Someone Stole From Us, Help us find the THIEF

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Someone Stole From Us, Help us find the THIEF"

Life Wide Open with CboysTV
Release Date: October 22, 2024
Host/Authors: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah

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1. Introduction

In this riveting episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV, the hosts delve into a mysterious incident involving the disappearance of their test dummy, Reckless Randy. The conversation weaves through personal anecdotes, humorous exchanges, and investigative discussions as the team seeks to uncover the truth behind Randy's vanishing act.

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2. The Disappearance of Reckless Randy

[20:25] Ben: "We fucked up. So we have this test dummy. His name is Reckless Randy."

The episode kicks off with Ben introducing the central mystery: Reckless Randy, a $2,500 test dummy weighing 185 pounds, has gone missing. The team recounts the last known sightings and the initial disbelief that Randy could simply vanish.

[25:17] Ben: "We bought Reckless Randy last December, so we've had him for about a year. And he's been fantastic..."

As the team pieces together the timeline, suspicions point towards Dalton, who was last responsible for Randy. The group analyzes social media posts hinting at Randy's whereabouts, leading to a blend of frustration and determination to retrieve their valuable asset.

[27:03] Ben: "I need to say this. That is where saying 180 pounds, it doesn't sound that heavy. It is extremely heavy and awkward because he's awkward. There's not around."

The hosts express their concern over Randy being spotted in various locations, each clue deepening the mystery. The discussion intensifies as they explore possible leads and the likelihood of internal involvement in Randy's disappearance.

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3. Investigating the Clues

[29:09] Ben: "So I post that out throughout the day. I kind of made a couple more posts. Like, here's the last time that we saw him."

Utilizing social media as a tool, Ben outlines the steps taken to track Randy's movements. The team scrutinizes timestamps and locations of Randy's Instagram posts, revealing inconsistencies and raising questions about potential foul play within their own ranks.

[32:20] Ben: "And he'll be within like 50 mile radius."

Dalton introduces a potential lead involving a local expert named Rainbow, known for his tracking skills. The group debates the credibility of such leads and the feasibility of locating Randy without external assistance.

[36:11] Dalton: "Who are you bringing on to solve this?"

The conversation shifts towards practical solutions, including hiring a detective or involving law enforcement. However, the team remains skeptical about external intervention, given the nature of the incident and their interconnected relationships.

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4. The Impact on the Team

[43:07] Ken: "So I was watching the news the other day, and when the hurricane came through Florida, there was this guy. Do you hear about him?"

The disappearance of Randy serves as a catalyst for deeper discussions about team dynamics, trust, and the pressures of maintaining their brand. Personal stories intertwine with the central mystery, highlighting the camaraderie and conflicts within the group.

[50:12] Dalton: "What? Ken, you spent all your money on rocks?"

Amidst the investigation, the hosts share humorous and candid moments, including mishaps involving equipment and personal injuries. These anecdotes provide a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes challenges they face, balancing humor with the gravity of Randy's disappearance.

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5. Analyzing Possible Suspects

[65:01] Ken: "No way."

The team scrutinizes each member's possible involvement, debating motives and opportunities. Accusations fly as they attempt to piece together who might benefit from Randy's absence, leading to moments of tension and revelation.

[73:16] Mike: "Holy shit."

The discussion crescendos with the revelation of a video capturing a near-accident, adding complexity to the investigation. The group debates the authenticity and implications of such evidence, further entangling their quest to find Randy.

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6. Concluding Thoughts and Next Steps

[77:20] Ben: "What should we do for 4 milli?"

As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on their journey so far and outline their commitment to resolving the mystery. Plans for future episodes and potential collaborations hint at ongoing efforts to safeguard their assets and strengthen team bonds.

[77:35] Evan: "Peace."

The episode concludes on a hopeful note, with the team vowing to continue their search for Reckless Randy and support each other through the ordeal.

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Notable Quotes

• [20:25] Ben: "We fucked up. So we have this test dummy. His name is Reckless Randy."
• [25:17] Ben: "We bought Reckless Randy last December, so we've had him for about a year. And he's been fantastic..."
• [27:03] Ben: "I need to say this. That is where saying 180 pounds, it doesn't sound that heavy. It is extremely heavy and awkward because he's awkward. There's not around."
• [29:09] Ben: "So I post that out throughout the day. I kind of made a couple more posts. Like, here's the last time that we saw him."
• [32:20] Ben: "And he'll be within like 50 mile radius."
• [36:11] Dalton: "Who are you bringing on to solve this?"
• [43:07] Ken: "So I was watching the news the other day, and when the hurricane came through Florida, there was this guy. Do you hear about him?"
• [65:01] Ken: "No way."

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Conclusion

This episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV masterfully blends mystery, humor, and heartfelt discussions as the team navigates the unexpected challenge of losing Reckless Randy. Through engaging storytelling and dynamic interactions, the hosts invite listeners to join them in unraveling the enigma, fostering a sense of community and intrigue.

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Transcript

[Mike]

He just literally goes into oncoming traffic for like no reason, like out of the blue.

[Ben]

And the other way, like this.

[Evan]

He's just riding. There's a car coming. I'm like, what is this guy doing?

[Dalton]

What a cool, like video idea.

[Mike]

Like we get robbed in Tijuana. How many hits have we seen Gavin take? I think this is the longest I've ever seen him on the ground.

[Sydney]

Are you going to address the issue of heydays?

[Ken]

Oh, what got stolen there?

[Evan]

I do think we got to get.

[Ben]

Randy back, like get the FBI involved and raid their house.

[Ken]

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[Dalton]

Stink Wave. Shout out. Stink Wave.

[Ken]

You still a part of that gang?

[Mike]

I run that shit.

[Ben]

Do you really? Yeah.

[Evan]

He hasn't showered in three days. Of course he runs that shit.

[Ken]

The Stink Wave.

[Ben]

Stink Wave. CEO Chief Cheeto in charge.

[Mike]

The Big Cheddar. That's what kind of you, though.

[Ben]

But yeah, don't be stepping on my. Don't be stepping on my trademark for big chads.

[Mike]

Yeah, my bad, bro.

[Dalton]

At some point in the next couple months, I'd love to see a Jonah and Cheddar return. Maybe that's just reserved for pranks and bachelor parties, but that could happen.

[Evan]

Maybe we'll have them come out on your bachelor party.

[Dalton]

I'd love that.

[Ben]

That's true, man. Like, when is your bachelor party, Mike?

[Dalton]

I couldn't tell you.

[Ben]

You haven't planned it?

[Dalton]

No.

[Ben]

Have you asked anyone to be in your wedding yet?

[Dalton]

No.

[Ben]

Anyone?

[Ken]

Just Sydney. You asked her to be in it.

[Dalton]

Yeah. That's true. I got some people in mind.

[Ken]

Dude, you guys were menaces at Justin's bachelor party. In a good way, bro.

[Evan]

That was so fun.

[Ben]

Yeah. That might have been actually one of the best times ever. That was like. When I think back to like some of the hardest times that I've ever laughed, I think of Justin's bachelor party. Same. I was so fun.

[Mike]

I kind of regret not going. At the time, I had never met Justin, or if I did, it was like very, very briefly. And I'd only hung out with you guys Say, half a dozen times, tops. And I had a big trip of my own planned over. Over that same weekend.

[Dalton]

Really?

[Evan]

So then we met up with you after, remember on Sunday?

[Ben]

That's when we surprised you with the. Did we invite you to Justin's bachelor party?

[Mike]

Yeah, you invited me to go on the whole thing and.

[Ben]

Just a homie at the time.

[Mike]

Yeah. And I. I don't know. I. I really wanted to. I was really torn two ways, but, like, I'd set in stone plans for, like, the past month, and I'm like, ah, I'm just gonna stick with the OG plans. But I've been hearing you guys talk about it for, like, the last five years. I regret it.

[Evan]

I might do my bachelor party at Eagle river just because Justin's was so fun.

[Ben]

Yeah, that was lit.

[Mike]

What was so fun about it?

[Evan]

It just was literally so much fun. We had this Airbnb that was huge, and you had so many rooms, like. And it was just like, we were just running a terror. It was more so the vibes.

[Ben]

Like, he has two friend groups.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And let's just say the two friend groups are very different. Yeah. His other friend group. Doctors, engineers.

[Ken]

Medical engineers.

[Ben]

Very respectful, smart. Like, smarty.

[Evan]

Very smart.

[Ben]

Shit together. And then us. Yeah.

[Mike]

I think.

[Evan]

I think they almost fueled our bad behavior because, like, they were in complete shock at, like, things we were, like, normally doing, like, things that we would just normally do and not even, like.

[Ken]

You know, think about it.

[Evan]

Look. Look an eye at. But then we're like. We just saw how their reaction was, and then we started really pushing the envelope and really being bad. And then poor Ryan, he was trying to keep the crew together and just, like, corral everybody. It was just a mess. And that was back when. Not a mess, but a good one. But that was back when Ken was, like, peak Kenism.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Like, no, he was the biggest no guy ever. And, like, he was just getting mad and, oh, so fun.

[Ben]

And I lost his sunglasses. And you would think that I just, I don't know, Killed his entire family.

[Mike]

Broke his family heirloom ladder.

[Ben]

Well, let's not talk about that. Yeah, that was. That was pretty funny.

[Evan]

Go back and watch that video. Actually, if you. If you're wondering, if you haven't seen it already, it's the fake Lamborghini car dealership prank.

[Ken]

I believe we were just on our bs.

[Ben]

Yeah, we were on such bad behavior because, like, we were just right off of filming that prank. And Jonah and Cheddar were born. Me and CJ's alter egos and I think we were filming something the week after too. So I just remember being like, oh, I gotta just stay in character the whole weekend. The whole weekend.

[Dalton]

Which you did.

[Ben]

I did.

[Dalton]

And when you guys are in character in Jonah and Cheddar, it's just like everything's just off the table. Like, people aren't real. You're just dealing with a bunch of NPCs the whole weekend.

[Ken]

Pretty much the best way to describe it, actually. Other people aren't real. They're just NPCs to Jonah and Cheddar.

[Ben]

Dude.

[Mike]

Hell's an NPC non playable character.

[Ken]

It's a video game term.

