Our $400k Shop Remodel Revealed

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Our $400k Shop Remodel Revealed"

Podcast: Life Wide Open with CboysTV
Date: April 2, 2024
Hosts: CJ (Ryan), Ben, Ken, Mike, plus mentions of Evan and Micah

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew reveals details about their massive $400k shop remodel—discussing the processes, business sacrifices, and lessons learned along the way. The conversation winds through car culture (from Subarus to Hummers), business realities, personal life hacks, drifting, fashion trends, and even favorite beverages. True to their signature style, the Cboys blend honest insight, good-natured ribbing, and the behind-the-scenes camaraderie that fans love.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Detroit Trip & Car Culture

• The trio (Ryan, Ben, Ken) discuss their recent trip to Detroit, notably traveling with $75,000 in cash.
  • Quote [00:26] Ryan: “The craziest part was that we had $75,000 in cash in a backpack...everywhere we walked, I just kept it on me.”
• Observations about Detroit’s mix of industrial might (Ford factory) and abandoned neighborhoods.
• Zillow findings: Houses for “a couple thousand dollars to like a couple hundred dollars,” but it’s a cycle of buy-bulldoze-rebuild.
• Reflections on Motor City reigniting a passion for cars, and Cboys' own car builds.

2. Mike’s Subaru Build

• Mike's project Subaru journey: Bought for $10k, now at least $36k invested—new coilovers, fender flares, repaint, carbon parts.
  • Quote [04:10] Mike: “Probably another like 20K into it now...but it's going to be a hell of a Subaru.”
  • Quote [05:13] Ken: “Guys be like over 50k invested and they got the poor thing listed for like 18 grand.”

3. Modifying Cars & The Electric Dilemma

• Discussion of the declining thrill in modding electric cars—modifying is mostly software-based and not as tactile or satisfying.
• Electric rental cars: Ben’s story about being given an electric Kia against his preference.
  • Quote [08:06] Ryan: "It's just so tough to look cool in an electric car, in my opinion."
• Reflections on owning unique vehicles like an electric Hummer or older H2.

4. Superchargers vs Turbos

• Debate on which is cooler/better in performance vehicles: turbos have a “better sound” and are preferred for serious builds.
  • Quote [13:33] Ken: “I’ve owned three supercharged cars, and they just...A turbo sounds better. It does.”

5. Social Media & Outlaw Culture

• Discussion of a viral Instagram account where a driver posts videos fleeing police in a stolen Z06 Corvette.
  • Quote [14:45] Ken: "All he posts is just videos of him outrunning the cops and like toying with the cops on his Instagram. How do you get away with that? Dang."
• Parallels to legendary internet outlaws like Europe’s “Ghost Rider.”

6. New Builds & $400k Shop Remodel

• Big reveal: The Cboys' new “farm”/shop cost $400,000 to remodel.
  • Quote [27:19] Ryan]: "It was a $400,000 remodel process. It was insane."
• Sacrifices made—personal pay-pauses, reinvesting earnings, and previous struggles as business owners.
  • Quote [27:44] Ryan]: "For like three months, we just haven't been paid."
• Lessons in business ownership: Prepare for sacrifices, recurring reinvestment, and the lack of immediate luxury.

7. Chasing Style and the Fashion Gap

• Playful self-deprecation about lacking “swag,” compared to their younger team member Dalton who schools them on trends like short inseams and chains.
  • Quote [31:09] Ryan: “Guess how much this chain costs?...It was 14. 14 and my girlfriend bought it for me.”
• Trends in shorts and hats come and go; speculation on the cyclical nature of style.

8. Automating Life & Taking Shortcuts

• Ken gets called “master of finding the easiest way” and is applauded/roasted for his life automations (motorized shades, self-driving cars).
• Reflections on how personal routine gets more streamlined over time.

9. On Alcohol, Being Sober, and Coffee

• Mike embarks on two weeks alcohol-free as a challenge. The group reflects on their changing drinking habits, appreciating coffee as a daily comfort.
  • Quote [44:02] Mike: “Sydney just didn’t think that I could do two weeks. And I was like, I think I can.”
• Brief research on coffee’s purported health benefits (with a wink toward internet science).

10. Drifting & T-Pain in Motorsports

• Mike celebrates musician T-Pain’s surprising skill and participation in drift competitions.
  • Quote [51:51] Mike: “At this point, he’s just doing side quests...I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
• Discussion of learning to drift: It’s easier than it looks if you have the right equipment, but mastering it is a different beast.
  • Quote [52:35] Mike:] “If you have the proper car, is drifting that hard? No.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [00:26] Ryan: "The craziest part was, was that we had $75,000 in cash in a backpack."
• [04:10] Mike: "Probably another like 20K into it now...but it's going to be a hell of a Subaru."
• [13:33] Ken: "I’ve owned three supercharged cars, and they just...A turbo sounds better. It does."
• [14:45] Ken: "All he posts is just videos of him outrunning the cops...How do you get away with that? Dang."
• [27:19] Ryan]: "It was a $400,000 remodel process. It was insane."
• [27:44] Ryan]: "For like three months, we just haven't been paid."
• [31:09] Ryan: “Guess how much this chain costs?...It was 14. 14 and my girlfriend bought it for me.”
• [44:02] Mike: “Sydney just didn’t think that I could do two weeks. And I was like, I think I can.”
• [51:51] Mike: “At this point, he’s just doing side quests...I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
• [52:35] Mike:] “If you have the proper car, is drifting that hard? No.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:26 – Detroit trip: carrying $75K in cash, city impressions
• 03:10 – 05:55 – Mike’s Subaru build, costs, restoration philosophy
• 07:07 – 09:02 – Car modding: electric cars, rental mishaps
• 13:08 – 14:06 – Supercharger vs Turbo debate
• 14:45 – 18:50 – Stolen Z06 viral account, outlaw culture
• 24:24 – 27:19 – Shop/farm remodel reveal, $400k cost
• 27:44 – 28:44 – Sacrifices made, business ownership struggles
• 30:01 – 34:41 – Fashion, chains, and trends
• 35:27 – 37:50 – Automation in daily life, Ken’s shortcuts
• 43:53 – 46:24 – Sober challenge, drinking habits, and coffee love
• 51:12 – 53:24 – Drifting discussion, T-Pain’s drift career
• 55:01 – 58:29 – Project car mishaps, the value of "beater" drift cars

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Tone and Takeaways

In classic CboysTV fashion, the episode pursues a light-hearted, candid dialogue that blends humor, friendly teasing, and authentic advice. Their commentary manages to combine practical knowledge (from business and car building) with self-aware jokes about privilege and priorities. The shop remodel saga becomes a metaphor for their group’s ongoing journey: taking risks, staying scrappy, and always investing in what comes next.

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Summary by Segment

• Cars, builds, and car culture: From Mike’s ever-escalating Subaru build to reminiscing about Detroit and debating old vs. new Hummers, the Cboys’ love of custom rides is always at the center.
• Behind the business: The $400k remodel, the sacrifices made, and the constant balance of reinvestment highlight the realities behind their YouTube success.
• Pop culture and personal lives: They riff on everything from fashion trends to YouTube outlaws, side quests like T-Pain’s drifting career, and working with young, style-savvy colleagues.
• Life lessons: The importance of automation, work-life hacks, health trends (caffeine, sobriety), and the willingness to laugh at themselves.

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Final Note:
For listeners who’ve missed the episode, this summary captures the essential CboysTV blend: gearhead adventures, small-town business hustle, plenty of self-deprecation, and real insight into the highs and lows of their world.

Transcript

[Ken]

We got Ken on the table today, dude.

[Ryan]

Not going to be able to just kind of hide back there now.

[Ben]

Can not going to be behind just an absolute wall of equipment.

[Ken]

You have said that you do feel like. Yeah, I'm excited. Dude. Get that Ben guy out of here. We just took a flight to Detroit. Lovely city. God, yeah.

[Ryan]

We went beautiful past 8 mile, where Eminem grew up.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ken]

Yeah. It's like a road. It's like driving across University. It's like eight Mile Road.

[Ryan]

The craziest part was, was that we had $75,000 in cash in a backpack. It's just me, Ryan and Ben in a rental car. Tough place to be, you know, basically everywhere we walked, I just kept it on me because I didn't know if the car was gonna get broken into or.

[Ben]

Yeah, you put the backpack, like, forwards.

[Ryan]

No, I just walked around normal, just with the backpack. Luckily, we don't look like high rollers or anything. Not that we are, but we didn't look like we'd have 75.

[Mike]

Yeah, I would not have left it in the car either.

[Ryan]

So anyways, yeah, that was interesting. Seeing Detroit city. Nice place, though. We had not one bad encounter, but we were told not to go Certain, you know, you go down the wrong street, basically. It's like the movies is how the locals that we were hanging with described it. Like, if you went down the wrong street, they'll do, like, the bird call and shit. And, like, they'll, like, hold you up. And there's been some horrible things that happen to people if they went down the wrong neighborhood, you know, took a wrong turn.

