Someone's SELLING Micah's Phone Number, Playing Beer Pong With NELK, & Hiring A Full Time Mechanic

Summary

Podcast Summary: Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: Someone's SELLING Micah's Phone Number, Playing Beer Pong With NELK, & Hiring A Full Time Mechanic
Date: May 2, 2023
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, and sometimes Evan and Micah

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Overview

In this fun, freewheeling episode, the CboysTV crew covers the chaos and comedy of their behind-the-scenes lives. Major themes include the saga of someone selling Micah’s phone number to schoolkids, past interactions with the NELK Boys and beer pong tournaments, business/life tangents (including early morning routines and the healthiness of cell phones), and their excitement over hiring a full-time mechanic. The conversation naturally drifts between tales of buying and selling (often problematic) vehicles, wild shop ideas, and the everyday anecdotes of keeping a YouTube operation running.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Micah Phone Number Saga

• Micah reveals he’s been getting a ton of calls from Arizona numbers and discovers a school kid is selling his number for $5 a pop.
• “Turns out a kid at school in Arizona be selling that your phone number I think.” – CJ (00:12)
• The crew discuss the ethics, hustle, and humor in random fans tracking down their numbers and other personal stories tied to leaking contact info.
  • “I gotta respect him... reminds me of in high school, like selling tech decks and shit, but he’s like selling my phone number for five bucks, man.” – CJ (34:33)
  • A fan's dad texts Micah to explain the situation with his son and even recommends just blocking the number.

Notable Quotes:

• "This 11-year-old is like, best five bucks ever spent." – Ben (38:06)
• “I'd say at five bucks, like, I would buy it just to have it.” – CJ (38:10)

Content Pranks & YouTube Culture

• Stories about prank calls, specifically a TikToker who posts “How’s my driving?” stickers with his personal number, then trolls callers (e.g., making them listen to “Free Bird” on hold).
  • “He goes on TikTok... he ruins people’s days just because they decide to call in.” – CJ (29:12)
• Memories about trolling locals themselves (like pretending to prank-buy a lawnmower for content), plus the ethics of post-prank explanations.

Reflections on Sleep, Work Habits, and “Success”

• The guys debate the Instagram/TikTok hustle culture narrative that getting up at 5am makes you successful.
  • “Realistically I don’t know if you’re going to be more productive getting up that early because now you’re all tired throughout the day…” – Ben (02:40)
• Admiration (and skepticism) for anyone who embraces ultra-early morning routines. They compare how their own habits mesh (or clash) with personal productivity.

Cell Phones, Health Paranoia, and Technology

• Casual debate about radio waves, AirPods, and the (lack of) established health risks for guys who carry their phones close.
  • “My parents are kind of on that thing about not carrying it in your pocket...every single time I’m like, fuck, they were right.” – Ryan (16:13)
• General joking about “business” Bluetooth earpieces and generational tech fears.

Electric Vehicles & Car Talk

• The group weigh in on the “cool factor” of electric vehicles; consensus is only Tesla and the electric Hummer are truly cool.
  • Rivian and other big brands don’t have the same appeal.
  • Discussion on how some brands like Volvo create EV sub-brands (like "Polestar"), leading to some ribbing about the name.
• Experiences with regen braking, ride quality, and musings on whether cool looks should be prioritized over efficiency.
  • “I think they could just make some of these electric cars look cooler...I think the cyber truck looks cool because it’s so different...” – Ben (21:16)

Buying, Breaking, and Selling

• Deep dive into shop vehicles and the ever-changing car lineup:
  • The long, expensive saga of Ryan trading a modded TRX truck for a Camaro, regretting it, then reacquiring another stock TRX and calculating all the money lost in the process.
    • “Drives the Camaro, hates it. Then he trades the Camaro in on the exact same TRX truck just stock and loses a shit ton of money on the Camaro just to get the same truck that he had.” – Ryan (70:15)
  • The Cboys debate how sunk costs, content, and “clout” affect vehicle sales.
• The fate of the infamous Hummer H2 and plans for content-fueled destruction ("drop some ideas of what we could do with the Hummer down below" - 77:16).

Hiring a Mechanic: Behind-the-Scenes

• Announcing their first full-time mechanic, Brian – a former snowcross mechanic and their go-to guy for recent builds.
  • “Yes, we finally got a full time mechanic, which is fantastic...” – Ben (52:11)
• The crew express excitement over finally having someone who can focus on fabrication and project builds full-time, enabling bigger and crazier creations.
  • Plans for even more ambitious in-house projects are discussed, pending new shop expansion ideas.

Questions, Memories, and Animal Tales

• Nostalgic sidebars about meeting the NELK Boys years ago, doing beer pong tournaments, and how early collaborations planted ideas for bigger YouTube formats.
• Animal stories: the impracticality of adding horses (vs fish tanks or chicken coops) to the shop, with funny recollections of failed duck releases as kids.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “Turns out a kid at school in Arizona be selling that your phone number I think.” – CJ (00:12)
• “My problem is, as soon as I'm in bed, phone on face, scrolling. I'll hit YouTube… next thing I know, it's midnight.” – Ryan (08:13)
• “Appendicitis is gonna blow up in 36 hours. And I'm like, I'm at 32.” – Ken (13:13)
• “No, it's not gonna be a problem. Right. I fall asleep, and I wake up to Greta going, Ben. Ben, Ken's calling me.” – Ryan on the perils of airplane mode (10:26)
• “Drives the Camaro, hates it. Then he trades the Camaro in on the exact same TRX truck just stock and loses a shit ton of money on the Camaro just to get the same truck that he had.” – Ryan (70:15)
• “Drop some ideas as far as, like, what we could do with the Hummer down below. I'd love to bring it to the Grand Canyon. Roll it off... that would be a good way for it to go.” – Ben (77:16)
• “Goldfish dumped in lakes are growing to the size of footballs.” – Ken (60:29)

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Major Segments & Timestamps

• Early Banter, Sleep Routines, and Tech Fears: 00:00 – 20:00
• Electric Vehicles & Car Design: 18:48 – 23:00
• Car Buying/Selling Sagas: 45:00 – 77:00
  • The “Selling Micah’s Number” saga peaks around 34:00 – 38:15
  • The TRX/Camaro resale tale: 67:40 – 71:50
• Hiring A Mechanic/Shop Expansion: 52:00 – 56:45
• Animal Anecdotes: 61:22 – 65:25
• Final Hummer Plans & Viewer Suggestions: 76:11 – end

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Tone & Style

Irreverent, conversational, and self-deprecating, the CboysTV banter veers effortlessly from serious operational decisions to absurd jokes, always maintaining a playful and honest group dynamic. They don’t shy from poking fun at themselves or each other, and the mood is consistently laid-back and relatable.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode is a quintessential slice of CboysTV life: random, rapid-fire tales roll into surprisingly honest reflections on business, personal boundaries, and adapting to internet fame. Whether it’s fielding calls from schoolkids, reminiscing about wild collabs, or plotting ever-bigger projects, the crew grounds the show in friendship and unapologetic humor.

Recommendation:
If you enjoy stories about the weird consequences of online fame, YouTube hustle, relatable life fails, and high-energy shop banter, this episode is packed with laughs, learning, and a bunch of wild ideas for the future.

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Notable Recurring Jokes/Running Gags:

• Early riser shaming and anti-hustle culture quips
• Tech paranoia (cell phone radiation, Bluetooth)
• The endless cycle of car trading/regret among the crew
• “Goldfish as big as footballs” (60:29)
• The idea of dropping the shop Hummer into the Grand Canyon for maximum content (“no oil in it—that’s the beauty!” – Ken, 77:40)

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Ads, intros, and promotional segments have been omitted for clarity and focus on content.

Transcript

[Ben]

My girlfriend's dad be like what are you guys stupid doing it right now? I'd be like well yes, first off we are stupid. But second off, I sent an email at 5:35.

[Ryan]

What are you doing the rest of the morning? Because you got here at 1 today.

[CJ]

Turns out a kid at school in Arizona be selling that your phone number I think.

[Ryan]

Like damn he in that mood.

[Ken]

Hey Ben, can you do me a favor? What? Pick my left hand or my right hand. You're going to decide how the rest of my day is going to go.

[Ryan]

We're wrong, right?

[Ken]

Right hand, let's go as the beer hand. Oh, the other one had a Celsius in.

[Ben]

He's gonna get right to work if he had the Celsius.

[CJ]

Here it is. Happy Friday boys.

[Ben]

Yeah, happy Friday. Cheers Ryan.

[CJ]

Yeah, cheers Benny.

[Ben]

Some of us are trying to be healthy.

[Ken]

Hey you know what? I actually worked out this morning. I did before you guys were even awake probably.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Cause laundry wakes my bitch ass up at like 6am I was at the gym at like 6:45 this morning here Ryan's wondering.

[Ben]

I thought about going at that time I woke up and I couldn't fall back asleep. It was like five and then I just went and took a dump and.

[Ken]

Went back to bed.

[Ben]

Yeah, I just need to take a dump. That was it.

[Ryan]

I tip my hat to you guys being able to function that early in the morning and then want to function that early in the morning. Granted you're being woken up but still I would be like at all costs I'm going back to bed.

[Ken]

There is something beautiful about the morning though.

[Ryan]

You sound like my dad now.

[Ken]

Not your dad wakes up at like really early on like 4.

[Ryan]

My dad's up at 4am that's still nighttime. That's psychopath hours right there. I'm like what are you doing at 4am and he's like being there's so much to live. There's so much life before you're even awake. And I'm like dad, there's so much life hours after you're asleep. I'm like yeah, cuz he goes to bed.

[Ben]

Those are true.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he goes to bed at like 7:38. Just never sleep and then yeah, it gets up at 4. But I was like there's just so much more to do after 8pm in my opinion I'd say I get up.

[Ben]

Pretty early consistently on my own doing like I normally get up seven. I mean like on Merch Drop or yesterday because we had to edit. I was up at 6 CJ is.

[CJ]

Full blown, an early riser.

[Ben]

I don't necessarily want to. I just can't sleep anymore. So I get up. But there is something to be said about like, like your dad getting up super, super early and then he has to take a nap like later in the day. Like it really doesn't end up getting you that far ahead because if you have to take a nap and you're doing that during like normal operation operating hours, I don't know if you're really helping yourself. Are you? I mean, you're missing out.

[Ryan]

Then I would say no because I also hate taking naps. I always wake up more tired than I do going to sleep.

[Ben]

Dude, you ever see those things on Instagram? They're always like, you want to change your life, get up early, start working hard, reading all this. Like they want you getting up at 5:00am for, you know, all these crazy things. And it's like, realistically I don't know if you're going to be more productive getting up that early because now you're all tired throughout the day so you don't have enough energy to get your done.

[Ken]

I found this thing on, I think it was a Facebook actually because I'm a big Facebook guy. And it was like how really popular people like Ben Franklin, Kurt Vonnegut, popular. Pablo Picasso or popular, you know what I mean? And honored a ball sack. Apparently he's a real guy. But how they sleep, what their schedule, sleep, creative work, daily job, food and leisure exercise and other. And a lot of them are at like crazy hours, like naps in the middle of the day, you know, weird hours.

[Ben]

It really doesn't matter though. I mean, you think about it when you're sleeping, as long as you're still. As long as you're not oversleeping, if you think about it because like, you know, you can basically, you can sleep during the day and be productive at night.

