The Problem With Being A College Drop Out, $75 Million Dollar Bet, and Gummy Bear Challenge Gone Wrong

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Episode: The Problem With Being A College Drop Out, $75 Million Dollar Bet, and Gummy Bear Challenge Gone Wrong
Release date: November 22, 2022

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into a lively conversation between the CboysTV crew (CJ, Ben, Ryan, Mike, and others) about the aftermath of their Las Vegas trip and SEMA flu, the merits and pitfalls of dropping out of college, wild business marketing moves (like Mattress Mack’s $75 million sports bet), social media's current state, and an especially chaotic “Gummy Bear Challenge” that takes an unexpectedly spicy turn. The group’s signature humor and camaraderie shine throughout, making it a mix of stories, friendly roasts, life musings, and laugh-out-loud moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. SEMA Flu & Las Vegas Recap

00:01 – 02:30

• The crew recounts how everyone except Mike got sick after their Vegas trip—dubbed “SEMA Flu.”
  • “It is funny though how like all of us got sick except for Mike, who I would say would be like one of the more unhealthy members just because of… his habits and sleep patterns.” – Ben (01:16)
• Mike boasts about his immune system, attributing it to “lots of vitamin C, vitamin D, ibuprofen,” and questionable sleep hygiene.

2. Security Footage and Night Owl Antics

02:30 – 06:30

• Mike’s late-night habit of lounging on the pool table is exposed via new security cam footage.
• The group makes fun of Mike for potentially spooning with Evan on the pool table.
• Lighthearted banter about privacy, group house living, and being “caught” on camera.

3. Milestones & Audience Engagement

06:30 – 07:00

• The crew campaigns for more subscribers to get Evan on the podcast (“Subscribe so we can get him on!” – Mike, 06:34).
• Emphasis on community involvement and podcast goals.

4. Small Checks from the IRS and Elementary School Nostalgia

07:01 – 10:16

• A laugh over receiving a $1.55 check from the IRS.
• Reminiscing about elementary school days—box tops, Scholastic Book Fairs, cakewalks, and the decline of bake sales due to new food safety policies.

5. The College Debate & Social Growth

10:16 – 14:30

• Honest discussion about dropping out of college; Ben wonders if he missed some essential life lessons from not staying.
  • “I think a lot of people are probably in this position of like, oh, I don’t want to go to college... but am I lacking things?” – Ben (10:16)
• The crew lands on the view that college is more about the social experience than learning irreplaceable facts.
  • “There’s some things that maybe nothing. There’s some things that both, that all of us... I’ll notice about you. I’m like, man, he just never learned anything, did he?” – Ryan (11:04)
• They agree that as long as you're proactive outside of school, you can learn just as much elsewhere.

6. Colorblind Graphic Designers, Viral Moments, and Accessibility

14:26 – 18:15

• The group riff on being colorblind as a designer, referencing colorblindness glasses and viral moments (like Logan Paul’s videos).
• They discuss Helen Keller’s fame, jokingly debate her life story, and get sidetracked on accessibility and disabilities.

7. Mattress Mack & The $75 Million Bet

18:15 – 24:43

• Ben explains Mattress Mack's attention-grabbing marketing: betting millions on sports events and refunding customers if his team wins.
  • “So he just recently won $75 million on the Astros... and he’s going to give everyone a refund that bought something from his furniture store during the promotion.” – Ben (19:01)
• Analysis of the genius behind such marketing: uses both as insurance, and even when losing bets, drives massive sales and community loyalty.
• Reflection on the wildness of big gambling, sports fandom, and viral headlines.

8. Sports, Bandwagons, and Fandom

24:43 – 28:46

• Minnesota Vikings fandom: the joys and heartbreaks.
• Friendly roasting about “bandwagon jumping” and sports superstition.

9. The Taylor Swift Ticket Fiasco

28:47 – 31:17

• Ben shares Greta’s (his girlfriend’s) struggle to get Taylor Swift tickets, sparking a tangent about celebrity fandom, scalper pricing, and America’s “T-Swift fever.”
  • “Taylor Swift for sure... has America by the balls right now.” – Mike (29:13)
• They marvel at the power of Swifties, concert ticket gouging, and the risks of criticizing pop icons.

10. Independent Artists & Social Media Clout

31:17 – 36:55

• Discussion turns to Connor Price, an independent artist who used social platforms to catapult his career—without needing a record label.
• They celebrate the democratization of the music industry via TikTok and Instagram, but question how organic those Billboard Top-10 takeovers really are.

11. TikTok, Instagram Reels, & Algorithm Frustrations

36:55 – 40:41

• The group laments how viral social trends can kill creativity: “Seems like the less effort I put into a reel, the better it does…”
• Mike provides a tip for gaming the algorithm: use trending audio at zero volume for a potential boost.
• Brief thoughts on YouTube Shorts, their growing popularity, and how each platform’s “vibe” or community differs.

12. Social Media & Online Communities: Facebook Groups and Forums

41:08 – 46:33

• Comparing the pros/cons of Facebook, Instagram, and online forums.
• Mike and CJ reminisce about learning from car forums and Facebook Groups; Mike is shown to be hyper-active in pit bike groups, even giving advice late at night: “Every single time I go on Facebook, I’ll see... Mike is always responding to people’s questions.” – Ben (43:06)
• CJ explains how old-school internet forums shaped his car hobby knowledge.

13. The Gummy Bear “Reaper Roulette” Challenge

46:33 – 57:55

• Ben brings out a spicy “Russian Roulette” style challenge with five gummy bears—one of which is fiery hot.
• Memorable chaos: CJ gets the hot one, ends up throwing up, and the entire scene derails into shouting, sympathy, and laughter.
  • “Dude, I was pacing down there... I threw up and everything. It tasted terrible. It tasted so bad at first. It was like a sneak attack.” – CJ (57:26)
• They discuss how prank challenges have evolved—and gotten more intense.

14. Wheel of Misfortune & Painful Pranks

57:55 – 56:48 [Appears to be timestamp inversion near the end, as conversation weaves]

• The crew jokes about creating a “Wheel of Misfortune” for future podcast punishments (e.g., “nipple piercing, ass tattoo, or swift kick in the nuts”).
• Diverse opinions on tattoos, with musings on sleeve designs, personal preference, and cultural origins.

15. Assisted Living Stories & Senior Mischief

60:02 – 64:59

• Mike tells a hilarious and slightly dark story about his grandpa in nursing home “assigned dinner buddies,” memory loss, accusations of “who’s paying for dinner,” and a fight breaking out between residents.
  • “The guy got so upset that he kept accusing him of paying for his food that he walked over while Kermit was watching TV one evening and just bopped him.” – Mike (63:36)
• The group riffs on how wild and underappreciated life can be in senior homes.

16. High School Bullying, Guilt, and Growth

66:05 – End

• Reflecting on immature bullying in high school—Mike admits to some name-calling (“Poop Stain Corbin”) and the group explores the long-term effects, and regrets, of such behavior.
• “You don’t realize... you just don’t know [in high school].” – CJ (70:21)
• Empathy for how actions in youth can impact others, but acknowledgment that people can move on and mature.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On post-SEMA flu:
  “But everyone got sick except for Mike. Isn’t it funny how that, like, it seems to always go like that?” — Ben (01:41)
• Ben on dropping out:
  “I definitely don’t regret, like, dropping out of college, but… I think it’s just like almost doing something to just keep yourself, like, occupied killing time.” — Ben (12:00)
• On Mattress Mack's strategy:
  “Either the company is going to do super, super well, and then he’s not going to have to refund them, or he’s gonna have to refund everyone, but he’s gonna win 75 million. Either way, he wins.” — Ben (20:28)
• Vikings Fandom Switch-Up
  “Ryan saw a group of people excited and shut it down.” — CJ (22:58)
• Taylor Swift fever:
  “Dude, she’s got America… by the balls right now.” — Mike (29:13) “If you want to get hated on, go after T. Swift.” — Ben (30:03)
• Algorithm insight:
  “You can actually use a trending song, turn the volume all the way down, and then you’ll get into the algorithm.” — Mike (38:55)
• Gummy Bear Challenge fallout:
  “I threw up and everything. It tasted terrible. It tasted so bad at first. It was like a sneak attack.” — CJ (57:27)
• Nursing home fight club:
  “The guy got so upset that he kept accusing him... he walked over while Kermit was watching TV one one evening and just bopped him.” — Mike (63:36)
• Reflecting on bullying/growth:
  “You can’t hold that against them because... when I had a really bad concussion in high school, there were kids calling me a pussy... now I look back, I’m like, God, you’re just still... you just don’t know.” — CJ (70:21)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• SEMA Flu + Pool Table Antics – 00:01 to 06:30
• College Dropout Reflections – 10:16 to 14:30
• Mattress Mack $75 Million Story – 18:15 to 24:43
• Taylor Swift Ticket Chaos – 28:47 to 31:17
• TikTok/Instagram Reels Discussion – 36:55 to 40:41
• Gummy Bear Challenge (Hilarious Meltdown!) – 46:33 to 57:55
• Nursing Home Fight Story – 60:02 to 64:59

