Ryan's Trip to Court, Evans Secret Lingo, & CboysTV being shown on TV

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Ryan's Trip to Court, Evan's Secret Lingo, & CboysTV Being Shown on TV
Release Date: January 23, 2024

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Overview

This lively episode finds the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Mike, and absent-but-referenced teammates Ken and Evan—swapping stories from their personal lives and the CboysTV YouTube journey. Topics range from behind-the-scenes mishaps and viral TV appearances to quirky lingo and community tales, all delivered with their trademark Midwest humor and camaraderie.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. CboysTV Clips Going Mainstream ([00:00], [11:09])

• The group reflects on the viral success of a clip featuring Evan falling through the ice, which aired on Fox News and Fox Business.
• They muse on the oddity and randomness of being featured during a business segment, and how mainstream exposure feels "validating," even if it's for stunts rather than their more innovative projects.

Quote:
"So many people that, you know, we don't really talk to every day but are probably, like, watching Fox News were like, 'Oh my God.' Either these guys have made it—maybe some validation now." — Mike ([12:03])

Memorable Segment:
The crew wonders why their Hummer Pontoon or Cummins-swapped Ranger didn't make the news instead of just clips showing them "doing stunts." ([13:04])

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2. Living Through Renovations and Awkward House Encounters ([03:03]-[08:47])

• They share stories about awkward moments with construction crews at home, especially when sick or lounging ("not relaxing at all to have construction working out brick walls using goddamn dynamite."—Ben, [03:34]).
• Discussion about being "a cricket on the wall" and overhearing workers' stories, sometimes feeling they’re invisible in their own homes.

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3. Viral Stunts: Perceptions and Misconceptions ([13:21])

• Reflection on how the outside world sees the CboysTV brand; often, people label their work as "crazy" or even "dumb" stunts, whereas the group sees more context and creativity in their content.

Quote:
"But like 'dumb' is at the bottom. 'Crazy' is awesome. ... But you get to like dumb or stupid ... I'm just like, damn that." — Ben ([13:51])

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4. Court Stories & Small-Town Policing ([15:36], [20:29], [22:34])

Ryan's Court Stories:

• Ryan shares a story about a wild video clip where a criminal tackled a judge, leading to a tangent about courtroom conduct, mental health, and what happens when you "get jammed up" legally.

Ben's Brush with the Law:

• Ben recounts being in court for college misdemeanors (“just misdemeanors,” [20:32]) and having to do 60 hours of Salvation Army community service. The group laughs about paying his fine with T-shirts saying "Make the Bar Great Again". ([22:05])

Quote:
"Were you facing some serious time?"
"No, but I was facing some serious fines." — CJ & Ben ([20:47])

Skateboard Citation:

• Ryan got his first ticket at 14 for "impeding traffic" while skateboarding ("It was the most mad I've ever been at someone for a while, I was just like, dude, what a dick." — Ryan, [23:36]).

Town Curfews:

• Experiences with small-town curfews evoke comparisons to “Footloose,” and highlight how local laws sometimes feel excessive ([25:15]).

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5. Behind-the-Scenes: Evan’s Secret Lingo ([41:36], [53:30])

• The group reveals and discusses Evan’s unique vocabulary—words like "Cheeto" (lame or uncool), "jammed up" (in trouble or a predicament), and idiosyncratic turns of phrase (“Don’t let your meatloaf,” which they discover likely has a risqué meaning according to Urban Dictionary, [52:43]).

Quick Lingo Sampler ([53:46]):

• Cheeto – Lame, not it; “core” is the opposite, meaning authentic/cool.
• Jammed up – Stuck or in trouble; popularized by Evan.
• Cripes/Jiminy crickets – Exclamations Evan brought back.
• Trousers – Pants.
• Hinder – Butt.
• Don’t let your meatloaf – A humorous, possibly suggestive goodbye.

Quote:
"You don’t want to be Cheeto, you want to be Dorito." — Mike (jokingly, [48:00])

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6. Personal Collections & Preparedness: Pocket Knives, Tools, and 'Dad' Traits ([28:36], [31:19], [39:15])

• Discussion of the universal utility of pocket knives and Leathermans, connecting to family heritage and male rites of passage ("I got them all from my grandpa and my uncles," — CJ, [31:31]).
• Jokes about keeping garages decluttered, with Ben inheriting his dad's penchant for throwing things away unless there’s a good explanation ([40:01]).

Memorable Exchange:
*"What's your plan with this?" has become Ben's routine mantra, to the amusement and sometimes annoyance of the others. ([40:15])

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7. Epic Grind Shoes & Throwback Culture ([41:36]-[44:42])

• Ryan introduces “Epic Grind Shoes,” a callback to the nostalgic “Heelys” and “Soap Shoes.” The group discusses plans for a video, pokes fun at the concept, and wonders how their teammate Evan will judge this as “Cheeto” or not.
• Lighthearted banter about the culture of "core" and "Cheeto" in style and action sports, with plans to surprise Evan and film content around the shoes.

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8. Business Adaptations, COVID-Era Reflections ([26:08], [27:49])

• They look back on the COVID-19 pandemic and how business, content creation, and local life changed—or didn’t—during lockdowns.
• Recognize how the pause was transformative or destructive for some, but ultimately offered their channel an opportunity to focus and grow.

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9. Small Talk, Social Skills, and Fans ([55:27], [59:46])

• Ben discusses his efforts to improve at small talk, sharing alternative ways to greet and part (e.g., “Good to see you,” “Don’t let your meatloaf,” and “Merry Christmas” year-round), and explores how to break out of dead-end exchanges by finding common ground.
• Anecdotes about meeting fans and celebrities, with Ben recounting his “starstruck” moment meeting Vegas Mac—and then getting cropped out of the photo.

Quote:
"Dude, meeting a fan is easy… Because it really is the common ground." — Mike ([59:46])

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On Mainstream Exposure:
  “Like, if South Park's making fun of you, that means you've really made it.” — CJ ([10:11])

• On Viral Clips:
  "All the good things couldn't have been [on the news]… The Hummer pontoon, one of our prouder inventions, or like the Cummins-swapped Ranger." — CJ ([12:33])

• Evan's Lingo Exported:
  “We say Cheeto now and we're like, it's fully adopted from Evan and jammed up… When you’re in a predicament with mostly with your girl, jammed up.” — Ryan ([50:46])

• On Ben's Community Service:
  “That's how we paid for the fine—because it was $1,000. Dude, I was in college. I didn't have any money. Got my money back.” — Ben ([22:06])

• On Pocket Knives as a Rite:
  “There's something to be said about carrying your own knife… Think about all we really do is, like, cut tape here, but yeah.” — Ryan ([29:25])

• Wrapping up:
  “Hopefully the listeners enjoyed it because I had fun.” — CJ ([61:44])
  “Thank you for 200,000 subscribers—let’s go, we’re going up.” — CJ ([62:04])

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Engaging Moments & Running Gags

• “Cheeto” rating: The group tries to guess what Evan would declare “cheeto” (lame) or “core” (cool), especially regarding their new grind shoes bit.
• Inside jokes about Ben's inherited decluttering gene: Recurring references to throwing out anything without a plan.
• Evan's “secret lingo” and rural expressions: The group lists and debates the meaning and adoption of Evan's idiosyncratic phrases.
• “Epic Grind Shoes” visual gag: Plans to film with the shoes for a high-potential viral moment, anticipating Evan’s reaction.
• Awkward goodbyes and small talk: Discussion about Midwest alternatives to “How are you?” and saying “Don’t let your meatloaf.”

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Structure & Flow

The episode weaves between stories from their lives (dealing with construction, court, and COVID), tales of viral internet fame, and a humorous meta-analysis of their own group culture—especially their language. The tone is irreverent, anecdotal, and true to the friend-group chemistry CboysTV fans expect.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a perfect snapshot of CboysTV’s off-camera world: unapologetically Midwest, mischievous, and rich with in-jokes. Whether reminiscing about going viral, adapting during a pandemic, or dissecting their evolving slang, the crew keeps things light, relatable, and full of camaraderie.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamps | Segment/Topic | |------------|--------------------------------------| | 00:00 | Evan's ice fall on Fox News | | 03:03 | Awkward home renovations | | 10:00 | South Park & Simpsons parodies | | 12:33 | Disappointed their best work isn't featured on TV | | 20:29 | Ben's community service tale | | 23:44 | Ryan's skateboard ticket story | | 25:05 | Small-town curfews | | 28:36 | Pocket knife & Leatherman talk | | 39:15 | Inheriting the “throw it out” gene | | 41:36 | Epic Grind Shoes & reaction plans | | 50:01 | Evan's lingo and its adoption | | 55:27 | Small talk strategies | | 59:46 | Meeting fans and celebrity encounters| | 61:44 | Outro thanks and future plans |

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For full context and all the jokes, check out the episode—especially if you want to hear the legendary Midwest delivery and inside references straight from the crew.

Transcript

[Mike]

The clip of Evan falling through the ice was on Fox News. Evan has the best thing.

[Ben]

I have been in court, though.

[CJ]

Are you facing some serious time?

[Ben]

No, but I was facing some serious fines.

[Mike]

So is there, like, town curfews?

[Ben]

Dude, you're, like, living in Footloose.

