Ben (1:39)

And something that we do is we just try and like, almost do like an umbrella policy of like, keeping it so vague, you know, you can't really come after us for the details of it.

Mike (1:50)

Not, not, not necessarily because of that, though. We just try to make it.

Ben (1:53)

Oh, just so it's like mass majority can understand.

Mike (1:55)

Can understand it. Like, people don't want to listen to the gear ratios. You know, like, we want to be able to appeal to everyone.

Ben (2:03)

Right. And then when. When you do that, though, they think that you just don't know what you're talking about. And quite frankly, I don't know what the fastest crotch rocket is to the spec of. Of quarter mile and half mile and. And by production date before this time.

Mike (2:20)

Yeah. Who the has time for that.

Ben (2:21)

I'm just giving it a. Just a blanket statement of like, they call this thing the Widowmaker because it's so insanely fast. It's to what I thought the fastest production.

Mike (2:30)

That was incorrect, Ben. Cuz it was actually. I don't know what year. I think the 2003 CBR 1100, the.

Ken (2:38)

Whack people calling you out for that. They're like, they're like, that's fine. If you don't know, just don't say it then. Don't be out there saying it.

Ben (2:46)

I don't think they are saying it's fine. I think they're saying, like, I'm a problem. Like I'm. I'm. I'm the problem.

Evan (2:51)

You're spreading misinformation.

Ben (2:52)

Misinformation. Yeah.

Mike (2:53)

Maybe they'll start popping up the thing whenever Ben talks over specs. This has been confirmed as misinformation.

Ben (3:00)

Yeah, yeah.

Ken (3:01)

It tells us all the correct stuff. Yeah, that'd be.

Mike (3:03)

That'd be actually fine with the specs that fix a lot of this problem.

Ken (3:07)

Yeah. If every time you start talking about a build or anything, it just comes up with the actual stat.

Ben (3:12)

Lot of times too, if we say that and then we fix it in post. People still comment. Yeah, yeah, they still comment. And it's like, dude, we know we. We put a little. A little asterisk and put like the correct term next to it, but that wasn't good enough for you.

Ken (3:25)

I always like that. I love the corrections in post. It just shows that we're human.

Mike (3:30)

Yeah.

Ken (3:30)

You know, you say something, you're. You're flying, the camera's rolling. You said something wrong. Correct it in post. There's nothing to get mad about here.

Evan (3:38)

Yeah.

Mike (3:38)

Yeah. Did you guys see that video of me dropping that, that full drink on Alex's story?

Evan (3:44)

Yeah. Oh, my God.

Mike (3:45)

That's pretty funny.

Ken (3:46)

Was it actually. Was she actually trying to get a good boom?

Mike (3:50)

You know, you actually had to cheers.

Ken (3:52)

Four to five times.

Mike (3:54)

Maybe it wasn't four. It might have been two or three. It was probably three at that point. But, you know, I'm. I'm sitting here and eventually I'm kind of just like, all right, let's do this. The glass is perspirating because it's, you know, it's so.

Ken (4:05)

Hey, I've done it before.

Mike (4:06)

Humid. I'm in the Bahamas. And pretty soon, you know, and I'm also, you know, a little larried up. And eventually by the time we just touched it, just. And it was like a Nice ass restaurant. And everyone turned and looked, you know, it was pretty embarrassing.

Ben (4:19)

Pretty larried up.

Mike (4:20)

Yeah, they were like, you're cut off, you're cut off. I was like, really? I'm fine, I'm fine. I mean they were joking.

Alex (4:25)

That's it.

Ben (4:25)

All kind of.

Mike (4:26)

I better be getting another drink.

Evan (4:28)

Like, geez, I didn't even know they did that.

Mike (4:30)

Yeah, it wasn't that embarrassing. It was just funny. We laughed about it, but.

Evan (4:34)

Yeah, but there's nothing that gets people to look like a. Some dropping something in a restaurant is the most awkward thing because everybody, you have to look, you can't ignore it.

Mike (4:43)

The worst part was it was just a waste of a perfectly good drink. It costed like 25 bucks. It was, it was such a rip. The Bahamas is not cheap. Everything over there is way more expensive. It's like at least two times more expensive. Like every drink was like 20 bucks minimum. And they weren't like they were fine.

Evan (5:03)

But they weren't like they weren't a $20 drink.

Mike (5:05)

I mean they were fine, but yeah, they weren't a $20 drink. They were probably like a $12 drink.

Ben (5:10)

Yeah, you got a drink at the.

Ken (5:12)

Cancun airport and was it actually around 30?

Evan (5:14)

It was a $32 margarita.

Ben (5:16)

That is insane.

Evan (5:17)

Jimmy Buffett would want me to have that.

Mike (5:19)

You know, it's so expensive to live in the Bahamas. Like they have these crazy taxes. Like their tax is like 100%. What? Of the vehicle. There's different brackets. But if you were to buy a Lamborghini, you would pay whatever the price is of that Lamborghini because it's over $75,000. I believe the driver was telling me you would pay that in taxes. So you. Everything cost double. So like the people get the cars, most of their cars sent over from Japan because they're registered there. Yeah, they. No, they're not registered there. But it'll cost like you can buy a car from Japan for like a thousand bucks. Oh, and then they, by the time they ship it over and do the taxes and stuff, like a thousand dollar car will be like 4, 500 bucks.

Ben (6:03)

So what is there a bunch of mini trucks?

Mike (6:04)

Yes, there was mini trucks everywhere. And there was even medium trucks.

Ken (6:08)

Oh.

Mike (6:09)

Like I guess Kia makes mini trucks. But theirs was more of like a medium. You guys would have loved it. We should have had our mini truck there because dude, people would have been gawking. Yeah, but I was confused because we have like a pretty wealthy friend who moved to the Bahamas and I just assumed the reason he moved to the Bahamas was because he were saving on taxes. Like most people, like super rich people move to Puerto Rico. I get there, I'm like, what the fuck? How much money does this guy have if he's cool with moving all the way over here just to pay double on everything?

Evan (6:39)

Interesting.

Mike (6:40)

Wow.

Ben (6:40)

We've been talking about taking a trip to the Bahamas, but on jet skis and doing, like, this whole thing.

Mike (6:45)

It'd be fun.

Ben (6:46)

I, for some reason, pictured the Bahamas still being like a. Like a primitive tribe.

Mike (6:53)

No, you're imagining Haiti.

Ben (6:55)

It's like desolate beaches.

Evan (6:58)

There's probably corners.

Ben (6:59)

So you go, yeah, we're going to the Bahamas. And I go, oh, that'll be like a nice, relaxing getaway. And then I see your story that you're at a casino.

Mike (7:07)

I was like, oh, whoa.

Ken (7:08)

Well, he's over on.

Ben (7:09)

I got the wrong idea.

Ken (7:10)

The tourist area. But when I was. I was there, it was pretty fun. Like, especially the mini truck thing. The roads are really bad, really rough, windy. Just. You're through the jungle and like. Yeah, I just stopped there, like on a cruise. But we got to. We just did a tour. And like, everyone. I just love that there's no rules.

Evan (7:28)

I mean, they have rules.

Ben (7:30)

Yeah, okay.

Ken (7:31)

They have plenty of rules when it comes to driving. People just drive however they want.

Mike (7:35)

What is that?

Ben (7:36)

It's probably okay. Done in a little bit.

Ken (7:38)

Oh, yeah.

Ben (7:39)

He'll be done in a second.

Mike (7:39)

Pick up on skids. Gear going on. I'm like, what is that? These headphones on.

Evan (7:43)

Stuff just happened.

Mike (7:46)

Yeah.

Ken (7:47)

Where we went ziplining.

Alex (7:48)

That was Jamaica.

Ken (7:49)

Unbelievable.

Mike (7:50)

I was going to say, you have a different memory than me. Jungles.

Ken (7:55)

I'm like, wait, so.

Ben (7:56)

So the Bahamas.

Ken (7:58)

Okay, so the Bahamas are very. Just in general, pretty touristy. Well, maybe Jamaica.

Mike (8:04)

It was nice because of the casino. I enjoyed it. But then the casino just beat me up.

Evan (8:09)

Yeah, I was gonna say. Then it was just a kiss.

Mike (8:10)

I was doing well. I was doing well. I was on. I was up 565 bucks.

Ken (8:15)

Oh, whoa.

Mike (8:15)

On, like the first day or sec. It was two days in. I was gambling pretty light because Alex didn't want to sit at the tables the whole time. So I was like, in passing. Try to go big, you know?

Ken (8:26)

Yeah.

Ben (8:27)

Working out.

Mike (8:27)

But I was like, I gotta at least get to a thousand.

Evan (8:30)

Okay.

Mike (8:31)

Because like, we're at. We need 435 more dollars. You can do that, you know, in a couple hands if you're actually really swinging it, you know. And then I ended up going down 12.50, so. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So not. Not the best. And it made the drink prices, everything hurt.

Evan (8:49)

I was gonna say much more an expensive vacation.

Mike (8:52)

Yeah, it just. It would have just been nice, you know, like, 565 is cool, but a thousand, that's not bad. You know, like, people are like, that's nice.

