The Man Behind Braydon Price's Success

Summary

Podcast Summary: Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: The Man Behind Braydon Price’s Success
Release Date: September 20, 2022

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Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew—CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, and Micah—host a lively discussion recapping their wild adventures at "Heydays," a massive snowmobile industry event, while digging into the nuts and bolts of YouTube success, crew chemistry, and behind-the-scenes hustles. Notably, they welcome special guests Miller and Kyle, both YouTubers connected to the world of Braydon Price and the off-road motorsports community. The conversation weaves through the evolution of their brand, fan antics, editing advice, and the value of building something authentic as creators.

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Key Discussion Points & Timestamps

1. Icebreaker & Stories from Heydays

00:00 – 17:00

• The guys kick off with a few comedic stories, including a drunken mishap on a boat (Ryan accidentally slapping the wrong person).
  • Ryan: "No, like a slap and slap. Like I would like. It was pretty aggressive. I was not proud of myself." (01:10)
• Detailed description of Heydays—the epicenter for snowmobile brands, parts swapping, and rowdy fan behavior.
  • Evan: "Heydays is like a kickoff to winter party... 50,000, 60,000 people." (03:46)
• Reminiscing on their evolution at Heydays: from a humble table in “swap” to a prime spot next to Polaris.
  • Evan: "Then this year we were like, right next to 509, right next to Polaris, and. And it was like, electric..." (04:55)
• Crowd energy: marathon meet-and-greets, a pit bike giveaway, and the chaos/stress of live events.
  • Ryan: "There was like something in the air at our booth for 12 hours straight. People waiting in line for like two and a half hours just to like, meet our new masses." (05:08)
• Rowdy fan behavior and the diverse (sometimes questionable) cast of event-goers: “lot lizards,” crazy stunts, and sex-doll shenanigans ("Ursula").
  • Ben (on a wild RV stunt): "We watch a guy jump roof of an RV onto a folding table and, like, blew it out. And then he went, that was sick." (07:13)

2. The Infamous BMP Blimp Incident & Security Escapades

09:23 – 14:01

• Describing the legendary floating branded blimp, its theft, chaotic chase and heavy-handed security response.
  • Ben: "Apparently somebody cut like a blimp off of one of the booths down the way... So security on a golf cart comes bombing over the hill and is chasing after him..." (09:29)
• Crowd reactions, conspiracy theories, and reflections on the absurdity—and viral marketing—of the moment.
  • Evan: "Yo, BMP should thank whoever cut that blimp because it's the best publicity they physically could have gotten." (13:19)

3. Fan Dedication: Tattoos and Memorable Interactions

14:26 – 16:40

• Fan gets “NO CAN DO” tattooed in Ken’s handwriting, more fans sporting Life Wide Open ink.
  • Ryan: "He comes back two hours later tattooed on his chest." (15:24)
  • Luke (Ken): "I should have like fixed this." (15:43)
• Reflections on the intensity, loyalty, and occasional unpredictability of their fanbase.
  • Ben: "That's kid's got it for the rest of his life in camera..." (15:49)

4. Would You Rather: Jail Time Conundrum

16:46 – 19:47

• Banter about whether they'd prefer one year straight in jail or five years only on weekends.
  • Ben (trying to phrase the question): "Would you rather spend one year straight in jail... Or five years, but just weekends?" (17:45)
  • Crew laughs at Mike's accidental “straight or gay” phrasing — a classic CboysTV goofy moment.

5. Idiots of the Internet: Dobre Brothers Lamborghini Crash

20:45 – 27:08

• New recurring segment suggested by Ben: calling out “idiots” from the internet.
  • Ben: "I'm going to bring up an idiot from the internet because we are not the only people that can." (20:54)
• Breaks down a Dobre Brothers video, critiquing their lack of car control, poor decision-making and discussing the phenomenon of YouTube supercar culture.
  • Ryan (watching the crash): "I'm just imagining Ken going to a drag driven, like these guys are there, and they start driving down when Ken's supposed to be." (25:42)
  • Evan on aftermath: "Well that's good because the engine's in the back." (24:25)

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6. Meet the Guests: Miller & Kyle—YouTube Editors, Filmmakers, Riders

27:10 – 41:02

• Origins: Miller started as Braydon Price’s editor, narrates how he learned the ropes, the grind of daily uploads, and moving into more creative and on-camera roles.
  • Miller: “...in early 2020, I moved down to Charlotte full-time. We tried to do two a week... then every other day for almost a year.” (30:26–31:36)
• Insights into high-intensity YouTube content production (inspired by the Guggen Squad).
• Editor’s evolving role: From “man behind the curtain” to star teammate.
  • Miller: "Everybody's always told me... you're the man behind the curtain." (32:00)
• Talks pranks and behind-the-scenes stories, including a “catfish” prank on a fellow editor.
  • Miller: “As soon as I saw him leave his number, I downloaded a text now app and texted him off a fake number...” (32:35–34:53)

7. Transitions, Teamwork, and Creative Growth

41:02 – 44:21

• Why Miller left working full-time for Braydon: seeking creative freedom and adventure, plus a “stagnant” feeling in his old role.
  • Miller: “I really wanted to travel more and do stuff more car scene... it was just becoming really routine for me.” (38:19)
  • Mike: “I mean, I'd say like, to an extent, we are similar in that way. It’s the same vibe, you know…” (39:27)
• The challenge of building a crew and how group dynamics impact channel growth and video energy.

8. Kyle’s Story: From Fan to Featured YouTuber

44:41 – 56:04

• Detailed journey: Meeting Cody Cheney, Braden Price, networking in the North Carolina riding community, and getting the push to start his own YouTube thanks to peer encouragement (and his brother Luke’s editing skills).

  • Kyle: “At the time I didn’t grasp that concept... now being a YouTuber, I get it because everybody always reaches out..." (46:17)

• Balancing YouTube as a part-time passion, with a construction business as the main job.

• Building a unique channel identity, stepping out from Braden’s shadow, and branding as “the guy who burns tires off side by sides.”

  • Kyle: "I quickly realized... everybody gets associated with Braden. And I wanted to make my own name for myself." (54:03)

• Memorable crash: Kyle describes totaling his X3, showing the dangers of off-road content and the value of safety.

  • Kyle: "No helmets...I typically always wear a helmet. I didn’t want to preface it, but obviously it’s out of the bag now. No helmet, scary as frick." (55:59)
  • Miller: “The side by side’s on its side, and Kyle’s just laying there and, like, blood literally running out of his head.” (57:12)

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9. Editing, Growth, and Striking Out Solo

59:06 – 67:45

• The nuts and bolts of maintaining and repairing side-by-sides—how “bad maintenance” can snowball.
  • Kyle: “I was showing Ben and Ryan that this morning and so he was like. I think Ben was like, how does that even happen? And I was like, well, you know, the wheel bearings start to go...” (59:06)
• Reflections on the tension of leaving a stable salary for the uncertainty of self-employment as a YouTuber.
  • Miller: “Right now I’m halfway in between—am I sending this, should I commit, or should I try to find a Youtube channel to edit for...?” (62:00)
• The challenge of finding a trustworthy editor who “gets” your vision.
  • Kyle: “I feel like the hardest thing for you guys to find an editor is nobody’s ever gonna edit the way you’re seeing the video in your head..." (62:25)
• Kyle’s unique approach: He doesn’t even watch his videos before they go live—it’s Luke’s responsibility!
  • Kyle: “I usually don’t watch my YouTube videos until they’ve been posted for about an hour. To me, it’s Luke’s YouTube channel almost.” (63:19)
• On not chasing analytics obsessively, focusing instead on long-term joy and authenticity.
  • Kyle: “I just do it because at the end of the day, in 20 years, I want to look back and be like, oh, these are my videos.” (50:23)
  • Ryan: “If I had to describe you, I would describe you that way too. I can appreciate that.” (64:50)

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10. Merch, Branding, and Next Steps for Creators

68:08 – 72:44

• Kyle asks about starting merch: how to do it right, when to do it, and how to build a brand that's “wearable anywhere.”
  • Kyle: "I want somebody to really want to wear my shirts wherever... not just have it be 'Kyle Cullen' slapped on it." (68:44)
  • Mike: "If I could give anyone advice as far as early channel, like, don't start too early on merch. It's not worth it." (70:22)
• Agreement: focus on audience and quality before branching out.
  • Ryan: "Just make it good. Just like YouTube videos... always do the best you can." (72:44)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On YouTube editing & career transitions:
  • "Everybody's always told me that... you're the man behind the curtain." —Miller (32:00)
  • "You can only grow as big as your environment. That kind of deal." —Miller (41:35)
• On Heydays energy:
  • "There was something in the air at our booth for 12 hours straight." —Evan (05:12)
• On fan dedication:
  • "He comes back two hours later, tattooed on his chest." —Ryan (15:24)
• On content authenticity:
  • "I just do it because at the end of the day, in 20 years, I want to look back and be like, oh, these are my videos." —Kyle (50:23)
• On creative vision:
  • "Nobody's ever gonna edit the way that you are seeing and portraying the video in your head before you ever edit it." —Kyle (62:25)

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Episode Flow & Tone

The episode maintains the trademark CboysTV laidback, comic, and slightly chaotic tone—jumping between rowdy personal stories, YouTuber inside baseball, and friendly roasting. The rapport between the core crew and their guests shines, with banter and actionable wisdom woven throughout.

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Timeline of Important Segments

• [00:00–05:14] — Boat mishap and Heydays intro
• [05:14–14:01] — Heydays antics: giveaways, stunts, and the blimp saga
• [14:26–16:40] — Fan tattoos and electric crowd energy
• [16:46–19:47] — Hilarious “would you rather” jail question
• [20:45–27:08] — Idiots of the Internet: Dobre Brothers crash critique
• [27:10–41:02] — Guest intros: Miller’s journey with Braydon Price
• [41:02–56:04] — Transitioning to personal channels, pranks, safety
• [59:06–67:45] — Maintenance, tension of leaving jobs, editing
• [68:08–72:44] — Merch, branding advice, and final takeaways

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Final Thoughts

This episode delivers a rare, transparent look behind the scenes of some of YouTube's top automotive/lifestyle creators: how they grew their brands, found their voices, and handled the grind. With a perfect blend of wild fan stories, creative wisdom, and community camaraderie, it’s a must-listen for aspiring creators and CboysTV diehards alike.

Transcript

[Ben]

We're rolling.

[Evan]

What's up, guys? Welcome back to the podcast.

[Ben]

Sorry we took a week off. We're at Heydays.

[Miller]

Oh.

[Evan]

We're not uploading this week.

[Ben]

What am I gonna magically do, pop it out six hours ago?

[Evan]

I don't know. I wasn't sure if we were just uploading it, like, a couple days late.

[Ben]

No, probably not.

[Mike]

That'd be fair.

[Evan]

But should we just jump right into it?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I have a little bit of a story. I guess I could tell that happened before Heydays. I've been holding it in.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Okay. So like, two weeks ago, we had the weekend off. I was hanging out with my girlfriend, and we were all out on the boat. We were with you guys for a little while of it, and then everyone went home and she had her friend out, and we're all drunk and. And driving around on the boat and.

[Ben]

You know, I pulled Orion. Oh, me.

[Ryan]

I know. Yeah. So I'm like, kind of.

[Evan]

Which is.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed in myself because now I'm in the same group as.

