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Ryan
Did you get arrested that night?
Evan
Oh my God.
Ryan
Yeah, we probably get plenty of ways to hurt yourself on a dirt bike, but eating the front fender isn't one of them.
Dalton
People like Ken or rappers or whoever's like I gotta have I started out.
Ken
Making thirst traps on TikTok.
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Evan
It's actually funny because with the Utah.
Ben
Trip coming up, I was thinking about it. Somebody's gonna hear it.
CJ
Hey, before you answer, I'm glad you asked but like I'm like sitting over here like are we really starting off our 2025 podcast, like, sometimes you got.
Ryan
To hit people with the hard questions, the hard to answer questions.
Evan
Well, it goes with the start of the year because, you know, obviously it's the start of the year. You got to start a bunch of unreasonably unachievable, you know, resolutions. Right.
Dalton
He's farting and someone hearing it is an unachievable resolution.
Ryan
No, you got the guy stumbling.
Evan
No, I just. I Drinking less pop. So then I started drinking these Olipop things. They're like probiotic sodas.
CJ
Probiotic, yeah, it absolutely.
Evan
I woke myself up last.
Dalton
You actually farted?
Evan
I mean, yeah.
Ben
Did anybody hear this?
Evan
It just is, like, inconsiderate. I would be, like, tightening the lugs on my truck and then Evan would walk by and go, like. And like, I feel that that's inconsiderate.
Dalton
That is. That is.
Ryan
If.
Evan
If rolls were reversed, I would go, hm. I'm going to walk over and grab a water. And then maybe just like, distance myself.
Ryan
I don't know. It's just suspicious.
Dalton
It is.
Ryan
We've been friends for about 15 years. I've never heard you fart. That's all we're saying.
Gavin
I don't know about you, but normally if I got a fart, I'm not walking 50ft away. It's got to get hardly making to.
Ryan
The bathroom of that kid.
CJ
We're, like, telling you to do it. Asking Ryan to, like, fart in front of us. It's like asking, like, a kid to swear. They're like, nah, I'm not. That's a trap. I'm not going to do that.
Ryan
I don't know.
Dalton
It's more of a. I think Evan's more so. I got a conspiracy theory going on it, though, Ryan, you know.
Ryan
Yeah.
Evan
I mean, it's a conspiracy or concerned.
Ben
To be fair, I think Ben is the one that really started this conspiracy theory. I'm just still deeply concerned.
Ryan
I'm going to point out the obvious concerns here. Anyway. All right, we're back. Life Wide Open podcast. I. Dude, I'm so happy to be back. I'm so happy. I miss you guys, too. There's so many questions that I have for you guys. Like, we've, like, kind of been. I haven't seen Evan for three weeks.
CJ
Yeah, none of us have seen you. That's probably the longest I've gone without seeing you.
Ryan
And I know.
Dalton
And then he just sees in Vegas the whole time. I'm looking at his location just in Vegas the whole time.
Ben
Only for like six Days.
Dalton
It felt longer than that.
Ryan
Dude, did you actually.
Dalton
Was it only six days or.
Ben
It felt like two weeks, Thursday to Tuesday. What's the math?
Dalton
That's not that. About that long.
Gavin
I could not do six days in Vegas.
Ben
It was long.
Evan
Ken could do six.
Ben
My Vegas, three weeks. Your Vegas chips are a little different.
Gavin
I could do 60 hours at most.
Dalton
How much money did you, did you lose ev?
Ben
Yeah, it was like probably about 3,000.
Dalton
Oh, that's way better than I expected. But I thought you were going to lose like 20 grand. I thought you were going to come back and be like I lost 20 grand.
Ben
No, no, no. And I'm, I'm not happy with what I did lose. But you know, I think I'll bounce back from it. It's not irreversible.
Dalton
What else can you do? You can't do anything other than just keep going.
Ryan
My question is, what do you mean bounce back? You're not going to win that money back.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
You're not?
Ryan
No, just more so to just not.
Ben
Be sad about it. I lost $1,000 the first day. Set my limit. Stop. Thousand dollars the second day. And then was able to gamble for three more days. And it was 1:30 in the morning. The night before we were flying out and I had turned a hundred dollar bill that I borrowed from my girlfriend into 1400 on the roulette table. And I let it all ride because I was starting to have to gamble with one eye open. I was getting an uneasy tummy and I knew I needed to down. My girlfriend had left me hours ago. I'm just grinding it out at this table for three hours. So I put. I believe it was eight.
Evan
I risked all my hard work.
Ben
It was eight or $900 I had on red because black had hit like five times in a row.
Evan
Yeah, never again.
Ben
I threw 100 on red. 18, which. That's like $3,500 pay right there. Plus the double on the 900.
Ryan
800, no brainer.
Ben
And then there, you know, they have the three to ones on the corner. So I did a couple hundred over there and a couple hundred over there obviously. So I had like 13, 1400 spread it, you know, it obviously hit black. Notice I lost everything. Everything.
Ryan
But on the same.
CJ
I love that you're like, you know, referencing that you had one eye open. Like this dude can remember all the ups and downs, every gambling scenario.
Dalton
And then the guy next to me bet a dollar fifty and that.
Ben
No, no, that son of a bitch was winning the whole time, dude.
Dalton
I'm just, I'M having a hard time believing that it was only six days or whatever that you were in Vegas, because I swear it was like a week and a half when I was.
Ben
Maybe.
CJ
Maybe you were just that checked out.
Dalton
Like, maybe, maybe. But I was like, surely this guy's not still in Vegas? And then I see a snap and he's in Vegas. I'm like, is this dude planning on spending all three weeks off in Vegas? And I was like, I hope he does. Like, that's pretty funny.
Ben
It worked out pretty good. My. My cousin and my other buddy, they had never been to Vegas. First timers. So they came out for the first three days with us, and we really hung out with them, did some partying, and then had a couple days at the end for me and the girlfriend to be a little more ch. Which still just involved vodka and roulette, but it was a little bit more chill.
Ryan
And at what point did you shit your pants?
Ben
Okay, that was on the first day. You want me to get into that story?
Dalton
I think you got it now.
Ben
All right. Well, we fell victim to the $25 bottomless mimosas to start out that $25 bottomless.
CJ
You almost don't need to finish the story.
Ryan
I want you to.
Ben
Well, let's just say I was feeling really good. First day in Vegas. I'm wearing my white camo shorts.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ben
This comes into play later in the story.
Dalton
Oh, geez.
Ben
And we put in our hour and a half, two hour shift at the mimosa bar. And they're telling us it was time to leave.
Ryan
So we had.
Ben
No. Because it's a breakfast spot and it closes at 2. We weren't doing anything wrong.
Dalton
It's just.
Ben
Okay. It's 2:00.
Dalton
Been here all day.
Ben
No. They brought us one more bottle of champagne, which would have been like the fifth or sixth, but there was four of us. That's great. Yeah. Everything was still going pretty good right down until that very last bottle. And my girlfriend can do this fancy thing with the mimosa glass where she like puts the whole glass in her mouth and then like drinks it.
Dalton
Yep.
Ben
With no hands. And unfortunately, when she did that, she, like, kind of cough gag started to maybe puke. It looked like she was kind of covering her mouth. Oh, my God. I got. I got to go. Well, we had already paid her a tab, so she runs out. Me and cousin Joe and Will obviously finish all the mimosas. And while we're doing that, I'm. I'm la. We're all laughing very hard like, my girlfriend just had to sprint out of the restaurant to go to the bathroom. So somewhere between me laughing and having a rumbly tummy, I made the mistake of trusting. Trusting a fart. And truly just good old fashioned my pants badly.
Ryan
Oh, in the bar.
Ben
Yeah. Well, we were kind of saying. But yeah, I know. There's a total breakfast restaurant. They just have mimosas.
Dalton
Was it really far from your smell? Terrible.
Ben
I don't even know if it smell. It would just be like too drunk to tell. Like, pour black coffee through your white shorts and what's it going to look like on the.
Dalton
That's what happened.
Ben
Oh, my God.
Dalton
You could actually see it from the outside.
CJ
That's my.
Ryan
Holy shit.
Ben
Yeah, I wear it because maybe cotton would have been better. It would have absorbed some of it.
Ryan
But it just like, you just had.
Dalton
Enough velocity where it just went.
Ben
I'm pretty sure it bounced off the chair and came back at me. I'm not sure, but it might have.
Dalton
Left some on the chair.
Ben
Okay, this might be too graphic, but who knows? I meant that part. But so, okay, we're like, oh my God. Okay, we actually got to go. My girlfriend, she's got an upset tummy from trying to drink the mimosas and I got to change these trousers. We got to get the hell out of here.
Ryan
I think. I think when you shit your pants, it's time to go.
Dalton
So that's when they're asking you to leave as well.
Ben
There's Only been about 2 minutes have gone by since Nikki has ran out.
Ryan
You guys are really putting on a show.
Ben
And this restaurant's like right off the casino, all the slot machines. We're walking out the entrance or exit of the restaurant and there's two security guards standing around a vomit. Oh, no. I'm like, oh, my God. I think. I think that was Nikki. But luckily she's smart. When she ran into the bathroom, she took her sweatshirt off and so she looked different. They had a security guard standing outside the bathroom. And when she came out, they go, you know, excuse me, ma'am, are you. Did you puke? Are you sick? Because she really wasn't like drunk and out of control. She just tried to chug this mimosa with no hands, and it made her sick. So she just was able to say, no, I'm fine. And we met right at that point. Me was shit in my pants. Her have blown out over the floor and we just got the hell out of there.
Dalton
Did you go back and change your pants after or do you just run it for the rest of the day.
Ben
We took a five hour nap and then we hit Fremont Street. Like I'm not sure anybody else ever has.
Dalton
Love that. That's awesome.
Ryan
Did you get arrested that night?
Ben
Oh my God, we never talked.
Evan
It was one night.
Dalton
Holy shit. What a day.
Ben
Yeah, it was that night. It was that night in Vegas, a weed legal state. Our freaking taxi driver brings us straight to the dispensary before we even go to our hotel. Like it's a pit stop. We get picked up from the airport, go to a dispensary, go to a hotel, whatever. It just seems like the normal thing you do. It's legal out there. And we were on the sidewalk watching this street performer, he was a rapper and he was actually doing really good. Like I actually gave him like a $20 tip because he was actually spitting bars. Yeah, yeah, like it was good. Give him some money. We're having a beer watching him and I'm like, man, this just seems like the appropriate time to like light a joint, get surrounded. Like how fast, officers? Well, we were halfway through the joint, so you had a couple minutes? Yeah, yeah, yeah. At least I got stoned before the experience.
Ryan
Oh, that probably ease your nerves.
Ben
We were kind of more out in the open. So they, they took us to get over here, got us like backed up against the wall. They got us surrounded. And this whole time I'm just like holding it and it's smoldering and I'm like focusing on this officer and I just feel a rubber glove grabs my wrist with one hand, with the other hand the lady just grabs it, is just like looking at it. I don't know why, but it was just so funny to me. I mean it's a friggin joint, it's legal, I'm pretty sure in half the country.
CJ
And then meanwhile your cousin and Will were in the bathroom, weren't they? Like they. Oh yeah, they watched like holy shit.
Ben
Cousin Joe never recovered from mimosa morning. He just stayed in bed. Will had just walked into the Walgreens to buy us around a cocktailians, so. So when he walks in, we're watching this street performer, he comes out two minutes later and we're just swarmed by federalis. And his face was just truly like, just like the double take, you know, Just me and Nikki backed up against the wall.
