Partying With Our Grandpa

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Partying With Our Grandpa

Release Date: August 1, 2023

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, the Cboys dive deep into a whirlwind of recent antics, family stories, and behind-the-scenes banter. The highlight centers on a wild day partying with Ryan and CJ’s 81-year-old grandpa—proving age is just a number on the pontoon. Intermixed are their classic takes on pets, business, life lessons, the value of health, movie trends, and the ongoing chaos of modern tipping expectations. The tone stays witty, playful, and sometimes unexpectedly thoughtful as the boys reflect on their roots, success, and the importance of family and community.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Dogs, Zoos, and Flex Animals (00:00–08:00)

• Open with casual banter about expensive dogs, inbred puppies, status-symbol animals (from tigers to monkeys), and the economics of pet ownership.
• Notable Segment: The gang jokes about buying exotic animals for comedic bits, including dreams of surprising Ken with a monkey in his office.
  Ben (04:26): "What do you do with it after the bit's done?"
• Ryan recounts a visit to a local zoo with his nieces, questioning the ethics of camels living in Minnesota winters (06:13–07:51).

2. Protective Instincts & Uncle Energy (08:00–10:00)

• The guys discuss being overly cautious around kids despite their careers in action sports.
• CJ (08:39): "Whenever I'm around a little kid, I feel like I'm very, like, protective of it...but parents are always so laid back about it."

3. Shop Safety and Overactive Imaginations (10:00–11:40)

• Mike details his recent “drunk-proofing” of the shop, adding bumpers to sharp edges and stashing drills for imaginary fire emergencies.
• Ben playfully brings him back to earth:
  Ben (11:29): "All the electrical in this building is on the outside of the walls."
  Laughter ensues as they realize their late-night worries might be a bit overkill.

4. Partying With Grandpa: The Episode Highlight (11:41–16:40)

• Main Story: Ryan and CJ's grandpa joins the boys and their girlfriends for a day on the lake, stealing the show—drinking Modelos, dancing, and living it up.
  • Grandpa becomes “life of the party,” organizing a dance session with the girlfriends, swing dancing, and even shotgunning beers.
  • “Sam brought him home,” the boys assure, after Grandma calls, worried about Grandpa’s escapades (13:11).
• Memorable Moment: Grandpa’s discreet attempt to pee in a bottle, “runs into a buddy...some stuff makes it onto the floor.”
  Mike (15:21): "Grandpa, you just dropped your pee bottle."
• Reflection on how great it is to have an active, involved grandparent at 81—contrasting with other family experiences.
  CJ (16:12): "It's amazing how they can just get around, do pretty much anything at their age."

5. Health, Aging, and the Longevity Debate (16:40–21:00)

• Discussion pivots to health, soreness from recent activities, and whether they’d want to live forever if they could remain healthy.
  Ben (18:21): "I'm at the point where if I sleep wrong, I can't even move."
• Spontaneous brainstorm leads to a sci-fi movie plot about immortality, curses, and the temptation to end the world (19:29–20:48).
  CJ (20:08): "You were with the viewer, was with the antagonist. And now all of a sudden they're against them."

6. Movies Making a Comeback (21:00–24:21)

• Excitement about the cultural “Barbenheimer” moment—Barbie and Oppenheimer bringing people back to theaters. Debate the best way to watch new releases and the profitability of movies with ads on YouTube.
• Reflections on the post-2008 real estate market, cautionary tales from “The Big Short,” and how their unique business model justifies land purchases (23:47–26:47).

7. Investing in Their Hometown (26:47–29:08)

• The Cboys explain buying up local land around Cormorant—not just for investment, but love of their roots.
• Dream up the future of possibly building a Cboys school—half-serious, half-joking about their vision for local growth.

8. Rethinking Education (29:08–31:09)

• Quick tangent on public schools, the idea of building their own, and what real-world subjects they'd want taught (financial literacy, taxes, business basics, “Life Lessons 101”).
• Ben (31:09): "The only useful thing I learned in college was how to use Excel. Pretty damn good."

9. Homelessness, California, and South Park Parallels (32:04–33:58)

• Ben shares that Anchorage’s mayor is buying one-way tickets for homeless people to LA to cut costs—a real-life echo of South Park’s “California: Super cool to the homeless.”
• Quotes and sing-alongs from the iconic episode (33:14).

10. South Park’s Cultural Impact (34:08–37:33)

• Reflection on how the show influenced their humor and worldview, including its fearless satire and run-ins with real-life threats.
• CJ (36:14): "I learned a lot through South Park. I grew up watching from the fourth grade."

11. Behind the Scenes: YouTube Hustle (38:34–41:48)

• The pre-broadband struggles: uploading videos from a stranger’s mansion WiFi.
• Stress around perfectionism and the ever-increasing production value of CboysTV (more cameras, tighter editing, better ideas).
  CJ (40:57): "You're just perfectionists with it. You want it to be the absolute best it can be."

12. Car Etiquette & Grandpa’s Car Philosophy (41:20–43:22)

• Conversation shifts to car show etiquette, obsessive owners, and the “no touching” mentality.
  • Contrasted with their grandpa’s relaxed attitude—parking new Corvettes under trees and driving them on gravel without a second thought.

13. Tipping Culture: Out of Hand? (43:37–49:47)

• Frustration with the modern expectation to tip for nearly everything, even non-service jobs.
• CJ (47:29): "It makes me think of my old job...You check someone in for the gym and then you turn around to think tip. Like, yeah, well I checked you in."
• Story about being pressured to tip at random businesses, debate if they’d rather see European-style “no tipping, fair wage” approaches.

14. Audience Engagement & Loyalty (50:39–51:37)

• Ben gives a shoutout to their most loyal fan, “Subway”:
  Ben (51:13): "He has liked and screenshotted every single video within an hour of it coming out for since 2017."

15. Make-A-Wish Visit: Humbling Moments (55:19–57:44)

• Recap of hosting Noah, a young Make-A-Wish recipient, for a day of dirt-biking and lake action. The boys are genuinely touched by the family’s gratitude and Noah’s spirit.
  Ryan (55:57): "...That was one of the coolest, coolest things."
• Humor in keeping things safe (or not so safe!) for Make-A-Wish—even discussing their own yellow flag system for pit bike safety (56:47).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Grandpa:
  "He's the life of the party. He's got his finger on the pulse...he's 81, like we said, and I don't even think twice about bringing him along on anything that we do.”
  — Ryan (15:44)

• On South Park’s influence:
  "I learned a lot through South Park. I grew up watching from the fourth grade."
  — CJ (34:08)

• On perfectionism and YouTube:
  "You're just perfectionists with it. You want it to be the absolute best it can be, which is good."
  — Ben (40:57)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–03:30: Opening dog banter, inbred puppies, and status pets
• 11:41–16:40: Grandpa’s lake adventure (core of episode)
• 29:08–31:09: Imagining a Cboys school and real-world curriculum
• 32:04–33:58: LA’s homeless “relocation” & South Park parallels
• 38:34–41:48: YouTube upload struggles & production insights
• 55:19–57:44: Make-A-Wish day with Noah

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Tone & Style

The conversation is fast-paced, irreverent, and filled with inside jokes, but underlying it all is a palpable sense of gratitude for their unconventional success, the support of their community and families, and the joy of sharing these moments with fans. The Cboys juggle lighthearted storytelling with reflection, keeping listeners engaged and entertained—never shying from poking fun at themselves or each other.

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For listeners seeking stories of family, local pride, unexpected fun, and a look behind the viral stunts, this episode delivers CboysTV authenticity in spades.

Transcript

[CJ]

California, super cool to the homeless.

[Ben]

One of my buddies just turned 25. And that's when they say your brain stopped developing.

[Ryan]

I got one more year, baby. I got one more year.

[Ben]

One more year to not get stupid.

[Mike]

Public schools are getting a little crazy. So, yeah, I mean, we might have to build our own.

[CJ]

The girl had puppies, so inbred puppies.

[Ryan]

Everyone down south was like, what's wrong with that?

[CJ]

What was up with that little dog with the hat? That was pretty.

[Ryan]

I don't know what was up with him. I think he was just there.

[Ben]

He disappeared. He was just in his own world.

[CJ]

That was talking about the little dog he was holding that was wearing a flat brim hat.

[Mike]

This dog?

[CJ]

Yeah, that dog's cool, man. It's not really my taste in dogs, but the fact that she was wearing a flat brim hat, I was kind of like, all right, that's fucking like that.