[Mike]

Him, but you go psycho.

[Ryan]

No, I accidentally slapped one of my girlfriend's friend's ass.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Ryan]

And it was like a full on.

[Ben]

Wait, who?

[Ryan]

Like, was it me?

[Evan]

Like, slap mine.

[Ryan]

Like, slap my girlfriend's friends.

[Ben]

Oh, I thought you said another one of your friends. I was like, oh, I didn't even know about this.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Evan]

Just like, just like a pat, Like.

[Ryan]

No, like a slap and slap. Like I would like. It was pretty aggressive. I was not proud of myself. And the reason why it happened. I'm not like Ryan, where I try to just sneak him in.

[Mike]

Of course.

[Ryan]

Like he did on your girlfriend.

[Evan]

Right.

[Ryan]

So she was wearing my sweatpants. So Alex gave her, like, some Seaboise TV sweatpants because they all went inside. It was cold. So I thought it was Alex because I was like, what other girl would be wearing seaboard sweatpants? And it was. I was like, looking down. There's booty hair. So I go, booty hair. Booty hair. No, a booty here.

[Evan]

Oh, booty here.

[Ryan]

Booty slap it. And there was, like, other people on the boat that we had, like, just picked up. And I didn't realize.

[Evan]

They were like, seconds.

[Ryan]

I didn't realize 30 seconds. So I was just like, kind of cruising around and everyone in the back was just like.

[Evan]

She didn't say anything. That's almost more disturbing.

[Mike]

Not right away.

[Ryan]

She kind of was just like. And then I realized it was her. I was like, whoa. Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. And I was, like, apologizing to her. I was Paul drunk, Alex, and they thought it was funny, which was good.

[Ben]

But it is quite an awkward situation to put yourself in, though. You feel like a real idiot.

[Evan]

Was her boyfriend on the boat?

[Ryan]

No, she didn't have a boyfriend.

[Kyle]

Oh, you're lucky.

[Ben]

Are you, like, in business with her boyfriend? And is he, like, one of your best friends? Because that would make it a lot more awkward.

[Evan]

Yeah, that would make it more uncomfortable then, you know, then. Then you got a little bit more on the line.

[Ryan]

Well, mine wasn't premeditated. It was, like, an actual accident.

[Ben]

Does he have a podcast that he's going to go roast you on?

[Ryan]

Thank God, no.

[Evan]

Yeah, so that's the crazy part is, is Ryan knew all that going into it, and it was, as you said, premeditated, but he still, let's just say, wanted to take the chance.

[Ben]

I didn't mean to do it. It was an accident. It just happened.

[Mike]

That's funny. Yeah, I was like, premeditated is so far from the. Ryan just been on it up all.

[Ben]

Night the last seven years, so. I can't wait for my chance tonight at the Dark MGK concert. Today's my chance.

[Ryan]

That's what it seemed like Ryan anyways, though, so. Yeah, I've been holding that in for a while.

[Evan]

Well, we'll keep you two over there. Scumbags.

[Mike]

Now you're scaring me. It might happen again. It might not be either of you guys, but could be Ken.

[Ryan]

Well, Ken does that on the reg, though.

[Evan]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think that'd be too.

[Mike]

I don't either.

[Evan]

Yeah, people would expect that. The girls would, too, but anyway. All right, so, okay, so back to. Back to heydays, I guess, to just give everybody a little bit of context. Heydays is like a kickoff to winter party, where all, like, the snowmobile industry brands kind of come together. And that's like a quarter of it. And then the other 3/4 of it is just, like, swap people, like, setting up tents and just, like, selling shit, or they just come to party and camp there. It's basically like.

[Mike]

I don't.

[Evan]

50,000, 60,000 people.

[Ben]

I can't remember how many acres it is either.

[Evan]

A lot of people. But we've been going there for, I don't know, five. Five years. We've been doing YouTube for, what, six years? Yeah, we've been going to that show, I think, right away, actually, maybe six years. And we started with a table in the middle of swap, and. And we just had a Couple T shirts hung up in the back. And we had a, like a hand made C Boys TV sign. And we just like, posted on our stories like, hey, if you guys are at heydays, come to the middle of swap row A17.

[Ryan]

You should add, like, contact. Like, swap is basically just like public campground.

[Ben]

It's a giant fucking garage.

[Ryan]

It's just camping.

[Ben]

Everybody pulls in and puts all their shit from their house that they don't want anymore and tries to sell it.

[Evan]

Yeah. So that was like the first kind of heydays so setup that we had. And it's so funny because we don't even have photos of it because it.

[Ryan]

Looked like, like, why don't I take a picture of this?

[Evan]

That's how bad it was. And then the year after that, we were at like, the edge of Swap. So we were like, we're still in swap, but at least findable this year. And then the year after, we were like, on the very far side of, like, where, like, businesses would be. And then it got a little bit.

[Ryan]

Bigger and a little bit bigger.

[Evan]

And then this year we were like, right next to 509, right next to Polaris, and. And it was like, electric. Yeah, it was like there was like something in the air at our booth for 12 hours straight. People waiting in line for like two and a half hours just to like, meet our new masses.

[Ryan]

Like, it's seriously like, Evan was loving. He was drinking tea, and he was progressively getting louder as the day went on because he was drinking tea. So it was like the rest of us were getting tired, but Evan was just getting more drunk. So, like, I'm sure everyone's like, man, Evan sure is friendly. But at the very end, when we give away the pit bike, we're on up on top of the semen truck and there's a sea of people around us and we're throwing free stuff out. I'm on the megaphone and Evan looked at me and goes, should we woodstock99 this shit, like, start a riot. And I just, like, I thought about it for a second. I was like, no, we can't do that, Evan. Because he was all tuned up.

[Mike]

Yeah, when we. When we gave that pit bike away, it was electric. And the kid was right in front of us when we announced it.

[Evan]

Dude, that could not have been any better. Perfect Kenner. CJ says the name, and then I'm just. I have the camera pointed at the audience.

[Ryan]

Everyone's going, oh, oh, oh.

[Evan]

And then a little kid's hands just go up in the air. We're like, oh, he's here. And he's like, this.

[Ryan]

It's me.

[Evan]

Just in disbelief. His mom was not stoked.

[Ben]

Why?

[Evan]

Did you guys get that vibe too?

[Kyle]

No.

[Evan]

Oh.

[Kyle]

Oh.

[Evan]

Maybe I could have been wrong. I could have been wrong. But when we gave the bike, I.

[Ryan]

Think she was worried that he was gonna get hurt on it. I was like, you can just sell it good.

[Evan]

Yeah, that would be the case. That could be the case.

[Ryan]

But I was like, yeah, this is crazy.

[Evan]

And she's like. I was like, oh, she's not. She's not on the same.

[Ryan]

I had to figure out a way to take it home then.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Did we give them straps or anything?

[Mike]

Who? We don't even know what they're like.

[Kyle]

All right, see ya.

[Ryan]

There it is.

[Miller]

Good luck.

[Evan]

Didn't even think of that.

[Ryan]

No.

[Mike]

At one point, I did wonder that. I'm like, I wonder what he ended up doing with it, you know? Like, what if they legit drove a Camry or something?

[Ben]

He rolls it back to swap and just posts it for sale.

[Mike]

I feel like, damn.

[Kyle]

Yeah, he actually made good money.

[Ben]

Hades brings out a special breed of people.

[Miller]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I can't remember Trent had a name for him. We'll go with lot lizards, but they're just, like, bat, like the backwoods. And everybody comes out. You put on, like, your T shirt with the vulgar words that you can't wear anywhere else. And you're like, this is a perfect heyday shirt. We watch a guy jump roof of an RV onto a folding table and, like, blew it out. And then he went, that was sick. And then sane paid him 100 bucks to do it again. And then he jumped onto two folding tables.

[Mike]

Which actually looked easier. But they did this last year, I'm pretty sure off the same rv, not the same guy. But I'm like, I'm pretty sure this is the same RV that someone jumped off last year. And I did. Like, I wasn't expecting to see it again at Trent.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah, right.

[Ben]

Yeah. Across from them.

[Mike]

And so also, the shenanigans going on at this time, he. He doubles it up. So saying pays him 100 bucks. I didn't know that, but doubles the tables up. But then there's a guy with a sex doll named Ursula who put that on top of it. So she got RKO for sure. We just got an email. I actually haven't read the whole thing. We just got an email. They asked us if we took Ursula. What it said, do you guys steal my Ursula at heydays? She went missing Friday Night. Then I see pictures Saturday and you guys, lol.

[Evan]

Pull up the picture.

[Kyle]

Pull up the picture.

[Evan]

It's this guy.

[Mike]

And then when did we take a.

[Ben]

Picture with that Ursula? Oh, Ken's in the background.

[Mike]

But yeah, like, I mean, that was you guys.

[Kyle]

Look at this.

[Evan]

Ken.

[Ryan]

We're just sneaking off to it.

[Evan]

It does look like Ken is up to something. Ken was up to something on Saturday night. Hold up, hold up. Has anybody checked the backseat of Ken's Tesla?

[Ben]

The Frunk.

[Mike]

What?

[Ben]

That's where everything goes missing.

[Evan]

Did you take Ursula? Ken was on an absolute tyrant on Saturday night. So it wouldn't have. I wouldn't have put it past him to snag Ursula. And I don't know what your plans were with her, Ken, but in your.

[Mike]

Defense, Ken, I did see then on Sunday, someone's pulling out with a trailer and it's like they purposely must have done this, but they took the sex doll and. And then close the trailer like halfway on her, so she's hanging. I was like, well, there goes Ursula.

[Ben]

Did I tell you guys a story about the. The episode of Fast and Furious I got to see on Friday night? Saturday. Saturday night.

[Mike]

Episode.

[Ben]

Episode segment, whatever. Okay, so I ended up getting the full story. So we'll start with that. Apparently somebody cut like a blimp.

[Kyle]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Off of one of the booths down the way. So it flies up and it's illuminated.

[Kyle]

So you basically.

[Evan]

Oh, the LED blimp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

So everybody who's like drunk, partying, basically this LED blimp just go floating away. And everybody's like, whoa, look at that. At this point, I didn't know that. Chase and I are walking down like the main drag and it's dealers on one side and then camping on the other. So we're just walking, chatting, whatever, and we kind of hear like a little commotion. Guy comes sprinting across the row. Shortly followed by him is a golf cart also bombing. Cuz so there's security everywhere, everywhere. And they're on four wheelers, golf carts, razors, whatever. So security on a golf cart comes bombing over the hill and is chasing after him. We're like, whoa, what the fuck? Then about two and a half seconds later, this guy comes by on a four wheeler, light bars on full, full tilt over the hill. Kind of loses a little bit of traction. Like two wheels it and careens and just rams through like five folding tables and into an enclosed trailer. What, like 25ft in front of.

[Evan]

Wait, he was a security guard.

[Ben]

He was a security guard. What put it this way. You put a guy in a vest, and he's pretty happy. Yeah.

[Ryan]

We're working at heydays. We're acting like they were, like, FBI agents. Yeah. Jesus, dude. So I didn't hear about you saying.

[Mike]

Yeah, dude did too much.

[Ben]

Yeah, dude did too much. And the funny thing was, the guy was running. It was a drunk guy running like he was on a four wheeler. It can't be that hard to catch him. So anyway, crashes into this thing, gave.

[Ryan]

The four wheeler to the wrong guy.