Evan
Like cuffs.
Ben
No, no, no.
Evan
And they, and they had you surrounded.
Ben
They were surrounded. And honestly they were very nice. They, they didn't overly hassle us, they were just very firm. It is legal to have but you can't do it in public.
Dalton
Pretty honest mistake.
Gavin
That is weird. Like, to do it in public, it has to be like, in a consumption lounge.
Ben
Yeah. So, I mean, and they were fine. They, like, took down our information, I think just in case we did something stupid again.
Dalton
You didn't get a ticket or anything?
Ben
Unless something shows up in the mail at some point? No, they took down all of our information. But a couple hours later, after a few more drinks, I saw another. They move in packs out there.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ben
Like, it's.
Dalton
I know.
Ben
At least five at a time. And I was feeling loose enough to, like. I just straight up, why you took my joint? I just walked up to him. I'm like, hey, you know, a couple hours ago, I got jammed up smoking a freaking joint outside on the sidewalk. And I know it was really dumb, but, like, they just took down all my information and then were kind of vague, just like, let us go. Should I be looking for a ticket in the mail? What should I be doing? And they're like, oh, no. If they didn't bring you to the car and print you off a ticket, he goes, the tickets here, they're going to be about this big piece of paper. If you didn't get that, you're good. Oh, I think I'm fine. But they do have my information, which I'm not thrilled with.
Ryan
Yeah. It's just funny because, like, Vegas is the city with no laws. And then I just see. I see you go to Vegas, and I see one snap of, like, just shit my pants, run through the casino, and then the next snap is Evan, like, up against the wall. Like, kind of like. Like hands. Like, maybe in his. Wearing orange shoes.
Ben
Of course.
Dalton
Like a traffic cone.
Ryan
Yeah. They're kind of like looking down at him, he's like. I'm like, what the hell did you do?
Ben
So I know everything I just said there sounded like a series of. Of events. Like a full trip. That was the first.
Ryan
That was the first, dude.
Ben
No, technically the second day, because we didn't get to Vegas till three the first night. And we actually behaved. But that was our first full day in Vegas. We got all jammed up and then really did behave ourselves after that.
Ryan
Yeah, I believe it. I just imagine that you and Ken's Vegas experiences are just vastly different.
Ben
I stay away from the rodeo.
Gavin
Hey, nothing's wrong with the rodeo. Rodeo is a great family fun experience.
Ben
Did you take your family?
Gavin
No.
Ryan
Well, that's great, Ev. I'm glad that you made it back here in one piece. And we're not paying your bail for Vegas.
Evan
I know. I woke up at like 4am Because I couldn't sleep and I woke up to the text like it had just happened in the last three minutes. I was like, oh shit.
Ben
Well, that was funny because I sent that in the group chat. Just the video with no context. I'm waiting for response. I'm like, oh, with the time difference, it's like one or two there, just three or four back home or whatever. It makes sense that someone's not replying immediately. Which normally, yeah, people are pretty quick to respond in the group. I'm like, what are these guys doing?
Evan
But yeah, that's not enough for them. It does feel good to be back together though. I mean, I think realistically, like we were together and we worked throughout the last couple weeks, but it wasn't like when we're here the whole time. I don't know, it just wasn't the same without you guys. I felt like I didn't have the same people to share my stories with and all that, you know, like it just. Life was a little more bland. Nobody was getting arrested that I was hanging out with, you know, like there was no action.
Ryan
Definitely was quieter.
Dalton
No action.
Ben
I thought that I was going to come back after damn near three weeks off with my batteries recharged and I felt like I needed to come here and charge, hang out with you guys and make some videos. That's what I. That's what I feel like I need. It wasn't a break away from it. Like we got to make some content. I was going crazy.
Ryan
When I've showed up this morning and I go, wow, you look well rested and ready. I was just like dad, he's just.
Dalton
Too much time on your hands is definitely not good.
Ben
I had a four hour drive in. It was negative 20 degrees when I left and I don't have heat in my raptor. How because of your fault. Yeah, you're right. Because I don't want. It's not even so much that I gotta pay money to get it fixed. It's the fact that anything nowadays at a, at a dealer, I might not have a truck for a month. I'll be like. I'll be like Ryan borrowing Ken's Bronco or Ben or whoever everybody borrowed.
Evan
You know, it's a nice riggy should.
Gavin
Everyone is borrowing my Bronco other than me.
Evan
It's red.
Ben
That is true Raptor. I kind of do want to. Honestly, I am gonna.
Dalton
There you go.
Ben
I might bring my truck in tomorrow.
Evan
I kind of miss it.
Gavin
It's a fun little rig.
Ben
You got a full tank of gas?
Gavin
Hell no.
Ryan
Yeah, Ryan left it on empty.
Evan
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Ryan
Yeah, no, I kind of just had, like, a super chill couple weeks. Went skiing, got home, had, like, two weeks. A couple. Like, one week. No one was even around, so I just, like, set up my Xbox. Finally got that thing hooked up and just got absolutely destroyed. In every game I played Ben, like, so bad.
CJ
You played? You played one night?
Dalton
Oh, he's played a couple nights.
Ryan
A bunch of nice.
Ben
Is CJ as good as he was talking A couple weeks?
Ryan
CJ is pretty good. CJ's pretty good. I'll give him that. I'll give him that. But, no, we were playing, like, cod, and I'd play with, like, Jake, Justin, cj. We'd all hop on. And I just found out that, like, Jake is, like, the biggest nerd you've ever met about cod.
CJ
He, like, learns the things, dude. Especially zombies.
Ryan
And Jake revived me 35 times in one game.
Dalton
Yeah. And I.
Ryan
Was that even possible?
Dalton
Yeah. He keeps going.
Ryan
It's actually insane. I was begging him. I was like, bro, please. Please don't revive me. Like, let's just be dumb.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
Because it's like, 12:30.
CJ
So that's another point. Like, just. He's played so much zombies that him and his buddy Zach played to such a high level that they just quit because they were so bored.
Ryan
Yeah, I know. It was insane. Like, I go, dude, I'm down. Just let me be. And you go, no, you're not. And revive me. I'm like, bro, come on. Just let me die. Like, let's just go to bed.
Dalton
And then if we're ever playing, like, online matchmaking where you're playing against other people, Ben just gets murked. Like, we're like. It gets to the end of the game, and we're like, all right, let's see. You know, you see, everyone kills, and it's like, you know, like, one. I'm maybe, like, 40. And, like, like 30 or 40 and 25. And, like, Justin's kind of up around there. Jake's maybe a little less. And then we're like, where's Ben? Right down at the bottom. And it's got two kills, 40 deaths. I'm not.
Ben
I'm not kidding you.
Dalton
You'll get, like, two kills total on Nuketown, dude. I'm like, how is that possible, bro? There's people in front of you.
Ryan
As soon as you spawn, you can just spawn.
Ben
Throw a grenade. Yeah. More than two kills, you'll have two kills.
Ryan
I was trying it. I was trying everything. I'd spawn, die. And I'm like how? Yeah.
Dalton
And the whole time he's sitting here like, I don't know how you guys are doing this.
Ben
What?
Dalton
This and that. I'm like, dude, shoot, like just. What do you mean? You just aim, you shoot like.
Ryan
It was bad, dude. I was getting murked.
CJ
Specific question, like, what was your sensitivity on?
Dalton
It's just Factory. He's on all the factors.
CJ
I think Factory is too slow, but you can quickly get too high if.
Ben
You'Re not used to it. Yeah, turning it up is not gonna help. It makes it worse.
CJ
Turning it up one or two notches.
Ryan
No, I'm shooting over here. I'm shooting over there. Like, I'm hitting the ground for a while. It's actually insane. I gotta start streaming, honestly.
Evan
Because that's what I'm saying.
Ryan
People watching would be like, there's no way that a 25 year old can be this bad at video games.
CJ
Yeah, you have a niche. I think it really hilarious.
Evan
It's like streaming.
Ben
But you weren't a big Call of Duty guy growing up, were you?
Ryan
No, I never wasn't even an Xbox guy. I didn't have an Xbox.
Gavin
Didn't even have an Xbox. PlayStation. Nothing in here.
Ryan
No. So I'm like, I'm. I'm sort of getting into it like I'm an 11 year old again.
Ben
That's fair then. Yeah, it's a learning curve.
Dalton
But like, it's tough playing with Ben because you just feel bad for him when you're trying to play against other people. Like, the whole time he's just like, basically asking questions. You're trying to help him. And then, you know, it's like three games and the dude's got a total of seven kills. Oh, combined.
Ryan
All three finally get it.
Dalton
Yeah, like, you'll hear when he gets killed. Oh, I got one. You know, it's like that.
Ryan
And then.
Dalton
And then it's like, you guys think we could just go play some zombies? Sounds like, all right, yeah, we'll go play some zombies for you. Somebody plays zombies. And then too.
Ryan
But it's kind of like what.
Dalton
It's kind of like what I said would happen with Ben is like, then you're playing the game and he gets over it, so he wants to be done, but we're winning. So he's like begging Jake to die. Yeah, but Jake's like, no, we've already got like an hour into this.
Ryan
I know we've talked about Xbox more in the last three podcasts than ever before, and I just thought it was. I thought it was pretty Funny to update the people. What has actually happened now that I turned my Xbox on?
Dalton
It is really funny. You would have thought it is really fun though. Yeah, like I'm having fun playing with you guys.
Ryan
Dude, how good does it feel when I text you? Like, yo, you're trying to hop on.
Dalton
Dude, I never thought I'd get that text message from Ben, but I feel so left out.
Evan
Dude, I need to get one. I'm just like stuck with like shitty reality TV and freaking he's no good movies.
CJ
Yeah, it is.
Ryan
Yeah, our lobby's kind of full, Ryan.
Evan
Yeah, your clan's full.
Ryan
You got a full clan?
Ben
Dude, you guys want to make fun of me? Cuz basically the only game I play other than skate three is Fortnite.
Ryan
Yeah, I tried playing Fortnite too, but I just kept getting murked.
Ben
Dude, you can't play your first game of Fortnite and get Merc. They drop you into the most cherry.
Ryan
I know.
Ben
You'Re playing with kids on a Nintendo Switch in the back of their mom's minivan. You got to be able to get them.
Ryan
Yeah, it's bad.
Evan
You know that kid that had the runaway car we talked about?
Ben
Few.
Evan
Yeah, the Honda Pilot. Yeah, local kid. Well, again, then shortly after that, he was back in the news because his house burned down. And he saved his house from burning down.
CJ
I don't know what is up.
Ben
Do you think he wants to be in the headlines?
Evan
I don't know and I can't speak speak for him.
Dalton
That's a lot to happen.
Ryan
How's your house Burned down, but then you stop it from burning down.
Evan
I think he woke up the family and got all the dogs out or anything like that. But the house still burned down.
Ryan
Damn. Yeah, so get on that guy.
Evan
Bit of a bad go.
Dalton
Terrible year.
Ben
Not to sidetrack from that, but did you guys see the kid that saved the old people from the building wearing our merch?
CJ
Yeah, that was pretty cool to see.
Ben
Ken, can you pull the clip I got sent?
Gavin
That's pretty vague.
Ben
I got. I got. There should be plenty of you guys probably all got it too. But the first DM didn't have the video attached. It was just like a description of what happened. Like, hey, my brother and his friends saved some old people from their house because it was on fire and they ran in and woke them up. I don't know. You get a lot of bizarre dms, so it's kind of like you don't know. And I didn't do it.
