Seeing $200k+ Hoonicorn Rebuild For The First Time, Sora AI Videos, Keys to YouTube Success

Summary

Life Wide Open w/ CboysTV

Episode: Seeing $200k+ Hoonicorn Rebuild For The First Time, Sora AI Videos, Keys to YouTube Success

Date: November 18, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Dalton—share their first reactions to the $200,000+ Hoonicorn rebuild at SEMA, dive deep on the wild world of Sora AI videos, reminisce about their growth on YouTube and their creative process, and provide unfiltered stories from behind the scenes, including hilarious takes on Fortnite skins, deer hunting fails, and the “Great Wall of Ken.” The conversation jumps between tech trends, industry insights, and personal antics, maintaining the group’s laid-back, tongue-in-cheek vibe.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sora AI Videos: The Rise of AI-Generated Memes & Fan Content

[02:13–10:59]

• The crew discusses the explosion of Sora, a new AI video generator app, and notes the absurd creativity of fans using their likenesses.
• CJ: “There’s thousands of me… it just keeps going. I don’t even have enough time to watch them all… There’s literally nothing you can do on Sora that is going to make me mad or embarrassed because it’s so obviously fake to me.” (03:33)
• Fans remix inside jokes and moments from CboysTV’s podcasts and videos into digital memes.
• The group laughs over repeated Sora hot dog jokes about Mike, noting: “Everything is just him sucking down a glizzy.” (Ben, 03:04)
• Sora’s prompts often create surreal or glitchy results, occasionally blending their features or voices: “You have to be very, like, specific with your directions to it to make it extra good.” (CJ, 05:15)
• Sora doubles as a TikTok-style platform, lowering the barrier to creating content: “You don’t even have to get out of bed. Just type it in.” (Evan, 08:15)

2. AI, YouTube, and Content Authenticity

[10:59–12:18]

• There’s a discussion on whether AI-generated content threatens YouTube creators.
• CJ: “I think there’s still a desire for original content.” (11:16)
• YouTube’s algorithm may not favor AI content, maintaining a space for real personalities.
• The group touches on AI “influencers” and how some run multiple fake channels.

3. Gaming Culture: Fortnite, Skins & Cultural Commentary

[12:18–16:08]

• CJ talks about Fortnite’s new Simpsons map, reminiscing about “Simpsons Hit & Run.”
• The conversation veers to the sexualization of game characters and its effects on younger players. The crew jokes about premium “BBL” skins.
• CJ: “It’s a slippery slope that society is going down with these AI and then the video game characters getting us ready for the robots, brother.” (15:28)

4. CboysTV’s Humble Beginnings and YouTube Growth: Lessons Learned

[18:44–25:57]

• Reflection on hitting 5 million subscribers and a look back at early, rough videos and “dumb decisions.”
• Ben: “On the last video that we just posted...I was like, holy shit. This is why we didn’t hit a million subscribers for the first five years… We were so stupid. But also it was pretty funny.” (19:24)
• CJ: “You got to have a good idea, then you got to execute it properly. Then you have to make sure the filming was done properly. And then it has to be edited properly.” (22:13)
• Emphasis on growth, learning camera/editing skills, and keeping at it: “The only thing that’s not going to get us to 10 million is stopping.” (Evan, 21:45)
• Nostalgia for the early days—living in the shop, partying, and “living like rock stars,” with the wisdom that having little money kept them from real trouble.

5. Hoonicorn $200K+ Rebuild: SEMA Stories

[27:39–32:26]

• Ken, Ryan, and others recount seeing the Hoonicorn at SEMA, emphasizing the quality and cost of the rebuild.
• “Everything they’re building is out of, like, thick aluminum and metal… splitter… did not budge at all.” (Ryan, 28:47)
• Over $200,000 invested, only roof and trunk lid remain from the original.
• Ben’s dad is a superfan, keeping him posted on progress: “You don’t know the level of detail that’s going into this thing… you will be mind blown.” (Ben, 30:57)

6. SEMA & Horsepower Rodeo: Car Culture Highlights

[32:26–35:16]

• SEMA’s growing inclusion of stunt and burnout events, staged by figures like Weston.
• “Those guys drifting those trucks was more entertaining than anything else.” (Ken, 34:32)
• Details on wild stunts: trucks on fire, tire explosions, and rodeo-style showmanship.

7. Behind-the-Scenes Antics: Vegas Recap, Deer Hunting, and “Great Wall of Ken”

[35:46–56:43]

• The crew splinters—some head to Vegas, others stay for deer season.
• Ben’s deer hunting misadventures and gaming rituals (“Fortnite got a horned up. Played Fortnite.” (Ben, 45:37)), as well as early Christmas decorating debate.
• The Great Wall of Ken: Ken’s misadventures replacing a crumbling, expensive retaining wall due to poor workmanship: “I should not have chosen the lowest bidder.” (Ken, 56:09)
• CJ’s partner, Alex, is hilariously confused by the wall's ever-changing placement.

8. Live Streams, Sleep Streams, and YouTube Gimmicks

[60:07–63:38]

• The group brainstorms about streaming Ken’s life “Big Brother” style, including a “Ken sleeping” stream—debating if it’s genius or “exceptionally creepy.”
• Ben: “If my favorite youtuber was doing a sleeping stream, I’d have to tune in. And that doesn’t make me creepy. I just want to see what’s going on.” (62:01)

9. TV, Nostalgia, and Media Evolution

[67:02–70:45]

• Discussion on MTV’s “Ridiculousness” ending; respect for Rob Dyrdek’s long run on the network.
• Talk about TV’s shift away from music videos to reality and viral content.
• The decline of traditional TV and nostalgia (including for South Park’s chaotic schedule): “They’ve done whatever they wanted for—well, ever since they started.” (CJ, 73:44)

10. Fan Mail & Running Gags:

[75:06–79:37]

• CJ opens a fan mail package containing a stolen street sign and a ChatGPT-generated letter.
• Jokes about naming roads “Penis Lane” and inside jokes about weather and driving conditions (“The roads are penis, and I’m taking the scenic route.” (Ben, 79:37))

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “There’s literally nothing you can do on Sora that is going to make me mad or embarrassed because it’s just, it’s so obviously fake to me.” —CJ (03:33)
• “We were living like rock stars, though. I feel like we…took on this lifestyle…gonna live like rock stars…It is so good that we didn’t have more money.” —CJ & Ben (24:30–24:49)
• “If my favorite youtuber was doing a sleeping stream, I'd have to tune in. That doesn’t make me creepy. I just want to see what’s going on.” —Ben (62:01)
• “You don’t know the level of detail that’s going into this thing. You’ll be mind blown.” —Ben, relaying his dad on the Hoonicorn rebuild (30:57)
• “The roads are penis, and I’m taking the scenic route.” —Ben (79:31)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Sora AI Video Discussion: 02:13–10:59
• AI & YouTube Future: 10:59–12:18
• Fortnite, Gaming, and Society: 12:18–16:08
• Early YouTube Memories & Advice: 18:44–25:57
• Hoonicorn Rebuild at SEMA: 27:39–32:26
• SEMA Burnouts & Stunt Events: 32:26–35:16
• Vegas vs. Deer Hunting, Wall of Ken: 35:46–56:43
• “Ken’s House” Live Stream Ideas: 60:07–63:38
• MTV/TV Nostalgia, South Park: 67:02–74:48
• Fan Mail, Running Jokes: 75:06–79:37

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Additional Highlights

• Industry Shoutouts: Robbie Layton’s craftsmanship on the Hoonicorn. “How lucky are we?” (Ben, 31:19)
• YouTube Advice: The crew underlines perseverance and learning from mistakes—“The only thing that’s not going to get us to 10 million is stopping.” (Evan, 21:45)
• Inside Jokes: Ongoing roasts regarding glizzies (hot dogs), young deer (“button bucks”), and legendary “roads are penis” tale.
• Lifestyle: Authentic glimpses of how the YouTube “rock star” lifestyle really looked—far more Midwest party-house and broke, but full of camaraderie.

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Episode Tone

Rowdy, self-deprecating, and genuine with a focus on group banter, storytelling, and candid takes on tech, cars, and personal mishaps. The episode mixes heartfelt reminiscence, sharp pop culture commentary, and the trademark CboysTV irreverence.

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For New Listeners

If you’ve never tuned in, this episode is a perfect showcase of CboysTV’s blend of friendship, creative hustle, and unfiltered humor. You’ll come away with real behind-the-scenes YouTube insight, car culture stories, and enough inside jokes to make you feel part of the crew.

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Transcript

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[Ben]

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[CJ]

Living like rock stars.

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[CJ]

So Ken, are you. Are you watching your AI videos of yourself right now?

[Ken]

I actually am.

[CJ]

Dude, the Sorrow videos are out of hand. They're completely out of hand.

[Ken]

Yeah, no, they are very random. Especially the ones that don't come from you. Like the ones that you don't make.

[Ben]

Oh yeah, yeah, we've made any.

[Ken]

I've made a couple.

[Ryan]

I can't figure it out.

[CJ]

Dude, there's thousands of me there's thousands. Like if I scroll through that just keeps going. I don't even have enough time to watch them all. But there's some, you know, the cream always rises to the top and yeah.

[Ben]

There are some good ones.

[Evan]

I just.

[CJ]

Really funny.

[Ben]

Yeah, I just saw a really good one yesterday of you running up to a ring doorbell in a Cheeto onesie and you just see. I'll see Ms. Davis. Yeah, a lot of them had a ton of likes on it. People really liked that one.

[Ken]

There's a bunch of hot dogs everywhere.

[CJ]

Every single Sora video with Mike is something to do with him and a hot dog.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I was gonna say Mike is, is got to be over this, this whole AI thing because everything is just him sucking down a glizzy.

[Evan]

You can take yourself off, right?

[CJ]

You can. Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

But what's the fun in that?

[Evan]

Yeah, all the hot dog ones are. They're just unfunny to me.

[CJ]

I. I like that people are making the videos. Like I think it's fun and it's cool and it's flattering that you'd want to take the time to make something funny or mess around with it. Like there's literally nothing you can do on Sora that is going to make me mad or embarrassed because it's just, it's so obviously fake to me.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And even if you any. Yeah, that's just a thing. But it is funny cuz I was out to dinner last night with my fiance's dad and I was at a local spot, Shout out Sauced and gal that was there was like, oh yeah, like this video is so funny. And all of you like the AI video. And then my buddy Jim who owns Sauce looks over goes, man, you were a lot younger back then. Thought it was real. I show him, he thought it was real. I so he literally thought they were real and we were showing. No, that's AI.

[Ryan]

What?

[CJ]

How. What do you mean that's AI? You know, like, like the older generation. They were already.

