You never saw it.

[Mike]

Exactly.

[Ben]

That's what makes a good samurai. Let me see these. These knives one more time. I got snacks.

[Evan]

Badass.

[Ryan]

Dude. He cut right through that can. Clean through it. It was empty.

[Ben]

That's good.

[Ryan]

Or mostly empty.

[Mike]

Very lightweight.

[Evan]

Yeah, it is. I need to put, like, a little air tag on my knife. I'm a little worried that I'm gonna lose it.

[Ben]

You could snap yours just. Yeah, it's a little. Little stiff.

[Ryan]

You just need to be a pro.

[Gavin]

Just gonna oil it a little bit. Get a little grease in there. Let it. Let it kind of loosen up.

[Ryan]

Up. Need to oil something.

[Gavin]

Oh, there you go.

[Ben]

Now you guys are all gonna be snapping your knife. It's gonna be great.

[Evan]

Yeah. Everywhere we go now, just all of us, we always kind of look like

[Ryan]

a game and then now everybody's snapping a knife. Ben's literally going full dummy zone in the circle K. But he's trying to figure out where the coffee cup is. But he's also threatening.

[Ben]

They call it, I think. I don't know. This guy's delirious and he's got a weapon.

[Mike]

It doesn't seem that far fetched now that we all have knives we love snapping on. We might do it in a place we shouldn't. Somebody's gonna be like, yo, these guys are trying to stab something.

[Dalton]

I wasn't threatening. I was just snapping it.

[Gavin]

Just brandishing, you know, you have fidget spinner. Now he's got a knife snapper.

[Mike]

You have the best defense because you're like, this thing's. It's just a donut knife. I'm not gonna hurt anybody with it

[Dalton]

unless I have to.

[Mike]

Unless you have to.

[Evan]

Yes. Where do you think is a. Okay place to snap it versus not like that. You go throughout your day, like in your office.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Your office.

[Mike]

If you're at, like, don't.

[Evan]

Don't snap it up when you're at the till.

[Mike]

Snap it at the bank. You can snap it at, like, your Ducks Unlimited banquet. You could probably snap it there.

[Gavin]

Yeah. Maybe at a restaurant. It'd be okay.

[Evan]

Okay. So you. You do think it's okay to snap

[Ben]

when it's time to pay at a restaurant?

[Evan]

Yeah, I would just seems.

[Ben]

How much do I owe you at the grocery store?

[Mike]

Probably not, but it's okay at a restaurant.

[Gavin]

Well, you might be using it to cut your food.

[Mike]

Yeah. Okay.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Have you started doing that, cj?

[Ryan]

That's a hard.

[Dalton]

You bring your own knife to the restaurant.

[Ben]

I should start.

[Dalton]

That is a power move.

[Ben]

Using my knife, cutting up your ribeye.

[Gavin]

Restaurants around here that does that. Like, they have people bring their own custom knife to the restaurant. The restaurant kind of holds on to it, Washes it.

[Evan]

Steak knives.

[Gavin]

Can you tell your own knife?

[Evan]

Pocket knives.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

Well, hey, and I just had to repay the favor after. You know, you guys were so nice to pick me up from getting my wisdom teeth out. Bring me weapon shopping, which I think that comes out in this week's video. That was great.

[Evan]

So, yeah, I'm glad that you appreciated that. So, yeah, you know, just spreading the knife love.

[Ben]

Yep. Now I just need to get you guys into archery. And we're cooking.

[Ryan]

We have close form and long combat dialed in.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Oh, I'm sweating. I was so nervous watching Ken handle that.

[Ben]

That was scary. But seriously, Ken, hang that above your mantle. Or something.

[Gavin]

I think I got the perfect spot for my boathouse. Right. Right behind the bar.

[Ben]

Perfect.

[Ryan]

If we go in there and start messing it up, he'll start stabbing Ben with it.

[Evan]

You might need to lock that thing up from himself or from, like, from us.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

That's why after three beers. Well, I just change the door codes every once in a while.

[Evan]

Yeah, but what happens when we get in?

[Gavin]

Well, it's. It'll just be up high enough where you can't reach.

[Ben]

Is true. He does change his door codes very frequently. So, like, a week prior, I went into his house to go, like, look at something and see if I wanted to get it for mine. And then, you know, he had given me the code and all that. I go back literally five days later with Alex and Tint and Angela. Like, they wanted to see it.

[Evan]

Whatever.

[Ben]

Change the code already. Code was changed, but the thing that you didn't do is the builder didn't lock the back door, so we just slid that open, walked in.

[Gavin]

Actually, when you guys visited, you didn't. You just didn't put the code in, Right.

[Evan]

When are you moving in?

[Gavin]

Ken had some delays, so looking like next month now, but.

[Ryan]

But shoot.

[Mike]

I saw you started firing some stuff in there, though.

[Gavin]

Yeah, it's. It's mostly full of furniture. Just.

[Ryan]

Nice.

[Gavin]

Just need the carpet.

[Dalton]

What are you going to do when the fish house has to come off in a couple weeks?

[Gavin]

I might just have to sleep on the couch because I got the couch.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Gavin]

Just don't have the bedroom.

[Dalton]

I could put the bunk beds back in my room. I mean, if you need. In a pinch.

[Gavin]

I'll pass. I'll just sleep on my couch.

[Mike]

Couldn't pay the man to do that.

[Evan]

Ev did bring up the fact that we did remove his bunk bed privileges, and he was wondering what he had to do to get them back.

[Ben]

You want your bunk beds back?

[Dalton]

I was just curious to what I did to have my privileges revoked.

[Mike]

You know, everyone was just collectively like,

[Evan]

he's too old for that.

[Ryan]

When.

[Gavin]

When we took your bedroom apart to turn it into a gym, we were putting it back together, and we were like, you know, I think at this point, in Evan's age, he doesn't need to be sleeping on bunk beds anymore. I think it's time for him to grow up to a normal bed.

[Mike]

What I thought Ev was like, for the most part, nobody actually slept on it. You should just, like, build a custom shelf above it, since that's kind of what you used it for.

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah, it was more of A shelf or functional slash bracing mechanism.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You could set up like, monkey bars above it.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah. He wants the jungle gym aspect of it. What if you were to, like, hang some ropes and above the bed, that would look crazy.

[Mike]

And you can't.

[Dalton]

You walk in and you see bunk beds. You're just like, oh, no big deal, man.

[Mike]

Child only kind of crazy.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

He got a bunch of handcuffs and hung from the ceiling.

[Dalton]

There was so much room for activities with the bunk beds.

[Mike]

Oh, if.

[Evan]

Are you a. You a gymnast? Are you training for something?

[Gavin]

Do you want monkey bars from the bed to the bathroom now or.

[Evan]

Sure.

[Dalton]

Honestly, if you could figure out how to orchestrate that, like, run it, I would love.

[Ben]

Gets up in the middle of the night, just monkey.

[Evan]

The floor is lava, monkey bars over, takes a pee.

[Mike]

He does swings back. He doesn't even drop down to pee.

[Dalton]

Ken, if you should try to set my room up where, like, I could fully use it, but, like, not have to touch the floor for, like, months. Like, like, you know, play the longest game of floor is lava in history.

[Ryan]

You can hardly see the floor in there. It's so messy.

[Dalton]

True. Because I don't. I don't have a top bunk to just throw all my on.

[Ryan]

I actually do feel bad. I didn't know that you love the bunk bed that much, so I think we could. We could probably get that back.

[Mike]

Do they make, like, super high end bunk beds? Yeah, you know, are they all just kind of like novelty rickety?

[Ben]

Yeah, well, they're made for, like, no one over £100 to be sleeping.

[Mike]

Right?

[Dalton]

No, that was good for way over £100, I promise you.

[Gavin]

Look at it wrong, it's just going to fall into a million pieces.

[Dalton]

It didn't.

[Mike]

True.

[Gavin]

It only had, like, two actual pegs holding the bunk bed on.

[Evan]

Speaking of pegs, you want to know something? Depends if Dalton was in it.

[Ben]

Oh, my.

[Mike]

Oh, my.

[Ben]

You know, I was speaking to Ken's house. I was talking with. With the security camera guy who put all of our cameras in at the shops. He was also putting them in at Ken's house. And I don't know how it came up. He just does. Oh, yeah, yeah, Ken's house. And I'm like, what about Ken's house? No one's gonna be able to get within a mile of that place without him knowing. It's just like, yeah, it sounds about right.

[Gavin]

Absolutely. I got cameras on every little corner

[Evan]

of that joint, none of them on the inside. And do you think that's going to stop anything?