[CJ]

And I think my biggest thing is, is that like not being tired during the day. Like if there's one, if there's one thing that I absolutely love, you guys know, like I sleep a lot, but I'll just stay up late. There's one thing I love, it's not going through the day yawning. Yeah, we have days where you have to like get up. Oh yeah, we all got to be here at 8 and we're going to not get home till midnight. That's the day we're going to be yawning. But most days like not yawning. I remember, like, you know, again, I'VE always stayed up late. Then I'm getting up for like, just for high school at like 7 in the morning.

[Ken]

And you're exhausted.

[CJ]

Then I'd find myself, like, dozing off, like, on the way home from school or something. And then like, that's scary now. Like, I never, I never doze off.

[Ken]

I think there is a misconception with you that you sleep a lot. You do not sleep a lot. If anything, you probably sleep less. You just sleep at really whack hours.

[CJ]

Yeah, and I never am, like, trying to make that argument, buddy. No, but true.

[Ken]

But that's like the narrative narrative that people probably think when they see you sleeping in a video at like 2 o' clock in the afternoon, they're like, man, Mike's just a snoozer. But you were up till 8am that morning.

[Ben]

But don't you think you'd be better off just going to bed and then not being tired and you'd be more productive, kind of like what I was saying?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think.

[CJ]

I think I would be a little more productive if I can get off this.

[Ben]

You'd have more energy and then you'd find better.

[CJ]

I don't know if I'd have necessarily more energy. Like, it's interesting. Like, if I. As long as once I'm up, like, once I'm up, dude, the energy is almost the same. It's rare that I, like, I could get 10 hours or I could get four hours. And it's pretty rare that I'm like, dude, I hope we're done with this soon so I can, like. I mean, really, once I'm up, it's so weird. Like, yeah. Whether I'm running on no hours or 10 hours, it's like, almost the same.

[Ryan]

I think the only issue is when you are sleeping and we're waiting on you.

[CJ]

Mm.

[Ryan]

So most the time, if you're like, staying up late and you're. You're doing your work, it's kind of just like on your own time. But then when we're trying to film and we're just, where's Mike? Always sleeping. And it's pretty nice because now you just stay.

[Ben]

Sleep here.

[Ryan]

So we're like, oh, someone go and wake them up. When I was growing up, like, pretty much everyone in my family has been like an early riser. And I mean, they still are, especially my dad. But, like, kind of just seeing that I was never about that early life and I. Maybe it's like the seeing the Instagram pictures of like, oh, you want to be successful? You need to wake up early, take cold showers, Take cold showers, do all this. And if you're not, you're, you're lazy, you'll never amount to anything. And I guess in a way I was like, well, I'm not an early riser. Does that mean maybe I don't have it in me to, like, have the grind? And then, and then I started dating Greta and her dad is super successful. And I remember he would say, oh, yeah, no, you don't have to wake up early to be successful. And I was like, damn, that feels so good to hear.

[Ben]

Yeah. To be clear, I respect people that can get up early. As long as you're not.

[CJ]

I do.

[Ben]

Just dogging it.

[CJ]

To be very clear. I do.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That's awesome.

[CJ]

But I always do, I always do get a chuckle because, like, sometimes you're up when, when I see CJ up super early, it's, it's like a half and half weather.

[Ryan]

What are you doing though? Because you're never here early.

[CJ]

Like, what are you doing all morning?

[Ryan]

So what's the point of getting up early?

[Ben]

I was emailing people is because half.

[CJ]

The time he doesn't choose.

[Ben]

I sent an email at 5:30.5.

[CJ]

Yeah, I couldn't stop waking up.

[Ryan]

What are you doing the rest of the morning? Because you got here at 1 today.

[Ben]

Yeah. So, like, I.

[Ryan]

So what's the point of waking up early?

[Ben]

No, so like, I didn't necessarily wake up early today. I was, I managed to fall back asleep. That was the point. But I'll go to jam.

[Ryan]

I get up early. What he doesn't tell us is he goes back to sleep.

[Ben]

No, I said today. But like, typically, no, I can't sleep. Yeah. So I'll just get up, but I'll either go to the gym or I'll just go get coffee and I'll just like, you know, get, get ready. Which I can agree, because then you're like, you feel like you got a little bit of a step up on people. You can prepare for what you got, what you're gonna do that day.

[Ken]

I do like that. But I am awful. Like now. Eight, nine o' clock tonight, I'm gonna be ready for bed. Which sucks because it's Friday night and I'm.

[CJ]

It's eight.

[Ben]

That's why I tried going back to bed. I was like, I don't want to be all tired and miss out on some stuff tonight.

[Ken]

And yeah, it's kind of tough because around here it's like, yeah, the Friday night might be like going to the Roadhouse and hanging out with you guys. Not that I don't love hanging out with you guys, but it's like, well, geez, I could wake up. I could wake up not hungover or not tired the next day and be more productive, but just, you know, I feel like you don't regret the things you say yes to living like Grandparon.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there we go.

[Ben]

That's right. He's never tired. How the hell.

[Ryan]

Yeah, my problem is, is I. I go to bed and as soon as I'm in bed, phone on face, scrolling. I'll hit YouTube, watch a bunch of YouTube videos, scroll Instagram, do whatever, right? And then next thing I know, it's like midnight. And I try and always go to bed by midnight, but then usually my phone keeps dinging or there's things going, right? So the other day I go, you know what? I'm going to be like C.J. here and put my phone on airplane mode. Still do that, Right.

[CJ]

But why airplane?

[Ben]

Because then it's like nothing gets through. It's not connected.

[CJ]

Disturb is that way.

[Ben]

This is going to sound ridiculous, but supposedly when it's on airplane mode, there's no. I don't.

[Ryan]

Transmitting radio waves.

[Ben]

Yeah. Basically, I don't fully understand it, but being that I have it sitting next to my nightstand, which some people would even say is not good for you, I just put on that. So there's no cellular whatever.

[CJ]

I feel. On a side note on that, I always get a little bit like I don't do anything about it, but I get a little statious about when I put my phone between my legs. Usually, like when I'm driving. But just in general, you put it like basically in. Under your nuts and it's like it probably. If they emit whatever they say they emit, probably not good.

[Ken]

Straight to your nuts.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's like. It's like a South park episode where they put their nuts in a microwave.

[Ben]

To get bigger nuts in a wheelbarrow.

[Ryan]

But anyway, so I go youo know what? I'm gonna put my phone on airplane mode. Oh, yeah. So I get nothing. Dinging. It's not keeping me up and it's not emitting radio waves. Look that up. So it. We're not idiots. Our Jamie isn't here.

[Ben]

I. I think it's something along those lines.

[Ryan]

So I do that, right? And Greta sees me do it and goes, you know, nothing gets through on airplane mode. Right? And I go, yeah, that's the point, Greta. He goes, well, what if somebody needs to get a hold of you I go, nobody is trying to get a hold of me at 12am Greta. I think it's gonna be all right.

[CJ]

And does she use Do Not Disturb? Because calls don't go through then either.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, but if you call three times, it does, I think.

[CJ]

Okay, Yeah, I didn't know that.

[Ben]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[CJ]

Makes sense. Like a little emergency action.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So I go, no, no, it's not gonna be a problem. Right. I fall asleep, and I wake up to Greta going, ben. Ben, Ken's calling me. I go, what?

[Ken]

What the hell could be going on?

[CJ]

Let me take a wild guess. It wasn't that important.

[Ryan]

And. And I answer. Or Greta answers and goes, ken. And Ken goes, is Ben there?

[CJ]

This is at night?

[Ben]

Yes. What time?

[Ryan]

Like, 1 1am What?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So I, like, wake up in a panic. I'm like, oh, my God, what's going on, Ken?

[Ben]

Should we raise the prices?

[Ryan]

You need to call Ryan right now.

[Ken]

Me?

[Ryan]

And hangs up.

[CJ]

Right.

[Ryan]

What the hell? So I turned my phone off of airplane mode. Sure enough, Ryan is panicking in the group chat going, ben, do I have health insurance? I think I'm having an appendicitis attack and I need to go into the er. But I'm not going unless my health insurance has gone through.

[CJ]

Yeah, right.

[Ben]

You were gonna die.

[Ken]

Well, I was hoping I wasn't gonna die was kind of the thing.

[Ben]

But you were willing to risk it to save a couple bucks.

[Ken]

Well, it wasn't a couple bucks. It was, like, 20 grand.

[Ben]

That's how much it was.

[CJ]

Holy. Yeah.

[Ken]

That's an MRI.

[CJ]

MRIs alone are, like six grand.

[Ken]

Okay, yeah, it was like that.

[CJ]

But you would have something else potentially.

[Ken]

Racked up, like, a pretty big bill.

[Ryan]

But, yeah. Okay, so makes sense, I guess. So I. I am answering you, and I'm like, no.

[Ben]

Right? You did.

[Ken]

I felt bad, but I was kind of upset in the moment.

[Ryan]

Oh, no, I don't blame you. I don't blame you one bit. And anyway, I deal with all that. We'll get into that, actually, because I have. I have a couple questions on that. But, yeah, I end up, like, turning it back on. Off airplane mode. I go, well, can't be. I roll over. I go, damn, you were right, actually. She goes, I knew it. I knew it. I don't think in the last year, I can't think of any time being woken up by a phone call and panic. Like, I was, like, one time. Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So what ended up happening with that?

[Ken]

Well, we had just come off the RV trip where my Diet was a little bit unusual. And then I went to Florida and I ate a lot of seafood, ate.

[CJ]

69 pounds of crab.

[Ken]

And I don't know, I had like a really bad stomach ache. And it was like up here. And then eventually it moved down to like my side and was just like right in my side. Sharp pain. I couldn't even stand up. And I'm like waddling around like this cuz I. Cuz I can't even stand up. Like it was bad.

[CJ]

Concerning for sure.

[Ben]

So much crab. He was constipated.

[Ken]

One whole day. I couldn't even stand. The whole day I couldn't stand.

[Ryan]

Wait, you didn't.

[Ben]

We were locked up.

[Ken]

No. Yeah, no, but we went where I got stuff at cvs. Hopefully take care of it.

[Ben]

All that.

[Ken]

Nothing. Go through that whole night, hardly sleep because I feel like go through the second day. Can't stand up. And then it was that night. And then you start looking up, like, what is lower right abdomen pain. And it's like, appendicitis is gonna blow up in 36 hours. And I'm like, I'm at 32.

[Ryan]

You're pretty much dead already.

[Ben]

Yeah, It's a pretty common thing too. Appendicitis. Well, it's more common.

[Ryan]

Right.

[CJ]

Right before that, our buddy. No, but right before that, our buddy Brandt had appendicitis.

[Ken]

He had one, two days.

[Ben]

He was.

[Ryan]

Nobody was in the hospital the same day that Ryan was.

[CJ]

I think I got to go on.

[Ryan]

I'm like, what the fuck is going on right now?

[Ken]

I texted him. I was like, should I? And he's like, I don't know. But yeah.

[Ryan]

How did you make that decision to not. You were like, fudge it. I'm going to save the money and possibly die when he's dead.

[CJ]

It's one of those things. I feel like there's. There's so many scenarios in life where you almost go in and then don't, and then it ends up being.

[Ken]

It was kind of one of those. I took a gamble.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Because I'm a gambling man. And I just was like, all right. Because the laundry was like, you're fine. You're just. You just have like cramps or your. Your stomach hurts. And I was like, I don't know. It hurts pretty bad. And it. It does turn out I was just being a pussy in my stomach.

[Ryan]

What'd you do? Did you just rip a dump?

[Ken]

No, I tried. I couldn't. I still like, even that next day, I just put a heating pad on it.

[Ryan]

And it was good.

