Ryans EMBARRASSING Snapchat, Micah is an Online Bully, Launching Our Gear Brand

Summary

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Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Ep: "Ryans EMBARRASSING Snapchat, Micah is an Online Bully, Launching Our Gear Brand"

December 9, 2025

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Overview

This episode is classic CboysTV: a high-energy, playful hangout with CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah, bouncing through topics like online trolling confessions, the evolution of group fashion, Ryan's notorious group chat outfits, behind-the-scenes house drama, their new "Life Wide Open" gear line, plus spicy tales about trucks, workwear, Black Friday chaos, vehicle disasters, and a rigged(?) chili cook-off. Along the way, the guys share business insight, friendship roasts, and stories that make you feel like you’re part of the friend group.

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Key Topics & Insights

1. Micah the Online Bully & Ryan's Embarrassing Moment

(00:00 - 03:56 & 66:54 - 67:05)

• The crew teases Micah for being an online hater, leaving negative comments on videos he doesn’t like, most notoriously going after "Baby Gronk," a 12-year-old internet personality. Everyone piles on about Micah’s trolling history.
  • CJ: "You're like the mean kid in the comments." (67:02)
• Ryan’s infamous Snapchat in the group chat—where he flexed his new camo pants—gets roasted mercilessly. Mike claims no one wants to see Ryan’s outfit-of-the-day videos.
  • Mike: "I was going to actually just ask you to please never send another video in our men group chat of your outfit of the day again. I do not give a what you're wearing." (03:38)
• The whole group replays the drama over camo pants, masculinity, and group style trends.

2. Workwear Style Wars & Basement Mold Nightmares

(10:18 - 13:33)

• Mike details ongoing house renovations, how his contractor mistook him for a worker because of his Carhartt vest, and how mold under the trim is turning a remodel into "a bigger project than expected."
  • Mike: "A big project turned into an even bigger one, which kind of sucks." (13:28)
• Ken’s been living in Mike’s basement, possibly exposed to black mold, sparking jokes about vaping as an air freshener.

3. Gear Brand Launch: Life Wide Open

(39:40, 84:37 - 88:47)

• Major milestone as the crew drops their own performance gear line under Life Wide Open (LWO). Dalton steps in as full creative director/shooter for the promo shoot.
  • Dalton: "We gave him full creative control. The commercial turned out... it was the sickest edit." (84:51)
  • Ryan: "Every product that we release that's Building the Life Wide Open brand... it just fires me up more and more and more." (86:04)
• The team reflects on starting LWO, the meaning of the brand, and pride in growing from basic merch to a true gear company.

4. Black Friday Warehouse Chaos & Meeting New Hires

(13:34 - 16:10)

• Black Friday means warehouse mayhem, with new temp staff—one of whom hails from Florida and has never heard of CboysTV. The team jokes about the surrealism of being recognized (or not) by their own staff.
  • Dalton: "So who are the Sea Boys? You one of them? ...It was just like, fuck, yeah. Refreshing." (14:23)

5. Gavin’s Truck Dilemma: New vs. Old, and Financial Wisdom

(22:46 - 27:41)

• After his old truck died, mechanic Gavin is gifted a choice: a 2001 Chevy truck + $30k cash (the "white monster") or a new GMC AT4. He flips a coin (with help from Evan) and takes the old truck and cash—then still drives Ken’s Bronco home when his new-old ride instantly malfunctions!
  • Mike: “For the storyline—oh my god—taking the old truck is so funny. But I think the best part is he chose the old truck and then he still drove Ken's Bronco home.” (23:36)
• Crew discusses financial moves: invest the $30k, fix up an old truck, or treat yourself—a playful but honest look at influencer windfalls.

6. Chili Cook-Off Controversy

(69:20 - 77:18)

• Ryan’s girlfriend Alondra and her friends win local chili competition, igniting debate over fairness as their group has more voters. Even though their win is legitimate, suspicions and joking "investigations" ensue.
  • Ken: “There was a little scuttle butt.” (71:01)
  • Dalton: "Like, some guys were like, yeah, that was my deer that I shot... [Alondra] just threw together some ground beef and some spices at 11:30 on Saturday. We showed up and won that." (77:03)

7. Trucks, Gearhead Lore, & Mishaps

(29:01 - 35:45, 61:00 - 63:41)

• Stories about trashed vehicles, warehouse folklore about "the Cheeto truck," F-150 nostalgia, and swapping rides. Cboys reminisce on old muscle, joke about being too jacked for their pants, and the long rivalry between comfort vs. flash.
• The joke: you don’t know the value of a beater until it becomes the legend—the Cheeto everyone ends up driving.

8. Snacks, Guilt-Free Bananas, & Monster Tattoos

(52:56 - 54:45, 80:24 - 83:14)

• Lively debate: Is tossing a banana peel from the car “littering”?
  • Ken: “If that banana has a sticker on it, then it’s littering.” (53:18)
• Snack confessions: chips, uncrustables, Oreos, ice cream tubs solo, and “sour candy and Coke” as a road hack. Dalton outs Evan for eating melted Kraft singles on tortilla chips.
• Late-episode, monster drink-fueled madness: would you get the "White Monster" tattoo for $30k? Placement and design escalate for max comedy.
  • Mike: "The monster logo with an arrow... I'll do it for 30k." (81:19)

9. Reflections on Work, Business, and Lifelong Friendship

(86:27 - 88:47)

• As Life Wide Open grows, the guys open up about being proud of a decade of hustling, business evolution, and the fun of turning ideas into tangible success.
  • Ken: "We all get stressed out... but I'm just so happy at work lately. I feel like we have so much to be proud of." (86:27)
  • Mike: "Almost a decade of. Of Hard work. Literally just kind of shows what happens when you stick with it." (86:38)

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Notable Quotes & Fun Moments

• Mike (Group Chat): "Please never send another video in our men group chat of your outfit of the day again. I do not give a what you're wearing." (03:38)
• CJ: "You're like the mean kid in the comments." (67:02)
• Ryan (Snacks): "Every time I hop in the car with you, Ryan, we stop at a gas station and you get Oreos." (79:40)
• Mike (Business): "It is insane, man. Almost a decade of hard work." (86:38)
• Dalton (Chili Cook-Off): "All these people put heart and soul into their chili, and Alondra was like: threw some ground beef and spices in a crockpot." (77:03)
• Mike (Tattoo): "The monster logo with an arrow… I’ll do it for 30k." (81:19)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------------------|--------------------| | Intro – Teasing Micah and Ryan's embarrassing snap | 00:00 – 04:06 | | Outfit group chat roast | 03:11 – 05:56 | | Mike's house/contractor/remodel stories | 08:21 – 13:35 | | Black Friday warehouse stories | 13:39 – 16:10 | | Workwear style trends and Brunt/brand talk | 16:34 – 21:44 | | Gavin's truck dilemma and financial advice | 22:46 – 27:41 | | Chili cook-off drama | 69:20 – 77:18 | | Vehicle mishaps & nostalgia | 29:01 – 35:45 | | Snacks/litter/monster tattoo debate | 52:56 – 54:45<br>80:24 – 83:14 | | Launching Life Wide Open Gear (deep dive) | 84:37 – 88:47 | | Reflections on business and friendship | 86:27 – 88:47 |

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Wrap-Up

This episode is a showcase of CboysTV’s core: wild energy, heartfelt small business pride, nostalgia, and relentless friendship roasts. It’s packed with legit business lessons (how to run a brand, Black Friday chaos, influencer economics), a behind-the-scenes peek at group shenanigans, stories about the stuff that really matters (snacks, trucks, and winning, even when it’s rigged).
Highly recommended for a laugh and a look inside the YouTube gearhead lifestyle.

Transcript

[Ryan]

Mike is a hater in people's comments that he doesn't like, though.

[Ken]

We caught you on that one.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we've caught him on a couple.

[Ken]

A couple hate comments.

[CJ]

You're like the mean kid in the comments.

[Mike]

Most entertaining guy alive, right behind Gavin. Shred 80.

[Ryan]

What?

[CJ]

Tattoo the monster logo with an arrow.

[Mike]

I'll do it for.

[Evan]

That'S just within the realm of possibilities.

[Ryan]

I think the viewer learned a lot about Ryan in this podcast.

[CJ]

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Sick hat.

[CJ]

Michael, saw you finally join the the camel gang. Got some camel pants.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude. Alana picked me up a pair. Yeah, I sent a fit check.

[Mike]

Yeah, Ryan, I'm. I didn't want to ruin your momentum.

[Ken]

But I told her I was like, I literally cannot wear these 99% of the days that I'm alive. Like, it's the 1% of days that.

[Dalton]

I'm not hanging so passionate.

[Mike]

No, just listen, Ryan. I don't. No, no, no. Listen, Ryan, I don't want to jump.

[Ryan]

On you guys style now that it's cool.

[Mike]

Hold up. Listen, Ryan. That's not even close to where I was going. I was going to actually just ask you to please never send another video in our men group chat of your outfit of the day again. I do not give a what you're wearing. I don't care that you just got some new pants and that you really like them.

[Dalton]

This guy's passionate too.

[Mike]

I didn't come in with some fire even that.

[Ken]

We just did a podcast where everybody. Is my mic working or is this my headphones?

[Ryan]

No, it's not. Ryan, you sound like.

[Mike]

Like, was I the only guy who opened that thing? Who opened that thing and was like, yeah, that was a little gay.

[Ryan]

Com.

[Mike]

I think even Justin was. Yeah, Ken didn't even finish it. He. He couldn't even finish it.

[CJ]

Once I heard Ryan say, oh, I picked up some camel pants. Click, click, click, click.

[Mike]

I think you even did one of those. You did one of those where you put your foot up and like, kind of like showed it like. Like you were doing a TikTok swirl. Oh, it's gone now. I didn't even want to have it saved on my phone.

[Dalton]

Where was it?

[Mike]

It was a snooze.

[CJ]

Primals Brome is one of the. One of the.

[Mike]

Oh, Mike might still have it.

[Dalton]

I still have it.

[Mike]

Okay. Screen record. Screen record.

[Ken]

I'm an Ivar. It's not like, hey, guys, check out my outfit. I just got something really cool. Is my fucking mic working?

[Evan]

I can hear it in my headphones, if that accounts for anything.

[Ken]

Hear anything in mind.

[Dalton]

Holy. I don't know.

[Mike]

This is going to be a hot. All I got to say, if you're going to send us something cool, it better not be some fucking pants from Aeropostale.

[Ken]

Noted.

To be fair. I mean, obviously the listener is going to watch it, but it's not like. Hey, guys, got my new outfit today.

[Mike]

All right, let's watch. Let's watch this.

[Ken]

Okay.

I say, boys, I joined the camo pants game because 30.

[Dalton]

I'm curious.

[Ken]

Five minutes before, we had just done a podcast where every single person was wearing a piece of camo and I had previously not owned.

[Mike]

Maybe I'm being too hard on you, Ryan.

[Ken]

No, it's okay. I appreciate it.

[Ryan]

Maybe you should start by wearing shirts that don't have stains on them, Ryan.

[Ken]

Jesus Christ.

[Dalton]

Well, we did just have a pizza party. Give him a break.

[Ken]

Big day, boys.

[Dalton]

Sick, bro neck.

[Ken]

Got my first pair of camel baggies.

[Dalton]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Ken]

Let's go. It wasn't. It wasn't the prissy.

[Mike]

You're right, it wasn't. It wasn't. There was a kick. You're right. I was wrong.

[Dalton]

That was pretty heterosexual. I'm not gonna lie.

[Ryan]

You know, I didn't watch it, Ryan.

[Ken]

And why would you guys.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, you didn't let me finish.

[Mike]

You think that's. You think that was a heterosexual video?

[Ken]

Heterosexual.

[Mike]

That's when you're into women, when you like girls.

[Dalton]

Yeah, because he just goes, here we go, boys. And then he, like, showed his pretty.

[Mike]

Non outfit of the day.

[Dalton]

I mean, you were wearing a vest earlier. You could argue that that's gay.

[Ryan]

What?

[Mike]

A Carhartt vest is gay if that's gay. I don't know what Ryan is right there. If a Carhartt vest is gay now, where everything's gay.

[Dalton]

I didn't call it that.

[Mike]

You just said you were wearing a vest that was gay.