[Gavin]

I'm gonna know it. What's happening?

[Ben]

You could have saved so much money by just hiring a security guard. I think he would stop stuff from happening. The camera. You're just gonna watch it.

[Gavin]

That is true. That is true.

[Ben]

Well, you'll know what happened, believe me. It's gonna be on video.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Are you throwing a housewarming party?

[Gavin]

It's gonna be the Kentucky Derby.

[Ben]

Yeah, the housewarming party.

[Mike]

So. Yes.

[Ben]

You didn't really fight them.

[Evan]

You obviously got him.

[Gavin]

The invite. Hasn't been sent out yet. Because it's not.

[Ben]

Well, I got my invite.

[Ryan]

I. I haven't been invited.

[Mike]

It's one of those things you grow up. You should not come to a party you're not invited to. But that one, I just might.

[Gavin]

The invites will go out next month,

[Ben]

and then Ken isn't in two weeks.

[Gavin]

Well, the Kentucky Derby's not till May.

[Evan]

I'm just kidding.

[Ryan]

Imagine I might just, like, stand across the road with my backpack full of Coors lights like at a college party

[Evan]

when you're figuring out how to get in. What are you guys doing here?

[Ryan]

Oh, oh, a party over there. You know anyone? Like when some. One of your friends pulls up that, like, is gonna go in, Be like, hey, you think you could get me in?

[Mike]

Yeah, we should do it.

[Ryan]

You can get me in.

[Evan]

We show. We show up, and there's security standing there with a little iPad.

[Mike]

So funny.

[Gavin]

You're not on the list, actually.

[Evan]

Yeah, you are on the list. Blacklist.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I was gonna say get out.

[Ben]

Get him out of here.

[Dalton]

It's not actually a list. It's just, like, five pictures of people not to let in. Let me see if you're on the list.

[Evan]

Mike. Shred 80.

[Gavin]

Well, it's mostly just Evan and Shred 80.

[Ben]

What?

[Gavin]

Really? They're gonna.

[Ryan]

They don't seem correct.

[Gavin]

Gavin is like a little tornado when you. When he gets a little alcohol in him, he just starts breaking stuff.

[Evan]

I don't intentionally alcohol in them.

[Ben]

Just give him the samurai sword.

[Gavin]

I wouldn't have a house left if he had that thing.

[Dalton]

Then what? Why wouldn't you want me hanging out?

[Ryan]

You instigate trouble around you.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

What happened with my Lincoln at Mikey's wedding?

[Dalton]

The other fellow you mentioned, and you

[Gavin]

drove it in the front seat of that car as well, instigating it.

[Dalton]

No, I was guilty by association. I was just hanging.

[Mike]

What was that? Like, red? I like a red Chevy that I swear, the two of you hit is a red Corvette.

[Gavin]

Maybe you should be.

[Dalton]

Also not me. It's like Chevy all These bad things are Shreds. I was Just happened to be along for the ride.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

I couldn't stop him if I wanted to. I didn't want to, but I couldn't have.

[Evan]

Cormorant was on fire for a couple months when Shreds was here. We had to let it cool down a little bit. People have been asking where Shred 80s been, and it was too hot.

[Ryan]

Send him back.

[Evan]

The area was too hot. It had to cool down.

[Ben]

Got a lot of knife snapping going. Yeah. People that are listening, snap your knife. You're kind of making me feel like you don't like.

[Ryan]

Oh, no, dude, I've been snapping. I just don't think you could see. I've been snapping it like crazy. I actually got a lot.

[Ben]

He got it back in the box. He didn't even put his pocket.

[Ryan]

I might. I might have lost.

[Evan]

He already lost it.

[Ryan]

Oh, it's that one.

[Dalton]

I. I've already stolen it.

[Ryan]

Oh, great.

[Ben]

Ken, let me tell you, with that samurai sword, with great power comes great responsibility.

[Gavin]

Yeah. It's got to be locked up in a spot where nobody can access it.

[Ben]

I think a glass case.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Dalton]

R. Yeah. Ken, I think you make a nice, big Sunday ham, and you carve it up for us real nice. A good meal tomorrow for lunch.

[Gavin]

Maybe not for lunch, but.

[Ryan]

Oh, you can't cook lunch around here. Otherwise Jen will kick your butt.

[Ben]

It's true. And we won't like it because it's not going to be as good as well.

[Dalton]

No, I mean, Jen can cook the ham. Ken just carves it.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Gavin]

Just carve it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Dalton]

Yeah. I didn't mean any disrespect there. I just want to see Ken's craftsmanship.

[Ryan]

This is a nice knife. Thank you. Cj, I'm gonna. I'm actually gonna start just carry it

[Ben]

with you everywhere you go.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I'm gonna start wielding this through the airport.

[Dalton]

Should we start taking bets who the first one to lose a finger around here is Because I.

[Evan]

With his new knife.

[Dalton]

I was just. That's exactly what I was gonna say. Cj, you want to tell him about your new knife?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What do they call that again?

[Dalton]

Butterfly.

[Ben]

Butterfly knife. Yeah. So Darius, who's our merchandise warehouse manager, great guy, found out, obviously, everyone knows I'm into knives. He came, gave me a butterfly knife as a gift earlier today. I don't know. I'm kind of scared of it, to be honest.

[Evan]

This thing?

[Ben]

Yeah, it's freaking sharp too, dude.

[Dalton]

You don't need to be scared of it. You just need to respect it.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's just sharp, man. I don't know. Swinging it around, spinning with my fingers and stuff.

[Evan]

I was like, how often have you got yourself with this? And he's like, well, right here, right here, right here.

[Ben]

Scars right there, right there.

[Evan]

And I was like, wow, you really love swimming this thing around us.

[Dalton]

Think about it, cj. Like, anyone can flick the knife. I mean, it's really just not quite. A little slower, a little quicker. There's not too much variation. But you can do some serious stunts with a butterfly knife. I think that would be big for the program.

[Evan]

Butterfly knives are like, the equivalent of like, a Rubik's Cube. I was gonna say Numb Chucks.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was gonna say it's kind of like Rubik's.

[Mike]

Okay. What? I was. Because if you can do nunchucks, a lot of it's flashy, but you could still defend yourself with them. Same goes for the butterfly knife. So.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But the Rubik's Cube, like, all the flashy, flicky, flicky, it's not going to, like, save you from anything. So if you can do a Rubik's Cube, everyone's like, that's sick. But it doesn't really accomplish anything.

[Evan]

She's.

[Ben]

I think Rubik's Cubes used to be, like, more impressive back before YouTube. Because now any of us, if you just sit down, watch a YouTube video, you. And you had a Rubik's Cube, you could figure out how to solve it. Obviously, the speed is the biggest thing,

[Mike]

but I've seen even insane ones where, like, someone will, like, close their eyes, like, mess it up, they look at it it, and then close their eyes again and then solve it.

[Ben]

Dude, it's crazy.

[Mike]

In, like, 15 seconds.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I can't even begin to comprehend how they can do that same.

[Mike]

I know that you know, whatever. There's a way to learn how to do it.

[Ben]

Remember those speed cups back in gym class?

[Ryan]

I had those.

[Ben]

Those things I hated back when we would do the speed cups in elementary. Alex and I were just talking about it the other day.

[Evan]

She liked it.

[Ben]

I hated. I was like, that is terrible. You're just playing with cups in gym class was so boring.

[Dalton]

The only thing worse than that was we had to do line dancing.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

That was also pretty boring.

[Dalton]

Okay, see, I'm glad. So that was a standard curriculum thing.

[Ben]

I was middle school.

[Mike]

We didn't probably dancing.

[Ben]

Mike was grinding.

[Ryan]

Holly was a. No. What's it called? A no Dancing Town.

[Mike]

Like, the best things to come out of the Speed Cups was the the dude or the chick saying, oh my God for the drop before the Skrillex song. That was the best thing to come out.

[Ben]

I wonder how Speed Cups is doing. Like it was a legitimate sport with competitions and everything.

[Dalton]

I didn't think we should be doing in gym class. However, it was satisfying when you stacked a few perfect pyramids and then you perfectly just like. It was. It was satisfying, but like it's not what we should have been doing in fire.

[Ben]

So dumb. I wonder if they still do that.

[Mike]

You guys were learning dances in gym class, not music class.

[Ben]

Yes, you did dance like line dancing

[Dalton]

or it was lined and they play country music in the gym and they had the lines for the basketball court and you do the whatever the hell you do.