[Ken]

Yeah. That's actually.

[Ben]

What do you think it was?

[Ken]

I think it was just. I think I have a thing with butter. Like I. Butter makes my stomach hurt. I think I had too much butter.

[Ryan]

Oh, with the crab.

[Ken]

With the crab.

[Ryan]

That would make sense.

[CJ]

A lot of butter.

[Ben]

It is interesting. Like the older you get, the more types of food like don't settle with.

[Ryan]

You just upset you.

[Ben]

Yeah. Have you guys noticed that.

[Ken]

Yeah, you can't eat ice.

[CJ]

I just believe it. Oh, that's sad.

[Ben]

Eat salmon.

[CJ]

Really? So sad. My favorite.

[Ben]

Healthy for you. And I love the taste of it. But I jammed up or what?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

No, I can't eat a brick of salmon. Isn't too good on your stomach.

[Ben]

Salmon's supposed to be healthy for you.

[CJ]

I love it.

[Ben]

And then like there's. There's many things and a couple places around here. I can't eat a single thing from their whole restaurant and buy the butter. I don't know what it is.

[Ryan]

Probably the jams me up the frying in Greece that they haven't. Yeah. I would switched out in the last 14 years.

[Ken]

Wait, you guys remember when they were going run cars on frying pan grease? You remember that phase? Not to just totally hard cut away from but you remember that. And then the cars would smell like french fries.

[CJ]

And then I was like.

[Ben]

Is that actually. That sucked.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I don't know. I remember there was a couple cars in Fargo and they were all wrapped.

[Ryan]

Gas stations go out of business and restaurants just start booming.

[Ben]

You need a lot of.

[CJ]

Yeah, I don't think they'd be able to keep up.

[Ben]

No way.

[CJ]

Oh, that'd be yucky.

[Ken]

Also to go back on the cell phone thing. Cell phones emit radio frequency radiation, but the CDC says should people stop using cell phones and they say at this time we do not have the science to link health problems to cell phone use.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No one's 30 years down the road and everyone's got testicular cancer.

[Ken]

They literally say, girls, you know, more research is needed. More time and research is needed.

[Ben]

There's no way you're going to be able to step away from cell phones.

[Ryan]

That seems to be like the least of the worries, I guess with the way that the world is going in technology. But people even say that about Tesla is because Teslas are batteries and it's kind of like emitting the same. Same kind of thing. My. My parents are kind of on that thing about not carrying it in your pocket or whatever. And I've had quite a few issues with my nuts as we've talked about on this podcast over the last couple years. And every single time I'm like, fuck, they were right. They were right.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And they.

[Ryan]

And every time it happens, too. They're like, have you been carrying it in your. In your pocket?

[Ben]

Where else you're going to carry it?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Get a little purse for it.

[Ken]

You could get one of those.

[CJ]

Then gets a Supreme Satchel.

[Ken]

No, like one of those, like, clips.

[CJ]

Oh, man.

[Ken]

Clip it in on your belt.

[Ryan]

I think they say the same issues with, like, Bluetooth. Yeah, Earpieces too.

[Ben]

I'm sure.

[Ryan]

Same with, like, AirPods.

[Ben]

And I used to have a Bluetooth thing for my Xbox for Xbox Live to talk to my friends. And I was so paranoid about it. Every time I had it on, I, like, almost was. It, like, bugged me. So I never ended up using it.

[CJ]

I never, like, I mean, thought about the Bluetooth thing because I had the same thing for my PlayStation. Never have once had that thought.

[Ben]

Bluetooth really went away.

[CJ]

AirPods. Well, Bluetooth didn't go away.

[Ben]

No one uses anymore. Everyone used to use Bluetooth in the early 2000s. 2000s.

[CJ]

I think that is a false statement.

[Ben]

When do you see someone with a Bluetooth?

[Ken]

No, they're using AirPods.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly.

[CJ]

You're talking about. You're calling the thing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

When somebody's got a Bluetooth earpiece and they mean business.

[Ben]

Do you remember the. The Bluetooth prank with Ed Bassmaster? He'd be like, say some. And then they'd be like, huh? What? They start talking to him. Oh, what? I'm on my Bluetooth.

[CJ]

I love that. That's a classic.

[Ben]

Yeah, Everyone used to like, you were a real business guy, yet your Bluetooth, you'd be walking around.

[CJ]

That was. That was like. That was the AirPods before AirPods. Oh, sorry. I got AirPods in.

[Ben]

That is something to think about with AirPods, though, because just think, you got these two things right next to you.

[CJ]

I never thought that either. To me, it's just like, they're just.

[Ben]

Headphones that it's best if you don't think about it. Because honestly, I mean, yeah, you could avoid it, but you'd have to, like, there's really.

[Ryan]

There's something else working against you at all times that'll probably take you out first.

[Ken]

Yeah, no kidding. They're going to start saying, like, eating all the fast food that I eat is bad for me. Or like, all the.

[Ryan]

What if they said Mountain Mountain Dew?

[Ken]

Yeah, Mountain Dew is bad for me.

[Ben]

Who knows? In 30 years that might come out and they might say, Mountain Dew is bad for you.

[Ryan]

Or beer, maybe.

[Ben]

I don't know, though. I doubt it.

[Ryan]

That would be ridiculous.

[Ken]

I don't think so. I think it's best to have a couple a day.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

With a cigarette. I do kind of have a thing. Back to the electric cars. If you guys are going to buy an electric car, what brand would you buy?

[Ben]

Ken's Tesla.

[Ryan]

Tesla, for sure.

[CJ]

I'd say Tesla.

[Ken]

Tesla. So when you think about electric cars, I never think of the cool ones as one that's made by a big brand. Like the Ford EVs not cool. The Chevy EV is not cool.

[Ben]

Rivian Hummer's cool.

[Ken]

The Hummer's cool.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ken]

GMC actually, I think, is probably the only cool, like, big brand electric vehicle.

[CJ]

Like the Rivians don't have a cool factor. They have a lot going for them, but they don't have a cool.

[Ken]

So you don't like Rivians?

[CJ]

I think I don't. I wouldn't say I don't like them, but I just don't think they're cool.

[Ken]

So my question is, is. It seems to me that it's not really catching on when you make a Chevy Cruze ev. So why don't those big companies just do like they always do and, like, start another company?

[Ryan]

That.

[Ken]

And it's not like a Ford ev.

[CJ]

Oh, that's like. What.

[Ken]

Why don't they.

[CJ]

Volvo did that.

[Ken]

Oh, did they?

[CJ]

Yeah, they have Polestar, which is not big, but it's also. They're freaking cool.

[Ben]

That's what.

[Ryan]

I'm sorry, what's their name?

[CJ]

Polestar.

[Ryan]

That's the worst car name brand I've ever heard in my entire life.

[Ben]

I would rather buy an EV Volkswagen than Polestar.

[Ryan]

Are you saying Pole Star, I think.

[CJ]

Got P O L E S T A, I. Polestar.

[Ken]

Polestar, as in Pole Star. Like someone who's a star?

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Volvo's ev. Polestar.

[Ben]

Wow.

[CJ]

I never thought of it as a funny name until you, like, it's going.

[Ryan]

To be the worst car name I've ever heard in my entire life.

[CJ]

I've been really enjoying seeing the Hummer evolution content lately because they're, like, finally getting to people.

[Ryan]

Well, I heard that they just had, like, a massive recall.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Ryan]

And they had to, like, stop production.

[CJ]

Maybe there's just a few people, but, like, they. I saw one guy doing a poll and he's like, I'm not joking. I did three poles and it. It ate almost half my battery because he went like, full, like Sport Mode and what?

[Ryan]

8,000?

[CJ]

That's what I'm saying. You can see the whole truck squatting. And, like, you can just tell it is. It's huge and it's heavy and it's moving. But, like, can you imagine eating, like, your entire battery on, like, roller session.

[Ken]

Just doing, like, three poles?

[CJ]

Poles.

[Ben]

I think they could just make some of these electric cars. Electric vehicles look cooler. Like, I think that the cyber truck looks cool because it's so different, and I think the Hummer looks really cool. But as far as the other ones, I think they're nice, and I see the, you know, reason why people like them, but I don't think they necessarily look that cool, especially for how much they cost. So you might as well make it look cool.

[Ken]

Like, exactly the.

[Ben]

The Tesla Model S. I, I think it's more so has to do probably with aerodynamics, but probably.

[Ken]

Yeah. Because they don't need grills or whatever.

[Ben]

In the front, and they're trying to just make them as efficient as possible. But. Yeah. I don't know.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Not really on the EV thing. I don't like the region. I get car sick.

[CJ]

Oh, I don't. I think that's a incredible thing.

[Ken]

It's cool.

[CJ]

I can.

[Ben]

Yeah. It makes sense why they have it. I just. So every time you let off the gas, it just goes.

[Ken]

It's like you're on the brakes.

[Ben]

Yeah. So you can't coast. So it makes them just like a kind of a jerky ride.

[Ken]

It is pretty wild. You basically drive like, Ken's car with one pedal. They took away the clutch, and everyone was like, oh. And then now they just took away brakes, too. Yeah.

[CJ]

It's so weird. You almost don't need brakes. That's one thing that I'll tell people that haven't driven a Tesla is like, you don't need brakes.

[Ken]

I don't think Ken said he's ever touched his.

[CJ]

Which makes sense why they put shitty brakes on Teslas. Do they? That's what I mean.

[Ken]

I know. We reviewed the chilling with Chad guy that launched it into a wall.

[CJ]

Dude ride. Yeah. Riding in a Tesla with the Regen is like riding with CJ in the Sequoia.

[Ryan]

Or the Sprinter fan dude.

[Ben]

Yeah. So apparently I didn't do a good job driving the Sprinter van for your birthday, Ben. This is what I'm hearing. You know, I, I. You guys can tell me. I won't be offended.

[Ryan]

I will never complain about anyone driving us because I don't want to lose a driver.

[Ken]

Driver 100.

[Ryan]

So I have nothing to say.

[Ben]

See, I was hoping that you guys would complain so I'll never have to drive it again.

[Ryan]

Nope, nope.

[CJ]

If you were hoping someone would complain, you'd think you'd maybe drive a little.

[Ben]

I. I was more so saying I didn't know I was driving that bad until yesterday night when I was being informed about it.

[Ken]

And I go informed.

[Ben]

Well, maybe I won't have to drive ever again because they'll be like, anyone but him.

[Ken]

No, you weren't that bad.

[Ryan]

Well, it's just tough when you're being compared to Ken. Ken caresses that steering wheel.

[Ben]

He's meant to be behind. Dude, he is meant to drive with a little hat on.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I mean, it's. No one could compare.

[Ben]

Also, the speedometer's off, so I didn't know that. Or I did know that, but I forgot about it. So I was cruising at 60, which was like 75. Like we were ripping. I thought it felt like we were going fast, but I was just trying to drive it.

[CJ]

I don't understand how the speedometer gets that far off.

[Ben]

The tires are. Are bigger.

[CJ]

I know, but I'm saying, like, Ken was like, realistically, it's 12 miles an hour off at 60.

[Ken]

That is a lot.

[Ryan]

A lot.

[CJ]

Normally it's like four, five, six, maybe.

[Ken]

But 12 beats me off, dude.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I mean, even the SEMA truck's only like eight miles.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, those tires are huge.

[Ben]

Yeah. Real big difference.

[Ryan]

You guys follow, like what's going on with the football draft at all or anything?

[CJ]

Negative.

[Ben]

I saw there's some guy, he's like a real stud. He's got a bunch of chicks around him.