[Dalton]

No, I mean, well, it used to be. NPC is like if you were like a bot. Yeah, like a bot.

[Ken]

Like AI.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ben]

It's like they have no personality or they have no characteristics that make them human. They just exist. Yeah, they just walk around in the.

[Mike]

Background of a game.

[Ken]

They just exist around the main character.

[Evan]

Like the civilians in GTA are NPCs.

[Ben]

Yeah. Really?

[Mike]

Okay. Okay.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You can interact with them.

[Ken]

Interact with them, but no matter what they do to you or what you.

[Ben]

Do, that doesn't affect you.

[Mike]

Yeah. People on GTA can kill you.

[Dalton]

Wow. That probably can't.

[Sydney]

Just respawn, but.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I mean, it was like I saw like a real. I don't know why it popped up on my feed, but of some, you know, girl go out to eat with me in West Hollywood and then she like went out and it was like so boring and so basic and predictable. And like, people are like, is this ironic or are you just an npc? You know, people are just out there just.

[Ken]

Just influencing things that shouldn't be influenced.

[Dalton]

Doing nothing.

[Ben]

I love that you watched that though, Mike.

[Dalton]

I did, yeah. It was weird.

[Ben]

I guess that's one benefit of the boys getting married or growing up is we're going to all have like, bachelor parties.

[Evan]

But there's only a limited amount of them, if you really think about it. Because, I mean, it's just like such.

[Ben]

An excuse for us to just have like the best time ever, though.

[Evan]

Yeah. No, but like, if you really think about it, we get to go on six bachelor parties total. Yeah, but one with everyone in this room right now.

[Ben]

One in two people get divorced, so you got to think that there might.

[Evan]

I feel like you don't run a batch party again after the divorce, but we will probably.

[Dalton]

But also, I think there's more than six. Like, you don't think you'll get. You don't have any other homies.

[Evan]

No, I'm saying in this. I said in this room.

[Dalton]

Right. Right.

[Evan]

In this room right now, which is like.

[Dalton]

That is finite. Yes.

[Ben]

How many weddings have you guys been in?

[Evan]

Two.

[Ben]

Two. I think I've been in, like, two, maybe three. I was talking about this with Greta the other night, and she was naming off all the weddings that she's been in, and she's been in nine.

[Dalton]

Holy geez.

[Ben]

Or something. Something crazy. Or she's gonna be in nine or something.

[Ken]

I've even been to nine weddings.

[Ben]

Yeah, I know. Yeah, that's. That's. Well, that's what happens when you have friends. None of our friends are married. We. Yeah, it's just a tight circle.

[Evan]

Slow growers.

[Mike]

I feel kind of bad, but I kind of always just cheat out on weddings. Like, I've been invited to a million. I feel like they're kind of like a grad party where there's so much going on, and for the most part, unless it's, like, your best friend, you almost just need to make your presence notice and you can leave. Like, you could spend the whole day there. It, like, doesn't really matter.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Maybe that's not the right.

[Evan]

Some weddings, though.

[Mike]

So, like, anyone's wedding that I didn't make it to, no offense. I probably had something really important going on, but.

[Dalton]

But no offense.

[Mike]

Yeah, no offense. I feel like, try to make it to your next one.

[Sydney]

It's one thing to go to the wedding, and it's another to, like, go to the reception. I feel like it's much more common to just go to the reception and skip the wedding party.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, the ceremony. Skip the. The actual, like, vows of the. Like, them getting married. Yeah. Which one's worse? Because that's what I think, too. I think. I think it's worse.

[Mike]

Church wedding.

[Ben]

I think it's worse to skip the actual reception. No, the reception where, like, you're actually interacting with them. I agree. Right. And then you skip the ceremony. Like, I've missed a couple. Like, like I said, Greta's been in so many weddings. Right. And I'm like, the plus one. And, like, half the time, I don't even know, like, who it is. Who it is. Right. And we're filming on Saturdays a lot of times, so I've missed a couple of them. And, like, she thinks that's a pretty big deal for me to miss the ceremony. And I'm like, they don't even know who I am. Yeah.

[Ken]

They don't care that I'm there.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, you think they're going to be doing their vows. Look out, and be like, oh, Ben's not here.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

If you.

[Ken]

Hold up, hold up.

[Ben]

Ben isn't here.

[Ken]

We need him to see this.

[Ben]

Yeah. I text him, like, you all be there in 25 minutes. Just hold off. Just a little late. I can see Mike doing that, though.

[Mike]

He'd say he'd be there in 20. He'd be there in two hours. They'd still wait for him, though.

[Dalton]

I'd be really insane and all for me to run up and go, I object.

[Ben]

Do people do that? Still object to weddings?

[Dalton]

I mean, I wouldn't say, like, still, but, like, you got to imagine, Ken, look.

[Mike]

Look it up. Find me a clip. It's got to have happened in the last.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Hear of it as a thing I can.

[Ken]

A movie.

[Ben]

You think, what do you say after you say that?

[Evan]

Then you just confess your love.

[Mike]

Say, I object.

[Evan]

And then you, like, walk up, you're like, amanda, I'm in love with you. And then she's like, I'm with Bill now.

[Mike]

I mean. Or you could be trying to save your best friend from making a bad mistake. It doesn't have to be you trying to steal one of those people. You could be trying to save someone from making the biggest mistake of their life.

[Ben]

That's what I thought. Yeah. That's where my. That's where my mind went. Like. Like, it's like.

[Evan]

Like someone that was in love with you.

[Mike]

No. 100%. Both ways. Both ways, dude.

[Ben]

I gotta imagine it's gotta happen when you get, like, alcohol mixed with friends that maybe have a certain opinion on the chick that their buddy's marrying. Like, it's gotta happen.

[Evan]

That'd be so fucking. That just ruined the whole day. Like, I feel like there's not. It's not changing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

I think of others.

[Ben]

There's a terrible time to do that. Yeah.

[Evan]

You should have probably said something before everyone showed up here, buddy.

[Dalton]

Yeah. What other scenarios would you call that besides confessing your love or trying to stop your. Your buddy?

[Mike]

That's pretty much the only two things.

[Sydney]

I feel like just doing that has to, like, make everyone in that room just feel incredibly awkward.

[Mike]

Unless they all agree.

[Ben]

Unless they agree and they all stand.

[Dalton]

Thank you. Someone said it.

[Ben]

Thank you, Ken. Is there any videos on this?

[Mike]

Oh, she does look like the kind of woman that would object a wedding.

[Ben]

Oh, gosh.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Dalton]

So that's what happened.

[Ben]

Dude, Nigerian weddings are so lit.

[Mike]

This looks real to me. This looks real.

[Dalton]

Oh, the way she's just immediately.

[Mike]

What the.

[Ben]

Yeah. But everyone's like, oh my gosh, dude, why do I.

[Ken]

Either way, what a pressure moment to actually do it for real. Like Hallmark movie style. Could you imagine waiting until that last moment, the literal last second, and being like, nope, I gotta stop this in front of everybody.

[Dalton]

It does seem insane.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Why do I feel like I've seen that before on Big Reno, Snapchat. Our friend Big Reno's always at weddings and I've responded to a couple of them like, dude, if you ever need a plus one, bring me with. Because these weddings seem so lit. They're like throwing money.

[Dalton]

They really do.

[Ben]

They're always throwing money.

[Mike]

Don't they normally? Like, is throwing rice is like a tradition thing, right? Or is that funerals? When do they throw rice?

[Ken]

Expensive?

[Evan]

Yeah, but falling out on throwing money, that's amazing.

[Mike]

No, I know, that's what I mean. What are they in the rice?

[Ben]

But what do they throw rice at?

[Mike]

Then they walk out, right?

[Dalton]

They throw rice all over.

[Evan]

I think when you're driving out.

[Mike]

Yeah. When you're walking out of the Right after you get married.

[Ben]

Is that a Jewish thing? They're too cheap to throw money.

[Sydney]

At Mike's wedding, he's gonna have instead of like a flower girl, it's gonna be a penny grill. Just throwing pennies down the aisle.

[Ken]

All pennies.

[Dalton]

That'd be awesome.

[Ken]

That would be fitting.

[Dalton]

I mean. No, no, just the flower girl doesn't throw flowers at people. She just puts on the ground. The tradition of throwing rice at weddings symbolizes good luck, fertility, and prosperity for the newlyweds. I don't know why, but rice means that it originated with ancient Romans who used wheat. Rice was likely chosen because it was inexpensive and readily available.

[Mike]

So don't cut corners, Mike. Use the wheat.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that's not even really a fun fact. It's just a fact. I do have a fun fact that I learned. I actually learned this from the guy that I bought the skate park from. But you show me around a shop and he's got this. I know he's got this like VW van that I guess he used to own. But anyway, he's like, I'm going to get it fixed. Like the standard hippie round, pop up camper. Yep. And the thing was trash. He's like, it used to look amazing, but it's been sitting, blah, blah, blah. He's like, so I'm going to bring it to Tijuana and have it fixed up. And I was like, tell me about that. So you take it across the border. He's like, so I've lived in California for a long time. We live really close to Tijuana. You go across the border and you bring it to the locals in Tijuana and they fix it for just pennies as to what it would cost you here in the US and then they do a good job. He's like, yeah. I mean, it's not like. It's not flawless, but yeah, they. They do it and they do it in like two days. They get it painted, and he's like, I've sent a bunch of cars to them. I brought a camper. They repainted an entire camper. They reupholstered a camper for literally 10% of what it would cost in the States.

[Ben]

I'm like, yeah, all you have to do is let them drive it back over the U.S. drive it back over the border and give it to them for a couple hours to be worried, unload.

[Dalton]

No. He gave me some advice, I guess, that he's learned over the years, you know, like, don't bring your passport because they'll take it. Don't bring your ID because they'll take it.

[Ben]

How do you get back?

[Mike]

Yeah, I was just.

[Dalton]

See, there's other places to cross, I guess, that aren't.

[Mike]

You can cross without identification.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And what if you get stuck over there?

[Dalton]

He's like, you always got to bring some cash. You know, a couple hundred bucks will do it. I'll get you. Get you off of them.

[Ben]

Holy shit.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I know. It's like. So that part of it doesn't sound easier at all. No.

[Ben]

Are you thinking about going down there, Mike?

[Mike]

Sending the 350?