[Ryan]

This may be surprising giving my current career path, but I was actually also, along with my no dribble rule in basketball, I was set to the back of the choir because I went through like a confidence phase where I like thought I should sing and I was

[Gavin]

actually, oh, I didn't know that confidence

[Ben]

phase where you're like I should start singing or you were just already Start

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[Ryan]

Like in music class in late elementary school, I think I probably heard someone sing. Well and I was like, oh, I can sound like that.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then I started singing loud and my teacher pulled me aside and was like maybe don't sing so loud.

[Ben]

You were just screaming like your genre of music.

[Gavin]

So they were trying to suppress your inner quad.

[Ryan]

Exactly. And so now I've spent the last 20 years refining my skills deals until now. Which is streaming on Spotify and on Apple Music now. All right, let's check in on my monthly listeners.

[Ben]

By the way, how many monthly listers you got?

[Evan]

Whoa.

[Ryan]

Basement Riot.

[Mike]

That's his new single.

[Ryan]

271 monthly listeners.

[Evan]

It's pretty good.

[Dalton]

How many plays?

[Ryan]

It just shows a less than a thousand

[Gavin]

stuff on repeat.

[Ryan]

But we're getting there.

[Evan]

You gotta start tick tock dancing to your music and get that popping. Yeah.

[Gavin]

What should the quad tick tock dance be?

[Ryan]

I can decided that we have the Ken Tick tock.

[Mike]

Okay, but keep in mind we have.

[Evan]

We.

[Mike]

We were only able to put it on to Soundcloud right away. So right after that bit we put on Soundcloud and Hummerheart has 16k plays.

[Evan]

Oh, that's not.

[Ryan]

That's expecting some cheddar soon.

[Mike]

What.

[Evan]

What percentile is that that put them in?

[Ben]

Probably above most of them.

[Evan]

Top 1% of SoundCloud listeners.

[Mike]

No, not even close. I'd say. I'm sorry.

[Ryan]

Like the top five.

[Gavin]

Top 99.

[Mike]

There's no top 99.

[Evan]

Congrats.

[Ryan]

You made it out of the bottom 1%.

[Ben]

SoundCloud kind of fell off.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like I remember like 20, probably 16 through 2019. That was like the only place I listened to music was just soundcloud. But like there was a bunch of rappers that came out of that. Like obviously Lil Pump T. Grizzly.

[Mike]

Yeah. Big underground rap or. Or edm. You had to have some skies, bro.

[Ryan]

Skies.

[Ben]

Little sky Sorry. Skis. I don't know, short skis, little trick skis.

[Gavin]

Like Mike, you only listen to stuff on SoundCloud because it was for the longest time.

[Mike]

Every time I look up an EDM song that I would want, it wasn't on any of the other platforms. So I guess I'm like, here we go. I love when someone sends you a song, you click the song and then they play related songs.

[Ryan]

They were the first to do that.

[Mike]

They're first to do it and arguably still the best. Spotify is great. YouTube, for example. If I click, it's a new song. It's a banger. I'm loving this. I kind of want to stay in that genre. Five songs later, they're playing me 350 million view Mac Miller song, which is great. I love Mac Miller. But like, it serves me that same song. It just kind of rounds you back to the mainstream songs. I love that.

[Evan]

Hey, Ryan.

[Ryan]

Yeah, bud?

[Evan]

Did a little research. Yeah, your top 5%, actually.

[Ben]

I would imagine, you know how hard it is to get that many views. Like as a normal person.

[Ryan]

It'd be pretty tough in my world. She just listens.

[Mike]

Normal.

[Ryan]

Sorry, we don't have a music video yet.

[Mike]

Yeah. Oh, no, Honestly, I think we got to hold back. We'll hold back on the album. I think we need a music video.

[Ben]

I think we need some new songs. We need more songs and.

[Evan]

Yeah, you need to drop a whole album.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You've been doing these like, you know, one off dabbles.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Singles.

[Evan]

Singles. Yeah. It's just got to drop your ep.

[Gavin]

It's just the taste for the full album. He's. He's working on it. It's getting cooked up. It'll be out pretty soon next couple months.

[Evan]

The sleep the agent Bowler Hat Productions at work.

[Mike]

This album only took 20,000 gallons of water to.

[Ryan]

I believe. Can I see in the information here. I had to like type in all my stuff. Quad performers vocals Quad is on the mic. Production and engineering. Cbd CJ and sources was mom Chaser Records.

[Gavin]

Hey, still gotta. Still got a shout out for that.

[Ben]

Nice go. Just happy to get some credit.

[Ryan]

Man Speaking actually of credit. I gotta give Evan some credit. I think he's right about helicopters.

[Ben]

What part?

[Ryan]

I do not want to ride in a helicopter ever again.

[Ben]

Really.

[Ryan]

I just feel like over the course of the last few months years in aviation history seen a little more bad things happen and which is incredibly sad obviously, but just you see helicopter crashes a lot. Even that one at the car show. And Greg Godfrey was just in A helicopter?

[Dalton]

No.

[Evan]

What?

[Mike]

Really?

[Ben]

Is he okay?

[Ryan]

He is alive. And when you see it, you will wonder, how the hell is he alive? He was in no way.

[Ben]

That's so bad.

[Ryan]

Robinson.

[Evan]

I do want to preface Ryan. I think. I think his wife was in it.

[Mike]

That's crazy, right? I thought you're gonna reference the. The pretty decent amount that we've seen in the. In the last year.

[Ben]

I didn't know he.

[Mike]

And then, you know, you hit us with this. That is terrible.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Evan]

Yes, she's fine. All that came out of it was the pilot got a little banged up. That pilot right there.

[Ben]

No, he's in it, but no, this. You're right.

[Evan]

And then look at that. And then his wife, I believe, just had, like, a cut and had to get stitches.

[Gavin]

Did they.

[Evan]

Which is crazy. Damage.

[Ryan]

They. They haven't released it yet, but the pilot was on the bottom side. And I mean, he goes through and shows just how lucky, like, basically he was. He's mangled up between that stick in the ground. So, I mean, you know, thank God for that. That's super scary. But, like, that scared the out of me. And then also, Heavy D posted one of us. Yeah, that one was because they have it on video.

[Ben]

Happened there again.

[Dalton]

They thought it was just, like, wind and.

[Ben]

Right.

[Ryan]

This is the craziest video ever. Like, I mean, it looks very similar to Snowden.

[Ben]

It's a hard hit. Yeah, man. So, Ben, do you still want to buy helicopter?

[Evan]

Dude, not after seeing all this.

[Ben]

Really? Like, honestly, I was hoping you would still.

[Ryan]

I'm straight up. Like, I do. I don't. I don't want to ride in a helicopter anymore.

[Evan]

I mean, I. I just see all these things, and. I mean, obviously, you have a hard

[Ben]

enough time driving with the trees. Exactly.

[Ryan]

No gas station.

[Ben]

Missing the gas station. You don't fill up your helicopter. You're really.

[Evan]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, jokes aside, like. Yeah, it's pretty gnarly. It's. It's high consequence, dude.

[Ben]

I.

[Evan]

And I still want to. I don't. I don't want to say, like, the dream of it is dead, but I've definitely, like, been seeing all the. All the crashes, and it. It does make me very nervous because every single one of these crashes is, like, the pilot was extremely experienced and been flying aviation for something weird 40 years. That pilot right there, that was.

[Ryan]

He's an older man. Like, you got to assume he's.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And it's. It's. There's so many factors, obviously, that play into these. These crashes, and a lot of Times it's just like fluke accidents.

[Ryan]

And that's. I don't want to be like an alarmist, you know, like, what, are you gonna not ride in a car because of car accidents? They happen more often than aviation. But still, I just, I don't know, I just got an icky, an icky feeling about all of it.

[Ben]

I still think they're cool. I would love for Ben to own one because then he's paying for it and paying for the fuel and all that. But, like, it just sounds so expensive to me to own. Like, I can't. I couldn't justify it myself, but it would be pretty sweet. Like, I mean, essentially you could have a Lamborghini or you could have a helicopter. Pretty cool, man. Land in your helicopter at your friend's house. No doubt you're going to the gym. Like, the only problem is you're gonna spend probably a thousand bucks just to go to the gym. Just to fly to the gym to work out. Like, it'd be so much money. Money.

[Evan]

Yeah, it's very expensive. I have no idea what it would. There's a lot more, like, use cases for getting your pilot's license for a plane. I think as far as, like what we could do, I think for you,

[Gavin]

you would probably use a helicopter more frequently than a fixed wing plane. But I think a fixed wing plane would be more useful, if that makes sense.