[Ryan]

Look, it was pretty cute though. There was two little French bulldogs running around, and one was brown and he looked like a chicken nugget. And I go, look at this little chicken nugget. And right when I said that, he ran around the corner. And my buddy, who I was standing there talking to, looks at the ground and goes, what chicken nugget?

[CJ]

Like, imagine there was actually a chicken nugget.

[Ryan]

He's like, fuck, what was someone doing.

[CJ]

With a chicken nugget on the ground?

[Mike]

This one other dude was tripping about those dogs. Could not shut up about, like, house. French bulldogs are expensive.

[Ryan]

Oh, look at this.

[Mike]

Five grand. And dogs right there. Five grand.

[Ryan]

I probably, what, 2500 a piece. And he's looking at this guy's got.

[Mike]

Five grand worth of dogs. I'm like, why are you talking about it like that?

[Ryan]

Yeah, it is strange.

[CJ]

Picks up 2500. You know Scott, my. Our buddy Scott, he has those two boxers. Yeah, Their brother and sister, he just got them last year. Now they're probably. They've got to be one year old. They had babies together. What, inbred dogs?

[Ryan]

Kind of.

[CJ]

Yeah. Oh, he didn't purposely do it, obviously.

[Ryan]

But wait, they were.

[CJ]

He must not have been watching. And they were doing the dirty. And the girl had puppies, so inbred puppies.

[Ryan]

Are they cute?

[CJ]

I haven't seen them yet, but I mean, you know, obviously he was like, like, this isn't good. He goes over, he brought to the vet, and I guess it's more common than you'd think. And he said, like, ah, they'll be fine. But. So apparently they look. They look cute and like there's nothing wrong with them. At least that you can tell from looking at them. They might be a little stupid, but we'll have to just wait and find out. But we got to go over there and check those dogs out. Be kind of cute.

[Ryan]

Everyone down south is like, what's wrong with that?

[Mike]

From what I hear, though, that, like, the first time it happens, it is for the most part, all right. The second time it happens, it ain't all right.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's. I think that's. What's the vet. Veterinarian said.

[Ben]

Well, Scott couldn't take care of two dogs and keep them from smashing.

[Mike]

Now he's got nine.

[Ben]

He's got nine.

[Ryan]

My God.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

What is he gonna do with that?

[Ben]

I'm sure he's gonna sell him.

[CJ]

Probably sell him.

[Ryan]

You gotta tell people, though, you guys say, really?

[CJ]

Like, I really wouldn't want to buy an inbred dog.

[Ben]

Oh, no, no. They're not inbred. They're purebred.

[CJ]

I guess it depends how you look at it.

[Mike]

No, I don't know. Scott's not gonna be selling them. He's gonna be paying people to take them.

[Ben]

I don't think so. I think he'll be selling them.

[CJ]

I'm sure you can sell them.

[Ben]

Did that guy that was all hyped up on how expensive the other dogs are, you just go, look at this. 15 grand in puppies right here.

[CJ]

Look at this.

[Ben]

Looks like dog money. 2500 for the start.

[CJ]

Counting them, it's like, all right, two grand.

[Ben]

Four.

[Ryan]

He's, like, adding up, finds out that.

[Mike]

The dog came from the shelter, and he's just like, what, worthless? Pretty much. Not even.

[CJ]

So this is what you just paid the adoption fee. Is this $150 dog? 150 dog right here.

[Ben]

My buddy, he went to the store and bought a real dog. You know, one that was real expensive, not a knockoff.

[CJ]

That's really funny. But I feel like all dogs are expensive nowadays.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, I mean, obviously you can get normal dogs, but even, like, if you wanted a golden retriever, I think it would cost you.

[Ryan]

Like. Yeah. It's funny how cheap certain dogs are. Like a status flex. They are.

[Ben]

What's another status flex animal?

[CJ]

A tiger.

[Ben]

I'd say a tiger probably is the peak.

[CJ]

I'd say big flex, T. No.

[Ryan]

So I. I don't think you can get a monkey anymore.

[Ben]

Anymore.

[Ryan]

Well, I. So for a while there, I was trying to get a monkey because I thought it'd be a really funny bit to put a monkey in Ken's. Office. And I'm only saying this because I can't do it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So I thought it'd be. So I was looking.

[CJ]

It'd be like, you'd have to take care of them for the.

[Ryan]

So, like, fully turning your office into a rainforest is what I envision. And then, like getting a full blown monkey. So you, like, show up Ken's and you, like, walk. Walk into your office and it's like, like a bunch of nature. And then you got a monkey there, and we're like, we bought you a monkey.

[Ben]

What do you do with it after the bit's done?

[CJ]

That's what.

[Ryan]

That's where we would never tell you that it was a joke. So you would just think that this monkey was yours. Now, because back in the day, back when you could do these things to you, Ken, and you'd have a genuine reaction. You'd be like, oh, I don't want to take care of this monkey. But the next shot is you driving your Tesla with the monkey in the front seat.

[CJ]

So I just feeding it and that's like. Next thing you know, you're living. You just always have them with you.

[Ben]

Wait, the monkey could drive the Tesla and Ken could sit in the passenger seat and scroll.

[Mike]

Yeah, you just.

[Ryan]

Okay, now. Now he might be down for it. Well, so I was trying to find the monkey, and then I reached out to a couple people that had monkeys. And I don't really know if these people had monkeys that were like, for rent, but I was like, okay, here's my idea. Can we use this? And they're like, that's inhumane. Or whatever. Like, they. People with monkeys are like, same thing.

[Ben]

It's a different room.

[Ryan]

Well, they're like, I can't leave the monkey alone. Like, it could be uncomfortable.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Without me in the area or without me in its presence or something, like.

[Mike]

In a ghillie suit. And.

[Ryan]

Well, then, yeah, I don't let him into the wall. Yeah, but I mean, it would be a bad day if the monkey went rogue and, like, pulled Ken's scalp off.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's what they can do.

[Ben]

Monkeys are crazy. Like, you don't want to mess with them.

[Ryan]

I've been thinking of other options, and I've got some other good ones. So maybe I did just show too many cards. But the nice part about Ken is he's three steps behind.

[Mike]

Why is there an aardvark in my office?

[Ben]

You could get an anteater for all the ants in the kitchen.

[Ryan]

Yeah, man. I was at the zoo the other day. With my nieces and such a good uncle. Crazy actually that literally down the road, 10 minutes, there's like a full on zoo that has camels, zebras, monkeys, bears, bears. There was black bears in there.

[CJ]

How'd you feel about that though? Because I, I always drive by in the winter and I'm like, I just feel terrible for the animals because they're just out in the elements and it's freezing and you got camel sitting there. It's like the camel's supposed to be in the desert, not in the frozen tundra of Minnesota in negative 30 degree weather.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I was, I was wondering that.

[CJ]

How'd they look? Did they look sad and like kind of messed up or.

[Ryan]

Well, you ever gone to a zoo where an animal looks happy?

[CJ]

I mean, I'm wondering if these ones look worse than normal. Like I, I honestly. Yeah, I don't know. I drive by and I sometimes wonder how is that place still open?

[Ryan]

I was most mind blown that this zoo is down the road and I didn't know about it.

[CJ]

If you've never seen that, I don't know. That's what the thing is. Just like kind of just right there and I'm always, where is it?

[Ryan]

Okay, thank you.

[CJ]

So when you're on the way to Spankies.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And you're going through the curves, it's right on the left, you'll just see it. There's like little like cages in like the open.

[Mike]

It's a. I didn't know.

[Ryan]

It's basically a farm but they have like quite a few. Like I, I don't know if you'd say exotic, but I mean they were definitely exotic to Minnesota animals there. And I was one of the same thing. I was like, what, what, what do they do with these, these guys in the winter?

[CJ]

They're outside, bro.

[Ryan]

Camels. Yeah, camels are pretty sure what's like a typical environment.

[CJ]

Like fucking probably 120 degrees.

[Ben]

Egypt, Saudi, like the Middle East.

[Ryan]

I get that, I get that. But like is there any camels in the Arctic?

[Ben]

Not naturally arctic camels?

[CJ]

I don't know. I need to go over there and check it out.

[Ben]

Oh no, they're fine from 120 to minus 20.

[CJ]

Cool. Then the desert does get really cold. The desert does get really cold at night, but I don't know, it's tough for me to look at. I guess I'm not necessarily a huge fan of that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I was walking around so like you could get like a little pail of food and then you walk around and then you can get some carrots, and you feed the camels the carrots, and then you feed the, like, the goats, the. The. The pale food.

[Mike]

And.