[Ben]

Gets up, runs over, and tackles this dude. We didn't know. Yeah, we didn't know. We had. He had cut the blimp. You know?

[Evan]

He had cut.

[Ben]

He had cut the blimp, allegedly. But we didn't know this at the point. Tackled him like he had actually just murdered an entire family. Like, took him down, slammed him in the ground.

[Evan]

Was he a copper? A security guy?

[Ben]

A security guy. So Chase and I run over there. This is all under, like, a light plant. We're watching. I'm, like, trying to rip. Rip out my phone. Security's coming up to us, kind of telling us to get away. This guy's just beating this kid up on the ground. I'm like, holy crap, this is intense. What he do? More security comes. Whatever. So then super drunk guy that crashed.

[Ryan]

The four wheeler, and he was a security guard.

[Ben]

Security guard.

[Ryan]

Oh, he sure was drunk.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Ryan]

And this is why they are really.

[Evan]

Letting anybody be security there.

[Ben]

This is what I think. So then they come, and we're close enough that we can hear this, and they're like, you got to get out of here. You got to get out of here. They're telling security guard this.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ben]

Security guard walks over, grabs these folding tables like it was the folding table's fault for being in the way of his four wheeler. Chucks him out of the way.

[Ryan]

And whose were they? Just some random ass people.

[Ben]

A vendor that just happened to be there gets on his four wheeler, cranks it up, throws it in reverse. You know, goes like that. Jams it in the drive, rips off and tears off into the.

[Evan]

It's another folding table.

[Ryan]

It's another person.

[Ben]

Just tears off. And then the real police came. And then the kid was sitting there. He's like, I didn't do anything. I was just walking to my friend's house. And then we're like, all right, seems like it's over.

[Mike]

Yeah, how do you prove that? I remember a handful of people asking us about the blimp thing, and I'm like, That's kind of funny. I mean, it sucks for whoever lost their branded blimp, but they were like, we got to track this kid down. He needs to be sitting in jail tonight.

[Ben]

Yeah, they were like really upset, but.

[Mike]

Yeah, they were really upset. I saw a really funny picture maybe I won't be able to find, but they like photoshopped the, the. It was actually the BMP bumpers one. They, they photoshopped it in orbit, dude.

[Evan]

Yo, BMP should thank whoever cut that blimp because it's the best publicity they physically could have gotten.

[Ben]

Yeah, dude, Everybody was talking about.

[Evan]

Everyone was talking about it, dude. And yeah, I honestly though, that is a safety hazard for that thing going up and it's like massive. Like it's probably like a six foot ball.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And like imagine like the, the ff, the. Not the ffa, the faa, the ffa. It' is sitting there and they all of a sudden get beep, beep. It's like, what do we got here? What do we got? They're like, zoom in on it. Zoom in on it. Thinking that it's like a, like a nuclear threat or something like that. And they're like, does that say BMP bumper?

[Ben]

But yeah. Anyway, security was. It was getting out of hand. Heydays just tends to get out of hand.

[Mike]

Definitely. I mean, I went too overboard on Sunday night. Saturday night, Mike got off the leash.

[Evan]

And he was barking.

[Ben]

It's exactly what he was barking.

[Mike]

Everyone the next day was like, I mean, you, you were hilarious. But I don't even know how you got to that point. I don't know. Overdid it. Sunday hurt, but it was a beautiful weekend.

[Ben]

So this kid at Heydays got a no can do tattoo.

[Ryan]

We've, we've seen people get tattoos a handful of times, like the signature. So we're signing like shirts and taking pictures and stuff. And people will sometimes get like life wide open tattooed on like, I'd say a pretty. Like a handful of people have that tattooed on them on their leg. Kid comes up, no tattoos, nothing goes. Ken, I want to get no can do tattooed on my chest. On my chest. And I almost thought he was joking.

[Luke]

I did.

[Ryan]

Well, Ken does the most half assed job writing. No.

[Evan]

Like, he held the Sharpie at the farthest tip. It was like, no. So it's like it got on his nipple, dude.

[Luke]

So it's like, you know when you're sharpieing something like on skin and it kind of like bunches up and then jumps and that's, I was like, Ah, fuck.

[Ben]

Either way, already did that.

[Luke]

That I'm just gonna finish it off. And just kept doing that on the skin.

[Mike]

I was just like, yeah, watch you do it. I'm like, oh, he's definitely gonna probably he'll just redo that if he actually is.

[Ryan]

Basically the kid ends up leaving then. And I was like, there's no way.

[Ben]

He'S actually getting this tattoo.

[Ryan]

He's comes back two hours later tattooed on his chest.

[Luke]

I was thinking, there's no way this kid actually goes through and does this. There's no way a tattoo shop will be able to get it done. Same day comes back two hours later and he's just like ecstatic about it. And I was like, oh, no.

[Ben]

I stoked for him as long as happy.

[Luke]

I should have like fixed this.

[Ben]

Yeah, you should have.

[Ryan]

It's the most half assed job I've ever seen.

[Ben]

This kid's got it for the rest of his life in camera and he.

[Ryan]

Doesn'T even have a single tattoo. Most people that gets like something tattooed on him are like covered and you're like, ah, it doesn't really matter. It just blends it. I didn't think his parents are gonna be livid.

[Luke]

I didn't think he was gonna follow through with it on a Saturday afternoon.

[Ryan]

And he had been what, like 18?

[Mike]

You gotta like the clip of Ken, we'll throw that in, like, is priceless of when you first saw it. Like when you first saw.

[Evan]

You went oh my.

[Mike]

And you kind of like looked around to make like make sure no one was, I don't know, we were all just like, damn, Ken, that's on you. But no, it was, it was cool. It was cool. You made the video and, and the.

[Ben]

Tattoo artist did kind of clean it up so it looks a little punk rock now. Yeah, that's kind of cool.

[Mike]

He's definitely going to need some more. Some more.

[Kyle]

Add more.

[Luke]

You add more to that, Nick, and look good.

[Ryan]

A full chess piece.

[Ben]

Yeah, he needs like an eagle across.

[Ryan]

Cover up is what he's gonna need.

[Mike]

So that was pretty crazy. So shout out all the, the wild fans and the wild interactions we had.

[Ben]

Definitely so kind of on that. You know the guy that cut that thing and probably ended up in jail. Would you guys rather spend a year in jail straight or gay?

[Mike]

Sorry, dude, I didn't mean that. Just, I came out. Sorry. But no, definitely straight.

[Ryan]

He's serving the year.

[Miller]

Oh, man.

[Mike]

That literally, I didn't even control that. Finish. Finish the damn question. I don't know what I.

[Ben]

If I Can I would go off of that, but. All right. Would you rather spend a year in jail straight or it's definitely the wording. God damn.

[Mike]

A year straight in jail.

[Ryan]

Mike's such a little smart ass, he.

[Evan]

Had to put that in.

[Ryan]

I see what you're doing now. Okay.

[Ben]

Yeah. So would you rather spend one year straight in jail? God damn it.

[Kyle]

Or be one year consecutively?

[Ben]

Let me just fucking redo this.

[Mike]

Let me just redo this.

[Luke]

Cons consecutively.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Ben]

Would you rather spend one entire year in jail or five years, but you just go on the weekends?

[Ryan]

Fuck that. I do one year.

[Ben]

Okay, but wait, there is some perks to only going on the weekends. One, you never have to go any to anybody's shitty wedding for five years in prison. You got a good. No, just jail. You got a good excuse. You're free during the week. Dude, you. You get out, go to work.

[Mike]

I think the upside would be being able to have a job.

[Ben]

You have a job, you work, watch Netflix at night. I mean, there is perks to it, honestly.

[Mike]

So I'd take it. You're on the weekend side of things.

[Ben]

Every weekend. Like there's no more Sunday scaries. You're looking forward to the work week. You get out, you're well rested, you're.

[Ryan]

Looking forward to Monday.

[Ben]

Yeah, you work out. You can work out on the weekends. You got time to work out. You're not. Probably not gonna be drinking as much. No, I get off the wagon.

[Mike]

There's no more Sunday scaries because that doesn't exist. But there is like the Friday evening scaries of having to go to jail every weekend. However, once you got used to it now.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'd still.

[Mike]

Yeah, for the record, I'd still take.

[Ryan]

Jesus.

[Mike]

I. But maybe it depends on if it's just like normal jail or if it's like a pretty hardcore one. Because then I. I think I'd rather go in and out so you could escape. Sounds like a scary place.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, jail doesn't sound sick. Yeah, but I just thought about that. I was like, well then you have to go to friggin weddings and do. You can dump all the weekend plans that you don't really want to do. Obviously you wouldn't get all the weekend plans you did want to do.

[Luke]

Yeah, more people are doing like Thursday weddings now though. So it's like, still can't get out of that.

[Ben]

You do, then maybe you can.

[Ryan]

Why don't you just say I don't go. I don't go to weddings. Exactly.

[Ben]

Stop.

[Ryan]

Stop going to weddings. Then you don't have to go to jail either.

[Ben]

Well, I mean, I'm not saying that I would prefer to go to jail instead of a wedding. I'm just saying that that would be a good excuse.

[Luke]

Ryan's just out here committing crimes like, oh, I can't. Sorry, Mr. Wedding. I. I robbed the convenience store.

[Ben]

Just jail. And just on the weekends.

[Mike]

Ben, you want to hop back in?

[Evan]

But back to the blimp getting cut off, though, didn't one of. Didn't you guys get, like, accused of doing it, too?

[Ben]

Really?

[Ryan]

No. We were in. Hanging out over at our buddy's, like, race. I don't know what you want to call it. Trailer thing. Really sweet trailer. And as we leave, and it was, like, very tame. Like, just like four of us over there, me, tint, Mark, and Kevin. And we go walking out of there, and police come from, like, all angles. Like, hey, hey, what are you doing? Like, like, you'd have thought we were, like, a wanted fugitive. And they were kind of grilling us. And then one of them, like, from the back goes dj. And I was like, hey, what's up? He's like, oh. And then everyone just, like, put their guard down. And then I was like, yeah, we're just going back to our campsite or whatever.

[Mike]

They were fully investigating it.

[Ben]

I think I want to start a new segment every week on the podcast. I'm going to bring up an idiot from the Internet because we are not the only people that can.

[Mike]

I thought you're going to say from.

[Ben]

The fellow idiots of the fellow idiots of the Internet.

[Evan]

Idiots calling out idiots.

[Ben]

It's only fair, honestly.

[Ryan]

Yeah. If you're not an idiot, you don't deserve to call another person idiot.

[Ben]

No, exactly. It takes one to. No one. So this is from our good friends, the Dobre Brothers.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

My good friends. We don't know, but I happen to be scrolling through shorts, and someone commented on it and was like, the Dobre Brothers crashed their Lambo. And I was like, I have to see this.

[Mike]

And I haven't seen this yet. But the Dobre Brothers are prime examples of, you know, made a bunch of money on YouTube, bought a bunch of supercars.

[Ryan]

They're like the prime example of what makes YouTubers have a bad rep. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

Probably just don't. Belonging supercars. I mean, and I don't know, it's hard to. That doesn't necessarily mean we are either.

[Evan]

But my question is, who's watching the Dobre Brothers? Have you ever met somebody out in the wild? Just be little Kids, but they have insane followings.

[Ryan]

No offense, but they are, like legitimately dumb. Are they acting?