[Ben]

Yeah, you'd be able to fly farther.

[Mike]

My opinion, one day in my life, probably later when I'm retired, maybe around that, I would love to get my pilot's license.

[Ben]

Mike, you can't be buying old, cheap, cheap planes.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

Cheap helicopters. Now, though, we can't be following your other vehicles. They're gonna have to actually get some good ones.

[Mike]

Right, right, right. But getting a helicopter license, I have no desire for. But that's another part. Okay, so you know how they say

[Ryan]

on your dream here, Benny, I'm sorry.

[Mike]

Well, I mean, I. Ben's a badass. I know.

[Ryan]

He's.

[Mike]

I know he's got it. He's got it. But you know how they say before you ride your dirt bike, like, check your chain tension because you know your chain breaking could really be catastrophic traffic. And how often are we doing that? Like, almost never. And there's probably other stuff you should check and you check, but that's a big one. That could hurt you. But the planes and the helicopters, like, you actually have to pre flight check every time.

[Gavin]

Not going through those checklists. It's like life or death. Like, oh, you skip like Checking is there water in the fuel?

[Mike]

Right.

[Gavin]

That can. That can be a death sentence.

[Ben]

That's the thing that I probably wouldn't like, too, is, like, all that, and you're like, like, okay, it's like, very serious stuff. Like, it's not really.

[Mike]

That's why I think that you could do it. Like, I genuinely. In the. The mental state I'm in right now, whatever that may be, I don't think I'm locked in enough to acquire a pilot's license. I just don't. I don't think I'm. I'm taking life serious enough for me to be doing that stuff. I think you do.

[Evan]

I think the thing about it, though, is, like, you need to be, like, fully committed to it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You know, where it's not in. Like, I've talked to just so many pilots, not for funsies over the years of, like, yeah, like, I want to do this. I think it'd be sweet. I think it'd be really cool to, like, build up, especially if we got a nice plane and we could, like, fly and use it for filming these videos. And with that, you'd probably want another pilot, like, hire another pilot to do it with you. But I think that it could be extremely useful for us.

[Ryan]

100.

[Evan]

But with that is you can't half ass it in any way where, you know, if you're doing it, you got to do it right. You got to be fully invested. You got to be educated. You got to be, like, in the right state of mind. It's not to be played with, especially when you're flying other people.

[Mike]

Right?

[Evan]

Which is. I'm not big.

[Mike]

Not saying that you would do this or really anyone, but you know how, like, you could be so hungover and you can get in your car and drive home. It'll probably be just fine. Right? But you can't just be so hungover and get in your plane and fly home.

[Ryan]

No, you gotta be locked in.

[Evan]

Yeah, you gotta dialed in.

[Mike]

But, yeah, for sure, you got to be dialed in. Dude. Tanner, our shop hand, it's been super nice in February, which is crazy. And he's out flying his paramotor, and I'm like, man, he didn't waste much time. He got it rebuilt last fall, and he wanted to go and fly it, and it was still freezing, and he's flying around. Then I see the engine die, and he just, you know, you just basically parachute down. He lands. I go over to him like, I can't believe you're taking it out. What happened? He's like, dude, it keeps dying on me. I just had this thing rebuilt. And then he's like. But he was running good when it was running. He goes, you should buy this thing from me. And of course, I am intrigued. I do want to try it. I might. I'm not going to put that in stone. He goes, you should buy this thing from me.

[Ben]

It would be pretty cool having parasail around. But it's also the same as a plane.

[Gavin]

He had, like, a couple, like, almost.

[Mike]

Yeah, that was when he was learning

[Dalton]

he was doing stunts.

[Evan]

He did, yeah. He did have bad accidents. He crashed into a telephone pole. Well, then he had telephone wires. He.

[Gavin]

He had the wing fold on him, too. And he was, like, struggling to get that out. And then right after that, he sold it, or he said he sold it.

[Dalton]

No, it was cons on consignment. It didn't sell. So he took it back and said, I'm going to run it again.

[Ben]

You got to have a limited market on a parasail.

[Gavin]

Well, the only other person I've met that has one of those doesn't have a finger because of it.

[Evan]

Is that the guy that hit the telephone wire? Now I'm second guessing. Was it? No.

[Gavin]

Tanner hit a power line.

[Evan]

Okay. He did.

[Ben]

And it just swung him up, and then he dropped down on his back.

[Mike]

But it does look damn fun, I gotta say that. Like, and I think the. It's just when you start pushing the limits so you have an open field, and you're probably good.

[Ben]

You're just good.

[Mike]

But as soon as you, like, start trying to buzz buildings and stuff and, like.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Kind of dumb.

[Mike]

Yeah. That's when it.

[Ben]

That's inevitably gonna happen.

[Mike]

I know. More comfortable. Comfortable.

[Ben]

And you're doing. Doing stupid stuff.

[Dalton]

And I know when. When that wing folded, he was doing some crazy, like, loops and stunts. Like, for some reason for me, like, I think I feel more comfortable, like, trying to rip one of those than I do literally getting in a helicopter.

[Mike]

I could see it because it's like

[Dalton]

you have the parachute, like, you said the motor died, and you just, like. And you ride it down. That's a good point. F. So, like, for some reason, I feel like as long as these ropes and that shoots up there, like. Like, things should be okay.

[Ben]

Would you go skydiving ev then?

[Dalton]

No.

[Mike]

What intrigues me the most about it,

[Dalton]

because your shoot's not out when you start. Yeah, for some reason. But like a paraglider, like, where you run off the cliff with the wings, it's out. I'm More likely to do that than to just jump out of the plane and hope this bundle of in my back opens up properly, which that should. I mean, does that kind of make sense in that?

[Gavin]

And then the more I've grown up, the least interested I am doing that because it's like, like, yeah, you can fold your parachute up the wrong way and it just doesn't unfold.

[Mike]

I'd have other people fold it for me. Yeah.

[Dalton]

But then your life is in their hands, which is gnarly.

[Mike]

But the intriguing thing to me is that in order to get your solo skydive license, it's not terribly hard, but you need to get it right. You need to acquire it by training. And really all it is is jumping out of a plane and falling. Anybody can do that. Right. And then the parachute comes out and the most of the training is almost when to pull it, obviously how to pack it, and then flying. But paragliding, you don't need any license and you just do it. So the only thing different that you don't need a license for is just the falling part. So like. And anybody can do that yet for the paraglider, like it's the. He said it's the exact same operation as a parachute. So I don't know, it's just intriguing to me. Like the fact that, like, how cool would it be? What would you want to do if

[Evan]

you had a superpower?

[Ryan]

Invisibility.

[Mike]

I want to fly. I mean, with a paramotor you pretty much can.

[Evan]

Well, Mike Cletus McFarlane asked us to race in the Freedom 500, I believe, and you said that you wanted to do it. And the prize is. Oh, you might be be insane.

[Mike]

Insane. Did you tell him that I would. Yeah. All right, that's coming up.

[Evan]

Some of is he launched someone. Yeah.

[Ben]

Is it two or just one person?

[Mike]

This one is just one racer. The La Mullets is the only one with two.

[Ryan]

Have you seen this tick tock video of this guy in his homemade airplane?

[Ben]

See that guy? He has no fear. He built his own airplane.

[Ryan]

I love the engine hanging off the front of it too.

[Gavin]

That's pretty sick.

[Ryan]

The primer bulb in the middle just in case you run into a tough scenario. I mean, it looks pretty sick. Like, that's got to be a sweet.

[Ben]

Because flying is a rather simplistic thing. Like when you actually look at the plane, like it's like, okay, you got your prop and then you.

[Mike]

Yeah, pull up.

[Evan]

Is that a ceiling fan on the front?

[Mike]

Can you imagine?

[Ryan]

Triple blade.

[Evan]

And then so this guy Actually built his own airplane.

[Ben]

That's cool.

[Ryan]

I think it's ultralight, but I don't know how much his assembly.

[Ben]

The Wright brothers did it. Why can't you. Maybe you should build your own airplane. Mike.

[Mike]

No, negative.

[Ben]

Ghost Rider, I suppose. Did you guys see that the laws got changed on diesel motors?

[Evan]

I didn't see that, but I did see that they did away. All the manufacturers did away with the start stop automated. When you come to a why.

[Ben]

Really why?

[Gavin]

So they used to get some kind of emissions credit if their vehicles had that feature.

[Mike]

So pointless.