[Ryan]

Yeah, my. My nieces were just, like, putting it in their hands and just, like, shoving it up into these animals, like, faces. And I was like. I was getting protected.

[CJ]

I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Ryan]

And my. My brother and. And his wife were like, it's fine. It's fine. Apparently, when you have kids, you go to zoos a lot, so this is just another day for them. But I was like. I was like the hover uncle. I was, like.

[Ben]

Keeping them all in line and stuff.

[Mike]

I mean, I get what you're saying. Like, beating a horse. I'm like, they're always like, open palm, open palm. Because, you know, if there's little yappers get a hold of your skin.

[CJ]

Whenever we're, like, I'm around a little kid, I. I feel like I'm very, like, protective of it. Like, I'm worried it's gonna fall over. Like, you know, just something. Like, it could hit something, like, knock it. Anything, you know, there's so many things, but parents are always so laid back about it. But it's weird because, like, I hang around you guys who do pretty dangerous stuff on the daily. Like, I'm exposed to dangerous stuff on the daily. But then I go over to. To Alex's parents, and her sister's there with their little kids, and it's like, why? I'm like, whoa, whoa. Watch the table. What? You know, I'm like, so it is interesting.

[Ben]

They probably were that way, and then now the kid is five, and they've had five years of trying to protect. He's like, it's just going to do its thing. Kids are rubber, dude.

[Mike]

They fall.

[CJ]

Yeah, they are.

[Ryan]

That's what they keep saying. Yeah. I actually haven't held my nephew yet, and he's, I think, four months.

[CJ]

It is a little nerve, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm just like. I mean, I don't provide any value by holding this baby to him. And it's. It's a little uncomfortable for me because I don't want. What happens if I trip? What happens if I trip? What happens if I get lightheaded and I pass out?

[CJ]

Yeah, you never know. You had too many beer or something like that. I'm the same way. I got to get, like, situated in, like, a sturdy chair, maybe some cushions around it. I'm like, all right. I think I'm ready for it.

[Mike]

Like, you know, not even planning on standing up.

[CJ]

No, I'll sit there and then when it's time, you take them.

[Mike]

That's so funny. I was just like. I don't know why I was just so stoked about this the other day, but drunk proofing the shop, kind of baby proofing the shot. But the sauna has, like the sharpest tin, metal roof on it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So sharp. I mean, like sharp as a knife. So if you fell into that, you know, someone's getting larried up and they caught their arm or their head on that, it would like tear your skin completely off.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So I put. I grabbed your. Your trim from your fender flares, put it on there. Really smart.

[Ben]

It looks nice.

[Mike]

Just like now. If you ran into it, you'd be totally fine. But before it would be bad.

[Ryan]

What about my fender flares?

[CJ]

Well, they're.

[Mike]

You sold the dang car.

[CJ]

Imagine.

[Ryan]

Drunk proofing the shop. I feel like one time I was. I was pretty laried up and I was sitting in the shop, I was looking at the walls, and I was just like, man, what if there was like an electrical fire right now and it started the inside of the walls on fire, you know? Oh, like the insulation.

[Ben]

You sure you were just on the beer?

[Mike]

If that happens, you just gotta walk out.

[Ryan]

Well, well, then I go. I go, hold on to the ground. If the inside of the walls start on fire and tin is on the outside, I feel like we need to have some impact drills to take all the screws out of the. Out of the tin so you can quick put it out. So I walked around, I put some impact drills, like, around the shop.

[Mike]

The next day that last.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the next day I came over, I was like, what's up with all these impact drills? Later on. Yeah, but it is a valid point.

[Ben]

I hate to also kill your. Kill your thought process, but all the electrical in this building is on the outside of the walls.

[Mike]

That's good, man.

[Ryan]

Feel a lot better.

[Ben]

Thank goodness. Dude, you can sleep at night.

[CJ]

Just burn around the shop.

[Ryan]

So speaking of getting a little larried up. So yesterday my grandpa was in town, so he called me.

[Ben]

Oh, man.

[Ryan]

And was like, what are you doing? I was like, nothing, I'm just pulling up to the shop. And he's like, sweet, I'm here. I was like, perfect, let's hang out. So we go and get lunch. And I was like, well, what's your plan for the rest of the day? He was like, nothing, I'm just hanging out. It was my sister's bridal shower, so my grandma was all. All jammed up with that. So he was just. He was just along for the ride. So I brought him out to Ryan's place and we took him out on the pontoon with us. Dude, Put down some drinks.

[Ben]

He was on the Modelos.

[Ryan]

He was on the Modelos, dude. Next thing I know, he's got all of our girlfriends up on the top of our buddy Mark's pontoon. It's a double decker, and he's got all of our girlfriends up there and they're all dancing. And he's like.

[Ben]

He's like swing dancing.

[Ryan]

He's like, what was he playing? Janet, Jan. He had.

[Ben]

So that's why the music switched up.

[Ryan]

Yeah. He had some artists that was like, once we get this artist going, like, everyone's gonna be dancing in it. And it was. It was true. Yeah. Yeah, he had. So he up there swing dancing with him. And they loved it. And he loved it, I bet. And he was. So we bring him home, bring him back to grandma, because my grandma's calling. She was like, where's grandpa Ron?

[Ben]

I was sitting upstairs and I watched Sam get a call. And Sam eventually had gotten forced a beer.

[Ryan]

My brother.

[Ben]

Your brother was sent to come and pick up Ron. And they're sitting up on the top deck. Ron's about halfway through this beer, and he's already got a fresh one in this hand. And then Sam's got his own beer, and grandma calls, and I can kind of hear him, you know, like, when will you be home? Stuff like that. He goes. He looks at the beer and turns it, and he goes, I don't think we'll be home for a while.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

They go, well, just make sure grandpa's behaving himself and you guys are taking care of him and watching after him. And we're like, yeah, of course. Well, next thing we know, he's got all the girls up there dancing shotgun and beers.

[CJ]

That means he's having.

[Ben]

He had a great time.

[CJ]

Got an eye on him?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. No, he was. He was loving it.

[CJ]

He's behaving normal.

[Ben]

Yeah. So how'd it go when he got home?

[CJ]

I was curious how he was going to get home. I wasn't there, but, like, my mom was like, yeah, Grandpa was over at, you know, on the boat with all them, and. And, you know, grandma doesn't really drive much, and so he, like, the whole point of him driving her to the baby showers so you could drive her there and drive her home. And then he went and got all drunk. So I was like. I was almost wondering if I Was gonna have to drive him home, but, I mean, it never happened.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Sam brought him home.

[CJ]

Oh, Sam.

[Ryan]

Perfect. Yeah. So he was like, we, we. We're doing, you know, we're having a time and. And he's like, hey, don't be telling grandma about this when he's up there dancing and everything. First thing he does when we get home, Grandma, you won't believe this, starts showing her videos of dancing, the girls, and grandma's just rolling her eyes.

[CJ]

I was gonna say that's good because otherwise we would just.

[Ryan]

Done them dirty.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

My favorite little Easter egg from yesterday was Grandparon. So we're cruising around it, very busy on the lake. So you can't just pee off the side. He's in slacks. He's in full blown pleated slacks. So he's peeing into a bottle at the back, like, where no one could see him.

[Ryan]

But I was still surprised. What?

[CJ]

Into a bottle still surprised?

[Ryan]

Yeah, well, we were at the sandbar.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

A lot of people around, so he's just right in the corner peeing into a bottle and, you know, after he gets done, obviously dumps it in the lake. This is interesting, but whatever.

[CJ]

Strange concept, but, yeah, makes sense.

[Mike]

Turns around. So keep in mind that he got rid of the. The pee, but he turns around, runs into a buddy trying to sneak past him. Drops the can, you know, some. Some stuff makes it onto the floor and he just like picks it up, like, looks around, just. Just me and Sid were the only.

[Ben]

Ones who saw him.

[Mike]

And I'm like, grandpa, you just dropped your pee bottle.

[Ryan]

I think. Yeah, when you get older like that, the dude, I mean, granted, he put down so many beers, but the dude went pissed at least 10, 10, 15 times, man.

[Ben]

But is a riot, though.

[Ryan]

Everybody's life of the party.

[Ben]

Yeah, he's the life of the party. He's got his finger on the pulse. You got to give him credit.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

81.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's pretty crazy that we can have like, our. My grandpa, CJ's grandpa. He's 81, like we said, and I don't even think twice about bringing him along on anything that we do.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool because, I mean, well, both Mike and I, like, my grandparents are in the fridge. They're. Granted, they're like 90 something, but they're both in the nursing home, you know, like.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking different. My grandpa's 85 and like that. I mean, it looks like grandpa on 70 compared.