[Ken]

I got to imagine it's probably more if you're not supposed to be in that neighborhood.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Like, I have a hard time believing, like, Granny and Granny, Grammy and Grandpa could take a wrong turn and they're.

[Ryan]

Like, nice, get them.

[Ken]

They're driving a 2011 Buick. Like, let's hold them up, you know?

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's true, but I. I mean, apparently the cops don't even go to those neighborhoods. But it was interesting because we go past the Ford factory. It was massive, massive, massive. Like, I can't even describe how big it was. And then there's all these abandoned houses, like, everywhere. It was just really interesting. It was. It was such a strange city. And then, like, we couldn't find food half the time. It was. It was a lot of houses.

[Ben]

Do you guys ever, like, look on Zillow, See how much those houses cost?

[Ryan]

They're like, nothing.

[Ben]

But I looked on Zillow and it was like, Just a couple thousand dollars to like a couple hundred dollars.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. So you buy the homes. What, what people are doing out there is they buy like the whole neighborhood, bulldoze it, build new ones. People come. It's just a repeating cycle. These then the, you know, houses that are old, they just get abandoned and another guy does it and just repeats like that. But yeah, it was cool being in, in Motor City, you know, kind of reignited my love for cars.

[Mike]

You lost it, huh?

[Ryan]

No, but, you know, you just kind of forget about it when you're in the winter and you're just driving a stock pickup around like myself, which I don't know if you guys saw, but Post Malone made a hat and he had my truck on it. He had my truck. It's actually that famous of a build. Might have to bring it to sema.

[Mike]

I love it because it's like, I look at it and go like, what does that mean? That's just a stock Ford Raptor on. I was in Post Malone.

[Ryan]

Well, the dude, the dude understands a good looking truck and I'm not surprised he's a car guy. But yeah, I've been kind of itching to get the Jeter out. And it made me wonder, Mike, how's your Subaru going, man?

[Mike]

It's going good.

[Ryan]

Kind of forgot you even own that thing.

[Mike]

Yeah, it basically is just like if you guys have ever been to like a bonfire and it gets good the more wood you put into it. That's how mine is, but with money, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, dude, you're gonna have a hell of a Subaru.

[Mike]

No, dude, I actually, I have like a list of the parts I put on it, but like I crashed it. But there's. There was some rust. I was like, yeah, let's fix the rust.

[Ken]

Yeah, I mean, once you start, where do you stop?

[Mike]

You know, Blew out like two of the coilovers, so I got like kw. So if you guys know about that, like the best ones. And then I'm like having the fender flares like blended into the body.

[Ryan]

God.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Ben]

That's how deep into this thing are you?

[Ryan]

Balls. So you bought, you bought this vehicle for 10,000. I remember 10,000, which is a fantastic deal.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But then how much do you think you have in it now? You got to have four Subarus. You could have bought the car four times over.

[Mike]

16K into the STI, swap among a.

[Ken]

Few other cars, what, like two years ago?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Okay.

[Mike]

And then probably another like 20K into it now.

[Ryan]

So almost five times over. But it's going to be a hell of a Subaru.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's a rare one though.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's one of the most rare Subarus in my opinion.

[Mike]

I'm so excited. Yeah, like new arms, new control arms, new hubs, everything. New headlights, new tail lights. Yeah. Repainted.

[Ken]

I was gonna ask if you repainted it.

[Mike]

Carbon fiber front lip, side skirts, rear diffuser, front splitter, new intercooler.

[Ryan]

Jesus.

[Ken]

The whole everything, everything.

[Mike]

New timing belt, new timing belt cover. New. I want equal length exhaust which you know, kind of defeats the whole Subaru rumble, but makes it sound more race car. So it's just. Yeah, I got some help from some sponsors and make some money on Snapchat now. So.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Spam and Snapchat.

[Mike]

Yeah. No, it's, it's going to be like, like I said, I'm going to give it to my kids, but yeah, it's like forever now.

[Ryan]

You really, you could list it for sale. 60 grand. 2002 Subaru.

[Mike]

Yeah. It probably as it sits once it's done is maybe worth 25.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's like one of those guys be like over 50k invested and they got the poor thing listed for like 18 grand. Toug was tough, but I had it twisted. I thought for some reason your neighbor was doing it in his garage.

[Ryan]

Oh man.

[Ken]

And then like I was like, oh, that's good. He found like a guy, you know, kind of just to just get her, get her back on the road. And then I started hearing about all the stuff you're doing to it. I'm like, oh, this is quite the neighborhood project.

[Mike]

Yeah. Yeah. But no, it's my neighbor, he works at a fab restoration shop. This is him and like his boss Corey. Shout out Corey's customs there.

[Ken]

Oh, so he is still working on it.

[Mike]

Yeah, like, but it is interesting. There's so many things that I probably could have got away with not doing and just doing myself. Like I could put the intercooler on myself. However it's in the shop and it's.

[Ben]

Like there they have the whole thing torn apart.

[Mike]

Yeah. So it's like there is, is something worth, you know, there's so many parts I've always wanted on the car that like I, I gotta, you know, take a random Wednesday night all night to put it on just to get the intercooler on.

[Ken]

So just have the professionals do it.

[Ryan]

Fun to do. Honestly, I'm planning on putting some parts on the Evo. I, I just had them for years that I just have sitting in a box now that we got the saying, it's fun to do. Yeah, it's fun putting it on. When you're just doing it by yourself though. Like you're not even like doing it for a video because you don't have like this pressure of like, like you got everyone here, you got a camera guy and you're like, I feel like bad. You know, you want to go, you can kind of just chill and do it. Especially when you got a two post lift. That's a luxury.

[Ken]

I think it's fun when you want to do it. Yeah, like it like putting the lights in my truck when I want to do it. It was really fun. But then I kind of got sick of it and then it was like the worst thing ever. I'm just like, it's not going over with.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. Or you don't have time. But isn't it weird thinking so going, you know, everything's kind of going electric when it comes to modifying the cars. Like you can't really buy parts, you.

[Ken]

Just make them lighter.

[Ryan]

It's like you just basically. Yeah, like visually or like obviously with the chassis or suspension but like in terms of like increasing power, you just reflash it basically.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's all software.

[Ryan]

You just. Yeah, but that's not that exciting.

[Ken]

Can you unlock your Tesla to make it faster?

[Ben]

No, like as far as I know, like if you do anything to like the software or the parts, like you're just, you just break it. Like really becomes like nothing.

[Ryan]

Can they bring it back?

[Ben]

I'd assume if you bring it to a Tesla person, they can probably fix it. But like what are you gonna do? Like you have to swap out a computer.

[Ryan]

Elon's got that shit on lock. Honestly though, like there's like, I don't look at the Teslas and be like, I wish they made noise. Like, no offense to the Tesla owners, but they're not like the, like, I don't look at it and think like, that's a hot rod. And I think that there's something cool about the cybertruck being so odd. That's definitely the coolest Tesla.

[Ben]

I had that rental Kia down in Utah and it made noise. Like there's a speaker that made noise when you're driving it. And it was the most annoying thing.

[Ryan]

I like, it's just so tough to look cool in an electric car, in my opinion. But Ken, I still am torn on that. I. I just find it very hard to believe that you just showed up and they go, hey, this is the car we're Giving you an electric Kia. You had to have chosen that.

[Ben]

No, it said manager special. Could be gas or electric. And there was like no cars left.

[Ryan]

No chance that they just send someone, hey, you're getting an electric vehicle. Cuz that would be such a pain for anyone. Which it was running out of battery.

[Ben]

The whole time I was looking online. It hurts. Just does that. And it's the shittiest thing ever.

[Ryan]

Imagine doing that to like a. My grandpa Ron. Yeah, he would. I mean he would be able to do it, but he would be like, what the. I got learn a whole new thing.

[Mike]

But it kind of goes.

[Ryan]

Where do I go? Like all this.

[Mike]

It goes back to what you just said. Like there's a lot of electric vehicles out there now. So like, I don't know, man. You know, before, if, if they would have put them in a tent, it.

[Ben]

It sucked. And it was the. I compl. I sent an email to Herz. I was like, this is the stupidest thing you can do. Like if, if.

[Ken]

If I got made fun of publicly.

[Ben]

If somebody wants an electric car, they should specifically say, I want an electric car. But if you're going for like just the. The cheapest manager special, just give me what you give me. That should not be like electric cars should not be on that.

[Ryan]

Can I see this email, Ken?

[Mike]

It should be a freaking.

[Ryan]

Can I see this?

[Ben]

It was like a. A response form thing.

[Mike]

Give me.

[Ryan]

You know, I'm just not buying.

[Ben]

It was like, hey, how was your rental? Give us your feedback.

[Mike]

Fine.

[Ryan]

That you were like, I'm going to try a new Elect Ev out, you know.

[Mike]

Yeah, you're gonna try Tesla. I just think it's. It's saying a lot that he owns. Has owned multiple Teslas and drove an electric car and is now on it. He's saying he does.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude. I've been saying because like I get a little flack from my electric Hummer for sure. Probably deserve it.