[Gavin]

But all it does is add unnecessary wear and tear in an engine. So it's like over the life of a vehicle. It maybe saves a couple gallons of gas over for hundreds of thousands of miles. So it's just. It makes somebody feel good that oh, we're saving a little bit of gas.

[Mike]

The other doesn't actually do anything is that they pulled the need for that off of whatever bill that passed. But like the automakers are still probably gonna just leave it in because like they're already like wired into the computer.

[Evan]

Dude, I hope not. I think they know that everyone hates them too.

[Mike]

They're so annoying.

[Ryan]

So annoying.

[Gavin]

Well, it's. It's the startup procedure. You push start the engine. Push the start stop button off.

[Ben]

So basically the EPA recently revoked the legal basis used to regulate vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, which includes diesel trucks and cars. That move effectively removed federal tailpipe emission standards tied to climate rules. Some heavy duty truck emission mandates tied to future years like stricter 2027 plus rules are now uncertain or being changed. Debt and de rate rules changed. This one actually affects real diesel owners and operators. Trucks used to drop to limp mode fast when def failed. Now EPA guidance says trucks can run thousands of miles with only warnings or mild power reduction instead of instant shutdown.

[Dalton]

That would have saved me going to Florida.

[Ryan]

No kidding.

[Evan]

Exactly.

[Mike]

For real.

[Gavin]

The whole death thing is such a waste of resources because you're paying to transport all these little fucking plastic containers around. Nobody's gonna recycle that. That just goes straight in the garbage. Then they come in this little cardboard box on the outside which just goes straight in the garbage. It's just a gigantic waste.

[Mike]

It is. Did you know that death can be used as fertilizer?

[Gavin]

Somebody said it was horse piss.

[Dalton]

So I think they just call it that.

[Ben]

Emissions equipment deletion is still illegal federally. So dpf, egr, deletes, etc, I mean

[Gavin]

but if they do get rid of it, you get better miles per gallon which then lowers your emissions so why is that still a thing?

[Ben]

They say that, like the. All the plastic jugs that the death fluid comes in actually pollutes the earth more. Well, that's. That's what they say. And I don't know if that's true or not. I. I haven't looked at the numbers or the facts, but that's what I hear, you know.

[Dalton]

So these are kind of fluid. Is politicians.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Not the only fluid in bed with the politicians. Sorry.

[Gavin]

Anyway, you're missing one other one.

[Ryan]

It's funny that you guys brought up the start stop feature because Evan and I were scrolling Facebook reels today or whatever the hell they are, and check out the new feature. You guys are on the 2027 Lynx here.

[Ben]

We're going to show you the start

[Ryan]

stop feature on the 600 RR here.

[Evan]

He's got the brake held in and the machine is shut down, ready to

[Gavin]

go, ready to go.

[Mike]

Off the brake machine fires.

[Ben]

Right. Wheels are always just so behind, man.

[Evan]

So God can't do. What are the odds that they had all this done and, you know, everything's getting put into production and then they see this new rule come out that they didn't need them anymore, and they're just like, oh, what the do we do French?

[Gavin]

Who's asking for that?

[Dalton]

Well, well, Ryan made the good point.

[Ben]

It's nice for talking in between when you stop.

[Ryan]

Exactly. If you're a trail ripper, think of you pull up next to each other and instead of hollering over your machine and God forbid having to press a button to start moving, you just pull in the brake and then it turns off and you can talk and then you. You can go.

[Gavin]

So I saw a thing where.

[Ryan]

Also a pain in the butt.

[Gavin]

The entire snowmobile market, they only saw 120,000 units.

[Mike]

130 globally. I saw.

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That's crazy.

[Gavin]

How do they have the money to engineer that for a snowmobile? Like, how much are they inflating the prices just to have that feature?

[Ben]

I think can am's got some money, bro.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they're spending money.

[Evan]

You know what is funny, though, is I guess like Skidoo and Can Am and they're always, like, at the forefront for snowmobile technology. So I guarantee, like, Polaris in three years. Yeah, Polaris is going to have it in a year or two, and then Articat is going to have it in. In four years. And, like, they just kind of copy each other. They'll be like, it does seem like they have the most money because they're always at the Forefront.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they're at the start of it. I agree.

[Dalton]

You know, they have like, the shot start system, so it's probably like, it just utilizes that.

[Ryan]

And the shot start is the best thing on a snowmobile ever. I had that on my free ride Dang near 10 years ago. And Polaris hasn't caught up to that, but that is a good system.

[Mike]

And. And Bombardier BRP is really good at patenting their stuff. Obviously, all the OEMs are. But the shot start is basically an electric start without the weight of a battery.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Which is.

[Ryan]

You pull it.

[Mike]

Morning.

[Ryan]

Go. Yeah, it's pretty nice. That was cool. But, yeah, I'm sure there was like, oh, we can do this and whatever. Like, I don't know. There's probably like 110 guys on a form asking for it, or one guy asked for it, and then 110 people liked it. And they're like, that's 35 of our buyer's market. We better run that. We better throw that in.

[Evan]

So.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I don't know. I. But that's funny that you brought it up. I mean, useful, maybe.

[Evan]

Was there anything else? I just saw that they just released a bunch of new snowmobiles. Yeah.

[Mike]

Nothing too crazy.

[Ryan]

Changes suspension.

[Mike]

Hilarious. Like, dropped. Where you can, like, make. Basically you can, like, build a mod sled, but it has, like, a factory warranty. And then Scudoo made a sick ass,

[Evan]

like, from the factory. You can build them. Yeah.

[Mike]

You can, like, almost pick your, like, wrap colors. You can pick your seat cover color, like with Seacoast. Pick your shots and you can pick your shocks, like. Like a lot more customizable. And I always forget.

[Ryan]

Cool idea.

[Mike]

There's a lot of, like, guys a little older than us that are like,

[Evan]

yeah, gotta have that warranty.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Which I get.

[Ryan]

Or just don't know. Like, you can just. They can just go on a website or sit down at the dealer and like, check nine boxes.

[Mike]

So it's like, if you want to get crazy shocks. To me, I'm like, I love the whole, like, oh, ordering these shocks and put them on. Shocks are easy to put on. But a lot of people are like, I don't want to do all that. I don't want to pay someone to do it either. I just want to come to my door, be ready. Or my dealer. Yeah. Not. Nothing too much. New Polaris dropped. They got a 200 mini sled that is identical to the Yamaha, the Skidoo and the Articat. But someone made a good point. They're like, why do they make the same one and someone's like, well they're giving business to Articat because I believe Articat makes it.

[Ben]

Oh it doesn't.

[Evan]

Yamaha make them.

[Mike]

Yamaha makes the motors. Articat made the chassis.

[Gavin]

It's a lot for the amount of volume they're gonna push through that. It's a lot of engineering work to make that.

[Mike]

Right.

[Gavin]

So you might as well like just, just team up with all the other manufacturers and just make your own like plastic.

[Mike]

And being that the kids who are racing them, there's so many regulations on them anyway. Makes sense.

[Evan]

I was wondering if they were gonna do like an electric snowmobile. Like, like a good electric. Yeah, I know. Like Skidoo has like their trailer.

[Ben]

Dude. I think they need to just keep them gas.

[Mike]

They do.

[Gavin]

I think they got at least 10 years worth of technology before an electric snowmobile is a viable option. I mean it's just the battery technology isn't there yet.

[Ben]

Just speaking from being around them all the time watching gas is gas powered motors. Whether it's a dirt bike, snowmobile, a car, whatever the fuck it is, it's way more fun. Even if it's not as fast, not as torquey. Like it's just. I don't know, I just think they're better. And I think even the listeners or viewers, it seems like a lot of our viewers are kind of the same way. Like you got to respect the performance.

[Gavin]

But like battery technology in cold weather just isn't there yet. And it's just in 10 years they might figure it out.

[Ben]

It's gonna inevitably happen.

[Gavin]

It just that tech doesn't exist.

[Ben]

Like eventually cars are gonna all be self driving and we'll be telling like our grandkids, they're like, so how'd you get around? Well, you just get in the car and drive it.

[Evan]

What?

[Ben]

You would drive the car? Gas powered car with other. Well then there's other people and. Well, what would happen? Well, you, you'd get in crashes every now and then, I guess. I don't know. What if someone drove off the road? Yeah, that happened. Yeah.

[Mike]

It was powered by thousands of tiny explosions inside of our metal block.

[Gavin]

Decomposed dinosaurs.

[Evan]

Pretty sick.

[Ryan]

If you start talking about it, it'll

[Ben]

be like an eye robot when he digs out the gas.