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah, he's pretty. They're pretty in tune and dialed. Like I was talking with my parents about that last night. I was like, it's amazing how like they can just get around, do pretty much anything at their age.

[Ben]

Maybe you guys are right. Maybe I should start taking care of myself. Seems like it might pay off later.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think about that quite a bit. Especially lately, man, I've been, I've been so sore from our recent endeavors and I'm like, man, this is really starting to add up. I think as we get older we'll.

[CJ]

Continue, we'll maybe get more and more serious with like taking care of ourselves. As you age, gradually, you will take it more and more serious. And then like eventually, I mean, who knows, maybe we'll be like this forever. But like 40, 50, you're like, I don't need to go on benders and do certain things like that. And then you'll, you know, be doing things and then, I don't know. I think we could have the possibility of living till like over a hundred with technology and like the knowledge of everything nowadays, like healthcare is just way more advanced than it has obviously been in the past.

[Ryan]

I do agree. I mean, think about how rapidly technology is advancing.

[CJ]

Yeah, and the more they know about the body and everything.

[Ben]

Dude, I tell you what though, I have been jammed up this week.

[Mike]

Ryan fell down.

[Ben]

Yeah, I fell down. I was getting off the boat and I'd had like two Tonys and the dock was kind of moving and the boat was going up and I just completely miscalculated the distance from the boat to the dock and just fell right between the dock and the boat. Smoked my hip so freaking hard, dude. I think I fell the perfect way. Cuz I could have fell, hit my face, you know, cut up my arms on the dock or something like that. And basically all I got was a little bruise on my hip, but dude, so bad. And then like I'm a side sleeper, so I was trying to sleep on my side but it hurt. So I my sleep, I rolled over so my hips were flat, but my neck was sideways. Woke up, couldn't even move my neck. I was like, I'm falling apart, dude.

[Ryan]

All jammed up.

[Ben]

So you guys might live to be 100. I'll be freaking.

[Ryan]

What happened? Oh yeah, he's a side sleeper, but he slept with his neck the wrong way.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'm at the point where if I sleep wrong, I can't even move. You guys want to live forever?

[CJ]

Well, yeah. What can I stay at? Like my relative ability and health and all that. Then yes.

[Ben]

Like, bottom out at Grandpa Ron.

[CJ]

But, like, I mean, yeah, I guess Grandpa Ron gets around just fine. I wouldn't mind that then.

[Ben]

But.

[CJ]

But yeah, I mean, if you're, like, living forever and then you're getting all old and you can't do anything, then it's like there's no point.

[Ben]

But that's true. I definitely agree. You wouldn't want to be sitting around.

[CJ]

Like, waiting if you're in good health. Yes.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Do you think there's a perfect age? I feel like you say, I think live all of it.

[CJ]

I think, like, at 30, 25. I think at 30, they say you're done building, like, a certain amount of, like, muscle and skill, and your brain is like. I'm pretty sure. I don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure I've heard that multiple times.

[Ben]

One of my buddies just turned 25, and that's when they say your brain stopped developing. And so someone said that he goes, shit, this is as good as it gets.

[Ryan]

But, I mean, I got one more year, baby. I got one more year.

[Ben]

One more year to not get stupid. Yeah.

[CJ]

You got a long ways to go, Ben, if you want to catch up.

[Mike]

That seems like a good movie preface. It seems like kind of something you would regret. So it's like, if they offer you. You get to live forever. Let's say at 25 or 30, you get to live forever. And you're like, sick. I want to do that. But you can't take it back. The only way that you get to die is if the entire world ends, which, who knows, could happen. But, like, you don't get to take it back. You have to live forever after, let's say, I don't know, picturing if this is a movie plot, 300 years, you're.

[Ben]

Like, damn, Like a vampire.

[Mike]

Like a vampire. I got to figure out a way to break this curse. Essentially, it would feel like a curse after long enough, then you're responsible for.

[CJ]

The end of the world.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

That'd be a great movie.

[Ben]

And then you try to end the world, and then there's a second character that's trying to stop you.

[Mike]

Yeah. And they're like, we. We can live together. Like, I also am living forever.

[Ben]

Wait, there's a writer's.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Right now. We can't get weird.

[CJ]

Weird plot. Because, like, you'd be starting with almost the antagonist of the film.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And then.

[Ben]

Oh, my God, you guys.

[Ryan]

That's a great man.

[Mike]

It really is.

[Ryan]

That's a great movie.

[CJ]

And then it switches over and like, you were with the viewer, was with the antagonist. And now all of a sudden they're against them.

[Ryan]

They have the same, you know, the same age, same situation, but they're living two completely different ways. One's trying to end it, but one's trying to like, live that way forever. And they're like battling against each other.

[Mike]

I think the one Black Mary. Yeah, yeah. The one that's trying to live forever also went through the whole, I hate this. I don't want to live forever. But then they got past it and they're like, I understand that I have to, to keep peace.

[Ben]

Originally, when I thought of this idea or we started thinking of it, I was picturing more of like a Freaky Friday, you know, like, type of vibe. You know, kind of cute and quirky and has like a nice happy ending. And now we went straight to like Marvel Black Mirror.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I almost picture like the very end of that movie just being like the whole universe from like Space View and you just see like. And it just goes like black.

[Ben]

And then you sit. It's one of those movies you sit and watch and just stare at the credits after it ends because you're trying to process it.

[Mike]

So. Yeah. Mind blowing.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I've actually been meaning to watch a good, good movie in theaters lately. I do kind of want to go to Oppenheimer.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Might even go to Barbie.

[CJ]

Yeah, I want to see both those.

[Mike]

I'd see both.

[Ryan]

But it's crazy how like you guys.

[Mike]

Double movie date, like a little matinee action after this.

[Ryan]

Movie theaters are almost. Well, I shouldn't say, like, coming back in style, but they're coming back.

[CJ]

They are.

[Ryan]

At least for like this last week with like the Barbie, Oppenheimer thing. It was like such a social movement.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And when there's such a wave, you know, it's crazy how the masses are just like, oh, yeah, no, movie theaters are cool again. Like, movie theaters are back in. They got people like record breaking box numbers.

[CJ]

They got people talking again. That's the thing. You know, I think that was the biggest thing.

[Ben]

Sometimes I just saw an ad for a movie though, and it, it looks like one that I kind of like want to see, but not really. And it's like only in theaters. And I did kind of go, oh.

[Ryan]

They always say that somebody picks it up in a couple years. Like Burke, Bert Chrysler's Birch.

[CJ]

Oh, I need to see that too.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Chrysler. Chrysler.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

But his, his movie the Machine was like, only in theaters. Only in theaters. That's why I went on like that whole podcast run and I just got. I think it was Amazon Prime. It popped up like, like the machine was only in theaters.

[CJ]

Did you watch it?

[Ryan]

No, I haven't yet.

[Ben]

Very excited to watch.

[Mike]

Now it's available for rent for 39.99.

[Ben]

Is it?

[CJ]

Movies are kind of coming back, dude.

[Ben]

YouTube has free movies you can watch with ads.

[Mike]

For some reason YouTube's free movies just kind of hit, you know, so they'll serve me Hot rod. It's my favorite movie. Love that. It'll serve me just like some classics from like the early 2000s and you watch them and you watch a couple ads. Just like a YouTube video. It's not bad.

[CJ]

Straight up. That's pretty damn smart of like whoever owns that movie, put it on YouTube and get served the ads and like.

[Ryan]

Holy fuck, if it's a two hour.

[CJ]

Long movie you're going to have so many ads ads in there probably.

[Ryan]

And did you just watch the Big Short? Okay, I was wondering why that was getting recommended in our. In our. Well, I was like, I was like what kind of bootleg big short movie is this? Because well, I didn't know that that was a thing now. But yeah, it was like two, two and a half hour long movie.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And usually when you see that on YouTube, it's usually just bootlegged.

[Ben]

Dude, that movie is so frickin good. Except for. I don't know if we'll talk about it in more detail, but we just bought property. And the night before I was watching the Big Short where the entire real estate market crashes and I was a little bit cynical walking around, I was like, literally. I really was like, it's real estate you can never lose. And that's exactly what they said in the movie. Like the real. Real estate ladies driving around like, yeah, well you know, we're just in a little gully. You make your money back. This is a big time. You should be buying. You should be buying. And then everybody lost their houses and jobs.