[Mike]

He was like, I told Ken I wouldn't have it till the end of the day or like, something like that. I have to go over there and pick him out. But Ken's on the line. Like, no, just go, oh, no, it's these. It's these. No, you have to go get these.

[Ben]

And I. Ken's on the security camera, like, looking. He's like, oh, is he really on.

[Mike]

Their security camera still? But I was like, dude, I'm going to just come back once they figure this out. I don't want to get in between you and your.

[Ben]

This family drama.

[CJ]

So we don't have to wash. We.

[Mike]

I left without the washing machines.

[CJ]

Yeah, we're going to be putting a brick inside a washing machine. Been done, but not by us.

[Mike]

So we need to.

[CJ]

We need to test it.

[Mike]

We got a couple. Because I can't imagine it's going to last very long.

[Ben]

Dude, I kind of feel like my index finger is missing with Ken being gone today. I know an important part of me is missing.

[CJ]

Who's going to search up when we have a question?

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's been out for two days, and that's what did it for me is like, okay, he's gone. You got to accept he's sick. We'll let him be. But two days without him, I feel like we're really slowing down.

[CJ]

Yeah. I think he has Covid.

[Ben]

Really?

[CJ]

I shouldn't say that.

[Ryan]

Even say.

[CJ]

I think.

[Ben]

I think that's okay.

[Mike]

Still not say that.

[CJ]

Yeah, Maybe we can.

[Mike]

What was up with that? What. What a weird time that there was.

[CJ]

Like, I think he does have Covid.

[Mike]

There's a worldwide pandemic, and then you couldn't talk about it. Yeah, it was very. Yeah, you could have said the word. You couldn't say the word.

[CJ]

Something like saying the F word.

[Ryan]

The word was like effing up all algorithms.

[Ben]

Yeah. It would put the little thing, like, on Spotify, you would get the little thing, like, misinformation tab. Even if you just said what you just said.

[CJ]

I don't even know if we want to have the algorithm part in here. I don't know. I just. I worry. But, yeah. Kendra's on his deathbed. He got, you know, sick after his big, extravagant vacation.

[Mike]

We still don't know, we were kind of dancing around it when he was on the podcast, but when Ken was in Hawaii. I guess we can say this cuz he's not here. We don't know what the.

[CJ]

I know we should have had tint on here to like clear it up. But anyways, kind of a funny story here. We got like new windows put all around Mike's mine and Ken's house. And then they were doing the last. The last piece, which was like a big sliding glass door in the middle. Well, I went and got blinds for all the new windows because you had to get new blinds. They wouldn't fit on the. It's not the same measurement as the old ones. But Ken didn't want the blinds I was getting because they weren't good enough for him because he couldn't make them go up and down from his iPhone.

[Ben]

He's a specific man.

[CJ]

Yep. So he has no blinds. So this dude's like all sick bedridden.

[Mike]

And he's like right here, he's got like these like big three windows and then these guys are just all walking right around it, knocking out brick the.

[Ben]

Patio doors right next to his room.

[CJ]

Yes.

[Mike]

And they're just looking at him and he's just like, no blinds at all. It's so awkward because back when he did have blinds, but he like put.

[CJ]

Put him up in the morning and he'd lounge in his bed.

[Mike]

I'll go down and like take a hot tub.

[CJ]

We'll just lock eye contact at each.

[Mike]

Other as I'm hopping in the hot.

[CJ]

Tub, like half naked.

[Mike]

And then you just press the button and go. Start going down. But he couldn't do that this time, so I kind of felt bad for him.

[Ben]

Dude in regardless shades. It's not relaxing at all to have construction working out brick walls using goddamn dynamite.

[Mike]

Yeah. Extremely unfortunate. I would like to know what the workers are thinking too. They got to just be like, man, these guys are just so weird. What is this full grown man doing just laying in bed right now?

[Ryan]

That's what I'm picturing.

[Mike]

You know, Ken ain't sleeping, he just grow. I'm sure both of them were trying not to look at each other.

[CJ]

Like.

[Mike]

Like they probably looked in one time. Some were like, don't look though. Don't look in there. And he was kind of like, oh, he's probably doing some abuse on that toilet. So he's got to go out.

[Ben]

He's got to go out.

[Mike]

I was go out to his bathroom.

[Ben]

That sucks. Like, I can't imagine Being sick and then not having your house to yourself.

[Mike]

No, yeah, that. That. That does suck. My house was under renovation for like four months. I knew what time they were like, coming every morning. And sometimes I would just like not be up and atom by the time that they would get there or they would get there early. And so, like, people are like out working in my house and I. My lazy ass, like, wanders out at like nine and I'm like, trying to like, just creepy. They've been there since 7, and I'm like, hey. And they're like, oh, sorry, I didn't know that you were in there sleeping. And I'm like, yep, still live here. I'm not up and at him at 6:30 every day. So just. Just go about your business and ignore me. And I went. I went through that for about three months.

[CJ]

Not have been three months.

[Mike]

Yeah, for a while.

[CJ]

If, like when you were like, you know, waking up or still kind of in your room getting ready, you just. They think you're not there. They're just talking shit.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, that's the thing. Like, they. They get there, I'll like, wake up. And the first couple of times it would rattle me because I think that my house is getting broken into. And then I recognize their voice and then. And then I just hear them going through their entire weekend. And like, it's. It's Ryan's dad's crew who built this shop or is building our new farm. And like, we've got to know them pretty good. Steve and Dan love those guys. It's. It's really funny to just be like a cricket on the wall and like, listen to their conversation.

[Ben]

Cricket on the wall.

[Mike]

Either way, I mean, I'm sure cricket, it'd be pretty, like, be fun to be like a ladybug on the wall. A cricket on the wall, though. You know, we are pretty tight with.

[CJ]

Steve and Dan though. Like, like, I mean, they've built the room that we are having this podcast in. Micah named his bronco after Steve, so.

[Ryan]

I can relate to what you're saying. Yeah, because they're. I'm doing that right now when they're there.

[Mike]

How's that going?

[Ryan]

They show up at 8. Not crazy early, but at 8. So I try to be up when they're there, dude. They just razz me up.

[CJ]

Really? Sure. They're like, oh, you up early every time.

[Ryan]

Look at how, look at, how's this guy up, right? And then. Yeah, just few other. Just jabs here. It's all light away from it.

[Mike]

Can you?

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

But yeah.

[Mike]

The construction workers in this guy's house, in his own house. It's like, Mike, like, goes to the dentist one morning. It's like 8:30.

[CJ]

They like, wow, we all didn't think you were going to make it.

[Mike]

You, like, don't even know him. The dentist is like, everyone. Sharon gives her 20 bucks. You won't.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm fine with it as long as they don't jab it, like, too many times too deep and. No. Well, or maybe too deep. But that's what really annoys me if, like, you got like a. A guy at the bar who's, like, talking to the bartender and he's trying to get his tab for free or put it on the other guy and it's funny for a little bit, and then if he keeps doing that, it's like the same thing.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's the same joke. Over.

[Ryan]

Rinse the joke.

[Mike]

Well, there's people that just have no touch.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm getting.

[Mike]

That's just a lack of. Lack of touch.

[Ben]

But it's also what they know you by. They're like, micah, all right, I'm going to break the ice with him being sleepy, dude.

[Mike]

I mean, to be fair, these guys. These guys have been in our life for, like, six years. We've had them coming around, working on stuff for a while now. You don't know how many times they have probably seen your ass roll out.

[Ryan]

At, like, that's true. Noon, 11:30, probably been, like, 30 days worth over the time.

[Mike]

Oh, probably more than that.

[Ryan]

It's like, sometimes they don't see me, and then sometimes they're just like, morning money.

[Ben]

They're on lunch break.

[Mike]

Yeah, I. I wonder about that, though, because, like, you know, it's got to be somewhat common for, like, people that come and work at your house or, you know, our. Our buddy Mark, who did, like, hot tub maintenance, you know, he would say, yeah, I go to people's house all the time, and, like, they're there, and it's just like, you're working on their stuff while they're there. It's kind of awkward because they're watching you and you're trying to, like.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Kind of skirt around them.

[Ben]

Yeah, you're trying it fast, but, like, Right. You're worried because they're watching you.

[Ryan]

I kind of forgot how many jobs were like that where you go into people's houses. Because Evan was just saying that. He's like, I love when they start early when they're down for us to be in their house by seven. I always love that and hated it when they wanted us being by nine. Blah, blah, blah.

[Mike]

Evan was in people's houses removing asbestos.

[Ryan]

Yeah. He said it was pretty rare, but sometimes they do residential jobs and they'd, like, close off, you know, the one room they're working in.

[Ben]

Makes sense.

[Ryan]

But, like, he's like, we'd show up at 7 in the morning and there's like three kids at the dinner table eating cereal, packing their backpacks. He's like, it was just weird.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Evan's co workers are on their six cigarette already.

[CJ]

Evan's drinking two teas already.

[Ben]

I remember that landscaping. We used to hate working at people's houses that were there because you had. We called them the owner's home playlists, which were much more clean, typically more country, you know, acceptable. And then you had. When they're gone, you can play the, like, Kanye and stuff like that. It was a little more aggressive.

