Micah Punched Jake, Wrecking His Favorite Car, & Unreleased Audio from Ken's Speed Dating

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Micah Punched Jake, Wrecking His Favorite Car, & Unreleased Audio from Ken's Speed Dating

Date: November 28, 2023

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Episode Overview

This episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV is a classic hangout session full of candid storytelling, behind-the-scenes insight, and the unfiltered humor fans expect from CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah, and Jake. The crew discusses a range of topics including car carnage, a notorious punch between friends, wild speed-dating escapades, business banter, embarrassing moments from their past, and reflections on growing up with the channel. They pepper in a mix of lighthearted jabs, inside jokes, and authentic camaraderie throughout the 90-minute episode.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Car Mishaps and Mayhem

Mike’s Subaru Crash Story (12:10–18:25)

• Mike recounts how he wrecked his favorite Subaru while distracted on his phone, resulting in blown wheels, a busted suspension, and a badly damaged front end after jumping a curb.
  • “I just go, thank God there was no one coming.” – Mike (17:17)
  • The crew sympathizes but jokes about his history of driving cars into ditches and getting vehicles stuck.
• Discussion about the difficulty and expense of repairing heavily modified vehicles, sourcing OEM parts, and the perils of aftermarket bodywork.

Jake’s Quest to be a ‘Wheelman’ (32:00–37:15)

• Jake shares his desire to redeem the Mustang reputation by learning to drift—without crashing—after years of accidental destruction.
  • “All I got to do is not crash.” – Jake (01:35)
  • Jake and friends reflect on past car disasters, from drifting as teenagers to the numerous vehicles Jake has “wadded up.”

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2. Behind-the-Scenes: Ken’s Speed Dating Extravaganza

(04:25–10:00; 91:30–92:20)

• The group recaps their elaborate speed dating setup for Ken, how much they cut from the footage for being too raunchy, and Ken's process picking his ‘match.’
  • “There was a lot of stuff cut out... it was too dirty for this podcast. Too flat out dirty for YouTube.” – Ben (06:00)
  • Unreleased audio reveals wild humor and unguarded dating conversations, including Ken’s awkward moments and the unpredictable behavior of participants.

Unreleased/Raw Speed Dating Audio, Example:

“So now that we kind of got the normal formalities out of the way, what do you think of like, BDSM and stuff like that?” – Mike (91:41)
“Oh yeah, I love being dominated. Yeah, it’s fun.” – Mike (91:59)

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3. Friendship, Boundaries, and the Famous Punch

(20:18–24:00)

• Storytime: Jake hooked up with Micah’s ex and, after telling him, was punched in the face—a mutual, premeditated agreement with no hard feelings.
  • “That’s how Jake tells the story... Jake hooked up with Micah's ex girlfriend. Jake then told Micah, and then Micah punched him in the face.” – CJ (20:53)
  • The story highlights their unique group dynamic, lack of grudges, and how even uncomfortable situations are resolved through humor and directness.

“Let’s do it. I’ve never punched anybody in the face before. Let’s try it out.” – Mike (23:07)

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4. Odds & Ends: Old Gigs, Fake Money, and Life Lessons

• Throwing Fake Money at a Concert (25:26–29:02)

  • Jake reminisces about hyping concert crowds by throwing stacks of fake cash—causing confusion, excitement, and even mini-riots.
  • “Jake chucks these two bricks out, right?... I bet they think that was real. I can’t imagine how disappointed those people were to find out…” – CJ (27:15)

• Screenprinting Days (68:29–75:40)

  • The group laughs about early merch mishaps, production screw-ups (e.g., misspelling ‘lucky’ on dice shakers), and late-night printing sessions that bonded the crew.
  • “Everyone here has put in their fricking time. Like, how much time we put in building just to get to where we’re at.” – Ben (70:14)

• Eating Challenge Bets (78:39–81:11)

  • After being goaded, Jake attempts to eat an entire pumpkin pie, fails, and details the aftermath—showcasing the group’s long-running tradition of friendly but intense betting.

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5. Reflections, Goals, and Channel Growth

(54:57–64:17)

• The crew discusses both personal and collective goals for 2024, with CJ noting the privilege of “bucket list” video making and ambitions for grander travel and video concepts for the channel.
  • “The bigger that we can dream, you know, the more we can do because it’s our line of work. As long as we just make it entertaining.” – CJ (55:48)
• They get nostalgic about how far they’ve come: from shipping orders themselves in Ken’s uncle’s garage to now running a successful operation with their core crew still handling key processes.

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6. Culture, Health Trends & Inside Jokes

• Ice Bath Craze (44:49–49:02)
  • Everyone shares stories about cold plunges, ice baths in lakes, and the trend’s spread through social media. Some are addicted; Ken is adamant about never doing one on camera.
  • “I hate ice baths. But then you got me fired up. I’m like, yeah, let’s do it!” – Mike (46:16)
• “Jerking” Jokes and Nicknames
  • The group riffs on Jake’s infamous “no jerking off” claim and debates his history of nicknames (e.g., “Sherby Bangin”).
  • “Dude, shout out to those people that had my back. Still, dude. I’m not still.” – Jake (50:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jake on Drifting Reputation:
  “All I got to do is not crash.” (01:35)
• On Ken’s Speed Dating:
  “There was a lot of stuff cut out... we had to put it on Rumble, on ‘cornhube.’” – Ben (06:00)
• The Punch:
  “I punched you, but not because of that, but it would be fun... Let's do it. I've never punched anybody in the face before. Let's try it out.” – Mike (23:07)
• On Car Disasters:
  “Every time I see his car, I’m like, dang, looking good. Comes to work the next day, it looks like a T. Rex just took a bite out of the side. I’m like, bro, what happened?” – Jake (18:15)
• Career Reflection:
  “Most people don’t have days and days... we got months of footage of years, probably of, you know, the last decade when we’re all...” – Ben (64:41)
• Channel Growth:
  “Like, we were doing literally every little minuscule job, every job that… it takes to run this operation. We've done.” – Ben (70:30)
• On Friendship:
  “That’s good. Sign of true friendship.” – Ryan (24:48)

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Timeline of Major Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00 | Introduction—car wrecks, gifts, and inside jokes | | 12:10–18:25 | Mike’s Subaru crash confession and aftermath | | 20:18–24:00 | Jake and Micah’s ex-girlfriend/punch story | | 25:26–29:02 | Fake money stunt at the concert | | 32:00–37:15 | Jake’s transformation into “wheelman” and car-destruction history | | 44:49–49:02 | Ice baths, health kicks, and peer pressure | | 54:57–64:17 | Goals for 2024, reflections on growth, and the length of their video history | | 68:29–75:40 | Screenprinting memories, merch fail stories, and late-night work ethic | | 78:39–81:11 | Pumpkin pie eating bet and aftermath | | 91:30–92:20 | Unreleased, wild speed dating audio |

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Tone and Language

The episode is candid, raw, and brimming with their signature irreverent humor. The language is casual, full of inside jokes, self-deprecating stories, and playful teasing. Sensitive topics and embarrassing tales are told with a blend of sincerity and sarcasm, emphasizing the group’s trust and history together.

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Summary

This episode is a must-listen for CboysTV fans seeking everything from outrageous behind-the-scenes stories to deep-dive nostalgia about the grind and camaraderie behind their success. From spectacular car fails and BET-level drama over girls, to infamous stunts—from fake money riots to humiliating bets—the Cboys embody why their brand is more than YouTube videos: it’s about lifelong friendship, growing dreams, and making each other laugh, no matter how much time passes or how wild things get.

Transcript

[Mike]

Okay, so I wrecked my favorite car.

[Ken]

Once again, you guys have the worst gifts you can possibly give.

[CJ]

If you were to bring one or two the twins to meet your mom, would you.

[Jake]

I just gotta do what's best for me once in a while.

[Ryan]

Is there anything else that happened that night that you feel comfortable talking about?

[CJ]

Oh, yeah, like getting punched in the face. Something happened in here. What's up with the Creed memes?

[Jake]

Dude, I don't like Creed. Will you get off of this?

[CJ]

I mean, it's fine if you do, man.

[Jake]

No, it's not.

[CJ]

I thought you're talking about the movie.

[Mike]

Yeah, you're hating on Creed. Like. Like, it's Nickelback. Like, people like Creed.

[Jake]

No, I like Nickelback. No, it's not. I like pretty good, too. Yeah. I will say right now, if I ever get to take Nickelback for riding my car, I'd do it.

[Ken]

Talking about, like, Creed, Jake, you take.

[Ben]

Anyone for riding car, Literally, like a homeless guy across street.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Oh, hey, you need a ride somewhere?

[Mike]

Get it.

[Ben]

I got next time, Jake goes and gets his tires put on. Hey, these guys at the tire shop, they've been working real hard. You think you could just give them each a ride around the block, just.

[Ryan]

Burn off the tire?

[Jake]

I would love that more than anything.

[Mike]

Some more black marks right outside the shop.

[Jake]

Yeah, dude. I got, like, one very crucial part, and I just had to come show everybody, so I had to give multiple rides, dude.

[Ryan]

I mean, it's a Hellcat and Uncle.

[CJ]

Buck.

[Ryan]

But going back to Uncle Buck's Hellcat, I mean, Sexy Red writes songs about hellcats and srts, not about Mustangs and Camaro.

[Ben]

That's very true. That's very true.

[CJ]

You're.

[Ben]

You definitely got the cards are stacked against you.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ben]

When you're in a Mustang.

[CJ]

But you're.

[Ben]

You're making it work, man. I am around.

[Mike]

I am.

[Jake]

I'm. I'm basically just trying to, like, give a good name for the community because, like, you know, the Mustang community has a bad rep. All I got to do is not crash.

[Ben]

Dude, you're.

[Ryan]

You're real.

[Ben]

You made of sliding in with our security cam footage that popped off almost.

[Jake]

10 million already past the crash in, like, a day.

[CJ]

Well, nobody's actually seen a video of a Mustang drifting that doesn't end in here.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You're expecting it to hit something, and it's like, oh, my God. I better send this to my friends.

[CJ]

Oh, look at this.

[Jake]

Every comment's like, cgi not real. This is not a Mustang fake. And then everyone else Is like, Toby Marshall was driving. And if you don't know who that is, it's like movie Fast and Furious. The guy drives Mustang and he mobs it, and he's kind of my hero, so you should look him up. He's the greatest guy in the world, dude.

[Ryan]

So it wasn't you that came in and slid into the back of Ken's car?

[Jake]

No, no.

[Ben]

Ken's got some rear bumper damage.

[Ken]

Got some supper last night, pull in the garage, plug my car in, and I realized the back end is just up.

[Ben]

Have you checked the cameras here?

[Ken]

I did. Like, the bumper was. Everything was fine when I left here, and then when I got home two hours later, it's just messed up.

[Ryan]

You did slightly accuse me and Alandra.

[Ben]

Really? How'd that go?

[Ryan]

Pretty bad. We got a fight.

[CJ]

Get this, right? So last night, Ken text me, just out of the blue, a picture of the back end of his bumper, right? And it's just all scuffed up and. And cracked and. And I was like, oh, was this me? I was thinking back because he didn't send any, like, caption or anything with it. He just sent the picture of the bumper just to you. Sorry, I thought you were Ben Shane. I was like, why? You were texting me.

[Ken]

I just typed in Ben, clicked the first one, and. Because I was trying to send it to Ben Shane, because I was trying to get security cam footage from the restaurant.

[CJ]

Well, you had me worried there for.

[Ben]

A second it would line up because you were sliding that hellcat around in the parking lot. So you're like, wow, I clipped someone else's car up against Ken's car, and now you got two cars to probably pay for.

[CJ]

Yeah, I would have had to been really blacked out to not realize that I hit three vehicles, but. Yeah.

[Ben]

How many did you have before that?

[Ryan]

Well, I think, like, a good way to figure out if someone did here is you would look around the parking lot, and if anybody else's cars had a scratch in it or was messed up, then you could probably assume that that person did it.

[Ken]

So the reason I asked you and Alondra was because you and Alondra were the only people that drove your car, like, anywhere near my car.

[Ryan]

Fine. You caught us. We did it.

[Jake]

Dude, it sounds like you still are convinced that they did do it, the way you're attacking.

[Ken]

No, I just gotta. Just gotta check all my bases, like, get covered.

[CJ]

Okay. Don't you have like, 100 cameras on that thing?

[Ken]

Yeah, they weren't turned on.

[Ben]

I just don't understand that nobody's got their cameras on, huh? Cuz the restaurant didn't either.

[CJ]

It's weird because we like fart next to that thing and you get notified.

[Jake]

Yeah, Ken, you don't miss much, but the one time.

[CJ]

True.

[Ken]

My safe space is not around here.

[CJ]

Is that true?

[Jake]

Where is your.

[CJ]

How is that going for you?

[Ken]

Typically the garage, but even then it's kind of. You never trust those roomies.

[Ben]

It's true. Speaking his car the other day.

[Ken]

Speaking of fucked up cars.

[Mike]

Speaking.

[Jake]

No, speaking of Ken. I, I literally just watched this for the first time and I need to address this. I would be so thankful if these guys lined up a speed dating thing like that. You have no idea. That would be like my dream come true for my friends to come pick me up, tell me to bring a suit, not tell me why, and then be like, oh yeah, we lined up some of the most smoke show of girls in this room. We're going to get you just drunk and you're going on a speed dating thing and you get to go out with one of them again.

[CJ]

Well, he got himself drunk, but yeah.

[Ben]

We weren't, we were actually trying to cut him off, but he kept drinking. Then there was another guy there that was giving him shots and I was like, you got to quit giving him shots. We need him dialed. Dialed in here.

[Jake]

Regardless. I would be praising these guys, but you just, I feel like you, you didn't. You didn't thank him well enough. Like you.

[CJ]

Well, I know he didn't thank us at all. Actually, I came into it assuming the.

[Ken]

Worst because every other time they do something, it's like the exact opposite.

[Jake]

See, that's.

[Ken]

They would have like told you, have.

[Ben]

You have valid, valid concern there. I mean, that's clearly progress.

[CJ]

Are you calling them out on right now?

[Jake]

I'm not calling him out, but I'm just saying I would have made the best of that. Regardless of the situation they put me in.

[Ben]

I did pretty good. He did pretty good.

[Jake]

I will say you did do very well. And I, I laughed. You did your job.