[Ryan]

Lost the farm. Lost the farm.

[CJ]

It is interesting because there is kind of like this whole. At least it seems like everyone forgot about 2008. But like real estate can't go wrong with real estate. Even if you overpay, it'll catch up eventually. Like, you know, like that seems to be like literally what everyone tells, like tells me.

[Ben]

Yeah. And for what was has been true. And I think a lot of people that live it like rurally probably can also experience. I feel like let's say Florida goes like this. They're doing 40% jumps. Either way, they lose a ton or make time. But if you have, like, farmland or you have lakes or you're from a smaller town, it might go up and then it might go down. When, like, the whole world crashes, you go down a little bit and then it's insulated. Yeah, exactly. It's insulated.

[Ryan]

I guess the thing that I try and look at, we are in such a different market where most people can't, like, justify looking at, like, a property that we just bought and making sense of it because it would just be, like, for leisure or dead space. Or dead space. Whereas us, we can, like, like, squeeze every little bit out of, like, every inch of the property. Of, like, we could run that tree over it with something. We could do donuts in this grass. We could drive a car through that old shed. Or, like, there's just, like, so many different things. And then, you know, hopefully those videos can just live on forever and pay them, pay the mortgage in 30 years off of that video.

[Mike]

I love that we're able to do that because normally with land, the only way to squeeze out of it for.

[Ben]

A normal person, like that motion y' all are doing.

[Mike]

But the only way to do that is to build and sell. Split it up. Build, sell, rent, whatever.

[Ryan]

But for us, or farm.

[CJ]

Or.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, or farm. But it's like for us, we could.

[Ben]

Plant a little sweet corn patch. Evan can be over there.

[Mike]

I feel.

[CJ]

And I feel like, just either way, at the. In, like, the most simplest way to look at it, not even thinking of all the other things that we're going to do. It's just a store of value. Like, you put it there, it's going to slowly grow up or go up, you know, and it's like, you have that there's. And in 30, 40 years, if you wanted, you could sell it, you know, and it's just like, things like that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I. Dude, I love cormorant, too. Like, I love, like, buying up as much as we can around cormorant.

[Mike]

So fun.

[Ryan]

And most people would be like, you know, you guys could, like, invest that money in, like, any other town or market and probably be a much better return. But I think for us, like, it. It makes so much sense because, like, we love it. Like, this is where we're from. This is where our roots are. Like, our business is here. And now we're just, like, buying up as much as we can around the area. And. And I hope one day, like, you're just driving down the road. Sea boys see boys see Boys.

[CJ]

So I was out to eat with my girlfriend and her dad at. He loves talking us up whenever. And another older guy comes over and starts talking to him. You know, they're talking about whatever. And he goes, hey, you know. You know cj, My daughter's boyfriend, whatever. He's. He's one of the sea boys, you know. And everybody goes, you ever. You ever heard of those guys? And I'm. Normally, I'm like, like, you know, you never know how they might not like us or they might like us, but I'm always just like, yeah, you don't need to mention that. But he. He brought that up. And he goes, oh, yeah, I know those guys. They're the ones that keep buying all the land. I'm looking at getting it, you know, like, because we're. But then he goes, yeah, so what do you do? What do you guys do for work? I go make YouTube videos. And then he didn't quite understand. He's like, yeah, but what do you do? And I was like. So I just said, I just. Like, I'm like an editor. Like, I do video editing. Goes, oh, nice, okay.

[Ryan]

He's like, what do you need property to video edit? He's so confused. He went home even more confused. Mike, you said something so funny the other day. You were like, talking about how Cormorant could, like, expand out to, like, where. Where we bought. I just picture, like, the Cormorant village, like, growing because it hasn't grown in. Since existence. Like, it has not grown at all. But we're just. We're gonna build Cormont.

[Mike]

The village itself hasn't. But I mean, again, talking about the land that we hopefully get to close on is about as close to cormorant as. As anything's been available in a while. As far as us. Monumental amount. A lot of sheds. A lot of sheds around this area. But what are you gonna do? That's true. It's growing. And I genuinely think it will grow because of us. Not solely because of us, but.

[Ryan]

Well, I mean, if we have kids one day, where they're gonna need to go to school somewhere.

[CJ]

School?

[Mike]

That would be insane.

[Ryan]

Eight kids in the class.

[Mike]

Public schools are getting a little crazy. So. Yeah, I mean, we might have to build our own. Build our own school, so. Not even send your kids to private school. You build them your own school.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's like some Elon Musk shit right there.

[CJ]

That's like some cult type shit.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was gonna say.

[Mike]

I mean, I think it would get.

[CJ]

What do you Guys think you'd teach at. If it was a school? Like, what would you. What would be taught there? Normal school things.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Would you be teaching, like, specialty.

[Ryan]

Oh, you're saying.

[Mike]

Oh, and we actually.

[Ryan]

The teachers.

[CJ]

No, I'm just saying, like, if it's school, you could, like, kind of make the curriculum, you know, like, you could be, like, teaching about.

[Mike]

For sure. Rock climbing.

[CJ]

Using money. Right. You know, enjoying life.

[Ryan]

Right.

[CJ]

Things that are actually important.

[Ben]

Yeah. Washing your car.

[Mike]

I would love, love if they had a class. I'm sure some schools do, but. Yeah, class where they teach taxes.

[CJ]

How to pay your taxes. Yeah.

[Mike]

Stuff like loans, like, you know, I.

[Ben]

Get that in college.

[Mike]

Do not. Well, you don't tell you that. And they don't tell you that in high school either.

[Ben]

It's just.

[Mike]

And it doesn't even need to be that deep.

[Ryan]

Doesn't it make sense to just have, like, a class that's just called, like, Life Lessons 101?

[CJ]

Yeah, that. That right there would probably be the most important class. Just getting around, you know, like.

[Mike]

Or even break that into a couple different factors. Life lessons on the physical standpoint of, you know, like, I guess, cpr. I don't think they'd be that insane to just teach everyone, like, cpr.

[CJ]

They did that in high school for me.

[Ryan]

Really good.

[Mike]

And then. Yeah. Life lessons in finances. Some people need life lessons in social aspects, too. And also I feel like people have been saying that forever. Like, how long. How long have you heard of.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Wouldn't it be nice if we learned how to, like, do our taxes in school or whatever?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

People have been saying that for, like.

[CJ]

20 years or also just, like, save money on taxes. But I suppose the government typically owns schools, so why would they.

[Mike]

That is very true.

[CJ]

How to form an LLC and like, all these, like, things that actually.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That is what the wealthy people do. Yeah.

[Ryan]

But then you're kind of building, like, business owners, and I don't know if the world is better having more business owners.

[Mike]

The government wouldn't say so.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly.

[CJ]

They want workers.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

They want sheep in.

[Ryan]

Yeah. In the eyes of, like, a functioning society.

[CJ]

Yeah. No. 100%. You need. You need everyone, you know, a little bit of everything.

[Ben]

The only useful thing I learned in college was how to use Excel. Pretty damn good.

[CJ]

You are.

[Ryan]

You're really good at that. And I'm so bad at that. But I got you to help me out.

[CJ]

You could probably teach yourself on YouTube, though, and probably, like, a day.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Probably even less than a day. Yeah. You probably teach whatever you need to do. You could probably learn in probably an hour on YouTube.

[Ben]

100%.

[Ryan]

Our friend Steve Hamilton, owner of custom offsets, we went to Florida with him last month. He, when, when we were lining up everything for Florida, he goes, what's your email? I'm gonna send you over a spreadsheet. Yeah, he literally sent me a spreadsheet of like every single detail down to like every five minutes of where we're gonna be and like who was doing what and like everyone's room numbers. But like, yeah, he was a super successful dude and he was. Yeah, he was like, oh, I use Excel for everything.

[CJ]

I'm pretty sure he was telling me he was like teaching his kids like how to use it.

[Ben]

Makes sense.

[CJ]

Really well. And yeah, I mean, why wouldn't you? It is very useful.

[Ben]

I was scrolling through TikTok and the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska said that it's cheaper to offer homeless people flights to Los Angeles. He said it costs $100 a day to house a homeless person and it's like 236 bucks for a one way ticket to Los Angeles. Said send them to la, give them a summer warm shitty California bridge.

[CJ]

Alaska says he is solving his city's.

[Ben]

Homeless crisis by giving them a one.

[CJ]

Way plane ticket to Los Angeles.