[CJ]

No, it'd be funny if, like, next time Mark's working at someone's house, we, like, get the inside scoop and, like, tell the homeowner like, hey, just like, get some binoculars out.

[Mike]

Just, like, stand straight and just watch. What if.

[Ben]

Look, Start taking pictures, video the whole time.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Did you guys see that? South park made a whole thing about, well, prime. But cred.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

They had to change it. I. Obviously not to get sued, but, yeah, I thought it was pretty good.

[Ryan]

But the play on words was so funny.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

No, if he doesn't have cred, none of us have cred.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's just great. I thought it was awesome. I think Logan Paul was pretty pumped on it too, which as he should be, because, like, if South Park's making fun of you, that means you've. You've really made it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

If you're broken into. Into, like, mainstream. The mainstream mass majority, where you don't even have to explain a joke. And it hits.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, it's a ripoff.

[Ben]

They made a whole episode.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's like a special.

[Ryan]

The. The Paul brothers have always been good at taking.

[Ben]

Taking the one on the chin.

[CJ]

Yeah, but that was, like, positive hate, dude. I'd be pumped if they made an episode making fun of us.

[Ryan]

So pumped.

[CJ]

Yeah. Like, seriously, Matt and Trey, the creators of south park, like, it'd be so easy just, like, do one episode making fun of us.

[Mike]

You imagine. And then they just, like, really go in, though. And you watch it. They're, like, going deep.

[CJ]

Like, we're like, oh, shit, they went too far.

[Ben]

Or if you make it in the Simpsons, if there's a Simpsons character of you, that's like, next level, dude.

[Mike]

The clip of. I don't know if we've talked about this, but the clip of Evan falling through the ice was on Fox News. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

That was mainstream.

[Mike]

That was mainstream.

[CJ]

Fox Business.

[Mike]

So random, too. Maybe it's like a segment that they have, but it was like just straight up a part of the Fox News network of, like, them talking business. And they were like, brief break in the program to just show a random clip of a guy riding a dirt bike on thin ice.

[CJ]

They quoted us and stuff too, which was cool. Excited us. Put the clip in right here. Boom.

[Mike]

So these YouTubers decided to do a.

[Ryan]

Little dirt biking on a frozen lake. Oh, no.

[CJ]

Watch this. Oh, no.

[Mike]

Don't you love dramatic injuries?

[Ryan]

No, just a little groin pole.

[Ben]

He's totally fine.

[Mike]

Tonight, just prime time.

[Ryan]

Kobe Covington, Carrie Lake, Tommy Lahren, Charlie Arnold.

[Mike]

After that went live, it was. It was weird. Like, how many people saw that and were like, oh, my gosh, you guys were on Fox News. Like, so many people that, you know, we don't really talk to every day but are probably, like, watching boxes Fox News fans over. They were like, oh, my God. And either these guys have made it maybe of like, some validation now or.

[CJ]

Like, had to be a crash.

[Ben]

God damn something.

[Mike]

All the good things couldn't have been.

[CJ]

Like, the Hummer pontoon, one of our. Our prouder inventions, or like the Cummins swapped Ranger. Yeah, that'd be even better.

[Mike]

We were having this conversation the other day of, like, how many people when they're, like, explaining us to other people that don't really know what we're about, and they're like, yeah, these guys are like, they. They do stunts and like, all kinds of crazy stuff, which I guess we do, but a lot of it has more context and there's. There's more to it than just a stunt. But so many people just know us from, like, viral. Viral clips like that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And that's where, like, the stunt term.

[Ryan]

I'd be curious to, like, hear, I guess, what you guys explain us as. It's not like you're running around talking about us per se, but someone asked you, like, oh, who do you watch on YouTube? And, like, how do you explain what we do and who we are?

[CJ]

And be honest, we won't care if you're.

[Ryan]

You don't need a flatter us, like, but just be like, oh, yeah, there's some dudes. But to Ben's point, we do get a lot of the locals being like, yeah, you guys are the guys who do crazy.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean the crazy makes sense. But like just straight stunts or the dumb.

[Ryan]

Sorry, sometimes I don't really like the dumb. Yeah, you're right. And it is a fine line because the crazy. Crazy might not even involve like any stunt per se, but it. The Hummer pontoon. That's some crazy.

[CJ]

They do crazy.

[Ben]

That's a, that's up there. Yeah, that's up there. But like dumb is at the bottom. Crazy is awesome. Is better awesome. That cool. Like that's. You're working up the list but you get to like dumb or stupid. I hear stupid. You guys always do the stupidest stuff. I'm just like, damn that.

[CJ]

Thanks man, thanks.

[Ben]

But I get it. It's hard to explain.

[CJ]

We still get our stuff put on like Chive and like all those networks. Or did it get. I hope we didn't get it taken off because I kind of liked having.

[Ryan]

I don't think we got it taken off, but I don't know if we have any updated stuff.

[CJ]

Yeah, no, they just, they just go.

[Ben]

And I did just see it in Florida.

[CJ]

Oh, then we're good.

[Ben]

It was funny because like the guy next to me at the bar, we were, we were just like stopped in to eat and we just sat at the bar because it's easier to get faster service. And like there was a local guy sitting next to us. It was like his spot. Cuz we sat in it. The bartender was like, hey, can you guys move over?

[Ryan]

Oh wow.

[Ben]

And we're like, yeah, yeah, of course.

[CJ]

Put some time in.

[Ben]

So he sat down and he was talking about the TV and then it was like three clips later we were on and I was like, what do.

[Mike]

You think about those guys?

[Ben]

It happened so fast though. You can't like talk like you couldn't even bring it up if you wanted to flex it because then it's on to the next clip.

[CJ]

I, I one time sat down and it was just me and some other dude and like he was like avidly watching like a bunch of segments of us. And I was sitting right next to him and I was waiting like I was like this dude going to like notice it. Notice and then he didn't. Never noticed.

[Ryan]

That's what I, I do love when they, for some reason they play like a minute or two when they do a segment.

[Ben]

Like golfing is a segment where it's like a minute of golfing clips.

[Mike]

That's how you know it's entertaining when it doesn't need audio.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

You know, that's like our best. None of those bar TVs play audio.

[Ryan]

Most of the time.

[Mike]

Did you guys see that clip of the judge that like, sentenced the. The guy? Yes. And then the guy just like retaliates and basically jumps over.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And tackles the judge.

[Ben]

The judge.

[Mike]

Did you guys see like the video beforehand explaining.

[Ben]

No.

[Mike]

Okay, so. So basically the judge is like, you know, sir, you have a history of assault, ra. Robbery, armed robbery, drug dealing, all these things, right? I. You're going to jail. You need some time in jail. You clearly have not learned. And it goes to this guy. And this guy goes on this, like, speech about how he's a. He's a changed man and how he believes that he should be free and how he's like, learned from his mistakes and, you know, he was the first 41 times in jail, got it out of his system and. And he's a changed man. Please, your honor.

[CJ]

He literally says that.

[Mike]

Something along the lines. Yeah, something along the lines of that. How he's the change. You can't do that. And then, then the judge goes, no, I think you're going there. And then he just switches. So I was like, oh, man, this guy's clearly got some mental issues of like, bipolar disorder.

[CJ]

Why'd she have to say it like that, though? Like, sometimes it gets sassy with him. Like, no wonder you got.

[Ryan]

Maybe she's already dealt with him being.

[Mike]

A smart ass like that.

[CJ]

No, you're going like, I've seen clips where they're like that. Like, that's like, pretty rude. You're just like, damn, they don't give a fuck. Like, you could at least be like, unfortunately, I think you need to go.

[Mike]

I think for like people in that position is they probably deal with like the worst of the worst people and they. All day, they honestly probably just like, you know, have less patience. Patience.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Probably don't deal with people probably more than most. But yeah, I don't know. I just, I saw the clip initially and I was like, oh, my gosh, I wonder if that was like real, this guy just straight up tackling the judge. And then I saw like the. The beforehand video of him doing that, and I was like, this is way.

[CJ]

Crazy doing that, man.

[Mike]

Now what about when he.

[Ryan]

Go ahead.

[CJ]

Then the next day he was back in court and they had him like tied up, mask over, like a spit mask so he couldn't spit.

[Ben]

All the police around him. You see that?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Did he get any licks in on that, you know, like lick, like a punch.

[Mike]

They call them licks. Yeah, I know. I never saw, you know, an angle.

[Ryan]

Funny you're talking about. He's got the spitting mask on. And then you go, did he get any licks in? Yeah, because I, I just saw this. I didn't know if this is good taste or not, but young Gravy just posted a video like talking about this and he's like, listen, I don't blame the man out of. I'd have run up and done the same thing like. Or like not attacked her, but like because he was calling the judge hot. I was like, damn, this is a little controversial.

[Ben]

Gravy's always just on something.

[Ryan]

He's just always about the. Yeah.

[CJ]

A fellow Minnesota boy.

[Ben]

He is, yeah. Did you see the clip of the guy getting sentenced now after, after what that happened? Judge just threw up the book at him. Obviously, as you can expect. But I believe it was like 13 felonies from that. From attacking the judge, he gained 13 felonies.

[CJ]

How much more time did he get then?

[Ben]

I mean, I can't imagine felonies are a lot a light deal.