[Ben]

You should have seen it though. So this didn't make the cut, but Ken like, you know, picks his girl, which unfortunately didn't end up working out. But all the girls at the end like go up and like they, they were still like giving him hugs and stuff. Like they still invest. I mean, he still probably got like, you know, seven of them. Yeah, he could probably give at least seven of them a call back.

[Ken]

You guys cut a lot of stuff out too.

[Ben]

Well, Ken, it was an hour Long, like what? It could have been a full podcast, but also, I don't know how appropriate it was. Like, you guys were talking dirty. We got kids that watch this stuff, man. Yeah, it would have been too dirty for this podcast. Too flat out too dirty for. For YouTube. We had to put it on rumble on. On cornhube.

[Mike]

Yeah, I don't know about that. I just remember back when we quite literally recited sexy red lines on this podcast. It's gotta. That's.

[Ben]

That got cut.

[CJ]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Sexy red would sit there and be like, oh, this vulgar sex.

[Jake]

Some of the stuff you were sending me on. Snap. I was just like, dang. You guys are gonna put this on YouTube?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What you did to those women.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

Cuz I'm pretty sure when. When. When they all got vetted, maybe they just lied in their interview process, but they were just good holy women. And then something you.

[Ben]

They got in front of you, dude.

[CJ]

They got out of you. And they were. They were just like.

[Ben]

They were laying it all on the line. They were laying it all on the comments.

[Ken]

Everyone's got to have a slight untruth to make it, buddy.

[Jake]

You were. You were telling everything, but that was not any.

[Ben]

That dude was lying like a rug.

[Jake]

I want to have two kids. Six kids. I like vodka.

[Ben]

So my question.

[Jake]

Play the field.

[Ken]

You can't just say the same thing, Ken.

[Ben]

Just like, you can't let him know what your next move is, which is what he is. He's a suspicious man. He's a mysterious man as well. But, Ken, So has your family said anything to you?

[Ken]

No, they haven't watched that.

[CJ]

Really?

[Ben]

I'm surprised Carolyn or anyone hasn't been like. Like, your cousin or Cody hasn't been like, yo, that was awesome.

[Ken]

I try and keep my mom away from the Internet as much as I can.

[Ben]

I'm gonna text her. I'm gonna text her.

[Ryan]

I just heard a whoop.

[CJ]

Yeah, Jake, did you just text it?

[Ben]

Good, good, good. I'm just gonna.

[CJ]

Then you should say, do you have.

[Ben]

Room for 10 more people at Christmas?

[CJ]

All come to Christmas, Ken, if you were to bring. Besides for the one that you picked, Olivia, if you were to bring one or two of them back, the twins, to meet your mom, would you. Or were they all. Were. Would you only bring the one that you picked back? I think there was there a couple maybes.

[Ken]

I think there were some. A couple contenders that I would bring. See my parents, the twins, some other ones.

[Ben]

Who is the other ones?

[Ken]

You know, I'm bad With names.

[Jake]

You know what you should do right now? You should message one of them. After this podcast, you'll go on your second date. We'll leave right after this. You should DM one of them right now.

[CJ]

Yeah, Ken, you should. You should take them jet skiing.

[Jake]

Yeah. For right now.

[Ben]

Well, the water still isn't frozen. I'll loan you my jet skis. You can. Or I guess you probably want to ride on yours.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I just had no idea you love jet skis.

[Ken]

I gotta come up with some on the spot. I don't know.

[Jake]

Do you know?

[Ben]

What was he gonna say? I love packaging orders.

[Ryan]

Like, you know, I mean, you probably could have said, like, I love sitting on the back of my buddy's double Decker pontoon and drinking.

[Ben]

They probably. That have been true.

[Ryan]

We wouldn't.

[Mike]

We wouldn't.

[Ben]

We'd have been like, yep, that's. That's true.

[Ryan]

Yep, that's him.

[Ben]

Honestly, they would have probably been like, that sounds like a lot of fun. That sounds great. Actually, they might have gotten the wrong vibe. Like, this guy's way too extreme for me. Like, he's constantly skiing, constantly jet skiing. Like, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to keep up with him. He broke his neck.

[Ryan]

Like, I think that girl didn't believe you.

[Ken]

No, I don't think she did.

[Ryan]

I think. I think there was.

[Ben]

She's like, that's a bad joke. Like, it was just, like, awkward after that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, she didn't even have much else to say after that.

[Ryan]

I think you did really, really good. It was definitely, like, a gauntlet of dating thing. I. I would have felt uncomfortable in it, and I think you handled it really well. And you. You had some great responses to some.

[Ben]

Of the questions, and it did get cut up to make it funnier, of course. Or, you know, it was all. It all happened, but, like, you know, we only showed the.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

The funny, horrific, you know, so, like, it did go a lot smoother probably, than it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Appeared.

[CJ]

But.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't know. I think Ken walked out there with a lot more confidence, don't you think? Ken? Yeah, he walked out there like. Like, I feel like when we do up the. The second version, you know, like, when we do V2 of that.

[Ryan]

When is that?

[Ken]

Next week.

[Ben]

I think he's gonna be ready.

[Mike]

It's a whole new venue for season two, so.

[Ben]

Yeah, we just got a new budget. They just hit us up.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

FX or fox.

[Ryan]

We're going.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, we're doing. We're doing the Bachelor.

[Ryan]

Ken Speeding dating, but in paradise.

[Ben]

Yeah, we just signed. We signed an eight, eight episode contract.

[Ken]

Okay. I might be able to with that.

[Ryan]

We're sending you to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[Ken]

No. No, that is not paradise.

[Ryan]

Nope.

[Ben]

There's no. No way. Albuquerque.

[Mike]

No way. No way.

[CJ]

I think the next time that we do it, we just put them on an island.

[Ryan]

Ken's Island.

[Jake]

I like the sound.

[Mike]

You know we spend the entire budget of the show on buying the island.

[Ben]

Be a pretty good investment. I'd say.

[Ken]

Turn around and flip it.

[Mike]

Actually. I'm pretty sure it has a bunch of jet skis.

[CJ]

Like Holy shit.

[Mike]

I'm 99% sure when you buy an island, you never make money on it.

[CJ]

Is that true? Yeah.

[Mike]

Have you. I mean.

[CJ]

No. What do you know about island?

[Mike]

I'm just. It seems like something like. I'm pretty sure like when Mr. Beast bought the island for the video, he. He sold it again after the video was done and like obviously sold it for less.

[Ryan]

Oh well, we should just pick up a slight.

[Ben]

So you think that island market is going down? All the other real estate in the world is going up, but islands down 100% of the time.

[CJ]

Why?

[Mike]

It's like when you build a house on an island and then you try to sell it, it's really hard to sell because I like that. But it's like on an island.

[Ryan]

Fairly inconvenient.

[Mike]

Yeah, I guess owning the island is different. So I didn't mean to sidetrack you guys. I just don't think the island market is good.

[CJ]

All right. Mike ain't bullish on island, I guess.

[Jake]

But he just pulls out a chart that's like house marketing up, island marketing down like damn. Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

House market goes down though. Island market goes up.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Are we going to go into the other car accident that happened or. No?

[Jake]

Yeah. Can we please?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

We had greatest.

[CJ]

What happened?

[Mike]

I was afraid.

[Ben]

I haven't told anyone. Ryan I guess knows cuz he was there when you called.

[Mike]

Oh, so you don't even know?

[CJ]

No, no.

[Mike]

Oh wow.

[Ben]

Well, Jake knows cuz your car's at his house.

[Ken]

CJ told me cuz I told them. I.

[CJ]

Okay, so I'm the only one that doesn't know.

[Mike]

I just figured you'd get filled in but so anyway we. It's drop day. Was working all day. It was Thanksgiving.

[Ben]

Get.

[Mike]

We finally get a chance to watch the video altogether. And that at that point it was about 9 o' clock anyway. I was just like in a hurry to get to town, but I still had a bunch of stuff to do. I was going to get to town, I was going to work, like. So I'm like, okay, I got all these pics on my phone. I'm just going to start firing them onto Snapchat and Instagram, all the swipe ups, whatever. I was just, like, not thinking about driving. I was hauling ass and 100. My fault, dude. Hundred percent my fault. And I come up to the corner and I, like, look up and I'm, like, in the left lane.

[Ryan]

Like, just the oncoming lane.

[Ben]

Just.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, shit.

[Mike]

Almost hitting the curb. So I'm used to my Subaru being on rails, you know, when I'm, like, turning like it's wide.

[Ben]

You got to not be used to almost hitting the left side of the road.

[Mike]

Shocking to that. So I.

[CJ]

You. You've done that already with your old.

[Ken]

Subaru and your BMW.

[Ryan]

And the BMW.

[Mike]

No, I. Yeah, you hit that curb right there. I did do that in my BMW.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ben]

Curbed a lot of wheels, that one.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So anyway, I, like, he didn't even.

[Ben]

Curb him this time.

[Mike]

I do the classic thing where you look up and you're like, whoa, skirt. And I like, swing it to the right, thinking I'm just gonna, like, snap back into the other lane and, you know, hit the brakes and. Oh, gosh, that was scary. But no, I, like, skirted it. Hit the brakes and just full slide, full slide, full slide. Slid all the way across to the other curb. Blow my suspension out. Blow the wheels out. Like, all four wheels are, like, blowed out.

[Ryan]

What?

[Jake]

Yeah, bro, the bumper's under the car on your Subi. Yeah, no.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's bad.

[Jake]

So bad, dude.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Your hood is spidered too, by the way.

[Mike]

Yeah, the hood is. The hood is. Yeah, so it's like. I mean, I'll preface. Like, I'm gonna fix it. Of course. Like, same thing's my baby, you know. Ordered new wheels already and stuff like that. But yeah, hit. Just slid up onto the. Like, up onto the curb into the grass. Once I got on the grass, I was just sliding more and more and more. I was going like 55.

[CJ]

You straight up jump the curb.

[Mike]

Yep. Skirted into that yard and then into.

[CJ]

The yard of that house.

[Mike]

Yep. And then hit a green box. And that's where most of the damage came from.

[CJ]

Dude, I'm glad you're okay. Did they.

[Mike]

Yeah, no, no, no.

[Ben]

So.

[Mike]

So, yeah, everyone's like, are you okay? I'm like, dude, like, I'm more than fine. But the car is not. Like, I. I just.

[Jake]

Every one of his rims in a certain spot. Looks like you were putting a tire on, and you put a log through there, then put the tire on and slammed it on the ground. And they just have big hoops in them, like huge dents.

[Ben]

I'd say the wheels is the least of them.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Straight up.

[Ryan]

I have a video here.

[Ben]

I'm trying to pull up front bumper, the side of it, the hood.

[CJ]

How am I just hearing about this?

[Jake]

I just didn't.

[Mike]

Yeah. Then, yeah, C.J.

[Ryan]

Had a good point. He was like, it's Mike's.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I didn't tell him.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Well, I guess I haven't seen you guys, so that would make sense.

[Mike]

Expensive week here. What the hell is even that?

[CJ]

What'd you hit on the front?

[Mike]

Like, the curve?

[Ryan]

A tree?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

No, no.

[Mike]

I found out it was the green box. I was so rattled. What the hell is even that?

[Ben]

It's so bad, dude. Yeah.

[CJ]

So the rear bumper messed up.

[Mike]

No, no.

[CJ]

Oh, you hit it with the front bumper.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

So what? Bumper, side panel, hood, and maybe a little bit of your wide body. Maybe. Maybe a new couple flares, I guess.

[Jake]

I did a lot of stuff under the.

[Ryan]

Honestly, under stuff is what's concerning.

[Mike]

Yeah, Jake told me. He goes like, I haven't seen it. Like, I went to Fargo right after that. But Jake's like, yeah, I saw it in the daylight. She's not looking good. You know, not. Not totaled by any means. Like, yeah. He's like. Then he's like, all four rims are just done. And I was like, okay. I think I ordered a new wide body and rims. Now I just got to get, like, hood bumper lights. Luckily, I have my yellow hood, so I'll probably put that back on. But, yeah, dude, like, definitely going to fix it. But I was just, like, super bummed you could repaint.

[Ben]

I'm bummed, too, for you.

[Ryan]

I'm bum for you, dude, that I love that car.

[Mike]

I think the worst part is, let's say it was, like, not that yellow color. I think about, like, repainting the whole car.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, it's part of it. And if it was your Bronco. If it was your Bronco, it might have been more expensive, but at least the parts were available.

[Mike]

That's.

[Ben]

Dude, this is going to be more expensive, guaranteed.

[Mike]

I'm looking like. The worst part is that it's either like, Duraflex bumpers, which, if you guys know that they come crumpled up in a box, like, not the move, or, like, you get an OEM bumper, and then, like, Bring it back to life. That's like, they don't. I don't think they really have OEM new stuff for that car. So, yeah, you have to find one.

[Ben]

Off, like, one that was wrecked in the back and then repaint that. But, yeah, no Subaru parts are expensive as well as, like, the Evo and just all that. They mark it up, man. They just do.

[Mike]

That's why I couldn't believe the wheels that I have on it, which I really, really like. That's like custom offsets. Fitment Industries brand of wheels. They're like 800 bucks for four wheels. I mean, that really, truly is the least of my problems.

[CJ]

It's the easiest fix to one good thing, that there wasn't another car coming.

[Mike]

Okay. So I wrecked my favorite car. Seriously, though, as soon as it happened, even as it was happening, I just go, thank God there was no one coming.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Just because, you know, I decided to whip my phone out and be distracted, and I really could have hurt myself more or hurt someone else. That's what.

[CJ]

It's pretty good reason not to be on your phone.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Were you.

[Ben]

What were you doing? Were you texting or what?

[Mike]

I was picking a song. Might as well throw some music on playing Candy Crush. I think the worst part is, is, like, I don't know who to call as far as, like, who do I bring this car to and say, like, yeah, you know, just like, I need this back to life in the best.

[Ben]

Way possible and just, like, let them take care of it. Yeah.

[Mike]

For the most part, I just. I just want a good job.

[Ben]

It's important.

[Jake]

On that car as collector, I found it's easier. Don't fix it.

[Ben]

Keep riding on it and then just crashing tomorrow.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's what Cody does.

[Mike]

Way cheaper.

[Ben]

Yeah, bro.

[CJ]

Why would I fix. I'm going to hit a deer next week.

[Jake]

Yeah, dude. Every time I see his car, I'm like, dang, looking good. Comes to work the next day, it looks like a T. Rex just took a bite out of the side. I'm like, bro, what happened? He's like, you're not gonna believe it, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Just has this story that is borderline impossible. But that's what happened.