Ken (9:01)

That's a lot worse than Ken did when he was in Vegas a little bit ago.

Mike (9:05)

Wait, I thought you came up four grand.

Alex (9:07)

Yeah, my. My trip wasn't satisfying because I hit a couple little mini jackpots on a slot machine so fast that I didn't get that satisfaction of gambling.

Mike (9:16)

It was like, you do?

Alex (9:18)

I hit a couple, like, mini jackpots got. I was up four grand at 4300 bucks.

Mike (9:22)

I would have walked.

Alex (9:23)

Yeah, I. I did. And that's what wasn't satisfying. So I was like, I only was in the casino for, like, 30 minutes.

Mike (9:28)

That. That does kind of suck. Why didn't you maybe just take, like, yeah, I don't know, 500 bucks and just, like, stretch it out? I like it. Blackjack table.

Alex (9:37)

I did, and then I won again.

Mike (9:42)

Time, dude. What do you mean?

Alex (9:43)

But I won in, like, five minutes with that second 500 bucks. I was like, I'm winning too much.

Mike (9:48)

Ken Matthews, the most winningest player in Vegas history.

Alex (9:52)

I. I lost last time. So true.

Ken (9:55)

Can't buy me a Siron, dude. Yeah, yeah.

Ben (9:59)

What are you talking about? There's seven coming, Ken. I got to start giving you my money to gamble with.

Ken (10:04)

Yeah, yeah, seriously.

Ben (10:06)

You look really good at it.

Alex (10:07)

I didn't win, like, in the normal casino, and then I go in the high limit room, and it's just like, win, win, win. And then I walk, and it's like.

Ken (10:15)

I can't understand. I don't understand the emotions that you were going.

Ben (10:18)

I'm very confused. Yeah, you got very confused.

Mike (10:21)

Sorry to go back to the Bahamas. I just thought about this. We have a lot of subs in the Bahamas, like, of, like, they have Internet. Yes, they do.

Ken (10:30)

Are you saying they're local?

Mike (10:33)

There's definitely, like, are they locals? Yeah, locals. Like, I, I, I never got the guy's name because I. It was. It was tough. It was like a little bit of a language barrier. Not a ton, but like, you know, a little bit. Accents and stuff. And, dude, he was like, he watches all our Alabama. They don't know.

Ben (10:54)

I don't know what you are saying.

Mike (10:56)

And maybe just cut this out. But this kid, like, legitimately had been watching all our vids.

Ken (11:00)

That's like, cool.

Mike (11:01)

He was, like, freaking out. I was like, what the. No. You know, and, like, he was like, I don't know. It was just interesting because I'm like, dude, like, the life he's living. How the. Do you enjoy watching our videos? Because there is nothing in relation. I was like, maybe I was kind of swim. Was like, oh, maybe you have, like, like, dirt bikes or. Yeah, maybe he's into, like, riding dirt bikes or something. No, never. He just was like, Yeah. I just stumbled across it and wow. Just got hooked. But it was really interesting.

Ken (11:25)

Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was cool. I thought you were just talking about people that were visiting the Bahamas. No, it's sick that they're locals. Sweet to go to, like, I mean, a foreign country and then just be like, yeah, we watch you, dude.

Ben (11:36)

There's truly few things better.

Ken (11:38)

No way. That's awesome.

Ben (11:40)

Oh, that's sick.

Mike (11:40)

That's cool, dude.

Ben (11:41)

Yeah, there's. There's not many things better than when we're traveling abroad and we're kind of, you know, out of our element, but then the locals bring us in.

Evan (11:50)

Yeah.

Ben (11:51)

It's like, you're immediately like, oh, dude, our people.

Mike (11:54)

Yeah.

Ken (11:55)

Are you saying we, like, when you go to, like, Mexico or.

Ben (11:57)

No, I think just, like, when we're just anywhere, like, outside of Cornbread.

Evan (12:01)

Okay. We go.

Ben (12:01)

Yeah.

Ken (12:02)

We go to, like, abroad. Yeah.

Mike (12:04)

Yeah.

Ben (12:04)

I get out of our island.

Ken (12:05)

That's what threw me off. That's what threw me off. But, yeah, no, it's the best thing ever. Going to, like, Houghton, Michigan, would be a good example. We kind of, like, go there, and then everyone's just like, they are there for the same thing, and they take you in and you have the most fun because the locals want you there. Yeah, you got to come. Meaning to have fun, though. For sure.

Evan (12:25)

Yeah.

Ben (12:25)

And we love traveling, too. I think that's, like, something that we all have in common, too, is like. Like, one of the first times that we, like, truly experienced it is when we went to Florida for Ken's race when he was racing with Haley Deegan.

Evan (12:38)

Oh, yeah.

Ken (12:39)

Was that really? Yeah, like, it was kind of like.

Ben (12:40)

The first time that we had, like, gone signs.

Ken (12:42)

Like a sled trip, maybe.

Ben (12:43)

Yeah. Yeah. Now we just do it all the time because it's so much fun and it's so easy to make great content out of it.

Ken (12:49)

But it's the same outlook. I've looked at Evan with the helicopter thing. So I look at the helicopter and go, of course I want to do that. Why would. Who wouldn't want to do that.

Mike (12:58)

And it's.

Ken (12:59)

Yeah. Riding it. So it's the same thing like with traveling. Like, I'm just caught up in this whole, like, of course we want to travel. Of course everyone wants to travel. Who wouldn't want to travel? But some people don't like doing it.

Evan (13:08)

It does feel good to be back home, though. We're back in studio for the first time in three weeks or something like that. But it's the best that we're able to go for a little bit, do our thing and then come back home and have the home base.

Mike (13:20)

Yeah. I love it here, man. This is the best.

Evan (13:22)

I know.

Ben (13:23)

I think we go to Turkey O and we get CJ's hair transplants.

Mike (13:27)

If you guys pay for it, I'll let you film it.

Ben (13:29)

I'm down.

Ken (13:30)

Sure.

Mike (13:30)

It's painful.

Evan (13:31)

You never did get the gift like six years ago.

Ken (13:34)

Yeah, it's like four grand, all said and done.

Ben (13:35)

Oh, really?

Alex (13:36)

I thought it was more expensive to fly there.

Mike (13:40)

I'm pretty sure that includes it. Mike's looked into it, right?

Ken (13:42)

Yeah, you flew, fly there, stay there, get the procedure and fly back.

Mike (13:46)

And that's like with the everything. It's like a really good package. Whereas, like, if you do it in the United States, 10 to 15. Yeah. You're looking maybe like 16 grand.

Ben (13:55)

Whoa. I'd say it's hefty, dude. I would be down. I think I was like, I think that'd be fun.

Evan (13:59)

Can we all go?

Mike (14:00)

It's like a year recovery, dude.

Evan (14:02)

For what?

Mike (14:03)

When you do the thing, it takes a year.

Ben (14:05)

Well, you just wear a hat a year.

Ken (14:07)

All said and done. But I think you're seeing results. If after like four months, it's still pretty long.

Mike (14:12)

But yeah.

Ben (14:12)

When you say recovery though, like, what is that? That's what I mean.

Mike (14:15)

Like, I'm talking like. Like you got all these dots. You can't wear a hat and. And you're bald because they shave your head and they use little bumps all over your head. Maybe pop some pictures up.

Ken (14:23)

For the first week, your head really swollen.

Mike (14:26)

Yeah. And then like after 30 days, it kind of is scabbing over and stuff. And then you start to see some hair grow, but then I guess it falls back out.

Ken (14:34)

Oh.

Mike (14:35)

And then it regrows and then you're supposedly golden.

Ken (14:39)

Wow.

Mike (14:39)

But you know, it's like different. It's like a pretty thought thought out process. Cuz like they don't want to put your hairline too low, too high.

Evan (14:46)

Yeah.

Mike (14:46)

You want to look natural. You don't want to look like a sharpie. Middle. Middle school. Like hairline on a guy. Because if you're like, you know, 30.

Ben (14:54)

Years old, can you imagine we pay them off to put your hairline, bro.

Mike (14:58)

That was your. What would you. Above your eyebrows. That'd be so bad. I don't know if I trust you guys. That would actually be so bad.

Ken (15:06)

Can't get it to like, like stop growing. Like you're walking.

Mike (15:09)

Yeah, pretty sure you could, but maybe not. Yeah, I mean, that'd be bad that.

Evan (15:12)

You got to go somewhere and get laser hair removal.

Mike (15:14)

Jesus.

Ken (15:15)

It's just a whole thing that would be so fun. I mean, the odds of that seem slim, but.

Evan (15:20)

Yeah.

Ken (15:20)

That they like make your hair right above your eyebrows and. No, I was all excited to do it or like to think about doing it, whatever. And then Sydney's like, yeah, but like, if you go for those ota, you know, abroad surgeries, like, you could wake up and your liver's gone or something.

Evan (15:36)

I don't think if you're. You're.

Ken (15:37)

And I just. Then I started thinking about that.

Evan (15:39)

Nice ones.

Ken (15:40)

No, I was like, yeah, exactly. You just gotta go to one.