[Ryan]

Oh yeah.

[Ken]

We're supposed to go first round and didn't. Oh yeah, he was supposed to go like early first round and just straight up did knock it.

[Ben]

Looking like a young Hugh Hefner over there. Except one of those. It must have been his mom, but I. I'm assuming they're mostly his sisters, but just looks weird.

[CJ]

Was he kissing any of them?

[Ben]

All of them on the list, kind of. Was he? No, I'm just kidding. He wasn't.

[Ken]

But yeah. Three hot sisters, plus his girlfriend. But then there was a whole scandal.

[Ryan]

Oh no. He had his hot sisters do that.

[Ken]

They sit on the couch and it's like, him, girlfriend, three good looking sisters.

[Ryan]

Wow.

[Ken]

So barstool, of course, did a whole write up and all that, but the dad, when he. They like, were hugging or something like that. Maybe there's a different guy because that guy Got drafted, kissed him on the lips.

[Ryan]

No.

[Ken]

Oh, the dad goes a hug the girlfriend hugs the girlfriend and then gives her two pats on the butt.

[CJ]

Television. I heard something about this. That was like two years.

[Ken]

Oh, that was two years.

[CJ]

I don't know, but I remember seeing like a clip of a dad being at the. I think they were at a game. But yeah, the dad was like, yeah, yeah, right. But I've just heard that happening before.

[Ben]

That's tough.

[Ken]

You got to have like a father, son conversation. Or son father conversation. Like, listen, dad, next time I'm on espn, you can't be slapping again after that uproar.

[CJ]

That's. It's almost one of those things that you're just like, seriously, just at least don't do it on live.

[Ryan]

Look, dad, if you're going to slap my girlfriend's ass, just don't do it on live tv.

[Ben]

I'm not sure what sport it was, but the guy scores a touchdown and then it like goes up to the people in the box and is like, everyone's hugging, high fiving and like the dad like kind of like moved his hand over and like grazed the girl's ass.

[Ryan]

It was like completely out of the way.

[Ben]

And it was all caught on camera. I was like, God damn, that's awesome. Yeah, I thought that's what I remember.

[Ryan]

Talking about Ryan, but ready.

[Ben]

Like, he threw that in there, dude. That was just event for sure.

[CJ]

I.

[Ben]

She had a dumper too.

[CJ]

It was half an accident, but it was too firm.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So unnecessary. Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Maybe he was just thinking he was out on the field because his son just got drafted. And when you're playing football, you slap each other on the ass, you know? So maybe he like, had some flashbacks to his old days.

[Ryan]

In the right of it goes, that is no accident whatsoever. Not once, but twice.

[Ben]

The one would been weird. I feel like the two is like the good job.

[CJ]

It was just the fact that he, like, he didn't come from weird top. Like, tried to get a little waist. He came from down under.

[Ken]

Yeah, he did kind of go underneath it.

[Ben]

There's no way that wasn't an accident. But yeah, it is weird. That's a very unfortunate event.

[CJ]

So.

[Ben]

Because that's going to overshadow him getting drafted. It's like, come on, dad.

[Ken]

That's what the whole article is about.

[Ben]

No, everyone forgot about.

[Ryan]

Now I'm known as the dude. I'm. I'm the new guy.

[Ben]

Now everyone knows me as the dude with the dad who slaps my girlfriend's ass.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[CJ]

I think.

[Ben]

What about the jets player, the quarterback?

[Ryan]

Zach Wilson?

[Ben]

Zach Wilson. Last year there was a whole scandal because his girl like.

[Ryan]

Well, I mean, he was hooking up with his mom's best friend.

[Ben]

Strange stuff, man. All that just comes to light. It's unfortunate that I think that got him a lot. Biggest moment though. Yeah.

[Ryan]

But I. I think within like his.

[Ben]

Team definitely gave him some respect probably.

[Ryan]

For sure, because I mean, they were probably. I don't know if how well that worked out for him though. But also, did you guys see that? So Aaron Rodgers got traded to the jets and Zach Wilson was the quarterback. And then he got like bumped down. But then in a press conference, Zach Wilson was like, yeah. I mean, even though I'm like second string, if there's a. If there's another QB that's. That's brought into the team I'm in, make their life hell every day because I'm trying to be in that number one position. Memes of like Aaron Rodgers now coming onto the team and Zach, bro, I got. We got pop up. I gotta pull it up.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So they traded Aaron Rodgers.

[Ryan]

Yeah, dude.

[Ben]

He didn't do very good last year.

[CJ]

No, he didn't.

[Ryan]

I just almost surprised.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

LaMar Jackson, the QB for the Baltimore Ravens, renegotiated his contract for $260 million.

[Ken]

How many years?

[Ryan]

Five year extension. But it's. He's the highest paid NFL athlete of all time.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ryan]

That was.

[Ben]

It.

[Ryan]

Had to be up there, 52 mil a year.

[Ben]

Saying it's like when you're making that kind of money.

[Ken]

Like a million dollars.

[Ben]

A week, you really got to have that competitive nature in you because, like, you could just play a couple seasons and call it.

[CJ]

Yeah, you're right.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You could just.

[Ryan]

It was 160 guaranteed.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So.

[Ken]

Oh, shoot.

[Ben]

Yeah, so not.

[Ryan]

Not as much. You know, it said under it like he negotiated the contract himself. Imagine this dude in there like, I want more.

[Ken]

And he got the most like.

[Ryan]

I mean, that's what I'm trying to figure out is like, how is he negotiating better than these people that do it for their jobs.

[Ken]

If he's looking for a serious pay cut, it'd be great to have him negotiating our deals.

[Ryan]

We've got a great. Kick him in the house.

[Ben]

Matilda was an NFL athlete. She'd be the highest paid. Matilda's our brand. Deal like manager, I guess I'd say.

[CJ]

And she kill negotiator.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So there's this guy, he's kind of like the CART narcs guy, but he. He sells Stickers with his phone number on them that says, how's my driving? He goes on TikTok. Then he just posts the best ones. So then he'll call or. Sorry, they'll call him. And he just Fs with them so hard. Like, he ruins people's days just because they decide to call in.

[Ken]

Someone, like, sees, like, the. How my driving sticker on the back of somebody's car.

[Ben]

He sold them.

[CJ]

And yeah, he.

[Ken]

They call him.

[CJ]

It's just his. Literally, like an asshole. I think he's trying to set it up like. Like a business, but it's literally just his personal number. So.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Even if they're just driving too slow. So this one lady calls and wait.

[Ryan]

Is it on his car or he just sells other people?

[Ben]

Yeah, so I get him paid for it, really. And then he's making content off it. What a great cycle.

[CJ]

It's so beautiful. And he. They'll call in and be like, hey, yep, there's this so and so car. And ahead of me. And they're just. They're driving slow, and they're kind of like, this is putting people in danger, this driving. Kind of like an asshole. And then they'd be like, oh, okay, yeah, absolutely. You want to get me the license plate on that? And then he's like, and I'll just put you on quick hold while I run that. And he plays the entire Freebird song by Leonard skinner, which is 9 minutes and 10 seconds long. She sits there through the whole thing, gets back, and he's like, oh, my gosh, that was a long time. Yeah, so sorry about that. You know, she doesn't think anything of it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It says a few more things.

[Ben]

All right.

[CJ]

And then I just got to put you back on hold really quick. Plays the entire Free Bird song again. So she's 20 minutes invested into this phone call just to complain about someone who's not even affiliated with anything. And then he. He goes to, like, play it one more time. And she hangs up. And then another one. He puts. He's like, all right, let me just run the plates. I'm gonna go ahead and connect you with who's gonna be helping you with that. And then she comes through. He goes, hello, yeah, this is so and so. And she's like, yep. And he's just like, yeah, I'm the driver of the car. He's like, yep. So I just connected you with the driver of the car so that you could figure it out yourself.

[Ben]

And they.

[Ken]

And then they did.

[CJ]

She talks to Him. She's like, why would you do that? I don't want to, sir. You were this and that. And then they're like, oh, he's driving too slow. I bet you're like the reckless driver. And they made her cry.

[Ken]

Oh, my gosh.

[CJ]

I thought it was a little much funny then. Yeah, the two of them were like, mocking her and going, oh, I bet I'm driving too fast. And she was crying, but she didn't hang up, which just blows my mind.

[Ben]

What's wrong with her?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And so, yeah, he just like, after I saw that, I'm like, man, they're not afraid to actually ruin someone's day.

[Ken]

Oh, my gosh.

[CJ]

But what if.

[Ken]

Then just be like, hey, this was a prank.

[CJ]

I hope so, dude.

[Ryan]

I doubt so.

[CJ]

Yeah, that one would have been mean to tell them that. It was like, just be like, I.

[Ken]

Just did this so I could make money out.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there's no way that makes people feel any better.

[Ken]

Hey, I'm sorry that you got so upset. Don't worry, this is a prank. I'm going to post it on my Tik tok and everybody else.

[CJ]

You're right, cuz, like, as soon as you apologize for wasting 30 minutes of someone's day for no reason.

[Ben]

Remind that time we bought that lawnmower, Ben, and we were messing with the guy we were on. Mic up. This was years ago. It's on YouTube. I don't know what video, but we're all mic'd up and Mike's in the back of the truck filming because we go to buy this lawnmower from a neighbor down the road, and you can't see Mike because the windows are.

[CJ]

And we were planning the whole time to tell him it was a prank. At the end, we're just with this.

[Ben]

Guy and we end up buying the lawnmower, and he's just so confused. Then Ben just goes, hey, by the way, it's just a prank. And we don't. Mike doesn't come out.

[CJ]

Well, I got.

[Ryan]

We got a cameraman over there. And I point and just point at the bushes. And Mike doesn't hop out. No, he's in the truck in the bushes. I know, but the bushes were, like.

[Ben]

Right behind the truck. So confused, dude. He was confused about the whole thing we bought.

[CJ]

He goes, you guys are the Sea Boys, aren't you? About midway through the conversation, you guys just go, no, no. Heard of them, I think, but no, not, not. No.

[Ben]

I would have to watch that back.

[Ken]

Oh, man.

[Ben]

Some early trolling.

[Ryan]

Yo, so Ken's not behind the cameras right now, but we could do something like that to Ken, like put his phone number on it. So he just starts getting random calls from like pissed off drivers.

[Ken]

His new one too. He's gonna be bad.

[Ben]

I can't do that.

[CJ]

Yeah, I was like, I don't think he would answer them.

[Ken]

We could do it to Evan, dude.

[CJ]

So.

[Ryan]

We don't need to stress him out anymore.

[CJ]

Although that'd be pretty fun because Evan probably would answer them.

[Ben]

No, Evan phone wouldn't ring. Every time I call Evan, his phone doesn't go through. I don't know what's wrong with it, dude.

[CJ]

I really don't think I should even like talk about this. But it's just too funny not to because I really don't want people calling my number just like you guys don't. But I found out that there's some calls coming from Arizona and they're like a whole bunch of them. And I had to end up blocking some numbers. I don't usually do that. And I'm like, man, there's a lot of 480-Arizona numbers coming in. They're all different too. Turns out a kid at school in Arizona be selling that your phone number. Five bucks a pop. I gotta respect them.

[Ken]

No, respect him.

[CJ]

He's selling it. It reminded me of in high school, like selling tech decks and shit. But he's like selling.

[Ken]

So you know your phone number?

[CJ]

My phone number, but for five bucks, man, How'd you find that out more?

[Ben]

How'd you find that?

[CJ]

So I get a text and it's.