[Evan]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Mike]

Even if they are acting, they still are coming across dumb. Like, not even acting dumb, just coming across dumb while they're acting.

[Ben]

I'll only play the ending, but the premise of what has happened is they're at a drag strip and he has a Huracan sto, a Lamborghini Hurricane stl, which is.

[Mike]

Damn, they get a price tag on that. Anybody?

[Ben]

Yeah. 1.7 million views. So that's pretty good.

[Ryan]

He crashed his Lamborghini and only got 1.7 million views. That sucks.

[Ben]

So the premise of this is they're at an abandoned drag strip and they're going down the drag strip and then turning around and then coming back. And I believe it was some type of time trial thing.

[Evan]

They're like 350, 400. To answer your question, Mike, Ad Rev.

[Ryan]

Ain'T paying for that.

[Ben]

No, definitely bad, bad return on investment.

[Evan]

There she wearing driving gloves.

[Ben]

He is wearing driving gloves. And he made a comment about how that would help him in the race.

[Evan]

And to be fair, to be fair, I said the exact same thing. And it didn't help, but mine was at least joking.

[Kyle]

Think.

[Evan]

I think the audience at least knew that I was joking.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And then they weren't even driving gloves. Didn't know that.

[Ben]

So this is the turnaround.

[Mike]

You have to do a couple point turn here.

[Evan]

Bro.

[Ryan]

These guys are so dumb. Oh, he's moving. Poor camera guy.

[Mike]

Dude, you're going too fast.

[Ryan]

Hit the brakes, bro. Too late. Oh, my gosh.

[Mike]

Bro, we're all silent. That's. That's the vibes.

[Kyle]

He's like.

[Mike]

Dude, it legit. Didn't look like he hit the brakes until he passed the Ferrari here.

[Evan]

So yeah, he must have thought he.

[Ryan]

Was gonna just stop on a dime at from 150 to nothing.

[Ben]

So, yeah, if you look at the speedometer when he crashes, he was doing 148.

[Miller]

148. Oh, my gosh.

[Mike]

That thing is sick too.

[Ben]

He's backs right over.

[Miller]

Oh, my gosh.

[Kyle]

You guys good?

[Ryan]

Look how quick the camera guy wants to get out of there.

[Ben]

He's like, give me a little sick car, though.

[Mike]

Super sick, dude. Yeah. The camera guy's like, I literally told you, dude.

[Ben]

Going too fast.

[Evan]

Well, that's good because the engine's in the back.

[Ben]

Oh, that's my favorite part.

[Ryan]

What do you say?

[Ben]

He's leaking and then he goes, where? And the guy goes, from the front, he goes, well, that's good because the engine's in the back and soon here they'll pull up the outside angle and it is gnarly. Who's calling you at this hour? Poor dude is rattled. I don't want to on him too much.

[Miller]

That's good. Except for this metal fence and my right side mirror. Are you okay?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, I'm chilling.

[Ben]

Yeah, I don't want to on too much, you know, because accidents happen and these are real people, but pretty dumb looking back. This is them. They're all like, oh, dude, we up hard.

[Kyle]

Oh, no, dude.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Luke]

You know, I. I haven't been to that many racetracks, but usually when you. You don't turn around at the end of a day.

[Ben]

No, definitely not.

[Luke]

There's kind of like a run out and then there's another road to bring you back.

[Mike]

And I like the idea of it. It sounds fun. I mean, I like the idea of the U turn thing, but also, just don't come into the starting line at a hundred.

[Ryan]

I'm just imagining Ken going to a drag driven, like these guys are there, and they start driving down when Ken's supposed to be.

[Ben]

I was picturing Ken getting there and doing the same thing, dude. Like, although we had to race back. Look at the outside view of this dude.

[Mike]

You're going too fast.

[Ryan]

He's like, yeah, he's fallen.

[Mike]

What was his plan?

[Ben]

Oh, no, look. And so he mentions the dirt patch and he's like, I hit a dirt patch. That's why I couldn't stop. He was actually pretty close. If he was only doing like 120 instead of 150 and no dirt, I think he could have made it at least.

[Ryan]

They're still popping up their Instagram tags.

[Ben]

I know. I love that there's tags everywhere through this video. So. Yeah, not good. But the good news is they did buy him a new Lamborghini in the next video, so. Wow, that's nice of them.

[Ryan]

That's kind of the move.

[Mike]

It's like, yeah, get it fixed, eh? New Lamborghini.

[Kyle]

Yeah, garbage.

[Luke]

Was this planned?

[Mike]

Well, I enjoyed that, Ryan.

[Ryan]

They definitely didn't crash that day at 140. Plans aren't that crazy.

[Mike]

That's what I was saying, based on their reactions and everything. It was not planned. Like, they're not that. They don't seem wrecked, dude.

[Ryan]

They don't have the balls. No one has the balls to do that that fast, bro. Yeah, basically could have hit a post.

[Ben]

Yeah, it could have hit that.

[Kyle]

That Ferrari.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

So please subscribe and come back next week for the next guy that I find that's on the Internet. Fellow idiot on the Internet.

[Ryan]

I'm looking forward to that.

[Mike]

That's same.

[Ryan]

Anyways, we got our friends Miller and Kyle here, fellow YouTubers. They're sitting in the, in the background right now. You might as well hop on.

[Mike]

So originally we met Miller. He was a filmer for Braden Price for a while. We still actually have not met Braden. And then I believe Kyle, you're good friends with him and also kind of a fellow off road youtuber. And then you started filming for Miller, started filming for Chase and Haley. And then we went to the Florida Freedom Factory race and all had a really, really good time there. And we've been friends ever since. So it's good to have you guys.

[Ryan]

What do you guys got going on? You're doing like some kind of road trip across America, filming videos.

[Miller]

That was the plan in the start of it. We were just like, let's go on a list. I got a can am. Let's take both of them, drive across the state, just do like a really cool series with it. And then we like got a month out from it and we were like, okay, we're not planned at all. And so let's just, you know, try to go like halfway across. And then we were like, who's halfway across? And then you guys came up and.

[Ryan]

So are we the end or the beginning?

[Kyle]

So I would say you guys are kind of the end. We started it. Like, I would say the trip started or we started talking when we were going out to Utah back in February or last February, we went to Utah and we were like, man, this would be really cool to bring the side by sides out here. Because we went in the winter time, we went snowboarding and snowmobiling for the first time, which was an awesome experience.

[Mike]

So you guys still planning to go to Utah on this trip?

[Kyle]

So on this trip, I would say this is the end of our trip. But now we're like thinking, okay, this is what it takes to do a trip like this. This was kind of like the feeler and exactly the test run and making it, you know, okay, now we know what we want to do, where we want to go for the future trip. And that would be you guys filming.

[Ryan]

Videos together or for your own separate channels together. How's this going over the trip?

[Miller]

We've discovered that if I want to do a certain video, they help me a little bit.

[Kyle]

Smart.

[Ryan]

So you don't have the same video twice.

[Miller]

Exactly.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Miller]

And it helps that we have more than one person for each vlog and we kind of bounce off each other pretty well.

[Kyle]

And so actually it's three of us going on this trip. So it's me, Miller, and actually my little brother Luke. He is my filmer and editor. So having the three of us to just kind of bounce off each other for whose ever video it might be that we're just makes so much more sense than like, okay, we're going to both film this and see who creates a better video out of it.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ryan]

Because you've kind of been in the YouTube game for a while now, Miller, haven't you?

[Miller]

Yeah, I've been.

[Ryan]

How many years for.

[Miller]

As a filmer or like myself even.

[Ryan]

Just doing it, man. Like, you were. Because you were with Braden for a while, weren't you?

[Miller]

Yeah, I started braiding 2019, and it just kind of happened on a whim, actually. I didn't even know I wanted to be an editor for a YouTube channel. And I met this dude at a truck, a truck meet. And he was like, hey, how can I. Like, how can I use my camera and all this stuff? And, you know, I helped him out. Just.

[Ryan]

Braden Price was asking you that?

[Miller]

No, no, no, no. One of his friends was actually. So, yeah, no, Braden came up to me. No, but no, one of his friends, really good friends, was. And he was just learning how to do camera stuff. And I was like, yeah, I'll help you out. Like, just showed him how to use his camera. And about four months later, he called me. He's like, hey, I know you're really good with cameras. My buddy's looking for an editor. Do you think you'd want to be in it? And I was like, do you think you want to, you know, do it? And I was like, I'd give it a shot. And so I kind of met up with Braden then. And I would go up to his house for a week, work, go home for a week, kind of like part time. And then in early 2020, I moved down to Charlotte full time.

[Ryan]

So you just live there and just edit videos for him?

[Miller]

Oh, dude, we fit.

[Ryan]

I filmed it because he posts a lot of videos. So, like, what's that? What's like, that kind of schedule?

[Miller]

We, at first we would do, like, try to do two a week. And like, we didn't really know like, how we wanted to schedule it because we were both. He was at like 600k when joined, and we were just like, trying to figure stuff out, and it got. We got to A we got to meet the Guggen squad, the guys who fish and everything like that. We went there. Yeah. Andrew Flair, you know all them. We flew out to Texas to collaborate with them and we watched them do six videos in a day and that. And we were like, all right, six.

[Ryan]

Videos in a day? How is that possible?

[Miller]

Dude, they would go in. So there's like six you. They're like six YouTubers, but they have like a channel to get like a community channel. And so what they do was they. They fly all fly into Dallas, Texas for three days out of one month. Create so much content that lasts till the next month and.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Miller]

Yeah, dude. They grind.

[Ryan]

They must have everything so planned out.

[Miller]

They had a giant whiteboard and everything of like, exactly. Times, like plans, like. And we were like, oh, dude, we're not. We're doing this wrong. And so we went back and I think for a little under a year, we did every other day.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I remember he was posting so much.

[Miller]

We posted so much. And I lived there full time with him at his parents house. And dude, we did. We grinded our like, asses out.

[Ryan]

It's been miserable editing all those videos.

[Miller]

It was a lot of editing. It was just me editing.

[Mike]

Yeah. So it looked like that. It was just. That was you?

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You ran everything as far as the back end went.

[Miller]

Yeah, no, I. Everybody's always told me that. That you were like, dude, you're the man behind the curtain kind of deal.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you have to. Every editor is, dude.

[Miller]

Yeah, it was. It was a lot of grind. And then we kind of slowed down. We had to hire. We hired another editor because I was becoming more of a, you know, member kind of like another character on there. And so we had another editor. That way I could film with Braden because we have a great film or like, you know, response and stuff.

[Ryan]

I remember seeing this one video. Which was it you or the other guy that got pranked by Braden Price? Was he like catfished one of you guys, didn't he?

[Miller]

I actually did that to the other editor.

[Ryan]

Oh, you did that?

[Miller]

Dude, it was. It was so bad. Went so far.

[Kyle]

Hold on.

[Ryan]

So I have questions about that now. So you were. You pretended to be a girl and were full on sliding in his DMs and.

[Mike]

No, no.

[Miller]

So we went to a bar. Braden had just turned 21. And we went to the first bar and this dude, Christian, he's awesome dude. But we. We went to this bar and he was like, just, you know, this waitress, like, seemed half interested in him and so he Left her. He left her his number. And I. As soon as I saw him do that, I, like, I was like, oh. It clicked in my mind. I was like, oh, okay. I'm definitely. So as we walked out, I downloaded a text now app and texted him off a fake number. I was like, this is going to be a great YouTube video. I've seen people do it before.