[Dalton]

I just thought about your stand up. Yeah. Not personally, but, like, what a cool, like, video idea, like buying a wreck.

[Mike]

We get robbed in Tijuana.

[Dalton]

Could happen. I mean, it could happen. I'm. I wouldn't want that. But, like, we. Yeah, you buy a wrecked something, or maybe it's more cosmetically wrecked, but you. You bring it to them and then you have them fix it up and be like, all right, like what? And then get it appraised or something.

[Ken]

You bring the Hoonicorn.

[Mike]

We got the perfect one.

[Dalton]

Holy crap.

[Mike]

Honestly, we wrapped this pod up, Mike. Let's get it on the flatbed.

[Evan]

The unicorn.

[Mike]

We'll send Seth. We'll see him in a couple weeks.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Hey, you're going to Tijuana. He's like, what?

[Dalton]

It be terrifying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

So just take the F250 and you're good.

[Ken]

Before you started explaining this, I kind of thought it was like the Minnesota equivalent of bringing stuff to the Hutterites around here. Dude, they fix up fast and cheap.

[Dalton]

No, but that is. That would be like that. Yeah. It's not like. Yeah, you talk to one guy and then you send your car off for the entire winter and you hope it's back and good and you. Cost you a whole bunch of money. Yeah. You just bring it to them and they just, like 10 dudes just fix everything. I don't. I don't know if I have heard.

[Mike]

Of getting parts like 70s and 80s pickups and stuff, like fenders and pickup beds and stuff like that, but they're not perfect. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, they're just some. Like. Some of them Tijuana fenders.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Really?

[Mike]

Whatever. So, like, I don't know if they have factories down there they're making this stuff or if they're, like, running chop shops or what.

[Dalton]

He said it was a very chop shop vibe.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Pull it up. Like, you don't even make an appointment. There's. Oh, yeah, we'll start working on as soon as we can, and then they'll have it done in a couple days.

[Mike]

Or you come back and it's.

[Ken]

Yeah, come back and go, what van?

[Mike]

Yeah, what van?

[Ben]

Yeah. So when you say, don't bring an ID or a passport down there, like, they shake you down.

[Dalton]

He's like, you get stopped a lot by just, like, you know, thugs that are willing to stop you and potentially hold you at knife point or gunpoint and like, give me your cash. Give me your. Definitely give me your passport. I want that.

[Ben]

You guys know Uncle Buck on the channel. If you watch the YouTube videos, he was on a motorcycle going through Mexico, deep down there somewhere, and he was coming up this road, and they held him up with, like, a 2x4 with a bunch of nails sticking out and had him come to a stop. And then, like, a bunch of guys with baseball bats and nails on them basically just, like, shook them down. And they were like, give us all your money. And they were, like, counting it, and they were like, this isn't all you have, like. Like, you have more. We know you have more. And they were, like, trying to get him for more because he had more hidden somewhere else because he knew this could happen.

[Mike]

He said he. He carried, like, his old idea or something, too.

[Dalton]

Oh, that's.

[Ben]

So he had a whole set of old ID too. Yeah, so he had that and, like, some cash hidden, and then he had the rest hidden somewhere else. And they Were like pressing him, right? And he's, he's like looking at like all of them and he's like, okay, like I could take. He's a big guy. He's like, okay, I could probably take three of them. But there's three, three over here, right. And he's like weighing out the options. Right. And then this old lady pulls up behind them. They were just like, get out of here. And then they go and shake her down.

[Ken]

What? Yeah, it's just like a. It's like a toll booth in Mexico, basically.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah, I suppose, like if you're coming from the States and you're going to Tijuana, like, you probably can't bring like much for protection with you.

[Ken]

Well, you probably can bring a gun in. Just can't bring it home.

[Mike]

Yeah, honestly, that'd be worth it. Buy a burner for a couple hundred bucks. I don't need it when I get back home. I just need it down there.

[Evan]

Hide it in the bush. Buy a burner.

[Ben]

I'm going to Mexico in a couple. About a month.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah. We'll see how that goes when we're.

[Ken]

Tijuana.

[Gavin]

Tijuana.

[Ben]

Cabo. A little bit different. Yeah. So December. So I guess month and a half.

[Evan]

Who are you going with?

[Ken]

Are we coming.

[Ben]

Going for a wedding? Oh, wow, dude. Of course.

[Evan]

We were talking about doing a trip to Cabo. I thought.

[Ken]

Yeah. Damn, you got me excited. Excited? I thought you booked it for us.

[Ben]

No, I didn't do that. But apparently like Mexican weddings, like is like a full on three day bender. Oh.

[Sydney]

What other body parts are you going to lose for this trip then?

[Ken]

Yeah. You lost your appendix at heydays.

[Ben]

Yeah. Hopefully none.

[Sydney]

Yeah, you brought it up. Are we going to address the issue of heydays?

[Ken]

Oh, what got stolen there?

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

We should address it.

[Ben]

We should. More. Who got stolen there?

[Evan]

Kidnapped?

[Mike]

I don't think he got stolen. I think that Randy's living his best life.

[Ben]

Yeah. So, all right.

[Evan]

You have something to do with this Evan?

[Mike]

Yeah, he does. I have absolutely nothing to do with it. I'm simply saying. Have you seen the post on the Instagram? Have you seen what we've put Randy through?

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You see what he's doing now? Yeah, like he's, you know, I know he's doing it. He's got almost 5K on the gram.

[Dalton]

That's insane.

[Ben]

All right, let me, let me add some, Let me add some context here.

[Evan]

We should have probably gave him more clout.

[Ben]

You're right.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So we fucked up. Okay, so we have this test dummy. His name is Reckless Randy.

[Dalton]

He's a real one.

[Ben]

He's damn near a human. Like, that dude costs, like, 2500 bucks.

[Mike]

Because that's what humans cost.

[Ben]

No, he weighs 185 pounds. He is, like, 5 11. He is, like, so difficult to move, right? Because he's just like. He's not meant to really move. He's meant for, like, cpr.

[Evan]

No, he's meant for moving.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, for testing for, like. For like.

[Evan]

Like firefighters, everything.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

It's always falling off.

[Ken]

That's what he was born to do.

[Ben]

We bought Reckless Randy last December, so we've had him for about a year. And he's been fantastic, right? Him and Ken really hit it off. As you guys saw in the shop tour video, Ken had his room painted for Randy and everything, right? Anyway, Randy's been, like, hanging out in our mini truck for the last couple of weeks. And he was in there when we brought him to Haydays or the mini truck to Haydays, right?

[Ken]

He was just watching the crowd.

[Dalton]

He would sit in the mini truck and he would. Basically, he was like our security guy, and he would scare the shit out of anyone who didn't know.

[Ben]

Yeah, he looked real. Yeah, he was. He was, like, iced out. He had a chain on him, sunglasses, like.

[Evan]

He was living a pretty good life.

[Ben]

Yeah, he was living a great life, right. And he was here with Ken. So bring him to Heydays. We load up at Heydays, come back. Well, we don't necessarily use Randy every day. He's a part of the. The team, right? But he. We only call upon him every. Every so often, right? So one day, Ryan comes into my office, and he goes, hey, you got Randy. I go, like the dummy Randy or your dad? And he was like, no, like the dummy Randy. Do you have him hidden somewhere? Are you planning something? And I was like, you think I stole Randy? He's like, we can't find Randy, and we have a feeling that somebody here knows where he is. Because how could we just lose 185 pound dummy, right?

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[Ben]

So then I start thinking, I'm like, oh yeah, no, somebody has to have like hidden him, right? So I go to CJ and I'm like, are you planning something with Randy here that we need to know about. And he's like, nope, no idea. I, you know, I go to everyone and we come to the conclusion that Randy's gone missing. Right. Well, you can't just lose 185 pound dummy.

[Mike]

I need to say this. That is where saying 180 pounds, it doesn't sound that heavy. It is extremely heavy and awkward because he's awkward. There's not around.

[Evan]

He hangs and stuff and he drags.

[Mike]

I mean, maybe one of us could drag him across the shop. But like straight up, if you needed to grab Randy from the corner of the shop and put him into a vehicle, it's a two person job and it's heavy.

[Evan]

It's hard.

[Mike]

This wasn't light work for whatever happened.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. So after we come to the conclusion that no, Randy's actually missing, right. Then the fingers start pointing. Well, you saw him last D's over here, like. Well, I saw him on Sunday at heydays because I was moving the mini truck and I went to grab the keys and they were on Randy's lap. And then Evan's like, well, I took the mini truck home at night. So we're like, he got stolen out of your driveway? And he's like, there's no way it got stolen at my house. Right. And so we end up figuring out after watching the mini truck get rolled back into the shop after heydays that Randy was not in there. So between Saturday sleuthing going on where we last saw him and Monday when the mini truck got rolled back in on camera, he went missing at some point. Right.

[Mike]

If this was an episode of Forensic Files, they would look at whoever the person who last saw him was, which by the sounds of it, Dalton.

[Ben]

We'll circle back on that. So, like last Wednesday, we came to the conclusion that he was stolen. Right. I post out on the C boys story, I go, this next snap is not a joke.

[Evan]

Sounds like one.

[Ben]

I need to preface this. Has anyone seen Randy, our dummy? Right. Because at first we weren't like, oh, he, he probably wasn't stolen. I bet we just left him somewhere. Right. Like we brought him in, lose a lot of stuff. Yeah. We brought him in to get food or something and. And we just forgot him at T bell or like. Yeah, like somebody has to have seen this guy. Right. Also, he's wearing a high vis sweatshirt.

[Dalton]

Very hard to miss, I don't think anymore. And that's. I didn't. I just. You. You posted that he's.

[Ben]

Oh, you're right, you're right. He wasn't. Yeah. Somebody changed him.

[Dalton]

He's wearing a Dare no can do hoodie.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Dalton]

In support of Ken.

[Mike]

Sell some jewelry, I think. Is he still running?

[Dalton]

Looks like he still had jewelry.

[Ben]

So I post that out throughout the day. I kind of made a couple more posts. Like, here's the last time that we saw him. You know, like, we're just worried about him. You literally cannot miss the guy. So now we're all hot because, you know, some of us.

[Sydney]

Some of us, not at all.

