Kens Racing History, CboysTV's Questionable Investments, & Youth Sports VS Powersports

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Ken’s Racing History, CboysTV’s Questionable Investments, & Youth Sports VS Powersports

Release Date: February 3, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this engaging and hilarious episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah—dive into personal stories and hot takes on everything from Ken’s infamous mom-dating reputation and snowmobile racing history, to the real value of questionable collectible investments, and a candid debate about youth sports versus motorsports. The group blends personal anecdotes, friendly teasing, and sharp social commentary, giving listeners both deep insights and plenty of laughs.

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Highlights & Main Themes

• Ken’s Love Life & Mom Reputation (00:27–06:47)
• Ken’s Snowmobile Racing History (52:14–54:38)
• CboysTV’s Sketchy Investments: Collectibles, Cards, and More (86:41–95:16)
• Youth Sports vs. Powersports: Freedom, Commitment, and Changing Trends (39:19–47:47)
• Miscellaneous Shenanigans: Knives, Garments, and Fashion Faux Pas (07:32–16:09; 61:33–73:34)

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Detailed Breakdown

1. Ken’s “Mom Magnet” Image & Love Life

Timestamps: 00:27–06:47

• The group razzes Ken about their ongoing “exploitation” of his reputation for attracting middle-aged women, asking if it's improved or hurt his love life.
• Ken insists that the whole “mom hunter” bit is overblown, saying, “Some of it’s exploitation, some of it’s fabrication.” (03:09)
• CJ jokes, “For the middle-aged women listening, what’s the window—35 to 55?” Ken clarifies: “26 to 35.” (05:47)
• Ken laments that his “brand” has scared off women who don’t want to end up in an episode: “It has really actively harmed it.” (03:21)
• The guys ponder if Ken will “age up” his target demographic or stay like Leo DiCaprio, who’s always dating 25-year-olds.
• They riff about being stepdads, snacks in the house, and Ken’s hypothetical role as a “snack advocate.”
  • “As long as they got uncrustables in the house, Ken’s good.” (07:26)

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2. Mishaps, Missing Knives, and Fashion Debates

Timestamps: 07:32–16:09

• CJ suspects Ben stole his favorite knife, sparking an impromptu “investigation.” Turns out, no one took it; it was just misplaced. (07:33–08:44)
• Debate opens up: Are fancy knives like watches? Do they appreciate? “I don't know what the resale on knives really is, but I'd imagine it depreciates.” (09:50)
• Tangent on losing clothes, failed ideas for custom garments, and the practical versus aesthetic value of winter wear.
• Ben and Evan bicker about long-sleeve vs. short-sleeve layering, showing off party tricks (like removing clothes without taking off other layers).
• Ben casually admits: “I shit myself. But that's fine. A lot of people do that every day.” (14:05)
  • Discussion on digestive disasters leads to expired snacks, keg beer, and notorious “Funyun events.”
  • “You drink enough beer, next morning you got the beer shits. That’s just fact of life.” (16:57)

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3. “Is Recycling Real?” and Other Hot Takes

Timestamps: 18:14–23:36

• Ben and Ken throw out hot takes: Is all recycling just garbage? Ken claims, “None of them do. The only things that actually get recycled are paper, glass and metals. Everything else it just goes straight to the land.” (20:14–20:30)
• Recollections from childhood: burning garbage, not knowing environmental norms.
• Cynical humor about product marketing and “organic” scams on eggs, “free-range chicken,” and how consumers constantly get duped (17:19–18:47).

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4. Snow, Sledding, and Cboys’ Roots

Timestamps: 25:04–38:30

• The guys geek out over epic Russian snowfall, AI-generated viral videos, and the dream (and danger) of a truly massive Midwestern snowstorm.
• “If we didn’t get snow this year, all the snowmobile companies were going to go bankrupt.” (38:23)
• Flatland trail riding vs. backcountry; the good old days when “everyone was snowmobiling on weekends.”
• “When I was a kid, everybody had a snowmobile. Now, nobody.” (39:19)
• Shifts to how technology and shifting interests might be keeping kids indoors.
• “I just remember like being a young kid really being into snowmobiling because it was like the one thing…I hope it’s still like that for kids.” (47:19–47:47)

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5. Youth Sports vs. Powersports Debate

Timestamps: 39:19–47:47

• Discussion about the relentless pace of youth sports today, making it harder for kids to balance team sports and hobbies like snowmobiling or dirtbiking.
  • “Let kids be kids and have fun. Play a sport. It’s a game.” (44:39)
• Some of the crew recall how playing hockey, baseball, and basketball as a kid felt compulsory—often not even enjoyable.
  • “I hope my kid doesn’t play hockey. I hope he doesn’t. Like, I’m cool with playing sports, but I don’t want to do that year round.” (44:12)
• The sense of adventure and freedom Powersports gave them—especially before they could drive.
• “As soon as you got your snowmobile safety, you could hop on…and you could do so many things at a young age that you couldn’t do before getting your driver’s license.” (47:22)

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6. Ken’s Snowmobile Racing Past Exposed

Timestamps: 52:14–54:38

• Breaking news: Ken once raced snowmobiles, but never shared this with the group because he “got last every time.”
  • “Twice. And I lost. How did you guys just figure that out this week?” (52:18)
  • “Because I sucked and I got last every time.” (52:23–52:28)
• Reluctance to own the "snowmobile racer" title: “Zero credibility, saying that I race. Yeah, I did it. I sucked ass at it.” (52:58)
• The crew urges Ken to take pride in trying; they tease about leveraging this info for future intros.

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7. The ‘Weird Investments’ Rabbit Hole: Cards, Shoes, and Growing Value

Timestamps: 86:41–95:16

• The guys riff on recent collector trends, like supercars fetching record auction prices and Logan Paul’s $10 million Pokémon card.
• “There’s becoming this new wave of people investing…on pretty crazy returns.” (86:42)
• Ben shares his Etsy skate shoe investment, and how he keeps failing to “hold” for value because he can’t resist wearing them. (90:05)
• Discussion on rookie sports cards, video game nostalgia, and just how many “million dollar” items are gathering dust in basements.
• The difficulty with “bubble-wrap” investments: “It sucks because there’s, like, a lot of games for PlayStation 2 that are getting crazy in price.” (92:44)
• “If anyone wants to sell me Def Jam: Fight for New York for 100 bucks, I don’t need the box. Get my DMs.” (94:09)

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8. Tangents and Inside Jokes: Skateboarding, Boards, & Accidents

Timestamps: 61:33–73:34

• The group jokes about learning new sports, like Ben trying to drop in on a mini ramp—and possibly getting Tony Hawk to teach him.
  • “Would that be. I feel like, comes out to our 2 foot tall mini ramp…” (56:08)
• Endless swapping of skate setups, grip tape, wheels, “maybe if I got the right gear, I’d be way better” myth is debunked: “But it’s not the board.” (68:51)
• Epic crash stories: “When Pat, our editor, wipes out…and Dalton goes to check on him and steps on the skateboard and then takes himself out.” (79:37)
• Ben admits to being an average athlete: “Like, I sucked at sports. My poor parents…” (43:32)

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9. Collecting Weird Stuff: TV Sets, Agates, and Rocks

Timestamps: 95:16–99:15

• Chasing “the next Beanie Baby”: Are old tube TVs, Lightning McQueen sets, or agate rocks the new golden investment?
• “My bedroom I grew up in…still held onto the built-in VHS TV…because you never know if you need to watch a VHS…” (94:34)
• Everyone reminisces about destroying TVs in college and the circular trend of collectibles: “It’s just crazy that…people were paying to dispose [of them] and now they’re worth…good money.” (97:05)

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Notable Quotes

• Ken, on the “mom” reputation:
  “Some of it’s exploitation, some of it’s fabrication.” (03:09)
• CJ, on snowmobiling as freedom:
  “It was like the one thing that you could do where you had a sense of freedom…before you had a license.” (47:19)
• Evan, on expensive collectibles:
  “If anyone wants to sell me Def Jam: Fight for New York for 100 bucks, I don’t need the box. Get my DMs.” (94:09)
• Ben, on clothes and practical fashion:
  “I don’t like rolling my sleeves. Because then you have a pressure pinch point at your elbow…” (12:25)
• On parenting:
  “Let kids be kids and have fun. Play a sport. It’s a game.” (44:39)
• Ken, on snowmobile racing:
  “It sucked. The whole time I was doing it, I was like, why did I want to do this?” (53:38)
• Ben, on investing in “normal” things:
  “I think, I still think we should buy some normal ass things. Like I see at some of those auctions where it’s just like 1991 Silverado with like no miles…goes for stupid money.” (89:16)

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Episode Takeaways

• Don’t believe the hype: Whether your eggs are really “free range” or your recycling goes anywhere but the landfill, question consumer narratives.
• Powersports ≠ Just Fun: For the crew, snowmobiles and dirt bikes weren’t just hobbies—they were tickets to real freedom as kids.
• We all start somewhere: Ken’s honest account of failing at racing proves that the trying (and the stories) matter just as much as winning.
• Collectibles are gamble investments: From baseball cards to Sheckler skate shoes, their real value might be in nostalgia—not dollars.
• Change is constant: Whether it’s the decline of snowmobiling in the Midwest, skyrocketing prices, or obsessively scheduled youth sports, life moves fast, so you might as well enjoy (and laugh at) the ride.

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For Listeners:

What do you collect—or invest in—that’s a little out there? Let the Cboys know in the comments!

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Listen every Tuesday for more wild stories, honest takes, and the undeniable chemistry of the CboysTV crew.

Transcript

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[B]

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[A]

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[D]

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[C]

But how do you feel about being a stepdad?

[E]

Depends on the kids. I don't know.

[F]

Bro. Tell the camera what you did in them earlier.

[B]

Myself, but that's fine. A lot of people do that every day.

[C]

If we didn't get snow this year, all the snowmobile companies were gonna go bankrupt.

[F]

We've kind of exploited your life. Do you think that it has now helped your love life?

[E]

Or possibly it has effectively harmed it. This is getting way too drug out.

[C]

I have so many photos of Ken and moms on my phone.

[F]

Why do you think that middle aged women are so into you, Ken?

[A]

I mean we could. It's a pretty long list.

[F]

Explain like as your from your point of view. Like I have my own theories but I'm curious on yours.

[E]

I think there's a few different factors.

[C]

KE when was the last middle aged.

[B]

Woman you took down?

[E]

D, you can shut the hell up over there.

[F]

What are your Factors, Ken?

[E]

I, I don't know. I just think there's a few factors. You know, the, the older women, they like a younger man who's still a little, you know, a little loose.

[C]

Oh.

[D]

Anything but that.

[B]

Their moms don't.

[E]

Let me, let me. They're still, they're still in the prime of their life. They're not like on the down slope yet.

[C]

You. Yeah, you are, Ken. You're catching your stride right now. I feel like you really are. Especially with all of these moms finding out about, you know, this, the services that you're providing. It seems like they're just coming in and. Droves.

[E]

I wouldn't say droves, but there's a, there's a steady stream.

[F]

Do you think that like we've kind of exploited your life?

[C]

You know, you're, you're.

[F]

Whatever you want to call, you know, your things you do.

[E]

Some of it's exploitation, some of its fabrication.

[F]

Okay, so let's just say we exploited some of your, your things you like to do. Do you think that it has now helped your love life?

[E]

Or possibly it has actively harmed it? It has really actively harmed it.

[F]

Do you think women are now like, oh, I don't want to like get involved with him because then they're like afraid they might be put on.

[E]

Yes. Yeah.

[C]

More harm than good though. But lately it's, but like it's like two steps back.

[E]

I'd say it's about some is good, some is bad about, about, about neutral. In the long term right now, heavily on the bad side.

[F]

You don't think that us kind of exposing that you are into moms of middle aged moms has, has not increased that you're.

[E]

I'm not into every middle aged mom, though.

[F]

I don't. No one expects you to be into every middle aged mom.

[E]

Some of this, it's just getting a little too far. Like some of this has been a little exploited, a little too heavy and it needs to kind of pump the brakes on.

[F]

Like, do you feel like you go to, let's just say Zorbas and then they're like, oh, there's Ken. I have a very clear shot with him because he's in the middle aged women. Do you think that has turned up those occurrences that.

[E]

Yes, but I'm not necessarily some of these middle aged moms, I'm not looking for some of them, I'm looking for a little younger. And then all these middle aged moms just keep flocking to it.

[C]

Like they, like they almost expect. Yeah, you.

[F]

Because we've played it up because it's.

[E]

Been played up super heavy.

[C]

And then they're probably more than a little.

[F]

Their feelings are probably hurt. They're like, what the frick? Like they probably go home feeling bad about themselves.

[A]

Like it's how the heavies feel about Gap too.

[F]

But I mean, gab normal. Yeah, I'd say Gav normally follows through.

[A]

He does. But I mean it's like, it'd be like saying Gav was into every heavy that cross his path. It's not possible.

[D]

That's life, man. You know, it's not everyone, you know, they can't expect just because he likes middle aged women that he's gonna like her.

[F]

I mean, Dalton's into girls. We don't just expect him to be into every girl. I mean that's not fair. Problem.

