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Ryan
Buy a truck. Never do truck stuff. Be a man.
Ben
There was a local truck that drove into the cormorant store.
Ryan
Yeah. We leave for one weekend and the whole town falls apart.
Mike
Pulled in, rolling deep and just go right to Ryan's truck.
Ben
My buddy Ryan over here is paying $14,000 a month in car insurance.
Ryan
Your headphones work siege. No, they don't.
Mike
Yeah, I'm getting Millennial farmer over here.
Ryan
Ears don't really.
Mike
Man, I can't believe Millennial did the whole freaking podcast like that. That sucks, dude.
Ben
You can't hear anything.
Mike
I'm surprised you didn't just take the headphones off.
Ben
I can't believe you could hear what we were saying, dude.
Ryan
I texted him about that, and I was like, I'm. I'm so sorry. Like, that. That was bad. You know, I wish he'd said something, but thank you for toughing through it. He goes, oh, I thought it was, like, a radio thing. I was on NPR one day, and I didn't have sound there either.
Ben
I go, you guys have a terrible production too.
Ryan
Yeah. I was like, well, at least we're as bad as mpr.
Mike
It's like every time I go on, they made me put these stupid things on. They don't do anything.
Ben
So he just.
Mike
It's two times in.
Ben
What are the odds?
Mike
And then he just didn't do it.
Ryan
He's like, I thought it was just.
Ben
Are we good now, Ken?
Mike
Ken.
Ken
And Ken's. You know, as you can imagine, after the announcing, the truck giveaway and a lot of fire merch, he is in the cockpit just grinding. He has. He has a solid crew today. It's a Saturday. He has a solid crew of helpers, and they're sending out lots of orders. I'm updating the website. We're restocking as much as we can.
Mike
It's.
Ken
It's good. It's good. I really appreciate the sport. All of us do.
Mike
Yeah, you guys are crushing it on the. The new merch Drop and the. The truck giveaway, if you haven't heard already. I'm sure you have, though, if you're listening to this. But, yeah, I. Every time I think about Ken, I just can't help but kind of chuckle at him back there. Like, it's in. He's in, like, his own world.
Ryan
They got their music playing, the different.
Mike
Culture, and so much work to do. Like, he has his work cut out for him.
Ryan
For us, Drop evening is like the end of this thing. It's like the top of the mountain where we get to, like, be excited about. All of our work has paid off. And for him, it just. Well, actually, it doesn't just start because he has all the folding and organizing, but you can just see it at 7, just like the. The color fades from his face.
Mike
Back.
Ryan
To the birch bay.
Mike
I chuckle, too, because, like, it's. The only time Ken wakes up earlier than me is during, like, after merch drop. Like, he wakes up and leaves, and, you know, I can hear him, like, he's getting up at 7, and I'm like, this is nice getting this. You know, you can hear him leaving.
Ryan
Like, I'm.
Mike
I feel good staying in bed.
Ben
Yeah. Everything we do, you know, it's work, but, like, we love the process of it, so it doesn't feel like work, you know, we love the grind of it. I don't think Ken loves a single second of what he's doing. He's just doing it.
Mike
But also, maybe. Maybe. I think he might. He wouldn't. He'd be lost without it, I think.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
I think you could ask him, though, and be like, you hate it? And he'd be like, absolutely not. And then you, like, do you love it? He'd be like, absolutely not.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Funny.
Ken
Yeah. He's working hard.
Mike
Yeah, he is. That's for sure. I mean, it's got to be overwhelming. Like, there's so many. So many shirts, garments, everything. Like, he's in, like, it's overflowing back there. The warehouse isn't big enough for how many. I mean, we just outgrew it finally. Yeah, he's got, like, a different group of workers coming through, like, throughout running shit. And he's got to keep telling, you know, new people, like, what they're doing.
Ben
The new guys are showing up, and they're just confused.
Mike
They got their hands in their pockets. Ken's just ignoring them.
Ben
I'll get around to you.
Ryan
I did. I dropped off a couple workers for them because they were wandering the shop. And back I go, ken, we got some more help for you.
Mike
This is where you're supposed to be.
Ryan
Over here, over here. And they go, okay, great. Go back there, Ken, got some more help for you.
Mike
He goes, oh, boy.
Ryan
That was his response.
Ben
Nothing says, welcome to the team.
Mike
Nice to meet you.
Ben
Like your new boss going, oh.
Ryan
Oh, boy.
Mike
But we got some good frequent guys back there that have been.
Ryan
He's got some good orders.
Mike
Yeah. Yeah. I really like that crew. So good kids.
Ken
Let's just say I am interested now in buying my own cummins. I really, really, really like that. Truck so much.
Ryan
That's what you need, Mike. Another car.
Ben
Yeah, that would be, you know, great. To add to your fleet of cars.
Ken
Yeah. No, I mean, it would be in place of.
Ben
In place of what?
Ken
The bronco.
Ben
Oh, really? Oh, you're to that age where you're like, I need a truck, dude.
Ken
It's actually, like.
Mike
It's.
Ken
It's more talking about the merch, but, like, so many trips back and forth, like, bringing the merch and just wherever I'm like, I need truck stuff. The broncos filled to the brim worth of merch every time I come back from Fargo.
Ben
It's funny because I'm almost at the point where I'm like, I'm not sure if I need a truck. Like, I might go to, like, a. You know. What would you call your car? Like a 4x4?
Ken
Like a. Yeah, like a SUV?
Ben
Yeah. SUV.
Ken
What do you call that?
Ben
I don't know. But I was like, I don't know. If I need a truck bed, I use it, you know, maybe once a week, but I could just use a company truck for that. So, yeah, maybe we're just switching up. You want to buy my raptor?
Ken
Yeah. There we go.
Ben
Trade. I don't know if you want that.
Ken
And the only reason I was, like, talking about diesel is because, like, yeah, of course I'd rather have a raptor. I think that'd be way cooler, way more practical, way more fun. But, like, be cool to have a diesel. Put a sled deck on it for no reason.
Ryan
Buy a truck, never do truck stuff. Be a man.
Ben
Well, speaking of a truck, there was a local truck that drove into the cormorant store.
Ryan
Yeah. We leave for one weekend, and the whole town falls apart.
Ken
We haven't talked about this happening. This is a juicy one, guys.
Mike
I think it's just hilarious. Not. It's unfortunate for the cormorant store, but it's hilarious how it. How we got tied into it while we were. We were gone from town. And keep in mind, this happened before we had aired Ken driving his truck through his house. Pretty funny. It would have made sense if that video had already been public and people knew about it. But anyway, so we're in Wyoming, and the locals. We kind of hear from some friends, like, yeah, I guess someone drove through the cormorant store last night. Was like, wow. We're like, wow. You know, do that. That's crazy. Like, they. They drove through, and they think it's a robbery. Dang. That's. That's nuts. We get A notification on our camera. Three cop cars, and I think there was even one outside. They sent four people over to our shop, like, pulled in, rolling deep, and just go right to Ryan's truck.
Ryan
Why me?
Mike
Probably because they were like, who's the only guy crazy enough to do this?
Ben
And. And to be fair. To be fair.
Ken
Then we found out later, at first.
Ben
We were like, what the heck? Why would they come and check us? And then the more we started thinking about it, we were like, okay, makes sense a little bit. But we haven't even aired the video of us driving the truck into Ken's house.
Mike
So anyways, they go. And they go and they look at Ryan's truck, and they're like. I mean, the. The one dude takes one look, and it's obviously a mint.
Ken
He goes, no hiccup.
Mike
He goes, that's not it. Walks away. Two guys kind of looking at it. They're like, I think they were discussing your bumper. You couldn't really hear them, you know, because you have an aftermarket, and it.
Ryan
Looks different, probably from the road or whatever they saw when they drove.
Mike
So anyways, they spent a little bit extra time, but then they rolled off. But the only thing I thought was hilarious on it was they, like, sent four guys over to our shop immediately. Instead of just checking the cameras. When the store, which was a little store, when you have the cameras of the truck, the person going into the cormorant store, like, you could see clear as day, it wasn't us. But they just rush over here, and they're like, it's got to be them. We're not even in town.