Ryan
What did you do with that I did.
Ben
I didn't respond to it.
Ryan
Your dick.
Ben
And then I don't know if it was a day or two later I get a freaking video of the news story.
Ryan
You think somebody's gonna DM you that lie?
Ben
I don't think that they would lie about that. But I'm saying. And you guys know the things you get DM'd. There is some bizarre stuff in the DM.
Ryan
Ridiculous.
Ben
Yeah. Normally our merch is. Only the last time I saw it on TV was that kid on Cops.
Dalton
Yeah, that was a good one, too.
Ryan
Yeah.
Evan
The last time I saw it on fire was Jake. At least Evan laughed at that. Dude, you're a couple months off.
Ryan
What is going on?
Evan
When's the last time that you were on the pod?
Gavin
I was briefly in the back of the fishing one.
Evan
You got a mirror, Ken.
Ryan
So going.
CJ
Yeah. You have it set up as a separate display currently.
Ben
Hey, what are you looking at? A picture of yourself. What's going on over there?
Ryan
There we go. Didn't stop at calling 911.
Ben
I was like, we got legalized wheelies. That's my guy. Okay. Then we knocked.
Dalton
Wait, no, I saw the lights wide open.
CJ
And wait, the barn was falling in.
Ben
When we were close to it, like, there's like, stuff banging.
CJ
And I love, like, his.
Dalton
You wearing our. Our sunglasses too?
Ryan
Looks like it.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ryan
Looks like it.
Evan
And the hat, too.
Dalton
Yeah. Every single one of those are in Seaboys Merch. Those guys are awesome.
Evan
That's sick. And so, Ev, what's the synopsis of this? They were just walking by the house.
Ben
I actually don't know any more information other than the first video that or first message that vaguely described it. And then getting the video clip. Unfortunately, I didn't follow up. Or maybe I just said something like, wow, that's crazy. That's super awesome that things worked out. Something along those lines.
Evan
Basically, it looks like they just were going by the house and saw them fire and freaking saved old couple.
Ben
So those guys, they lit the fire?
Dalton
Yeah, I didn't want to say it. I was like, no, that's jokers playing with some fireworks. And then we noticed that the house was on fire.
Ben
We were smoking a joint next to this fucking propane tank with all the.
Ryan
LA fires going on right now. Super sad. Super sad situation. But it is crazy to see how many, like, terrible people there are out in the world that are like, looting homes after people get evacuated out of the homes. And then, like, I saw one that this guy was pretending to be a firefighter and going into homes and stealing what? And then I've seen a bunch of things of, like, apartments on fire on, like, the third story of an apartment building. Like, flames coming out the windows like crazy. And there isn't a fire within four miles.
Evan
So, like, someone just lit an apartment on fire.
Ryan
Like, people are just.
Gavin
There's so many of those that people are, like, they're suspecting or just copycat. Fires are just random people starting.
Ben
Do you think it all all started intentionally?
Evan
Yeah.
Ryan
I've seen videos of homeless people starting fires, too, like in the Hills. And, like, I think starting might have.
Gavin
Been like, a legitimate just wildfire. And then there's other people that are like, ooh, let's see if we can cause some damage, because some of these people have nothing better to do.
Ryan
Yeah, I don't know. I think it's just like. Yeah, I. Pretty cynical look. I think a lot of people are just terrible people.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ryan
It's kind of like what happened with the downtown Minneapolis with all the protest. And then the protest turned into basically just like, join just as a riot. Yeah, it turned it. Well, it started as protest turned into riot, though. And then that's when, like, people just came in that had. They were just there to just break.
Ben
Yeah.
Gavin
Here's 39 people arrested for. For looting in San.
Dalton
And they. They weren't from around there, huh?
Gavin
Yeah.
Dalton
Where'd they come in from?
Evan
None of the 39 arrested are from Santa Monica. It's, like, so sad. Could you imagine looking at that and being like, this is my opportunity to steal from someone?
Gavin
It's just so weird. You look at whole neighborhoods destroyed, and then that house is perfectly fine.
Evan
I guess the way the fire moves through.
CJ
Did the Hollywood sign start on fire?
Dalton
That's what I was. That must not have.
Gavin
That was fake news.
Ryan
Okay.
CJ
I did hear about it, and then I'm like, why would just. You would see it.
Evan
Yeah. And like, if you Google or if you Tik tok, which obviously is a bad news source, but if you. If you search, like, Hollywood sign on fire, it, like, comes up as a suggestion, and then we'll show you a video of it on fire, and you're like, oh, wow.
Ben
Yeah. But I think people have lit that on fire, like, just over time. People do that. Not that it ever all burns down to the ground, but that's like, a thing. People vandalize it.
Dalton
Yeah. I feel like you would really hear about it if the Hollywood sign caught. But it's weird because Joe Rogan, like, there was like, a clip of him talking about how, like, If LA caught on fire and there was in the right wind, it would just take out all of it. And there was even a Tweet from like 2019 where Trump was saying that.
CJ
They need to clean up.
Dalton
They got to clean up their, their, their wooded areas and this and that because if there is a fire, it's going to take all. And they didn't listen.
Ben
I saw a headline that was like, mayor cuts 12 and a half million dollars from the police budget. And I don't know if that's just another clickbaity thing. Like I haven't fact checked this stuff.
Gavin
Yeah, that's $17 million from the LA Fire Department.
Ben
And then I saw another one where like one of their main water reservoirs was fully drained and not maintenance or something. Yeah. So there's like a lot of other factors too that I don't know. It's just crazy. And I don't even know what to believe when you just see headlines on the Internet and I don't have enough time to fact check everything.
Evan
But the super big conspiracy is because Diddy's house burned down.
Ben
What?
CJ
I didn't know that they like, right, super.
Ben
The warrant.
Evan
Yeah, the warrant goes live. Like it was supposed to be this week and it burned out last week.
Dalton
Are you kidding me?
Ben
Does baby oil burn?
CJ
Is insane.
Evan
Is it flammable?
Ryan
Wait, everything that's happened with Diddy and they haven't raided his house?
Evan
That's what I said. I was like, how the hell have they not done that yet?
Dalton
It would have been pretty easy for one of his guys to go start it on fire.
CJ
Can you imagine?
Evan
They're like today's LA mansion sounds untouched.
Dalton
Oh, that's ripped through surrounding areas.
Ryan
So much fake news.
Evan
I know.
Ben
It's impossible.
Evan
And like I actually looked into all this prior to this podcast to try to figure it out. You gotta like the other way.
Dalton
It is sad though, because my grandpa, his house had burned down. Was it three years ago now? Maybe maybe four.
Ryan
20, 21.
Dalton
I mean, it's just sad. Like lost. Lost everything. And we even talked about it on here at the time. But like, it's tough to lose everything. Like you got all of your pictures, your belongings, like keep safe things that you were planning on giving down or. And, and insurance doesn't cover everything. Like it really doesn't. And it's also a really, really big pain to try and get what you had. There's just kind of a lot to it and I just cannot imagine how they're going to.
CJ
And even if you have like seven Day. Heads up. You just can't take it all.
Dalton
And.
Evan
Oh yeah.
CJ
And like a giant U Haul, you couldn't take it all.
Dalton
Yeah, no, it is, it is tough, dude. Like, I feel bad for all those people. And then it also is like, it's crazy because you see these people starting the fires, whether homeless people or just flat out vandals. Vandals.
Ryan
Some people like to see the world burn.
Dalton
Literally. Yeah, literally.
Gavin
I think the toughest thing is like in that area, like fire insurance is its own specific thing. And so many of those people didn't have.
Dalton
Probably not.
Ryan
So I don't, I don't understand this though. They say, like, there's $150 billion worth of damage and 120 of that is uninsured. And there's so many things or people coming out like a month ago, all of the entire neighborhoods. Fire insurance.
CJ
Yeah, I heard that too. So now I'm wondering, like, what is.
Dalton
That's the thing with insurance. I heard that they're with you until they tell you need it.
Gavin
Pull it political. But like the state of California capped how much insurers can charge somebody for that type of insurance. And they found it's just not worth offering that type of insurance to that area. They just left the market.
CJ
But it could be a bigger story of California, like knowing that's exactly what's going to happen.
Evan
Do you hear? So, like, the. The LA Rams are supposed to play the Vikings tonight.
Dalton
Yeah.
Evan
You guys will know how it went.
CJ
Still going to.
Evan
Still going to. But they moved it from la, which would seem like would be a good thing to keep the game in la. Like the town obviously needs something, you know, like needs a little come together. I mean, hopefully getting what by the Vikings wouldn't be that. But they moved it to State Farm Stadium. Of all the stadiums, State Farm Stadium in Arizona.
Ben
It's kind of like the thing though where, you know, if you were going touristing in Florida after the floods, like, do you. It's like kind of. Yeah, sort of.
Evan
No, I get that.
Ben
Get it. But also, would it not be good for the economy and just helping? Yeah. I don't know. Two sides to everything.
CJ
Did you see the Mark Zuckerberg Joe Rogan podcast?
Evan
Yeah, I haven't listened to it yet.
CJ
Super good. But it's just dude crazy. Like he's revamping his whole content checking misinformation, like fact checking censorship in general. Yeah. And the reason why it got so bad, you know, like during COVID like Biden administration was like pushing him to basically Fact check stuff that's true and like say it's false. It's just crazy. So it's just we're in a new age.
Ryan
Something I thought was interesting too is like you give a creator a slap on the wrist or something like that. If they were to do something or you get demonetized, then the creator moving forward just self censors. Which is just the same form of censorship but without them having to do the dirty work of it. Because like at the end of the day it's you know, the creators livelihood. But it's still a form of censorship of like you're basically fear. Yeah. You're basically just saying like, yeah, if you want to talk about that, that's fine, but you're not, we're not going to pay you. So it's like a one way street and.
CJ
Yeah.
Ryan
Yeah. I mean when you have a, a family and, and a business running off of it, you're like, it's probably not worth talking about then. Which is just censorship.
Dalton
I mean I, I like where it's going obviously, but you gotta wonder, would Mark Zuckerberg really be coming out and doing this if, if the other side would have won?
Evan
Yeah, it seems probably not.
Dalton
Yeah, probably not. Like why didn't you say no at the time and like not do it? Because they kept doing it.
CJ
You know why? I guess because they just, they then they got a bunch of companies to start investigating, investigate his company and he's like, not that I had anything to hide. He's like, but they're just trying to screw me over from like left.
Dalton
I think he's just covering his ass in my opinion. I think it's. Now it's convenient. He doesn't want Trump administration. Administration and come down on him. So now he's switching sides. That's, that's my opinion. Although I think he's switching sides for the better. That's great. But I think that nothing would have changed if the other side would have won.
Ryan
Yeah, I agree. It's hard to say. But also, Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ryan
And then X was basically like paving the way for no censorship. And I think that then everyone else was like, oh, like our cards are kind of being shown right now of how much we are censoring because there's another app that has none and now we look obviously really bad. Yeah.
CJ
It was interesting hearing him talk highly of. He's like, I think X's community notes the way like everyone weighs in on whether it's true or not true and how they feel on it. He's like, I think X's is way better than what Facebook has right now. That is crazy.
Gavin
Facebook is moving towards in the next however many months is a little late.
Dalton
Late, but at least it's better late than never.
Ben
That's.
Evan
I thought as soon as I saw it coming out and like him going on a podcast tour and all this, I go, of course.