[Ben]

They're going to choice to stay warm this winter and that's the choice that we're giving them. And I think a ticket this morning to Los Angeles is about 286 bucks. It costs us $100 plus or minus a few dollars every day to house someone and we don't have a place to put them a large shelter. This, this, this winter, dude. Imagine you're a homeless guy and a cop comes up to you and you think you're getting arrested and goes, hey, you want to go to California?

[CJ]

Hey, you're going to Cali.

[Ben]

That would be. I mean, I feel like it'd be.

[Ryan]

Sick if I was homeless, that's where I'd go.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'd go somewhere warm.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think, I think that's how they all think too.

[CJ]

It reminds me of that episode of south park when Cartman ships all the homeless to California.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[CJ]

And he goes through California. Super cool to the homeless. Lots of rich people giving change to the homeless.

[Mike]

That song lived rent free and all like all heads for a long time.

[CJ]

Still haven't it there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Once you say that, now it's just plain.

[Mike]

Yep.

[CJ]

Salt Park's a legendary show, man.

[Ben]

Dude, it is. I just saw a clip of when they have to save the town and they need, like, a hundred thousand dollars, and they raise 10,000. They go, we don't have enough, but we're gonna put it all on one number at the casino. We doing 350 grand. And then hits. And then they go, wait, if we do it again, we'll have 12 million. And they're like, let it ride. And the kids are like, what the hell? And then they obviously lose.

[Mike]

It is truly just. Just the pinnacle of. Of, like, memeing current events and everything in life.

[CJ]

I learned a lot through South Park. I grew up watching from the fourth grade.

[Ben]

I feel like you have some of your character traits from that show.

[Ryan]

Yeah, people that.

[CJ]

My humor, my.

[Ben]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

People that didn't grow up watching South Park, I think it shows.

[Mike]

Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, Evan didn't watch South Park.

[Ryan]

That's actually surprising.

[CJ]

I was too mainstream for him.

[Ryan]

Well, even when we were in Disney World with the CEO Bugatti. Yeah, mate. He spoke, like, really good English, and he's from Croatia. And we're like, oh, how'd you learn English? And he was like, honestly, watching South Park.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

What?

[Ryan]

Yeah. And you could tell, though, because that was, like, his humor. He loved everything that we would, like, say that was, like, pretty, like, edgy. Yeah, it was like, edgy that, like, most. Most people that were, like, straight laced would be like, what the wrong with these guys? But he would. He would start laughing, and then he'd say something back and be like, oh, man, we both degenerates. This is cool.

[CJ]

We formed a little bond with him over that. We started talking, like, episodes or like, just like, funny little moments, funny things and, like, quoting lines. And then, yeah, it really broke the barrier down.

[Ben]

I feel like most people. Most all like humor like that. That's why it's such a popular show and it's been going forever.

[CJ]

Some people are just afraid because they're too PC, like, you know, to come out, especially nowadays. Dude, that show was savage back in the. And that was just on tv, cable television. Anyone could watch. You just flip to the channel and they were straight up doing disses at every. Everyone I remember, they were going to show some, like, Muhammad, some important terrorist figure from Iran or somewhere. It was like, Muhammad or something, and they were going to put him in the episode. And then, like, that terrorist group responded and said something like they were going to attack if they did that because it's some kind of profit that you're not supposed to show and no one's supposed to see, and they're gonna make fun of them. And then, like, the government was like, like, please don't. Don't do this. And they, like, ended up putting him in, like, a bear costume for the episode. Like, they still treaded the line. Like, how savage.

[Ben]

Can you imagine? You know, Those two hung up the phone and high five. We just got a call from the US Government telling us that the terrorist group wants to attack because of us.

[Ryan]

Well, how about the movie, the interview?

[Ben]

I was thinking about that. I can't believe that went.

[Ryan]

What ended up happening with that?

[Mike]

Well, basically, they was going to go to theaters and then.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Did it go to theaters and then.

[Mike]

It never did.

[Ben]

Oh, really? Yeah, it was like, super limited release. And then, like, I think that was like, right when, like, Sony Movie Studios, like, servers got hacked. There's a bunch of random. Yeah, there's a bunch of weird stuff that happened.

[Mike]

And then I think shortly after, let's say a couple of months, they just were like, you know what? We're just going to soft release this on our streaming platforms. I forget where it first started.

[Ryan]

Are you talking about Saddam Hussein?

[CJ]

So basically it was the 200th episode, and I guess it's now banned. Like, it's just not. You can't find it, really.

[Ben]

Wow, that's.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they were.

[CJ]

They received death threats from extremist Muslims. Yeah, it was bad deal, but. And then they put them in a bear costume.

[Ben]

I love how they still did it, though.

[CJ]

Yeah. They just don't give a fuck. Which, I mean, it's tough. I'm sure it's a lot harder to make an episode of south park nowadays.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah, but they can also just look at what's happening in society on, like, a daily norm. That's what I mean. It's just life imitates art, or art imitates life. Like, in their instance, they're probably just like, man, this is getting easier and easier.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's almost like, not as funny because it's like, holy. Like, this is too true now. You know, it's just like, Jesus.

[Ben]

And they kind of did go where it's more like factual or not factual. But it's always with current events. When it used to be, like, random stuff.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It'd be like, not necessarily as current, but it would be maybe involving something that obviously has gone on, but not super. Yeah, I agree. They make an episode in a week that's. They're just like, crazy.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Which is pretty cool. You should watch that. They have, like, a thing on Hulu, I believe, and it's like, the Making of South Park. In it. It's like a 48 minute documentary and it follows them and it shows like them going from the week and like making an episode.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's sick.

[CJ]

Except they only have to make like 12 episodes a year and we make 50.

[Mike]

True.

[Ben]

I can't believe they can do that with TV and put it out fast. It seems to me that you would need it like a week in advance.

[Ryan]

You know, I mean, when you're them.

[CJ]

I guess you just run it right to them. They literally run it right to the network and they put it on.

[Ben]

I guess it's weird to think that you just like put in a desk.

[Ryan]

Back in the day, we had super bad WI fi here and we would have to drive to like our friend's house or super big house, the Mansion. Because they had like the best WI fi in the area to upload our videos.

[CJ]

I had the, I had the password to it. I'm not gonna say who gave to me, but. So I would go and like sit outside this like the mansion on, on Pelican Lake that you'll see sometimes in the background of videos. And I'd post, upload the video and then drive back.

[Ben]

Would you be able to get inside the gate? Like you get up by the house?

[Ryan]

Yeah, okay.

[CJ]

I'd be like up in there. I wouldn't be in the house. He didn't, he never even knew I was there doing it. But yeah, we'll sometimes be like parked out front. We'll have some people that, you know, just like new group of people or whoever out. And that's where everyone sits at the sandbar. And they'll just can't believe this house. I'll be like, yeah, for like a year. Uploaded YouTube videos off his WI fi actually. And everyone's like, what? So weird.

[Mike]

It is a good fun fact. It was like part of the routine. So, you know, now the routine obviously is like, you, Ben, export to cj. CJ exports Ben. And we upload it. You write your description, your thumbnail. But before it was like, all right, who's.

[CJ]

Who's.

[Ryan]

You got it like got the car ready, warmed up?

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

And I'd be like driving there while it was exporting.

[Mike]

I always remember that C.J. and his car, like, I mean, do you did it in your Subaru or did you total that?

[Ryan]

Then I remember Evo.

[Mike]

Oh yeah, in the Evo. But you're still driving a manual. He's got his laptop and he's like cruising over there and it's exporting as he's driving Someone get the car ready.

[Ryan]

Get the car ready.

[Mike]

I just. As part of the upload schedule.

[CJ]

It's always a rush, man, to get that thing done and up. Yeah, hopefully. Hopefully the viewers appreciate because it's grind every time. Never really seems to get any easier.

[Ryan]

Never does.

[CJ]

You think it would, though, eventually, but it never does. Might get harder. Yeah. I feel like it's only literally getting harder.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think it is. Like, speaking, like, for you guys because you're, you're just so prideful in what you're creating week in, week out. I see it. You're like, you're like stressed because you want it to be the best it can be. And that's never changed. So I think since the other content we've been filming is getting better and better.

[CJ]

3, 4, 5 cameras and I'm like.

[Mike]

More camera angles, more audio, more GoPro, more. Yeah. Thicker ideas, everything.

[CJ]

There's definitely more weight to it. Yeah.

[Ben]

You guys are just perfectionists with it. You know, when you do it, you're like, I want it to be the absolute best it can be, which is good. It's a good thing.