Ryan
The more.
Ben
The more we found out about it, the less sense it made. So somebody drives their vehicle into the backside of the cormorant store. We're like, oh, it must have been a black ram truck.
Mike
Assuming that.
Ben
Yeah, we're like, okay, so black ram. And so that's, you know, what then led to going and checking out Ryan's. Well, the more information we found out about it, you know, because, like, rumors are starting to spread through Cormorant, through the village of, you know, who could it be? Who could it be? You know, we're speculating, like, oh, could it have been this person? We got some suspects, right? And we're, you know, Ken is all up on it, texting everyone, like, any new information.
Mike
And I'd say if. If our video had gone out and the public knew that we had recently drove a truck through a building multiple times, I think we would be valid suspect. But we're also not criminals.
Ryan
That. Yeah.
Mike
Would rob the cormorant store.
Ben
Yeah. We come to find out. Here's the story of what happened. A girl is 14 years old.
Ryan
14, doesn't have her license. She can't even drive in this state.
Ben
Honestly, I'm sure the girl had a lot of problems, so I. I feel. I feel for her in this way. But as reporters, we have to tell you the story accurately. There you go. So this girl is 14 years old. She steals her dad's truck. It's a white ram.
Ken
Oh, it wasn't even black.
Mike
It makes no sense.
Ben
Makes no sense. All right, so now. Now you're losing. You kind of lose cameras. Could have been black and white. All right.
Ryan
Okay.
Ben
Could have distorted it. So she goes to the cormorant store and tries to break in the front.
Ken
Door with the shovel.
Ben
Oh, with shovel.
Ken
Yeah.
Ben
Now she goes around the backside, drives her dad's vehicle into the backside of the cormorant store.
Ryan
Oh, man.
Ben
And then I believe she proceeds to hop out, trot her way through the store, goes up to the front.
Ryan
This is where speculation comes in. This is what we've heard.
Mike
This wasn't in the news story, but.
Ryan
This is where the speculation comes in.
Ben
She grabs a vape.
Mike
Dude, those fucking vapes, man.
Ben
After grabbing a vape, she walks back to the coolers. She grabs a Mountain Dew, and then she walks back and. And hops in her Dodge Ram, backs out of the building.
Mike
That's some.
Ben
And then savage behavior proceeds to drive the Fargo and get a DUI dude 45 minutes away.
Ken
Who.
Mike
Dude, that is. Seriously. Who would think of that?
Ben
Like, that.
Mike
I got to give it to her in the dedicated. Yeah, you're just a fiend. But, like, you couldn't break the glass. You're like it. I'll hop in my truck and drive it through the building and hop out. Like, that's nuts.
Ryan
That's impressive.
Ben
That is.
Mike
That is. Yeah, No, I mean, that's. That's just. That's a whole nother mentality.
Ben
It's like she had to have been.
Mike
Trying to get a vape dog. Yeah, that's what happens when you vape, man. Drives you crazy. Stay off vapes, kids.
Ryan
That's the lesson.
Mike
That is the lesson. That's a takeaway from this 100. Stay off the vapes. It might drive through a building.
Ken
Yeah, probably don't drink and drive, either.
Mike
Yeah, that doesn't help either.
Ken
But that's why I'm so confused, is that she was 14, yet she's giving like on a bender vibes. Like she got the DUI at five in the morning and did the break in at like three in the morning or something. I'm like, why were you and on like whatever. It wasn't even a weekend was.
Ryan
It was a Friday.
Ken
Okay.
Ben
It was.
Mike
So.
Ken
But yeah, she's like on bender, just going ham, I guess drinking and then I mean, you know.
Ben
Good.
Ken
Yeah, it's no good at all. But it's just. Yeah. I really do feel bad like any age person doing that. It's not a good look. But I really feel bad to get in a situation like that at such a young age.
Mike
Young age.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
You know, you just don't know any better. I mean you should know. You should know better, but you shouldn't be drinking and driving regardless. Driving regardless. But drinking at a young age, which. Who knows. There's so many things I do feel bad for. Yeah. For the girl. And you know, it's unfortunate what happened to the Cormont store. But you can fix that.
Ryan
Yeah, I think they're gonna fix it up. It'll be better.
Mike
Nobody got hurt. So I think that's the silver lining.
Ben
Here's my question also.
Mike
I just think it's. I think it's hilarious that they came here looking for a white truck and a 14 year old girl.
Ryan
Yeah, my built like a 14 year old.
Mike
You just think that you would watch the security camera footage before sending four officers. Yeah, like scattered just seems like basic. Like the procedure would be like. Let's watch the cameras.
Ryan
They check the missing inventory and they go vaping Mountain Dew. Must have been right. Well, I quit.
Ben
Here's my question. How did this girl drive this truck through the wall and then proceed to back out and then drive it 45 minutes like Silverado.
Ken
That's not surprising at all.
Ben
Really.
Ken
Yeah, I mean we could have done it with the Chevy.
Mike
We did it with the Chevy.
Ken
Like with one hit and.
Ben
Yeah, but we had the snowplow on.
Ken
The front one revert after the reversal hit. I guarantee we could have made it to.
Mike
Dude. Honestly, that's a pretty hard impact. Maybe the cormorant store is not built as well as Ken's house because like Ken tried hitting that thing and it was the dead dude.
Ryan
That thing freaking stopped it. It is surprising. I'm sure that's why she got pulled over because her whole front end was all smashed in.
Ben
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. Like what the vehicle look like afterwards.
Mike
Had to been pretty good. But I mean real testament to the Dodge Ram.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Made her. Made another hour road trip after that.
Ben
It's true. Yeah, that's true. They use that in their next ad.
Ken
Drive through a building and home.
Ryan
I think, I think it's worthwhile saying that. I definitely did not like being a suspect in that. Like when they came over, when the police came over and they looked at my truck, I did not like being accused in a way or being thought of that I would do something like that. And if I did, even on. On accident one day, drive through a store, I wouldn't just leave. I would take care of it. Because that's what humans do, you know, so definitely like it. But I do want to say I'm thankful for having police around here that actually investigate a crime and go and try and find the person who did it and follow through on stuff like that, because I'm sure that stuff doesn't happen in a lot of areas. So I got them.
Ken
I. I only advice for him next time is ever try splitting up.
Ben
Or.
Mike
Just watch some cameras.
Ryan
A lot better, dude.
Mike
But they were like, I don't know how it works.
Ken
Right. No, I get it.
Ben
Like, they maybe thought you were still.
Mike
In your truck or something.
Ryan
Like.
Mike
Yeah, we're gonna catch them red handed.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
They could have been black and white. But we, you know, it's funny, we talked about black rams before. You know, like, a lot of people around here drive black rams and white rams, too. And so that's kind of what I was thinking. I was like, they could have sent 1, 2 guys over versus 5, 6.
Mike
They were expecting a fight with Ryan.
Ken
Yeah. Or something. I don't know.
Ben
Yeah, they essentially, Ryan's wearing a blonde wig. Parking lot.
Ryan
That's my disguise.
Mike
And the mountain, dude, he's passed out in it in the parking lot.
Ryan
Oh, my gosh.
Ken
So that's great. But yeah, Ben's right. Yo. We are required to report on this because it's a huge deal.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
And then the weekend before, someone crashed in a house, so nobody's safe around here. Put up the big bollards in front of your building.
Mike
That was. Yeah, that was not us crashing in the house either. Oh, yeah, the stop sign. Yeah.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
That was an unintentional crash into the house. Possibly. Ours was fully intentional.
Ryan
Fully intentional. We planned it. And it was our buddy Ken's house.
Ben
There's this house or like, I guess a row of houses that is basically at like a T. Stop sign right here, and then the houses are right here.
Mike
And it goes from a 55 to a stop. Sign just for reference.
Ben
Like, a serious risk of living there.
Mike
I would never buy that house.
Ryan
They don't even have one of the blinky stop signs simply because of this.
