Ken's Response To His Phone Number Getting Leaked

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Ken's Response To His Phone Number Getting Leaked (March 14, 2023)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, and Mike—dive into the aftermath of Ken's phone number getting leaked on a public billboard as part of a vaping intervention prank. The guys share behind-the-scenes stories from their travels, discuss the logistics of moving their snowmobile to Florida, recount their adventures jet skiing with alligators, RV trip planning (or lack thereof), and weigh in on the culture around internet pranks, social media fame, and their unique group dynamics. The episode maintains CboysTV’s signature humorous and laid-back tone and includes plenty of banter and memorable moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Evan’s Stressful Drive to Florida

• Evan took on a solo long-haul drive to deliver the water cross snowmobile to Florida for a video shoot.
• A major hiccup: the DEF system failed on their 2020 truck with only 30,000 miles ([04:00]).
  • CJ: "How do you have a 2020 truck and the def system, which you legally have to have, goes out at 30,000 miles?" ([04:11])
• The group explains they were all working on other tasks (editing, shipping, designs) and couldn’t help with the drive.
• COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Followers responded to Instagram stories with suggestions; ultimately, Evan got help from a local shop ([05:06]).

2. Jet Skiing with Alligators ("It’s Not That Dangerous...Statistically")

• The crew filmed a video jet skiing in Florida rivers full of alligators, which was initially nerve-wracking.
  • CJ: "Riding with alligators is just one of those ideas…so sick." ([07:04])
• Statistics are shared to highlight the low risk.
  • Ken: "From 1948 to 2021, 442 people have been bitten by alligators and 26 have died." ([10:33])
  • Mike: "Way more people die from bees every year." ([11:00])
• Locals view gators as normal river wildlife; the crew reflects on how perceived danger is often greater than reality ([09:23]).

3. RV Trip Planning and Past Road Tales

• The group is gearing up for an RV trip with almost no formal plans—intending to meet friends and film along the way ([20:00]).
  • Mike: "We might be the only people to ever plan a two-week RV trip without planning anything." ([20:48])
• Reflecting on last year’s RV experience: loud, cramped, overloaded, and memorable ([23:00]).
  • Dreaming up ideas—like sending a Hummer off the Grand Canyon and visiting an Alaskan car-jumping event ([24:21]).
  • CJ (on Alaska event): "Everyone just crowds down below and watches cars launch hundreds of feet off of a cliff." ([25:03])

4. Slab City, Vegas Underground, and Being Out of Comfort Zones

• The team debates revisiting wild locations like Slab City, bringing supplies, and possibly riding pit bikes in Vegas storm drains ([30:09]).
  • Ben: "The undergrounds of Vegas look scary. There’s like, people doing drugs and stuff down there. Just like this whole other society…" ([30:40])
• Discussion about personal limits, what’s truly dangerous (or just unfamiliar), and wanting to give back to unique communities ([32:18]).

5. The Billboard Vaping Intervention: Ken’s Phone Number Goes Public

• Full story revealed: Ben and Mike arrange an anti-vaping billboard, targeting Ken to try and get him to quit vaping.
  • CJ: "Learning that it doesn’t cost all that much to rent a local billboard in town..." ([34:11])
• The billboard includes Ken’s phone number, leading to a flood of calls and messages.
  • Ken: "My phone has been blown up... if you block people on your phone, but if they FaceTime you, it still goes through, so I could not sleep." ([39:20])
  • Accidental collateral damage: Viewers misdialing and harassing an unrelated person ([40:03]).
• Ken explains the toll: sleep loss, stress, need to get a new phone number, and the futility of blocking ([39:20]).
• Debate about the limits of pranking, reverse psychology, community reaction, and unintended consequences ([37:33]; [40:41]).
• Listeners praise the message, saying it was a positive influence on younger fans ([37:57]).

6. Internet Virality, Social Media Fame, and Platform Evolution

• The group discusses the shift in internet culture—comparing platforms like Barstool Sports' transition away from only sports, and the trend of podcast hosts cheaply courting attention with salacious guests ([61:21]; [64:33]).
  • Ryan: "...any Joe Schmo with a podcast just interviews a porn star and asks them...really weird [questions]." ([63:38])
  • Reflections on the audience’s role, especially the vocal minority of complainers ([61:59]).
  • CJ: "I'm picky as hell on the podcast I listen to. And to get into a new podcast is like damn near impossible." ([64:48])

7. Other Memorable Stories and Banter

• Ryan’s Jet Ski Triumph: After years of attempts, finally lands a backflip (with some help from a $50,000 jet ski and professional coaching) ([16:39]).
  • Ryan: "Instead of riding a ten thousand dollar jet ski, I rode a fifty thousand dollar jet ski." ([17:08])
• Evan’s Chronic Flatulence: Ongoing inside joke and concern for the upcoming RV trip ([52:04]).
• Barstool Buyout: Discussion of Penn’s full acquisition of Barstool ([63:11]).
  • Ken: "Penn paid 388 million for 64% stake that they did not already own..." ([63:11])
• Healthy Eating vs. Farting: Speculation that diet improvements might change (or worsen) Evan’s gas ([54:01]), and whether a personal chef could help.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• CJ on Adventure: "The YouTube videos have us do so many cool things we would never have the opportunity to do…like riding with alligators." ([07:04])
• Mike on statistics: "Way more people die from bees every year [than alligators]." ([11:00])
• Ken on the phone situation: "My phone has been blown up…if you block people on your phone, but if they FaceTime you, it still goes through, so I could not sleep." ([39:20])
• Ben on pranks: "To be fair to Ken, honestly, I wouldn't have put your number up there if you already didn't have your number leaked." ([43:43])
• Ryan on media trends: "It's cheap views…just podcasts interviewing porn stars with the same questions." ([64:29])
• CJ on Barstool's growth: "I'm picturing Barstool ten years from now still posting party clips or funny stuff and people still [complaining]." ([61:59])
• CJ on the audience: "I'm picky as hell on the podcast I listen to. And to get into a new podcast is like damn near impossible." ([64:48])
• Ben concludes: "Thank you to everyone who listens to this pod…we wouldn't be here or doing any of this without you guys." ([66:55])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Evan’s drive & DEF truck failure: [02:30] – [05:16]
• Jet skiing with alligators: [06:28] – [11:22]
• RV trip planning/discussion: [20:00] – [24:21]
• Vegas underground & Slab City: [30:09] – [32:38]
• Billboard/vaping prank fallout: [34:11] – [44:08]
• Ken’s phone number chaos: [39:20] – [44:08]
• Barstool Sports/Podcast Trends: [61:21] – [66:00]
• Episode close (gratitude to fans): [66:55] – [67:13]

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Closing Notes

This episode balances classic CboysTV pranks and personal anecdotes with larger discussions about risk-taking, adaptation in the internet age, and camaraderie. Ken’s experience with the leaked phone number acts as a focal point, prompting humorous debate and honest reflection on the group’s impact and reach. Throughout, the crew’s chemistry and authentic self-deprecating humor shine—making the episode entertaining for returning fans and accessible for new listeners.

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End of summary for Life Wide Open, Episode 69: Ken's Response To His Phone Number Getting Leaked (March 14, 2023).

Transcript

[Mike]

Life's just about finding new places to scroll.

[Ben]

Instagram reels. I hope you guys feel good. Got me up off my deathbed for this.

[CJ]

You are not on your deathbed. You're a little sick.

[Ben]

I was on the couch.

[Ryan]

The death couch. Podcast number 69.

[Mike]

We're back.

[Ben]

I love it.

[Mike]

69.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Damn.

[Mike]

This is legendary.

[CJ]

We 69. None of us are 69 in with each other, but we're 69 in the day.

[Ben]

Jesus.

[Ryan]

Too early for that in the 69th annual podcast.

[CJ]

You guys want to hear something funny?

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Ben]

Love to.

[CJ]

Horses are the number one most farted on animal.

[Ryan]

Farted on.

[Ben]

Well, obviously.

[CJ]

Yeah, I just had. I got a good kick out of that. It's, like, pretty obvious that horses are the most farted on animal ever.

[Mike]

Behind Evan's girlfriend.

[Ben]

Damn, bro.

[Mike]

No, that's a hit on Evan. That's a hit on Evan, not his girlfriend.

[CJ]

That's cold. Yeah, Evan's actually out of town today. His friends back home are throwing him a surprise birthday party, and the weather got really bad, and we kind of just. I mean, wanted to be there, of course, but looks like they got a keg. I saw legitimately, I saw some snaps of them in a little john boat with no motor. How are we gonna get the keg to the lake? Well, let's just put in the john boat and ride down the hill.

[Mike]

Classic.

[Ben]

I'm bomb because. So I was helping her kind of facilitate more. So just schedule of the surprise that way Evan would be there because obviously we're going on our RV trip at the end of this week, so they're throwing it a week early for him. But, God, me telling Evan, like, you need to be home at.

[Mike]

On by Friday, I think that kind of pissed him off.

[Ben]

He was in a pissed off mood, and I was like, fucking not like, it's like, what do I do? Not let him show up to his own birthday party. Or, like, tell him, like, you need to leave now. Get over.

[Mike]

Like, you know, I'm going to get home when I get home. Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

He was.

[Ben]

There's no agenda. He's like, I'll get there when I get there. Like, no, no, you got to go now.

[CJ]

Which he still had plenty of time for. He was leaving on a Wednesday morning.

[Ben]

He just had Florida.

[CJ]

He just had to be back by Saturday. And it was just so funny because we thought he would be. But CJ's like, Yo, you're going to be back by Saturday. And he's just like, not. If some bullshit comes up, like, the.

[Ben]

Way down yeah, because he had the.

[Ryan]

Worst drive down there, which I think contributed to quite a bit of stress for the drive back.

[Ben]

I never realized Evan was under such a large amount of stress stress or maybe that he didn't handle stress so well. That drive, that drive really brought it out of him.

[Mike]

Yeah. Brought a new side of him out that I haven't seen, that's for sure.