[Evan]

Yeah, I'd say you're the least hot and bothered, and you're the most hot.

[Mike]

So I had Dalton and Ben sit down and just, like, interrogate me about it. Of course I think it's funny. And because I think it's funny, I'm immediately the number one suspect.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Which is ironic. I mean, the last person who saw Randy.

[Gavin]

Well, you were.

[Mike]

Is accusing me, weren't you?

[Evan]

The one who brought the trailer home.

[Ken]

You were supposed to bring him home.

[Mike]

He wasn't in the truck when it went on the trailer.

[Evan]

So that means someone stole it at heydays.

[Mike]

Well, we know that. That.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So I think it had to have happened Saturday night when everyone's out doing things you do at night. Dalton saying that he saw Randy Sunday morning, I think is crazy because he was going to take him in broad daylight.

[Sydney]

I see an Instagram DM that I'm assuming the same group of individuals also tried to steal the yeti costume from.

[Dalton]

I said, I'm never putting that thing on again. But that is weird because that's kind of their cherished item.

[Mike]

I mean, they're always. You always do hear about some stuff going on at heydays. They cut loose those big balloons and they float away. Like, people do some bad things.

[Ben]

Oh, this is terrible. So this is terrible. This is worse than a fucking balloon getting cut.

[Mike]

I agree.

[Ben]

Yeah. This is a life we're talking about here.

[Mike]

We NPC Ben.

[Ben]

So we have come to the conclusion that he's stolen. Right. We have no. No other facts other than that. I'm scrolling on Instagram two nights ago, and I happened to see a picture of reckless Randy. The seventh Seaboy is ours now.

[Mike]

So does that sticker mean anything?

[Ben]

I think we put that sticker on it, right?

[Dalton]

Yeah, I saw that sticker and I'm like, who's Dylan?

[Ben]

So then I start scrolling, and that was. That was September 18th. Right. So a couple weeks ago, like, long before. Long before we'd ever, like, posted on. On the story that, like, we were looking for Randy.

[Dalton]

I didn't even look at the dates. I just figured they started firing posts out once we started. Like, once the cat was out of the bag.

[Ben]

No. So then the next post, September 26, is Randy sitting next to this rock. If you have any information about where this rock is, let us know. On the Randy.

[Mike]

Pretty identifiable. There's a little semi on there. Yeah.

[Ben]

Yep. And it just says, long ways from the C store. Again, before we had posted. And then there's a picture of him sitting on a dock with the caption, now that I'm a free man, I decided to take up fishing in a seaboard chair.

[Sydney]

So the thing about that chair is that was the prototype chair before, like, we. We did the final design for it. So that was also stolen from Hades.

[Mike]

We got cleaned out.

[Ken]

Geez, dude.

[Dalton]

I don't know how you knew that, Ken, but that actually makes way more sense because I was like, how did. Like, we have the chairs on the.

[Sydney]

Website now, but just Justin pointed out that, like, there. There's a few minor differences between that chair and the final product.

[Dalton]

No cooler bag.

[Mike]

Maybe what we should be doing is a better inventory of what else we could have lost.

[Ken]

Possibly lost.

[Ben]

So then after I make the post, he basically then starts acting like he's having a great time. Now he's mowing, bro. He's golfing. Not only is he golfing, but he's also crashing golf carts. So you can't say that he's living a better life because we gave him everything that he wanted. He wanted to be a test on me. He wanted to break shit. Yeah, I messaged him. I said, yo, give us back Randy. Lol. I'm laughing, but I'm really not. You fucker. And he goes, I'll consider coming back when Ken Matthews sends me a public love letter.

[Evan]

So why don't you just do that, Ken, and then we can get him back.

[Sydney]

So in the state of Minnesota, because Randy's valued at more than fifteen hundred dollars, it is a felony to be in possession of stolen property.

[Ken]

But why wouldn't you just write a love letter to get them back? Don't you want.

[Ben]

Let me.

[Sydney]

Let me get chat. GPT to write something.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Ben]

Needs to be heartfelt from the bottom.

[Mike]

Of your soul, dude.

[Ken]

What I want is, you know those people who can, like, look at a picture from somewhere and like, a GEO tracker. Geo trackers. There's enough GEO tracking ability in here based on the leaves and the beet field and the power lines. Is. It beats beans, I think, right?

[Dalton]

I've seen some dudes like that. They're like, challenge me and they beans. It's just like a screenshot of just a random rundown sign. And he's like, well, based on the terrain here, and then you can see there's a blurry vehicle. It looks like this could only be in Nevada or a North Carolina or whatever license plate. And then they just figured out just off some blurry, random screenshot, dude, the best guy is.

[Ben]

I think his name is Rainbow. He can get served anywhere in the world.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And he'll be within like 50 mile radius.

[Evan]

The thing about this though, is it seems like we're in it. It really does.

[Dalton]

It's like, it does.

[Evan]

Like, it seems like we're in on it, but we're not. We just want Randy back.

[Mike]

I think that it has to be like a team effort. I just can't see one kid.

[Evan]

No, for sure. It obviously took a few people.

[Mike]

Like, it was probably another group of people just like us.

[Sydney]

It's a minimum two people, probably three.

[Evan]

So what was your epiphany? You said you had a this epiphany. Dalton, you're sitting on the couch.

[Mike]

You go, yeah, I'm on the edge.

[Evan]

Of my craziest epiphany.

[Slim]

So it's about 1:00 in the morning. I just had a crazy flashback to Hades. It was Saturday night or Sunday morning. These kids are at the merch booth.

[Gavin]

How young?

[Ken]

Like you kid or like a little older?

[Slim]

Probably like 20.

[Ken]

Okay.

[Slim]

And they're asking for merch at like 1:00am no, dude, like, we're not open. Yeah, obviously it's 1 in the morning. And they kind of like wandered around, you know, like all of the fences were just torn apart.

[Evan]

Why were they torn apart?

[Slim]

Everyone just stomping over them. All that, especially with the big rally around the truck. And I guess I didn't think anything of it until you mentioned that it possibly could have happened Saturday night. To be completely Honest, I don't 100% recall Randy being in there Sunday morning.

[Dalton]

Okay.

[Mike]

How many times has Dalton been like, I guarantee he was in that truck.

[Slim]

But hear me out, okay? I could have sworn he was. Because we didn't have the trailer for the red mini truck you had that. I had to leave. So I set the key somewhere where they wouldn't get taken. So the mini truck, you know, we could drive it. And I thought I set them on the driver's seat underneath the seat belt because Rainey was in the passenger seat. I thought that's why I did that. But now I'm not totally sure.

[Mike]

This boy's story is changing.

[Ben]

Oh my God.

[Mike]

That's a big red flag, D. Yep.

[Slim]

Why?

[Mike]

What do you mean why?

[Ben]

I think that you and Evan are working together.

[Mike]

You were the last one that saw him, and now you're changing the story as we're closing in on you.

[Slim]

Yeah, I'm going to put him in my Subaru and drive four hours back home, then put them in my storage unit and then make an Instagram for him.

[Ben]

That's a good point actually. That does sound like something you would do.

[Sydney]

Making these country thirst traps lately too.

[Dalton]

Jeez. Shot across the back, dude. I just looked straight there. Dude, Randy's posting stories. He's got stories up on Instagram.

[Ben]

Yeah, Randy's actually very active, which makes me think that Randy's captor doesn't have a job. Right. So now we need to can pull up Minnesota unemployment.

[Ken]

Yeah, pull up every unemployed person that went to Heydays.

[Mike]

Or it could be a group. Maybe Randy's getting passed around.

[Evan]

Is it your friends, Evan?

[Mike]

It could be. How do you feel about that?

[Ben]

That's what I said.

[Evan]

They didn't take him out of the trailer when he was in the trailer. And you brought the trailer to your house?

[Mike]

Bro, there's no way that the truck and trailers at miles for one day it backed right up to my garage. There's no way. And the thing is, me and Slim loaded the fucking. Excuse me. We loaded the truck under the trailer.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Mike]

I mean, I guess kind of like Dalton. Can I say 100 I just adults hometown. Oh, don't be showing my address, bro.

[Slim]

It's your hometown, not your specific address. Randy on his Instagram has a picture of him on a river.

[Mike]

Oh, the land of 10,000 lakes. Not to mention there are a few lakes and rivers outside of Minnesota. Dalton, drop a pin anywhere in Minnesota.

[Slim]

And within your backyard make the most sense. One of your buddies takes them.

[Mike]

Because I'm here with you guys while I'm in a bean field hanging out with Randy.

[Ken]

But did you hear that, Ken? That quite possibly Randy's getting passed around. How do you feel about that?

[Sydney]

That's just not right, Randy. He's got to feel so violated right now. Probably uncomfortable.

[Dalton]

Yeah, dude, I'm not like, get him back.

[Ken]

Get Randy back to Ken's heart shaped head.

[Dalton]

It is pretty easy. I'm not taking sides. But like I'm kind of here for this. Randy does look like he's having a pretty good time. And it says right here.

[Ben]

That sounds about right, Mike.

[Dalton]

It sounds, yeah. I mean, yeah, like I Want him back eventually. But like, I kind of do want him to like, finish out his vacation and then we'll bring the hammer.

[Ken]

I don't think we need a hand.

[Evan]

Like felony charges.

[Dalton]

I mean, we definitely. This is some good content. I don't know.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Dalton]

Whoever's making this like clearly knows how to like run an Instagram. Like, I don't know. It's not.

[Mike]

That is the first thing I told Ben. My buddy Slim had it. I go, slim doesn't even know how to run his own Instagram much. Let's make a second one.

[Evan]

Yeah. And we're doing exactly what they want.

[Dalton]

He knows. How about it? His location on the fishing one says Cormorant, Minnesota, and it has like a song. And I don't think Slim knows how to add.

[Ben]

Dude, Slim kind of catching strays right now.

[Dalton]

Sorry, Slim.

[Ken]

Seriously though, before would we turn our eyes outward to whoever took Randy from his rightful home? I'm going to get a lie detector test and we're going to make sure that nobody around here knows anything thing.

[Mike]

That actually would be great. And we're putting that mustached boy on there first.

[Dalton]

Like a legit one. Cuz then I just.

[Mike]

Can you hire someone to come out?