[Mike]

That's the thing.

[Ryan]

Like, no offense, like, I don't know.

[Mike]

If you do deserve it, but if.

[Ryan]

You forget, you even have got to.

[Ben]

Park in the corner of the parking.

[Ryan]

Lot and I just hide away kind of. You know why you forget sitting in.

[Mike]

The corner, dude, you know, I for you forget.

[Ryan]

Seriously.

[Mike]

Because yeah, it is. It's sitting in the corner. And when. When he takes off to drive home the TRX home. We know Ryan's going home or leaving.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we know.

[Ken]

Loud.

[Mike]

And when you leave in the Hummer, we don't know ever because you can't hear it. That's Probably a big reason of it. The edit that don't made was pretty fire.

[Ken]

So whenever I get a bunch of flack on it I always go like, oh, I'm not a save the planet electric guy. I just like it because of the power and it's cool. And now I finally come to a conclusion. Stradman and I actually did that if it came with the supercharged V8 in it.

[Ryan]

Oh it would be so bad.

[Ken]

10,000 times cooler. That would be the coolest car ever. I would want one if in the front it had a supercharged LS.

[Ryan]

I've said it for years. I've always thought H2 hummers were cool like since I was a little kid, which I didn't understand how much they costed back then. But I saw, I remember seeing one and sitting in the back of my mom's car going to school, I was like my first car is going to be a Hummer. And my mom was like, oh yeah, I bet, you know, like, yeah, they were just badass. Well, you know, I always kind of wanted one. And then when you got yours, I was like damn, this is too late. There's. It's just too late. They don't work anymore.

[Ben]

There are still some absolute Sherry's out there and they are asking the appropriate.

[Ryan]

They want like 60 grand. Yeah, for like a, for like a. That's let's say a 40,000 mile Hummer H2.60 grand.

[Ken]

That's pretty crazy.

[Ben]

That's like what it cost new which.

[Ryan]

That was a ton of money dude back then for a vehicle.

[Ken]

But yeah, instead of your Raptor that'd be a pretty cool daily rig for you.

[Ryan]

H2. Yeah, a mint H2 would kind of sucked. I mean it's just, there's so there becomes a point where it's like the time is moved on. I drove time has moved on and it's hard going back in time.

[Mike]

If you say a mint H2 sucks.

[Ryan]

I'd have to.

[Ken]

Yeah, mine was beat. Still had heated seats though. The heat didn't work that well.

[Ryan]

But I've been kind of going back and forth on like, you know, is it time to move on from the, from the gtr? But it's literally so perfect. It's got everything I want, I want to take it out right now. But the roads are.

[Mike]

There's one car, I mean we've gone over this. There's one car that you belong in. If it's not a GTR and that's an R8, I'll. I'll say that bro, like, R8s are just too. Like, they just rolled the last one off the assembly line. It was yellow of ugly, but yeah, they just roll. No, It's. It's an R8. It's sick. They just rolled the last one off the assembly line. And it's just. You can just feel like the sadness in the comment section. Really? Yeah. Like, you know, they have quite the.

[Ryan]

I just feel like. Like when I envision a guy driving R8, most of the time I feel like it's like a businessman in like a suit. I don't know if I'm.

[Ken]

Yeah, you're right. The GTR is like a punk version of an R8.

[Ryan]

I just like the fact that it's cheaper. It can. It can beat up on the. The Lambo, the R8.

[Ken]

Be faster than Ben.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Mike]

That's tough. And I think, like, the R8 is like the. The Huracan is like the kind of the suited version and the R8 is like the tuner version.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I feel the opposite. I feel like Huracan is typically like the more punk.

[Ken]

He does have a point in that. People gen. They tune R8s. Like, if you're like a tuner.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No, it's the same exact supercharger.

[Mike]

Yeah. And then they. That's what's cool. You can put a. I follow a few companies that, you know, they're sheepy race. I can't remember the other one, but they just make you take the intake manifold off and you just put the supercharger on and flash it and that is it. And you're getting like 250 extra horse.

[Ryan]

Superchargers are cool, but no.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I feel like turbo is just trumped them. Like, I would never even consider the.

[Mike]

Twin turbo is like triple the price. Is it putting that one and also charger on?

[Ken]

I've owned three supercharged cars, and they just. A turbo sounds better. It does. Like, I mean, the supercharger works really well. It's fast, but it just. It sounds better Turbo.

[Mike]

I mean, then. Because a Pro Charger isn't. Is still a version of a supercharger since it's belt driven. But that's what's interesting too. Like, regular turbo still sounds way better to me than a Pro Charger.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, Jake's Mustang was cool. That's like the only experience I've really had with Pro Charger.

[Ken]

But it's.

[Mike]

It just sits there in idols, like, kind of just loud. And then when you go, it's just a bunch of air versus turbos.

[Ryan]

You get that Pro Chargers don't seem to be used very much anymore.

[Mike]

I see like, I feel like I see them a lot and I'm like, I almost look, you know, see a Corvette. Pro charged Corvette, bunch of horsepower, 900 some whatever. And then I'm like, it's pro charged. Be sicker if it was Turbo.

[Ken]

You see that guy that. He was in that Z06 vet and like the cops have him boxed in. You guys just see that?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I did. And then they pushed him and then he drove off.

[Ken]

He escaped. So apparently that guy's got an Instagram account called the Stolen Zeal six and he's been in, I believe Charlotte. I can pull it up here.

[Ryan]

Caught him yet?

[Ben]

Was that the black one?

[Ken]

Yeah, that was a black one. And he.

[Ben]

No plates on it, like.

[Ken]

Yeah, C7 the best. His bio says video game player and all he posts is just videos of him outrunning the cops and like toying with the cops on his Instagram. How do you get away with that? Dang.

[Ryan]

I can't imagine he's gonna get away with it for long.

[Mike]

But still just. Just the fact that he's able to make like multiple posts about it when.

[Ryan]

You'Re breaking the law like that, I just don't.

[Ken]

Yeah, there's just no way you can get away with it for that long.

[Mike]

And what's the one guy? There's the. The one guy that's like in Europe that's super famous. He's like named the Ghost Rider or something. Like, he kind of was the first one I've seen. This is like almost 10 years ago. And he would just go out on his motorcycle. A little easier to do in a motorcycle and a lot easier probably.

[Ken]

And just, just.

[Mike]

Yep, just run from the. That was his content.

[Ken]

Wow.

[Ryan]

When you're on a crotch rocket, it's like, yeah, not even close. Especially in the city car.

[Ken]

You just escaped.

[Ryan]

Speaking. I just got my R6, but speaking. I won't be doing any of that.

[Ben]

Yeah, that. That bike is so good looking.

[Ryan]

Isn't it cool?

[Ben]

That is a great find.

[Ryan]

I had to pay extra.

[Mike]

I was just gonna say the R6s.

[Ryan]

Are going up in value.

[Mike]

They are. He. He got a 2013 and hey, bad for 13 grand, which is more than you could have bought. Like, you know that a brand new R7 not as cool is like 9 5.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then like a brand new CBR is like still like 11, 12, 12, 5.

[Ryan]

But yeah, no, I, I considered it, but I was like, ah, I'd rather just have an R6. I feel like we've got this thing going. It's got to be an R6. And that's actually a pretty fair price. They just have all gone up, I think.

[Mike]

Yeah. Everyone that watches the channel is going to be like, heck yeah, dude, you got an R6.

[Ryan]

I just got to keep Evan off it.

[Ken]

I was laughing.

[Ryan]

I leave and next thing I know I'll be on the track, flying through the air.

[Ken]

He's just what he's used to. He just do it like normal.

[Ben]

You guys see the reel of a dude, he's like, yeah, selling an R6. And then he sees like this Sea Boys rolling up with that in here.

[Ryan]

That's funny.

[Mike]

Yeah, that is funny.

[Ken]

Okay, so here, going back to the stolen Z06 guy. Here's the video of him supposedly getting caught.

[Ryan]

What the fuck is cop doing? So this guy, they had him pin, but then they push him and help him push out of the way. Yeah.

[Mike]

You think they would just.

[Ken]

I think this guy moved in the front. I can't really see because he's not on the gas yet. But this guy in the front here is pretty casual. Oh, he does kind of push him out.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he pushed him out.

[Ben]

He's just gone.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ken]

In front of the Ross Dress for Less.

[Mike]

They could have just left him.

[Ken]

So.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Why didn't they just break the window? He tried like kicking it. He did that weak ass sidekick.

[Ken]

Yeah, that was dumb.

[Ryan]

This guy is a maniac. This is obviously in California. So he's. He's got the GoPro and everything. The 360 GoPro off the back. It's always a sick shot.

[Ken]

I mean in this one, dude, he's in the rain.

[Ryan]

Is this thing like tuned up or what? Just a factory Z06.

[Ken]

There's been some debates in the comments if it's stock or tuned. But it does shoot flames when he's on the gas. So you would think it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's definitely. That's not stock.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Ryan]

He's getting lit up. What's he gonna do? Pull over?

[Mike]

Probably not.