[D]

Ken, Ken, do you think as you age up the women will age up or do you think you're gonna stay the same age as you get older? Like, you know, you're gonna Leonardo DiCaprio it or are you gonna like grow with them?

[A]

I don't even.

[E]

Is very bad.

[D]

Yeah, well, the middle aged version of Leonardo DiCaprio.

[A]

Leonardo Leonardo has like a 25 rule, doesn't he? And I don't even know if Ken's trying to go 25.

[D]

No, no, that's what I'm saying. But like he, he gets older the same age. Are Ken's. Is he going to stay middle aged or is he going to move up?

[E]

Like, do you think I'll stay in that bracket?

[D]

You're, you're going to keep him the same age.

[E]

You get a little older, then we can move just from there.

[C]

So I guess just for the middle aged women listening right now, the moms. What is this window like 35 to 55?

[E]

26 to 35.

[D]

26.

[B]

That's pretty low end from what I would have expected you to say.

[F]

That doesn't seem like your window. 26 to 35. I was going to say you're just.

[E]

From your window's 60. 60 to 85.

[C]

No, no, we're just calling it as.

[F]

We'Ve seen it seems like it's more so what do you, you put 35 to 45, make it look like this.

[E]

Man is standing next to a 45 year old woman who has 17 children and they're all 18 plus. Is that the prompts you're putting in there?

[F]

17 children?

[C]

No, I said a family of four. Okay. And that was just because I didn't have any photos of your. Your family photo. Yeah. I had to just recreate what the family looks like without actually exploiting the actual family.

[E]

You just created fictitious children or what did you do there?

[A]

Yeah, I got a couple of fictitious children at home.

[C]

But how do you feel about being a stepdad?

[E]

Depends on the kids. I don't know. Been in that situation, so.

[F]

But, like, if they're chill, you're cool with it?

[E]

I mean, I don't know. I've never been in that situation or stuck around long enough to care.

[F]

They usually don't introduce you to the kids, right?

[A]

Yeah, usually you gotta go.

[F]

Most kids would probably know who you are.

[C]

Evan is a big. He is a big advocate for the snacks.

[E]

Well, yeah, because they got kids, they always have snacks.

[D]

As long as they got uncrustables in the house. Ken's good.

[E]

This is getting way too drug out.

[F]

All right, we'll move on.

[A]

We'll move on.

[C]

So, cj, you think somebody stole your knife?

[F]

Yeah. Which one of you guys stole my knife?

[D]

Dude, no one cares about your knife enough to steal it.

[B]

First off, you know, digress a little while you still have a knife in your head. Let's.

[E]

Let's.

[D]

Let's.

[E]

Let's step back and set it down.

[F]

Hold on. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way.

[B]

Can I hold that?

[A]

You are.

[F]

Each one of you guys.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

No, actually, I know for a fact it was Ben, because I was playing with it in my meeting, and Ben was sitting next to me, and I set it down for just a second, and then Ben picked it up and was kind of playing with it, and I was like, okay, this guy's playing with my knife.

[C]

I did.

[F]

He played with it for over an hour.

[C]

Oh, my.

[F]

Long enough for me to forget about it. And then. I haven't seen it since.

[C]

I don't know how to tell you this, cj, but I didn't steal your knife. And if I wanted to, I would just go into our warehouse and grab one.

[F]

No, you wouldn't, because they all sold.

[A]

Out right when we got back from break. You're like, I love knives. This is so sick. I love our life wide open knives.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And you're like, yeah, I carry this thing everywhere. And then you literally got up and walked out of the building without it.

[F]

So you have it?

[A]

No, I gave it back to you.

[E]

Did you?

[A]

I was like, yo, cj, the knife you talked about that you love so much, you just left.

[D]

Did you be leaving your knife in.

[E]

The meeting room where the knife got lost?

[A]

Yeah, he was fiddling with it way past the meeting room.

[F]

I don't know where it went. Pissed me off because that was my favorite knife.

[E]

If you check Ben's car.

[D]

Yeah, check my pockets.

[C]

I don't have.

[D]

I think he check his belt loop.

[F]

I think he's jealous because he saw how much fun I was having with my knife and then he was like, I want a knife. Well, all the knife sold out.

[A]

We got more coming because you and. And you needed to replace me anyway because you're snapping it so much.

[F]

Only way for him to freaking get one was to steal it.

[C]

If I was a klepto and I wanted to go about it that way, that does make sense.

[A]

But so are knives similar to, like watches? You know, you can. Obviously you can buy a million 30, $100, like cheap knives. And then there's. Are there knives that are just thousands?

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

It just seems insane.

[C]

That's a lot of knife for 1500.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, I mean, like, it seems insane to like have a pocket knife that's like over a g. I.

[F]

Guess I haven't looked at anything more expensive than that. I'm not trying to spend a grand on a knife.

[A]

Right. Like I.

[C]

Watches are careful.

[A]

It might happen.

[F]

And also, I don't know what the. What the resale on knives really is, but I'd imagine it depreciates. Some watches go up in value, but.

[A]

Right.

[F]

Yeah, but I have no idea. You know, a knife is more than just telling you the time, you know, you don't need to know the time when you have a knife. It's protection. It's protection.

[A]

It's security, survival.

[E]

So many knives you up to these days?

[B]

None. Because he lost it.

[F]

One now. I only have one now, kind of.

[B]

At least it matches your outfit. You're awfully green today, buddy. Kermit the frog.

[F]

And the worst part is, like, all of it is just like a little bit different. Like, at least it could have matched. But what are you gonna do? You know, I work with a bunch of dudes and unfortunately I'm on camera for millions of people to see.

[A]

It's fine. Your forearms could look like literal Cheetos.

[B]

Yeah, I lost all my long sleeve shirts over the past month. I bought four fresh ones as cold season hit. I got one. I don't know where they are.

[C]

So. Ev.

[B]

We're actually probably with your knife.

[C]

Honestly, we're trying to develop a garment just specifically to you. I don't know if there's a big market for it anymore anymore.

[B]

Like. Oh, the long sleeve. The.

[D]

The sewed in.

[B]

Sewed In. I don't like that.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[D]

It's got to be two different shirts.

[B]

Yeah. Or else I just feel like you're faking it.

[C]

Yeah, we can cancel that.

[F]

All right.

[C]

Cancel that.

[D]

Cancel truckload of that.

[B]

Maybe other people would like it. So then. Then maybe it is a good thing.

[A]

But I used to run that quite a bit when I was growing up. When I got the one that was actually built in, I was like, gosh, this is so much better.

[B]

But what happens it right now if I start overheating?

[A]

Oh, you.

[B]

I just lose the long sleeve, and I'm still running a short sleeve. It's layers, and so, like, it serves a purpose.

[C]

So this is more of like a sweatshirt. Looks more like a sweatshirt.

[B]

So it's got a hood now I.

[C]

Got your attention back.

[B]

Yeah. Yo.

[C]

Okay, so. So you could run that same setup that you're running right now, but if you want to wear a sweatshirt over the top, keep the same look, and then drop that layer. You're still rocking that.

[B]

I think I don't understand what you just said.

[F]

Does not compute.

[B]

So it's a T shirt over a sweatshirt.

[C]

Yeah, but it's a sweatshirt look. So it's like a. It's like a sweatshirt on top of a long sleeve.

[D]

More.

[F]

More.

[C]

So we'll figure like a vest. We'll work on the details of it. All right. I'll run it past you before we. We pull.

[B]

All right. Either way, more of the story is it's not an esthetic thing for me. It's a function thing for me. It's cold. I wear long sleeves. I get warm. I take the long sleeves off.

[A]

That.

[B]

I don't like rolling my sleeves. Because then you have a pressure pinch point at your elbow from your long sleeve rolled up. Now you have poor circulation, guaranteed arm pump immediately.

[A]

From a stylistic standpoint, I think you're killing it. One might be able to argue that you could flip flop it, and then you wouldn't have to take both shirts off. T shirt back on.

[D]

That's a good point.

[B]

Wouldn't you take this shirt off the long sleeve without taking the short sleeve off?

[F]

Right now? Do it.

[A]

That's pretty impressive.

[B]

I'm going to have to take my headphones off, though.

[F]

See it?

[A]

Wait. Can you actually, for the record.

[B]

For the record, shout out to Mr. Bean because he took his underwear off without taking his jeans off one time? That's impressive.

[F]

I would ask you to do that, but I know that you've been having a rough day in your pants today. So let's Keep your. Let's keep your underwear on.

[C]

What situation do you get yourself into where you need to do. Okay, like, why.

[A]

It looks like he's just taking his bra off.

[B]

Take my tarp off. But, like, I could just do this.

[D]

This is pretty smooth. It is smoother than I think.

[F]

It's not bad.

[A]

It's not bad.

[F]

That's not good.

[C]

That was good.

[A]

Little party trick, you know?

[C]

Yeah, that was good.

[B]

The underwear one. I don't got that. I don't know. My thighs are too thick or what, but there ain't no way I could do that with my underwear.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, respectfully, nobody wants you to do that with your underwear after the day.

[B]

No, I. I changed. I changed them. Oh, you did?

[C]

Okay, good.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Did you throw them away?

[B]

No, they're on my floor.

[A]

What?

[F]

Bro, tell the camera what you did in them earlier.

[B]

I myself. But that's fine. A lot of people do that every day. Like, I swear to God, I don't know how many people are listening to this, but say there was a hundred thousand. There's thousands of people probably that.

[D]

You know what?

[C]

That.

[B]

That would be like. You know what? No, no, no, no. Not a day. But would be like, yeah, dude, last Tuesday, I. Yeah, I kind of started to like.

[C]

How many times a month do you shit your pants?

[B]

It depends on the month.

[C]

But how many times this month in the last running? 30 days. In the last 30 days?

[B]

A few Bushel.

[A]

I love how, like, unfazed you are by it, because some people would be like, this is really getting to be a problem. I can't keep.

[F]

He doesn't mind telling everybody it's not.

[A]

Like the end of the world.

[B]

What did Forrest Gump say?

[A]

Life's like a box of chocolates.

[B]

He did say that, but he also said, shit happens.

[A]

Was that really Forrest Gump, like, kind of an original line?

[B]

No, no, no. Not probably not original, but that. He did say that when the guy was looking for the catchphrase and he's like, shit happens. And then it became a bumper sticker or whatever.

[C]

Yeah, I guess so. I guess so.

[B]

Either way, I try to avoid it. Sometimes it happens.

[E]

You at least go wipe or take a shower or anything between then and now.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. But I had to wait, like, five hours from the time it happened. That was the problem. But I'm good now.

[C]

Man, you gotta have some trust issues.

[B]

Trust. I fell off of Ken's snowmobile the second I hit the ground. It was already done. I would. Trust has nothing to do with it. I Maybe have impact issues or. I don't know what issue I had.

[D]

Loose stool.

[C]

You got loose stool?

[B]

Not hinders.

[C]

Oh boy, here we go again. Like it's a constant gambler.

[E]

No.

[C]

Okay. You really love gambling.

[B]

This, this really is what stems the problem. We had a keg of beer the other day, so I got into some a bushel of keg beers. And when I laid down in bed last night, I remembered I just got a fresh unit of Flamin Hot Funyuns.

[D]

They're expired.

[B]

Oh yeah. And they're expired. I got them out of the bargain bin at the gas station, but either way I ate the whole goddamn. Like it's like seven servings of Flamin Hot Funyuns on top of a dozen beers. Like, I think that's what. What happened.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

What goes into your body makes complete sense of what happens afterwards.

[F]

But that's how you shit yourself five times a month, what you're eating.

[B]

Not five times every month. Probably five times this month.

[D]

But starting off the year, hot. I will say expired Funyuns is probably one of the safest things to eat. Not anything other than getting stale. There's nothing go bad in them because.

[A]

I eat an expired eggs that spice though.

[E]

Yeah. But there's so many preservatives.

[D]

And that's what I mean, it's not.

[E]

Even hardly food quite a ways beyond the expiration date.

[B]

I think that it has nothing to do with the expiration date being six months ago. It has solely to do with it's fucking Funyun and they're spicy and beer and whatever else.

[A]

The beer just needed a little bit of something to turn into something to shoot out of something.

[F]

Yeah, I mean you drink a lot. You drink enough beer, like the next morning you got the beer shits. That's just.

[D]

That's just fact of life.

[B]

My stomach, it's kind of like packing a black powder rifle.

[D]

It is.

[B]

You know, it's whatever you throw down.

[F]

There, it really like your stomach is. It can handle a lot. I mean, I've seen you eat a lot of things. But you know, speaking of the eggs, do you guys see. I think it's called Vital Farms. It's like this expensive organic eggs that like a lot of people pay a lot of money for to get these, you know, organic eggs. They basically got exposed for like it being a sham. Yeah, basically a sham. I mean technically most stuff that's labeled.

[B]

Organic and non GMO and free range.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

I mean, I don't, I don't know if most stuff's like that. But they got called out and they got caught and like basically like that. All these chickens, right, they were saying they're free range and like they'd show like, you know, the chickens like a however many.