[Dalton]

You could argue that it is.

[Mike]

Okay, now he's doing his typical.

[CJ]

I mean, are you doing a Carhartt vest or a Patagonia puffer vest? There's a clear distinction between the two.

[Mike]

I'm wearing Carhartt.

[Ken]

Evan's like, finally. I've been knowing that you guys are looking fruity for years.

[Ryan]

Dude, the amount of money I would pay to see Evan wearing a Patagonia puffer vest.

[Evan]

How much money would you pay?

[Dalton]

I mean, I would definitely Vest. Yeah.

[Evan]

I mean, I'm down To wear it for? Honestly?

[Ken]

Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

I'd wear one for 100 buck. Well, how long for a full video?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah, that's fine.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Are you gonna say like a full month or a year? Something like.

[Ryan]

Well, I might pick a video that we're filming for a while.

[Evan]

I don't have to wear it, like, while I sleep. While the videos.

[Ryan]

You do not have to wear it while you sleep.

Yeah, that won't do me any good.

[Dalton]

But, cj, speaking of your outfit and vest, you got to tell the story.

[Mike]

This is actually pretty funny today. I should just go get the vest because this. I'll get hot if I'm wearing it.

[Dalton]

Does kind of complete the look, the storyline.

[Ken]

Evan, when I'm talking, Ben's talking. Are things going to the same level? Like, do you guys hear me? The same as ever?

[Dalton]

Now that you're locking in on it, you do feel a little quiet. Yeah. Great.

[Ryan]

Ryan, you pissed Ken off.

[Ken]

Now hollering in here.

[Ryan]

He's going to take Evan spot.

[CJ]

Turn way down there.

[Ken]

There we go. See? Otherwise, and I'm always a little bit loud.

[Mike]

So why do we have the.

[Ryan]

The deaf guy as our audio guy?

[Ken]

Our audio engineer.

[Dalton]

We need to put Evan and Ken back there together because he's good at googling stuff and he's pretty good at mess settings.

[Ken]

Yeah, you're right. I can't believe my shirt has a stain on it. Should I go fetch a different shirt?

[Dalton]

That's from the pizza party?

[Ken]

No, I didn't actually have any pizza at the pizza party.

[CJ]

You got dual stains on there.

[Ken]

Dual stains. I believe it was coffee.

[Ryan]

All right, so where are we going with this whole vest?

[Mike]

So I'm getting my house or the basement is getting remodeled, and there's all these. There's the contractor. There's all these subcontractors coming in this morning.

[Ryan]

And I'm standing, hanging up in the closet, and he said, oh, no, no.

[Mike]

I'm just. I'm dressed like this because I'm trying to get out of the house and, you know, come here to. To work. But I'm. I'm kind of waiting around and all these subcontractors are coming in. I'm waiting on this one guy, and I kind of realized I'm kind of dressed like all these guys. Like, the electrician was sitting here wearing literally the same vest. Then we got the masonry over here. Then the fireplace guy shows up. Like they're all kind of dressed like me. And then there's the guys doing the demo. So this guy comes in and hey, hey, I'm. Hey. We start walking around the house and he's looking around and like kind of doing his shit. And I'm like walking with him, like talking with them. And I don't know really how it like comes to me because you the electrician or something, and I'm like, oh, no, this is my house. Oh, oh. Shakes my hand. But all these guys are like walking around with me like thinking I was just like an apprentice or something. Just kind of hanging around, like holding my coffee cup best there.

[Ryan]

This guy doesn't know about what's going on.

[Mike]

They did kind of look at me like, are you gonna do something around here? Because I was just walking around with.

[CJ]

Them the whole time.

[Mike]

He must be an apprentice. Yeah. This guy's literally dragging dick, not doing anything. But I feel like when I told you guys the story, it was funnier. I don't know.

[Ryan]

That was a good story. It was funny.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

And then you were like, how? You know, he's like, well, they could have cleaned up the fireplace, left that not a mess. Yeah.

[Mike]

I'm walking around with them and he's like, he's like, well, they could have cleaned up the fireplace before.

[Ryan]

I like.

[Mike]

And I was like sitting there and I think at that point I realized I was like, this guy probably doesn't know this is my house.

[Ryan]

What'd you do with the fireplace?

[Mike]

It's getting changed, but it was just like ash and stuff.

[Ryan]

Oh, I got you.

[Mike]

Okay. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I thought you had like your little decorations, little trinkets out on it.

[Mike]

No, Alex had those, but that's on a different one. This was. This is Ken's fireplace.

[Ryan]

Oh, down.

[Mike]

Former.

[Ryan]

Former. Yeah. You got the boot?

[Ken]

Yeah. You got evicted?

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He did not get the boot.

[CJ]

Well, I got the boot out of the room I was in. Now I'm in a different room. I don't know, I might just go get. Might go somewhere else.

[Dalton]

Cuz it's.

[Ryan]

It's like your space now. You're living with cj.

[CJ]

I condensed like, I condensed like all my stuff as much as I could. And that room is tiny.

[Mike]

Ken, if you don't appreciate my house when I'm letting you stay in it, I'm renting still. That's true. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Go find place.

[CJ]

Yeah, I think I might. I might actually move into my favorite spaceman again.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ken]

Yeah. But then you hang out with them for five minutes, you go that.

[Dalton]

I think you have a point.

[Mike]

Alex would love it. But you know what? I keep going. No, no, Ken can stay here. As long as he wants.

[CJ]

Well, I didn't think I was gonna get. Get the boot quite as soon as I did.

[Dalton]

You never got.

[Mike]

Did I give you the. Yeah, I just.

[Ken]

Yeah, I just took the carpet out of your room.

[Mike]

I didn't even take it out. No, I honestly, I thought you were going to be able to stay in your room because they're not changing anything in there. But. But since they're scraping the popcorn ceilings and.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

And then they, like, literally told me that, oh, yeah, we're gonna need. I was like, oh. Then I felt bad. I was like, well, you can just go upstairs and realistically, you don't spend that much time at the house. You just sleep there. So I was like, well, what's the difference? You're still sleeping in queen size bed. I don't know. It's a little bit smaller room, but.

[CJ]

That stuff makes a mess.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, get this, get this. So I hate this part, actually, about the hole home remodel. So they start tearing into. Right. Mold. Mold on quite a few walls. So I think what happened is the previous owner, there was like some kind of flooding, water damage thing happened in the basement. Basement flooded. You know, they probably did their best to dry whatever was visible. But, like, behind these cabinets and stuff, we can pop up pictures and, like, behind some trim, there's like black mold.

[Ryan]

Or some kind of even getting that buzz, bro.

[Mike]

Ken's been down there for four years.

[CJ]

Yeah, I've been down there since 21. I didn't really notice anything.

[Mike]

But also, he was vaping at the time, so who knows?

[Ken]

There it is.

[CJ]

Just gonna get the little jab right in there.

[Mike]

No, at the time I said that's.

[Dalton]

Maybe the vaping was fending off the mold, though. It was, you know, like Febreze, you know, does the thing. Yeah.

[Ken]

The air was actually so unhealthy in Ken's room, that mold could not grow in.

[Mike]

Yeah. So that's a pain in the ass, though, because it's already going to be expensive. And then now it's like, okay, so now we got to cut and, like, start, you know, cutting out the black mold, or I don't know if it's black mold, but some sort of mold. Some of it's black mold.

[Ken]

That is definitely colored. Black.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we call black mold.

[Mike]

Yeah. So now trimming all that, but yeah, and they got to pull up all the trim that we had done last November, because I'm pretty sure those guys just literally covered it over the. I'm sure they just put it over It. With the way that they did the work.

[Ken]

I was going to say how they notice it.

[Mike]

Well, bro.

[Dalton]

Visibly see it.

[Ryan]

It.

[Mike]

Well, it was. It was underneath the trim. So I'm assuming if they pulled some trim, there was probably they. Probably they would have seen it. But then they just literally put a bigger piece of trim over because the new trim was taller.

[CJ]

They might have pulled that off, seeing there's a little bit of mold and just been like, not my problem. Just put some.

[Mike]

I'm sure they did. I'm sure they did. I mean, with the work that they.

[Ken]

Did, with how that went.

[Mike]

With how that one went. That was. Yeah, a big project turned into an even bigger one, which kind of sucks.

[Dalton]

So it's been a good old rabbit hole.

[Mike]

Yeah. Got to take it on the chin sometimes, though. That's how she goes, dude.

[Dalton]

So we. We've been ripping in the warehouse for Black Friday. Appreciate all you guys checking out the site, ordering. Like, it's been. It's been super cool. We had so much cool stuff and a lot of orders for some of our favorite products we've ever released. So the warehouse is ripping. Right. And we have a handful of temporary people to help us for Black Friday. And so I'm in there, and most of these temporary people are from nearby. Right. Nearby.

[Ryan]

Whatever.

[Dalton]

They know who we are. But I, like, walk in, I'm trying to introduce myself to everyone. All the faces that I don't know. What's up? I'm Micah. Whatever. I'm so and so. And I'm chatting with him. He goes, so who are the Sea Boys? You one of them? Who's this?

[Mike]

One of the guys in there?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That's great.

[Dalton]

And so that was very refreshing. But I couldn't tell if he was serious, but he was. He was badass. Yeah. He was just like. So, yeah, yeah. I go, where are you from? He's like, florida. Whoa.

[Mike]

What are you doing here?

[Dalton]

Yeah. What? And then apparently he just moved to Fargo, but I don't know why he said from Florida. So maybe he just moved and then applied, but it was just, what a turn of events. From Florida, moved to Fargo, applied for this. No idea who we are. He's like, who are the C Boys? You one of them? I'm like, yeah, I am. Nice to meet you. And then he's like, sweet. Yeah, Yeah. I got to check out some of the videos. It looks like you guys do some pretty cool stuff. And it was just like, fuck, yeah. Refreshing.

[Mike]

Just.

[Dalton]

He just had no clue anything. Was nothing.

[Mike]

He must be a Busy guy. Like, how would you be working here and not just like take a few minutes just to like even I should say, hard to find.

[Dalton]

Yeah. He like first day or what? I think it was his first or second day.

[Mike]

Oh, well then yeah.

[Dalton]

Got a few videos, but that was it. That was all he knew.

[Ryan]

I don't confuse.

[Mike]

He's here to make money, man. He's here. He's here to ship shirts and he doesn't give a fuck about the cloud or the noise.

[Ryan]

But yeah, pulling up, he's got to be like, what the hell is going on?

[Dalton]

It's not.

[Ryan]

We're watching the video that we filmed yesterday unfold in front. Yeah, what's going on here?

[Dalton]

I just thought that was a funny take because. Because everyone else in the warehouse is just like, oh, what up? What up, Mike? You know, they are pretty well aware.

[Ken]

I've been hearing a lot of people talking about how cool it is to work for Heavy D. And they just don't realize it's Ken.

[Mike]

Oh yeah, he's starting to look like Heavy D. You're kind of growing up.

[Ken]

Kind of getting jacked.

[CJ]

Heavy D is kind of inspiration.

[Ken]

So we're just trying to gang him.

[CJ]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, kind of.

[Mike]

Next time we see Heavy D when we go snow, we should just go up to him, be like, I just want to be just like you. We should just tell him that and.

[Ryan]

See, we should wear like a cut off shirt, like a classic shirt that he wears every day.

[Mike]

What we should do is not say anything to him, but then just try to just copy his outfits every day. And then no one say anything. And just notice that like Ken is literally wearing the cowboy boots, shorts, cut.

[CJ]

Off shirt, backwards, hat.

[Mike]

I don't think. I think you're. I think you're thinking of Diesel dad. Heavy.

[CJ]

Both of them.

[Dalton]

Both of them.

[Mike]

But I think Heavy D is more of like a. Like a tactical pant guy with some boots.

[Dalton]

Some true work pants.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, we got to get you some tactical pants.

[Mike]

We could.

[Ryan]

You're growing out of all these pants that you have.

[Ken]

Even they've got zippers for the calves.

[Ryan]

But you still have gotten too strong for your pants, Ken. Like you're going to have to get a whole new war.

[CJ]

Really. Starting to sound like Dalton though.

[Mike]

Strong like an ox. What do you mean?