[CJ]

Yeah. So we were just in Florida and we needed to get. We need to make a few things happen while we're in Florida. Most of the things were covered except how do you get our water cross snowmobile to Florida while you get it? Try. You try to get it shipped.

[Mike]

You know, just classic. How do you get a snowmobile to Florida? Right.

[Ben]

And most short notice too is like within a week we were trying to find a shipper to ship it so.

[CJ]

No one bid on it. And you know, we're like, Evan, you know your job descriptions wide. You got to drive to Florida trucker to the list.

[Mike]

As in non existent.

[CJ]

That's what I mean. It's wide. Like anything we say goes. But he started making the drive while we all just are chilling at home because we fly there.

[Ben]

We weren't chilling.

[Mike]

Well, we're all making it sound like real assholes, Mike.

[CJ]

Yeah, we just, we just had the easy way out. But you're right, the whole reason we didn't, I guess, ride with them is because takes two days to drive down there at least.

[Mike]

Dude, I would have loved to have hopped in the truck and drove down.

[Ben]

No, yeah. Honestly, I. I feel like that's rather. Obviously it could be stressful to some people, but for me you just get in and go. When you have problems like Evan had, which when the deaf system goes out on your. On the truck and you through the trip. Yeah, it can be stressful. I do want to just preface though. We weren't at home chilling. Ben and I were. Ben and I were editing so that way we could have a video for Thursday. Mike was doing designs, Ken was shipping out orders. That way they could be to your door at a timely manner. Ryan was editing the podcast. So it was kind of like, well, it looks like you're going to be the guy that has to drive it, Ev.

[CJ]

I don't know.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, I just laugh cuz I.

[Ben]

Already know people do it. Yeah, you know, we're just here, man.

[CJ]

Really eff that one up. Sorry, Ev, but yeah, what's.

[Mike]

I don't understand how we have a 2020 truck and the def system which you legally have to have goes out at 30,000 miles. Like, how. How is that a thing?

[CJ]

I think the even worse part is we're not the only ones.

[Mike]

It seems like it's very common.

[CJ]

So we're all at home trying to get this figured out. Calling dealerships. Ken's calling everyone. Like, you know.

[Ben]

Yeah. And he was kind of not an ideal spy or somewhere in Illinois, middle.

[Ryan]

Of nowhere, it seemed.

[Ben]

Yeah. And basically when the system goes out, it's like you have 70 miles until it's limited to 5 miles per hour, which is like, what are you supposed to do? So he's calling us. He doesn't want to waste his mileage, obviously. And then we're calling around and we put stuff up on Instagram. You guys were replying to our, to our story and stuff, giving ideas. But one of our buddies, Kevin, knew a guy that had a shop not too far from there. So we ended up having him go to there and he's. Fuck, fix the truck.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ben]

Fix the truck.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Ben]

Properly. And then.

[Ryan]

So we will. We'll not have that problem again.

[Mike]

No, no.

[Ben]

I don't even know if you have to put any fluid anymore.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ben]

But I mean, maybe not even diesel after this.

[CJ]

But like Evan, the whole thing, he's got to get himself to the shop with that truck somehow. But he's also got to get a rental that Ken's lining up for him. And he's also got to transfer over a snowmobile, two pit bikes, two jet skis to the trailer.

[Ben]

I could see how it was stressful. I definitely put a bad taste in his mouth.

[Ryan]

And you're all alone.

[Ben]

Yeah, when you're all alone, shit's hard, dude. Luckily they were there to help like the, the people. And I was talking, I was like, we need you to help.

[CJ]

Oh, I don't think on the way. That's why on the way there, they weren't like. He's like, dude. It was the most brutal, like swap process ever. It's literally raining sideways while I'm trying to unload a snowmobile into another truck. But my favorite part is that the rental we got him can take from Illinois all the way down to Florida because. Gotta get it back though. It was a four cylinder, full size, half ton pickup.

[Ryan]

Admittedly, the thing was kind of zippy.

[Ben]

For a four cylinder. I didn't think it's.

[CJ]

I can't believe they like make trucks like that. But I guess it's no different.

[Ben]

The future man.

[CJ]

Ken's Bronco, it's a four cylinder. Still goes. Got a turbo, I should say.

[Ryan]

Four Cylinders and fluid in your exhaust. Welcome to the future.

[CJ]

And then, yeah, Evan made it down there. We got to Florida, and he missed the first day, which is a lot of fun.

[Ben]

Yeah. We were out filming gators, if you guys haven't seen that already. That was a blast.

[Mike]

Probably top five funnest videos or funnest video bits that we've filmed, in my opinion. Yeah, it was just. Just like I. I said it in the video. But the. The YouTube videos bring us and have us do so many cool things that we would normally never have the opportunity to do solely off of just the connections that we've made or. They're so outlandish. Why would we ever do it? And, like, riding with alligators is just one of those ideas down some river. It was so, so sick.

[Ben]

The alligators are a nice touch because it. It added an element of danger beyond what it already was, was because, like, dude, it was a track for jet skis. It was so much fun, and you had. It was cool because there'd be, like, trees and stuff sticking out or, like, on certain banks, it would be super shallow, so you'd have to kind of navigate. But, like, we were ripping.

[Ryan]

It was so fun. It was like. It's literally like riding a trail on a dirt bike or a snowmobile. But for your jet ski, instead of just having, like, this big open lake area to go to, you're just like, all right, we're driving 40 miles that way. Yeah. And it was so much fun. But I didn't realize there was jet ski guys. Like, I didn't realize there's people that do that. Like, the jet skiing is a sport.

[Ben]

So, like, the guys that were. We were with, literally, they go jet skiing on the weekend. They trailer it to a new spot or whatever, and they go jet skiing as if it was like, we're going dirt biking on the weekend. But, like, around here, it's kind of like. It's so different. You just kind of maybe have a jet ski, and you go tool around out in the lake to a couple circles.

[Ryan]

It's.

[Mike]

It.

[Ben]

It's a whole nother life way different. And it makes sense. I mean, why so many people would be so into jet skis. Because that was fun. That was fun. I would do that again in a heartbeat.

[CJ]

And it is pretty funny that most. A lot of guys down there, they wouldn't think twice about that. That's hit the river. Yeah. There's gators. There's gators everywhere.

[Mike]

There's.

[CJ]

However you got Gene, he's got a little Jet ski rental company. He stays in the ocean. We're like, gene, this is your first time in the ocean? He goes, yeah, for good or. Sorry, not in the ocean. In the river with gators. He's like, yeah, for good reason. And it'll be the last time, too. Like, there's more alligators than you can count. Yeah, in the. In the small stretch, there's. I mean, they're left, right, left, right. Couple there, couple there. Swimming in, swimming out.

[Mike]

Big, too. Like, huge. Probably saw, like, some 12ft.

[CJ]

Yeah, there was some big ones.

[Mike]

Yeah, there was some massive, Massive gators.

[CJ]

No one got bit by an alligator.

[Mike]

Dude, I.

[Ben]

Sorry.

[CJ]

Was.

[Mike]

As I was editing the video, I was like, man, I wonder actually how dangerous this was. I probably should have taken the time to, like, maybe do some research beforehand, but I just looked up how many people have gotten eaten or died from alligators in the last year, and there was, like, four people in the last year. But in the last, like, 70 years, there's been, like, 26.

[CJ]

That's so low.

[Mike]

Maybe not really 26, but, I mean.

[Ryan]

In the last 70 years.

[Mike]

Yeah, like something, like.

[Ryan]

So they're starting to.

[Mike]

No, no, no.

[Ben]

Like.

[Mike]

Like, something, like, insanely low.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Wow.

[Mike]

Like, way less.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Than you would think.

[Ben]

I think, being that.

[Mike]

Pull that up.

[Ben]

So northern. It was something very foreign to us and seemed more dangerous than it was. But like I said in the video, it's not really as dangerous as you think.

[Mike]

Well, it looks like they're jumping in and swimming after you're not when they're jumping in to get away from you.

[Ben]

Yeah, they're just getting cover.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. Like, I compare it. I mean, this is a bad comparison. I've heard from some people, but we have snapping turtles up here, and people are like, oh, you going in the water where there's a snapping turtle, I'm like, the only way you're gonna get bit is if you're up in their personal space. I know alligators are a little hungrier and have bigger personal spaces, but.

[Ryan]

And bigger teeth.

[CJ]

And bigger teeth, bigger mouth. But you're really only gonna get bit if you're, like, kind of up in their grill in their space.

[Ryan]

I don't think they would corner one.

[CJ]

Let's say your jet ski died. I don't think you'd find an alligator jumping up onto your running board, trying to snap your feet.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's what I was worried about. Like, if you did could. They're so big, they could easily just come in, like, even. Just, like, right on your Side. And they're so aggressive, they could just clamp on and, like, drag you with them, I guess. Like the actual Jet Ski itself. I was like, I don't know, it just seems, like, extremely unlikely. And then after researching. That's not something that they do.

[CJ]

So.

[Ken]

So from 1948 to 2021, 442 people have been bitten by alligators and 26 have died.

[CJ]

That's pretty low.

[Ben]

That's so low.

[Mike]

I'm like, I mean, how many people die from bees every year?

[Ben]

Or dogs?

[Ryan]

I bet you more people die from dogs.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ryan]

But we title our next video 30.

[Ken]

To 50 a year.

[Ryan]

We titled the next. How about, like, they're biking with dogs?

[Ken]

60. 60 deaths from bees a year.

[Mike]

A year.

[CJ]

Way more than alligators.

[Mike]

Yeah. So, yeah, right before we went, though, I was talking to Jet Ski Ryan, the original Jet Ski Ryan. I was like, hey, how. How dangerous is this? And goes, no, you guys aren't really their type. They're more into, like, older ladies and, like, dogs. I was like, that seems so specific. He was like, nah, you'll be fine.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think that is what happens when most people like the dog. The gator comes up, gets the dog, and then the old lady goes in the pond to try to save the dog, and that's her.