Mike
I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Ryan
No.
Ben
Well, it gets ran into, like, once or twice a year.
Mike
Yeah.
Ryan
Every summer. That's what I mean, every summer gets ran in.
Ben
It's not like, well, you got to take the risk if it happens.
Mike
It's like, no, it's going.
Ben
It's going to happen.
Mike
Planning on owning the house for, like, 10 years or more. Like, obviously, it's 10 car accidents. Our friend used to own that house. And one time this drunk lady crashed into the house while they were sleeping. Hops out and they're like, what the. You know, he's like, our house got hit again. Except this time it's pretty bad because she's, like, in the house and she, like, stumbles out, like, all drunk. And, you know, he's like, what the fuck? Him and his wife. No, no, she's. He's like, you know, you gotta stay here, whatever. And then she's like, can I gotta use your bathroom? And she goes in the bathroom and takes, like, the stinkiest shit. Dude. Right after she piled up into their house, like, yeah. Fuck up their living room. Then she fucked up their bathroom and then got arrested, destroyed their toilet.
Ryan
Oh, my God.
Mike
I don't know where she was coming from, but. You think Taco Bell? But they don't serve booze there.
Ben
Yo, you ever have to so bad you drive your car into somebody's house.
Ken
Dude, that seems like a cartoon, like a South Park.
Mike
I almost didn't believe it when they told us, but I feel like, why would you joke about that? Yeah. Like, it's not like they were not.
Ryan
You already have someone driving your house. You have nothing more needed to make the story interesting.
Ben
Well, she was probably like, I'm going to jail. I mean, it'd be jammed up, you know?
Mike
Yeah. Probably gonna be an hour of processing. Like, I gotta Now.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
Get this out of the way.
Ken
What if.
Ben
What if the Cormont store security camera footage just shows, like, truck drives in and then somebody jumps out and it's just, like, holding there. It's just silent. Just here. Yeah.
Mike
You know, if I had that house with the T, I would put up, like, big.
Ken
Yeah.
Mike
Like cement. Like, blocks. Like, they have in front of, like.
Ryan
Walmart, like, the white house.
Ken
At least some construction. Cement barriers, you know?
Mike
Yeah. Because, like, it'd be tough. Or I do that and then I'd Start growing. Growing trees. And in 30 years they'd be big enough to hopefully stop whatever was coming.
Ben
Yeah, you gotta wonder, man. People are gonna just.
Mike
There's a lot of houses like that though. Like I think about it all the time.
Ben
Really?
Ryan
Like what.
Ben
What else?
Mike
Well, like if you were going to shore them same situation, there's a house that's right. You know, and it's like goes 55 to a stop and then you either have to go right or left. If you keep going straight house. If you're going 55, you could easily go through the house or at least get halfway in. I mean we were sending that truck through the house and that Ken's house was built well at like 15 and it was making muddy grass.
Ryan
There was no inertia or nothing.
Ben
I think that is more common than you would think. Like, you know, with just houses that are close to busy streets. Drunk drivers ending up driving into these houses when people are sleeping. And then like I. I know that there's been like a couple deaths in Detroit Lake.
Ken
That was what.
Mike
Yeah, dude, that's honestly something I will always consider if I'm ever going to purchase a house. Like could someone drive into boy has been thinking about. No, seriously, dude. Yeah, because even in. Even if you were in like town, there's like spots where like you could easily have your house driven.
Ryan
Oh 100 on a corner.
Mike
So it's like it's no good. You got to trust other drivers and you cannot trust other drivers.
Ryan
Especially around here apparently.
Mike
I think just anywhere.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Yeah.
Ken
That just makes me think of Ben's joke though, to finish out the last video when you were like, Ken, I hate your new house.
Ryan
We used to.
Ken
We have to take our shoes off now. I used to just park my truck.
Ryan
In the living room.
Ben
I am going to miss Ken's house. Ken's house is a gift that just keeps on giving.
Mike
Well, not anymore.
Ben
I know it's gone, dude. I miss it.
Ken
It's a level.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
Open lot. What Ken was hoping to have all along.
Mike
And you know what's great? Honestly? The neighborhood is at peace now. They are they. His next door neighbor texted Ken and said like hey, thanks for taking that hole down. Like he was happy because now there's a just a nice flat lot. There's not an abandoned house sitting next to his. You know, it definitely helped the neighborhood. Yeah. It wasn't eyesore. And like I guess they never mowed the lawn cuz obviously no one was there. So like they used to mow it. So they're they're happy about it.
Ben
They had to put up with a little bit.
Mike
I mean, that two hours of, of readiness demo derby. I honestly, yeah, like they have every right to. Not like Ken.
Ryan
Just Ken.
Ken
It really is.
Ryan
That was the text. It was like, thanks for tearing down that house.
Mike
No, he was.
Ryan
Enter, enter, enter. You could have done it without the truck or just.
Ken
We still don't like you though.
Mike
Yeah, no, they, they were pretty. They were cool about it, so that's good. And yeah, I didn't go too hard on the sheriffs, did I? Okay. Yeah. I wasn't trying to be mean to him or, or anything like that. I just, I thought it was funny because my friend Ryan was a suspect. They were there and anyways, it's funny.
Ryan
I did almost hit a deer literally right before we left. If I had a smashed up front end, even if it had freaking deer guts hanging out the front of it, it would have made me a pretty solid suspect.
Mike
They just go, case closed, man. It's tough, dude. You come around here, you're gonna always be on camera.
Ben
We get a lot of entertainment out of those security cameras because it's like, that's just real life that captures so much stuff. Well, it captures everything, right? Captures everything. We're filming 90% of the time. So the 10% that we're not in, something happens, it's always on film.
Ken
There's something funny about security cam footage.
Ben
There is.
Ken
Even if the craziest thing that ever happened in the history of ever happened only on the security cameras and not on any of our phones or anything, we still cherish that forever because it's so funny.
Mike
It's like when you're watching the security cam footage, you have extra patience because you almost know something's gonna happen. You could just clip a 30 second clip and nothing happens until 20 seconds in. But everyone stays because they're like, what's going to happen? Things going to happen.
Ryan
We should start making Facebook videos. And it's just like the parking lot in the morning and it's just eight minutes long and be like when you see it and then it's just nothing. It's like ripping a fart on the way in.
Mike
That's it.
Ben
People do that all the time now. That's the thing. And that, that's the meme. Like that's the joke. It's just wasting people's time.
Ken
Okay, maybe I do like that.
Mike
Maybe we just start filming all of our YouTube videos off of the security cam footage and we don't have to carry these Cameras around. You just have everything. I love reality TV switching.
Ben
It's like Jersey Shore edition.
Mike
You don't even talk to him.
Ken
Yeah, I was just going to say we were doing the audio.
Ryan
Did you guys see Anthony Panza's video, I believe of him filming a skateboard? Edit with a MacBook or not a MacBook. Excuse me, an imac. So like a big screen like that.
Mike
With a big extension cord or what?
Ryan
I think he had a little power bank on a skateboard.
Ken
Other ones, but I have not seen that.
Ryan
It was so funny, dude. Let me find it.
Mike
This guy's always on some shit. I like him.
Ryan
Look at it, dude. The footy review goes nuts, dude. And they even got like the fisheye.
Ken
It actually looks pretty decent.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
Honestly.
Ryan
But he's rolling around on like the skateboard.
Mike
That'd be a pretty funny prank. I guess we don't do these kind of videos, but like if Balin or like Danny, like when they're messing around in Walmart, they just had a laptop recording it. Like, they're like, I'm not recording them on my laptop, dude.
Ken
Yeah, I've seen that when they. They roll up. Who is it that comes into. I know Bailin said, like, it's not. It's a PS5, but they actually came.
Mike
In with a PS5. Quit filming me.
Ben
They're acting like they're filming.
Mike
It's a PlayStation.
Ken
And it's just funny because they're actually not filming. And they're like, I'm not filming. It's just a PlayStation.
Mike
I'm just gaming. Yeah, but everyone thinks they're filming them because they're like holding it like a camera.