[CJ]

Cuz I don't know the worst place to commit a crime in court in front of a judge.

[Ben]

On a judge.

[CJ]

On a judge.

[Ben]

So funny you say licks. One of them was with. It was like harming something. Harming a protected person with bodily fluid. So he must have been spitting on it.

[Ryan]

But they were trying to like, I don't know if they did, but they're trying to give him attempted murder, which seems a little far, but yeah, he.

[CJ]

Could have been trying.

[Ben]

He could have. You never know.

[Ryan]

But moral of the story is now that I know the context, I thought he was just a psychopath to begin with.

[Ben]

For what?

[Ryan]

I didn't even know what he did. That's just what they showed him, attacking the judge. And then yeah, clearly before. Now his cards are all, dude, I.

[Mike]

Bet GTA is watching that. Like, oh man, that would have been great for the trailer.

[CJ]

I only watched like two seconds of each of those clips. Like I saw him attack. I kept scrolling because I don't like watching that. And then I also saw the next thing where a few days later and I just scrolled past already. I already got the gist of it.

[Ben]

Yeah, you knew it wasn't going to be good.

[Mike]

I've never seen that happen before.

[CJ]

I've seen it where like the family member of like someone who is killed will like come up from behind and attack like the murderer or whoever did something yeah, man.

[Mike]

And I can't blame them, I would imagine. I've actually. I've never sat in on like a court hearing or anything like that. Have you. Have you guys ever been asked to.

[CJ]

Be in a jury?

[Ryan]

No.

[CJ]

No, thank God.

[Ben]

I was in a jury one time for when my classmate got adopted. We got to say yes.

[Mike]

Really interesting.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I have been in court, though.

[Ryan]

You just.

[CJ]

Oh, he was on the other side.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was on the other side. No, not actually for that. For college things. Oh, they were just misdemeanors.

[Mike]

That's wrong.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Ben]

That was scary, dude. I did not like that. Not a good place.

[CJ]

Were you facing some serious time?

[Ryan]

Were you?

[Ben]

No, but I was facing some serious fines. And he was a notoriously stern judge on party citations. And I had gotten. That was my second. So then what I think was like a thousand bucks.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

But I end community service.

[CJ]

Oh, wow.

[Ben]

So it's pretty.

[CJ]

It was tough to do the community service.

[Ben]

Salvation army.

[CJ]

So what do you have to do?

[Ben]

I serve food, which I didn't mind the serving. It was the. Like. They made me cook and I have no idea how to cook. So, like, that's. It felt.

[Mike]

That's just bad.

[CJ]

Bad for everybody.

[Ben]

I know, exactly. It was good for nobody. But anyway, I was there. I did my 60 hours.

[Mike]

60 hours.

[Ben]

That was pretty st. Substantial.

[CJ]

Were your parents aware that you served community service? And, you know, you in front of a judge.

[Ben]

I think they knew. If they didn't know, they will be calling me on Tuesday when this comes out.

[CJ]

I was just curious what their thoughts were on it at the time.

[Ben]

I'm sure they will not be proud. It was a. I was young then.

[Ryan]

But you crushed the community service. The best part of the story, when you hit it out of the park, Ryan and. And Brad, one of his roommates, hit me up and they're like, can you make this into a shirt? And it was a red shirt with like a picture of the apartment, blah, blah, blah, with make the bar great again, which is the name of the apartment.

[Mike]

That's how.

[Ben]

That's how we paid for the fine because it was $1,000. Dude, I was in college. I didn't have any money. Got my money back.

[CJ]

That's pretty good.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's right.

[Ben]

It was nice. You guys printed the shirt.

[Mike]

Did you guys have community or ever have to do community service?

[Ben]

No, I never had to do for class or anything.

[CJ]

I did it for, like, church.

[Mike]

For, like.

[CJ]

We went to the Salvation army. And, like, I don't even Know, I think we just like did stuff with cans or like helped like put stuff in where it needed to go.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Ryan]

I want to say they like gave it to me way back when I got that ticket on my skateboard.

[Ben]

You got a ticket on your skateboard?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

For what?

[Ryan]

Impeding traffic? Yeah. In Holly.

[Mike]

Holly cops love to just give tickets though. I swear.

[CJ]

Right down the highway or what?

[Ryan]

No, I mean down like the. The quite opposite of a highway.

[Ben]

Say, were you just on a street?

[Mike]

Wait, you were just riding a skateboard down the street, you got a ticket.

[Ryan]

Literally next to the bowling alley, which is just. I mean, if you drove. How many people go here on the reg? Like seven. No one drove by it. And then I was skateboarding the street doing like a coffin where you lay down on the board. Then it was like. Because the street was kind of had a hill on it. And then the cop rolled up and then was just like. You didn't see that car that was trying to go by when you're going down? And I was like, no, I didn't. And then gave you the ticket? Yeah.

[Mike]

Fuck, dude. Man, that's really.

[Ben]

Are trying to get kids inside playing Xbox?

[Mike]

Yeah, dude.

[Ryan]

It was like a whole learning lesson because I was really like. It was the most mad I've ever been at like someone for a while. I was just like, dude, what a dick.

[Mike]

Like, how much did it cost?

[Ryan]

I think it costed like a hundred bucks.

[CJ]

Yeah, but that's a lot of money.

[Ben]

And then he didn't traffic.

[Ryan]

Then he got. He like, took a job in Louis, Louisiana. And I was like, let's go. He's gone. And then shortly after he died.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Ryan]

Oh. So then I was like, dang.

[Ben]

Felt kind of bad.

[Ryan]

I felt kind of bad for just being so mad at him. First experience with a ticket, though. On a skateboard, not in a car. Never told that.

[Ben]

No.

[CJ]

That's a pretty good story.

[Ben]

What the hell?

[Ryan]

Yeah, like I. I saved the ticket. I still have it.

[Ben]

That's cool.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And it's just like a pedestrian ticket. Like, how often do you get one of those?

[Ben]

So that was before you had a driver's license. Yeah, yeah, and all that.

[Ryan]

14.

[Ben]

So did you even have a. Like a. An ID to hand them or you.

[Ryan]

Look up your permit?

[Ben]

Okay, not a permit.

[Ryan]

No. Yeah, yeah, I had my permit.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That's kind of scary though, because when you have your permit, dude, you're on thin ice. There's like, you can't do anything. You get like one speeding ticket and they don't let you get your driver's.

[CJ]

License, speeding, your permit, that.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I never thought it was real until it happened. You know when you're at the gas station and it's, like, past 11 or whatever the curfew is, and then when the cop shows up, he was super nice. It only happened once, but he's like, yeah. So you. And you are under 16, so going to have to take you home.

[Ben]

Wait, Holly has a curfew?

[Mike]

Yeah. What?

[Ben]

What?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Or at least they did.

[CJ]

Were your parents mad when you got taken home?

[Ryan]

I was above 16, so it's fine.

[CJ]

Oh, you just watched your buddy.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I'm like, dang. It was my, like, one of my best friends, and he's just like, well, I guess I'm just gonna head back home. And it was all fine. No one got in trouble, but.

[Ben]

But he had to bring him home.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he had to bring him home.

[Mike]

So is there, like, town curfews or how's that work? Or is it, like, a county curfew, Dude? You're, like, living in Footloose, dude.

[Ryan]

And it, like, that's what. I mean. It only happened once, but Were you causing a ruckus? No.

[Ben]

Were you just, like, what were you doing?

[Ryan]

Bikes and boards up to the gas station, bro.

[Mike]

I have a hard time believing that they were just coming from the spot.

[CJ]

They had ski masks on, too.

[Ryan]

I mean. No, we were truly just riding around.

[Ben]

Yeah. I mean, being children, there is a.

[CJ]

Curfew, like, in Fargo. I know there's a curfew. I don't know exactly what the time is, but I think it's more so, like, if you're just out lounging around, walking the streets then, and you're a kid, then it's like, okay, what are you up to?

[Ben]

There's probably. It's like, a way to enforce a problem. Like, if you see a kid that's, like, fucking around, you're like, all right, you got to go home. But, like, that seems pretty whack.

[Ryan]

Felt whack.

[CJ]

There's a lot of whack laws.

[Mike]

Well, didn't they have a curfew when Covid was a thing? If you were out past a certain time and you were more likely to get Covid or.

[CJ]

No, I think they were just. It was weird, man. They were, like, shutting down everything. Like, all the restaurants had to close early.

[Ben]

That's right. It wasn't. They didn't even have to close. It just. They had to close early. They couldn't be open late.

[CJ]

Isn't it weird how that whole time's just a blur now. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't even really remember much. Like, it kind of just blew over in my mind. But it was like what, a year or two? Yeah, like two years. Like we couldn't even go out to eat at like eat sitting there. You had to order it to go.

[Ryan]

When we were around here, everything wasn't that changed, but it was just like more sucky.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It's really funny to hear certain people talk about it, how like it changed my, you know, existence. Everything I was doing, I had to completely stop and stay at home. And I think back to it happening for us and we were just like, well, better work hard. Nothing's really changing around here for us.

[Ben]

I do remember, like, depends where you lived. Yeah. Other than that, like, all my buddies got school off. They all got work off. And we're just like grinding because it was just right as we were really starting. Gain like some traction.