[Mike]

That's wild, though. Like, some of these Florida men were like, if we see a gator, like, up close, I'll jump on its back.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Geez. I was like, dude, that. That just seems, like, really bad. I don't know about that. I mean, Mike, swimming in the river seemed like a really bad idea, and it wasn't even doing much, but.

[CJ]

Right.

[Mike]

But actually going after one that's like.

[CJ]

I live my life based on statistics as far as that stuff goes. Like, my statistics statistician are so low. They're so low. And I knew they were low. Not that low. And so I'm like, what's going to happen? It was really funny. Sid was at a baby shower. So, like, your whole family was like, why. Why would he swim in there like that? When's he going to cut silly stuff like that?

[Mike]

Oh, they did say no. I was wondering what they were gonna say about you doing that.

[CJ]

And. And it really said that, like, Ryan. I mean. Yeah, they were just. They were just like, he's crazy. Like, you know, he's gonna get wh.

[Ben]

Cut out.

[Ryan]

We're gonna cut out all that little. Little stunts he's doing.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

And I'm just like, realistically, like, driving.

[Ryan]

Grow up driving to Work is, like, extremely more dangerous. Yeah, apparently.

[Mike]

Was. What did Sid say about it?

[CJ]

I mean, I don't. She kind of understood.

[Mike]

Oh, did she? Or was she like, why'd you do that? No, honestly, I feel like my girlfriend or mom would have been like, why'd you do that? And then I guess you explained to him and all right. Seemed a lot more dangerous. But. But I just don't understand where they're coming from.

[CJ]

It's like, for planes, I. This doesn't really help people. I think we talked about. This doesn't help people. But I'm like, statistically, you ain't going to die. You just notice planes are safe because they are. They're safer than cars.

[Ryan]

And if you are going to die, there's nothing you can do in the.

[CJ]

Back of the plane you can do about.

[Ryan]

You might as well drink your free Jack Daniels and have a good time.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, where we say we put. Yeah, we don't get free anything.

[Ryan]

We don't.

[Mike]

We don't even get the seats to lean back.

[Ryan]

Yeah, because you guys were in, like, literally the last row.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What do you mean?

[Mike]

Every single time. There's like, every single time.

[Ben]

I couldn't press. I couldn't go back at all. So it was just straight up. Dude.

[Mike]

It's amazing, Ben.

[Ben]

We're like, where the. Where are the other guys? Who would look at that? Them up there getting snacks and whatever else.

[Mike]

Ken, why do you put us in the back? Just me and CJ Every single time?

[Ben]

I feel like it's a hit out every single time.

[Ken]

I had five days to book this trip. I took what I could get. Okay, but.

[Ben]

But, like, he's got these. You know, he has to choose. Okay, so I got five people, five spots here. Two of them are in the back. Who am I gonna put in the back?

[Ryan]

The two guys that put me on a billboard.

[Mike]

Well, let's work in reverse order. How about. Yeah, we'll start in the back, and then it makes sense.

[Ken]

Start with me, and then it just goes in. I. I think it's the. Who's the most recent person I added to a flight?

[Ben]

Oh, you know damn well it goes in alphabetical order. It should be Ben, Ben, cj and then either Micah or Ryan.

[Ryan]

Well, one thing. Like, do you guys go in and change your seat in the app?

[Mike]

Well, up until the last flight, I didn't even know I had a login for the app. So I guess in my defense, no, I'm still figuring this whole flying thing.

[Ryan]

Because that's like, I go in And I take myself out of, like, a middle seat and put myself up against a window.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. And like, up until we started flying. For yourself anyway, I didn't know that it was even an option to pick your seat.

[Ben]

No wonder we're in the back.

[CJ]

I thought you just bought your ticket and they put you where you put you. And then you could maybe do some swindling within reason.

[Ken]

Yeah, they put you where they put you initially. And then you can pick from there, like, hey, there's an open seat here. I can. I can switch it. Yeah, that's usually how it goes.

[Ryan]

And also your status. I think Ken's fricking triple gold platinum.

[Mike]

He's milking all of our putting everything.

[Ben]

On under his account.

[Mike]

That's why I don't have any points.

[CJ]

Wouldn't you?

[Ken]

I don't get any points.

[CJ]

Wouldn't you?

[Mike]

Well, yeah, I guess. Yeah, you got a good point.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I would like to talk about my big moment.

[CJ]

I was gonna just bring that up. Congrats on that, Ryan.

[Ben]

Been two years coming.

[Mike]

Oh, your Jet Ski moment.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You know, I. Ben already forgot.

[Ryan]

I think I expected a lot more comments about, you know, people like, oh, Ryan finally got the flip. Maybe a little selfish for me, but way more people were excited about me being caught in the background of a camera shot peeing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

People couldn't believe that.

[Ben]

And then.

[Mike]

And then they were mind blown when I left in the shot of a GoPro falling off of, like, a jet Ski and falling in, like, that's GoPro at 7:23. Somebody see that. And there's like, every. Has to be 2000 comments.

[Ryan]

The thing that you kind of can tell in the video, but not really is I went into that with the idea that all I had to do was get the jet Ski around and kind of just land.

[Ben]

And I was confused that you would.

[CJ]

Think, yeah, that surprises me.

[Mike]

That'd be like, you didn't want to ride away.

[Ryan]

I didn't even know it was possible in this time frame.

[Ben]

Oh, wow.

[CJ]

Like, I felt like I don't understand. Yeah. It'd be like doing a backflip on a pit bike to wood chips and then just crunching it up.

[Ben]

And every time celebrating.

[CJ]

Yeah, every time. All you got to do is make it from here to here, just to the down.

[Mike]

But you went into that without intentions of riding away.

[Ryan]

I didn't know that it was going to be, I mean, not easy, because it wasn't easy at all. It took me freaking two and a half hours. But I didn't Know that like even riding away from it was going to be an option on that jet ski with my skill. So yeah, I guess I'm confused.

[Ben]

When you were celebrating like yeah, it was like literally we'd been up for like two minutes and we all were like, yeah, he made it round. Now he just got rid it out and your arm was just like.

[CJ]

He went.

[Ryan]

I didn't know if I could do that.

[Mike]

Was it difficult to do or did the jet ski do most of the work?

[Ryan]

No, The Jet Ski 100 did most of the work. The guy that bought my old stand up judgment goes, yo, that's so sick that you finally got it. What'd you do differently? And I was like, instead of riding a ten thousand dollar jet ski, I wrote a fifty thousand dollar jet ski.

[Mike]

So it made the like all the difference.

[Ryan]

I would compare it to instead of riding a bicycle being strapped to a rocket ship heading to space. Like it is literally that different Camry to F1 car. 440 fan to 850 boost.

[Mike]

Now that you say that, it would have been even more impressive if you would have landed it on the other one too. Like looking back at how difficult that was because you know we're watching the videos of like these professional riders do it on these standup jet skis and we're like, Ryan, you can do that. Think about how impressed everyone would have been if you would have actually done.

[Ryan]

You really pulled that off.

[Ben]

You've got to have frick. I mean, how many attempts you think before you landed like total, like over the years trying to do a backflip on a jet ski.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'd say it's got to be 100.

[Ben]

That's crazy wild.

[CJ]

And then the part that was like, so yeah, you just explained the difference between these skis. But he's like, all right, we're going to do this. And he kind of like warmed you up and then sent you out there. Keep in mind, every other backflip Ryan's tried was off of a pretty decent sized wake.

[Ryan]

It was way easier.

[CJ]

I agree.

[Mike]

And I would say intimidating.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And there was no timing because you used to have to time the pre hop while you were headed 10 miles an hour this way and the boat was headed this way, this you just like did it. And then when you felt good and.

[CJ]

There still was a level of timing because we wanted you to do it right in front of us. I feel like if you didn't even have that, you could have tried it anywhere.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Instead of having to make the loop and Whatnot. But yeah, it was so fun.

[CJ]

But it was dope. I was talking to Ryan, I'm like, okay, so you did it. Now do you feel like, conquered? How do you feel about like owning another jet Ski like that? He's like, I kind of still want one now, but a real one.

[Mike]

Oh, really?

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, it'd be sweet, but it's just is like, it's way too much of a commitment to the sport.

[Ben]

Five Hummers.

[CJ]

Yeah. And so five Hummers, they're like hard.

[Ryan]

They have one Hummer.

[CJ]

It doesn't have to be 50 grand, but it has to be at least 25.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You know $50,000 on a freaking Jet.

[Ben]

Ski is in stand up Jet Ski that can't even go. Like it holds one gallon of gas.

[Ryan]

Basically the only thing it does is backflips and tricks.

[CJ]

It really is crazy because then you got guys building crazy sleds. I'm like, I can't believe someone's willing to put 30 grand in a snowmobile that they can only ride six months out of the year, but they're willing to put 50 into a jet Ski.

[Ben]

Keep different folks.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.

[CJ]

It's pretty cool also that we, when we were there at Wamilton, the jet.

[Ryan]

Ski place, he finally got a shout out.

[CJ]

He did, yeah.

[Mike]

Big.

[CJ]

We were there. So Chris Anyzewski is teaching Ryan. So he is number third in the world based on the Havasu Worlds competition. Pretty cool. The Duke is brothers. Gabe is the older brother. He is number two in the world based on this competition. And then Lee Stone was there, we met him, and he's number one in the world. He's won it like 10 times. Just pretty crazy that we know the top three jets freestyle jet skiers in.

[Ryan]

The world and then me and then.

[CJ]

And Ryan's still my favorite dude.

[Mike]

They were saying, it's nice to finally meet you because you get tagged in every single Jet Ski video that we post. Everyone just always tags at Ryan. I works in any backflip Jet ski video because now it's been such a meme.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. I've always wondered like, what these true professionals. It's like, congratulations, Lee Stone, for winning Worlds. And it's like 50 comments of just my name. He's had his crowning achievement for the year and it's just me tagged in it a bunch. Like, what the. Who is this guy?

[Ben]

Sees me Makes sense.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It was really nice to be down in Florida, but we came back home. It's a Freaking blizzard. So we are leaving again.

[Ben]

Yeah. RV trip.