[Ben]

Comprehend.

[CJ]

Yeah. And then I was showing my fiance's dad and he was like, like could not believe it.

[Ben]

He's like, wasn't clocking.

[CJ]

Yeah. He was like, that could be bad.

[Ben]

Yeah. So for the listeners right now that don't know what we're talking about, there's this new app, it's called Sora where it can basically you type in a prompt and then whatever the prompt is, it'll generate a video off of that prompt. And then if you type in say at Micah Sandman putting makeup on at CJLOTZER using a. A Cheeto as the makeup thing. It'll pull Mike's cameo and CJ's cameo because they gave their likeness. It's called, like, permission to use their face. It needs some. Some tweaking. Like, if you say, like, me and Ken are on a tandem bicycle, and we pull up to cj, it'll sometimes, like, morph all three of us into, like, one face.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I've noticed that.

[Ken]

So it does need some work creating a beard.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

No, it is all of a sudden. And then all of a sudden, like, if it's a ryan, me and CJ. CJ's got my beard. I have Ryan's voice.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

Strange. It is strange, but you have to be very, like, specific with your directions to it to make it extra good. Like, I think, like, the really, really good ones, those people, like, take a lot of time refining, because you can see editing and refining.

[Ken]

You can see the really good ones. The prompt is like. You got to scroll through it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It's because you take what you want it to do, and then you Type that into chat. Then ChatGPT tells you how to make it happen.

[Ben]

Oh, really?

[Ryan]

Then you punch it in there.

[CJ]

Jeez Louise. So no one's even thinking at all.

[Ryan]

We're double AI.

[Evan]

But also, I do love when it just is super vague. It'll just be like, Ken swimming in the Seaboy's pool. Yeah. So it's like that doesn't even exist, and then all of a sudden, he's just saying stuff that it didn't tell.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it is weird, dude.

[Ben]

Like, it's getting the background of, like, our shops pretty dialed.

[CJ]

Yeah. I wonder if it's pulling that from online or what. It must be. It's even doing, like, flames on a blue. It's not a mini truck, but it's, like, very close.

[Evan]

Yeah. When you took your. Because I noticed. I did mine in the hotel in Vegas, and the background of the hotel bathroom shows up in some of them.

[Ben]

Oh, no.

[Evan]

They just take your.

[Ben]

Yeah, this was my favorite one, and it was the very first one created, so there's so many. CJ gave his likeness, and then there was a. Like, CJ's got, like, a thou. Three thousands of them out there. And then, like, one by one, everyone kind of just, like, added on to it. So now there's a bunch of videos that have all of us. But it started out just, like, kind of like one and then CJ and Ryan. But this was the very first one that was created after I had Set up the account. It's still the best, dude. Classic, right? Kevin, I told you to keep the certified heavies off the track.

[Evan]

Dude.

[CJ]

I do.

[Ben]

I was like, where's this going? I slam it and then this. This is a good one too. This is a good one too. This is actually looks like me. Gab, you taking down another heavy in there.

[Ryan]

Okay. And then my favorite part about the app is now scroll to the right on that. Someone made that one. Add a bunch of three wheelers outside and then someone else added something else. It's my favorite part. Like Tik Tok, you scroll vertically but on this when you hit a trend.

[CJ]

You like got his arm.

[Ben]

O my gosh.

[CJ]

All the women.

[Ryan]

So like if you hit a trend you like, you can swipe to the side.

[Ben]

Gav actually just gave his likeness and he signed up for the app. I was texting him like dude, you got to get it in on this. I don't know how long this is going to last. Maybe it's just a fad or a.

[CJ]

Wave right now being kind of a fad.

[Ben]

I think people are going to get sick of it like cuz it's not.

[Evan]

It will get better, but I could still see it being a fad.

[Ryan]

You know what I liked about it is it's like the. The effort to make a TikTok. Somebody just talked about that. Like the effort to make a movie, a TV show, a YouTube video, a TikTok. Like a TikTok's already super low. But this one, you legitimately to make a TikTok you don't even have to get out of bed. You just type it in.

[Evan]

Like I had that one silly like pizza one where CJ was like eating pizza and I'm like I love pepperoni. And then I remade it as a joke as fast as I humanly could. One take everything and it still took me 10, 10 minutes to recreate it exactly versus 10 seconds to type it.

[Ryan]

Now you don't have to leave your bed to make a piece of content.

[Evan]

What AI engine does Sora use?

[Ken]

Chat GPT.

[Evan]

Okay, they use. So coming into this, I just want to preface this. When you were talking about the Jake Paul videos, I thought that Sora was like a good AI and people happen to be using it to make like TikTok esque videos. Now I'm understanding what their whole goal with it is and Jake Paul investing and like it's like made to be TikTok. It's made to be like cap cut and TikTok together because like you can go, you know, like, is this, is.

[Ben]

It meant to be like a social media.

[Evan]

Yeah, that's what.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Not just a video generator.

[Evan]

It's truly like a short form platform like vine and TikTok.

[Ben]

I guess I noticed it, but I was still like this. The last thing I want to do is like, have another social media. That's not even like all of these are fake.

[Ryan]

That's what I'm saying. It's like the lowest tier of.

[Evan]

Well, Ben just got on. Like when people, they're obviously already making them. You right now, you refresh it and you got 20 more. You can scroll like you're watching Tik Tok of just cameos of you.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. It just gets to be too long for me. Like, but. But I do appreciate it and I watch them.

[Evan]

But I love when people play out a situation that, like, remember when we were talking about the 5,000 pennies thing? Then I go on Sora and I see a video of me getting 5 million pennies turning it into a giant penny.

[CJ]

Yeah. You could literally be taking our podcast stories, putting them into Sora Visual.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Depiction.

[Ben]

Well, I think there already is a lot of those too. Because when I was, when I was scrolling, I was like, how do people know these jokes? Or like a lot of them were like inside jokes. Like I saw one mic that said your chicken nuggets, your chicken strips, your chicken strips. I was like, when have we said that out online before? I must have said at some point.

[Evan]

Because there's, you know, just pull dialogue from something.

[Ben]

I don't know, like inside jokes and. Yeah, I guess that's just what happens when you share your entire life online.

[Ken]

Have you guys gone into the, the draft cameos you can see that people haven't published? Yeah. Some of those are so bad.

[Evan]

Like scroll your drafts of, of videos that people made of you without actually posting on.

[CJ]

What?

[Evan]

It's crazy. There's so many.

[CJ]

AI is only going to get better. Like the fact that this is the beginning.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Is. I mean, it is insane where it is going to be like, it's impressive right now, but yeah, it's not perfect, but it will be good. It's going to be even better in five years. It's going to be light years better.

[Ken]

Just look at how much AI has advanced from a consumer standpoint in the last two years.

[CJ]

I mean, you listen to Elon, like he's been saying it for years. He's like, with AI, we are going to be progressing so much faster. It's just going to be compounding do.

[Ben]

You think we're cooked as YouTubers?

[CJ]

No, I think there's still a desire for original content.

[Evan]

And as we mentioned, YouTube made this whole thing. Like, they're not pushing content that's AI, essentially audio, AI video.

[Ryan]

I'm actually wondering about that. Like, can we even show the videos that we just showed or is YouTube going to flag? It is like, yeah, show those.

[CJ]

I think it's original. Like, it's like if your whole content spiel is just that, like, you're not even a real person because there is channels that like the character and the face that people think is real. This has been going on for years. They think it's a real person, but it's just an AI and it's just like a script and they talk and like, I mean, they can be running like 10 channels at once. And I mean, none of them are probably like, that's even close to our size. But you get 10, 15, 20. You're not even doing anything.

[Ben]

Some guys are doing that with. With creating chicks, like good looking girls and then creating like accounts with these girls and then making a ton of money off of these fake girls. Dude, it is like, that seems insane.

[CJ]

That's a whole nother topic. So this is kind of interesting. Take that. I was just thinking of last night. So backstory to this. Fortnite just integrated this new Simpsons map, right? So it's like Simpsons World. And I grew up watching the Simpsons. I still like them. I don't necessarily watch them now, but I've never really played Fortnite. I never really liked. I didn't like the building thing, but I was just like bored this weekend and it was Sunday. I was like, whatever. I'm. I'm going to download and try it. Started playing it. I started getting better. I'm not good by any means. I'm way better at Call of Duty.

[Ben]

You still get.

[CJ]

I get smoked.

[Ben]

Yeah, you get smoked by any.

[CJ]

But it is so fun playing on the Simpsons map. You go into the houses.

[Ben]

Ev.

[CJ]

It is fun. Evan's not. I love it.

[Ryan]

You've been playing sick.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I've went probably. It was like last winter. I went through a quick little Fortnite phase and then didn't touch it for eight months. But I've been playing again the last couple weeks.

[CJ]

The Simpsons map is.

[Evan]

What's that Simpsons game.

[Ben]

That's like Simpsons Hit and Run.

[CJ]

That was my favorite game on the gamecube.

[Ben]

Dude.

[Evan]

That was a fun game.

[CJ]

So it was like gta, but it was rated T. So you kind of get not even close to gta, but you could free roam and like, kick people. Basically steal cars, whatever. So anyways, my point, though, we, you know, enough character. It is so interesting because everyone's got their character in this world and there's some pretty promiscuous looking women on there. So I get the base character. Sometimes I'm a man, sometimes I'm a girl. Like, I don't have anything special going on here, but when I got the girl, I'm sitting there in third person running behind it. I'm like.

[Ben]

This girl.

[CJ]

She'S kind of got a dump on her. She's kind of got a dump on it. No, no, that's you. It's interesting, Mike. There's Family Guy characters, Bob's Burgers, Simpsons. You can have so many different characters, but there's some, like. I mean, there's characters that are basically like an anime hot chick, premium skin. And I'm sitting there, I'm like, dude, these little boys are probably, like, fired up. Fired up, over fired up. Animated. I mean, I by no means was fired up, but I thought to myself.

[Ben]

I thought to myself, they knew what.

[CJ]

They were doing when they shaped this girl's behind her Boston.

[Ben]

Whatever else they got fork knife characters.

[Ryan]

I love when he's pos.

[CJ]

And.

[Ken]

And for $4.99, you can get an even bigger one.

[CJ]

That's the thing. Yeah.

[Ben]

You can upgrade to bbl. You can give the.

[CJ]

You can give. I don't know about. I don't.

[Evan]

I.

[Ken]

They sell, like, different characters.

[CJ]

Well, there's different characters. Like, yeah, you can get. It's insane. So anyways, it's. It's a whole new thing where we could be cooked as a society. Like, they talk about watching the P word online and how less and less guys are having actual sex now because it's just way easier to just go jerk one out to that and, like, you get the dopamine. But now I'm like, you're not. Are you going to be.