[Ryan]

Probably not. Cut 89,000 likes on this.

[Ken]

Yeah, I mean he's so he's kind of blowing up.

[Ryan]

So he stops Cop really gonna wait till he gets all the way to the door.

[Mike]

Smart. Smart moves.

[Ken]

Listen to that thing though.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's got a cam.

[Ken]

Oh, look, he's just got the street. Yep.

[Ryan]

See ya.

[Ben]

And he's gone.

[Ryan]

Damn. In the rain. Actually sketch, dude, but this guy's committed to that life. He's got to do it. Whether it's rain or snow.

[Ken]

A lot of them don't chase him.

[Ryan]

I'm sure they're just like, this guy's a hazard. Like, if I start chasing him, he's just gonna.

[Mike]

He's gonna. They know. Yeah.

[Ryan]

If they're worth it.

[Mike]

Aware of what he does at all. They. They know that he's not gonna.

[Ryan]

They're gonna catch them eventually.

[Ken]

I guess I can see why people do it, but that and then where people are like, weaving, bobbing and weaving through traffic. It's something that I enjoy watching, but I can't. I can't get behind because it just seems so dangerous to everybody else, you know?

[Mike]

Right.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I'm not a Fan of the C7.06. Pop it up on the screen. Picture of them. I used to think they were super cool. I'd rather have a C6.

[Mike]

I mean, I'm still with you. Like, I think the C7Z6 is just the most gorgeous car really. Like, almost. Almost ever. I don't know.

[Ryan]

I feel like I've just seen so many of them. I just. They're just kind of lame.

[Ben]

It's just so common at this point. Even though it's not special.

[Ryan]

You see them everywhere and it's just kind of like.

[Mike]

But I do feel that way about a regular CA. Yeah, you see them everywhere. But like a Z06, C7, obviously, if it's a ZL1, dude, they're. They're just. They're skyrocketing in price.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Well, ZL1, obviously. My grandpa. Not my grandparon.

[Mike]

That's when I fell in love with that car.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So he had an orange ZL1.

[Ken]

Orange.

[Ryan]

It was a manual. It was like the. Basically the last year they ever made manuals. It had this track pack on it. It was insane. He had owned so many Corvettes. He got it at msrp and then it was immediately worth, like, pretty much double. I think it was worth double. And no, I think it was probably worth like 200 anyways.

[Mike]

I don't know at time, but.

[Ryan]

No, no. Yeah. Well, anyways, his house burnt down and he didn't have. He didn't have insurance on it because it burnt down in the winter. He just wasn't driving it.

[Ken]

Just take insurance off.

[Ryan]

Took us, lost all that money. It's just gone. Like, it honestly is even I'm sick about it.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because it's just like. It was just gone.

[Ben]

And that was like one of many cars that he lost in that fire, wasn't it?

[Ryan]

Yeah. He lost one other really Expensive car, but it was very unfortunate.

[Mike]

And it's interesting how that happens because I remember like taking my cars off in the winter and insurance agent was like, are you sure? You know, you can leave it on the lowest whatever. And then if I don't know, if your garage burns down, I'm like, that's not gonna happen.

[Ken]

Yeah, take it off. Save me the $50 a month.

[Ryan]

Nope, I. You got to put storage insurance on it.

[Ken]

Yeah, 100%. But I think after that that was a pretty good eye opener for us.

[Ryan]

Yeah, 100%. I just like the C6s because they're just more core. I feel like, yeah, there's something cool. It's like having like an old Subaru versus a new one. I think the new ones are lame because it's just like they're so user friendly and it just doesn't seem like a race car. Whereas like before when you bought like let's say a 2007 Subaru WRX STI blob, it's like you, you obviously are a car guy because you have to make sacrifices driving that car. You know it's going to ride stiffer, it's going to be loud and you know, it's. Whereas the new ones are just like so luxury. It's kind of just.

[Ben]

They've put too much technology into it where it dates it immediately in five years.

[Ryan]

That too also too. They just don't look as cool either. But. And you see them all over. It used to be hard to get.

[Mike]

Them, but I mean we're always scrolling. Facebook marketplace just saw like a 2015 WRX for 10 grand almost. That's what like the old ones are going for.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no one wants those ones. No one wants those ones.

[Mike]

But yeah, I'll still. Dude, I still like the, the 22 plus the new ones. They came out, they still do have Honda Civic tail lights. But like now people are modding them. I think they're cool.

[Ben]

I still think they're ugly.

[Mike]

I'm a Subaru boy, so same I'm.

[Ryan]

That was like my first love for cars.

[Ben]

If I feel like every generation of Subaru they just get uglier and uglier and people just like trick themselves into thinking this is a cool looking car. But it's always like the last one was better looking and then they come up with another one and the last one was better.

[Ryan]

To be fair, they've always been looked at as ugly cars though. Like I remember reading things like articles on them and they'd always say like they, they drive Great. But just can't really get used to the looks. Like, most guys don't like the looks.

[Mike]

I would just say they. They can't do much worse than that. 08. They can't do much worse.

[Ken]

That was pretty bad.

[Ben]

Than the narrow body.

[Mike]

The narrow body. Like it. That's truly like. No one wants those.

[Ben]

Get those for a hell of a deal.

[Ken]

But you guys see, they tore down the fantasy factory.

[Mike]

What? What?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Hey. Yeah. Like the warehouse.

[Ken]

The warehouse and everything in it. Just. Just recently, it's still been all intact.

[Ryan]

No, it wasn't. It was not. They still had everything in the fantasy factory still there.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So it's even crazy.

[Ken]

I found a YouTube video on it.

[Mike]

I can get that. If, like, the skate park and the offices weren't in there or whatever in the foam pit, I'm pretty sure I.

[Ryan]

Thought they took everything out because Rob Dyrdek was paying so much and they weren't filming for it. The show anymore, so he obviously stopped and then.

[Mike]

But they then.

[Ken]

Sorry, I blacked out. It was already seven years ago that they tore it down.

[Ryan]

Oh, oh, oh, wait, I thought it was.

[Ken]

I thought it was two years ago building.

[Mike]

Oh, my gosh. This is kind of weird.

[Ryan]

Wait, who took this video?

[Ken]

California skate parks. Wait, so they just kind of have like, a little time lapse of it being taken down. But it's so crazy because in some of these shots, you can see and like, remember the sets, the skyline over there and stuff like that? Like, look at that.

[Ryan]

Just.

[Mike]

I'm glad they got to have a little fun, I guess, drawing it so.

[Ryan]

We would have done.

[Mike]

Yeah, that is exactly. Just throwing. Gosh, that office was the coolest.

[Ryan]

It was.

[Ken]

But isn't that crazy that, like, if I was ever in the area, I'd probably pay ten bucks to tour that. And if I was a skateboarder, I'd probably pay.

[Mike]

I'd pay 50 to skate it.

[Ken]

Skate it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I'm surprised they weren't able to make a.

[Mike]

Some.

[Ken]

Something out of it. But like, after us building a shop and, you know, kind of like doing all the things where we're trying to mix a useful space and also having something that looks really cool on camera. This place is nuts. They had a fake tree house in it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. When I look at that, it makes me like, how could we put a tree inside our shop?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, Cool. Especially with, like. So this week we will be unveiling our farm, which has been in the process for the last, what, six months, being built. It's not completely done, but is like 90, 95, 90, 95. And so we're gonna. We're gonna be like, doing the reveal of it, showing you guys. We need to do that because we're gonna be building a new truck inside following week. So we're like, we gotta, baby. That's why we're doing.

[Mike]

I was kind of like, we're doing it already, but no.

[Ken]

Wow.

[Mike]

A lot of exciting stuff.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, we've been in there. It looks so good.

[Ryan]

It looks amazing. You guys are going to love it. It's a little bit different than previous than this shop, but it still ties all together and it's going to be great for making new builds. Basically, that's what we kind of tailored it for.

[Mike]

And there was a ton of stuff that we wish we could have done here that we got the opportunity to do there. Just better lighting, better tools, better equipment, more offices.

[Ryan]

It's just way nicer than. Honestly, this. This job.

[Mike]

It is. Higher ceilings.

[Ken]

I know a lot of like. Are you gonna move your office over here?

[Ryan]

No, but we won't.

[Mike]

I've been asked that so many times, and I used to say, oh, no, definitely not home base. Here, here, here. Now we're keeping this home base. And then. And we still are, but now whenever.

[Ken]

I'm over there, I'm like, dang, this is nice.

[Ryan]

I know all the new guys are getting. Getting the better offices.

[Ken]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we already got two of them filled up.

[Ken]

It's been weird because, like, the farm has kind of come together behind the scenes. Like, when we redid this, we were. They were working over top of us, literally.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

We're, like, trying to make the video.

[Ryan]

We were doing little updates along the way.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Which was cool. But this one, we were doing it all at once.

[Mike]

We were also think too. I just. Now you spark my memory on that. We were working around them as well. Like, that was a chaotic time. We were, like, trying to edit while they're cutting stuff. We're trying to build, you know, we're.