[Ryan]

We've only been home for, what we have like, seven days at home, and then now we're gearing up for another RV trip.

[Mike]

We might be the only people to ever plan a 2 week RV trip without planning anything that we're gonna do on a two week RV trip until like three days before we leave. Like, we don't have anything planned. Is that stressing?

[Ben]

I mean, we still got to work out the fine details.

[CJ]

I think it's so hard.

[Mike]

It's like if we're gonna try and.

[CJ]

We'Re gonna travel across country. Yeah, no, I mean, we have a. We have some things jotted down, but it's like if we're gonna travel across the country, we should probably try to. I don't even like using the word collab anymore, but try to, you know, get together with other people. Whether it be a podcast or a video or just something even just hanging out. But that is when your schedule gets demanding and, and really hard. You know, you gotta be with this person on this day at this time, and. And that's six hours from where you are right now, and that's tomorrow morning or whatever. So we're hoping definitely to meet up with a handful of people. Dude, we don't even have it planned, so I can't even tell you where we're also.

[Mike]

Where are we going?

[CJ]

Yeah, we're also planning on just kind of just having fun with the six of us.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it'll be good.

[CJ]

Maybe seven. Maybe Gavin might join us.

[Mike]

That's.

[Ben]

We're going to have fun.

[CJ]

Going to have fun.

[Mike]

You know, we got the details worked out. Now we're just working on the finer details.

[Ryan]

Well, what first, Colorado. Go see Gav ride some three wheelers and I. I think, I think we go skiing.

[Mike]

I would love that. Ken, can you ski?

[Ken]

I haven't skied since I did something in my MCL probably 10 years ago.

[CJ]

So you can ski though you can't ski.

[Ken]

Depends. I don't know how.

[Mike]

Well, like, I think skiing would be really entertaining solely because it would just be funny to get like, Ken and Ryan and C.J. out there. And then also on the aspect that Evan is a really good skier. So it'd be like the two polar opposites. We would. We could call it reckless skiing. We just get after it. Yeah, but yeah, that'd be fun. Has anyone talked to Gavin?

[CJ]

No.

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

We should probably text him and let him know we're coming.

[Mike]

If you're watching this podcast right now, reach out to him.

[Ben]

He listens.

[Ryan]

Yeah. We'll see you on Sunday.

[Mike]

All right, so Colorado then what?

[Ryan]

Then we have to go all the way to la, Are we. Yeah, I think.

[Mike]

Is that.

[Ryan]

No, it's not locked in either. For sure. We might have to. I don't really know, man.

[Mike]

I feel like it's just such a hike from Colorado to California.

[CJ]

I mean, it is, but in the rv it's so much easier.

[Ben]

Yeah, we're chilling.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

We got a better one this year, which will be nice. Hopefully it's not falling apart. Not falling apart, but it was just rat.

[Ryan]

Everything was freaking rattling.

[Ben]

It was loud in there, dude.

[CJ]

Yeah, I'd say the noise was like the noise in the motor size, like. Yeah, the. The size of it could be bigger. We may do.

[Ben]

But the motor just as she said.

[Mike]

It was pegged out the whole time. Yeah. It didn't help that we were pulling our. Our 35 foot trailer loaded up to the gills, dude.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

The RV was packing what, eight of us.

[Ryan]

I think I saw the tow package for that was supposed to tow like a thousand pounds, which is effectively like a two place snowmobile trailer of the old one. I don't know what the new one is.

[CJ]

Can't believe we put that thing through that. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like up through mountain passes, like real steep. Yeah, Real stuff. Not just idling around.

[Ben]

You know what I think we should do?

[CJ]

Maybe the R6 should we do?

[Ben]

You should drive your Hummer behind us and then when we get to the Grand Canyon.

[CJ]

When we get there. He wouldn't get there.

[Ben]

Okay, well, when the tow truck. The Grand Canyon, we send it home.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the Grand Canyon.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't know what the legalities of that is.

[Mike]

I'm sure it's. I'm sure it's very legal.

[Ben]

Ken, what's the. What's the legalities of sending a Hummer H2 off the grand Canyon?

[Ken]

I'm sure it's anything like you're throwing garbage in a national park.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You know, it's probably not encouraged. I think would be the best word.

[Ryan]

You know, she's not garbage.

[Mike]

Greg Godfrey jumped a motorcycle into it.

[Ben]

That's right.

[Mike]

I think that was like 30 years ago, but I think he got in trouble for that.

[CJ]

Yeah, they have like an event, I think it's in Alaska.

[Ryan]

I want to go to this.

[CJ]

Yeah, they have an event where they, you know, you just show up. All you got to do is bring a car and everyone just crowds down below and watches cars launch hundreds of feet off of a cliff. It's the Best thing ever.

[Ryan]

Ken, pull this up.

[Mike]

Where's the crowd for you, Ryan?

[CJ]

So there's, like, a big kind of canal, river, lake area, and then there's on the other side. It seems like they're too close. It's one of those things, like, however far away they are, it's not far enough. And, you know, some of them, like, don't go well, and other one. You know, some of them only make it halfway down, kind of just crumple up, and other ones just go.

[Ben]

That's what I want.

[CJ]

All the way to the bottom.

[Ryan]

You got to go.

[Ben]

Probably land on all four and just keep going, going.

[Mike]

Oh, we've never seen such a thing. We thought it wouldn't even make it to the edge.

[Ben]

Here we go.

[Ryan]

Look at that.

[Mike]

Dude, that was a good one.

[CJ]

Oh, straight to the bottom.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[CJ]

I love how they have.

[Ben]

This would be a great thing for you.

[Ryan]

Look at the crowd.

[Mike]

All right, we got to do it.

[Ben]

What if someone had, like, a Lamborghini and it got up to, like, 150 and hit the jump and landed in the crowd down?

[CJ]

Oh, gosh. But that's what I love how there. Everyone is far enough away, that is. You can just kind of launch whenever. Like, these, you know, multiple vehicles going at multiple times at different angles.

[Mike]

There's something that just brings people together, like, destruction of vehicles.

[Ryan]

No kidding. But, yeah, I've always really wanted to go to this, except for it's on the 4th of July, which is like a sacred holiday around here.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. It's, like, half the reason we live here. We could just.

[Ben]

We just need a big hole. We could do this at anywhere around here.

[Mike]

Well, this is pretty much what we do.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

We just need a bigger jaw around our.

[CJ]

Oh, it's got, like. It's on a track.

[Mike]

Oh, is it?

[CJ]

That's interesting. Yeah. So it's on, like, almost like a railroad single track in the middle, and it makes sure it hits the jump.

[Ryan]

That makes sense, because I was like, there's no way. They got people just diving out all these cars.

[Ben]

I don't know why people are in here.

[Mike]

I think we got to go to Alaska. Yeah, I would go to Alaska.

[Ryan]

Never been.

[CJ]

That was a 1320 video, dude. I just found out that 1320 was the amount of feet that a quarter mile is. Like, I just found that out, like, two days, and I'm like, yeah, I see why they name the channel that.

[Ben]

Now makes way more.

[Ryan]

Isn't that what Cletus came out of?

[Ben]

Yeah, I used to work for him.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Mike]

All right. So anyway, Colorado to California. That's all we got planned.

[Ryan]

No, no, we got.

[Ben]

We got more.

[CJ]

You're downplaying this so hard.

[Ryan]

Have you checked the notes document that I made?

[Mike]

Yeah, they are extremely vague.

[CJ]

No, it's almost day by day planned out for how little we know.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm not just going to be like, oh, great. I think filet at 12:30.

[Ben]

15 minutes to eat.

[Ryan]

15 minutes to eat. And if we're not on that, I just turned into like psycho road driver.

[CJ]

A school tr though, like, you know, when we take the bus down to Florida, that's about how it is. All right. From 12 to 1, we're eating.

[Ben]

You guys took a bus down to Florida?

[CJ]

Yeah, for the band trip.

[Ben]

Really?

[Ryan]

You went on a band trip?

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, we played band at Disney World. Really?

[Mike]

Yeah, I could just see Mike on.

[Ben]

That bus, just cheesing, just looking out the window.

[CJ]

That was a good time. I actually remember on the bus, some kids were using chewing tobacco, so they, no joke, got. Well, they got snitched on. Bummer there.

[Mike]

Who was it?

[Ben]

Who's it? Who's a tattoo?

[Mike]

Looks like me, of course.

[CJ]

Dude, I honestly think one of the tattletales was the bus driver because there was a bed back there, so there's two drivers. So they'd switch back and forth. And so we were in the back of the bus, you know, just chatting and. And they were chewing tobacco. So they got kicked off the well, like they got sent home.

[Ben]

No way.

[CJ]

Their parents had to fly them home.

[Ben]

Damn.

[Ryan]

I'd be like.

[CJ]

And keep in mind, this happened like 25 hours into the 33 hour trip. Just had to fly back home and ride on a bus for you to.

[Ben]

Sleep on the bus.

[CJ]

Yeah, that was.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think they just drive like straight.

[CJ]

Straight through.

[Ben]

Yeah, that sounds terrible.

[Ryan]

Honestly don't think I could do it.

[Mike]

No way, dude.

[Ben]

I couldn't have done that even back then. That's pretty crazy.

[Mike]

Sound that bad? Yeah, I guess.

[CJ]

But it is funny.

[Mike]

Chilling with your homies. Yeah, Yeah.

[Ben]

I mean, that part sounds fun, but after 28 hours, well, I'd rather drive in a pickup. So, speaking of doing long drives, what's the long drive? Well, just the drive I made yesterday. I'm kind of a trucker now. I drove eight hours.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Or was it nine? I drove nine hours.

[Ryan]

Proud of you. Did good.

[Mike]

It's very good.

[Ben]

Cause in one day, just so probably four and a half hours to Wisconsin. And then we spent 20 minutes surprising the giveaway winner with the snowmobile. He was electric yeah, it was totally worth it.

[Ryan]

Probably most excited I've ever seen anyone.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He took his shirt off.

[Ben]

Shirt off, pulled his pants down, started helicoptering his dick.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. It was crazy.