[Ryan]

Damn, dude. It's a bummer. I'm sorry, Mike. When you. When I. When you sent me the video, at first I was like, damn, what an idiot. And then I saw the video, and I. I could hear your voice, and I was like, damn. Like, I. I feel bad. Bad for my friend there, you know?

[CJ]

How rattled were you?

[Mike]

So rattled that. So when it happened, I just, like, look around immediately and I'm just like, I gotta get out of here. Reverse. Next thing you know, I'm like, let's say a quarter mile away. So I like, run. Start running back, and I'm like, I lost my wide body flares. You know, grab those.

[CJ]

Like leaving the license plate on the.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. So I grabbed those and I'm just like, trying to look around. Didn't bring my phone with me, which is dumb. And I'm like, what did I even hit? And there's like, trees everywhere. I'm like, it had to been one of those trees. Then I just went back there on my way here, and it fully knocked out an Internet box.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

Fully?

[Ryan]

Ben's like, damn, I haven't had Internet all weekend.

[Mike]

That happens all the time around here. Like, especially in the winter.

[Ben]

So the.

[Mike]

The rv, the Internet company around here, they're probably like, jeez. Yeah, I know.

[CJ]

Mike's driven in the ditch more times than anyone else. I know you've. You've gotten every single vehicle you've ever owned stuck in the ditch at some point.

[Mike]

That is multiple times besides every single Bronco.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Is that good on the Bronco or bad on you?

[Mike]

The man needs to start driving off road vehicles.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Because he's got a plan to go in the ditch. Here's the thing. Yeah. I. I'm not gonna do this, but should just have an off road rally Subaru and I'd be fine.

[Ben]

We already got one of those.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Maybe when we finish ours, you could just line it up, then you can.

[Ben]

Run it into curbs. Maybe. We'll see. Actually, I don't know.

[Jake]

So, speaking of.

[Ryan]

All right, even though that unfortunately had to be redacted, is there anything else that happened that night that you're feel comfortable talking about?

[CJ]

Oh, yeah, like getting punched in the face.

[Jake]

All right, do you want to start this little segment here with you two?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Should we separate you or is it.

[Jake]

We're good.

[Ben]

Ken, you want to switch spots with Mike just to make sure there's no more physical altercation? Jake's gonna need the safe place. He's the one getting assaulted.

[CJ]

Well, I don't know if. I don't know if Jake is in the right here.

[Jake]

No.

[CJ]

Jake deserves to be protected.

[Jake]

Like, I have one coming back.

[Ken]

Come on.

[Jake]

Get to the story.

[CJ]

Well, Jake hooked up with Micah's ex girlfriend. Jake then told Micah, and then Micah punched him in the face.

[Mike]

That is the very short version of it. That's actually.

[Ben]

That's rightfully so.

[Mike]

That's how Jake tells the story on when he tells people. Yeah, but no, it was. This is all premeditated with the both of us.

[CJ]

But you told him to.

[Ryan]

You planned on it.

[Jake]

No, I didn't plan. Back up.

[Mike]

He was very nervous to tell me that information, so. Yeah, I think so. But then you. You told me he called you, and you're like, do you think he's going to care? And you're like, I don't know. I don't maybe.

[CJ]

So Jake, after it happened, Jake called me, was like, dude, I got to get this off my chest. I hooked. I hooked up with Mike's girlfriend last night. Ex girlfriend. Yeah, man, do you think he's going to be mad? And I laugh and I go, man, dude, you got no boundaries, do you?

[Jake]

We're four time champions now. I wanted to get you a trophy. Got three on his belt. Army dude.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And. And I go, to answer your question, though, no, he won't be mad. Dude, Mike never gets mad. And. And I think it's water under the fridge. He's not gonna be mad. And then you called me a couple days later, bro, dude, I told Mike, and he punched me in the face. And I was like, no way.

[Jake]

Dude, I'm not gonna lie. When I told him, I was just stunned at what happened. We were just, like, looking at each other.

[CJ]

I mean, he was not what happened.

[Ben]

You have every right to be mad.

[CJ]

Mike gets punch.

[Mike]

I'd be mad for the sake of the story. I wish that would have been. There would have been no words exchanged. I just punch. But then later on, you're like, you're seriously not mad. And we were hanging, we were drinking. We were like, just. Just, like, hanging out all night. And then it'd be like, dude, well, like, do you, like, not want to, like, punch me right now? Like, are you not mad? And then I'll be like, I mean, I'd punch you, but, like, not because of that, but it would be fun. And you're like, all right, how about, you know, just one of those, like, moments where he's like, how about you punch me in the face, we'll call it even. And then I'm like, let's do it. I've never punched anybody in the face before. Let's try it out.

[Jake]

Feel good?

[Mike]

So then you're like, well, don't make it, like a light punch either. You know, Punch me.

[CJ]

Like, do it right.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Easily the hardest I've ever punched anyone. Also, the only time I have, as far As I remember. But commade connection to those big ass cheekbones you got there. Yeah.

[Ben]

Right on the cheek.

[Mike]

Yeah, right there.

[Ben]

You went for kind of the knockout.

[Jake]

Almost the next morning I woke up. Why does my, like, why is my jaw hurt?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Out of place.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Oh, yeah. And granted, like, we were very laried at the time, so I was like trying to just reconnect the dots and I go, oh, yeah, Mike punched me in the face last night.

[CJ]

And then Jake's pissed. He's like, what the.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'm gonna punch him back.

[Ben]

Yeah, you go and beat his ass.

[CJ]

Now he just forgot about everything.

[Ryan]

Ye say now that you're even.

[Jake]

Like, I don't know if we're even. Does that open the door again?

[Ben]

I'd say you're even. Honestly, like, yeah, that's. That was some water under the bridge.

[Jake]

Yeah. You know, squash the beef once again.

[CJ]

Four time champions, huh?

[Jake]

Yeah, we got that, dogs.

[Ryan]

Dude, how many, like, rings do Jordan and Pippen have? Like, you guys are freaking.

[Ben]

That's what they're gonna talk about in the, like, local bar scene.

[CJ]

Championship duos.

[Ryan]

It's like Tom Brady and Gronk and Mike and Jake.

[Ben]

Well, I mean, at least there's not that. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty. No line to begin with.

[Jake]

We really don't have a line here.

[Mike]

That's why it's like, after he told me if our friendship is like here, it went down to here and then back up to there. Yeah, it's unfazed.

[CJ]

That's good.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's good.

[Ryan]

Sign of true friendship.

[Mike]

And Ben, you know me well, I don't get mad.

[CJ]

I was. That's why I was so surprised. Jake was like, dude, he punched me in the face. I was like, what?

[Jake]

I literally.

[Ben]

I don't think Mike would ever get physical. Like, no matter how mad you are, I just.

[Mike]

No, you're right. You're right about that too. Like, I. I don't think I would ever get physical physically.

[Ben]

You just like, be like you're an idiot and just walk away.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. Or I might have the meanest words ever that I can conjure up. But that's like, about it. And then it only happen. Yeah, it might be worse.

[Ryan]

Might be worse.

[CJ]

Might go back to his bullying.

[Mike]

I just started just bullying the out of Jake.

[Ryan]

It is nice that it's over now.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

The air is clear.

[Jake]

It's good stuff.

[CJ]

So I was thinking about this the other day and I keep forgetting to bring it up on the podcast with you. I'm having a hard Time comprehending still what. What was going through your head to think that this was a good idea. So I'd love to pick your brain at it. So, like, six years ago, we were at this. We were invited to go to this concert from our friend Big Reno. He had us on as, like, the promoters, basically, right? Shout out Big Reno. So. So he has us on on stage and he goes, yo, I want you. I'm going to hype up the crowd, and I want you guys to come on stage and just be like. Just like, be just partying with me. Maybe we'll shotgun a beer and just be like, let's go see, boys. And then you guys just go off, right?

[Ryan]

Kingston was there.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

That sounds lit. Okay, we can do that. Well, Jake buys $10,000 in fake money.

[Jake]

No, 50k.

[CJ]

Oh, 50.

[Jake]

50K is fine.

[CJ]

Just like a wad. And he bought two of them.

[Mike]

10K for this fake money?

[CJ]

No, no, it was like. It was like 20 bucks on Amazon.

[Ben]

It was fake.

[CJ]

50 grand, right?

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

And he brings it with out on stage. It looks real.

[Mike]

It's a prop.

[CJ]

And he goes.

[Ben]

The crowd actually got hyped up.

[CJ]

Holds it up to the crowd, and everyone's like. And he just lobs it out into the crowd. One of them, you just see hands going up. Someone grabs it, and he's, like, pointing at everyone else. And everyone's like, over here.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It was like the. You know when you catch a home run ball, but, like, someone else catches it too, and they're, like, literally holding. Yeah.

[CJ]

Probably like, fighting down to the ground. It started like a literal riot.

[Ben]

Normally, someone would make it rain and, like, throw all the money, but since it's fake, you just threw one big wad. So only one person was disappointed.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So smart, honestly.

[CJ]

So Jake chucks these two bricks out, right? We don't know who gets them or where they go, but we go back on and we're like, man, that was crazy, dude. I bet they think that was real. I can't imagine how disappointed those people were to find out that it was, like, one fake bill on the top, a bunch of blanks, and then one on the bottom, Right? Well, after the show, one of our friends comes up to us and goes, check it out. I got the water cat.

[Ben]

How funny was that?

[CJ]

I was pretty bummed to find out that it was fake, but still pretty stoked. Find out or, like, still catch it. And then another friend of ours comes up.

[Ken]

Perfect.

[Ben]

Perfect.

[CJ]

Two friends in this massive crowd of people, right? And we were like, what are the odds? We were like, everyone else that didn't catch them thinks that Jake just drove 50.

[Ben]

We looked way cooler up on stage.

[CJ]

I mean, Jake looked the coolest.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

He was like 19 years old.

[Ryan]

I remember that happening and being moderately adamant that Jake could not throw out fake money at this thing.

[Jake]

We did it, baby.

[Ben]

And then you did it.

[Ryan]

And I was like, this is so dumb. And then our friends came up with the money and then it was all cool. Yeah, it was like we were way cool. This is like, why do I even say anything? It always works out fucking perfect for this guy.

[Jake]

So.

[CJ]

What?

[Jake]

Yeah. Which part did you want me to, like? Riddle apart? Because that whole story was flawless.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Jake]

I mean, it went to plan. Like, I had the goggles on that, like, I could take type words, remember?

[CJ]

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. And you got to bring those back. You should make those for bump.

[Jake]

I should actually. That, yeah, that would be a solid move.

[CJ]

I guess I just look back at it like, man, you could have literally started a literal riot.

[Jake]

Yeah. That was like the plan to hype up the crowd, right? Like, we were there to be hype guys. The more people are going nuts. We did our jobs, but, like, let's say we just went out there and they're like, who the. Who the frick are those guys? Yeah, we did not surprise that.

[Ryan]

I don't. I can't believe anybody knew who. Like, we had like 80,000 subscribers at that point.

[CJ]

Well, you come out holding 50 racks.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[Jake]

It don't matter.

[CJ]

Makes sense. Okay.

[Ben]

Yeah, it is funny.

[CJ]

Look back on, like, we legit had.

[Ben]

Like, maybe 150,000 subscribers or maybe 300, I don't know, around there. And just like that.

[CJ]

And.

[Mike]

And had you not done that, it would have gone exactly how we thought it was going to go.

[Ben]

We were pretty uncomfortable there. Besides for that part, I was like, what are we doing up here? I can't dance.

[CJ]

I can't sing.

[Ryan]

I know.

[Ben]

We're just standing up here trying to be hype guys.

[Jake]

We're just youtubers that make bags and we throw 50k into the crowd and it. It probably looked like that.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

[Ryan]

And admittedly, I'd like to throw just Justin under the bus, but me too, Justin. I were dressed like we were going to confirmation. Dude, we look like such lameos. Yeah. Justin was wearing, like, a Henley button up. I had some dumb shirt on too, but, like, it, man, we. I. I look so lame.

[Jake]

I'm not gonna lie. I felt like I was in my element. Me and Mike were wearing our ballsy shirt.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Jake]

I was wearing LED glasses.

[Mike]

My favorite part then after was like, Reno's like, yo, you guys, like, come on, meet Sean Kingston. Like, for sure. This is gonna be sick. And then we, like, go into this small, like, you know, the back.

[Ryan]

It was a locker room.

[Ben]

It was a locker room.

[Mike]

And he's just like, yeah, these. You know, these do YouTube. And then Sean Kingston's like, hey, yeah, nice.

[Ryan]

Could have literally.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Pop up that picture. I will.

[Ryan]

Dude, look at us. Dude. Just got this crusty ass photo. Me with my arm on John Kingston's shoulder.

[Jake]

Wait, you have that? He was.

[Ben]

Yeah, on Instagram, he posted.

[Ryan]

Yeah. People forget I met John King.

[Mike]

Sean Kingston was really nice.

[Ben]

Just the shittiest picture he could have cared less about.

[Jake]

Can I please see that?

[Ben]

Holy.

[CJ]

Who's that guy?

[Ryan]

Ken kind of looks the same.

[Mike]

That's when I couldn't grow a beard.

[CJ]

No. I don't know. You got it.

[Mike]

That's all I. Oh, my God. All I gotta say is, when I couldn't grow a beard, I looked dumb.

[Ryan]

Okay. To be fair, Ben, you weren't dressed that stylish either. At least you had a long, long body tee on.

[CJ]

Where's Waldo?

[Mike]

There's actually, like, a slight little backstory to that, too. The way we got to meet Jesse and Kyle from Nelk was. I don't know, they were in the area doing a prank or something, and Big Reno met them, and he asked them to do exactly what he asked us to do a year or two prior.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So they were there hyping that up. That's when we met them. And then it's just funny that the next year or two after, he's like, kyle and Jesse did it. I want you guys to do it now. Let's keep it local. And we're like. And we asked Jesse.

[Ben]

That was big.

[Mike]

Yeah. How it was to do it. He's like, dude, it was pretty awkward. I was up there trying to hype everyone up, but I didn't have any talent, you know, at the time. He's like, I do pranks. So he's like, let's go, let's go. That's where that came from. That's right.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Ryan]

Jacob.

[Jake]

Hey, Ryan.

[Ryan]

Still being hard on your cars over there?

[Jake]

Yeah, of course I am. That's like, what I'm basically just trying to do at this point is like, I want to actually be a good driver. It's like. Like, I want to.

[Mike]

You're trying to switch it up now.

