Ryan's Hummer Accident, CJs G-Wagon Regrets, & Evan Hates Christmas

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Ryan's Hummer Accident, CJs G-Wagon Regrets, & Evan Hates Christmas
Date: December 11, 2024

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Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah—gather for their signature blend of storytelling, humor, and lively debates, tackling everything from snowstorm survival stories and winter opinions to car mishaps, holiday traditions, and new gaming habits. Listeners are given a candid look behind the scenes and into the personalities that drive the CboysTV brand.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Winter Weather and "Snow Squalls" (05:07 - 11:05)

• The crew reacts to a recent "snow squall" phone alert, leading into a discussion about harsh Minnesota winters and snow driving stories.
  • Definition: A snow squall is a sudden, moderately heavy snowfall with gusty winds—essentially a flash whiteout.
  • Memorable anecdote: A late-night snowmobile trip gets derailed by a closed interstate, leading to the group busting through snowdrifts with a trailer.
  • "We were literally busting through snowdrifts over the hood of the Chevy." – [08:43]
• Ice conditions and the longing for picture-perfect "glare ice" are discussed with a sense of nostalgia and appreciation for Minnesota's unique winters.

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Love and Hate for Christmas (10:47 - 13:39)

• Evan reveals his grinch-like feelings toward Christmas music, preferring no more than "seven to ten days" of "holly jolly" tunes per season.
  • "I could take seven to ten days of the holly jolly music." – Evan [11:23]
• CJ and others defend the festive spirit, sparking a lively back-and-forth about when Christmas music is acceptable and how snow amplifies the holiday atmosphere.
  • "Christmas just does hit harder when you have snow." – [11:32]
• The group reflects on the odd feeling of watching snowless Christmas movies set in warm places, confirming a strong connection between the holiday and winter weather.

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Sunglasses Collab & Full Circle Business (03:05 - 05:04)

• The crew discusses their new CboysTV x Bums Sunglasses collaboration, pointing out the personal history they have with Jake, founder of Bums.
  • "It only makes sense…it's just like a collab sunglass. Like, no different than if Nike and Adidas did a collab shoe, which would never happen." – [03:39]
• The sunglasses come in three colorways, and purchasing them enters buyers into a truck/trailer/cash giveaway.

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Black Friday Buys & Ben’s Xbox Adventure (14:02 - 21:18)

• The crew talks about recent purchases, with Ben (not present) becoming a topic due to his decision to buy an Xbox as a new "hobby."
  • The hosts joke about how Ben will probably play for an hour, get bored, and return to real-life activities:
    • "He likes playing the game of real life 100%." – [16:37]
• Discussion moves to their own gaming histories: nostalgic Xbox Live memories, prestige levels in Call of Duty, and the dopamine of "lobbying" with friends.
• Evan confesses to a secret Sim City binge:
  • "I wasn’t even telling you guys privately. …Played for like, you know, probably 10 hours over the course of four days." – Evan [20:28]

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Car Mishaps & Borrowed Rides (22:00 - 29:31)

• Ryan details his recent deer collision, highlighting the lengthy repairs and stress over cost.
  • "I looked at it and was like, oh, it’s not that bad… Four weeks ago. Sucks." – Ryan [22:10]
• Ryan borrows Ken’s Bronco and confesses to being heavy-footed with the exhaust, causing concern:
  • "Bro, that thing’s so loud." – Ryan [23:38]
  • "Ken was like, is there a reason Ryan’s ripping on my Bronco?" – [23:45]
• Discussion pivots to CJ’s G-Wagon—CJ reflects on heightened attention, especially from women, and the vehicle’s “Jeepish” vibe compared to the Raptor.
  • "I've never gotten more attention in a car than driving that G wagon around." – CJ [26:38]
  • "I think you just realized you bought an SUV and not a truck." – [29:31]
• The topic of vehicle wheelbase leads to a surprising comparison between Jeeps and G-Wagons:
  • "The more I drive it, the kind of more I realize…just like the way you're sitting in it and whatnot." – [29:25]

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Odd Car Facts, Vehicle Trends & TikTok Habits (41:04 - 46:41)

• Revelation that former government Suburbans have no emissions equipment (unlike civilian vehicles), sparking debate about government exemptions.
  • "Why does the government not have to have emissions? …Because they made the rules." – [41:19]
• Minor tangent on winter beaters, the Chevy Avalanche, and the peculiar coolness of otherwise unloved vehicles.
• The group discusses social media scrolling habits:
  • Most don’t use TikTok regularly; Instagram Reels suffices. A consensus emerges that “doom scrolling” is universal across platforms, and the less of it, the better.
  • "You get sent the good stuff from your buddies and if that's all you watch, you're saving a lot of time." – [44:00]
  • "If you put the phones outside of the bathroom, bathroom time would decrease by 75% in this household for sure." – [45:45]

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Random Fun: Thailand Car Builds & Home-Built Helicopters (35:38 - 39:53)

• Viral videos prompt a discussion about DIY engineering:
  • A video of a "grandpa" home-built helicopter flight-gone-wrong is met with disbelief and admiration for the boldness.
    • "Did as bad as he could possibly do without dying, I think, is what happened." – [38:27]
• The crew reacts to wild, heavily-modified vehicles from Thailand.
  • "We’re just seeing the highlight reel of redneck Thailand." – [39:32]
  • "It's amazing. Dude, that's so—Thailand is clearly motorheads." – [39:45]

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Ken’s Mystery Las Vegas Rodeo Trips (50:56 - 53:33)

• Ken's frequent, low-key trips to Las Vegas are explored, especially his most recent adventure to attend the rodeo:
  • "It is wild how much that guy goes to Vegas on his own." – [52:07]
  • The group marvels at Ken's independence and enigmatic tendencies, noting he shares very little about these jaunts.
  • "He's a mysterious man that we'll never understand." – [52:02]
• Commentary on the allure of Vegas vs. other travel destinations and gambling habits rounds out the segment.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Evan on Christmas Music:
  • "I could take seven to ten days of the holly jolly music." – [11:23]
• Ryan on Deer Accidents:
  • "I looked at it and was like, oh, it’s not that bad… Four weeks ago. Sucks." – [22:10]
• On Ben's Xbox Impulse Buy:
  • "He likes playing the game of real life 100%." – [16:37]
• CJ on Vehicle Attention:
  • "I've never gotten more attention in a car than driving that G wagon around." – [26:38]
• On the Grandpa Helicopter Incident:
  • "Did as bad as he could possibly do without dying, I think, is what happened." – [38:27]
• Ken’s Vegas Mystique:
  • "It is wild how much that guy goes to Vegas on his own." – [52:07]
  • "He's a mysterious man that we'll never understand." – [52:02]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Snow Squall and Winter Driving: 05:07 – 11:05
• Christmas Music Debate: 10:47 – 13:39
• Sunglass Collab Discussion: 03:05 – 05:04
• Ben Buys an Xbox, Gaming Talk: 14:02 – 21:18
• Car Mishaps, G-Wagon & Bronco Borrowing: 22:00 – 29:31
• Thailand Custom Cars & Helicopter Crash: 35:38 – 39:53
• Government Car Exemptions: 41:04 – 42:13
• Ken’s Vegas & The Rodeo: 50:56 – 53:33

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Final Thoughts

This episode is emblematic of Life Wide Open’s signature tone—irreverent, self-deprecating, and insightful all at once. The seamless mix of personal stories, midwestern winter woes, car culture, and lighthearted debates capture the essence of the CboysTV dynamic. Even listeners unfamiliar with the crew will enjoy the candid banter, recurring inside jokes, and slice-of-life reflections that make this podcast a fun, engaging listen.

Transcript

[A]

The air did as bad as he could possibly do without dying, I think, is what happened.

[B]

It is wild how much that guy goes to Vegas on his own.

[C]

We were literally busting through snow drift over the hood of the Chevy.

[D]

It's a classic bad idea.

[A]

That's the worst part about Thanksgiving is they start playing Christmas music.

[B]

You are such a grinch, dude.

[C]

I honestly, I can't believe I'm admitting this publicly. I wasn't even telling you guys.

[B]

Like, you're going snowboarding. Evan.

[A]

More of a skier than a 1.2 planker.

[B]

Like, you are a skier over a snowboarder.

[A]

Is this like one of those rollerblade skateboarder stereotype things?

[B]

You're right. I mean, I just feel like you are too caught up in being cool. That where like, dude, you were a young scooters before.

[A]

Like, scooters are kind of cool now. I was riding scooters in, like, 2004.

[B]

It just seems like. Like, just, you know, from the way I know you, you would have been way too cool to be on skis. Everyone else is riding skis. I don't want to be on skis.