[Ken]

Trying to work on stuff. And they're like, you know, they're using the table saw and we're like, hey, we got to have. You got to be quiet for 10 minutes so we can film this, like, portion. Like, it was an interesting time, so it's nice to have that separate. But I'm so excited to have that part of our shop. Like, it's just going to be. I was over there. It's so dialed. There's just. There's airlines ran everywhere all the ventilation. Ventilation and stuff like that. All the things that we learned with what we need in this shop are now put into place over there.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And now that it's done, we've probably already outgrown it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Honestly, though, like, seeing the fantasy factory, I would love to integrate more stuff, but honestly, he just had a way bigger facility.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

It was in a warehouse.

[Ryan]

Our shit is going to be full. Like, it's already full.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, and it's got to be functional for. For doing these builds. The price of the build was. We could probably tell it, couldn't we? Little podcast exclusive.

[Ben]

I think we've got.

[Ryan]

It'll go. It'll go live.

[Ken]

Yeah, it'll go.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It was a $400,000 remodel process. It was insane.

[Ken]

We all are surprised. It's just like, Mike Subaru, dude. You start and you're like, wow, we're going to fix this wall. We might as well fix all the walls. And before you know it.

[Ben]

Is that even the all in price? Because.

[Ken]

Yes, 100%. That's 100% of the.

[Ryan]

That's the remodel price. Yeah. So that's not including what we paid for the building. But.

[Ken]

True.

[Mike]

But in the land. But yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But yeah. The boys have been taking some. Not even pay cuts. We just haven't been paid.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

For like three months. We just haven't been paid for like three months. But that's what. That's.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's what it takes part of.

[Ryan]

I mean, we've done that so many times, though, in this process of operating this company.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, I mean, for the first few years, we weren't getting paid at all.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And because everything was, you know, the little bit of money we were making, we were just putting back in. And then we started getting paid just a tiny bit. And then we had another situation happen where we basically had to basically invest and. And you know, we had lawsuits and. And we had. No one was getting paid. So, I mean, this isn't really anything new to us. There's been many times where we've done that. But that's why, I mean, it just comes with being a business owner.

[Ken]

100.

[Ryan]

You gotta. You gotta be willing to ride out some hard times. Like, honestly, it's. It's not necessarily as luxurious or. Or there isn't a lot of luxury to owning and starting a business.

[Ken]

No.

[Ryan]

Like, you have to take a lot of hardships, I'd say, with it, you know, to actually get it to the point where everyone then thinks it's a big luxury 100. But that's why you gotta save your money, spend it, you know, wisely.

[Ken]

It's just all. It's all part of the. The planning and the journey. And we all look at that and we go, damn. Yeah, I mean, it's tough, but like, we're excited to have that space to use. We know it's going to help the company in the long run. Like, it's good. We've always been willing to invest.

[Ryan]

And like, we got that double whammy though too, because this, this bill came right as the same time we had to pay for taxes.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude, taxes are dumb.

[Ryan]

I mean, it was just a real tough, tough pill to swallow for us. It was a kick in the nuts, man.

[Ken]

That was a kick.

[Mike]

It stresses me out, dude. Taxes have always been kind of dumb, but, you know, the more you make, the more you get taxed. And then now that we're kind of moving towards some of those brackets, it's just saddening. Yeah, I thought this bummer.

[Ken]

Damn taxes, dude. That's why I'm moving to Greece. Talked about it before moving to Greece.

[Ryan]

There's lots of places you can go to avoid taxes.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah. I'm just going because it's cheap to live there and.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Ken]

Like, I'm kind of trying to live my whole like, mamma mia. Type dream, you know, I live see it with the bay in the background. I'll befriend a couple.

[Ryan]

Honestly, would fit in really well out there. I could see you wearing like a.

[Ken]

Striped linen, like, linen shirt.

[Ryan]

Yeah, shirt, dude.

[Ken]

And then like out there, I think being fat is still cool. So I got to get the big Greek belly hanging out and I'm all tanned. I just waddle around as much. Exactly. Yeah. Maybe. Fuck it. I'll get a chain.

[Mike]

You would need.

[Ryan]

I would love to see you in a chain.

[Mike]

You would need a chain.

[Ken]

I just.

[Ryan]

I could see you in a little gold chain, man.

[Ken]

Really?

[Ryan]

Like a four millimeter, like, you know, very small and just like little gold one, like a rope chain.

[Ken]

I went shopping in the Mall of America this week. And I just. I just became so acutely where one of my deteriorating health and two of just how much little swagger I have, I just was like, damn, there's all these people in the mall and they're buying all this cool stuff and they're all looking cool.

[Ryan]

You gotta get swag.

[Ken]

And then I look at me and I'm just like, damn, like. Because there's mirrors everywhere. You're just like constantly in A mirror and it's like me and then this really cool looking dude.

[Mike]

I think you're being too hard on yourself.

[Ken]

Yeah, I mean I. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

The amount of people that I actually think like have swagger is like pretty small.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there's not a lot. I don't have much. I don't have any swagger at all. In fact, you want to know how much it costed to be swaggered like this. See this chain?

[Ben]

But swagger bucks.

[Ryan]

Guess how much this chain costs?

[Ken]

70, $45.

[Ryan]

It was 14. 14 and my girlfriend bought it for me.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Mike]

Here's what you can't be a chain that is that cheap and doesn't make your neck itchy and doesn't turn colors.

[Ryan]

I just wear it all.

[Ben]

Your skin green.

[Ryan]

When I was a kid, I always wore like, it was like those like Shaka necklaces. It was like in style back then. I'd always get a new one.

[Mike]

I know it, I know it wouldn't be smart, but I, I thought about like just bringing it back. Yeah. One of those surf necklaces with the shark tooth. Well, I probably know shark tooth because then you're like, look at me, look at my shark tooth.

[Ken]

To the Bahamas.

[Ryan]

I think we're just, maybe we've, we've lost a little bit of touch with style. You know, we're out of the scene. We, we kind of stick to ourselves. We just do our own thing. And now it's like we got this young man, Dalton, who we hired on. He does all of our photography and makes like the awesome edits of like the Ram giveaway. And he's a, a young 18 year old man who's got a lot of swagger and style. He's in touch. He was filling me like he helped us get the suits. Like he picked out the, the suits and stuff for us and we went shopping because he was like, you got to do this and this like funny, make us look, you know, baller. I mean he was telling me about his chains. He's got like Cartier chains and that cost like a thousand bucks. I'm like, dude, this thing was 14, 14.

[Ken]

What the hell are you doing wearing a thousand dollars?

[Ryan]

Yeah. How much are we paying you? Well, he had all this and I.

[Mike]

Also think the chain, chain is one thing though. Like that's like if you spend 1400 bucks on like any chain, like you spent 1400 bucks on chain. But I do agree, like he's okay.

[Ryan]

So maybe he'll swag us out.

[Mike]

We're gearing up for summer Gear. So we're gonna, you know, make some swim trunks, some shorts. And then Dalton's like, oh, you gotta hit the 5.5-inch inseam. I just. It means really short. And I just got done. Yeah, I just got done relaying to no Chance people we were working with. And I was like, yeah. Biggest thing is, like, gotta shoot for that eight. They can't be too short, like, our audience, like, and it was just funny. And then he's like, yeah, they gotta be 5.5 super short. And I just bought a pair of 5.5s. Kind of took your advice. I ain't got the legs for that.

[Ryan]

Ken was wearing those things. His. His balls would be hanging out both sides, dude.

[Ken]

Not even one side.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, he looks good.

[Ryan]

It's crazy how shorts have gone up in shortness. Like, and I just remember, like, my mom would go and, like, to Kohl's and get me a pair of shorts, and I'd try them on if they were.

[Ken]

I can see my shins. I can see my.

[Ryan]

I can't wear these.

[Ben]

I remember I bought a pair of shorts. I. It was when they were still like, super long and there was like an 8 inch inseam. And you guys roasted me for having. And then a year later, everyone's having eight.

[Ken]

Ken was ahead of the style, dude.

[Ryan]

There was just something about it.

[Mike]

But about every. I still remember, like, getting after my mom. Like, if she bought me a snapback hat, a snapback hat at one point, because think, remember, like, Rob Dyrdek, big Black times. I had a big black hat. Fitted, fitted, fitted, fitted. If it had a snapback, it was. It was not right. And then I'm like, what is this hood? Or what is this sweatshirt without a hood? I ain't wearing that. Like, I was against. Yeah, just stuff like that. Yeah. Shorts that, like, showed your knees. I'm like, dude, these are not long enough.

[Ken]

But it's funny. It always comes around. Like, I guarantee, like, my. Our dads wore short shorts. Like, in the 80s, that was short shorts. Now you get to. Now they're back to being short. So, yeah, just keep your. And hang on to it and then it'll be in style another 10 years.

[Ben]

And they'll be back below the knee.

[Ryan]

Yeah. To be fair, though, I don't think our looks have any impact on whether people watch our videos or no.