[Ryan]

Yeah, there's a whole show on it.

[Miller]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Catfishing people.

[Miller]

Yeah, literally. And so I texted him on. Off all week. Like, I was. It wasn't like, weird.

[Ryan]

Okay, that was. My next question is like, this go on for months where you.

[Miller]

It was just.

[Ryan]

You have them sending dick pics, like, saying I love you and stuff.

[Miller]

Like, how far? No, it was just like very, like. Just the usual girl, like, flirt, I'd imagine girls say, you know, and so.

[Ryan]

And he was buying it, dude.

[Miller]

He was. Oh, he was so. And he came in the work the next day. He was like, dude, that girl texting dude was hyped about it. It was so funny. So it went on for a week. We left work on Friday. I was like, hey, man, you got any plans this weekend? He was like, yeah, me and this girl might hang out.

[Kyle]

We're like, no way.

[Miller]

And about halfway through, I told Braden. Braden freaked out. Thought it was the funniest thing ever.

[Kyle]

Really.

[Mike]

He was like, oh, he didn't even know about it for a little while.

[Miller]

No, he didn't even know about. And so I was like, I didn't want to bring everybody in and it just be everybody against him because I feel like that hurt a little bit more. But, man, I texted him on that Saturday morning, he. Apparently he went to a party, like a frat party up in, you know, Greensboro, just like two hours away. And he was partying all day long. And I. So I texted him. I didn't know he was doing this. I didn't even know his plans. And I was like, hey, you catch a movie? And like, in the town we live in. He was like, yeah, sure, yeah, I'll be down there just like seven work, because I'm out of town right now. I was like, oh, crap. But I can't go back now. So. And so he drove an hour and a half to meet this girl for the. For a movie. He gets there, dude's been partying all day long, and he's like, covered in like, booze and like, his shorts are like, soaked from like, just partying really hard.

[Mike]

Yeah. Full blown, like.

[Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Shows up, stuff on his neck. Like, dude had been partying all day long.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Miller]

And he shows up, and he's standing outside waiting for it. And meanwhile, I'm in my car, hunkered.

[Ryan]

Hunkered down just by himself, waiting for some.

[Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

On the movie.

[Mike]

Did you bring anyone? Did you bring anyone else?

[Miller]

Yeah, no, I brought my family and my family.

[Evan]

Your family?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I brought my family. It's a big moment.

[Miller]

My failure. They were already in town. And so I was like, hey, you.

[Ryan]

Guys want to go punk my friend? I've been throwing them.

[Mike]

I thought you're gonna say the love of his life.

[Miller]

No, I FaceTime brain at the same time. But. Okay, so I run up with the camera, and I also recorded on my phone for Snapchat, because, you know that angle, Both angles. And so he runs up, and he's like, hey, dude, what are you doing here? I have no idea. And I was like, hey, hey, Christian. I'm like, I'm sorry, man. And he's like, what do you mean? Like, I'm supposed to. I'm supposed to meet the Sarah girl here. I was like, bud, like, come on. And he goes, no, no, you gotta be. You gotta be messing with me. I was like, bro. He was like, he. But he took it really well. He just started dying laughing.

[Ryan]

That's a good way to take. I was say. You could have really put that, like, the far way and just, like, got an episode of MTV and everything.

[Mike]

He hoped that you were just trolling him for a quick sec. You're like, no, I am messing with you, and I have been for a long time.

[Miller]

Yeah, no, he took it well, though. And everybody was like, dude, that's messed up. And I was like. He thought he was a good sport about it. There's certain people, you can't do that, too, and they get more offended, so.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Mike]

I could never conjure up a prank like that. I know you could. I know.

[Ryan]

I. I'm a prankster, and Ben is, too. I think that one might have been too far. I'm glad I don't hang around you. You're a savage.

[Miller]

I. I was about to do it again to someone else.

[Evan]

You're a catfish.

[Ben]

No.

[Miller]

But then I was like, okay, I took it too far last time. Let me not do it again. But Kyle's actually really good at pranks. He's pranked me a few times on this trip, and it's just like, the good, genuine, like.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So let's rewind a little bit here. So you. You were ba. You started off doing YouTube as an editor. You were just Full time editing.

[Miller]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then now I've made the switch where you're doing your own thing.

[Miller]

Yeah, I mean, I did it for a while, like, off and on. Probably since like 2017, like, off and on. I tried to do a moto vlog channel. Like, you know how they, you know, all those big Moto vloggers and stuff. That was a big wave of YouTube. I tried that for a little while and now as it was kind of dying out, like, full again. All those guys, I was always watch those guys. And so I was like, I'll try. I had a grom. You know, I'll do that for a little while. Tried that and then try to do some car content and then try to do some like, like, video photo stuff. And then I found with Braden, as soon as I saw Braden, like, and how he, you know, could tell a story, I was like, oh, this is kind of cool.

[Ryan]

So you learned something.

[Miller]

Yeah, oh, yeah, I learned. I mean, I learned a lot from, you know, just being around the world.

[Kyle]

Right.

[Miller]

It's definitely easier being surrounded by people that do it.

[Mike]

This is like, I guess you'll get a little plug. But you guys gotta check out Miller's Instagram page just because it is just beautiful. Just the three. It just looks so good and just stuff like that. I mean, you definitely are more refined in that aspect. But, like, I don't know, I just. I literally go to your Instagram page every once in a while just to, like, go, ah, this looks so good.

[Miller]

The aesthetic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I've been doing photo video for a long time and, you know, just trying to grow as a freelance photographer. And so I just really wanted to have a really esthetically pleasing.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Miller]

Instagram and stuff.

[Ryan]

And then you kind of made the switch. So you were like. I'd imagine you're probably getting paid pretty well being an editor for Braden, especially being that you were getting your Working your ass off.

[Miller]

Yeah. There's a lot of long nights and a lot of.

[Evan]

Of.

[Miller]

Yeah, it's for sure.

[Ryan]

So then what made you want to leave them or leave him after a while?

[Miller]

Brayden's been a really, really good friend. And I'm gonna try to, like.

[Ryan]

You guys are still tight.

[Miller]

We're still tight. Yeah, we're still. We still were really good friends. And of course, when I left, it was a, you know, a little bit of like a. Attention, a little bit of tension. Yeah. And so I. I really wanted to travel more and I really wanted to do stuff more car scene. We were doing so Much mudding. So much, you know, dirt bikes. And I was like, I started out doing a lot of car stuff, and I was like, I'd really like to, you know, get back into the motorsports kind of thing and so. And travel, warranty, everything. Because with Braden, he's got this really tight grip on doing everything local, doing everything. You know, he's got a really good way in process of just filming at his house. Like, he can go out and ride for 15 minutes behind his house and make a crazy video, you know, like, full video. Full video, yeah. Full 15. Yeah. But, like. And he just goes and does, you know, does, you know, that mud hole. Does the pond. Does, you know, riding pit bikes.

[Evan]

Like, just.

[Miller]

Just right there, local, which is a really gift. Like, it's a really big gift for him. Like, he can just film it. He doesn't.

[Ryan]

Pretty efficient, I'd imagine.

[Evan]

Super efficient.

[Mike]

I mean, I'd say, like, to an extent, we are similar in that way. We can always make. It's the same vibe, you know, like, yeah, if we can get together in our backyard, we're always gonna be happy and make a good video.

[Kyle]

But I feel like the thing that sets you guys apart is there's now six of you. So for you guys to go jump in and do something, if you did it for 10 minutes from six angles or six perspectives or six people jumping in, it's gonna produce so much more. Just one single person doing that definitely helps, too. I think that's honestly what makes exactly. What makes your content and your channel works so well. Because there is a group of you, and I know you've been told that so many times. As long as you keep your group together, you guys are always going to be something.

[Mike]

The beauty of traveling, too. Like, yeah, well, we got the boys. We know it's going to be good.

[Ryan]

The only thing I wish is that we could film a full YouTube video in 15 minutes.

[Kyle]

That would be insane.

[Ryan]

You'd be pumping these things out.

[Miller]

Yeah, we would. Like, he was like, all right. I was like, what do you want to do today day? He'd be like, all right, we'll go take. We'll do. Throw a different set of tires on this one. Like, we'll go throw big tires on it or small tires, and then just, like, go and film that for, like, 30 minutes. 30 to 45 minutes.

[Ryan]

You have a full video editing. People love it.

[Miller]

Yeah, people eat it up. He's got a very good, like, you know, cult following for that, and just. I mean, it works for him.

[Ryan]

It really works.

[Miller]

For him. And then it was just becoming really routine for me. And I was like, you know, Haley and Chase came into the thing, and we came. We became really, really good friends. And I was doing a little side work for them at the time, and they were like, miller, would you, like, want to join, like, full time? Like, Chase, Haley did? Yeah, Chase and Haley, they're like, would you. I mean, when we could afford it, like, we'd really, like.

[Ryan]

Just for the people at home, right?

[Miller]

Yeah. Haley Deegan and her boyfriend Chase, really good friends of mine. And they're like, when we can afford it, we'll pay you. Like, like, that'd be sick because we, like, we all got along really, really well. Yeah, we all had.

[Ryan]

Like, then you'd get to travel around.

[Miller]

And travel around NASCAR stuff.

[Ben]

Stuff.

[Miller]

Meet all her family was really awesome.

[Mike]

So when they asked this. Was this. Were they at all, like. I guess if I was to go approach another. A filmer for another YouTube channel, I'd be a little bit like, I know we're stepping on feet here, but would you.

[Kyle]

Would.

[Mike]

Did they, like, realize that they were that?

[Miller]

And I was like, honestly, at that time, I was like, a little over, like, a little ready. I was like. I felt very stagnant and like, like, like in the book, in the beginning, I was like, you always have to level up. You can only grow as big as your environment. That kind of deal. And I was like, this might be like, I'll make a lot of good connections this way. And I was like, I was honestly ready to, like, change up something either way, whether it be them or not. And so because I'd asked, you know, Brayden for, you know, a little bit more or like, I was like, dude, I've been with you for a long time. Like, you know, he's a really good friend, and it's like, it's hard to work for your friend and stuff like that, so. And especially with having another employee on there, it was just like, it wasn't. It was very stagnant. And I was like, all right, I'm ready to change, regardless of who it is to. Or just try to level up.

[Ryan]

Would you be, like, uploading the video to his channel, too?

[Miller]

I did everything.

[Ryan]

So you upload it and everything like that.

[Miller]

Film it. I'd up, I'd edit it, upload it, I'd create clips of it. I'd post on his Instagram.

[Ryan]

So when you would upload it, I'm sure you were kind of like, seeing the ad, had, like, the ad rev over 28 days, and you're just like, this, dude, I should be doing this. Is that what you were thinking? Because that's what I would.

[Miller]

It was, yeah. And he had always said, like, whenever I make more, you'll make more. And I was like, all right. That's, like. That'll be sick. Like, he was like, when we reach this level, you'll reach this level. And I was like, sick. And he kind of, like, it kind of didn't go that way. And so I was like, all right. Well, do you get it?

[Ryan]

Like, right. Well, to be fair, though, in Braden's defense, I mean, he had been doing it for a long time.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle]

No.

[Miller]

Yeah. No.