[Ryan]

It's Mike. You should ask for a cut. Yeah, I need commission.

[CJ]

I get a text from a dad and. And he was like, hey, sorry, I just realized my son was calling you a whole bunch on my phone. Cuz he. I don't even know if his son had a cell phone. So I'm like, oh, okay. He goes, yeah, I gotta tell you, he bought it from a kid at school for five bucks. That. Just to let you know.

[Ryan]

That's hilarious.

[CJ]

And I was like, he's like, you should just block this number and then he can keep calling it. And then I'll just tell him that he must not. He must answer like, okay, nice.

[Ken]

That's. That was chill.

[CJ]

Apparently his son knows, you know the Jukish brothers, the pro jet skiers. His son is friends with Nolan, the younger one.

[Ben]

And Nolan sold it.

[CJ]

No.

[Ryan]

I mean, maybe he leaked the number.

[CJ]

Maybe. But no, I don't. I don't think Nolan has my number.

[Ryan]

Well, how would he get it?

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

I mean, somebody had to have had it.

[Ben]

10 things, bro.

[CJ]

Someone. Someone just called me the other day for, like, a business inquiry. I don't want to, like, out him because it was. It was somewhat interesting, but he goes, I really just want to be honest and tell you how I got your number. Okay, that's fine. I mean, people get my number. It's not too crazy. So I messaged your mom on Facebook.

[Ken]

And I. I might even bleep that. People doing that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

Okay, so what happened?

[CJ]

So I messaged your mom on Facebook and I told her that I was Jake and that I forgot my phone at the Roadhouse and I needed, like, help. And then she gave it to me, which nothing. You know, my mom would have known. And I was like, damn.

[Ryan]

I think the one of the weirder things that I've heard is somebody found CJ's little brother where he worked and called the boss of CJ's little brother, asking for CJ's number.

[Ken]

Man, I even hate to put this out there because it's going to make people create.

[Ryan]

Be creative.

[Ken]

Please don't call us.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Or please.

[Ben]

Honestly, I'm surprised that you talk to people. Like, I've only had.

[CJ]

No, it's pretty.

[Ben]

My phone got. I don't know how they got it, but I don't give them the time of day.

[CJ]

Dude, my. My phone list is starting to look like Ken's. Like, all red.

[Ken]

Oh, man.

[CJ]

Like, and. And all Arizona.

[Ben]

I feel like you're in. You're too nice, Michael. You'll sit there and talk with them, like, okay.

[CJ]

Well, rarely, I'd say, though.

[Ken]

So what's up?

[CJ]

The longest conversation I've ever had with a random call that I decided to pick up was like, two minutes.

[Ken]

Okay.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. It's never, like, super long.

[Ryan]

What are you talking about? Well, like, what do they say when they call you? I don't know what I would say if I blackout.

[Ken]

If I called someone.

[Ben]

I feel so.

[CJ]

Ryan is accurate on that because that's what happens. I have gotten more responses like this. I go, hello? Or, what's up? This is Micah. And it's just a. Like, it's. It's just like that. The face. The very first call I got from an Arizona number, we were in Glamis. I answer it. Kevin and Evan are behind me, and I go, what up? And then they go, like, just hang up. And then hung up. And then I was like, that was their only chance.

[Ben]

I'm surprised that people have like, the nuts for that, because so, like, I. Look at me. In my case, I'll have like some other YouTubers that were just maybe acquaintances with whatever.

[CJ]

But are you talking.

[Ben]

I don't ever want to reach out to them unless it's something super important. Because I'm like, I don't want to waste their time.

[CJ]

Get it? If you were just like, not a.

[Ryan]

YouTuber, that's because you're a full grown adult.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You aren't 11.

[Ben]

Probably makes different.

[Ryan]

This 11 year old is like, best five bucks ever spent.

[Ben]

That's pretty cool.

[CJ]

I'd say at five bucks, like, I would buy it just to have it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

To say I have it.

[Ryan]

Well, I guess we did that with Jesse from Nelk. We were. We got his phone number. Remember back when we were trying to get a hold of him six years ago?

[Ben]

Kyle's number? Yeah. And then we bought it. No, he gave it to me.

[Ryan]

No, no, no. When. When Nelk was in Fargo. We were in college. This was what, six years ago?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And we were trying to get a hold of them because we were like, yo, we should do something. It was like back when they just hit a million subscribers.

[CJ]

They're at 900 and we were at.

[Ken]

Like, what, a hundred?

[Ben]

Maybe like 150.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I think we might have been like, yo, we just hit him up on Instagram and somebody goes, hey, I have Jesse's number. Do you just want it?

[Ben]

I remember that I used to.

[Ryan]

I hired him for like something like electrician or something like that. And this guy just sent us Jesse's number. And then when we. When we met him later that night, we were like, yeah, dude, some random guy sent us your number. Is this your number? And he goes, holy shit. Yeah, that is my number.

[CJ]

That was so cool meeting them, like, way back, way back before anything. And they're telling us they had those, like, the, you know, Nelk boys hoodies. The very first ones. And yeah, we've been back and forth, like, overseas getting these made six months. And I was like, that's so cool. And they're like, yeah, I think we're gonna order like a thousand.

[Ben]

I remember. Holy shit. I remember them telling us, yeah, banks just hit us up. Because back then that was like, yeah, I mean, they're still popping, but they were like really popping phase and faze Banks and they were at like, the top of their game. He's like, yeah, they remember. They had the clout house.

[Ryan]

They're like, pretty much after that. Yeah.

[Ben]

They said, if we want to Come stay at the cloud house. And. And they left like a week later or they already, you know, it was sick.

[CJ]

And the whole.

[Ken]

Then from there, you know the story.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah. And the whole pong tournament thing, that was super fun.

[Ken]

I played beer pong with him.

[CJ]

We played beer pong with them. And then, I mean, one of you guys, like, I, I'll still never be like, we need credit for this. But one of you guys was like, dude, you guys should run like a tournament against a YouTuber.

[Ben]

I don't know if we said that. I think Kyle said that they were thinking about doing it.

[CJ]

Yeah. Either way, I just remember YouTubers.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

We were like, that's maybe what they said. And then we were all like, I wonder if they're gonna put this in.

[Ryan]

They definitely didn't.

[Ken]

Like, literally three weeks later, they were playing with Post Malone.

[CJ]

Right. And then we saw that and go, damn, that makes a lot of sense.

[Ryan]

We were bringing them back to their hotel.

[Ken]

Oh, God.

[Ryan]

They're sitting in the back seat of Ryan.

[CJ]

One of the coolest things that Ryan ever did in the tc.

[Ken]

Oh, I don't know.

[Ryan]

And Ryan goes, watch this. And he e brakes, probably going 60. Yeah. And we slide like, we're going backwards. Like damn near a re entry reversal. And we slide around this corner. And then he like clutches it and comes back and. And I. I'm sitting in the front seat like, holy, dude. And look in the back seat, Jesse and Kyle are both like in a two to a two door car, like, smiling. And I think they hop out around goes, dude, I didn't think I was bringing that one back.

[CJ]

No, I almost crashed my favorite part.

[Ken]

And they said that to it. Yeah. So many people, like try to show off and almost kill us, but like, that was sick. They said something along those lines of like, yeah, you're actually a good driver. And I would. In my mind, I'm like, holy shit. I almost just crashed.

[CJ]

That was my favorite part, is that you. That you still kept your cool even though you almost didn't. And then they were like, oh, he's got to know how to drive.

[Ken]

It's all built their dip all over my car because I, I was the one who drove like a jackass.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I, I get it though, because they were like, yeah, so many people just like try and like show off or do something like that. Because that happens all the time with us.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

If we show up or hop in with someone. And Mike, you trust people a lot more than I do. But dude, I do not want to Ride with somebody because I know that they get that Kodak courage and they feel like they have to like, prove something. And that's when shit goes wrong every single time.

[Ken]

100% I have.

[CJ]

I just. It's like a little bit of a different gut for me. But totally accurate statement and outlook on that. Yeah, you just try to size like everything up. And I think that can be a bad thing too. Like when you size everything up too much, then you end up not doing anything. But I still remember when we had our car show and I got a ride in Buddy's 950 horsepower, all wheel drive BMW. And I've never been in a car that fast. You know, it was like full race car, no.1 list. And I. At one moment when we're going 140 down the road, I'm like, shit, I hope he's got brakes. And then he did have brakes, but let's say he didn't. And then. But yeah, he doesn't know what ro. He wasn't from the area.

[Ken]

Away from. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Bad.

[CJ]

Gotta be careful.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Seriously. I. I mean, when I first got my car and I still will let anyone drive it because what? What?

[Ken]

Ev can't drive it?

[Ryan]

No, Ev could drive it.

[CJ]

He can drive it because he can't.

[Ken]

See over the steering wheel.

[CJ]

Give him a hard time. It's just funny because Ben let Slim drive it and this whole thing and it was so funny.

[Ryan]

Well, that's a great example. That's a great example. So Slim, ev's one of ev's best buddies. Our best buddy and our best buddy, he was driving and went fast. Really?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I was ripping. Ripping.

[CJ]

Really surprised Slim, he's used to driving a truck the speed limit.

[Ryan]

And I think after that I was like, man, this probably isn't a good idea to just like let anyone drive it because it is so fast and.

[Ken]

There'S a lot of car.

[Ryan]

It goes a lot of car. And Grant, it's planted, but still, I mean, shit can go south real quick. But like, every single time I'd let somebody drive it, they. And I'm in the car, most time they're ripping it.

[CJ]

That's funny.

[Ryan]

I'm like, damn, you're just not sketchy.

[Ken]

The one difference about just in general a high horsepower car is you get in even like you have a. A V8 Camaro or even worse, like a infinity. And you get in your infinity and you floor it. It's like 0 to 60 in like 6 seconds. But in that time in your car, you're doing like a Hundred. So, like, in the time your brain is used to flooring it, you're just going twice as fast as you're used to.

[CJ]

Yeah. And it's not so crazy that you're gonna, like, let off or, like, can't hold on. So, like. Yeah, you're right. You just.

[Ken]

Yeah, you're used to flooring it for 10 seconds and not be doing 140.

[CJ]

But I gotta say, slim moment, for example, like, when you do that, I'm always like, ben is cool as shit for that.

[Ken]

That is cool.

[Ryan]

Well, I don't care.

[CJ]

I'm just saying, like, I think it's valid for you to get worried. But, yeah, when I saw that, I was like, look, he's just letting slim. And then I'm like, he's letting him rip it. And that's what everyone wants to see you do. I don't think you should do it to please anyone else.

[Ryan]

But I'm not worried about the car at all. I'm worried about myself and them driving when we're going that fast.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I'm like, should we be doing this right now? Mad respect to Steve for just letting, like, anyone hop in a $3 million hypercar and mob it. Like, it's around Chicago Camry.

[CJ]

He's kind of insane for that. Like, actually, he's a certain level of insane for letting people drive $3 million cars and just say, just drive it, like, how you want.

[Ryan]

I think he's just so rich, like, it doesn't matter.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

She's like, still does.

[Ben]

There's consequences. Because if something happened, then it's like, your insurance, which did happen, which is a pain in the ass, you know?

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Speaking of so rich. It doesn't matter. You guys remember Joe Exotic?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah, he's not that. I was like, oh, he's.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I saw a thing on his Instagram the other day that says, here's your chance. Get Joe Exotic for 15 minutes live on your podcast for a donation of $400.

[Ken]

$400 for 15 minutes?