[Ben]

Oh, he was crying. It was the strangest thing, but it was. It was lit. Like, it was great content. And then we got back in the truck, and I drove four and a half hours back home. It just reminded me, though, that you're talking about doing drives, riding a pickup. Not bad when there's only four guys in it.

[CJ]

No. Yeah. So we're relatively in the planning process still, but I definitely. If I were on the west coast and you're listening to this and you have anything in mind that you think that we should do, comment it.

[Mike]

We'll.

[CJ]

We'll try to read through them and. And add stuff to the list as we go. But maybe thinking about riding some pit bikes down the Vegas Strip, which would be, like, pretty surreal. I don't know if that's gonna happen, but that would be so cool.

[Mike]

Would be sick.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't know. I don't know if he was saying the Vegas trip. I. This guy that I met in Vegas last time, he was a waiter. He gave me his number. I was like, yo, if you guys want to ride some pitters, like, we go in, like, the undergrounds of Vegas.

[CJ]

Underground.

[Ben]

Like, I looked it up and did. I mean, the undergrounds of Vegas looks scary.

[CJ]

I mean, like, I was.

[Ben]

I was, like, you know, concerned going into Slab City, and I feel like I probably handled it pretty well. The undergrounds of Vegas. Look. Sketch. There's, like, people doing drugs and stuff down there. Just like this whole nother, like, society, it looked like. I don't know, just look it up on YouTube.

[Ryan]

But you think it'd piss them off, riding really loud?

[Ben]

Well, that's what I'm thinking. You come pulling down there, and then it's, like, dark down there, dude.

[Ryan]

It's, like, dark. What's going on?

[Ben]

It's weird.

[Mike]

Like, what is Undergrounds of Vegas for?

[CJ]

Yeah, I don't even know that was a thing.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

I think there's maybe.

[Ben]

Maybe for storm drains. Yeah, that's what it looks like. Maybe. Look it up, Ken. Just pull it up so we can look. But, you know, the idea sounded great. And then I, like, for some reason, saw a video of it. I was like, oh, I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

[Ryan]

You know me, I just love really scary places out of my comfort zone. I did so well in Slab City.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You did make a lot.

[Mike]

That was just another one of those things, too. Like riding with gators. Going to Slab City. It sounds crazier. And then when you're actually in it, you're like, oh, this isn't. Yeah, this isn't that wild.

[Ryan]

Like, most things when you do it, you're like, oh, it's not that bad.

[Ben]

Maybe we should go down.

[Mike]

But that one was still, like, me and C.J. were like, what are you talking about? This is just fine. And even in the moment, you guys were not feeling it at all.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was pretty scary. Well, not even scary. It wasn't scary. It was uncomfortable.

[CJ]

Well, you guys clown me for wanting to, like, live there everywhere. Michael, we love this place.

[Ben]

Mike wasn't freaking out.

[CJ]

But. Yeah, dude. I mean, I'm honestly good, though, on Slab City. Like, I don't. There's nothing else that they could. That they could offer that we haven't already experienced, I'd say.

[Mike]

But I think it'd be cool to go back to Slab City and bring stuff.

[Ben]

Yeah, I want to give some supplies.

[CJ]

I like that.

[Ben]

They don't care about money. What they want is some booze, cigarettes, water. Water, weed.

[CJ]

They don't do no actual necessities.

[Mike]

Necessities, everything except for vape, some food, trying to put an end.

[Ben]

They don't. They don't smoke vapes out there.

[Mike]

You know who else doesn't smoke vapes? Us. Well, I thought it would be Ken after the billboard, but I learned that it made absolutely no change.

[Ryan]

He's a tough cookie to crack.

[CJ]

Yeah. Like I said, I thought.

[Mike]

I honestly, I thought that it would do it.

[Ryan]

Maybe we got it instead of the billboard. We got to get him in rehab.

[Mike]

Rehab.

[Ben]

I've.

[Ken]

I'm not doing your rehab, Ken.

[Ben]

That's what they all say.

[Ryan]

Said every person to rehab, going to rehab, ever.

[Ben]

Rehab. I don't need rehab.

[Mike]

Honestly, Ken, first step. You hate the vape jokes and content so much, I figured that would just be your final straw to be like, all right, I'm done.

[Ken]

I. I feel like the more you try and push me to do something, the more I'm gonna resist and just say, oh, it.

[Mike]

Believe me.

[Ben]

This is what I was saying. If you want Ken to do something, tell him to do the opposite of it, and he will do what you want him to. It's basically just a mind game.

[CJ]

You think?

[Ben]

If you're like, vapes, hey, Ken, don't pick up that empty bottle on the floor there. Don't put it in the trash either. Then he'll pick it up and put it in the trash.

[CJ]

Yeah, just play good old fashioned reverse psychology.

[Ben]

Reverse psychology. So tell them, Ken. We love it when you vape. Can I buy you some more?

[Mike]

You know, I'm not really feeling this anymore.

[Ben]

I don't want you vape out of here.

[CJ]

Here's the. Yeah, here's how you get him to quit. You guys start vaping with him and he's like, crap. In my style.

[Mike]

Yeah, I would do it.

[Ryan]

Listen, guys, there can only be so many vapors in this crew.

[CJ]

Yeah, the billboard was a lot of fun. Kind of learning that it doesn't cost for what. For what we get out of it. It doesn't cost all that much to rent a local billboard in town.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'll write off too.

[CJ]

And you know, as long as it's somewhat appropriate, you know, you can't cry. There's some lines that can't cross. They'll do it and they'll put it.

[Ben]

Up like box pretty good.

[CJ]

Whatever plastered up or however that works.

[Mike]

Yeah. Can we talk about just like the whole process behind that?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I didn't realize how much work went in behind the scenes for you guys on that.

[Ben]

Well, because I was one of the.

[Ryan]

People who got surprised you three were in on it.

[Ben]

Yeah. So I've had that idea in my notes for a while. It wasn't necessarily Ken. It was just like, what could we put on a billboard? For years, actually. And initially I was going to. I want to do it on the electronic one that goes by. It just like flips through them. But start thinking about that shit. This not the same. Yeah, like a couple months ago, I just started looking up Newman signs and just gave him a call and asked how much it would be to, you know, get a billboard. And they told me 1200 bucks. I was expecting like 10 grand. When they said 1200, I. I was like, eyes lit up, went over, told Ben, and then we just started plotting, like, what'd be something good to put on it.

[Ryan]

Who's gonna be the victim?

[Mike]

Well, I mean, yeah, we. I guess we just didn't know like, how savage to go with it.

[Ben]

Well, you are limited too, because, like.

[Ryan]

It'S a public, public billboard.

[Ben]

Like, you can only go. You can only do so much on.

[Mike]

You know, but a vaping billboard, you know, it's a good cause to somebody vaping.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like an anti vaping. It's, you know, makes sense. And we just knew that was Ken's trigger spot.

[Ben]

Right. It flowed really well with the hypnotist, which I Think the billboard might have been scheduled before the hypnotist. So it all just storyline really nice.

[Mike]

Yeah, it did. And it looks professional too, because we kind of, like, drew it up. And here's where we want this. Here's what we want. Saying Mike went in there and. And put his graphic design touch on it. We were like, oh, my God, this is like a full on. This is a real billboard.

[Ben]

Well, the guy that I sent it to, he did hit me up when after I sent. He was like, I don't know if we can run this. And this kind of seems like a hit piece out on Ken, yada, yada. And then I just was like, I just sent back this, like, really long thing. I was like, oh, no, no, no. He. He's all. He's all in on it.

[CJ]

He.

[Ben]

He thinks it's funny. You know, this has been a long thing coming, and this is all for content, and he knows it's going down when in reality, Ken didn't. And I was like, just run. Just run the billboard.

[Ken]

July.

[Mike]

We were going to have. Have him call and put, like, me on. Hello, this is Ken.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was worried he was going to ask, well, can I just talk to Ken? I was. That's why I was like, okay, Ben, be ready. I'm going to send him over your way.

[Mike]

I think it was pretty smooth and seamless. And then we figured out the last thing Ken wants to do is go to rehab.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

That was really what scared him.

[Ben]

What do you think I'm blind? Not blind, cj. And we're like, oh, okay. He saw. He's just not really giving us reaction. And then he finally sees the billboards. Like, Jesus, he was right in front of me the whole time.

[CJ]

It's like, you.

[Ken]

When do you re, like, notice a billboard?

[Mike]

I.

[Ken]

You get so blind to all these billboards out there. You just focus on other things. And it's just like, that's a accessory on the side. You don't even like.

[Ben]

I agree. I agree 100%. So it's probably not too big of a deal having it on the billboard.

[Ken]

Oh, my phone has been blown up.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ben]

Probably from the video rather than the billboard.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah, but still, like, I get texts from all the local people. Hey, hey, nice billboard.

[CJ]

There's just plenty of that in general.

[Ryan]

I did get a couple texts from friends and, like, mainly parents that have kids that watch our videos and. Let me. Let me read it, actually, because it was. It was good. And Ken, I think you're a part of a bigger cause that you're. You should be proud of.

[Ben]

You're sacrificing yourself to save the young and up and coming unwillingly. Well, Ken, sometimes doing a good deed isn't. Isn't by choice.

[Ryan]

The sign for Ken is actually a great message for your core followers, my son. Your followers really look up to you guys, and they see vaping is not cool. Thank you. I know Ken. I know Ken. And I'm sure he doesn't like it, but it sends a good message.

[Mike]

I think it's. It is funny, though, because there's, like, such a wave.

[Ben]

It's a positive message.

[Mike]

There's been such a wave of, like, everyone was smoking cigarettes, and then cigarettes became not cool. And if you were smoking darts, people thought it was gross. And now everyone is smoking vapes. And I think that there's going to be a wave of people being like, oh, my gosh, don't put those chemicals in your body more than there already is. And. And smoking vapes isn't going to be cool.

[Ben]

I've been saying it forever.