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Tone & Language

The episode is delivered in the CboysTV crew’s lighthearted, irreverent, and friend-first tone, filled with playful insults, honest admissions, and chummy story swapping. There’s an underlying theme of learned wisdom—tempered by silly dares and a shared willingness to roast one another for the crowd’s benefit.

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Conclusion

A great gateway episode for new and returning listeners alike, this entry into Life Wide Open balances business lessons (and cautionary tales) with pure shenanigans, societal commentary, and moments of real vulnerability between the hosts. Whether it’s Mattress Mack’s wild bets or a surprise spicy gummy bear ambush, the CboysTV team delivers sharp humor and honest vibes throughout.

Transcript

[Ryan]

Let's start today.

[Ben]

Dude, I'll start.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Because you weren't here last week. Hey, it's nice to be back. But it's also nice to know that the show goes on even when you're on your deathbed.

[Mike]

Yeah, it did. It went on and you were on your deathbed.

[Ben]

Dude, I was sick. I was down bad for like, once we got back from Vegas, I was straight sick for the next six days.

[Ryan]

I have, I've come up with a new name instead of the suds. The Sema Flu.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Very excellent.

[Ryan]

Sema Flu. Because everybody that went to SEMA got it. TJ Hunt was posting that he was sick. I think I even saw that Stradman was down somebody else. Dude, that was.

[Ben]

I think it's just something in the air in Vegas. The same.

[Ryan]

A flu was in the air, dude.

[Ben]

But like, everyone I've talked to that was. That has been in Vegas in the last like month got home and got sick.

[Ryan]

Oh, God, dude, that sucks.

[Mike]

I was talking to Rich because Rich was there with us and he goes, oh, yeah, dude, I was sick when I got there. Yeah, that sucked. You guys all got sick. And he's just like. And then I'm like, yeah, Ben's like, really sick right now. He goes, yeah, dude, I probably got him sick. That's funny. You'll have to let him know. And I'm like, most people are like, I, I'm, you know, if I get someone sick, I feel bad. I, I try to keep it on the under wraps if. If they don't know is me. She's like, yeah, you have to let him know. That's super funny.

[Ben]

That's funny, dude. I wasn't even bumming any of his darts either and would have helped you, dude, it might have helped me, dude. It is funny though how like all of us got sick except for Mike, who I would, I would say would be like one of the more unhealthy members just because of like his habits and like his sleep patterns and like.

[Mike]

Everything that none of my actions are like progressively healthy. Right, right.

[Ben]

But everyone got sick except for Mike. Isn't it funny how that, like, it seems to always go like that?

[Ryan]

You have a method though.

[Mike]

I just. Lots of vitamin C, vitamin D, ibuprofen.

[CJ]

He lounges around on the pool table at 2:30 in the morning. Dude, that's.

[Mike]

Dude, we gotta.

[Ben]

I, yeah, I still haven't quite got to the bottom of that, so I thought you did. All right. So I was looking at the security camera footage from last night just like, reviewing it over. We got a new system. So I was just kind of, like, messing around with it, and I was.

[CJ]

Like, oh, really high quality. Do what?

[Mike]

What.

[Ben]

What's the movement at 330 in the. In the Pine Bay, like, the living room.

[Mike]

330?

[Ben]

Well, it started. We're going to start it at one.

[Mike]

I was not laying on there for two hours, bro.

[Ben]

Damn near. So I look at an hour, and Mike is laying, lounging around.

[CJ]

He looks like he's at the beach.

[Ben]

Pool table.

[Mike]

The funniest part was me flipping around.

[Ryan]

No. You know how it kind of looks like in the start of like, a 2000s teen movie? The girl laying on her bed, like, maybe. Yeah, like texting.

[Ben]

Yeah, you're even. What are you doing, Mike?

[Mike]

Dude, I was like. The point of me even explaining what I was doing is, like, it's not even.

[Ben]

All right, don't tell me. I want to just, like. I want to just keep this be have without knowing what you were doing, just, like, assuming that you were just like, like, I mean, like, looking at pit bikes. I already. Dud dude loves pit bikes.

[Mike]

I already told Ben what I was doing earlier, but, like, I just. Genuinely not worth explaining.

[CJ]

My question, Mike, is have you ever just had, like, just the smallest little thought go through your head and say, you know, it's 2:30, the boys want to be here working. 9:00am I'm laying on the pool table right now. I've been here for an hour now.

[Mike]

I was taking a break from working.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean, you actually go back to work after that?

[Mike]

Yeah, genuinely. So I like. But my ADHD ass, dude. So I'm down. I'm looking at the new Trike and the pit bike. Trike and the pit bike Big Wheel, which we'll talk about later. I'm looking at them. I'm like, man, these look sick. The bay is all clean because we cleaned it before we parted ways. Taking pictures. This is fun. These are great. I took a bunch of cool pictures on my phone. I'm like, I should just do everyone a favor, Grab the camera, get some B roll that. That's where I went wrong. Go into the kitchen to grab the camera. I go, oh, man, it's pretty outside.

[Ben]

Saw that pool table and couldn'. Resist, dude.

[Mike]

Not quite. But look outside. And I start, like, taking a snap. I'm like, oh, that was great. And then I'm looking for a song, kind of post it up, just looking for a song. Then I, like, go to my SoundCloud, look for a song, blah, blah. It Exits out of the snap. I do it again, same thing happens. Then I take a third snap and then I'm laying on the pool table looking for a song. And that's when I then started scrolling and I'm like, what the hell am I doing? And then I'm like, I wonder if.

[CJ]

You did have that thought.

[Mike]

I genuinely did. I was like, I came in here to grab the camera to go shoot some. Some shot edit shots of it.

[CJ]

An hour.

[Mike]

Shit. Yeah. And so then I was like, what am I doing? But what if it was an enjoyable time?

[Ben]

What if we saw Evan come out of his room and he crawls onto the pool table and they just start.

[CJ]

Spooning and they both park their pit bikes out like to look at like.

[Ben]

It'S the tv legs flicking.

[Mike]

I just. Maybe we'll do. It'd be super funny to do that just to see if on the off ch. Someone catches it cuddle on the pool table.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'm gonna be looking, Mike. I'm gonna be watching.

[CJ]

I think you guys better try and see if anyone catches you.

[Ryan]

We come in one morning and both Evan and Mike are snuggled up on the pool table.

[Mike]

Well, we wouldn't let you see it with your.

[Ryan]

Your bare eyes unless you got so comfortable you fell asleep each other's arms, man.

[Ben]

That's.

[Mike]

It's like, like we wake up and it's like light out and we're like, evan, get. Get to your bed.

[CJ]

Quick, quick.

[Mike]

Is anyone coming soon?

[CJ]

Ken's walking in with a cinnamon roll.

[Ben]

When I was watching the security camera footage back, Ken was like, and I get shit for looking at the security cameras. I was like, I still haven't quite figured that out. Has anybody given you shit for checking the security cameras?

[Mike]

I have. Yeah, I have. I was like, oh, you had. We've talked about it on the podcast. I was like, Ken's like, Ken doesn't do anymore. But he was like the dad that I didn't ask for.

[Ben]

Oh, it's always Mike. Mike just hates being snooped on.