Ryan
It's funny too because it's a full circle joke for them because they always say when they actually are filming that it's just a PS4.
Mike
It's not my kind of. I wouldn't want to make videos like it. But it's. No, I get a kick out of it.
Ben
Yeah, I watched a really funny one where there was this guy in Home Depot and he had somebody hold something really heavy. Like an employee.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ben
So, hey, can you help me carry this? Employee grabs one and he grabs the other. When they're like just about to set it down, he has a friend walk up and start talking to him and he's like talking to this friend. So the employee like can't set this.
Mike
Like, oh, I've seen that.
Ben
The guy's like, hey, like trying to interrupt the conversation. But he's like, like starts shaking. He's like, hold. He's like looking for a place to set it down.
Mike
I saw that. Yeah, that's pretty funny. He. He has him like five minutes holding this thing. He doesn't know what to do.
Ken
People getting creative, like, that's perfect. Never heard of that idea. Brilliant idea. Doesn't hurt anybody. Maybe a little bit.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
Have to get some protein powder in there.
Ken
You guys see Danny got his cyber truck.
Ryan
It did. Got some.
Ken
My favorite part was like, okay. It's weird that, like, cybertrucks are hardly even out yet, and, like, we're already kind of over them, obviously. It'll be so cool with Ken. Orion gets one, whatever. But he put the biggest set of horns I've ever seen on a truck. I mean, they're literally like 8 foot wide.
Ben
What do you guys think about those?
Mike
I think they're cool.
Ken
I think they're cool.
Ryan
They're cool. Can't wait to get one. Hopefully one day.
Mike
I don't know if I'd buy one. I just like a Ford Raptor. Just a stock Ford Raptor.
Ken
Doesn't even need to be one day, bro.
Mike
Like a standard. Yeah.
Ben
Just don't mess with perfection there.
Ryan
I don't know if this was his, but earlier this week on, like, Wednesday, the first Cyber truck that went to auction sold in Florida at a manheim auction for 250.
Ben
I saw that.
Ryan
So I don't know. It was in Florida.
Mike
So they're finally selling them.
Ryan
Well, that was the first one to go through auction, but that could be the one that Danny possibly bought. Unless he really did get a free.
Mike
I feel like he would probably buy.
Ken
One, so I just missed something there. That much?
Ryan
Yeah, I guess retail right now, like anything.
Ben
Oh, so I thought you guys sued. If you sold it, though, you get.
Ryan
Sued for, like 60 grand, so that's why people upcharge them more.
Mike
Wow.
Ken
Oh, my gosh.
Ryan
Yeah. Or, you know, put in an LLC and you sell the llc. The LLC owns a vehicle. There's tons of ways around it trusts. People have figured out ways around.
Ken
I have research.
Mike
I'm not a fan. And I've never been a fan of overpaying to get, like a new vehicle. Like when the Corvettes came out, the Z06 Corvette, you know, MSRP is 160 and you're buying it for 210.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
I think that's the stupidest thing. It's just gonna. For one, it's gonna depreciate already. But now you're just adding another 60 grand on top that no one will pay for. In five months when everyone can get them.
Ryan
The only car I've seen it work on is the Ford gt.
Mike
Okay, certain cars obviously, but yeah, but yeah, like, like a Chevrolet or a Tesla. They're gonna be so many. Just wait, dude. But if you have a ton of money, I guess it doesn't matter.
Ken
But yeah, I mean, you make a good point. For four years, like I grew up, a lot of people around me, like adults saying like, yeah, you know, buy new vehicles, drive it up a lot, lose value. And then yeah, there is something to be said about buying it when it's way over. Msrp, you're probably going to be chilling in that for a little bit. Five months, maybe a little longer. But as soon as that fall off.
Ryan
Happens, it's a nasty decline.
Ken
Bass acronyms on the whole thing.
Mike
I've never had a brand new vehicle. I always just get slightly used, like right, right in the pocket. Like 30,000 miles or like 15. Saves a lot of money.
Ben
Yeah, same. My buddy Ryan over here is paying $14,000 a month in car insurance though. I hate to bring that up right now, but it is, it is pretty funny.
Ryan
It's only $760 a month.
Ben
Well, that's it.
Ryan
Which is ludicrous.
Mike
That's insane.
Ryan
I don't even.
Ken
As Evan would say as to 9.
Mike
As to 9.
Ryan
I don't even know. My, my record isn't that bad. The last speeding ticket I got was in like 2021.
Ben
Yeah.
Ryan
So like, I don't, I don't know what, what happened.
Mike
I think you're just getting your pants pulled down. That's what's happening.
Ryan
I've had, I've talked to three different insurance agents and nobody can help me.
Mike
Do you think all of them just see you and go, perfect? Here's how I'm going to make my kids perfect. This is how. We're going on vacation next month.
Ken
I mean, it gets concerning. Like it gets concerning when there's multiple different agents and they're all like, that.
Mike
Doesn'T make sense, dude.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
So Ben's insurance with a Lamborghini and a Ford Raptor is less than half of Ryan's. And my insurance with my GTR and a Ford Raptor is less than half than Ryan's. Makes no sense.
Ryan
It's fucked up.
Mike
It is fucked up.
Ken
But I don't know.
Ryan
I think it's.
Mike
Tell you, dude.
Ken
Yeah, I was just going to say it's been high since, since maybe, Maybe.
Mike
It'S the frickin fact that you have a Dodge Ram. They Hear people are running through buildings.
Ben
Like you're part of a all black Dodge Rams. Aren't those like the most common drunk driven vehicles?
Ryan
Yeah, Dodge Rams is the truth.
Ben
There you go.
Mike
Dude. That actually might have something to do with it.
Ryan
I don't know.
Ken
Yeah, you have the most pulled over drunk driver vehicle with 700 plus horsepower.
Mike
That's true.
Ben
It's not the best combo.
Ken
No, actually I was just real quick, what's the breakdown like you have two cars on your insurance right now, Correct. Very expensive Hummer and a very expensive Ram.
Ryan
Yeah, I think hummer is like 400amonth.
Ken
That's what I figured. I figured it was more than the other one. And they're both 100k plus vehicles.
Mike
And if I were to guess, it's because they're so new.
Ryan
Yeah, they just.
Mike
They both have a lot of horsepower. Like the Hummer's like a thousand. Yeah, the truck is what, 707? Not. That's a recipe.
Ryan
Yeah. When we were talking about the other day and that guy goes, geez, dude, that's almost 10 grand a year in insurance. I go, don't do math like that. It hurts worse than a big number. I know I'm going to that actually. And out the fleet.
Ben
Crack me up your pontoon armor.
Ryan
No, I did take that off. I have boat insurance, I think still actually. But that's cheap. I took the road insurance off. I honestly think I probably pay as much in car insurance as we did for that blood study. Remember when we did that axis blood study to make some extra cash on the weekend that one time?
Ken
Tough times, man.
Ryan
That was the worst way to make $800.
Ben
I've even a little more than that.
Ken
I think it was like 1400. But they do like two months skin studies where they just put like you know, base lotion or drops or patches. Like they don't really do anything. They just want to make sure that it doesn't react to people's skin bad or multiple people's skin. And then if you really want to get paid, you do the overnight blood studies where they guys did. Yeah, they. They dry your blood a total of 48 times over the course of like three days. Yeah, but you only have to say.
Ryan
But in the morning it's like every 30 minutes. It's just constantly newer.
Mike
Dude, I have a funny bad.
Ken
The people there like are not really trained that well.
Ryan
Yeah, that's a new phlebotomist or whatever they're called.
Mike
They're just like the students. They're like, you can go Test on these guys.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Which is what you guys are over there.
Ryan
Hey, test me.
Mike
I remember when you guys were going to do that and you were like, you know, saying all this, you want to come? I was like, I'm not doing that. Like I don't care, I don't how much. I didn't know what they were doing.
Ken
I didn't ask you. I knew you would not be into that.
Ryan
I remember you guys going, yeah.