[Mike]

I think about that every time.

[Ben]

That's a great movie. I think about it all the time too for some reason.

[Ryan]

That and I'm Legend. Those are two movies I want to watch again.

[Evan]

Man, have you guys seen that? Elon Musk was Like push him for, you know, inhabitant, Inhabit. Inhabit.

[Gavin]

Inhabiting.

[Evan]

Mars.

[Mike]

Inhabiting.

[Evan]

Inhabiting. Jesus.

[Dalton]

One more time. Benny, you got this Coffee cup.

[Evan]

Coffee. Inhabiting.

[Mike]

Yep, there you go. Mars.

[Evan]

Thank you. And then he's shifted to now the moon.

[Ben]

Why?

[Mike]

Honestly, it makes sense. He just said if you're gonna build an airtight thing.

[Evan]

Yeah, well, he was actually saying that, you know, to like get to Mars, it has to be close enough. And it's only close enough.

[Ryan]

Close enough.

[Evan]

I think it still takes a super long time, but it's only close enough. I want to say every 26 months. And so to make sense. Yes.

[Mike]

No.

[Ben]

Well, isn't the moon really dark?

[Ryan]

Only the dark side of it.

[Ben]

Yeah, but isn't it just kind of always dark on the moon? I guess. I have no idea.

[Mike]

It'd be like same as the sun.

[Dalton]

No, it's just reflecting the same as earth or.

[Mike]

Sorry. Yeah, that's what I meant.

[Ben]

I don't know. I don't want to live on the moon. I'm just gonna say it.

[Mike]

I know.

[Dalton]

I mean a vacation though.

[Ben]

Maybe go spend a. Check it out. I'd check it out. Water park.

[Mike]

Evan finds out they made a casino on the moon. Gotta go hit it.

[Ryan]

I'd play $25 blackjack, hands about how

[Gavin]

many times around that roulette ball could go.

[Dalton]

I was gonna say I don't really like airplanes, but I'll take a rocket ship to play Red 18 on the moon.

[Mike]

Did you see like the Mr. Beast video or. I don't even know what the premise of the video was, but he tours a whole like self sufficient. There's like trees, everything's airtight and the trees make the oxygen and that's what they're good. We're gonna put it on Mars. But now probably the moon, which makes sense because the moon's way closer and we've maybe been there.

[Ben]

At what point are you just like straying so far from like natural conditions that humans should be living in? Honestly, I think breathing real air, eating real food, we' already like. I think it's strayed that away from that.

[Evan]

Yeah, everyone's sitting on their phone thing is like, you know, if something happens to them.

[Ben]

Yeah, I get it.

[Evan]

Then it's going to keep human species

[Gavin]

alive and it's, it's going to keep pushing technology forward where you don't know what kind of advancements they're going to come up with to make that work that you might be able to integrate in your daily life ten years from now. Like duct tape came out of what? The moon missions or the space program. And duct tape is used every day.

[Mike]

Love that stuff.

[Evan]

The thing about, about Starlink now too, you know, like Elon starts going on this, this space mission and then Starlink is born out of it.

[Mike]

You're right.

[Evan]

It's crazy to think though that like you know, in our lifetime people are going to be living up on the moon.

[Ben]

You think so, huh? 100.

[Ryan]

How long you think that would take? Gavin and Big Ranch?

[Ben]

Three weeks.

[Ryan]

Put a man on the moon in a house. Three, three weeks, four weeks.

[Evan]

I think if we would tell them to, they'd figure out a way do it in two weeks and they get it done.

[Ben]

What's the what? Like, let's just say you hopped on one of Elon's rockets and was planning to go to moon. How long is the journey? Like how long of a flight is it?

[Evan]

It's not that long.

[Mike]

I would say it would take them four weeks because they'd have to, they'd have like a little setback and have to wait for parts.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you're right.

[Ben]

For the wrenches.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

Figure out how long it is because like if it's like a long time on the plane, I don't think it's going to be a place you're going back and forth.

[Gavin]

But to get to the ISS, I think it's like a. A afternoon essentially because it.

[Ben]

What's the ISS?

[Gavin]

A couple of real space station.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Evan]

CJ takes three days.

[Ben]

Three days.

[Evan]

240000 miles away.

[Ben]

That's crazy.

[Ryan]

Me and my Freightliner could do it

[Evan]

and do a couple of roller dogs.

[Dalton]

1800 miles a day.

[Mike]

I could do it and do without

[Evan]

these regulations, but it would take six to nine months to get to Mars.

[Mike]

Wow. Yeah.

[Ben]

No one's gonna sit on that thing. Yeah, screw that. That's not even gonna happen.

[Mike]

Honestly, the moon makes way more sense because again that tech they're building is just like, it's the same. If you can't breathe on Mars and you can't breathe on the moon, it's the same.

[Ben]

So do you think buying Tesla stock. That's a stupid question, but would that like is Tesla. I don't even want to ask it on here.

[Gavin]

Tesla, it's got its own Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX. Think we're gonna merge? Maybe that was just a joke.

[Dalton]

Do you think real estate on the moon is gonna be affordable?

[Ben]

Probably not, dude. I think only the rich are going to be going to the moon. If Earth is collapsing and everyone's in this big rush to get to the moon to survive. It will only be the richest of the rich. Like that's just the truth.

[Gavin]

The movie was it Elysium where it was like all the rich people left Earth and then the people left on Earth were basically just trying to fend for themselves. Was that that movie or.

[Ben]

I haven't seen it.

[Evan]

You know what's crazy though is one day you're gonna be scrolling YouTube and Mr. Beast is gonna have or some creator is gonna have a video like Going to the moon.

[Ben]

Oh yeah, Mr. Beast.

[Evan]

One day there's going to be people living up on the moon, watching the news, seeing what's happening on Earth, like in the United States. You know, it's just like I wonder

[Ryan]

what moon news will be like, dude,

[Ben]

I'm just not interested in living on the moon. Can't tell me. I mean if the earth is collapsed, I'm going down with the really. Just not really interested.

[Evan]

Collapsing. And I have the option. I'm going to, I'm going to.

[Dalton]

But it's like, do you have to bring everything to the moon?

[Ben]

No, you're probably just going to bring the starting. Yeah, you're starting fresh.

[Ryan]

You don't bring the piano, you know.

[Evan]

You know what, I would equate the moon.

[Ben]

It depends how old I am. Let me. Sorry.

[Dalton]

It's like everything's gonna work like it's gonna be self sufficient once you're there. I can't even wrap my head around this.

[Ryan]

Is there gonna be a gas station with roller dots? Yeah, because if there ain't, I ain't going to. Exactly.

[Mike]

If they're like, yeah, if you stay on earth you're gonna die like in the next month I would go to the moon. But if you can stay on earth and you might make it 10 years, I'd stay on Earth.

[Dalton]

I don't know.

[Evan]

I just feel like the moon, like by the time that you have the option to go to the moon, it's going to be fairly advanced. They're gonna clearly have colonized it and have things going on there where I equate it to. It's like, like what Saudi Arabia is doing. Like by building all these man made islands and they're building out all these different towns that essentially it was just a desert 25 years ago and now there's full on skyscrapers coming out.

[Ben]

I guess if it turns out like Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia or sorry, if it turns out like Dubai. Dubai is pretty sick.

[Evan]

Yeah, Dubai, I've never been there, but

[Ben]

it does look pretty sick. And I'm not really like a city guy. Like I don't like going to Minneapolis or, or really any big city. But Dubai does look pretty sick.

[Gavin]

Maybe it'll be like fallout where you just throw you in a freezer and when somebody's ready to unthaw you, they just come unthy.

[Ben]

God, I wouldn't want to do that though either. I'd rather just, I'll just get it

[Gavin]

over with at that point.

[Ben]

Yeah, Dick, who knows?

[Evan]

You know, like at SpaceX, you know, they're building these, these massive rockets and these rockets can, you know, go up and then land and not be destroyed. And so they're reusable and they're hoping to have like thousands of trips going to the moon.

[Ryan]

A lot to think about because I

[Evan]

think there can only be like a couple hundred people per rocket.

[Ben]

Just think of like the people you'll be competing against in terms of trying to get up there. So they're going to be charging insanely high prices because it's everyone on Earth, not just America trying to probably go up there.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ben]

If Earth is collapsing, you know, there's only so many. I don't think influencers are going to be influencers.