[Mike]

Yep. And also the fact that it is done week in and week out, it's. It's got to be the most mentally stressful part of the whole business. And it's not something that Ryan. Well, you deal with it too, with.

[Ben]

The podcast, but on a miniature level.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You guys ever, you know, like when you go to a car meet, the guy will have like his 1982 Chevelle there and it's got like a thousand no touching stickers. Yeah. All over the car. And I feel like it is. It's etiquette at a car show. You walk around with your hands behind your back. You make the little ducktail. You don't touch the car. But some people are such psychos about if you like, were to touch their car, like the fingerprint, the paint.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And it doesn't really make any sense to me because they literally drive it down the road. Or like you're getting hit by bugs. Yeah.

[CJ]

I suppose they probably don't drive in the rain, but like, yeah, there's always something that you know, like little rock.

[Mike]

If you're saying that rocks the car better. Look a lawless Perfect.

[CJ]

I feel like if it's a million dollar car, like something really rare, I can get behind it. But if it's just like a. A 2018 Camaro SS, I'm like, Bro. Which is also.

[Ben]

Drive the thing.

[CJ]

Keep it. Yeah, just drive the thing. But also I can't you can't. You know, it's his pride and joy. Wants to keep it nice. I get it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think there's certain people like that, though. But, you know, when we go to sema, we see the craziest cars. Like, you see so many crazy cars. By the end of it, you're seeing, like, million dollar cars and they don't even look custom.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You can't even appreciate it. And I feel like those people really don't care.

[Ben]

They understand it is what it is. And the paint's going to be fine because they put 7,000 clear coat layers on it. Yeah.

[Ryan]

So, you know, it's. It's.

[Ben]

There's different types.

[Ryan]

Different types. Me and CJ's grandpa growing up, dude, like the biggest car guy we knew, you know, probably where we got a lot of our. Our love for cars and respect for cars. But, like, dude, he would go out and buy, like a new Mercedes or he always had Corvettes when we were growing up. And it would just park them underneath trees out in his yard.

[Ben]

Not even in the garage.

[Ryan]

Not even in the garage. Truly would not, like, care about him in that aspect. Cats would be walking all over them and stuff.

[Ben]

He stopped in it and drove it.

[Ryan]

Which I drove it on gravel to get to his house.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there is different extremes. I'm picky. Like, I try to not scratch my car, my truck, when I can, you know?

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

Maybe not take it through the touch car wash every week or not when I'm going out on the track, try to stay away from, like, the big branches. Right. But I'm also kind of realizing my truck, you got to use it, whatever. But today, Alondra and I were at McDonald's and the lady came out, we had three drinks, we had burgers, we had a bunch of shit. Right? And so the lady, when, you know she's only got two hands, is holding the bucket and presses the bucket up against the truck, reaches over and, like, you know, starts grabbing out. So when the drinks come out, the bucket goes, you know, down, up, and then she moves it down again. It was just like. This was just push up and down. I was like, oh. And I. I just got. My food was quiet enough, but I just was like, man, I was gonna tell you guys, I'd be like, don't do curbside service, because that would be.

[CJ]

That's painful. I actually had a very similar experience at Caribou. So they always. They have the little card thing where you put it in on the stick. Well, this One day is. I don't know what it was a guy instead of the cute girl that normally hands it to me and already. Yeah, exactly. I'm in my gtr. He swings the stick around and just smacks it in the side of my car. Side of the gtr. I'm not even kidding you. What? Yeah, he. Not like purposely, obviously, but. And I shouldn't say smack, but he like knocked it in the side of my paint and I was kind of just like, like I legit, like looked at him and I went like, I went like this. I didn't say anything. I was just like expecting him to be like, oh, like, sorry. Like, oh, my bad. But he didn't say anything. He just was like. Then he goes, yeah, if you want to leave a tip. I hit zero, bro. I hit zero. I was like, got out of there.

[Ben]

For similar people that don't know, it just is. It looks like a clean black car, you know, I mean, obviously it's sporty.

[CJ]

And whatnot, but it was a metal thing. He hit it, hit it in there.

[Ben]

No, I mean, yeah, he dumped, but like, he probably doesn't think anything of.

[CJ]

No, I get it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It was an accident. I'm sure he didn't mean to, but yeah, it was interesting.

[Ben]

But yeah, still, it happens.

[CJ]

You're like, I was expecting like, oh, dang, sorry.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Some of these places are getting out of line asking for tips.

[CJ]

I agree.

[Mike]

It is.

[Ryan]

I love now, like they are just straight up doing their job.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And they're asking for a tip when it's not really a service based business. I obviously, if it's. If they're like serving you or doing something for you, they're bringing like your.

[CJ]

Drinks to the table and they're.

[Ryan]

The food industry is one thing, but like when we were at the golf course, I was just paying for our golf round and there was a tip and there was a tip option and I. And I tipped her. And I tipped her really well. Knowing what we were about to do to that course on that course and we didn't do anything to the course. I think she was so caught off guard that I actually tipped her though.

[Ben]

Because most people would say no.

[Ryan]

Well, yeah, because it's just like a.

[CJ]

Girl, they're just giving them bringing you.

[Ryan]

Up for nothing for your round. I just started to think like, man, there's so many times that people just expect you to tip when they're just doing their job, I think. And when I worked in that, like when I worked at the Cormorant store and like scooped ice cream. Man, it would make my day if somebody gave me a dollar or something like that. When you're actually like doing things but you don't have like a tip jar or like, like asking them, so what's the tip?

[CJ]

I think that makes a little bit difference when you just got a little tip jar sitting there and it's a kid scooping ice cream and it could have been any kid that was working the store. And you know, obviously that's a little bit harder because the ice cream's all frozen. But dude, I think the public is actually starting to get sick. Oh, I would agree because I've seen some things like said about it, you know, little memes and stuff on the Discover page on Instagram. Like it is getting so out of hand. It, it makes me think of my old job before we were doing this full time, working at the gym. You check someone in for the gym and then you turn around to think tip. Like, yeah, well I checked you in. Yeah, you're doing your job. That's your employer to pay you for, not me.

[Ben]

That's the problem.

[CJ]

I think I'm already paying for it.

[Ben]

Is they don't, you know, if it's a tip based job, you don't get paid more because you get, you get less than minimum wage or you get minimum wage. But tips is a part of your compensation. There's a restaurant.

[Ryan]

Those aren't tip based jobs is what we're saying.

[Ben]

That's what I mean. They shouldn't be, but maybe they are because. Well, I mean we don't know what the. Definitely not the golf course. But we maybe don't know what the person gets paid. At Tutti Frutti when you serve your own food and she just weighs it and checks you out. You don't know. She might get $7 an hour and then is hoping for that dollar tip to make it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think it's just like when you're buying something. Like when you're buying some clothes.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You're checking out a no situation.

[Mike]

I just, it's just the classic. It's always an iPad, usually an iPad. And it's that spin around and then my pet mini. But my favorite line is when. Now it's almost a universal thing. They'll go and then it'll ask you if you want to. I'm serious. That's a coffee shop. Again. I know it's a service based, but yeah, they turn around and then it'll ask you if you want to. And then they're just like, look away. They don't say the word tip. I'm going to say, it'll ask me if I want to. Oh, okay.

[Ben]

There's a restaurant in Florida that does no tips. When you walk in the door, it says, like, we pay our employees fair. You don't have to tip.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Ben]

Yeah. And I mean, the food's a little more expensive.

[Ryan]

That's how they do that in Europe, I believe. Yeah.

[Ben]

Tipping isn't a thing over there.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Actually think I'd prefer that. But then again, I guess you don't necessarily have them working as hard for their service. But. But then you go back to the point of these people are just bringing you up. They're not really doing anything other than the bare minimum.

[Ben]

Yeah. Depends on what it is. Of course it depends on which service.

[CJ]

And, yeah, I think tips definitely fuel it.

[Ryan]

If I was working for tips, and I said this to Greta the other day. I said, I don't wish that I worked in, like, the restaurant business, being that. Because I, like, started suck. Young. Young. But, like, I wish I could, like, I guess, know how. How it feels to be, like, working at such a busy restaurant or a busy bar and, like, run. And then, you know, I'd probably appreciate a little bit more while I'm. While I'm at that bar, knowing that it does look hard as shit, but I wonder how hard I would work to get.

[CJ]

You'd be the coolest motherfucker. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Hit me.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because I'd just be like, well, I'm. I'm like, work. I'm mostly getting paid off of my tips.

[CJ]

I'm gonna.