[Ryan]

No, I'm just calling it as I see. It's a compliment. It is honestly a compliment. Like your legs have gotten too strong.

[Ken]

And it's pretty bad for me. So like, take the compliment, man. I would love a compliment Right now, think how uncomfortable I feel.

[Ryan]

Ryan's on one end of the pants spectrum and you're on the other.

[CJ]

Here, I'll take it.

[Mike]

I'm sorry, Ryan. I wasn't trying to go so hard on you. I was just trying to be funny.

[Ken]

No, I love it.

[Mike]

I love it.

[Dalton]

Dude, the, the workwear movement is like pretty heavy right now. Like obviously we have like Brunt starting with boots. Now they have like so many good clothes and like the true work and blah, blah, blah. I was in church on Sunday and these two just tatted up dudes head to toe in like Brunt true work pants, Brunt sweatshirt, frickin brunt hat, both of them. And I was like, now that's a church outfit.

[Ken]

These are Brunt pants, dude. They're so comfy. That's actually funny. We have a Brunt ad today. This is going to run right into it. Now.

[CJ]

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[Ken]

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[Ken]

Their game is they don't have to.

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[Ken]

Yeah, but yeah, dude, they're so good.

[Mike]

I actually do love my Brunt hoodies as well. Like, obviously the boots is what they're known for, but they sent us like a bunch of gear and the hoodies are like, I almost don't wear them. Just obviously like, I can get a Seaboy's hoodie. If I spill ketchup on it, I go, go grab another one. But like the Brunt ones, I only have two. So I'm like, that's like my, that's like my good. That's like my good hoodie.

[Dalton]

You know, I know he will spill.

[Mike]

Catch. Well, I will. So like, I'm being selective when I wear. It's like, that's my going out hoodie. Like if we're going to dinner, like, there's no food.

[Dalton]

I had a similar dilemma because I was like, this hoodie is so nice. But I feel like I should lay on the ground in it because that's, like, what it's made for. But I agree, dude, I can't say enough good things about that.

[Mike]

And I'm not saying that it's necessarily better than our gear, but let's just say I'm going out with Alex and we're meeting up with some of her friends and, like, their husbands or whoever's going to be there. I just don't want to be decked out in lifewide open gear, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm just trying to be a little bit more.

[CJ]

Just a little more incognito.

[Mike]

Just chilling, you know? You know, you show up just head to toe in your. Your own brand. It's a little bit like, it's easier.

[Ryan]

To do now because we literally have everything head to toe.

[Mike]

Exactly. I mean, boots, pants, pants, sweatshirt. We don't have is underwear.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we got to get on that.

[Mike]

Yeah. I mean, can I say the name? Remember when we were going to do.

[Ryan]

Yeah. We still have all. We still have all the domains.

[Mike]

So back in the day, when Jake, we called him banging and he went by banging before. We went our own ways. We were developing underwear. Like, it just said banging on the. On the band, which is so good on underwear. Like, that's. Yeah. I mean, banging. I mean, Jake's got to do something with that. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then he left, and we were obviously going through everything when he left, but we're like, dude, what about the underwear? Like, we had samples and everything.

[Mike]

Had a man.

[Ryan]

He still wears the samples.

[Ken]

Right. On your job.

[Mike]

Just think how many more underwear he could have right now. If he would have just waited a few more weeks, if you would have just waited a few more weeks, he'd at least have like a full, like, probably decade supply.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Last year, a long time.

[Mike]

Poop his pants every single day and just get a new one.

[Ryan]

So how about the video that we filmed yesterday? You guys have seen it now, but we surprised Gavin, our mechanic, with a new pickup truck. But we gave him the option of taking a 2001 regular cab long box.

[CJ]

Chev with an 8.1 and an Allison.

[Dalton]

The white plus $30,000 or coin, the white money.

[Ryan]

A new GMC at 4. And to all of our surprise, all of our surprise, he took the white monster and the money, which was honestly a smart move, but we just figured it was a hard decision to make.

[Mike]

It was, though, he didn't really make it because Evan basically talked him into just flipping a coin he was going back and forth on it.

[Evan]

I don't want to say I talked him into it. I think I just tossed. I tossed it out there and floated it.

[Mike]

But I didn't feel bad having any.

[Evan]

Actual influence, but I thought it was pretty cool to leave it up to a foot.

[Ken]

That's hard.

[Mike]

He really was. And it, like. I mean, I'm sure the video hasn't, at the time of our filming, hasn't came out yet, but I'm sure it gets edited a lot quicker together. But he was like 10 minutes, maybe 15 of just going back and forth, just, like, so torn up on it. And we really thought he was gonna take the new truck, but for the storyline. Oh, my God. Taking the old truck is so funny. But I think the best part is he chose the old truck and then he still drove Ken's Bronco home.

[CJ]

I. I get a text last night, like 10, 15. He's like, hey, trying to get these lights on the box to work. And I'm. I'm having a tough time. Is it okay if I just take your Bronco home again? And I was like, you know what? Just do it.

[Mike]

The reason why we went and got him those trucks is because his truck gave out on him in, like, August, and he just hasn't really taken the time to fix it. So he's been driving Ken's Bronco or our company work truck.

[CJ]

The more I thought about, I think it was June.

[Ken]

It's been a long time, to be honest.

[Mike]

It was funny, though, because we did tell him. We go, if you choose the old one, though, you have to drive this. No more Kens. And then he still took.

[Ken]

Still took the freaking Bronco out.

[Dalton]

He also told us today that he's never gotten a ticket. And we're like, well, they get equipment violence.

[Mike]

Just wait now. Now you're driving a truck with 26 inch wheels on.

[Dalton]

He said he's never gotten a ticket.

[Ken]

Yeah, he's fully clean driving record.

[Mike]

He was drifting out of that thing, though, dude. He was driving the hell like he was. He was one with that truck.

[Ryan]

Should have heard it on the inside.

[Mike]

Was it loud screaming?

[Dalton]

Just.

[Ryan]

Well, he was cranking it.

[Mike]

I could hear it inside my truck.

[Ryan]

And we didn't cut enough off the bumper, so he'd crank it to save it. And I'm just there like, sorry, bro. Thought I cut enough off.

[CJ]

And the power steering pump just whining away.

[Mike]

Yeah, I do think he made. Historically, I think it was the cooler. And I actually do think financially it was the better decision. It depends what he does with that $30,000. But realistically, if he can drive this truck through the winter, for one, it makes a great storyline. It's. It's like a thing. Like, if he would have chose the other one, it kind of would have just been done. But for two, if he takes this $30,000 and let's just say he puts it in the stock market or bitcoin, invest it, right, it's going to be worth more, more than likely come June. And he could then flip that into a truck that he really likes, because I don't know if black is his favorite color or like, if that truck that at 4 that we got him was exactly what he wanted. So who knows? Maybe that was part of it. But also, if. If he's trying to, like, save up for a house, like you put that money in, like, it's going to be worth more, more than likely come June or whenever you decide to pull the trig on something. So I, like, honestly, I think it was the right move, but. But, yeah, now he does still have a vehicle issue because chances are that thing is going to give him trouble.

[Ken]

It looks like it is.

[Ryan]

Seems to be the case.

[Mike]

First night it gave him trouble, he didn't even drive it home.

[Ryan]

But he could also probably spend five grand to fix his truck out of the 30 that we gave him. So he's still sitting with 25. He could put in bitcoin last night and it would already be 35.

[Ken]

I know. It's already up 10.

[Ryan]

It's already up. And we told him that. We were like, do it. Pretty good time to buy.

[Ken]

Maybe it's up because he's been pumping.

[Ryan]

Maybe. So, yeah, I think. I don't know. There's plenty of ways to skin it, but they're all beneficial.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we'll see. Honestly, I think it's going to be really interesting, though, especially if he does invest it. I was telling him, like, dude, if you invest this money, you could even just post like, yo, I took this $30,000 I invested into this, that, and that. Tune along, ride with me and ride with me and see where this is at. In six months, when I try and buy a house with it, it might be worth 15, it might be worth 60.

[Ken]

I bet it really irks our financial advisor. But I love that every time we talk about investments, like, yeah, you can invest that money and then buy a depreciating asset with it. Like, that's how I think about it, too. I'm like, okay, I'm going to Put this money here and hopefully I can make a little bit more on it and then buy something with it.

[Ryan]

Well, I mean, if he buys a house. Not a depreciation.

[Ken]

No, for sure not. For sure not. But like, even looking at, like getting more money to buy a new truck or something like that, like, that's sometimes the way I think about it. Instead of retirement or I mean, like.

[Mike]

Realistically right now, as far as the market goes, it's a, It's a good opportunity to buy. It might stay like this for. It could stay like this for another six months and just be flat or could even go more down. But I think in the long term, not financial advice. It'd be the. A good move.

[Ryan]

Good for the storyline though, man. Was that a plot twist?

[Dalton]

It was because we were on the edge of our seat. None of us in this room knew what was going to happen and we really wanted to. So, like, What a great YouTube video.

[CJ]

I did feel bad. We, the, the guy from the dealer, like came up to like do all the paperwork, brought the truck. Took us a couple hours to film that to get to that point. And then it was just like, oh.

[Mike]

So he was here for like four hours.

[CJ]

He's sorry, he's. He's taking the other truck.

[Mike]

Shout out our buddy Cole. Yeah, and shout out Cole. I did feel bad about that because we kind of all just assumed, obviously he's gonna take the new truck. And then Cole had basically spent the whole day to just not sell the truck. Cuz we were like, we'll pay for it once he chooses, you know, and we kind of just assumed, right, which made sense that it's a good thing.

[Ken]

We didn't buy it. We have a freaking truck now.

[Dalton]

And then, you know, the. He calls the boss right after they didn't buy it. He goes, it took them that long to say, no, no.

[Ryan]

Imagine we spent four hours just like nitpicking the whole thing.

[Mike]

He was just waiting around like, this guy's going to like, checking his watch.

[Ken]

And.

[Mike]

And I felt bad too.

[Dalton]

Like, all right, get the truck hidden. Get the.

[Mike]

Yeah, we like walk in and we're just like, well, Cole, he didn't buy the truck. He took the old one. And like, I was kind of waiting for him to laugh or like, you know, kind of like respond. It was like, okay. And then we were just like, oh. And then like, okay, okay, well, we'll. We'll be seeing you guys. Starts like walking out the door. I like, look at Ben like this. We both just pull our wallets out we're like. I'm like, I got 300. He's like, I got two. We just give him 500 bucks. Like, here, here. Like, hopefully this kind of can help pay for your time, but.

[Ryan]

And he did say that. He was like, yeah, it's the name of the game.

[Mike]

It is.

[Ryan]

No sale is guaranteed.

[Mike]

He's the man. He's. He's a good guy. It's just funny. I did feel bad about that, but what are we gonna do? Just buy the truck and what are we gonna do with that thing now? We just gave him the money that we were gonna buy it for.

[Dalton]

Yeah. We ended up with an at 4 because we felt bad.

[Mike]

I don't know if we have much use for a 1500 at 4 around here. I think we'll just get so shot.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It would end up exactly like the Cheeto truck.

[Mike]

Or even your raptor.

[Ryan]

Or my raptor. We could talk. Let's talk about that.

[Dalton]

The Cheetah gets driven way harder than your Raptor.

[Ryan]

So Ev had a pretty big week. He got to do his favorite thing, which is brake vehicles, but he got to do it off camera, which is even more enjoyable for him.

[Mike]

Truly, no benefit.

[Evan]

Okay, well, the Miata was Jake's video. I was supposed to do a couple slides with Cody, and the car breaks.

[Ryan]

Itself a little bit more understandable.

[Mike]

Yeah, I can understand that. One's fine.

[Ryan]

No one cares about that. Actually, no one really cares about either of them. But the Cheeto truck.

[Evan]

Cheeto truck.

[Ryan]

That was just reckless behavior.

[Evan]

Well, the Cheetah truck had been completely ran out of oil a couple weeks prior, and it was absolutely on its last leg, knocking. And I was going to pull it back to the graveyard because it was completely toast. Did like, two donuts on the way there. And it didn't make it to the graveyard.

[Dalton]

He just had to make sure. You guys just had to make sure.

[Ryan]

Ev's argument is still. Well, I didn't think it was going to blow up. Well, I told us for the last four weeks, this thing's on its last leg.