[CJ]

No, Mike just needs a little extra guy.

[Mike]

I don't mind it. I never was like, why were you guys looking at the cameras? I never once was like, oh, you found me out laying on the pool table.

[CJ]

Well, I think it's probably just the fact, like, you get a notification, it's.

[Ben]

Like, yeah, between the movement in the room at.

[CJ]

At 3:00am or whatever time, you're like, what the. Why someone? That's pretty.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Unreasonable time for the be moving. So you're like, I better check.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

All Right.

[Ben]

Well, I'm glad we got to the bottom of that.

[Mike]

And you know what I'm not glad about?

[CJ]

What?

[Mike]

The fact that we're not at 150,000 subscribers yet, and Evan can't. Come on. People. People just stopped asking, to be honest, at this point. And it's just for me personally subscribe so we can get them on and chat with them.

[Ben]

I feel like it's not that much to ask for either.

[Mike]

No, it's not. And we get that it takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. But I won't ask again.

[Ryan]

We'd appreciate it.

[Mike]

Yeah, we would. So we can get Evan. I don't know if Evan would appreciate it. His nerves really get out of control when he gets on here.

[Ryan]

But we got to get them all teed up before. Don't worry. So I got good news. We got lots of, you know, bad. Mainly we talk a lot of bad news on here about how we have to shell out money for different types of fines and the IRS and taxes and stuff like that. Yeah, we got to check back from the United states treasury for 1.55. I don't know how much of this I can show.

[CJ]

Wow.

[Ben]

Fantastic.

[Ryan]

All of it's coming back as we're on top again.

[Mike]

What a waste. What a waste. Honestly, at that point, it's like, just keep it.

[Ryan]

On.

[Mike]

It's literally not.

[Ben]

I don't know. I think it was a nice gesture by the irs.

[Ryan]

It was cool of them to just be like, hey, you know, thanks for trying. At least we'll hit you with a thousand dollar fine later.

[CJ]

But you could buy a box and a half of Milk Duds with that.

[Ben]

Do you guys remember back in, like, elementary school how I don't know if you guys did this or your school programs did this, but do you guys remember box tops?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What was the point of that?

[Ryan]

Or they're digital now, which is way less fun.

[Ben]

But, like, where did that money ever go? Or like, supposedly, how did that work? But what was the point?

[Mike]

Cents per box top. And then you. They go somewhere and then they get that 10 cents and it goes to the school. But it's tough because it's like the teachers. How much did it make a difference? They were like, bring your box office in so we can win. It was mostly so we could win, but it's like, how much money are they really getting? What can you buy? 3. Three more books.

[Ben]

Did you guys do that?

[Ryan]

Yeah, for sure. Get the big bag. I remember my grandma would, like, cut them out of the soup. Cans and stuff like that. Shit had to be hard.

[CJ]

I never brought mine.

[Mike]

Really. My mom made me cut them out myself.

[Ryan]

There was a bunch of like weird that they made you. Do you remember the Scholastic Book Fair?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I was always super excited when they'd come in. Not that I ever gave a about the books.

[Ryan]

Because you couldn't read.

[Ben]

I couldn't read.

[Mike]

Right. Well, it was like.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was pretty much useless just.

[Mike]

For like Ripley's and Guinness, right?

[Ben]

No, I was gonna just say like the Lamborghini posters. Like I still remember I had like a collection of them around my room as a kid. But I would get like a car poster and that's like the spot to be. I wonder if they still do that. Do they still do that?

[CJ]

I wonder. Yeah, it's gotta be a thing.

[Ben]

Yeah, I'm sure kids are still reading.

[CJ]

Books are still a thing.

[Ryan]

They haven't phased those out yet.

[CJ]

Nope, they're still a thing. They're still good for you.

[Ryan]

I just remember they. That at my elementary school we used to do cakewalks and it was kind of like musical chairs. But you'd walk around and then the music would stop and you'd get.

[Mike]

Whatever, get the cake.

[CJ]

What was the point of that?

[Ben]

What?

[Ryan]

I don't know. I think you pay to be in the cakewalk and it was like a fundraiser. You know, everybody would make a cake or whatever and then you would walk around.

[Mike]

Cakewalk good. Also, you know, piggybacking off of that. Like bake sales. Now bake sales are lame as frick because they can only just sell normal. They have to sell like at least in my school they had to sell like store bought and candy bars and.

[Ryan]

Like, oh, you couldn't sell homemade goods.

[Mike]

At one point you could. And that was, that was the good old days. Yeah, like just everyone come and you know, because all the moms are trying to bring heat and bring the best.

[Ben]

Right.

[Mike]

Best bars or brownies or whatever. And then once they outlawed that, we were all like, yeah, what's the point of buying a candy bar? I mean you could come to school with a candy bar, whatever. Still bought it, but not nearly as fun.

[Ben]

I was talking to a friend the other day whose little brother or I was asking like, is, is your brother in college right now? And you guys know my standpoint on college. I think it's kind of a waste, but it's also not. And I went to a year and then dropped out. I think a lot of people are probably in this position of like, oh, I don't Want to go to college or I want to, I want to, like, do my own thing. They might, you know, watch, obviously if they're like, watch a lot of YouTube, they probably want to do things like that. But I was thinking about it. Do you guys think that even though I only went to a year of college, I'm, like, lacking things that you clearly would learn at college that I just missed?

[Mike]

Only social.

[Ryan]

There's some things that, honestly, that maybe nothing. There's some things that both that all of us in general, but there is things that I'll notice about you. I'm like, man, he just never learned anything, did he?

[Ben]

But some of them, I, I agree, I catch myself and I think some.

[Ryan]

Of those things should have came in, like, middle school. I think it might have just been a selective hearing issue.

[Mike]

And I don't disagree. I, I, I haven't thought of that or observed that about you or really anyone. Yeah, I never, for me, it's, it's like, come on, Ben, you've never heard of so and so, but it's more.

[Ben]

Of a social, just not being a TikTok.

[Ryan]

I see what you were saying was social. Now, I thought you meant that he was like, weird things that you may.

[Mike]

Have done in college that even would just slightly twist your mindset about the way, like, college people work or whatever. But other than that, like, as far as knowledge, everything that you need to know you just learn.

[Ryan]

In the words of Ricky, college peoples are fucking stupid.

[Mike]

That's a good one. I don't know, man. College peoples are fucking stupid.

[Ben]

There is certain things that, I mean, I definitely don't regret, like dropping out of college, but when, when kids don't go to college because they're like, well, I don't think I need it. I don't know if it's even going to college that is like a waste of time. I think it's just like almost doing something to just keep yourself, like, occupied killing time. Yeah, yeah, but like, you kind of just like, figure things out as you go. But I feel like you don't really figure it out, like sitting at home and trying to figure it out.

[CJ]

No, I agree, I agree.

[Ben]

So like, going through the motions where, like, yeah, I think college is stupid, but I also think it's worth going if you don't have other plan or like something else to do because it.

[Ryan]

At least puts you in a group of people trying to succeed in a way. You know, people doing things, you go through all emotions, you learn stuff in classes. And yeah, 90 of them might Be useless, but you at least get 10% goodness.

[Mike]

And hopefully it would happen sooner than later. But, like, you might learn what you don't want to do. Like, a long list of things you don't want to do.

[Ben]

What do you think I'm lacking, Ryan? You're pretty quick to answer.

[Ryan]

I'm trying to, you know, it's on the spot, but I'll write the next one down. But sometimes you just. You'll just do or not know something that I'm just like, wait, how'd you not know that? And it's tough because when you don't know something, you don't know something. But it's a good point. You know, there's just some things that I'm just like, man, he never really. School never really was one of his strong suits, huh?

[Ben]

I was pretty decent at school, and I didn't really try that hard. But then once, like, college came around, I think I just, like, quit caring about so many things. Like, basically, like, everything. Besides, for just like trying to make YouTube or, like, do anything like this, I just lost a lot of brain cells. I was gonna just say, like, skills of other things.

[Ryan]

Well, it's probably because you were trying to develop other things. It's like, you know.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

You were.

[Mike]

You were right.

[Ben]

But like, at like the college age, that's when you get the development of certain. That's where I just, like, fell off.