[CJ]

That's all it takes. In my opinion, that's worth it. I'm not saying that we're gonna do that. It's just. I just thought it was so funny. He's, like, doing his own contact joeexotictvmail.com. he's like, screw Cameo. Like, no, I totally agree, but it's just, like, so funny. I just imagine us, like, Facetiming him.

[Ken]

And Joe Exotic in prison.

[CJ]

Or is he still in prison? Jail, I don't think.

[Ken]

Yeah, I think he's in jail.

[Ryan]

He's maybe that's why he's got to.

[CJ]

Charge a little, but I'm just saying like four.

[Ryan]

That's why he can only do 15 minutes.

[Ben]

I think 400 bucks for 15 minutes. Pretty good.

[CJ]

That's what I'm, that's, I'm, Yeah. And I'm not saying like he must we do it? That's what, like, if we can do it, I'm, I'd love to.

[Ken]

How much trouble do you think we'd get in if we also paid Carol Baskin to be on at the same time?

[CJ]

All right, well, sometimes put her on.

[Ken]

Him on that tv.

[Ben]

Can we do it right now?

[CJ]

I doubt it.

[Ben]

I suppose you need to.

[CJ]

I'll email. I'll email.

[Ben]

Let's do that.

[CJ]

Yeah, dude, I just, Yeah, I mean it's just seemed like such a, like a low number to like get even. Just that 15 minutes. Can we double it and get a half hour? Not that I really want to talk to him for that long, but, you.

[Ben]

Know, I, I've never watched that show.

[CJ]

Dude, at least the first season.

[Ryan]

No, the first. You're not missing anything.

[Ken]

There's more than one season?

[CJ]

No, there's only one. There's like, no, they did like a wrap up episode and it was like not good. But anyway, the first season, at this point. Yeah, just don't watch it.

[Ryan]

I think it's, there ain't a chance in hell CJ could make it through that show.

[Ben]

Really?

[Ryan]

Why? No, it's not.

[Ben]

You just get too boring or what?

[Ken]

It doesn't provide enough value, you know, like, it just is dumb.

[Ryan]

Most people couldn't watch it. Now the only time that it's only reason it did so well is because it trend came out March of 2020, like during the year of everyone being at home.

[Ken]

I mean, be careful now. Joe's gonna be on the podcast. He's gonna be listening to this, you know, because he'll do his research.

[Ryan]

No, I, I, I don't think there's any, I don't think anyone would disagree with why it did so well 100%. But I did see that Carol Baskin and the reason that Joe Exotic basically hates Carol Baskin or any, I mean, there's plenty of reasons, I think, but the main thing that he stands on is Carol Baskin killed her husband.

[CJ]

Right.

[Ryan]

Fed them to the tigers. I think they found. I think like Carole Baskin's husband like came out and was like, no, I'm alive and well. I live in Puerto Rico or something like that.

[Ken]

Oh, really?

[Ryan]

I think I Think. Don't quote me on that.

[Ken]

He's down there with Tupac.

[Ryan]

Well, I don't know about that, but that's funny.

[CJ]

Like, sometimes I know I'm like, well.

[Ryan]

What ground does he stand on with, like, why she's such a criminal?

[CJ]

Sometimes I just love, like, not looking stuff up and just being like, huh, maybe he is in Puerto Rico. Who knows? That'd be crazy, bro. But I just won't look at it.

[Ryan]

I know, like, half the shit I say now. Now I'm on a podcast. I'm. Maybe I shouldn't say that.

[CJ]

No, I think there's, like, a fun factor to that. Obviously, most of the stuff that we say that we're letting this information.

[Ryan]

I appreciate that. But me being wrong is just a fun fact.

[CJ]

You're right, Ryan. It still is misinformation. But, like, if you just truly claim to just be like, yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure on that at all. I'm not even sure where I heard it, dude.

[Ryan]

That's why, like, every time Ken says anything, I. I just trust him, and I don't do my due diligence to look it up. I'm just like, that is really pretty reliable source. I'm like, dude, Ken knows everything.

[Ken]

But bless Ken's art. But he'll just give you just like a. Yeah, I heard that this local business is getting bought out by the Russians. And I'll go, really? Where'd you hear that? And he goes, oh, I just heard it from somebody in town. Never knows. Has always heard it from someone else and never knows who, when, or why, and has nothing to back it up. But he'll have just that nugget.

[Ben]

Ken doesn't want to throw anyone under the bus.

[Ryan]

Yeah, sure.

[Ken]

He's.

[Ryan]

I don't know about Ken not being a narc, but I think it's just strictly because he doesn't remember.

[Ken]

Maybe. But he's a good kid.

[Ben]

Or he doesn't know who they are.

[Ken]

He's got mad facts up in that.

[Ryan]

Brain so much does so many facts actually insane.

[Ken]

And that's probably something that a lot of people. I wish he was here, but they don't. They don't get to see that side of Ken that when you're in, like, a long car ride with him and you just get going on stuff, he can just feed you random facts for, like, hours.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Ken]

He's a good conversationalist.

[Ryan]

He knows something. He knows a little bit about everything.

[Ken]

And nothing about everyone.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Literally not a single thing about anyone.

[CJ]

That's why like as. As someone who was like I was kind of into psychology. Like I took in high school, took in college. Like you know, didn't do anything with it. But I was into it.

[Ben]

I found it fascinating.

[CJ]

I love. Yeah, I loved asking the questions. I didn't like love actually getting to the bottom of what why. But you know, it's too much work. Ken is that I love being like damn. Like his brain power is truly used for something great but different than the average person. Like his brain power is strong in the facts and the knowledge and like making his life in a very formal. In for very formal. But making his life as easy as possible. Like yeah, I'd say like his. His brain power is going to that.

[Ryan]

And then because the laziest dude I know. But it's not any more energy than he has to.

[CJ]

I don't wanna. I don't want to talk bad on him, but. Yeah, but it's not.

[Ryan]

I'd say that if you said it's not all the time.

[CJ]

But his brain power is not used to remember who the somebody is.

[Ben]

Doesn't give a. About you.

[CJ]

No. Yeah. He just gives a. About like the new Boeing airplane coming out.

[Ryan]

That's a great example.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

They were having trouble finding enough aluminum and steel to build it. So a lot of people got fired actually.

[Ken]

And then you go oh wow, why. Why is there no aluminum? And then it's like, oh well because of the conflict between.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ken]

Egypt. He's like.

[CJ]

So most of it is coming from Saudi and now not neither coming from.

[Ken]

So due to the. The Nile flowing north, they can't. The boats take so much power to go that way.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But anyway, we got Brian coming over in 15 minutes. Who's Brian again? Oh, the guy that has been working for us for the last two years. Not sure if I've met him.

[Ben]

It's. Well, actually he's working full time for us now. Do we.

[Ken]

Yeah, we haven't talked about that.

[Ben]

Yes, we finally got a full time mechanic which is fantastic. And it's actually the guy who basically built Tiny fixed the mud Stu. So we think he fixed the R6. Yeah, the R6 quad that we had built in December. So we might be actually able to finally finish that video rip that thing and it might go live on Thursday. Soon.

[CJ]

Soon.

[Ken]

When I tighten some of those bolts in December, I did not think that they would affect me in like May.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You know, like I don't really remember. Did we tighten everything? Is everything all good? Well, hopefully Evan took off down the road at like 150 today. And I went, hopefully everything's.

[CJ]

Yeah. No, I don't know. Like a realistic Note.

[Ken]

I remember $45 eBay, front end holds together.

[CJ]

I remember when Evan test drove it, he's like, yeah, you know, it gets like once you get into the higher gears. It doesn't seem to love it but you know, hit 95, how fast you try second. I'm like, dear God, what do you mean? Four wheeler, 95, dude in second.

[Ken]

Keep in mind I've crashed that four wheeler a lot.

[Ben]

Yeah, it ain't straight, that's for sure.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Four wheelers never.

[CJ]

Yeah. So the, the exhaust on it like it. Dude, it looks like a work of art. It looks really good. So I gotta say all the people there, we've, we've had a ton of inquiries reaching out to us about like fabrication. We read them all. They're all, most of them were really, really, really good. But we just ended up going with Brian because Brian happened to be done being a snow cross mechanic this year and he, and he's been working on our stuff so we, we asked him. So.

[Ken]

And he also lives on the street.

[Ben]

He's been pretty on top of it coming in here. He's swap, dropping off this, swapping out this. He's like, I think he's enjoying it too.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And I'm sure it's, it's kind of fun not just working on snowmobiles.

[CJ]

It's super funny too because he actually bought like an old, the, the barn shed garage that Ben's dad owned which is in your CJ and Ben's neighborhood. So now when he test drives the stuff, aka like test driving the R6 right next to him quad, everyone in the neighborhood's like, they probably thought we got rid of these guys.

[Ryan]

It's going to be so good though. We, we actually have a board behind the cameras right here of just like 50 different build ideas that are now possible because we have the right guy to do it and, and someone who's.

[Ben]

Going to be dedicating their, all their time to building them.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but it's going to make great videos. It's going to make great videos and it's going to add another layer and, and entertainment to the videos.

[Ben]

So what'd you end up hearing on that? The shop quote for building your shop out on the land.

[Ryan]

Haven't got a quote. We got to decide how big to go.

[Ben]

I'd say just as big as this.

[CJ]

If I think what Mark said. Yeah. That what, 40 by 60?

[Ryan]

No, this is, this is. This is 60 by 150, I think.

[CJ]

Sorry. Yeah, 40 by 60.

[Ben]

The same size as this, if not bigger and then still have like the portions because then if you ever want to sell it, most people aren't going to want buy building this big in this area. You just put walls up with dividers and now it's parceled off, good to go and it out.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm excited if we do. If we do end up building another shop, just I guess getting to do it all again, designing it and figuring out the spaces and what we're going to put in there. We want to do some car lifts and, and build probably like another like, shop area kind of like we have in this one, just with a little bit more space. And I think, I think it's gonna be really sweet.

[CJ]

It obviously is the biggest expense we'll have in the next, like two years, I gotta say. I mean, building a new shop like this.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, for sure. But luckily, yeah, I think we, we procrastinated long enough that prices are starting to go down.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah. I mean, when we were redoing this, it was at like the peak, the prices of wood and everything. People were like, why are you doing that now? Like, my girlfriend's dad be like, what are you guys stupid doing it right now? I'd be like, well, yes, first off, we are stupid. But second off, we do need it done right now.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Yeah. I mean, I. I don't know. I bet you price is corrected 15%.

[Ben]

Oh, so not really. Everything just came. Oh, that's still a lot.

[Ken]

But at the end of the day.

[CJ]

What, they came up like 25 or.

[Ken]

Yeah, they probably came up 30.

[CJ]

Yeah. And a new. We're just trying to figure out, like, we have all of our offices here, obviously, the podcast studio, the hangout area. So you'd think on paper this would just be the hangout. The hangout, slash, like studio slash film, slash whatever.

[Ben]

We don't need to put it in right away, but I feel like we're gonna want to build it out and make it into like, more offices or more. You know, we could even do it bigger and better as far as, like the offices go. So we have a upstairs that you can fully stand up and if you can.

[CJ]

Yeah, I guess one thing that, like, what if we were to do that? I just would always worry that, like, we just need to make sure that we utilize the spaces.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, if anything was built there and then got abandoned here, it would just feel weird. But yeah, I Mean, this could always be turned into something else or, you know, like the offices could always just be more, you know, I.

[Ben]

More if we got workers.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Total editors, designer.

[Ryan]

This is so well set up over here, though. I hate to, like, mess with it or, like, change.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If we did ever sell it, though, I don't know who would ever move in or. Or leave everything the same.