[Dalton]

Remember he just hooked like a finger thing to him and then like a thing around his arm and like it was an app. I've seen that.

[Evan]

That's lame.

[Mike]

Yeah, I. I don't trust an app.

[Evan]

It's got to be the thing.

[Ken]

Yeah, I did try to get the thing. No one in Minnesota will do it.

[Mike]

The.

[Ken]

The guy in California will come out for ten grand. Figured that wasn't worth it if we.

[Mike]

Could buy five Randy's for ten grand.

[Ken]

You just can't replace Randy.

[Evan]

We just imagine we just totally foiled their. Their whole like, I got Randy and like trying to grow this page on this. We just bought a new one. Like, hey, we got Randy back.

[Ken]

Wait, what?

[Ben]

That would be kind of funny. It'd be not as good for our.

[Dalton]

For our.

[Evan]

Like, I think we could do something with this. But I do think we got to get Randy back.

[Ben]

Like get the FBI involved and raid their house possibly.

[Sydney]

I was looking. Those power lines in the background of one of those pictures are very distinctive from every power line that I've looked at along a river. So that might be a clue.

[Ben]

Ken is like a detective, but a shitty ass detective. And he goes, there's something with these power lines. There's like, I'm not sure what, but there is something.

[Mike]

Do they look like Minnesota Power lines.

[Sydney]

They're very close to the ones by Becker, but they're different.

[Mike]

So what do we do with this?

[Ken]

They're big poles with strings between them.

[Mike]

But, dude, I do respect, though, like, the undercover work. Ken's been doing it. You identified the chair?

[Ben]

Ken's hot. Yeah, Ken's hot.

[Mike]

And the power lines. And tell them about your research you did on that rock already.

[Sydney]

I think it's at somebody's house. I tried to find a trucking company, and it does not line up.

[Mike]

Oh, because the other day you mentioned maybe having a hot lead out of New York.

[Sydney]

I thought it might have been a trucking company out of New York, but I could not find anything on that.

[Evan]

If Randy's all the way in New York, we are not getting him back. Probably. As Randy comes home, imagine his next Instagram picture. He's in New York.

[Ken]

Maybe he's.

[Mike]

What's that snowmobile show that's like.

[Ken]

Holy, he's an epic.

[Ben]

Oh, no.

[Dalton]

Is that New Hampshire?

[Ben]

Yeah, that's probably where he is.

[Dalton]

Can you imagine? They steal him from the snow show and take him to the second biggest snow show.

[Mike]

I mean, a lot of people that go to Heydays go to that.

[Evan]

Yeah, I think it's a group of younger Minnesota boys. Like, just a crew of friends. And they're in Minnesota. I think Randy's in Minnesota.

[Ken]

Well, we're gonna find Randy and we're gonna bring him home so he can get back to work. Because a man's life is not fulfilled without going to work. And Randy's gonna have fun on his little vacation, but eventually he's gonna feel trapped.

[Evan]

I agree.

[Ken]

By not being able to work.

[Ben]

Yeah. It's all fun and games, Randy, until you remember what your real purpose in life is.

[Ken]

Exactly.

[Mike]

Making videos and pleasuring Ken.

[Sydney]

Jesus.

[Dalton]

Excuse me.

[Evan]

Not on the podcast.

[Dalton]

Evan, I would love for Randy to be the next Little Mayo bro.

[Ken]

Yo, Lil Mayo messaged us at one point. Was like, want to collab?

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

He has more swag than Dalton, for sure.

[Ben]

Wait, so who is Lil Mayo?

[Dalton]

I couldn't tell you. Besides that he's just an alien. Yeah. Not a real person or creature. And they pose him up.

[Ken]

Who's the one?

[Dalton]

Ooh, let's find out.

[Mike]

At least he looks like he is a lot more portable.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dalton]

Yes. That's what he has going for them or him.

[Ken]

Dude, imagine, like, being pretty Instagram clouded, but it's not you. It's just your little alien doll.

[Dalton]

It's cool.

[Ken]

So, like, your little alien doll gets invited to Coachella. But then you have to stand in GA while your little alien dollar.

[Dalton]

That would be kind of awkward. Like how they're like, oh, Lil Mayo's at the, like, this crazy Hollywood party. And then you're like, the owner of Little Man. They're like, yo, who's the dude? Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

That's pretty sweet, though.

[Evan]

It's amazing how long they've kept that going. Like, is he making money? Because it looks like they went to October fest in Germany. Like. Like it costs money to set all these shoots up.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I wonder when that Home Depot jacket is drip.

[Mike]

Is it like public knowledge who is running this? Or is it like, actually kind of like a big old secret?

[Dalton]

Yeah, I don't think anyone knows. I'm sure some people know, but. Yeah.

[Ben]

What the heck would we have done with Lil Mayo?

[Evan]

Like a dirt bike shoot? They probably didn't care about us. They just want to use, like, some.

[Dalton]

Like, his likeness with our likeness, I guess.

[Ben]

Or just.

[Evan]

I'd say more so just like, they wanted, like, some dirt bikes or, like, a spot to do one of their shoots.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ken]

So I was watching the news the other day, and when the hurricane came through Florida, there was this guy. Do you hear about him?

[Dalton]

Oh, yeah, what's the. Lieutenant Dan Lieutenant.

[Ken]

They've been calling him Lieutenant Dan because he just like, like, ties his boat up in the harbor and then just floats through the hurricane. It's kind of like a meme.

[Sydney]

He also didn't have a leg.

[Ken]

Also doesn't have a leg. Similar to Lieutenant.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

But apparently since he got so famous now off of, you know, being Lieutenant Dan, he was streaming with Aiden Ross or Aiden Roster. Of course. He got hooked up with a. I.

[Dalton]

Heard he was gonna buy him a house or something.

[Ken]

Yeah, no, Aiden was gonna buy him a boat for 100 grand.

[Dalton]

That's right.

[Ken]

And then Aden Ross hooked him up with kick, and he got a kick deal with.

[Ben]

How much Lieutenant Dan is.

[Evan]

How much did he sign?

[Ken]

I don't know how much he signed for. I. Rumor was it was $1 million kick deal.

[Ben]

Absolutely.

[Evan]

They're not given $1 million kick deal ever stream before.

[Sydney]

What's he going to do?

[Ken]

Well, I'll tell you what he did on his very first stream. He dropped the N word.

[Ben]

No, Lieutenant Dan, you still get to keep the mail.

[Ken]

He made it like 23 minutes into his stream and was just blabbing and just said that word.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Evan]

So that was the end.

[Dalton]

That was the end.

[Ken]

That was the end of the holy.

[Mike]

Just.

[Ken]

It was just up and Then as fast as he could come up, down.

[Evan]

You know what they say, the faster you rise, the faster you fall.

[Ken]

My God, dude.

[Ben]

So what? Why did he become such a meme?

[Ken]

I think just because he was really funny. Like, some college kids in Tampa found him with the two hurricanes back to back. Like, he just became this thing that everybody would go to him and then talk. And he's a character. He looks about 75, probably about 55, but, you know. Yeah, Pretty weathered.

[Dalton]

It always reminds me of something that, like, Evan could have done. I've seen other accounts, like, you work with some old timers that are just funny, crazy.

[Mike]

Yeah, I have thought that after.

[Dalton]

Yeah. And so I've seen dudes that'll just post and then everyone on the Internet grows to love or hate or whatever. Their co worker or their crazy grandpa or whatever. Danny Duncan does it all the time, you know?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

He's so good at finding a character.

[Mike]

Gary Joe, 20, 24. Who the hell is Gary Joe? That farmer that I'm always watching. I don't know. He's like some drunk farmer. And then it's like, you can tell. It's like some younger farmhand or whatever that's always taking these videos. And he knows how to trigger them.

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

I don't know. He just triggers them and then films what Gary Joe does. And it's hilarious. Like, he put, like, an armadillo in his house the other day. It was very funny. Chasing around with a ruler, just wilding out.

[Evan]

Dude, Ben, is that the new iPhone?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Let me see that thing.

[Ben]

Yeah, I've been iPhone less kind of.

[Ken]

Dude, how's it been being iphoneless for two weeks?

[Ben]

So I ordered a new. Oh, a new phone. I haven't gotten a new phone in, like, three, four years. So I ordered a new iPhone 16. And then two weeks ago, after I had already ordered the phone, I broke my. My current phone that I was using. I was in the sauna, cracked the back of the case, and I sweat on it, and it got. It got.

[Ken]

Oh, my God.

[Ben]

Water damage. Yeah, I've been like, raw dog in life, basically. Like, no, no phone. I've been an iPad kid for the last two weeks. It's been, like, kind of nice being able to, like, kind of just unplug from, like, constantly. Just, like, being on my phone. But also, like, dude, it is such a pain in the butt, like, not being able to get phone calls. And if I do answer the phone, my phone would stay on for about a minute and a half. So as soon as I Would answer the phone. Like, I was talking to, like, our banker the other day. Had to talk to her to, like, approve this thing to get sent out. Right. Hey, how's it going? Yeah, this is. Yep, yep. So if I hang up on you. I'm not actually hanging up on you. My phone has water damage and it's gonna die. Okay. Okay, great. Great.

[Ken]

Dies.

[Ben]

Oh, every like, bro. Yeah. So, like, that's been. That's been like my life. So I've been kind of just going without it.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's been a real pain. You can never get a hold of you.

[Evan]

It almost would have been very similar.

[Mike]

Broke completely.

[Ben]

Yeah, I agree. Because then you're just like, yeah. Because I didn't want to go out and, like, buy a phone. Ken was like, why don't you just go to Verizon? I was like, dude, I have two weeks. I'm not going to just go and buy one when I have one coming.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Didn't make a whole lot of sense. So I just waited it out.

[Evan]

Ken, aren't you a big get a new iPhone every year guy?

[Sydney]

I was until this year. And then this year I was like, why would I buy it?

[Ben]

Really?

[Sydney]

It's no different.

[Evan]

Yeah, all.

[Sydney]

The only big difference is you have that camera. But yeah.

[Dalton]

Yeah, from a lot of the. A lot of the reviewers were saying that this was the one of the least monumental. Really changes this.

[Ben]

The phone is the same as my 12. Was pretty much like, it's like damn near the exact same.

