Sacrificing Safety To Make CboysTV Videos

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Sacrificing Safety To Make CboysTV Videos"

Life Wide Open with CboysTV – October 17, 2023

---

Main Theme / Purpose

In this episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, and Evan—bring listeners behind the scenes of creating their high-adrenaline, often chaotic YouTube videos. They reflect on the balance between creativity, safety, and the relentless pressure to produce regular content. The episode also covers candid team dynamics, viral internet moments, the dangers (and hilarity) of Monster Jam, how technology is creeping into daily life, AI’s impact, and plenty of personal anecdotes. True to CboysTV’s style, the conversation is lighthearted, humorous, and sprinkled with sharp wit.

---

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Balancing Creativity, Speed & Safety in Video Production

• The Posting Schedule Pressure: The regular YouTube schedule keeps the team creative, but also sometimes results in rushed builds or risky decisions.
  • Ben: "With our weekly posting schedule, oftentimes we will put other things aside that should be considered to make it happen, which I don't know if that's really the right move. I don't think it is the right move." [10:01]
• Rushed vs. Well-Thought Decisions: Learning when to go with gut-instinct decisions and when to pause, plan, and prioritize safety.
  • Ken: "If you don't actually think out the practicality of it, then things can go extremely wrong." [09:36]
• Sacrificing for Success: The sacrifices behind the scenes—lack of sleep, stressing over deadlines, and sometimes even risking physical safety.
  • CJ: "You can't rush things and then you can't go too slow... some people go too fast and they make mistakes and a lot of people go too slow and they don't end up doing anything." [09:47]

2. Group Dynamics & Team Decision-Making

• Decision Paralysis vs. Fast Action: Discussion on the benefits of having someone step up and make a call, especially for groups.
  • Ken: "There's something to be said about making decisions fast and being able to stick with them." [06:38]
• Accountability From Their Audience: Fans expect the Thursday night drop, which drives the team's commitment—even if, realistically, loyal fans might tune in regardless of minor delays.
  • Ken: "I really don't know if it matters at this point... but still, I feel like, some sense of, like, not wanting to let those people down that are waiting." [12:34]
• Go With The Flow Mentality: Playful acknowledgment that Ken is an extreme example of ‘go with the flow’, having joined the wild world of YouTube through a mix of luck and openness to new experiences.

3. Safety and Quality vs. Deadline

• Actual Sacrifices: They admit safety sometimes comes second to deadlines and viewer expectations.
  • Ben: "Sometimes it jeopardizes—well, the only thing it truly jeopardizes is safety." [10:29]
• Quality Trade-offs: The push to post on time sometimes slightly reduces the video quality, but the team's creatively “backs against the wall” often yield their best ideas.
  • Ken: "When your back is up against the wall... that's when you get the most creative." [10:55]

4. YouTube Culture, Vlogging, and Self-Reflection

• Vlogs vs. Project-Based Videos: Transition from vlogging to bigger ideas, keeping things “just entertaining,” not just routine.
  • Ken: "I think we're the most underrated like YouTube creators—consistency, ideas, and caliber—week after week." [14:30]
• Midwest Work Ethic: Attribution of their success to relentless work and “just getting it done.”
  • CJ: "We just start. This is just what you do. You just work, you know." [15:10]

5. Internet Trends, Viewer Interactions, and Personal Style

• Funny Moments & Trolls: Lighthearted banter about threats of golf balls being dumped at the shop and playful fan interactions.
• Late-Night Shenanigans: After-hours riding and goofing around that keep the “inner kid” alive for the team.
  • Ben: "If anything, that's like what's truly keeping us young." [28:33]
• Fashion & Confidence Talk: Jokes about sunglasses, questionable style choices, and the elusive “swagger” required to pull off wild or quirky looks.

6. Tech Talk: Ads, Privacy & AI

• Invasive Ads and Tech Eavesdropping: Creepy coincidence of ads matching private conversations, suspicion that phones are always listening.
  • CJ: "I don't think you're going tinfoil hat saying that our phone is listening. It's just a matter of fact." [31:26]
• AI's Impact on Jobs: Mixed feelings about AI’s rapid advance, automation, and how it might eliminate or transform jobs.
  • Evan: "100 years ago, most jobs people work at today didn't exist... In 100 years from now, a lot of jobs people think are common today probably will not exist." [73:03]

7. Monster Trucks, Viral Fails & Living Entertaining Lives

• Monster Jam Fandom: Enthusiastic recounting of meeting Ryan Anderson of Gravedigger and awe at the punishing stunts monster truck drivers endure.
  • Ken: "That is way fucking crazier in my head that, like, you're out there doing that and you're also getting beat the shit out of. You're just doing it for the entertainment of the people." [67:28]
• Wild Video Reactions: Review and laughter over insane crash videos and viral moments featuring unexpected accidents and meme-worthy scenarios.

8. AI-Generated Content and Satire

• Joking about AI-created Spongebob rap and country songs, as well as The Onion’s satirical news fooling the public.
  • Ben: "Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Patrick, and Spongebob. And you guys... it's fire. Like, it's heat." [70:22]

9. Heartfelt / Humorous Personal Stories

• Family drawing mishaps, misunderstandings about “being addicted to Coke” (as in Coca Cola), and classic school/principal stories.
  • Ryan: "In elementary school, I. It casually mentioned in passing that my dad was addicted to Coke because he loves Coca Cola soda... Get into the principal's office... and then it came out that my dad has just a lot of Coca Cola." [61:09]

---

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Decision-Making and Safety
  "If you don't actually think out the practicality of it, then things can go extremely wrong." — Ken [09:36]

• Pressure of YouTube Schedules
  "We're like such a slave to the schedule, which sucks." — Ken [11:18]

• Midwest Work Ethic
  "We just start. This is just what you do. You just work, you know." — CJ [15:10]

• Audience Expectation
  "I feel bad ... they're like, 'yeah, our whole family watches every Thursday when it's late.' I'm like, they're all sitting on the couch." — CJ [12:52]

• Dangers of Monster Jam
  "You're just doing it for the entertainment of the people." — Ken [67:28]

• Phone Privacy
  "I don't think you're going tinfoil hat saying that our phone is listening. It's just, it's a matter of fact." — CJ [31:26]

• On Drastic Wardrobe Changes
  Ben: “There’s something to be said, though, about too hard of a change up... The slower the better. But if you’re just, like, one day I want to wear this, then everyone’s going to—that is different.” [43:44]

• On Style and Swagger
  "Some people got the swagger. Some people don't." — Ken [46:16]

• Family Kid's Drawing (Hilarious Misunderstanding)
  CJ: “That’s a whole lot of dicks in your family, huh?” [58:53]

---

Timestamps for Important Segments

• [10:01] – Creative pressure vs. safety in video production
• [12:34] – Responsibility to audience and ‘slave to the schedule’
• [14:30] – Underrated YouTube creators: pride and consistency
• [31:26] – “Our phones are listening”: ads and privacy
• [67:28] – Monster Jam and the pain behind the stunts
• [70:22] – AI-generated Spongebob and internet music satire
• [58:53] – Family tree drawing that looks hilariously explicit
• [61:09] – The ‘addicted to Coke’ misunderstanding story

---

Conclusion / Closing Tone

The episode blends heartfelt reflection, inside jokes, internet absurdity, and raw honesty about the risks and rewards of living Life Wide Open. The CboysTV crew’s camaraderie and unapologetic pursuit of fun are always palpable, with plenty of relatable asides on friendship, fashion faux pas, and navigating the glitchy, surveillance-laden waters of 21st-century internet fame.

---

For those who didn’t listen:
This episode provides a hilarious and insightful peek into the Cboys’ real lives—where the daily grind, wild stunts, and fan expectations all collide, and where laughter is never in short supply. Whether you’re after business tips, tales of friendship, or just a good dose of “Midwest hustle meets YouTube chaos,” this is classic Life Wide Open material.

Transcript

[Ken]

Ev, here's my car. Start up. He's like, all right, perfect. Fun's about to start.

[Ben]

Tell Ken I'm coming after his cars.

[CJ]

Ken's twins.

[Ryan]

Nothing makes your girl happy like saying, look, babe. Look how unappealing I am to other women.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

What were you looking at here again?

[Evan]

I think that picture got edited.

[Ryan]

Hey, Kenny, you want to come to your favorite activity and podcast?

[Evan]

Yes, I am getting some stuff printed.

[CJ]

Out for them and then I'll head up there.

[Ryan]

All right, sounds good.

[Ben]

We're rolling, you guys. Welcome back to another Life Wide open podcast. I. I thought we were not going to get graced with the presence of Ken. I really came around on him, you guys, as a person. Yeah, yeah. To liking him. Yeah, it's been tough. No, no, but I. I thought we weren't going to have him today. It's a merch drop week, so he's got a bunch of great helpers down there and he's got to keep them.

[Ryan]

Well, it's hard because he can't have a robots like crack the whip on them.

[Ken]

Yeah, he saves that for himself.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he gets so much personal enjoyment out of doing it.

[Ben]

But he's printing out orders, but he.

[Ken]

Saves the robot to crack the whip on him.

[CJ]

I know.

[Ken]

C.J. understood that. I hear, though.

[Ben]

I can't believe we already turned it into us talking about here. He's not here, but, yeah, you guys, I. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.

[CJ]

You're pissed off or what?

[Ben]

You know, that's a good question, because I'm never pissed off, but no, I woke up all frantic. So. Merch drop last night? You know, it's been. It's been a great week working late. But then last night I was like, well, I'll probably just catch up on sleep. You had stuff to do in Fargo Podcast at one. Guess what time I woke up.

[CJ]

One.

[Ken]

One.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

That's impressive.

[Ben]

So thank you guys, everyone listening, and especially the people that bought merch that are blowing up our phone. I know I can turn that off, but it's fun to have it on the notifications on for when we get a sale. It's cool. So I didn't have. I didn't have the sound on, but vibrate on. So it's like Sydney says, I gotta turn to do not disturb.

[Ryan]

Makes sense.

[Ben]

Stop. Yeah, whenever I turn my phone on, do not disturb that. Those are the aggressive Lee late sleep ins.

[Ryan]

Well, doesn't your alarm still go off?

[Ben]

I didn't do that because I was like, I. We get to sleep in today. This will be great. And then I wake up at nine. Okay. An hour. An hour more. One. It's just like. I mean, I know you guys are not surprised, but I'm just like.

[CJ]

That's almost like a whole nother night of sleep.

[Ken]

I know.

[Ben]

Especially for me. Like, some. You know, some nights I'm like, five hours. Anyway, then Sidney goes like, are you mad at me? Because I wake up all frantic.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. And you're like, I gotta go.

[Ben]

And I'm like, nope, I'm mad at myself.

[Ryan]

The worst type of mad.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Do you think that you have. It's not sleep apnea. It's not. It's not insomnia. What is it?

[CJ]

It's.

[Ben]

No, it's not. Narcolepsy.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I wouldn't be allowed on the road for one. And I don't think I'd be allowed to drive.

[Ken]

What's, like, the definition of it?

[Ben]

It's a condition where you fall asleep very randomly. Like, I guess regardless of kind of.