[Mike]

We're like, all right, can't turn back right now. We would like capitalize on it way more.

[Ben]

I think.

[Mike]

I don't think it really made any kind of difference for like views wise or.

[Ben]

I think if anything it helped.

[Mike]

Yeah, no, it, it helped for sure. But like, I know some creators that were like, you know, popping at the time really blew up because everyone was at home watching, watching. And I, I didn't remember it like making that much of an impact or, or like affecting our channel that much.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there's like a lot of horror stories of people like having, let's call it a glamorous life before COVID and then now they do not, which is unfortunate. But then there's also like Connor Price, he was doing pretty good before that, but then he, during COVID was like, I decided to make music and now he's just killing mass.

[Mike]

So true.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I feel like we talk to people all the time, especially that have like, businesses. That was such a defining moment.

[Ryan]

Pivot of like.

[Mike]

Pivot. Yeah, of like. Yeah. So I was doing this and then covet happened and I had to switch something up and it's like, oh my gosh, man, you've only been doing this for four years. You could have said like 15 and I wouldn't, you know, know the difference. But yeah, that was, that was a strange time.

[Ben]

You kind of scaring me over there with that. Like, you were literally holding this like this.

[Mike]

I was.

[Ben]

I, like, I. If I couldn't even make a joke of you.

[CJ]

That's a pocket knife. Yeah.

[Mike]

You've got a second day Carrying it felt so good, dude. I pulled this thing out. I was like trying to open a bucket the other day. C.J. watched it firsthand. I need a knife. Usually I'd have to go inside and. And you know, find a box cutter or something. And I was like, oh my gosh, I have a pocket knife strapped. I'm strapped right now. And I pulled it out, I flipped it open, I cut it, put it back in. It's handy, dude.

[Ryan]

Ben walks into my office, heavy, quite literally right before we film this and just goes. He likes. Flips it open, says Ben on it. Pocket knives. We need to do them, we need to make them.

[Mike]

I did.

[Ryan]

And then I'm like, all right. Is as long as there's. It's legal to sell knives. And then we both go. I think it is.

[CJ]

This is a nice knife.

[Ben]

It is. Got good weight to it. Feels good.

[Ryan]

There's something to be said about and carrying your own knife.

[Ben]

I mean, think about.

[Ryan]

All we really do is like cut tape here. But yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

I don't have a lot of reasons. I do have a knife similar to this that it's in my center council, my truck that I'll use if I.

[Ben]

Need to, like just in case.

[CJ]

Not necessarily just in case.

[Ben]

Oh yeah. But like just in case you need it.

[CJ]

You need one. Yeah, I'll use it to like stuff.

[Ben]

We clarified nothing with that.

[Ryan]

In case you need it.

[Ben]

You know, I feel like the next level up on that of preparedness. You see the guys that have the pliers sheath.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

The little leather pliers thing.

[Ryan]

And it's just weathered.

[Ben]

Yeah. It looks like it's been through a lot, but man, when you need a pliers. There was a guy at the lawnmower me, we needed a pliers and he's like, I got one.

[Mike]

Oh my God. He's been waiting for.

[Ben]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Mike]

You know, he went home that night and was finally like, yeah, I used it. I knew this thing would come in handy.

[Ryan]

But that's what I mean, some of the guys look like they just whip them out on the, you know, on the hour.

[Mike]

A lot of guys, like if you're.

[CJ]

Farmer dude, like my uncles and my grandpa, like they frickin use those things all the time.

[Ryan]

You gotta love that.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean, I mean they.

[CJ]

Yeah, it was like just whenever dads.

[Ryan]

Or grandpas, when someone goes, anybody got a knife? Or something of the sort? And they're just like, dude, yes. It's already like, you want me to open it or you here it is.

[Mike]

Well, how about the. The Leathermans that have like the pliers on it and then screwdriver. I mean Swiss.

[Ben]

Swiss army knives.

[CJ]

Yeah, you had the.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but either one Leather.

[Mike]

Leatherman is like the nice version of it. I remember this, the fork and the spoon. Swiss with that had like the toothpick. That was my favorite part.

[Ryan]

You take it out. Like it reminds me of the new keys, like how they don't actually have a key, but you can press the button, you take it out. It's a toothpick.

[Ben]

No way. Metal?

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, it was plastic.

[Ben]

Plastic white.

[Ryan]

So funny.

[Ben]

I thought it was like wood and it was like reloadable, you know, like you always got one.

[CJ]

I honestly have a pretty good pocket knife collection.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

I could bring it if I think.

[Ryan]

Is it just a, like a generalized thing? Because like I. I have quite a few knives and my dad and grandpa kind of.

[Mike]

I think that to me.

[CJ]

But yeah, I got them all from like my grandpa and my, my uncles, they would always give them me as I was a kid. Like at Christmas, birthdays, you'd always get.

[Ben]

One, get a little knife.

[CJ]

And like some of them are pretty, pretty freaking cool. And other ones are just, you know, like standard. Nice.

[Ben]

Yes.

[CJ]

That have really never.

[Ryan]

And I never like really understood it. They'd be like, okay, so these ones are from Europe, so they're going to be good. Okay. And these ones aren't. So they're not going to be good.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I just remember them saying like where they're from and like sometimes it may be like be engraved like on the thing.

[Mike]

I had this thing on me because it's got a window breaker right on the end here. And I was just asked to be in my sister's wedding by her fiance and that's why my name is on it. I didn't just order your name.

[CJ]

I wasn't sure if you put the little tux on there because you always dress up so nice.

[Mike]

Yeah, this is my wedding night. It's also fancy, but no, I. I had this on me because we took my Lambo on the ice yesterday. I guess the video is already live, so last last week's video, you would have seen it by now. I figured I should have this in case things went really south and it went through the ice and I had.

[CJ]

To break a window.

[Mike]

I was like, this is the worst case, Ontario. But I guess if I needed to.

[CJ]

I could do it. Did you have your seatbelt on when you were doing that?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Really?

[Ben]

I feel like the wrist.

[CJ]

I would have not had my hands.

[Ryan]

You can't buckle so fast.

[Mike]

Yeah, you can.

[Ben]

It's not like a five point harness, but still.

[Ryan]

So I was.

[CJ]

Didn't want to listen. That annoying chime.

[Ben]

Most importantly.

[Mike]

No, it was super annoying.

[Ryan]

I just saw a video of a guy, like, it was a very small, compact, like, low trim car, drives it into the water at a high speed. In the water, he's waiting and waiting and waiting. He's like, I just want to show you guys, like, how. How much time you have. He's like, okay, it's getting up to the windows. And even that was like a minute and a half. And wow. He was in there until he had his window breaker, but he was in there until the. He crawled to the back and then water up to his mouth and then.

[Ben]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ryan]

And then swam out. He's like, if you wait to a certain point and you break the window, then all the water goes in on you, then it's hard to get out. Makes like he waited in there so long. But if he didn't have the window breaker, kicking that window out in the water is.

[CJ]

Yeah, I watched that video. That guy kind of almost like was getting off on, like, hanging in there to the last minute, and I'm still in here.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

The guys on the outside are like.

[Ben]

I feel like that was such a thing on Discovery Channel. Like, I feel like I've watched a thousand dudes get out of a car as it's sinking in the water. That was like the, like, the thing in like early mid 2000s TV. They were like, we're gonna put a car for sure.

[Ryan]

They did that on Mythbusters.

[Ben]

Yeah. We did get Randy a new face. Yeah. I got a good comment, baby on my Snapchat. Said he's got a good head on his shoulders.

[CJ]

That's true.

[Ryan]

Yes, he does.

[CJ]

Randy's a maniac, man. He's a stuntman, but he's also got a good head on his shoulders. The only guy that's actually a stuntman around here is Randy. Dude, reckless Randy.

[Ryan]

No, but he's like, back down from anything. He helped me move my couch into the basement.

[Ben]

Oh, really? That sounds.

[CJ]

That's true.

[Ryan]

He fell down the stairs. Was like, no big deal.

[CJ]

He's a lover.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah, he is a lover. Some of us.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

More than others.

[CJ]

Some people have. Have taken a liking to each other.

[Ben]

Special bond.

[CJ]

Yes, a special bond. Some people are better friends with him than others.

[Mike]

We'll just say personal connection. Yeah.

[Ben]

Reckless Randy is kind of like our version of like, elf on A shelf. He just like moves around. He's like doing things in the night when we're gone.

[Mike]

Yeah, he's doing certain things, but you don't with them.

[Ben]

Like, you just let him be.

[CJ]

The nice thing about Randy is he's so freaking inconvenient to move. It's like, you must really want to move him.

[Ryan]

I was just to say that, like I just out it now. Cuz the odds of me being able to move him much. Yeah, like I was like, I'm going to do that. That's so funny. And hopefully someone just goes, is someone doing elf on the shelf with Randy? But there's no way I could do anything with him.

[Mike]

You just shuffle full size human.

[Ryan]

Say.

[Ben]

That videos 170 pounds of dead weight.

[Ryan]

I don't know what it is about it, but lifting him, it's tough because.

[CJ]

His arm starts moving and then you're like.

[Ryan]

Which is just like a real person.