[Ken]

100%. I don't. I don't do it. I just, you know, it's just like a thing. I just was, like, walking around. I was like, man, I Look like such a squid.

[Ryan]

You know, Ryan, I think that's part of your. That's part of me.

[Mike]

That's part of me.

[Ryan]

Think that's why people love you.

[Mike]

We don't have fashion, but yeah, like, we're doing. We're doing just fine fashion.

[Ben]

I don't remember the last time I actually shopped for clothes or anything in a store. Everything I just buy is online.

[Mike]

Well, that's because it takes extra work to do that.

[Ben]

Well, I just never make it to a store, though.

[Ryan]

What are you saying there, Mike?

[Mike]

I'm saying Ken, we can usually takes the easiest path to whatever he needs.

[Ken]

Ken, what's something you've recently simplified in your life? Ken's the master of finding the easiest way to get something done or not doing it. What's something you've recently simplified that used to be a challenge?

[Mike]

It's a great question.

[Ben]

I don't even know.

[Ryan]

This whole life's automated, man.

[Ken]

Yeah, I mean, you got the automated shades. You've got. Your car drives itself. The lights turn on when you drive into the house.

[Ben]

Yeah, but I, I did that years ago.

[Ryan]

I mean, he's so automated.

[Ben]

Motorized shades are nice.

[Ken]

Oh, 100, dude. I want them. But I'm just saying, like, what. What's something that has now become even more automated in your life?

[Ben]

I don't think I've changed a lot in the last.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Ben]

Yeah, like two years.

[Mike]

To be honest, I don't think you have either. And in a good way, like, super consistent. Just like pretty streamlined.

[Ken]

You're so automated, there's nothing left to automate.

[Ryan]

What's like the hardest thing you've done.

[Ben]

Recently, Ken, physically, I mean, moving around boxes of merch.

[Mike]

There's so many boxes.

[Ben]

I mean, that's a.

[Ken]

Maybe riding that, that bike that has an electric bike.

[Ryan]

It's an electric assisted bike.

[Ben]

It was also 10 degrees outside with a, like a 20 mile an hour north wind. And I was in nothing heights.

[Ryan]

Okay. And I thought I, I think it was a good, you know, start. We're going to get you an actual, like, bicycle. Like a cycling road bike. Just like Lance Armstrong.

[Ken]

Hey, you got the riding to work.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Fun to do occasionally, but not regular.

[Mike]

But like, could be a little waste of money considering those himiway bikes we got are electric. And I would rather doing it because.

[Ken]

He wants to become the next Lance Armstrong. Didn't Lance Armstrong have a thing with his balls, too? Maybe they got small because he had.

[Ryan]

The opposite of what, Ken. Well, actually.

[Ken]

Oh, never mind. Sorry, Lance.

[Ryan]

So not good.

[Ben]

But was it him that got, like, called out for doping or something?

[Ken]

Yeah. Yeah. Ken starts doping so he can ride his bike to work.

[Mike]

Would be insane.

[Ryan]

He's just trying to make that easier. He starts physically pedal biking, so he starts using steroids to assist him. He's like, how could I make this easier? Start using steroids. That'd be pretty funny. Speaking of just maybe, maybe not being cool.

[Mike]

Oh, well.

[Ryan]

I post this. This, like, carousel of pictures on Instagram the other day. And in, like, one of the pictures, it's us in Vegas. Me and Gavin were, like, having fun, walking, and I'm drinking a Bud Light.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. And I was getting a kick out of that.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I was getting, like, kind of ripped in the comments. Like, it was partially like some people were ripping me, some people were defending it. And then Mike hops in and starts ripping. He's not even on my side.

[Mike]

Starts, yeah, I didn't rip on you, but yeah. He just said, Damn, C.J. drinking a bud Light. Didn't know you guys were like that. And I said, don't bring.

[Ken]

Not cool.

[Ryan]

He said, not cool.

[Mike]

I said, don't bring me into this. Because he said, you guys. And then it got a bunch of likes. But I. It is. It is very interesting that you post 10 pictures, and in one of those pictures, it wasn't just you.

[Ken]

It's a blurry bottle in the back.

[Mike]

It wasn't the only. Yeah, it was literally a blurry bottle, like, of, like, far away. And people just were like, you know, my.

[Ryan]

My question is, like, where do you guys stand on this? Like, this is. I'll let you guys go first.

[Ken]

Listen, man, I don't gotta tell nobody my favorite beer, but I think I. I think people gotta get over that. It was.

[Ben]

It was like a.

[Ken]

It was one can. It wasn't a whole.

[Mike]

I agree.

[Ken]

I think. I think life. People should just kind of move on.

[Ryan]

You know, hold on to it forever. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't drinking it during the time of that. But then, like, like, you know, we were in Vegas, and the lady's like, what do you want? And she just had a Bud Light. I was. I'll just take the Bud Light. Yeah, it tastes great. And I'd drink another one.

[Ben]

I didn't like Bud Light to begin with, so my opinion did not change.

[Ryan]

So you're still not riding.

[Ben]

I still don't like Bud Light.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

But I just don't, like, all taste. And then it also, like, it kind of makes me feel weird.

[Mike]

I don't Know, I, I genuinely don't care. I just get such a kick out of it. Like, I, I'm not, like, yeah, I'm not gonna make anyone boycott, and I'm not even boycotting. I, I just think it's so funny. I, but you, you had a great comment back. You're like, I think they moved past it. Like, they double.

[Ryan]

What, are you going to hold on to it forever?

[Mike]

They double up.

[Ryan]

It's been around forever, dude.

[Mike]

Like, they doubled down on sponsoring Shane Gillis and Post Malone. I love them, so.

[Ken]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

And also, they work with the UFC now. Like, in my opinion, Bud Light's cooler than ever. If they're working with the ufc, like, they're the official sponsor. That's a huge deal. If Dana White can, can move past it, I can too.

[Ken]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

And I mean, also, I got a lot other, A lot bigger things to worry about than the type of beer I'm drinking.

[Ken]

If it's cold and it's in front of you, go for it. Exactly. Yeah. And it's in a nice bottle.

[Ryan]

Eventually you got to move on.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I'm not agreeing with what they did, but yeah, yeah.

[Ken]

Did you guys see, Speaking of the ufc, did you guys see the new Roadhouse movie?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I watched it. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Mike]

I loved it.

[Ken]

It was filmed very interestingly. Yeah, I thought, like, when I watched, I was like, this is seemed like.

[Ryan]

More of a lower budget.

[Ken]

Yeah, it was kind of interesting, but it's like, not low budget.

[Mike]

It's not.

[Ryan]

But sure, they put money elsewhere, but.

[Ken]

Yeah, like getting Conor McGregor and Post Malone in it.

[Mike]

Yeah, I just loved, like, yeah, the, the plot doesn't go super deep, but, like, it's just like Conor McGregor.

[Ryan]

The only funny reason I watched it was because Conor McGregor was in. And honestly, Bob Bennery too. I, I, that guy's a nutcase. But I honestly, I like him. I think he's funny.

[Mike]

Same.

[Ryan]

He is an absolute nutcase.

[Mike]

But I, I, man, if you guys ever want to see someone, like, get ripped in the comments, yeah, that guy.

[Ryan]

Gets ripped, but he just keeps getting up every day and going back to it. It's like he just takes the punch. That guy does something stupid every day. But I think that is what makes him so entertaining.

[Mike]

Apparently that movie was a remake of like an 8 1988.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's an old movie.

[Mike]

Gotta watch that one.

[Ryan]

I thought Conor McGregor was a pretty good actor, though.

[Mike]

I did, too.

[Ken]

I saw a bunch of stuff on, like, Tick Tock, and it was, you know, like a guy Playing the director and then a guy playing Connor, like, just loosen up, man. You know, like, just, all right, you're gonna walk in the scene and. And then he, like, imitates Connor. But I think Connor being over the top is, like, what made the movie.

[Ryan]

Over the top and everything.

[Ken]

Exactly. I was like. I was chuckling the whole time. And, like, a laundry doesn't really know Conor McGregor. She's like, who the fuck is this guy? And I'm, like, laughing because he just is so outrageous. Like, when he walks in. Where the fuck is everybody? Literally, probably how he acts like, it's so funny.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was good. I like it. I liked it. It's on Amazon prime for free.

[Ken]

Can't beat that. But I did see that that, like, they. They filmed some of it during a UFC fight that we watched, but in the background of it, like, prime is on the ring and stuff like that. And I was like, crazy. I wonder if prime had to pay for that. Did you have to pay for advertising? Ends up back in the movie.

[Ryan]

Oh, I don't know. It probably would have been harder for them to unblur it, because I remember when they filmed that scene, it was at a regular UFC event, real ufc, and they just were, like, in between fights, and they, like, played this song and had Jake Gyllenhaal come out. And I think, like, the crowd is kind of like, what the is going on? Like, they were playing it like it was actual. And they did, like, the guy putting, you know, vast. Greasing them up, and he, like, goes in there and it's like this fake fight. And like, I. They. They must have had to put, like, the sound effects of people cheering and use different shots from far back in order to make it look real. Because I remember seeing, like, you know, iPhone footage from people in the crowd. Everyone's just silent, like, what the is going on? Because there's these two guys, like, fake fighting in the ring, and they, like, made him come out. Not to mention, like, the ref comes and grabs him and he pushes the.