[Mike]

I was trying to think of like how much space the moon has. Like can the moon, realistically if every single person, almost 8 billion people went to the moon, could it fit them? And the earth diameter is almost 8,000 miles. The moon is 2200. But the moon doesn't have any water on it. Right. So the Earth land area is 57.5 million square miles and the Moon area is 14.5 million square miles. Not that much smaller.

[Ryan]

That's new. That's new information to me actually.

[Dalton]

That's what I'm saying. Like if the moon doesn't have water, that's like the biggest problem right off

[Gavin]

like ice or something on it though.

[Mike]

It doesn't have water.

[Dalton]

None of this makes sense. Like can we go mine? Like are there precious metals? Can we drill for oil? Like all the things that make Earth livable. Like if there's none of that there, they're just going to fly stuff up to the moon. Like I can't wrap my head around it. I think it's pretty far fetched but, but interesting to see.

[Evan]

It does seem far fast.

[Dalton]

Seems like a pipe dream.

[Gavin]

People live in Las Vegas and there's barely any water and.

[Dalton]

Yeah, but a couple miles, thousand, whatever. Somewhere not we're going to run a pipe to the moon.

[Ben]

I could see Big Ken moving to the Moon.

[Dalton]

I don't, I don't get. I

[Evan]

think Ken's moving to the moon and he's bringing all of his friends with him and we're going to find out as soon as he like he landed, he posted post like a picture of his new house up there where they like holy. They can move to the moon.

[Gavin]

Moon tax free.

[Evan]

You move in there for tax incentives?

[Gavin]

Well, maybe if there's tax incent, there's tax advantages living on the moon.

[Ben]

Just think about like what kind of government's going to run the moon. Like is there Obviously there's going to probably have to be some kind of system put in place.

[Mike]

It'll be like international waters.

[Evan]

You know that there's going to be moon wars. Yeah. Fighting over moonland.

[Mike]

Can you imagine? Yeah. They're going to try to for me.

[Ryan]

Are we going to have space dollars?

[Mike]

Crypto.

[Ben]

It's gonna be billion dollars.

[Mike]

It'll be big shekels.

[Ryan]

Rhino.

[Gavin]

So you get a lot of V bucks.

[Mike]

Hash coins.

[Ben]

A universal currency.

[Evan]

Bring hash coins to the moon.

[Mike]

Great point. I think we all were aware of that and, and thinking of that in the back of our heads. But yeah, the whole no water thing, I agree. It's like how are they gonna make water?

[Dalton]

Yeah. If everything has to come from earth to like build society on the moon, like it doesn't seem sustainable.

[Mike]

And like riding too. Like all the riding we do.

[Ryan]

How are they going to put the lithium ion vapes on the rockets? Is it going to be in your checked luggage or your carry on?

[Gavin]

You know you can't put it in your check.

[Ben]

Maybe the vapes were all starting Fire ploy. Get the people addicted. And those people aren't going to be able to go to the moon.

[Evan]

Oh wow. Here you go. As three main ways. Mining ice.

[Dalton]

Ice.

[Mike]

Oh, so there is ice.

[Ryan]

People are gonna be like, oh great, there's already ice on the moon.

[Dalton]

How do you build a house? Okay, Ni Glue. I answered my own question. Continue, Evans.

[Ryan]

Like the way you think.

[Mike]

You don't need the water for building. I mean I guess you might get thirsty. I mean swinging a hammer.

[Evan]

But second way recycling. Like that Great.

[Ryan]

We're great.

[Dalton]

Recycling.

[Mike]

What?

[Ben]

There's no if there's. I'll tell you.

[Evan]

Recycling. Sweat, breath, moisture and urine.

[Ryan]

You are pretty good at fogging the glass ev.

[Dalton]

So this is just water.

[Evan]

8% of water is recycled on the International Space Station.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ryan]

These break up like full bladder and piss once.

[Dalton]

Any other anything else? Like can you build a whole civilization on moon dust?

[Evan]

Moon dust.

[Dalton]

Like what what's your house in the, in the infrastructure. What is that built out of?

[Ben]

Of?

[Evan]

Well, let me ask.

[Dalton]

I'm just. I don't know. It just.

[Evan]

No, I. I think those are probably going to be brought from Earth.

[Dalton]

So if the whole thing is reliant on Earth and then Earth crumples, then what? You get a little bit extra and then you're gonna, you know, Ev, you

[Evan]

should be on some committee to raise these questions.

[Ben]

Ev is pretty good at playing devil's advocate.

[Evan]

He's super cynical. But I was telling Ev this the other day. I was like, you were.

[Mike]

Words.

[Evan]

Use the real words.

[Dalton]

What you said, it was like a three word phrase.

[Ben]

Say you were about to stop. Dumbest.

[Evan]

I think I, I said you can be one of the dumbest humans that I know of. Of decisions that you make under the influence for most of them. He's genuinely one of the smarter people. I know.

[Gavin]

You're very.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you are pretty logical.

[Ben]

Statistically you are the most intelligent, but

[Evan]

also very like thought through. Like he thinks through things. Things like people would think that you're just like so reckless and manic and

[Mike]

like you're not thinking about really only on the liquor.

[Evan]

You actually think about everything pretty well through.

[Ben]

He just doesn't care when he's on the liquor. That's the answer. Yeah.

[Evan]

And then sometimes, but like some, some of your decisions that we sit here and we go, how did he make that decision? You have those moments. You're two very, very opposites.

[Dalton]

Well, Ben, nobody's perfect.

[Ben]

I tell people all the time like that don't know Evan, if they ask about him like, oh, I'm like, no, he's actually, you'd be surprised. He's pretty smart. He is like, yeah, like I think people maybe think you're like just this maniac or which you kind of are. But Ben described it. You're very thought through and like you're calculated and. But yeah, then you do have those moments where you just throw care out the window and you just roll the dice.

[Dalton]

It's all about balance.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

A very balanced life.

[Ryan]

Well, Mike, thanks for having us.

[Mike]

Yeah, absolutely. It's been so fun. It's fun every single week having you guys on. And I just want to let you guys listening at home know that we're giving away two TRXs. So z boystv.com we got plenty of merch to choose from and just go check it out and get entered if you would like the chance of winning one of those badass trucks bucks every

[Gavin]

$5 you spend gets you one entry.

[Mike]

Thank you, Ken.

[Ben]

Be careful with those knives, boys.

[Gavin]

And they look amazing with those lifting wheels on them.

[Evan]

Yeah, they do look good. Hey, thanks for asking. Thanks for asking me to be your best man. See? You bet.

[Ben]

Ben.

[Ryan]

Holy smokes. I know. I'm excited. Yeah.

[Gavin]

Ryan, you're off the batch party planning this time.

[Evan]

Damn. Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

And Ben's on it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You better not it up.

[Evan]

You have set the bar pretty high, Ryan. You've done. You've done a good job.

[Dalton]

I'll hit up Jake. Make sure we have a Cookie Lords.

[Ryan]

Yep. Brisket.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay. C.J. was mentioning that he, like, obviously wants to film it. Fun to make a YouTube video out of it. It'd be funny if you're just sitting

[Evan]

there like, I cannot think of what

[Mike]

to do for CJ's bachelor party. And then you're like, well, we should film it and make a YouTube video. And then all of a sudden, Ben's got 10,000 ideas.

[Evan]

Yeah, we got some ideas. We got some plans. Heck, yeah, we got some plans. We got a couple coming up mine.

[Gavin]

And it would be fun for you to not tell us what we're doing. You just need to pack a bag for this kind of climate.

[Mike]

I like that.

[Evan]

Who is this guy?

[Ben]

Kind of different on batch parties.

[Evan]

He's different.

[Gavin]

I think you just. Okay, you. You took care of.

[Ben]

He's prepared for it.

[Gavin]

We're just showing up and you're telling us where we're going.

[Evan]

That would be. That would be super fun. That would be good.

[Ryan]

Hard to pack for, but, you know, I could adapt. I could adapt.

[Mike]

Yeah. Also, that.

[Evan]

You.

[Mike]

I'm just picturing you ordering flights for, like, 15 people.

[Ryan]

You would need Canon on there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

We need a pj.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Do I need my parka or my swim trunks?

[Evan]

Bring your little Borat outfit.

[Ryan]

Does both.

[Mike]

Oh, that is now a picture of Evan in that little green thing. Is now the background of our group chat.

[Evan]

Yes.

[Mike]

And it's hilarious.

[Evan]

It's so hard because I love it. I open up the group chat in public, and, like, I was on an airplane the other day, opened it up and was reading the messages, and then I got to the bottom where the messages open. Like, it. Yeah, the picture opens up to all, and I was like, oh, I can't.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Be looking at.