[Ben]

Are you playing Fortnite again? You're not turning it off?

[Ryan]

No.

[CJ]

You're not even going to be doing.

[Dalton]

Let me see.

[CJ]

Real human. To your point. They're going to be doing it to fucking animated people now. And that's when you're really cooked. That is when you're like, you need to just get out. Go talk to a girl versus doing that. And our friend Jake, last time he was on Jake Sherbrooke, he talked about how he's been rebelling against watching those videos.

[Ben]

Abstinence. Yeah.

[CJ]

Honestly, I, at the time I thought, yeah, you know, that's good. But the more I was thinking about it, like, it's definitely a good road to go down, especially for like a young man. Like, I think it's a slippery slope that society is going down with these AI and then the fucking video game.

[Dalton]

Characters getting us ready for the robots, brother.

[Ben]

Well, they already know what they're doing.

[CJ]

You got robot girlfriends and stuff. It is, yeah.

[Ben]

What?

[CJ]

Everything is only going to get in that direction better, bro.

[Ben]

What happens when Tesla comes out with like a thick Latino robot?

[Ryan]

Dude, I'm not going to lie. If you know if your Tesla sucked you off while driving, you'd have to buy it, dude.

[CJ]

I think Elon knows better. I think Elon knows better. He knows society to be cooked.

[Evan]

Yeah, he would.

[Ben]

I mean, again, what are you, what are you getting? Ken?

[CJ]

Ken's waiting on this dude. That's what he's waiting on. These robots.

[Ken]

I'm not buying any of that. I'll let the car drive, but I'm not, I'm not buying any of these little house.

[CJ]

Staying old fashioned, inflatable.

[Ryan]

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[Ben]

It is good to be right, Tina.

[CJ]

Yeah, that video is down. We had a, like our fourth or fifth YouTube video. He had like a blow up doll like that and we were joking around with it. We had it on a dirt bike. It was so stupid. But took that video down. Had to.

[Ben]

It wasn't that weird until you got in the hot tub with it naked.

[Evan]

That was the best part. In my opinion, though, that's true.

[CJ]

I did get in the hot tub with it.

[Ryan]

Listen, man, what are we at? Freaking like 700 videos or something like that?

[Ben]

555 50.

[Ryan]

You're gonna have a couple questionable acts in it, you know.

[Ben]

Oh, a ton, dude. So on the last video, we just hit 5 million subscribers. Shout out to everyone that subscribed to the main channel.

[Evan]

Thank you, guys.

[Ben]

On the, on the last video that we just posted, we had a shop tour or a whole compound tour. And during the compound tour, you know, we kept referencing like old videos or you know, just moments that made like certain spots on the compound special. And so I was just watching through all these old videos, just like screen recording them to, you know, overlay during the video. I was like, holy shit. This is why we didn't hit a million subscribers for the first five years of making YouTube videos. We were so stupid. But also it was pretty funny. I was laughing the whole time. Ken, you've always been funny, dude. You've always been. But your humor has changed. It's weird because people used to not like you, but you haven't really changed. I think they just figured out your humor.

[Ken]

I feel like I have changed in the last 10 years.

[CJ]

No, you.

[Ben]

You've definitely changed. But like the. You were saying in. In old videos. I was like, this is so funny. Ken has always been funny. And why did people not, like, why was he fan favorite from day one? I was watching these videos. I was like, Ken's comedic timing is unmatched.

[Ken]

So good. I hate all those old videos.

[Ben]

I do too. But your.

[CJ]

Your.

[Ben]

Yours were hilarious, I thought.

[Ryan]

But we say it took so long to hit a million subscribers because of doing dumb like that. But if we had never done all the dumb things, we would have never hit it either, you know? So it's all. Something's better than nothing.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

No, I think it all. It all obviously happened for a reason. Yeah, like, everything happened for a reason. The timing all worked out 100.

[CJ]

I remember Casey Neistat talking on it, like, hitting 1 million is way harder and hitting 2 and then hitting 2 is harder and 3, like, it's like a snowball. And I mean, it's so true because you got also got to think, like, yeah, vids back then. Like, some of them, there's definitely some cringy moments and just like some lame shit. But also, we just weren't working with the tools that we have now because. So true. You got to build up to this. Yeah. You know, and also we didn't have the camera skills. We didn't have the editing skills. Like, we were still working and building. I can't be embarrassed by SORA videos because I got 200 videos actually doing some dumb.

[Evan]

So, like, and now you're right. We have built. I mean, it's not like we're not going to innovate and whatever, but the only thing that's not going to get us to 10 million is stopping the only thing.

[Ben]

Yeah, we just keep. Keep at it. But yeah, I guess when. When we say dumb too, people might think that we mean, like, stupid or dangerous things. That's not what we mean by that. Because we still do that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I mean, what we mean is just like we were operating at such a dysfunctional way.

[Ken]

A loose program.

[Ben]

It was just stupid shit where we were like. I look back and we're like, why did we do that?

[CJ]

Or the way the, like the.

[Ben]

Or the structure of the video or.

[CJ]

Like an idea was executed. Like that was just executed so poorly. Yeah. And then if you execute the idea poorly, you can't even edit it to make it good. Like, there's such a list of things. It's like you got to have a good idea, then you got to execute it properly. Then you have to make sure the filming was done. Properly. And then it has to be edited properly and then packaged properly and put out on the Internet. Like, there's so many steps to it. And if one of those steps fails, like, for instance, let's just say you did the most amazing thing, but the filming was off. Boom, that's it. And let's just say then you go a step further instead. The filming was perfect, but it was edited poorly. Might as well just throw it all away. Like, you need all of them to hit. And it is kind of like a domino effect too. Like, if one of the earlier ones doesn't work, you can't really fix it afterwards.

[Ben]

I'm just so glad that we were able to figure it out and build upon the foundation of it because, man.

[CJ]

It was not struggling.

[Ben]

It was not. Yeah, it was not fun to watch back and just know, like. Like, oh, we were just missing so many things, but we were doing it. We were doing it.

[Evan]

Which.

[Ben]

Which I think is 90 of the battle.

[CJ]

It was fun, though, dude. I kind of miss those times. I don't really. I don't want to go back, but was just fun.

[Evan]

I don't even think you could if you tried.

[CJ]

Well, I definitely couldn't, but. But, like, it was just. There's something about it. Like, I was just a different person in terms of, like, you're just a different animal when you're in it.

[Evan]

I do, honestly.

[CJ]

And I'm sure we'll look back later on our ourselves now and be like, man, we were just a different. But, like, we were really just so.

[Ryan]

I would try to enjoy different every. Like, every times. Like, so many times I go, oh, I'm only this young once. Might as well just keep doing. Yeah, dumb things.

[Evan]

And honestly, the.

[Ben]

The number man. Will I deliver the number one thing.

[Evan]

I remember about all that stuff. Just chalk it up as, man, that was fun.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Like, the number one thing I remember. What was it like?

[Ben]

It was so fun living in the loft at the old shop.

[Evan]

Everything about it. I never once was like, I wish my situation was better. I think the only thing we cared about was making good content.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Building a business. But it wasn't, like, cringe either way where we were, like, closing our families off because we're like, yeah. Once they started the YouTube, we didn't hear much from them. Like, we were still normal, but, like, that's about all we thought about.

[CJ]

We were living like rock stars, though. I feel like we. We took on this lifestyle. We're like, we're gonna live like rock.

[Ben]

Stars, dude, it is so good that we didn't have more money.

[Evan]

Is that we were living like our versions of rock stars.

[Ben]

When you think of like within living.

[Evan]

Like rock stars, like movie, blah, blah. Like no, we, it was pretty tame in that aspect.

[Ryan]

We got a free hot tub from our buddy. We put that in the shop.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And then we were like, we were like, holy. We got a new hot tub up. Should we throw a party tonight? Yeah, it's a Tuesday afternoon. Invite everyone over.

[CJ]

We were always partying.

[Ben]

We're so hungover on Wednesday. We're like, it chalked the whole day up.

[CJ]

I just remember like going to the fridge at like maybe it's 11:30 and like I'm maybe like shipping out some orders. I look, just grab a pounder beer it, start drinking a beer. Like what the. Like you know, normal. But when you're young you can do that too. Like you just like be completely fine. Like if you just went and drank a beer in the middle of the day like a pounder and you didn't keep drinking, you're kind of gonna be tired, you know, like, and Evan's nod and like you would like, you'd have to either have to know drinking. Yeah. Or you'd have to just. Yeah. I don't know. But yeah, I'd just be clapped if I did that now.

[Evan]

But like thinking back to like when we got our first Maverick, I remember.

[Ben]

We were just like, dude, we made it.

[Evan]

We got a side by side boys.

[Ryan]

And it's that thing everywhere.

[Evan]

Yeah, we ripped that thing.

[Ryan]

It's awesome.

[Ben]

Yeah. One of our, one of our boys came home and just end over end crashed it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh yeah.

[Evan]

And that, that's the things that come with owning a side by side.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

We learned real quick what owning a side by side.

[CJ]

Let's tell that story. Let's tell that story. So we're out at Zorba's partying and then Zorba's closes. Let's go back to the shop and keep partying. We always, everyone's always welcome. Everyone comes over to the shop. Who knows, it's probably 2:30 in the morning at this point. One of our friends hops in the side by side with just another girl that we don't even know hops in, starts ripping around, driving the thing like 80 endos the out of it. They get ejected out of the side by side. They didn't have seat belts on, so lucky they didn't get hit. They both get up and, and like are relatively fine.

[Ken]

And it was just light cuts and scrapes.

[CJ]

But yeah, but like, then the side by side, it was so lucky. Yeah. And that's when we said, nobody can drive the side by side.

[Evan]

You know, we're still partying. Oh, wait, what happened? You kind of see how they're like, not too banged up. You're like, they what? They did what? And then.

[Ben]

Well, who okayed that?

[Evan]

And this is all. I thought probably you did.

[Ryan]

I don't think anybody did.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Then we're like, just hopped in and did it.

[CJ]

Dude.

[Ben]

So dumb. So lucky. Honestly, that could have ended us, bro. Super lucky. We were definitely had somebody watching out for us and them.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That's a crazy situation a lot of times. A lot of times. But, yeah, I mean, we're still doing crazy all the time. Like, how was Vegas for the 27th time this year?

[CJ]

Ken goes back in two weeks, though.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And then he goes.

[Ryan]

And he goes back again.

[Ken]

Well, I'm going to the rodeo. And then the following week is.

[Ryan]

Can't miss that.

[Ken]

CJ's fiance's birthday, so.

[Ryan]

And the rodeo is also in town that weekend.