[Ryan]

How tired, whatever's going on, you could, like, you could be at a concert and you just.

[Ken]

Out. That's what that. That's what that means.

[Ben]

Yeah. No, no, no. You know who actually kind of has that but doesn't have narcolepsy? Roscoe. In Danny Duncan's videos. One of his good buddies. He's in the videos all the time. He was getting arrested for just whack reasons. But, yeah, he was getting arrested in one of his videos. He. They, like, had him in cuffs, and he's leaning up against the cop car, and he just decides to take a nap. Close his eyes.

[Ryan]

Seriously?

[Ben]

Yeah. And then they're all laughing. They're like, yeah, look at him. Of course he's sleeping. That's not a good look. But, yeah, he did that. And I was like, wow.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It's interesting how he's always sleeping. I did notice that.

[Ryan]

That's got to be induced by something like. That's not. Just like, he's a really sleepy dude.

[CJ]

You think it's drugs?

[Ryan]

Well, I'm not going to accuse. I don't know. Never met the guy. Hope to, but never met him. So I don't know what his deal is.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's hard to say, but past me waking up on the wrong side of the bed, you guys know me. I bounce back. And here we are.

[Ryan]

What do you think makes the difference between a good and a bad day? Everybody's had them, but, like, you have a day where you just wake up on the wrong side and you're just in a bad mood. Why do you think that happens?

[Ben]

The biggest part for me is whether you're excited or dreading what's happening.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, and. And it's. I'm talking like a threshold. Like a 50. 50 threshold. If you're 51, happy that the day is gonna go good, then you start cranking it up. But if you're 49 or below sad that. That you have something coming up today that's either going to be a lot of work, take a lot of time, or other things, like you sleep in, you're late, you start to talk down the whole day.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[CJ]

But that just snowballs. You can't. You can't.

[Ben]

Exactly. No. Totally snowballs.

[CJ]

It's the same way with, like, going into it thinking it's going to be great. Like, that snowballs, too. Like, it's just all the. The way you approach it, I think.

[Ken]

Yeah. You just have to go through life expecting nothing and just stay even. Don't get excited. Don't get sad.

[CJ]

That is honestly a good way to do it.

[Ben]

It really is.

[CJ]

I mean, you're not disappointed or excited.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Can you imagine?

[Ben]

Yes.

[Ken]

Every day's the same. If you don't know what you're gonna get. If you, like, don't know about that.

[Ben]

What personality to have or what way to live your life, Go with the flow is the most solid option.

[Ryan]

I mean, true. It's probably the easiest.

[CJ]

Maybe.

[Ryan]

Maybe it's.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

[CJ]

Ken, he's had a pretty hard life. Has he? Well, being our friends, being a go.

[Ryan]

With the flow guy could be a little stressful.

[CJ]

He went along with this.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Could have had the day off.

[Ken]

He did go along with this.

[CJ]

He went along with it, and now he's here.

[Ken]

This is actually the. An extreme version of go with the flow. Like, no. This is like, I hear Ken wants to be a YouTuber.

[Ben]

It's like a goat.

[CJ]

He was going with the flow, and now he's here. It's like, well, he's. He hopped on the train and. And he is so far from home, there's no going back.

[Ken]

He's like, look, it's like an open, open wall on the train. You could drop. You could jump off, but it would be a pretty abrupt landing. And he's just sitting there just like, I wonder if this train's going to slow down.

[CJ]

I'm too far from home to go back.

[Ryan]

And every day the train starts moving a little bit faster, so it's harder to Jump off. But I mean, God damn, he was born. Born for it.

[Ken]

I think going with the flow just matters in the situation that you're in and the group of people you're around. Like in situations that I'm in with you guys, though. So, like, somebody has to make a decision and everyone else is usually happier that somebody made a decision. And then we just rally behind it and we just go with it.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And like, I do that even with, with Greta when we're like, trying to decide something. Like she's so, like, wishy washy on, like, where to go and eat or what movie to watch or something like that. And I'll just like, make a decision. And usually I know immediately whether she wants to do it or not. But I think there's something to be said about making decisions, like, fast and being able to stick with them. I feel like so many people just waste their time just like not knowing what to do or is this the right thing? And I think everyone does it and it's hard not to. But there's something to be said about just like, it really probably doesn't matter that much as long as you just. Yeah, just make the call and just go with it.

[CJ]

Gotta keep moving.

[Ben]

Yeah. Or then when you get really wise, that's when you make the call for fast decisions or well thought out decisions. You know, when to make those. You know, like, there's certain things we're making a fast decision, we look back and go, oh, my gosh, I'm glad we just decided to do this and run with it. We're better off. And then other times where we're like, why do we not put any thought into that?

[Ken]

Well, there's some. Yeah, no, I guess making like a quick decision, but, like, usually we're just.

[Ben]

Making one at all.

[Ken]

But I think there is something to be said about, like, actually thinking things through. And the older that I guess I get, like, the more I think about things, and I guess that takes a little bit more time. But I try and not put it between, like, two different options of like, thinking about one thing and then like, thinking that thought process out more in depth.

[Ben]

Yeah. Almost taking the one idea that I guess is in your gut and then further engineering that idea and. Yeah, yeah. I mean, for a good example, real quick, you guys were working on the, the. The tall pit bike video. That's doing very well. Appreciate it, guys.

[Ken]

Really well, the tandem pit bike record for us.

[Ben]

We're working with Big Wrench's son, Gavin. He. Well, we'll call him Little Wrench. But you, you and Evan were down there like helping him out a lot, you know, like just bouncing ideas off each other. And I think that is partially why it went so well, 100%. We rarely end videos where something doesn't break, especially when we build it ourselves, I guess. Especially when it's a Facebook marketplace build too. But yeah, you put so much brain power into it and it worked out well to them.

[CJ]

Made it to the end of the video.

[Ken]

Amazing. Yeah, I'm very surprised on that, honestly. Well, I think we've just gotten in so many situations when we made that rail, like that hundred foot rail for the razor to like grind on.

[Ben]

It's a good example of.

[Ken]

It's a, it's a crazy idea. But it was just like little thought went into it and I was kind of like, you know, helping big ranch make the decisions on like how big to go, how wide to go and like all these things, I just wasn't thinking things through straight. And then you end up getting your shit rocked because of it and even felt extremely guilty because of that. But like it tell, you know, there's so many, I guess projects and just like things that we do day to.

[Ben]

Day, but we learn from it.

[Ken]

Yeah, you learn from it. But like if you don't actually think out the, the worst or you know, the, the practicality of it, then things can go extremely wrong.

[CJ]

Yeah, I was just going to say there's a balance, man. You can't rush things and then you can't go too slow though. Yeah, like a lot of people go too fast and they make mistakes and a lot of people go too slow and they don't end up doing anything. Then.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You know what I'm saying?

[Ben]

And then to like make it even.

[CJ]

More in depth, that one we did too fast. Like if we wouldn't have had a posting schedule, we would have been like, you know, the dirt doesn't look right here. Let's fix that so that way there's not the little hump on it. Let's like. But with our weekly posting schedule, oftentimes we will put other things aside that should be considered to make it happen, which I don't know if that's really the right move. I don't think it is the right move.

[Ben]

And you know, sometimes it jeopardizes. Well, the only thing it truly jeopardizes is safety. Other than that, it's just like us.

[CJ]

Losing sleep, I think safety and quality of video though. Well, yeah, but obviously like you could have two weeks to work on A video that maybe takes a week and a half and it'll only be 10% better. Mm.

[Ryan]

That's the thing. There's it.

[CJ]

In one week, it might be 10 worse, but then you move on. I don't know. You know, it's weird. You know what I'm saying?

[Ken]

There's something about it, though, that keeps us, like, accountable. And I think, like, when your back is up against the wall or you're putting a corner, you have to do it. That's when you get the most creative. And that's when, yeah, you know, your brain power starts firing because you don't have an option. And I honestly do think that we would probably, if we were like, oh, well, we don't have to do it.

[CJ]

We would just be, like, chilling and.

[Ken]

We'Ll come up with it. And then usually you just don't.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

So, like, there is something to be said about that, but that's. We're like such a slave to the. To the schedule, which sucks.

[Ben]

And that's where it comes down to what I'm talking about. Getting more wise, which we are all. Every single week. Then you start to make decisions faster. When your back's up against the wall. You may. I should say, when your back's up against the wall, you make decisions better.

[Ryan]

Well, you only have one way to go. You have to go that way. You can't go back that way.

[Ben]

But it's less of a panicked answer now than it ever was.

[CJ]

That is a weird saying, though, that we're a slave to the schedule and we set the schedule. We're literally a slave to ourselves. I sometimes think that I'm like, what?

[Ben]

Well, or we set the schedule that now is a movement, let's say, you know, but. But the schedules now is way deeper.

[CJ]

Than us because, like, people be like, oh, aren't you your own boss? Like, why don't you just. You can do your. Like, what do you mean you can't go do this this day. I'm like, I can. I gotta go.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

My, like, line about that has always been that when you're your own boss or you have your own company, you get to set the hours, but if you don't work enough, you won't have a job to come home to or to go to work too. You know? Like, you're. It'll. It'll fail around you.

[Ken]

Yeah, I think. I think, like, the thing about it, though, is, like, I think about so many people that, like, sit there and wait at 7 o' clock on Thursday.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

For like, the post.

[Ken]

And that also plays a factor in it, too. But, like, I really don't know if it matters at this point. Like, I think people are gonna watch no matter what. And, like, that's the beauty of, I think, like, the following that we've built. But still, I feel like, some sense of, like, not wanting to. To let those people down that are waiting.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's what I feel like, too. I feel bad. They're like, yeah, our whole family watches every Thursday when it's late. I'm like, they're all sitting on the couch. I'm like.

[Ken]

There'S that.

[Ryan]

You know, the Andersons are sitting there, and they're just like, when. When's CJ gonna get this done, man?

[CJ]

They're probably not saying cj.

[Ben]

Which we. Yeah, we get a lot of people reaching out that say that. Which is very flattering, and I think that's cool. But also. Yeah. I mean, on a real note, it is a partial give and take with the caliber of our videos now. So, again, like, last week's video, it was banger or both. I mean, so many banger videos. Yeah. That if they go out an hour late or an hour too late, it doesn't matter because they're so banger. But I think if we were just doing vlogs, we'd be able to stay on a schedule, and then people could watch them on Thursday.

[Ken]

Still do vlogs? Like, do people still make.

[Ryan]

Unless you're, like, really famous. I feel like that's the only people that can get away with.

[Ben]

Yeah. Like. Like, I would consider, like, Alex. Hey, plenty.

[Ryan]

Crushing it.

[Ben]

Plenty of. Plenty of female vloggers out here, like, playing.

[Ken]

Well, if you're hot, you can do whatever you want.

[Ben]

But, like, the Deacons do vlogs, and. And that's a great example. And I think they should. Yeah, they, you know, they have a weekly vlog, or. I don't know how often they.

[Ryan]

The damn Kardashians of the motor.