[Dalton]

This thing.

[Evan]

Were we ever going to. It was going to the graveyard. It was on its way to its last stop.

[CJ]

You were saying we shouldn't drive it because it doesn't have any oil in the motor. And if we're going to drive it, we need to put oil in it.

[Dalton]

I didn't know it was going to.

[Evan]

The oil pump was burnt. Was gone. It was full of oil. Me and Wrench filled her up.

[Mike]

It was.

[Evan]

Dude was gone.

[Ryan]

We had a tough go. With that truck. Since the. Since the moment we bought it and Evan got scammed.

[Dalton]

Since the moment we found out it was a 4 7.

[Mike]

The truck did a good job. It outlasted the real Cheeto truck.

[Ryan]

It did.

[Mike]

Hey, Dalton's diesel ram.

[Dalton]

I mean, and this just. It's got a hell of a lot of lore.

[Mike]

It does. And you know what I think we. We really missed out on filming and showing to the viewer was that when we were secretly building the Cheeto replica truck.

[Evan]

Talk about Glenn right now.

[Mike]

Well, no, so we're.

[Evan]

I thought that's where you're going.

[Mike]

And it was really. When we were building the shitty replica version of Dalton's truck before, and Dalton didn't know and we were going to surprise him with it. We were joking. Like, Dalton's truck's going to break because obviously it's this high horsepower race truck. Just in general, if you're going to modify something to the moon and make a bunch of power, you can expect.

[Ken]

It to break and drive it like he did.

[Mike]

And you're going to drive it hard and rip it. That's just inevitable. And. And that's just part of the game. So we're like, watch. He's going to break this truck and he's going to end up having to drive this Cheeto truck. And of course his truck breaks. And he was legitimately driving around in the Cheeto truck, bro.

[Dalton]

He started driving that way earlier.

[Mike]

Yeah. It was literally like the next week he was driving that truck.

[Evan]

It was that day.

[Dalton]

Wasn't a daily to go get a servicing. No.

[Evan]

I thought you were gonna say where. Our friend Glenn just wouldn't let me forget that I had purchased a 4 7.

[Mike]

Well, that too. Yeah.

[Evan]

He reminded me hundreds of times in, like 48 hours.

[Mike]

That's the thing with, like, filming, like.

[Evan]

And you laugh just as hard every time.

[Mike]

So funny, dude. He was just getting on Evan's nerves. And I thought it was hilarious.

[Evan]

I mean, I thought it was funny too, but it's like as soon as he opened his mouth, I already knew what he was gonna tell me. Remember that one time Evan bought a 4 7? Yes, Glenn, we remember.

[Mike]

He already mentioned it two minutes ago. But it's funny, though, because, like, there's things that just sometimes just don't get captured on film that are pure gold. And, like, I just think the irony of Dalton ended up driving that truck was just funny. But it. It really did last pretty long because, I mean, you would just beat the hell out of it just for. For the hell of it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Shred 80.

[Mike]

Put.

[Evan]

Put a good amount of miles on.

[Mike]

Red 80 would drive it when he was here. We spenny would drive it too when he was here. So like it got a lot of use.

[Evan]

We found out it never. It never. It never had headlights. Just had running lights. But a lot of people would drive it at night and be like man, these headlights aren't that good. Like oh, I think they're on.

[Ryan]

We actually probably just unplugged them because.

[Evan]

You can have the running lights.

[Ken]

It was on me. It was. It was really difficult to. You had to rewire the headlights with ballasts and extra wiring. And I went ah, it. It's just a beater truck. We don't need headlights. I just plugged in the C ring so it looked cool on camera. So that's on me.

[Dalton]

I was driving and I go man, these headlights are dim. And EVs like yeah right. I'm just like something. Something's gotta be off. And then we noticed that we're just driving without.

[Mike]

How much was that 47 truck.

[Evan]

It's like 45.

[Mike]

That's a pretty damn good truck.

[Dalton]

Like it kind of gave a silver.

[Evan]

I was using. I was talking with big wrench like what's it look like? And he's like you're looking at a shitload of labor. Unless it's a direct swap to reuse everything. Yeah.

[Dalton]

That made.

[Evan]

Otherwise you just have to replace everything.

[Ryan]

Did you say well Big wrench. Is it possible and did he look at you? Well for about three seconds ago. Well, anything is possible.

[Evan]

I I just knew he didn't.

[Dalton]

He didn't have.

[Ryan]

I love when he says that. It always fires me up.

[Evan]

I saw this.

[Ryan]

There's a chance Big wrench.

[Evan]

But it's possible that was heart transplant.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

That's cuz we spent so much time on that rap. We really.

[Ken]

I'm pretty proud of my damn near be switched the wrap.

[Mike]

Yeah dude.

[Dalton]

That's what I was getting at.

[Evan]

That's what he suggested rather I have.

[Ken]

57 and I think the only thing.

[Evan]

Just do the wheels, the headlights, whatever.

[Mike]

Yeah. That actually be the better move.

[Dalton]

Yeah yeah yeah.

[CJ]

All that stuff just pulls right off.

[Ken]

It's pretty up the whole truck realistically.

[Mike]

Could probably wrap it in a day.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I mean we did that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Think about it. In like four hours we could just switch the doors. We don't even need really.

[Ryan]

The main issue with that truck where it kind of had a downtime in the middle of its lifespan with us was because somebody. It could have been the Three wheel riding redneck left all the windows down during like the middle of summer when it rained every single day.

[Mike]

Gnarliest rainstorm.

[Ryan]

And you wouldn't believe the smell that came out of that truck after.

[Mike]

And all the garbage that was in there.

[Evan]

There was a lot of food in there too.

[Ken]

That's.

[Evan]

It's not. Wasn't just rain.

[CJ]

He had some like half eaten containers of food that after it rained and the windows rolled up, the. The containers of food were still in there and got all full of mold.

[Ryan]

Makes sense.

[Mike]

Grandpa.

[Ryan]

Me and CJ's grandpa actually just had a car that did that. Like, he doesn't drive a. A car that was sitting in a garage. Left a water bottle that didn't have the cap on it and the whole inside of the car molded.

[Dalton]

Wow.

[Mike]

That's actually crazy. Yeah. I think also the garage is. It was like a really, like, dark, damp garage.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was, it was. It was like an incubator for mold, basically.

[Ken]

And knowing him, it was probably a sick car too.

[Ryan]

It was.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah, I was sick.

[Ryan]

His like super rare Corvette. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

Like a 2012 Z06.

[Ken]

That's a. That's crazy. The one water bottle. I mean, it was other factors, but like, that. That was enough.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, who leaves a water bottle without a cap on it? Like, what are you doing with caps? You just taking the. Throw it out the window.

Like spinning. So. Yeah. Something to keep in mind though. If you're obviously gonna let a vehicle sit, don't let there be moisture in it. Makes sense.

[Ken]

But, man, I was just driving around a lot now that it was snowing, and you know, you kind of like think as winter comes, like, all your stuff that's outside, it seems worse. I go, man, we got a lot of stuff around here.

[Ryan]

Oh, we just did an auction too. We just. I sold half of our.

[Ken]

I know when the barn's already full again and it's just.

[Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Ken]

It just is.

[Ryan]

It just did an auction selling off 40 different vehicles, and it's like it never happened.

[Ken]

I know.

[Mike]

That's because all the stuff that was outside that should be in just got moved inside. And there's still more stuff outside that should realistically be in.

[Ryan]

That reminds me, did you two take the alcohol out of the walls in our house boat?

[Dalton]

No.

[Evan]

Forgot.

[Dalton]

Shoot.

[Mike]

How many times did we mention that?

[Ryan]

Three.

[Ken]

A lot.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that one day was more responsible.

[Mike]

Do you think it broke right now though?

[Evan]

Do you think I was gonna do it that night? We signed the skateboards. I remember thinking of it on the drive over there. Because you had sent the text like, that night. And we're on the way over there and then.

[Ken]

But I wasn't thirsty here.

[Evan]

Just absolutely airballed it, man. Probably fine.

[CJ]

Well, we did get a few out.

[Ken]

The vodka should be good.

[Ryan]

I got a few.

[CJ]

No, we drank the vodka.

[Dalton]

Well, isn't it. Isn't it interesting when you have. Let's say you have a case of beer in the back of your car, whatever. In the trunk, whatever. Sometimes just nothing happens. It all freezes up like a brick.

[Mike]

You could get lucky.

[Dalton]

Other times, one or two or three other times. Freaking half or more of the case is just exploded everywhere.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

So we can hope.

[Evan]

Yeah. At this point, it doesn't matter because it would be frozen. It's just really the spring when it would get everything wrecked.

[CJ]

Yeah. We just got to pull them all out.

[Mike]

Then we're gonna.

[Ryan]

Our beautiful houseboat, guys, that we put our house home.

[Evan]

No, but I'm saying it wouldn't have a chance to mold until spring.

[Mike]

That's probably true, but I. I feel like at this point, it's already screwed. Like, come spring, no one's going to be in there making sure it gets cleaned. I'm sure. But I did just think of something that would be very hard or just a lot of work to integrate into this podcast. But when we talk about things like that, imagine if it just did a cutaway and then it's us hitting the walls out, taking out the cans. Like, stuff. Stuff that wouldn't go into the YouTube video, but then it kind of makes this not only a podcast, but almost like a show. Just imagine that, like, if all these little things, like segments that we talk about that normally wouldn't make a video, then you, like, transitioned into we're there, and it's more of like a.

[Ryan]

It's hard to say because a lot of people listen.

[Mike]

Makes it more of a show, is what I'm saying.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like on Spotify. It wouldn't make sense.

[Mike]

You can actually, I believe, watch on video on Spotify.

[CJ]

No.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Mike]

But, yeah, no, I agree. It wouldn't be so much a podcast if we did that, but it would be more of, like, a show, I think, obviously, is a ton of work. It makes us more work, but it kind of gives the viewers more.

[Dalton]

But let's say that cutaway to us taking the booze out of the houseboat walls was just. That was the only cutaway we did in this podcast. Then it's like, if you're listening, it wouldn't Be the end of the world.

[Mike]

You know, it would be funny, though. Like, we'd be in there cracking jokes, busting the wall open. We'd be finding out if they exploded or not. Like, it'd be pretty entertaining.

[Dalton]

Anytime Ken's drinking was entertaining, I'll say that, dude.

[Mike]

Anytime Ken's breathing is entertaining. This guy's a walking television man. He's just most entertaining guy alive. Right behind Gavin. Shred 80.

[Ryan]

Ken, I think this is a perfect time for you to put the football pads on and try. And I will.

[CJ]

I will break something if I try.

[Mike]

Break his neck again. He'd lead with his head. You know how. How hard those studs are.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I moved some furniture over the weekend, and my. My back was hurting.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. It was funny when Ken and I were moving all the stuff out of the basement. Ken and I are, like, lifting this treadmill, and we're walking, and Ken just, like, chimes in, I'm paying somebody to do this for my house.

[Ryan]

Treadmills are heavy.

[CJ]

Like, C.J. and I were trying to wrestle that thing out of the basement. You know, we're trying to tip it, and then this other arm is, like, going the other direction.

[Mike]

Yeah, classic.

[CJ]

We had to, like, ratchet strap the thing.

[Mike]

Like, it was a lot. Wouldn't move.

[Dalton]

That's always the worst when you. You're clearly trying to be careful. Right. But it's maybe awkward. It's heavy, and then you nick your. You know.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Trim on the door.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

It was like, have a dent in it forever until you have somebody fix your trim.

[Mike]

One of the few things I was actually staying, but whatever.

[Ryan]

How are movers, like guys that are hired to move things, not always injured?