[Ryan]

If I'm here, I'm gonna be schmoozing the shit out of them. I'm gonna be. I may be patting this guy, the dad on the back. Oh, I love your shoes. To the mom, you know. Yeah, I agree.

[CJ]

Or if you were a girl, you just be like, really wearing some nice outfit.

[Ryan]

Just be.

[CJ]

That makes it that. Yeah. I mean, that makes a huge difference, especially with the older.

[Mike]

I remember when I, like.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Bartended for a stint, I was like, I'm gonna try that. I'm gonna try to get more tips. And then it got, like, busy. And, like, I was just. Just trying to get through people. And then I'm like, that didn't work at all. I think it's much easier to do if you're female. But yeah, like, I was just doing my job as best I could. Smile on my face, just being really nice.

[CJ]

An old man.

[Mike]

I didn't really.

[Ryan]

It didn't really.

[Ben]

I didn't come home because they're coming up and they're ordering. So it's like.

[Mike]

It's true.

[Ben]

There's this guy. His. His Instagram username is Subway. And actually, funny enough, the reason that we. That I have him accepted in my thing is because he won a giveaway. We did in like, 2016. And I have a screen recording of it and I'll throw it up, but for you guys, he has liked and screenshotted every single video within an hour of it coming out for since 2017. I got to go back and figure out the first one. But he is there instantly. He's like, my notification of the video.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[CJ]

You guys sent him some merch.

[Ben]

I was saying, I was like, dude, I can't. I like sentable mess. I was like, I can't even appreciate. Tell you how much I appreciate you, like, watching every week and like, being on it. And like.

[Mike]

So he posts it?

[Ben]

No, he just DMs it to me.

[Ryan]

Oh, wow.

[Ben]

Make sure that it's just kind of like our thing.

[Ryan]

He's like, I don't watch it, but I just see it's live.

[Ben]

Look at all these, dude.

[CJ]

Wow, that's crazy, bro. That's sick. I love that.

[Ben]

Going all, Holy smokes.

[CJ]

Oh, he's got the classic OG Xbox gamer tag profile pick, but in February 25, 2019.

[Mike]

Dang. But in turn of him doing that, he's essentially earned his way to one, being talked about, two, free merch, and three, a direct relationship with you, I guess, you know, via dm. Yeah, Yeah, I think so too.

[Ryan]

Sometimes I get messages from people that I've responded and put them in, like, my primary versus general. Yeah, I've just like, responded to them because they're like, like, on the top of my message notifications. And I've gotten like a couple that, like, after responding a couple times like, yo, can I use your Lamborghini for prom? Things like that. I'm like, look, man, we ain't that good a friend.

[Ben]

I would say I probably read every DM that comes in. You know, you go through the request and stuff like that. One day when you're bored, you just take a scroll through it. So I always see them, don't always respond. But Snapchat has the best. Like, you actually want us to see something? Snapchat is the best way to do it, respond to a story, because it just like shows up. Noah, the Make a Wish kid, was asking about that. He was like, what does it look like for you on the creator side, it was interesting. And because he'd commented on my story and like, he didn't say anything about coming anything like that. He just, oh, I put the video of you two fighting and took the audio off. And I went, what do you think these two are arguing about? You weren't actually fighting. But that was his guess.

[Mike]

We're downstairs filming an ad and like, we're. Ryan and I are in our offices and all of a sudden you guys are screaming. And it's mostly just CJ yelling at Ben. And we found.

[Ben]

Laughing.

[Mike]

Yeah, we found out that it was cuz Ben has the ESPN app on his phone and he goes.

[CJ]

The cut.

[Mike]

CJ's like, Bro, for one. Just turn the audio off in general. But why do you even have espn?

[CJ]

You don't even watch sports.

[Ryan]

You don't even watch sports, let alone you're getting a notification about women's soccer.

[Mike]

And Ben's like, it went off once, bro. You're like, I don't care.

[CJ]

I was, I was being like sarcastically, of course. You know, it wasn't like actually mad.

[Ryan]

But it was funny because it always tough.

[CJ]

Look, it always does at the worst time. Like, it's like, nice. That was a good take.

[Ryan]

We gotta do it again. Well, I mean, I don't know if we would. You could barely hear it in the background.

[Mike]

So I thought it's funny that I found out through that argument that it was the ESPN app. And of course it makes that sound. It kind of makes sense. But I thought here, Ben went and set his text sound to that sound.

[Ben]

And then.

[Ryan]

And then had the NFL.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Then had the audacity to turn your sound on. And I'm like, bro, get over yourself. And then again, I was like, do.

[Ben]

You even like over here?

[CJ]

So he's getting notifications about like, anything. Baseball, lacrosse.

[Ben]

I think you can like edit them if you're like, oh, I really like the Timberwolves. I only want.

[CJ]

No, this guy ain't even reading them.

[Ryan]

He gets it and then he just doesn't even.

[CJ]

He just.

[Ben]

Just an app on your phone.

[Ryan]

No, it's just an app on my phone that I'm too lazy to turn the notifications off. He's too lazy to delete it.

[CJ]

That's the problem.

[Ben]

Last time you logged into the ESPN app.

[Ryan]

It's not the ESPN app, it's the Fox. Oh, yeah, it's the Fox app. And the reason I have the app is because of watching football when we don't have it on the TV here.

[Ben]

Yeah, Dang. You're about almost a football season.

[Ryan]

I know. That's why I'm like, I'm so close. I've just dealt with it for the last nine months.

[CJ]

I hear it at least once or twice a day. Yeah, once or twice a day. And I just, like, finally I just said, why do you even have. Because you're not a sports enthusiast.

[Ryan]

I know. It does make no sense. Yeah, we did a Make a Wish last Friday, and it was so cool.

[Mike]

It's so fun.

[Ryan]

It was so cool. Noah was the kid's name, the nicest kid. 13 years old, and his whole family came. But, yeah, make a Wish. Reached out and was like, hey, Noah's a big fan. You guys helped him a lot while he was in treatment and everything like that. And he would love to meet you guys, which is, like, the biggest honor, because he could have. He could have asked for anything.

[Ben]

Literally gone anywhere, anywhere, done anything, met anyone. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And, like, that was, like, one of, like, the coolest, coolest things.

[Ben]

He was such a cool kid, too. It was actually really fun being around, you know? You never really know.

[Mike]

Yep.

[CJ]

But, yeah, he was a cool kid.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was fun.

[CJ]

Easy to hang, man. He was.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

He's coordinated, you know, Whole family was.

[Mike]

Great on the dirt bike. Did so well. Never surfed in his life before. Throws the rope, like, fifth try.

[CJ]

Yeah, he was surfing. Yeah, bro.

[Ben]

When you guys were on the track, we started riding and, like, the whole. You know how it is when everybody's watching, the mom is there, he hops on his new pit bike, and freaking Evan and Ben and Micah are like, top of second, tapped, just busting around the course, and he's like, you know, I mean, trying to keep fresh on the bike. Trying to keep it. I was like, slow down. Just like, top of first, maybe, or mid, middle, second, you know, like, we don't need to kill the kid first. First jump.

[Ryan]

I was trying to keep up with him.

[Ben]

He was. John. Yeah, he was a ripper.

[Ryan]

He was ripping.

[Ben]

He was good in the woods.

[Ryan]

I didn't want to look like a out there either. Right. He was ripping. You kept going like this. I was like, bro, I'm just trying to keep up.

[Ben]

I went like, slow down.

[Ryan]

You're supposed to tell me to speed up. What kind of pit crew is this? Yeah, we. I end up slowing down on, like, one of the corners, and. And Evan comes up and goes, the. Was that all about?

[Mike]

I said, yeah. Ryan just threw a yellow flag on us. What was that about?

[Ben]

I was like, I don't know, I just. I didn't want to bring the kid home with any scrapes.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. Yeah, the parents were watching and the Make a Wish lady was watching.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't think generally they put motorsports into.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

Like when you guys were ripping in the Lambo, she said, what happens on a Make a wish stays on a Make a Wish.

[CJ]

And now it doesn't.

[Ben]

And now it doesn't. We talked about our podcast and it will be in the YouTube video.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's all right. It's an honor. Yeah, it's an honor.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was.

[Mike]

This sounds good. Circling back to what Ryan said, Follow us on Snapchat. We post. We post all of our lives, like, individually. Now. We try to post on C Boys as well, but we're pretty active on there. So if you want to see what we're doing or respond to us, we'll try to release. Read it. And thank you for listening to the Life Wide Open podcast. Like, subscribe, comment if you haven't.

[Ben]

See you next Tuesday.

[Mike]

See you next week.