[Ben]

So you can't on. On vlogging. But I'm. I'm, like, pumped that we have moved on from that. And now it's just, like. It's just entertaining. Like, we are living to entertain, and it's been so fun making that.

[Ken]

Dude, I. I say this as humbly as possible, but I think we're the most underrated, like, YouTube creators, like, for the consistency and the ideas and the caliber, like, week after week after week. For, like, I say we've been doing this well for, like, four years. Like, that's crazy. That's Crazy.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I mean, I think. Yeah. We don't have much to say because it's like. I agree. But also we are. I mean, dude, the subs are going up fast. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

[Ryan]

I hope. Sorry, what you said.

[CJ]

I just think we got that. That Midwest northerner work ethic.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You know, like, we just start. This is just what you do. You just work, you know.

[Ryan]

Yep. And I hope one day the outcome of, like, the thought process like that. It's like when you see a professional athlete, like, all of a sudden get really good one season. They spent the last three years working really hard to be good at some point. And I hope that the outcome of that is then one day we are really beyond our comprehension.

[Ben]

The only way to do it, it's.

[Ryan]

Unfortunately part of it.

[Ben]

You know, I mean, a motocross racer is a great example. Like, those guys are. You know, the people who are winning are sacrificing, like 90% of their lives.

[Ryan]

Yeah. To be good.

[Ken]

You guys excited for the Logan Paul?

[Ben]

Yes.

[Ken]

Dude, I'm so pumped.

[Ben]

Yes.

[CJ]

People will know, I guess, the result already if they because it this. But Saturday, tomorrow we're watching that.

[Ken]

Who do you guys got? Logan, Paul, Dylan, Dennis.

[Ben]

I guess. I guess I got Logan. Yeah.

[Ken]

You think he's gonna win or do you want him to win?

[Ben]

All I want is that it not to be.

[Ryan]

I want both people to have fun.

[CJ]

I'm honestly, like, I'm not. I won't care who wins. Both results will be entertaining. I think if Dylan Danis wins, it'll be even more entertaining. But I don't really want to pray or wish. I don't wish anything negative on Logan.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[CJ]

But obviously, either way, someone's going to get the. The end of the stick on this deal. If Dylan wins, not only does he beat him, but he talked so much personal on, like, Logan and his fiance. And it's very obvious that Logan, he doesn't take talk well. Clearly. Well. Or at least Dylan really struck a chord. That.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That really ticked him off because you can just tell he's, like, angry.

[Ryan]

Actually flustered about it.

[CJ]

Actually flustered about it. You know, he's not just like. It's not just a standard talk fighting type of stuff. He's, like, so flustered about it.

[Ben]

We'll see.

[Ken]

You guys see what happened in the press conference yesterday?

[CJ]

Yeah, I did.

[Ken]

Throwing a microphone, dude. Dylan, Dan. So Logan Paul, like, stands up, throws like a. Like a prime.

[CJ]

He hucked that bottle really hard, but, I mean.

[Ken]

Throws it at him.

[CJ]

Hit him in the chest, like.

[Ken]

And then clearly wasn't bumping for us.

[CJ]

He wasn't aiming for his head.

[Ken]

And then Dylan Danis grabs his mic, flips it around and like chucks it at him.

[CJ]

Bounce it off his head, I think.

[Ryan]

No way.

[CJ]

Really see it?

[Ken]

No, bounce it off his head. He cut like, he had to get like, cut him open.

[CJ]

Honestly. Honestly, like, what the Logan doing? He started that. He threw the bottle at him.

[Ryan]

Right.

[CJ]

And to be fair, it's a savage move. And it's the boxing game. It's a savage game. So like, honestly, he just got out savage. Like he threw a water bottle at him and hit him in the chest. And then he got whacked with a microphone, a heavy microphone in the face.

[Ryan]

There's such a delicate balance of being a lunatic and being entertaining.

[CJ]

I think one thing's for sure is Dylan Danis is an idiot. So, I mean, what do you expect an idiot to do? That's an idiot thing to, you know. And like, obviously it's going to help. Now Dylan probably in the fight because he's going to have a. A cut that's going to probably be easy to tear. You know, think about that. Because if he. And then it opens up, he could be bleeding. Bleeding his eye. He now can't see out that eye. Yeah, I don't know, man.

[Ryan]

It could be.

[CJ]

That could have been a really pivotable moment in the outcome of this fight.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Ken]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. If he does have like stitches or whatever, it's still gonna like, you get punched right there. That's gonna hurt.

[CJ]

I think the other thing is like he. He like whacked him with the mic and then like, Logan didn't even like really respond. You know, he like just turned away and like.

[Ken]

And then his security guard threw a bottle and it hit him in the head again.

[CJ]

Yeah, he got like, oh my God. One of Dylan Secur. So not get whacked with the mic. And then he's like slightly covered and there's a small pocket. Hits him back in the head with a water bottle.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[CJ]

And then like, he just turns around, like has his face down and like runs off. It was interesting cuz like if you're a fighter and you're like going to fight. I don't know, it just showed like the.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's interesting.

[CJ]

I don't know, like the line or.

[Ken]

Whatever dog in you, you know, Like.

[CJ]

I feel like most dogs are like, you know, high. They would have just seen red and went after them or or, you know, like, they would have tried, but he just, like, turned away and, like, ran off the stage. So that makes me wonder, like, is he. He might even be hurt worse than. I'm sure it hurt. Yeah, dude getting whacked with a mic in the head.

[Ryan]

These are heavy.

[CJ]

Hopefully he's not, like, concussed or anything from it, because that'd be even worse probably, than realistically having the cut. Because then it's like, it'll be even easier to knock him out or. Yeah, put him down.

[Ryan]

But I wonder if that's a testament to his overall or his feelings about this fight. I would say he is a big dog in any fight, whether. And that's proven over his many, many years of being a personality of.

[CJ]

He's like an alpha.

[Ryan]

Yeah, an alpha, exactly. But I wonder if he feels like he's beat. Like, you can have two alpha wolves, but one alpha wolf gets overpowered and then he backs away.

[Ken]

That's a good point.

[CJ]

You know, say that I feel like Dylan's an Alpha over Logan, but if.

[Ryan]

You won the fight or the pre fight.

[CJ]

Yeah, he definitely probably won the pre fight.

[Ben]

That's what I'm saying with the pre fight. It is funny that it came down to. So if you and myself are throwing snowballs at each other, and let's say I like lob three at you and then hit you one in the chest, and then you throw one and smoke me in the middle of the forehead. You won that snowball throw.

[CJ]

That was the last snowball thrown. You turned away.

[Ben]

Yeah, especially. So then just to dumb it down to just them throwing things at each other, it essentially Dylan did win with a mic to the head.

[CJ]

I think Logan's going to be a better boxer, personally, because he's just been boxing around seriously for, you know, taking it seriously for a long time. Three years. And Dylan just started.

[Ryan]

Is he mma?

[CJ]

Sorry, yeah, he's mma, but he's. He's specialized in Brazilian Jiu jitsu, so, like, that's like, you know, takedowns and stuff that. It's very applicable in mma, but you're not going to use any of that. Boxing has nothing to do with it.

[Ben]

All right, so we'll watch this here. And I guess you guys already know who won, but, like, he started that. Oh.

[Ken]

Oh.

[Ben]

It was close range.

[Evan]

That was just.

[Ken]

I don't know.

[CJ]

Yeah, and he hit him.

[Ben]

He.

[CJ]

It's. It's known that he hit him.

[Ken]

Yeah, there's like another angle.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[CJ]

You gotta watch the higher up angle.

[Ken]

You can Kind of see him, like, bleeding as he walks away.

[Ryan]

Really, Dude, I was not expecting that. I was expecting the. Like when you're farther away, when you're 25ft away at a table and, like, you're throwing, like, distance.

[CJ]

One thing's for sure is Dylan Danis knows how to sell a fight. Like, he's doing a great job selling fight. Oh, if it's just his cheek, it's probably not too bad. You'd have to be more worried about.

[Ken]

Oh.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

He got swiped.

[CJ]

His guy smiling.

[Ken]

The security.

[Ryan]

Well, the security guard. To give a little bit of defense. The security guard's pushing his head down and trying to get him away.

[CJ]

What happens if you get in a fight at the press conference? So now, is that, like, because obviously you punch someone in a boxing match, it's a sport. But you are at the press conference like that, and you punch someone in the face. Is that now assault man, or do you have to?

[Ken]

I think it probably depends who it is.

[CJ]

Who's the guy who got punched? Like, maybe just chalk it up to the game. Like, this is what I signed up for.

[Ben]

I guess that's what I was wondering. Like, I was just wondering that too. It's only technically assault if he presses charges, and if you press charges on that, I think it'd be lame.

[Ken]

Remember when Conor McGregor threw? Yeah, that was into the. Into the van. That was bus.

[Ryan]

My introduction into fighting. Like, that was kind of. Right. Happening as I was getting into it. That was crazy, dude.

[Ken]

I mean, one of the first fights I remember is what, like, watching at. At Dave's. Jake's dad's really into boxing fights. We used to always watch the. The boxing or. Or UFC fights there at his house. I just remember sitting on the couch watching Khabib beat McGregor and then jump out of the ring and then punch Dylan Danis.

[Ben]

Oh, that was.

[Ken]

Yeah. I mean, this guy, he pisses everyone off. So, like, Khabib, Wow. Hopped out of the octagon and punched Dylan Danis in the crowd.

[CJ]

He, like, tried to.

[Ben]

I remember him punching some.

[CJ]

Stomp him, basically. He, like. He jumped and, like, crouched and, like, almost look like he was gonna try and, like, double foot stomp him out of the air. Dude, that was one of the most electric fight fights, honestly, because it's like the whole build up to it was fantastic. Obviously Connor loses and gets choked out, but then the aftermath and, like, all that came from it, like, that is truly an entertainment spectacle.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah. And that's, I think, was better than anything. That's one of the best fights.

[Ken]

No, I don't think anything is compared to that.

[CJ]

I know, I know.

[Ryan]

The atmosphere of that room, too.

[CJ]

Yeah. I was going to say, not only was it.

[Ryan]

I've been smiling the whole time just thinking about it.

[Ken]

When he jumped out of the ring, I remember all of us just getting.

[CJ]

Oh, my God, what is going on? What was more nuts, though, is, like, right after that all died down. Like, they're taking people out. We were in this room full of. There was a lot of people, and there was this couple there, and they were fighting. Like, not physically, but they were in, like, this verbal argument, and it was like yelling. So there was so much going on. It was like this. Obviously we're watching fighting, which is already like, you're. You're pretty amped up, but then that happens after the fight, so you're really amped up, and then a fight breaks out, like a. A verbal altercation right in front of you. And we were, like, kind of young still, where we weren't, like, super. Not that we are now, but we're not well versed in relationships or, like, you know, how things go, how to read the ruler, or even even been in many situations similar to that where we know how to handle it. So we just sat there just, like, trying to look the other way.

[Ryan]

We're trying to become invisible.

[CJ]

So awkward, but so funny when we look back.

[Ken]

Not that.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[Ben]

You know, bad time to get in a little verbal argument when you got.