[A]

No. Everybody else was riding snowboards.

[B]

Really?

[A]

And I was.

[B]

So do you think that's why? Because, like, to me, I would think that the snowboarders are steezy and cooler. Cooler than it was gear it was.

[A]

That I was simply better at skiing right off the get.

[D]

The chad goes deep.

[B]

Like, gears in general are kind of ruining the vibes on the mountain. And I. I don't know. I've been a snowboarder since I was shredding the placenta and the. And the skiers kind of feel like. It seems like they think they own.

[C]

The mountain and they think they're better than us. Here's.

[D]

I'm a skier.

[B]

All is right, dude. And I feel like I get dogged on as a skier online.

[A]

Like, you know, I just told you.

[B]

I was a skier now, and you.

[A]

Had a, you know, visceral reaction to it.

[B]

Yeah, honestly, it's kind of devastating news.

[D]

So you feel persecuted on by skiers, but then you instinctively.

[B]

I persecute back, Right?

[D]

I feel persecuted, yeah. Oh, is right, dude. Oh, that's right. That pretty much sums it up.

[A]

I think the standard thing would be, though, like, you have a snowboard, you're in the train park doing jumps and rails, and then your standard skier is just going down the normal hills.

[B]

Yeah, I just would have expected you.

[A]

Being that I did was doing the same stuff snowboarders were doing, and I don't think there's as much hate between skiers and snowboarders that are both in the park. I think it's just like, the. In general, skiers are kind of lame.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I thought he said in that video that beers were ruining the mountain.

[B]

No, I was like, damn, that's going to make it really lame.

[C]

Yeah, beers again. What's up with the sunglasses, Mike?

[D]

Dude, we got that C Boys TV Bums collab coming up this Thursday. Hence why we're all wearing.

[A]

That's the hard launch we have.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have three different frame styles, and we kind of went with the black and red vibe. These ones are the most flashy, but they'll be up on the website on Thursday. They'll get you entered to win the Truck Trailer Maverick $35,000 cash giveaway.

[C]

Pretty crazy.

[D]

We're excited. Yeah.

[B]

I like them so much. I've been wearing them inside. I mean, all of us are wearing them inside. What more do you need as a reason of how great these sunglasses are?

[D]

We're so excited. It came full circle. You know, you guys have heard pretty much all the ins and outs of our relationship with Jake. Jake started bump sunglasses, and now we're collabing, and it only makes sense.

[B]

Yeah. So, like, we don't. We're not, like, partners with him or anything like that. It's not like we're going back into, necessarily, like, a business venture with him. It's just like a collab sunglass. Like, no different than if.

[D]

I don't.

[B]

Know, Nike and Adidas did a collab shoe, which would never happen.

[D]

That would go.

[B]

That'd be insane.

[D]

Dude, can we get.

[C]

Yeah. At first, I thought you were way off base with Nike and Adidas, but also, we are two brands.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It'd be like, skims. And I'm trying to think. There's gotta be, like.

[D]

I was trying, like, not to use another sunglass brand, but it'd be like.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Austin collabing with. Yeah. You know.

[B]

Yeah. It's no different than. Yeah, like. Like, Cletus has his Heat wave design, but. Yeah. We did three different models. All of them are black and red, of course, for this first color scheme, just because. I mean, it just seems I had.

[D]

To do it to them.

[B]

It's like, the only way. But. Yeah, it says life wide open on the inside. Seaboz TV on the inside. It's got a sweet little engraved thing on the lens. They work great. I mean, we've been wearing bums for. I mean, what A year or two now because Jake's been obviously slanging the sunglasses for a while now, and we like them. And I don't know, we just kind of like, we're talking about it one day and we're like, why don't we do this? It'd be. It'd be good for everyone. And we're just pumped up to, you know, be back working with Jake.

[C]

I know. No kidding. It came full circle on us. Really?

[B]

Absolutely.

[C]

Maybe next week after the launch, we'll have them come on and we'll talk about how. How it went and we can go dive into the story a little more.

[D]

But yeah, for now, keep an eye out for these next Thursday or this Thursday. Two days from now.

[A]

Yeah, for now, just keep your eyes out for Thursday.

[D]

Happy snow squall, boys. I didn't think it'd come this early, dude.

[C]

I didn't think.

[B]

What's a snow squall? Yeah, I got the alert on my phone.

[A]

Is this early? I think this is when we're supposed to get snowing in.

[D]

I just remember. So basically, maybe we should start with the definition of a snow squall, I guess.

[C]

But it came through our phone, like, Amber alert style.

[B]

I know, it's so annoying. Okay.

[C]

Just freaking.

[B]

It's snowing outside. Big deal.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

So here a snow squall is a sudden, moderately heavy snowfall with.

[C]

Moderately heavy. Moderately heavy.

[D]

But it's more the wind with blowing snow and strong, gusty surface winds. It often is referred to as a whiteout, but it kind of just is a flash. But we'd never heard of a snow squall.

[C]

We call it a white out anymore.

[D]

Yeah, true. Maybe that's why they did it. Because we'd never heard of a snow squall until last year. It sent us that, like, Amber Alert type went off on everyone's phones like everyone was going to die.

[A]

So when that Amber Alert message goes through the snow alert. Yeah, when the snow squall alert went through, me and Cody, we're standing right next to each other. Both of our phones are going off. We just look at it quick, put them in the pocket. And then we just keep hearing this alarm going off. And then we get like the full report read to us in a robotic voice.

[B]

Whoa.

[A]

And we're looking at each other like, what is going on here? We turn it off and look across the shop. The lights weren't on yet. One of the Starks is lit up. What?

[C]

No.

[D]

Oh, the phone. Got the snow phone.

[A]

The phone. That is the dashboard of the Stark. Yeah. Got that alert and gave us the information. But how cool is that? Like, if you're out riding weather alerts.

[D]

Yeah. I mean, I'd assume if you had a tornado, it would tell you the tornado was coming. Maybe. You probably already see that. But. Yeah, we just. We learned what a snow squall was, and I don't think that it should be a notification on everyone's phones.

[B]

Like, I think that was pretty weak.

[C]

I think standard, like, weather notification that pops up, like, with weather bug or.

[B]

Like, do you guys remember the last time that we've had. I mean, granted, we're much more prepared and also much more used to driving in unideal conditions, but the last time that, oh, my gosh, the weather is so bad I can't go anywhere. Never.

[C]

I remember one, and it was because my driveway would blow in. You guys had to come and rescue me with Jake's truck on track, which didn't make it, which is pretty impressive. But that's like a driveway. It's really not a road.

[B]

Kind of blew over more so from just the wind. But I'm saying, like, you couldn't drive on public roads. There was so much snow or it was so rainy or something. I guess I haven't had to deal with that.

[D]

Maybe.

[B]

I'm sure one. Maybe one time.

[A]

But I think we had a Thanksgiving snowstorm a handful of years ago that shut down our freeway for, like, overnight.

[B]

Yeah, but they shut down the freeway for pretty, you know, loose.

[A]

Not up north by us.

[C]

They keep that sucker open.

[D]

But you can always take other roads. I'm imagining, like, that's never happened to me either. But, like, in. In Tahoe, when they get, like, four feet of snow.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I think you're legit stuck.

[C]

Got to stay, dude. Remember when we were going out west and Ken goes. Because Ken's always can be. Not always can be, but can be a bit of a pessimist sometimes when things are happening. And so we were young and we wanted to go snowmobiling out west. And he goes, huh? You won't even make it to Jamestown, which is like a small city about two and a half hours, three hours from us. And we're like, whatever, Ken. We're driving through the night, through the snowstorm, to make it to the mountains. And we got to Jamestown, and they closed the interstate. And then we went around the interstate and almost. It was actually, like, sketchy.

[D]

Is a classic Bad idea. 3ft of snow busting left and right off the road. Like, it was, all right, we're taking it we're getting a motel.

[C]

Yeah, we got to the next city. Like if we just stayed on the interstate, it would have not been that bad. But they closed it and it would have not been that bad. You could have just driven straight down the four and a half lanes of road and it. You would have made it there. But we had to take these back roads that were curvy and like out through the fields. We were literally busting through snowdrifts over the hood of the Chevy with the.

[D]

Trailer by 30 foot trailer.

[A]

Couldn't do that in a Ford.

[C]

Probably not, dude. Actually I do think the trailer saved us in that. Yeah, I think if you just been a light pickup with no like momentum and weight on the back stove, I think you would have gotten stuck. But I think the loaded down trailer pushed us through a lot of it.

[A]

Like a freight train that's clearing the tracks.