Mike
And we were, yeah. Anyway, someone asked me and I was like, I'm not going.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Anyways, I just remember when you guys got back, you know, you spent the whole weekend so like I didn't see you guys. And then you guys like got done on Sunday or whatever day it was. And someone like texts in the group chat. Anyone else having trouble getting a boner? And someone responds like, yeah, I like.
Ryan
Know so much blood.
Mike
And then I was like, yep, that's what happened. And yeah, it's funny, but yeah, it probably was just cuz they went halfway through.
Ryan
Really didn't get paid nothing. Or did he get a fraction?
Ken
Yeah, fraction.
Ryan
Fraction of it. Quit. Cuz it was two hours.
Ken
He was just feeling. He's like, I can't do this. I don't feel good.
Ryan
Mike and I were like, we have no money, we have to duff it up.
Ben
It was strenuous, huh?
Ryan
It just sucked. It was a lot.
Ken
Yeah. He was like, I just don't feel good. Like he's like, I feel nauseous like all the time. And like I feel like if I stay I'm just gonna be nauseous the whole time.
Ryan
And Jake at the time could have went turfing for like a day and.
Ken
Made a like looking back on. Depends on dude, if you like love like as far as the skin size go. And if you love. No, I mean, I mean if you're not a pussy, you can probably handle it.
Ryan
Complications from.
Ken
Yeah, I haven't either. Like you. If you like just watching Netflix and just chilling in a chair, you could do it easily. Yeah. However, there's other ways, better ways to make money.
Mike
I don't know. I. I think there's certain. There's. You guys must have done a different one or I would say on the lighter scale. But there's plenty of like studies out there that are pretty aggressive. Like you wouldn't want to be a part of it. Haven't you ever heard like Steve O. Talk about it? Like how he used to do studies like that, like where they would give him, you know, just. They do these things.
Ryan
A pillar of health.
Mike
Yeah. And he was like. He was like. He talks about. He's like, yeah, that was so bad. Like, I. But he is fine to this, you know. But there is obviously plenty of risk.
Ben
Of something going on.
Ken
Not fine. It's not because of his stuff.
Ryan
This is another job that really him up. I mean, I don't know. I'm still pretty young, but we haven't had any complications from it.
Ken
But I would just say, like. And I would even say not to do it. I just say, like, there's easier ways to make money.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
And even if it takes you longer and a little more work, it's easier.
Ryan
But at the time when really that was more than I made in a month I could make in a weekend, I was like, yeah.
Ken
And it was the whole, like the college. Like when we were in college, like, you. You have to work part time, you know, it wasn't an option. Well, I mean, I shouldn't say some people go to college and work full time somehow, but that weekend money was really easy.
Ryan
Yeah. And we didn't spend any money. We were trapped in a box that you couldn't spend any money at.
Mike
That was probably the biggest saver flicks comment down below. If you guys have heard any stories of someone going to a study like that and it not working out.
Ken
Yeah, we're gonna get.
Ryan
I mean, people even take legal drugs and they don't work out. You know, like ones that have already passed through.
Mike
Right.
Ryan
That's kind of what they're testing for, I'm sure. Thankfully, we were okay. I can't remember what it was.
Ken
It's basically the road to get it FDA approved.
Mike
All right, there we go.
Ryan
So I thought of a great idea that Elon or maybe Bezos, they could take this and that's fine. Just let me go to the screening or something like that. They should do a movie where they send people either into space or to the moon. And it's like a movie, Right. You know, where like people go to the moon, but it's real people, like, they have the money that they should just ship them to the moon and make a movie on it. But not a documentary and not so.
Ken
Much a reality TV show either.
Ryan
A plot movie.
Ken
Yeah, I love that.
Ryan
And then have them actually go to the moon.
Ben
Are people going to the moon?
Ryan
I don't know.
Ken
Has anyone ever been to the moon?
Ryan
Think about that, though. I mean.
Mike
Yeah, supposedly.
Ben
Supposedly tinfoil hats.
Ken
Yeah, allegedly. I would love that. That'd be very entertaining.
Ryan
So I'm saying they should.
Ben
Seems like A very expensive movie plot.
Ryan
Think about it. Yeah, yeah. But it'd be legendary. You wouldn't you guys go to it. The first people going to a movie or to the moon. Excuse me. But it's a real blockbuster movie and they just throw in little like fake plot twists.
Ben
Like what?
Ryan
I don't know. Fucking spaceship.
Ben
But also cut off their air.
Ken
Okay, but now I'm picturing like that same thing. But like throw all that out the window and it's just a Mr. Beast video.
Ryan
That's what I mean. It's the type of stuff he's doing.
Mike
A little bit more 12 minute video.
Ryan
Yeah, yeah.
Ben
It's like $100 million budget.
Ryan
Oh, dude. They spend that type of money on movies.
Ben
Well, like I actually just like the most expensive movie I think I ever filmed was the latest Star wars and it was like $500 million. Whoa. Yeah.
Ryan
I feel like you could send some people at least halfway to the moon for that.
Ken
Yeah. Star wars is the most. Then the then Avatar hero movies, man.
Ben
You gotta be really confident in your movie being good to spend $500 million on it.
Ryan
It's pretty gnarly.
Ben
I'll be like, damn, this got a.
Ken
Well, that's what like Star wars makes sense. I mean everyone loves Star Wars. That loves Star Wars. But like Avatar, it's kind of this new concept. Like, yeah, I'm going to fire 400 million of this movie. And then I hope it's a legend.
Ben
Well, the first Avatar did really well.
Ken
The first one did.
Ben
Was that the second Avatar.
Ken
No, the first one was still more expensive. They knew that they couldn't risk.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
Spending that much money again.
Ben
Wait, how much. How much does it cost to go to the moon?
Mike
9 billion per person.
Ben
9, 9 billion per person.
Ken
That's not real Mark. That's a fake stat.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
Hold on, Mark.
Ben
Is this a mark?
Ken
Hold on.
Ben
Is this mark? Nine billion. Yeah, it could be, you know, five, six, seven, eight. Nine billion.
Mike
Now there's inflation.
Ken
So it's about nine, roughly nine, seven.
Mike
That's crazy. That is better pick some good people.
Ryan
So I think maybe I'll re. Re alter my idea. Remember the thing where the guy was put in and he was like the jury duty. He was on jury duty and everybody else was actors but one.
Ken
That's what I was doing that but.
Ryan
On a big scale. Like something really crazy.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
Like you just pick some guy and you. Truman Show.
Ken
Yep. When you brought that up, my brain went to that jury show and I was like, that's what I want. I want it to all seem real, but, like. Yeah, only maybe to one person or. Or to a small group of 3, 4, 5, 6 people.
Ryan
But think about how legendary it'd be if you just, like, picked out a guy. Let's say, like the Gran Turismo movie. He wants to be a car racer. You just pick a guy and you're like, this guy's gonna go through, and everybody else is gonna be in on it but him. We'll just move him up the ranks and he'll just. Truman show, like, a couple years out of his life.
Mike
Blockbuster Movie sounds like a video segment that we filmed.
Ryan
That's what I mean.
Ben
Exactly.
Ryan
I think people, Mr. Beast will think of it, level it up.
Mike
Yeah.
Ben
I'm sure he honestly has already been.
Ryan
Thinking of, like, he's already Truman showing somebody.
Ken
Yeah, I love that idea. Just Truman showing somebody. Creating this whole thing around them without them knowing. I mean, it's kind of mean. Kind of mean.
Mike
Pretty up.
Ken
The guy that did that jury duty thing, he's been on all kinds of interviews now, and he's like, you know, I don't mind it, but he's like, I didn't ask to be, like, famous. I didn't ask for, like, this publicity.
Mike
You get paid a lot to, like, compensated, and, I don't know, better. I mean, you didn't even get to decide if you want to do it or not. Hold on now. What.
Ben
What is the. What is that?
Ken
So basically, like, they. They have this show where they have a trial and they have to do jury duty, and everyone's just super weird and super funny and the trial's weird, and he's like.
Mike
They put him in a real thing?