[B]

And like you're talking about super size me too.

[F]

I have no idea what you're talking.

[E]

So like the.

[F]

I'm talking about something that just came out in like December.

[D]

I heard that super size me guy was boozing the whole time and that's why he got so fat.

[B]

Well, that was super size. We went dealt with McDonald's and him getting fat. Supersize me too. Just exposed all those labels when I. But yeah, the free range chicken thing just meant the barn door was open and there was a fence across it and the chickens are the exact same, were the exact same as the other ones but they sold for twice as much people and people thought they were healthy but they're literally the same chicken, same farm. The barn door was just open.

[E]

And the legal definition for that has not changed since then.

[A]

People are think the chickens are like.

[F]

Running around open green field short of it really. But it's like obviously some of the chickens could be outside but like the majority of them they're in this huge ass barn. They don't even know it because they're.

[B]

Packed in and they want to be in the shade. They don't even want to go out in the sun anyways. A lot of these or you know what I mean, They.

[E]

I don't know.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

And then they like test the yolk and basically there was, I don't know what the term it was that they used but like it was like the worst compared to other eggs. Like it had lower or higher of something bad, you know.

[B]

Damn.

[C]

So what happens after a company like.

[F]

They'Re getting canceled, bro?

[D]

Like do they have to shut down or are they just socially canceled?

[F]

I don't know. I guess private equity came in and kind of up their whole business. Like it was at one point organic.

[D]

And then, then they had to sell to every Walmart in the country.

[B]

So I love to hear it though. Cuz like I'm the guy that's going to buy like the 88 cent carton of eggs and then these people that are spending 7 or $10 or 12, I don't know how much but. And then they find out that's just.

[D]

Like it's like whenever we talk gas, Ken's like all gas comes from the same place.

[E]

It does. It actually does line up in Fargo. You'll see every single brand of gas tank out front of the distribution center is. Or they're all the same.

[A]

Even in Canada.

[E]

I don't know about Canada.

[B]

So you're not talking about like 87 91.

[E]

There's holiday, there's.

[B]

Yes. You're saying every gas station is serving.

[E]

This the same gas.

[D]

But Shell is really the only one that's saying they put the additives and.

[E]

They all put different additives in there.

[D]

That's true but so then it's different.

[B]

So you're paying for the ad or.

[D]

You'Re, you're paying for the additives. They're different.

[E]

It's the only difference.

[D]

There you go.

[E]

And they put those in at the gas station.

[C]

I have another hot take. I don't think that all recycling bins actually get recycled.

[E]

None of them do.

[C]

I think.

[A]

I think recycling is much more like prevalent to be real. On coastal places they can't let garbage like even be near the ocean. But in the inland I think they're recycling just goes to landfill.

[F]

So why do you think they do.

[E]

It then still the only things that actually get recycled are paper, glass and metals. Everything else it just goes straight to the land.

[B]

So they.

[D]

Or it just goes to a different pile at the landfill.

[B]

What about those water bottles right there? It says made with recycled plastic, comes from China.

[E]

But we can't export our plastic recycling to China.

[F]

And this guy's wondering why his pants are dirty.

[C]

I don't think he is wondering. Pretty self aware in that aspect. Yeah, no. I've seen a. A straight up garbage truck back up to a recycling bin and dump it in. And so I'm always telling Greta because Greta is like super like green recycle this. And I'm like it's going to the same place and it's just more work on my end.

[E]

All our plastics used to just go to China for recycling. But since they cut that off five or ten years ago it just goes straight to the landfill.

[D]

There's no way that it was any better for the planet shipping all our plastic to China.

[E]

There's no way it was.

[C]

And then what we're trying to do.

[D]

With it, throw it in the ocean with the car batteries.

[B]

Were they able to like melt it down but their emissions were better. Like we wouldn't have been able to do that.

[F]

Missions are terrible.

[C]

Well they have zero emission.

[B]

That's what I meant. They don't have the mission regulations. Like we couldn't recycle plastic because we'd be polluting, I'm guessing. I don't know.

[E]

It's like a net negative thing. It's just make people feel better.

[B]

Yeah. All I know is I actually have been recycling the past bushel of years, only because I get a free recycling bin. Like, so you might as well fill that up otherwise. Yeah, My garbage can overflow. Yes, exactly.

[A]

I'm the same way. I think I might as well use it because my garbage can is always full. So if you recycle some of it.

[D]

Yeah. When I moved to the city in DL, they were like, you have to have a recycling bin. I'm like, that's cool. And they're like, you have to pay for it either way, whether we give you the bin or not. I was like, oh, I'll take the bin.

[A]

That's interesting. Yeah.

[B]

When I said it was free, maybe I was just required to pay for it. Yeah. It just came with when I signed up for garbage service. And they come every other week.

[F]

You can't just burn your garbage in the city. Garbage, Mike, just.

[A]

That dude, that was, like. That was like, one of my, like, main chores, you know, clean the dishwasher out, shovel snow, and burn garbage.

[D]

You were burning garbage?

[A]

That was, like, literally one of my weekly chores.

[D]

Really? My neighbors when I was a kid used to burn garbage.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And, like, we lived in, like, a lake neighborhood. Like, there was houses everywhere. They just, like, burned garbage in the front yard.

[B]

When we went to the county fair, we were little kids.

[D]

They had garbage burning?

[B]

No, they had this wheel. So it was some environmental thing. I don't know what it was, but it's for little kids. You spin the wheel and they would ask you a question. And they asked my. My sister. I don't know, she's probably like, five or eight or something. And they ask her, like, should you burn garbage? Or something like that. My sister says yes, because growing up, my grandpa lives out in the middle of nowhere. And as kids, we would burn garbage because that's what you do when you live in the middle of nowhere. And she didn't get a prize, and.

[D]

My mom didn't give her the prize.

[B]

Well, maybe they did. My mom was, like, embarrassed or whatever. Just burn it.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

They gave her a stern talking to. Not only did she get it wrong, she got in trouble.

[F]

I actually got a gift for your mom, Ev, that I'm working on right now.

[D]

A knife?

[F]

No, it has nothing to do with knives. I'm not giving Patty a knife.

[B]

Gonna tell me, or is this a secret?

[F]

It's a short video segment of you taking her drifting in the Miata that never got used Really? I wanted to get give you it for Christmas.

[A]

I already gave it to John.

[B]

He doesn't know how to look at it though.

[A]

He doesn't.

[D]

You just gave him the raw footy.

[F]

You said, oh, the raw footage ain't gonna do it.

[B]

He was stoked. And my dad uses a Samsung. He doesn't even know how to look at it. I don't know what he.

[F]

I have a. I have a Dropbox edited segment.

[D]

Oh, that's awesome.

[F]

Put together, cutting between GoPros, everything.

[B]

For the record, what you sent to me is essentially not okay. Well then maybe, maybe something worked.

[F]

But four minute segment.

[A]

Nice.

[F]

Like as if it was putting into a YouTube.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Google Drive. Yeah, but I mean, that's not, I guess, too surprising that he can't watch it.

[D]

I think we should do a segment where we teach all of our parents how to drift. My mom wants to learn. She rode with Evan.

[A]

You guys had a drift first. I mean, including myself.

[C]

Dude, I'm jonesing to get done with this podcast and just go drive around in my Focus rs.

[B]

Doesn't it?

[C]

The roads are so good right now. Like, I'm just sliding everywhere.

[B]

So much lower consequence, isn't it a little bit of. A little bit of snow?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, Perfect snow.

[F]

I feel like drifting in snow has not that much equivalent to drifting on.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Or concrete.

[B]

No, it's completely different. But it also completely correlates.

[C]

But I do like throttle control. It's.

[A]

It's.

[F]

I don't know, you're just sliding in.

[B]

There, whereas you're getting used to the feeling.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

I think it teaches you some basics that you would have a tough time learning otherwise. And you know, it gets you prepared for that.

[A]

The biggest thing is, is the grip difference. I mean, it's like.

[D]

And the speed of it.

[F]

Like you can just slide by just tapping it in any vehicle and just kind of slippery.

[C]

Yeah. But if you get comfortable sliding like that, you're a lot better off sliding.

[B]

Comfortable at like 10 miles an hour on the ice or the Snow than like 30 or more on asphalt.

[D]

I've been whipping the Hummer pretty good with the snow, but. But the traction control comes on. I figure I gotta like pull my speed sensors or fuse or some things.

[C]

Too smart.

[D]

I know.

[C]

It's like a Tesla. A guy was out with your old Tesla. What is a Tesla Model X?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And he was like, can I go spin it on the drift track? I was like, yeah. I don't think it'll let you though. He got out there and it was just it was the saddest thing. You try and slide and then it would just stop.

[E]

Like cybertruck. If I don't, like, put it in off road mode and like, purposely disable stability control, you cannot get it to slide at all.

[F]

I was going to say, how. How could he not slide on snow? When I watched Ken Cybertruck literally blowing roll the tires off on a hot summer day.

[C]

Different.

[E]

The model. Model Y. The Model X. You cannot turn stability traction control off.

[D]

That's so lame. Why would Elon do that?

[B]

How did our buddies that made the minivan do it then?

[E]

That was a Model S with plaid. And you can on that, but not on the Model X. Plaid. You can't do it on that.

[D]

You guys see all that snow in Russia? Crazy happened, okay?

[A]

I just want to blow your mind, bro.

[D]

There's.

[A]

I've never seen anything like it.

[D]

It's been going around and there's AI ones, and that's what I'm show you guys first. And they've been saying that it's not AI.

[B]

Oh, I just saw one where all the kids were sliding off a roof.

[F]

Yes.

[D]

So this. This is the AI but at the end of this video, it says, like, the guy put it through a checker. He's like, look, it says it's not AI weird.

[A]

All right, let's look at the real ones.

[E]

And then last one looks somewhat real, I'd say.

[B]

And then load up the sleds, boys.

[F]

This one sled trip in Russia would be insane.

[D]

This one's actually real. Like, the whole fucking town's buried in snow.

[A]

But we're not just talking, like, Tahoe. Oh, like my cabin door got buried. We're talking, like snow drift up to the top of a 20 story apartment building.

[B]

This looks like people could be in trouble with this much.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, like, what do you. What do you actually do with that much snow?

[C]

Ryan, go find the video of people sledding off the roof.

[D]

I think that one's AI it looks. Because there's like a fucking 12 year old skiing and there's like too many people going at once. Like, you ever seen a sledding hill? It's chaos.

[C]

I've seen a couple. I've seen a couple. And some of them are fake, but some of them are, like, weird.

[E]

Anything on Facebook these days? Because Facebook's so bad. Like, I just report and block every single one I see. But, like, how do you trust half that stuff, dude?

[F]

It's sad because I'll see something so obviously fake. Like, I'll Just make up an example which has probably already been done. It'll be like Justin Jefferson of the Minnesota Vikings.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Saw a school bus of homeless kids driving by and bought them all houses. Like, and this is slightly an exaggeration, but there'll be people in the comments like, Justin Jefferson is the best. Like, this is why he's the best wide receiver. Like, they truly think it's real. And that's when I. I'm just like, holy. Like, we are so doomed.

[E]

Okay, that's clearly AI either way.

[C]

How much snow did they get?

[D]

I think they said 8ft.

[B]

It looks pretty windy there as well.

[D]

Yeah, I think it was all windblown.

[A]

This one looks real.

[D]

Storms last parts of Russia after 6 foot snow buries country's far east standing.

[F]

Honestly, how sick would it be if.

[B]

We got following 12ft in December? So that's 18ft feet in a month.

[A]

It's funny how big of an inconvenience that would be in. Again, like a hazard. But it's like what I've always dreamed of as a kid.

[B]

That's too much.

[F]

You wouldn't know where to put it. And like so much stuff would be completely covered if it happened in such a short amount of time.

[B]

But bro, but like, think of like, you know, you like your furnaces and for your house, they need to like vent. Like.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like everything. Or I mean, just every. I mean everything. You know what I mean? Like everything.

[A]

But I would love like 3ft if we got like 3ft of snow one year.

[F]

Dude, we've been getting a lot of snow this year though.

[B]

The wind makes it seem like it. We. We haven't got.

[A]

No, we haven't. But.

[D]

But more than years past.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Which is nice. Yeah.

[A]

It is funny when we get what we do have. I'm like, yep. Just need more. I mean we. And we need a lot more to satisfy.

[B]

It's just great. Me, it's crazy how like one side of the road has like 8ft snow drifts and then the other side is like still grass.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

There's literally grass sticking out. Like the wind. The wind has been insane lately.

[A]

Like, yeah, you have a snow drift you could build a fort you could stand up in. And then across the road there is just a half an inch ice.

[D]

This is an old picture from 21, I believe. But I mean, like the snow drifts out to my dad's place are cooked. Like I won't be able to get home tonight. Like, I'll have to snowmobile home because of the wind. Yeah, because the Wind kicked up and laundry sent me a picture. This was the snow. I mean, you know, this isn't that bad, but this was at like 10:00am today.

[A]

No, Ryan, the. The drifting, it's. Especially for you out on the point right now is just brutal. It's one thing to get a foot of snow in your driveway and then have to remove it. It's another thing when the wind goes more than ten miles an hour and.