[C]

Yeah. Literally, that's how it felt. Dude, we gotta have some videos. I'll dig through my snap memories and see if I can find some. But it was intense.

[B]

Man, I hope we get a lot of snow this year.

[D]

Same.

[A]

I hope it waits like a month so we get good ice first.

[B]

I feel like it's too late for the good ice. I feel like it's gone.

[A]

No, we gotta get a good foot of ice. Well, your good ice is just glare ice. I'm talking like a solid foot of ice before the foot of snow gets on top of it.

[C]

So we can go fishing.

[D]

Yeah, we do talk about it a lot. But like the, the odds of getting perfect glare, picturesque ice, no snow on it, they're not high.

[B]

And the fact that we had two seasons in a row.

[D]

We were spoiled.

[C]

Cj, I heard you say that you, you're kind of liking winter this year.

[B]

Yeah, I am. I'm enjoying. I don't know why I think a cold.

[D]

Awesome.

[A]

We got our first snow. I love like three hours ago, man. I love winter.

[B]

No, I didn't. I said it before that. I said I don't know, a few days ago. I know when everyone was eating lunch. I don't know, I'm just like, I don't really mind the cold and energy. It just gives me like, I don't know, I'm just sick of being hot. I was just hot all summer and just like when you're hot and just like dragging dick, you kind of just like, I don't know, it's not fun. I don't like it. I just have been really enjoying winter cold. I've even been listening to some Like Christmas songs on my way home or work, you know, really just trying to get in the vibe, you know, the mood. Because, like, next thing you know, Christmas is going to happen. And then it's like, well, can't listen to a Christmas song for over a year now.

[A]

That's the worst part about Thanksgiving is they start playing Christmas music for the next.

[B]

You are such a Grinch. Like, is it that surprising to the listener or the viewer to find out that you don't like Christmas?

[A]

I think if we took a poll that you would be in the minority of being like, I'm pumped to listen to Christmas music for a full month.

[B]

So you're telling me you don't. It doesn't make you happy at all? Maybe, like, get you in, like, the mood? Like, oh, I like Christmas during Christmas.

[A]

Or during the Christmas festivities. Yes. But not when it's still November.

[B]

Well, it's December now.

[A]

Well, I.

[D]

Right.

[A]

I'm just saying they start on Thanksgiving.

[C]

How do you feel about it in early December days?

[B]

Early.

[A]

Early December still pretty early. Like I said about a week. I could take seven. Seven to ten days of the holly jolly music.

[B]

It's about what I'd expect out of you.

[C]

I thought.

[D]

I thought of an interesting thing, how you're, like, loving winter and then you're talking about Christmas music. It is weird that Christmas just does hit harder when you have snow.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Nothing against even Thanksgiving.

[D]

I thought Christmas in Florida, probably great. Christmas in Texas, probably great. But, like, it doesn't hit quite the same without snow. So even when we don't have snow.

[B]

First off, I just want to say comment down below if you're on my side where you like Christmas music, or if you apparently don't like Christmas music and you're on Evanside because he didn't like it.

[A]

You made clear this up real quick. I didn't say I don't like it. I just. 30 plus days is too much of it. 10 days tops.

[B]

Okay. 10 days tops.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, I know Alex and I tried watching a Christmas movie last weekend, and it was like, taking place in Texas or something. Like a place where there was no snow and we got like 10, 15 minutes in. What the frick is this? Like, this doesn't this feels like a. Like a Halloween movie?

[C]

Oh, yeah, it was weird.

[B]

We just end up turning, switching something else.

[C]

But I think that's the one thing that would really throw me off if we ever moved to a warm place.

[D]

You kind of associate holidays with seasons, especially Christmas.

[C]

Yeah. Dude, it's got to be it's got to be snowy. You got to get stuck in an airport.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You got to get the snow squall notification.

[D]

Minnesota would be a good place to visit for Christmas for sure. Or really any of Canada.

[C]

Is there any Christmas movies up here? I feel like Minnesota just gets, like, overlooked in, like, the Midwest. Like, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. I don't blame them for South Dakota, but, like, no. No movie ever takes place in South Dakota. Like, they'll be in Wisconsin all the time.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

One thing. I mean, I'm sure there is, because I was. I was thinking of this the other day that, like, we're going through. You go on to Netflix or Hulu or whatever, and you see all the, pardon my French, shitty Christmas movies. Well, they have one association with scary movies. Like, scary movies are literally a dime a dozen. And they're easy for them to suck because there's so many. And then Christmas movies are right after that. They just are like, what should we do? Scary. We did the scary one last time. Let's do a couple Christmas movies. And then they're just bad. Like, Hallmark bad.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Sorry to diss on Hallmark, but I'm pretty sure all of their movies are, like. They look like they have a budget of, like, couple thousand bucks.

[A]

Their greeting cards are all right.

[D]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, I agree with that.

[B]

That's pretty crazy. What a business. I mean, they're. They're doing greeting cards, and they even.

[D]

Got their own channel.

[C]

They got stores with knickknacks and whatnot. My grandma loves Hallmark.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You guys get anything good on Black.

[D]

Friday but an iPad.

[C]

An iPad.

[D]

I've always wanted to be an iPad kid. I kind of miss that.

[C]

So you see that Ben bought an Xbox.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Dude, that's hilarious.

[B]

Yeah, Ben's not here right now. He's on vacation.

[D]

But yeah, I. I think this is a funny story that we could maybe tell because from our point of view, it's. It's very entertaining.

[B]

I agree. Knowing Ben, it's hilarious. And, I mean, I'm happy for him that he finally got an Xbox or whatever. He kind of missed the wave. He did have an Xbox 360 growing up, but they had, like, maybe two games, right?

[D]

And that was 10 years.

[B]

No Xbox Live, none of that. So, like, it's not really an Xbox. You didn't have the full experience, but yeah. So basically, like, Justin, Jake, Cody, Evan plays. Mike plays. Plays PlayStation. But they. They all been, like, kind of gaming on, like, the new Call of Duty. Well, they talk about it in our group chat, and all this and no.

[D]

Dude, I gotta say, Ben threw this out of the blue and then got everyone fired up. Ben said he's like, boys, I just feel like I need something to just unwind. And I, I'm so invested in work that I need like a hobby. And then he really, then he talks about getting an Xbox and we're just all like, dude, if you get an Xbox, we should definitely all play. So then all weekend we're like, dude, Ben, when you get in your Xbox.

[B]

Yeah, you got one. But it took him forever.

[C]

The fuck has even opened it.

[D]

But we had took him forever. He, and he's like texting us. He goes, where are we dropping boys? And we're like, yes, you got it. And then he's like, no, no, I just am excited. And we're like, dude, what are you doing?

[B]

I saw he bought one. But yeah, whether he set it up or not, but even if he did, I think it would, it would go very similar to, to the way it would go for me if I went and dug my Xbox out of the closet and hooked it up and got live and was ready to play. I think he'd play for maybe an hour and then I think he would be like, all right. And then set it down and then he'd walk away and he'd go, ah, all right, I'm good. I don't need to play that anymore.

[D]

You don't think, you don't think you'd at least try two games maybe?

[B]

Like I'm saying, you play for an hour, he'd play two.

[C]

Damn.

[A]

I'm predicting that the first night he's going to play it, he's going to hype everyone up. Like we're going to play some games. He's going to hook that thing up.

[B]

He's also going to get hit with.

[A]

Like a six hour update to download any games or anything to play. So the first time he's committed and ready to do it, he's probably not going to play that day.

[B]

He's going to be so behind the ball too. Like he never played online, really. Like he just would maybe play when he's at friend's house. He's just going to get, he's probably.

[D]

Going to have, probably going to have a Cheeto gamer tag. We were like stressing him out. We're like, dude, it's got to be like good creative. We're not going to help you, but it's got to be good.

[B]

I just know he's going to walk away from and be like, I got Nothing done there. And Ben likes getting stuff done. He likes playing the game of real life 100%. And that's how I, how I look at life too. It's like, why don't you just treat life like do, do the thing, you know? I don't know which is easier said than done. But like, he's going to think. But yeah, that's why I play a fictional thing.

[D]

That's why he wanted it was to disconnect. But I do agree that he's going to be like, I think he's going.

[C]

To have a tough time.

[D]

He's like, I can't get anything done to him.

[B]

I don't know if video games is relaxing though. Like, is it especially dude.

[D]

Actually, I think it's the opposite. It's adrenaline.

[B]

It gets you, like, going. Like, when I think about me hopping on the new Call of Duty, I used to play like I legit. I would always reach to match max prestige on Call of Duty. I just loved it. Me and my buddies were always playing.