[Jake]

No, no, I'm like, I want to.

[Mike]

Be, like, a good race car driver.

[Jake]

No, I want to be like. Yeah, I want to be a wheelman.

[CJ]

Always wanted to be a wheelman.

[Jake]

Yeah. But now doing it ever been your dream? I know. I've always wanted to, and I've always just waded everything up, but just lately I just feel like I got it in me. This.

[CJ]

You got a drift stick right now.

[Jake]

It's working out, like, so far. Haven't crashed yet. You know, I'll be like that so far.

[Ryan]

Haven't crashed.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You got your Mustang. You plan for it to be a drift Mustang, but once you got the drift stick installed, one of the many things that you're going to be doing to it, you came over. I've ridden with you a million times in a million different vehicles. I've never had a ride like that with you.

[Jake]

It was good, right?

[Ben]

Like, driving.

[Mike]

Like, we were on a closed track and your car wouldn't break. Like, it was insane and you couldn't.

[Jake]

That's, like, what I'm trying to do. Like, once I got this and I instantly crashed it, I'm just like, all right, well, I got that out of the way. There's my crash, you know, Perfect. So I, like, got all the parts that I need to build, like, an actual. Like, we're going to cage this thing, put a seat in it. And, like, I want to, like, my ultimate end goal is they do, like, the 10k at the drift track in Saban. I want to win the 10K. That's, like, what I want to do.

[Ryan]

Practicing around Dave's shop like we have for the last 15 years.

[Jake]

Yeah. But I'm going to, like, I want to move everything out. And, like, I want to.

[Ryan]

I mean, back in the day, we never moved it. We just did it anyway.

[Ken]

Right.

[Jake]

See, that's the other thing, too. It could be there for, like, okay, I can't hit that. You know, there's exactly.

[Ryan]

I mean, none of the other drifters that are practicing on a track have a tractor that they could crash in.

[Jake]

Yeah, well, that. That is true.

[CJ]

Okay, so backstory. Every time that there was, like, snow and we were.

[Ben]

Or wasn't snow or wasn't snow, but.

[CJ]

It was like back in the day where, like, nobody even had their driver's license. But Jake had, like, a sake, like an old. Side by side.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And we would go out to his dad's, like, compound for work and just drift, like, countless circles around the shed in the Middle. And it was basically surrounded with tractors on the outside. And then like his shed and like a gas tank stuff in the middle. So we didn't have a choice but to like be pretty dialed.

[Jake]

I remember bringing your sister's boyfriend at the time for a ride and he had like the championship game coming up or whatever.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's right.

[Jake]

Like, don't crash. And I remember just hawking it down this corner and I'm like, we're going to smash into this trailer. This is done. And it's like he's on doorside, right on the trailer and we just barely missed it. And he's like, I'm good. Like that.

[Ryan]

How many cars have you destroyed in your life?

[Jake]

I have a list right here.

[Ryan]

It's got to be insane long.

[Jake]

So I had that first Jeep. Rolled that right in front of Ryan.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Trying to be a wheelman.

[Jake]

Yeah, Trying to be a wheel man. The story was I was plugging in my phone, but I straight up was just trying to do my thing, buddy.

[Mike]

Mike.

[CJ]

It was fine until you destroy it with skid steering.

[Jake]

No, honestly, we can't say yes, you're right. It was totally fine. Like it's late enough in life. It was fine. And then it was cold.

[Mike]

Freezing.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And we were just dumb.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Jake]

You remember what I told you? Spend all your money, you can make more. That was one of those moments.

[CJ]

Okay. Yeah.

[Jake]

And the next car, Corvette. So there you go, man.

[Ryan]

So that was a real switch up.

[Jake]

Jeep, Corvette, White Subaru, black Subaru, Geo. Tracker, Tahoe. Shagging wagon. Remember that thing.

[Ben]

The shagging wagon?

[Jake]

We bent the axle. That, that was basically.

[CJ]

That was jumping it over that, that little ledge.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Remember, like the hubcap was flying by. That was fun. Yeah. 10 deep in that thing. Yeah.

[Mike]

And. And then we're just checks and balancing here. There was two white Subarus in that vicinity.

[Jake]

Yeah, there was two white Subarus in there. F150, son. Blew that up.

[CJ]

Oh my gosh. With the hundred light bars, that thing was awesome.

[Ryan]

How much do you spend on light bars on that truck?

[CJ]

Like a hundred dollars on Amazon.

[Jake]

But they were bright. Like it was. I think there was just enough.

[Ryan]

There was enough of them.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I love that. We called that truck the Sun.

[Jake]

The sun, yeah. The Illumina, the Edge, the Buick. Cody's Avenger, which obviously he probably destroyed harder than I did.

[Ken]

I traded that car back and forth so many times.

[Jake]

I needed a car. Then he's like, I need a snowmobile. And then the summer came around. Like, I don't need this car anymore.

[CJ]

This is how it would go. Cody would go, oh, I want to get a snowmobile, Jake. I say, okay, I'll buy your car for ten grand. Great. Buys it for ten grand. Beats the crap out of it. Cody goes, oh, I need that car back. Buys for 12 grand.

[Jake]

I'm a wheeler and dealer.

[CJ]

Cody goes, I want to buy a dirt bike. Jake's like, sweet. I'll buy for six grand. Jake drives it for three months. Cody's like, oh, I really need a car again. Great. I'll send back to you for 14 grand.

[Jake]

Sorry, bro. Dude really doesn't have any boundaries, huh?

[CJ]

No boundaries, bro.

[Jake]

I just got to do what's best for me once in a while, you know? You making me feel bad now.

[CJ]

Sorry. I'm sorry.

[Ryan]

He's okay. He's driving a BMW now.

[Jake]

Then we have the black Raptor, which I just sold my white Mustang that we blew up, the Miata. And then orange Mustang E350 powerstroke. And then the Mustang I have now.

[CJ]

That's pretty impressive, man.

[Jake]

Do you know the average person has eight cars in their whole lifetime? I had that by 20.

[Ryan]

I was gonna say, how many of you had.

[Jake]

Now, like, I think it's 17.

[CJ]

17.

[Ryan]

1, 2, 3, 4.

[CJ]

Good job, Jake. Dude, don't stop breaking cars, I guess, you know.

[Ryan]

Yeah, don't. Don't give up on your day job, dude.

[Jake]

I am gonna be a wheelman one day. You guys are gonna be like, he told us.

[Ken]

He told us.

[Ben]

I'd say you're a wheel man. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You're a damn good.

[Jake]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

I've lost my touch. I'll fully admit it. And it sucks. It sucks not being able to do.

[Jake]

What you used to.

[Ryan]

I even got the same car back. Good at. I. I just. I don't have the same.

[Jake]

I will remember the first time we all got together and Ryan's. Because. So Ryan had his driver's license before everybody, or no besides Ken.

[Mike]

This is. This is the same night that Ken actually got his name.

[Ben]

So I think Ryan had a vehicle he could drift.

[Jake]

Yeah. I met Ben and CJ basically through Ryan.

[Ryan]

Right?

[Jake]

Is that how it worked?

[Ben]

We met you with Cody.

[Jake]

Yeah, we were at Dirt Bike.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's right.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Then we ate pizza with kin, I think, at Cody's house afterwards. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah.

[CJ]

And Cody's dirt bike got stolen because he left it in the ditch, bro.

[Jake]

I remember that for two weeks. Like, it was there for a substantial amount of time where we could have got it and all a sudden one day we're like, oh man, it got stolen.

[Ben]

Gone.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it wasn't even like a day. Two days, two weeks we left that.

[Ben]

That's just flat out lazy on the.

[Ryan]

Side of the road, dude.

[CJ]

Cody, you asked for that.

[Jake]

We found it on Facebook like a year later too.

[Mike]

Mess that they found it on Facebook.

[Ben]

You buy it back.

[Jake]

No, it blew up.

[Ryan]

I'm sure it did.

[Ben]

It was worthless. By the time. Yeah, they even stole it, it was already blowing up.

[Mike]

No, I was going to say like it's, it's kind of aggressive for you to want to win a competition because you did the same thing with your banshee. You were like, yeah, I'm going to build this fast banshee and I'm going to win all these races. And then you didn't ever win. Oh, that's right.

[CJ]

I forgot. Jake had a losing curse.

[Mike]

No, no, you had that losing curse and then you turn it around because you put time in. You, you put some time in on the banshee, riding it motor wise and then you like start winning. I'm like, look at this.

[CJ]

Yeah, because he throws his own events so he can win. Come to my event so I can win.

[Mike]

But keep in mind he was doing the same thing when he was losing too. He was throwing his own events and just losing every time.

[Ryan]

I don't know what is worse. Yeah, it's something about saying you throw your own event and still lose. Seems worse than throwing your event and winning.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Has anybody ever accused you of that? Being like you throw this event and you curve the rules.

[Jake]

Yeah, all the time.

[CJ]

Especially when there's a pot. You put up a pot and then you win it and you get the.

[Jake]

Big check is what it do, baby.

[CJ]

It's made out to you. Signed by.

[Jake]

You gotta start somewhere. You know what I'm saying?

[CJ]

But I, I think the fact that.

[Ryan]

You lost so many times and also that a lot of guys brought out banshees that maybe could have won. Like it wasn't like you stacked it against. And you're like, I'm the only guy that can have a extended swing arm right now.

[Ben]

He's going to start throwing drift events.

[Jake]

Yeah, no, I'm not going to throw.

[Ben]

He's going to invite people with non drift cars though.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Okay. They're at a total destruct.

[Ryan]

Jake's just going to like corner off, cone off a couple streets around the area. Be like, I'm hosting a drift.

[Jake]

So you guys got.

[CJ]

I'm going to be the judge though.

[Ryan]

So how we doing over there?

[Ben]

Siege.

[Jake]

Yeah. You look like you.

[Ben]

This mic has been, like, just working its way out really, really loose that I started, and then I was like, DJs a little. Trying to tighten it, and then it just fell off.

[Ryan]

You got to use the adapter. And then. Yes.

[Mike]

This is tough to watch.

[Ryan]

Yeah, There you go. And then that's got to go down. Now we're talking.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then now spin the mic.

[Mike]

You'll get that thing dialed on. And then my only advice.

[Ken]

No, no, you're spinning it on the.

[Mike]

The.

[Ken]

The audio port.

[Mike]

Yeah. My only advice would be to not touch that after you get it on.

[Jake]

I love it.

[Ryan]

It's hard not to.

[CJ]

Dude, this is no good.

[Ben]

Doing good. There we go.

[Ryan]

There we go.

[Ben]

Nice.

[Jake]

If you have something good, that's good, because I do, too, so we can keep this rolling. You go first.

[Mike]

Wait. Let's do it.

[CJ]

I have a really good Jake driving story.

[Jake]

Oh, God.

[CJ]

So we asked my parents if we could use their Yukon to go down to X Games, which is like four hours away. So we all pile in my mom's car, and Jake, being Jake, goes, yo, how fast do you think we can get this thing going?

[Ryan]

Seven of us loaded up in that rig. Dude, there's something that you just can't replicate, being that dumb. And 16.

[Ben]

So mainly they only max out at, like a hundred, though.

[CJ]

Yeah, I think it does, like, 105 downhill.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Which is kind of probably what we said. We're like, probably 100.

[Jake]

Dude, I don't know.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So sure enough, Jake pop tops it out at 100 or whatever it does. Jake post a Snapchat of how fast we were going.

[Mike]

Hands back to the whole crew.

[CJ]

Yeah, the whole crew. And my dad just calls me and goes, turn around right now. I was like, why? I saw Jake is speeding in mom's car going 100. That is incredibly reckless and disrespectful.

[Ben]

Turn around right now.

[CJ]

And we had to turn that thing around and come home.

[Ken]

That was after we had already checked.

[Jake]

Into the hotel, and we were at.

[Ken]

We were at the U.S. bank, and.

[CJ]

We were like, oh, damn it.

[Jake]

That is a moment where I had my tail between my.

[CJ]

I'm sorry.

[Jake]

Literally, I'm like, I messed up.

[Mike]

It was. And it was tough because, like, none of us knew what to say. Like, we were a little. Being young and reckless that we were. We were a little upset that they were telling us to come home. We were a little upset at Jake for going that fast. But then he's like, dude, you guys.

[Ben]

You were egging them on.

[Ryan]

Yeah, 100%.

[Mike]

Yeah. We had to go home.

[Ryan]

You're right. In that, like, middle age, like, childhood teenager hood where you think you can do whatever you want, but you can't. And it sucks when someone tells you.

[Mike]

You can't do it.

[Ryan]

And so we. We had a hard time.

[Jake]

We can do it now. Yeah, we can do it now.

[Ryan]

But now we're smart enough not to.

[Jake]

Thank God. Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

Now Jake's like, yo, should I go 100? And everyone's like, no, city sitting in the back. Like, no, absolutely. Don't do that.

[Jake]

It's funny. Right before I came here, I texted Ryan. I was on the way back from Thanksgiving with my mom, and we had a long straightaway. I'm like. Like, I've never topped out my raptor. Let's see how fast it can go. We're doing 141 in my Raptor. My mom was loving it. She's like, I didn't think a pickup can go this fast.

[Ben]

How are you going? 141. That's amazing.

[Jake]

Yeah, it's. It's. Well, so when they obviously tune them, it's got, like, no limiter. Limiter or anything. And I was literally just holding it to the wood. I'm like, I'm not letting off till this thing stops.

[Mike]

141 thing was screaming.

[Jake]

Yeah, it sounded good, but it did. Yeah, we can do it sometime.

[Ben]

I cleaned it out.

[CJ]

I'll take your word for it.

[Mike]

We really do have.

[Ben]

It's.

[Jake]

It's Saturday and all, like, the boys are, you know, kind of just hanging out, having fun. We haven't seen each other for a while, dude. I think almost all of us have been on, like, a pretty good health kick lately, and I don't think we've ever done that. Taking ice baths, taking saunas, going to the gym. Like we're all sending each other. I think this is the first time we all, like, trying to take care of ourselves.

[CJ]

Yeah, well, I've kind of been forced to.

[Mike]

And I'm just.

[Ben]

I'm in the same.

[Mike]

Honestly, I'm in the middle of the table here. And Jake, the people he just talked about, I do not belong in that group. I don't do it.

[Ben]

I don't. I think it's just.

[Ken]

We're in our own group.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

For real, though, I agree with you. The ice bath have been insane. You guys doing those saunas?

[Ben]

The.

[CJ]

Yeah, a little bit of better diet.