[Ben]

Not missing that, Ken. So how was it?

[Ryan]

It was good. I mean, it was. I'm not. There was no crazy doors that, you know, were really big and crazy house parties and stuff like that? No handles. No handles.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's right.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah, I forgot about that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I don't know.

[Ken]

We met up with Robbie Layton. Saw the. The progress.

[CJ]

Yeah. How's it looking?

[Evan]

Lit it.

[Ryan]

Insane, dude. Dude. I mean, it's actually insane.

[Ben]

Yeah. So you guys went for sema?

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Ben]

So Ken, Ryan, Mike, Gavin Wrench. Mark Gavin Wrench. They all went to Sema.

[Ken]

Sema, yeah, we went to Sema one day.

[Ben]

We were downwind from Sema. We could.

[Ken]

We could hear it.

[Ryan]

We saw some of the cars leave later.

[Ben]

Yeah. And then. Yeah, cj, Evan and I and Dalton stayed back, but.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

How was, like, how was the unicorn? Insane.

[Ryan]

So first of all, looks visually, it's insane, but everything they're building is out of like, thick aluminum and metal.

[CJ]

Smart.

[Ryan]

So, like, the splitter is like. Ken hung on the splitter, sat on.

[Ken]

The splitter, and it didn't even budge.

[Ben]

Did they want you to?

[Ryan]

No.

[Ken]

Well, he was like, yeah, you can.

[CJ]

You can breaking it.

[Ken]

He was like, you can sit on this. And I was like, okay. And then I sat on it and it didn't budge at all.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So everything's super strong. They said they're trying to make it.

[CJ]

You proof if you hit a tree this time, the tree is just going to. You're just going to slice through it. It's going to use the splitter like a knife.

[Ben]

Just smart.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was. It was also sick. Like, it got a lot of attention.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Like, it was on the quantum, that crazy welding table that he got to straighten it out and do. People were just, like, fricking underneath it, looking like.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's a work of art, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Oh, it's unbelievable.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's so cool. I was chatting with him, and I was like, how much you think you've got into this right now? He goes, I would bet right now, as it sits, keep in mind, no interior, not tuned, not painted, none of the things. It goes probably, like 200 grand.

[Evan]

Oh, what?

[CJ]

Lamborghini money.

[Ryan]

Plus, we had our 80 grand into it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

What? Yeah. I mean, that many hours and that much metal.

[Ben]

Shout out, Robbie Layton. Holy.

[Ken]

Basically, I know the whole car is new. The only existing body panels are the roof and the trunk lid. That's it. Everything else is, like, brand new. The frame is all new. It's insane.

[Ben]

My dad actually is the one keeping me up to date on what's going on on the unicorn build because I don't want to watch his videos because I want to be surprised. Like, I want to see it for the first time and, like, go over all the details with him in person and get my honest, genuine reaction of being amazed. But my dad has watched every minute of Robbie's videos that he's. That he's put out.

[Evan]

You do see it. You should go back and scrub them because, like, it's.

[CJ]

I know.

[Ben]

And I'm. Now I'm debating because now. Now I. After sema, I see it all over my feed.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's crazy. It's everywhere.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's everywhere. So I'm like, I. I'll, like, start watching a video, and then it'll pop up. I'm like, damn it. I see, like, one more thing that each time I'm like, holy.

[Ryan]

It looks so cool.

[Ben]

So at this point, I've maybe seen enough where I could probably just go back, because I owe it. I owe it to Robbie. I got to give him every view that.

[Ryan]

That he.

[Ben]

So I feel like. I feel bad for not watching them, but I. I want to be surprised for it, but my dad's just like. He's excited. He's like, you don't know the level of detail that's going into this thing. Like, you will be mind blown. And he was like, I cannot believe that somebody is doing this for you guys.

[Evan]

One of the nicest things ever done Ever.

[Ben]

How lucky are we? Crazy.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty cool. I was talking to Robbie about that. I go, dude, like, it's been a dream of all of ours to have a car at sema. Like, how crazy that you made that come true. And I kind of was like, yeah. You know, like, it's different because we're. We're not building it. You know, our guys aren't. He goes, well, technically, Gavin helped with the headers, hooking that connection up. And he goes, also, look around, dude. You. No, none of these cars here are owned by the guy standing next to him. He goes, it's. It's some guy somewhere else who paid for the build to happen. I go, you're right.

[Ken]

So it's also super unique at SEMA because every other car is, you know, polished and completely finished. This one was the only car where it's, like, midway through building and restoring it.

[Ben]

That's really cool.

[Ken]

Everything else is, you know, like, already, like, looks perfect, but no drive shafts.

[Ryan]

And.

[Ben]

And they did that because it was on, like, a welding table, and it was, like, in that booth.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

So Robbie got a sponsorship from Quantum.

[Ryan]

Quantum.

[Evan]

They loved it.

[Ryan]

They were stoked.

[Ken]

So Robbie got a sponsorship from Quantum Tables Welding. Yeah. So, like, they had the car on top of one of their tables there.

[Evan]

But just cut to the chase of the other sick part was the horsepower rodeo. You know, think the first time we went to sema, it was the Hoonigan burnout pit, which is still there as well. I think that was the first time they did it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And people. Most people loved it. And then some people are like, what the hell? I can't breathe. They can't see.

[Ben]

I saw a lot of comments saying SEMA was ruined, quote, unquote, ruined by all the burnouts and the smoke and just boomers being pissed about it.

[Evan]

But, yeah, so now they're, like, doubling. You know, they have the Optima drift pit, and then they have Weston's Horsepower.

[Ryan]

Rodeo, and they sell.

[CJ]

The Horsepower rodeo is put on by Weston.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That's sick.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Good for him.

[Evan]

They. So he's. I think he's kind of in charge of, like, getting all the burnout teams there. And then, like, they had, like, long travel trucks jumping. They had a Harley stunt crew there. And the craziest part was, like, I don't know who's insuring this event or whatever, like, if it falls under the SEMA insurance, but when they send. They send 10 Chevy, single cab Chevy's out there.

[Dalton]

My goodness.

[Evan]

You would have Loved it.

[Ryan]

Oh, pro Chevy.

[Evan]

Yeah, they're just, like, free for all. And some guys, like, 50 around the outside. Some guys doing small donuts in here. Some of them are hitting each other. Multiple fires. Multiple vehicles start on fire.

[Ryan]

I learned a secret about this. Apparently, they're filling.

[Evan]

This is.

[Ryan]

I don't know about these guys, but there is guys out there that are filling their tires with gasoline. So when the tires pop, they explode.

[CJ]

That's pretty.

[Ryan]

But, like, one guy, like, legitimately burned down his truck to the point of where I'm standing there going, he's got to get out of that car. Like, I mean, it's fully engulfed in flames.

[Ben]

And he kept going, and he kept bouncing off the chip.

[Ryan]

No, he's just. Yeah, he's bouncing off the chip, standing still. And I'm like, what's he waiting for? And then a long travel truck comes and jumps, like, 60ft over him. And I go, oh, some of the.

[Evan]

Craziest rollbacks I've ever seen.

[Ken]

The one dude, he was doing a rollback, and he got within, like, a couple feet of the.

[Ben]

The barricade right up there, as all rollbacks should. Yeah, we need some barricades on the.

[Evan]

Track, some jersey barriers doing roll, but.

[Ben]

Rollbacks just into an empty parking lot.

[Ken]

Those guys drifting those trucks was more entertaining than I think anything else they had going on there.

[Evan]

And then I talked to one, the one dude, and it's just like the oldest Chevy just ripping the craziest rollbacks. And he got hit by another dude. And then I talked to him, like, dude, I'm so bummed. That truck was sick. Like, your box is all crinkled. The cab's all crinkled. And he goes, that's fine. I'll just replace them. I'm like, I'll just replace the box in the cab. And then he's like, yeah, he's like, this is the seventh box on the third cab I've had on the truck. I'm like, oh, this is.

[Ken]

Bro.

[Ryan]

They're out there.

[Evan]

Your life.

[Ryan]

Then destroy them.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was. It was pretty cool.

[Ben]

So different. Different breeds.

[CJ]

I did, like, these guys are the, like, couch on the truck that Weston and Gavin were on. That was sick. That's fitting. Gavin looked good. Was there any seat belts on that?

[Ken]

Oh, they had a ratchet.

[Ryan]

Ratchet strap that didn't get hooked up properly. So, like, you know, like, when you press a ratchet strap down and then it unhooks from what it's unhooked on. It just did that immediately. And then I took the ratchet strap from Gavin because it was like hanging back to the tire. I was like, this is going to be worse than having a, you know.

[CJ]

Who is living like a rock star is Gavin. That guy's all over doing so much stuff. It's cool to like kind of watch him grow as like a person and a character too. Like, like he's really doing a good job of like living that role. Like he's always on.

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[Ben]

How sick is that?

[Ryan]

They go, they're like, who are you here with? And I'm like, shred 80. They're like, okay, well you only get three people. I'm like, we got nine.

[Ben]

Yeah. And it did Shred.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

No, no, they' baby, let them ride.

[Ryan]

Get right in there. He's on the couch three minutes later doing burnouts out there, hyping up the crowd.

[Ben]

I mean, Shred's the man. We, we've said it forever. But our generation's greatest entertainer, he is. He was just on espn.

[CJ]

Yeah, you don't know, dude.

[Ben]

This guy's popping up on every YouTube channel. He's popping up on every social media platform and on every big page. Espn, dude.

[CJ]

Espn. Gav, you remember that one guy, ESPN Ron. He was a wheelie boy back in the day and he popped off and just doing some crazy two stroke wheelies on the street. And he changed his name from Ron to ESPN Ron. So I think since Gav's been on espn Money.

[Ken]

Ron.

[Dalton]

Money Run was what it was originally.

[CJ]

And now it's ESPN Ron. Yeah, I think it should be espn.

[Dalton]

Yeah, we gotta. He got an ESPN chain. We should get Gavin, bro.

[CJ]

We should that'd be nice of us.

[Ryan]

You've been on espn.

[Evan]

Yeah, I was like, I'm pretty sure.

[Dalton]

You'Ve had like a couple clips of.

[Ryan]

Ave. Yeah, it's like been there.

[Dalton]

Ice bikes.

[Evan]

Yeah, dude, I.

[Ryan]

Couple ice.

[Dalton]

Couple different ice, I think, dude, like some.

[Evan]

Some crazy smart car rail or something. Front flip. Mini truck.