Ken
Yeah, they put him in tight situations where he's got to orchestrate. And they're like, hey, you're going to be kind of the spokesperson. And then they, like, do really awkward scenarios. And he's just trying to be. He's such a nice guy, and he's trying to orchestrate everything without pissing anyone off. And, like, everyone's in on it.
Mike
The show, though, where did it take place? Like, it wasn't in America.
Ryan
No, it was in America.
Mike
It was courtroom. When was this?
Ken
Like, this year or 2023.
Ben
Oh, really?
Ken
Are you talking about the actual Truman Show?
Mike
No, I'm talking about.
Ken
Yeah.
Mike
Told me this story before, but I.
Ken
Never show in 2023.
Ryan
And.
Ken
And it's just so funny.
Mike
What's it called?
Ken
The end.
Ryan
Jury Duty.
Ken
Jury duty. Okay. Yeah. You just gotta watch it to understand. We have talked about it before, but.
Mike
It'S like the ultimate prank, dude. Like, this guy was getting pumped.
Ken
Multiple pulled around and multiple episodes. Like, it goes on and on and multiple different trial, like, sessions.
Ben
Dude, that guy had to have been like, when is this trial gonna be over?
Ken
And he's like, and why is everyone so.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
Pretty funny to do that to Ken. Oh, dude, he'd be a perfect content. No, we don't even gotta do it.
Ben
But he's like.
Mike
He'd be. Be the perfect contestant to that.
Ben
Yeah, yeah.
Mike
Be all in just doing all this stuff.
Ben
That'd be hilarious.
Ryan
He got 100 grand, so that's pretty good, I guess. Instead of doing jury duty, he was signed up for 15 an hour.
Mike
That would suck. To do jury duty.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
I've never gotten that.
Ken
None of us.
Ryan
I wonder why we haven't been selected.
Ken
Anybody in the crowd done jury duty.
Mike
Go on for you had to do jury duty, Sydney.
Ben
Really?
Mike
That's the thing.
Ken
Is it weird? No, because I. I went and got.
Mike
Interviewed and then I.
Ken
They were like, yeah, you have conflict of interest. That's as close as I got.
Ben
What was the.
Ken
You didn't do jury duty.
Ben
What about you, Mark?
Ryan
You were dismissed.
Mike
That's the thing. What'd you say?
Ben
I made some comment, like, throw the book at him or something.
Ken
Like, I can't remember what it was.
Mike
Oh, like, oh, there you go. That's all you got to do to get out of it. Because you don't sometimes. You never know. Like, imagine you get selected for the O.J. simpson trial and then you get like, put away in a hotel. I don't know how long I think it was. A month.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
I mean, or maybe even longer. And you couldn't talk to the outside world. You couldn't read newspapers, you couldn't watch tv. Like, you're a freaking hostage. It's against the law not to. To do it. I'm pretty sure.
Ryan
Yeah. I don't think anyone's thought it's their civic duty since like 1970.
Mike
If it's controversial for me to say, I wouldn't want, you know, that's okay.
Ken
That's what's interesting. You know, I don't. I don't really want to like out my mom. She's such a sweet lady, but even she. And very honest. Even she's like, anything I could do to get out of jury.
Ben
Well, I mean. Okay, so you got to think about it like this, though. You don't want people on the jury that have something better to do, and they're gonna throw whatever decision is I just want to go, like. So they want to avoid having people like that.
Ken
Mm.
Ben
You know, so it's like, you know, people that take pride in being an American sitting on this jury, essentially my job as an American, and I'm proud.
Mike
Of that to be granted.
Ben
I don't think most people think that way, but you don't want to be like, oh, my God, just fucking make a decision so we can go home, dude.
Mike
Honestly though, if I did end up in that situation, it was like a messed up case with somebody that clearly thought that was like a bad person. I would sit it up.
Ryan
It'd be hard.
Mike
I. I would. I would do my best.
Ken
Well, here's the question too. Okay. If someone you thought. Yeah. Really needed to be prosecuted, kind of easy. You kind of sit on like.
Mike
Or if I thought they were being wrongfully, then I'd feel the same way. I'd be like, I. I can't do.
Ken
I'm imagining that, like, being really passionate about someone being charged guilty and somehow gut feeling that they should be.
Mike
All I'm saying is I would rather not be in that situation at all.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
That position. You know, because then I. You would have to. I agree. It is your civic duty. Honestly. You'd have to at least do the. Try to do the right thing. It's kind of lucky I haven't been.
Ryan
Called yet that the government's just like, let's just grab a couple random.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
Like women.
Mike
You could get a bad draw too.
Ryan
Yeah. Decide what happens to, like, people.
Mike
You get a bad or a good draw, depending who you are.
Ken
You know, I always thought you got like, you know, they call up grandpa at 85 years old and then they call up 18 year old Johnny who just. Who's not even graduated high school yet. Yeah, but he's 18.
Ryan
Then you get to decide someone's life.
Mike
Dude, I've been watching.
Ben
I've been watching the show suits on Netflix. It's a fantastic show. If you guys have time, watch it.
Ken
It takes forever, but I've still been trying to get that. Overall, it's a fantastic show.
Ryan
Good show. Season five sucks. You gotta rock through it, you know?
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
No good time.
Ben
No, but you see, you see kind of like, you know, what goes into the behind the scenes of like, being a lawyer and just like, kind of like the politics involved with it. Like, it's a very dirty business. Granted, it's, you know, all for entertainment and TV, but.
Mike
You ever watch World War II in color?
Ben
No, but I.
Mike
That's what I watch on Netflix.
Ben
I'M not kidding you, dude.
Mike
They have real film.
Ryan
Really?
Mike
And they colorize it. I don't know how cool. Oh, wow, dude. It's actually insane. Like, Alex can't watch it. It's too aggressive for her. But it is, like, pretty gnarly. Like, those guys were tough back then. Like, you had to be so tough.
Ben
There's a bunch of. There's a bunch of different movies and shows that, like, show both sides of World War.
Mike
Yeah.
Ben
To, you know, so you see, obviously, like, the American side, but then you also see, like, the German soldiers side and everything. And, like, obviously you're at war, but, like, dude, nobody wanted to be there. And it's just like the higher ups on both sides are just, like, kind of pulling, you know, the strings, making the decisions. And, like, both the soldiers, you know, for everyone, it's just like, fuck, this sucks.
Mike
Not to give Netflix a plug, but It's World War II or front lines of World War II. That's. That's probably my favorite one.
Ken
So it's, like, really graphic.
Mike
Like, there's only like six EP episodes. But I wouldn't say Soup. No, they're not showing, like, you know, people getting obliterated, but it's real footage. I don't know. Like, it would have sucked to be the dude. Like, I don't know who they decided, like, hey, you're gonna be the cameraman. You don't get a gun. You got a camera. Like, I don't even know how. Like, think about how much freaking footage they lost. But, yeah, they would have been doing film.
Ryan
You imagine.
Mike
It's amazing that they were able to, like, stabilize and color it. But no, I imagine how many guys probably died and they never got the footage and Right. Got shot.
Ryan
I couldn't even imagine doing it running on with an A7s like we film with.
Mike
Dude. That's what I'm saying, though. They gotta be tough.
Ken
It is. Yeah.
Mike
I'll give a history lesson. But it's. You're watching.
Ryan
You're like, damn.
Mike
Like, imagine like you're watching a UFC fight and you're watching these people, like, go walking out. You're like, damn, that guy is a badass. Like, you got to be a real badass to do that. These guys didn't even want to be there, and they're out there, like, doing it, you know?
Ben
So, like, I love those kinds of shows, though.
Ken
Yeah. I just watched American Sniper and I was like, that guy is a badass.
Ben
Yeah, those are, like, my favorite kinds of shows. And then those. And, like, Drug shows. Like, all the narcos series. It shows the Colombia, it shows the Mexican. And then I'm watching this one right now. That's so good, dude. It's so good. It's so, like, interesting to see, like, how all these different cartels and drug kingpins, like, function and, like, keep their empires going while, like, under the microscope of the FBI and. And dea. Like, the whole entire time. Like, it's crazy. Obviously, they all fail at some point.