[Mike]

Better diet.

[Ben]

But as we're drinking right now. Yeah, no, we don't drink that much anymore, though. At least I don't.

[Ryan]

My problem is it's been the, like two to three beers a night around the shop. Gavin will be like, hey, man, have a beer. It's like six o'.

[Mike]

Clock.

[Ryan]

You know, I got an hour left of work and I'll be, yeah, I'll have one and then I have one hanging out when I go and then one when I get home with dinner. I'm like, damn, three. Three Coors lights a night. That ain't good for a guy. But I have been taking ice baths to offset it.

[Jake]

So I don't know if that exactly. I don't think it works at all. But I just like, I got it like. Like, I don't know, I'm full believer in it now because, like, I. Dude.

[Mike]

Do you hear what you just said? I don't think it works at all.

[Jake]

No, I'm not saying no. Just for like the like the hell side. Like, I've been in such a better mood and like, I feel like interacting with like, you guys too, and like Cody and like, I've just been laughing and having so much fun lately. And I. I think it's good. I think it's great.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well, you've been really stepping up the baths too. You haven't even just done them in like a normal tub. You've been jumping in the lake.

[Jake]

You guys have to come do it with me. I will tell you what it is like, next level. This sucks.

[CJ]

Brutal, man. I took one yesterday in the lake, so it's like 32 degrees because the lake is. Is should be frozen, but it's windy, so it was, you know, wasn't able to freeze over. Brutal. Brutal.

[Jake]

Your muscles start like pulsing.

[CJ]

Started like seeing a hallway.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It's like.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's worse going in the lake though, because you got to like walk out there. It's like you can't just hop in. Yeah, but dude, weeds and stuff.

[Mike]

Shivers afterwards are just unparalleled. Like, I mean, you guys, when you cold, you get. You shiver, but when you're that cold, you're just like, I can't even do it. But just like, like your teeth are going to break because you're shivering so hard.

[Ryan]

I feel like we should do it, all of us.

[Mike]

Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

[Ben]

Big. Can you do it?

[Jake]

Let's do it.

[Mike]

No.

[Jake]

Why not?

[Ben]

Ken, I would can make himself uncomfortable.

[Jake]

That was like a hard no.

[Ben]

That was a hard no.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I hate ice baths. But. But then you got me fired up. I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's do it, Ken. No way.

[Ryan]

Let's do it together. Come on, Ken. It'll be fun.

[Ken]

I. I think I'd do it one time and I'd be like this.

[Mike]

That's all we need.

[Ryan]

That's all we need. We're just asking for this one time.

[Ben]

Three minutes.

[Jake]

Yeah. We'll go cut a hole tomorrow in the lake.

[Ryan]

We'll do it tomorrow in the light.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Are we at least filming it?

[Jake]

Sure.

[Ryan]

Oh, is that all you care about now?

[Ben]

Just for fun, Ken, I'm leaving the.

[Ryan]

Camera at home just because of that comment. I was going to have it be a little bit, but.

[CJ]

No, dude, it is funny. How much of like a social trend? Ice baths?

[Ben]

Yeah. How does that happen, man? That's so interesting. Like, everyone just starts talking about it, but, like, it's not like it's some new technology or. No, it's the most simplest form of.

[Mike]

Like, you know, does probably date way back.

[Jake]

I literally have like, gained friends because of it. Like, oh, you do that. So we like start bonding over that. And then it's just something that like, it literally is like a cult, dude.

[Ben]

So I came across this video of this guy. He's in the. He lives in the coldest city in the world.

[Ryan]

What is it called? I think it was like.

[Ben]

No, no, it was like, kind of near like Russia. Or maybe it was in Russia. It was like one of those areas. He takes an ice bath every morning and like they have this like, hole cut open or whatever, but it like it's icing over before they can even like, get in. It's like crazy. Crazy. But yeah, he does it like every day. And then when he gets out, it's like, like, you know, it's like life or death type is so cold. He has to have like mittens on all this. It's. But yeah, anyways, because his skin would.

[Ryan]

Freeze in like seconds.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was interesting.

[Ryan]

You feel like you're tolerant to the cold now?

[Jake]

Absolutely. But if you like miss a day or two, you're right back to where you were.

[Ryan]

Like, you gotta stay.

[Jake]

You gotta stay consistent. Like, I remember, like me and Cody didn't do it for a week and we went in the lake and we look at each other and like, this is effed. Like, it was painful. You feel like you're in pass out.

[Ben]

Why do you guys think it's become such a trend? Obviously everyone's talking about it and now everyone's like, like, how many. How many new businesses have started up that are selling ice baths? You know and there's such a wide range of it from like I'm trying to the like most basic just like inflatable to like a ten thousand dollar tub that has like a filtration and like indoor. Yeah.

[Jake]

I literally think it's no different than like any trend that starts as like a tik tok. It just blows up. People start doing it. That's why I started it. I'm like, oh no, it seems healthy.

[CJ]

I think like health is. Is kind of a trend in itself right now.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

People nowadays are much more health conscience like got whoop bands like everyone like actually values there. It seems like they value their health a lot more and like they care about what they're eating and I don't know, it just seems like it's just.

[Mike]

Not a bad thing.

[Ben]

No, it's not. But it's just maybe people are. It's becoming more popular to be healthy.

[CJ]

I think more people that are, you know, have a lot of poll are talking about it and doing that too socially because I think it's cool.

[Ben]

Yeah. And now everyone wants to try it. But that's where I was going with that story with the Cul de city. This guy had been doing it for like 40 years. So it's like way before it was a trend, you know. And he does it every day at Thanksgiving.

[Ryan]

We were talking about that with my grandparents in the nursing home and my grandma was like, oh, if you get cold, you'll get sick.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I was like, that's such an interesting thought that if you were to go outside without a jacket, normally people would be like, you're gonna catch a cold.

[Ben]

I don't think that's how you get sick though.

[Jake]

No.

[Ryan]

Come out when they're like, oh, cigarettes are good for you. You know, like I don't think that'll ever come out. No, no, that was back in the 60s and like cigarettes are good for you. And then now this is going to come out and be like, yeah, people's. It's bad for you because that's why.

[Mike]

Things you really do have to be imagine careful.

[Jake]

It's bad for your balls.

[Mike]

You have to be careful with your claims.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That's why you couldn't. No, no, it wasn't by choice, dude.

[Jake]

It was out he get over this. I don't jerk it.

[Mike]

Come on.

[CJ]

You still don't?

[Ben]

No.

[Jake]

Why would he?

[Mike]

Dude, he's ex girlfriend. All right. I walked into that. Okay. No, can we, can you, can we get over this? The fact that I don't jerk Off. As long as you're not jerking off. I'm not getting over it.

[Ken]

What's.

[CJ]

You talk about it more than anyone I know.

[Jake]

Jerking it.

[Ryan]

You just brought it up.

[Jake]

No, I didn't.

[Ben]

Yeah, you.

[CJ]

Yeah, dude. Yeah, we get it. The world knows you don't jerk, man.

[Jake]

I. Dude, shout out to those people that had my back. Still, dude. I'm not still.

[CJ]

Just don't understand that.

[Jake]

Yes, you never will.

[Ryan]

But got to join his little gang. Yeah, it'll come call.

[CJ]

Sorry.

[Jake]

You know who did have my bag?

[CJ]

Oh, my God, you're sick.

[Mike]

All right, I got. I. I got someone.

[CJ]

Mike's trying to change the subject.

[Jake]

Real pulls up a video of it. He's like, I was there.

[Ryan]

It's either third or fourth.

[Ben]

You guys really are close.

[Jake]

Yeah, we.

[Mike]

We.

[Jake]

There are no boundaries.

[Mike]

Okay, C.J. so, like, speaking of what you said with the ice bath thing, how many businesses are coming up about it making, like, inflatables?

[Ken]

Just.

[Mike]

Just trying to capitalize.

[CJ]

So you guys smart.

[Ben]

Honestly, it's very smart. But now it's saturated because I'm getting ads from all over the place.

[Mike]

And that's. I think the problem that I'm gonna bring up here with this is that it's so saturated, and it just gets more saturated until something bad happens. Not saying that. So you guys remember, like, the bikes that, you know, Like, I'm trying to think of the name, like, lime scooters, whatever. Bird scooters. Then there's also the rideshare bikes. So in China, that trend hit so hard that everyone was like, they made millions of bikes, and then they'd put them in the city, and there was so many bikes, and there were so many bikes getting broken that they just. You know, they would just get broke, and they didn't know what to do with them, so they just make bike graveyards. This is one of many bike graveyards in China.

[Ben]

You make all those bikes, and then electric scooters come out.

[Mike]

There's like, a million bikes in this graveyard. Like, it just blew my mind. And, yeah, they said it was part of a trend. So now, guess what business is booming. Fucking scrap.

[Ben]

Scraps always been booming. I swear, man.

[Mike]

Can you imagine a scrap company getting a hold of all these? They'd be like, let's go, but I.

[Ben]

Give you a couple hundred bucks.

[CJ]

Couldn't believe it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I saw the same thing and thought it was extremely shocking, because it is. But also, if this was cars, imagine how much space it would take the state of New fucking Mexico.

[Ben]

It's got to be a million bikes.

[CJ]

Did they outlaw lime scooters?

[Jake]

You haven't? I haven't seen them lately. Like, they were everywhere.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they kind of died off.

[Mike]

And so you guys have experienced it here in the States. Like, the scooters kind of just get, like, they just get mangled, shocked on the side of the curb. And so if the broken ones are just sitting there, typical city officials or someone has to go remove them.

[Ben]

Just littered all over the place.

[Mike]

And they don't care about them. They don't have to pay for them. They go chuck them into a graveyard. It just blows my mind.

[Jake]

Like, my first lime experience was horrible. It was with you guys in Washington.

[Ryan]

Washington.

[Mike]

So much fun, dude. No.

[Jake]

Don't you remember?

[Mike]

Yes, I remember. You crashed. Why was it so bad?

[CJ]

Oh, you crashed.

[Ryan]

Mike crashed.

[Jake]

No, I like, dropped off a curb. Like, so you know how sidewalks go down and then they come back up, up. I went down and I thought there was, like a get back on. I hit the thing and just straight cartwheel. Like, just straight ass over tea kettle on the bars.

[Ryan]

A scooter's a hard thing to crash on. There's no way in that position, you're so vulnerable, like a skateboard. You're kind of sideways. You got your feet underneath you, but in a scooter, you're, like, lined up square with your hands right here. It doesn't even make any sense.

[Jake]

Driving to a wall, no freaking winning there.

[Mike]

You crash a scooter, you're just an idiot.

[Ben]

The lime scooters probably claimed a lot of bodies. Yeah, I'd imagine a lot of people who shouldn't exactly be on a scooter. We're getting on a scooter. That's another, you know, like, it's like they're there for a business trip. Like, well, this is what we're taking over to the convention center. And then you hop on and hasn't.

[Mike]

Ridden a bike or a scooter in.

[Ben]

Like, 20 or just flat out. Isn't that.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You know, doesn't have the skill for it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, because.

[Ben]

And those things go pretty fast, you know, so it'd be easy to just.

[Ryan]

Like, what, 15, probably.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I mean, that's pretty fast.

[CJ]

Faster than you can run on concrete.

[Jake]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

You're not built for it either.

[Ryan]

Because that's the thing. I mean, we're fairly used to. And primary people listen are riding things, you know, whether it be a dirt bike or something powerful that they're in control of. But you throw someone who lives in New York who hasn't even driven in years and you throw them on a scooter.

[CJ]

Well, it's also somebody who has no hand eye coordination between using your wrist to like go.

[Ben]

That's a little Swiss throttle.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Did we just subtly talk about on Jake this whole time about not being coordinated?

[Jake]

We know.

[Ben]

No, I wasn't saying that. He just did it because he was pushing it too far.

[CJ]

They should have put quad thumbs on him.

[Ben]

That's why he messed up. Yeah. He wasn't used to the twist throttle.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's true. Some actually do. Yeah, that makes sense. So people don't. Whiskey throttle.

[Ben]

Yeah, for the, you know, especially those ones.

[Jake]

Yeah. Dude. You guys got any like major, like it's going to be 20, 25? That's kind of crazy. You got any major goals?

[Mike]

I mean, it's gonna be.

[Ben]

It is weird to think that it's going to be 2024 though.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Do we have any what though?

[Jake]

Like, goals? Like, have you guys like thought about like, okay, when this year hits, I want to achieve this?

[CJ]

Oh, like, yeah, I guess I have that every single year. But I try and be as like realistic with it as possible. Not just like the basic ass, like work out more and like, you know, the things that are so easy to quit but as far as like growth for, you know, business wise or like things that we can actually make a difference of control. Yeah. Controllable big thing and. No, but I did start a list of just like bucket list things that I want to do. I think we're so lucky to be in this position of like, the bigger that we can dream, you know, the more we can do because it's our line of work. As long as we just make it entertaining.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And you know, make a good video out of it. I felt like, you know, the, the videos have gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, but it gets to a point where I even think like, man, where do we go from here? Like, how do these continue to go? So I've just tried to like continue to think of like the places that I've wanted to go and the things that I've wanted to do there. That would just be a bucket list thing. And one day hopefully we can make it happen and bring the entire squad along and yeah. Make a video out of it. So I've just like, I have like a list of a bunch of different things. I'll read a couple of them off. Like drive 150 down the Ottoman in Germany. Yeah, that'd be sick.

[Ben]

Only 150 though. I'd imagine being like an R8 or something if you're gonna be in Germany.

[Jake]

Or you can do that out here.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. Raptor on his way here.

[Mike]

Come on.

[Jake]

Have a better goal than that, dude.

[Ryan]

All right, so 200 number one, stupid.

[Jake]

Let's just check.

[Ben]

Keep dreaming, buddy.

[Jake]

Yeah, let's just do something different, like.

[CJ]

Skydive with an R6.

[Jake]

That's solid.

[CJ]

Get wicked wine drunk on a wine tour in France.

[Mike]

Solid.

[Ben]

I could see that.

[CJ]

Drink beer at a pub in Chicago on St. Patty's Day. Hey.

[Ben]

So good we're living.

[Jake]

Ben's like, I want to black out.

[CJ]

He wants to try go dog sledding in Alaska.

[Mike]

We're learning. Ben's 2024 goals involve a lot of traveling.

[CJ]

Love that.

[Mike]

Yeah, that. That is sweet. I'd love to go to Alaska with you guys. Love to go to Europe.