[Ben]

I was doing that the other day with some guys that were working on my house. I was like, they're like, yeah, yeah. You know what this is supposed to look like? Or whatever. Oh, yeah. I actually have a picture of it. They all get behind me. Right as I'm opening my photos, I'm like, oh boy. And I got two, two guys on both side. I'm. It's just all these pictures of Evan running around my grandparents house naked. They're probably like, what the is up with this guy? Because they're already confused about me.

[Evan]

And then.

[Ben]

Oh, right, right here, right here, you know.

[Mike]

Has Jake's video dropped?

[Ben]

Of what with Cody?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And Brandon. Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay. Yeah, you guys gotta go watch that. Jake's video. We, long story short, reuse the suits. We reused them and made Cody and Jake's filmer, Brandon wear them. And it's just a gift that keeps on giving.

[Ben]

Brandon's hilarious, man. Yeah, Brandon the filmer. Seen him?

[Evan]

I'm a little worried that they got burned.

[Ben]

He quit. Sexual harassment in the workplace.

[Evan]

No, I'm talking about the green, green suit.

[Mike]

Oh, I, I think I seen him around.

[Gavin]

We can buy new ones. I don't think we need to reuse them after Evan.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Also, what was that? That, the leather one?

[Gavin]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Where'd you see that? There's a leather one.

[Gavin]

Jesus.

[Mike]

Was I not supposed to?

[Ben]

No.

[Gavin]

You okay?

[Mike]

No, you couldn't.

[Evan]

That was just on the back.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Evan]

I need to show you guys.

[Mike]

I know you.

[Dalton]

So there was a worse option. CJ sense a loincloth.

[Evan]

We were trying to find them and then CJ goes to like a sex store and he found the leather one and he sends me a picture and he goes, I think this might be too aggressive. And I was like, yeah. And the green ones are.

[Ben]

Bro, that is crazy. That is crazy.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Ben]

That is too aggressive. So you guys want to know?

[Dalton]

Wait, do you have it?

[Ben]

Yes. Yeah, it's at the farm. So get this. I'll tell the story on it. So we're going to do the super bowl segment and Ben and I kind of have this whole. This is what we're gonna have as the punishment. And I was looking all over trying to find something like what we ended up using, except I couldn't find that. That and that was the closest thing. So I go. Ben's like, well, go, go to this, that sex store or whatever and see if you can find something. So I park. It's like, I'm like, is someone gonna see me walking in here? Like, it's kind of embarrassing. I walk in, it's dead silent. I'm like, oh, hello, hello. Some lady pops up.

[Evan]

Oh, hey.

[Ben]

And then like, she's just like. I'm like, hey. Yeah, so I'm looking for. And she Just like interrupts me and goes, a masturbator. And I'm like, no, no, no. Up. I. I'm actually looking for like some like underwear.

[Mike]

Guessing what the person came in for

[Evan]

at a sex store is really fun.

[Ben]

Yeah, she jumped and told me, no, no, no. And then like she said, yeah, thank God she didn't say that. Then I would probably been questioned what I was looking like. But so then we go, she brings me back, starts running me through the things. I'm like, none of these are really like that. They're a little aggressive is what I was thinking. But the super bowl was starting in probably two hours, so I was like, whatever, I'm just gonna grab this thing and we'll have to run this. So in that store, some crazy stuff. Crazy stuff. Like it start. It makes sense why the male rate for having sex has gone down. That's all I gotta say.

[Evan]

Like, what's in there?

[Ben]

Full like looking dolls, Things that do this, like, that look like a real person.

[Dalton]

Is that a real statistic? Are men having less?

[Ben]

I mean, we could pull it up, but basically like there's a small group. I don't know exactly the percentage. Maybe it's like 10 of the men are having all the sex and like. Or not maybe not 10. Maybe it's like 30, like getting all the chicks and having sex. And then like it's not like soon

[Mike]

it's going to be the top 1%.

[Ben]

And they're basically saying because of like all the stuff out there that a lot of guys don't want to go through the work of actually going in, like picking up a woman. Say you're a single guy, like you don't want to go and hit on a chick or actually try starting a relationship because it's just easier to use your hand. Or in this case, full on buy a. A pretty much real looking person. I didn't touch him because I felt like that had been weird. But I was like looking. I'm like, holy crap, this is insane. So anyways, I'm checking out now I'm checking out and all of a sudden this like old man comes walking out of like the basement. There's like this basement stairway. I like, here's a movie room. That's what it was. I'm like confused. I'm like, where the did that guy just come from? Because he was like old and he like had his hands. He was like, see ya. And she's like, yeah, see you later. And then like I was kind of confused. Like, I'm like, Where is that guy? Is he living here? Like, what the. She goes, there's a movie room downstairs.

[Evan]

It's.

[Ben]

I think she said it was like three bucks for 20 minutes. So basically, there's a bunch of movies in there. There's a bunch of movies in there like, like, you know, this is. Hence why he's an old guy. He's probably not familiar with the Internet. And they pop it in and they get to lock the door and use the room for an hour. Yeah, I didn't know that was her thing.

[Gavin]

That's insane.

[Evan]

That exists, Evan.

[Dalton]

And no, I have certainly not used the movie room. No, of course I haven't. What are you looking at me like that for?

[Ryan]

No, you are correct. Corner chat.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Ryan]

On average, young men are reporting less partnered sex than they used to, especially in the United States. Yeah, it's. It rose actually, in the mid-2000s.

[Dalton]

Well, that's good news for us breeders. Plenty of women out there.

[Ben]

Yeah. So, like, a smaller portion of the guys are getting all the chicks if you're like, a single dude.

[Evan]

I watched a movie the other day that it essentially was like, this dude bought a robot that was like, full on.

[Ben]

Is it Ex Machina or something?

[Ryan]

No, the one with Megan Fox.

[Ben]

No, no, you're thinking of Machina when it, when it locks him in the room at the end and he dies.

[Gavin]

No, you're thinking, like, she ends up getting, like, stuck talking, like, some foreign language or something. That's one you're talking about.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Gavin]

Yep. I, I no idea what it's called, but I've seen the trailer for it and all that.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Okay. Well, essentially, like, this.

[Mike]

This is it called her. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, it's her.

[Mike]

Yeah. Kind of lost in translation.

[Evan]

No, Wally.

[Gavin]

I think she ends up like. Yeah, she ends up, like, killing him, though, doesn't he?

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway. Anyway, it doesn't matter, but essentially it's just like he buys this, this lady to be, like, his sex doll, and then he basically gets this lady to commit a murder and kill the super rich dude so he could, like, be with this rich dude's girlfriend. But, like, all goes south when this lady finds out that she's a robot. Spot but kills him.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Actually, I don't need to watch the movie now.

[Evan]

Sorry I spoiled it. Even though I. I don't know what it's called.

[Ben]

But, bro, there was robots in there. I didn't. I mean, you gotta have some bread, I think, for, like, the full one. But you could buy half ones if you know what I'm saying like just the hinder or even just the torso. It was, I mean, it was insane. Like I was, I felt weird. And that lady clearly has seen a lot more weird weirdos than me. So she was just like.

[Gavin]

I mean they already. These humanoid, like household servant robots are within the next couple years, you know, they're gonna make the worst dirty versions.

[Dalton]

And we all know you're going to have a robot. I'm just saying the worst dirty one.

[Evan]

But are you getting a robot? A house made robot would make a

[Mike]

pretty good housewarming game.

[Ben]

Would you let. Would you be interested in it pleasing you romantically?

[Gavin]

I think that's way too up and weird. I don't know.

[Ben]

Know.

[Evan]

I don't know.

[Gavin]

I. I just think these robots maybe does like the laundry or the dishes, but I don't know.

[Mike]

And on that note,

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Gavin]

I just think it's. I think it's dumb. It's kind of a beta move though.

[Ben]

It's very. A beta move.

[Evan]

Fair.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Can someone say a joke so I don't have to go to bed thinking about Ken pounding out his robot housemate? Maybe I will just leave on that.

[Ben]

You think we're going to have like a decline in the population eventually? Like if people are having less and less sex, like, what's the population, Is it rising or is it technically decreasing?

[Ryan]

Going down.

[Ben]

It's going down. That's actually. Isn't that kind of what they wanted though?

[Mike]

Picture this podcast ending like a really long 80s rock song where it just fades away.

[Ben]

Fades away.

[Evan]

It's just getting quieter and quieter. They have to keep turning it up and up and up.

[Gavin]

I mean, they are.

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