Dalton
I think it's better though for, for the world in general and, and both sides. Like, I think you should be able to speak your opinion. Obviously there's certain things that should be hidden, but it's a crazy world we live in.
Evan
Dude. David Dobrik's Jack now. What the.
CJ
Yeah, dude, that was crazy.
Ryan
That was not part of my bingo card.
Ben
No.
CJ
And I. He just did such a good job of hiding it.
Evan
Well, yeah, because he doesn't post the Internet. Yeah.
CJ
Yeah, but I don' still like going to like the seven wonders of the world and like not even really posting about that.
Evan
And that's true.
CJ
Keep in mind, like, he still posts every day like a million snaps on Snapchat.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ben
For me and the other people listening, what does he even do?
CJ
I would say, who is he? I would go as far to say at one time he was the best vlogger on YouTube.
Evan
Yeah.
Dalton
Probably best video creator. He was like.
Ryan
Yeah, he was the, he was the most hype.
Ben
What did he do?
Ryan
He had like a group of friends, they called themselves the vlog squad. Stay with me here, it gets better. He was like, like, what, 2017-2016-2017-2018, 2020.
Dalton
I'd say, I think, I would say.
Ryan
That'D be the era. But he had like a video that was 4 minutes and 20 seconds long and it was like two or three.
Dalton
Of them a week.
Ryan
A week. And they were, I don't know, they were just like, funny. He was like the first YouTuber to do like car giveaways where he'd like give a one of his friends a car and. And then I think it like kind of like started to show how big YouTube could get and he just like, like as he got bigger. He's got like 15 million subscribers now, but like at the end he was like pulling 4 million views, which at the time seemed crazy, but now that's like pretty much what we're pulling. I don't know. He kind of just like paved the way for like making short, entertaining videos.
Dalton
Yeah. Like really quick, fast paced, like short things and like, they would be absurd things, you know, like back then people weren't just like, giving a Tesla to the pizza delivery guy and it was just funny and I don't know, he had a good group of guys and, and girls around him and they were really good video. They, they're probably still even good today.
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Dalton
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Ryan
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Ben
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Evan
We were made for this damn dude. These are great. They have like 20 some million views now 30. But his last one has 6.6.
Ryan
He went to the seven wonders of the World in his last video though. And just watching that, I was like, damn, that'd be like really fun to just go and travel and like not really make a video about it, but you're just capturing like, like fun moments from it. And then you just get to make like one big video from it. It was just like a 15 minute.
Ben
How long would that take? Like if you tried to beeline it?
Evan
I think it was like what, six weeks of intense travel.
Ben
Okay, six weeks is less than I thought.
Evan
I thought, I was thinking two months maybe.
Ryan
Did you guys see that Minnesota banned youth power sports?
CJ
Oh yeah. Dude.
Ben
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Dalton
Just a CRF110.
Ben
No. Nope. It is a certain chemical in the plastic that's on certain machines that you cannot have, I don't know if carcinogens, the word, a cancer causing material, whatever, in anything sold to not an adult.
Ryan
Okay, yeah.
Ben
So because these vehicles are marketed to the youth, they cannot have this certain chemical. So when you hear all this crazy, oh, they're gonna cancel them. All they really got to do is like, like buff out their plastic formula. From what I understand, I could be wrong, but they're not. They're certainly not banning everything. But all the headlines are, no more mini dirt bikes. No more four wheelers.
Dalton
At first I thought they were just trying to like keep them off to like be safe.
Ben
I was like, I mean, I do think it's crazy cuz like if your kid's chewing on your. His110 fender, what the heck if your dog's doing it.
Evan
But you got your kid.
Ryan
So. Yeah, they're. I mean, right here this guy says apparently too many kids over the years have been licking the side panels.
Evan
But he was like, he's being sarcastic.
Ryan
But he was like, there's plenty of ways to hurt yourself on a dirt bike, but eating the front fender isn't one of them.
Ben
I've ate the front fender on purpose.
Ryan
Yeah.
Gavin
So the ban is on. Youth oriented products that contain pfas, essentially, they just have to put different plastics on it. But it does suck that they have to have so many different models that cannot. They have to basically redo all the.
Dalton
Plastic that shouldn't be.
Ben
That seems pretty freaking simple. Pour something different into the same mold.
Gavin
But they gotta have like so many models on every showroom floor.
CJ
The biggest.
Evan
That good, we can get a cheap.
Ryan
Pit bike well, moving forward, though, I read that by, like, 2035, I think, like, all products that have PFAS are going to be illegal. I think there was, like, 11 categories, and this was, like, the first rollout, which I thought was funny that it was youth dirt bikes right away. And I guess, like, people are already suing over it.
Gavin
But really, Minnesota, it's 2032. No products can contain that 20.
Ryan
And the reason that they're doing that is because, like, they. They assume that when the vehicle's done being used, it goes and sits in some landfill, and then the water run and then the water runoff, and then they're like cancerous chemicals. In theory, it all makes sense.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ryan
Nobody is arguing the fact of, like, oh, but it. It's not that bad to have cancerous chemicals in. In our water supply.
Evan
Nobody wants.
Ryan
No, nobody's saying that.
Ben
I just think.
Ryan
Funny, that is. Yeah. Bring back that. It started with youth dirt bikes, and.
Ben
Everyone'S like, oh, come on.
Dalton
And then.
Ryan
Not the youth.
Dalton
I think just the. The narrative of it got taken the wrong way and then ran with. So then, like, the way I just heard of it, it was like, yeah, they're just banning, like, little dirt bikes, basically, like kids dirt bikes. I was like, dang. Just like. And I just figured because they're trying to protect them, you know, from getting hurt.
Evan
Does that mean that our pit bikes are now worth more money or worth less money?
Ryan
Well, can we do anything with them?
Evan
Yeah. Can we do anything?
Ben
Dude, we don't.
Dalton
We don't really have any individual pit bikes anymore. Like, all of them have been utilized for, like.
Ben
Like, we got four crispy shop rigs.
Dalton
Don't we have three of them?
Ben
There's.
Dalton
Oh, we have four fresh ones.
Ben
Two whites, two reds.
Dalton
Oh, never mind. It's pretty good.
Evan
Yeah.
Dalton
Pretty thin, though, for normal.
Evan
We got the three all tied up.
Dalton
Together and the tall one.
Ryan
Yeah. There was, like, this weird time back in, like, 2020. 2021, where pit bikes were, like, really, really hard to buy new from a dealer.
Dalton
Maybe like, 11.
CJ
You got that six at once, dude.
Ryan
Yeah, One dealer, and we made it pretty clear, like, just throughout the videos and on Instagram, like, hey, if any dealerships have. Have 110s come in, hit us up. We'll buy them. And one dealership hit us up and was like, hey, I just got six. And we're like, we'll take all of them.
Evan
Yeah, we might have been part of the problem.
Dalton
I guess we were raising the price, but we were buying them at msrp. So it worked out great for us.
Evan
Yeah. And we gave them away.
Ben
I hope. To adults.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ryan
Evan pulls out a environmental badge.
Dalton
We got him Junior Task Force.
Ben
Wait, what? Junior? I'm old, I'm short. Where's the Junior?
Dalton
It's just funnier for you to be Junior Task Force.
Ben
So hopefully we can still go to the dealer and buy 110. I think it'll buff out. I'm not for sure. I'm not too worried about it. Yeah.
Evan
I mean, especially if it's just the plastics. That could be one thing. If they're like the chassis, you know, like, that's kind of hard.
Ben
Are they worried about kids sucking on the dipstick, Drinking the gas? I mean, I get especially what Ben said. The stuff goes to the landfill, it causes cancer. It's not good, but at the same time, it's just like. I don't know, there's just so many things that someone can hurt theirselves. Like, don't eat the plastic. Don't drink the gas. Ass. Don't crash into a tree. You'll break your arm.
Ryan
Like, they're assuming that people are eat, actually eating the plastic.
Evan
But, yeah, it's. It's exactly what you said they don't want in the landfill.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
So I don't know if this is true or not. I. I'm pretty sure it's not true, and I might just be spreading misinformation.
Dalton
I heard.
Ryan
I heard that CF Moto bought Articat.
Gavin
I heard that rumor, too, but I don't know if it's true.
Evan
I have not.
Ben
Okay?
Evan
I have not.
Ryan
I. I heard that in. The guy that was telling me was like, yep, they wrote the check and everything. Like, it sounded like he was in. In the deal with them. And I was like, oh, okay, it must be real. And then I started looking it up, and it's like, not only can I not find anything, but I'll catch, like, a lead on it. Like, you know, go to a form or a Reddit page. Like, my phone will start bugging. It's like, yeah, dude. It's the weirdest thing. It's like anything that even questions that has been removed off the Internet. Which makes me even more curious. Like, what the hell is going on?
Gavin
I'm looking at this Reddit form, and people are complaining that the admins are deleting stuff. Stuff.
Evan
What the.
Ben
If only we had an inside source. Someone that we know that worked for Articat.
Evan
Should we call her? The lady did we know.
Ben
I'm talking about. I'm Talking about Big Wrench, the one that's trying to design the new.
CJ
I usually ask Big Wrench most of the Articat questions.
Ben
He actually keeps him quiet. He really did.
Ryan
On the 858 wrench doing with articat.
Ben
Am I supposed to talk about it?
Evan
Probably not.
Ben
Oh, then Big Wrench has solely. I can't tell if you're trolling me right now.
Dalton
Single handedly. He's designed every articulation cat sled since 2000.
Ben
Guy that's trying to put a. Never mind. We gotta stop talking about it. I don't know.
Ryan
I don't know if I know what you're talking about.
Ben
Okay, well then we'll just. He's the. I don't know. I probably can't.
Ryan
That's so good.
Gavin
I mean it would make total sense for Articat to buy that they have a domestic manufacturing plant.
Ben
I can't tell if you're trolling me right now. You don't know that Big Ranch works for ecat?
Evan
I thought he just takes a vacation in the winter and goes to Aruba.
Ben
No. Next topic.
Ryan
I wouldn't be surprised if CF Moto did buy them because. So Articat was bought in like 2017 for 250 million. And anyone that Textron by Textron and anybody that knows anything is like about helicopters. Okay.
Ben
That's what Textron is really.
Evan
You love helicopters.
CJ
I didn't really know that. To be honest.
Ryan
I didn't know that either either.
Ben
Fact check me. But that's what I was told.
CJ
We need.
Ben
Okay, but yeah, that's what I heard.
Ryan
But anyway, everyone's always like, oh, they're going bankrupt. I've heard they're going bankrupt for the last 12 years.
CJ
You hear so much. John Deere's buying them.
Ryan
Oh, I thought that was true. That'd be sick.
Ben
I think that CF Moto buying Articat is the best thing that could happen for both.
CJ
I agree too.
Ben
Because CF Moto appears that they are hitting the game hard and they want to make a name and they have money to spend and they don't have. And Articat doesn't have money to spend. They've been going tits up for however long we just said long time. So it would be the perfect collaboration.
Ryan
Makes sense in my eyes.
Ben
Everybody wins.
Ryan
I think it's funny.
Ben
Including me. I want a new Articat.
Ryan
It would probably be a CF Moto though.
CJ
Dude, speaking of art, they got it.
Ben
But they did factory, they did rebrand the four wheelers. They're the exact same as an articat. Oh, that's right.
Ryan
Just a bunch of guys talking power sports that don't know anything. We're just speculative.
Ben
No, but they were allowed.