[A]

10 prestiges on every Call of Duty game.

[B]

Not everyone. But on, I would say, I mean.

[C]

For sure a couple, dude, I'd say half.

[B]

I'd say half. I feel like I hit the max.

[A]

Fair share of Call of Duty and I'd make like fourth, fifth, sixth prestige.

[B]

I'd have 20 days. 20 days. You know, I'd say your, your like time played. Like, I would have 20 days played.

[D]

Obviously the day over a whole year.

[B]

And then the new one would come out. Whatever.

[D]

The day's meter definitely shows that cold hard truth. But also you in game time. But your prestige. Like, I played a couple Call of Duties and the farthest I ever made it was like six prestige in one of them.

[B]

So my point though is like, I, I, I'm like, I, I think I'm pretty good. Like, I could probably catch back up. Although the new one looks way, way faster. But like, I know I'd have to sit in a chair like this. You know, you can't really just slouch on the couch.

[C]

It's not like watching a movie.

[B]

Yeah, you can't really slouch. Like, you got to be like, focused. Have like a, you know, a pretty appropriate size monitor, not too big. And then like, be ready, have the right headset on so you can hear people coming. Otherwise it's just, you're just gonna get wrecked and then it's not fun.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

So it's like it's an. You're actually doing something when you're doing it. Like you're You're.

[D]

You know, the one thing that can make it a little more fun, even if you're sucking ass, is if you're in the lobby with your buddies.

[B]

Yeah, no, for sure. That was the best.

[D]

That's what I always did, dude. Like, my buddies growing up were all sweats really good, and then I just joined in and, like, sucked.

[B]

You had real bad Internet. Oh, I bet you have shit in that, too.

[C]

Helping.

[D]

Yeah. I was just there for the. To be a part of the vibe. Yeah.

[C]

I think C.J. and I maybe not met, but we played together on Xbox Live. I remember Modern Warfare 3. I was like, damn, dude, I'm playing with CJ Lotzer. I used to think he was so cool. For real, dude, I want to. Yeah, that game School up north, dude, all the guys down.

[D]

I remember when you were like, dude, we copped an invite from CJ to this, like, you know, West Fargo or whatever. Fargo party. And then we, like, went. No, it was. It was great. We were stoked to be there. You and Bierson were kind of like the what up? I don't. The dudes that were like, dude, these are the dudes.

[C]

Yeah. Pretty crazy.

[D]

Yeah. You're sitting on a white couch, just bossed up.

[B]

Makes sense.

[A]

Maybe we're looking at.

[C]

Remembers the couch, bro.

[B]

I don't remember it.

[A]

Dude, we might be looking at this backwards. Ben might just start streaming. He might.

[B]

That would be the only way that I think he would actually be.

[D]

Like, he should.

[C]

Dude, you imagine him sitting there.

[D]

You know what? He would be really entertaining because he's such a Bambi, you know, Such a. A new guy in this whole scene. Yeah, I would love that. Like, him figuring out new stuff. He's always asking questions that we might roll our eyes at because it's pretty obvious.

[C]

But, yeah, I think he'd be. He's good at thinking out loud.

[B]

I feel like I could maybe get into it if I was streaming, because then it's kind of like, okay, this is coming over into real life a little more, you know?

[C]

Yep.

[D]

Ben, back to the aspect of you're hanging out with someone you're not alone.

[C]

I honestly, I can't believe I'm admitting this publicly. I wasn't even telling you guys privately.

[A]

Oh, my.

[C]

So there's this game that I. That came on an old PC a long time ago. It's called Sim City. You build a city, draw the roads, infrastructure. It's really fun for some reason. Really loved it when I was 10. Sitting there on my computer the other day, and I'M like, oh, I can download this on Steam and play it again. They have new versions. So I was like, well, we got a couple of days off going on the weekend. So I downloaded. I'm all excited to play. Played for like, you know, probably 10 hours over the course of four days. And on like the second day, Alondra looks me goes, you're missing out on life around you. Like, I'm getting all this new stuff. What are you doing? You just gaming. And I was like, damn, dude, three days of gaming and I'm already getting in trouble for it. Like, I didn't make it very far.

[A]

Can't you go to the bar with your friends?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, go do something productive.

[D]

Didn't make it very like watch a movie. So that's funny.

[C]

My embarrassing story.

[D]

Dude, I got to throw a couple of plugs out there really quick. You know what is funny? Yeah, I got to even here. I got to plug the last podcast right now. If you haven't listened to it, you just got to go listen to it.

[C]

It's so funny.

[D]

So many responses from people. They're like, dude, got to be the funniest one you've ever dropped. Just laughs on laughs on laughs. And second plug is this is one of the items. But our shirts are still in Zoomies, so if you go to your local Zoomies and they're not in there, you can ask for them for sure.

[C]

Please do ask for them.

[D]

They should be in there. So go check them out. Just had to let you guys know that we're still in Zoomies and you guys are still crushing it. Thanks for all the support.

[C]

You can buy this here deer shirt in honor of me hitting a deer with my car.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

First ever deer.

[D]

Yeah, Been in the shop for a while now.

[C]

I gotta drive home a little farther. It's darker at night.

[B]

More probability of hitting one.

[C]

I know. And I was going and I was paying attention to the road and just like high beams on driving looking. It was just like not even a chance to hit the brakes. He was just. That deer was full sprint for like the left front quarter of my car. And yeah, I looked at it and I was like, oh, it's not that bad, you know. Haha. My first deer. It'll cost a little bit of money and I'll get her fixed and back on the road. Bro, that was like four weeks ago. Sucks.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

The end. The light at the end of the tunnel.

[B]

Surprise on getting that thing fixed.

[C]

Well, I brought it in and they said it wasn't going to be Bad Ken again. The pessimist said. He was like, oh, it's going to be 20 plus grand. I'm like, there's no fucking way. All I did was break a bumper. Yeah. And so my first quote was like 6,500 bucks. And I was like, damn, that's steep. But like, I, you know, we can manage with that. That it was a thing that happens. Well, then they dug into it more. They found more parts broken. And I just got a text today said smoke with. Spoke with Brent at GM Parts. He's waiting on two parts headlight ships December 13th and a part of the grill, which ships December 12th. So that puts me another 10 days from today or so.

[B]

Now you're driving Ken's Bronco.

[C]

I know, dude, that's. That's probably the worst part. What? Not lightly.

[A]

And not lately.

[C]

Not lightly.

[A]

Well, I mean, we can hear his exhaust when you pull out the driveway, you know.

[C]

Bro, that thing's so loud.

[B]

You were pretty heavy footed.

[C]

Oh, when I left today, it's probably fine. Oh, yeah. I ripped out of there.

[B]

Ken was like, is there a reason Ryan's ripping on my Bronco? That's what he said. He looks over at everyone as we're eating silently.

[C]

That's funny.

[D]

Ken's been really generous with that thing. He has his cybertruck. That's his daily cybertruck.

[A]

The way he let Spenny.

[D]

Yeah. Just see. Absolutely sauce on the drift track with.

[A]

It and like, getting reckless, like, flying off the drift track fully wicked.

[D]

Like, and they're tough, but it is. It's just one. It's like one thing. Seeing someone else. 10 out of 10, rip on. Yeah.

[A]

Kind of cookie. I don't think we.

[B]

I knew that's where, you know.

[D]

Okay. I don't think it is Jake Drift.

[C]

The.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But it's been.

[B]

It's not. Gets off on watching them. It's not.

[D]

Because, like, every. Everyone still asks, like, whoa, I can't believe Ken let us do that.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

So it's like he's still on that end of the spectrum.

[C]

True.

[B]

Like, he just doesn't want to say no.

[D]

Benny was tripping. He was like, dude, I kind of just got carried away. Like, do you think Ken's gonna be mad? And then I just, like, mess with.

[C]

Him a little bit.

[D]

I'm like, yeah, dude. Like, why are you going that hard? He's like, ben made me.

[B]

You ever been in a situation like that, Ev.

[A]

No. No.

[B]

Except not with a car, obviously. Like a woman.

[A]

No.

[C]

Not on either end neither.

[B]

I kind of Assumed he'd only be.

[D]

On one of the other ends.

[C]

But yeah, yeah, I, I, now I do feel kind of bad because I did kind of rip out of here while Ken was sitting here. Normally I drive it pretty nice. Been pretty easy on. Except for that one time very recently that I was caught ripping on it. But bro, that exhaust is so loud you can hear in the next county.

[B]

I'm surprised Ken has an exhaust on his Bronco.

[C]

Dude, I have to put in the quiet mode every time and like I like loud cars. My TRX was loud, my freaking everything else is loud.