[Ryan]

You know, because I remember watching his videos when I was trying to figure out how to kind of do YouTube, and he would have his GoPro and just do wheelies and stuff. Who was the buddy? Julius.

[Miller]

Julius, yeah.

[Ryan]

Is he still in the picture?

[Miller]

Yeah, no, he's. Yeah, he's all. We all are really good friends with.

[Ryan]

That's cool. I remember watching him when he was, like, a little kid. He was on, like, a 150.

[Miller]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I was like, man, this is. This guy's, like, doing his thing, you know? And definitely, like, watched him and took some inspiration from him and put into what we're all doing, you know?

[Kyle]

Know.

[Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

But, yeah, it makes sense why you'd want. Why you'd look at that and be like, ah, you know, I should do my own thing.

[Miller]

Yeah, I love doing it. I love doing. Right, you know, YouTube and everything like that. And so it was just really cool. I mean, I was just like, all right, I. If I can. I might be able. If I had a little more time, I could do it.

[Ryan]

Right. But you were fully tapped.

[Miller]

I was. I could not. I could not have a breath, like, without, like, I was always thinking, brayden, not. This I was taking.

[Kyle]

Right.

[Ryan]

Well, you have to. Yeah.

[Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

You were doing a great job.

[Miller]

Yeah. Whenever I joined Haley and Chase, I had a little bit of. Bit more free time. I had a little bit more, like, creative free. Like, free, like, to input them with them and stuff like that. So it was really cool joining them and their dynamic. It was so different than Braden's was like, content, content, content. Whereas Haley and Chase are like, let's have a good time and do content, Right?

[Mike]

Yep. And that's what. It was cool seeing you work for them, do their stuff, work on their stuff, but then also, like, pump out videos on your own. And it was cool that there was a lot different than what? They were putting it out obviously, because I've seen that happen to like, if they allow the filmer to like do their own thing, they're just putting out the same content. So that was cool.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So how about you Kyle? When did you start YouTubing?

[Kyle]

So ironic.

[Mike]

And how did it start?

[Ryan]

Yeah, you guys, a whole squad of youtubers. 30 minute. Cuz you obviously you got you, Miller, Brayden, Haley and Chase, you guys all live within like a 30 minute hour.

[Kyle]

Away from each other ironically, two years ago. So September 9th was the first time I posted a video two years ago. Okay, so I'm just hitting the two year mark. I'm coming up on 150, 000 subscribers, which is, you know, honestly for a two year channel, not bad.

[Mike]

I agree, that's good.

[Kyle]

I agree. But I do have a lot of people to thank for that and Braden would definitely be one of them. So obviously your friend Zach Goes. You know him? Yeah, I grew up kind of watching Zach goes and his buddy Cody Cheney, who was wcw, he moved live. Yeah, I used to live in South Jersey and I knew who they were and I followed Cody on Snapchat, but I didn't really like realize I followed him because of he's an arborist, he does tree work. So I've always followed him because of that. So I moved down to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2018. I'm down there for a year, I'm finishing out school and I'm kind of just doing my thing, working a lot. And I, I mean I grew up riding, that's what I did in Jersey, there's so much riding there. And so I moved to North Carolina, I kind of lost that like output. Like that was my hobby, that was my thing and I lost it. And so one day I see on Cody's story he had moved down there. I was like, oh, that's cool. Like he rides the streets, I ride trails. Like I would never cross paths with him.

[Mike]

But then that is funny that he moved down there right when you decided to get into it. Because watching him for a second, we watched him do wheelies all the time. And then I'm like, I don't mean to offend anybody. I'm just like, damn, dude, he's mudding now. Yeah, the hell.

[Kyle]

So I see that he's down there and one day he just puts on a story like, hey, anybody local want to ride? Ride? He's like, I got these cool trails. So I stood up on the story, I was like, hey dude, I'm in Charlotte. Like do you want to ride or like, I'll come right with you. And so I was so busy with work. There was. I would talk to him here and there. It wouldn't really ever work out. In one week. I just had a free weekend and I was like, hey dude, let's ride Saturday. He's like, okay, cool. Like, how old are you? How old are you and what do you ride? And at the time I didn't unders, Like, I didn't grasp that concept. And now being a YouTuber, I get it because everybody always reaches out and like, oh, I've got an XR100, I'm 14, let's ride. And it's like, like, I mean, you want to ride with like minded people and like skilled people. I was like, oh, I think I was, I was in 20 at the time. I was like, oh, I'm 20 and I've got a KX450. He's like, okay, cool, here's my number and my address. Like, how far? You know, it was like 40 minutes from him or something. So anyway, fast forward, I get in, me and him literally click like brothers.

[Ryan]

And you were filming YouTube videos at.

[Kyle]

The time, I had maybe 500 Instagram followers. You know, I was nothing.

[Mike]

Is he on a bike as well?

[Kyle]

Yeah. So he had a YZ125, I had my KX and me and him just started riding. And it was a march. It was March when we met and we rode every weekend. Literally, we became best.

[Mike]

So that's where you got your insight.

[Kyle]

Because, hey, you made videos. How was it? So that was my first step into it. And he told me like, at that point I didn't realize he had a huge Instagram or YouTube. Like I just met him and then learned about this, which I'm so happy I did because it wasn't like I was following him like, oh, I hang out with this cool person. So he's telling me about, you know, how he does all or how he used to do these videos with Zach Goes. And I'd seen some of his videos before and I was like, well, dude, why don't you do them anymore? Like, you've got got perfect content for this. You've got all these trails, all this cool stuff. And he was like, yeah, I mean, I don't know, maybe it's just kind of hard to do it by yourself. I'm like, well, I'm here, I'll film or film me, like bounce off each other. And so I wasn't doing it because I wanted to do it. I just. I liked watching the videos and seeing myself, you know, in them and being a little bit of a part of them. So fast forward that starts going on. He posted a few videos and then people were commenting saying, oh, you should go right with Braden Price. And people are going on Braden's channel and saying, oh, you should ride with Cody and Miller.

[Miller]

Actually, I saw one of the comments.

[Kyle]

Yeah, I know who Cody was. And he had watched Cody forever.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Kyle]

So. And what was it? Probably May, I think early May. Yeah. I kind of got Cody into starting to ride four wheelers because I had a. I had a Can Am and he was funny.

[Mike]

You have a little bit of credit for that.

[Kyle]

Yeah, so. So me and him were doing our thing and Braden comes and film or, you know, comes right with us and they're filming. I'm kind of like, not starstruck, but like, like, wow, this is.

[Ryan]

So that was your first time meeting Braden?

[Kyle]

That was the first time meeting Braden. Although I grew or not group, I moved 10 minutes from where he grew up and lived. I went to the same high school my senior year as him. Never met him in high school. I met him two years after I graduate and all this stuff then. So anyway, do that thing with Cody. We film with them, we end up getting in contact. I start talking to Braden, realizing that we live, like 10 minutes away from each other. Obviously, we've got like, you know, similar. Similar interests. So I started to hang out with them and be friends with them and starting to do stuff with them. I'm still doing a little bit of stuff with Instagram and now my. Or, I'm sorry, still doing stuff with Cody. And my Instagram's starting to kind of pop off and grow. And then now I'm starting to get more involved in Braden's videos and I'm getting more involved in Cody's videos and his Instagram and just back and forth and people are just seeing this person. It's like sending everything and having a great time. And just. Honestly, I was.

[Ryan]

You always are, like, there for fun.

[Kyle]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Like, whenever I've been around you, when you're filming, you're like, there for fun first.

[Kyle]

Yep.

[Ryan]

Filming second. Which probably also comes being like, because YouTube's kind of your secondary job is.

[Kyle]

And you.

[Ryan]

I've asked you multiple times, like, why don't you just go all in? But you don't really want to.

[Kyle]

Obviously. I would love to go full on in YouTube, but it is a hobby and I feel like that's what keeps my content, like, relatable I don't. I don't treat it like a job at all. The filming and the editing is done. Like, I pay my little brother, ironically, to do all that stuff, and he does a phenomenal job at it. But since I have that disconnect from it and I'm just there to make the content, yeah, that really stays.

[Ryan]

But you're not really relying on the money either.

[Kyle]

Exactly. So I'm not. So if it goes great or if it goes bad, it doesn't affect my mood towards YouTube. I just do it because at the end of the day, in 20 years, I want to look back and be like, oh, these are.

[Ryan]

Watch your videos.

[Kyle]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

That'd be pretty cool, dude.

[Kyle]

And pass on the stories. Like, oh, man, this is stuff like, when I was little, I used to hang out with Haley Deegan, or, you know, I've gone to these races and met Ryan Deegan or Travis Pastrana or, yeah, Adam lz or these different huge youtubers that I would have just never imagined that would have been able to meet or guys. I mean, hell, I would have. If you asked me two years ago, would I be on a Sea Boys podcast right now, I would have never imagined in a million years I'd end up here.

[Mike]

And, I mean, and it's cool, like, hey, hearing how you started and this and that, but, like, I just associate you with Braden.

[Miller]

Right.

[Mike]

I know there's a lot. As far as numbers go, a lot of difference, but I just do. And I think that's cool. I'm like, oh, yeah, Kyle. Yeah, he's a YouTuber from North Carolina, so.

[Kyle]

So Braden did give me my start. And, you know, a lot of people were like, like, oh, what's your YouTube channel? Because down there, everybody had their little YouTube channel.

[Ryan]

Yeah. It's like, it seems like everyone's got a channel.

[Kyle]

They do, and that's cool. Which is a good and bad thing, I think.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's a problem.

[Ben]

It gives you.

[Ryan]

It can be a problem copying each other. Is that something that you got to be worried about?

[Kyle]

Sort of. And I would say that's what kind of gave. So anyway, Braden. I was on Braden's channel. Everybody's like, oh, what's your YouTube channel? I was like, I don't have one. And more people are asking and asking.

[Miller]

Just in the background, just being, like. Just being content. Like, just being himself, just being, you know, in addition to videos. And people love them so much. They're like, start a channel.

[Ryan]

Start a channel.

[Kyle]

So I asked Braden about it, because I wasn't trying to step on toes. I didn't have that interest, and I didn't have the capacity to edit the videos. I'm not a computer person. And so, you know, everybody's asking all this stuff, and Braden's like, dude, honestly, you're really good on camera. You know how to talk. You are entertaining. You keep it flowing. Because a lot of people that try to do YouTube, like, they just fizzle out real quick because they're boring and, you know, or they can only be so interested in so much.

[Miller]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

And so I was like, yeah, but that doesn't really solve the editing issue. And then Luke, my little brother, goes, dude, do YouTube. Like, I've been editing YouTube videos all, like, for the past few years, which I didn't know he used to make gaming videos. And I just. Oh, really? I didn't.

[Ryan]

Because, yeah, Luke's a really good editor.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

So we're gonna steal him from.

[Kyle]

Always.

[Mike]

Made, like, from kind of day one. Like, have you ever dabbled in it or. It's just always been, I barely know.

[Kyle]

How to download the footage onto the computer. I swear.

[Mike]

I mean, again, I think that that's.

[Ryan]

I think it's awesome that you two are, like, doing your thing, like, together. Like, I was happy when you called me, and we're like, yeah, we're. We're going on a trip and, like, we're both filming and stuff. I. Because I've always pushed for you, I'm like, dude, you. Well, I know you are doing it, but I was like, you should too. Like, go. Go, like, actually go hard, you know, because, like, you say you're doing this just strictly as a hobby, but. And because I think you guys both have, like, a lot of potential.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, like, you could be big.