[Ken]

Like, my dad and I were talking.

[Ryan]

About ever utilize this area.

[Ben]

He was like, take it all out.

[Ken]

Yeah, he was talking about that. He's like, yeah, I remember, you know, when I sold you guys a shop and all that, I was, you know, like, oh, it'll be cool to keep it, you know, around. He goes, it was going to be hard to sell because it was a big space. You know, it takes a unique person to buy it. And he goes, I never would have imagined you guys would have done half the stuff you've done with it now. You know, I mean, like putting the big shipping containers in and this whole outfit.

[Ryan]

When we did move in here, though, and it was basically just an empty shell walking, giving people tours and yeah, we're gonna put two shipping containers right here, and then we're gonna build offices on top and we're gonna have a middle area where might do a podcast studio or something in the middle and then offices over there because it was nothing here. And they were like, what?

[Ken]

Where? Yeah, like, why? Why you can do all that? Don't build any walls. Don't do anything like that. And we're like, no, no, trust us, it's going to be.

[CJ]

Or even if they were saying that, yeah, most. I would say, like 90% of people were like, get the shipping containers in the building. Okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah. No one got it really made no sense. And even Randy, who built all of it for us, was like, who trusted. Okay, Randy, how possible is this? And be like, very. But it makes no sense. Let's just stick with the first part of that.

[Ken]

Stick with the possible.

[Ben]

I will say, though, correct me if I'm wrong, a lot of YouTubers have shops, cool shops. But I think ours might look the coolest.

[Ryan]

I would agree.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's tough.

[Ryan]

I mean, at our.

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

And stuff like that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

I think we have a great.

[Ben]

Boy's a cooler one. I can't think of anyone.

[Ken]

I mean, like Ken Block.

[Ben]

I don't know if he's a YouTuber, though.

[Ken]

No, he's not. That's what I mean. He's like a business mogul.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I'm trying to think. I don't.

[Ben]

And Maybe I'm not trying to.

[Ken]

There's people that have more, like, you know, they got more cars.

[Ryan]

For sure.

[Ben]

For sure.

[Ken]

Stuff like that. But I think, you know, we got.

[CJ]

It's.

[Ben]

I think the uniqueness of ours. Like, there's not. No one that has like the, you know, the office space, stuff like that.

[Ken]

I think we've used this space really well. But I've said it before. We're like, goldfish put us in a bigger bowl. Going to keep growing. Yeah. So I'm excited to build a bigger bowl.

[Ben]

Goldfish actually do that?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

You put them in lakes, they take over the lake.

[Ryan]

Are you serious?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

The giant goldfish. For real. Want me to look it up? Yeah.

[Ben]

Goldfish don't live that long.

[CJ]

No.

[Ryan]

So what happens? Send a goldfish down the toilet?

[Ben]

Well, they're dead.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Well, what if. What happens if you don't.

[Ken]

They live 10 to 15 years. Not bad. They're social and intelligent animals.

[CJ]

10 to 15 years. I mean, I get some varieties.

[Ken]

30 with property.

[Ben]

That's crazy.

[Ryan]

Holy. A fish.

[CJ]

Because you know that goldfish, when Walmart used to sell them, are 14 cents. And I went, why are goldfish so cheap? And everyone's like, well, there's a whole bunch of them. But no, but why are they only 14 cents when the other fish are like 5 bucks? They're like, well, because they're made to, like, feed to you. Feed them to.

[Ben]

So what happened to honors?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Goldfish dumped in lakes are growing to the size of footballs.

[Ben]

I'd love to catch one. That'd be sick.

[Ryan]

Why do you never see people catching goldfish?

[Ken]

There's no goldfish kept in warmer water. Temperatures consume more oxygen, eat more food, and are generally more active than. Than goldfish and bubbles. But big. Let me see, £67.

[CJ]

Oh, okay.

[Ben]

That.

[Ryan]

That is not just a normal gold.

[Ben]

I would love to catch that.

[Ryan]

That is not a goldfish that you get at Walmart. No chance.

[CJ]

That look it. But the weird thing is it looks.

[Ryan]

Just like a gold disguise.

[Ben]

The limit for those guys, man. They can just getting bigger.

[Ryan]

No way.

[Ken]

Look at this guy. Kind of cute, huh?

[Ben]

Wow.

[CJ]

Those are huge.

[Ken]

It's a big goldfish, considering. Huge.

[CJ]

Yeah, the biggest one. I'm not joking. The biggest goldfish I've ever seen that. I was aware that it was goldfish. It's got to be like, as long as your finger, you know?

[Ryan]

What do you guys think of getting, like, a nice fish tank? Yeah. What do they call those?

[CJ]

I'm down.

[Ken]

Evan wants a chicken. Cooper.

[Ben]

I think we should get us a staple and some horses.

[Ken]

A staple?

[Ben]

Staple.

[Ryan]

Yeah, let's get a staple and some stable.

[Ben]

Stable. Sorry.

[CJ]

That was easy.

[Ken]

Put it out the back, dude.

[Ben]

Stabling some horses. Ev can start feeding them how?

[Ryan]

Hold on.

[Ben]

No.

[Ken]

Okay.

[Ryan]

How big of horses? Full size or mini horses?

[Ben]

Full size.

[CJ]

No.

[Ben]

Trying to ride these things, dude.

[Ryan]

I take one picture of him wearing a cowboy hat, and he thinks that we should.

[CJ]

No, honestly, that's a horrible idea.

[Ben]

I.

[Ryan]

The fish.

[Ben]

Okay, so I've thought about doing, like, a big aquarium or whatever. Thank you. Yeah, you need to do, like, big ones where you got, like, a bunch of stuff in there. It's so much work to take care of fish, dude. You're constantly gonna have to check, like, the water, and then, like, you gotta feed them, obviously.

[CJ]

Yeah. More content out of the horses then, you know, no argument whatsoever. But this is coming from the guy who said he wanted a couple of horses. It's got to be more work than a fish aquarium.

[Ben]

Yeah, but fish aquarium ain't making any.

[CJ]

That's right.

[Ben]

A fish.

[CJ]

That's what I'm saying.

[Ryan]

Well, if we put those goldfish in, I think you could probably ride one of those.

[Ken]

We could tame it.

[Ryan]

It's real big.

[CJ]

We're like, I think, why is our goldfish not getting big?

[Ryan]

I think if we got an aquarium. That was really nice. Ken would have that thing dialed.

[Ben]

Yeah, but we used to.

[Ryan]

It's like the hot tub.

[Ben]

Ken used to. He doesn't have the hot tub dialed.

[Ken]

Because it got undial. Then it just got too far.

[Ben]

He doesn't have the hot tub dialed here, and he doesn't have the hot tub dial at the house. I had to take over the hot tub duty. I had him just teach me how to do it, and now I'm the.

[Ryan]

He's got too much on his plate. Possibly he did give it up. Yeah, possibly.

[Ben]

But also, I think once Evan started putting his stinky hinder in the water, it was just at the shop here. The hot tub, he knew it was too far gone. I mean, you'd be changing the water, draining it probably every.

[CJ]

For the record, if you ask Ken right now what the status is, he'd go, yeah, once it warms up a little bit more. We're draining this.

[Ben]

Or normally he just goes, I would. Yeah, I wouldn't go in there. That's what. Even if it was brand new.

[CJ]

Didn'T put chemicals in it yet, Wouldn't go in.

[Ryan]

I think we could maybe get a chicken coop.

[CJ]

I like that.

[Ben]

I think they're so messy, dude.

[CJ]

But if they just stay in the coop, I mean, so I'm actually not.

[Ryan]

And then coyotes are gonna get in there.

[CJ]

But, like, having eggs would be so fun, dude.

[Ryan]

Me and CJ had ducks when we were kids.

[Ken]

Really?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah. We got little ducks at, like, the local L M. Fleet. And then this is where we get our chickens.

[Ken]

I bought you the ducks.

[Ryan]

I, like.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Ryan]

I bought, like, you just bought. They were.

[Ben]

They don't cost that much. Yeah.

[Ken]

And then.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they would, like, you.

[Ben]

Follow you around. They'd, like, follow you around because they thought. Yeah. So you'd walk, and they'd all walk in a line behind you. And one time we let them to the pond, and then they were, like, in the pond. And then this storm came, and we were trying to get them out of the pond because they were having too much fun in the pond. They, like. We were only able to get a couple of them, and then we were on this paddle boat trying to grab them. There was a few that. That once the storm hit, they were still in the pond, and they must have went to another pond.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's what we heard.

[Ken]

A big pond in the sky.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Other ones put them in the. No. Anyways, so then.

[Ryan]

So then there was, I think, three left after the big storm. And then it was just like a. Like a summer thing. And then summer came to an end. We're like, damn, what do we do with these ducks now? They're obsessed with us. They just. We would bring them to a pond, and they would know where we'd bring them, so they would just waddle back every single time. Oh, they're, like, trying to let them out in the wild. Like, you guys are ducks. Like, you need to go and hang out with other ducks.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Go duck around.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And they would just always come back. So we had to bring them, like, far away.

[Ben]

Huh.

[Ryan]

And drop them off.

[CJ]

So they couldn't.

[Ryan]

They could still be there.

[Ben]

I don't know if you want to put that part of the story in. Why? I don't know. People might get mad about it.

[Ryan]

I mean, they're ducks.

[CJ]

Yeah. It's not illegal or frowned upon to let ducks go into the wild.

[Ben]

Dumping animals.

[Ken]

Just let them duck around, you know?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Ben had a dog, and then when it wasn't a pup anymore, he brought it out to the wild. Let it be a dog in the wild, I guess.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That's definitely not the same. But when he puts it like that.

[Ryan]

French bulldog.

[CJ]

And you did that.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't Know, if French bulldogs are.

[CJ]

Really wild animals, bro, French bulldogs are the least.

[Ryan]

You know, French bulldogs are the most boughten animal in or the most bought dog in the United States.

[Ben]

I'm actually surprised by that because they're very expensive, but they're kind of basic. Yeah, it is, dude. Golden retrievers are. I think they're probably the best dog, but that's probably the most basic dog very. But they're also debatably the best dog as far as health and happiness and listening. And I'd like to get a. Like, a bulldog. Not a French bulldog, but, like. Like a big, meaty, fat one. But taking care of it, man, just be too much.

[Ken]

It's hard to take care of myself.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

Because, like, right now, who's gonna be taking care of it? So when it's here and it's like, well, is it licking some oil off the ground? I'm like, well, now I'm worried about it. Now it's just in. It's a problem.

[CJ]

Yeah. I feel like to get a. To get it, like, well, what we always desire as, like, a shop dog.

[Ryan]

Oh, clean up that oil spill.

[Ben]

You know, it's licking. Yeah, he's gonna get sick, and then.

[Ryan]

No, I know. You know, not tell the doc to clean up that oil spill.

[CJ]

Oh, I thought that's what you were getting.

[Ben]

Well, if Ryan Thomas parked in the parking lot, what are we gonna do? It's like the Pearl harbor just constantly leaking.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[CJ]

Pearl harbor, it was. That was so funny that you said.

[Ken]

That we could use the BP oil spill.

[Ryan]

That's what. Is that what you were. Is that what you were thinking?

[CJ]

Pearl harbor was the worst oil spill in the history of the nation.

[Ken]

I think it did have pretty negative consequences on the environment in Hawaii.

[Ben]

The local reef still does to this day. Still leaking.

[CJ]

What?

[Ken]

It's true.