[D]

But no, his quiet mode is like as loud as my loud mode. Yeah, yeah, I was surprised that he.

[A]

Put the exhaust so on startup.

[D]

Sounds good though.

[A]

Defaults to loud mode.

[C]

No, it defaults to normal. Normal. If you put it in loud mode it's like really? Yeah. Thank you Ken for letting me drive your car for now. Going on a month and a half, so it's pretty generous of them. But it's been pretty crazy. Like I'll drive around every like, you know, Yukon Denali that I pass. Maybe an Escalade, you know, good looking moms behind the wheels. Every single one waves at me. They like it, bro, I'm getting waved at. I park at the C store and like, yes. They'll like walk up to the door and they'll be all excited. And then I get out and they're like, oh, hi, sorry, I thought you were someone else. They turn around and drive away. It's crazy. Like on more than one occasion it's happened.

[B]

I believe it.

[C]

So I don't know what Ken's doing in that thing, but I'm becoming a.

[D]

Legend right in front of our eyes.

[C]

Yeah, no kidding.

[D]

I love that. It's not the first time that's happened in any of his vehicles, anything associated with him.

[C]

I'm just glad that like none of the guys have mistaken me and like trying to run me off the road or something like that.

[B]

Dude, wait. Better get out of that thing.

[C]

Dude.

[D]

No.

[B]

Why do you think he loans it out? It's, it's funny actually. I've never gotten more attention in a car than driving that G wagon around.

[D]

Yeah, that'll do.

[B]

It's more attention, more people asking about it. I like it, it's cool. But like, I don't necessarily think it's that cool. I kind of just like did it because it was an easy little swap out for the gtr.

[C]

Well, probably time being though.

[A]

Not.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I've never seen around here.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, it's timeless too, people. There's just something about it, girl.

[B]

Like, especially the women, though. But like, Alex's co workers, CJ really got a G Wagon. Like, everyone is so interested. I swear, you could buy a Lamborghini. No one's. No one cares about that. But the G Wagon is just so, like, clouded almost due to, like, celebrities.

[A]

Cougar mobile.

[B]

Yeah. And, like, the Kardashians and people just ripping around in them for so many years. But even I go to the gym. Like, every time I've driven into the gym, someone asked me about it.

[C]

Really? That's kind of cool. I feel like it's just a known vehicle, like your gtr. People that like cars know. But everybody knows what a G Wagon is. I mean, my grandma knows what a G Wagon is.

[B]

Yeah. It's just. It's surprising, I guess.

[D]

And if you don't know what it is, you kind of, like, want to. You see it on the road, go, what is that? What is that?

[C]

Other than Christmas music, Do you feel like you have to listen to really hardcore rap music?

[B]

Yeah. I mean, when I'm in there, I'm for sure listening to, like, a rap.

[D]

Play for some reason. I imagine you, like, listening to, like, a symphony doing, like, donuts in a parking lot.

[B]

I had.

[D]

That thing is so throaty, that Twin Turbo V8. But yeah, that's what I imagine. Like, you're just ripping and then in.

[B]

The inside, like, I was listening to some, like, Christmas jazz because Alex had it already queued up on my Spotify, and I felt like I was like a whole nother person driving in that thing. Like I was living a whole nother.

[D]

Yeah. All of a sudden you look down, you're wearing a scarf blazer where these mittens come from, the leather driving gloves. Yeah. The thing is sweet. So Ben's Urus is. Is sweet too.

[B]

Is it living up to the hype? I think it was really awesome right away. Or like, it was cool right away. And then I didn't think it was like a Jeep, but the more I drive it, the more it starts to feel like a Jeep with like. Like a wrangler, you know, like.

[D]

Like the.

[B]

I just don't like the wheelbase, dude.

[C]

Somewhere somebody that designed a Jeep.

[A]

Absolutely.

[C]

Just got a race and G Wagon.

[D]

Like a Jeep.

[C]

A Jeep.

[B]

No, I mean, just like the wheelbase, then your seating position and the windshield is what makes it feel that way. And it's, like, still kind of small in there. Versus, like, you hop out of my Raptor and you go to the G Wagon. The Raptor is way wider. Longer wheelbase, like you can rip around in that thing. Whereas the G Wagon you still can.

[D]

Rip, but a dense little square nug.

[B]

Different. It feels a little more Jeepish.

[C]

I see what you.

[B]

I'm sure it's way better than a Wrangler or a Rubicon or whatever, but.

[D]

Most certainly, yeah.

[B]

The more I drive it, the kind of more I realize cheapest. Just like the way you're sitting in it and whatnot.

[A]

Realized you bought an SUV and not a truck.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, I mean it's.

[B]

It's definitely going down the road in the spring. Really? I mean, I like it, but like, I'm not by any means loving it.

[D]

I think you like, legitimately have driven a vehicle longer than anyone has as far as the Raptor. So you are the most used to that Wheelbase makes sense. But trying to think like CJ's driven that Raptor for a while and you know, when that Raptor gets a little too dated or breaks, you'll probably just get another raptor. Yeah, 100. But.

[B]

Yeah, but I'm not talking crap on it. No, I mean, like, it's a great car, but it's cheapish. I mean, as you it. It's not a lot like a Jeep, but it is pretty similar.

[A]

Do you think you'll ever get ducked?

[B]

What's that mean?

[D]

No, although, have you seen the new trend? And when you drive. Oh, yeah, yeah. But have you seen the new trend? Like, some of the more masculine men are like, screw this trend. And then they. They like put a dead like, mallard duck on their teeth. And you know, some of the granolas are kind of like, that's the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my life type of thing.

[C]

All right. The. The wheelbase is 113 inches on a G wagon and it's 96 to 118 on a Jeep. So it is pretty deep Jeepish within. Within a few inches of a Jeep. Wonder what a Raptor is. Ford Raptor wheelbase.

[B]

It's got to have an extra foot or 245.

[C]

So, yeah, like two feet.

[B]

You feel that though. You feel that just like driving down the road, it's more stable.

[C]

Well, especially in the winter when you feel like you could spin around. I feel it in Ken's Bronco to.

[B]

I got some new wheels coming for it. So, like, it'll be a little wider stance.

[C]

Hopefully that'll help.

[B]

Helps a little bit.

[A]

But when's the exhaust coming?

[B]

I don't know if I'm Gonna buy one. They're like 10 grand.

[A]

What get a couple of cherry bombs?

[B]

At the first I thought about that, like I'd be more likely to have Gavin just custom weld me something. But I didn't want it to be like super loud. I just wanted to still have the valve. But he could realistically maybe just remove something.

[C]

You could down pipe or something like that.

[B]

Yeah, I can't justify ten grand for it when it's probably going to be.

[C]

That's pretty crazy. That's just a crazy amount of money for exhaust.

[D]

Yeah, you can pretty much chalk that up. Like any supercar or car of that caliber needs exhaust. 10G's every time or more.

[C]

What did the Kardashians crash when they were in the mountains? They slid off the road and some. I wonder if it was a G wagon. I think it was a Suburban like on the past.

[A]

That wouldn't happen to a Chevy.

[C]

Well, I said they slid off the road. They could have driven right back on.

[A]

An excursion or something.

[C]

Well, Chevy's will find the ditch. They just find their way out of the ditch.

[A]

Yeah, that is true.

[C]

You guys see that video of the NASCAR Camry pace car crashing?

[B]

No, I want. What the hell.

[D]

I wonder how many times I never even thought about the pace car crashing.

[C]

Because it's like fucking impression possible they.

[B]

Got driving that thing.

[D]

Classic statement. You had one job, that's it turned right.

[C]

Yeah. I'm like kind of confused because the pace car is like the guy is supposed to keep things pretty safe. So he just like he realized he's supposed to be off.

[B]

Oh no.

[C]

Crashes into the.

[B]

Oh my goodness. I mean.

[A]

Yeah, that was pretty dumb.

[B]

He must have just blacked out.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then. Yeah.

[C]

I think he was supposed to go off earlier and then just didn't like it looks okay.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I mean for all we know he had some guy in his headset going turned up.

[C]

Get off.

[A]

Get off. You know he might. He got forced into that panic. I think he's still probably a good guy. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.

[C]

I just wish we could get not hating on Toyota and Camrys. I wish we could get a cooler pace car for like the motorsport.

[A]

We can't always be a Camry is it.

[C]

He more just clipped that first barrel which was the mistake. Yes.

[B]

You don't trying to turn up the entertainment value.

[A]

Maybe there was a vet a bet going in Vegas. Like what are the odds the pace car crashes he bet on. Dude, think about the payout on that.