[Mike]

I mean, it is funny. We kind of are on the forefront. And there's been, like, like, certain things, especially with, like, the robot dick story that went viral.

[Ben]

I'm leading a revolution.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think so. I think so. Against Ken's will, you know, I'm trying.

[Ben]

To save his life.

[Mike]

I'm confused. Well, I'm not confused because I know you're addicted, but you hate it so much, but you're still not willing to quit.

[Ben]

Like, doesn't hate vaping. He loves it.

[Mike]

No, he hates that we make, like, a joke out of. Yeah, because after the. The billboard incident, you were so mad.

[Ken]

I. I got mad because I couldn't sleep that night because my phone was blowing up. I was like, I couldn't go to bed. And then somehow, kids, if you. You can block people on your phone, but if they FaceTime you, it still goes through, so. I could not sleep.

[Ben]

I don't know why you didn't just put on airplane mode.

[Ken]

I. I don't know. I. I got so sick of it, and I was just. I couldn't sleep that night, and it was just like, this thing has to go down.

[Mike]

Did you ever consider maybe I should just stop?

[Ken]

I mean, yeah, you should start answering.

[Ben]

To say, I stopped. I quit. I quit calling.

[Mike]

They go, oh, okay, well, great.

[CJ]

Hangs up right away.

[Ken]

Just people in general, when they call you just gets really old. Oh, I'm sure when you're getting 500 calls a day, it's just like, I.

[Ben]

I can't to be fair, you were kind of getting some call. I mean, yeah, I just totally not. Not only blew this out of the water. Luckily, though, you know, you've changed your number now, so everyone can quit that. I mean, they can call it if they want, but it's not going to go through and just go like a beep, beep, beep. But I do feel bad for some of the innocent bystanders that were affected in this situation because apparently some of the viewers are dyslexic and they dial the number wrong. And this one guy was getting blown up because you guys were calling the wrong number, and he was like, messaging me.

[CJ]

Take the video down.

[Ben]

Messaging our family members. Like, please, can you get a hold of them? Like, take the YouTube video down. We're like, dude, the video ain't coming down.

[Mike]

Like, I didn't.

[Ben]

We didn't put your specific number. Like, I can't control that people are dialing the wrong number and calling you. I mean, yeah, it sucks. I'm sorry, but it'll die down in a little bit. Just, like, let it pass.

[Mike]

Yeah, I ended up messaging the guy back saying, dude, I'm sorry, this sucks, but the video is not coming down, so I can't really help you. Also, it's not your phone number, so it's not like you did anything wrong there. And I was like, maybe try blocking it. And he was like, I can't blocking it. I can't block it. I need it for work. And I was like, all right, that. That does actually.

[Ben]

I mean, I don't really see a difference, though, if you think about it, like, imagine we ran a commercial on tv and it was like, call my electrician service. Granted, there probably wouldn't be so many major wave of people trying to call it. Like, if they dial the wrong number and call you, it's like, what, you take your commercial down, Quit advertising for your business? You know, it's like, yeah, my grandma's.

[Ryan]

Phone number was one number off from the Fargodome, which is like a concert venue. So whenever there'd be a new concert, you know, people are frantically trying to dial through because you apparently used to buy concert tickets over the phone. So her phone, on, like, concert days, like, it would start ringing. And then she used to be really nice and go, oh, no, this is. Judy would explain the whole situation, and they'd be like, okay. And then by the end of it, after, you know, I mean, years of it, she would be like, oh, concerts released, you know, on Friday, I'm going to Take my phone off the H and just. Wow. Would have to. I was just part of life.

[Ben]

But yeah, number.

[CJ]

I think taking a video down for us is like the ultimate pulling teeth, you know, I'm just saying, like, it.

[Ben]

Just wasn't that we do and we're.

[CJ]

Not taking the video.

[Ben]

Like, if I somehow fucked up and didn't put Ken's number and put his number there, I would totally put it down so quick because I've been like, damn, that's like. That's got to be somewhat against the law.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

But like, I mean, dude, I'm sorry. And like, I'm sure it's died down because he quit complaining now.

[Mike]

I said, dude, it seems really bad right now, but, like, I guarantee it's gonna stop.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Or it's not gonna stop, but it's gonna get better. And he hasn't said anything since.

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, because, like, videos just kind of plat, like they. They'll be on the rise, but eventually they kind of like start plateauing off. So, I mean, the amount of people that are going to call them is going to be much less if they even happen to randomly. His number. You know, there's so many numbers you could misdial.

[Ryan]

I wonder how many got. Because I feel like Ken especially is pretty calloused. You know, if he gets like 50 phone calls in a day that are wrong number, he's like, oh, quiet day. But like, I wonder if this guy got 10 and freaked out about that or if he got. Or if he really did get a lot.

[Mike]

He was saying hundreds and hundreds.

[Ben]

And I was really.

[Mike]

I just have a hard time believing that that many people would mess up.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But we also didn't hear from anyone else. Yeah, Nobody else. Yeah, nobody else said, hey, I have a number one off somewhere. It was just him. So I don't know.

[Ben]

To be fair to Ken, honestly wouldn't have put your number up there if you already didn't have your number leaked. It was like you were already considering getting a new phone number. So it was just like, this is so much funnier now, too. If we just actually put the final nail, you know, it was just so, like, to a very large extent. Which is part of why it's fun, you know.

[Ryan]

You're a trooper, Ken.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I don't agree, but I can't change your decisions.

[CJ]

So it feels like it's been up for so long and it's only a week for 10 days.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like out of 30, dude.

[Ben]

Not. That was one of the more exciting.

[Mike]

Things that it was like being there.

[Ben]

And getting to see that finally happen. That was pretty fun.

[Mike]

That was good. Yeah. So many people have reached out to saying this is by far the first funniest thing you guys.

[Ben]

A lot of people really are loving it and it's great advertising. I feel like there's something.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

In.

[Ben]

In a small town like Fargo that we put it up in. When they see your name or your business on a billboard, they're like, they made it. They made it. They're doing it.

[Ryan]

And you don't have to be home. You don't have to drive by it or anything like that. So that's good.

[Mike]

Oh, like Ken does that.

[Ryan]

Doesn't have to look at it or anything like that. So that's good.

[Ken]

I still get pictures of it every day.

[Ben]

By who?

[CJ]

All the.

[Ken]

All the local people that we know that are living Fargo in the winter.

[Ben]

Love it. Yeah.

[Mike]

That's got to be awesome.

[Ken]

It's a new person every day.

[Ben]

They're probably like, dude, this is so funny.

[Ryan]

I wish people thought of me.

[Ben]

I wish people even said anything to me. No one says anything to me.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I look at my phone like, oh, yeah, text to me.

[CJ]

You got people like, nobody. They're going to the billboard to take pictures with it. Like, you know those brick walls with the wings that girls go up? It's like that. I've gotten a handful. You know, I'm just saving them and they're like, got a picture next to the Ken billboard. Oh, really?

[Ben]

Start saving all of them. We could maybe put them at the.

[Ryan]

End of the video.

[Mike]

I was hoping that it'd be more of like a. Like a touristy spot of people in town.

[Ryan]

Cultural, I think.

[Ben]

I assume it is.

[Ken]

Ben, have you been doing any investing lately?

[Mike]

Yeah, I actually just invested in a bank.

[Ryan]

Ben put his money in the bank. He quit investing in fucking banks.

[Ben]

Crash.

[Ken]

It's called Silicon Valley.

[Ben]

Unbelievable.

[Mike]

Yes, it is.

[CJ]

Why?

[Ken]

That's worthless now. Oh, they're gone.

[CJ]

What?

[Ryan]

So, Ken, I've seen this all over Twitter. Basically what happened is this bank. Something happened. Can you give us like a 10 second spark notes on what happened to this bank?

[Ken]

It's kind of like this venture capitalist guy. He said this bank, they have liquidity problems. Told all his, like, venture capital, like, companies, hey, pull all your money out of this bank. And they were like a big. They invested into like startups and like tech stuff in Silicon Valley and like the East Coast. So then they pull all their money out. Other people catch wind that, oh, they're pulling their money out. I Should pull my money out. And it's just a classic bank run. And then they. Everyone starts pulling their money out and they don't have any money left to give you.

[Ben]

So it's kind of like, dude, how does that work?

[Mike]

They were this a rumor? They were the second biggest bank in the United States.

[CJ]

Really?

[Ken]

No, no, it was like top. I think top 15 still, but I.

[CJ]

Don'T know, huge still, but so it.

[Ryan]

Was literally just a rumor. Like one guy was just like, yo, that bank, I don't know about that. And then it literally shut the whole thing down.

[Ken]

It seems like that's the. That's the whole story. I mean, they had. They put their money into like treasury bills, which were locked up for so many years in the future, and they just couldn't get enough money to give to people when they wanted to pull their money out.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So the way that I understand it in layman's terms, basically when the bank takes your money, you put 100 bucks in. It's like the south park bit. Then they take the money and then they invest it to make money on your money. So they don't actually have it like sitting in the vault. Right.

[CJ]

Or they borrow other people.

[Ken]

They have to keep at least 10 cents on every dollar. They typically keep more than that.

[Ben]

That's crazy. That's low. In my opinion, having 10%.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You only got 10% of the cash that you are owed that you owe.

[Ken]

People, but they don't expect you to pull it out. Like there's. They have more than that, but it's like they're regulated. They have to keep a minimum that much on hand.

[CJ]

All I gotta say is if I went to the bank to take my money out because I was scared, or even if I wasn't scared, or because.

[Ryan]

You don't believe in banks and they.

[CJ]

Told me you can't have your money because we don't have it.

[Ryan]

I would be stressing and imagine taking it from the relatively small number we have in our bank account that's like FD, FDA, FDIC insured or whatever. But if you. Over 250 grand, none of that is insured. So it's effectively lost. Like, it's just gone. It's not worth anything if the bank goes under. I mean, I think they can do like bank buyouts and stuff like that.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's what I've heard.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So what are people doing?