[Ken]

Ref, he comes back and fakes beat him up. But, like, dude, it's between two real fights. It's not like watching it. Just like, if you were hired to come there and watch the fake fight, you go, wow, this is pretty entertaining. But it's between two real fights, so.

[Ryan]

You didn't show up to a WWE event. Yeah, you're at an actual. You're like, what is going on?

[Ken]

The last two I saw really beat the shit out of each other.

[Ryan]

Jake chilling, all doing out Here air punching this guy.

[Ken]

I mean, I. I get why. And they made it look good in the movie, but it had to be really weird watching it in real life.

[Ryan]

I mean, UFC is killing it. Like, they're in everything.

[Ken]

300 this weekend, I think.

[Mike]

Jake Gyllenhaal chilling in the hall, waiting for the call to come out for his brawl.

[Ryan]

Damn, Mike.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Ryan]

That's good. That's good.

[Mike]

That's funny.

[Ryan]

So I got to reverse back a little bit. So, off the topic of Bud Light, Gavin told me the other day that you were going sober, Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah. For two weeks.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Two weeks. No alcohol? No. Anything else?

[Mike]

Just alcohol.

[Ryan]

Okay. Why?

[Ken]

Wow.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Let's hear the story.

[Mike]

Sydney just didn't think that I could do two weeks. And I was like, I think I can.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then that's it. So I was like, well, I mean, I know I can.

[Ryan]

Yeah, obviously.

[Ken]

So when did you start?

[Mike]

Wednesday.

[Ken]

Nice. So you're five days in, four days in, something like that.

[Ryan]

So you started to think straight.

[Mike]

I think the same.

[Ryan]

I did. I think it was, like, 65 days, no alcohol in, like, last fall.

[Mike]

Yeah. That's why I was like. I mean, is this even worth talking about? Like, Ben's been sober for, like, six months now. Like, it's crazy.

[Ryan]

It's interesting for people, I think. Like, I was just. I was hoping for more of a backstory on it.

[Ken]

I think the hardest part of that is just where we are and, like, the surroundings. Like, we go to Utah. I would. I wouldn't drink in Utah either, because I'd be wanting to drive. Like, drive things and go mountain biking and, like, do all these fun things. But it's really tough here. When you wake up, it's 42 degrees, windy, and cloudy out this morning. It's like, well, what do you want to do? Oh, let's go bowling. It's like, well, if we're gonna go bowling, might as well have a beer.

[Mike]

Oh, that's where. Yeah, that's where it's hardest for me is just, like, burger and a beer.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And now it's just like, I get.

[Ken]

That burger and a soda.

[Mike]

Dr. Pepper ain't so bad.

[Ryan]

But lately, like, I only drink maybe once a week, if that. And I probably won't drink this weekend. Well, maybe I will. I'm going over to hang out with Grandparon after this, spending the Saturday with him. But oftentimes nowadays when I'm drinking, let's say we go out to dinner and I have, like, three drinks or four drinks. Like, I Kind of walk out of there and I'm just like, that was pointless. Like, I kind of wish I wouldn't have done that because now I gotta, like, rehydrate and, like, you know, it's just like. It just was pointless. Like, it was just extra calories just not hitting. Hitting like it used to after I've kind of weaned off. Like, you know, Ben has too. I did mine before Ben, but no, I just feel better too. I just feel great and dialed, which.

[Mike]

Is a nice surprise, like, once you get off or Ben said. He's like, you know, I. I really, like, don't necessarily feel.

[Ryan]

I think, because he was forced to. He was forced to. When you're forced not to, then it's tough. But, like, for me, I kind of just did it. It by decision, mostly because I felt like. And then you add another thing on top, it makes you feel even worse. Yeah, you know, it just. It makes it pretty easy to do. But, yeah, no, I. I'm pretty happy with it. I just drink caffeine now.

[Ken]

God, caffeine is.

[Ryan]

Caffeine's the best. I couldn't kick that. I could not ever kick that. I just love getting a good cup of coffee in the morning.

[Ken]

Coffee is.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think I could cut out, like, coffee. I could cut out all energy drinks and stuff like that, but, like, good old coffee, a coffee, man, there's some comforting that feels like human, you know.

[Ryan]

It'S just comforting to me.

[Ken]

It is funny. I look forward to coffee in the morning. Even at night. I'm like, damn, I would kill for a coffee right now. It's freaking, like, 8pm I'm like, I can't have a coffee. I gotta wait till morning.

[Mike]

Did that last night. I was like, dude, a coffee would be so good right now, and it'd be a horrible decision.

[Ken]

Yeah. Every. Every night I would say, I crave the coffee that I'm gonna get in the morning. Morning. And I've started. I used to make it at home and then have it on my way to work. But then now I just started having it here. So then it gets me to work even faster. So instead of, like, getting to work at 9 or whatever, I'll just be like, all right, I'm gonna go there and then get my morning started.

[Ryan]

Ken, can you search up the benefits of. Of caffeine or, like, the side effects too? Like, what's bad?

[Ben]

There are a ton of benefits.

[Ryan]

Well, obviously it wakes you up. That's a benefit. But I mean, is there. Is there health? How About. How about just coffee?

[Ben]

One of like, the. The side effects for caffeine is like increased heart rate, insomnia, headache, anxiety, irritability, high blood pressure, diarrhea, dizziness, frequent urination, tremors, chest pain. It just goes like.

[Ryan]

It literally.

[Ben]

And like, for me, I. I've noticed like that if I have caffeine, like anything past like 10, 11 o', clock, I just have a. Oh, am.

[Ryan]

Oh, I was gonna say no.

[Ben]

I just have like a tough time falling asleep. Like, even if it's really. If it's not right away in the morning, it's like, it just keeps me.

[Ryan]

I don't have any problems with it.

[Ken]

In fact, consumption of three to five standard cups of coffee daily has been consistently associated with a reduced risk of several chronic diseases.

[Ryan]

That's pretty cool.

[Mike]

That's a lot of coffee.

[Ryan]

Like, that's a lot of coffee. Wait, just two to three cups a day?

[Mike]

Three to five.

[Ken]

Three to five standard cups.

[Ryan]

That's quite, quite a bit. Yeah. I normally drink probably two.

[Ken]

I'm trying to figure out what they just. They just said it has been led to a bunch of them and then doesn't say any. Any of the positive things.

[Ben]

Like that's one of those things where they have so many different studies out there contradicting each other based on who's paying for it, where it's just. There's just garbage information all over the place.

[Ken]

This one's from Harvard.

[Ryan]

I feel like there should be some solid evidence, but for how much everyone loves and drinks coffee, there should be some really solid evidence.

[Mike]

Yeah, it seems like.

[Ryan]

Or just like, you know, like you would just know enough knowing facts, a.

[Mike]

Pretty easy thing to test.

[Ryan]

That's like, gotta be one of the most popular drinks next to water, I would imagine.

[Ken]

Coffee.

[Ryan]

Water and coffee have got to be the most commonly drank thing.

[Mike]

I just.

[Ken]

Wouldn't you say?

[Mike]

Yeah, one of those corny signs that like, you'd hang up in your kitchen. I don't always drink water, but when I do, it's coffee. That doesn't make any sense. But then I'm like, well, coffee kind of is just water.

[Ken]

It says less likely to develop. This is we are an inform, a comedy informational. I saw that on something. We're comedy informative.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

That's what this podcast is right here. So I don't know. Don't take this.

[Mike]

I'm so glad I have like a genre to tell people now.

[Ken]

Yeah. So don't take this as biblical, but you could live longer. Longer.

[Ryan]

Live longer.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Or you could Not.

[Ken]

Or you could. Not. Less likely to have coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease. You may process. I love what says may in all of these. May process glucose or sugar better. You're less likely to develop heart failure. You're less likely to develop Parkinson's. Your liver will thank you. It's protective for your liver.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Your DNA is stronger. Your odds of getting colon cancer will go down.

[Ryan]

That's a good one.

[Ken]

Your DNA. Yeah, my. I'm just making my DNA stronger right now. But it seemed like there's some. There's some benefits. But I notice it with. If I have too much caffeine and we get into what would be called a stressful situation, I find that I handle it more poorly because I feel like I'm more reactive. I'm all, like, juiced up and I don't really realize it, but I am. So I try to watch that. Like, if we're gonna go out and. And do something that really could take a lot of, like, hoopla. Try to not have as much caffeine.

[Ryan]

When I'm editing, I make sure I don't over caffeinate because, like, sometimes it's just like one of those things where you're like, how can I make this go better? You keep trying to drink more and more caffeine, but then it's. It gets to a point where it's counterproductive because you're sick and you're just kind of sick. Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, it's not good when you stress. And then when I. When I'm, like, trying to gear up. Okay. We have to.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[Mike]

We're gonna be out filming for the next eight hours. I'll overload on caffeine thinking it's gonna help me. And it doesn't. Stresses you out more. Not even the crash. I think just, like, the jitters along with the stressful situation makes it worse.