Evan (15:42)

Go to the budget one there. That's in a bad spot. Probably wouldn't be surprising, but I think.

Ken (15:48)

It was the whole, like. Well, it was the whole, like. Well, they're. It's international, so maybe they just look all bougie. And the reason they're all nice and bougie is because they have a bunch of money from selling organs at the same time.

Alex (15:58)

They have like a reputation.

Mike (16:00)

Exactly. No, there's a bunch of influencers. They actually fly. Like, I've seen videos of smaller youtubers. They'll fly them out and like, if they make a video, they do the thing for you. Which obviously it's a four thousand dollar procedure, so that makes sense, depending on their size.

Ben (16:15)

But it makes sense though, I guess when you think about, you know, if you were to have a, you know, surgical process like that, where people are like willing to really go anywhere, do anything for it, you know, like, people are like, well, if I can get it for fourth, the price, I'm willing to fly. Yeah.

Mike (16:32)

I mean, I just hope that it'd be good. But I mean, if they're doing the most hair transplants, they probably would be the best.

Evan (16:38)

You know, it kind of is the spot. So what do you got to go to Brazil for a butt lift?

Mike (16:42)

I don't know if that's the spot.

Evan (16:44)

Is what they call it.

Mike (16:44)

It is a Brazilian.

Ken (16:45)

I wait I want to say that's, like, where it originally.

Mike (16:47)

I think they're just maybe naming it after that, you know?

Evan (16:52)

Yeah, that makes sense. It is tough for us if. To do a hair transplant thing. Like, a lot of people could do it, hide out for a month, you know, kind of let it come back.

Ken (17:01)

No, you got. You got to take it on the chin.

Mike (17:03)

You'd be surprised, actually. You'd be surprised. I actually know two really big influencers that have done it, and you wouldn't even know.

Evan (17:11)

Are they vocal about it?

Mike (17:13)

No.

Ken (17:14)

Oh, see, that's so hard.

Mike (17:15)

I'm not going to say anything.

Evan (17:16)

But if you make the video on it, then you can be vocal about it, of course, which makes it easier. But if you wanted to do it really sly under the rug, then it'd be tough.

Ken (17:24)

I don't blame them for doing that. Just seems like a lot of work to try to hide it.

Mike (17:27)

I don't know how they did it because it's like, I never noticed. So maybe they were able to keep their hair, but they just did the. I don't know.

Ken (17:35)

That'd be like getting a boob job and not wanting to show it off.

Mike (17:38)

But if you don't post that much.

Ken (17:40)

Yeah, Like, I could see a nose job. Some people get nose jobs and they don't want anybody to know, which is just weird. Like.

Mike (17:45)

Yeah, people don't want you.

Ken (17:49)

Yeah, no, it. Well, there's that. But also, I think a lot of people have a tough time admitting it because it. It admits that you were uncomfortable with your body, but it's like, who cares? If you're gonna change it, then, like, obviously. But.

Mike (18:00)

Yeah, I guess I feel like getting a hair transplant and nose job are a little bit different.

Ken (18:04)

I think they are, too.

Mike (18:06)

Yeah. I'd say the hair transplant's not as aggressive and, like.

Ben (18:09)

Yeah.

Mike (18:10)

You know, I think I could see why you'd want to hide. Get a nose job.

Ben (18:14)

But, like, way more common to try to hide.

Mike (18:17)

Yeah, yeah. Just took some things and put it on the front and.

Evan (18:21)

Yeah, perfect. We'll do it.

Mike (18:22)

It's out of it, boys.

Ben (18:24)

I'm cool with it, I think. Of course you're cool.

Mike (18:26)

That'd be fun for you. Yeah.

Evan (18:28)

We get to go to Turkey, get a little thing.

Ben (18:31)

It's not like you're not getting anything out of it.

Mike (18:33)

Yeah, you're right. I'd get some hair. I have hair, though. I mean, not. Not that bad, but I just need to get a haircut. But. Yeah.

Evan (18:42)

I can't believe that guy said that. Someone should pay you to walk around.

Mike (18:45)

Like, yeah, I just like that Damn.

Evan (18:47)

Funniest insult I've ever heard. It doesn't.

Ben (18:50)

I heard somebody wait, but it's funny that ugly that is.

Mike (18:54)

I don't read anything of anything that.

Ben (18:55)

Would dig deeper than. So I'm doing this shit for free here.

Mike (18:59)

So we'll pop up the video. I'm sure we already show only am.

Evan (19:02)

I ugly, but I'm underpaid.

Mike (19:04)

Yeah, yeah.

Ben (19:04)

Gosh, dude.

Mike (19:05)

Okay, so we'll pop up the video again of me dropping the drink and I put that on my Snapchat and a subscriber on my Snapchat, he responds to it and goes, deserving for having that type of comb over thing. I'm bald, but if I had hair, there isn't enough money in the world. I'd wear my hair like that in public. And I just respond, don't really care how I look. But if someone wants to pay me to walk around looking like this, that'd be great because I'm doing it for free right now.

Ben (19:34)

I don't know what kind of like weird, cocky world that would be for some guy to be like, yo, I just want to pay you to just be this ugly.

Ken (19:41)

Well, I mean, taken very literally. I don't know a world that exists.

Ben (19:44)

In either, but no, some guy that's just like got a weird fetish with like the way CJ looks.

Ken (19:49)

What the.

Mike (19:50)

Yeah, I mean, dude, if they paid me, I guess like I'm not trying to pick up chicks or anything. So it depends how much I. I'd look pretty stupid.

Ben (19:57)

Yeah, I guess if you put it in that way, like you. It would be basically just like paying somebody to like look so stupid. The only benefit you get out of it. It's just a good chuckle, dude.

Mike (20:08)

We do it for free.

Ben (20:09)

Yeah, I mean, of our bar channel.

Ken (20:13)

Yeah, dude, it's so fun. I was just talking about that the last video when we go into Zoomies and get the outfits for our grind shoes or soap shoes. It's so fun doing that when we all go in there and just laugh and laugh and laugh till we find the funniest outfit and then we walk out, we're all just chipper and all we did was just buy an outfit.

Ben (20:31)

For one of the homes.

Mike (20:33)

I think we're just really good at laughing at ourselves and like making a jo on ourselves. It's funny because like, we've been sending a bunch of. We've been trying to find editors, but it's not. We haven't found Anyone yet. So we've been sending footage off, and they do, like, a test edit. A lot of them send the edits back, and they take out, like, the tip overs and the, like, the little mistakes and, like. But then we're like, what?

Ken (20:55)

Dude?

Ben (20:55)

That's the funniest.

Mike (20:57)

I'm sure they're thinking, like, oh, they don't want us to show them looking bad.

Evan (21:00)

Yeah, we got to make it look cool.

Mike (21:02)

I think a lot of people probably would want that. But we're like. We're just trying to be funny. We're not trying to necessarily look cool.

Evan (21:09)

I think I would like to clarify my dislike for being out in public and being embarrassing.

Ben (21:17)

I've been thinking about embarrassed.

Evan (21:18)

Embarrassed. I'm not embarrassed of us when we're doing it. It would be like if we went up. It's our interaction with other people that I don't like. Us doing all that is funny. But then if you went in and you were, like, messing with someone in the restaurant, that's the part of it that I don't like, including other people in it. I'm totally cool running around watching Mike and Ev look goofy. But it sometimes is when we're messing with other people. That's what gets me.

Mike (21:46)

Would you not say that? It's also when you're. When we're, like, in a store, we're not messing with anyone, but, like, you know, we're causing. It's definitely causing a scene because, I mean, we're dressed like goofballs. We're laughing and we're filming, and they're wondering, what the fuck are these guys doing? Less.

Evan (22:03)

Less. So I wouldn't say I'm definitely not immune to being embarrassed of that, but I also get that that's kind of part of it.

Ben (22:09)

I think I'm more okay with, I guess, like, bringing other people into it because 95% of the time, like, it's always a good interaction.

Evan (22:20)

That's so true. And, like, normally people are just looking because they're like, what the fuck is going on? This looks funny.

Mike (22:26)

Yeah.

Ben (22:26)

And. And I guess it is embarrassing. It's insanely embarrassing. Especially just walking around with a camera or talking to a camera.

Mike (22:34)

Yeah. Most people wouldn't do that.

Ben (22:35)

Like, that in itself.

Mike (22:37)

I forgot about that. Even though I guess I don't think about that.

Ken (22:39)

I was. I was curious about that. Like, I definitely still do a lot less than I did before, but I still think about it. And. And I think, like, the way you just said it, it's embarrassing sometimes.

Ben (22:50)

Yeah. I Mean, because if you got people watching and, like, 90% of the time, like, we mess up what we're saying, you know, so it's like that. But, like. No, I. But it is true. Like, you hate when we embarrass, like, you or just our group out in public in front of other people.

Evan (23:10)

I guess it probably is situational. I won't say. No. I don't. Do you have a example?

Ben (23:14)

I don't have. I don't have the best.

Evan (23:16)

Okay.