[Mike]

Only person I have seen, you know, move Randy around efficiently is, you know, the large one, Ken.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, that's true.

[CJ]

He was moving around a lot.

[Ryan]

The way he was able to get him into the bed of the mule, you know, without any like neck injuries or anything.

[Ben]

He's pretty good at that.

[Ryan]

Moving Randy operator.

[CJ]

God, he did move him around a lot. All right, next.

[Mike]

Next thing.

[CJ]

That's enough.

[Mike]

Sorry, dude.

[Ryan]

So I was watching Wiz Khalifa Snapchat story the other day.

[Mike]

I was watching it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he must be like, you know, getting pumped to us. Yeah, he must be trending. It intrigued me a lot because he's in the studio and he's like bringing you guys along on one of my studio sessions. And then he wraps the. The song backwards or like his verse.

[Ben]

I heard about this somewhere.

[Ryan]

So he like listens to the beat, the. The section of the beat he'll be putting that verse on. Hits the verse and then he listens to, you know, for measures back listens to that tells him to keep playing over.

[Ben]

Oh, so he writes the song in reverse.

[Ryan]

No, he writes the song normally.

[Mike]

He comes up with the rhyme and then he. He rhymes it with something that he already said.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. It makes it like kind of crazier sounding as far as like what he's saying, but also like, how do you make them correlate?

[Ben]

I thought you were saying that like if he was rapping my lambo is black. He was like rapping like black is my lamp Lambo. Like everything was in reverse.

[Ryan]

I was like, what sounded like Yoda. No, just the verses. Just the verses. And it sounded and then he would play like his, you know, six, seven verses that he laid down and it sounded so good, AKA like a normal whiz song.

[CJ]

But maybe you guys start rapping Mike.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Pick it up as a hobby.

[Ryan]

I just don't have a whole studio setup.

[Ben]

That'd be the next thing.

[Mike]

Like you should buy a studio set up.

[Ben]

Do you still have that drum set?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Oh yeah. Where is that?

[Ryan]

Where do you think?

[CJ]

Downstairs in your house?

[Ryan]

Downstairs in Jake's mom's house.

[Mike]

I was not gonna say that.

[Ben]

You can play it when you pop over there.

[CJ]

Yeah, just show up there one day, like 2 in the morning. I'm just here to play my drums.

[Ben]

The most inconvenient thing to have at your friend's mom house, like their ex. If your Xbox was there, she like wouldn't complain. But if you came over there and was like playing drums.

[Mike]

She had ubiso bummed when Mike was moving that she was.

[Ryan]

Because she's like, you can put that right next to Jason.

[CJ]

That's a good gift to like give one of your friends. Kids. Yeah, like, like your friends got like a, like a 10 year old kid. You're like, you know, be funny, let's get him a full drum set for his birthday. And don't tell the parent, you know your buddies and just show up, hey, look, I got you a drum set.

[Mike]

They're all pumped and then they can't.

[CJ]

Get rid of it and they're banging on drums all day.

[Ryan]

I like that.

[CJ]

Ben was a drummer. He, he was actually a good drummer. Unlike me, I couldn't play the drums. I was a bad drummer.

[Mike]

A good drummer. A bad drummer. If you ain't trying to listen to the drums, it's still super annoying.

[CJ]

You have like these electronic ones though. You could plug like a headset in, couldn't you?

[Ryan]

Oh yeah, that's nice.

[Mike]

Yep.

[CJ]

Do you guys still have those or do your dad get rid of them?

[Mike]

My dad, they were sitting for 13 seconds, somebody touching them and my dad threw them away. Anyone going to play these? You're getting a glass of water. No one's downstairs at the time. That really hit close home for Ben. So I take it. Yeah, he made everything. You had to lock everything down or.

[Ryan]

Have a really good reason to keep it. Like a really good one. Criminally good reason to keep it. Otherwise it was gone.

[Mike]

Bro. Going over to my parents house now or like going into my dad's garage, you just assume nothing's going.

[CJ]

No.

[Mike]

And there's just nothing in there. And I'm like, damn, I love what you've done with the. You got to give a little backstory. He's like, backstory.

[Ben]

Ben's dad, if it's not tied down, will throw it away. Because he just is about necessities.

[CJ]

And it's a good thing he doesn't like clutter. Clutter. Clutters the mind. Yeah.

[Ryan]

He's like, no, there's. I have things in the garage. Three cars and a bike.

[Mike]

Like, that's it. A screwdriver, maybe there's a broom leaning up against the wall.

[Ben]

We don't have any dust in here. Get rid of this. But it's transferred down to his son Ben. And Ben will just walk around and go, hey, what's the plan with this? What's. Ryan, what's your plan with this? Well, I mean, you better have a good reason.

[CJ]

I think that what Ben does around here is valid.

[Ben]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

[CJ]

Back it up.

[Ben]

No, I do too.

[Ryan]

Because normally I just think it's valid till it's not valid.

[Ben]

Until it hits the one thing that you want and you're like, no, no.

[Ryan]

The one thing that only been sitting.

[Ben]

There for, like, how many times I heard, what's your plan with this? When my stand up dead ski is sitting on a mattress for six months in the middle of the garage.

[Mike]

Again, a valid question. Definitely got some of that. But also, I know what it's like, so. I also cringe every time you guys.

[Ben]

Try to manage it.

[Mike]

Make some kind of reference to me being like my dad. I'm like.

[Ben]

It'S a good thing. It's like one of those things too. Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You just don't want to be too much.

[Ryan]

It's a feeling a lot of people have. It's not like you hate the feeling. You're just like, oh, I'll cringe on the cringy parts.

[Mike]

I cringe because, like, I make jokes about it to my mom or, like, my siblings.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

About my dad. And then somebody made. Makes that joke about you. I'm like, damn, apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I guess not. And I just snap. It's clutter. Clutter your mind.

[Ben]

I'm like, I'm so sorry.

[Ryan]

I am not a chip off the old block.

[Mike]

Okay, man. All right.

[CJ]

What do you got here?

[Ben]

What the heck is.

[CJ]

What do you got here?

[Ryan]

All right, well, we've. I've wanted to do a podcast with our boy Evan for a long time, but, like, he's always gone. He goes home on the weekends and has been a lot lately, so. I got him something. Got him a new pair of red shoes. Right. Because Evan loves wearing just all red shoes, but being the crazy, crazy.

[Mike]

Oh, my gosh. Oh, there goes.

[Ryan]

So, dude, they're called Epic Grind shoes.

[Mike]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ryan]

So the bottom of them has, like a. It feels metal. Like a metal thing that you see. Yes. Run up to the rail.

[CJ]

Let's surprise him with those for a video bit.

[Mike]

I'm down this when he comes home.

[CJ]

That'd be a good, good surprise.

[Ryan]

I.

[Mike]

He's a little. When our little boy comes. He was a little gloom when he was leaving. So, I mean, this is.

[Ryan]

This is going to be super fun. So I obviously bought a pair myself.

[Mike]

Oh, of course.

[Ryan]

Let's give them.

[Mike]

Dude, we're going to the skate park. It's.

[CJ]

I think you gotta hit the streets, bro.

[Ryan]

It's winter right now, but I think we could find something that's going.

[Mike]

Yeah, you're right. Going to the skate parks. A little Cheeto. We can do, like, hardcore. Yeah.

[Ryan]

We could hit indoor spots, dude. Yeah.

[CJ]

Can we play the video of the guy, like, showing, like, he was doing a tutorial on how to do tricks?

[Ryan]

Can you pull it up?

[Mike]

I'm sorry, but that made me cringe.

[CJ]

He was like, so I'm gonna run up. And he's, like, explaining, like, the three things I don't know.

[Ben]

And he did it in the coolest way possible.

[Mike]

I don't think what the guy's style.

[Ryan]

And his outfit went kind of hard, but also it was whack.

[CJ]

These are sick.

[Mike]

Let me see another one.

[CJ]

You remember Heelys?

[Ryan]

They.

[Mike]

They had time. Similar.

[CJ]

They also had the grinding.

[Ryan]

This is in the same. Yeah. Same genre, but yeah. So I remember the whole reason I ended up doing this was it was a video that I saw that was actually cool. They, like, had a couple shots. They're doing it, and I was like, whoa. And then they. I go to the website, like, what are these things? And I see the red ones. I'm like, heaven would look so good in these. And this is be too funny. I, like, tried to grab a couple other clips that they did for the podcast, and I couldn't find any other cool ones. They're all right.

[CJ]

But it's like, these guys got a better name, though. Epic Grind Shoes.

[Mike]

Straight to the point. But you know that epic grind shoes.com was taken because it's epic.com-grindshoes.com. when you're, like, going to get a domain and you got to, like, mix it up when you're trying to make.

[CJ]

An Instagram handle, but your name's been taken. You're like, okay.

[Mike]

All right. So on the bottom of these. Maybe I've just never read a warning sign. By peeling off this sticker, you agree to waive the right to sue power slide sport tech data, yada yada. And their owners offer officers, directors, employees, and or representatives for any injury, death, or property damages.

[Ben]

Oh, my God, bro.

[Mike]

And no, dude, as soon as you take this sticker off and you're able to slide these bad boys, so what if you. Yeah, man. That just shows, like, how sketchy these things.