[Ryan]

You just veered strongly right or left.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I mean, things are working out. Hopefully this whole YouTube thing continues on. Otherwise they're going to be like, man, this guy just never developed, did he?

[Ryan]

It is funny, though, when Mike, you're talking about things that you find out sometimes at college that, you know, you didn't want to do because of it. But weren't we talking this week about what if you'd been colorblind, how hard it would be to be a graphic designer.

[Mike]

Right. And it would be like, really? I was thinking if I actually wanted to do that, you'd have to get those, you know, colorblind glasses. And then Ben was like, yeah, are those real? I mean, yeah, they're real. And I think they help. I think. I don't know. That needs to be fact checked. But then, and then Ben's like, yeah. And then every time you go to design and you put them on, you just have an emotional breakdown. Oh, my God. That is what blue looks. Oh, beautiful. And red. Green, maybe. Yeah, not. Not a good profession.

[Ryan]

Again, it was a different era, but, man, I can't imagine that Logan Paul looks Back at those moments and just goes ah. And doesn't maybe look back at them with fondness.

[Ben]

That's what I think of when I think of the colorblind glasses.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. That's what I mean. I think of him at that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

The outlook.

[CJ]

I think he got meme pretty hard on that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he definitely did.

[CJ]

I think he knows it was a joke though.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. And I think it was. It was all for growth.

[Mike]

It was like just serious enough that it made it even funnier.

[Ben]

Being a colorblind artist would be like being a deaf musician.

[Mike]

That'd be tough.

[Ryan]

Who's the guy that did that?

[Mike]

Beethoven.

[CJ]

You could totally be a color. Used to abstract.

[Mike]

I believe in throughout his career.

[Ben]

Who is was Stevie Wonder.

[Mike]

He's blind.

[Ben]

He was blind. It's still pretty impressive though that he can shred the keys the way that he can.

[Ryan]

Yo, who's the gift? Who's the blind and deaf chick? Anne Hathaway. Not Anne Hathaway and Frank.

[Ben]

No, no, that was. No, no, no. Helen Keller.

[Ryan]

Thank you. I don't know why I was stuck.

[CJ]

On why was Helen Keller. So this is a really. Probably a dumb question, but why was Helen Keller so famous?

[Mike]

I don't know.

[CJ]

Like why does everyone know who she is? What'd she do again?

[Ben]

Dude, she was deaf and blind.

[CJ]

There's a lot.

[Ben]

I don't know how much more world.

[CJ]

That are probably deaf and blind is there?

[Ben]

I don't know.

[CJ]

I would assume out of the whole world she wasn't the only person ever. And they're like she needs to be famous.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Did she do.

[CJ]

She had to have done some.

[Ben]

Some good stuff or was she famous for being famous?

[CJ]

Kango's disability rights dude.

[Ben]

Can you imagine?

[CJ]

She has the right to be famous.

[Ben]

Can you imagine being deaf and blind? You would have no idea what the was ever going on.

[Ryan]

Do you think she was faking it?

[CJ]

No.

[Mike]

Oh my gosh. I mean this is a mind blowing number.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Mike]

The national association of Regulatory. Okay, that's whatever. Estimates that seventy thousand to a hundred thousand people living in the United States are deaf and blind. Whoa. See?

[CJ]

Oh wow.

[Mike]

That's.

[Ryan]

And so she's the only one that got to be famous.

[Ben]

Just do a quick search. Why was Helen Keller famous? Yeah.

[Mike]

Then we'll get to the bottom of this part. All right, first Google search came up. Helen Keller is arguably Perkins most famous student with her teacher Ann Sullivan a close second. The story of a little girl who is deaf, blind and learned to communicate when her teacher spelled water into her hand. Was made famous by the movie the Miracle Worker. Looks like we got to watch the Miracle Worker.

[Ben]

Damn.

[Mike]

I still don't know much. So she was just a scholar. Just an incredible smart.

[Ryan]

Yeah, okay. So I wonder what the other people have to do or what they do. Like, do they know how to communicate or Unfamous ones.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. Actually, though, it'd be so difficult to communicate.

[CJ]

Braille.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. Braille.

[CJ]

Yeah, but how do you learn that?

[Ben]

The question.

[Ryan]

Yeah, because you could do that and then it's like, but how do you.

[Mike]

Know what would take a long time just to learn just Braille. Just a way to communicate.

[Ryan]

A bit of a mind twister.

[CJ]

Be terrible to make the best out of what they got.

[Ben]

Have you guys heard the story of Mattress Mac?

[Ryan]

Yes, because Justin told me when we were in Vegas, got me all hyped up.

[Ben]

There's this guy, he's from Houston, Texas. His name is Mattress Mac or something. McAfee, but they call him Mattress Mac.

[Mike]

And so Mattress is his first name.

[Ben]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, Mike.

[Mike]

Dude, didn't Michael Jackson name is Kid Blanket?

[CJ]

Yeah, yeah, he did.

[Mike]

Yeah. Sorry.

[Ben]

Carry on.

[Mike]

Sorry.

[Ben]

His name is not actually Mattress Mac nickname. Anyway. Okay, so he owns a furniture store, and he basically is famous in the Houston area. Started in the Houston area, but now all over the place for making these massive sports bets.

[Ryan]

Because he loves the Astros.

[Mike]

Right?

[Ben]

He loves the Astros, but he's just like a big sports guy. It's not just the Astros, it's other teams. And he makes these huge sports bets on the teams, and then if the team wins, he gives everyone a refund that bought something from his furniture store during the promotion. So he. He just recently won $75 million on the Astros. He bet on the Astros 75 million. He won 75 million. And he's going to give everyone a refund. That bottom mattress, over $3,000, I believe.

[Ryan]

Whoa.

[Ben]

So he runs these basically as like promotions though, too.

[CJ]

For.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ben]

And insurance, but like promotions. So, like, you come in to the store, you buy a three thousand dollar mattress, the Astros win, you get a refund. Dang, dude, isn't that genius?

[Mike]

And at the end of the day, the sense of community that brings. Yeah. Makes you cheer for the Astros. And the odds of it's pretty good. So him giving back is just being nice.

[Ben]

Yeah, but say you're gonna buy a. You're gonna buy a mattress either way. Well, you might as well buy it from this guy because the Astros win.

[Mike]

Right?

[Ben]

Or just wait a good week when.

[CJ]

You know they're playing A crappy team.

[Ben]

I think it was, like, only for the World Series, but he does that for, like, other football games and stuff like that.

[Ryan]

How much?

[Ben]

Basically, it's just a hedge.

[CJ]

That's a genius.

[Ben]

A hedge against his own bet. So either the company is going to do super, super well, and then he's not going to have to refund them, or he's gonna have to refund everyone, but he's gonna win 75 million. Either way, he wins.

[Ryan]

That's awesome story. Yeah.

[Ben]

And he's been doing it for a long time.

[CJ]

Just awesome marketing.

[Ben]

Yeah, he's been doing it for, like, a while.

[Ryan]

But how much did he have to bet to win 75 million?

[Ben]

I think it was like 1 to 12 or something like that.

[Ryan]

I know he placed a couple different.

[CJ]

A lot of matches to make that much.

[Mike]

Well, so I saw. I saw the headline when you said, you know, Mattress Mac. I said, no, I saw the headline. Some dude crazy bet 75 million. I had no idea, nor would I have ever guessed that he's a mattress slinger.

[CJ]

Well, he.

[Ryan]

It's a. It's a furniture store as a whole. Yeah. Not just mattresses.

[Ben]

No. I don't know if it's just anything over $3,000 or if they have, like, a certain mattress that they have a good.

[Mike]

That's pretty.

[Ryan]

But I did see that Caesars literally included in their earnings report. It's the biggest loss that Caesars has ever taken in sports betting. Casino. And it was just coming out around, like, third quarter reports or whatever, and they were like, there's a significant bet out there, and if this doesn't or if this hits not in our favor, like, this will significantly affect our earnings, which is pretty wild because I would assume Caesars has some cash flow. But that's pretty sweet that he took a pretty big dent out of it. I know we split it up between a couple different casinos.

[Ben]

75 million. But he bet 10 million.