[Ken]

Yeah, you just. It just ramps up. Up can be poor for you.

[Mike]

I got a new favorite drifter. New favorite drift driver. Looking up to in the scene. He goes by the name of T Pain.

[Ryan]

Oh, he's really drifting now. I saw this.

[Mike]

At this point, he's just doing side quests.

[Ken]

Literally.

[Mike]

I kind of couldn't believe my eyes, though. So, like, he's in, like, the fd, like, competition, like the tournament. L's like the LG games or whatever they're called, like the LZ weekend. I. I'm not sure what it's called, but he's like, side to side. I'm like, that's t pain.

[Ken]

So he's actually good.

[Mike]

He's. Yeah, he won his like, you know, I think they start with like 18 or 30 drivers. No, he was drifting against another drifter and he won.

[Ryan]

He's a big car guy.

[Mike]

Tandem.

[Ken]

That's so cool.

[Mike]

I was like, that is amazing.

[Ben]

That is so. I did not expect him to be.

[Ken]

Well, he has song with her. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Have you seen his song? Dude, he has a. It's actually a pretty lit. You got to be a car guy to really enjoy it. But what's it called? Just let them look it up after because otherwise it'd get copyrighted.

[Ben]

Baby got brap.

[Ryan]

Yeah, baby got brat.

[Ken]

That's what it is.

[Ryan]

You gotta look it up after. It's actually pretty good with the drifting. You've done it, Mike. You know, you. You hit. You were struggling at the start because you had a car that was not running, it wasn't operating.

[Mike]

Yeah. But I. Dude. And I was just struggling. Okay.

[Ryan]

So that was my question. So now that your car runs good and I was watching you, you're drifting good.

[Mike]

So much.

[Ryan]

So my question is if you have the proper car, is drifting that hard?

[Mike]

No.

[Ryan]

Okay. I feel like I kind of have like came around to noticing that, like, if you actually have a car built for it with an angle kit and all the other stuff, it seems like it's. It's easier than it looks.

[Mike]

It's. I would like say just like riding a dirt bike. As in once you have the clutch, like once you know how to drive it, you pull, you come up to a berm, you point the dirt bike. You don't have to be going super fast.

[Ryan]

It's not as tricky as you come.

[Mike]

Up to the jump and you maybe don't feel comfortable, but you know what you have to do. And it was the same thing. Like, I know how to swing my wheels out and add gas, turn the wheel. And then that's when I started getting pointers from, you know, the dudes there that knew what they were doing. They'll explain something to you that you would never figure out on your own. Drifting is just drifting. Whether you're in a front wheel drive buick in the snow, it's that principle of swinging your. Your ass and out.

[Ryan]

I mean, but if you don't have a car built with like an angle kit, basically.

[Mike]

Basically help a lot for actual drifting.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like, he couldn't link a whole course in his camaro because.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ryan]

You know.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It seems like drifting, the sport of drifting is growing. Like I. It's Kind of boring to watch, in my opinion, but I think it's really fun to do. And I've just done it a little in the Miata.

[Mike]

I thought the same thing. It's like, when you're there watching it, it's baseball. It's pretty hard to, like, get into you. You might see one dude that, like, got super close to the wall, and then you're like, yeah, but when you know that you just gotta hop in your car and then hop in line to go do that, then it makes it way more exciting.

[Ryan]

I mean, it lasts longer than just doing a drag run.

[Ken]

Definitely better.

[Ben]

You can kind of, like, watch where people were like, okay, this guy initiated at this point. Maybe I can try and take a pointer from that.

[Ken]

And, yeah, I think drifting at its simplest level with the right stuff is pretty easy. But, dude, some of those guys aren't doing.

[Ryan]

Actually. I'm talking linking the course, doing the going around, linking it. Like, you're drifting this corner, then you flop and drift it to the other way. And they're staying, like, just doing a little, like. Like it's a 90.

[Ken]

Yeah, like a slide.

[Ben]

And they're staying, like, inches away from that wall the whole time.

[Ryan]

Like, I think that's sick.

[Mike]

It's like. And it's like, again, the difference between, like, jumping a jump on a dirt bike and just whipping the out of it. And then, like, railing a berm. Like, it's. It's like a lot of sports. It's easy to get to that 50% level. Like, he's doing it. And then to get to the 99% level, 100 agree. You gotta work for you.

[Ken]

I mean, you see the guy going, like, 80 miles an hour and then rips the E brake, and he's, like, going backwards into the corner.

[Ryan]

Like, that's just not gnarly. That's just gnarly.

[Ken]

That's just believing in yourself.

[Ryan]

If I do it, I want to get a. A C6 Corvette and do it with that. I think that'd be gnarly. Otherwise, I'd. Maybe I'd probably have to do, like, a 350Z just because that's iconic, but I feel like I can't have two Nissans. I don't know if I necessarily want to be a Nissan guy. I just like. Like the GTR and I do like the. The 350 and 370Z, but it's like, at what? Like, if I get another one, it's like. Yeah, he just. Bro, he's got a bunch of Nissans it's just not. Not what I really.

[Ben]

Japanese cars.

[Ryan]

I mean, the Japanese is fine, but I just don't want to be a Nissan guy, dude.

[Mike]

A handful of the guys at the track, they weren't even like on my car. They were just like, you know, they talked about taking the turbo off, making it easier to drive. And they were like, dude, just get it. They call it a missile car. Just get a missile car. Like, just get another 350Z. Just like a stock 350Z. And I'm like, bro, I don't think I can handle the flack that I'll get. If I really rolled up with like another. A drift car, people would be like, dude, this guy is losing it.

[Ryan]

No, I wouldn't. Yeah, I'd be pumped if you did that, Mike. I love it when you buy stuff.

[Mike]

I do.

[Ryan]

I keep buying. So entertaining, dude.

[Mike]

And so then of course, like, I'm actually like legit looking. I'm like, oh, some of these, you know, if you look from not around here, you. You can pick up a, you know, 5, 6, $7,000 for a drift ready 350Z.

[Ryan]

Pretty cheap, honestly. Get in the game. Just daily drive it too.

[Mike]

Yeah. Like the one that Jake's borrowing from buddy Cody is so beat up so bad.

[Ryan]

They're bulletproof.

[Ken]

It literally is bulletproof and everything.

[Ben]

Isn't that the car that like people get passed around or this guy will learn how to drift in it and then it'll get you passes the town bike.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's like. So everybody gets a ride dented. But like, the motor and the clutch are just chilling stock clutch.

[Ken]

Really?

[Mike]

It's crazy.

[Ken]

Wow, that's actually pretty impressive. But that's what you need. Just a good beater. But also. Fuck it. No, I said make yours into a new. Into the beater, dude.

[Mike]

I do. That's the thing. I don't want to do that since it's chilling at a nice stage. Like, I don't want to do that.

[Ben]

But so pretty too.

[Mike]

Yeah, he. They make these Kevlar fenders and doors that are like. You can just fold them up and bend them. And I'm like, that's what I need.

[Ryan]

Yeah, your shit's all jacked up after Jake, isn't it?

[Mike]

Yeah, dude.

[Ryan]

When he didn't latch your hood and it blew up. Yeah, that was hilarious, dude. Your car is the gift that keeps on giving.

[Mike]

One of those situations where, like, I couldn't really be that mad at him because, like, all he did. All he did was forget to like, latch the one latch and, like, hood.

[Ryan]

Blows up right after it.

[Mike]

But then it destroys. It destroys my quarter panels and the.

[Ryan]

Hood and the windshield.

[Mike]

Yeah, the windshield has a little crack. But then we're at the track, and he. He's like, all right. He starts my car up, like, we're gonna load it up. I'm like, you just load it. You can just load it, like, if you want. Whatever. And I was taking a Snapchat instead of guiding him onto the trailer because, like, the car is not that wide. You got. And then he just, like. He's looking at the left. He's got, like, a foot on the left, and he's just grinding the wheel. And I'm known for curbing my wheels, but for some reason, all the wheels on my drift car were immaculate, which is just like.

[Ryan]

It was bound to happen.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Bound to happen. But then he. He curbs, like. Just shaves off the outer ring on the trailer fender. One of those situations where I'm like, I mean, I'm not gonna make you buy me a new rim.

[Ken]

But also, I'm sad.

[Mike]

Just bombed.

[Ryan]

Yes. Well, I got. I gotta go take a leak. It was a good time. I'm gonna go take a leak. Go hang out with my Grandpa Ron for the day. I'll.

[Mike]

Yeah. Good luck not drinking.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we might have to have a couple beers.

[Ken]

Yeah. With grandpa Ron.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's watching basketball. He's. He's. You know, I'm going over there to go. Go do that with him. So anyways.

[Mike]

Well, you take it easy. And you guys as well.

[Ryan]

Try not to get into too much trouble.

[Ken]

See you next time. Don't let your meat love.