Mike (23:16)

It can be embarrassing. I could say, I guess when you're out, like, at Zoomies, we're filming no one, everyone's wondering what you're doing. It's just kind of us, like, it's just looks kind of like a group of friends. Like, you don't look like an official, like, camera crew or like a. I think a production that's going to be aired to 3 million people.

Evan (23:35)

A good example would be, like, the boat ramp thing. It wouldn't bother me, cheering and all that. But then it's when, like, we're involving the other people in it and kind of. It's the involvement of the other people that gets me.

Mike (23:47)

Were you there for that?

Evan (23:48)

No, I wasn't. I had to go to Fargo to bring my mom to Pink, which is.

Mike (23:51)

Funny because I always. It's just meant to be.

Ben (23:55)

Yeah, that one. That one would have been a good example.

Ken (23:58)

Yeah.

Ben (23:58)

But, like, that one was tough.

Mike (24:00)

That one. I had to actually turn it on, you guys. I went into this. I was like. Like, this is either gonna be really funny or just, like, embarrassing, because also, we're in an area that everyone kind of knows us.

Evan (24:09)

That would have helped. So in Florida, I've been like, I will never see any of these people. So you're in your hometown. It's a little tough, too. We're here.

Mike (24:15)

Do the job.

Evan (24:16)

And it ended up hilarious.

Ben (24:19)

Yeah.

Evan (24:19)

The funniest thing we did all summer.

Ben (24:20)

It'S like one of our most viral moments ever, is when that one of them.

Mike (24:24)

Yeah.

Ben (24:24)

Woman comes up and then I have an interaction with her.

Evan (24:28)

Exactly.

Ben (24:28)

She flicks me. It's so. Yeah. It was so legendary.

Mike (24:33)

She was so mad.

Ben (24:34)

We need to get that woman on the podcast.

Evan (24:36)

Yeah, we should.

Mike (24:36)

I don't know about the podcast, but we need to find when she's putting her pontoon again.

Ken (24:41)

Watching. I just watched the 2023 recap last night, and I just. That. That such a vivid. She's so angry. And you're like, who are you with? And then the news, and then it's like, our Own little meme. It's pretty funny.

Ben (24:53)

The police.

Mike (24:54)

Yeah. So we got a company that they, like, re. Cut up our, like, segments, basically, of our YouTube videos and put them on our Facebook page, which then appealed to a whole new audience, honestly, like, a lot older of a crowd. And some of them will, like, pop off and go, like, I'd say, uber viral, I'd say. I mean, like, 30. 30 million views, I would say is uber viral. Wouldn't you guys agree? Like, I'd say you're going viral at, like, 5 million, 10 million nowadays. But, like, so, like, that one, I think, has, like, 36 or something. 36 million. And it's just got all these, like. All this love. People love it. You know, it's.

Ben (25:32)

The boomers love it.

Ken (25:33)

Yeah.

Mike (25:33)

Yeah. I was surprised at how many people thought it was really funny. Like, the idea was really funny in my head.

Evan (25:39)

How's it gonna be?

Ben (25:40)

I was pushing. I was pushing for that one. Yeah.

Mike (25:43)

So I came up with the idea. Then I put. I had it in, like, my notes or on the thing for, like, a long time, and Ben put.

Ben (25:50)

Pushed for it, and I was like.

Evan (25:51)

I don't want to do this.

Ben (25:54)

Usually, though, if I was pushing for it, I would have had to have been, like, the front man for it. Once we hopped out of the truck, you were like, all right, here's what I'm gonna say. I was like, oh, you're running this. Yeah, I feel like I had to. All right. The.

Mike (26:06)

The way I had it played out in my head, though, or at least when we put it down in the notes, was that we were gonna bring bleachers in and, like, a bigger crowd of people.

Ben (26:15)

I think we still do that. I think we still gotta do that.

Mike (26:17)

And then I had another one.

Ken (26:19)

Try it again.

Mike (26:19)

No, we're bringing bleachers next time to the other one. Like, it's gonna be. I think we gotta have, like, 30 people. Like, maybe we'll do, like, a casting for it. Like, the lawnmower one. Just put a list out.

Ken (26:29)

Because I think the way we had it set up before, imagine two bleachers.

Evan (26:32)

It's like.

Ben (26:35)

I want it like a. Like a Super bowl stadium.

Ken (26:37)

Because people before there was just, like, what. There was 10 of us. We had some noodles. Like, they.

Evan (26:43)

They.

Ben (26:43)

They saw us dwindled down to, like, like, six. People were, like, so embarrassed they left.

Evan (26:49)

They're like, I'm not doing this.

Ken (26:50)

Y. Was. That was a little awkward. We were just, like, trying to get him to notice us, and. But, yeah, we weren't a crowd. We were just a group. But anyway.

Mike (26:57)

Yeah, we were just seven if there. If you had an army of like.

Ben (27:00)

20, 30 people, it's gonna be even.

Mike (27:01)

Easier to just get rowdy.

Evan (27:03)

It'll be so.

Mike (27:04)

I just don't want people being mean.

Evan (27:05)

Yeah. You know, there's gonna be someone who's gonna pull in, look at it, and just leave.

Ken (27:09)

Like, I would mess up. I maybe wouldn't mess up in front of a couple people cheering, but I'm. I would mess up in front of 50.

Ben (27:16)

Everyone's got some.

Ken (27:17)

Yeah, everyone's.

Ben (27:17)

Yeah. And then. And then you have like the defense signs. But we got to think of like, something good for people to hold up. Yeah.

Ken (27:24)

Oh, yeah. I like that.

Ben (27:25)

Like arrows got the arrow, they got the left.

Ken (27:28)

Like really mess them up.

Mike (27:29)

Oh, that's.

Ben (27:30)

No, we got to do that this year where it's like a full on like stadium seating or.

Mike (27:35)

Or what if you even like constructed a. A clock and it's like a timer and maybe it's running down from one minute, one minute. And then if it hit. So like you're like trying to do your thing, but you're looking and the clock's running out of time.

Ben (27:47)

You're wondering what the gonna happen.

Mike (27:50)

And then it hits zero.

Ben (27:52)

It just keeps going. It just cheats.

Mike (27:55)

You gotta start over. Get out of here. We gotta get a new guy in here.

Ben (27:58)

They're like, can you turn that off? And we're like, get out of here. You're making a scene.

Mike (28:04)

You're slowing up the boat ramp.

Ken (28:06)

I love the idea. Giant, like, basketball buzzer.

Mike (28:10)

That was funny.

Ben (28:11)

So I saw this headline the other day. They just said, like, twitch streamer. Aiden Ross, who we've talked about on this podcast, gets scammed out of $2 million.

Ken (28:20)

What?

Mike (28:21)

Damn.

Ken (28:21)

Makes my 21 by 21. Savage.

Mike (28:25)

No.

Ken (28:25)

Oh, crypto.

Ben (28:26)

No.

Mike (28:27)

So.

Ben (28:29)

So Aiden Ross, he's like the biggest streamer right now. He streams on a platform called kick. He's got like ownership and kick.

Mike (28:37)

Damn.

Ben (28:37)

And the dude is just like, I think he's like 20.

Mike (28:40)

I didn't know that.

Ben (28:40)

23 maybe crushing it. Young dude. But he's absolutely raking in the dough. So when I saw like $2 million, I wasn't that surprised, but I was like, how do you get scammed out of $2 million? Right? So click on the video. Playboi Cardi, who's a rapper. Yeah. He hasn't made music since 2020.

Mike (28:57)

Yeah, right. It's been a while.

Ben (28:59)

I was like, playboy Cardi. What does he have anything to do with this? I didn't know this guy was relevant. Apparently it's relevant for some reason. Aiden Ross told him that he paid him $2 million to come on his twitch stream for like, an hour. $2 million in, like, a Ferrari or something like that.

Ken (29:14)

Whoa.

Evan (29:14)

That's a.

Mike (29:15)

They're paying. Holy shit, dude.

Ben (29:17)

I guess for Playboi Carti.

Ken (29:19)

Wow.

Ben (29:20)

What are they paying people that are actually relevant?

Evan (29:23)

Yeah. Yourself a Drake.

Ben (29:24)

For some reason, Playboi Carti is relevant right now, or at least in that world, because he's, like, talking about releasing music or something like that.

Mike (29:32)

I don't know.

Ben (29:33)

It's crazy.

Ken (29:33)

Obsessed with him.

Ben (29:34)

It's crazy.

Evan (29:35)

Yeah.

Mike (29:35)

I don't know.

Ben (29:36)

So Aiden Ross, like, flies out, jumping through all these hoops to, like, have him on his stream, basically, right? They put him in, like, this warehouse that's like a black background. You can, like, no lighting. You can barely see what's going on. And they tell him, like, all right, just be ready. Like, he's coming. How all these rappers operate, I'm imagining, like, they're just, like, you know, super loose on their timelines and everything like that. So they're like, just be ready. So he's like, streaming. This guy's out in the car, I guess, for, like, 20 minutes, and he's like, I'm not coming in. And he's like, what are you talking about? I have $2 million in cash right here in a bag. He's like, he got it. He's like, just to come in and I'll give you the money. All you have to do is just come in and be on here for an hour with me. So he comes finally, this. This guy comes in, and he's standing, like, so far back in the room you can barely see him. And I guess he's, like, just dancing to, like, music for, like, five minutes, right? Like, he's just, like, awkwardly dancing. And Aiden Ross is, like, trying to, like, get him to, like, come closer and, like, like, talk and asking him questions. He's just not answering the questions. And I think he's wearing a mask, right? So he, like, can't even.