[CJ]

Six of us around here.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, there's a lot more people than that.

[Ken]

Forever been a meme.

[CJ]

Six years later, they got a freaking podcast, and they're talking about you.

[Ryan]

It's like everybody's worst nightmare.

[CJ]

Yeah, we're not dropping names. That's all good.

[Ben]

But anyway, speaking of beefs, get a text from a random number that says, ready for more golf balls, question mark.

[Ken]

We are. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ben]

You know what's funny is that we actually have. We have hit all of our golf balls into the pond or onto the track.

[Ken]

So.

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, okay, so you could.

[CJ]

Just go out there, pick them up, put them in a bucket for us, leave them by the door.

[Ken]

We'll.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it'd be nice.

[Ben]

Way easier.

[CJ]

Hold on.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So then the next text, tell Ken I'm coming after his cars.

[Ryan]

Ooh.

[Ben]

And I just respond. And again.

[Ryan]

What did I do?

[Ben]

Yeah, actually, what did I do? Yeah. I don't know why he said that. Again, I don't know if this is actually him, but I didn't know what to respond, considering this could just be a random person that knows about the bit, or not a bit about the dude coming over and then us using the golf balls. I just respond, laughing faces, that's it. And then he says, reckless golfing or alse a L S e can't spell. And I said, I'm actually confused. And then he said, remember when someone came and dropped golf balls all over the shop? And then I'm like, yes. And he said, it was me. I'm gonna do it again. Or you can do another reckless golfing. And at this. People love the reckless golf at this point. Let's say this is. Let's say this is him. Yes, it was a threat. And I'm just laughing in my head. I'm like, or you can do another reckless golfing. So I'm like, brother, we're doing another reckless golfing. Like, if you want to throw. I didn't say this, but I'm like, if you want to threaten us about something, don't make it something that we're already planning on doing. So then I just said, oh, I get it. I said, oh, I get it. You're blackmailing us into doing another reckless golfing or else you'll spill golf balls over the driveway again. Just laying it out. And then this morning, he texted me, you and Evan look like a couple.

[Ken]

Damn. Now he's going after you personally.

[Ben]

Yeah. And I didn't respond, but I'm like.

[Ken]

What does that even mean?

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, yeah. And then I was just like, if I had to respond to him, I'd be like, yeah, dude, we're homies. I mean, it could probably come off like that.

[Ryan]

Nothing worse than having to explain your joke.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So I just thought that was funny. Like, if. Let's say that is him. I'm like, yeah, we kind of want more golf balls, but, like, don't damage any property.

[Ken]

Yeah, He.

[Ryan]

He could just drive by the 72 HD security cameras and leave them in a tote by the door. That'd be nice of him to do anything else.

[Ben]

Yeah, that would be great.

[Ryan]

We'll be captured.

[CJ]

We need some more balls, honestly.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we do.

[Ken]

I was just out on that.

[CJ]

It was so fun.

[Ben]

And it does blow my mind that we went through all of them.

[CJ]

I'm not surprised.

[Ken]

Cody posted an Instagram video, what we like to call bunch of, pardon our.

[Ben]

Language, fuck around edits.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah. Of like, a bunch of videos. And I was like, I feel like an outsider because I wasn't a part of a single one of these.

[CJ]

Oh.

[Ben]

And I Felt like an insider watching.

[Ken]

I was like, dude, when are you guys doing this? I was like, after 11.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah. And that would make sense almost after.

[CJ]

2Am Sometimes they're out there around which stuff like that, honestly, you got to respect, man.

[Ken]

Yeah, for sure.

[CJ]

For sure.

[Ben]

Yeah. If anything, if anything, that's like what's truly keeping us young. But yeah, I watched that and I was just like.

[Ken]

Because it's not during the day hours of everything else we do keeping you young. It's good that at 11pm you just.

[Ben]

I should say, if anything, I should say among all things, that one is the most.

[CJ]

I think that is because that's, that's truly coming from the heart. It's pure hearted. Like, you know, there's truly. I love gain. If anything, just disadvantage. It's only hurting you.

[Ben]

I love hearing Evan talk about that. Like, Evan truly is just as anyone stoked on what we're doing day in and day out during the day. But he's just like, oh, dude, you just can't. You just can't beat those. Just random times that you just come about and you're riding and you're at the pond, couple tees deep. You just can't beat those like, like all of those nights. He'll literally then say the next day, just can't beat it.

[Ken]

I love that he enjoys that and that you guys do that kind of thing though, because like Ev's living here, he's staying at the shop. Like, it would break my heart if he wasn't like having fun or like enjoying himself here. So, like, the fact that you guys are doing that and you kind of just get roped into it, but like Cody and Ev, like, there's living.

[Ben]

It's great.

[Ken]

Yeah, you're right.

[Ben]

It would be a bummer if he was just like, if it was very like, platonic or even partially. Yeah, like if we were just. He was there, we're here, we leave.

[Ken]

Ev, here's my car. Start up.

[CJ]

He's like, all right, perfect.

[Ken]

Fun's about to start.

[CJ]

Yeah, finally that idiot's gone.

[Ben]

That's. There's some truth to that.

[Evan]

The real fun can begin at that point again.

[Ryan]

I hate to do this. Could you take off these ads? There's lots of stuff going on.

[CJ]

Have you been looking at watches? Yeah, ton of watch ads.

[Evan]

Yeah, no, I, I get emails about them and then I click on it and then that's the only kind of ad I get.

[Ryan]

My ads have been in Spanish lately. I don't speak a lick of it.

[Ben]

So do you guys, what do you guys. Are you aware of like what TEMU is? I can come up with an idea of what I think it is.

[Evan]

Annoying ads. I get.

[Ryan]

Is this an ad? Are you jumping, Are you jumping on my shtick right now?

[CJ]

This isn't an ad.

[Ben]

No, but I just.

[Ken]

So it's.

[CJ]

Yes.

[Ben]

It's like we were talking about the. And that the Cummins and then it offered me like a specific flywheel pulley bearing for the commons and I'm like on earth.

[CJ]

That happened to Ryan and I just the other day. So we were talking about just UPS drivers and their like pay and benefits and how good it is. And then the first Tik tok is a UPS driver breaking down his salary and benefits. It was unbelievable.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly.

[CJ]

We both looked at each other and go, holy crap. Like it was not an hour later.

[Ben]

Specific.

[CJ]

How do you get that?

[Ken]

How do you get that?

[Ryan]

I don't know man. I'm not trying to go full tin foil hat here, but it's, it's a little too much.

[CJ]

I don't think you're going tinfoil hat saying that our phone is listening. It's just, it's a matter of fact.

[Ken]

I just saw a video this morning actually that meta and Ray Bans are making those look cool.

[Ben]

But I don't know if I want to get on the meta train.

[Ken]

Kind of like virtual reality sunglasses. But like basically it'll see you know what you're looking at and you just go like hey, what kind of camera is that? If you're wearing the glasses or sunglasses and it'll like recognize this.

[Ryan]

The Ray Ban ones, I've seen that. Where they have the cameras in them.

[CJ]

Are you thinking about this at all, Ken?

[Ryan]

Live and AI technology that's such a privacy invasion. I feel like that this is where we draw the line.

[Ken]

Are you serious?

[Ryan]

Everything switches are on a system.

[Ken]

Yeah. What?

[Evan]

Yeah, but like have live stream back to Facebook everything that you see and do for a day. How is that not a privacy invasion?

[Ryan]

That's like back in the early days of Facebook when you used to take a photo, it would upload it to a public mobile uploads folder.

[Ken]

Dude. Okay, how about, how about when you used to buy something it was like very short lived but Facebook used to publish when you'd make like a purchase and like guys were like buying wedding rings for their, oh you know, girlfriends, soon to be fiance's and it would get like posted on social media like so I just bought a wedding ring.

[CJ]

That happened with an older, I guess couple That I know back when Facebook would upload your mobile pictures. Oh, well, she sent him a bunch of, you know, news.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Was just sending them to, you know, her husband. No big deal. Went on Facebook. What Someone load to Facebook. Someone like texted her then. But it had been up for a while because it was like one of those typical situation where you maybe weren't like. I feel like you weren't checking Facebook as frequently back then.

[Ben]

You weren't maybe only on a computer.

[Ryan]

You're not like, if I saw it about someone I didn't really know, I probably wouldn't text them or message them. Be like, yo, this is what's going on. I would just see that and then crazy scrolling.

[CJ]

That's an easy mistake to make, though. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And that was someone you knew? Like someone.

[CJ]

Someone we all know.

[Ryan]

Wow, that is a tough. That's tough.

[CJ]

Yeah. They're not that bummed about. They just laughed. What are you gonna do? It was a long time.

[Ryan]

I mean, true. Yeah. They. Everybody forgot until now.

[Ben]

But I do remember that point in Facebook where the status update was everything and then it turned into like way more than a status update. It was truly like where I am what I'm buying. But I do agree with Ken with the. Here's why. I think the ray Ban glasses are an invasion of privacy or a plan to be. So they put Ray Ban name on it. Cool. Obviously they Cool glasses. I like that. Then I'm expecting the price to be way more. You go and look, the starting price is about $300. Wow.

[Ryan]

That's not that bad.

[Ben]

That. So that's where it's concerning.

[CJ]

It's a fair price.

[Ben]

It's like they're.

[Ken]

That.

[Ben]

That's.

[Ryan]

They're just wayfarers.

[CJ]

That.

[Ryan]

That's a common.

[Evan]

Has to be subsidized. Like, that has to be like cost at that point.

[Ryan]

You know why they're so cheap?

[Ben]

Because they're trying to get them on everyone's face.

[Ryan]

Because meta went, yeah, if everybody wears these, I'm going to make way more money.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like selling a crack pipe to a crack addict. They'll buy the crack lid.

[Ben]

So I was just very surprised at how low the price was because they want them on everybody's face.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

They want to see what the inside of your bedroom looks like, Ken.

[Evan]

Not a chance.

[Ben]

Not a chance.

[CJ]

Oh, I'm surprised that you're not. I'm not surprised that you already know so much about them, but I'm surprised that you're not maybe a little bit into them.

[Ken]

Yo, these are Going to be amazing for filming pranks, though, if you can just.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, that's what I'm.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ben]

So one thing I haven't heard yet is can you just film with them?

[Ken]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. The only thing I saw says capture, dude.

[CJ]

Oh, my God.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Again, order yourself a first generation of these. I think there's been a couple.

[Ryan]

Order yourself up a pair. Yeah, there, there has been. I've seen them where that. With the glasses.

[CJ]

Standard prank glasses. Hey. I mean like, they're obviously prank glasses. Yeah.

[Ryan]

But 12 megapix.

[Ben]

No, I'm. I'm into it though. You guys can.

[Ken]

Beeping red.

[Ben]

Oh. What you ask Ken if he's into it. But like, yeah, I'm. I would love to order a pair and try them.

[Ryan]

Yeah, can order yourself up a pair.

[CJ]

You love Ray Bans. You love technology.

[Ben]

Ken does love Ray Ban.

[CJ]

I don't know how this would make Ken's life easier, though. That's the.