[Ryan]

Cam, what was your bucket list item that you wanted to do in the Fargo, Inc. Thing?

[Ken]

Go to Antarctica.

[CJ]

Yeah, we're gonna buy Ken one way ticket, a one way trip, and send him with a GoPro.

[Ben]

One GoPro.

[Ken]

Well, they have, like, cruise ships that go to Antarctica and they do, like, little day trip excursion things.

[Mike]

We'll meet you in the middle.

[Ben]

You'll be laying up on a. On a beach chair with a little pina colada.

[Mike]

That sounds weird doing that in Antarctica.

[Ben]

But I can picture on his cruise, it's different.

[Jake]

Ken, I would love to just watch you third person. And when I say it like that, just like when you go and do your thing without any of the guys around, like, what are you doing? Like. Like, let's say you're going to Europe. I would love to just, like, follow you.

[Mike]

He would love to know what he's doing in Europe, wouldn't he?

[CJ]

Yeah, with your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend.

[Jake]

My ex what?

[Ryan]

Everything, dude, man.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Some more beef going on we haven't squashed around here.

[Ben]

She.

[Ken]

She can attest we did nothing.

[Ben]

That's what they all say.

[Jake]

That's what they all say. Till the truth comes out.

[Ben]

Until you find out the kid's not yours.

[Ryan]

Ken, going into, you know, having goals for the next year, do you have any goals about, you know, maybe quitting anything you've been doing vaping?

[Ken]

No, I really don't.

[Ben]

Ken's not trying to change as he cracks another beer.

[Jake]

I like the way I am.

[Ryan]

Well, I have something for you. An early Christmas.

[Ken]

I can already tell you no.

[CJ]

He's like, don't even want it, brother.

[Ryan]

So you don't want the gifts? I, like, put a lot of Time and thought into this.

[Ken]

All right, what's this?

[Ben]

Oh, it's a box.

[Mike]

The suspense is actually killing me.

[Jake]

What is this?

[Ryan]

That is an antique enema kit from 1920.

[Mike]

German.

[Ben]

Actually used. It's been.

[Ryan]

Oh.

[Ben]

Damn.

[Ryan]

So the reason, Ken, that you're receiving this gift is there was an old strategy when you maybe caught your kid smoking cigarettes or something like that. You would make him smoke a pack and when.

[Ben]

When he smoked, stop him from doing.

[CJ]

Exactly. You were trying.

[Ryan]

You were trying to make him stop because he would overdose on the. On the thing, and it wouldn't be fun anymore. And then I did further research, and I figured out that in the early 1700s, there used to be tobacco enema, and it would actually reduce your cravings for tobacco. So I figured, you know, modern times, you can equip your vape to that. And that enema kit.

[Ben]

He's gonna start puffing up his ass.

[Ryan]

That's gonna literally.

[Ben]

He's gonna get a real buzz.

[Ryan]

He's gonna start blowing smoke up his own ass.

[Mike]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, this is. I. I.

[Ryan]

Can we see the packaging, please? This is.

[Ken]

It is literally falling apart as I touch it.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's had a lot of use, Ken. It's been up a lot of anus.

[Mike]

I mean, it's a true story. Three years old.

[Ryan]

It was 20 bucks, but because it broke when she was packaging it, we got it for free.

[CJ]

Ken touched it.

[Ryan]

Can we see the box, please? It came with the box, right? Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

Here we go.

[Ben]

I'm confused where you're going with that, Ryan. What?

[Mike]

Oh.

[Ben]

That'S gross, man.

[Ryan]

First of all, that was an antique from 1920 Germany. It's the Ingram Perfects Enema.

[Ben]

That's nice.

[Mike]

She just heard about these. It's from Native Americans.

[Ben]

Ryan, I didn't know where you were going with that. Like, you were like, you know, like, to stop someone from doing something, you like, really do it hard at all.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like what?

[Jake]

I text Ryan before this podcast, and I'm like, anything I should prepare for? He's like, ah, just think of some stuff you want to talk about. And I got Ken a gift. Not expecting this at all.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah, so the tobacco animals were really big in the 1700s.

[Ben]

That's to stop you from smoking.

[Ryan]

I think it was also for when you were insane.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Ben]

They thought like, oh, let's stick something up his ass. That'll clear him up.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Ryan]

I mean, they also.

[Ben]

Someone's going nuts. Stick something up their ass. That'll calm them down.

[Jake]

That calms me.

[Ben]

Imagine that you're freaking out. Someone comes in of front, they hold you down, shoves them to your ass.

[Jake]

He's going crazier.

[Ben]

Get him in the institution.

[CJ]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ryan]

It was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments.

[Ben]

That thing lasted a hundred years until Ken touched it for three seconds. It also broke that it would be.

[Ryan]

A double whammy for Ken since he has belly aches. It does.

[Ben]

That's actually that you're getting somewhere.

[Ryan]

It is used to treat gut pain and was often made to resuscitate victims of near drowning.

[CJ]

Oh, that's interesting.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Ryan]

So really odd thing, but I figured that by using might help you quit.

[Mike]

No.

[Ben]

Now he's just pissed off. Yeah, he just wants to vape a little more.

[CJ]

He's just stressed too, right? He just walked.

[Ben]

Dirty hands. Got a little bit of 100 year old on him.

[Ken]

How do you wash my hands?

[Jake]

He puts it in his mouth.

[Ken]

He's not touching that.

[Ben]

You should have told him it was a pipe or something. And then after you go, just kidding. It's an enema kid from 100 years ago.

[Jake]

He's.

[Mike]

That.

[Ryan]

True story, though. The lady was going to charge us 20 bucks and then it broke, so we got it for free. But I think that's the end that goes.

[CJ]

You should send her a message and just say, still works great.

[Ben]

Try it. Do I put all the pieces up my ass or just one of them?

[CJ]

Yeah, just go. It's four pieces.

[Ken]

You're going to get some nasty old disease.

[Mike]

I'd like to think that it's sanitized, but I love how like, oh, it broke. No, like as soon as Ken touched it, it disappeared, disintegrated.

[CJ]

Well, Ken, is there anything that you didn't want?

[Ben]

Nothing to do with Ken's ass.

[Ken]

Once again, you guys have the worst gifts you can possibly give. I don't. You're just continuing the streak.

[Jake]

He's thinking about your health. He's trying every option at this point.

[Ben]

Yeah, Ken, he's even going alternative natural with it.

[Ken]

Kind of old timey disease that nobody's had for like 60 years.

[Ben]

Ken gets polio.

[Mike]

Let's say it hadn't broke. I think the only way you can actually tell Ryan that you hate it is after you try it.

[Jake]

Yeah, Then you have an excuse to get mad. But until then, no.

[CJ]

Again, what's the big deal, bro?

[Ben]

I got both.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Beautiful gift, Ryan. Good times with you, Jake, man.

[Jake]

Dude, thank you.

[Ben]

Anything else?

[CJ]

I feel like we're rolling.

[Jake]

Yeah. I mean, I'm down to keep going.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

[Jake]

Honestly, no, we should keep going. You know why? Cody said something to me the other day that really struck home. There's going to be a point in time where we're going to be like, man, remember, like, the good old days. Remember this? We're living them right now. Like this moment.

[Ben]

I mean, I just know.

[CJ]

Why would you say that?

[Ben]

It's all up, man. You gotta keep going.

[Mike]

Jake's a peak type of guy.

[CJ]

Used to say in high school, he'd look over at all his high school buddies and be like, yo, this is the tippy top right now.

[Ben]

I agree, though. It is cool to be able to have, like, the. All this stuff on. I mean, on. On record of us. Like, most people don't have days and days. I mean, we got months of footage of years, probably of, you know, I mean, the last decade when we're all.

[Jake]

In an old person's home. I don't think there's enough life left to watch all the footage that's been filmed.

[Ben]

Yeah, like, I think about that sometimes. We have so much footage on these hard drives. I'm like, no one's ever, like, once you edit for the video, you'll watch the video back, but you're never gonna go back and watch the raw footage unless you need to.

[Ryan]

The documentaries.

[Ben]

Yeah, I know. I was thinking about that.

[Mike]

I love having it, but also, like, hey, I'm. I'm down to die trying.

[Ben]

When we're like 40 or like 50, there'll be a doc on Netflix.

[Mike]

I'm trying to produce it, but I don't think I'm gonna be the guy for the job. But it's a dream of mine, like, to do a documentary. I just watched this series.

[Ben]

I just watched this documentary on the American Gladiator show. And like, they had all the people there, like 50.

[CJ]

Now, if you were to watch just our podcast alone, just assuming some of them are longer, some of them are shorter, but just an hour and a half. Hour and 30 minutes. It take you seven straight days. Wow, that's pretty short. So for. So for videos, let's see. We have 450 videos times 15 minutes on average. Let's just say a video, that would be 67,000 minutes.

[Ben]

Now divide that by 60 and you get into hours.

[CJ]

Well, that's only four and four days.

[Ryan]

Four days, yeah.

[Mike]

All right.

[Ryan]

But you know what?

[CJ]

I guess that's a long time.

[Mike]

Here's the thing.

[Jake]

Ten years of footage in Four days.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Jake]

That's rookie number. Numbers.

[CJ]

What's going.

[Jake]

Everyone listen.

[CJ]

Yeah, you do.

[Ryan]

We ain't done yet.

[CJ]

No, I'm excited for the year end review video. Every year we drop like a year recap. And the last couple videos or last couple years that we've done it have people love them. Like, the 2021 video has like 8 million views because it's just so easy to put it on. And just every tune in, every 30 seconds, there's a new bit that you completely.

[Ben]

And it's like the highlight. So it's always like, the best stuff.

[Ryan]

Yeah. My mom always told me that everybody would make the documentary, but she said, I don't know if anybody's going to write a book about it, so you should take notes and write a book.

[Ben]

Yeah, I love that because she.

[Ryan]

She definitely understood that you guys are much more talented at making the video, putting a video together. But she's like, but you can write.

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah, you got that on read. Yeah, I heard you wrote a book. Ryan, when are you making the audiobook?

[Mike]

Can you imagine someone just actually assuming that being like, yeah, Ben and CJ kill it on the videos. Like, so do you come in after and do the captions?

[CJ]

You should, you know, barely spell half of the words.

[Ben]

Could.

[Mike]

Oh, bro, I gotta talk about that too. I made some stuff for the merch drop. A new product. Yeah, that. That you guys would have been stoked on. And I fucking spelled lucky lucky wrong.

[Jake]

Ey.

[Ben]

So how many of these, like, things do we have that are just, like, garbage now basically?

[Mike]

350.

[Ben]

350 dice shakers with dice.

[Ryan]

It happens.

[Mike]

I think the worst part is, and I actually regret saying this, cj, I want to apologize. So you're right. I mean, you and CJ do spell some shit wrong in the videos every once in a while. Like, it's not by any means. Not every video. And I'm like, cj, you spelled quiet wrong. And I was like, why did I even say anything? You know, like, seriously, because your mistake. Some people go, oh, he spelled quite wrong. Whoever edit this spelled quiet wrong. My mistake cost, you know, $2900.

[CJ]

That's all right, because, I mean, you make a bunch of shit.

[Ben]

Yeah, we write a lot of captions. So you got to think about that.

[CJ]

It's pretty easy.

[Ben]

And I'm. We're on a fucking time crunch. We're typing these motherfuckers.

[Mike]

I don't know what it was, changing.

[Ben]

The color of them and all that.

[CJ]

So when we first got a Screen printer. Way, way, way back in the day, like, seven years ago, we went to this kid that had, like, this hat brand, and we're like, hey, we'll make you some shirts. And so Mike made this design, and it was, like, established in 2019 or something.

[Jake]

16.

[CJ]

So established in 2016. And. And Mike made up the art, and we printed the shirts, and we were gonna sell the shirts for, I think, 800, and it cost us 400, so we were gonna make 400 on it and then buy something with it. Got done printing the whole line, sent it off to him, and he was like, yeah, you put, like, established in 16ft versus established in the year 16.

[Mike]

You know, the dash.

[Jake]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

And. And we were like, no. We're like, well, do you still want them? And they're like, well, if you print them correctly, yeah, we'll take them. So then it cost us another 400 bucks, and we made no money on it. Very first. Very first time that we ever had a client, had a customer paying for T shirts, and we misspelled it.

[Mike]

And I think the worst part.

[CJ]

But you. You did it, and I printed it, and neither of us caught it.

[Mike]

I think that's the worst part. There's no one to blame besides the person who created the art, the person who typed those words out. There's actually no one to blame but them. But it is insane. It goes to production. It goes to. Oh, those shirts look good.

[Ryan]

Well, nothing's worse when you only have yourself to blame.

[Mike]

I agree.

[Jake]

I think those are some of my favorite memories of screen printing and Ken's garage. Because, like, oh, my. My job was just to watch the drive a little gun, and I'm like.

[Ben]

But you were still putting in your time. I think about that often, though.

[Jake]

Like, we were all there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Everyone here has put in their fricking time. Like, how much time we put in building just to get to where we're at. Like, we were doing literally every little minuscule job, every job that. That it takes to run this operation. We.

[CJ]

We've done so funny to think back to that, too. And Jake would get bored, and he'd come over, and he'd be like, you think you can print on my back?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

But then we're gonna have to dry it on you. So we'd print your back and then.

[Jake]

Try and burn my skin, dude.

[Mike]

I mean, it's like, with anything. Like, little dudes with any sort of equipment ever, you got to try it out. We were, like, printing on your boxers, dude.

[Jake]

I still have all that stuff.

[Ryan]

Oh, you didn't bur.

[Jake]

No. Okay.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

I went to Jake's shop the other day and he has a burnt hat.

[Jake]

Yeah. Okay. So I was going to tell you guys this ashes I. All the stuff I burnt were all duplicates I actually kept. I have every single piece of. Piece of merch from the day we started to the day I left in a huge long tube. Every single T shirt.

[Ryan]

That's a very odd.

[Jake]

It's like a big sock sling somehow.

[CJ]

Can we get one? Can we get those?

[Jake]

Yeah, I'll bring them over for sure. I was going to give them, you guys, the first podcast gas along with. I have the check that I wrote.

[CJ]

With the credit card with the credit card in it.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's funny.

[Jake]

But it's funny. The reason I was thinking of the T shirt thing, Ben came over the other day to get all the camera for when you guys were doing Ken's bit. And there was like two screens on the wall and it was like the first screens we ever made. So when I, like, left, I bought a screen printer and we, like, printed our first line. I'm like, this sucks. I'm like, I don't miss this at all. And so the screen printer, I gave it away to some kid or whatever.