Mike (30:46)

It's just his friend.

Ben (30:47)

For all I know, it could have been.

Mike (30:49)

Dude, where the ski mask?

Ben (30:52)

So finally, after maybe another five minutes, I think he was in there for, like, 10 minutes. The dude leans into the mic and goes, new music Coming in. 20, 24. I'm out. And he leaves with the bag. I think, wow.

Ken (31:06)

I mean, he's there for five minutes. I love how many Started this out with Aiden Ross got scammed because he did. He did.

Ben (31:13)

He got robbed. That's what that was.

Mike (31:15)

That's a rob. Yeah, full on.

Ben (31:17)

It just made me think. I was like, what world are we living in right now where this is. This is happening?

Ken (31:23)

Yeah. When you were explaining that it felt like. And then I was like this feels like a movie or some weird plot. I don't even. But it doesn't even feel like a movie. It just feels silly.

Ben (31:30)

Well, at an hour for 2 million bucks. I was like that doesn't.

Evan (31:33)

Yeah.

Ken (31:33)

That doesn't make. At all. Yeah.

Ben (31:35)

At all either.

Ken (31:35)

I could be online saying this like for Drake, $2 million for an hour.

Mike (31:39)

That makes sense.

Ken (31:40)

Like.

Mike (31:40)

Yeah.

Ben (31:43)

Yeah, that does make sense.

Ken (31:44)

But that's all he spoke.

Ben (31:46)

And then like the other weird part is it was like one of the. It was like the top three like largest streams. It had like 500, 000.

Evan (31:53)

Sounds like it worked.

Ken (31:54)

Yeah. Oh yeah, definitely still worked, I suppose.

Ben (31:57)

Yeah. Still so strange.

Mike (31:59)

How are they monetizing Kik? Like how are they. They're not playing ads, are they? Don't they?

Evan (32:04)

Don't you Donation only donation and like pay monthly.

Mike (32:07)

Damn.

Ben (32:08)

I saw that Kik was going to start doing like a creator paid program to. To like try and incentivize people to come over.

Mike (32:16)

We have super likes on YouTube so people sometimes leave like I've seen like.

Ken (32:21)

$20 like shout out them guys.

Mike (32:23)

They're not super likes. A super common I believe. And you like you can pay whatever you want but like most people just do like a couple bucks. Whatever.

Evan (32:31)

I saw a two dollar one on here.

Ken (32:33)

Yeah, sweet.

Mike (32:33)

And yeah, kind of cool. So I mean people do do it and I always respond to those. I mean I respond to comments that also don't have that. But when you donate I feel like we gotta.

Evan (32:45)

Yeah.

Mike (32:46)

Make sure we for sure try to give them their money's worth.

Evan (32:49)

So speaking of getting the bag, you guys see that Lewis Hamilton left Mercedes for Ferrari.

Mike (32:54)

That's a no brainer. I'd do that either way.

Evan (32:56)

It is kind of cool. But he is like Mercedes guy.

Ken (33:00)

Yeah.

Evan (33:00)

He's been with them forever.

Mike (33:01)

Ferrari is way cooler than Mercedes.

Evan (33:03)

I would agree but I heard might.

Ken (33:05)

Be a hot take. But I would also agree but he's.

Evan (33:07)

Getting like a hundred million dollars. I gotta check to make sure if it's a season but I think it's like a season. $100 million.

Alex (33:15)

The amount of money in F1 is.

Ken (33:17)

It really is insane. So what did like Joe Rogan get To switch to Spotify.

Ben (33:21)

Dude, he just got a new deal too.

Alex (33:23)

It was like 200.

Ben (33:24)

Oh, okay.

Mike (33:24)

Wow.

Ken (33:25)

I've been watching the NASCAR documentary too, and like, also the sponsors in that. Like, it's just like the random sponsors, like any big corporate company that needs, like to flow their money into marketing somehow via sports, they do it on a nascar like brands you've never or like maybe you've heard of, but, like, they're super huge and then they're like in the pharmaceutical section in Walmart or whatever.

Evan (33:46)

And they're sponsoring on a race car.

Ken (33:48)

Yeah. That I care if they win, you know, so we like some of them. Yeah. I'm sure they're all trying to race the races are racing the win. But some of the big corporate sponsors, I feel like, just like they need to hemorrhage their money somewhere in marketing.

Ben (34:01)

Yeah. It's Kyle Busch in that.

Mike (34:02)

You still have it out against that guy.

Ben (34:05)

I think any true NASCAR enthusiast does. Really.

Mike (34:09)

I'm just pretty sweet to have, like, sponsor a NASCAR Sea Boys tv NASCAR people fucking crashes every race. Crashes and takes last every race.

Ben (34:20)

We're like, yeah, we got a great driver.

Mike (34:21)

He's really putting on the.

Ben (34:23)

The. Bringing up the entertainment value here.

Evan (34:25)

I wonder how much it costs for like one of the tiny stickers that they have on the front quarter panel that you can never see unless the car was sitting right close up.

Mike (34:33)

I'm sure it's done.

Ben (34:34)

I think if we did it, you'd have to do it on the windshield.

Ken (34:37)

Well, that's like the big banner. I could see if our NASCAR sponsored NASCAR crashed the comments. Would you guys let Evan drive?

Ben (34:46)

Evan is seriously getting a rep for breaking stuff.

Mike (34:48)

I mean, that's what he does. Yeah.

Ben (34:50)

I commented on a picture of a submarine, and it was like luxury submarine set to be dropped into the water in 2025 or something like that. And I just commented like, oh, boy, not this again, or something like that. And people saw my comment and just were commenting underneath it, like, don't let Evan drive. Yeah, like what?

Evan (35:11)

The submarine.

Ben (35:13)

It's not my submarine, so I won't. I guess we.

Evan (35:16)

We should talk about Joe Rogan, though. That's pretty cool that Spotify gave him a ton of money and then also let him post on other platforms. Oh, yeah, he can go Spotify.

Ken (35:26)

Good apple. I want to listen on YouTube.

Mike (35:28)

That's really nice. Yeah.

Evan (35:29)

And I think it's smart because, I mean, a lot of people have Spotify, but to get him further, I'm sure they get a cut of revenue or something.

Mike (35:37)

That's how they get their money back.

Evan (35:39)

But they probably were like, huh, well, if we put him on YouTube, he's gonna make, I don't know, millions of dollars every month just with his catalog.

Ben (35:48)

What's our breakdown between YouTube and Spotify?

Evan (35:51)

Probably like 75. YouTube, 60 YouTube, 40 streaming.

Ben (35:56)

What do you guys.

Ken (35:57)

I have YouTube.

Ben (35:58)

You'd listen or watch.

Evan (35:59)

I almost never watch a podcast, but I do watch this one.

Ben (36:02)

Oh, I always.

Ken (36:03)

I almost always watch.

Mike (36:04)

Yeah, same. We got YouTube Premium. So like you can lock your phone. So like, oh, have it going. Then you can watch for a little bit and then you can lock it put in your pocket. So be listening, open back up, still be watching Clutch.

Evan (36:17)

Interesting.

Ben (36:17)

Yeah, yeah.

Evan (36:18)

I think that's really smart of Spotify to let him out and let that go to more people because there's just more people and they know he's a Spotify podcaster. So it just further Spotify's.

Ben (36:29)

Yeah, it is.

Evan (36:31)

Maybe he does like a Spotify plug every video or something like that.

Mike (36:34)

I don't know.

Ken (36:34)

Could be. Yeah. I was wondering. There's got to be some. Something mixed in there.

Evan (36:37)

But it's interesting to hear big companies, especially now, still not get it. Umg, which is un Universal Music Group, just pulled all of their music from Tik Tok, YouTube, everything. How many songs have gone viral because of Tik Tok and UMG pulled them all. I have a couple of the artists that they pulled off seems. Taylor Swift, the Beatles, Billy Eilish, Drake, the Weekend, Bad Bunny.

Mike (37:02)

I mean, yeah, it does seem pretty whack.

Evan (37:04)

How stupid are they?

Mike (37:05)

Don't you want your songs?

Ben (37:07)

Well, okay, there's.

Evan (37:09)

Yeah, I'm trying to see the other side.

Ben (37:10)

Well, the argument is that Tick Tock is definitely getting the better end of the deal.

Alex (37:16)

They want a cut of the money for when that song plays.

Evan (37:18)

Yeah, I mean, but how else are you supposed to get your song on the.

Mike (37:22)

I don't know.

Ben (37:23)

I think that's probably, probably a good idea though. Like if Tick Tock is like screwing over artists, like think about what YouTube.

Mike (37:31)

Play makes no sense though, because you'd make ad rev off of it. Getting views in the music video going, popping.

Ben (37:36)

Yeah, but like as far as like an artist, like, they probably feel more protected that, you know, if. If UMG is going to do that, they're probably like trying to strong arm TikTok into giving artists like more.