[Ken]

People that were scheduled, they were going to get paid on Friday. Those checks didn't go out because the bank. The bank got taken over by the fdic. It's like that, that bank doesn't exist anymore. So then they're supposedly going to open up a new one on Monday, like with all those deposit accounts and they can get things going again and try and get everything cleared out. All these people that they, their business is based in this bank. They get paid from this bank. It's just gone.

[Ryan]

I did see this thing on Twitter, so I don't know if it's really real or not, but you couldn't withdraw your money, but you could spend it, you know, on like from the debit card. So this guy said they were paying, they were putting as much money as they could in the Starbucks gift cards because they said that Starbucks was more stable than their bank. In worst case, they had a shit ton of money tied up in Starbucks and they could sell it. Basically you would sell your gift cards and be like, listen, I got a $50 gift card to Starbucks, you know, or you probably do that in hassle, dude. Could you imagine though, they try to sell gift cards that Starbucks was more stable than their bank?

[CJ]

Well, dude, we, and we, I think we talked about it before, but Starbucks is a bit of a bank itself. Kind of blows my mind. You know, people load the money and maybe not tangible gift cards, but they load their money into the app and then Starbucks does the same thing with the money as the banks do. I mean, not necessarily giving loans, but investing. It's just so crazy. Also just be crazy. Yeah. Let's just say you got 25 grand and you just put 20 of it into Starbucks gift cards.

[Ken]

A lot of stars.

[Ben]

Coffee for the rest of your stars, maybe even longer.

[Mike]

Dude, that's crazy though. That's like 1929, right before the Great Depression when the stock market crashed, everyone was going to the banks trying to withdraw.

[Ryan]

That happened in 2008 too.

[Ken]

I don't think that happened in 08. I think it was mostly in the 20s interest.

[CJ]

I've been seeing more and more stuff about people talking about the world, I guess the United States and life pre 2009, 2008, 2009 crash. And I'm like, it really is weird to think about. Life changed a lot after 9 11. But also that stock market crash and all that in 2009, housing. Yeah, it really did change the way the top, top 1% of the 1%, like are trying to control. Before it was like everyone was kind of doing their own thing, but now it's like it really is. I don't care how many Americans I'm screwing Over. As long as I'm still getting rich and as long as I will be safe if that ever happens again. I just.

[Ben]

I think that's been happening since the beginning of time. Is the rich get richer.

[CJ]

Well, right, but I just think it was different before then.

[Ben]

The thing is, if you're like a rich dude and the housing market crashes and you got all this money and you're versus someone who is maybe normal and, you know, doesn't have a bunch of excess money, the housing market's now super cheap. You can buy a bunch of houses super cheap. They start buying them, and then it goes back up eventually, and they own all this stuff. You know, it's just a cycle. Then just does it all over again.

[Ryan]

Eat or get eaten.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Which is unfortunate.

[Ben]

It is, yeah. But that's just kind of how it works.

[Ryan]

It was interesting to hear Steve talk about it like that, and he's like, yeah, no, it's. It's just like the way of the world is. I think it's been like that since. I mean, even. Since ever. Even before there was money and stuff like that. If you were the strongest guy in the village, you gotta do what you want. Yeah. You got all the women. If you killed everybody else to protect your position.

[Mike]

That's what I remember.

[CJ]

Learning about that in school is more of a government thing, but, like, just big stick government. That's what they called it. And so whoever has the biggest stick, Right, is the most powerful government. I'm just like, that's crazy. Yeah, Big stick. Yeah, we got more money, bigger army. Your country is now ours.

[Ryan]

Damn. So Evan's got quite a leg up.

[CJ]

Oh, that kind of sticks.

[Ben]

No, he just walks into a country, farts.

[Ryan]

Like a gas bomb.

[Ben]

Dude, that's the only thing I'm not looking forward to for this RV trip is Evan being in that thing. Oh, my gosh. We're gonna have to keep a window open at all times. Then a window in the back so it can just keep flushing out constant breeze.

[Mike]

Yeah, the dude's got some. Some absolute firepower.

[Ben]

There's such a thing as having, like, a chronic farting problem. Like chronic gas, I'm sure.

[CJ]

Gotta be something ibs.

[Ben]

I don't know if he. If I'd go as far as to say, you know, possibly he. He has something wrong with him. Otherwise, it's just his diet. I think maybe some of that vape smoke maybe comes out the other end. It's stored down there for sure.

[Mike]

Well, he said back in his asbestos days, it was a lot worse. Because he was just eating gas station food. So it's toned down a little bit now, which is mind bottling to me. Mind boggling to me. And then I think the driving down to Florida put him back in his old ways. Or just gas station, gas station, gas station. He got there and his body was like, oh, man, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah. Mike had to sleep with him in a room.

[CJ]

It wasn't too bad, but he just lets him rip all the time. And then I told. I just told him, I don't care if you fart, but you just got to be courteous about it. And so then he started doing the.

[Ben]

Mike, you sound like my girlfriend, cuz.

[CJ]

Like, I knew it was gonna happen. So then he would, like, you know, get himself off the bed, kind of hang off, or open the door to the outside, really.

[Ben]

He would get up, even.

[CJ]

Appreciate that, man. Appreciate that. Because it's gonna be tough sleeping.

[Mike]

When we left the trees above, like, the. The door to come in and out, they were like, yes, starting to die, dropping leaves.

[CJ]

I think for me, as long as. Dude, I mean, I would say literally, like, half as far as smell, just like anyone else. And sometimes that. That number goes up and down, dude.

[Mike]

That'S a gamble I'm not willing to take.

[CJ]

I still think sewage. That farts are really funny. So when he really.

[Mike]

Yeah, you'd laugh.

[CJ]

I laugh, like, every time.

[Ryan]

Just encourages a little bit.

[CJ]

Yeah. And Ben does the same thing. Ben probably farts, like, second most, I would say. And every time Ben farts, I laugh.

[Mike]

Far behind.

[CJ]

Yeah, far behind. It's just. I just laugh every time. So it really can't bother me if I find it funny. If it stinks, though, then I'm just.

[Mike]

Like, oh, I got to leave, because.

[CJ]

I got a weak stomach nowadays.

[Mike]

That he's like, what? What? We're like, what do you mean?

[CJ]

What?

[Mike]

You don't smell this?

[CJ]

It's only. Yeah, when it's stinky. It's a problem.

[Ben]

I think it boils down to the diet, man. And I was just talking with Alex on the way over here because I was like, man, I need to lose some weight. Like, obviously, I'm not, like, overweight, but I just want to get in better shape. Like, I got weight in my cheeks. So anyways, I've been going on this diet, and by diet, I'm just trying not to eat as much shit. I'm cutting out, like, the unnecessary drinking, and I've already shaved off £9 in two weeks.

[Mike]

Well, I've been with you for two weeks, and there's been some unnecessary drinking.

[Ben]

As I said, I'm trying. But anyways, moral story here.

[Mike]

Okay?

[Ben]

Moral story. Alex and I were talking because we're on the way over here. It's really hard to eat healthy around here, you know, bar food. Yeah, exactly. And unless you're, like, cooking. What if we got a chef around here?

[Mike]

Dude, I've been saying that we don't have a kitchen, though.

[Ben]

Yeah, but I feel like it's enough, like.

[CJ]

So first line, how much does it.

[Ben]

That's what I was wondering.

[CJ]

Gotta look that up first.

[Ben]

But they'd have just like. Maybe you just. They just come here. Maybe some other shit's already, like, chopped up and everything. And then they just put it together. But then, like, who's chopping it up?

[Mike]

Evan?

[Ben]

No, like the chef.

[CJ]

Hello. Fresh.

[Ben]

But my point, they come in here, they start feeding us better. I'm losing weight. You're losing weight, Ben. We all know you need it. And then Evan's farts, all of a sudden, non existent.

[Mike]

Or maybe he's.

[Ben]

Maybe he's farting. Maybe he's just farting. Clean, pure air.

[Ryan]

CJ's like fucking vision of a perfect city with cars flying and shit like that. Dude, honestly, maybe there is farts.

[Mike]

His farts start smelling good.

[CJ]

I don't. I'm just. The thing that worries me is. Okay, so let's say we got like, some spinach, asparagus and salmon.

[Ben]

Yeah. You don't like that?

[CJ]

Sorry. Wait, you don't like.

[Ryan]

No, I love salmon. But this asparagus, right?

[CJ]

If you ever eat vegetables, bro, asparagus is so buttered. Asparagus is, like, one of the best tasting vegetables ever. Obviously, it's an opinion, but I feel like if Evan ate that meal, he'd have some gnarly farts and that.

[Ben]

Start feeding them even healthier, and they just get worse. Yeah. Then his body doesn't know what to do.

[CJ]

I don't even know. Yeah, he's like, got a hearty steak and some sweet potatoes and then some green beans.

[Mike]

Really sick to the hospital.

[Ben]

They're like, let's just pump some into him. Like some food.

[CJ]

Get some McDonald's in here in backwards.

[Mike]

Hey, quick, quick, quick. Get the backup vape.

[Ben]

They got an IV with it. It's like going straight in those.

[Ryan]

I mean, honestly, though, I feel like maybe there's like. If we hired Slim, you know, he has other things he can do, and then he can also cook.

[Ben]

You know, I think somebody. Slim would be cooking some fantastic food, but I don't know if It'd be healthy.

[Ryan]

Matt, you are probably right about that. We need a chef that's also talented in other areas.

[Ben]

That's how much time we'd save. We wouldn't be going out to eat all the time.

[CJ]

No, I know, but that's what I was thinking. Like, Ken's like, Yo, I have 9, 000 shirts to fold. And then we're like, sorry, man, but supper's ready.

[Mike]

We said, no.

[CJ]

I'm just.

[Ryan]

Oh, you're saying that as opposed to hiring a teenage boy for $10 an hour to fold T shirts?

[Ben]

We have done that.

[CJ]

Again, not quite saying that, but yeah.

[Ryan]

Dude, honestly, go back to the firing thing. I never been big on both. Like, in high school, you know, guys would fart or they'd burp.

[Ben]

So gross.