[D]

Would be Be the odds of that is so slim.

[C]

Isn't that a thing with streakers? Like, people will just hammer that there's going to be a streaker at a game and then they'll just pay somebody to streak and then it's pretty smart.

[D]

That is pretty smart.

[B]

Is that legal?

[D]

It's probably some. Yeah. Right.

[B]

Obviously the, the streaking is illegal, but like, if you're just a bystander, I'd assume it's got to be illegal.

[A]

I think it's illegal to gamble on something you would have any involvement. Yeah, but I don't know how they would.

[D]

Whatever that charge is.

[A]

But the streaky one seems. Yeah, I don't know. You probably get away with that.

[C]

Probably harder.

[A]

If you're like the hockey coach betting on your own hockey game or something, they could probably, they could probably connect.

[D]

That to you easier that your son plays in.

[B]

Well, there was those refs back in like the, I think it was the 80s or the 90s that got caught.

[D]

They were betting rolling games. Yeah.

[B]

And they were like, you know, basketball, right? Yeah, basketball. They could literally like just through refereeing could make a game, you know, a 10 point game difference or like really down to the wire.

[A]

They were like involved with the mob, Correct.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, big game. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty crazy ordeal.

[C]

Wow. Do you guys. It's kind of a little embarrassing to admit as a Minnesota Vikings fan and whatever, but I feel like JJ's got to have more yards this year on pass interference penalties. I feel like once a game he picks one up and I always kind of look at it.

[A]

Oh, just the way she goes.

[B]

What do you mean? Why? What do you mean?

[C]

Oh, like, I just think like it sucks. You know when you watch a team and you're playing them and they get like a bullshit penalty called on you and you're like, wow, that really sucks. And it affects the game and then when it's on your team, like the other way around, you benefit from it. You're always like, oh, yeah, I feel a little guilty about that.

[B]

They're just having to go so hard on because he's one of the best receivers in the game right now.

[C]

It's very true.

[B]

So like they can't keep up with them, so then they have to try and kind of cheat and they either get away with it and benefits them or they get called. But I'm sure not everyone here is big Minnesota Vikings fans. But like, it is pretty nice having jj even if he's not getting thrown to because they have to cover him even if they double team him, that just leaves another person open.

[C]

Yeah, he's like the highest paid decoy in the league right now. Either he makes a legit player, he just takes somebody off.

[B]

Yeah. So it's super bent. It's great.

[D]

All the past interferences are a form of flattery. He really is good, though. Have you guys seen this video? I figured I'd play a couple that I've been savoring. This guy builds his own helicopter. All right, this guy, dude, what was.

[B]

Riding this with him actually?

[D]

What was he thinking?

[C]

I love fucking chaotic this is, dude.

[D]

Like, he's actually like, I'm going to fly. And. And you guys that are listening, it looks so Yankee, you know, like when someone builds like a drift trike with a Predator motor on it. That's what it looks like, but in helicopter form.

[C]

Oh, he's got it. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, man.

[D]

Just wait for it. Yes, he does crash.

[C]

And then he. Oh. Oh, he was. How. I was.

[D]

They got the paramedics there and everything. The fire department.

[A]

What, like 72 years old is that. Look at that.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Guy.

[B]

Right on.

[C]

I love him asking, how was the landing? Wasn't that great?

[D]

Wasn't that great?

[C]

What does the caption say?

[B]

Who would ask that?

[D]

The caption says that, oh, grandpa built a helicopter, flew it with no experience. That also is crazy. He offers lessons on fun dot com. Okay, I don't know if that part's true, but he was literally 150ft in the air or higher. I don't know how high that is, but like way too high to be doing in that.

[C]

Thank goodness they still got the crash on camera.

[A]

I watched this clip so many times just trying to go, is this a dummy in an rc? But I mean, with the real paramedics, I do believe it was real, but it just almost doesn't seem to be real.

[B]

Is.

[C]

Yeah, I think he's good.

[B]

That's bad, dude.

[A]

So violent.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. Just like, seriously, if you're gonna build.

[B]

Who let him do? Right?

[C]

At some point you got to step in and take grandpa's pilot's license away that he doesn't have.

[D]

Get that man out of the helicopter. Yeah, like, okay, if you're gonna build a helicopter and fly, you have to already have your helicopter license and be like a helicopter mechanical engineer.

[C]

But, you know, I think. I think some of these things are so light. Like you can build those ultralight planes that aren't planes and you don't have to have a pilot's license to fly them.

[D]

Right.

[A]

Because the buddy that was.

[D]

No, I'm not saying where we had the boat. And he was like, I'm not saying rules wise though. I'm just saying like, you got to have some experience. So if you had your life, we're on your way, on your way to getting your license. Like. Yeah, just fly. Yeah.

[C]

But I feel like there's no way learning on that thing can be any easier than learning in a real helicopter.

[D]

That's true.

[A]

I bet it's harder.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

It's got to be probably so small, like probably any. The smallest, you know, control is going.

[C]

To drastically fucking bridge Briggs and Stratton.

[D]

In the grand scheme of things. Yeah, sorry. In the grand scheme of things. He did pretty good. He flew it. He flew it in the air, around the air.

[A]

Did as bad as he could possibly do without dying, I think is what happened.

[B]

I know he did as lucky.

[D]

He did as good as he could without dying.

[B]

Lucky is though. What's that? Second.

[D]

All right. Okay, so this one is. I'm not even like suggesting we go to Thailand, but I'm saying like based on this video, Thailand does a lot of crazy shit that I think we would like. But why, why do they customize everything? Okay. Like, cus. They customize everything. Every vehicle that you can possibly customize.

[B]

Yeah, it's amazing.

[D]

Semis and these like rice, like combines the diesel, dude. Giant two story charter buses, eight turbo eight cylinder cars.

[B]

Eight turbos on eight cylinders.

[C]

The high horsepower wheelbarrows are actually diabolical.

[D]

Is.

[C]

Is Thailand all just rednecks?

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

We just seeing the highlight reel of redneck Thailand.

[B]

This is some pretty redneck behavior.

[D]

Yeah, but it's like redneck, redneck, Redneck like meets rice. I don't even know.

[A]

I don't even know what I just saw.

[D]

Yeah, right.

[B]

That was amazing. Dude, that. That's so. I don't know if it's known enough that Thailand is. Is clearly motorheads.

[C]

Yeah, we should go there.

[D]

I'm imagining clearly they like to race, but it just basically imagine racing slash tricking out everything you own. Like your lawnmower.

[B]

Dude. Some of those builds weren't even like.

[D]

You know how we wrap our skid steer? Got a new wrap going on the new skid steer. We wrap our skid steer and it looks cool, but they're like painting it, adding like a thousand LEDs, like doing hand paint. I don't know. It's just like so over the top.

[B]

So we got a new skid steer. Swanson hooked it up again.

[D]

Yeah, I was Pretty stoked. We like brand new. Yeah, brand new. The other one we have is still chugging along, but I think they just wanted to trade it in and sell it.

[A]

500 I believe.

[D]

Really nice. Is that a lot? No, no, not for some.

[A]

We had for two full years.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Two full years.

[A]

I think so. Yeah. About two full summers. One winner, two summer.

[B]

We got it in like February, I think.

[D]

It's just a year newer, but we got it. Yeah. The wrap on, it's so sick.

[C]

I'm excited.

[D]

It's about done.

[C]

Damn. Another thing to look forward to.

[B]

Mm.

[C]

Just like Thailand. Have the epa like, can they. I doubt over there.

[D]

I doubt they do because that probably.

[C]

Opens up a lot of doors.

[D]

That is true.

[C]

You can just tune the crap out.

[D]

Of anything, especially diesels.

[C]

I saw on Facebook there was this X like motorcade Suburban for sale. So it's fully bulletproof and all that. Yeah, diesels get this. No emissions on them. What the fuck?

[D]

They just.

[C]

That's not fair.

[D]

Do that.

[C]

That's not fair. Why does the government not to have to have emissions?

[A]

Because they made the rules.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So you don't got to follow the rules you make.

[A]

That's how it goes. If you make the rules you don't have to follow.

[B]

Yeah. Enforce them. It's like you don't have to too well.

[D]

What do you mean? Why? Because I'm the boss, you know, Because. Because I'm dad me.

[A]

I am.

[C]

Yeah, I am. I just get the fine. But I thought that was a little messed up. But you can buy them like old ones. I don't know.

[A]

They're not. They don't have to destroy them.

[C]

No. I think it's probably pretty rare. And I shouldn't say that it was like a presidential motorcade vehicle, but it was bulletproof. And it's a 2500 truck chassis with the Suburban on top of it. So it's like extra strong obviously for the bulletproofing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They haven't made a 3/4 ton bourbon since the late 90s. We need to bring those back.