[Ryan]

Oh, interesting color. All the pre orders.

[Ken]

Wait, do they have screens on the inside of the lens?

[CJ]

No, I think it's just a capture.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Evan]

I think it's literally just a camera on there.

[CJ]

Yeah. So that's not at all what you're thinking.

[Ben]

I. Yeah, I thought I might have displayed something.

[Ken]

Something up.

[CJ]

Yeah. Then I think then maybe.

[Ryan]

Do you guys remember the Oakley sunglasses that use. Or the Oakley goggles that used to do that with your GoPro telemetry?

[CJ]

Sorry.

[Ryan]

Yeah. You'd be like skiing down a mountain, Right. And it would show you your speed and your elevation run. Yeah. Pretty sick.

[Ben]

Really.

[Ryan]

I don't know if they still do it. Oh, yep, here we go. Heads up display.

[CJ]

Dude. I feel like expensive sunglasses are out of style. Is that just me?

[Ben]

No, they're in the same. I think they're in the little less. But I think they're in the same amount of style as they've always been. But you just have your wears.

[CJ]

I feel like when I was like younger and first getting in sunglasses, it was like, oh, you got Oakley's. Oh, you got. I agree, Ray Bans. Like, those are like, you want to get like the nice ones. And then like nowadays I've never had like an actual legit, like, nice name brand. I just buy cheap glasses, like, you.

[Ben]

Know, but also keep in mind you'd lose them if you did. Right.

[CJ]

Well, I don't even think it's. I just think it's just like. I don't know. I think it's just the fact that they can break so easily and whatever. And I don't know if they're necessarily better. Like, I truly don't think they're better.

[Ryan]

Well, the argument always used to be that the lens quality was so much better because I. I mean, if you went and bought like, my dad never wore sunglasses, he would only buy like cheap gas station ones which suck. Which suck. They still suck to this day. And then he bought his first pair, like Maui Jims or Ray Bans or whatever. And he's like, wow, they're amazing. I don't have headaches anymore at ex.

[Ben]

Yeah, there's something to be said there.

[Ryan]

But I think he could throw on a pair of bums. Blenders, you know, anything that isn't 500 or 300 for a pair of sunglasses and still have the same effect now, like, I feel like the cheap sunglasses are better.

[CJ]

It's just nice having so many different pairs and colors.

[Ryan]

I do love that.

[Ben]

That's the trade off I'd never make. My parents wore Oakley's and they were snobs about it, not wearing anything but Oakley.

[Ken]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah. Which is surprising because your parents.

[Ryan]

I don't think about anything.

[Ben]

Yeah. And they were like the only time we're getting a new pair of shades. And they'd wear them for years and years. But then I guess on my first pair of like, I legit saved up allowance money, mowing money to buy my first pair of Oakleys. I didn't know back white gas cans. No. Yeah, she got like brown gas can. They were gas can smalls. Because I was so little.

[CJ]

Picture.

[Ben]

Yeah, I might have a picture. I'll find one.

[Ryan]

I could probably find a picture of it and I will. Ken and I had Oakley's when we were oil rigs.

[Ben]

Ken had oil rigs, brother.

[Ryan]

Ken had oil rigs, big boys. And then I had the gas cans. So we were quite.

[CJ]

That guy right there, that's what Ken looked like. Look at the guy right there.

[Ken]

One more over.

[CJ]

Look at him.

[Ken]

Dude.

[CJ]

Bro, that straight up looks like him.

[Ryan]

That is the modeling.

[CJ]

When I met you guys, you guys both riding up on your jet skis. You got Oakley's on.

[Ken]

You're just like, gosh, looking around.

[Ryan]

I just had this picture pop up in my memories. And it was Ken and I riding four wheeler.

[Ken]

Dude, I want to get those Oakley's on the left next to Pep.

[CJ]

Those are like rare, dude. Yeah, those are back in the day.

[Ken]

Fire, dude.

[Ben]

Two grand Oakley sells those on their site for two.

[Ken]

Probably wouldn't lose them though.

[CJ]

Probably wouldn't wear either.

[Ken]

Yeah, If I had those, I would wear them.

[Ben]

No, Ben. Can you imagine? So Ben just loves wearing those. These are the over the top top Oakleys that we're talking about and they're quite literally called that. You know what the hardest part for you, Ben? You'd love wearing them so much, but you're like, they keep messing up my hair. You got like curly hair and you're gonna have two lines down the center of your head. Yeah, I love wearing them.

[Ken]

Part it, fart it, and then it would pop out the top.

[Ryan]

Here's a picture with Ken. Ken with two chicks in his oil rigs.

[CJ]

He needs to get oil.

[Ben]

That could be you, Ben.

[Ken]

You know, man, that's so fast.

[Ryan]

And in the state of fair embarrassment. Here is me. Yeah, here's me in a pair of gas cans.

[Ken]

In the. At the time though, like, you looked cool. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I was wearing a Jordan shirt holding six walleye. That was cool.

[CJ]

That was his Tinder profile picture.

[Ryan]

It was.

[Ken]

I think that was the Hot or Not days.

[Ryan]

This wasn't Justin, dude.

[Ken]

Oh, Justin. I don't think Justin ever had Oakley's. He was always wearing gas station. The what, what's that model called?

[Ben]

Like aviators.

[Ken]

Like Sharon's wearing them. Like moms still wear them.

[Ryan]

They were like aviators, but they were cheap aviators. When they like couldn't somehow get the design right.

[Ken]

I feel like.

[CJ]

Yeah, I remember that exact responsible.

[Ryan]

That exact picture was. Justin's dad bought 100 sunglasses off of Amazon for like four $14 or some, you know, ridiculous price. And it was like before, you know, you knew what to do with cheap Internet shopping. So you just bought them last thing.

[CJ]

There's nothing else to do than buy everything.

[Ken]

Like back when he bought a hundred pairs of sunglasses all at 14 bucks a pair.

[Ryan]

No, no, no. It was like 14 bucks for the lot.

[CJ]

Oh, it was very cheap.

[Ben]

That's been back when Amazon was like.

[CJ]

No, but I remember I had a friend that he went to Mexico on vacation and he got me some like rip off sunglasses and then the, the folklies and those things were bad, but that's what I would wear. I, I would like those had some terrible badass. I look cool in them at least. I thought.

[Ryan]

In Spies I can see you being a spy.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I have lost so many sunglasses over the years. I bet I've lost 50 pairs of sunglasses.

[Ryan]

Oh my God.

[Ken]

And I still find them every once in a while.

[Ryan]

That's the best part. You find them.

[CJ]

I've also had like subs come up and they'll Ask like I'll like do a thing. I don't know what it is about my glasses, cuz they're not. They're just standard glasses and those flashy. Can I, can I have your sunglasses? And I'll be like, I kind of need them to like I'm going somewhere.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's sunny out.

[CJ]

But I have given them away a couple times. I always regret it cuz I'm like, I don't have sunglasses for me.

[Ben]

I'm just like, what do you got to trade, bro? And then if it's good, I'll trade them.

[Ken]

Trade up.

[CJ]

That's fair.

[Ben]

I just have a little last PSA about sunglasses. Aviator frames in particular. We're on the same consensus. I don't know if they're out of style. If you're Tom Cruise, you can wear aviators. If you're someone who looks good in aviators and you'll know if you look bad in aviators, stop wearing aviators, bro.

[CJ]

I don't know if aviators can go out of style though. They've been around since.

[Ben]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

[CJ]

70S or 80s, 80s, I don't know. But yeah, long, long time.

[Ken]

If you look good in aviators, people probably tell you you look good in aviators. If nobody has told you that frame. Rather people sitting in their car right now looking, looking in the rearview mirror going like, ah, do I look funny in these?

[CJ]

They just go and trade them in for the Oakley over the top fmjs used gosh, $2,000 pair. And they just look, they're driving in that now. Now you look great.

[Ryan]

Didn't Justin Jefferson.

[CJ]

Yeah, got those, man. He seems to always have a new pair of shades each game. I don't know how he's affording it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I wonder.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It doesn't seem like you think he makes good money.

[Ken]

Dude, Justin Jefferson's out here.

[CJ]

There's something about a guy like him.

[Ken]

Planning on just dipping, which I hate saying.

[CJ]

Yeah, I feel like he's over the vikes. Like he's just like, you know, they're losing and he's a winner and he knows he's not really up. But there's, there's something about a guy like, like Justin Jefferson. I think Ben has it too, where they can just wear anything and they.

[Ryan]

Look cool even though they're kind of funny looking. Like Justin Jefferson isn't a good looking.

[Ben]

No.

[CJ]

But like he's got like humble but also like a certain like style to him that he can just wear anything. And like I Feel like I can't wear cool. Like. Like if I wore those glasses, I wouldn't. I just look stupid. I just look stupid.

[Ryan]

I really want to.

[Ken]

I would love to see you wear those.

[CJ]

I can't. I can't do cool hairstyles. For one, because I don't have hair. But for two, if I did, I'd still probably look weird.

[Ben]

Okay. There's something to be said, though, about too hard of a change up.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, when you transition into it, then no one really notices. The slower the better. Sure, whatever. But yeah, if you're just like, one day I want to wear this, then everyone's gonna. That is different.

[Ryan]

Like, do you think I could pull off hats if I just. If I just changed my entire life, moved across the country and never Met anyone? Yes.

[Ben]

100%.

[Ken]

100%.

[CJ]

You wanna know what I want to see Ryan wear?

[Ben]

Being real. You could wear hats if you moved away and no one knew you and.

[Ken]

You were okay with never get some XO taking another. Get the big brim or having anyone trust you. Put this hat on.

[Ryan]

No, dude, you're just gonna make fun of me.

[Ken]

Put this on.

[Ryan]

Okay, let's put it on.

[Ken]

Put it on.

[CJ]

It's kind of weird.

[Ryan]

Just don't tell me what to do.

[Ken]

Okay. See, that does.

[Ben]

See, I'm saying Ben told you to put it on straight and you didn't. But it's not.

[Evan]

Straighten it out.

[Ben]

But yeah, no, if you want.

[Ken]

It doesn't look that.

[CJ]

Yeah, wear it to the back with it kind of cocked to the side like.

[Ryan]

Like, I don't know, like this. Like when you wear your hat like this.

[CJ]

Jersey Shore and.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

No, but if Ryan did start wearing hats, like. Yes, of course we'd eventually get used to it.

[Ryan]

Right. Now, are you telling me that this hat from cboystv.com will look good on anybody?

[CJ]

I think so.

[Ken]

It looks good on Ryan.

[CJ]

You know what I want to see Ryan wear, though? Those, like, sample pants that we got for the next merch drop look good. I want to see Ryan wearing those.

[Ben]

I just.

[Ryan]

Like, I saw Ben in them and I went, yeah, they look sick. And then I was. I don't know if anybody can pull these off. But then we talked about how they're riding pants and how they have other uses, and then now I love them, honestly.

[CJ]

It's true, though. I don't know if everybody could pull those pants off. I think Ben for sure can. Evan can. I even think I might be able to.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah. But, like, I feel like Ken and. And possibly You. I don't know if it fits your, like, damn mantra or whatever. Mantra or whatever you call it.