[Mike]

It's a tough career. I'm sure they got lifting belts on. They're built for it. But I'm sure they may be probably pretty sore, but imagine how nerve wracking it would be. I actually used to have to do this for my very first job. I worked at a. It was called Play it Again Sports. So, like, they sold athletic equipment. I'd sharpen hockey skates. But then they also had, like, workout machines and stuff. And part of the thing was, like, if you bought a workout machine. So say you bought a treadmill, you could pay. And then we deliver it, and I'm in high school and, like, not qualified. They would just be like. Like, someone buy a treadmill. And they'd look around, hey, how do you feel about you and Tanner going and delivering this treadmill? And I'm just like, yeah, I'M I'm excited to get out of there. And I get to drive this diesel truck because, you know, I, I, it was like a big old Cummins. And I was like, this is sick. You know, so we get to load this thing up. But it was so nerve wracking every time you'd go to a person's house because they're sitting there watching you. You're lifting this heavy thing, trying to bend it around corners, all this, and, you know, touch their wall and, and I remember one time when I worked there, I wasn't working that day, but these guys, like, really fucked up this guy's wall. And, oh, no, the guy got super pissed. And then, you know, I'm sure they had to pay to fix it for him, but it was super awkward. And I was like, I'm glad I wasn't there for that.

[Ryan]

How much you got to charge to do delivery for it to be worth it when the inevitable happens of you messing up somebody's house and then you got to pay for it?

[CJ]

Got to be insurance for that.

[Mike]

Well, if with the new treadmill I bought from Shields, it was 250 bucks to deliver. But I'm a cheap skate. And I said, I got Ken living at my house. Why would I pay 250 bucks? They loaded that thing at the loading dock in, and I saw how, how much my raptor squad. I go, oh, that was my first. I go, oh, I watched that thing go like that. I go, this isn't good.

[Ryan]

You're driving in a wheelie the entire way. You're calling Ken, hey, buddy, you didn't work out today. He did.

[CJ]

He did. I took one look at that thing. I was like, so you didn't want to pay Shields to just deliver this thing? And he's like, nope.

[Ryan]

Ken's calves were about to explode out of these pants.

[Mike]

You for Ken, I don't have you around much longer, dude. I got to, I got to enjoy these moments.

[CJ]

We dragged this thing down there, and a week later we had to drag it right back out.

[Ken]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dalton]

The whole, like, white glove delivery is, it's kind of like a thankless job because you come, you say you meet these two fellas. They're like, hey, we're going to bring this bed in for you. And if they do it perfectly, thanks.

[Ken]

Yeah. How it was expected to be done.

[Dalton]

Give them a tip, I guess. I remember giving them 20 bucks.

[Mike]

Of course, 20 cheapskate for the both of them. Okay, $10 a piece.

[Dalton]

No, it's 20 each. But if they up your walls. You're just like, what are you doing?

[Ken]

One job.

[Dalton]

You couldn't get the bed down in the basement.

[Mike]

I would love to see you do that.

[Ken]

Mike Modes, either here's a bunch of money or you get out of here. The guys who set up my bed, it came free with the delivery, and they set it up 180 degrees of.

[CJ]

The way it should.

[Ken]

The headboard was just, like 4ft tall in the middle of the room, and then the footboard was just in the back. I went up, close enough, See you. He handed me a bag of screws for a shit they miss. I went, just. Just, see you later.

[Dalton]

But then, yes, sometimes white glove delivery is, like, too much, where you're just like, no, just seriously, just get it inside and I'll take care of the rest. Like, you don't need to, like, screw the four sides together. I can do that. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Because 90% of the time, it's pretty easy.

[Dalton]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan]

It's the hard part is the 10%.

[CJ]

That is like, it is also, like, they're getting paid to fully assemble it, and, like, you. You're not supposed to do anything for it. Yep. This needs to go here. I'll see you in 30 minutes.

[Dalton]

Yeah. And I don't see any white gloves on you. So I'd say out of this, Mr. Owner, that even is you.

[Ken]

You dress up in your car harvest. They think you're a part of the group.

[Mike]

Electrician walking around, sipping on my coffee.

[Dalton]

Next time we in a yeti, I'm getting something delivered, I, like, put white gloves on. I'm like, guys, I can help now. We don't even actually wear white gloves. I don't know why they call it that.

[Ryan]

You know what's another job that I feel is, like, you watch them work, and then it's kind of awkward being that, like, you will never tip them. But it's kind of one of those things that could be tipped is. No, the people know what you tip. A Subway. No, it's the people that bag your groceries, like, at the end of, like, the little conveyor belt, and they bag your groceries and they, like, hand them to you, and then you just thanks.

[Ken]

You just peace out.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you peace out.

[Mike]

I mean, that's their job, though.

[Ryan]

It is their job, but it. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's just.

[Dalton]

But it's similar because I remember the.

[Ken]

Other side of tipping culture.

[Dalton]

Grocery store. I'm like, helping him, and he's just like, nah. He's like, don't worry about it. I got it. And I'm like, well, I'm just standing here.

[Ken]

But then I feel like you got two people. He's got his method, you know?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. Like it is their job.

[Mike]

I get that.

[Ken]

I always go to the lane that has someone working at it, especially at Central Markup because like they have these shitty self checkout registers. The ones at Walmart aren't bad, but the ones at Central Markup are so bad. And so I always go to lane and Laundry's like, seriously, can't we just go to the self checkout? And I'm like, no, because one day it'll all be self checkout.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Don't you want to interact?

[Ken]

I can't. We can't lose all our jobs today.

[CJ]

They're actually starting to rip those out because there's like so many people are stealing through those.

[Mike]

Oh really?

[Ryan]

Every time I do it I'm like.

[Ken]

Why Laundry wants to go to him.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I, I can't believe it though. Every time I'm at Walmart I'm just like, how do people just go beep and put it in the bag and then they just walk out? You think those greeters are sitting there? They're 90 year old greeters.

[Mike]

They are. If I'm walking out, they're checking every little thing off my receipt.

[Evan]

Like, you don't have to stop, cj.

[Ken]

You don't.

[Mike]

Yeah, but that's just rude. But there's.

[Evan]

Them to stop.

[Mike]

You're, they're trying to feel like they're.

[Evan]

They profiled you that you were stealing.

[Ryan]

Is that how that works?

[CJ]

100%.

[Dalton]

I mean everybody then.

[Evan]

I mean, if.

[Ryan]

What are they doing?

[Mike]

I've been walking out with, Just trying to have something to do.

[Evan]

Like a full cart of groceries all in bags and they're just like going to stop you and check everything.

[Ryan]

It's like, well, they do it at like Costco, I think a lot more effectively.

[Ken]

But like every single person, those guys.

[Mike]

Are kind of on a little bit, Some of them are on a power trip. I do agree. Some guys, they're on a little bit of a power trip.

[Ryan]

I guess. I've never seen anyone at WALMART that is 90 years old that like is doing it. If you just ignore them and you keep walking, you got to do that.

[Ken]

You can't look at them.

[Ryan]

But they're not going to be like, hey, get back. Like it's different if it was like it's different if it was like a gym workout meathead sitting there or what. Yeah, well, it looks like security and then you're like more likely to not steal. Like I feel like Walmart is losing so much money. They are people stealing. It's an insane amount of money.

[Dalton]

Right.

[Ryan]

Like if they just hired a meathead, they paid him $100,000 to stand there like an atrocious salary for what it would, you know, the job that they'd be doing. But they'd be saving so much money.

[Ken]

Walmart loses $6 billion annually to theft. Exactly $6 billion.

[Ryan]

That's a lot of money.

[Evan]

One guy can't save that.

[Mike]

Have you ever seen.

$100,000 will save them six?

[Evan]

No, I'm just kidding.

[CJ]

It's like you're paying for that billion that got stolen.

[Ryan]

How many, how many stores is there? Maybe that's a little too much. But I don't know, I don't know. Like stores are.

[Ken]

Roughly half of these losses are attributed to self checkout threat.

[Mike]

Dude. Sometimes there's like a civilian or like the Best Buy guy will like go out of their way and they'll like start getting some physical confrontation over some person trying to steal like a tackle like $100. And yeah. I don't know. You ever see those videos on Facebook where it's like some ladies walking out and then some other like mom is like filming them and like have you.

[Ryan]

Seen the lady that tackled the guy that was trying to steal from Best Buy and Dana White I think gave her a contract or paid for her like attorney fees.

[Mike]

I think something like he hired her for security. She got fired after that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Because you're not supposed to actually stop somebody.

[Mike]

Yeah. Which is bullshit. I think if you want to go for any. But like I don't know if I was a person working at Best Buy fudgeing, why would you just let them fucking take it?

[Ryan]

And then they just call the cops And I'm sure they have so many.

[CJ]

Yeah, but the cops don't do anything because the person.

[Mike]

Why risk your life over you know.

[Ken]

Some major TV for 500 billion dollar corporation?

[Mike]

But yeah, Dana White hired her because she got fired. Which honestly that's a great person to hire is someone that's like really about your cause. I mean doing something like that.

[Ken]

Back to the Walmart person thing. So Evan and I have talked about this prior like how much we dislike. I hate being profiled at Walmart like because there's a lot of sketchy characters there. And I'm walking out with a laundry with my groceries. I'm already pissed because I had to walk around 46,000 square feet of store. Let me just run it through. Sundays are my day to relax. All week, I'm running around doing different things. We're working, whatever. So Sunday, I just book out to, like, try to do the least amount possible ideally. And Alondra always is like, let's go do a million things. And so one day, she drugged me to the store, and I was kind of all pissed off. You guys know how I get. And so I was just pretty irritated at the whole Walmart run. And so we go, we buy our $400 worth of groceries, and the cart is just loaded with stuff. We were walking out, and he goes, hey, sir, let me check your receipt. And I just go here and just kept walking. And the laundry's like, oh, my. Oh, my God. Stop, stop. And I go, he's got the receipt. Let's go. And I was like, dude, this guy. I mean, I said, here, check my receipt, dude. I went In, I paid $400 for my groceries. There's literally people who look like they're stealing around me. I'm in there in.

[Ryan]

Were you wearing your baggies, Ryan?

[Ken]

Probably.

[Mike]

You knew he wasn't gonna have a conference.

[Ken]

I just go. I just go, here you go, bud. Check it out. I mean, what was he gonna do, sift through all my groceries? It wasn't like, got a flat screen TV hanging out the top, you know? You did.

[Dalton]

You would have had that on your receipt.

[Ken]

Yeah, exactly. I was all pissed off, man. Hold on.

[Mike]

So what, Elon?

[Ken]

Well, she just was.

[Mike]

What are you doing?

[Ken]

She's like, yes. Yeah. She was all, like, on his side, and I was like, get in the car.

[Ryan]

Let' get in the car. Now you really look suspicious.

[Mike]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Ken]

Now I look like a dick.

[Dalton]

Get in the car.

[Ken]

But it's the same. It's the same guy. And I walk in. In better days, I go, hey. And he goes, have a great day. I go, see you later.

[Mike]

Do you put your car back? Don't ask to check.

[Ken]

Yeah, I do. I do put the cart back.

[Mike]

I made that mistake.

[Dalton]

I just had this fun fact that personally blew my mind. Guess what their number one soldier item, toilet paper.

[Ken]

Bananas.

[Ryan]

No, don't tell me.

[Dalton]

Ryan got it. Bananas.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I love bananas.

[Dalton]

That's crazy. Of all the things. Of all the things that they sell the most of by revenue. Bananas.

[Mike]

That's actually insane. But you do buy them in kind of like six or eight normally.

[CJ]

Is it actually bananas, or is it they selling more bananas than they actually inventory. People are buying bananas actually walking out the door or something else.

[Mike]

Big Banana.

[Dalton]

Okay, I guess that was made up by banana.

[Mike]

Have you heard of the banana glitch at Walmart?

[Ryan]

Just went from 6 billion to 7.

[Dalton]

So many people are stealing that it's bringing their banana revenue. Number one.

[Mike]

I could understand how bananas would be their number one seller. As a avid banana consumer, probably one banana a day at the least.

[Dalton]

And also bananas are. They keep them close to the checkouts. Like if you're going checking out by the produce is. Bananas are stocked. It's something that you just grab.

[Mike]

Yeah. I just think, like, use a bushel. It's healthy, it's quick and easy to eat. And the nice thing is you can just throw the peel out your window when you're done.

[Ken]

That's actually a good topic of discussion.

[Mike]

Yeah, I know.

[Dalton]

Yes.

[Mike]

Littering.

[Ken]

Is it literal?

[Mike]

No, no.

[Ken]

I think if you're driving down 8th street in Morehead and you throw it into someone's yard, that's littering. But like, on my drive, I drive by a wildlife preserve, an area where there's no houses. Nobody takes care of the ditch. Like, just rip a banana.

[Dalton]

That's not littering.