[Dalton]

Oh, the mini truck, I think did espn.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Or yeah, mini truck espn.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

So we'll grab you a chain too, brother. But yeah, dude, I. I hitched a ride with some subs out of the, like, the SEMA parade, which is really fun. And dude, they had this huge dually on like an 18. Dually ram on. 18 inch lift, like, freaking front drive shaft. It did have a front drive craft. And people were checking too. Like on the parade, they're like, I see you. Does that thing work? Yep.

[CJ]

And then 18 inch lift.

[Evan]

18 inch lift with 30 inch rims and 40.

[CJ]

Had to be the biggest truck ever.

[Evan]

Inch tires.

[Ben]

How was it?

[Evan]

Huge.

[Ryan]

Huge.

[Evan]

I mean, it was. It was like fun.

[Ryan]

We were lit.

[Evan]

It took us like an hour just to get like, out of sema. But then I saw. We got out onto the strip, and I'm just like, there's sick cars everywhere. Lambos, huge trucks. And then I see Weston driving his couch. I didn't get a video, but I see him crossing the other way on. On his couch. And then that just. That was. That made my day.

[Ken]

We were in an Uber going from one casino to the next. And I. I look ahead a few cars. I'm like, that Lamborghini looks. Sounds pretty good. And then we get a couple cars closer. It's like, oh, my gosh. That's Tim, our Lambo winner.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Hung out with Demi in our giveaway.

[Ben]

That's crazy.

[Ken]

Met up with him, had dinner and.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So you guys did.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You went out. Oh, that's right.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Shred aids was climbing all over his Lambo.

[Ryan]

Dude, we might have had a couple at dinner, and he was like, gavin, get on top of the car. Get on the car.

[Ben]

Dude, if I want a Lamborghini, I'd have people climbing on it.

[Ryan]

He's got like 12, 000 miles on that thing. He's. He's put on it since he got.

[Ben]

As he should. Yeah, as he should.

[CJ]

More. Dude, he seems like he's driving that thing everywhere.

[Evan]

Everywhere.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's true. It probably wasn't even before he went home.

[CJ]

That thing looks sick.

[Evan]

Lightly topped it out on the salt flats on the way back home.

[CJ]

How fast did he get it to it?

[Evan]

173, I believe.

[CJ]

Oh, that's it.

[Ben]

It'll go faster.

[Evan]

That's why I said lightly. I. I think he had more in.

[Ken]

It, but I think on salt, that's pretty.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's pretty good, dude.

[Evan]

175.

[Ben]

That. Is that for the car?

[CJ]

Oh, well, you saw what happened to our shifter carts when we took them to the salt.

[Dalton]

They have it detailed immediately after.

[CJ]

You got to make sure you get the under.

[Ben]

Yeah. But like, every nut lift that thing.

[Ken]

Up, it's just running through a touch car wash a couple of times.

[Ben]

A couple of times? You're going to need more than that. Yeah.

[Evan]

He had his Viper buddy out there, and he was like, doing donuts. And the salt build up on the back just.

[CJ]

Salt flats is such a cool place.

[Ben]

It is amazing. It's a wonder of the world. Dude.

[CJ]

Lick the ground. It tastes like salt.

[Dalton]

Remember when we drove all the way there to find out it was flooded?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Hell of a sunrise.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that was probably one of the best.

[Ben]

But then we went down the road to Sandhouse.

[Evan]

No, no, no, no, no.

[CJ]

Knowles. Knowles.

[Evan]

Noel ended up being really fun.

[Ben]

Yeah. We filmed a sweet video there. Climbed in some caves.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah. Got demonetized.

[Ben]

Everybody taken down.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Good times.

[Ryan]

So while we were off in Vegas, what'd you guys do?

[Ben]

I was deer hunting. And I feel like I've been like, well, this is the second Vegas trip that I missed out on.

[Ryan]

Good for you, bud.

[Ken]

Congratulations.

[Ben]

And, yeah, I mean, I always have FOMO in the moment. And then you guys come home and you say that. It makes me feel better.

[Ryan]

It's because you're not there, buddy.

[Evan]

Just.

[Ryan]

You weren't there. It would have been more fun if you were there. If you and siege were there.

[Ben]

I appreciate that and have.

[Ryan]

It would have been a lot more fun.

[Ben]

I do appreciate that. But, no, I stayed home and I went deer hunting. It was a deer opener in Minnesota. So I was like, well, I can go to Vegas whenever, but you can only deer hunt two weeks a year.

[Ryan]

Please tell me you got one.

[Ben]

Didn't even see a buck.

[Ryan]

You didn't avenge me, bro.

[Ben]

Didn't even see a buck. Ryan.

[CJ]

You hit them all, Ryan.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. You kind of cleared out the county.

[Ryan]

But taking them out early.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So, no, it wasn't. It wasn't good. One guy, two guys actually, in our camp shot like monsters.

[Ryan]

Oh, really? That's good.

[Evan]

Yeah. And to take a look at those.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'll show you.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And then. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't see a Single buck.

[Evan]

Break that muzzleloader out, bro.

[Ben]

But it was fun. It was fun. I felt like I was in Vegas. I was. I was shaking dice.

[Ryan]

Oh, fun.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I took 500 bucks off of our buddy Brandt.

[Ryan]

Oh, that had to feel.

[Ben]

Oh, it felt so good. Yeah, felt so good. And then the next morning I turned around and I gave all that money to my brother. Yeah, lost it all.

[Dalton]

Classic.

[Ben]

Yeah, classic. Yeah.

[Evan]

I thought you guys gambled. You just gave it to him.

[Ben]

No, no, no. Yeah, he won it. He won it fair and square from me.

[CJ]

He definitely came out better than if you were in Vegas then.

[Ben]

Yeah, I did. Yeah, for sure.

[Ken]

Only lost 200 on that trip, so I'd say that's a win.

[Evan]

And Ken gambled hard.

[Ben]

I know. All I saw was Ken just going up to us slot machine, putting a hundred dollars in and just doing this like. What are you doing?

[Ken]

I'm trying to get to a bonus. Cuz you only win money in a bonus. Like you can pushing the button or you just go get it over in 10 seconds.

[Dalton]

My hand pay on Huff and Puff was just through the lines.

[Ryan]

Really? That's crazy.

[Dalton]

Actually it was all the. The big. The. The piggy with the suit.

[Ken]

Oh, the business pig.

[Dalton]

The business pig. Yeah. I damn near blacked out the screen on business pigs.

[CJ]

How about you?

[Ben]

Fortnite got a horned up. Played Fortnite.

[Dalton]

Alex, wonder why you were so sweaty while you were gaming?

[CJ]

Nah, that's normal. No, I didn't really game that much. I probably played like an hour and a half.

[Dalton]

But the rest of the day.

[Ryan]

I.

[Ben]

Don'T know what I did.

[CJ]

I can't remember.

[Ken]

You guys put up Christmas decorations?

[CJ]

Oh, yeah. Alex put up Christmas stuff on Sunday.

[Ben]

Is that legal?

[CJ]

She loves Christmas and she feels a little early, huh?

[Dalton]

It is early, but it's wait till Thanksgiving. Isn't that the rules?

[Ben]

Friday after Thanksgiving, I came back from.

[Ken]

The airport and she had Christmas music playing on the speaker.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's a little. That's a little weird.

[CJ]

I don't know why I really like it. It just puts you in a good mood. It's just like. It's kind of calming too. Yeah. At least the music she plays is like really calming. It's like jazz.

[Evan]

Exactly. And so why not have that for two months instead of one?

[CJ]

I've been listening to it. It's like Christmas music, jazz.

[Ryan]

Like.

[Evan]

It's like.

[Ben]

No, this is nice.

[CJ]

It's called having class, Ben. It's called having class.

[Evan]

Holy.

[Ben]

Did we all live different weekends? These guys were in Vegas being degenerates and you were listening to jazz at home.

[CJ]

I know I did. What'd you do?

[Evan]

So you posted the video Thursday night, then, you know, you got some sleep, I hope. And then what'd your Friday look like?

[CJ]

I don't remember.

[Ken]

Mike, did you go to the gym?

[Ben]

Because. Because you're all your time. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. Played Fortnite.

[Evan]

He didn't play till Sunday and we were all home by then.

[CJ]

Let me see if I can figure this.

[Ben]

Who doesn't remember what they did four days ago?

[CJ]

Well, I might have pictures. Let me see.

[Evan]

I'm asking for Friday and Saturday, and that was.

[Dalton]

Take pictures of your Fortnite.

[CJ]

I did. Saturday I went shopping with Alex.

[Evan]

Nice.

[CJ]

In the Fargo because I took a picture of a picture that I was thinking about buying.

[Evan]

Nice.

[CJ]

Maybe I went to the gym, you know, I worked out, a cold plunge, a saunaed. I was talking with Jake a lot. Jake called me, like, literally every 10 minutes. And we'd be chatting.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, because he's trying to buff things over.

[CJ]

Yeah. After blowing the hot dogs all over.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So not only did he spray hot dogs all over, but he needed help with some stuff, like the back end of his YouTube stuff. So I was trying to help him, but I really don't know. He's got a lot of help.

[Ken]

We talked about the hot dogs yet?

[Ben]

No, they haven't. We haven't showed. We can leave it as is.

[CJ]

But you'll, You'll. You guys will see it in two weeks. But. Yeah, so that was kind of it, I think. Watch football. Of course, on Sunday I had to watch the bikes. That was really nice. Yeah, that was tough.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Dude, I don't have any good stories. I don't know.

[Ben]

It's all good.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. That's okay.

[Ben]

Yeah, we put you on the spot there, asking you what you were doing, and that wasn't cool.

[Ryan]

I did see a lot of guys that posted Instagram stories of the deer they shot, and some of them straight up looked like first year baby deer. I was like, I can't believe you. One, had the balls to shoot this thing and two, post it to get down on your hands and knees down here and hold up this little baby deer head.

[Ben]

Dude. Dude, I don't know.

[Ryan]

Just some corner.

[CJ]

Were there comments? Were there comments like, bro, I don't know.

[Ben]

Ryan's like, dude, I hit that on the way to the gym?

[CJ]

No, Every day.

[Ryan]

I mean, they were like, if you shot it for your, you know, nine year old first year out, like, I'M like, okay, you gave them the experience. But there's literally, it'd be like posting a picture with a gone. That's kind of funny. I feel like it's less funny if.

[Dalton]

You went out and got your first six pointer. You'd probably be pretty hyped.

[Ryan]

No, I, I actually for sure saw one that was just straight up a dub dough.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Ben]

No, no rack. Tiny little. Everyone, Everyone listening.

[Dalton]

Picture with your dough.

[Evan]

My 14 is the level. Like you can shoot a dough. You could even shoot a button box. I'm sure the meat's good.

[Ryan]

Post about it.

[Evan]

You're grabbing the ears, holding the head up like, what?