[Ryan]

What would you say my mantra is if you had to?

[CJ]

The way you're dressed right now?

[Ryan]

A Coors light, the crew neck.

[CJ]

Yeah, crew neck and, like, some blue jeans.

[Ken]

Wearing, like, a shirt that has, like, a stupid little saying on it.

[CJ]

Yeah. You crack on that, though.

[Ryan]

I do.

[Ken]

Let's see it.

[Ryan]

It's just stupid.

[Ben]

What is it?

[Ken]

Which one is it? What's it say? Everything to do is illegal.

[CJ]

That's a good shirt.

[Ken]

That's actually a good shirt. That's a good shirt.

[CJ]

That's not a stupid.

[Ken]

No, that's a good one. Oh, yeah, I like your meme shirts. But, yeah, certain people.

[CJ]

Some people got the swagger, man.

[Ken]

Some people got the swagger.

[Ryan]

Isn't it interesting? I wonder how you develop that.

[CJ]

I think. I don't know if you're born with it.

[Ben]

And keep in mind, I think partial fashion, it has to match your personality.

[CJ]

Yeah. And you gotta have the look, though, to begin with, too, you know? You gotta have the look.

[Ben]

I think. I agree, but I think that's what a lot of people are scared of hearing.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Somebody told me if I have the look or not. You're looking in the mirror with those aviators. You pop them down, you go. My whole life is alive.

[CJ]

Listen, listen. What?

[Ken]

Who even am I?

[CJ]

Everybody's got to look for a certain style, but there's. There's not always a style for your look, you know, or a certain style isn't going to. You know. There's plenty of good other alternative options that fit your. Your.

[Ken]

Your look, man. Don't give up yet, Ryan.

[CJ]

I'm not. Hey, I'm in the same boat as you, dude. I can't fucking pull off anything either.

[Ben]

I wouldn't say that.

[Ryan]

At first, I felt honored that you.

[Ben]

Were like, oh, no.

[Ryan]

I'm like you. And then I. Then I caught the insult.

[CJ]

Both of us. It's both of us.

[Ryan]

Classic, dude.

[Ken]

When Mike got those pants, though, that were like, so wide, like 12 inches wide on each leg, looked Amish.

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, that was. Just went too big, cuz, I mean, let's be real here. I mean, I used to wear, like, skinny jeans in high school. You can pop a pic, you guys can roast me.

[Ken]

Pick up both of them.

[Ben]

That was not different mics. It was not a good time.

[CJ]

But then now it was so tight on your. Your balls or what?

[Ben]

No, I mean, at the time, I guess it was fine. I honestly didn't get made fun of all that much.

[CJ]

You said those were just tough times or what? You just.

[Ben]

They were. Because now I have to look back on them and be very disappointed in myself.

[Ken]

Yeah, well, it doesn't help that they were purple.

[Ben]

Yeah, there was that one.

[Ken]

Yourself up, Jake.

[Ben]

Makes me feel better that he still wears, like, colored jeans. I used to do that.

[Ryan]

He was wearing, like, blue jeans. Not, like denim jeans, but they're like dyed blue. Yeah. And then he was also wearing a blue shirt today.

[CJ]

I did notice that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but that's what I mean. It works. If I. If you saw me in that, you'd be like, who did you close your eyes today?

[Ben]

Exactly. You're right. And maybe Ryan couldn't even. And I don't know why you'd want to transition to dressing like that. I'm saying it would take years. Ryan's three years from now. That outfit could be normal for you. But again, I don't know. You want it to be, but no, Jake pulls it off.

[Ken]

Well, Ryan's transition, that'll be a good topic later.

[Ryan]

But yeah, we got four transitions out without you guys talking about my transition glasses.

[Ken]

God, Mike, I miss.

[CJ]

You know what I love about this picture, Mike, is most people go to Vegas and they're like, I need to dress nice and cool. I'm wearing my suit. I'm getting my good clothes out. For the record, just dress even worse than you normally dress.

[Ben]

The last time or the. The first time we were there, I absolutely thought that. And then I was like, wait, nothing matters.

[CJ]

No, nothing. Especially in Vegas. I don't think it matters at all, man.

[Ken]

I don't know if this is the absolute reasoning, but, you know, you go to Vegas, your girl's on edge. You send a picture of yourself wearing that to your girl.

[Ryan]

It's a good point.

[Ken]

Nothing to worry. Is that a.

[CJ]

A strategic play on your part? You're like, listen, babe, I'm not around. Look at the way I'm dressed. If anything, I'm letting them know, like, you don't even want nothing to do with me.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, it wasn't a strategic. But that's a good point.

[Ryan]

Nothing get makes your girl happy like saying, look, babe, look how unappealing I am to other women.

[CJ]

See, I doing this for you. Luckily, when we're in Vegas, we don't even hang out in spots where there's women. Like, we're just.

[Ryan]

I don't think I've seen a single girl.

[CJ]

We're always, like, dead serious. We don't go to the clubs and all that and.

[Ben]

But what about that big. The big group photo you and I took? It was like, me, you, slot machine. Slot machine. Slot machine. Slot machine. That group photo we took with all.

[CJ]

The slot machines of just.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Hanging you that way.

[Ryan]

You're calling girls now.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Oh, Jesus, that's funny.

[Ben]

No, yeah.

[CJ]

No, honestly, I was gonna say we're not hanging anywhere cool where there's like chicks hanging around. Like, I don't know, we're not picking up anyone other. And maybe like a senior citizen that's smoking. No. Next to me at the fucking slot machine.

[Ben]

I'll be careful for those.

[Ryan]

The. The stereotype of Vegas is like, guys group goes there and finds a bunch of hot chicks and they, you know, like stuff like that. I. We've been to Vegas three times. I've never seen a girl there. It is solely dudes going there to have a dude's weekend. You start going to places like.

[CJ]

Throw too many girls there to be clear. But it's not like a. Like a picking up spot. Like, if you were a city, you shouldn't. Yeah. I like. You know what I'm saying? Like, but also if you were single, look, we probably wouldn't hang at the spots we hang. We're. We're like hanging in the. I mean, truly degenerate.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Places like, otherwise we'd maybe go to like the pool and like go to these parties and pool parties and like all this other stuff. But back in the day, Vegas was like very high class. Like, everyone used to dress up and wear like suits and like their nicest stuff, and it was like, very fancy. And now it's kind of gone this route.

[Ben]

Back when Mark the micro. Back when Mark used to buy us tables at the club.

[Ken]

I think next podcast. Ken, you should wear a suit.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

What's with you and making me wear suits?

[Ken]

I just love to see Ken wearing a suit. In my absolute dreams of see him in that top hat.

[CJ]

Oh, dude, whatever happened. That top hat.

[Ken]

What's your.

[CJ]

If we still have that thing.

[Ken]

No, he stomped it on.

[CJ]

Well, you tried throwing away multiple times. You stomped on it multiple times, but I dug it out of each garbage can. I'm pretty sure I never let you throw that thing away. That was a nice hat. It's like a 120 hat next time. What? Why do you hate that hat so much? It.

[Evan]

Me wearing that hat is like Ryan wearing every other, like, anything.

[CJ]

Okay. It's not even close to that bad. Geez.

[Ryan]

Come on, man. I was going to be on your team here.

[CJ]

That's not even. Ken, you look fantastic.

[Evan]

I hate that hat.

[CJ]

I just can't believe that you hate that hat. So, like, it's just so strange. I hate that hat.

[Evan]

You like making me wear that hat? Because I hate wearing that.

[Ken]

Oh, can you look good now? You look good.

[Ryan]

But what if you look good in like a sexually appealing way? Like, you walk through a crowd and every girl is going to turn at you and go, wow, I need to get a piece of that, man. But when everybody looks at you, they're going to go, damn, that guy is dressed up dapper.

[Evan]

I. I don't see it. That. That style hat is the absolute opposite.

[Ken]

Yeah, I'm trying, I'm trying.

[Ben]

Yeah, if you're.

[Ryan]

I'm not gonna lie.

[CJ]

So good, man.

[Ben]

If you're trying to picture what Ken.

[Evan]

Looks like yourself, if you think that's a good looking.

[Ken]

I'm saying not lying to yourself.

[Ryan]

Don't wear it to a first date. But you know where. When you're driving the limb around for the boys or when we're having a night out in Vegas, Ken, I think.

[CJ]

You got to start wearing suits. I agree, Ben.

[Ryan]

No, you just.

[CJ]

You need to somewhere. You're a very dapper looking guy. You know, like, I think you just maybe trim the beard up. Oh, my God. People are going to think you're a boss as soon as you walk in wearing a suit. I walk in wearing a suit. They're like, what is this guy doing?

[Ben]

I like that. I definitely. You should start carrying around like 2500 cash all times for.

[Ryan]

Why?

[CJ]

Just.

[Ben]

I'm not even joking. If you see someone open their wallet and pull one 100 bill out, but you see like a decent amount of thickness and you know they're all hundreds.

[CJ]

You're like, let's pull.

[Ben]

What is that?

[Ryan]

That's mug him.

[Ben]

That guy doing. Can you imagine the. We like the first night that he wears a suit, puts 2500 in his wallet?

[CJ]

Because we gave him all the freaking. We're like, dude, you look so good. Yeah, look at how happy we were.

[Ryan]

Look at how happy we were.

[CJ]

Look at what I'm wearing.

[Ken]

What am I wearing? What am I wearing? Ken, you look so good, bro.

[Evan]

It does not do me any favors wearing that.

[Ken]

Well, it doesn't help that your suit's a little big.

[Ryan]

We could get your suit tailored.

[Ken]

Like, let's maybe focus on the suit before we focus on the hat.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

[Evan]

That hat is garbage.

[Ben]

And for those.

[CJ]

What was that for?

[Ryan]

Justin's wedding. We love that.

[CJ]

Because I Hate it.

[Ben]

No, no, we loved it before.

[Ken]

I grabbed the hat and I gave you the hat and you put it on. So you hated. You hated wearing the construction uniform. Remember when we had it there? They cut off sleeves.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You look good in that. Look at this one, Ryan.

[CJ]

Like, those are two that really fit Ken's mantra.

[Ken]

Look at him. Look at him.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God. What were you doing with all that alcohol?

[Ken]

He was just stocking up in normal day.

[Ryan]

Is that for we fest?

[CJ]

Ken dressed like a construction worker for West.

[Ken]

Hey, that was the day that we got the no can do van. Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

That was exciting.

[Ryan]

That's why we did. That was a good time. I can't believe we still have.

[CJ]

But you hate that stuff because it was associated with getting the van. No, I misheard what you said. That's why I hate it. You said after the van, you.

[Evan]

I. I disliked it because you got the van. You gotta dress the part for it. You can't wear whatever you're wearing.

[Ken]

That's right. That's funny. That's like what we do literally every single video.

[CJ]

Yeah, we gotta go back to that.

[Ken]

Man.

[CJ]

I love that time, man. That was fun.

[Ben]

Ken getting mad about us putting all these stuff. Outfits on him and stuff.

[CJ]

Like that.