[CJ]

Going to get out of the furniture game now or just carry on.

[Ben]

I mean, at that point. So he bet 10 million. So let's just say.

[Ryan]

Okay, so he had a giant bet. Yeah. Like one a million odds.

[Ben]

Yeah. So he bet 10 million, though, to win 75 million. So technically, though, if he would have lost, all he would have had to have made is 10 million. So it's not like he had to make a lot of freaking dough, man. No, no, no. It is a lot of money. But, like, keep in mind, I think he's doing. These promotions are doing extremely well. Yeah.

[CJ]

Putting 10 mil down.

[Ben]

He's gotta be, like, making, like, millions a day.

[Ryan]

Dude, think how stoked, literally, when the Vikings won it this past weekend, game of the year, headed to the Super Bowl.

[CJ]

That was a. Let's go, like, craziest game I've ever seen in my life.

[Mike]

I thought.

[Ben]

I thought you hate the bikes.

[Ryan]

No, I love the bikes. I was just being realistic at dinner.

[Ben]

I don't know, Ryan.

[CJ]

Ryan saw a group of people excited to shut it down.

[Ben]

Yeah, I don't do that. I was pretty. Okay, so rewind. I was pretty excited about the bikes, obviously, as any Minnesota fan is right now, because they're doing pretty good. And Ryan comes in swinging. They're gonna lose. They always do. The only reason they won't. Players were. Were out.

[Ryan]

And I said on this very podcast of few weeks ago, when they won, like, their first game, I was like, our year, we're headed to the Super Bowl. Where were you?

[CJ]

What was your support then, guys? I don't know, man.

[Ben]

It just seems like you're kind of switching up now, Ryan.

[Ryan]

Why would I switch up when they're winning?

[Ben]

That's what I'm trying to figure out.

[CJ]

I think I might have to do with these cameras right here.

[Ryan]

No, it's already here, dude. Headed to the Super Bowl. Let's go.

[Ben]

Bikes change. Change of attitude in the last two hours. Anyway, I'm sorry, carry on.

[Ryan]

But anyway, when. When they won, I was literally jumping up and down, cheering, so stoked. Could you imagine winning $10 million or winning $65 million, but having a million dollars?

[CJ]

I'd be happy.

[Ben]

No, I. I literally cannot imagine that.

[Ryan]

Dude. The guy's, like, 75. I can't believe he didn't have a heart attack.

[Ben]

What a baller, dude.

[Ryan]

Yeah, good for him. I saw a video of him wheeling up the door into his private jet. A wheelbarrow full.

[Mike]

That's a flex and a. Yeah, set.

[Ryan]

That up, I think.

[Mike]

I mean, yeah.

[Ryan]

He captioned the. The Instagram. Like, all this money is heavy or something like that.

[Ben]

I bet $75 million is very heavy. CJ, you said, what's he going to do now? Is he going to, like, retire? Quit slinging mattresses? And in the interview that I watched of him, he. He, like, still works at the front desk and, like, greets people.

[Mike]

Beauty.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah, man.

[Ryan]

That's awesome.

[Mike]

I was thinking that he might do just that because it. It. He probably enjoys it, and it's probably not super, like, daunting physically or mentally.

[CJ]

True.

[Mike]

You know, like, he's chilling, I guess.

[Ben]

The guy is like, kind of a legend in the Houston area because he. He, like started out by doing these TV ads where he would like, basically had this little stick at the end of every TV ad. He'd be like, and save you money. And you jump in the air and, like, do it. And that just like, kind of put him on the map for Houston. So he's a legend. Like, before any of this.

[Ryan]

Ben, if you ever start up another business, you should do that. But you'd be like, everybody would know. They'd be like, that Ben, he's just gonna lose my money. You'd get away with it for like three years. And they'd be like, he keeps betting on the wrong team and he keeps losing all the money. We never get any refunds, dude.

[Ben]

Hey, hey, that's. That's where I'm underdeveloped.

[Ryan]

They're betting.

[Ben]

No, just saving and making money. I'm just. I just never developed. I never figured that out.

[Ryan]

They don't teach you that in college, so you're good.

[Mike]

Yeah. There's a lot of things I can see Ben doing, but being some sort of bet overseer, it's just not one of them for other people.

[Ben]

Dude, you guys didn't talk about my roulette losses.

[Ryan]

I mean, briefly, but I.

[Ben]

It was electric. Just like the fact of, man, what could have been. But yeah, that was a real quick fifteen hundred dollar loss.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And it's crazy that there's people that like that. They'd be like a thousand bucks. And that was like, that. That was your big end of the day bet. But, man, that was too much for me.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was just like a really tough way to, like, end the trip. Yeah, it was, you know, just like the very last thing and then hop on the plane and leave.

[Ryan]

Good thing we didn't start it with that. I don't know if we could. I don't know if I could have recovered. Yeah, I would have gotten over it.

[Mike]

Yeah. I was like, I think I would rather start with that.

[Ben]

Watch us lose money.

[Mike]

Well, I guess I would rather start. Start with a thousand with the possibility.

[Ben]

Of winning it back.

[Mike]

Possibility of winning it back or losing. And then if it loses, you're like, all right, I'll focus on, you know, not losing money. Yeah. Something else. I don't know what, but yeah, you.

[Ryan]

Live and you learn. I'm out on Vegas for a couple months at least.

[Mike]

Same.

[Ryan]

I feel like you can learn literally the wildest on TikTok. Mike, you were just telling a story and we're like, where'd you learn that?

[Mike]

Like, unfortunately.

[Ryan]

TikTok, did you know that George Strait and Jeff Bezos are first cousins? They have the same grandma.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That family is built on royalty.

[Ryan]

No kidding.

[Ben]

That's actually pretty crazy.

[Mike]

George Straits, like, I mean, yeah, he's like a king. Yeah. Way up there, dude. What are the odds? I wonder if they hang out.

[Ryan]

Like, what? I feel like not a lot of families. I'm. I'm. I have some parts of my family that are pretty cool, you guys, you know, I know you each have that part of your family you don't like to talk about. For him, it's him, and for you it's.

[Ben]

Oh, don't talk about my family that way. What I was trying to think.

[Mike]

Wait, what?

[Ben]

What is kidding?

[Ryan]

But, like, damn. Could you imagine the family reunion and like, oh, here comes George. And then Bezos lands a rocket in the front yard.

[Ben]

Yeah. Jeff's always big dicking him. Everybody, they hate each other.

[Mike]

I'm just like, picturing you bringing up family reunion. It's like, so let's say the rest of them are average. Yeah, average. So when they're like, all right, we have the family reunion. It's going to be at Meemaw's house. And. And it's just very normal.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Then Jeff lands. Either that or it's like, oh, yeah, last year's Jeff hosted it. And can you imagine the difference? Something he literally.

[Ryan]

We're having Thanksgiving dinner in space this year.

[Mike]

Yeah. We actually had uncooked dolphin sushi rolls. I don't know. Whatever rich people eat would know, dude.

[Ben]

So yesterday, Greta spent eight hours in a waiting room trying to get Taylor Swift tickets.

[Ryan]

Wait, like a physical waiting room?

[Ben]

No, no, no. Like. Like an online waiting room. But, like, thousands of people were in a waiting room for damn near the entire work day trying to get T. Swift tickets.

[CJ]

Amazing. And then didn't.

[Ben]

Oh, and then didn't end up getting them.

[Ryan]

No.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah. Sold. Sold out.

[Mike]

And I heard that happen to a bunch of people. Dude, she's got America or wherever the tour is. I'm assuming it's us by the balls right now.

[Ryan]

Greta or Taylor Swift.

[Mike]

Taylor Swift for sure. But, I mean, Greta said that the tickets now are going. Since this whole fiasco, people can't get them for one to $30,000. I mean, seriously, it's Taylor Swift.

[CJ]

I didn't realize she was, like, so popular. But at the same time, maybe she just got a really, really strong cult following.

[Ben]

Oh, she does.

[Mike]

I think. Yeah.

[CJ]

People are, like, talking. Oh, I love Taylor Swift, you know.

[Ben]

A lot of them.

[CJ]

Well, obviously.