[Ryan]

No, I just pictured like, he was holding it, like, because there's no antlers to grab. And he was like holding it by the side and he's like, look at the camera. Whole hand, like went around the head of it. It was so tiny.

[CJ]

Find this picture. I just gotta see.

[Ryan]

It was on Snapchat. I remember. It's gone.

[Dalton]

Cousin Joe shot one that was so small one year. They always look bigger when they're running and you're all hyped up. You realize this thing was like the size of a dog. So we have a picture of him holding it like a fish from his body to like, make it look bigger. But I think I had to be like, freaking 60 lb. Field dress.

[Ben]

I have a buddy.

[CJ]

It.

[Ben]

I'll say his name. Elliot. So Elliot shot a. The, like the smallest deer you've ever seen. Like, it damn near still had spots on it. It was like a fawn pushing it. And back when we were. Back when we were in high school and he had posted a picture, he sent a picture in the group. And it's like, like Evan said, it's like, Ryan, you'd be pretty stoked too, if you shot a six point buck for your first time. Like, it feels cooler than it looks.

[Evan]

Right?

[Ryan]

Every time.

[Evan]

Every time.

[Ben]

Right. So he sends. It might have been his first year in the group chat. Right to this day, every single deer season, everyone always like, if you're in a stand and there's like a font, like, zoom in. Oh, Elliot, you just shot this thing 20 minutes ago. Yeah, just like the classic. Like, you become that guy.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What happens if you shoot a baby? Can you get in trouble for that or. No, that's obviously no.

[Ryan]

It's just.

[Ben]

It's just like, morally, it's like, I don't know.

[Dalton]

I had a. I had a doe and a fawn that were chilling for like 10, 15 minutes right under my stand. I didn't see any bucks, didn't shoot anything. But it was cool to just be 15 yards away and watch them. Oh, dude, it almost felt like you were succeeding at hunting. Like, they never knew I was there.

[Ben]

Yeah, they were just.

[Dalton]

Just living their life and wandered off.

[Ryan]

It's got to be hard deer hunt with you ripping some ass.

[Dalton]

It sounds like a grunt call and then the smell. They must think there's some good treats or something.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. The cool part about does that come in is usually if a dough comes in hot, it's being chased by a buck. So a lot of times if you're sitting there, you're not seeing, and a doe comes in, you're stoked to see the dough. But if, like, this dough is moving kind of hot, more times than not, it's because it's like running away from a buck.

[Ryan]

It's being chased by.

[Ben]

It's being chased. Yeah, by a dog. And. And so that's when, like, if a dough is coming through hot and you get your gun ready and you're just like waiting, and then if the buck pops out, you're like, holy. And then that's when, like, the buck fever really hits because, like, you kind of anticipate it coming and then it pops up and you're like, oh, it's time, dude. I wish that you guys could. Honestly, you just got to come hunting with me some. You got to get your hunter safety. You got to come out with me and you can experience buck fever. And as soon as you do, you'll be like, oh, this is sick. This is why they do it. And then you'll shoot a six point picture of it, though, because you're going to be so proud.

[Evan]

Yeah, right. But also a six point. It's kind of like rod size. Like, you could have a six point that's tiny, or you can have a six point that's like kind of big.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Talking about. What are you talking about? Rod size.

[Evan]

Like, take. You get. You get, take two white guys that are the same height and same build.

[Ben]

They.

[Evan]

They don't got the same rod size.

[Ben]

Jesus Christ.

[Ryan]

You're gonna be a lot more happy.

[Ken]

That was a very weird way to describe it.

[Dalton]

They're saying some racks are more girthy than others.

[Evan]

Correct. Correct. Some really sprout up.

[Ben]

And I mean, most times a six.

[CJ]

I don't.

[Ben]

I've never seen a girthy six.

[Evan]

But you've seen a long six. You've seen a long six before?

[Ben]

I don't know. I prefer to not talk about the girth of these six points, you could.

[Evan]

Step it up to an eight. There's such a thing as a small eight, and there's such a thing as a big eight.

[Ken]

Yeah, Clip that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

What are your thoughts on that, Ken?

[Evan]

Clip it.

[Ken]

I've. I've never hunted before, so.

[Ben]

And, Ken, some people on that couch should maybe stay that way.

[Ken]

Yeah, both of us.

[Ben]

No, C.J.

[CJ]

Will be fine. You.

[Ben]

I'd be walking through the woods head to toe in blaze orange, and I'd still be concerned about you.

[Ryan]

Actually.

[CJ]

Shoot it off.

[Ben]

Drop his gun in the stand.

[CJ]

Blow through the side.

[Ryan]

Oh.

[CJ]

Shoot through the other thing.

[Dalton]

I think I'd be most excited if one of you guys shot one. I don't know if you've experienced, like, field dressing a deer, but I think that would be pretty funny. Now it's laying there. It's like, now what? Now you got, like. Toss you a knife, right? Cut his balls off.

[Ben]

Get out.

[Ryan]

Rip it.

[Dalton]

Rip its out. Like, it's pretty.

[Ken]

I'll just join and go hunting with my car.

[Evan]

There you go.

[Ken]

Oh, you keep driving until you find another one.

[CJ]

Again.

[Ben]

Hit. He hits a deer with his cybertruck, and he's like, oh, what a rush, man. They weren't kidding.

[Evan]

I saw. I saw a good old Tesla hit and run in Vegas, just wandering out on the street, and I was like, ah, there's some sick cars going by. I should grab a video. And, like, right as I look up, like, kind of start taking my phone out, I see this Tesla hauling, and I'm like, you know, split second thought was, dude, these guys are gonna hit somebody, see him slam their brakes, ram into someone else, and then just peel out Tesla style. Just.

[Dalton]

It must have been distracted by their suck attachment.

[Evan]

Yeah. And then the other car, like, drives after him. I'm like, man, this doesn't happen in cormorant.

[Ben]

No, Ken, I heard something the other day that you haven't mentioned, and that might be by design. Oh, do you have to replace your entire Great Wall of Ken?

[Ken]

Yes, I do.

[Ben]

What? Very bad deal.

[Ken]

Yeah, very bad deal. I.

[CJ]

It's all ripped out.

[Ken]

I thought I was being frugal, and I. I chose the lowest bidder. I should not have chosen the lowest bidder. Okay, so he didn't do the work correctly, and the wall was falling over already, so.

[Evan]

So just, you know, there's like, 300.

[CJ]

Racks down the drain, which is just like that.

[Evan]

But I'm saying there's, like, three tiers, so if one was falling over, you have to replace Them all.

[Ken]

So it's like the.

[CJ]

The.

[Ken]

The middle one was falling over the worst one, probably. But then he would have to do the one above that.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And then he was looking at it, and he was like, oh, this lowest one is also built incorrectly and will fall over over time.

[Ben]

What does that even mean? Like, when you say falling, like, could the naked eye pick it up or.

[Ken]

Was it like, I. I could watch on my security camera over the course of the summer, it sunk, and then it was also leaning holy.

[Ben]

So how did he mess that up?

[Ken]

He didn't know what he was doing because he did pass away. But I did hire the wrong guy.

[Evan]

Rest in peace to whoever the contractor was for that. But you really can't do anything besides redo it.

[Ken]

No, it's. Oh, I chatted with this guy, and he's like, you already have the material. So it's literally just our time to.

[Ben]

Rip everything out, do it the same way.

[Ken]

No, it's gonna be completely different now. I'm. Dude, I'm have a ramp. Like, Ryan's old house.

[CJ]

I've got some videos of it. But it's so funny because Ken's wall was the talk of the lake they were referring to as Ken's wall. Like, everyone knew where, like, I mean, people were going by admiring. Like, that's a massive retaining wall.

[Ben]

It was an amazing. It was amazing.

[CJ]

Yeah. Wow.

[Ben]

I can't even.

[CJ]

I can't even believe he got it approved. This, that, and the other. And then they're gonna come back next year. He's gonna have it all just changed.

[Ben]

They're gonna be like, holy. So he just changed it.

[CJ]

That's insane.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Is he gonna do another one next year? Like, but anyway, so Alex didn't know.

[Ben]

It's like, decorating your house.

[CJ]

Get this, get this. Alex didn't know that Ken had to take his wall out. And we were cruising around one Sunday, and I was like, let's go see on Ken's house. See the progress. She hadn't been over there. Shouldn't heard about it. So we pull up. I'm gonna play the video. But basically, all of Ken's retaining wall rock was taken out, and it was put in between his family's little cabin and his house. And she goes goes, what's he doing here? I go, oh, yeah, he's building the wall. She's like, are you serious? I'm like, yeah, yeah, he's building. He wants privacy between them. She's like, but she's not doing on the other side. No, just that Side. She's like, oh, my God, Ken. And it's like this massive wall. Like, massive wall, you know, with huge.

[Ryan]

Picture and how many freaking rocks there were.

[CJ]

Yeah, they're like that sort of thick. It's like something you could walk on top. But she thought it was real and it was really funny. But. So we're checking out big Ken's house. I love how he.

[Evan]

It does.

[CJ]

It looks like from the great wall.

[Evan]

Of Ken building a wall next to his family's cabin.

[CJ]

His house. From his family's house. Just so they don't know what's going on over here. Give him some privacy.

[Ben]

I mean, this is.

[Evan]

This.

[Ben]

That is. To be fair, though, Ken, that is something you would do.

[Ryan]

And then over there, there's just no wall.

[CJ]

He doesn't. With his family.

[Ben]

Is this actually how it's gonna go?

[CJ]

I don't know. I mean, I think it might be a little wider than he was planning. But we got the great wall of Ken here, his house. He's building this wall just to give him some privacy from his family's cabin. So anyways.

[Ben]

And here's.

[CJ]

Now the front. It's all ripped out. Holy.

[Evan]

The ramp is sick, though.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Ken]

Yeah. So it's gonna be a ramp like your old house was.

[Ben]

And then what?

[Ken]

I don't know. It's tough to explain. You'll have to see it when it's done.

[CJ]

Just something different for this year.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

How'd you get in there, Ken?

[CJ]

It's unlocked. I took a. In the corner.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[CJ]

Your bathroom wasn't even in, like, the. No toilets.

[Ken]

Well, you gotta aim. Be. Have a precise aim in the hole.

[CJ]

I just put it in the corner. I figured they'd clean it up.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was. It was one of those, like, square holes on the floor.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's interesting. You did your plumbing in metal, but.

[Ken]

Like a rectangle that. That's like two inches wide. And like.

[Ben]

It was pretty nice though, that you put one in every room.

[Ken]

I put multiple in every room with.

[CJ]

The great though I had to step on it to push it through.

[Ben]

Waffles.

[Evan]

Waffle Stop.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's in front of the windows. Good view.