Ryan
I think this is what happened.
Ben
But no, I mean, when Textron bought Articat, they kept articat snowmobiles, but they rebranded the four wheelers. But I can't even remember what they call them. I don't.
Ryan
Yeah, they didn't make power sports before. They were making helicopters.
Ben
But why not just still call it an articat four wheeler?
Ryan
Oh, I don't know.
Ben
That's what I'm saying. Like, it was weird.
Ryan
By the way, dude, I.
CJ
You're gonna get an articat.
Ryan
I want to get an Arcat.
CJ
I.
Ryan
Honestly, I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna.
Ben
I've seen a lot of horror stories.
Ryan
With those 858 horror stories about everything, though.
CJ
It's gonna go good for you.
Evan
Ben doesn't even ride it, dude.
Ben
Why.
Evan
Why would he be worried?
Ben
No, an Alpha 858. I want one in the worst way. I think they look sicker than any other sled, mainly because they're fresh. It's not something we've been looking at for years.
CJ
Yeah.
Ben
And I just haven't rode one, which makes me really want one. One. Yeah, that's it.
Ryan
Okay. I heard that when I. I don't.
Ben
Know where I was going with that when I want one.
Ryan
When I heard that CF Moto bought Articat, they were like. And this guy was allegedly this. I don't know this guy. This guy I was talking to was like. I watched them stroke that pen. And he was like, I saw them stroke that pen for 250 million. And I was like, damn. Damn. How do they have $250 million just.
Dalton
Like, in the back while they're writing it?
Ryan
They got 250 million bucks to spend, but every other manufacturer is like, like, three seconds away from, like, going bankrupt. Like, what do those Chinese know that we don't?
Ben
Who's fact checking right now did this?
Ryan
Nobody's fact checking.
Ben
Did Canada have to bail out Skidoo? Because I just heard that with this whole CF mode. This is my homie group chat back home. CF Moto buying Articat. The same talk back and forth. Yo, skadoo, skidoo, skidoo. And they go, canada government had to bail out Skidoo because they were going tits up.
Evan
That was.
Gavin
They got bailed out in 17, not also 2009.
Ben
Oh, well, then, yeah, see, thanks for the fact check. I Was right.
Ryan
Benny was telling me.
CJ
No, Spenny was telling us about ktm. Can you tell us a little about that?
Ben
Oh, that's not looking good. They bought too many other brands. Gas, gas, Husky. Not good.
CJ
I heard their factory riders just getting paid IOUs.
Ryan
Really?
CJ
Yeah.
Gavin
I saw something like KTM as a full year's worth of inventory just sitting on the lots, dude.
Ryan
It's like, that's good for us, though. It's like every manufacturer. Every manufacturer was just like, we had a good 20, 20, 20, 21. What should we do? And somebody was in the back, like, just triple the inventory. And whoever was up front was just like, it.
Ben
You're hired for the same reason I love KTM is because they make more models than anybody. But at the same time, you end up in this position, you have so much inventory, it's. It's got to be hard to, like, corner the market when you have such a wide variety of what you're making. Like Yamaha, they make five freaking dirt bikes. You just make them and sell them. But KTM has so many models, it just makes sense that you can't sell them all.
Ryan
They'd be cooked eventually.
Ben
Unless everybody that rides a dirt bike buys a ktm. There's just. They went too big.
Evan
Kenny, have you taken a bath yet on your cyber truck? Do you know if you've lost a lot of money on it?
CJ
Oh, I was like, well, I haven't.
Gavin
Sold it, so I haven't lost it yet, but I know it's going down.
Ben
Yeah.
Dalton
Like, is it?
Ben
I'll give you 50 grand.
CJ
Started thinking right now in the bath, man.
Gavin
I was like, have you taken a bath, Ryan?
Ryan
I thought you maybe surprised Ken with. With no. Some bath bombs. I was like, damn, Ryan's really trying to switch up the conversation right now.
Evan
No, I was thinking about inventory that you can't sell because Tesla has threatened to cancel my cybertruck on me, like, 10 times. And then they call me and they're like, please come by your truck, dude.
Dalton
I think they. I think the hype's over. And, yeah, dude, people aren't buying them.
Gavin
Hype's over. I saw a post, they were, like, scratching off all the foundation series badges and reselling them is, like, normal trucks.
Dalton
Well, that's just the thing, though. Like, Teslas in general, this happens with almost every new model. Tesla, the whole model behind Tesla, is for them to be just a widespread consumer vehicle, you know, and people get that. And, like, initially when they come out, there's all this hype behind it. Whereas like people like Ken or rappers or whoever's like, I gotta have.
Ryan
I gotta have one in the same. Well, the people are like, I gotta.
Dalton
Have that because no one else has that. So they pay extra to get it right away. So they pay on top. But the whole point is they're gonna pump these things out and keep pumping them out, and they're supposed to be attainable to just everyone. So then the price goes down. And that's just how it works.
Gavin
A year later, they drop the price.
Dalton
People like Ken in the rappers, they lose a shit ton of money, but.
Gavin
He looks in with it.
Ryan
So.
Dalton
Yeah, no, for us, it was great, personally.
Ryan
Hurts a little bit, but keep taking those baths, brother.
Dalton
I love it, man. Keep doing it, Ryan.
Evan
I mean, take a bath is a pretty common term.
Dalton
Yeah.
Evan
For losing money. Gutter minded.
Ryan
Yeah. Ryan, you made Ken very uncomfortable.
Dalton
Ken and bath is just two things that I don't want to picture.
Ben
Do you take your boots off when you go in the bath?
Gavin
Yes.
CJ
Having the cybertruck around is just an attraction for everyone. It's like the Bean in Chicago.
Ben
Yeah.
CJ
If you go to Chicago, you have to go to the Bean. That's like what Ken's cybertruck is in the parking lot. If someone's like, you know, for giving a friend a tour or something, they're.
Evan
Just like, nobody really gets to go over and they don't know why it's there.
CJ
Yeah. You could go over and flick it if you want.
Gavin
I feel like, like, that is the one vehicle that people are so blatantly like, hate on. Somebody will walk up to me and be like, wow, that is the ugliest car I've ever seen.
Ryan
It's like, thanks.
Gavin
And I've never seen anyone do that with any other car.
Ben
Do you think it's ugly?
Gavin
I mean, it's not pretty, but I think it's cool.
Dalton
I think it's cool.
Ben
I think they're super sick. But I mean, it's such an. Yeah, it's. It's a very aggressive design. Can't blame people.
Dalton
That's what I like.
Ben
It looks like nothing.
Gavin
I would never walk up to somebody and say, wow, your car is ugly.
Dalton
I think that it's super cool and it stands out. And if it wasn't a widespread mass produced vehicle, I would want 1, 100%.
Ben
But instead you bought a Jeep.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ben
I'm sorry.
Dalton
Yeah, everyone having the.
CJ
That's been like an ongoing inside joke now. Or just like, oh, there's C.J. and his Wrangler.
Ryan
Dude, that sucks. Actually that sucks being a wrangler. But I only make no. Like, that joke started to form.
CJ
I only make the joke to laugh with you. I'm not like, I don't think.
Ben
Looks like I only said it.
Evan
Drive.
Dalton
You.
Evan
You.
Ryan
I mean.
CJ
Yeah, exactly.
Ben
You made. You made the joke. Even, like, the first thing you said, you're like, man, I kind of love this thing, but it's kind of just Jeepish.
Dalton
It's kind of a girl car.
CJ
That was. That was interesting. I try not to get offended if someone calls my bronco a Jeep, like, because I really don't care. But then Ryan's like, you drive a Jeep? And I was like, damn.
Ryan
Can we talk about your. Both of your guys Snapchats yesterday of that ambulance in the ditch?
Evan
Oh, yeah, yeah, dude.
Dalton
The roads were slick.
Evan
Glare ice.
Dalton
Glare ice. But I was at the gym, and then Ryan was showing up right as I was leaving. He's like, yo, did you see that ambulance in the ditch? I was like, no. And then I get out there, and the dude asked if he could take the ditch. Like, as soon as I saw the ambulance in the ditch, I just heard Gavin's voice. Can I take the ditch, dude?
Ben
And I was like, yeah, I've done. If Gavin hopped out.
Dalton
Gavin was in the back going to the hospital. The ambulance takes the ditch.
Ben
No, I meant driving. He hopped out.
Dalton
The driver ever seen Imagine Gavin like this? I don't want this to happen. But Gavin, for some reason, the back of an ambulance, and the ambulance driver starts taking the ditch.
Ryan
And he's on the bed, dude. He's like, what are you doing?
Ben
What are you doing?
Ryan
Like, we're.
Dalton
Oh, we're just taking the ditch.
Ryan
Okay.
Ben
Yeah, don't worry. I can eat it.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
Have fun.
Ryan
Dude.
Dalton
So good.
Ryan
Gavin. Gavin called me the other day. He bought a new truck.
Ben
Oh, why? Another one's stuck in Minnesota.
Dalton
He actually bought a new truck.
CJ
He went 4th gen on us, and I was pretty surprised that he went fourth gen.
Dalton
I can't keep up.
Ben
Like a 2005. What's a fourth gen?
Evan
What's yours?
Ryan
Like a 12?
Dalton
Oh, no way. Good for 12.
Ryan
It's the same as yours, but that's unfortunate.
Evan
Facelifted.
Ken
Yes.
CJ
Yes.
Ben
He's got a half ton front end on it. He's all confused.
Dalton
Has he posted it yet or no?
Ben
Nope.
Ryan
So I. I hate to expose it. Maybe at this point he. Well, but okay, so Gav goes out and he buys this new truck. And then I talked to him on the phone yesterday, and I was like, dude, how's your truck. And he's like, oh, you know, baby, I knew I should have known better getting something new like this. And I go, oh, no. What?
Ben
Deaf. He probably got all deafed up.
Ryan
He said he was, like, driving. He was driving it to Utah and he got like three hours down the road, and it started, like, freaking out on him. Like every single, single light on the dash was going off, right? And he immediately started freaking out like, I. I bought a lemon.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
Like anyone.
CJ
Three hours into diesel ownership, that's.
Ryan
Yeah, yeah, It's. It's very.
Ben
12 valves, don't have dash lights.
Ryan
And so then he's. He's like, I knew I shouldn't have bought something new. And he starts freaking out. He brings it to a shop, and the shop is immediately telling him, like, yo, I don't know how to tell you this, but you're cooked.
Dalton
Oh, my God. Yeah, the shop, he got ripped off.
Ryan
Yeah, the shop is making it worse. And so Gav's just like, I don't know what to do. So he, like, messages this guy, guy that knows that year of Cummins, and the guy was like, bring it on over. Let's start figuring it out, right? Gab pulls up, this guy pulls out a hammer, and he's like, it's got to be a bad ground. Starts hitting, like, walking around the truck, hitting it, Right.
Ben
Why do I envision this mechanic? Is Gavin hitting tailgate? Gavin's twin.
Ryan
Shut the up.
Dalton
He hit the tailgate with a hammer.
Ryan
And Gavin's like, what could that possibly do, right?
Evan
He just beats it up. Smashes the headlights up. Nope, wasn't windows.
Dalton
Yeah. Can't figure it out.
Ryan
Yeah. He gets underneath, like, the steering wheel, though, and he, like, pulls a bunch of wires out.
Ben
Oh, the Miata trick that works on Miatas.
Ryan
Yeah. Ended up figuring out that it was a loose ground. So Gav gets it. Gets it back up and going right. And he's driving down the road and he said it was like, super icy.