[Mike]

But, like, I didn't realize the amount of respect she. She's like the white Beyonce, you know, Like, Beyonce has that respect. People are there. They buy tickets for shows. They never say anything bad about her. Same for Taylor, dude.

[Ben]

And if you want to get hated on go after T. Swift.

[CJ]

True.

[Ryan]

Right now.

[Mike]

If.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Dude.

[Ben]

They are like. They're like extremes. Yeah.

[CJ]

This. Mike, you text Greta right now and say, I don't think Taylor Swift is that good, dude.

[Ben]

She would not. Like, it would be bad for you if you said that.

[CJ]

Just say, I don't. I don't think she's that good.

[Ryan]

And she just responds, I don't think pit biking is that cool. Mike just freaks out.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ben]

The podcast, when she say, mike, you don't want.

[Mike]

I don't even want.

[Ryan]

She took it too far.

[CJ]

I took it too far.

[Mike]

Honestly, I just tell her I'm joking, but that was still just too far.

[Ryan]

I do believe that when she dropped her new album, it. It set some record like, she had.

[Mike]

She had. She had all. I guess it was just a week's long worth of all top 10 billboards, like, in the world.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the top 10. All the top 10 songs off her whole album rehearse or. That's pretty gnarly, dude.

[CJ]

That seems to happen, though, like, every time a big artist.

[Mike]

Yes, but little baby drops. Not all.

[Ryan]

Not the whole.

[Mike]

There might be like. Like you have number one, number three, number four, number six.

[CJ]

But I just think it's kind of because they're. I feel like they're paying to promote it. Like, it used to not be that way, like, in order to get to the top.

[Mike]

I don't think that's always the case.

[CJ]

It doesn't. There's got to be something going on with, like, you. The label pays to get there because why are all these songs at the top 10? And, like, there's definitely one or two.

[Ben]

That are, like, really good.

[CJ]

That makes sense.

[Mike]

But it's just like the YouTube trending page. Some are legit, some are literally paid. You know, a movie trailer. We pay you to put it on there.

[Ben]

It is pretty sus. But it's really cool to see that all these independent artists are basically making a name for themselves completely without the label.

[Ryan]

Dude. So, yeah, that's Connor Price. Yeah. We're going to talk about.

[Ben]

Right, Right. So there's this. There's this artist. His name is Connor Price. We've been rocking them pretty early. Yeah, we've been rocking with him. For what? Like two. Two years?

[CJ]

For sure.

[Ben]

At this point, we use a bunch of his songs. Like if we just play a clip, right? Just drop one of his songs that we always play and you'll be like, oh, that guy. Anyway, Connor Price has always been like super anti label. You can do it independent and just like promote it through Instagram and TikTok. And like, dude, I always was like, man, it's crazy that he hasn't blown up yet or the fact that he doesn't have a record label. And then he came out and was like, no, no, no, I don't want a record label. I want to do this on my own. I want to. I want to like do it on Spotify and basically just keep all the earnings. Right? Because I think record labels like take a ton. They take a ton, right?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So basically I was like, man, it's just crazy that he hasn't blown up yet. And over the last like month, for sure, he's gone up, like literally, I think a million followers on Instagram.

[Ryan]

Over a million on Instagram now. I think he's posted. I was like, whoa, wait, what?

[Ben]

Yeah, like, like blew up like overnight. Million on.

[Ryan]

I'm sure it feels like it's overnight.

[Ben]

Right?

[Ryan]

But not right.

[Ben]

He did like, started super fast.

[CJ]

60K followers this year.

[Ryan]

This year. Wow, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah. And then his TikTok is blown up and like he's basically just making a name for himself by himself without like the record label, without getting pumped, you know. But like he has songs in like the top 100.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And one of them is at 20.

[CJ]

Right.

[Mike]

That's incredible.

[CJ]

That's incredible. Yeah, I know exact. Yeah, that's actually crazy. So maybe I'm completely wrong with the whole like buying spots, but it does kind of.

[Ben]

No, I'm sure they do. I'm sure they do that.

[CJ]

But yeah, it doesn't really make sense because like these are the top 100 songs in the whole world and they just dropped theirs and now all 12 spots are fold up with their whole album.

[Ryan]

Dude, it's just what people were listening.

[Ben]

No, Taylor Swift, obviously, it's not just her, but yeah, it's just like such a different time though, like. And like he's proven that, you know, like, you really don't need it and you can do it kind of on your own, you can self promote.

[Mike]

But now I'd say like artists on TikTok or Instagram, people will comment like, yo, get this guy a record deal. Like, that's a rinse comment now. Like, it kind of is it's like, get this guy a record deal. Most people are like, I mean, maybe, but it's not 2010, you know.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I rinsed.

[Ben]

Yes. I was always worried though because like we've been using his songs for so, so long and there's so many videos. I was always worried like if he gets a record deal. So you're going to. Is a record company going to come and copyright all of the videos?

[CJ]

Because that's usually one of the first.

[Mike]

Things they do when you get on a record company. Like they're instantly. All their songs are copyrighted.

[CJ]

Well, that's. That even happens still to like this day, like a video from a year or two ago get copyrighted because we picked this song off soundcloud and it finally caught up and maybe that person, that song got either copyrighted by a label or more than likely just artists got picked up by the label.

[Ben]

But the other one that I've noticed is these people that are really promoting like one song on Instagram and then it becomes like a viral Trend or on TikTok too. But like what comes to mind is like that one song that's like, it was just too love. Is.

[Mike]

It too love it?

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

But the dude set out to like.

[Ben]

Set out to like make this song which is the just go viral.

[Mike]

The best way to get big quick. Yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

[Ben]

No, it was genius. It was genius. I saw it all over the place. People were like reposting it, using it as like reels and things like that, which I think is genius.

[CJ]

TikTok has definitely built a new platform or a new pathway for artists to get put on the map. For sure. Like I think a lot of artists make songs just for like this will be a TikTok. This is how I'll get to go wild and then people will know who I am.

[Ben]

And I think it is a bit.

[Ryan]

Of a double edged sword because there can be some songs that maybe are good, but you listen to them a thousand times on Tick tock and then you're just like, I don't need this.

[Ben]

Yeah, Then you don't like it anymore. It's just a tick tock. I agree.

[CJ]

You almost start to just think of it as that.

[Mike]

Or is like the especially like astronaut, like rolling down.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

So that I remember hearing just that like 20 seconds, whatever stint of audio so many times that when I listen to the original song it's like all I heard. And then the whole 4, 3, 4 minute song wasn't even anything.

[Ryan]

But in some cases, I don't know if I would have known about that guy if it wasn't for that song. So I feel like it's almost like a little bit of something you just kind of.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

If you're lucky enough to be able to get it. It's just part of it.

[Mike]

Because now you can have like. Like there's such a thing as a one hit wonder that can still be a thing now. And obviously you can have more than one, but now it's like a one trending sound wonder because some of those trending sounds are like lasered into our brains.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Or when. When anyone around me is watching Instagram reels or anyone. I'm sure you just know. You just know. All you have to do is listen and you just know.

[Ryan]

And the funny thing is you can almost tell what they're watching.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like if you're on TikTok and you hear a certain sound, you're like you're watching some chick in a bikini right now.

[Mike]

Like, you just know that too.

[Ryan]

You might hear play twice. I actually, Alondra was watching TikTok and there was one of those songs I was like, what are you watching over there? And it was. It was else.

[Ben]

But yeah, I. I also think that Instagram reels have killed creativity in. In a lot of aspects. I agree.

[CJ]

Because it's like you almost trending, like.

[Ben]

Double use the trending song. But then you just like, I don't know, you're almost just incentivized to just out shitty content.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And it's like, dude, I don't know if it's for every case, but it seems like the less effort I put into a reel, the better it does and the more views it'll get. And then it's like, damn, I made like this really cool edit.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And it did like a quarter of the view is as this. Then this shitty.

[Mike]

Just like iPhone. Yeah.

[Ben]

With like this trendy song to it.

[Mike]

But that's where I really struggled to. It's like the less like cuts you have unless you have like a really good storyline or some good skit, the less if it's just a single iPhone clip with exactly what you want people to see. Just upload that, you know, I like to try to use different songs, but it's like, then it gets no views.