Ryan
But I like drug ones because they're business. Like, you watch the business work and grow, and then they get really rich, and it's fun to watch. And then they go to jail. It's, like, kind of the whole thing. It's like, boop, Jail.
Mike
You're never gonna.
Ken
And it's always tough when you're watching those shows. And then, you know, like, when one of the characters. But based on true stories, when they mess up, you're like, oh, they're gonna die. Yeah.
Mike
Always there.
Ken
Oh. Literally. If they literally tell someone the wrong thing, some guy shows up and just like, sorry, man. Or they.
Mike
Maybe they don't even say sorry, but sometimes they do.
Ken
Yeah, sometimes that's what I mean.
Mike
They're just like this.
Ken
Sometimes they're like, yo, I'm really sorry. Like, I. You were my friend, but.
Ryan
Yeah, yeah.
Ken
All right. Boss told me to take you out, but I'm going back to the providence of Mexico. I don't know. Going back to that.
Mike
He went to New York.
Ken
I was a mob. Going back to, like, the war thing here. If I was a historian or was it all verse? I'd probably know this. But at what point, you know how you're saying they don't want to be there? At what point was the. Did the war style change? When. Remember back in the day when they just had, like, front lines, but they had literal, like, lines where they, like, had muskets and stuff, and they just, like, stood in the front line and they're like, fire. And then they, like, traded spots. And then even before that was swords and stuff. Like being in the frontline.
Mike
Civil War.
Ken
Yeah, like, Civil War vibes, where they just stand in, like, a line, maybe behind a slight, like, grass hill, and just shoot at each other and, like, just get taken out.
Mike
I think the weapons got better.
Ken
Thousands.
Ben
I think it changed when you could have more than just one shot.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
And also probably a gun that could fire a little farther and.
Ken
Right.
Mike
You know, you got tanks.
Ken
That's what I'm saying. So then you could at least, if you were smart and you trained well, you could become a good, I guess, you know, a good soldier. But before it was just like if you can shoot a gun, you just got to stand up and then try not to get shot.
Mike
Like it seems there was a lot more like honor and like, like back then, like you just did things like that, like stand up right in front of the guy. And if, you know, if you ever.
Ryan
Feel bad about doing something a stupid way, you know, in your day to day life, you're like, man, I did that in officially, at least you weren't as dumb enough to stand in.
Mike
Well, they didn't have a choice. They didn't have a choice. Eventually, yeah, eventually.
Ken
Trenches.
Ryan
That is dumb, dude.
Ken
You do have a good point though. It was like an honorable thing to do. And then that still makes me think, I'm like, yeah, but they still got born, they still went to school possibly. They still, they got married, they probably had a baby and then they just like went to war and said, I'll take this one for the team. I love my country.
Ben
I'm not sure if it was quite like that, but yeah, this is the.
Ken
Way they made it look in history books. Literally people in like a giant field just in lines.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
So it's a pretty savage behavior. Yeah, it might be, it might be dumb. It could be considered dumb, but some people don't have a choice. But it's definitely like, that's a real savage. You know, like you're a tough. Yeah.
Ben
I think actually around the same time that like better rifles were made where you could have, you know, multiple shot rifles versus like muskets where you'd have to reload them. Yeah, that's like when people were going west though, and like Native American tribes were basically just taking out like western settlers. That's like the changing point, you know, these people would just get ambushed. You know. Native Americans. No, Native Americans, like on horse and, and, and they would just like circle them and just like take them all out. So like, you know, you only got.
Mike
One shot and they.
Ken
So they actually had the advantage with arrows and knives and spears. Yeah, essentially.
Ben
Yeah, for a while. And then basically I think once, you know, better weapon and, and rifles came out, that's when things changed. Things didn't. Yeah, because think about that, dude, you're. You're basically going across the country. Every time I go west, I think about this like when we're going through.
Ryan
Driving 85 miles an hour.
Ben
You out and it's just like straight up grasslands and, and obviously they're covered in Snow this time of the year, but you.
Ryan
Can fly in J every 100 miles or so.
Ben
Yeah. Yeah, but people were doing that. Living or trying to get to a better life. Carriage just on horse and all your stuff.
Mike
You got like a baby, a little kid.
Ryan
Your wife, she brought the damn organ that you told her she didn't need.
Mike
Life's a lot easier now, moral of the story, than there's just, I mean, different struggles. But it puts it in perspective, dude, to like, make it, you know.
Ben
Yeah. It's insane to think about, like. Think about, like, hunkering down and then living through a winter out west.
Ryan
I said that when we go snowmobiling, where we took the snow bike is in a pass. The lander cut off. It's in. The lander cut off. So some guy. I'm not super well versed in it, but anyway, the pioneers came through that valley. And I go, man, you think when they came through here on their horses and wagons, they ever thought a guy would be riding a Harley snow bike up here?
Ben
Imagine most people thought anyone would ever ride a Harley snow bike up there.
Mike
That's got to be the only one to ever do it. As far as I know, there's only been three Harley snow bikes because there's obviously that very first picture that was always floating around. Nobody knows if it was photoshopped real, but it's been out. Been out for maybe two years, wouldn't you guys say? And what is it? It's like a gray one.
Ken
Yeah.
Mike
It's been center sent to us so many times, but I never saw it go.
Ken
No video.
Mike
And then ironically, so we, you know, make this build happen and. And we're out filming it. We just finished filming it. And Harley Davidson drops like this promo video where they had a brand new 2024. We literally see it. We go, what? What are the odds? Why does this always happen? Because this happened with us and a few other videos, and we're like, how does that happen? Like, because we didn't know they were doing it. They didn't know we were doing it. And then just happens at the same time. Luckily, no one really called us out for. No one really said we copied Harley.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
I don't think they had as much reach.
Ryan
No.
Mike
Which is weird. But their video didn't get as much.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
As much reviews.
Ken
And it was. It was like the most corporate, like, promo video ever.
Mike
Commercial, basically.
Ken
Literally, like, the day we filmed. Finally made it to Wyoming. We filmed the Harley. It went so awesome.
Ben
Yeah.
Ken
Can't wait to get it to you guys.
Mike
We're back at the house. Like, that was great. That went awesome.
Ken
Open Instagram.
Mike
And then we open it. What the. Like, what are the odds? What are the odds? That was unbelievable.
Ben
But it's funny how the Internet works. Like, you think you come up with this great idea, nobody's done it, and then you see that other people are doing it at like the same time, and it's like, whoa.
Mike
That happened with Whistling Diesel's. Well, we did the Hummer pontoon first. He had his video come out, but he had posted a. We had been planning on doing this Hummer pontoon since that winter. Like, we. But we had to wait for the ice to open up. That was the plan. That's why we did it. We must have done it in May. He posted a picture on a story of him with, like. It was basically just like a tight thing. You couldn't really tell, but it was his. His hellcat on top of like a raft looking hump or rap looking barge, pontoon, whatever you want to call it. And we go, no way. He's doing it right now, too. And luckily it took him longer to get his video out.
Ben
But he still thought we copied him.
Mike
Yeah, he did.
Ken
He did.
Mike
I don't know if he necessarily said we copied him, but in his video he said some people, like, took my story, but I was like, dude, we had already had the thing, I think already built by that time, but it was. We just hadn't dropped the video. And then, yeah, it was a misunderstanding. But then people tried saying we copied him, which we didn't. But it was just a very similar situation as the Harley snow bike. But I did see, like, another guy did it with, like, a smart car, which I would say that guy had to have copied us. Or was it a smart car?
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
Or is it Prius? Yeah, like, because, I mean, ours had already came out. And then he did it, which I think was even before whistling. So maybe he was talking about him. But also, dude, at the end of.
Ben
The day, though, who cares?
Mike
Yeah, I don't care at all either.
Ken
You know, it is like.
Mike
But I'm just clearing it up. Like, how that's happened. I talked.
Ben
I actually talked to his crew about that.