Evan (37:50)

I mean.

Ken (37:50)

Yeah, but I think that is very accurate. I just still think it's overall and.

Evan (37:56)

I mean it's one thing if you're great because you're the biggest artist, one of the biggest artists in the world, but if you're a smaller artist under there, that would suck. You'll just lose all of your free promo.

Ben (38:05)

Yeah, I mean, you know, then you.

Evan (38:07)

Have to go like full blown. You have to make your own promo on social media and you can't do it on Instagram or Tick Tock. How are you supposed to promote yourself in 2024? Have no idea without being able to post your sounds on the Internet.

Mike (38:19)

Yeah, that definitely stock as a smaller creator. But hopefully what they're. I see what you're saying, Ben. Like they're working towards a bigger goal which will actually help them in the long.

Evan (38:28)

Help the artist if that's their goal. Because UMG has always been like the. The first person to copyright music on Instagram on right away.

Ken (38:38)

Always.

Evan (38:38)

Yeah, I think UMG is just like, oh, we're missing out on money or we're not getting any money and there's being assholes and taking it.

Ben (38:45)

Yeah, they could be doing that too. Like, I. I really don't think that those labels are fair at all.

Evan (38:50)

Yeah, that's what I mean. I think they're just kind of.

Ken (38:52)

How big of a company is umg?

Mike (38:54)

Massive.

Ben (38:54)

Oh, huge.

Ken (38:55)

They seem to.

Mike (38:55)

The artist isn't really getting typically that much money. They get ripped.

Evan (38:59)

Yeah.

Mike (38:59)

All their deals.

Alex (39:00)

I saw something like artists only get like 20 of the revenue.

Mike (39:03)

I'm pretty sure it's less, bro. Song depends how you negotiate it. But some people are getting way less.

Ken (39:08)

That's crazy.

Mike (39:09)

They get ripped.

Evan (39:10)

To your point about strong arming Tick Tock, more than one third of Tick Tock's most popular songs are gone. Well, so, I mean, you take a third music from the platform, that is definitely something.

Alex (39:22)

So are all those posts like now just silent?

Mike (39:24)

Yeah.

Ken (39:24)

Oh, every post that you've made with it.

Evan (39:27)

So for a lot of people, like.

Ben (39:29)

Going through ours, that makes sense.

Evan (39:30)

Yeah. I mean all those popular.

Ken (39:31)

They definitely are strong arming Tick Tock.

Mike (39:35)

Oh, trying.

Ken (39:35)

Yeah. Try and try.

Alex (39:36)

I think just all social media, if they pulled it from everything.

Ben (39:39)

Yeah, you used to not be able to use songs like that were, you know, copyright by umg. On Instagram reels, they used to get copywritten all the time and then taken down. And now, now like Instagram has obviously like the reels and then the music and you can just add it in like that.

Ken (39:53)

But now it's probably gonna happen again.

Mike (39:55)

Are you sure they took it off Instagram?

Ben (39:57)

And YouTube. I. I didn't see Instagram.

Evan (40:00)

Well, I guess never. You Never could on YouTube. But it for sure is tick tock. Umg.

Mike (40:05)

But, like, they can still post their song. Yeah, yeah. So they're fine. That makes complete sense. Like, you can. They can post their video, their music video promoting the song and all that, and they're gonna make money on it.

Evan (40:16)

But everybody that makes your song go viral, they can't.

Mike (40:20)

I mean, that's how it is for YouTube videos, though. You think about it, like, there's no copyright song that you can put.

Evan (40:25)

Yeah. But it's not nearly as viral of a platform. Like, people that's.

Mike (40:30)

Yeah, right.

Evan (40:30)

Like, anyway. Seemed crazy to me. Yeah. That they would pull that marketing plug for their artists instead of just signing a deal that got them money.

Ken (40:38)

Well, on to more important things. How do you guys feel about this? I just saw an article that said climbers of Mount Everest now have. Have to pick up after themselves when they.

Evan (40:50)

Yeah. They have to bring their own.

Alex (40:52)

They didn't have to do that before I saw that.

Mike (40:55)

Why would you.

Ben (40:56)

Yeah.

Mike (40:57)

Beast.

Evan (40:57)

Climb Mount Everest?

Mike (40:58)

Sorry.

Ben (40:58)

He was.

Mike (40:59)

He spent like 24 hours in, like, the Antarctic Circle or something.

Ken (41:03)

Oh, yeah.

Mike (41:03)

But they had to pick up all their.

Evan (41:05)

Too Interesting.

Mike (41:06)

I think, like, actual. Like, you can't just outside to me, because I think it freezes. It doesn't go anywhere.

Evan (41:12)

It doesn't go away. So I mean, they always say, like, the people who die up there, you stay up there, stuff like that. But nothing decomposes. So how many people climb on ever?

Ken (41:21)

Yeah, I guess I didn't think about the. Maybe it was happening in a very concentrated area since people tend to take, what, one?

Evan (41:28)

Yeah.

Ken (41:29)

I mean, there's only one way.

Alex (41:30)

There's only a couple different routes up there.

Ken (41:32)

I didn't think about that. I was thinking, like, they're in the.

Ben (41:34)

Ton of trash up there too.

Ken (41:35)

Right.

Ben (41:36)

Right.

Ken (41:36)

Yeah. I got to do more research on that then, because I was thinking, like, if. If we're, like, out snowmobiling and we need a. In the woods, like, just do it.

Evan (41:43)

Yeah.

Ben (41:44)

It is a little bit different than if there was just one snowmobile trail.

Ken (41:48)

Right.

Ben (41:48)

Every.

Ken (41:50)

You're right. You're right.

Alex (41:51)

But it's still, like, you're not the.

Ben (41:52)

Shit on the trail. You're still cleaning up that angel out of that.

Alex (41:56)

You're still not cleaning up after yourself, though, at the end of the day.

Ben (41:59)

Yeah.

Evan (41:59)

Yeah. It still kind of makes sense if it's. If it's just going to pile up. There's Been in total about 11,000 summits of Mount Everest. Not 11,000 people, but 11,000 times people have gone up and down.

Alex (42:12)

Says about 800 a year.

Evan (42:13)

800 a year. So, I mean, yeah, you got 800 people taking a couple deuces.

Mike (42:18)

There's only been that many people.

Ken (42:20)

I thought it would actually been more.

Mike (42:21)

When was the first time someone climbed Mount Everest?

Alex (42:24)

It was in the last 100 years, I want to say.

Ken (42:26)

Like, now it's getting pretty popular, but I thought the number was probably way.

Mike (42:29)

Harder, obviously, back in the day. And now it's getting easier just because of it. Equipment.

Evan (42:33)

But people didn't really. According to this graph, people didn't really even start doing it until popularly, until, like, the 1990s.

Ken (42:40)

Wow.

Evan (42:41)

But now, like Ken said, 800 people are doing it a year, but back then, it looks like 10 or less.

Ben (42:47)

Well, just think about, like, the equipment.

Ken (42:49)

Yeah. And the. The weather. Like, sometimes they have to wait at, you know, base camp number one at. For, like, two weeks before they can even go. So then when they can go, everyone goes in a line, and they just. They're shitting everywhere.

Ben (43:02)

If you guys want to watch a good Netflix documentary, Watch 14 Peaks.

Alex (43:06)

So good.

Ken (43:06)

Yeah, that's a great.

Ben (43:07)

So good. And it just shows, you know, like, what all goes into climbing these. These insane mountains. And, like, I can't imagine the shape that you got to be in. Dude. I can barely. When you get, you know, stuck on your snowmobile out in the mountains, dude, like, seriously, you can be so in shape or what you think is in shape, and then as soon as you're at altitude, you're just. We talked about that in the last podcast with. With ev. But, dude, yeah, man, climbing Mount Everest is, like, got to be one of those things that I. I can seriously never picture myself ever even having interest in doing. No, it doesn't sound fun at all.

Ken (43:44)

I always sounds like I want to.

Ben (43:45)

Part of that, but maybe.

Ken (43:46)

Yeah, that.

Evan (43:47)

But then I literally climbed 10 flights of stairs, and I'm like, I'm not climbing no mountain.

Ken (43:52)

You know what I like? I like when the term hike is used. I will hike a mountain.

Evan (43:57)

Oh, yeah.

Ken (43:57)

Especially when there's no snow involved. Done it a few times. It's fun climbing a mountain. Count me out if you have to, like, rope onto something.

Evan (44:06)

Yeah.

Ben (44:06)

No, I don't even like going for hikes. I think I've said this before on the podcast, but, like, Greta loves going for hikes. I'm like, this is.

Evan (44:12)

I would much rather take my dirt.

Mike (44:14)

Bike or myself Next time she goes.

Ben (44:16)

On a hike, you're like, here, I'm.

Mike (44:17)

Going to bring my dirt bike. And then you just blow up it. And she's just like, well this sucks. I'm doing this by myself now. Ben's chilling at the top.

Ken (44:24)

Or you're just like overheating like dad on the 450, son on the PW50.

Ben (44:29)

You're just like, yeah.