[Ben]

It's just Evan, when we ask him to put on a helmet.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You guys just want me to wear it because I hate it. Yeah, sure, whatever. Just put it on.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah. That's why, Evan, I don't care about your life. I just want you to be not happy.

[CJ]

No, I'm not wearing that stupid thing. I look like an idiot.

[Ryan]

You would look so much better with the hat.

[CJ]

It looks Cheeto. It looks Cheeto.

[Ken]

What were you looking at here again?

[Evan]

I think that picture got edited.

[Ryan]

Something.

[CJ]

That picture. I don't look very flattering. You edited.

[Evan]

That was a mashup of. Of two faces and I.

[Ken]

No, I have like multiple. Like, like many. Like, here's one too. You're still looking. You're looking it, but it's like it moved.

[CJ]

Looking at his hat, sandals.

[Evan]

You mean a skirt?

[Ken]

Look, look. And then you got the head tilt on this one. You even then. Now your head's tilted.

[Evan]

See it from that far away?

[Ryan]

We can make a deal. If you wear the hat and suit in Vegas, you guys can dress me up funny.

[CJ]

Oh, my God. Yes, we're doing that.

[Evan]

Vegas is.

[Ryan]

I knew you guys jump. What?

[CJ]

That's a great deal. What the. Ken, you got to do that.

[Evan]

I'll do that.

[CJ]

You're going to wear a suit in Vegas. And we get to dress Ryan up however we want.

[Ryan]

Well, not how you said it.

[CJ]

You just said it.

[Ryan]

However, just within reason.

[CJ]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ben]

I would just put rules, like, you have to dress me like a male.

[Ryan]

I have to be.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

We have to be appropriately clothed. Just, like, appropriately covered.

[CJ]

Yeah, we can do that.

[Evan]

That is a very loose.

[CJ]

Yeah, I know.

[Ryan]

I. Trust me. I wish I hadn't spit it out previously.

[Ben]

But he did it for you, Ken.

[CJ]

You know, uncomfortable. Ryan, I feel like you're the most. Like, if you were wearing something, like, with, like, an aggressive saying on your shirt, you would be the most uncomfortable wearing it. Would you not agree?

[Ryan]

That's a fine line? Because I'm the guy who wears the stupid T shirts.

[CJ]

I'm saying aggressive. Aggressive.

[Ryan]

Like how aggressive?

[CJ]

Like a shirt that just says, like. Yeah, like. Like one of Danny shirts, like, come in me, bro. Or like, you know, aggressive.

[Ryan]

That is aggressive.

[CJ]

Just a shirt that just says the F word on it. Like, I could see Evan just wearing a shirt that says the F word right across. Just black shirt, white text. Yeah, he'd just wear it.

[Ken]

Well, he was wearing the shirt that. That I think you got him. But it says all this in a. Nice dick, too.

[Ryan]

I did.

[Ken]

And he was. He was wearing that in a. In a video. And I. I just go, hey, yo, that's definitely. Probably going to get us, like, flagged on YouTube. I love the shirt. But, like, maybe he wasn't very happy. Put something else on. He goes, you guys bought this for me?

[Ben]

Yeah. Pulled everyone together. Yeah.

[Ken]

But it's a funny shirt. But also, I'm not trying to get demonetized.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I didn't buy it for a video or even a. Even a podcast.

[Ben]

That was, like, me all day at Heydays on Sunday. Like, earlier that morning, someone traded me a hat. Didn't think much of it. The hat says skinny dips and bong rips, and I wore it all day in, like, a hundred pictures.

[CJ]

And then with kids.

[Ben]

Yeah. I was like, why didn't anyone tell me I had this hat on? I'm the one who put it on. But still.

[Ken]

All right, so My niece is 4 years old, and she's 5. She's 5 years old, and she was asked to draw her family tree at preschool.

[Ben]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ken]

And this is a photo of the family tree that she drew.

[CJ]

Alex, come.

[Ken]

Come here and look at this. Have you seen this, Alex?

[CJ]

What, though?

[Ken]

I want to get your reaction.

[Ryan]

Which one are you? The little one.

[Ken]

I don't think I'm I'm extended family. Look at that.

[CJ]

That's. That's.

[Ken]

That's our family tree.

[CJ]

Whole lot of dicks in your family, huh, cj? Cj? That's tough. He's a aspiring artist doing a good job, apparently.

[Ken]

The little black balls at the bottom of the shaft. Our shoes.

[Ben]

Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

What?

[Evan]

Where's the arms?

[Ken]

Oh, I guess. No, no arms.

[Ben]

Yeah, you go, why? Why are there no arms? Well, otherwise they wouldn't look like dicks.

[CJ]

Or she's just a grade A troller. They had that, like, hanging up on the wall.

[Ryan]

She's trying to be like, yeah, maybe that is.

[Ken]

Maybe that's.

[CJ]

Yeah, that'd be funny. If you're in, like, high school art or whatever, you draw that. And then, like, if they get all mad about, be like, what? It's all a bad artist. Like, this is. This is the best I can do.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

The teacher had to have been laughing. Like, the teacher. The teacher had to have been like, holy, this is gonna be.

[CJ]

This is gold. Who's the one at the top middle?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I was wondering, why is the one in the top middle wearing.

[CJ]

What is going on for that one?

[Ryan]

The whole body.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I don't know. That's tough.

[Ryan]

Bottom one's got a little lean to the left, too.

[Ben]

My favorite's top left, for sure. Solid shoes.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Solid head.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Very defined.

[Ryan]

Proportional.

[Ken]

Very defined.

[CJ]

Definitely the longest.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, Yeah, I guess.

[Ken]

Yeah. She, like, brought it home and was super proud of it. Like, look at the family tree that I drew. And then my brother, her dad, thought it was the funniest thing in the world.

[Ryan]

I can imagine. What an artist.

[Ken]

I thought I had a picture of her holding it. She was so stoked about it.

[CJ]

That's one of those things you can't make up, man.

[Ryan]

No.

[Ken]

No, you can't.

[CJ]

That is just the best. Yeah.

[Ryan]

At least we know she really feels about your family.

[Ken]

Well, I go. I asked Sam, I said, what the going on?

[CJ]

You know? It would have been funnier, though, if it was, like, just one picture. And it's just like a nice.

[Ben]

And that cute girl.

[CJ]

It's like, yeah, my whole family's a bunch of dicks.

[Ryan]

One time when I was in elementary school, I. It casually mentioned in passing that my dad was addicted to Coke because he loves Coca Cola soda.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So my teacher asked, does he do Coke when he's around you? I go, of course. Whenever we're driving, he always has a Coke. Does he ever have you hold the Coke? And I go, yeah. I go, get him coke when he's watching tv. I do this whole thing, get into the principal's office. You know, the family comes more. Yep. I do the whole counseling thing. And then the family comes in and they go, so we need to talk about the drug problem. Do you feel safe at home? You know, stuff like that. And then it came out that my dad has just a lot of Coca Cola.

[Ben]

Like, remember? Can you imagine the faces of any, like, faculty, principal? Do you remember? Like, what? Like, that had to have been priceless.

[Ryan]

I feel like that's one of those.

[Ben]

Them just being like, I don't remember.

[Ryan]

I'm sure there was lots of Laughing Cola, but I do remember it being very serious. Like, do you feel safe to go home?

[Ben]

Oh, even after they found a Ryan.

[Ryan]

I don't know, probably 12th grade. Yeah. I don't know, like a seventh grader or something like that.

[Ken]

You imagine you get in the truck afterwards and Randy goes, hey, thanks for covering up for me with that whole Coca Cola shit, man.

[CJ]

That was. You pulled that, Genius.

[Ken]

Oh, my God. Quick. I was sweating bullets.

[Ben]

Or even better, if he, like, said that just in earshot of them as they're, like, walking away.

[CJ]

Hilarious.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[CJ]

Good save, buddy.

[Ryan]

Kids do the darndest things.

[Ken]

Pull up. Yeah, speaking of which, pull up that other video. I just airdropped you. So this is my nephew. He's seven months old, and my brother caught him sitting on a four wheeler.

[CJ]

Quite the household they got going. Jeez.

[Ken]

Disappointed, to say the least.

[CJ]

Yeah, he looks pretty happy.

[Ken]

Yeah, he does.

[Ryan]

He does.

[Ken]

Well, at least.

[CJ]

Stickers, man. I like it, dude.

[Ken]

To find out that by.

[Ben]

That wasn't my dude.

[CJ]

He probably rides harder than you.

[Ben]

Probably.

[Ken]

Yeah, but he's gonna be a quad guy. I mean, you look how those guys turn out. Yeah, I know, right? So. Yeah, he got grounded for a week. Did he really?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Can't be having that.

[CJ]

Where the do you get that thing?

[Ken]

It almost stole it.

[CJ]

Not only a quad rider, but a thief. Two things that go just with each other.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ken]

And then, Ken, pull up this last video that I sent you right there. That's popped up. All right.

[Ryan]

What do we got going on here?

[Ken]

Dude, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen.

[Ryan]

Oh.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Ryan]

That was the longest crash I've ever seen.

[Ken]

I mean.

[CJ]

Oh, is he on fire?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Oh, that guy, too.

[CJ]

That looks like a video game when it kind of like, glitches like, you know, like it doesn't know if to flip you over or which way and then kind of.

[Ken]

Well, Go back to the. Go back to the moment when he. When he goes up on it, though. Like, I don't even know how this is possible.

[Ben]

Just, like, grab physics.

[CJ]

Oh, my.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No, it doesn't make any sense.

[CJ]

Why is his arm out for a second? Like, he's up on top, and he almost holds up like, a number one.

[Ryan]

He's like.

[CJ]

He just, like, he just won the race. Like, it was like, a quick, like, fist pump over the finish line. He maybe thought he was on front flip, though.

[Ken]

Yeah, really was. Probably did less damage riding up on a.

[Ryan]

And then leave it to the guy to just biff it full feet up.

[CJ]

Those guys have been.

[Ken]

Yeah, that guy. That's tough.

[CJ]

Did he face p. That's tough. Touches his face.

[Ken]

This guy might have came out of that in worse shape than the other guy.

[Ryan]

100%. The other guy's a legend. That guy's just clumsy.

[Ken]

Can you imagine if he got like. Like, stayed up there? That would be the only thing that would make that video crazier.

[CJ]

I feel like the tires almost, like, cushioned his fall. Like, he was. He came in with a lot of momentum, and it, like, caught him, slowed him down, and then let him back down.

[Ryan]

It was a pretty smooth landing. Like a front flip.

[CJ]

Yeah. Still was obviously tuck and hard crash and whatnot, but, yeah, really cushioned him.

[Ben]

Some wild shit happens. Can play the video that I just sent to you? I know we've talked a lot about Monster Jam on this podcast probably because we love it after meeting Ryan Anderson and, you know, Legend dude. Yeah, Legend. His dad at Cletus is like, I had no. I knew there was a lot of gravediggers. I knew there was more than one. I knew there was, you know, a couple. This is all of the gravediggers, you know, going out on a run together, which is so cool. It'd be so cool to be there. Every single monster show. Monster Jam show. I'm watching his Instagram. It seems like every single one, he's, like, totaling out the truck. Not actually, but, like, I just can't believe it.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ben]

And they basically just all go until they're, like, toast.