[D]

It'S like two and a half miles of snow drifts.

[F]

I wonder if you just got like a. You just built a lifted truck, like, really, really tall. It'd need to be tall. Like, skinny tires, big tires.

[B]

I think you just gotta buy an old county plow truck or that.

[A]

Or it's like, are you.

[D]

But then you just pile it up. It'd be even worse.

[A]

Like the. Like the Toyota Tacoma with huge. Huge. Like.

[D]

Oh, like a floater, like, mega quad over it.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

That's why I should get Randy.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Or remember when Jake had the tracks on his Raptor and he tried.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

He got stuck going out there, out to Randy's place. And then Ken had to come in with the Bronco.

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[F]

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[E]

Then I got stuck and then Ken.

[C]

Was pulling him out. But remember his toes. And then Ken was just free.

[A]

Tweaked his frame.

[F]

Tweaked his frame.

[E]

Actually didn't.

[F]

But total his vehicle.

[A]

Those are fun days. We. We had a good time filming out in the storm the other day. It did remind me of like old Seaboz vibes where we just like, it's ripping snowing super hard. Like, obviously we're going to be outside and now we kind of like pick and choose our schedule a little bit. Like when it gets nasty, we might travel, but this time we just decided to go outside in a straight up heavy blizzard.

[D]

The high on Friday is negative 15 and negative 30. And one thing you talk about weather, do. Like I posted a video of like, oh, look at the snowstorm day. And like my Snapchat comments were just full of people. Like, that's just a normal day in Virginia. Like, no, it's fucking not. Like, it's. It's just. It's just not.

[A]

I'll only take that from Canadians. Yeah, Canadians. They actually have like. That's actually not crazy, bro. I'm like, I know, I know.

[F]

What's up with people always trying to just one up, one up, no matter what it is.

[D]

And I'll convert it to Celsius for you Celsius guys. High of negative 26 Celsius. Low of negative 34 Celsius.

[B]

Now shred 80. Can understand he's Celsius guy.

[D]

But yeah, it's actually pretty cool.

[B]

But it's crazy what the wind does. I think the other day when I looked at my app, it said 5 degrees in the positive, but with the wind chill, it feels like negative 27. Like, what is that?

[A]

It's like cold.

[B]

That's what it is. It's cold. It's cold.

[A]

Take your glove off for like, literally to take your phone out and then check it and put it back in your pocket and your fingers are numb.

[F]

What's the coldest recorded temperature in Minnesota?

[B]

I'm guessing our neck. 52.

[F]

Yeah. Are you able to check our neck of the woods?

[D]

Like, the lowest was February 2, 1996, and it was minus 60. I'm not sure where it is. The largest single day change was 72 degrees.

[E]

Tower, Minnesota, what a couple weeks ago, went from negative 20 to. Went from. It was like 40 degrees and then went down to like negative 10 or negative 20. I think that was.

[A]

Those are always interesting to me because it's like, okay, so if you're somewhere where it's 80 and then goes to 40, like it's kind of crazy because it's 40 degree change, but if you are somewhere here where it's like 40 and we go to like, you know, negative five, those are two completely different worlds.

[C]

I just saw a Instagram post and it was this guy talking about how there's about to be, like, the worst storm in, like, recorded history about to hit, like, the central part of the United States, and they get cooked down there. By the time that you're listening to this podcast, it'll either have happened by now. It's supposed to happen this weekend, but like snowstorm just. Yeah, they were saying snowstorm for, you know, like the upper part of it, I don't know, through maybe Kansas and above and then below that, like towards Texas. They were saying like three inches of ice. And they were saying if there's three inches of ice, then all the, you know, power lines are going to be down and like all the probably minimal.

[A]

Plane travel with that much ice.

[C]

Yeah, and.

[B]

And they were saying like, rain, it's cold. I mean, we didn't.

[C]

Yeah, something like that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

However, you get three inches of ice. Yeah, rain, and then it all freezes, apparently. But yeah, saying that it's going to be like, really, really bad. And of course, Minnesota is just missing it. She's going to just be cold, no snow, nothing.

[B]

I still love Minnesota.

[A]

All the people in like, Iowa and Nebraska and shit are going to be. That kept their sleds. Like, it's just. It blows my mind when someone in like, Nebraska is like, yeah, I got a sled. I'm like, do you guys get snow? And they're like, once every five years.

[C]

Yeah, that's for Minnesota, dude. If we didn't get snow this year, all the snowmobile companies were going to go bankrupt.

[D]

For real.

[C]

And they still might. But like, you know, the last, what, two years for sure, there's been zero snow. And so all these snowmobile manufacturers just have a insane amount of sleds sitting on their lot that they can't.

[D]

And the. Well, the dealers are the people who really get cooked.

[A]

And one might think that the backcountry is the bigger market, but it's not even close.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

All of a sudden, let's go to Flatland.

[A]

Yeah. To trail. Trail riding.

[F]

You motors did say they were slanging slack.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, I was in there the other week.

[F]

They were like, oh, like we're killing it this year in terms of just obviously because we have snow, but when you don't have snow, tough go of it, you know. It is weird. Is there like a chart showing the decline of snowmobile?

[E]

I mean, it's just the exact inverse of the. The increase in price for snowmobiles.

[D]

It's true.

[F]

It seems like when I was a kid, everybody has snowmobile. Everybody was going to snowmobiling on the weekends around here, all that. And now it's like nobody.

[C]

I know you don't. Now that we even have snow, you don't see them out. Yeah.

[F]

Even on the weekends. Like there's obviously people out. But like when we were kids, dude, there was so many slutters going everywhere. Like everyone was driving around on the weekend. You're going out to eat, you're going to the bars, whatever. Like, I don't know, it just is weird. Like, why is it due to phones? Like do people. Are people too comfortable sitting at home watching Netflix and with the Internet and with their phone where they're like, ah.

[D]

I don't really want to hop.

[B]

Yeah, they're like, ah, it well cold in 2010. I wonder what the average price of a sled, a brand new one versus versus now.

[A]

You can, with inflation.

[F]

Yeah, you could easily look that up.

[B]

Because like I know but like now because I mean, what's a, what's a high end boosted turbo sled? Like 25 grand? 27.

[D]

The average price for a new snowmobile in 2010 was around $8,300. Performance models exceeding $10,000.

[A]

And so what.

[B]

Yeah, exceeding 10. Now we're exceeding 30.

[D]

You could get an MXZ 800P tech adrenaline was 10 grand.

[F]

What's that translate to with inflation today? So say what's, what's that 10 grand worth in inflation today?

[A]

8300 in 2010 is worth approximately 12300 today.

[F]

So they did not just rise with inflation, they jumped up.

[A]

But they've also gotten way better.

[F]

They are.

[A]

I was just gonna say like they've gotten way better. I think anywhere you're around 25, like, screw that. But now like you can get a 24 boost on Marketplace for like 14 grand.

[E]

But look at how many, look at how many other products in world though, where they cost significantly more back in 2010 and now they cost the same if not less today, but they're a way better product.

[D]

Flat screen TVs, basically that's because that's like TV.

[E]

But there's so many other things in the marketplace that are like that where it's just. As things got better, they also either stayed the same price or got cheaper.

[A]

But not vehicles. I'd say just vehicles. In general do not.

[B]

But it's. People want all the amenities. No one's happy with a hand crank window and a push button lock. They need a full screen. All this. But then it's like. And then they're fun. I don't know. It's. I think if people could settle for a reliable vehicle that was the People want more than they can afford and it screws the whole market everything up.

[E]

Snowmobile market needs a sea doo spark style thing where it's just something super cheap, reliable, you can beat on it.

[B]

And they tried to do that with the Blast.

[A]

Oh yeah, the Blast. Yeah. Yeah. The black.

[D]

And people are. It's underpowered.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[D]

But also, dude, the thing I think is snowballing around here isn't that fun on the new sleds because they're so good that like going through the drifts that we were going through on Monday or whatever. Like you wouldn't even be able to hit those on an old sled. You spend all day hitting one drift and now you just like do a wheelie through it and you're like, yeah.

[F]

I can say that maybe the sleds are better than what people need.

[A]

Well, I mean they don't even need.

[F]

To be that good in the around here, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

That's why they're so expensive when realistically. But. But that's just. The truth of the matter is you don't need to buy the best brand new sled. And most people honestly that I see out there are riding 2010, 2011, 2012. The majority of the sleds I do see. I think a lot of it has to play with just like kids have just video games and their cell phone and all that. And we obviously had that back then too. But I don't know, there's just a lot more stuff to maybe do.

[A]

Yeah. Occupy yourself with.

[F]

I don't know. There's also just not that much snow.

[B]

I think sports too. I mean I think nowadays youth sports are like way too overwhelming at a young age. Like I don't think. And when you're 12 years old playing hockey, it should be a year true round like dedication. You're not going skiing, you're not riding. So you think so that's how it.

[F]

Was when I was a kid.

[B]

You think 15 years.

[D]

I think we were the start of it.

[A]

Maybe hockey was a little different. But I do remember when I was playing basketball as soon as I hit ninth grade basketball. So whatever that is, that's JV or C team. That's when it Got intense. And I was like, yep, the team sports aren't for me because they got, you know, super intense. But you're right, hockey, I say like.

[D]

Baseball and like that. Dude, they're doing that all the time.

[B]

They have like three different leagues.

[D]

My kids don't want to do sports and I'll support them, you know, but like, I would do so many more cool things than go and sit at a baseball game. Like, knowing me, my kid's probably gonna suck. Like, like I sucked at sports. My poor parents. I was talking with them at Christmas. I was like, I can't believe you on Tomorrow my sporting events. And I just sat on the bench the whole time. Like, I can't believe you even gave a.

[B]

They probably didn't give a. About this sport. But they loved you, right?

[D]

I know, but that's what I'm saying. Like, they should have had a neon.

[F]

When you're filling the water bottle.

[D]

Yeah, exactly. They should have had a sit down conversation with me and been like, don't play sports.

[F]

Something else.

[D]

Do something fun, friends.

[A]

Go to a movie.

[F]

Dude, I hope my kid doesn't play hockey. I hope he doesn't. Like, I'm cool with playing sports, but I don't want to do that year round like always, every weekend. And basketball's that way too, I think. I mean, it really just depends. But I think you're better off if anything, playing a variety of sports. You know, like if you're gonna play play football and then play basketball and then play baseball and like hitting all those, you're gonna be a better, probably more well rounded athlete.

[B]

Plus there's a lot of kids that would be good athletes and be a good fit for the team. They don't give a about being a professional athlete. Like, or, you know, I think that's the only. Let kids be kids and have fun. Play a sport. It's a game.

[A]

Truly be able to give that full support where like we will travel, we'll, we'll get you all the best gear is if they're like, this is like, I, I'm really into this. Maybe they don't want to. Like, they're not like, I want to be a pro, but they're like, I'm really into this. I want to be really good. I want to be good. But if they're just like, yeah, yeah, basketball is fun. I got to. I hope I get to start this year. Yeah, me too, brother.

[E]

Basketball is one level of commitment, but hockey is a completely different level.

[B]

I think all the sports are getting closer and Closer to hockey. Hockey was definitely the first, but I.

[F]

Don'T know, I think they're all following the trend. Opportunities though, like that hopefully I'll be able to give them with like, you can ride snowball, you can go dirt biking, you can go surfing, you can play, you know, sports and shit. Like, there's a lot of different things. You could be a YouTuber, there's a lot of activities, you could be an artist, you can make music, follow my, my footsteps. But like, there's, there's really a lot of opportunities out there. And I think, yeah, tying yourself down to one sport, especially, like, you know, I played hockey, but like, if you're just like year round in hockey, you almost don't have that chance to explore other options and figure out what you really like and what you play hockey year round. Yeah. I don't know why I even played. Like, I look back and I just remember, like, not really ever liking it. I was, no, I liked it, but I just remember always being like, damn, like, I gotta go to practice.

[B]

Did you feel like guilty? Like you, I didn't where you couldn't.

[F]

Because I would have been embarrassed.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Because then it's like the whole school.

[F]

Like kind of knows you on the team and all this and then it's like quit and then, oh, you, you do feel like you're not part of that group anymore or whatever. So like, I never wanted to quit. But I also, I don't know, I, I shouldn't say I didn't like it.

[A]

You got a lot to gain from it.

[F]

Yeah, I, I, it was just, it was a love hate. That's probably the best way for me to describe it. It was fun at times and other times it just wasn't.

[D]

I remember when Ben would go back to soccer, he'd be like, yeah.

[A]

I remember that.

[C]

Banged up, I'd be the first couple weeks of soccer.

[D]

Yeah. Polio boy. Polio boy walk around coughing and waddling around.

[C]

Yeah. I'd get shin splints every year.

[F]

Splints. And legitimately be like wobbling around with like crutches. And then I like roll up.

[D]

Run.