Evan (44:31)

Just idling up.

Ben (44:32)

That doesn't sound very fun, but it makes sense. Yeah. Clean up your shit. Yeah, yeah.

Evan (44:37)

Literally.

Ken (44:38)

Dude, speaking of those oxygen things that Evan was going on about, he bulk ordered them.

Evan (44:43)

No way.

Ken (44:44)

A box of them in his room. Just like bottles of oxygen.

Mike (44:47)

He wakes up in the middle of the night, just takes one, he's going.

Ben (44:50)

To start abusing those too.

Ken (44:52)

I think so.

Mike (44:53)

Probably be the best thing you could abuse.

Alex (44:55)

I don't think those things do anything.

Ken (44:56)

I don't know if they do either. But I'm like, I'm going to get you a black market version of those things called an inhaler. Cuz that's kind of what it is. You know the over the. Not over the. He has the over the counter version. I don't know if it is.

Ben (45:08)

I'm pretty sure it's steroids.

Mike (45:09)

I'm pretty sure it's not good for you because if you don't need it, like every time you do it, it. We can weakens your like conditions you. Yeah, yeah.

Ken (45:19)

The oxygen can see that.

Mike (45:20)

Yeah. I remember like kids in hockey. Like sometimes like there'd actually be a kid who needed it but then other kids would like hit it.

Evan (45:26)

Yeah. Want some classic.

Mike (45:27)

Don't quote me, but I'm. I just would assume it's not good for you.

Evan (45:30)

Yeah.

Mike (45:31)

If you don't need it.

Evan (45:31)

Don't like NFL players do that. Right. When like linemen have to go for a long run, they sit down on the bench.

Ben (45:37)

Yeah.

Mike (45:37)

That's not an inhaler though. That's a. Oh, that's just pure. Pure oxygen mask. Yeah.

Evan (45:41)

Oh, they were just using inhalers.

Mike (45:43)

Yeah.

Ken (45:43)

Oh. What?

Ben (45:44)

Dude?

Mike (45:44)

Yeah, not good.

Evan (45:46)

That doesn't, that doesn't seem good because it's like a steroid or something like that.

Mike (45:49)

It's not just expands your lungs or something.

Evan (45:52)

Oh, interesting.

Mike (45:52)

I'm not entirely sure.

Ben (45:53)

Sure.

Mike (45:54)

So maybe I'm not the guy to talk about it.

Ken (45:55)

I have a prescribed inhaler and I am not. You do talk about it either. Yeah, I don't know if it works or not. It feels like it does.

Mike (46:02)

What did you.

Ken (46:03)

I don't really have. I never had asthma attacks.

Ben (46:05)

Yeah. So why do you have an inhaler?

Ken (46:07)

Because. Remember when I, like, couldn't get into the National Guard because I. I went into the doctor one time, and I'm like, man, I'm just, like, wheezy, and. And in the winter, if I goes.

Mike (46:18)

Well, you're out of shape.

Ben (46:19)

Yeah.

Ken (46:20)

No, in the winter, it would get worse. Like, you. You know, you got that, like, whatever if you're, like. Like, over exerting yourself. So they, like, prescribed me an inhaler, and I didn't really use it here and there. Sometimes I come inside after freaking shoveling or, I don't know, running around. But then when the National Guard found that out, they're like, you have asthma.

Mike (46:40)

You can't be.

Ken (46:40)

You can't be here, bro.

Ben (46:42)

Really?

Ken (46:42)

So. And I'm like, I don't really think I have asthma. How often? I know.

Ben (46:47)

Or maybe you didn't.

Ken (46:48)

Yeah.

Evan (46:48)

Yeah.

Ben (46:48)

Might have worked out.

Ken (46:49)

No, No.

Ben (46:50)

I thought they didn't let you in because of your foot.

Ken (46:52)

No, it was. It was. That was a concern, but it was. It was that crazy. And I'm like, I don't even think I really have asthma. And they're like, how often do you have attacks? I'm like, I never. I don't even know what it's like.

Ben (47:02)

They're just looking you up and down. Like, you see them right down, Pudgy.

Ken (47:07)

No, I was, like, pretty scrawny at that time, too. They're probably like, this guy just doesn't have it.

Mike (47:12)

They didn't want to let you in.

Evan (47:13)

What do you want to be with?

Mike (47:14)

They're like, begging everyone else to get in. And Mike, they're like, no, no, no.

Ken (47:18)

I want to make T shirts on the computer.

Evan (47:21)

They're like, no, we want guys who want to shoot guns and drive Command.

Mike (47:25)

Mike's like, let me design us all new uniforms. Like, all right, buddy.

Ken (47:29)

I love camo.

Ben (47:30)

I got that going for me.

Ken (47:32)

I joined the army because I love camo so much.

Ben (47:34)

Sir, can you take a step away from the table for us? Yeah. Why you step back. I thought those were purple jeans.

Ken (47:43)

Oh, yeah, that wouldn't be smart to wear those. Those there.

Mike (47:47)

Were you in your skater? So you weren't, like, a skater when you went. I'm sure I was like, mop haircut, kind of.

Ken (47:54)

I think so. I mean, I want to say I probably had long hair, but.

Evan (47:57)

Yeah, you had a higher voice then, too.

Ken (47:59)

It was. It was awkward. I still have a pretty high voice.

Mike (48:01)

So they Just told you?

Ken (48:04)

No, no. They kept dicking us around. Like, I'd go, who's us?

Mike (48:08)

Yeah.

Ken (48:08)

Was it just like me and my dad?

Mike (48:10)

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ben (48:11)

Like.

Ken (48:11)

But they just all proud.

Mike (48:13)

Like, my son signing up for the.

Ben (48:14)

Military gets there, you won't take them.

Mike (48:17)

What do you mean? You guys take everyone?

Ben (48:19)

No. You call around asking for people to sign up. He's here.

Mike (48:23)

He's here right now.

Ben (48:24)

We drove all the way here, and you. What do you mean you don't want.

Ken (48:26)

That's what I was saying. I was like, you guys come to my school and you beg us to come in.

Ben (48:33)

You say it's so cool. Seriously, this guy can literally do anything. He can clean the floors.

Ken (48:38)

I even. What about serving food, bro? But it was like, the passing, the whole physical thing. They wouldn't even let me take the physical because they were concerned about my foot too. And I was like, bro, I'm fine. Let's just take it. You don't even have to tell anybody. I'll just perform in front of you.

Ben (48:52)

You know, do some sprints.

Mike (48:54)

And they got to a field, like, running.

Ken (48:58)

All right, you better not be wheezing and I better not see any limp. I want a straight run, like the flag pulling back.

Evan (49:04)

Mike comes back.

Ben (49:06)

Mike, he's doing push ups.

Ken (49:08)

No, I was like, ready. I was ready if they were. I'm like, he's wearing his gym shoes. Had good old Nike Freeze back in the day. Bright neon green.

Ben (49:19)

Okay, so they tell you no. How does that go when they say no?

Ken (49:22)

It just basically was like, hey, I need to enroll in school or I need to know if I'm going to basic. And then they were like, okay, we'll. We'll get. I was like, I need to know in a day. You know, you give them a deadline, they're like, I need to know by tomorrow because I'm going to the school or.

Evan (49:37)

And you know it's bad if you're pushing. I know.

Ben (49:40)

That's what I was saying. You're giving them a fucking ultimatum. No, they're pushing it off.

Evan (49:43)

That's Draws it lines on deadlines. Like US Government deadlines.

Ben (49:48)

Yeah, they.

Ken (49:49)

They responded back and they were just like, you know, we regret to inform you that your son's too stupid.

Ben (49:58)

They just wrote it to your.

Mike (50:01)

Son.

Ben (50:01)

Like, you don't. It was pretty.

Mike (50:03)

He doesn't.

Ben (50:03)

Listen. I do realize that this is gonna be an extreme disappointment, but I'm sure you used to that.

Ken (50:09)

No, they sent it to me and it was like very. Just. Okay. Wow. All Right. And then literally went into the community college and then enrolled in, like, a day.

Evan (50:20)

I remember they don't let you.

Ben (50:23)

Mike's like, well, fine, I guess I'll.

Mike (50:24)

Just stick around and work on the farm. Mike's dad and grandpa, Like, I don't know about that.

Ben (50:30)

What am I gonna do?

Ken (50:32)

I think about that day a lot, too, because it was a transition point. And I don't know why I was still so caught up on this, but it was when they said that I had to have a Mac for the graphic design.

Evan (50:41)

I remember that, dude.

Ken (50:41)

And I was just all like, why do I have to have a Mac? I was like, I don't want a Mac. I have Windows and it works well, and I'll get a new Windows if I have to, but I'm not getting a Mac. And they're like, then you can't. You will not be able to take any of the classes. And I was like, all right, I'll get a Mac. And then from there, like, I just feel like we just crush it on Max. I love that we all work on Max. And, like, I know it's not that deep, but.

Mike (51:01)

Yeah, dude. Do you guys see the new Apple provision or whatever the it's called?

Ben (51:06)

Dude, all the.

Mike (51:09)

You ordered one, Ken.