Evan
Oh, no.
Ben
And hit a wall. Tell me he did not hit him.
Ryan
I think he was still pretty flustered about what he just. Of his new truck ownership, right? And I think the. The exhaust brake was on and.
Evan
Oh, no.
Ryan
You know, Gavin used to have an exhaust break, right?
Ben
He doesn't have normal brakes.
Ryan
He starts sliding down this hill, right? And it goes left and he goes straight and he hits the ditch. He hits the ditch and now he's, like, off roading through the ditch. Oh, here we go again.
Dalton
That's right.
Ryan
So he's telling Me this. He's telling me this, right? And he starts. Starts laughing. He's like, dude, I think I. I think I yelled out, fuck it, we're in. And I heard your voice in my head, and that's all I could think about was you. So I'm trying to pilot my truck while in the ditch, and I'm laughing like, oh, my God, I actually hit the ditch. And so, yeah, I think. I think he made it out the ditch, and he's unscathed besides for a couple dents in his tailgate.
Evan
Oh, my God.
Ben
Wait, so buddy trying to fix it actually dented up his tail?
Dalton
No way. Day.
Ben
It's super funny, though, when you brought up like, oh, the tailgate's gonna fix the problem. My radio shorts out like once a month, and I'm 90. Sure it's related to my tailgate, the backup camera. But there's a wire that goes into the tailgate, so, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if Cummins guys have the same problem as us Raptor guys. It could have bad rear end. A bad rear end?
Ryan
Yeah. That's not good.
Ben
But, dude, I just can't even envision Gavin. Not in the 80s, it seems, going against his own brand. Brand.
Dalton
I just love how as soon as he has a problem, he's like, yep, too new.
CJ
Too new.
Ben
Should we even be going public with this? I think he might be keeping this a ghost truck.
Ryan
I might have just exposed him trying.
Evan
To pick up new chicks.
CJ
I mean, he's the one who went public with that 2024 recap thumbnail.
Ben
Thank you, Mike.
Ryan
Right now, Gavin put his ex girlfriend in the bottom of his 2024 recap thumbnail.
Dalton
I get it. Was it business move?
Ben
I mean, you can't blame the guy for putting a ho.
CJ
I texted him and go, gav, did you get back together? He goes, no, we're still friends, though.
Ryan
All right, all right, all right, all right.
Ben
Let's.
Ryan
Let's. Honestly, I'm curious. I wanted to ask him this.
CJ
He's gonna be so flustered.
Ben
What are the chances he's in the.
Dalton
Ditch right now just having fun?
Ben
I'm just putting my floor mats under the tires, man. I'm stuck in the ditch.
Ken
Now.
Dalton
You would answer right away.
Gavin
He's having too much fun in the ditch.
Ben
He's piled up in the back seat of that 4th gen with a heavy.
CJ
I thought you're gonna say the back seat of that ambulance.
Evan
Came in, dude.
Ben
That's what that was. Oh, my God, Ben, open it. I don't Even I don't want the chance to scratch it with that knife. But if you scratch it, I'm gonna be pissed. Oh, oh, Easy on that. Dude. Honestly, stop. There's a lot of bubble wrap with that duct tape. Just. Job is crazy.
Evan
So I looked into it, and I paid 95 for shipping. He shipped in a box the size of our tv. It was gigantic. And it was just flopping around in there.
Dalton
This was Ryan's Christmas gift to Evan, and it was very expensive.
Ryan
Close your eyes.
Ben
If I won in Vegas, I was gonna buy you a nice Christmas gift in return for this Christmas keyboard. Unfortunately, I lost.
Ryan
Oh, dude, that's sick.
CJ
Holy crap.
Dalton
Actually, sign.
Ben
Okay. So the only thing that I think is crazy is what? Why was he signing the year at an autograph session?
Evan
He does it in his current ones, but, yeah, I mean, I don't know. There's no picture of him signing it. Could be a dude that scribbled bam on it, right?
Ben
No. And, like, I. Believe me, Ryan, this is so sick. I'm just saying, like, I don't know. I've seen a lot of autographs from a lot of people. I've never seen it dated, but in this case, a 2004 BAM autograph is worth more than. I love that, like, any other BAM autograph. That's.
Evan
That's why I did 2004. I was like, dude, it's kind of lame that he does it now to make money. And he, like, they're just sold. He, like, sits at a table and does it. But he knew.
Ben
Yeah, he knew what he was doing.
CJ
I think adding the year is sick because it completely added value for the Vikings.
Ben
This is a good luck omen. Vikings are going to win the super bowl, and if they don't, my bike is going to look like California.
Dalton
Can I burn it?
Ben
Evan, I'm sorry.
Evan
Your dirt bike, probably.
CJ
If you don't, you have to do a kick flip.
Evan
See, like, in this one, he signed BAM 2000.
Dalton
Yeah, he must do that. I believe we should start doing that. That'd be kind of cool.
CJ
Yeah, I would.
Dalton
That's actually. Makes sense.
Ben
No, it does. It's just something I never thought about until I was so stoked on this deck, and I looked at it, and I'm like, I do truly believe it's 100% legit. I just.
Dalton
Does it look real? Ben? How's it. Check out the signature. This guy just used to skate this board when he was a kid. He had in his attic. He's like, I'm gonna make 700 bucks. Just signs it. Ryan buys it.
Ben
Speaking of. Bam, I was listening to the Stevo podcast today, and they were talking about stuff that got cut from the Jackass movies. And did you know that Don Vito did the Lamborghini tooth pull in Jackass.
Ryan
2, but they cut it.
Ben
They cut it.
Dalton
Why?
Ben
That was at the time when Don Beetle got all jammed up. Yeah, but he actually originally did it because allegedly, he only had 12 tooth left in his mouth. We'll buy you a full set of teeth, but we're taking that last one out with the Lambo. And he did it, and they couldn't run it.
Dalton
Oh, my gosh.
Ben
And then Jeff Tremaine was like, this was such a good bit. We have to run it back. And was it Aaron?
Dalton
Yeah.
Ben
When he did it, apparently it, like, cracked his skull up to his eye socket.
CJ
What?
Ben
Because he had a perfectly healthy tooth.
Dalton
Oh.
Ben
And holy. And it hurt.
CJ
Ouch, dude.
Dalton
Yeah, it was so deep. I remember it was like. It was like one of these tees, and it was so deep. So is it check out? Ben? Is that.
Ryan
I think it's real.
Dalton
I think it's checks out.
Ryan
I think it checks.
Ben
Ryan, short of giving me a job, this is the nicest thing you've ever done for me.
Dalton
I agree. That is, buddy. You gonna hang it up here, though, Ev?
Ben
Yeah, for sure. You feel you got right next to my hookup decks?
Dalton
That's good. That's good.
Ryan
Yeah, that's pretty.
Ben
Honestly, if you guys wanted to, we could throw it on the wall right here if you want it.
Dalton
No, I'd love to put it next to hookups.
Ben
Okay. Yeah, I'll put it in the room.
Ryan
Ken, what do you got here?
Gavin
So we. We also have. We received some Christmas gifts from some subscribers.
Evan
Oh, God. Manny gets lots of gifts.
Gavin
I'll give you this one first.
Evan
I'd love to get a gift one day.
Ben
Oh, my. Oh, my God. Wow. So these Cheeto socks are sick. Oh, no, these are. Oh, yeah. These are also Cheeto sock. Wait.
CJ
Wow.
Ben
They say boxers on. They say swag boxers. I think they're underwear.
Ryan
We got for the listeners out there, six different sets of Cheeto socks.
Dalton
So many Cheetos wear a pair of socks for every day of the week.
Ben
These are actually sick. This camel dude, for. For my next dirt bike wrap, I'm gonna reach out to Cheetos. I want to go Cheeto camo.
Ryan
You'll probably pay half, but.
CJ
I like those white ones, too.
Ben
Ken, do you have a name on the box? Can I shout out who Sent them.
Gavin
Look, whatever. The Bo.
Ryan
Carrie Scary.
Evan
It does look like Carrie Scary.
CJ
Gary Scarry. Carrie scary.
Ben
Well, shout out Carrie.
Gavin
And then another guy from Florida also sent this.
Ben
My Jesus. I actually love the packaging on these. It actually looks like a bag of Cheetos, but turns out, just some sakis.
Ryan
Okay, wait a minute.
Ben
No, wait.
CJ
It's a snack packer.
Ben
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This looks more like an ex. It's a pillow slash snack drink. You roll over here, you put a couple of vodkas in the cup holders, and a bowl of Cheetos. By the time you're done with that, you just flip it over and have yourself a little nap.
CJ
And not to mention, it came with a Cheeto Snuggie.
Evan
Oh, no. They're Lions fans.
Ben
Okay, so I am super pumped on the Cheetos Snuggie. But I will say my girlfriend bought me a Cheeto Snuggie for Christmas. I just got two. Didn't tell anybody I saw it.
Dalton
She sent a picture, bro.
Ryan
How about. How about this?
Ben
All right.
Ryan
Right. Speaking of baths.
Ben
Wait, not a Cheetos bath bomb.
Ryan
Flamin Hot Cheetos Bath dust. Citrus scented.
CJ
Can you imagine if it was just like the hot Cheeto dust?
Ben
This is honestly the sickest Christmas card photos. I've actually seen them on Instagram.
Ryan
Somebody sent us just like 12 baseballs.
Evan
They want us to sign all the baseball or one of the baseball. Send them back.
CJ
Evan, I've got a confession to make. There was a bag of Cheetos in that box, and I ate it last week.
Ben
As long as you enjoyed it, then, like, I'm. I think it was a win for everybody.
CJ
Good, good, good.
Ben
Some airheads. Oh, push pop.
Evan
I kind of am craving some candy.
Ben
Yeah, this.
Evan
Honestly, man. Two pods in a row with gifts.
Ben
Is this lots of gifts into one?
Gavin
No, no, that one was like, just strictly one person and like, all sent that.
Dalton
McGillis family. Let me see that.
Gavin
Somewhere in Florida.
Evan
Yeah, they moved from Michigan to Florida.
Ben
Wow. Yeah. Honestly, thank you guys so much. It's so awesome. Getting Cheeto merch makes me very happy. And shout out. Maybe we could pop up one of these pics. The mom and her son with Yamahas in front of the Christmas tree is super lit.
Ryan
That is awesome.
Dalton
Shout out Carrie and Jack Scarry. Yeah.
Ryan
That's awesome.
Dalton
Thank you, guys. That was really nice. Nice of you.
Ryan
Okay, Gavin, just FaceTime me. I miss his FaceTime. I'm calling him back. What's up, baby?
CJ
Back to me.
Evan
Why are you shirtless?
Ryan
What are you doing?
Ben
I Just got done at the gym watching cops.
CJ
Stay in the gym and keep having fun.
Ryan
See?
Dalton
He lives by it, man.
Ryan
Keep having fun.
CJ
Lives by it.
Ben
Talk to me. What's up?
Ryan
Yeah. Kind of coming at you here, and I don't mean to do this, just more curious than anything. Do it. Well, what was the. The thought process behind putting your ex girlfriend in your thumbnail?
Ben
Well, we're still on good terms. You know, it was a blank space down there, man. I wanted to keep it a clean thumbnail to add something to it, you know, give it a little bit more flavor, and that's what I came up with.
Dalton
Smart.
Ben
I had a feeling you guys were.
Dalton
Going to come at me for it.
CJ
And you changed it less and it didn't work, so.