[C]

And he broke his shins, like. Yeah. I mean, that's just what happens when you like, aren't conditioned and then you have to run a ton. I just remember, like being a young kid really being into snowmobiling because it was like the one thing that you could do where you had like a sense of freedom.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It was before you had a driver's license.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And dirt bikes were always super Illegal. And you couldn't just hop on it and ride, but on a snowmobile you could. You could hop on. As soon as you got your snowmobile safety, you could hop on it and you could ride to the next town, you could ride to your friend's place. And you could do so many things at a young age that you couldn't do before getting your driver's license. Right. And so I hope it's still like that for kids. Like, I hope that they still find like that same dude.

[F]

This morning I saw. When I was driving into the shop to come film, I saw a kid on a snowmobile. I don't know if he was riding to school, which would have been cool if he was, but even cooler if.

[B]

He was skipping school. The snowmobile.

[F]

But he was ripping, dude. And that's the one thing, like, for people that don't understand snowmobiling or how it is up here. It's literally like roadways. Like, there's trails that people give permission to on their land that open up come snowmobile season and you can ride through. And they're, you know, there's markings and all this stuff and like, there's literally signs on the side of the road that stay year round for like, you know how you'll sometimes see like deer crossing. It's. It's just a snowmobile. Or this is telling the. The drivers to like, watch out snowmobiles across the road here.

[C]

You know, like, it's like the one.

[F]

It's so awesome.

[C]

It's like the one thing that landowners like, they get that they give permission to have a public trail go.

[F]

Then they close up come spring.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

And Ben and I, of course, we would always just ride them with our dirt bikes because, you know, there's the gate, but then there's the tree. So we just squeeze our handlebars, we'd ride down them, pass through and oh, man, we got chased a few times. Yeah, we pissed a lot of people off.

[C]

Yeah. People did not like dirt bikers things because they were.

[B]

I mean, that's how you. If that land owner decided.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I get that now being an adult, but, oh, I tore up.

[B]

My fair share of snowmobile trails gym. Don't get me wrong.

[F]

I'm not, I'm not saying you should do it. And I get why the people didn't want us to do it. I probably wouldn't chase someone with my truck. Damn near running them over like a seven. Like we were running from this guy. Like he was straight up on our tail and we were like probably like 55 down this gravel road.

[D]

But anyways, what a thrill though, huh?

[F]

Was fun.

[D]

Oh, that was the best.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

I didn't know Ben's bike blew up because he like pulled off and went down this one way. And I was like, why would you go there? And I kept going straight.

[C]

And then he caught up, caught up to me, came just chewed my ass.

[F]

False name, didn't you?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That's a real human, that DJ.

[F]

And his friends would say, yeah, what's your name? Trouble or something.

[B]

That's such a classic.

[F]

You just say that person's name. I felt, you know, looking bad. I feel bad for him. I never used it on the bus. But like this one kid, he just would like get in trouble all the time on the bus. And that guy didn't even ride the bus. He'd get in trouble. Bus driver's like, what's your name? He'd say this kid's name, hop off the bus, like, whatever. And that kid would get called in.

[C]

The principal's office the next morning.

[F]

And it happened like two, three times. And then finally that kid's mom came in, they hop on the bus. He's like standing there in the bus driver. Look around, he goes, well, him right there. And they go, so he got in trouble for all the he was doing and also in trouble for lying about his name.

[D]

That's funny.

[B]

I love that.

[D]

That's funny.

[F]

Rode the bus in your life and you, you're getting down to the office, getting in trouble for some you did on the bus.

[B]

And you know, you know the principals, like what? I don't know, 12, 14 year old kids. What was it me? Yeah, right.

[C]

Somebody would just say that it was. You just look at the cameras now the, now the next county over, they're getting the cops called on this kid. He's like, oh my God, it's spread, it's. How the hell do you spread an hour away?

[B]

I don't even own a dirt bike.

[F]

Fight. Oh, yeah, I bet, buddy.

[C]

I don't know. I mean, I'm assuming that it's. It's still like that and it's just been more difficult with the lack of snow. But like, if there's kids out there that are looking for something to do in the winter, maybe you're not a sports guy, bro. It is like the best way to have freedom as a kid. It's the best.

[F]

But yeah, it is.

[B]

And my recommendation is buy the reliable snowmobile. Don't, don't blow your whole budget on the one you think Is the coolest. It's gonna let you down, and then you're gonna be sitting there and it's cold, and you don't want to work on a snowmobiling. It's how I spent my whole childhood is I always wanted that race sled, that cool sled, and I always bought the cheapest one because it's all I could afford, and it always broke. And I look back, like, I just bought a standard mx, like, literally any normal snowmobile. And I would have had way more better time that.

[E]

That sled also taught you some valuable skills on how to wrench on it.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Because Evan's wrenching on all this. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But I. I do.

[B]

How much my dad was going to chew my ass when he brought it to the small engine repair for the third time is what it taught me.

[D]

Dude, Ken was so cool. He raced snowmobiles when he was young.

[F]

Yeah, we found that twice.

[E]

Twice. And I lost. How did you guys just figure that out this week?

[F]

Well, you never once told us.

[E]

Because I sucked and I got last every time. You got last, I got last every time.

[F]

The fact that we found this out, I mean, after knowing you for so long, like, I would be introducing you so much differently.

[E]

Yeah, it's like.

[F]

My buddy Ken, he used to race snowmobiles because your brother's.

[B]

A big snowmobile racer. Correct?

[E]

Yeah. So, Ryan, like, you played basketball. You play basketball on the bench, but are you, like. You don't say that.

[D]

No, but. But riding the bench, it isn't cool to introduce yourself many years later as former basketball player.

[E]

Zero credibility, saying that I race. Yeah, I did it. I sucked ass at it.

[F]

It's like whenever we try to give you your flowers, whether it's getting chicks racing snowmobiles, you're always just, like, contradiction, what we're saying. I'd be so hard on yourself and just accept.

[E]

I feel like I'm being Micah. I know I'm saying, like, no, but.

[A]

Like, this is actually, I think what Ken. If Ken were to own that and be like, yeah, I am a snowmobile racer, then the keyboard warriors are gonna be like, why don't you rip then?

[F]

Former. Former snowmobile racer.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[F]

I never said that he was a good stone racer. I just said he was a snowmobile racer.

[C]

Dude. It's still cool.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, he still did it, dude.

[B]

I think that, you know, sucked.

[E]

It sucked. The whole time I was doing it, I was like, why did I want to do this in the first place? It was, like, 20 below the both times I did it, I got last every time. And I was like, this just sucks. It's not fun. I don't know what I'm doing.

[D]

Just.

[E]

I'm just over it.

[F]

What did you ever do instead?

[E]

Went and snowmobile with Ryan. That's basically it.

[C]

Is that crazy though, that, like, actually.

[E]

Had fun snowmobiling, not just being miserable doing it and having to like, go in freaking circles the whole time?

[C]

So did your dad just sign you up for it? Well, it's like, how did you get coerced into doing?

[E]

It's because my brother was doing it and he was like, oh, do you want to do it? I was like, sure, I'll try it. And just did not do good.

[F]

How nervous were you, Ken, pulling up to the starting line?

[E]

I mean, I was 10.

[B]

Said you ran two race and you did bad. I mean, maybe it takes more than one or two races to like, but it's like win a race the whole.

[E]

Time you're doing bad. You're also just miserable you're not having anyone doing it.

[D]

Oh, yeah, I did one race, I didn't win.

[E]

So it was like. It was like I lost. Like, I lost by a lot.

[B]

Like, how much are we blame your mechanic?

[E]

Like, minutes. Like, I was minutes behind everyone else.

[D]

Minutes in cross country, that's over the course of hours.

[E]

The top guy got done in like 20 minutes and I got like 45.

[C]

What the hell were you doing, kid?

[B]

You stop for some hot chocolate?

[E]

It was bad. I mean, I don't want to bring that up because people are going to find the race results.

[F]

You can find the results.

[C]

Can you think they.

[B]

Suck? What association was it?

[E]

That association's been gone bankrupt about 10 different times. But I don't remember what it was.

[C]

Called back then, of course, because anything Ken doesn't want to remember, he does.

[E]

It gets memory hold out of my brain because I don't want to remember it.

[F]

I found your LinkedIn strongest, you know, personality traits. Strongest traits, Ken?

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

You can forget anything, whatever you decide.

[A]

And that is what keeps you mysterious to other people. Like, you sometimes don't even know what they're trying to figure out about yourself. Like, for real?

[C]

No. Straight up. Yeah.

[F]

I'm confused on what you're saying here.

[A]

Like. Like someone. Someone's. Someone could go up to Ken and ask him a question about himself that only he could answer. And he's like, I don't even know, man. I can't answer that.

[B]

I don't know. I think we gotta figure out something for. For cj. And Mike, because, you know, I'm trying to get Tony Hak to come out, teach Ben how to drop in. I'm working on it. I'm probably a long ways away from it happening, but I'm trying, I think.

[C]

Would that be.

[F]

I feel like, comes out to our 2 foot tall mini ramp and, you.

[B]

Know, I'm working on it, but. But I think. I think we could get Levi. I bet Levi Lavalley would. Would be. Would maybe teach you how to race a snowmobile.

[E]

I think we're. We're so far.

[F]

Do that 100.

[C]

He would.

[A]

Yeah, he would.

[B]

What do you think, CJ?

[A]

What?

[B]

What do you think? Like, what's that show on MTV BET made? Do you remember that show? You guys are probably too young. You remember?

[A]

We should have somebody come out and teach CJ how to do, like, the Revolver, like, Super Quick Shooter.

[F]

That would be actually sick. I'd love that.

[C]

Yeah, I think that.

[A]

Yeah, that'd be sick.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Thank you, Mike. That's a great one.

[E]

Is it like an equivalent for knives or.

[A]

There probably honestly, is.

[D]

No, the guys where they cut the ropes and have you seen that?

[A]

Yeah, they walk around, they're like, yeah, okay, that would be.

[C]

Yeah, we're doing that with knives.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[F]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

It's like a sport. There is a future in this.

[B]

Cutting, stabbing, throwing. Okay. Yeah, I've seen that.

[E]

We might do the next level for your knife addiction is gonna be how sharp can you get this thing?

[F]

This one's pretty sharp. I just cut this bottle in half.

[A]

Like, a couple months from now.

[F]

Look at that.

[A]

You guys just picked up some throwing stars, did you?

[F]

That's sick. They make throwing knife.

[A]

Okay, what do we got?

[D]

All right.

[C]

Look at this.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Oh, I could definitely see C.J. doing this.

[A]

This is not quite what I was expecting, but I like it.

[D]

Wait till they get to the rope.

[F]

The next second it's lost.

[B]

Whoa.

[F]

That's actually sick.

[B]

Well, wait. That's such a waste of beer.

[D]

Oh, yeah. They have all the water bottles and.

[F]

Like, they kept his hand in his pocket the whole time.

[A]

This is hard to watch, dude.

[F]

I was just. Hard to watch Mike off.

[A]

It's just awkward.

[F]

Like, can you sound. Imagine people actually sound. Turn the sound up.

[D]

It's an Aussie man review. He's probably yapping. Those are all the things that went through my mind when I saw that.

[F]

Over to another poll.

[D]

Again, don't overthink it.

[F]

Just a lot of wood.

[A]

I like that, though. How fast can you chop through a 2x4 with your machete, dude.

[F]

I think I could do faster than this. I'm dead serious. Put me in a competition.

[B]

Yeah. That little. That little knife you got ain't gonna cut.

[F]

Hopefully I. I'll get a better one. Hopefully Ben doesn't steal that one.

[D]

The 2017 Blade Sports World Championship Women's Final.

[A]

So the blade sports is primarily looking like they use a machete type knife.

[D]

I love that people are cheering.

[F]

Cut up vegetable.

[B]

Put it.

[F]

Up.

[A]

All right.

[F]

Now put it in the dishwasher. Okay. This is terrible.

[A]

Did you see them make like she. She accidentally let her hand come from behind her back and they're like hand behind the back.

[F]

Where do they host these? Ryan, I'm down. Put me in one.

[D]

Got it.

[A]

I'll.

[D]

We'll find it.

[F]

I will love this. This. Seriously.

[A]

I think you could do good.

[F]

I'd be way faster than these people. They were like lolly gagging to the next thing. I'd be sprinting.

[B]

That's probably a rule.

[F]

You can't run.

[C]

Yeah, you can't run.

[F]

I would still do it.

[E]

Is it a timed event or is it all based on how accurate and clean your cuts are? That could change the whole perspective on that.

[B]

It's got to be a blend. I'm sure there's a whole system.

[A]

CJ Lots are the only one to score a 99 on the day.

[C]

CJ's just beating himself up over it. Could have done better.

[F]

I would be.

[A]

I should upgraded my blade.

[B]

What do you think, Mike? For me, you can't say drifting because you're.

[A]

I feel like I'd have to be.

[F]

Mike's a man of many sports. He's a multi sport athlete.

[A]

Like that's what I'm saying. It could be anything. Like scuba diving. I'd love to like actually go scoot.

[D]

Scuba diving.

[A]

It has got to be a competition. Okay.

[C]

For honestly just like a feat, not a comp for me.