[CJ]

If that banana has a sticker on it, that's. Then it's littering.

[Ken]

It's a good point.

[Mike]

So you got to pull that little sticker off. Then you're good to huck it.

[CJ]

Yeah. Because then the Netflix is just going to biodegrade after you have to worry.

[Mike]

About spinning a car.

[Dalton]

Yeah. If someone spends out littering.

[Ken]

If somebody crashes. I have actually thought that, you know, it could attract deer and animals to the side of the road, which then I would later murder viciously with my car.

[Dalton]

I don't really think you're truly human unless you've slept on a banana peel before.

[Mike]

I've never slipped on a banana peel, but I was going to say I've watched Mike slip on a banana peel. I didn't know there was. I didn't know they were actually slippery until I saw him slip on one he stepped on. I thought he broke his fucking knee. Like, dude, that was a gnarly fall. And both you and I just look at each other and just started laughing.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, it was hilarious. We were at this, like, music festival and Mike was just.

[Ken]

We were just choose banana doing in a music festival.

[Mike]

Someone was eating a banana and hooked it on the grass. And Mike and I were cruising and he just.

[Dalton]

Yes. Damn near pulled my hammy and. Yeah. It's just. It was. It did. It changed my life.

[Ken]

Remember when Jen slipped on like, raspberries or whatever? The heck that was in the kitchen.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's true. Gotta be careful.

[Dalton]

Fruit is slippery since it was ice.

[Ryan]

Yes, ice is slippery.

[Evan]

Remember when I made those ice skates?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Interesting.

[Evan]

Didn't work. I'm thinking about trying it again though.

[Dalton]

It's fun. I love when a homie gets a good idea like that though.

[Evan]

Yeah. I was gonna ask Ken if I could borrow his red boots. I think those would be the ticket.

[CJ]

Those are incredibly uncomfortable if you've never tried them on.

[Mike]

Which ones?

[CJ]

My big red boots.

[Ryan]

They'd be over Evan's knees.

[Evan]

I still think they'd be the the right boots for the job.

[CJ]

Yeah, go do it.

[Evan]

All right.

[Dalton]

Remember when Ken got those? We were built. We were putting up boat motor onto a giant piece of ice and Ken gets a jet ski ride over in his red boots and his Vikings coat and then tries jumping up.

Frozen lake.

[Mike]

Good. Most entertaining guy alive.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Second most behind Gaff. Yeah.

[CJ]

Nobody's more entertaining than Gavin.

[Mike]

It's tough to beat that guy.

[Ken]

It's everybody's favorite time of the Podcast.

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[Mike]

What'd they learn?

[Ryan]

Well, don't mess with them on a Sunday.

[Ken]

Apparently most importantly, people Are gonna see me now, like, when I'm out, and they'll be like, oh, that's Ryan. But it's Sunday for a picture.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ken]

It's not actually how it is. Unless it's a bad day, then it is that way. For real.

[Ryan]

You ask r for a picture, he ignores you. He hops in his homer. Oh, he must be busy. No, just floors in ts you.

[Ken]

I just got a call. It's.

[Dalton]

It's done.

[Ken]

It's finally back.

[Ryan]

Oh, wow, that was.

[Dalton]

That was fast. It hasn't been three weeks.

[Ken]

Five weeks. Yeah.

[Mike]

Are you excited to get it back or are you bummed?

[Ken]

I'm excited to have it back.

[Ryan]

Al.

[Ken]

Alondra isn't. She isn't at all. She has my phone.

[Mike]

Dude. I. Straight up, I. I got a. This isn't Alandra's fault, but, like, straight up, has she ever liked a vehicle you've owned?

[Ken]

No. I told her that. I said, since I've known you, I've owned, like, $700,000 of vehicles, and you have not liked a single one of them.

[Ryan]

You don't have to flex on it. I know.

[Ken]

I'm sorry. I. But I had to. I go, I have owned a fucking insane amount of different vehicles, and it's always something else that would be better.

[Ryan]

What could she possibly not like about your Hummer?

[Ken]

It says it doesn't ride good and it makes a car sick.

[CJ]

Does she like the Yukon?

[Ken]

Loves the Yukon. And you could win it. Someone else could love it.

[Dalton]

I mean, how could you not?

[Ken]

Yeah, it is pretty good.

[Mike]

The Yukon.

[CJ]

It's the ultimate white girl car.

[Dalton]

Just to your defense, have driven the hummer a little bit. It's really nice.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I think the Hummer is an awesome car. I would actually buy one for Alex.

[Dalton]

But a little big.

[Mike]

Well, it's just the electric part is awesome because she works in Fargo, so she has to drive.

[Dalton]

Right.

[Mike]

40 minutes. But, like, a little big. Yeah. Probably big for. Maybe a Tesla would be good for her. But also, I'm not really trying to buy her a car. And she's got a Kia, so the key is fine. That's what I think. I think the key is a great car.

[Dalton]

I mean, it is a car.

[Mike]

No, it is funny, though, Ryan, because over the years, I've gathered that because you've kind of just swapped around. Well, you've mentioned. No, she doesn't really like this one, and. Which I could understand. The trx, the one that you had the gold wheels on. That one rode like.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And, like, I think it was More so your alignment. But when I drove that thing, I was like, how does Ryan drive this thing every day?

[CJ]

It was just a boat like your Jeep. That thing was amazing.

[Ken]

That did like that. She did like that Jeep was. But then I lowered it and then it was stiff.

[Mike]

But you remember your F150?

[Ken]

Yep.

[Mike]

That was good.

[Ken]

That was a good riding vehicle. Peak vehicle.

[Mike]

Peak Ryan.

[Ryan]

That was peak ride.

[Mike]

I think you should get another one of those.

[Ken]

It was a comfy vehicle, had heated and cooled seats. It was a2012. Got decent gas mileage. Good vehicle.

[Dalton]

It really was. We took that thing to Michigan.

[Ken]

We did take that thing seriously.

[Dalton]

Made a great road trip rig. There is something about that. Just a good old F150, man.

[Mike]

You just.

[Ryan]

Most popular vehicle in America.

[Ken]

Sometimes I get snap memories of it, you know, just driving around, I go.

[Mike]

Pop a picture up of that. That jam two tone picture of that, man.

[Ken]

I don't even know if I have any pictures of it. Like my tc. I would always do the like, turn around and take a picture of it, you know, because I was like, they look cool. But like that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Year and a half, I saved so much space on my phone, I just. I walked away from that thing and never turned around.

[Mike]

You know, it's like you never appreciate what you truly have until it's gone.

[Ken]

Like, you're right.

[Mike]

It's like my first car was a 1996 Jeep Cherokee. I just didn't like it. But looking back, good. Amazing vehicle. Yeah, amazing vehicle.

[Dalton]

That one was a Grand Cherokee.

[Mike]

Grand Cherokee. I shouldn't say I didn't like it, but I was. I was always like seeing like the other kids in the parking lot, like, like with his car. So cool.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And then. Yeah.

[Dalton]

You can't go wrong with a red Jeep Cherokee or Grand.

[Evan]

Dude.

[Mike]

It is funny. I was thinking about this one night just like a couple nights ago. I couldn't sleep. I was like, I had a red Jeep Grand Cherokee 1996. You had a red Grand Cherokee 1996. And Jake had one too.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

All three red. And all three became crashed. Well, I crashed mine. Jake rolled his. You didn't crash yours?

[Dalton]

I sold mine and then bought another Cherokee.

[Mike]

What happened to yours again? Yours got keyed. Someone was like, you, I think it. Or they threw a dick in it or something.

[Ryan]

Or did it had a dick in it? Yeah.

[Dalton]

That's cool for.

[CJ]

Yeah.

Buffed it.

[Dalton]

I tried buffing it.

[Mike]

It was in.

[Ken]

You buffed that?

[Dalton]

I got.

[Ken]

He saw that thing. He's like, oh, I can't Wait to get on that thing.

[Dalton]

Buff that.

[Mike]

Oh, it's like when the roads are penis taking the long way home. Man.

[Dalton]

Good times. I've actually been driving Sydney's old Jeep. Yeah? Yeah.

[Mike]

It's just like.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Dalton]

I mean, I'm not gonna lie. Everyone could probably agree. Like, the truck is just like. It's cold. It's like 10 degrees. Am I gonna just fire up the truck, get it, like, 20 minutes to warm it up, and then drive it all the way to Fargo?

[Ryan]

Drive the Jeep.

[Dalton]

It's great. Whatever. Also, you can't put a price on the inconspicuous. Like, you in the F150. Like, nobody looks at you. The cops don't look at you. You're not, like, any center of attention. Yes.

[Mike]

That's how I felt my. In my first Raptor.

[Dalton]

Really like it.

[Mike]

Also, that vehicle's pretty much been depreciated. It's got higher mileage on it. So, like, realistically, you don't have to feel so bad about going back and forth versus in your truck, which has got, what, 30,000 on it?

[Dalton]

Like, no, the Jeep's only got 10,000 more miles in the truck.

[Mike]

Oh, wow.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[CJ]

She must have never drove that thing.

[Mike]

Probably just only in.

[Dalton]

How much? Yeah, 70,000. And then my truck's got 60.

[Mike]

But either way, that much.

[Dalton]

It's got rust. Some rust. So it's like, you don't feel bad about it.

[Ryan]

Do you guys remember when we. We bought the matching red Jeep to Mike's and we blew it up?

[Ken]

God, that was good. That was good.

[Ryan]

That was funny.

[Ken]

I remember those kids, too. Remember, we drove down there, like, what are you going to do with our Jeep? We're, like, going to blow it up. Like, really?

[Dalton]

That had to have been one of the final straws of, like, where we. YouTube doesn't.

[Ken]

Like, when we go.

[Mike]

Did it get demonetized? I can't remember.

[Dalton]

I think it did. And we were like, damn. So that's. That's it, huh? No more blowing stuff up.

[Mike]

Holy shit. It was five years ago or more than five years ago, and it's got 1.7 million views. It's actually quite a bit of views for back then.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Not that it's not today.

[Ryan]

We bought the same car as Mike just to make him think that we blew his car.

[Dalton]

And also, like, I don't think I ever got any hints or, like, I didn't have any inkling that that was going to happen. But at the very moment when I saw the Jeep and, like, oh, boom. And I'm like very in the cars. I'm one of the people that are like, when you're driving on the road and you see the headlights of the cars passing you, like I can name all of them. I mean, I know lots of guys can, but like I saw it and it just immediately was like, that's not my Jeep.

[Ryan]

I'm like, at least I didn't think.

[Ken]

Couldn't fool.

[Ryan]

Can't get anything past Mike.

[Dalton]

How you can. You can.

[Ken]

I do have a question. You guys know what's up with Jack Doherty, that guy?

[Mike]

He got arrested for jaywalking, I think, and then he had like marijuana or something.

[Ken]

I did see that in Miami.

[Mike]

Miami, Yeah. I think they were just arrested for jaywalk.

[Dalton]

He was like, yeah, it was like.

[Mike]

At 2 in the morning or something.

[Dalton]

Yeah, he was being.

[Mike]

I. I'm sure he was just being kind of his cocky self and the cops are there and he just jaywalked across and they're sitting there with his crew and they were just like maybe in a bad mood and they're just like, this kid, we're gonna go get him. And then they got him and he was like resisting, I think, and his guard was like, oh, hold on. You know, and then.

[Dalton]

You can't actually arrest this guy.

[Ken]

Yeah, I just like, I feel like he's just constantly doing things to make him unlikable. Is that it's kind of like I. Because I actually don't like. There's a lot of people that I follow and I understand what they're doing, but is that what he's doing?

[Evan]

His E bike jump was sick.

[Dalton]

Seed him.

[Ken]

Roll his Maverick in his front yard.

[Evan]

That was sick.

[Dalton]

I guess I am curious is like, is there any love in there at all? Like he crashes his E bike. Everyone is like, good, I'm glad I.

[Ken]

Have to see those videos.

[Dalton]

Don't wear a helmet next time.

[Ryan]

Like, were you in his comments?

[Dalton]

I survived withheld. I'm not a fan of him either, but I withheld.

[Ryan]

Mike is a hater in people's comments that he doesn't like.

[Ken]

Nobody caught you on that one. Yeah, caught you.

[Ryan]

We've got him on a couple.