Ken (51:11)

No.

Ben (51:12)

Shut up.

Mike (51:13)

Oh, yeah, right?

Alex (51:14)

People driving cars with those things, though.

Ken (51:16)

Seeing, like, more coverage on these things than, like, so many. So many funny stuff.

Alex (51:21)

People, they look so stupid wearing.

Mike (51:24)

Oh, 100. But I was so caught off by how many influencers. Like, we'll say, like, I saw Danny got one. I saw Buttery got one.

Ben (51:33)

Obviously.

Ken (51:33)

Nice.

Mike (51:34)

That Casey Neistat. That kind of makes sense. I saw, like, Balin Levine got one. I saw the Nelkwoods got one. Like, all these people got one on the very first day.

Ben (51:43)

And I was just surprised.

Mike (51:44)

I was like, none of these people strike me as someone who would be like, I need this today. But they were all posting about it, like, and, you know, people are interested in it. I saw Roman got one. You know, all this, it's kind of interesting, but it's the new hot thing.

Alex (51:58)

That everybody, like, there's so much coverage on it. Anybody's just gonna click a video that has.

Mike (52:03)

It seems like more of a novelty item than a trend. And, like, VR headsets have been around for forever, but since Apple made it going back to the Mac thing, they just got different serious poll. Like, you know, it's done right and, like, it's going to be, you know.

Alex (52:18)

See what your cost, though.

Mike (52:19)

It's like four grand.

Alex (52:20)

Like, 3,500 bucks.

Mike (52:21)

Four grand after tax.

Ken (52:22)

Yeah.

Ben (52:23)

Dang.

Ken (52:23)

But I. I did a small amount of research on the, you know, the Oculus or whatever. Or now it's called the Meta. The Meta 3 seems pretty decent, and then the price reflects it, but it's the Apple Vision seems way, way, way better.

Mike (52:36)

Oh, for sure.

Evan (52:37)

I think it's really Oculus the.

Ken (52:39)

The new Meta 3. Yeah, you can. And apparently it's, like, way better than. What do they call it? Just pass through, whatever. But it's way better than the Meta 2. But then the Vision pros look like they're way.

Mike (52:50)

What do you use something like this for? Like, realistically, what do you use?

Ben (52:54)

Well, did you see what is the.

Alex (52:56)

I saw there's things like you can. You can, like, use your computer screen, and then it can, like, project it, like, in space.

Mike (53:04)

Yeah.

Alex (53:04)

You have, like, multiple windows. But I was like, that seems pointless.

Evan (53:07)

We could be sitting here. Ken could be sitting now on the podcast desk, but he would just have those on. And then when we ask him a.

Ken (53:14)

Question, he just sits there.

Evan (53:15)

He goes like this.

Mike (53:15)

It'd have been really funny if, like, Ken had it. And then, like, it cuts to Ken after, like, halfway through the podcast, he finally says something. He just has his headset on.

Evan (53:24)

I know. I wish you did. I kind of thought you were gonna get him.

Mike (53:27)

I'm surprised you don't, Ken. I feel like maybe Ken was worried he would get made fun of, so he's like, I'm not gonna get it.

Alex (53:32)

I think it'd be nice for a plane. Like, you can.

Mike (53:34)

Oh, yeah.

Alex (53:36)

Only way I could see that I would buy one is if I flew a lot more.

Mike (53:40)

What would you use your, you know, use your VR headset for primarily, would.

Alex (53:44)

You say, basically would just watch movies? Because you can, like, fill. Like, you can give the illusion of a bigger screen than what's actually there. Yeah, you can, like, fill the space. But other than that, I was like, what else are you going to do with it?

Evan (53:57)

You could fulfill merch orders while having everything up on the screen.

Mike (54:01)

Actually, that actually kind of sick. Okay, now I'm starting to see stuff.

Evan (54:05)

To customer servicings. Damn. Are we talking ourselves into these.

Mike (54:10)

Talking thing? You just speech attacks. You go respond to the email. You're. Dude, you'd be actually probably able to do a lot of stuff.

Evan (54:15)

Shut the fuck up. Your order's coming.

Ken (54:18)

The biggest thing is the pass through that it's got to be good. If the pass through is not good, then it's. Then all it is is Just like a gaming system or a personal.

Mike (54:25)

It just seems weird that you'd be like grabbing things. No, you just use that to click. That's how you click. So you're just like pinching your fingers. But you have to look at something dead set on. It's crazy. So like you have to intentionally make sure you're locked in on that thing you're looking at to click it.

Evan (54:41)

What?

Mike (54:42)

And then your fingers just like, it has such a wide field of view. Like you could have your hand down here. You could just be like.

Evan (54:48)

Yeah, that's really. What you need is a little like thing on your finger.

Mike (54:51)

So should we get one?

Ben (54:53)

See, I didn't want to try to on them because I could probably see myself buying a set and then. I don't want to be a hypocrite.

Mike (54:59)

Yeah, I'm not necessarily talking, am I? I'm just more so like it, it just seems like a novelty item and I'm, I'm just surprised at how many people were like, I need this day one. Like they must have ordered it a while ago and before it was really such a big trend. Like I would have never foreseen it being as popular.

Evan (55:17)

Yeah.

Mike (55:18)

Or as much interest as it's gotten for that.

Alex (55:22)

You're buying a first generation product. Like look at the first generation iPhone compared to what they can do today.

Mike (55:27)

Oh, it's going to be amazing.

Alex (55:28)

In five years it's probably going to be worth buy but today it's like all that stuff is so limited.

Mike (55:34)

Yeah.

Alex (55:35)

That in the future it's just me like, oh, you have the first one. This is worthless.

Mike (55:38)

It's kind of lame that you got that like cord and a battery pack. Like that shit's not going to last around until the second gen, like, you know.

Ken (55:45)

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I agree. I, I just, I'm way, I'd way rather have it on my hip than more weight on my head.

Mike (55:51)

True. Yeah. How does that work?

Ben (55:52)

Do you have headphones on or like.

Ken (55:54)

Yeah, how does they use like spatial audio or something? It's like it kind of just projects.

Ben (56:00)

Right. You probably sync it up with earbuds.

Alex (56:03)

No, it's like headphone things that don't go in your ears. It's kind of weird.

Ben (56:08)

If you want it like quiet, no.

Ken (56:10)

Other people can't really hear it.

Mike (56:11)

Yeah.

Evan (56:11)

You guys remember those speakers? They were really popular probably, I don't know, six, seven years ago where they wouldn't make noise and then you put them on a surface and then they turn the whole thing into a Speaker?

Ken (56:21)

Yeah.

Evan (56:22)

Remember those?

Ben (56:22)

No.

Evan (56:23)

Oh, dude, they were so legit. You like put it on the roof of your car and then your whole car makes noise.

Mike (56:27)

What?

Evan (56:27)

Yeah, it was kind of a.

Ken (56:28)

Cool.

Evan (56:29)

Remember?

Alex (56:29)

Yeah, I bought one of those.

Ken (56:30)

I think. I don't think anything happened to them. That was the worst part. I like the whole idea of it. But they were like ten dollar Bluetooth speakers.

Mike (56:37)

That just. Yeah.

Ken (56:38)

Sounds like.

Evan (56:39)

But I don't know, something with the vibrations. It does that. But I think it does it on your head. So. Yeah, you could put on your head and then you would just hear it in your head.

Ben (56:46)

What?

Evan (56:47)

That was cool.

Mike (56:49)

Kind of weird.

Ken (56:49)

You guys remember like tooth tunes, the toothbrushes, that.

Mike (56:53)

Oh, yeah, yeah, Same thing.

Ben (56:55)

Was that actually a thing?

Ken (56:56)

It was.

Ben (56:57)

I never had one.

Ken (56:58)

I never had one either, but I had, you know, other peers at school that was like, oh, yeah, I got one of those. Yeah. It plays the songs kind of every day.

Mike (57:05)

You got like 50 Cent. And then like every night before you bed, you're listening to them and then you get all hyped up.

Ben (57:11)

I don't know what you know about me.

Evan (57:16)

Yeah. Be kind of legit, actually.

Ken (57:18)

Bring them back. Yeah. Because think the technology is way better now.

Evan (57:23)

Yeah.

Ken (57:23)

We got shoes. We can grind with toothbrushes, with music.

Mike (57:26)

We're kind of going back in, back in time.

Ken (57:28)

Yeah.

Ben (57:29)

Like all good things. Everything comes around history repeating itself.

Evan (57:33)

Good times.

Ben (57:33)

I feel like we went over a lot of stuff.

Ken (57:35)

Yeah.

Mike (57:36)

I'm gonna go to Best Buy and just do some shopping.

Ben (57:41)

Dude. Next podcast, we're all wearing them.

Ken (57:44)

That would be. So the other thing is, like, if any. If anyone is thinking about buying them, should literally probably do it in the next two days because they're probably gonna be not talked about in about two weeks.

Ben (57:53)

So.

Ken (57:54)

Gotta make your content now.

Ben (57:56)

All right, well, that's a wrap. If you haven't subscribed, subscribe and we'll see you guys in the next one.

Ken (58:01)

Peace.