[CJ]

Yeah, how about. How about it? When you guys do it, you gotta dress like this guy. Okay, Bro, he looks like a rollerblader in. In the year 2000.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Shoes, dude.

[Ryan]

He is a total fruit booter.

[CJ]

Just listen to the explanation over to.

[Evan]

A ledge and get used to having our feet in that position. Ankles bent, knees bent. Next, try stalling it. You can also do a royale with your other foot if that's more comfortable for you. Once you have that down, move on to the rail. Test it to see how slick it is, and practice a couple more stalls. Remember to keep your weight centered on the rail so you don't slip out. Next, let's try sliding headset plant off your left foot. Keep your ankles and knees bent and jog out to reduce on your knees. Now let's go for the whole rail. Key is to have your feet in royal position in the air so you lock into the grind immediately. So we're going to stay loose. Remember to keep your ankles and knees bent when you land on the rail.

[CJ]

Like, dude, honestly, Evan, really freaking good.

[Ben]

Yeah, he will be. I would be on the ground so fast.

[CJ]

Ryan, I feel like over skateboarding or rollerblading, you'd be much better at.

[Ben]

This because at least I can walk.

[Mike]

Yo. I just. I just got the image of Ken trying to grind something dude to be.

[Ben]

It would not go.

[Mike]

How fast would he hit? How fast would he taco his ass over that rail?

[Ben]

Ken would just do the like, lean thing like this and just. Poor guy.

[CJ]

Aren't these a remake of shoes that they were already a thing back in the day. Soap shoes.

[Mike]

I'm.

[Ryan]

I'm actually super stoked that I just decided to rip them out and show you guys, because you laughed really hard. And I was a little worried because we were all like, hahaha. This will be funny whether no matter if it's super not cool and really funny or a little both, whatever. But Evan's probably going to be like That's Cheeto, bro.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's.

[CJ]

It's Cheeto.

[Mike]

I'm starting to figure the guy out a little bit better as to, like, what he thinks are, you know, like.

[Ryan]

What do you think's cool? And what.

[Mike]

Today some CJ asked him.

[CJ]

I already knew what the answer was. I was just trying to get it.

[Mike]

I already knew what the answer was, but I was curious to see, you know, if he would say it or if he would lie. And CJ said, what do you think of the. The whips, the light up whips on the back of the razor. It's like a total dune thing. But we just left him on because the last time we drove the razor was in the dunes. And CJ goes, what do you think of just leaving the whips on? He goes, cheeto, bro. Yeah.

[Ben]

It's interesting where his loyalty lies because in some things, the. The like, standard way of doing things is Cheeto. Like, you've got to stray from the norm, but if you stray too far from the norm, then it's Cheeto. He's got. You gotta be right in the pocket.

[Mike]

And Cheeto means, like, lame or like, stupid or Evan not it.

[CJ]

You got to be core, man. That's what he is. It's all about being core, you know, like rocking the DCs and the Es still to this day, which I'm getting on. I'm getting like, I'm picking up Evan shoe game. I'm. I'm going to order some, like, some DCs and some Es, like the block shoes like I used to wear wear in 2006.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Pop up a pick right now.

[Ben]

So when you're trying, I think everyone's got to pick.

[Mike]

You probably could pop up a bunch.

[Ben]

Of like, the whole squad if you're trying to, you know, do something. You don't want to be Cheeto. You want to be Dorito.

[Mike]

Is that what he said? Oh, that's Dorito. If you said, we actually have to.

[Ben]

Say it, dude, Alex, walk out of the room. Or like, hide from that. No, because she was like, oh, my God, that was awful.

[Mike]

If you said that in front of Evan, he would just go silent and.

[Ben]

Go, so Cheeto, bro.

[Mike]

That was the most Cheeto thing I ever said, bro.

[CJ]

God, he should have been here right now, man.

[Ben]

I think if the people at home could do anything, you should send Evan Cheeto things like Cheeto branded merchandise. He would love it. He'd hang it up on his room.

[CJ]

Yeah, he does.

[Mike]

I got him Cheeto underwear.

[Ben]

I saw a Cheeto eye palette. Like makeup. I thought about buying it, but then I was like, it was like $12. And I'm like, he's gonna look at this and go, huh? And then who the would wear Cheeto? I don't know. They were all very.

[Mike]

Well, it's probably colorful, like eye palette. It's probably just orange. It's probably not actual Cheetos, which would be sweet still.

[Ben]

Who's gon.

[Ryan]

I know, but it's.

[Mike]

It is.

[Ryan]

It's different than like.

[Mike]

It'S.

[Ryan]

It's different than the. I got him the flaming hot Cheeto.

[Mike]

What do I know about makeup?

[Ryan]

Nothing much, guys. But what if I bought him that. I bought him the flaming hot shampoo, which actually does have Cheeto in it, so.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ben]

Wow.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Ryan]

That's.

[CJ]

That can't be good for your hair.

[Mike]

That cannot be. But it's also not really a shampoo. Conditioner. Body wash, toothpaste, bro. It's a seven in one and then a steak sauce. Yeah.

[CJ]

Now that would actually legitimately be Cheeto.

[Mike]

There's a. There's a been a bunch of people that just like copy our. Our videos or bits and, and we'll send them to Evan. Or if it's like something that Evan does on the channel and it's people.

[CJ]

Ripping it off and he really doesn't.

[Mike]

Like that, he really gets fired up. So just like as a joke, we all just like send these videos to Evan and he's just always like, dude, so fucking Cheeto.

[CJ]

He's going to send those guys a box of Cheetos.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Anyway, it's funny. I love, I love that term though. Cheetos. I think it's perfect.

[CJ]

Like, that's such a good term.

[Mike]

It is like, like you can kind.

[CJ]

Of assume, even if it's your first time hearing it, like, probably not good.

[Mike]

But it's not mean.

[Ben]

It's just self explanatory enough.

[Ryan]

He has so many legendary ones.

[Ben]

Have you been keeping track?

[CJ]

The best things.

[Mike]

Damn, I wish he was here.

[Ben]

I know. I. I don't know. Do you have like a solid.

[Ryan]

I mean, I have like 10 pretty solid. Some of them are probably ones you have.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But yeah, we say Cheeto now and we're like, it's fully adopted from Evan and jammed up. You probably heard us say that before.

[Mike]

Jammed up. When you're in trouble or you're in a predicament with mostly with your girl jammed up.

[Ryan]

And then we got. Cripes, that's not something Evan invented. But like, Evan brought that to like.

[CJ]

Kind of brought that back. I feel like my mom used to say crepes. Really? Back in the day. Or criminy, maybe.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

Creepers.

[Ben]

Creepers.

[Ryan]

No.

[Ben]

Jiminy.

[Ryan]

Jiminy crickets.

[Ben]

There you go.

[Ryan]

Something like, if he is like trying to turn something around and then like ended up bumping over a log or something, he'd be like, ah, Jimmy.

[Ben]

Jimmy.

[Ryan]

And he always calls his pants trousers. Classic. And then his go to is just like. If he's got a. He's just like, I got a. I'm about to pile up my shorts.

[Mike]

My trousers. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. And then my personal favorite that he just made. As soon as the Dollar General popped up in cormorant, he's like, yeah. Running down to the dollar Genital.

[Ben]

Grab a couple frozen pizzas or the liquor Barn.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So last night.

[Mike]

Grab a crisper. Yeah.

[CJ]

He calls coolers crispers. Last night, when I was leaving, we do. He says, don't let your meatloaf.

[Ryan]

Yeah, always.

[CJ]

I go, see you guys. Don't let your meatloaf.

[Mike]

What does that mean? Don't let your meatloaf.

[Ryan]

It's just like a. Funny, isn't there's.

[CJ]

I think I have an idea what it means. Like, you know, I don't think. Don't let your meatloaf. Like. Like I should be getting laid that night. That's by my girl, obviously.

[Mike]

Right?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean, don't let your meatloaf, like, it starts loafing, I'd assume, like laying around, maybe.

[Mike]

I mean, like, it's not being put to.

[CJ]

It goes bad.

[Mike]

Maybe it's just. I think it's just not fun thing to say.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Oh, that's kind of what I took it as.

[Mike]

I like, went straight to business.

[CJ]

When I got home, I was like.

[Mike]

Evan told me not to let my meatloaf. I'm not to let him down. Here it is.

[Ben]

No way.

[Mike]

I just typed in don't let your meatloaf.

[Ryan]

Urban Dictionary.

[Ben]

Here it is.

[CJ]

Urban Dictionary. A sexual expression. One guy says to another guy or group of guys when he is leaving.

[Mike]

Referring to his job. The response by the other guy is.

[CJ]

Usually something like, don't let your bag drag or don't let your carrot stick.

[Ryan]

It's a saying.

[CJ]

No, no, it's sexual expression. One guy says to another guy. So it's true.

[Ryan]

But I don't.

[Mike]

Sexual expression.

[Ryan]

I don't think it means what you just stated. I think it's just referring to his joining to his junk.

[CJ]

So just don't let your meatloaf. Maybe it means Like, I don't know, maybe. Maybe it means just like, keep it clean, though.

[Ryan]

Can you imagine, like, Evan one day reading that on Urban Dictionary? And then that's why he says it's. He's like, yeah, it's just something you say.