[C]

So they used to roll them off the factory floor.

[D]

Oh, that would just make your day in the 90s.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. They had the big diesel excursions.

[A]

We had a 454 Chevy bourbon. That's pretty sick.

[D]

Just give me an avalanche with an 8:1 in it. Call it a day.

[A]

All rust except for the plastic.

[C]

Dalton's in the market for a beater car for winter since both of his cars aren't good. And I've. I was like, oh, buy. You know, like an old 2500 Chevy. Do we follow a sixteen hundred dollar avalanche?

[B]

Is he actually buying that?

[C]

No, he said there's no way he could be seen in an Avalanche.

[D]

I go, man, I think it would like screw it. Just beat the.

[B]

I thought Avalanches were cool when they first came out.

[D]

I did too when they first. Well, if they were the ones with the plastics is kind of plastic.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I already regret.

[B]

I thought it was cool. I was.

[D]

No, sorry. They. They have.

[C]

They had no things.

[D]

They had high trim ones with painted. They were so plastic.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

It was painted. And those ones look substantially better.

[C]

Randy had a good couple of those.

[D]

Couple.

[C]

Yeah. I mean like, you know, because they would change them. Yeah. So I think he had a couple different generations of them. But we would take them to Christmas. That's all I remember.

[D]

The guy who runs Cormorant drives an Escalade Avalanche.

[C]

Oh yeah. Jake's grandpa.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Steelies.

[D]

Yeah, on Steelies. He loves that.

[A]

Such a crazy setup.

[D]

I know you got a luxurious car and you put Steelies on it. It's really an oxymoron.

[A]

Do you guys think I'm missing out on life? That I just truly don't use Tick tock?

[B]

I don't use it either really.

[A]

Like when I get sent a link in our group chat, I'll follow it usually just to see what the video I was sent and occasionally scroll and it's very short lived. And I've. I've never felt that I need to just dive into Tick.

[B]

Same dude. I mean sometimes I'll. I'll go down the rabbit hole if I get on there, but very rarely do I even open the app unless it's been obviously something sent me to it.

[D]

Yeah. I think that's best of both worlds. You get sent the good stuff from your buddies and if that's all you watch, like you're saving a lot of time.

[C]

Yeah. I'm not gonna say it's gonna like improve your life, but like there's, there's funny stuff on there.

[A]

I believe that. But I think like, you know, because reels basically are TikToks now. Right. So Instagram didn't have reels. Maybe it's like feel more compelled.

[D]

It's like walking into two different parties with two different vibes.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

But.

[C]

Or maybe why like upstairs downstairs party. Yeah, like TikTok downstairs party.

[D]

Why add, you know, more. If you, if you're chilling on reels and you're. You're on it, then why add more?

[A]

I just feel like a lot of reels are literally. They already were TikTok, so they just cross post them.

[C]

So it's like that's kind of the same. Or that's the same mentality of then going to Facebook and going, seeing, oh, I'll see the good Instagram reels when they make it to Facebook.

[D]

But it's different.

[C]

You're gonna see them months later and you're gonna see a bunch of different in between there.

[B]

Yeah, I think the less doom scrolling that you can do it for sure. Doom scrolling. It can happen on Tick tock, Facebook, any Facebook marketplace.

[C]

It really, that's what it happens.

[B]

It really can't happen on YouTube though.

[D]

YouTube is like, yeah, that's very true.

[B]

You're in that.

[C]

You're not gonna lock in down.

[B]

You're locking something. Generally it's 20 minutes or at least 10. Dude.

[C]

Even like going to the bathroom, like standing there and you're like, phone.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

And then you're like, I'm like on Facebook scrolling, seeing if there's like a good Facebook market deal coming. I'm like, what am I doing, man?

[D]

I'm like, what?

[C]

Can't even enjoy a nice. What if you break anymore?

[D]

Used to do when they had to microwave their food, like read a magazine.

[A]

Yeah, we should put a foam bin outside our bathrooms and then stock the bathroom with magazines.

[D]

That is a great.

[B]

I don't know if I want to touch those.

[A]

Well, I mean not, not those kind of magazines.

[D]

Like car magazines, dirt bikes.

[B]

No, I still don't want to touch those.

[C]

I bet if we put the phones outside of the bathroom, bathroom time would decrease by 75 in this household for sure.

[D]

Yeah, I mean it just would. It just would.

[A]

There was a Thrasher skateboard mag in there. Then I wouldn't cover to cover.

[D]

Yeah, get into a good magazine. You could be there for a while, but I think then you just feel like I'm kind of over reading. But I enjoyed that little couple pages. But if I know, okay, you know, I gotta leave in 10 minutes and I gotta poop. I'm like, well, I won't bring my phone and I'll be fine.

[B]

Really.

[C]

It'll be great. Oh, man. How do you know what time it is?

[D]

Late? Because I just go really fast.

[A]

I can see you just entertaining yourself with your Apple watch. Just clicking around, doing the calculator for no reason.

[C]

Where you like scroll in and out.

[D]

Actually, one, it's a silly look. But two is something you really can't do. Like if you don't have your phone and you're so Bored. Playing on your Apple watch is dumb.

[C]

There's no games on there you can play.

[D]

There probably is, but like, I don't even entertain that cuz like, can't be like that board. I mean, I guess if you're alone, do whatever, but if you're not alone, you don't need to play games on your phone.

[C]

And if you're with people, you definitely shouldn't be playing games on your watch.

[D]

That's what I mean.

[C]

I caught it myself in Nashville when we were down there. I was like. Well, like there was kind of nothing going on in one of the bars. Was maybe a little tired, you know, whatever it was. And I found myself in the weather app and I went, damn, I gotta put this damn thing away. Dude, I'm just looking for something that is not there right now. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

It's almost like you're looking for this. Like dopamine.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Hit you end up maybe not finding it or you get close to it so you're like, oh man, something's gonna, you know.

[C]

Yeah. Then you just don't never come back to it.

[B]

I have that too, all the time.

[C]

That's why Ben has a fidget spinner in his car. So he doesn't ever use his phone when he's in his vehicle.

[D]

Hope he uses it.

[C]

Yeah, well, just one of these part. Obviously not what he's driving.

[B]

Fidgets.

[A]

He's on the shoulder. Shoulder of the road. You need help, sir? Nah, just fidgeting.

[D]

Just wanted to do it for a couple minutes before I get back on the road.

[C]

This is a conspiracy theory that I'm gonna pitch. You think it's a part of the mailman's business plan to possibly lightly get rear ended and then get a payout so they don't have to mailman anymore.

[A]

Seems like a good idea to me.

[D]

Yeah, it seems like a good idea. I've never particularly heard of it.

[C]

Like our mailman, great guy, I would never want to see him get hurt. Drives a white vehicle in a fucking snowstorm and he's got one flashing light bar on the back about this big flashes. White, the color of the snow, the color of his car, the color of everything on this earth. And light orange. So it's like it's just bright enough that at the last second when you see him sitting on the side of a county highway at 60 miles an hour, you see this light orange light and some snow covered brake lights, you go shit. And you hit the brakes. You slide into him at 25 miles an hour. The government pays him $10 million. Never mailman again. You go to jail for hitting a federal worker.

[A]

I think, for starters, some people might say, why are you driving 60 miles an hour in those conditions? Sorry, I had to do it.

[C]

Okay, 55, 40.

[A]

Sorry I had to do it.

[C]

Okay, 55,40.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

And. But I was just thinking if I was the guy parked on the side of the road 12 hours a day, you're sitting on the side of the road. You know, you got a little drive in between here and there, but you never get up to full speed.

[D]

Government workers don't work 12 hours a day.

[C]

Sorry. Mike comes by pretty late though, so we'll give him.

[D]

I mean, he's definitely off by 5.

[C]

Dude.

[B]

I think they just get so tainted that they just assume people are going to stop because.

[D]

Yeah, one the one always kind of.

[B]

Having to stop in an unideal location. It's kind of like us just like standing in the middle of the road like everyone else. Like, get out the road.

[A]

What are you doing?

[B]

But we're just kind of hanging there. Cars come, right? Don't worry, they're. They're not going to hit us. And if they get close, I'll get out of the way, like, you know.

[C]

Yeah, I feel you there.

[B]

That's probably maybe how he feels on it. But I'm sure he's got to be looking.

[D]

It's more like.

[A]

Sorry. There's not like a rule, though. I mean, the snow plows, any emergency vehicle, everything's got light blue lights, amber lights, all this stuff.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I think maybe it would just make sense the mailman would be equipped with.