[Dalton]

Yeah, the camera's a lot better now than a 12, obviously, or a 13. But yeah, they didn't change much.

[Ken]

Can't really on rocks.

[Mike]

Put a case on that thing before.

[Sydney]

You jam it up.

[Ken]

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[Dalton]

What? Ken, you spent all your money on rocks?

[Sydney]

Yeah. Building a wall.

[Evan]

Yeah, he's helping. He's building the wall down south. The problem.

[Ben]

This is a crazy camera. Is it.

[Evan]

Is it better than a. I mean, 14?

[Ben]

Dude, I'm 25x zoomed in right now.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Like every camera is always going to be like, his is better than a 15.

[Ken]

Seems like the only thing they make better is the camera.

[Dalton]

Is the camera.

[Evan]

So the camera is better, Ken?

[Dalton]

Yes.

[Sydney]

It's like everything. It's like marginally better year to year, but it's like, you know, once you get a couple of years in between something. Yeah. It's going to be a big difference, but one to the next one.

[Ken]

It's like, why spend phone money when you can spend it on rocks?

[Evan]

It's so interesting how similar the iPhones are. Like, they're all changed.

[Ken]

Oh, dang. Ken, your leg.

[Mike]

Wow, you really.

[Sydney]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

How did you met. That's what the E bike did to you.

[Sydney]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You had it all wrapped up and I was like, there's no way it can be this bad. But it actually is.

[Sydney]

Yeah. This is actually looking a lot better than it was. But now it's just like, it's really scabbed up.

[Dalton]

I honestly didn't think it was that bad either that you took your wrap off.

[Mike]

I tried to look on. Look at it on the spot when it happened. And Kenzie, I gotta go. He like wouldn't even let me look at like pulled his pants down and just.

[Sydney]

It didn't hurt that bad on the spot. And then like the adrenaline wears off and like, oh, this kind of hurt.

[Mike]

It's a burn.

[Sydney]

Yeah. And then. And then it just got like progressively.

[Dalton]

Worse and worse adrenaline of tipping the E bike.

[Ben]

Can you. I want to say you're unlucky but sometimes you just can't get out of your own way.

[Mike]

Yeah, I know.

[Sydney]

Well, my problem is I should have turned the E bike off before I started trying to push it, rather than trying to push it with it on.

[Ben]

Dude, that's a sneaky thing with the E bikes. That happened, actually, earlier in the week before Ken did the exact same thing. Somebody was sitting on the trike E bike, and we were all standing around it, and somebody grabbed the throttle, and it just, like, rocketed into me and Evan. Yeah. Very sketchy because, like, most people don't think that it's on, and then obviously it's on.

[Ken]

Something so twistable about it. An electric throttle. Like, I never walk up to a bike, and I'm like, let me twist this.

[Dalton]

I can't walk past the motorcycle without either grabbing the front brake or the twist in the throttle.

[Sydney]

Just gotta crank that hog.

[Ken]

I do it on that pit bike a lot on the end. Maybe that's why it's blown up.

[Mike]

It is funny, though. You can hear me clear as day. About five seconds before Ken yard sales that E bike, I said, be careful.

[Ben]

And he did it.

[Dalton]

Be careful.

[Ben]

That is unfortunate, but, Ken, you. You fared the week a lot better than our. Our good buddy Gavin did.

[Ken]

Oh, my God.

[Sydney]

Multiple bad hits, dude.

[Mike]

So walk down the stairs on Sunday.

[Sydney]

Watching him trying to walk out of here, bro.

[Ben]

Gav had an absolute week, and you would think that he was in a UFC fight.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

With Mike Tyson on one side and a lion on the other, bro.

[Evan]

Every time he turned the key on whatever he was riding, I thought he was deliberately trying to crash. Literally, like, every time I was like, is he trying to just pile this up because he thinks it'll be good for video? But he wasn't. He was just riding it. Everything about him riding is just sketchy. But then what really confirmed it is when we had him get in his truck and drive it down the road. And I thought he was gonna crash that thing. The whole time, just driving down the road going 40, I was like, dude.

[Mike]

When we were trying to ride the motorcycles down the road, it was a hazard. I don't know what he tried to do, but for some reason, he just literally goes into oncoming traffic for, like, no reason.

[Ben]

Like, all of the blue the other way, like this.

[Evan]

He's just riding. There's a car coming. I'm like, what is this guy doing? The people are getting nervous. They're pulling over onto the side of the road. I'm like, get over, bro.

[Sydney]

I was stressed out. Just in the back seat.

[Mike]

Unbelievably stressful.

[Dalton]

But where do we start? What was his first? I mean, the last two days of his stay here were.

[Mike]

The first One was the 250R where it was just me and him.

[Dalton]

Yeah. And now I just got a little.

[Mike]

Iphone clip of it. Yeah, he.

[Sydney]

I think the first one actually might have been when I messed up my leg. It also crashed into Gavin.

[Evan]

Okay, that was nothing for Gavin, dude.

[Ben]

So.

[Dalton]

Yeah, which one?

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, yeah, no, it did. He thought that he, like, broke his hand.

[Dalton]

What?

[Evan]

Oh, really? It was that bad?

[Ben]

Kind of messed up his hand. He's over there icing, and it's pretty swollen. And he goes, it might be broken.

[Evan]

But it's all right, baby.

[Ben]

Yeah, of course. So Gab left, like, limping and crooked.

[Evan]

Hungover.

[Ben]

Hungover. Like, any kind of damage that he could do to his body, he did. And then on Saturday, on Sunday when he left, I go, gav, how you doing? And the dude is so delusional, but also just, like, the most positive person you've ever met. And he just looks me in the eyes and goes, dude, so good. And I'm like, no, bro, actually, how are you doing? He's like, no, I'm fine, dude. I'm literally so good.

[Ken]

As he's taking a plane home because he can't drive his pickup because he can't sit down for that long.

[Evan]

Yeah, dude. When he was lifting his legs up into Jake's truck, he had to move them just, like, this far. And he was like, oh, right after he got done telling me he was good, I'm like, no, you're not, dude.

[Dalton]

Are you?

[Evan]

He's like, just my knees. Just my knees.

[Sydney]

Watching him try and walk down the stairs. He was taking them one step at a time, and it was just like.

[Evan]

How do you get up there? When he was that hammered, did he get that?

[Ben]

Really?

[Dalton]

I mean, we're getting to it, but after his big day pilot crash, he. He's like. We're like, gav, actually, are you okay? Yeah, I'm 100. And I go, 100% now you're lying. And he goes, I'm 75.

[Ken]

I love cages, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah. Piles up the pilot.

[Mike]

My favorite part about the three wheeler crash. Well, at one point, he couldn't find the bumper for the three wheeler. It was lost. And he had pooped himself. He hit the ground so hard. So then we were cracking jokes, like, maybe the bumper is in fact up in his butt.

[Dalton]

But he.

[Mike]

He made the joke like, oh, I pooped myself. It's funny. Whatever. He hit his butt hard. Well, about four hours later, he was working down in a hole with a shovel and he was bent over, his underwear hanging out. So I was like, ah, I'll give him a wedgie. That'll be funny. Turns out he really did poop his pants.

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[Ken]

Oh, my gosh. I haven't seen this.

[Ben]

I mean, play him actually jumping right here like this alone is sketchy.

[Mike]

Can we run the audio after he crashes? That's the best part.

[Ben]

Like, everything he does is sketchy.

[Dalton]

Ouch.

[Ben]

That one hurt my ball hole.

[Evan]

My butthole ass.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Ben]

My bong.

[Ken]

I feel like I pooped myself.

[Mike]

Oh, freaking.

[Ben]

Hey, dude, that was a good crash. How to look deal talked me up. That sucked.

[Mike]

It looked really bad, bro.

[Dalton]

Did it really?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to laugh. That was freaking gnarly poop myself. Holy cr. That was a good one, bro. What'd you think?

[Dalton]

Also in this, I love just right after that, Gavin goes. Evan starts answering him. He goes, turn the camera on you when you talk.

[Ken]

I love how he's got his wallet.

[Mike]

In his back pocket.

[Ben]

That's probably what really hurt.

[Dalton]

No, that's what he said. I wish I would have had it in my right cheek, because that's what took most of the damage.

[Ken]

Well, because his left was broken by the frickin wallet.

[Mike]

Turns out the bumper was just. It folded so hard. It was up under the seat. We couldn't even see that it existed, but it actually. Oh, wow.

[Ken]

Gav. Dude. Oh, yeah. It's just gone. Oh, poor guy.

[Ben]

This guy is so destructive, dude. He's his own worst enemy.

[Mike]

I mean, we were just talking about it. How many hits have we seen Gavin take? Like a million. Not even just this week.

[Dalton]

Forever.

[Mike]

He always bounces right back up. I think this is the longest I've ever seen him on the ground. And he was feeling that for sure. I agree, dude.

[Evan]

Even after the pilot crash, that was gnarly. I was worried for him.

[Ken]

Me too.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

He got so lucky that it like the front end didn't blew out. Like, I think he killed like a good percentage of his momentum when he landed and then rolled. Because when I was driving behind him, I just. I know he's going like 40 miles an hour, however fast, and there's a cloud of dust and I see tires and then there's dust and some red and then there's. I thought he went like a dozen times, like end over end. And thank God he only rolled like Three times. I mean, it could have been way worse is all I'm saying.

[Ben]

He.

[Mike]

He got lucky on that one. Those things are unbelievably dangerous.

[Dalton]

Cages are good.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Really like this cage.

[Mike]

Love this cage. How you doing, Gav? So good.

[Ben]

Really like this cage.

[Dalton]

I mean, dude, it saved his ass a couple busted fingers.

[Mike]

The cage is like so like narrow. Like it doesn't really stick out wider than you. It's like narrower. So I feel like if you actually went into one of those high speed flips like you see you gotta like grab yourself to your limbs in that thing.

[Ben]

Doesn't necessarily even go fast enough.

[Evan]

That's some hopefully.

[Ken]

Well, I mean, shit, he flew 40ft. His cave.

[Mike]

I think he had enough speed. If he. It could. He could have rolled six times with the speed he had generated on that track.

[Evan]

You guys will have to just stay tuned for that crash because that won't be in the. You guys won't. Will have not seen it yet.

[Mike]

And you also don't want to miss it.