[Mike]

No, the reason he says everything is. Is just like the environment that he grew up in.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Geography, Northwoods. Yeah, here it is.

[CJ]

Yeah, right here. He answered the question. It is a vulgar saying suggesting you have more sex.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Ben]

Don't let your meatloaf.

[CJ]

I was right.

[Ryan]

You were right. That's all I gotta say. Literally, it. You were right.

[CJ]

You better double check with the source himself, though, Evan. We got more when he's on this podcast. Yeah, keep going.

[Ryan]

Another. And some of these are something he says every single day, and other ones he just said once that are super funny, but we're hitting golf balls into the pond and he's just like, oh, geez, you're gonna have a turtle sucking on that ball. I just died. I was like, dude, who's. Where did that come from? Every time he farts, he's like, oh, that one's drier than a popcorn fart.

[Ben]

And that actually is referring to anything that maybe should be wet but is dry. You're checking the oil on your bike. There's no oil in it. Drier than a popcorn fart.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He. He calls butts hinders.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Mike]

Tight hinders. The. The hinder finder. That's why we put hinder finder on.

[Ryan]

Like, the back of his race car, I guess.

[CJ]

Northern Top.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like, moral of the story is he is. He is our version of Ricky from Trailer Park Boys. Like, he's got a lot. He's got a lot. And we roll with it and we love it and we can't get enough of it.

[Ben]

The secret lingo of Evans.

[CJ]

Yeah, we've picked up a lot of.

[Mike]

It for Ricky is a lot.

[Ben]

I have. I'll say them. I think jammed up is one that I'll throw into a thing. And I've had a couple people.

[Ryan]

You're even your dad or your dad started saying. And I'm saying, really, you. It's just crazy. You start saying it and everyone else.

[CJ]

It's a very.

[Ben]

It's easy to pick up.

[CJ]

Well, you can get jammed up by many things. Like you get pulled over on your way to. To go out to eat with everyone.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

He got jammed up, so he's going to be a little late.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Or even like, you're at work. You got a lot of stuff to do. Jammed up at work. Jammed up is jammed up.

[CJ]

Universal Home late now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good stuff, man.

[Ben]

Now you guys got me all, like, nervous about the Stay Dorito or the.

[Ryan]

Dorito thing about whether not to.

[Ben]

Or just whether to speak in general. You know, I was thinking today, I've been trying to improve small talk. I was against small talk. I was like, cancel small talk. I said that last year. I've come around that you. You can't get away from it. So now I'm out to improve it. I've started by when you see somebody, even if you maybe have met them for the first time or if you're not sure. And Siege actually was the one that really implemented this. And it was the good to see you, not the how are you?

[CJ]

Good to see you.

[Ben]

It's a good.

[Ryan]

I guess I rip that at the end quite a bit, but that is a great line.

[Ben]

It's also. Yeah, to start out, it's a good. Instead of nice to meet you or how are you? It's. It's good to see it because then you don't have the question where they go, good. How about you? And you go, good. Yeah. And then it's just a dead end. You never go anywhere from there.

[Ryan]

That is the. Like the Holy Grail. Shitty small talk. Yeah, exactly.

[Ben]

That's just the worst start to the. To the conversation. Then you go into the how are yous and all that. So today at Aldi started off with a Just a nice morning and I went to pick up my muffins and orange juice, and there was an old guy, and we were walking past each other in the door. I said, have a good one. And he said, stay warm out there. I said, that's a. That's a nice alternative to saying goodbye. So, like, summer, you maybe say, stay frosty. Like, what's another. What's some other things you could say as. Let's go with. Let's go with goodbyes.

[CJ]

Don't let your meal.

[Ben]

Don't let your meatloaf is a great example of that.

[Ryan]

But I don't have.

[CJ]

Good.

[Ryan]

None of mine are good. Did I. I. I am the inventor of we'll be seeing you.

[Ben]

We'll be seeing you. See you, Steve.

[Ryan]

Those. None of those make sense.

[Ben]

If I don't see you. Merry Christmas.

[Mike]

That's a good one. Yeah.

[Ryan]

There's a time and a place for it.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

That one lets them think.

[Ben]

Yeah. They just go, man, what was that guy?

[CJ]

That would really throw someone off. If it's like April and you Said that to them.

[Ben]

Yeah, I might start. And I'm not one in the rotation.

[Mike]

And it's a valid thing to say, like, if I don't see you have a merry Christmas or tell your family Merry Christmas for me.

[Ryan]

You explaining this to Greta, and Greta's like, I'm gonna see you tomorrow.

[Mike]

Okay. Well, I don't know. Yeah, I would hate to just leave on a bad note.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you're like, that's what you wanted me to know. If you, like, disappeared tomorrow. Merry Christmas.

[Mike]

I think at least you got the holidays covered. The thing about, like, small talk is it is.

[CJ]

It's.

[Mike]

It's always difficult, and it's always, like, difficult on both ends, you know? Like, I don't think, like, you know, one person feels it and the other one doesn't. I just always, always just try and find, like, some form of, like, common ground. And a lot of times we, you know, hang out with fellow degenerates or, like, surround ourselves with fellow degenerates, and you just say something or bring up an event that is like, you know, well, he's a degenerate. He'll think this is funny or something like that. Usually it just, like, kind of breaks down the barrier.

[Ben]

So you think taking a little limb out is a good idea?

[Mike]

I think so, yeah.

[Ben]

Extending the olive branch of degeneracy.

[Mike]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Ryan]

I'm always riding the fine line of, like, obviously over sharing the whole. Why are you telling me this? I'm riding that.

[Mike]

You guys see, there's two. But you can't overshare too much. You just have to say, like. Like, I always just try and just, like, make some kind of joke and then maybe like, hit them and, like, laugh and. And then he'll. They're just confused.

[Ryan]

But, like, as time. As time goes on, I've got not.

[Mike]

Sit there and waste the dude's time saying something that is gonna end with, why are you telling me this?

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, no one actually says that. I don't think anyone actually says that.

[Ben]

I'd be.

[Ryan]

I'd love it if they did. But no, I've gotten better at it. And Sydney was saying she's like, every time you meet someone in the airport or like, wherever, I never know if you. If you know them really well or if you don't know them at all. Not never know, but just a social butterfly. That's a good thing. Like, if you can. If you can treat someone like someone else is watching you and you, like. Yeah. They think that you're good friends and Pretty good interaction.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's good.

[CJ]

For sure.

[Ben]

You are like that.

[Ryan]

I love every person.

[Ben]

Yeah. I mean, you just love meeting people.

[Mike]

Dude, meeting a fan is like, that's easy. It's so easy. Yeah, you know, you're right. Because it really is the common ground.

[Ben]

I try to always give, we all do the best experience because I met a guy that I really looked up to. Vegas Mac. I met him in Vegas. It was my. It was my true. It was my first true starstruck moment. I walk around the corner, there he is at the Raiders game. This guy. High stakes, gambles all the time. I'm a big fan. I love gambling. It's great. I can watch him win or lose. I get. I get the itch scratch, but I don't have to do it. And I was stoked to meet him and really always wanted to. I'd even send him a dm. I was like, hey, man, we're in Vegas. Would love to just.

[Mike]

Oh, you did.

[Ben]

Just know. You know, like, wherever you're at, like, it'd be cool to meet you, you know, because he does that. He's out and about. No response. That's okay. Anyway, so he goes, yeah, it's cool. He was great to talk to. And I was so stoked. I was like, this is awesome. And he goes, you know what? I actually need a picture with some Vikings fans. And as you guys are playing the Raiders today, I go, yeah, that'd be great. So I'm like, it's so cool I get to be in a picture with him. So all the four of us, you two, Grandpa Ron hopping a picture he's gonna post on Snapchat. So I'm all excited, I'm refreshing. Wait, supposed to tell after the game. I look and he cropped me out of it. Yeah, I was heartbroken.

[Mike]

Pretty funny.

[Ryan]

And you think he did it on purpose?

[Ben]

No, I think he just did it because there was only so many people you could fit in the picture. And he went, who's funnier? These two?

[CJ]

Or was it me and Ben in it?

[Ben]

Yeah, you two and Grandparon.

[CJ]

I just kind of knew who he was, but I didn't really know what he looked like.

[Mike]

And then by the time I think.

[CJ]

I turned around and he was asking to take a picture with us, and I thought he was like a.

[Ben]

So you're like, oh, okay.

[Mike]

And then you explained to me, I was like, wow, that's crazy.

[Ben]

No.

[Mike]

Is that why you posted the picture of me, you and him on your Instagram, but you didn't tag him.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I needed to really just show it to him.

[Ben]

I needed a picture for the carousel, but I didn't want to tag him.

[Ryan]

Unreal.

[Ben]

Well, guys, it's a good time.

[CJ]

Hopefully the listeners enjoyed it because I had fun.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I do love chatting with you guys.

[CJ]

And we're getting back in the swing of filming things. We got one one video segment filmed under our belt. We got another one coming up in a day or two that we're gonna run, and we're getting back in the swing of things. 20, 24, baby.

[Ryan]

Chug.

[Mike]

Stay tuned to watch the shoe grinds.

[CJ]

And thank you for 200, 000 subscribers. Let's go. We're going up.