Ben
It's okay.
Dalton
Hey, I. I defended you right away, Gav. I said it was a business move.
Ryan
No, we knew the thought process behind it.
Dalton
It was a smart play. I thought.
Ryan
Wasn't sure if maybe you were playing another angle.
Dalton
I think you got to make the picture of her bigger. That would probably help.
Ben
You didn't have a picture of. No, I don't have a picture of. Get out of here.
Dalton
Might have to bleep that.
Ben
I got a good story for you guys, though.
Ryan
What do you got?
Ben
No. Next. When we're in person, I'll tell you guys about. Oh, yeah, no, the podcast just ended it.
Dalton
All right. Yeah, we're not live anymore. Tell us the story.
Ben
No, I'm gonna tell you guys in person. It'll be funnier anyways.
CJ
All right, all right.
Ben
Hey, did I hear you buy a 4th gen? I got a fourth gen. Why? Seven, baby. Why? Dude, how to freaking upgrade? I don't know, because my friend took my truck, and I can't. I don't have anything reliable anymore.
Ryan
I told them about the mechanic that you brought it to, hitting, like, your tailgate, and.
Ben
Dude, and he was just such a jackass. I thought the. I thought buddy fixed it for you. According to Ben's story, it was a mess, though.
Evan
We got it all dialed in, dude.
Dalton
It was just a loose ground.
Ben
I don't want to talk about it Running great, though.
Ryan
We won't bring it up.
Dalton
All right, brother.
Ryan
Hey, just wanted to say what's up?
Ben
What's up, man?
Dalton
All right, bro.
Ryan
Stay in the gym. Keep.
Dalton
Yeah, stay in the gym, Gav.
Ben
Don't let your brothers eat.
Dalton
Honestly, stay in the gym and keep having fun. That is such a legendary quote.
Ryan
Speaking of Dodge trucks, Dalton went viral on Tick Tock last week.
CJ
I feel like you should be on if we're gonna talk about this dude created a trend.
Ryan
Not that I go on TikTok that much, but when I do go on TikTok, all I see is the boom, pop, pop.
CJ
I just. Dude, when you made. Yeah, the Kendrick, what is it? No pressure.
Ken
Peekaboo, dude.
Ben
He showed me it before and you go, yeah, Ev, I know you don't really like Kendrick, but like I got an idea for this reel or TikTok and it's gonna be lit. It's.
CJ
It was sick. You sent the video and I was like, oh, dude, that was a. That was a sick edit. Doing a trend on TikTok, having it do well. That's awesome. Creating a trend on TikTok, that's next level crazy.
Ken
Literally just bored at the shop and.
CJ
Just cooked it up.
Ben
Don't say you were bored. You're out here hustling, you were steaming. You work for that, bro.
Ken
No, I was just gonna do the know, wash your truck reel, whatever, right. And then I just started jumping like I was just that excited. Yeah, I was just so excited to make another video with my truck washing it. And then I go, hey, Ev, what do you think about this? Eh, I think you should run it. So I posted right after that and then it started gaining some traction. Now it hit like 20 million views on Tik Tok, which is pretty good. And then other people created it. Like my boy Kaden, I like that.
Ben
Short fella doing it.
Dalton
Yeah, yeah, that was good.
Ken
Really capitalized on it. Which good for him. Like he's just totally manhandled that trend. And now, I don't know, just like getting kids out there filming stuff or just guys, people in general, like just out there filming stuff is what I love to do. I just try to push them to create content and just go have fun doing it. Like I guess the trend, it was cool. I gained some traction from it. Great, great. But just seeing everyone get out there and doing it was. Was awesome.
Ben
It's.
Ryan
It's weird though, cuz it flowed over into other things that aren't truck related to. Like maybe it's just because it all kind of falls under the same song algorithm, but I even started getting served like this woman knitting to it. Yeah, I you not. I you not. And she was like knitting to it and I was like, oh my God, this is great.
Dalton
You almost like created. Yeah, like a. It's obviously a trend, but it's like a video template that everyone is using.
Ben
If you hit the nail on the head, like, I don't like that Song. But, like, just the way you did it, it was just perfect. It was really like how, like, it's just not easy for someone to recreate. But it is. You just laid it out. The template.
Ryan
Yeah, it was easy to recreate for other people to just do. Once you see a good.
Dalton
To have the vision to make it at the start.
Ben
Exactly, dude. Mad respect.
Ryan
Yeah, that was sick, bro.
Dalton
Yeah, that was sick.
Ryan
And then I knew you were stoked on it too.
CJ
Kept going. Like, you did a little.
Ken
Little.
CJ
I call it vip. Like, when someone remixes the song they already made, you did a little V2 action of it. I don't know. You just. A lot of traction going on on Tik Tok, dude.
Ryan
I thought the craziest part was, like, the chicks.
Ken
Yeah.
Dalton
Ds always had chicks hitting the chicks.
Ben
Were going, he's hardly even old enough to get chicks yet.
Ken
I started out. I started out making thirst traps on Tik Tok.
Ryan
And no, I don't know if I would say that. Admit that right now, Dalton.
Ken
No, I. I privated all the videos you can't find.
Ryan
But I think you've said that actually on the pod before.
Ben
I have little farm boy.
Ken
It used to be, like, my ratio was like, 95 women, like, 5%.
CJ
Holy.
Ken
And then.
Ryan
Shut the hell up, CJ.
Dalton
I said, that's insane.
Ryan
Oh, I thought you said same.
Dalton
Oh, I said, that's insane.
Ryan
I was like, same.
Dalton
All my followers just follow me for my looks.
Ken
And then I basically just stopped posting. And then I started working for you guys and then gained a bunch of male followers when I started posting my truck. And, you know, the whole Cheeto thing really snowballed, the blue truck lore and all that stuff, so fuck you.
Ryan
But anyways, I think it worked out, like, honestly, and from what I see is, like, the truck kind of got some traction on the videos of maybe being Cheeto, but then it brought out the Cheeto army created division.
Ben
Yeah, there's two side.
Ryan
But then you had the people that like it because it is really just two different.
Dalton
Yeah, I think it made it more than just a truck on Instagram. What it made it was. Was, like a storyline. And just like, you know, there was just more depth to it between you two not liking each other. And then also, you know, people started seeing you.
Ben
Back. Back up one second, though. What did you say it started with me and Dalton not liking each other. No, I thought you just said that.
Dalton
Or. What do you mean?
Ben
So I thought you just said that.
Ryan
Well, to be fair, you guys. You guys fucking argue and bicker nonstop.
Ben
Because that's what friends do.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ken
Big brother. Big brother.
Ryan
Big dude.
Ben
The reason me and Dalton bust each other's ball balls is because we're buddies.
CJ
And that if.
Ryan
If you're.
Dalton
And that's why he punched you in the face.
CJ
That's the best part.
Dalton
I'm just kidding. That was an accident.
Ken
There's a lot of comments that are coming at me for getting punched at in the face.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ken
It's actually wild.
Ben
Can we clear it up? Did I punch him in the face?
Ken
Storm, elbow me in the face because.
Ben
I was in a headlock that I squirmed out of.
CJ
Did you guys not watch the footage.
Ben
Back because we got you new ones?
Ryan
Anyway, I. I see so many videos about. About it. I'm like, damn, that's. That's dope. So just want to say congrats, dog.
Ken
Thank you.
Ben
When I see any video that that is the trend or whatever that's copying you. I'll read a few of the comments. And it was one of the. We'll just say Internet model chicks with a crazy truck posted it, and there were literally people arguing in the comments on who started it. There's your names getting dropped, like, a ton of times. But there's other people.
Evan
No.
Ben
So and so did it first. So and so did it first. So and so did it first. First.
Ryan
Pretty lit.
Ben
Just. It is your name just getting thrown around out there. And it's like you started. You started something.
Ken
Yeah, it's. It's pretty wild. And now, like, now there's a trend going around where, like, everyone's like, screw Brecky Hill. What does Dalton think about this? And what's that really? Yeah.
Ben
So there's that. Is that like a ski mountain?
Dalton
Dalton think about what's Brecky Hill? What would Dalton do?
Ben
Is that like Breckenridge?
Ken
She's like a ski hill chick.
Ben
Like, you can't say that on podcast. I don't know. Can you? I thought got you every time. That's why I said Internet model.
Dalton
Maybe beep it.
Ken
Yeah, she's a viral.
Ben
Did she have a purple pink truck?
Ken
No, she doesn't do trucks. She does other stuff.
Ben
Oh. Like, chick I'm talking about had a purple pink truck, but she was one of them.
Ken
Yeah. And then the, like, what is dumb thing about that? And then there's some where it's like, I wish you looked like so and so. And then the next slide's like, me or whatever. So there's a bunch of different.
Dalton
I wish you look like Dalton you keep an eye on it, friends.
Ben
There's a few that threw me in there. You got way more.
Ryan
But it's like, we gotta figure out a way to. Rope yourself. You keep an eye on it.
Ben
You know, Dalton's on. I don't even use TikTok. I go on TikTok and I get tagged in the ones where it's like, the girl, I wish you had blonde hair. And it's like, I wish you look like Dalton. And I get tagged in those all the time. But then there's a couple.
CJ
Did you go to the.
Ben
They tossed me in.
Ryan
Why was you looking like. It's a picture of Ev with his hands behind his back. Dude, with all the cops around.
Ben
No, the picture they always use for that is the one where I'm in the golf cart. Like, looking back, it doesn't even make sense. I don't know why.
Ken
Did you go to the comments of those posts?
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
What'd they say?
Ben
That I'm so sexy.
CJ
Like, oh, you look.
Ben
I don't know. I don't. I don't know.
CJ
Evan looks so good in that triple XL Echo unlimited shirt. The golf went golfing.
Ben
Oh, yeah.
Ken
Every comment was like, who's Evan?
Ryan
Every comment.
Dalton
Maybe in the TikTok world.
Ryan
Is TikTok getting banned?
Ken
No.
Ben
Yeah.
Dalton
Dude, that's.
Ben
I hope so. That app is trash.
Dalton
Kind of.
Gavin
I mean, it says by January 19th, it's banned, but Money Mike's going to.
CJ
Start an LLC and cop it.
Dalton
Just get a loan.
Ryan
Mike just get a loan.
Dalton
Mike gets a loan for it.
Ken
Worst case scenario, January 19, Tik Tok is off the market. You can't purchase it from the App Store anymore. You can't download it. It's still going to stay on.
CJ
Everyone's got a flappy bird action still post.
Ken
Okay, you just can't download anymore now. That's worst case scenario. None of that's gonna happen. The app's still gonna stay alive. There's gonna be maybe some sort of, like, stricter content rules, guidelines, but the Trump administration won't let it go completely off the market once again, office. So what they're trying to do is they're trying to push it until he gets into office.
Dalton
Wait, so Trump's trying to save Tick tock.
Ken
Yes.
Ryan
Really?
Ben
China?
Ryan
Yeah, he is. He is trying to save. Gave it, which I think is funny, but I. Yeah, I think it helped him win and it kind of like got him. I mean, it makes, you know, more connected.
Dalton
Dude, I get it. A lot of people really enjoy it, I guess.
Ryan
What I'm curious about is, like, if that is actually the case or if. If that's not the case. Because I'm pretty sure they're trying to remove it because they. They don't want China, like, Or a Chinese company having. Having our data and controlling and things like that.
Ben
Can I tell you something really crazy?
Ryan
They would just turn it off. Off versus.