[Ryan]

Dude, I love this.

[Ken]

This had to have been so expensive.

[Ben]

So expensive.

[Ryan]

One of them flipped.

[Ben]

Oh, more than one.

[CJ]

Honestly. They're all sending it just as hard for some of them being a lot older.

[Ryan]

How was there that many gravediggers drive?

[Ben]

I didn't know I. Did you get a count on how many that was? At least it was 7 or 8.

[Evan]

I didn't know there Was more than one Gravedigger.

[CJ]

Well, it seems to be a title that's handed down.

[Ken]

God, this had to have been electric.

[Ben]

Which I thought, first body up.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh, there's a boot. Dude.

[Ben]

I thought at first that there was, yeah, one, then there was two, then I'm like, oh, there might even be three. But apparently they just have probably a literal airplane hangar full of these things.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Oh, my gosh, man.

[Ryan]

You can imagine the mechanic. This is like big.

[CJ]

Like, can you imagine them standing there shaking this?

[Ben]

Why you didn't even have to wreck. There was already six wrecked trucks.

[Ryan]

I love this. I would love that.

[CJ]

Guy just literally turned into the jump. So he'd roll.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

He was like, I'm tired.

[CJ]

That guy did this.

[Ryan]

They're like, we're going for a barrel roll, dude, this is the coolest thing ever. I love monster trucks. There's nothing more American than monster trucks. Especially Gravedigger at Cletus's.

[Ken]

I was asking him, I was like, dude, that's gotta hurt, right? Yeah. So bad every single time. He was like, yeah, man.

[Ben]

Those big ones.

[Ken]

Yeah, dude, there's no way to have it not hurt.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And I was like. I was like, that makes me feel so much better knowing that. And I have so much more respect.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I was like, everything that I thought now is, I guess, true, verified. And that is way fucking crazier in my head that, like, you're out there doing that and you're also getting beat the shit out of. Like, you. You're just doing it for the entertainment of the people.

[CJ]

Because we all knew, like, landing like that has you feel.

[Ryan]

There's no way.

[CJ]

There's no. No, there's no way you even tip a side by side on the roof from just doing a donut. It's aggressive. So let alone you're going like that. We all knew it, but it seems like most of those drivers, they never say it hurts about it. They never say it. Like, I've asked a few and they're always like, no, you don't even feel it. I'm like, what?

[Ben]

But yeah, if you guys, like, if you haven't checked out, just go to son of a Digger's Instagram. Like, he just posted a. Like an in Cam 1. And you know, it seems like we get a lot of air on dirt bikes. Some other people get a lot of air on dirt bikes. Like, dude, his shots are just.

[CJ]

Up in the nose. Yeah.

[Ben]

In a stadium. It's nutty.

[Ryan]

It probably one of the cooler things in my life was When I walked up and I recognized them, obviously, and they. They both knew of us.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I was like. I almost blacked out on the spot.

[Ben]

No, you guys. You guys are the cool guys.

[Ryan]

So hopefully one day we can go do monster truck stuff.

[Ben]

He. He asked us. He said, you guys gotta mess with my dad.

[CJ]

He's.

[Ben]

You know, he watches some of your videos. He thinks you guys are funny. And I'm like, bro, I'm not. I.

[Ryan]

How do you mess with it? Yeah.

[Ben]

I'm like, I'm not gonna mess with your dad. He's great. He's gonna put me in a grave, bro. Yeah. Can you imagine?

[CJ]

Mike goes up, so what'd you do? A legend.

[Ben]

I just didn't. I just said.

[Ryan]

You didn't.

[Ben]

Just said hi. I was like, I can't. I can't.

[Ryan]

I was talking to Evan about this, and he goes, I don't know. What am I going to do? Like, the tabletop thing where like. Like, crouches down and then you push the other person.

[Ben]

He's like, mikey.

[Ken]

And I'm in tabletop.

[CJ]

He goes. The guy just gets up. He's like, wait, what the hell? And then the sun goes, dad, dad, these are the guys we watch on YouTube.

[Ben]

Who. Who? You know, the spaghetti, limo wine.

[Ryan]

It's no shocking statement that a lot of country music is the same. And I. Yeah, if you hear country song, what would you expect it to contain?

[Ken]

Trucks, beer, women.

[CJ]

Friday nights.

[Ryan]

Oh, I like that. Friday nights, I saw this AI spongebob, like, music video thing, and it. It captured a hundred percent of exactly what a country song is. Ken, go roll the clip.

[Ben]

Just the usual, please. Kelp shake with extra lean around here. It's open. Carry open bottles, too. And when the sheriff's in my door I'm always hoping that it's you no, I'm drinking days away at the Salties for June.

[CJ]

Dude, that's good, right? That's good.

[Ben]

I'm loving that. I'm loving that. We are on, like, two sides of Tick Tock, but we're so. That was pretty fire. I am on the. There's, like, a rap beef between plankton, Mr. Krabs, Squidward Patrick, and Spongebob. And you guys. Yeah, they use AI. It is fire. Like, it's heat. It's like Hank Trill, but even better. Like, Plankton's diss track on spongebob. Like, actually, yeah, if you could look up, like, Plankton diss track.

[Ken]

Do you realize what you just said? Right?

[Ben]

Yeah, it's pretty weird.

[Ken]

That's a real Statement.

[Ben]

Yeah, bro. It's aggressive. Yeah.

[Ken]

All right.

[CJ]

Goes hard.

[Ben]

So, yeah, and there's, there's a whole bunch of those. Mr. Krabs does it. SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy does one.

[CJ]

AI is taking over. They can do anything.

[Ken]

Well, that's why there's a writer strike.

[CJ]

They're what, trying to get rid of AI?

[Ken]

No, I don't think that's like the whole objective of the writers strike, but I think that partially the writers are, are trying to, you know, have something in place to obviously keep their jobs.

[CJ]

To protect them.

[Ken]

To protect them and, and, you know, have more rights, I guess, when it.

[CJ]

Comes to that dude, AI is going to take. I mean, everyone's been saying for a long time a lot of jobs. I think my job, it's just one of.

[Ben]

It's also just funny.

[Ken]

It's, it's like, does that. Where does that better us as a society? Like, where did all these people go that lose their jobs to AI? I'm not, I'm not like anti, like AI and growth, I guess, or like anti technology, but like, actually though, there's.

[CJ]

Two sides to it. It's like the side that is benefited by and they're like, oh, this is great. I don't need to pay someone to do this. And this is doing it on like, like that. And then there's the side that's like, got replaced, basically. Yeah.

[Ben]

Almost the side of if you're running your own business and you're small and you're. Let's say your crew's like 10 people and you start using AI and then you don't need any more people, you're like, this is great. And then when your crew is 100 people and you start using AI and then all of a sudden you don't need 10 people, then it's not so great.

[Ken]

Yeah, well, I mean, look at Walmart. Walmart's like one of the biggest employers in the country. You know, every time I go to Walmart, there's like less checkout lanes and there's more self checkout.

[Ryan]

2.3 million employees.

[CJ]

That's not even AI, though.

[Ken]

No, but it's automation, computer, like the same. You know, it's. AI is I guess, a very, very broad term.

[Evan]

But just think, 100 years ago, most jobs people work at today didn't exist.

[Ben]

Yeah, true.

[Ryan]

That's a good point.

[Ben]

Very good point.

[Evan]

So granted, in 100 years from now, a lot of jobs people think are common today probably will not exist.

[Ryan]

It would be standing on a goddamn soapbox preaching to the street.

[Ken]

Could you imagine what's unemployment rate right now? Like, I wonder how much. Obviously the entire government as a whole has a lot to do with the 3.8%.

[Ryan]

Okay, this seems pretty good, right?

[Ken]

Way lower than I thought.

[CJ]

With a big spike there. What was that coveted and what did.

[Ryan]

We get up to?

[Ben]

15%.

[Ryan]

15% of the country was unemployed.

[Ken]

That's actually less than I thought it would have been.

[Evan]

I thought it would have been. Would have been higher.

[Ryan]

I think that's the people claiming unemployment.

[CJ]

Correct.

[Ryan]

Obviously, unemployment isn't really my stick and I don't think is advanced enough yet. So I am going to outsource my labor. Like this guy did.

[CJ]

I take the money that I would have spent on coffee and pay someone in India to do my job for me.

[Ken]

It's allowed me to tell Ken Philadelphia.

[Ben]

The majority of his daily work.

[Ken]

An accountant based in Bangalore, India.

[CJ]

I get my assignment from my supervisor and I send it off to Jahnara. Sometimes I'll. I'll look at it when it's done.

[Ryan]

Sometimes.

[Ben]

Sometimes I'll look at it when it's done.

[Ken]

What's this guy doing?

[CJ]

Extremely happy with accounting cents an hour.

[Ben]

Donald pays him.

[CJ]

I'm able to feed my family.

[Ben]

And Mr. Felton can devot more time to his.

[Ken]

No.

[CJ]

And Donald is just one of the close to 700,000 workers.

[Ken]

Is this real?

[CJ]

On overseas labor. I've actually gotten two raises since Jahanara started.

[Ryan]

I don't think it can.

[Ben]

This is.

[Ken]

There's no way.

[Ryan]

There's no way.

[CJ]

This is too funny.

[Evan]

Is the Onion on the bottom corner?

[Ryan]

Oh, the Onion is.

[CJ]

I didn't see that. I didn't see that. But that was fantastic because the way they shot it, like, it was like, that was real.

[Ryan]

Dude, the Onion has fooled so many moderately intelligent people.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

I can totally see someone of my parents posting like some Onion article and being like, can you believe this is ridiculous? Yeah, can you believe that?

[CJ]

Well, that happens.

[Ben]

Dude, they made a. They made a movie back in the day, and it's the Onion movie.

[Ryan]

It's so funny.

[Ben]

It's funny. They open up the scene with, like, an ad for neck belts. And dude, chick pulls up. Run, like rear end someone slightly, and then has the neck belt on, and then the head just flies off through the windshield.

[Ryan]

Well, to leave you guys with something, I have a nice heartfelt story about an Alberta couple who sells off a very impressive collection of John Deere memorabilia.

[Ben]

And the caption is, I'm interested.

[Ryan]

I wonder whose idea that was.

[CJ]

Oh, no, you pull it up.

[Ben]

Look at the guy.

[Ryan]

Look at the chick smiling and the guy being sad.

[Ben]

That's every gramp ever. Like, that would be my grandpa, too. Like, he auctioned off all of his John D. Real John Deere tractors and that set. And then he just wasn't the same since.

[Ryan]

Oh, man. Poor guy. I guess if we can give you anything to lead your week with, a parting note. If your girl comes to you and says, sell your collection of useless things, don't do it.

[Ben]

And I guess vice versa. Don't ask her to do it either, then.

[Ryan]

Exactly.

[Ben]

And we love you, and we thank you for tuning in on every episode. We'll catch you guys next week on the Life Wide Open podcast.

[CJ]

See ya.