[Ken]

A couple hate comments.

[CJ]

You're like the mean kid in the comments.

[Dalton]

I just remember like the one with Baby Gronk. Like I brought.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's right. It was Baby Gronk. You're going after a 12 year old baby. You were going after a 12 year old.

[Dalton]

Well, it wasn't even.

[Ken]

He has baby in his.

[Dalton]

It was not after him on his video though.

[Mike]

Doesn't matter, Mike.

[Dalton]

Well, whatever.

[Ken]

Anyway, I did see this tick tock of this little kid hating on Jack. I thought it was pretty funny.

[Mike]

Does he know what it's like to face his consequences?

[Evan]

What did I do wrong, buddy?

[Mike]

Bump into people in the street and then you get your big bodyguard to protect you. Everything you do, you Jack dy. Everything you fake. Everything you rug all your videos. You rug all your videos, bro. I know that was fake. I know that McKenley was fake. Hug that pillow and wishing it was McKen. I know you wish that was McKen.

[Ken]

I just saw.

[CJ]

Holy.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Ken]

This kid blamed it.

[Mike]

That guy should be a football coach. I think part of it is rage bait. Yeah, he's all about views. Like. Like when he walks around and he does that thing where he like bumps into somebody and then the guy turns around. Then his bodyguard. Like those are fake. Or like when he sets up the thing where he's sitting on the plane. Like, that kid's got hella money. Like at least I would imagine if he's managing all these of girls and just all the things he's doing. He's obviously a hard worker. Yeah, I think he's. I think he is out of touch with reality. He grew up on YouTube. He's kind of like a young Jake Paul. Like, you know, he's just making a lot of mistakes. I could see him turning it around and becoming likable in the future, you know, years down the line. But like, part of it I think is just rage bait. And it's definitely easy to not like.

[Ken]

I think that's a pretty good analysis actually. I don't know.

[Dalton]

And I mean, no, you'd have to be crazy also to think that that doesn't make money. Because it does.

[Mike]

He's crushing it, dude. That kid has got to be making so much cheddar from. Yeah, he's got a lot of haters.

[Ryan]

But like he said he's made like 30 million.

[Dalton]

Does he. He live streams like a year or 50 million.

[Ken]

Jesus.

[Ryan]

In his career or something like that.

[Ken]

Wow.

[Ryan]

I don't know why. Where I saw that.

[Mike]

Maybe that's his net worth. I bet he's made more than that. Either way, he's just looking to go viral. And a lot of times when you go viral, I feel like it's not for good things.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Kind of last thing. Can you think it's. Think it's cool for me and I guess a laundry to still show our face around town after this weekend? Or you think. Yeah, everyone think we stirred up Something.

[CJ]

You did stir up a little bit of drama. So we had a chili cook off, and Ryan's girlfriend Alondra and her two friends brought a chili, and there was.

[Ken]

A. Yeah, chili cook off. And we got drunkenly invited to it the night before, and they made a.

[CJ]

Chili, and they drunk.

[Dalton]

Made the chili. Drunkenly showed up, and.

[Ken]

No, no, no. Someone else invited us while we were at dinner, and so we said, sure, we don't have anything to do. So so we went. And a lot of these people had spent a lot of time making their chilies, and Alondra just threw together some ground beef and some spices at like 11:30 on Saturday. We showed up and won that.

[Mike]

No.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Ryan]

That's how it goes.

[Mike]

I'm honestly not surprised.

[CJ]

I think the sticky situation was there was technically four people a part of this chili, and there was at most two people a part of every other chili.

[Mike]

What? Fogging. What's the difference between four people? What we had.

[CJ]

Because you're voting. Because you're voting for your own chili. You got two extra people.

[Ken]

That's what I wanted. There was a little scuttle butt.

[CJ]

There was a little. A little bit of tension about that. But I think everyone kind of had a little more alcohol and forgot about it.

[Mike]

And you guys were the outsiders. You guys were the outsiders.

[Ken]

We showed up to their chili cook off, and then, you know, I mean, they're like the nicest group of 30 people on Earth. You know, they're pretty dang nice. So to have them get a little. There's a little scuttlebutt.

[Ryan]

Look, like we just.

[Ken]

Basically everybody at the party rated chili.

[Dalton]

Blindly, and there's blindly.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ryan]

But you know what happens when you. When you win? Like, who gets mad? Like, what do they say?

[Ken]

We actually. Because we were the new people, it was assigned to us to count the scorecards because we came late and whatever.

[Ryan]

Suspicious.

[Ken]

Suspicious, right. And so the girls knew there was a. There was a prior understanding that you should not vote for your own chili. At number one, you should be honest. So Alondra and her two friends both voted their chili number two. So kind of by a little bit.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Ken]

A little bit of. But they had more people voting for their own chili.

[Dalton]

Harry.

[Ken]

But totally ran people who didn't know. We're writing notes. Like, perfect.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Mike]

God, I wish I would have been there.

[Ken]

It was. It was pretty electric, actually. We got a decorative wine.

[Ryan]

It actually, like, really good chili.

[Ken]

I think we won by 13 points. There was like 360 total point or 260 points. We won by 30.

[Ryan]

13.

[Dalton]

Pretty big one, fair and square.

[Ken]

And if we took out all of our points, we still won.

[Mike]

Oh, oh, then you won.

[Ryan]

Okay, then you won.

[Dalton]

And also, I just pretty sick.

[Ken]

I was like, dang, baby.

[Dalton]

Everyone's, like, pretty drunk later in the night. Like, belly's full, and they're like, you know what? We got nothing to be mad about.

[Ken]

We got a good chili out of the deal.

[Dalton]

That's hilarious, though. And good for her.

[Ken]

Yeah, I know. I was really proud of her. I was like, that's amazing.

[Ryan]

Who was second place? And were they the ones that were upset?

[Ken]

They definitely were a part of the investigation crew, but they weren't upset.

[CJ]

Nobody actually cared. It was more so just like.

[Ken]

But they.

[CJ]

But they were trust but verify. They're just asking.

[Ryan]

You do have to do your due diligence.

[Dalton]

I mean, it's like, we had a good time. Don't come back.

[Ken]

We didn't figure out when next year's party is.

[Ryan]

Yeah, dude. So I actually had a family gathering event of my own this weekend. So every Friday we have, like, within my family, we have something called turkey games, where my mom basically puts on this thing where like, all the siblings and now all their spouses compete against each other in like, 10 different events. Right.

[Ken]

The little ninos. Are they out?

[Ryan]

No, the ninos are out. No, the Friday after Thanksgiving.

[Dalton]

Oh, sorry. I was like, this is a. This is crazy. That's every Friday.

[Ryan]

Every Friday after Thanksgiving. Sorry, I didn't have that part. So anyway, I think my. My older brother won last year. My sister, I think won the year before. So, like, it was my time to shine.

[Dalton]

Right.

[Ryan]

And I just went into this one feeling dull.

[Ken]

Oh, really?

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I wouldn't say that I'm like a shining bright star every day, but this way, this day, I went into it just like, you know, we're having to do word scrambles and like that. And I'm so cooked here because you're.

[Ken]

Just all turkey meat drunk up, you know?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think just a number of things. Yeah, I had maybe got into the wine.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Ryan]

And yeah, I think just a lot of things working against me.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ryan]

So I went into it just not feeling good about it.

[Ken]

And what are some of the games?

[Ryan]

I don't know. A bunch of different, like. Bunch of different, like.

Thanksgiving themed games where you have to, like, unscramble words and then you have to, like, there's like, a partner game where, like, you and your significant other have to, like, write down what you think that they're thinking. And, like, games like that. So you're, like, working with people, but you're also, like, working for yourself.

[Ken]

Sounds fun.

[Ryan]

So anyway, we go into the final game where essentially my mom sets up, like, all these different red solo cups on, like, one end of the table. And it's like beer pong, but all the cups have, like, plus two or minus two, and you, like, gain points or lose points, right? So essentially, it gets to the point where I'm in dead last, and there's zero chance that I'm going to win this even if I win, like, all the cups. Because they. They just pulled some bullshit where, like, my brother got. My brother got, like, to jump in the lake and gain, like, five, 50 points or whatever. And it put him so far in the lead where I was like, what the hell was the point of this? I started getting fired up, actually. I was like, did you have the.

[Evan]

Option to jump in the lake, too?

[Ryan]

No, it's just him. I was like, this dude just, like, got gifted this opportunity, and now he's gonna win this game because of it. And, you know, I'm talking, like, I'm talking so much.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, he won last year. And, like, I've talked about my competitiveness with my sister, like, in golf, right? Like, I'm a little bro. I'm always losing everything, right? At this time, I'm just like, I'm cooked. There's no way I'm coming back. So I, like, put this offer out on the table. I'm like, all right, how about this? There's two cups left. What if one cup is. You have to go and spend a minute in the lake, and, you know, like, the water is 32 degrees. It should be frozen, but it's wavy. Other cup is, you win the game. And I was like, everyone has the chance to do it, and nobody knows which cup is which, right?

[Ken]

So I was, like, conveniently better at beer pong.

[Ryan]

I was like, you can either opt in for the chance to win the game, or you can opt out and not have the chance to have to go in the lake, right? And everyone's like, I'm in.

[Dalton]

Right?

[Ken]

Love it.

[Ryan]

Everyone did it.

[Dalton]

I win.

[Ryan]

Which was awesome. And then they were all, wait, no.

[Dalton]

One else hit the winning cup?

[Ryan]

No, just me. And then they were all salty that, like, oh, this wasn't fair or whatever. I was just like, you guys all had the same opportunity. So, yeah, now I'm kind of the black sheep in the family.

[Ken]

You're not getting invited back next year, too.

[Ryan]

I don't know. They were pretty upset with. With the terms, but you're going to.

[CJ]

Be forced to be a judge next year.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's what Ken got in the chili competition. He was the judge.

[Ryan]

Oh, you were a judge.

[CJ]

I showed up a little late, so.

[Ken]

He was actually the lead bathroom tester.

[CJ]

No, I was moving out all weekend, so it wasn't bad.

[Dalton]

It actually took an hour and 17 minutes to run through me, whereas so and so's over here ran through me in just eight.

[Evan]

Pretty good facilities, though.

[CJ]

Fantastic facilities. They had that place dialed for. For the event.

[Ken]

Good Porta Potties. They had one of those semi trucks. All the doors for the bathrooms bring in.

[Dalton]

Yeah, Porta Potties, that's pretty awesome.

[Ken]

But no, it was a lot of fun.

[Dalton]

Yeah. The chili. When it comes to chili, I'd say, like, yeah, you can spice it up, like quite literally and do all this and that, but, like, you can't beat just a basic chili. Like when chili just tastes how chili supposed to taste. And I don't know what that is to you, but I felt bad.

[Ken]

Like, some guys were like, yeah, that was my deer that I shot. Like, I used my venison. Like, this one has, you know, all these different things that they were like. We put our heart and soul into them. And Alondra was like, yeah, pretty much 30 minutes in the pot, through it in the crock pot, and came over here.

[CJ]

That the guy that won last year, he spent $400 on his chili. And it had filet in it.

[Ryan]

Exactly.

[Ken]

Amazing. People were doing high dollar stuff.

[CJ]

Simon, actually.

[Ken]

And we just. We didn't even put in thawed meat. Chopped it up around some meat, some good spices.

[Ryan]

I had no idea.

[Mike]

Rubbing it in.

[Ken]

Oh, dude, it's amazing. I don't weigh 700 pounds.

[Mike]

I've noticed that whenever we go over to your house, like, she's just got, like some kind of thing to eat and it's like there's a little, you know, and then she's cooking something or she's got some. Some kind of dip she whipped up. Like, she's always got that going, which I think is. Is awesome.

[Ken]

She loves Halston.

[Ryan]

Well, did you guys see my SNAP story when I drunkenly stumbled into Ryan's house and I found out that he had an absolute.

[Mike]

Well, did you not hear him earlier? He said he spent 400 at Walmart on food. There's two of you? That's insane.

[Ken]

I missed anything to eat in the house.

[Ryan]

Big snack guy.

[Ken]

Yeah, love snacks. Snacks are the best.

[Mike]

I think, you know, bananas are too.

[Ken]

I actually have been eating bananas lately. Bananas are pretty good. And that's where it actually came up because I've been throwing them out.