[Ben]

You don't want to message.

[Evan]

I was genuinely so worried for him.

[Mike]

Yeah, I was just a little bit bummed because like his pilot was modified, but the suspension was trash. Mine was stock, but it actually worked. Like I felt like mine jumped pretty jump pretty good and like I was loving it. And I'm just watching him and he's jumping bigger than I am and his machine looks horrible. Like it's not doing what it's supposed to do at all.

[Sydney]

It seems like everything he was jumping all week just go nose down.

[Dalton]

Except every single. When it went nose up.

[Ken]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

Except for the 250 yard.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's why he's pushing the nose down, because he was nervous. Well, I had.

[Dalton]

Had.

[Ken]

I thought we were gonna do a podcast on Saturday night or Sunday Inside this whole thing planned about how lucky Gavin is. And that was going to tie in with when I was watching all the kick streamers that they gamble while they're playing. And so I looked it up and I was like, no, gambling is a write off when you use it for content.

[Mike]

My God. This is the secret that I've needed to know.

[Ken]

Exactly.

[Ben]

I mean, you have to have an LLC to have a write off. You're just. You're just losing money, dude.

[Mike]

That's actually insane. There's no way that. That can't. They can't. That can't catch up with you. It doesn't seem like they'd let that fly.

[Ken]

Yeah, I'm sure it can. Maybe. Hopefully not. But I was trying to figure out if we could get those little gambling iPads, and then we could play while we're sitting here, you know, and then just talk with each other. Like we're at the bar and, you know, you just tap the screen and then we'd be like, yay, I'm winning. You can't do that. You got to have a whole license. It's a bunch of things. So instead, I got this for us.

[Dalton]

Oh, well, isn't.

[Evan]

No way.

[Dalton]

Here, Ben, you can have one of mine. I have three.

[Ben]

All right, toss it over.

[Evan]

Imagine we win big money here.

[Sydney]

How do you know when you win?

[Mike]

I haven't really told you guys, but, like, since I've not been going to the bar and playing pull tabs, I haven't been going to the casino. I've really been ripping the scratches.

[Ben]

When I used to work at the cormorant store, there was a lady that would come in every single day like clockwork.

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

And she wouldn't even scratch the whole thing off. She would just scratch off the barcode and just like, scan it.

[Mike]

Save so much time, bro.

[Ben]

Really?

[Ken]

Just to see if she won.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

It wasn't even for the love of the game.

[Ben]

It wasn't for the love of the game. It was like, what? Dude, Man, I saw her loss lose, like, a ton of money, bro.

[Mike]

You're driving home from the gas station and you're trying to hold the wheel, you're scratching it. The shavings get everywhere. They make a huge mess.

[Ben]

I'm not scratchy curls. The moral of that story was not the scratch off.

[Mike]

It was that she was a loser.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, not in life. Just at the scratch.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I thought you were saying the people that just scan them at the cone.

[Ben]

I think I. I actually remember asking, like, one of my co workers that had been working there for a long time. I was just like, you ever seen this woman win? And he was like, yeah, one time she won like, 10 grand. Whoa. Oh, yeah. But like, dude, I probably, like, she'd probably spend like 500 bucks a day. What? Or like, something maybe. It wasn't that. It was a ton of money, though.

[Sydney]

I remember when I worked at the cormorant store, she would basically hit up up. She had like a route every day. She would go to every single gas station and buy scratch offs at all of them.

[Ben]

Yeah, like, kind of like an old withered.

[Sydney]

Like an old, old Buick.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

All right.

[Mike]

I had a co worker that showed up to work and he had a ten dollar scratch off Folded up in his pocket. He goes, this is a big winner. Well, how much is it? He goes, it's more than I think they can pay you 500 or 600 at the gas station anymore. You have to go to the lottery office. When he went in and bought his morning coffee, he ripped the barcode, scanned it, said, go to lottery office.

[Ken]

No way.

[Mike]

He didn't scratch the ticket. So we all gathered around him having our morning coffee, and we knew it was going to be more. 7,777 bucks.

[Ben]

No way. Yeah.

[Ken]

Oh, man.

[Mike]

But I couldn't believe it, that he had that scratch off in his pocket for over an hour without trying to figure out what it was. But he wanted to show off to all of us.

[Ken]

So I just thought about how electric it would be. I was watching these kick streamers, and they always seem to win. I was like, man, I'd be so electric, trick. Plus, I never buy scratch offs because I don't want to lose a bunch of money.

[Ben]

How do you know if you won?

[Evan]

This one's a write off, though.

[Ken]

But this one's a write off. Nice cat.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You won five bucks.

[Ken]

Hey, you got five bucks?

[Mike]

All right.

[Ken]

I put a hundred dollars in, and then I also bought a Mountain Dew.

[Ben]

So we're like, was that on the company, Ryan?

[Ken]

No, this is actually all on me. Because you have to use cash to pay for scratch offs.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's annoying.

[Ben]

Oh, really?

[Ken]

Yeah. So this whole thing is on me.

[Ben]

Oh, what a nice guy.

[Ken]

But, I mean, obviously I paid myself a thousand dollars from the podcast budget.

[Ben]

Right.

[Sydney]

And buy scratch offs with a debit card now?

[Mike]

It depends. It depends on the location. My local liquor barn used to, and then they quit doing it.

[Ben]

Okay, I won five bucks.

[Ken]

Nice. Good job, bud. You kidding me?

[Ben]

If. See if we did this all day, every day, Mr. Beast video.

[Ken]

Really?

[Dalton]

That's right.

[Evan]

Evan, is your dad a gambler?

[Mike]

Yeah, but he doesn't, like, really go to the casino much or anything like that. But he rips scratches.

[Evan]

I'm just trying to figure out where you got your gambling behavior from.

[Ben]

Well, I got a very addictive personality.

[Mike]

That's. That's true.

[Evan]

I guess you're kind of just addicted to everything that feels good.

[Mike]

Yep. Can't blame a guy for that.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I can't possibly spend $10 on this and not want a dime. Oh, I got 10 bucks back.

[Ben]

Let's go.

[Mike]

That means you didn't win a dime. So broke even.

[Ken]

I broke even.

[Ben]

40.

[Ken]

40.

[Ben]

If you're gonna do what my buddy Evan recommends, you do dump it back in.

[Evan]

Wonder how many times someone's like, thrown away a winning ticket. That was a big one.

[Mike]

I've done it the opposite. I thought I won 40 bucks and there was nothing. I really ashamed of myself.

[Sydney]

That one's got five bucks on it.

[Ben]

Did I tell you guys that I was walking out of the casino and I put a thousand bucks on Bach rot and I won?

[Ken]

No way.

[Ben]

In Vegas.

[Mike]

So you must have left Vegas like way up then. Totally profited. Thanks for the fun, but no dice. No dice.

[Ken]

Dang. I won 10 over here.

[Dalton]

I want a million.

[Ken]

Fuck.

[Ben]

If Mike won a million bucks, would you let him keep it?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Or like, how would that work?

[Dalton]

Split it with all you guys?

[Ken]

Well, anyway, I'd given Mike a fake millionaire jackpot ticket and he was supposed to freak out and go, I want a million dollars.

[Dalton]

All right, you gave it to the wrong guy, man.

[Ken]

Yeah, but I didn't, couldn't give it to Evan because I knew that he would know. That's what this whole thing was.

[Evan]

That was really a smart idea. And I, I caught on. If you watch, I was looking at all of mine to see, waiting for the million one. They said Minnesota. Because that one probably doesn't say Minnesota.

[Ken]

It doesn't. That's pretty much.

[Dalton]

I wouldn't have even looked at that if it would have said like $500. I would have been like, no way.

[Ken]

Yeah, it just said fake ones. And I didn't realize that all the prices, prizes were a million dollars. Like in this one it says you win like $6 million. Yeah, obviously that's fake.

[Dalton]

Yeah. So yeah, it was just a little unbelievable. But if it would have been like couple hundred bucks, I would have freaked out. I would have been like, dude, I got a winner.

[Mike]

I got pranked on that once when I was very young. It was my mom's birthday and someone had gotten her a big stack of scratch off tickets and they mixed in a fake one. And I'm ripping through all these other scratches. And my mom, being smart, looked at it, identified it as a fake. She knew because when you flip it over on the back, it's like to collect your prize, follow the rainbow to your nearest leprechaun, like, whatever. So, yeah, when I scratched it and that was like 10 grand, it seemed pretty, pretty legit. And I was screaming and hollering and excited and my mom was laughing, but I thought she was laughing with joy. And turns out I was an idiot.

[Ken]

You were just getting made fun of.

[Ben]

And little did she know you were gonna be Hooked.

[Ken]

My plan was to give it to Gav because I remember that Gav kind of loved scratch offs and I knew that I could get him with just some good. He would have just.

[Mike]

And from out of state, it wouldn't.

[Ken]

He wouldn't recognize the tickets things look like. And I also figured it was a good way to, you know, scratch our gambling itch.

[Ben]

Honestly, Ryan, you probably could have gotten me. Dude, I have no idea what I'm doing.

[Ken]

I know. I was bummed when I opened them up this morning and they said they were for a million. Obviously, Mike's just gonna give me the best reaction. I'm gonna go, I want a million.

[Dalton]

Yeah, well, it just. It was just too high. I'm like, no. It's just no way. There's not a single chance.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

How do I know what.

[Evan]

What the going on here?

[Ben]

Roll check these app.

[Evan]

Make sure we don't have any winners.

[Mike]

This is a winner. Five bucks.

[Ken]

Nice.

[Mike]

Maybe even more, but at least five.

[Evan]

Show me that thing.

[Mike]

Oh, it's a multiplier. That's at least 10, I think.

[Ken]

Coming out on top, baby.

[Mike]

What does it say? The multiplier is on your prize. If you get. Give it back to me. It does say 5x on the 5 bucks. You got 25 bucks.

[Ken]

Hey, that's big for me, dude. I got 100 bucks into this.

[Sydney]

Oh, another 5 bucks.

[Dalton]

A very good Ken.

[Evan]

Yeah, I'm not sure I really like scratch off.

[Sydney]

They like this made a giant mess.

[Dalton]

Kind of messy. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

But now you see what I'm saying? If you would have ripped all these in a vehicle, it'd be toasted.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah. Get all in your little cloth seats and stuff too, probably.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Cloth seats.