Ben
I bought my mom an aura picture frame for Christmas. Yeah, this would be great. Give it to my sister, everyone. My mom goes, oh, this was made in China. I don't think I feel comfortable using it.
Ryan
Oh, really?
CJ
Did you know she was like that, or did you look at her and go, I didn't know.
Ben
She does get a little conspiracy theorist about certain things, but I was shocked.
Dalton
Does she know how much shit is made in China? Her phone is probably made in China.
Ben
Okay?
Ryan
So I. Apple products are made in China.
Ben
Okay. That will was exactly my first come. I go, you have an iPhone Right through my hands up. And then she was kind of, whatever. On Christmas, I'll. I'll admit I. I was like, a little aggressive. Like, this is actually absurd. I got you this. So, like, me and my sister, you're always saying, you want pictures, we can send you, upload them. Yeah, whatever, and blah, blah, blah. Moral of the story is, my mom didn't, like, link her phone or whatever to the frame. I set it up, me and my sister. Everyone has access, even my dad. Yeah, everyone but my mom.
Dalton
So you just put pictures on it? We did that with our grand.
Ben
Yeah. And we just run pictures on. Which was what was gonna happen anyways. Like, my mom probably doesn't care to upload her own pictures to it. She wants to see the families. So it all buffed out. But when she hit me with that, she might. There might be some truth behind it, but I'm just like, man, you got an iPhone, you can get SIM hacked and lose everything, and you're worried about, like, a couple of pictures on this frame? I don't know. I don't. I don't think that.
Gavin
I think that the thing that people are, like, mostly trying to, like, chide Tik Tok for is, like, this style of content they push in the US Is a lot of, you know, what everyone sees. And then in China, it's a completely different style. Like, it's all more educational kind of stuff, whereas there's such a.
Dalton
They're kind of just pushing brain rot on America's TikTok, is what they're saying.
Evan
You can upload pictures to that picture frame.
Ben
I Gotta be careful. I swear to God. I double check when I go through the. Go through it. And then I scroll back and watch another phone.
Dalton
Could you imagine she's got her friends over there drinking wine, like, for book club night. And then Evan's picture pops up. Is Evan one of his pictures that aren't supposed to be on there?
Ben
Yeah, no, I. I get the meat sweats every time I'm uploading pictures to it. But it's worked out, so. And she does love it. She said at first she was nervous about it, then once we did it, she goes, I love this. This is great. My sister has it. Whatever. We're uploading pictures and we all have deep photo albums going back 15 years.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ben
So we're uploading all these pictures. And she goes, I absolutely love it. This thing is great.
Ryan
You should. You should.
Dalton
You should upload, like, Chinese pictures of people.
Ryan
You should upload just like. Like, some.
Ben
Okay, I like this. I like this. I like this.
Ryan
We could make something that, like, fits the frame and it just goes like, you have been hacked.
Ben
I was just gonna say. Yeah, a big. A big red screen. You've been hacked.
Evan
Just rooted for it. Comes around.
Dalton
Just say, your house has been hacked.
Ryan
Or beautiful, beautiful home you have there, Patty.
Ben
That would be. Yeah. Grab a credit card out of her wallet and just have her number across the screen. Or if, God forbid, you find the last four digits of her social, because, I mean, that doesn't do that much, but, like, oh, my God. God, if you just had, like, xxxxxx last few digits of her social, dude, I'd probably be scared she burned the picture.
Dalton
Or you could start, like, putting every photo before you import it in. You could put into, like, an AI generator and have them make you look Chinese and then, like, upload them.
Evan
That's funny.
CJ
I love that. That's a great idea.
Ben
Well, I'm gonna have to get to work before this podcast drops in a couple of days.
Dalton
Yeah.
Ben
Yeah.
Evan
It's so fucking funny.
Ryan
It's actually a pretty.
Evan
Yeah.
Dalton
I guess we'll find out, though, if TikTok is actually getting banned, because by the time this is live, I'm sure they'll just push the date back because I feel like they've been saying this for the last four or five years.
Ryan
I thought it was funny that Trump won, though, and he was just like, let's save it. Yeah. I don't know. It just seems like.
Dalton
So, honestly, it's just surprising me that Biden wrote the bill to get rid of it because, like, it almost Seems like it would be the flip. Like Trump would get rid of it, Biden would keep it.
Ryan
Yeah.
Dalton
That's probably why he just did the opposite. I mean, I. I think. I think that a lot of people like it, and I think that's that. Honestly, America already is kind of. It's pretty cooked brain. Rotten cooked, man. Like, these people out here are just getting stupider and stupider by the day.
Evan
I saw on Tik Tok, it was like a cooking show. And not a single clip of the cooking show lasted longer than one second. It was just boom, boom, boom. Like, it's just. And it's like for our cooked brains.
Dalton
Between that and food, everyone's eating and.
Ben
But I can't even post a wheelie on TikTok.
Dalton
Yeah, it is pretty crazy. They don't let you do that. Maybe they don't want us, like, they don't want you influencing anyone to do anything. Cool. Cool. Stay in your chair.
Ben
Honestly, I don't blame them.
Dalton
Stay in a recliner.
CJ
Stay in your lane.
Ryan
Your plastics.
Dalton
Yeah. Eat some plastic.
Gavin
I mean, if you look into an app store, all the top apps right now are like these Tick tock knockoffs from China.
Evan
Really? From China.
Ben
Still, maybe we should get ahead of the curve. Get on those apps.
CJ
Yeah. Get the new ones.
Evan
I did think about that.
Ben
Blow up and then act like we don't know nobody. And on that note, I got a.
CJ
P. That was good.
Dalton
All right.
Ryan
Okay.
CJ
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Ryan
I don't even know what that means.
Ben
These are violent criminals, so they're not.
Evan
Gonna go down easy. ABC Tuesdays.
Ryan
Let's get this done. The rookie is back.
Ben
We have two new rookies starting today. Howdy.
Evan
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Ben
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Ryan
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Dalton
We have a serial killer at large.
Ryan
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Dalton
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Podcast Summary: Life Wide Open with CboysTV Episode Title: Our State Banned Dirtbikes?? Release Date: January 21, 2025
In this episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV, host CboysTV and co-hosts CJ, Ben, Ryan, Dalton, Gavin, Ken, and Evan delve into a variety of engaging topics ranging from their adventurous trip to Las Vegas to discussions about social media trends and recent legislative changes affecting dirt bikes. The conversation is punctuated with humorous anecdotes, personal stories, and insightful commentary, making it a compelling listen for both regular listeners and newcomers.
The episode kicks off with a recount of the hosts' recent trip to Las Vegas, highlighting intense gambling experiences and unexpected mishaps.
Ben's Vegas Story: Ben shares his tumultuous gambling spree, detailing significant losses and a particularly embarrassing moment.
"I lost $1,000 the first day... I threw 100 on red. 18, which... black had hit like five times in a row." ([05:14])
Unexpected Incident: Amidst the chaos, Ben admits to an unfortunate accident involving a mishap during their time at a mimosa bar.
"While we were laughing, I made the mistake of trusting a fart. And truly just good old fashioned my pants badly." ([09:21])
Arrest and Legal Concerns: The conversation shifts to an encounter with law enforcement over marijuana use in a legal state, sparking a discussion on the nuances of legality and public consumption.
"They took us to get over here, got us like backed up against the wall... I just feel a rubber glove grabs my wrist with one hand." ([12:22])
Transitioning from their Vegas exploits, the hosts delve into their gaming routines, highlighting challenges and humorous experiences in popular games like Call of Duty and Fortnite.
Ryan's Gaming Struggles:
"I'm getting destroyed. In every game I played Ben, like, so bad." ([19:48])
Group Gameplay Dynamics: The hosts discuss team dynamics and individual performances, offering a lighthearted take on competitive gaming.
"If you're trying to help him, and then... he's got a total of seven kills. Oh, combined." ([21:07])
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the pervasive influence of TikTok and the ongoing discussions about its potential ban in the United States.
Creating Viral Trends: Ken shares his success in creating a viral TikTok trend, emphasizing the impact of creative content.
"Now it hit like 20 million views on TikTok, which is pretty good." ([72:42])
Concerns Over TikTok's Future:
"Man, I think they're trying to push it until he gets into office." ([79:36])
Potential Ban Implications: The hosts speculate on the consequences of a TikTok ban, discussing alternative platforms and the broader impact on content creators.
"If Trump was trying to save it... Biden probably won't let it go completely off the market." ([80:02])
Addressing the episode's title, the hosts explore recent state-level legislation that has led to the banning of youth-oriented dirt bikes, focusing on environmental and safety concerns.
Understanding the Ban:
"The ban is on youth-oriented products that contain PFAS... they just have to put different plastics on it." ([43:08])
Community Reactions: The conversation highlights the community's mixed reactions, balancing environmental safety with the practical uses of dirt bikes.
"It's just, like, we have to... they can't do anything. You can't have this certain chemical." ([42:22])
Future Implications: The hosts discuss the potential long-term effects of such bans, including market shifts and environmental benefits.
"By 2035, all products that have PFAS are going to be illegal." ([43:39])
The discussion takes a more serious turn as the hosts delve into the recent spate of fires in Los Angeles, exploring possible causes and the ensuing conspiracy theories.
Analyzing the Fires:
"People are starting the fires, whether homeless or vandals." ([28:45])
Diddy’s House Fire Speculation:
"The super big conspiracy is because Diddy’s house burned down." ([31:09])
Impact of Budget Cuts: The hosts link the increasing number of fires to significant budget cuts in public services like the fire department.
"Mayor cuts 12 and a half million dollars from the police budget." ([30:46])
The hosts take a moment to appreciate their supporters, showcasing subscriber gifts and discussing merchandise, which fosters a sense of community among listeners.
Unboxing Subscriber Gifts:
"These Cheeto socks are sick... boxers... snack packer." ([66:18])
Creative Merchandise Ideas: Ben humorously suggests integrating Cheetos-themed designs into their dirt bikes.
"For my next dirt bike wrap, I'm gonna reach out to Cheetos. I want to go Cheeto camo." ([66:40])
A lighter yet relatable segment where the hosts discuss technical difficulties with their vehicles, particularly focusing on issues with their Cybertrucks.
Gavin’s Cybertruck Troubles:
"He starts sliding down this hill, right? And he hits the ditch and now he's off-roading through the ditch." ([60:45])
Mechanic Misadventures: The narrative humorously recounts Gavin’s attempts to fix his vehicle, leading to unexpected consequences.
"He’s like, I think I yelled out, fuck it, we're in. And I was trying to pilot my truck while in the ditch." ([60:37])
Wrapping up the episode, the hosts reflect on their discussions, express gratitude towards their listeners, and hint at future content, maintaining the show's engaging and personable tone.
"Thank you guys so much. It's so awesome. Getting Cheeto merch makes me very happy." ([68:41])
Ben on Gambling Losses:
"I lost $1,000 the first day... I threw 100 on red. 18." ([05:14])
Ryan on TikTok Ban Concerns:
"If Trump was trying to save it... Biden probably won't let it go completely off the market." ([80:02])
Ken on Creating a TikTok Trend:
"Now it hit like 20 million views on TikTok, which is pretty good." ([72:42])
This episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV offers a vibrant mix of personal stories, humorous incidents, and thoughtful discussions on pressing issues like legislative changes and social media dynamics. The hosts' camaraderie and candid conversations provide listeners with both entertainment and insights, encapsulating the essence of a dynamic and engaging podcast.