[Ben]

Gun fires up his AC next summer. Oh, it smells like. Smells like that's something Matt would have done.

[CJ]

So this is going back to our conversation at lunch. I truly think we should do a live stream. Well, more so you should do a live stream, Ken, because you're going to be starring in it. I don't even know if we're going to be over There, but like a 24 hour live stream. Ken at his house, we have all of his security cameras live. And so it's just switching to whichever one that he's got. That place is a lot like covered like a bank in security cameras.

[Ken]

So you're basically talking big brother.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. And. But you, you don't even, don't even worry about the cameras. Pretend they're not even there. Just live your life, do your thing, invite your friends over, have your parties. Like, I think that live stream would go insane. And then I'd watch it. Like we've been saying for the longest time. I really do think that maybe we'll do just a YouTube video of this. But just a video. Full length, no cuts. You sleeping? We'll just tripod. Dalton doesn't have to be in the room with you.

[Ken]

I think you've lost your mind actually at what you think is one not creepy.

[Ben]

Nobody ever said that it wasn't.

[CJ]

Yeah, no one ever said it wasn't creepy. It's not creepy on your part, Ken. It's creepy on the people that'd be watching it. Maybe, maybe. But I think it's going to be a very entertaining, powerful piece of content.

[Ken]

I feel like anyone who watches that, it would be extremely in the head.

[CJ]

I don't. I think people are in the comment section right now probably saying, dude, do both of those ideas. They. They would think that was a funny ass idea.

[Ben]

Dude, if my favorite youtuber was doing a sleeping stream, I'd have to tune in. And that doesn't make me creepy. I just want to see what's going on.

[CJ]

That would pop.

[Ben]

Dude, does he talk in his sleep? Does he snore?

[Dalton]

You fart in your sleep?

[Ken]

I don't know. I guess we'll find out.

[Ben]

Hey, it's happening.

[CJ]

Damn.

[Ben]

Gen just start. Did Gen just start? Soft launch.

[Evan]

If you want to like split some of the embarrassment, I. I could join you now.

[CJ]

Mike, get out of here. No, I'm just kidding. You know, and then what we do for like a follow up. Like they always say a good YouTube video idea, there's got to be a follow up to it. So this will be Ken sleeping too. And what we'll do is we'll have him watch a scary movie before he goes to bed. And then this one, Ken sleeping to night terror edition.

[Ben]

He's got night terrors.

[Ken]

And then a bunch of like pre workout.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. Pre workout will be the third one. So we'll have Ken take pre workout at like 10, right before he goes to bed. And then it's just him tossing and turning on.

[Ken]

We're scraping the bottom of the barrel on these ideas.

[CJ]

Those would go a million views easy, easy. Actually probably more than a million. Probably three because who the does that? I'm sure someone's gonna take this idea now and do it. But chances are they don't have. They don't have clout like you though. So it won't pop.

[Evan]

I mean genuine question since we are clearly thinking about producing this like what. What if like nothing happens?

[CJ]

That's just fine. I think it's just more so like.

[Ben]

What do you think's gonna happen? Mike? He's just sleeping.

[Evan]

I'm just I guess being a little realistic here. Like is that it?

[Ben]

Well yeah, but it's gonna be. You're gonna watch every minute. Just it's gonna be.

[Ryan]

That's the risk you take watching a stream is it's because it's just.

[CJ]

But you don't know what's this might just be a YouTube.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Oh just a video I think.

[CJ]

I think his house is live streamed. The 24 hours towards live stream.

[Evan]

I would definitely make a cameo in that. I've always wanted to be in a live stream.

[CJ]

Yeah, that'd be lit.

[Ben]

People tune in just to see can you know.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah. And then they'd be like oh they have his buddies. His buddies are there.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I don't know if you'd classify as one of his buddies though. Like I don't know if any of us are going to be welcome.

[Ben]

Ken. Housewarming party.

[CJ]

24 hour live stream. None of us are even there. We didn't even hear about it Depends.

[Ken]

On what kind of pranks are getting pulled at it.

[Evan]

No, I would just be there to have a good time.

[CJ]

Just gifts.

[Ken]

Some of these gifts aren't exactly the best. Let's put it lightly.

[CJ]

I would like to be able to say the same to you. But you've never gotten me a gift.

[Ben]

So same.

[CJ]

I guess I can't even complain about your gift.

[Ben]

To be fair. You have done more for less.

[CJ]

This is as easy as it gets. Like you're just doing something you already do.

[Ken]

Yeah. It's literally just my house though know.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[Ken]

I think it's kind of creepy watching people live their life in their house. Just go around and.

[Evan]

Yeah, no, you.

[Ryan]

You don't have to.

[Ken]

Yeah, exceptionally creepy.

[CJ]

We'll give you the. The benefit of the doubt in one of the bathrooms. We won't have a camera.

[Ken]

Well I. I'll have a bike. Unless you're planning on putting cameras in.

[CJ]

The bathroom on the door.

[Ben]

He goes in, close it out. 20 minutes of that.

[CJ]

Well, this stream sounds insane.

[Evan]

If you guys wanted to make some money, that's how to do it right there.

[CJ]

I don't even know.

[Ben]

I mean, we might even just do it for free for the love of the game.

[CJ]

Yeah, no, I'm not even talking about making money. I'm just talking about making it. Well, that's what I'm powerful.

[Evan]

That's what I'm getting at. If you had a shot of him blowing out the bathroom, that's where the view would spike.

[Ryan]

Sponsored by Dude. Dude wipes.

[Ben]

Yo, yo. What about throughout the live stream? You don't know when he's gonna do it, but he's gonna do four Better Help. So this live stream is brought to you by BetterHelp. He's gonna, like, sprinkle them in, and then that's how you're gonna hold your attention. That's how he's gonna hold retention of like, oh, dude. I'm just watching Ken literally do nothing until his next Better Help.

[Ken]

All right, it's 2:30. Time for today's sponsor, Better Help.

[Evan]

But you accidentally forget to do. You do one, and then you, like, do the last three at the end in a row.

[CJ]

It's not gonna be Ken doing nothing over there, guys. It's gonna be like a great Gatsby party. Anyone who's anyone's gonna be there. Obviously, we're not gonna be there, but anyone who's anyone in town is gonna be Jay, Shado, of course, Jimmy, New York, Jim. Yeah, it's gonna be a very entertaining.

[Ben]

I like it. I think we'll probably just plan to do it once your house is done. Can. Yeah.

[CJ]

I'll have the security camera guy go over there and get me hacked in so we can just like.

[Ben]

You don't even have to do anything. Just don't show up to work, say.

[CJ]

Hey, you just enjoy your new house. In fact, don't leave it for 24 hours.

[Ryan]

Sure. You want me to wire up my house, like, so we can do this for me.

[Ken]

Next year when your house is done?

[CJ]

Listen, Ryan, I wish that. I wish that I was in the same boat as Ken, but. But we gotta just face the facts that we're not. I know we're not as entertaining as. We can't just do nothing and be the second greatest entertainer of our time. Right behind Gavin.

[Ryan]

Yes. He ridiculous is getting canceled.

[Dalton]

Canceled? Or are they just done doing? Because I haven't seen the clickbait saying.

[CJ]

I think no, they made a post. He made a post.

[Evan]

We're done.

[Ben]

But they're going to just have these ridiculous reruns for the next next 12 years.

[Evan]

Does anyone have any word on.

[CJ]

Still have new ones coming out though? They were, they were filming like 12 a day.

[Evan]

So basically it said from 2011 to 2018, that's seven years. They filmed 320 episodes and then on the latter end they filmed 350 or 370 a year.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, 2424. Ridiculous.

[CJ]

If you just imagine they're launching one new episode of ridiculousness a week, they could probably do more than that. All I gotta say is shout out Rob Dyrdek. Man, that's an insane run. That's insane. I mean, I remember when Robin Big came out on mtv and the fact that he was on MTV running it from 2006 all the way to 2025, that's an insane run.

[Ryan]

It says there he'll Hillair's final episode in 2026.

[Ken]

It seems like you look at MTV's like programming schedule, it's just ridiculousness in the ridiculous spin offs. It's nothing else.

[Ben]

Dude, what happened to mtv?

[CJ]

I mean, they've been saying that for years, dude. I remember when I was a little kid and people would complain about shows like Robin Big. They're like, they're supposed to be music videos on this channel. Remember back when MTV just played music videos. Now it's all this reality junk and now it's, you know, there's been so many. Yeah, it's.

[Evan]

I'm just curious. It's like, like what, what's next for it? Are they gonna open it back up to airing more than one show and it's spin offs?

[CJ]

I just think that if you don't get to pick what you're watching, it's gonna be tough, man. I just think it's tough. Like even south park, they've just.

[Evan]

But I think they'll take their name and, and make.

[CJ]

There's no way that they're not going anywhere. They're gonna have to pivot though, for sure. Yeah.

[Ben]

How have they not pivoted at this point though, is what I'm asking?

[CJ]

Well, I think that was their pivot. Their name is Ridiculousness. But what about Borderline? You have pivots. I mean, it must still have been. It was like tick tock. Just constantly new. Like, you know, you can pop in at any point and understand what's going on. I think that was. But yeah, it wasn't necessarily. Probably.

[Ben]

Does anyone Watch that.

[Ken]

This. This is their story.

[Evan]

In a hotel.

[Ken]

The next.

[Ryan]

A lot of hotel.

[Evan]

Only in a hotel.

[Ryan]

I flip back and forth. Like, you go to Comedy Central and South park is on, and then when that goes to commercial, you flip over to MTV and hope that ridiculousness isn't also on a commercial.

[Evan]

But, yeah, I mean, what an awful experience it is to get 20 minutes of entertainment and watch 10 minutes of ads, and the entertainment's mediocre. I'm not saying it's not entertaining, but.

[CJ]

I think it's just tough. There's so much good content out there now, and people don't want to wait. Or on the flip, I will say I enjoy watching tv. Maybe it's when I'm not necessarily paying a lot of attention to it, but it's easy to just put on, and there's something about it. I don't know.

[Evan]

I do love, like, living, like, the old days where you do shit during commercial break.

[Ryan]

Break.

[CJ]

I can't. Weird.

[Ben]

No, wait.

[Evan]

Do or do, like. Well, like, just do whatever you want.

[Ryan]

Okay, so do.

[Dalton]

What do you do for the commercial break?

[Evan]

You could build a Lego Lamborghini. You could do a puzzle.

[Ryan]

Oh, you change your laundry.

[Ben]

You know, Mike's tinkering on.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

He's picking up leaves in the background of 90 of our videos, bro. You know, he's pulling weeds. Pulling weeds.