[Dalton]

So if you're gonna do it, make sure you do it on the gas station counter when there's a line behind you.

[Ben]

Mike's Inconvenience Store.

[Dalton]

That's funny because obviously this is not going to be real thing because it would be a horrible business thing. But Evan said, micah, you need to open up and run Mike's Inconvenience Store. And then we just started brainstorming like, of what that would look like.

[Mike]

Well, like the prices are just good enough that you are going to deal with the inconvenience.

[Dalton]

Right. You can only pay in cash or change.

[Ben]

You can't pump your own gas.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You have to have like a membership to shop there. But it doesn't auto renew, so you have to like resign up for it.

[Evan]

Every time, every month.

[Mike]

Yeah. Fully fill out all the paperwork.

[Sydney]

You have to pay for. For the membership in quarters only.

[Dalton]

I send out emails with coupons, like, every day, and the expiration date is always the day before I sent it.

[Ken]

You have to use a quarter to get your cart out of the cart lock.

[Evan]

Yeah, that'd be an inconvenience.

[Ben]

Yeah. Do you mind if I actually keep this quarter for the next time I go to Aldi? I went to Aldi. I gave Aldi another shot.

[Mike]

Does anyone still go there?

[Ben]

How to do it? It's still mid.

[Mike]

Everybody loved Aldi the first time they went there. I've still never been, but I've never been. Seems like everyone came around in the long run and just. Yeah, that's not cool anymore.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Is that. Is that the common consensus here?

[Dalton]

I don't know. I just. I've never been. I can't make an opinion on it.

[Ben]

Well, the first time I went to Aldi, I didn't bring a quarter. And to get a shopping cart, you have to have a quarter, which I thought was just insane.

[Evan]

I agree.

[Ben]

In the 21st century, the digital age, who the hell carries quarters anymore?

[Ken]

So then you don't have to pay Top Hat Man 20 bucks an hour to walk around and corral carts.

[Ben]

I get it.

[Mike]

And if I had something with an app, they'd probably have to pay, like, a fee for processing that. Where now you're paying a couple bucks for the cart, but you should get it refunded. Yeah, but there's still a fee in there. I don't know.

[Ben]

I did understand, I guess, why they did what they did, but the first time I went, I didn't have a quarter, so I had to just carry all the groceries that I wanted.

[Evan]

That's what I do every time.

[Ben]

And so I'm just like, dude, this sucks.

[Mike]

Do they have free baskets at least?

[Sydney]

No, they're to, like, pay for shopping bags.

[Dalton]

That's. That is odd that they don't.

[Ben]

I don't. They didn't give me the option. Option.

[Ken]

The shopping bags you have to grab from underneath the counter.

[Ben]

I had this, like, super weird encounter where, like, this lady in front of me might have recognized me, and she just pulled out her phone and she just took a photo of me.

[Ken]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

While I was standing there, and she was like, yeah. Every time, like, we see one of you guys, like, we take a photo, and, like, one time, like, I took it and my flash was on, so you guys, like, noticed me, and I was trying to be discreet. So now, like, I just take photos of you guys and, like, just be obvious. About it. And I go, you know, you could just like ask us. Yeah. And like everyone would be like, yeah, of course. Instead of just taking one. I don't know, it just kind of felt just weird.

[Dalton]

That just happened to me last night where they. Something similar. Yeah. Like some dude, never met him. AD Zorbas rolls in, start chatting with him. He's like, oh yeah, I'm aware of you guys didn't. He didn't show his cards. I was like, oh, yeah, we're in his to like talking about three wheelers and I don't know. And then another buddy of mine comes in, I'm talking to him and it's just like from the corner, just flash, flash, like the, the long flash, you know, where it's like, yeah. And I just keep talking and I just never brought it up.

[Ken]

I'm sure that's what he had hoped you would do.

[Dalton]

Exactly. Like, it had to have been embarrassing for him. So I was just like, I'm just not going to say anything.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

One time when we were at Zorbas, actually, again with Frankie, dude, Frankie, like we said, is so famous, like everywhere we go with that guy, everyone recognize him, no matter the age, right. So when we walked into Zorbas, like that crew that's always in there was like, oh, hey, I watched him on Tick Tock. And then when we were sitting down eating, one of our friends just came over and said, hey, let's get a picture. And just like got down and took a photo with them without like kind of asking like, hey, can we get a picture?

[Evan]

It was just like a quick.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was just like, kind of just like.

[Evan]

He wasn't being mean.

[Ben]

No, he wasn't being mean.

[Evan]

But he pumped.

[Dalton]

But he sit down his food and drink.

[Ben]

Yeah, he's like.

[Evan]

And then he knows us.

[Ben]

And Frankie was like, oh. Like he wasn't even like really looking. And then PJ takes the photo with him and I was just like, I think I even go, bj. You probably could have just asked him and he would have stood up and taken a normal photo with you versus just like kind of like a hit and run photo.

[Ken]

Shoulder, like.

[Ben]

Yeah, like walking by, like. But anyway.

[Evan]

All right, let's see this. Roughnecks with rednecks and paychecks.

[Dalton]

Has everybody seen this?

[Mike]

I'm on the guy in the truck side.

[Dalton]

Same, same.

[Mike]

You've read, you've done the research too.

[Evan]

What happened? Let's watch it and then tell us the research.

[Ken]

Yeah, that's. I would like to do that.

[Mike]

Holy shit.

[Ben]

Oh, My God, I was not expecting that.

[Dalton]

This is.

[Evan]

He almost killed that guy.

[Mike]

Does this have the other angle from the other side?

[Ken]

I'm sure I can find it.

[Ben]

Was that a truck that he ran over or side by side? Oh, there's somebody in there.

[Evan]

Dude. Was he trying to kill somebody?

[Dalton]

He was just trying to leave.

[Ken]

Why did he try to get out of there? What was the deal?

[Mike]

What I read, which, who knows, because anybody can write anything on the Internet, but there was a lot of people saying that all these people surrounded him, were throwing stuff at him, which this video really does make it look like that. That all these side by, like, the stuff that he ran over, like they surrounded him and were just messing with them. Where? I don't know where the beef stemmed from originally, but apparently he wanted to get out of there. The people were keeping him trapped and he had enough and just got out of there.

[Ken]

So why did they start throwing stuff at him?

[Mike]

I mean, it's a redneck event. Everyone's hammered. No one's thinking, think about how bad.

[Ben]

It would have been.

[Evan]

Someone over, dude.

[Ben]

Think about how bad it would have been if he would have done that and then tipped over his truck in the process.

[Ken]

Oh, man.

[Dalton]

Dude, after doing that, he would get the crappy.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'd imagine, especially the owners of the rig.

[Mike]

Does look like a lot of people or talking trash to him.

[Ken]

So he must have, like, hit somebody on accident or unintentionally and then got into this fight. And everybody's just like, all right, all right, all right, I want to get him out of here. And then he just goes, psycho, dude.

[Ben]

Imagine having a big enough truck that you're just rolling around in that you can just run over a jeep with.

[Dalton]

That's I guess the kind of. The funny part about you could put yourself.

[Evan]

So you're on that guy's side.

[Mike]

I mean, a little without truly knowing. Like, I'm not instantly going to be like, yeah, that guy was truly a psycho trying to kill people. Like, if you put yourself in that guy's shoes, you literally have a mob of drunks around you throwing shit at you. And at what point do you go, I literally need to get out of here, dude.

[Evan]

He's lucky he didn't kill somebody when he ran. He had a guy underneath his truck. If he would have killed somebody, he'd be in prison for life.

[Mike]

Yeah. God, I hate side by side. Why?

[Evan]

Why do you hate side by side?

[Mike]

I don't hate, like, just. I. I don't. I'm not a real big fan of the whole mud bog culture. Really that much just, you know, Sounds about right. That's a Cheeto rig, if you ask me.

[Ben]

So that was rednecks with paychecks already happened.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Well, there's more than.

[Ken]

They do a couple a year. They do one that was break and then they do one in the fall.

[Mike]

That was Texas.

[Ken]

Texas, yeah.

[Ben]

Be kind of fun to go to one of those.

[Evan]

Especially if something like that happens. Obviously no one gets hurt, but that.

[Ben]

Have been insane to capture.

[Ken]

I feel like it's kind of the mud version of Glamis, like, right?

[Ben]

Yeah, that's kind of what it looks like.

[Evan]

Chicks are a little less good looking.

[Mike]

Twice a year event. Put all your money into the machine for that one weekend. Go out there, show off, wreck it here.

[Ben]

Glamis is probably, what, two weekends? Oh, it's over Halloween.

[Mike]

It's every holiday out there.

[Ben]

Yeah, I think it's big over like.

[Dalton]

The New Year's takeover.

[Ben]

Halloween, whatever.

[Mike]

It's on Halloween.

[Ben]

Oh, it's razor camper camp. Yeah. Yeah. Glamis is fun. I don't know if I would need to like go back to it every single year. It was crazy to be there and witness it in person. Just like how insane the nightlife is. Like, it looks exactly like this. Like everyone's got side by sides. Everyone's got like their whips on just out and about madness. People like wilding out every which way.

[Dalton]

But I would 100% go back if I could. Like, obviously every year seems a little crazy, but like, it was so fun. But it's just like, yeah. Are you going to go every single Halloween, Travel to across the country? For us. To a desert?

[Ken]

Yeah, for us it's pretty tough. You got to rent an rv, do all the things, have a working razor.

[Dalton]

Get a lot of sand in your butt.

[Ben]

Dude, when we left, it was like 50 mile per hour winds. God, it was awful in the desert. That's brutal. You get sand everywhere.

[Ken]

All right, well, thanks for watching, guys. We will see you next week.

[Ben]

Oh, we're almost at 4 million subscribers.

[Evan]

We're going to hit it by next week.

[Ben]

Yeah, so we'll already have been there.

[Evan]

We just hit 4 million subscribers, technically, because this is going on on Tuesday. We'll have Wolf to 4 million by then.

[Ben]

What should we do for 4 milli?

[Ken]

We're going to Nashville, dude. We'll tell you all about it next week.

[Ben]

That's true. All right, we'll see you next week.

[Evan]

Peace.

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