[A]

This one's like lame because it's so obvious. Like I should probably join a dirt bike race. Still never join a dirt bike race. I'm maybe similar to Ken in that way. I'm really not competitive. It's when you were explaining how like he. He got 25 minutes. You got 45. That's sometimes how I feel. Even like up against Evan. If we were actually like, let's go fast. Evan's just so far ahead of me that I'm like, how could I even like win?

[C]

So.

[A]

So then let's. Let's put me up against like someone even faster than that. It's I just look at that and go like, man. But anyway, I just want to do a race 30 plus.

[B]

Fortunately there's a lot of classes. Yeah, you would have a blast. I would find out that you were racing. I was a bunch of people that are evenly matched. It.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I'll do it. I got to do it.

[C]

Like I'll.

[B]

I'll even race with you.

[A]

Yeah, it'd be super fun. I want to do a moto race and a woods race. So you were pretty verse in the hair scrambles.

[C]

You train on the new property. We'll get. Yeah, we'll get out there with like a little time trial. Yeah, a little stopwatch.

[A]

That'd be great.

[C]

Start putting in some laps.

[A]

I'll just kind of use Evans times to go off of.

[B]

I mean you got spunky to teach you everything you really need to know.

[C]

You know, Mike, I don't think any. Anyone would really say too much if you didn't do that well, because you're not fast at anything else you do in life, right?

[A]

I'm not.

[C]

You're the slowest human being I've ever met. No offense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I really don't go on. I don't like going fast. I don't like, you know, someone's like, this sled will do 110. I'm like sick. I'm cool with like 70 or 80.

[B]

The, the, the way that I would just maybe describe like, Mike, I feel like you lack the sense of urgency.

[F]

Yeah, that's the better way. I think you like going fast, Mike. You drive fast things, all that and.

[C]

You get more speeding tickets.

[F]

But it's just more so you lack the sense of urgency. Like, okay, so it's going to take one hour to get here. I should leave probably an hour, if not a little more than before. But instead you have that lack of urgency where you're like, all right, it's 45 minutes till I need to be there. And I. It's an hour long drive. I'm going to speed up.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[F]

And then I'll get there still, you know, 10 minutes late.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, I can't disagree boys though, like just.

[F]

I'm not ridiculing you at all. But what are you doing in that time? Like, let's just use an example like.

[A]

Well, first in the morning, sleeping. That's obvious.

[F]

So then do you wait?

[A]

I don't know.

[F]

Like I did it again.

[A]

Anything. I could be mowing the lawn. I could be in the shower. I could be like Shoot. I was supposed to bring all like the recycling. I should have done that last night. And then I thought I told myself, you know, it could be literally anything.

[F]

So then everything just pushes back.

[A]

Yeah, or like I'm the type of person that, I've said this before. This is not. If I put this reasoning on all the times of being late, it'd just be a giant excuse. But instead of just like mentally preparing for what I'm coming into, I think that I can probably do this little task before I have to leave. Next thing I know, it makes me late.

[F]

You know that that actually happens to me a lot. Like if we're doing something, let's just say we have to be here at 9 and for some reason I wake up at like 7. I'm like, oh, I got all this time and I start doing whatever around the house or maybe I make a big breakfast, whatever. And I end up being late on those days versus the day that I wake up at 8:30 and I just.

[C]

Go, yeah, like when we're all together at the farm and Jen says, hey, I'll be here at this time and we all leave together to come over and eat lunch. You are 20 minutes behind every single day.

[A]

Oh, that's because lunch is actually one of the few things that I don't have to be on time for. Like literally nothing happens. Jen. I've never like once inconvenienced Jen by coming late.

[F]

I'm more, more.

[C]

So just asking like, why don't you just go at the same time?

[A]

Just not hungry.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[A]

But that's why you're like today, like I just didn't go because I wasn't hungry.

[E]

But the days you do go over, like we're all wrapping up eating and then you're just walking in the door and like grabbing a plate, which has.

[A]

Been maybe a few times but like also pretty rare that I will do that and grab a plate and hold everybody up just because I was eating.

[C]

I think we've just all gotten like so used to like just operating together. Like I don't think anyone has very high of expectations at this point of like if everyone is on time or if like, like not everything goes perfectly to plan, then it's like, oh, this, we're waiting on this. Like it's just like, I think everyone's just kind of okay with just like what happens happens at this point. Which I actually think is probably like why we, why we worked so well together is we all just kind of like gotten to know each other so well. And we don't, like, try and change it.

[F]

Well, we don't get hung up. It's like, yeah, I mean, we're supposed to be doing this, but now we're an hour behind. Whatever, let's just do it.

[C]

Things like that just happen every single day. Like, every single day.

[A]

Nothing ever goes to schedule. But that, yeah, that doesn't mean we should come into it and go like, well, nothing ever goes to schedule anyway, so screw it. But nothing ever goes to schedule.

[C]

I think we set a itinerary of what needs to get done, and then we just try and get it.

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[C]

And like, we just try and fit the pieces into the puzzle to finish the puzzle. And sometimes it takes a little bit longer to get those pieces into place, but everyone's kind of on the, like, same understanding.

[B]

Ryan, I'm gonna send a couple emails. Michael Jordan, try to get you off that bench, buddy.

[D]

Can you imagine?

[A]

I love how that's kind of where you're. You're going. Like, I guess maybe you could have said, well, who's like, the best snowmobile racer? Either way, Levi Valley's up there. You get like, the best of the best for Ken, the best of the best for Ben.

[D]

We got Axel out to teach Evan how to ride dirt bike again.

[B]

Well, and that's kind of. I guess that's what I was thinking. Like, you guys brought Axel out, Teach me to ride dirt bike. And that always got me thinking. I'm like, what could each person. Yeah. I don't even think Ben wants to drop in. I've just been telling Ben that he needs to drop in.

[C]

Dude.

[B]

His.

[D]

His new Year's resolution was to be skid to drop. Like, all three of them were about skateboarding.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That is true.

[C]

I want to learn how to kick flip.

[A]

But I think the worst part about the whole, like, potentially getting Tony Hawk or someone really high up in skating to get it. I think it'd be amazing. But we could literally go run it. But, like, you know, in an hour, like, just me and you.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

Would be very quick.

[C]

Yeah. I think I could probably drop in, like. Like five tries.

[E]

Drop in and ride out, you think five tries?

[A]

I'd give you 10.

[B]

I'd say that the kick flip would definitely be way more of a battle than it.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, I can't even ollie.

[A]

Yeah. Way more.

[F]

I feel like a heel flip's easier than a kick flip.

[A]

Yeah. And you're one of those.

[F]

Personal preference, like, the flick just was. There's more to it.

[C]

Okay, well, mine was kick, so.

[B]

I.

[C]

Can'T rewrite the goals.

[D]

Can't switch it up now.

[B]

If Ben lands a kick flip in 2026, you gonna get back on the board?

[F]

I. I, like, I skate around the shop every now and then, but I'm.

[A]

Not, like, no ollies.

[F]

Dropping in and grinding with you guys.

[B]

I'd still love to see you come in with a setup. I know you were close. I think. I think you were. Dude, there's, like, you're on your phone, like, setting up a complete. Dude, I have way too many skateboards.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

For a guy that sucks really bad.

[F]

At skateboarding, I have.

[B]

I think I have six. And they're. But they're all different sizes because maybe the reason I suck at skateboarding because I wasn't riding the proper setup. So I've bought, like, I've got the narrowest skateboard you can buy. I've got the widest one, and I've got everything in between. Different size wheels, different size trucks, different grip tape. You know what? They all kind of function the same.

[F]

I remember maybe.

[A]

I'm never saying that, like, being like, if. Maybe if I went to an 8, I'd just be happier and I'd be nailing these tricks and.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Some dude's super good at skating. He's like, I'm. I hate to break it to you, bro, but, like, you just gotta learn this.

[D]

But it's not the board.

[B]

We rode for what we'll call it an hour. The other night, we had our little sesh. I rode five different boards. Yeah, Mike rode the same one. He landed a lot of tricks I didn't.

[A]

We were both struggling, dude. Also, we were sweet wetting our asses off. Just gas.

[F]

That's a given.

[A]

But it was good.

[B]

I was actually skating with no shirt on. Don't check the cams.

[A]

I did you a favor and didn't take any videos. I actually took a few snaps and then just deleted them.

[B]

No, I'll. I. I'd run it as if I was landing something. But, yeah, if I'm just rolling around on the ground, this fat and sweaty rolling on the ground, like, record something.

[A]

And he would just biff it up. And I'm like, huh, this just.

[D]

Just sad.

[A]

That's always a funny, like, thing across the board. Like, even, you know, sometimes we were out snowmobiling. You hit a drift, and it's.

[C]

Oh, that was sick.

[A]

I'll record you in the next one. But the drift starts to get beat up, and then you, like, come through, and you're just like, bar humping. And then I'm like, I'm just gonna delete that one. You. You always know it's a fail when you just delete the clip.

[C]

I kind of want to see these videos now. The security cam footage.

[B]

Look it up.

[A]

I guarantee you will not be entertained.

[B]

It's not. Yeah, it wasn't very impressive.

[C]

I will give you that. Ev. You got heart, man. You got heart when it comes to skateboarding.

[B]

And it's still, though, like, I can hop on a bike, and I feel like I'm pretty darn good on a bike, but it's like, just mic skates and, like, can't really ride a bike inside. Our ramps are too small, so, like, still just fighting the skateboard game, but.

[A]

I'm stoked on it, obviously, you know, like, this isn't talking ill on Dalton. Like, he cannot ride a skateboard. And he's like. He's like, oh, let me try driving in. And then he's just like, yeah, it's not for me. Like, he. He physically couldn't hang out with us while we were skateboarding.

[C]

He can ride a suitcase, though.

[A]

He can ride a suitcase. And he's a hell of a ripstick rider.

[B]

Cody's the sleeper ripstick rider.

[C]

Like, what does that even mean, like.

[B]

He just gets on it and does stuff that. What stunts?

[F]

How?

[B]

I don't know.

[D]

Ripstick.

[A]

I don't blue like 360 flipped them and then everyone says the same thing. They're like, dude, just skateboard. Which they probably do.

[E]

I've never seen anyone ride a ripstick more than just like in a straight line, I guess. Like, I don't know what the circle. The whole thing is.

[F]

They still make ripstick.

[A]

I don't know what that's all about.

[F]

Sticks were sick, dude.

[B]

Were they though?

[A]

Dude, I used to. I. I wonder if I still have a video of it. Me and my buddy Cade used to have these things called fusion scooters that you could like.

[B]

Oh yeah, like a trike.

[A]

Yeah, it was four wheels and they had big, big wheels. Yeah. And you could go like that and we could manual them forever and we made like edits and it was so corny.

[C]

What about the like kind of long board thing that had the two ripsticks?

[A]

Oh, freeboard.

[C]

Oh, freeboard.

[A]

Snowboarding. But long word. Cody had one of those too. That's probably where he got some of that skill.

[C]

Yeah. So you would essentially. It was like for downhill though, wasn't it?

[A]

Yeah, yeah. So you like a snowboard?

[C]

Yeah, it was like snowboarding just on pavement. Those things never really caught on, did they? Well, dude, that's a pretty gnarly fall to Your feet are actually locked in. I guess they slid in, but it's not like.

[B]

But like, you go south, you need the right environment. I mean, think right now how many hills are in cormorant that you go ride this down.

[C]

Yeah, I guess so. But if you're like, you're running the streets of L. A with that, like San Francisco. San Francisco. Is that super sketchy though, with like potholes and with the, with the little like wiggly.

[B]

I don't know, but I would imagine it seemed very sketchy.

[C]

Yeah, it does. It just seems super sketchy.

[B]

Yeah. Many, many, many moons ago, I had some buddies in college in Duluth. The college is up on the hill and canal park is like at the bottom of the hill. And they had like a bunch of longboards sitting in their porch. And they're like, bro, you have your longboard. I'm like, no, like, ah, grab one. Dude, we got the sickest route. You literally don't have to push. It's a 20 minute ride and you just ride. Terrifying. These guys were good and I had no idea what I was sliding it and stuff. Yeah, they could skirt they could skirt. We're going to some of these hills. There's guardrails on the side.

[F]

Like, we're in traffic Cannon.

[B]

And I'm also on, like, everybody. Everyone has their good setup. And then there's, like, the homie setup, which is obviously everyone's old, so I'm not blaming the board, but I was also on rolling around on the asphalt. No, it wasn't just. I mean, I was going fast.

[A]

What were you riding?

[B]

Well, but it wasn't even that long of a board, too, which I feel like a longer board's more stable. I was on, like, a short, long board, like a cruiser board, and we were just, like, bombing these hills. And, dude, it was so stressful, and I. I actually never ate. But, I mean, I was having to, like, drag my feet. Like, they're skidding. I'm dragging my feet. I don't know. It was just a terrifying experience. I never did it again.

[C]

My buddy Zach went through a longboarding phase.

[F]

It was pretty.

[C]

Pretty long phase, actually, where he was, like, making his own longboards. But it was. It was pretty much once a summer. He would get, like, a guaranteed concussion.

[D]

Oh, good pile up.