[B]

It's his vehicle, dude. They have to buy that themselves.

[C]

Yeah, it's kind of whack. That is kind of whack. I think too, but since the rural carriers. But I mean, what do you think? You can probably get a 36 inch flash.

[D]

Yeah, we should surprise him with a light.

[B]

Oh, my gosh, that'd be great.

[C]

I thought about it for Christmas, but then I didn't want to ruin his whole business plan. $159 for this 23 inch top light bar.

[A]

Is that really worth saving your Life?

[C]

You're right. $159. Here's one on Amazon. 34 inches for $92 just doesn't seem worth it to me.

[B]

You're not wrong.

[D]

Now you got. I was never worried about hitting mailman before, but now I kind of am.

[A]

I think if we brought up this concern to Ken, he'd just make it happen. He doesn't want Anything to happen to Mike.

[D]

That's true. The mailman, the UPS guys and our mailman are very important to Ken.

[A]

Probably more important than we are to Ken.

[D]

Borderline.

[C]

Otherwise he would be here. Just kidding.

[B]

Ran off with one of them.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, he's got a pretty busy few days ahead of him before his little trip. Is it fair to talk about that before he's here?

[B]

Go ahead.

[A]

Did he inform you guys on exactly why he's going to Vegas?

[B]

No, I just kind of heard through the grapevine. Ken's gonna be in Vegas. Just in Vegas, two weekends ago.

[A]

That's because there's an event that he is attending.

[B]

What?

[A]

The rodeo.

[D]

Oh, cowboy Ken.

[A]

I'm not exactly sure. I do believe there might be a friend group out there, but I'm not really sure the logistics. I just know that I almost fell off my chair when I found out that Ken was going to Vegas for the rodeo. Because it's been an ongoing joke that coincidentally, the rodeos in town. Ken's never went to the rodeo. And we crack jokes about Ken being a cowboy, but now he's going to the rodeo.

[D]

Full blown. Admitted it, dude. I think he's gonna have a great time.

[B]

I just doubt about that.

[D]

I just wish he would document it more. We know he's not gonna do that.

[B]

Some things aren't meant for the Internet's eyes.

[C]

Public consumption.

[A]

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

[C]

Especially when the road.

[D]

Especially when the rodeo's in town.

[A]

Ken can be there for three days. Ken, how was Vegas? Yeah, one.

[C]

A little bit.

[D]

Whatever.

[A]

You don't get much out of them. I mean, they.

[B]

Mystery man. He's a mysterious man.

[A]

72 hours you were there, Ken. What happened? A little gambling.

[D]

My room is nice. He's a mysterious man that will never understand.

[B]

It is wild how much that guy goes to Vegas on his own.

[C]

He loves it there, dude.

[B]

But like, he just goes on his own. Like, what a free guy can. Yeah, I mean, I guess I could too, but it'd just be weird if I just went by myself.

[C]

Yeah, I would. I would check in on you. I'd be like, hey, man.

[B]

But it's okay.

[D]

But it's a lot less weird for someone single to do it.

[A]

But what if he's not going by himself?

[D]

Yeah, I think you said he had nobody.

[B]

If I was single, I'd probably go more than Maybe not as much as 10, because I'm trying to do anything different. It's just like you just don't have someone hanging at home waiting for you.

[C]

Yeah, you don't have someone to hang out with. Yeah, but there's just so many places in the world.

[D]

That's what I always. Okay, I feel weird saying that, but I always say that. I'm like, we go to Vegas and it's always a great time, but I'm like, dude, there's so many places in the world. I. Mr. Vegas shirt. More importantly, United States. I still love Vegas. I really do. Like, we've been there enough that I, like, know it really well. And so I feel, like, welcome whenever I go back there, but I want to go other places.

[A]

You're also lucky that you have, like, the least gambling itch of the whole.

[D]

Crew and you're good at it. I do feel lucky for that. Like, it just. Yeah, I do it and I'm like, I just don't do it for a couple months.

[A]

Gambling works. If you don't like it, you win. As soon as you enjoy it. Yeah, you get punished.

[B]

Yeah. You can never win. You're right.

[A]

That's what it is.

[C]

It's.

[B]

It's.

[A]

I don't know what that is, but it's.

[C]

Unless you like it and then you lose a lot, and then you start having. Not having any more fun, then it only kicks you harder. You can't win then either.

[B]

No, no.

[A]

You can't quit when you're losing, or else you'll never win.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

Yeah. You got to keep going. Stick it. Stick it out.

[C]

You know, you guys see that Kai Trump is not daily vlog, but, like, day in the life vlogging capitalization.

[B]

It's very interesting.

[C]

Can you imagine being like a standard daily vlogger, like, on the come up right now? You don't have, you know, Erewhon in your backyard and like a Range Rover to drive around, and you're just daily vlogging your life. And then she comes in and is just like, boom, I'm gonna go to lunch with Elon Musk.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, how are you supposed to make your life interesting when she's doing that?

[B]

Yeah, well, that's been happening for a long time just now, but. But yeah, no, I like it. I think it's really interesting because you're seeing the behind the scenes of all this stuff that normally you wouldn't see. Granted, it's not like really going in depth, but, like, she. It's more about her. It's like she's there, but then it's like Elon Musk is standing in the background talking to the president.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's like, what the freak and Then she's like, yeah. So like they have these Nutella things over here. Like just talk and you're like, what? It's like so normal. Yeah. That. It's like, it's interesting. It really. I think it's good for them, honestly. Like, it. It kind of drops the veil down and shows that they're pretty normal. Like she was like in her house or something. Like filming a segment. Like her room was dirty. They had like a ping pong table in the kitchen. You know, it was like normal stuff.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Where like you're kind of like, oh, like they're normal people.

[C]

I thought it was really cool. I thought she's good at it too. She's young, she'll get better. But like, yeah.

[B]

She even tries to keep doing it though. Like, why would she, you know? Like, what's the real benefit? I guess you're already famous or you're not really that famous, but like, you got money. True.

[C]

Build a personal brand.

[D]

Yeah, maybe.

[B]

It's tough to do though.

[C]

Very tough to.

[B]

Why do anything tough when you don't need to?

[C]

I mean.

[D]

Yeah. The only thing I could see is if she wants to be like an icon. Other than that it's nothing.

[B]

Yeah, but that wears out after a while too. Sorry. I just, like, it'll be interesting.

[C]

It will be interesting to see like how long she does it if people will still watch. She's not, but it's pretty cool. It's cool just seeing her hang out with freaking Bryson DeChambeau.

[D]

Yeah, it's interesting. Like you'd like to think it would go for four years, but that's a long time.

[C]

True. I bet she'll go longer. I bet she'll just do this and if she doesn't quit it, she'll pivot into something else and start doing something else.

[D]

Cool.

[B]

But watching a rock. Okay, so this is her video. Eight days ago, watching a rocket launch at SpaceX with Elon Musk.

[C]

That's a crazy.

[B]

5.9 million views in eight days.

[D]

That was the first one I saw.

[B]

She's only got 5 541k subscribers. Kai Trump election night vlog 4.2 million views 3 weeks ago Pretty crazy. It's super entertaining. I hope she keeps going.

[C]

Yeah, me too. I liked watching them.

[D]

Some crazy happened to me this morning. Not crazy at all, but it was really funny. I like ran up to the door of the gas station to hold the door for this guy and we were like coming up and one's a push and one's a pull and he grabs the pole as I, like, go for the push and then, like, I open it and then he opens it and he goes, thanks for trying. And I was just chuckling the whole time. You know, he's still like, he saw me. Yeah, he saw me. And, yeah, like, pushing the push and he's pulling the pole. He's like, yeah, thanks for trying.

[B]

I like the way you said it.

[D]

Yeah. Older fella, big dude wearing suspenders, belly popping out, cigarette smelling.

[B]

You just ran to go get that door for him.

[D]

Yeah, like I, you know, jogged up and he saw me as. As he grabs in. Thanks for trying. There's more where that came from. We have to come back next week.

[B]

Pull Hank of the Hill here. Hank of the hill. King of the hill.

[C]

We.

[D]

Hank of the hill works.

[C]

I like it. I've been watching King of the Hill, dude.

[D]

That's a great show.

[A]

That's very.

[B]

So good.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Yep. Well, Mike, just send us out.

[D]

Thanks for listening to today's podcast with my good friend cj, Evan and Ryan.

[C]

His only good friends.

[D]

We love you guys. Yeah, the other guys, I'm close to them too, but I really f with you guys and you too. Thanks for listening. Subscribe if you haven't, and we'll see you next week.

[C]

Peace.