Mike
Did you tell him?
Ben
Yeah, I told him. I was like, yeah, we were making that thing and then whistling dropped like, that picture and we were like, oh, like, yeah, you know, he's gonna think that we're copying him.
Mike
We also have Steve Hamilton because we were in a hot tub with Steve Hamilton because in Florida we Were in Florida with him hanging out. And when he posts that picture, we were like, fuck. And then we told Steve, we're like, we're building this right now. And we showed him the pics at home. So we do have that.
Ben
Yeah.
Mike
So, like, collaborate. Collaborate our story, whatever it's called.
Ben
His crew is, like, you know, thought it was, like, kind of funny because, like, whistling was, like, kind of throwing shots in the video. They were like, yeah, dude, why don't you guys, like, start beef back?
Ken
Like.
Ben
Like, kind of like make. Make beef. And we. I was like, we ain't doing that no chance. And he was. They thought it was funny.
Mike
For one, that's not our style. For two, I think he'd win.
Ben
Yeah. It wouldn't end well.
Mike
Yeah. It's just not our thing, man.
Ken
Both very. We're not accurate answers.
Mike
We're not really into the beefing or the drama. And also, he's just way better. He just never stopped, like, in terms of that.
Ryan
Thankfully, they were different.
Mike
His was cool. I liked it.
Ken
Yeah.
Ryan
His had high horsepower, big spinning wheels. Ours was more of a floating, like, slow. No, ours was amphibious.
Mike
Leaking oil, but, you know, got around oil. Yeah, ours was amphibious. So that's. We do have that for us.
Ryan
And it'll come off that pole up there.
Mike
Just. I was wondering about that. The middle of the night was when I couldn't sleep. I was like, I wonder what people think when they go past and it's like this. It just looks like such a contraption. Like, if you didn't know.
Ken
Yesterday, driving by, I went, I just. Like, I've driven by a million times. But yesterday I went, man, it just is like.
Mike
It looks kind of like a piece of junk up.
Ken
Big old Hummer pontoon on a pole. What are we doing?
Mike
But I think we should take it down and obviously use it. But we're gonna have to replace with something. I thought about maybe, like, the Shambo.
Ryan
That's what just came to my mind.
Mike
Like, the Shambo would maybe be cool because then most people will be like, damn, they got a Lamborghini up on the pole. Like, it's not gonna be too much skin off our back.
Ryan
It's actually the perfect, perfect distance away that no matter how close you try to get, it'll look cool. It still look good.
Mike
And then the neighbors don't have to look at the Hummer pontoon. They. To look at a fake Lamborghini.
Ben
Yeah, that's a lot better.
Ken
Yeah, we do it for the neighbors. Spare them having to look at that.
Mike
They like when, when you guys go riding. Cuz they comment on our videos like oh, that's good. Hey thanks for the show. Like it was fun watching and stuff. So they actually enjoy it.
Ken
Yeah, I forget which neighbor it is.
Mike
But it's right across.
Ken
Yeah, you cross the road. They was stopped over one time and the amount of stuff. Stuff that he referenced that he's seen us do was he's like, yeah, we love watching your track days. That was pretty funny. When was it Evan, that went out on the R1 snow bike. You guys had that duck floaty out there trying to retrieve it and, and you know, watching stuff in the pond. We love the pontoon Hummer. That rail you guys put up is crazy.
Mike
Man.
Ken
You got a good set of binoculars on you.
Mike
Yeah, dude, no kidding. I, I do want preface. We do not, not like making like. No, we wanna, you know, pissing the neighbors off and, and we do.
Ben
I think we're enemies.
Mike
Yeah, we do pretty good job of, of doing our best not to. And I mean it's tough when you watch Ken's house segment because like that was causing quite a scene. But they were happy at the end of the day.
Ben
So we get cleaned up.
Ken
I think one thing that we're, I mean we're just adults now, but we'll just talk to them. Like really if even if someone's like we find out that someone's seriously hates our guts, we're still willing to talk to him.
Ben
Yeah, yeah, that's. That's like the most annoying part is when you hear people like talking around town and then they won't say anything. Yeah, they won't say anything to us.
Mike
It's like, dude, I think it's easy to just hate on without really like just to kind of like much easier. Oh yeah. You know, like screw that guy. Like it's. Or whatever. Like whenever anyone's doing something a little different, it's pretty easy to just kind of hate on.
Ben
But yeah, I get that too. And I, and like like as a neighbor it would certain things be annoying, but like I feel like if you knew us or you talked to us, you'd be at least a little bit more okay with it because you know, it's not like we're trying to.
Mike
The thing is though, like when we do stuff, there's never anyone around because we typically do it during like the week and work out. People are working. We don't like doing stuff when other people are around. Like that's just the thing. Like, like we even set kind of like a Time where the track's not supposed to be used in the summer, but it does. It should be getting used. Like, sometimes it gets. Goes past that, but we're always very courteous just because we don't want to have loud dirt bikes and whatever going on after 8 o'. Clock. So it's.
Ken
Whenever I hang with that Evan kid.
Mike
That guy has a. You have a hard time pulling him off the track.
Ken
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we just, like, we push past the. The boundaries of the time that we should be out. But I'm always like, dude. And I'm like, probably a bad advocate too. Like, I'm like, dude, as long as it's before 10, who cares? Obviously, that's not actually true. But then when Evan's like, let's go ride Papios at 12:30am and I'm just like, it's a no from me, brother.
Mike
You're maturing, Mike.
Ryan
Yeah.
Ken
As much as I want to.
Ryan
Yeah.
Mike
I think we've. I think we. This all we got. Or I'm sure we got more, but.
Ben
We'Ll come back next week.
Mike
Save it for next week. We always got next week.
Ryan
Yeah, I think so.
Mike
All right, well, if you guys haven't subscribed yet, hit the subscribe button. What were you gonna say?
Ken
I was just gonna say, if you haven't already, go check the website out. Go check out the. The edit of the Ram. Just all of it. Go check out the new merch. And we really appreciate the sport on that.
Mike
God, that insta edit got me looking at that.
Ken
Yeah.
Mike
Exhaust pipe kind of funny on the ram, you know what I'm saying?
Ken
Speaking of, I got a new tip to put on that, so.
Ben
Oh, there we go.
Mike
That'll actually look good.
Ken
Yeah, let's do that.
Ryan
To work.
Ken
We go.
Ben
Okay. All right, we'll see you guys next week.
Episode: The Cops Came To Our Shop
Date: March 5, 2024
In this episode, the CboysTV crew (CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah) recounts a wild local incident where a truck crashed into the Cormorant store and how they unexpectedly became suspects. The conversation branches into lively discussions about small-town drama, hilarious neighbor stories, the stresses of running a merch drop, philosophy of vehicle purchases, some behind-the-scenes stories about their videos, and personal anecdotes about work and adulthood. The crew’s signature blend of banter, storytelling, and Midwest humor brings this variety pack of topics to life.
| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|-------------------| | Merch Drop Chaos & Ken's Ordeal | 01:04–04:33 | | The Truck Crash & Police Visit | 05:14–13:38 | | The True Story of the Crash (Teen Thief) | 08:11–10:19 | | Annual House Collisions & Local Tales | 14:13–18:09 | | Car Buying Philosophy & Insurance Woes | 23:01–27:55 | | Side Hustles & Blood Study Story | 28:16–31:38 | | Viral Builds: Hummer Pontoon, Harley Bike | 49:21–53:33 | | Security Cam Humor | 20:42–21:14 | | Jury Duty & Legal Show Conversation | 36:35–41:19 | | War Documentaries & Reflections | 43:09–44:44 | | Neighbor Relations & Community | 54:41–56:23 |
The CboysTV crew brings their trademark blend of irreverent humor, self-deprecation, and genuine small-town charm to an episode packed with wild stories, candid business talk, and an undercurrent of gratitude for their supportive community (and even for sometimes overzealous local police). There’s never a dull moment — from being the prime local suspects to reflecting on how adulthood and creativity intersect in their unique world.