[Kyle]

Really big. I guess that's the only thing that I'm scared of is if I go full time, I'm scared my content's gonna seem forced, Like I need to record. Honestly, I don't really have a schedule. I might upload once a week. I might upload every two weeks. And I know that sounds terrible, and I know I'm kind of missing the opportunity a little bit.

[Mike]

There was what you said last night. There's a happy medium between. You're like, okay, so if I go all in, am I gonna go all in on side by side content, is that gonna be it? You're like, that's what kind of scares me. Then. It's just like, driving a side by side gonna be my only job, obviously, making YouTube videos or I Kind of feel once you go all in, you want it to be more than that.

[Kyle]

Yeah. And that backs up to like you're saying, oh, I. You associate me with Braden and there's not anything wrong with that. But. So after the whole Braden thing happened, he told me to start a channel. Me and him were kind of bouncing off each other. I mean, that helped. I skyrocketed to 10,000 subscribers like that. Like, I don't know, in a month maybe.

[Miller]

Which one or two videos?

[Kyle]

Yeah, one or two videos like that.

[Mike]

The first 10,000 is usually the hardest.

[Kyle]

You know, so thankful to have that kind of bump and start. But I quickly realized, especially with some of the other small YouTubers around us, you know, that are way smaller, everybody gets associated with Braden. And I wanted to make my own name for myself. And so that's what I quickly, like, I. Brayden was doing the four wheeler stuff. I wanted to get into side by side stuff and get myself separated separate from that and just not.

[Mike]

You definitely did that early enough. I forget who said it. When we met in Florida, like, they were like, oh, Kyle's like, he. He's burned tires off side by side guy. And they didn't say it like that.

[Miller]

The chaos guy. But it was like, yeah, break everything guy.

[Mike]

Well, no, I just. But they specifically referred to you as like, because you love doing donuts on tar. And just because the X3, just the clip of Kyle endoing the razor or. Sorry, the X3 is pretty gnarly. Yeah.

[Kyle]

So I. I had a 2021 Can Am X3 and last December I ended up totaling it.

[Mike]

You have the video?

[Miller]

Yeah, I have the deal.

[Ryan]

What happens when you total something?

[Kyle]

Like, so I did have it. So I had it fully street legal, so I had full blown insurance on it. And I was talking to Ben out front this morning when we were kind of unloading the side by sides and I was. Because I was getting right around the town and he was like, you guys drive these things a lot? And I was like, yeah. I mean, he's like, what do you drive them like every few days? And I was like, I mean, probably once a week. I said, a lot of it's off camera though, because it's like our fun thing to go do. Like we'll go ride side by sides around the trail and then I'll stay at Cody. Like me and Cody still are very good friends. We'll go ride side by sides. I'll stay at his house and we'll go out on the boat the next day because he Lives right by the lake. Like, that's our thing. And a lot of that never gets recorded. We. I think we literally went to Starbucks, got coffee, and then we stopped at Target and got something. Miller was kind of cruising behind on the pit bike, and we were just cutting through a field one day, and we found this little jump, and we were all hitting it one way. So that's Cody and the gray side by side, and then I'm on the blue one.

[Ryan]

So no helmets.

[Kyle]

He wasn't exactly. But we were just street riding that day. Like, it was. I typically always wear a helmet.

[Mike]

Yeah, I was gonna say you usually do. Unfortunately, I. I didn't want to, like, preface it, but obviously it cats out of the bag. No helmet, scary as frick.

[Kyle]

Listen, you saw the jumps we were hitting in Florida. You know the jumps you hit major jumps and you know the jumps you guys hit here. And I'm looking at this little gap. I'm like, oh, I got this. Like, I'm kind of doing the math quick in my head. I'm like, oh, I got this. But I didn't think about how short the lip was.

[Miller]

The landing was really short.

[Kyle]

The landing was fine. The gap wasn't huge, but the lip was way too short, so it bucked me, and I nose dived in here really good.

[Evan]

Just film it.

[Kyle]

I was like, all right, I'm glad.

[Ryan]

To get out, dude.

[Mike]

Oh, my.

[Kyle]

Real quick, Miller.

[Miller]

It's like.

[Ryan]

So that first.

[Kyle]

First impact isn't what hurt me, that I. I remember that it was that second impact upside down. I got pushed up out of the seat, and I had a seat belt on, but I have harnesses on. So I got pushed up out of the seat, and then that second impact launched me backwards, and I smacked my head on the roll bar. Ended up getting 10 staples.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God. You got knocked out.

[Miller]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

We were in Mac of a head hit.

[Kyle]

Hell of a. Hell of a concussion.

[Miller]

Yeah. The rest of this clip is us running up, and Kyle's like, the side by side's on its side, and Kyle's just laying there and, like, blood literally running out of hang out of his head. And me and her running over there. We're like, oh, he's. He's. He might be dead. Like, running up to him. No, like, it was that loud and that dramatic, like, right then and there, and it was just like, oh, my gosh. I'd never witnessed it so, like, so close before. Right.

[Kyle]

I went back about probably four or five days later, and there was a sizable little pool of Blood dried into the.

[Miller]

Yeah.

[Kyle]

So where we ride in this clip is actually an abandoned golf course. So we cruise around on the cart, pass and drift around.

[Ryan]

It's pretty sick.

[Kyle]

It's an awesome place to go. That's like I was out of work for all of December last year.

[Ryan]

Really.

[Kyle]

I had a very bad concussion from that.

[Ryan]

So it's a whole month or I kind of.

[Kyle]

And so that's the thing. I work for myself. I'm a modeling contractor. So I kind of scheduled my workout already.

[Mike]

So I was waiting for you to say that you're he. Kyle's been looking around the shop like wondering asking like, like builder questions. And you definitely know your as far as that goes. But it's just funny.

[Miller]

We'll walk into any door and he's like, like well if he this a.

[Kyle]

Little bit more ready to fix your bathroom door. Cuz it was pissing me off earlier.

[Ryan]

Go ahead.

[Kyle]

I'm going to. I'm going to find some screws first. You got any of those around the Cor?

[Ryan]

Actually the Dollar General store over there.

[Kyle]

Perfect.

[Mike]

Also you were helpful last night. We started so we thought the razor was fine. It. It's been great. It has not broken yet.

[Kyle]

You should go grab that hub or we should go.

[Mike]

Yeah, I should.

[Miller]

Until we started.

[Mike]

Until we started jumping it on the track, everything was good. And then you know, the CVS went out and then I don't know really what happened in this translation but Evan replaced the CVS and then the bearing just non existent anymore and the. The wheel was latched onto the. The rig pretty tight and yet you could move the whole thing.

[Kyle]

Yeah. So Ben. I was showing Ben and Ryan that this morning and so he was like. I think Ben was like, how does that even happen? And I was like, well, you know, the wheel bearings start to go and you're like I will change them soon. And then you keep jumping it and then they're like oh, you know, we should change it. And you know like oh, we'll get to it later. And you keep going and keep going. I was like, eventually, eventually this is what happens.

[Miller]

Yeah. So we walk in and Mike is jacking this thing up. He's like, yeah, I think a wheel bearings out. And I went over to it.

[Kyle]

It was gone.

[Miller]

Yeah, I went over to it and wiggled it just a little bit. I was like, oh, it's not. And then wiggle. And then it kept going. And I was like, you've taken these lug nuts off, right? And he's like, no, no, everything's Still?

[Kyle]

Yeah, it was just moving.

[Mike]

That was the worst part too, is that I'm like, well, we should probably fix the side by side now that you guys are coming. And then it's like you guys get here. And then I'm like, literally just jacking it up. Literally.

[Miller]

I was jacking as, as we were pulling up.

[Kyle]

He's starting to jack it up.

[Mike]

And then you guys are like, oh.

[Kyle]

You'Re just trying to get this fixed.

[Mike]

And you're like, what? What are you guys doing?

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Miller]

Oh, goodness.

[Kyle]

It was the equivalent of like putting a tire on. Putting one lug nut on just like a half a thread and then like, and then shake the tire or drive with it, but everything was fully tied. Fight. And yeah, that was, that was rough.

[Evan]

I was, I asked them, how does this even happen? And they go, because you guys don't maintenance anything. You guys are what happened. You're the problem.

[Ryan]

You just.

[Kyle]

You're like the spider man meme where everybody's like, point.

[Ryan]

That's true.

[Mike]

And also.

[Evan]

Hey, all right, we're gonna have Miller editing.

[Kyle]

Okay.

[Evan]

We have Luke editing.

[Kyle]

Well, no, you gotta.

[Evan]

And then we're gonna have Kyle sending all of our stuff. You guys aren't going to be including.

[Ryan]

The building sending service.

[Miller]

They're going to like slash all our tires. So we can't literally leave.

[Kyle]

So he'll be photography and video. He'll be editing. And then I'll just be sending and servicing.

[Ryan]

Yep. And we'll pay you guys in uncrustable PB and J's. Perfect.

[Kyle]

Those are my favorite.

[Ryan]

Yes. You guys will be dialed.

[Miller]

The grape ones.

[Kyle]

You could probably get him with McDonald's. You could.

[Ryan]

We don't got McDonald's out here.

[Mike]

I think that's.

[Ryan]

Sorry, buddy.

[Mike]

Crustable PB and JS in a roundabout way, obviously. Like, it's good compliment. I, It'd be. We'd be a powerhouse.

[Kyle]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

We really would.

[Kyle]

Like, so why do you guys just gotta live in the middle of nowhere, though?

[Evan]

I know.

[Ryan]

That was my next question. So being, you know, Miller, you were a full time YouTube editor.

[Miller]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

What do we got to do to get a YouTube editor, full time guy in here in house helping us out so that way we can continue to, to expand and grow and make more videos and better videos and all that. Like, what do we got to do do?

[Miller]

Oh, man. I mean, I'm right here, but. No, no, but you're trying to do.

[Ryan]

Your own thing now.

[Miller]

Yeah, I'm trying to do my own thing. And I, I. It's Been contemplated in my head, like, am I ready for that yet? I'm just hitting 90k and I'm like, can I afford to like, even. You know.

[Ryan]

Right. You basically went from a full time steady salary.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

As funny as it is working for a YouTuber.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And now you're going into the unsure thing.

[Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Right now I'm like, halfway in between, like, all right, am I sending this like. Like, should I just commit or should I just try to find a job and then. Or like, not a job, but, like, try to find a YouTube channel to edit for and then do stuff. Stuff on the side till I grow a little bit bigger, till I can justify it. So I'm like halfway in between both of those right now. But I don't know.

[Ryan]

You gotta just send it, man.

[Miller]

You think so?

[Ryan]

That's what I think.

[Kyle]

I feel like the hardest thing for you guys to find an editor is nobody's ever gonna edit the way that you are seeing and portraying the video in your head before you ever edit it.

[Mike]

And that's what we're worried about.

[Miller]

That's a big thing. Because with Braden, my editing style was his videos. Like, was. That was how he taught me to edit, because I was. I was his first editor. And so that's how I learned to edit. And like, I learned how to edit his style. And then when I went to Haley and Chase, I totally had to switch up how I edited and how I did and everything. And so me and Chase would have videos and sometimes he'd have to go in and fix my part just because he, He.