[Ben]

About kept screens, but we definitely weren't doing it right. But, like, we were honestly having a lot of fun. If we were smarter, we would have done it a whole nother. We would have gone a different way with it. But, like, I just remember all we did basically from when we started filming videos and saw a little bit of success. It was just like, we worked. That's it. We were just working in some degree, whether we're filming or printing or shipping orders or. But we were just always working. Like, it was always something, I think back. But it was fun. It was so much fun. I think still is.

[CJ]

But I think back to the. The printing days of, like, man, that was such a waste of time, but it gave us a reason to stick with it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's a good way.

[CJ]

Like, we were still just, like, sticking with it because we were like, oh, we can print these shirts and we can make a little bit of money and we're still doing something. And think back, we could have been, like, doing nothing that weekend. And then. And then if we weren't printing shirts, Ryan would have been out of, you know, college party.

[Mike]

Well, I remember I would get together.

[Ben]

I would, like, skip, like, school, and I would just stay at the shop, like, you know, because we'd live in Fargo with The school. But I was like this. I'd like, go down on like a Tuesday and stay all the way till Friday. And I'd just. It'd just be like me and Mike there sometimes. And I would just like be logging the hours because we'd get paid for our hour, like 10 bucks an hour. We'd allocate for, like, shipping orders. And it would take so long to like, fulfill the orders because our op, just the way we were running, it wasn't that efficient. I'd like, log, you know, seven hours of just like hacking. And then I'd like.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And then I'd go sit on the couch, like maybe play a little bit Xbox or like edit something and then go to bed and do it again. And I felt like I was like, yep, made 70 bucks there.

[Ryan]

Like, I think there was some because we just had such an un typical approach. So it was nice.

[Ben]

I was looking at it like a normal job.

[Ryan]

Exactly. That's what was so good about having the merch in house earlier, is it gave us all a job to start at early and.

[Ben]

Right.

[Ryan]

You guys are right. Man, did we grind. We'd be over at Ken's uncle's shop until 4. Yeah, 4 or 5 in the morning.

[Ben]

Keep going around.

[Ryan]

We just. I mean, it was just the youthful energy that we had towards it, but also so fun.

[Ben]

You wouldn't leave because, like, like, you're like, I'm not gonna go if they're gonna keep going.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, I'm not gonna be the guy that call it quick because then I'm gonna look like I'm like, not a hard worker or something. So then you'd stay.

[CJ]

And then almost everyone just like pushed it.

[Ben]

Most people probably thinking in the back of their head, like, gosh, 2:00am, I'd.

[Mike]

Like to go home.

[Ben]

But then we're like, well, I'm not leaving. So then you just stay till freaking 5.

[Ryan]

And then you hit the 3am delusion where everything was funny, dude.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I don't know if it was the.

[Ryan]

Fumes from the ink and the dryer that wasn't ventilated or whatever, dude, but we would just start cackling at not funny things and just had the time.

[Jake]

Of our life going to deal with.

[Mike]

We would order pizza from Zorbas.

[CJ]

I was gonna say that that was like a payout.

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[Mike]

But it was actually like. It was like the payout, but it was. We would order pizza and we get like, dude, should we get like three larges? Like, everybody eats tonight.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And it Was just like. Like, this is the life.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, you were thinking this at least. What I was saying is, like, I didn't even spend my own money on this food, but, like, granted, it was like the. Still technically our money, but yeah, you, like, looked at it that way.

[Ryan]

Not only did you get paid $10 an hour, but you also got the free pizza.

[Jake]

It was like, it was some serious benefits at the time. I tell you what, you get Starbucks for free. You're like, dude, this is some Gucci stuff. Stuff going on right now, man.

[CJ]

I forgot that we used to do the hourly thing. Everyone would have to log their hours, send it to me once a month. Yep. Dude, I remember when we get a check for $450.

[Mike]

Part of it, though, like, we were. We were dialed. But what we were.

[Ben]

My point though, with all that, though, is, like, it didn't just get to this point where we're at. We had to. To put the time in. And it wasn't like, oh, it was just like, you know, you had to work your way up the ladder.

[CJ]

Dude. There was nothing cool about it.

[Ben]

There really wasn't. You were getting made fun of by your peers because it's like, the videos aren't necessarily popping and for. They weren't that good also. We were, you know, whatever. It's just not that cool.

[CJ]

Like, you gotta just get.

[Ben]

You gotta put your time in and. And then for most people, honestly, doesn't even pay off. So, like, it's just kind of how it goes, you know?

[Jake]

Dude, if anything, it just, like, almost like, taught me from, like, my next venture of what needs to be done versus, like, basically, like, the grind of it, you know, like how, like, the process of it. Like, I'll never forget those days for as long as I live. Like, that's like. You remember something like, that was like a iconic moment of just like, man, it started there and it can turn into, like, the top, you know?

[Ben]

Right. But even now, like, I'm still. All of us are, like, still grinding. Oh, it's just a different.

[Mike]

Different clawing at the next every. It's like the next many things.

[Ben]

It just really doesn't stop. So, I mean, it's just part of it. Like, it really doesn't get any easier.

[CJ]

Never does.

[Ben]

Never. If anything, it only gets harder because now it's like, you got more going on.

[Ryan]

Yeah, if.

[Jake]

Yeah, we thought those were like, the most brutal days ever. The amount of moving parts now. Yeah. If you were to give us our job now, then, bro, you weren't prepared for it.

[Ben]

You weren't prepared for it. You can't just get thrown into it.

[Jake]

You'd be like, I. I don't know what to say do here. I remember. This is my favorite part. You remember we had the stampers that said, like, packaged by Ryan package.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. The reason why we that. The reason why we did that is because people were up on orders sending the wrong.

[Mike]

That's fair.

[Ben]

And it was cool though, because when you stamp that, then they're like, wow. Like, Ben packaged my order.

[Ryan]

It is so cool that it still comes out of our shopping.

[Ben]

It does. Ken's touching the orders.

[Ryan]

85 of that.

[Ben]

Them touching them with, you know, the wrong way.

[Ken]

A lot of products we're moving through.

[Ryan]

No, dude, it is.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean, it is. It is cool. We could have outsourced that a long time ago. And the fact that we did, we did outsource it.

[CJ]

We brought it back in house.

[Mike]

Heard that. Yeah. It's like it's all going through the shop and it's just incredible.

[CJ]

That's cool.

[Mike]

Ken. You're killing it. For real. You can manages.

[Ben]

Yeah, Ken's got a lot of load on them. Honestly, I was thinking about that. I mean, everyone's got their own, you know, area that they take it on. But yeah, no, Ken, great job, man. Great job.

[Mike]

Or I think every. Yeah, everyone takes on the same amount of stress and load, give or take, but in completely different areas. Like if I tried to do what Ken does and go like send out orders and get everything rolling it.

[Jake]

I have a conniption.

[Mike]

No one would get any. Whatever that means.

[Jake]

Sounds bad.

[Ken]

Some days I want to throw my head in a blender and other days it's fine.

[Mike]

And other days you're. Yeah, yeah, it's awesome.

[Jake]

I will say one thing that you were always good at back then and just recently you proved it still. You still are. Today. Ben was so good at like pushing buttons and getting me to do stuff to where I would be like, oh, I can do that. I'll prove him wrong. The other day he like, there was a Costco sized pie. He's like, you can't eat the whole thing. I'm like, gosh, yeah, I can. I totally can.

[CJ]

Well, this is. No, you said, oh, my God, I love pumpkin pie. I bet I could eat that whole thing. And me being realistic, I said, no.

[Mike]

You can't do it.

[CJ]

No, I just said. I just said, you can't do that because it is humanly impossible.

[Jake]

And I didn't want to, but then you twisted a little bit and you kept going. You're like, just do it. Just do it. Just try.

[CJ]

Just try.

[Jake]

I'll give you 100 bucks.

[Ben]

I said, I'll give you 100 bucks.

[CJ]

And he said, no, it's not worth it. I said, all right, how about this? I'll give you 300 bucks if you do it. But if you fail, you have to send me the very first video that you made with. With your producer. Oh, my God. You have it, dude. Yes.

[Ryan]

I want to watch. It was the craziest bet ever.

[Ben]

No, that's an amazing.

[Jake]

We went back to just the hundred dollars.

[Ryan]

But I tell you what I was looking at. That pie had a slice. At Thanksgiving dinner, there's no way I could eat more than two slices.

[Jake]

Do you guys think I did three quarters?

[CJ]

Yeah, you probably did roughly three quarters of a pumpkin pie. That was an excel.

[Jake]

And then through 6, 000 calories. Was 6, 000 calories. You guys.

[Ken]

Dude, you didn't, like, throw up nearly that much, dude.

[Jake]

But when I did, it was like whole pieces.

[Ken]

Because you had no liquid in your stomach. It was.

[Ryan]

It wasn't a good consistency. And then I was eating it, thinking about you throwing it up, and it ruined it for me.

[Jake]

Yeah, you're welcome. Guess what had Thanksgiving. There was pumpkin pie and apple. Apple. It was. Yeah, dude, I couldn't do it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

How did you feel after that?

[Jake]

You guys don't understand. I was laying in bed. I was up till maybe 3am in. In literal pain. Like, I was laying flat out. My stomach looked like it had a. Like a basketball in it.

[Ben]

Why do you do that?

[CJ]

Because I told you that was gonna happen.

[Jake]

He made me do it.

[Ben]

No, he didn't make you do it. He just.

[CJ]

I just said, you can't do it because it's not humanly possible.

[Jake]

Right? And I'm like, you're right. And then you go, but I'll give you 100 bucks if you try. Still said no. And then you're like, how about 300? And then.

[Ben]

Oh, okay. Well, that. That tells me a little bit of a benefit. I didn't know.

[CJ]

It's not like I made you do it. It was good, clean bet. Yeah, but if you would have successfully done it, I would have given you the hundred dollars.

[Jake]

I know. And I didn't.

[Ben]

There is a lot of betting going around here. That's how it goes.

[Jake]

I dead ass think if it ever happens again. But when I was at, like, my peak eating element, just chubby as all af. I think I could have finished days.

[Mike]

Yeah. No way.

[Ben]

That reminds me, at our 1 million party when Evan was here and he was saying we had this whole thing of coleslaw. And he was like, that's right. Saying he thinks he could eat the whole thing. And I was like, there's no chance you could.

[CJ]

It's the same situation.

[Ben]

And then it was like every. Everyone chipped in money. It was like a thousand bucks if he could eat this whole thing of coleslaw. And he ate like maybe a 1/10, 2/10 of it and then threw up all over.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

As we expected, that was before he was even here.

[Ryan]

Remember when you tried to eat the roadhouse burger? My dad was talking about that because I brought it up at Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah. Jake tried to eat this whole pie by himself. And he goes, didn't he try to eat the burger challenge at the local bar? And I was like, yep, he did.

[CJ]

Do they still do that?

[Jake]

No, they don't. But they used to have a. This would have been so legendary. So there used to be. At our, like, local bar, there was a giant plaque on the wall. And they called it the Roadhouse burger. It was two pounds of meat, a patty the size of a plate. So it was patty, lettuce, tomato, onion rings, burger patties, patty, lettuce, tomatoes, and.

[Mike]

A pound of fries.

[Jake]

Yeah, it was. It was basically a Big Mac, but made into pound patties in between.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Jake]

And then there was like a whole heaping plate of fries.

[Ben]

Two pounds of meat. That's a ton of meat.

[Jake]

And I wanted my name up there.

[Ryan]

That's so bad.

[Jake]

And like, one day I went in and I'm like, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna order it. And he's like, no, sorry, it's done.

[Mike]

Basically, like, in my experience of bets being made on. I bet you can't eat all of this. It almost never gets accomplished.

[Ben]

There's just no winning. Like, yeah, you'll get the money, which I guess is the win. But then it's like, yeah, Aftermath, dude.

[CJ]

You're just like, leave a comment down below. What? Either you or one of your buddies, like, the craziest eating challenge that you've ever done.

[Jake]

I would love to know. Like, I bet you there's been some gnarly stuff.

[Ben]

I wonder if the blazing wings would still be crazy hot for us. They are.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ben]

Yeah, they'd have to be, obviously very hot.

[CJ]

I ate one day and I was like, damn, this is like.

[Ben]

So are you still eating hot stuff after your appendix? Or did you quit cuz. Cuz you and Me are on a. I mean I still am. I love like hot stuff. Like very hot, like spicy whatever. Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean between the appendix and then I. I got this disease. It's called sibo. After the. My appendix surgery, which was too.

[Ben]

Sibo tus.

[CJ]

So between. Between my surgery and then sibo.

[Ryan]

That's so damn close. Like three letters away. That's bananas. I'm sorry, what is it?

[Ben]

I. I don't make fun of his disease.

[CJ]

Yeah, you're right.

[Ben]

It's.

[CJ]

It stands for small intestine bacteria overgrowth. It's common after like stomach surgeries.

[Mike]

Oh, okay.

[CJ]

And good.

[Ryan]

So it's.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So like I like went on like a super shitty diet. Like I quit drinking besides for Vegas, but quit drinking for like two months. Shitty ass diet where it's just a carnivore diet. Like literally just steak and eggs. Lost like 10 or 15 pounds doing it.

[Ben]

Nice.

[CJ]

Still feel like I cut out spice and. And I don't know if I could like go back to it the. Obviously the level that I was at before. But like every single thing I ate up until my appendix surgery had hot sauce on it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Every single thing that shouldn't have hot sauce on it.

[Ben]

You put on everything. The reason why I ask is because Justin was like us for the longest time and we were all like. All three of us put hot sauce on everything. Justin was really on a kick. He'd bring the hot sauce to a restaurant, like.

[CJ]

Yeah, like a little lunchbox.

[Ben]

Yeah. Then his appendix burst. So like that's the only thing. I mean, I don't know if there's really any correlation, but from the. My experience with my surroundings of appendix burst people that it. Maybe it might be connection to hot sauce sauce and putting it on everything.

[CJ]

They don't say. They don't say that it is.

[Mike]

But they.

[CJ]

They don't have enough proof.

[Ben]

How do you prove that?

[Ryan]

Yeah, they don't say it's connected to anything.

[Ben]

So it makes me a little worried. I'm like, man, maybe I should dial it back on the hot sauce.

[CJ]

I think.

[Ben]

I think when you get so hot with it, it's just not good for you. But it's almost like an addiction, you know, like your tolerance gets a little more and you kind of get addicted to that. That feeling of like totally, you know, like totally. And because I used to hate it, but now it's like you just kind of always want to up it a little bit.