[Ryan]

I think that's the tough part. It takes the creativity out being that you. I think it kind of puts you in a box because you have to use the song in order to get the views.

[Mike]

Right. And for anyone that's I guess trying to get views and that wants a little tip, you can actually then use a trending song, turn the volume all the way down and then you'll get into the algorithm. Not sure how much that will help you, but I've heard it does.

[Ryan]

But same thing, double edged sword. The, the reel that you hate goes viral and then you've got more eyes on the one that you really like and hopefully the people that came on that one more people like the reel that you made and that you like and it, it grows your, grows the views and audience look at it. But it'll be interesting to see. With YouTube shorts now becoming more of a thing, they've. They're going to start paying on them now and then they finally made it so it doesn't messy up your feed and stuff like that. So I wonder how much more YouTube shorts will become a thing. I heard Mr. Beast is like, I'm gonna make one a day and it's going to be a dedicated short, not a bit of his video. He's gonna make a dedicated short every single day.

[Ben]

Do you guys watch YouTube shorts?

[Ryan]

I don't, but I know you do, right?

[Ben]

I do a lot. Like I, I never watch Tick Tock kind of watch Instagram reels just because it's like if you're on Instagram, you're watching reels pretty much. But yeah, dude, I watch like shorts more than anything really.

[Mike]

It's just like what you get into, you know, like you either like do or you don't. There's nothing wrong with them. Every time I do find myself on shorts, I'm like, this is enjoyable because I like TikTok.

[Ryan]

What's on shorts?

[Mike]

Same.

[Ben]

It's like I feel like shorts are just like higher quality Instagram reels. They're probably equivalent to TikTok. I'm just not on TikTok. I just don't go on TikTok. I guess I would probably equivalent like they're probably very equal to Tick Tock but they're a lot better than Instagram reels, man.

[Ryan]

People on Instagram reels suck.

[Mike]

I would compare it.

[Ben]

Yeah. I think the bar is just so low.

[Ryan]

Yeah. The only thing worse is Facebook. Whatever.

[Mike]

No.

[Ryan]

Does Facebook still the same Spotlight, Snapchat, Spotlight's gotten better thing that they put together and it's always some shitty chopped up horrible. Yeah. Facebook's got like a reels type of deal and it sucks. It's like what was happening on TikTok like six months ago. Like, you still hear the. Oh, no, that's like.

[CJ]

Yeah, they're always six months old, dude.

[Ben]

I actually have a pretty funny theory about Facebook. I think that, obviously, the Facebook market is much different, but the Facebook demo is, like, parents mostly.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Ben]

But every time I go on Facebook, I always see, like, I'm gonna use your dad as an example.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Ben]

Somebody who I would not think that would be, like, that good at social media. And Randy's killing it on Facebook. Oh, bro. He's making post of just, like, things that.

[Mike]

This is Ryan's dad.

[Ben]

Things that are just, like, keeping people up to date with, like, what he's up to. Like, he's, like, doing, like, a good job at, like, keeping people engaged with his Facebook. And every time I see family, every time I see it, I'm like, damn. Randy's kind of coming with the heat here.

[Mike]

He had a bunch of really good coverage of the hurricane that I don't know.

[Ben]

But I think Randy's just, like, kind of the average Facebook user to sign him. Hey, Randy, look, you've been. You've really been impressing us with your Facebook. But no, I don't know.

[CJ]

It.

[Ben]

It is funny how that demo is, like, using Facebook, but they're, like, actually pretty good at it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, some of them are.

[CJ]

I use Facebook a lot, actually.

[Ryan]

I do, too. Like, Facebook the most.

[CJ]

Yeah. I don't post ever, but I just use it, like, looking at, like, stuff for sale or, like. No, it's been, like, going to, like, group groups.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Let's say, like, Evo X. Yeah. Parts for sale. And I, like, you know, or just, like, different things. And I don't know. It's fun.

[Mike]

It's like. Yeah, it is like, something you can't get into really, anywhere else. Like, you know, I'm in a Bronco group, and I learn a ton from it. Of course I'm in a pit. By group. Are you really stupid? By groups, bro?

[Ben]

Every time I go on Facebook, too, I'm in a couple of those same groups.

[CJ]

The other one, Mike's the.

[Ben]

Started the admin. I wish, dude. Every single time I go on Facebook, I'll see, because I'm in a couple of those. Those pit bike groups, too. And Mike is always responding to people's questions. Always, bro.

[Mike]

I don't know. Clearly, like, I could spend my time better, but, like, laying on the pool table.

[Ben]

That's what he's doing when he's, like, well responded to.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

We run the bbr.

[Ryan]

It is nice, though, because there's so Many times when you're looking for information on the Internet and you know that people know. The people that know aren't commenting back is they're fucking doing things, not commenting back on Facebook.

[Ben]

I always wonder that when I'm looking something up and it puts me in like a weird Reddit form from like yeah, 2006. Yeah. But I always think about that when.

[CJ]

Back from the future when people had.

[Ben]

Questions and they would go on these forms and they would post the question and then like a couple weeks later.

[CJ]

I used to do that on the like Subaru WRX forums.

[Ben]

Totally.

[Mike]

God bless the.

[Ben]

You wouldn't get notified when people would answer.

[CJ]

Yeah, you would just hit you back in your Gmail. So your, your. So your email would get notified, you got a response and show the response. But then in order to respond back you'd hit reply and bring you to the.

[Ben]

How active was?

[CJ]

It depends like what you know, there's different pages in the form, so threads. That is the term. But like that's where I learned a lot about like wheels and shit. Yeah, but normally like even nowadays you don't need to comment stuff like that. Like if you're trying to find like how to get perfect fitment on a 2015 Evo X, there will be like a whole write up in a forum and you can go through and see pictures. Like that's like what you would do before Custom offsets or Fitment Industries. Or if they don't have it then you just go on that.

[Mike]

But yeah, I mean I think I was. I love the forms. The forms truly help people a lot. I was one. I was too lazy to post, actually post a question because.

[CJ]

Okay, crucified too. If you.

[Mike]

What if I get an answer too late or yeah, people are like, dude.

[Ben]

It'S a dumb question. Just.

[Mike]

Yeah, either they tell you it's a dumb question or they're like dude, there's already three other write ups on this. This please stop asking. And I'm like, sorry, it's just wondering.

[CJ]

You're flooding the forum.

[Mike]

Yeah, exactly. So the people are mad about this. They're just.

[CJ]

Yeah, they. Would you get reamed sometimes if you didn't have a valid question? I'd be like scared to like ask the wrong thing. Yeah, because I'm scared of what these random people. Like I don't even have my real name connected to it.

[Mike]

But it's like. Or you don't provide enough information. They're like, okay, well what spec is this? Yeah, you didn't even provide it. How are we supposed to answer your question?

[Ryan]

Like, I didn't know. That's why I'm here, dude.

[Mike]

But overall, forms are great, dude.

[Ben]

Every time I have a question that gets answered by a form from 2006 when Greg43 was wondering the same thing, though, I'm always like, yes, yes, there is. There is somebody else wondering the same thing.

[Mike]

Yeah. What better feeling when you are. It's like when you look up something that's broken on your car and no one else has had that problem, you're like, I might be screwed. But when like 20 other people have the problem and there's write ups for it, you're like, yes.

[Ben]

And they got like so specific with it. And you're like, that's what this happened.

[Mike]

I love that so much. This happened to me. Yep. This is what I did for the fix. And then it's just like. It works. Yep. Forms are good.

[Ben]

All right. I got.

[Ryan]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

So I got something.

[Ryan]

Oh, no.

[Ben]

I missed out on the apple cider vinegar last week, which my mom also said. Which my mom said you guys did wrong. But.

[Mike]

Yeah, she just said we were supposed to mix water with it. We were doing.

[Ben]

It was actually.

[CJ]

Anyway, okay. Supposedly.

[Ben]

All right, so I got this game. It's called Reaper roulette. Speaking of roulette again. But there's basically five gummy worms and one of them is extremely hot.

[CJ]

Holy crap. Are we gonna get Ken here?

[Mike]

Right here?

[CJ]

Yeah, Ken's over there, like peeping up smiling. I'm not smiling anymore.