[Ryan]

He wasn't out of the way.

[Miller]

And it wasn't exactly how he envisioned it in his head, which no problem to me because, I mean, I just didn't know. But like.

[Kyle]

Right.

[Miller]

You just gotta find someone to learn exactly how you.

[Kyle]

So then here's a wild fact that most people don't know. I usually don't watch my YouTube videos until they've been posted for about an hour.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Kyle]

I swear, he'll. Luke will post them. Because to me, It's. It's Luke's YouTube channel almost. It's.

[Ryan]

You're just the feature on it.

[Kyle]

I'm just the. I'm just financing it. I'm literally just financing the YouTube and creating the content and making the connections, and he does absolutely all the YouTube. And that's what he loves. That's what his.

[Mike]

I don't think it's the craziest thing ever.

[Kyle]

This.

[Mike]

This is probably an abrasive thing to say, but I don't listen. I would definitely watch all our videos, try to watch them multiple times. But like, I don't listen to our podcasts unless I was like, that was really fun. I mean I definitely go back but I can't listen to the full one because I was like, I lived it or I watched and the opposite.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I listen and watch it before even goes out to like for sure.

[Mike]

And if there's any. Everything before it goes out. But yeah, it's like once it's out I'm like, I love like reading the comments and reminiscing back on it. But then when I watch it I was like, I don't know why. Yeah, it's just, it's kind of like maybe not ideal, but I definitely go back and watch anything that's super funny, I gotta see again.

[Kyle]

I guess I probably do the same thing because I love reading the comments. It's honestly my favorite thing to do and I guess it just shows the trust that I have for what Luke has in envisioned for the video. And yeah, there's times where I'm like, I wouldn't have put that clip in. It might look a little embarrassing or it wasn't a good one or this or that. And I'm just like, I don't care. Like my mentality towards life is just like, I don't care what people think. I'm just, I'm, I'm here, I'm doing.

[Evan]

Me and I'm happy.

[Ryan]

No, I definitely, if I had to describe you, I would describe you that way too. Like I, and I can appreciate that.

[Kyle]

And so I think that's another thing that just makes my videos seem so almost raw in a way where they're not fabricated. Which there's great benefits of having a fabricated video. You can make them in 20 minutes or it's just wrong. You know, you gotta film all day and it's just whatever you're doing during the day and then you know, compress it into a 10 minute film which I think hates because it's pain in the ass to edit.

[Ryan]

Yeah, definitely.

[Kyle]

And it's a great variety and I mean obviously it's, it's working. There's definitely ways that it can be improved. And you know, my channel could grow significantly if I'd hammer down a little bit.

[Mike]

Bit.

[Kyle]

I don't know. Life's short.

[Ryan]

I don't want what you're even trying to do.

[Mike]

There's so many different approaches, like legit. So many. And there's not really a right or wrong one. There's Some that get more retention. There's some that get more loves, more of a called audience, more money. But there's no right or wrong way to do it, which is a good and bad thing. This really take love and hate with all of YouTube and all of videos and all of content creating in general.

[Kyle]

Which is really funny for you to say, because some of the videos that I either invest a lot of time, a lot of money, or a lot of effort into to sometimes fall on their face, and then I'm so pissed about it, and I'm just like, that's why I just stepped back and I don't care. Like, in a way. And I see Luke. You know, it's funny because the YouTube scale is backwards. It's not a. You know, videos are a 1 out of 10, and that's a great, great thing. Most people think 1 out of 10 is, you know, the best thing in the world, but it's. It's. I'm sorry, the worst thing in the world. It's backwards for YouTube on their, like, rating scale.

[Ryan]

Number one out of the most recent 10.

[Kyle]

Exactly, exactly. So, you know, Luke will post a video. Maybe it does. You know, 8 out of 10, which is at the bottom of the scale. And he's, like, bumming about it and freaking out and just. So, like, I just put all this effort and time into it, and.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you know, it's almost harder on the editor, I think.

[Kyle]

Oh, absolutely. And where it's like, if it does great, awesome. I love it. Yeah, it doesn't do great.

[Ryan]

You don't really seem to care.

[Kyle]

I don't. Can't. I. I'm not gonna get anything from getting offended. Sweet.

[Ryan]

You guys been. Wait, so. So you mentioned you've been watching our videos for a long time. So, like, you. You watched them before you met us, or.

[Kyle]

So I watched your. I would say right about the time I got my Mavericks about a year and a half ago, I started watching y'.

[Mike]

All.

[Kyle]

And then. So when we first met in Florida, I've been watching you guys for probably a solid year. Miller.

[Ryan]

Two years.

[Miller]

Then I've been watching probably since the early shifter cart days on, like, the ice and stuff like that, and just followed along. Like, my buddy introduced me or introduced me to the shifter cart on ice video a while back, and one of those early videos where y' all had the sh. That had the old shop. Like, y' all are just really, like, little stuff, like, you know, doing the cutout on the first X3 that y' all had, like, just a Whole bunch of old stuff. And I just watched, you know, occasionally for a long time. And then I guess up until I got back back into youth, like big into YouTube with Brayden, I was just like, there's every video and.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Miller]

So it was really cool. It's really cool to come up here and just be a part of that too.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we were, we were going to answer comment. The comment section questions, this podcast, which we forgot to do or I don't know what happened. We didn't do those. But did you guys have any, I guess any good questions that maybe being that you are somewhat outsiders. I mean, we're friends, but like we only get to see each other like once, twice a year.

[Kyle]

So I was asking Ben kind of before you guys started the podcast. I. I feel like merch is possibly my next step. And I'm getting like, I never wanted to start too early where I was just like trying to push something where I'm, you know, what are you selling? 20 units maybe? And it's like, is it really worth the time? I feel like I can easily have the infrastructure to do it myself slash kind of do it in house, you know, maybe where I'm just having the shirts made shipped to me and shipping them back out. But I also really want to come up with a good like, like brand. I don't want to just slap Kyle Cullen on it.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Kyle]

It's just you want to do like. I want it like I love your guys merch and there's a handful of other people, I really love their merch where it's just you would wear it anywhere. You don't feel like. Yeah, like you're saying heydays. People at heydays wear these vulgar shirts because it's like the only place they.

[Miller]

Can wear for it. Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle]

Time and the place. I don't want somebody to only wear a Kyle Cullen shirt. Yeah. You know, riding park or whatever. I want somebody to like, like really want to, you know, wear my shirts wherever or whatever.

[Ryan]

So you're saying you want to get a brand, not just have, not. Not necessarily feel as merchant, which nowadays I feel like pretty much you have to. It seems like with the merch, a lot of people are or brand. You know, when you're a YouTuber and you're pushing the shirts or whatever, any kind of clothing seems like everyone's trying to push some kind of brand.

[Mike]

Like what you're saying, I mean, you thinking that is just.

[Ryan]

You could do both though. You could still start with Kyle Cullen, but then you could Also kind of want to start, you know, branching into, you know, maybe you come up with a. A good just brand that can stand for something bigger than, I guess, just your name, you know, and so we've.

[Kyle]

I've got a few ideas, and even Miller gave me a really good one that would just fit my style really well. And I guess it's just. I need to take that first step. I just need to do it, see how it goes.

[Ryan]

And I bet you do great, dude.

[Mike]

For sure.

[Kyle]

It's either going to do great or it's going to show me. It's going to give me a reality.

[Ryan]

Check and just do it yourself. Get the merch, find someone who can design it, get it made, and then just ship it out in house. Start in house, keep it small.

[Kyle]

Hey, Micah, you wanted to sign me some shirts?

[Ryan]

No.

[Kyle]

But also, you're trying to steal Luke.

[Mike]

I do love. Exactly.

[Kyle]

Listen, trade off for a week, okay?

[Ryan]

Luke seems nice, but I gotta keep Mike.

[Mike]

I love, I mean, also the sturdy mindset of being like, I don't want to start too early because if I could get anyone on any advice as far as early channel, like, don't start too early on merch. It just don't. It's not worth it. I mean, I'm talking like that you got like little kids that are like, I got a thousand. I got a thousand subscribers on YouTube. I'm gonna start merch.

[Ryan]

I'm like, just focus on your video.

[Mike]

Yep. I'm like, just keep crushing videos because, like, it's common sense.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Mike]

No one's gonna want. Really?

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But, yeah, so I think you're definitely at a point where people. And another. This is like, just a thing I've thought about, about, you know, how we do, like, our merch shops, a whole line of stuff. It's like, also, if you've never done merch, which you. So you never have never done anything, then that's where you can wear everybody.

[Kyle]

Else'S merch for all my videos, which is.

[Ryan]

We're gonna have to send you some stuff. I don't think you should do any merch.

[Evan]

Listen, I'll send you a shirt for.

[Ryan]

Everything.

[Kyle]

I do rep a few of your shirts and I always get comments.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Kyle]

Oh, I love this.

[Ryan]

Positive.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Kyle]

I love the Seaboard shirt. I love your. You guys, you watch Sea Boys, you know, stuff like that.

[Mike]

So that's what. That's when you will be able to get away just quite literally doing your name and definitely make it cool. Definitely make it something you love. And then You'll. You'll be like, dang, I actually sold a lot of those. That's that first influx of never having done merch, and then people wanting it, and then from there, you can go, okay, cool. You know, I got some sales, and people are interested. Then you're like, let's. Let's think of a brand.

[Kyle]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Although I guess a really hard launch on it all would be. Would be a good thing too.

[Ryan]

I'd say definitely. Just, like, try to do it right, you know, and work, like, definitely. You're gonna have to put work in, but it'll be worth it if you can, you know, build something that you're proud of and true. Like, if you like it, I'd say right then and there, then you're. You're good to send it. Some people, they. They get like. Like, there's steps to everything. It's like step A, B, C, and you're definitely at. The next step is merch, in my personal opinion. But, like, you're asking if you're skipping a step, but you're not, in my opinion.

[Kyle]

I guess the one thing is, I am. Am pretty picky on whose merch I will wear. You know, like I said, I do get a lot of YouTubers that we've met. We've, you know, a lot of them give us merch, and I've worn it or, you know, I will wear it. So I'm kind of particular on whose merch I will wear, so I feel like that'd make me pretty particular on my own merch, because I'm gonna be wearing it then. I want it to be cool.

[Ryan]

Yeah, just make it good. Just like YouTube videos, you know, you want to always do the best you can. That's pretty much my only advice. But yeah.

[Kyle]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

I genuinely appreciate having you guys on. I'm glad you guys are making a little trip. You guys, like you said when you first got on, you know how hard it is to plan something out like that. When we did our RV trip, trying to, like, we literally had every single day planned out, and it was wildly stressful.

[Miller]

It's so funny.

[Mike]

And then because you're not, you're on other people's schedules, too.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, in a sense, you're on our schedule, and you're on whoever else you just met up with on their schedule. But really glad you guys come through. Make it on the podcast.

[Kyle]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

About it. Yeah. And we'll have to get together sometime at another Cletus race or something. That would be fun. That. That would just be kind of like.

[Kyle]

I would say May. We're gonna do another road trip and probably head out west and circle back. So we have to come on for. We'll have to come on for an update podcast in May.

[Mike]

Sounds good.

[Kyle]

Perfect.

[Ryan]

All right, guys, well, thank you so much for listening. Make sure you're subscribed. If you're not, we'll see you guys next time. Peace.

[Kyle]

Oh, yeah.