[Mike]

You know who doesn't with snacks?

[Dalton]

Who?

[CJ]

Ken, tell snacks you don't need snacks. You don't need to snack between your meals.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

What do you get between your meals?

[CJ]

Water. Just water.

[Mike]

Lift weight.

[Dalton]

What the hell is an uncrustable a meal?

[CJ]

Oh, that. That's just a small meal.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Evan]

When was your last uncrustable?

[CJ]

Heydays.

[Dalton]

Probably can only eat San Crustables, like when we Travel or do 24 hour.

[Ken]

Challenges when they're presented to Mike.

[Mike]

What do you eat for snacks? I feel like you eat like you, like, kind of some dude.

[Dalton]

I'm like, I.

[Mike]

You like the sweets?

[Dalton]

I love ice cream. I don't necessarily like, love the sweets. Like, I could do without chocolate and candy, but like, I love ice cream so much ice cream and occasional popcorn.

[Evan]

What kind of ice cream?

[Dalton]

Just vanilla anything strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, rocky road cookies and cream. Freaking anything I love.

[Evan]

And chocolate chip.

[Dalton]

Even mint chocolate chip. Yeah.

[Evan]

That's where you lose me.

[Dalton]

Cotton candy. Like it's any ice cream. But I've been trying to eat apples lately.

[Mike]

You ever get some caramel? Put some caramel.

[Ken]

Yes, but that makes it enough to ruin it.

[Dalton]

I was just gonna say you. You add the caramel in and then you're just eating candy.

[Ken]

Yeah. I might as well have an Oreo.

[Dalton]

Apples and peanut butter, which is what you do.

[Ken]

Yeah, I have milk with it every.

[Ryan]

Time I hop in the car with you, Ryan, we stop at a gas station and you get Oreos of some sort or you get chips of some sort.

[Ken]

That did happen.

[Ryan]

I. Yeah, it's not that it did happen. It does happen. Did happen every single time.

[Ken]

Love snacks.

[Ryan]

It's usually. It's usually sour candy, though.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I did get in for sour.

[Ken]

I did get off the Sour Patch Kids. There used to be a Bryce vine song Sour Patch Kids and Coke. So I would have that. I would be like Sour Patch Kids and Coke. So that's what I would have. I like both those things. And then I kind of just decided that maybe it wasn't as good. So now I'm on White Monsters.

[Dalton]

And.

[CJ]

It is nice. It is nice seeing everyone get on the. The white monies lately.

[Dalton]

Yeah, white monies are legit. What do you snack on, Ben?

[Ryan]

Like an insane amount of chips and salsa.

[Dalton]

Okay. Yeah, Ben loves chips and salsa.

[Ryan]

Love chips and salsa. And then I put cream cheese in it. Okay. Oh, yeah. Cj, me I'm just thinking about it.

[Evan]

Are you still down to get that tattoo you were talking about the white earlier tattoo.

[Mike]

So hold on. So is this going on my thigh?

[Evan]

Well, originally you said tramp stamp, but if you had to negotiate, Ken said.

[Mike]

That it was on the thigh and there was an arrow pointing towards my dick.

[Evan]

That was his suggestion.

[Mike]

White monster. I said, okay, wait, what is.

[Dalton]

What is this?

[Ryan]

You agreed to that tattoo?

[Mike]

Well, hold on. We were talking how much it would cost. Mike said, 100 grand.

[Dalton]

I said, for a tramp stamp that is.

[Mike]

I'm like, bro, I'd do it for less than 100.

[Ryan]

What tattoo exactly?

[CJ]

The monster logo with an arrow and.

[Ryan]

No, I think that's to say it would say white.

Monster towards my.

[Mike]

Towards my. I'm down for that. I'll do it. That's funny. I'll do it for. Whatever I say is gonna sound ridiculous, but I'd do it for 30k.

[Dalton]

All right.

[Mike]

Mike said 100.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I said 100.

[Evan]

That's just within the realm of possibilities.

[Ryan]

Now we're talking about budget for a video. We're gonna have to really milk this out.

[Evan]

But, dude, you surprised mechanic Gavin with that tattoo, and you guys will be little partners.

[Mike]

You know what Gavin needs on that truck of his is. Is some monster stickers.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I agree.

[Ken]

Yeah, he's.

[CJ]

He's gonna buy him.

[Mike]

He was on the back window. I could see two of them.

[Dalton]

That was so funny when he was.

[Ken]

Like, yeah, maybe I should.

[Dalton]

Dalton goes, don't put the white monster stickers on your back window. I'm like, oh, cuz you're against stickers.

[Ryan]

On your back window?

[Mike]

I'm like, bro, you have the biggest monster sticker on the.

[Ryan]

It's crazy.

[Evan]

It'll be the third monster truck in cormorant.

[Ken]

But there is also the rock star.

[Mike]

Like literally a 50 year old man that's driving around with rock star all over.

[Evan]

Also in like an 0101.

[Ken]

Right. Right in the pocket of perfect rockstar Chevy territory. Burgundy Rudy antenna whips.

[Mike]

What do you eat for snacks, Ev?

[Dalton]

Okay, I don't want to out you, brother, but last night's snack was insane.

[Evan]

That was dinner.

[Ken]

What'd you have?

[Evan]

A plate of tortilla chips with cheese melted on.

[Ken]

Yeah, that sounds good.

[Dalton]

The craft singles. The craft singles.

[Evan]

The only cheese we had melts the best.

[Dalton]

Okay. I guess I've never tried it.

[Evan]

You got to break it up too. If you just leave it as a perfect square, it's more of a mess.

[Mike]

You rip it up.

[Dalton]

I can't Knock it. Because I haven't tried it, but it just seems like you're right. Shredded cheese, it's like normal.

[Evan]

Yeah, that would be great if we would have had some at 11 o' clock last night.

[Dalton]

That's what I'm getting is that. Then you just be like, oh, damn, I can't make nachos. But instead you just rip the craft single and put it on. But it's good.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was. It was a good little snack. Little dinner.

[Dalton]

But. Yeah, what do you. That was dinner. Okay. What do you snack on?

[Evan]

I've actually been pretty good. I don't snack a ton. I usually just rip Jen's leftovers for dinner.

[Mike]

You're not really a snacker. You're more of like a. Like, you'll drink like an energy drink or like a pop or like a Gatorade or whatever, but you're not. You're never really, like, buying candy or like eating a donut or anything like that.

[Evan]

So, like, I act. My guiltiest one would be with moose tracks ice cream. Caramel chocolate ice cream. That's good. Yeah. I still don't even do that that often because I end up like Ken. I'm. I'm all. I'm in the can.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

It's the next morning. Like, I'll eat it before bed. And I'm such a piece of shit. I always take the tub with me. I don't scoop into a bowl. I just sit down with that whole pail.

[Dalton]

You just keep going kind of.

[Evan]

I think that soft ice cream is better. So the longer you have it sitting in your lap, the better it gets.

[Ryan]

But you also like every bite.

[Dalton]

Let's say you got half a little tub and you whack it.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah.

[Dalton]

You're like, well, if I have to bring it back to the freezer if I don't finish.

[Evan]

Yeah. You cross that threshold of, like, it's going to be ridiculous if I eat all this and then. Well, I suppose I could polish her off.

[CJ]

Well, it's like there's only so much left to be a shame if you just put it back.

[Evan]

Yeah, the next guy would be disappointed. I'd be the next guy, but I'd be pissed.

[Ryan]

I'd hate to disappoint myself.

[Dalton]

Well, guys, thanks for checking out the. The gear that we just dropped. We're freaking stoked on it.

[Ken]

I think that was Dalton's best, maybe his best work yet.

[Mike]

It was cool.

[Dalton]

And it. That was like. I mean, Dalton turns into a director here and there when the shoots are bigger. This One was that he was full director. We gave him full creative control. And the commercial turned out.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, it turned out amazing. We haven't seen the. The final finished product of the commercial yet, but when we were shooting it and he was just, like, showing us what we had just done, I was like, oh, yeah, this is gonna be the sickest edit you've ever made. He's cooked up a lot of really good stuff.

[Ken]

So, yeah, it's saying something.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm excited to see this one.

[Mike]

We're at the. We're at the local ski hill. They're pumping snow. They opened up or they stayed open late so we could go there. We got to bring snowmobiles there.

[Ken]

Did get to check something off the bucket list, which was a ride on a ski resort.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Not exactly how I wanted to, but I still got to rip up and down the runs, which was pretty fun.

[Dalton]

Vibes were still there.

[Ryan]

It's so cool. Yeah, I always dreamed of doing that. I worked at the ski hill growing up as, like, a high schooler. Yeah, you always just want to do something like that. It was cool.

[Ken]

I was bummed. I wanted to get a picture of me with the, like, the chair lift in the background. It was all icy and snow because it hasn't ran all year, so it's covered in, like, icicles. Me sitting in my snowmobile in front of it. But it was chilly.

[Dalton]

But, yeah, for real, we've. I mean, appreciate everyone who's ever bought any merch ever, anyone who's press subscribed or viewed. But, like, this is a new big moment for us. So if you grab some gear, like, it's. It's a. I don't know, it's a monumental thing.

[Mike]

Quality.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Excited for it. And I know you guys will be, too.

[Ryan]

Dude, every product that we release that's Building the Life Wide Open brand is. It just fires me up more and more and more. I know, like, you always, like, dreamed of having a brand, and now I feel like it's just like. I don't know, it's really just coming to fruition of, like, everything that we dreamed of, and. And, like, I'm just so proud of it. I was thinking so proud of it.

[Ken]

I was like, dude, you know, we all get stressed out. We bicker here and there. But I was like, dude, I'm just so happy at work lately. Like, I feel like we have so much to be proud of. That, like, it's just. It's just really fun.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It is insane, man. Almost a decade of. Of Hard work.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Literally just kind of shows what. What. What happens when you stick with it.

[Ryan]

And it's just sick, though. Like, we've taken Life Wide Open, which was just a phrase that just started as, like, the back of a windbreaker. I still remember when Mike showed us, like, the first windbreaker.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, oh, that's pretty cool.

[Dalton]

And something else. It doesn't say C Boys, tv. That's all it was at the time.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then it, like, just how. How it grew from there and, like, the evolution of it. And then when we were like, like, all right, what we want to do? Gear. What do we name that? And then Evan was like, there's only one obvious answer to this question. Because we were like, ah, should we name it something else? And everyone was like, we already have the best name ever. Life Wide Open. We're like, yeah, yeah, we do.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You didn't change your mind that quickly.

[Mike]

We were going back and forth on it for so long because we want them to. To differentiate. But then I was like, or not necessarily me, but just all of us realize we're like, dude, we're building this empire, and this is just another branch right on the. Under that empire.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Another division.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's just a. It's just a whole nother division dedicated to high performance gear for whether it's snow moto or just any kind of hard activity.

[Dalton]

And then when we started seeing the products come in with the logos we chose, we're like, yeah, I mean, I can't believe we ever. I don't know anything else.

[Mike]

I don't know why we would have either, but. And we had some.

[Dalton]

We had a few.

[Mike]

Few pretty decent names. But, yeah, lwo, man. Life Wide Open gear. It's. It's the only answer.

[Dalton]

This made sense.

[Ryan]

This logo with the ltac and then lwo with the tack. Still, like, is such a good logo. As soon as I saw it, that's where I was like, oh, yeah, that's gonna be everywhere. Like, it just sparked something and fired me up. And, yeah, I'm obsessed with it and.

[Dalton]

Getting people's opinion on it. They're like, ooh. Like, that is just something about it that it's just clean. Not that that our merch isn't clean, but our merch is like an expression of us. We can make it whatever we want. But, like, the gear is. It's clean, it's super clear.

[CJ]

It's.

[Dalton]

We're. We're gonna try to innovate, but also just, like, bring you guys stuff that we would wear. So love it.

[Ryan]

Appreciate you guys for the everyday people. Buy the everyday people.

[Mike]

That's right. That's right.

[Dalton]

Anything else boys?

[CJ]

Don't forget we still are doing our GMC Denali giveaway that's still live for a couple weeks. Check it [e-mail] every $5 gets you one entry.

[Ken]

Nice clean hit, Ken. That was good.

[Ryan]

Later.

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