[Ryan]

Never really been anything that I ever thought was funny. I was like.

[Ben]

Like, if you're deliberately belching, like. Like, it's fine. Everyone's got a burp, everyone's got fart.

[Mike]

But, like, you're at an.

[Ben]

At a dinner, people are eating around you, and you just go, yeah, dude, that pissed me off. He did it multiple times, too.

[Mike]

You guys didn't even see.

[Ben]

You guys weren't there, but we were in Chicago. We're sitting there at. At BDubs, trying to get. Get a meal the night before. There's this guy sitting there. He's got his girl, and he's just talking loud, Whatever. And he's like, two shots.

[CJ]

Two shots.

[Ben]

He's, like, ordering shots and then, like, putting them on. He's like, she'll get these shots, but I'm getting everything else.

[Mike]

I'm getting the meal.

[Ben]

I'm getting everything else. Anyway, so this guy's just talking loud. He's just pounding down drinks. Pretty soon, he's just keeps, like, letting out these burps. I'm not kidding you. The whole restaurant would stop me.

[CJ]

Like, yeah, it was.

[Ben]

Look at him. It was just like. It was so gross. People were trying to eat, and he was just like, it was just a slob. And then at the end of it, you know, we're, like, tabbing out, and he goes to get his tab, and the lady comes back and she's like, the card got declined. He goes, what? Well, why'd you put all the food on mine? It's like, we clearly heard him say that.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So then he's like, move all the food off. Just keep the shots. They move all the shots off. Still couldn't pay, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah, his girlfriend just ended up paying for the whole. Honestly, I Normally would feel really bad and just like I got their meal, you know, whatever. But the dude was burping constantly like, like at like a middle school lunch table. And it completely ruined my appetite. I only ate half my food. And then we just walked out of there and it. Ben just goes, that guy needs to figure it out.

[Mike]

Dude. It was a bad look.

[Ben]

I don't know what that girl's doing with him.

[Ryan]

Paying for all his. I don't give a.

[Ben]

About the money. But dude, his manners. I'd never seen anything worse.

[Mike]

Yeah, I, I thought he did it on accident the first time I. And then he kept doing it the.

[Ben]

First time I let it slide. But then, yeah, then it was like he was showing off. He was just. And I mean they were large, loud burps. It kind of remind me that one time we were at that nice ass.

[Mike]

Restaurant and you did it.

[CJ]

Yeah, that.

[Ben]

That's what you did it one time.

[Mike]

And we were like Mike, I was.

[CJ]

Waiting for it and I was like, yeah, my bad, my bad. But I don't. And also, yeah, like as someone who finds farts really funny, I don't find burps super funny. And that one was like a one time, couple time thing. Also, burps almost always smell so you definitely want to get out of the way of that.

[Ben]

It just ruined my whole meal and I got like a large portion of wings. I couldn't even eat them all. I was pissed.

[CJ]

So sad.

[Ben]

Couldn't even bring them home.

[CJ]

Drop an L in the chat for Siege.

[Ben]

Yeah, that guy won that, that one, that battle and I lost.

[Mike]

Walked out feeling real good about himself.

[Ryan]

Those guys didn't even enjoy.

[Ben]

Cleared out like he cleared out the bar, dude. Yeah, people were leaving like fucking. They were like people were repulsed.

[CJ]

So you guys, like I've been a big fan of barstool for a while. I think it's. It's a platform that's very much here to stay. They do a lot of things now. They're always trying to do more. Some of it super entertaining. The Caleb interviews are like amazing. Some of them are not good at all. But anyway, moral of the story is when. How many years is it going to take for people to stop commenting bitching about how it's not sports? Like obviously it's not going to be sports anymore. They post almost. Almost no sports and the comments are just non stop. And it's like I can't believe people are still wasting their time.

[Ben]

Dude, they're bigger than ever.

[CJ]

Barstool sports doesn't post sports.

[Mike]

Well no, they do post sports. They have like 45 podcasts all dedicated to like, sport.

[CJ]

Totally. It's just funny that I think they.

[Ben]

Get mad if not every post.

[CJ]

Right. And I just genuinely. It's like, how do you not get that? It's never going to be that way. And it really never even was that.

[Mike]

Way since I followed.

[CJ]

That's what I mean. Yeah.

[Mike]

Five years.

[CJ]

We probably, yeah. Like followed them when they were like some pretty small, let's say a couple hundred thousand and. And people were a little upset about it now. And it just still goes on. I'm picturing barstool 10 years from now still posting like party clips or funny stuff. And people still.

[Ben]

I think sometimes it's just a marginalized group of people that are against it. They end up being the loudest. So it seems that way because the people that like it are just. They look at the post like, nice and then they just keep moving on. But like the complainers oftentimes can be the loudest group, even though they're like 5%.

[Mike]

I tell you what, it's not making any difference because they just got bought out for 550 million.

[CJ]

Yeah, but really?

[Mike]

Yeah. Well, they so pen bought the rest of it, which I think was like 60%. The other 60%. And then I valued the company at 550.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[CJ]

I mean, wildly successful. And the shit's not changing. And who.

[Mike]

Who.

[CJ]

They're not changing their name. Would that make you happy? They changed their name to just Bar Stool Dude.

[Mike]

I think over the next 10 years, we are going to see Barstool just get bigger and bigger and bigger.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

As they continue to get more into like the gambling section of, you know, society, where you're gonna see more like sports books and bars and just like, I think sports gambling is just coming more acceptable and bigger being that it's like getting legalized in each state. And Barstool is going to be at like the forefront of that.

[Ryan]

Definitely. Definitely.

[Ben]

I don't know why.

[Mike]

How much did they get bought out for?

[Ken]

Penn paid 388 million for 64 stake that they did not already own. They paid 163 in 163 million in 2020 for a 36% stake.

[Ben]

Hold on. So what's Dave Porter own? 0% now. Barstool. But he still works there.

[Ken]

Don't think anything.

[Mike]

Yeah. Must have sold at all.

[CJ]

Interesting. And this may be a dumb question, but it's like not. It's not a public company.

[Ryan]

No, Penn is a public company.

[CJ]

Okay. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Speaking of Things that I don't. I don't really know. The Internet's always evolving and stuff like that. But there's this new trend where it's like any Joe Schmo blow with a podcast just interviews a porn star and asks them or an only fans girl and ask them incredibly like, it's not even like interested in them. It's like, so where's the craziest place you got? You know, like, it's just really weird and it always shows up on my Facebook feed.

[Ben]

They're targeting you this way?

[Ryan]

No, I don't really think so. It's maybe even just podcasts in general, but I just don't, I don't really think.

[Ben]

I don't just podcast.

[Mike]

It's not, it's not the guest.

[Ben]

It's not, it's not anything to do with.

[Ryan]

But no, I mean like in Trevor Wallace does it and like all these people, it just is like this trickle down effect of like getting less and less and it's just.

[Ben]

I feel like it's cheap views.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's cheap views is what I am trying to.

[CJ]

It's ran spit a little bit.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's all the same. Same questions, the same concept. They're making a bunch of money and.

[Ryan]

Just like, I don't know, I've always kind of thought of it as exactly that. Cheap views. So put my foot down. No more porn stars.

[Ben]

Well, Ryan, you're gonna have to change your browsing history.

[CJ]

Well, dude, that's why I've always been really thankful for the viewership we do have here. Because, like, I'm picky. I'm picky as hell on the podcast I listen to. And to get into a new podcast is like damn near impossible.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, that's, that's how like, if having guests on is how you probably typically grow your podcast, unless you're already, you know, a pretty big platform to begin with. Obviously all the people that have came and found our podcast came from Sequence TV. It came from the YouTube vids.

[CJ]

Happy you know that. Yeah, it went well.

[Mike]

But yeah, you're right, we have a great audience.

[CJ]

We didn't have our YouTube channel.

[Ben]

There's just.

[CJ]

This would be nothing.

[Ben]

Yeah, absolutely. They'd have no interest. But if, like, we want to grow this bigger than, you know, where we're at right now, having guests on is probably the only way you'd be able to do it.

[Mike]

It.

[Ryan]

And then the bigger we get, the cooler guests will be able to have. We see the comments about like, you guys should interview, you know, all these people.

[Ben]

You know, we're trying.

[Ryan]

We're trying. We've.

[Ben]

We've been trying to get guests on, like, we had two guests, two different guests on last two podcasts, and I saw it didn't get as good of views, which is weird to me.

[Ryan]

I know.

[Ben]

And then I saw some people even comment, like, I don't like when you guys have guests. God damn it.

[Mike]

Every day.

[Ben]

It's fun to do. It's fun to do a little bit of both, I think, if you can.

[Mike]

Yeah. I think it makes.

[Ben]

When we go on this RV trip, I really want to at least get three in the bag, you know, with some good people, at least.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, it's tough because we got such limited time. You got to keep moving, but. And we typically do prioritize the YouTube channel over podcast, which, you know, but this definitely is next in line.

[Mike]

Yeah, I. I just love talking to guests and just learning what they're about because I'm just genuinely interested. Like, I. I could probably sit down and have a conversation with. With any guy on the sidewalk and be pretty interested in what. What they do.

[Ryan]

Yeah. If you didn't listen to the last two, especially the Steve one.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So it's so good.

[Ben]

Yeah. There's definitely some. Some stuff to learn from that.

[Mike]

It's just like the growing process of. Of continuing to get other guests. But I don't know, I think people really like just listening to us sit down and chop it up because it's like, I don't know anyone can be entertained by it.

[Ryan]

We'll keep trying our to be interesting, keep doing interesting.

[Ben]

I love it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I just want to say thank you to everyone who listens to this pod. Then also everybody who watches the YouTube vids and just has supported us over the years because, I mean, you know, we wouldn't be here or doing any of this without you guys. So thank you so much.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Episode 69. Getting a Little emotional sentimental at the end.

[CJ]

And on that note, thank you again for watching, listening, subscribing, commenting, and we'll see you for number 70 next week.

[Mike]

Yeah, we might be on the road.

[CJ]

We might be on the road. You're right.