[A]

Yeah. I was the punk longboard kid that was like. Yeah, well, I'm a skateboarder, so in order to get around faster, of course I'll ride the longboard. I don't. I mean, I was bmx, too, but, like, just, like, I just. What a corny thing to do. I guess, like, longboard is not an effective way to get around town. I'm sorry.

[C]

I did it.

[A]

It's not.

[F]

They don't have a cool rap.

[A]

Yeah, they don't. And it was. It's like. It's like, bro tank and, like, drug rug. Like, it's just. It's not.

[F]

It's kind of like a corn.

[A]

It's not an aesthetic.

[F]

Yeah, but most of those guys aren't actually riding them hard. Like, they're not bombing hills.

[A]

Right.

[F]

It's just, like, getting around, like, college campus and whatever.

[C]

Dude.

[F]

In college, I rode my longboard all the time for class just because you could get there so much quicker. And if I didn't ride the longboard, I'd ride a scooter, dude. I didn't really give a dude scooter.

[B]

In college is crazy. Ripping scooters.

[F]

It was a purple scooter, and it was great, dude. Yeah, it was nice.

[D]

I rip a scooter to class. Kabu. I didn't hear about it.

[C]

I didn't know that either.

[F]

I wrote a scooter laugh at me and. But I didn't really care.

[C]

What about when Casey Neistat had the. Yeah, so that was.

[A]

He was way ahead of that boosted board because now there's a bunch. But, dude, those are sick. Those things are sick, and they've only gotten better also. I'm sure you guys have all seen the electric unicycles. Yes. There.

[F]

No. Okay.

[B]

We rolled them at the drift, man.

[A]

Rode them at the drift mansion.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

But the. So those fun. Those are cool. They're like one wheel, a little different. But have you seen the people just ripping traffic speeds? It's nuts.

[E]

Like, the. The Asian people going upstairs with those things.

[A]

I have seen also.

[D]

I've seen, like, other race matters in this cat.

[A]

I've seen some people doing, like, hill climbs with them and obviously hitting jumps. It's just kind of wild. There's a reason none of us have pursued that, because it does. It seems like an. Not a if, but when.

[F]

It'S like.

[C]

It's like a one wheel. Like, all of us have ate on a one wheel.

[D]

You push super fun.

[C]

You push it to the absolute limit, and then at. At the limit, you're going 20 miles per hour leaning as far forward as possible, because that's how you get up to speed. And then the bat battery dies or it cuts out or something happens.

[A]

Don't look at the beepers.

[C]

Remember when Ryan.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Pushed through the pushback?

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

I mean, it's like an amateur mistake. Yeah. It was awful.

[A]

You were scabbed up all over. That's how it was. I went down Pelican Point Drive on my longboard. My buddy Pete, and he's like, yeah, it's not bad. You're cooking by the end, though. And I just was like, all right. It was like, the first actual hill I bombed, and I just got speed wobbles and died. Just straight slid on my chest for, like, 20ft. And it was right before that, like, our boss at Zorbas was like, be careful, you guys. You know, don't want to. You know, we need your. Your hands, you know, to make pizzas. And then I came. I came back, and my hands were literal scabs because I just graded them off on. On the P Rock.

[D]

Yeah, it's better to roll, but it's just. You just start sliding, and you don't want to start tumbling.

[C]

There's few things worse than road rash.

[D]

No, road rash is a deuce.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And, like, because it's. Your skin is healing, like, that's painful.

[B]

Well, that's the Thing, too. When you get those big scabs, it's like, then your skin doesn't flex. Sometimes the. The worst pain is, like, day.

[D]

Yeah, exactly. When it's all hard.

[A]

Just a big slab of bacon, dude. Jerky.

[C]

I mean, One Wheel did such a good job of, like, making that a more, like, accessible vehicle. For sure.

[D]

For sure.

[F]

Yeah. You. You look at it and you assume it's gonna be way harder to ride than it is. Yeah, it's just the tech in it is amazing.

[A]

Like, it's also just interesting that they kind of came up and they just stayed steady. You know, One Wheels is a. It's a good brand. They're quality products. But then the hoverboard thing, there's like, like 6, 000 different hoverboard makers. And you.

[D]

Yeah, you're right. Nobody really ripped off a one wheel.

[A]

Right. And you don't see. Maybe they have a crazy patent. You don't see anybody riding a hoverboard. I'm talking even like a kid at a park. You don't see anybody riding.

[D]

Dude, those suckers with a rage Remember that Christmas everybody got hoverboards?

[E]

So many of them were so shitty that they all just started on fire. Those were, like, the most dangerous ones.

[B]

Little Aiden's got one. It's got the Bluetooth speaker built in.

[A]

Yeah. Right in the wheel.

[B]

It just burns around the house listening to Astronaut in the Ocean.

[F]

What's that song?

[C]

What? You know about going.

[F]

Oh, that's funny. That's a good little kid song.

[B]

Yeah. But on repeat for more than. By the third time you hear it. It's excessive. And God forbid, the tenth time, my favorite I've seen.

[D]

It's been around the house banging in the too.

[A]

I've seen a few videos where little kids will get them spinning, you know, if you, like, lean one, you'll get them spinning, and then they're spinning, like, literally, they look like a top and they're like.

[B]

If you sit on them. That's how you do it. You sit on it and then you use your palms, one forwards, one backwards, and you cyclone. Insane.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Whenever I think about those. Those hoverboards, I just think of the. The time that Cody Sherbrooke was sitting on one and he went forward, and then he was like. He starts laughing, and then he, like, kind of falls back, and then he just, like, full speed, puts his head into our hammer schlogging table and he cut his head open.

[F]

Was that on video?

[A]

Yeah, today, actually, ironically. What? Yeah, yeah. Like, literally, it's his last text he just sent to Cody.

[D]

And I.

[C]

Goes forward.

[A]

He blew his head open. And then we on the hammer slogan table, riding a hoverboard, sitting down, doing cyclones. And then we super glued his head shut. And all was well.

[B]

Another clip that I just saw from you. I think you posted it. But when Pat, our editor, wipes out on the skateboard and don't goes to check on him and steps on the skateboard and then takes himself out. But none of us. We didn't even know Mike, you can see us in the corner, and we weren't even watching. But it's just Pat goes down, Dalton goes down. Me and Mike look, and they're just both laying on the floor. What just happened?

[A]

It was a pretty rare occasion where we. They were laughing so uncontrollably. And you came over and he goes, what happened? And you're like, but seriously, guys, are you guys actually okay? And I'm like, wow. Pretty rare that Evan's not just laughing at them.

[B]

My hardest laughs are always when I know that they're okay. They're okay. Or at least minor injuries.

[C]

When I piled that hoonicorn up into the. Yeah, Evan didn't stop laughing for two hours.

[B]

I still haven't stopped.

[A]

That is the definition of one of the. Like, you're never living that down. Oh, that one was a big one in a memory.

[D]

In our group chat today, one of my college buddies, they were having like a wrestling tournament or it was something dumb, but it was at our. Our buddy Beerson's house. And he hit his head.

[B]

Oh, he had to get it shaved.

[D]

He had a fucking bald spot.

[B]

I love the timestamp, too.

[D]

They stapled together. Did not. It did not look pain or like. It looked like it hurt. But he had a bald spot for half of his sophomore year of college. And, you know, this was junior year. And then freshman year, he fell off a roof and broke his back. So he's in a back brace all.

[A]

Was that Prius?

[D]

Yeah, he had a bit of. He was a bit injury prone.

[B]

I've always wondered how the staples work when they're in your head.

[A]

I wasn't.

[D]

Looked like it works very well.

[B]

There's not a lot of meat up there.

[A]

Can we chat? GPT why they use staples instead of stitches, per se or any other method.

[B]

I just feel like other parts of.

[F]

The body maybe too tough where they can't.

[E]

Like when they staple it, does it go in.

[F]

I remember in elementary school, I don't.

[A]

Think so, but there's no way When I was younger into your skull, that's what I thought happened. I'm like, like. So someone was explaining how their son, like, cut their head open, and then they had to get it stapled. I was like, oh, so we cracked his skull?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And they're like, no, he just sliced his. His head open. I'm like, why did he need staples? But that's how they do. We get a too thick or something.

[F]

I don't know.

[B]

I mean, I imagine it's. It's not doing what it looks like it does. Like, because it's clearly not a normal staple that just, like, goes straight down because you can't even go, like, an eighth of an inch on your head and not be in your skull, because.

[D]

On the scalp, your skin is thick. Staples are using set of stitches for faster wound closure, especially for deeper, long cuts, offering quicker application, lower infection rates, and strong, uniform closure.

[F]

How thick is your scalp?

[E]

Like, staples are 5 millimeters. And less tissue reaction, less hair interference. Staples are great for the scalp because hair makes sutrine slower and the scalp bleeds a lot.

[A]

The follicles don't like playing with the needle. Lower infection risk.

[D]

Your skull is 5 to 10 millimeters thick.

[B]

Your skull or your scalp?

[F]

Scalp. Your scalp's probably only like, 2 or 3.

[D]

Well, is it 3 to 8 millimeters? Is your scalp. Wow. Thickest skin on your body.

[A]

You ever really.

[B]

You guys ever get stitches? I know Mike has blown his needle.

[A]

Yeah, I got stitches many times.

[F]

I don't even know how many times.

[A]

Really?

[F]

Yeah, I got some here.

[C]

He fell down the stairs when he was all piled up one night.

[F]

A leg.

[A]

I've had some on my forehead.

[F]

Yeah. At least three, four times.

[B]

You guys know about my bad stitches I had, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

And you're nuts.

[B]

Oh, yeah. I can't remember if we talked about.

[D]

That yet when you blew it open on a trailer.

[B]

Okay, we talked about that. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yep, Yep. All I know is I'm glad they didn't break out the Stanley stapler. I was fine with the sewing needle.

[A]

You know what I've heard more times than once?

[D]

You need a binder for Ken's.

[A]

Like, one of my buddy's dads was disconnecting his trailer. And you know, when you just wait on the trailer, you disconnect it comes up and knocked both his front teeth out. Think how much that would suck. Just. I mean, you know, you can make fake ones, but losing your front teeth.

[F]

Yeah, it does suck.

[D]

I chipped my front tooth twice. Someone playing football on the bus.

[A]

Damn.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Badass.

[C]

Wait twice.

[B]

You ride the bench at the basketball court. We were playing sports on the bus.

[D]

Yeah. No, the first time was on the bus, and then the second time was back when DL beach used to have, like, the log roll and, like, all the things in the water. You guys remember that? It was lit, and I fell off, and I, like, winced, and I opened my mouth, but I hit it on the anchor underwater.

[F]

That's crazy.

[D]

Yeah, I know. The doctor was like, how the did you do that? Like, why isn't your lip cut and whatever. They, like, didn't believe me, and I was like, no.

[B]

It's almost one thing, though, if you're, like. Whether you're horsing around or playing a sport or doing a stunt and, like, you knocked your teeth out or whatever. But, like, Mike was saying, like, can you imagine? You probably have a busy day. Oh, yeah.

[D]

That's not the first thing that's went wrong.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And all of a sudden, your.

[D]

Your teeth are.

[B]

Poor fellow.

[D]

That's not the first time that something went wrong that day either. You know, like, you know, you were fucking with the trailer, and the lights didn't work, and you're already pissed off, and then the thing knocks you out.

[A]

When j. We still didn't believe him for the longest time, and he pulled up his security footage or something, but when Jake was loading, he got a thump star, very similar to an SSR pit bike, and he was loading it in the back of his edge, and he's like, yeah, I knocked myself up loading my pit bike, and we're like, yeah, right. And then he, like, pulled the security cam footage, and he's like, look there. I'm laying there for, like, a minute.

[F]

Like, he, like, his face on the concrete or something.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or he, like, slipped and then, like, hit his head on the peg or something. I don't know. You got to be careful out there.

[F]

Loading it or something.

[C]

I don't remember.

[F]

He was up top.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That was just, like, such a classic, the. The boy who cried wolf story.

[A]

Oh, it was.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, Jake told us that, and we were like, no, well, that didn't happen.

[A]

No, dude.

[C]

No, it actually did happen. I swear.

[F]

This one's true.

[C]

He had to go and pull the security cam footage.

[D]

Classic.

[C]

Did you guys see, like, all those cars going for auction at the Barrett Jackson this weekend that were going for, like.

[D]

Yeah, like, 70 million crazy money come actually.

[F]

Oh, was it?

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

It just keeps seeing that, like, all these cars going for auction set, like. Like, every single car that was Going set a record for like the price. Yeah, like an insane like $35 million bro perk, like for a fur car.

[B]

For a Ferrari.

[F]

Inflation.

[E]

I'm assuming they were limited edition or limited runs or what?

[D]

They were standard special Toyota Corolla.

[B]

Just wanted to spend money.

[D]

38.5 million for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. Don't know what the fuck that is. Then a Ferrari Enzo for 17 million. A Ferrari F50 for 12 million. Another Enzo for 11. A LaFerrari for 11 million.

[C]

So I saw those though and like, I think that there's becoming this new wave of people investing or like spending money on things that aren't like traditional investments. That it's like a pretty crazy return. Like all those cars. But did you guys see like Logan Paul selling his like one of one of one Pokemon card?