[Jake]

Speaking of random Amazon purchases, I ordered the hobby.

[CJ]

Speaking of that.

[Jake]

But. No, but we were last Podcast. So if you didn't like watch that, go watch and you'll know what we're talking about.

[Ben]

You know, remember a year ago we were talking about Amazon?

[Jake]

So speaking of that, you know, recently I just grouped like the last 10 years of our relationship. I ordered the hot ones challenge and I want to like do it with a group of you guys. It's all 10 of them.

[Ben]

We should do that on like a pod.

[Jake]

Yeah, I think next time I. Come on, I'll bring it. I have all of them and like I opened the last one and it smells like death.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Is it because it's a.

[Jake]

What's the bomb?

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, dude, we used to eat.

[Jake]

The bomb all the time around. Yeah. So do you guys think. Do you remember 357 that my dad bought? Do you think the bomb is worse than that or you think 350. 357.

[Ben]

There's a point when it's uneatable, though. Like, it's not even.

[Jake]

We could just still do it.

[Mike]

I think. No, I think doing. Next time you're on the pod, let's do. We'll do a little hot wings lineup.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[CJ]

The worst video bit that we've ever filmed today, everyone will agree with this. Worst one.

[Mike]

That made it to air.

[CJ]

Yeah, that made it to air. There's been several things that have never made it to air.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Jake]

So for a reason.

[CJ]

This one was. It was probably just a like cold ass winter and we were just trying to think of one more bit to put in a video. And we were like, what if we did like hot ones but with our girlfriends? And then the winner. Yeah, the winner got 500 bucks.

[Mike]

We never thought about what the, like, how old it would take to win. Besides one person making it to the end.

[CJ]

They were nail. So, like, we're doing this Hot ones and we're putting, we're putting like little dabbles on it. And each one had to get bigger and bigger. And like the first one they were crying at, but they were like, next one, we're like, okay, hotter one.

[Ben]

Oh my God, I hate you guys so much.

[CJ]

Like, they were like, actually it was bad. Like, livid at us. We were like, yo, I personally don't.

[Ben]

Like, they were in it, man. Like, I don't think they took it as hard as we. We just felt bad about it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't think the girls are that.

[CJ]

Hard to watch because they were like all like crying at the end, but they still wouldn't like quit.

[Jake]

Who won?

[Ben]

Well, when you eat a lot of hot Sauce. Your eyes do start to water. We've had a lot of. We've had a lot of bad bits, though. I mean, I. I oftentimes sometimes think I'm like. Like, why did we even add that? We would have been better off just not even doing anything and just cutting it short. Like, I look at. Even at the armpit waxing, and maybe you guys feel the indifferent about it, but. Or the audience, but I'm like, man, maybe we would have been better off not doing anything. I don't know.

[Ryan]

It's tough. You got to have some L's to get some good W's. Yeah, it's all part of the.

[Ben]

I've got a lot of Ls.

[Mike]

You were talking about earlier. How do we do bigger and better? I know you didn't say it quite like that. And because it's not really about that. Like, our last video, the Glamis sand dunes, like, such a killer. Just idea executed. Had a good time doing it and then switched to Ken Dating.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It's not always bigger and better. It's just like pushing ourselves in different directions. And that was a good example.

[Ben]

You look at the comment section on that, there's, like, almost nothing about the.

[Mike]

Snowmobile because there were so nothing taken off guard by what we created.

[Ben]

I know. And then it makes me wonder. I'm like, damn, we could have even done the snowmobiles as its own thing and we could have done the dating thing as its own thing.

[CJ]

Think how much money you could have. But, yeah, it's a better video. Yeah. Unlike every other YouTuber that would just put them into one or into. Into several ones.

[Ben]

Or we could have done other stuff in the back end. But. But yeah, no, it is interesting, though, like. Like, that's a very good point, Mike, where you say do bigger stuff. Like, yeah, we could go take a, you know, whatever to water, skip, whatever, or do whatever the hell we're doing. And then it's like the little ones. And normally what people end up talking about is that. Is that just basic thing? That is just funny, dude, the amount.

[CJ]

Of people that come up to us and go, the best thing you guys have ever done is the boat ramp.

[Ben]

Yeah, dude, my hairdresser was just telling me that the other day.

[CJ]

I get that, like, at least three times a week.

[Ben]

And that was crazy because, like, we went in there and it was kind of like, damn, I don't know how this is gonna go. And then we did it, right?

[CJ]

Like, yeah, it was.

[Ben]

It was pretty good. And then it got chopped up and then that's when the magic came to it. Because then it was like, so quick and, like, just the best parts. And.

[CJ]

Yeah, I remember starting to edit, and.

[Ben]

I'm like, oh, this is gonna suck.

[CJ]

This is. You know, and then it gets a little bit better and a little bit. And C.J. comes in. He's like, how's it going? Because he knew kind of how it started. I was like, bro, this is. This is good.

[Ben]

Really? Yeah, bro.

[CJ]

As you were crying, dude, that's when.

[Ben]

You know it's good. Is when Ben and I watch it back and whoever. Whoever's typically editing it, you know, whatever part. So maybe Ben edit or me. And then you don't. You'll never really know. You're kind of like, I think this is funny. And then when one of us comes in and we're sitting there and we watch it back together, pretty soon we're both in tears, and I'm like, damn, this is a bang. This is a banger. This one's gonna hit.

[Ryan]

And that's how the rest of us can tell if a video is funny, is if. I mean, they're all funny in their way, but if something really is standing out, it's because you two. You'll just hear cackling from each other's offices, echoing through the shop.

[Mike]

Like when you guys get together and laugh, like, okay, cool. But when you're just both. When you're in your offices laughing out loud, I literally. I mean, if I'm downstairs, I'm like, nice.

[Ryan]

Can't wait to watch.

[Jake]

It's gonna feel good when you guys film Ken's bit and you're editing. And you were editing it. I was eating the pie downstairs, and I literally, every 30 seconds, would hear C.J. busting a gut. And at that moment, I knew. I'm like, I am so excited to watch this because he is losing it up there alone.

[Ben]

Should we put one little bit of just one bad part? Like one of the crazy, like, kind of awkward parts? We'll cut one of those moments into this, but it's just one. And it's gonna be like one of the lower end bad parts that still couldn't go on the main channel.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. Something that could.

[Ben]

We have. We have an older audience that watches on YouTube.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jake]

To maybe show on the podcast the.

[Ben]

Degree of how raunchy like, this will be the most. Minimum.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there was much worse.

[CJ]

Which one?

[Mike]

So now that we kind of got the normal formalities out of the way, what do you think of, like, bdsm? And stuff like that.

[Jake]

I think it's fun.

[Mike]

Do you think it's fun?

[CJ]

So do I.

[Ben]

No, I was just curious.

[Mike]

I was wondering also, how tall are you?

[Ken]

I'm six three.

[Mike]

You're six three.

[Ken]

How tall are you?

[Mike]

I am five six.

[Ken]

So you would love to be, like, a little submissive?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. I love being dominated. Yeah, it's fun.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Mike]

I have horrible ankles because I was a gymnast for eight years, so I am flexible, which helps with my BDSM activities.

[CJ]

But. Yeah, Well, I mean, Ken's still on the market, so maybe we're just.

[Ben]

Yeah, we did a bad job. We did a bad job.

[CJ]

We clearly didn't get the right one.

[Ben]

We didn't set it up for success.

[Jake]

Double Ken. I think this is what you guys should do. You need to keep going until you find him his woman, and then you get your next candidate.

[Ben]

Imagine actually marries this woman. And then we're like, yep, we set him up all in a YouTube video. It's all on camera.

[Mike]

That seems like a lot of work, Jake.

[Jake]

I think you guys can get it done.

[Mike]

I think after 39 episodes, I'd start to get a little anxious to get someone else on.

[Jake]

Tell you what, you give me the first girl, my episode's done.

[Ben]

Jake doesn't even see all, you're going home with me. But with Jake's episode, there's just, like, all not good looking.

[Jake]

He's like, what the hell is this, you guys? I don't know.

[CJ]

That'd be funny anymore.

[Ben]

They're just like old ladies.

[Jake]

F350s.

[Ken]

Sorry.

[Jake]

Okay, before we end it, I just had to tell you something really funny that came to my mind. So I was watching YouTube the other day, and you know how, like, when the videos keep going, it'll just keep pulling up recommended?

[CJ]

Sure, yeah.

[Jake]

I'm sitting in the shop and the TVs playing in the background. Do you know what video comes up? Up.

[Ben]

What?

[Jake]

Banging TV. When me and you made one video, it has 20, 000 views. And it's just.

[Ben]

That's actually kind of crazy. Yeah, it's hidden too.

[Jake]

Yeah, it literally just played. And it's like, yo, what up? And I'm like, is that me? And all of a sudden, it's me and CJ screaming into a webcam.

[Ben]

Yeah, just low quality. It was like a hidden vid.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Crazy.

[Ben]

I was afraid someone else would take banging TV and that maybe, you know, someday you or us would want that. So I was like, well, I'm gonna, like, lock that down. Just so they don't know.

[CJ]

Are you leaving the whole banging name?

[Jake]

I don't know if I'm leaving it.

[Ben]

But, like, yeah, if you want banging tv, you can. I mean, I got the password. I don't log in, like, in my phone from 2017.

[CJ]

Do you still like to stick with, like, Sherby Bangin? I guess. As you're.

[Jake]

I've always thought about it. Every time I open my Instagram, I'm like, when do I change this?

[CJ]

Here's what I do.

[Mike]

Like, here's what I do. Like, which is where I kind of felt like you were at after the whole fiasco with your manager and everything. Sherby banging 69 is. And in my opinion, should always be your Instagram name.

[Jake]

See, this the thing.

[CJ]

Other than that, I don't think that you're, like, bound to that, though.

[Jake]

No.

[CJ]

Like, if you're worried, like, that's my thing. Like, I don't think that's your thing. No. Anymore. Like, you're more than that.

[Jake]

I don't think so either. But, like, I just, like, OG thing. Yeah. Well, it's just like, the. The whole roots. Because it was a part of, like, a timeline in my life, you know, or like, that. That was. That was super sick, and it was super fun. And, like, the whole, like, banging thing, like, we had so much fun with that, and, like, we sold a ton of merch and stuff like that. And then, like, I think I've just kind of, like, moved on, you know, to the whole bums thing. And I don't think I'll. Maybe I'll make a special drop with, like, banging merch or whatever. But, like, I don't know. I think it's like, some people at events. Most people still, like, call me that, and I'm like, yeah, it's cool, you know, Like. Yeah, I've never. Yeah. You know.

[CJ]

Great. It still is a great.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You saying that does sound weird. Like, some people still call me that. Like, I mean, I know I don't call you that in person, but, like.

[Jake]

To me, this guy used to. Regardless. Like, I'm pretty sure you're the one that just forced everybody to call me because.

[Ben]

Yeah, because I thought it was a great slogan. Yeah.

[CJ]

And then it was.

[Ben]

The banging underwear was gonna come out.

[Jake]

I wore those yesterday.

[Ben]

That was gonna be fire.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Ken got robbed. You put in an order and never.

[Mike]

Got the money back of banging Designs and Arsenal.

[Ben]

Yeah, I just felt like you could put banging. I just felt like you could put banging on anything. That's why I was like, we gotta stick to this.

[Jake]

I mean, I maybe will do something special one day. You know, it's like one offs, like, for, like, the. The core audience and the OG viewers and stuff. But, like, I'm not. I'm not focused on it, but I.

[Ben]

Don'T want to put it to rest.

[CJ]

What's.

[Mike]

For the record, I think would kill, like, wait a. Wait a while.

[Jake]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Drop some og.

[Jake]

Yeah. Like just some way back in the day stuff. Or even, like, just some, like, OG designs, even, or What? Because, you know, I trade. Even though you made them. I trademarked them, so I can do that. But no, I don't know. Yeah, I've thought about it. I'm like, I don't think there's a point at this point, point in time, a reason. Like, I don't care. Like, I. Like, a lot of people still call me it, and it is what it is, you know?

[Ben]

And then you could be a lot worse.

[CJ]

What about, like, Sherby Jerkin?

[Ben]

Yeah. Hey, jerking.

[CJ]

That's his new thing.

[Ben]

Jerking. Don't trademark that.

[Jake]

I'm gonna start making jerking.

[Mike]

Jerking merch, dude, I love that. I mean. Or. Okay, so people used to call you banging, but now it's like.

[Ben]

Now they just call you Shipbird Jake.

[Jake]

Yeah, no, see, that just doesn't happen. You know, what's funny is not on.

[Mike]

Your name, but, like, it doesn't hit as hard.

[CJ]

I mean, it's like, you know, it's not as bad as a Ryan.

[Jake]

Yeah, that name blows.

[Mike]

I can't even let you disrespect me.

[CJ]

I know. I'm just kidding. I love making.

[Jake]

I will say Ryan did make it on top 10 worst, worst names. Look it up.

[Ryan]

Where?

[Jake]

Dude, who wrote that? Look it up right now. Top 10 worst white boy names.

[CJ]

There's no way.

[Ben]

Dude, it must have had to been, like, Chad. Their reputation, obviously.

[Ryan]

Ryan Reynolds.

[Mike]

I'm super curious.

[Jake]

Yeah, look it up.

[Ken]

There's worse ones.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Jake]

Yeah, yeah, but he's on the list.

[Ryan]

I didn't think. Right?

[Mike]

Hey, I didn't think. Number one.

[Ken]

It's actually not even close.

[Jake]

What. What number is he?

[Ken]

It doesn't even pop up on the top 100.

[Mike]

There's.

[Ken]

There's Satan, Adolf, Osama, Elmo.

[CJ]

Normal. All right.

[Ken]

Ian. Which.

[CJ]

Is what?

[Mike]

My boy Ian. Sorry.

[CJ]

That bad of a name.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's not that bad.

[CJ]

All right, let's wrap.

[Jake]

Thank you, guys, for having me. This is always a blast. Hope to come back again.

[Ben]

Check out Jake's YouTube channel. Jake Sherbrooke.

[CJ]

Thank you guys.

[Ben]

New shades, Bums, eyewear.

[Ryan]

Yeah, baby.

[Jake]

And I'm gonna be a driver one day.

[Ben]

We're gonna go play some darts.

[CJ]

Give up on your dreams, Jake.

[Ryan]

Thanks for hanging out.