[CJ]

Ryan, pull them. Put them in there.

[Ryan]

I don't have them all curated yet, but I. I do have a couple.

[Ken]

I will not watch, like, tv. Yeah. I'll put it in my. My DVR library, and if I want to watch an episode, I'll just wait till it's recorded and so you can just skip right through it.

[Evan]

Watch it.

[Ben]

You're recording TV show still.

[Evan]

He's got a TiVo.

[CJ]

No, on YouTube TV, you can record. Oh, yeah, I do this.

[Ken]

You just tell, like.

[Ben]

I thought you meant, like, direct TV record. Remember that?

[Ken]

Yeah, you're just like, I want to watch every episode of, like, Rick and Morty or anything else. And it just.

[Evan]

You got it.

[Ken]

Like, every time an episode plays, it's just already in your library. Skip through every single ad before we.

[Ben]

Stray too far from this. Ryan, are you pulling this up?

[Ryan]

I only have one.

[Evan]

There's got to be, like, 30.

[Ryan]

There's one in the background of the.

[CJ]

We're in the middle of film, and you just walk off and just start pulling weeds.

[Ben]

Yeah. So can somebody actually watching this right now? Make a compilation of Mike doing random it while we're filming? Like, in the background? Like, if we're talking to the camera and Mike's in the background doing something. Because I think that there's probably like an hour of content every single. Just Mike doing stuff while we're filming.

[Ken]

Every single time we're at the track, anyone can be talking. Mike will turn around, walk five feet, pull something out.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Like, we're.

[Evan]

Sometimes it's treasure.

[Ken]

We're in the shop. He'll go, like, go clean something.

[CJ]

Clean something.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Take out the garbage. Break down a cardboard every single time.

[Ryan]

The box. Yep.

[Evan]

Love doing that. I mean, I have severe adhd.

[Ben]

So Mike's. Mike's over there pulling garbage. People in the comments. Oh, I'm so sick of Ben and CJ just, like, hosting this show. Well, half the. Half the rest of the crew. You want to get into pulling weeds and doing.

[Evan]

No, these guys just do the talking. And, like, I could do more of it, but, like, I mean, on the vehicle tour, like. Like, I try to interject. Doesn't really work sometimes. But, like, that's fine. That's okay with me.

[CJ]

You.

[Ben]

You can talk as much as you want.

[Evan]

Yes. But it's sometimes really hard to do when other people are talking or when other people talk over you. I'm not bummed about it. I'm just like, that's just what happens. So, yeah, me going off to pull weeds is pretty whack. But also, it's funny.

[Ryan]

It is funny. I get a good kick out of it.

[CJ]

Speaking of television, dude, South Park. Love those guys. Grew up watching South Park. What the.

[Ryan]

Dude, they get me all.

[CJ]

I mean, it's not even that. Imagine if we did this all the time. They'll be like, new episode Wednesday. You tune in, new episode next Wednesday. They just keep putting it off, and then eventually they just postponed it like, three weeks.

[Ryan]

No, they just didn't even post.

[CJ]

It's insane. Like, so now they're on, like a bi weekly new thing. Chances are they just. They've been doing it for so long, they're so rich, and they make the episode within like a week. So kind of like a YouTube video. But I'm sure they're just like, why are we working this hard?

[Ken]

So now they're doing two, like, insane contracts.

[CJ]

Billion dollars or something. Insane. But Hulu, No, Paramount. But yeah. Anyways, it's crazy. But love South Park. But yeah.

[Ben]

I'm surprised that the network allows that, though.

[CJ]

Though they've done whatever they wanted for.

[Ryan]

Since, like, ever since they started.

[CJ]

Like, they'd be like, you can't put that on tv. They're like, no.

[Ben]

Yeah, we are.

[CJ]

Then they just do it and, like, there'd be backlash and they would not care.

[Ken]

It used to be they delivered the show to the network so, like, right before it had to launch where they didn't have time to review it, so they just. Whatever played, played.

[Ben]

Yeah. That's so crazy.

[CJ]

And they did, like a live thing. I remember they had like, some like, sacred prophet Muhammad. Yeah. And like, they weren't supposed to put them in there. And then I think even, like, there was threats. Like, if they put them in there and they were on, like, live TV and they're like, we're just gonna do what we want. And. And then, like, they made some compromise with Comedy Central and instead they put them in, like, a bear outfit.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, it's the bear.

[CJ]

I'm pretty sure you can't even. I'm pretty sure you can't even watch that episode. Like, it's been taken down from everywhere.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[CJ]

But yeah, they've got some Savage asses episodes, but.

[Ryan]

Kings of the workaround.

[CJ]

It is crazy, though. Like, the new stuff definitely isn't as good as the old stuff, but what do you do, Man, I still am happy that they're still making stuff.

[Ryan]

It kind of goes back to the AI stuff we were talking about earlier and how lazy it's making people. Dalton, I'm actually. I'm glad you're here for this. So we. I opened up all the fan mail for this month. Basically, we get it and it comes in like a big bundle. One whole letter love fan mail that we get.

[Ben]

We do get a lot of fam. We save all of it too.

[Ryan]

We do. I have it all in multiple boxes in my office. This one. Dear Sea Boys, S E A B O Y S. It's just Chat GPT. They didn't even have the balls to take it out of Chat GPT.

[CJ]

They screenshot and sent the page.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What?

[Ken]

They couldn't just put in the notes app?

[Ryan]

No. Yeah. Your name here. It's pretty funny. They. They did have a good cooked.

[CJ]

Man.

[Ryan]

They did have a good little prompt here. You had some official street signs. So we're sending you this one in honor of your very own orange fingered cameraman himself.

[Ken]

Wow.

[Ben]

That looks like it was stolen.

[CJ]

That's a hot idea.

[Evan]

That's a big one too, I thought.

[CJ]

Cool. That's actually sick.

[Ryan]

They may work for a sign company. Oh, no. That was on a pole, dude.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah, dude. That thing is.

[CJ]

Hold on. Huge.

[Ben]

Let me get this straight. Somebody stole a sign thought, let's send this To C boys. But I don't want to write the message, so I'm gonna prompt something from chat gbt.

[CJ]

I don't.

[Ben]

I'm not even gonna copy and paste it. I'm going to screenshot it, print out that screenshot and send it with the sign.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm sure they paid probably, like, freaking 17 to ship this too.

[Evan]

But that's easily the most insane part.

[Ryan]

Wow. Am I so bizarre. Am I in possession of stolen property?

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah, that definitely is stolen property.

[Ryan]

Well, I'll be returning it swiftly to the highway department.

[Dalton]

You know what state it came from?

[Ryan]

No. I'm gonna go to all 50 states and check.

[CJ]

Why don't you just look it up? Oh, that's probably.

[Ben]

Oh, look it up. Look it up, Ev. Look up adulton Road. I think that sign's a little bit bigger than traditional.

[Ryan]

Hey, you're right.

[Ben]

You know, so it's. It's almost like that.

[CJ]

That is probably.

[Evan]

But there's also, like, big green ones that go up on, like, the big stop lights and stuff that are not normal road sign size.

[Ryan]

Anyway, it said now, when you're ripping around or filming another questionable idea, you can say it finally happened on Dalton Road. Just make sure the sign doesn't end up in the pond. Dalton's Cheeto dust clouds keep the chaos alive. See you down Dalton Road.

[Dalton]

There's a lot of Dalton roads in California, Kansas, Arizona.

[Ryan]

There's an iworks road in South Dakota, and I'm. I always thought about going and just taking a little peek.

[CJ]

Caught. Locked up for it. We just have it made, bro.

[Ryan]

I know. Well, now. Now maybe that's what I do.

[Evan]

I'm gonna go see all the Sherbrooke Road signs and just give them to Cody.

[Ben]

Hey, I got these for you.

[Evan]

They have your name on it. What? You stole those from Dave?

[Ben]

Dude.

[CJ]

I wonder. Hung up. Dave's like, what the. How did.

[Ben]

Did Dave get the roads renamed?

[CJ]

Yeah, Richard do that.

[Ken]

Richard used to own all the land.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And then. So you just named the roads after him.

[Ben]

That's so sick.

[CJ]

So if we own enough land, we could change the name of the road.

[Dalton]

Our driveway could probably turn into a road.

[Evan]

Yeah, I think it's lane.

[CJ]

Remember that joke? The roads are penis.

[Ben]

The roads are penis.

[CJ]

And I'm going for a drive.

[Evan]

They're about to be.

[CJ]

These roads are out to be penis. We could name our driveway that. That's what I'm saying.

[Ben]

Penis.

[Ryan]

Penis does have a little curve to the right or left, I guess.

[CJ]

So backstory. It was snowing super hard. And we were building our first R6 quad with Vass. And we were all sitting there under there, just looking at him as. As he's trying to figure out what to do. And Ken comes in and it's just blizzarding, and we're like, how is it out there? The roads are penis. And then we just, like. We just never dropped it. We've just cracked jokes about it ever since.

[Ben]

The roads are penis, and I'm gonna take the long way home.

[CJ]

How'd it happen again?

[Ben]

I recall it being pretty close.

[Evan]

I think he said it like, dude, the roads are ass. But he used penis instead of roads are penis.

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. No one really uses that word as much as they should.

[Ken]

Penis.

[CJ]

Yeah, like, you always got, like, dick or something. Like, you come up with a penis. That's like proper biological. That's proper anatomy.

[Ben]

Yeah, I feel like we had a bunch of good ones.

[Evan]

I mean, the roads are penis.

[Ben]

And I'm taking the scenic.

[Ken]

On that note, thank you through this podcast.

[CJ]

Yeah, thank you, guys.

[Ken]

And thank you for getting us to 5 million subscribers.

[Evan]

Yeah, that's big, boys.

[Ben]

CJ's got to go play. Play Fortnite.

[CJ]

I probably am going to go play Fortnite.

[Ken]

CJ's going to get into seven rounds, 30 seconds each.

[Dalton]

I don't know if that's a diss on his gameplay or.

[CJ]

Ken does live beneath me. He does live beneath me.

[Dalton]

You guys can play duos.

[CJ]

Get the out of here.

[Ken]

What kind of sicko does that?

[CJ]

Only Evan.

[Ben]

All right, guys, thanks for making to the end of the podcast. We'll see you next Tuesday.

[CJ]

You know what I will say, though? Is playing with Marge terrible. Her hair's in the way the whole time anyway. Didn't you? I did.

[Ben]

Did.

[CJ]

No, I did, actually. I earned her. I earned her from playing these days.

[Evan]

They got Fortnite. We had Mrs. Incredible.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Evan]

The generation before that had Jessica Rabbit, who Look her up.

[CJ]

All right, next week, look her up.

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