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

What is it? Card. And it's gonna sell for like $10 million.

[F]

I guess it is one of one because it's. I don't know enough about it, but it's a. It's a Charizard holographic, like the illness.

[C]

It's like Illustrator card that was a part of this limited run and it was graded a PSA 10.

[F]

That's why it's 101. It's the only, like, highest grade condition card. Like, there's other ones that are like nines or whatever. But yeah, supposedly this thing is worth like 10 million bucks or something.

[D]

It's at 6.3 million right now with 26 days left of the auction.

[F]

I remember when I was a kid, I used to always like, save my cars. Oh, these are going to be worth something someday. I totally had shit cards.

[B]

My mom. I know.

[A]

I just really.

[B]

I had a holographic mewtwo, which I've seen that even in ass condition, it's still worth like hundreds of dollars. And then could be upwards of like real money. I don't know, not millions, but like thousands perhaps.

[F]

Yeah, it's cool.

[B]

There's.

[A]

I was just going through my memorabilia box the other day and then Sydney pulls up this. She goes, what's 89 tops? Which they're baseball cards. And she's like, this is. It says, you know, this is a gift to you. Your first birthday, Micah. Worth about 100 bucks today. Hopefully it's worth much more in the future. And she's like, you should look this up. I'm like, oh, my gosh. I haven't looked that up in so long. I mean, literally, like 100 bucks. I'm like, what a Joke.

[F]

That sucks.

[E]

Yeah, there was a guy local around here, he. They were talking cards and all that. And he was like, oh, I think I have one of these rare limited edition. I don't remember. It's like Michael Jordan first released, first season or something like that. You know, there's only like 30 printed new back in the 90s when he was a kid and he went home and you know, they're worth like 30 grand today. Goes home, finds it in Chicago, sells it to a guy for 30 grand.

[D]

No shit. That's pretty.

[A]

The rookie cards are sick because, yeah, they didn't make much because they didn't know how good they'd be at the time. So having like a true rookie card, crazy.

[F]

There's a lot of just like collector memorabilia like you said that you can make money on. I mean, it's just also one of those things. It's like how many people are like buying a car and they're like, oh, this is gonna be worth big bucks someday. And it's like, you gotta store it. Yeah.

[A]

Realistically, drive it. I'll be easier to do with a card.

[F]

Like, I don't know. There's. I don't know.

[B]

I think, I still think we should buy some normal ass things. Like I see at some of those auctions where it's just like 1991 Silverado with like no miles on it and it goes for stupid money.

[F]

Someone's gonna put.

[B]

All you do is buy that sucker, throw it in a bubble. For 30 years and you've been saying.

[D]

That with like crated dirt bikes and stuff.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Or yeah, dirt bikes where you see the three wheeler, the snowmobiles, whatever. But I'll probably never do it because I'm just getting older. But yeah, if I'm gonna do it, I need to hurry up and buy something. But yeah, we talked about it with.

[A]

The Yamaha the last year they made a Yamaha. I'm like, well, because it feels weird to buy something, a 2025 and then be like, yeah, in 20 years. But that would have been a good.

[D]

20, 25 is a good year. Like, it sounds good, you know, when it's 50 years old.

[C]

What about the Etne shoes, Ev?

[D]

Oh, yeah. How are those doing?

[A]

Perfect.

[D]

They're comfortable.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I bought a few pairs to wear. Haven't been buying any. I bought. All the Shecklers are gone. Those are really the only ones that I was like, potentially could go up in value. That's true. The problem is I just keep wearing them. I've only got like.

[A]

I know more I think I have. Because Etnees does still make shoes, you guys. Not the Shecklers.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Find a couple pairs not in your size. You can't wear that.

[B]

No. And that is what I said I was gonna do. You can still find them in other sizes, but like the 9 to 12 range or whatever. You cannot find them. But I still have three colored. Three different colorways in them that are boxed up. A couple of them that I've gotten shipped and they're still like in the bag. They ship. I mean even open the shipping bag to check what's in the box. I might open it up in 30 years and there's a freaking mouse turds in there.

[A]

They might have shoes just dust.

[F]

Dust.

[C]

I wonder how many crazy sports cards are just sitting in an attic somewhere like worth like crazy money. Like the million dollar cards.

[F]

Yeah. Especially when you're a kid. Like you don't really know. At least I didn't really know what I got. Not like I didn't know what was worth money. You maybe think this one is because it's.

[A]

And I also think you come into it just assuming that it's not. You know what I mean?

[F]

I was the opposite. I was like, these are gonna be like worth so much money someday.

[C]

Oh, you thought that back in the day? Yeah. Really?

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Like Pokemon cards or what?

[F]

Say that like all my friends and stuff were like, you know, but I just had trash cards. I didn't have any good cards.

[D]

Would you trade them?

[F]

Yeah, well, like I don't even really know how I got my cards really. Like I. I don't know if they were just like I was. No, but I was never really like buying them. I think I just kind of got them like. Like I had a friend or something. They were just as cars gave them.

[A]

To me and I don't know, kinds of trash.

[B]

I like old video games. I have. I have Super Nintendo, original Nintendo, Sega. But I actually play the games. So I'm not trying to buy like new in package games but like I've spent you know, over a hundred dollars on like a Mario game for Super Nintendo.

[F]

That's sick.

[B]

And it's like, it's cool. I have it and I use it and maybe it'll break. So I'm like, I'm not really. I'm not buying it to make money. But it sucks because there's like a lot of games for PlayStation 2 that are getting crazy in price. There's this fighting game, Def Jam. Vendetta. Yeah, Def Jam the record label or not. Vendetta is the first one. Fight for New York is the one. But now to get a playable A disc only that they claim is playable is going for like 2, $300. And if it's new in the box, I mean with the, I mean thousands. And it's like I just want to get this game so I can play it again.

[D]

Talk to Justin, he knows how to do the emulator, but it's not the same.

[B]

It's not, it's not. I've.

[F]

Well no, it is, but it's not. It's not the same.

[D]

It's better playing it on the console. You need an old TV to play it on too.

[B]

Actually this is funny. A couple nights ago I watched a full rundown on how to fully mod a PS2 with simple bolt ons from Amazon. Like you don't need to like take it apart. You just like plug this in here, plug that in there, plug that in there, spend a couple hundred bucks and then you can play all the plate, anything you want.

[F]

Yeah, you can buy modded Xbox like originals or even 360s and it'll come with like 10,000 games on it and then you don't ever have to change a hard drive. Yeah, they're not that much money but I hear mixed reviews. Like some of them are just leggy and shit.

[B]

But I deeply regret the way I treated my PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games. They lived in a stack on top of my PlayStation and you just shuffle through them and yeah, yeah, there's 20 games just stacked right on top.

[A]

That always drove me nuts. I couldn't do that. And also if I was at a buddy's house then I'm like, hey, where's the case for that? I don't have one. Just I'm like, I was the gonna get scratched.

[F]

I always had them in the case.

[D]

I threw all my cases away but I had like a little folder like the disk folder. So yeah, I have a bunch of.

[F]

Games but I like looking at it.

[D]

I know, that's how I feel. Dumb.

[B]

If anyone wants to sell me Def Jam Fight for New York for 100 bucks, I don't need the box. Get my DMs.

[A]

And if anyone wants to sell me a Shrek tube TV with a built in for a decent price, I'd take it.

[F]

They made a Lightning McQueen one too.

[A]

I. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, that's lit.

[A]

It's crazy. The tube TVs have gone up but particularly those two with the built in VHS are they're going for like a grand one so. Oh, that's sick.

[B]

My bedroom I grew up in at my parents house, my mom still held on to the built in VHS2TV. Not a special edition, but that it still just. It kind of sits there and she's like, I just keep it. You never know if you're gonna need that's to watch a VHS for some reason. So it's just sitting there.

[A]

And it's also like I had to get a VHS player to pull a bunch of the old tapes for the wedding video. It was a pain in the ass to even get a VHS player. So if you just had the TV with it, you just get to pop it in and that's it.

[D]

Shrek TV in the box, unopened. 6,500 bundles.

[A]

Okay. They've gone up even more.

[F]

They've gone up even more opening it.

[D]

I really wonder how people don't open in the box.

[B]

I think you jump on one mike.

[C]

You guys are talking about.

[F]

This is before your time, Ben.

[D]

Dude, Shrek was a dude.

[B]

Do you know what VHS is? So it, it's.

[C]

I know what a VHS.

[B]

It's like a big cassette tape.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Lightning McQueen. You had to rewind it but don't pause it for too long. You have to use the stop button. If you pause it, it'll burn the tape out.

[D]

Really?

[B]

So your parents know if you were pausing it at the titty scene for too long. And too long could just be a matter of minutes. When you watch the movie through normally it'll go.

[C]

You learned that one the hard way.

[B]

No, no, I just know it happens.

[C]

What about if you pause something on those old tubes? Yeah. Get burned in when it burned on.

[B]

Oh, that wasn't tubes, that was plasmas.

[E]

No, it's plasma.

[A]

It could happen on a tube too, but you'd have to leave it on for like days.

[C]

The static. I just remember like the old static. Like the tube being static.

[D]

Gosh, dude, they do not make like this anymore. Like, look at this TV. It's got a little lightning McQueen remote. It's kind of lit.

[F]

You want to know how much this is lit?

[A]

That's the dvd.

[C]

Imagine, dude, unwrapping that at Christmas.

[F]

Had one of those. And I remember vividly in Walmart they'd have a huge stack of them. 99 bucks. Yeah, that's how much it cost for that TV.

[B]

But the like the, the late generation, like Sony tube TVs. I mean there's other brands but like they have went up in price.

[F]

My parents have one.

[B]

Everyone was just ditching them. Ditching them, Ditching Them. But now people like me that want to play retro games on a original unit to have it look good, it has to be on.

[D]

You ever throwing a cinder block through them? That's fine.

[B]

Oh yeah, it's so fun, dude.

[F]

Broken a number of them.

[D]

We used to do that at, in college. We would go around town, people would be throwing them away and we grab them and then we'd bring them to our apartment and then we'd throw bricks at them.

[B]

It's just crazy though that like 15 or 20 or 10, whenever good TVs got good, people were paying to dispose them and now they're worth like, I know, good money. Like crazy. Well, there was how things come around.

[F]

There's like copper in them. And I remember, like if you would set it out on like cleanup day, people would go around and instead of taking the tv, they just bust the back open, take the copper and then like you'd have then really a piece of junk that no one wants.

[D]

They'd have plastic and busted all over the place.

[F]

Yeah, they'd make a mess.

[C]

I wonder how many people listening right now are collecting something that is abstract and not your traditional piece of collectible. Like just waiting for it to go up in value. Like leave a, leave a comment down in. In below this podcast if you're a hoarder of random. Yeah, I'm curious. I don't know what, what people are thinking are gonna go up in price.

[A]

Or even if it's not. I'm kind of curious about that too.

[C]

What you collect.

[A]

Yeah, like some people are like, yeah, I know they're not worth anything, but I like, so I, I have a bunch of rocks. Not just like 20, but like I have a whole like shelf, like room full of rocks.

[C]

Let's hear about your rock collection.

[A]

Those will never be worth anything agates.

[F]

I don't even know what that is.

[B]

I don't know what an agate is.

[D]

Oh, I think I got called that one.

[B]

You've got to be. You literally don't know what it is. I don't know. I mean, people make jewelry out of it. Let me see it.

[F]

You do.

[D]

It's the rock with the little sparkles on the inside.

[B]

Oh, no. Google a damn agate. They very.

[D]

Why the picture of you come up?

[F]

Oh, you had f in front of it.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, but like people will just like go to gravel pits and stuff.

[D]

Like the first one that came up, massive four pound Lake Superior agate.

[B]

Yeah, it's probably worth, I would say $20,000.

[F]

They had one of those for sale at the jewelry store. I was there with Alex, who's getting a ring cleaned, and it's like, poor.

[B]

People diamonds or something. Like you. You could attain that. You could drive right now to a gravel pit and try to find Something that's worth 3500.

[C]

Cut that open.

[F]

It's got a crazy inside.

[D]

No, that's an amethyst.

[F]

Oh, I like those.

[D]

Or geode. All right, boys, we'll talk about rock. We might have to call it. We might have to call it here.

[A]

Boy, that's crazy. Wait, why is Wayfair selling it?

[B]

Dude, Wayfair's always got natural, loose gemstones.

[A]

Guys, remember when we opened the podcast up and we asked Ken what the older mom or the moms liked, and you said, a man. Loose.

[F]

Young and loose.

[A]

Yeah, younger.

[F]

I would not describe it.

[E]

Bad way to describe my lifestyle, but okay.

[C]

Okay.

[F]

Your lifestyle is loose. You're right. You are loose. You're gonna go with the flow. You're down for anything.

[D]

Flexible.

[F]

Kind of flexible. God bless you, Ken.

[E]

All right, thank you for listening. Life White open podcast post every Tuesdays. Don't forget to like and subscribe.

[B]

And don't let your meatloaf peace.