[Ryan]

The EPA comes after Ryan for his homer.

[CJ]

They could.

[Ken]

I do get a good kick out of pulling up to O'Reilly's. And the parking lot's always like a rainbow.

[CJ]

Yeah, that is.

[Ken]

But I was one of the guys that dropped oil there.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So, Ryan.

[Ken]

Yeah, buddy.

[Ryan]

What is the status? First of all, congratulations. Quick round of applause for Ryan selling his Camaro. Yep.

[Ken]

Who would have thought?

[Ryan]

Actually, who would have thought?

[Ben]

The way you talked about. I couldn't believe it.

[Ken]

And you want to know what the worst thing is or the best thing is, is he is a listener and viewer of the videos. He knows everything that happened to it. But the worst thing is, is I had set to sell it On Thursday. And then Tuesday we dropped the podcast where I talk about it for 15 minutes.

[Ryan]

Well, he still bought it.

[Ken]

Still bought it.

[Ryan]

You know, so I question what is wrong with that guy?

[Ben]

You, how do I say this nicely? Are, you know, you're part of this crowd of buyers?

[CJ]

Uh huh.

[Ben]

I don't know how we would say it. Like we're just gonna say suckas. Okay. So like, you know, you. Sometimes you end up buying a Jet Ski. It's a piece of shit and you know, you don't like it. And then we talk so negatively about it to millions of people, and yet one of those people always seem to come through and want to buy it and they leave happy as a clam. So it's amazing how you manage to find someone every time after talking so much shit on these vehicles. And they always love it.

[Ken]

It's truly extraordinary.

[CJ]

I think you have a.

[Ryan]

It's like you have someone who doesn't.

[Ben]

Know you with the way you talk.

[CJ]

About these, where there's like a group of suckers for sure. And maybe the buyers are exactly in that.

[Ben]

Ryan's on like level one. What do you're on level two.

[CJ]

After enough time, it's got to get sold. And because keep in mind, neither the Jet Ski or the Camaro were on Facebook for two weeks and got sold.

[Ryan]

Years, you know, like, let's just say.

[CJ]

Three months, you know.

[Ryan]

You know the saying, game respects game?

[CJ]

I do.

[Ryan]

That's like, Ryan, suckers respect suckers gotta help each other. Hey, I gotta get this guy out of this deal. He's all jammed up.

[Ben]

I think my favorite part about this whole thing though, Ryan, is that you just did a full circle and you just ended up with another stock black TRX and you had a sweet modded out one that you sold.

[CJ]

So how weird calling like the trx. It's weird that you ended up with a stock one because stock TRX is like still sick.

[Ryan]

No, I'm just saying he was, he.

[Ben]

Was here and then he went, he, he traded it out and now he's back to level one.

[Ryan]

He bought all the same.

[CJ]

It had a bumper and wheels.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, Exhaust and exhaust.

[CJ]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Ken]

I mean, it's not that crazy.

[Ryan]

Let me paint this picture. Let me paint this picture for the listener. Ryan gets this truck, builds it up, trades the truck in, loses a shitload of money on this Camaro with the.

[Ben]

Trade in just on the Camaro.

[CJ]

Yep, yep.

[Ryan]

Drives the Camaro, hates it. Then he trades the Camaro in on the exact same trx. Truck just stock and loses a shit ton of money on the Camaro just to get the same truck that he had.

[Ben]

Just stock and then buy all the parts over again.

[Ryan]

And now you're spending the money to buy them again.

[Ken]

Yes.

[Ryan]

I'm not trying. I'm not saying it was a bad decision or you made any wrong choices.

[Ben]

I'll say Rex is the best.

[Ryan]

I understand why you would do it.

[Ken]

I made bad decisions. Well, you made wrong choices.

[Ryan]

You just immediately had buyers remorse.

[CJ]

Huh.

[Ryan]

And then you just wanted to hit that reverse button.

[Ken]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Go back in time and unfortunately, it just cost you the. What do you think?

[Ben]

You're out.

[Ken]

Actual pretty wild stat is I bought this TRX cheaper than I bought my last trx.

[CJ]

Wow. Well, I don't think. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, how much did you lose.

[Ben]

On you when you initially traded that TRX in on the Camaro?

[Ken]

Oh, at least 20 grand.

[Ben]

Holy crap. And then how much did you lose on your Camaro?

[Ken]

Four, I guess.

[Ben]

Not bad.

[Ken]

That's. I got better.

[Ben]

So now you're at 24, and then you bought a new one. And then how much did the parts cost?

[Ken]

Probably five.

[Ben]

So now you're sitting 29 grand in.

[Ken]

That's when I got back to where you were. Yes, precisely. It's been a rough year, but now I know what I want.

[Ben]

Yeah, absolutely. Hey, man, honestly, I can't say much either. I've lost some money on some stupid purchases too.

[Ken]

So I made money, or I only lost a little bit of money on my Jeep and I drove it for like a year.

[Ben]

You know what you got to also consider, though, in that I hate to bring it up in the. The 29 racks that you've lost throughout this TRX trading extravaganza is you also bought that hummer. You got 10 grand on top of that.

[Ken]

The Hummer still runs. I still got her.

[Ryan]

Well, it's sitting in the. In the back in the graveyard right now because it's original oil all over the driveway. I appreciate that.

[Ken]

No problem.

[Ryan]

CJ's future dog does, too.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But okay, this is originally actually where my question was going is what are you doing now with it? Because it is just sitting back there.

[Ken]

Well, it's got like six grand worth of wheels on it, so I could just sell that and almost break even.

[Ben]

Sell the wheels.

[Ryan]

Oh, no. There's no way. You're not.

[Ben]

No one's gonna buy those hostel wheels for six grand.

[Ryan]

This is how your brain works.

[CJ]

No.

[Ken]

I don't know.

[Ben]

Gotta find another guy. Yeah. I'm just gonna Might be able to find one.

[CJ]

I just.

[Ryan]

Somebody listening right now. They've already got a dm.

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

That's what I'm getting.

[Ben]

Some wheels with some half tread tires.

[CJ]

He's not gonna sell the Hummer for six grand more. And he's definitely not gonna sell the wheels for six grand. But like, it's got to be worth something just because of those wheels. I think that's it.

[Ken]

That Hummer's got cloud, dude, people.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[Ben]

It's got clout.

[Ryan]

It's also got a hella tick.

[Ken]

My goal, I'm just gonna start sabotaging videos. So we have to fill a bit with my Hummer that ends in its destruction.

[Ryan]

I know you would love nothing more than that. But you also have to realize that you bought that Hummer when the car market was really hot.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And that's just not where it's at anymore. Paid for it pretty hard. Yeah.

[CJ]

Pretty heavy.

[Ryan]

So I'm gonna pay market value for it, ryan. Right around 3K. Three grand with the wheels. Because you put the wheels and tires on it. As a buyer, that doesn't increase the value.

[Ken]

Come on.

[Ben]

I think the gas, you know, it's hot.

[CJ]

The worst part is, is that like I personally don't think that we should give you $10,000 for it, but I think three grand is an insult, which is what you were getting.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I agree with that.

[Ken]

I think you buried in a Snowbank. It took $5,000 off its value.

[Ben]

I don't know how that happened.

[CJ]

How?

[Ben]

The snow bank. You keep going back to snow bank. But what did it really do as far as damage?

[Ken]

Broke my door handle.

[Ryan]

No, it was already broken. No, it did not. You have a door handle in the back seat before we even filmed that video. Explain that.

[Ben]

If we could come up with something really good to do with that Hummer.

[Ken]

It'D be worth it. But we haven't. So that's why it's sitting in the back and it's waiting for its demise.

[Ben]

I will give you credit though, Ryan. It has been a content making machine since the moment you drop. You brought that thing home and vascot in it and put in the ditch to it. Just bringing a lot of joy around the shop. When you come ticking in here, you get break down on the side of the road and whatever. It was always kind of fun.

[CJ]

Yo, Ryan, we're at the end. You want to come eat?

[Ben]

The rainbow rail was sick.

[CJ]

Yeah, I might take over.

[Ryan]

I might take over.

[Ben]

I'll tick on over when you started the other day, though, that sounded like it was gonna blow.

[Ken]

Yeah. She's not happy.

[Ben]

Five feet. You gotta put some more oil in it.

[Ken]

It's still leaking. So there's oil.

[CJ]

Are you giving advice to Ryan? Make his summer stop ticking?

[Ben]

Put a little more oil in it. That might help.

[Ken]

I did, and it doesn't help.

[Ben]

Oh.

[Ken]

But honestly, the good news of. Of getting out of that old TRX is I did for video beat the out of that truck. The paint was, like gone on the back fenders, and it was. It was pretty beat up. It had been through a lot.

[Ryan]

Well, I tell you what, Ryan.

[Ken]

Nope. This one's staying nice.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I can almost guarantee you it will not stay as nice as you would like it to be, because I know that you bought that thing and you didn't even mention, hey, we should film this.

[CJ]

You.

[Ryan]

You haven't even made like any. Any kind of excitement around it because you don't want us to get the idea, oh, we could make a video with this thing. You don't even want us thinking in that way.

[Ken]

So I stole all my thunder.

[Ryan]

Well, Ryan, I've been thinking on my own.

[Ken]

Oh, great.

[Ryan]

And I got some great ideas for it. I think we should do. I think to finish off the Hummer, you should do like a little collab between the two before it gets too late for it.

[Ben]

You could jump your TRX with the Hummer. Like, jump over it in the Hummer. Like just same jump as probably the one Ben took his raptor off. We'll put your TRX at the top.

[Ryan]

Well, the TRX does have to clear that jump.

[Ben]

Why?

[Ken]

Why does it have to?

[Ryan]

I mean, if Ryan.

[CJ]

If Ryan had a big one up, Ben vendetta or a big. I want to be the biggest jumper on the channel, then it would definitely have to out jump.

[Ken]

This is a dangerous scenario because I might get a hankering to one up you.

[CJ]

That's what we hope. That's what we hope, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Ben]

He could sure clear that. He's got way more power. Yeah, I mean, you could have cleared it too. You just got to hit it faster.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Ben]

Ryan just got to give a little pepper at the top.

[Ken]

Not a good jumper, though.

[Ryan]

I think you just got to hit it fast enough. I don't think there's much to it anyway, though. I look forward to seeing what we do with the Hummer and the trx.

[Ben]

Yeah. Drop some ideas as far as, like, what we could do with the Hummer down below. I'd love to bring it to the Grand Canyon. Roll it off. Like, that would be a good way.

[Ryan]

For it to go.

[Ben]

I feel like. Like that would be funny.

[CJ]

It would be funny.

[Ryan]

I think that would be like 30 years in jail, but, yeah, worth it. The worst oil spill in US history.

[Ben]

There's no oil in it.

[Ken]

There's no oil in it. That's the beauty.

[CJ]

30 years. Pin 15 on. EV pin 15 on. Can call it a day. They can share it. All right, well, let's. Let's wrap it up. That was a good time. Thank you guys so much. On the Merch, like the 2 milli sweatshirt you blew.

[Ben]

It's still up for sale though. All you guys can get just go to the website. Cboystv.com we're giving away a pit bike. And also you can get entered for a chance to come and hang out with us for the weekend. Bring a friend. We'll fly you out. We'll do a bunch of fun it.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So seaboystv.

[CJ]

Com, check out the grandparon hoodies and T shirts as well.

[Ben]

Tons of good stuff. And there's still plenty of stuff left, so head on over there and check it out. But thank you guys so much for listening.

[CJ]

Thank you.

[Ben]

Peace.