[Ben]

So, yeah, Ken, if you want to hop in here.

[Ryan]

How many are hot?

[Ben]

So there's. There's. Yeah, one reaper gummy and then five sweet gummies.

[Ryan]

I hate spicy.

[Mike]

I.

[Ryan]

We're just. I was just talking about this the other day. I'm so glad that our spicy phase is over.

[Ben]

I've just been getting back into it, actually, because I've been watching a lot of hot ones interviews lately, so I've kind of been jonesing for some heat.

[CJ]

Either way, bro, this is not a game. I've done the.

[Mike]

I'm not excited for this. But I thought you pulled the mess up for the hot. Yeah, I. I'm genuinely terrified to do one of those. One of the one chip challenge.

[CJ]

I think it's the same as this. They're both about the same hot brother.

[Ben]

They're straight up.

[Ryan]

Is the hot one.

[CJ]

Like, you guys gotta share your mic move, Mike.

[Ben]

Okay. I. I don't. They all look the exact same, so.

[CJ]

Okay, perfect.

[Ryan]

They're all together.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Get your greasy fingers out of There.

[Mike]

Because, Ken, what if you were judging and then you found the hot one was your gummy bear? What would you do?

[CJ]

During that time where I had Ken eat the world's hottest gummy bear and then we poured vodka in the milk?

[Mike]

Dude, the whole gummy bear thing, you know, that's. It's a fun prank. And then the fact that. Yeah. That we poured vodka, that took it a little far. Even as he was chugging and he.

[Ben]

Was drinking and he didn't even notice.

[Mike]

You didn't notice it. And then I was like, man, I.

[Evan]

Feel like friends sure are.

[CJ]

Don't.

[Mike]

Don't smell it. Don't look at it. I'm not. I'm not gonna look at it or smell it or anything.

[CJ]

So there's no spin or anything. You just legitimately.

[Ben]

There ain't no roulette.

[Ryan]

It's just. I thought.

[Ben]

This is.

[Ryan]

Ben, Is the roulette right now included in box? One game board, one dice, five gummy bears, one extreme spicy bear, one winner. Scratch off card. There's a lot included.

[Mike]

Hold up.

[Evan]

Okay. I feel like.

[Ryan]

Look.

[Mike]

What?

[Ben]

Who didn't get one?

[CJ]

I got.

[Mike]

Everybody got one.

[Ryan]

I don't have. I don't have one.

[CJ]

Right, one. No, there's.

[Ben]

There's one more after this.

[Mike]

Oh, fuck.

[Ryan]

Fuck.

[Mike]

Let's just. Let's do it. It might be the one that no one gets.

[Ben]

Hey, Evan.

[CJ]

I totally think so.

[Mike]

I feel like.

[Ben]

I do.

[Evan]

I feel like for this to be fair, we need to put a gummy bear on each of. And then you roll the dice for it. That's how you're supposed to be.

[Mike]

I like. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

It was pretty random.

[Mike]

I like that, though, because Mike and.

[CJ]

I feel like we got it.

[Mike]

I feel like I got it.

[Ryan]

I feel like I got it.

[Mike]

Yeah, let's do that.

[CJ]

Yeah, we're gonna.

[Evan]

We're gonna do it the right. We're gonna do it the right way.

[Mike]

We're gonna do it the right way.

[Ben]

Why not? What are you talking about?

[CJ]

We'll just give Evan this one.

[Evan]

No, no, no, no.

[Ryan]

You.

[Mike]

Oh, did you rig it? Because if you rigged it, this would make. Oh, okay. No, I'm gonna puke, guys. Let's do this. You ready?

[Ben]

All right, boys. Cheers. You gotta eat it too, right?

[CJ]

Dude, I don't know if you'll be.

[Ben]

Able to finish it.

[Evan]

Looking at it, I'm pretty sure mine is the one.

[Ben]

Do we think so?

[CJ]

Cheers. All right, you ready?

[Mike]

You can puke in here.

[CJ]

Here we go, guys. Oh, here we go.

[Ben]

Two, one.

[CJ]

I got it. Oh, I didn't get it.

[Mike]

I got it.

[CJ]

No, I got it, dude.

[Mike]

Okay. Yeah, mine. I didn't get it.

[CJ]

Oh, man. I need something.

[Ryan]

Oh, man.

[CJ]

Grab me a beer and get him some.

[Ben]

Get him some apple cider vinegar.

[CJ]

This ain't gonna work.

[Ben]

C.J.

[Mike]

Said, go, go, go. He said, this ain't gonna work. Whoa. He didn't even. He didn't even make it downstairs. He went into his office.

[Ryan]

He went. He threw up in his office. All right, we've gone. We've gone rogue. We're off podcast now.

[Mike]

That. All right.

[Evan]

I thought mine was the one because I was looking.

[Mike]

They have a little bit of spice to it.

[Evan]

No, I was looking at yours and, like, the back of mine was, like, completely sugar covered. Yours was, like, missing the backside.

[Ryan]

All right, we'll cut back and forth to Ben and Siege. It doesn't look like it's going well. I feel bad because I. I didn't want to get spiced.

[Mike]

I didn't either.

[Ryan]

I feel bad for him.

[Ken]

I thought I was being set up for sure.

[Mike]

You can't speak.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

I'm just kidding.

[Ken]

I am a hundred percent, thoroughly, happily surprised that that wasn't a prank on me.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Ken]

I just figured being pulled in like that.

[Evan]

I'm so happy. Usually that's set up for me.

[Ben]

I just.

[Evan]

So the fact that it wasn't.

[Mike]

I love that they gave every other. So let's say CJ's was a hundred. 100 out of 100 hot. And every other gummy bear had like 2 out of 100 hot. Just a slight.

[Evan]

No, mine. Mine just tasted like a sugar coated gummy bear.

[Mike]

Oh, mine had. It was a cinnamon. I think that's what it was. They make them cinnamon flavored. So mine. I'm like, oh, I think I got it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I had just enough spice to get nervous.

[Mike]

All right. It's been, like, longer than I was expecting.

[Ryan]

Ben's coming back. CJ's not. Honestly, I thought I was like, if I get it, there's no way I'm continuing to do this. So I don't expect him to.

[Ken]

Did you get him some milk?

[Ben]

Huh?

[Ryan]

Oh, we don't have any milk.

[Mike]

Huh.

[Ryan]

How'd it go with Buddy with your cuz, bro?

[Mike]

The gummy bear?

[Ben]

Oh, he's not doing well. He's not doing well at all.

[Ryan]

I feel bad.

[Ben]

Hey, what's going on here?

[Ryan]

This is Evan. No, we're gonna hit 5. We're gonna go up 5k during this podcast.

[Mike]

I love that confidence.

[Ben]

If not, we'll never Release it.

[Ryan]

This.

[Ben]

We're not going against our word.

[Mike]

Where's the pot? Oh, well, we accidentally let Evan in, so can't really post it.

[Ben]

Man, I'm so glad that wasn't me.

[Ryan]

Whoa, Me too. Dude, man, that. I just was nervous.

[Ben]

What?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Check this. There's a scratch off.

[Mike]

I believe the winner gets it. Which I think CJ Is the winner.

[Ryan]

Is the loser. But is he. He's MIA for a minute.

[CJ]

Scratch off.

[Ryan]

Scratch it off.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Ben, did you know which one was the hot one?

[CJ]

No.

[Ken]

It's literally just a random assortment.

[Mike]

Dude, he just got 15% off whatever they're selling.

[Ben]

Unbelievable.

[Mike]

That's lame as frick.

[Ryan]

That was the scratch off.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Garbage. Now, we know Reaper Wheel. Ev has this idea, and it's to create the Wheel of Misfortune. And whenever we get in a situation that someone needs to be, like, thrust into a situation, we go, spin the Wheel of Misfortune. Such a good name.

[Mike]

I love that. And what does it just say? Like, yes. No.

[Ben]

What would be on there?

[Mike]

Like, an eight ball sort of thing.

[Ben]

Why are you so sweaty?

[Mike]

Also, please tell me you're watching Cops.

[Ryan]

Not.

[Ken]

Dude, I was just washing the rigs.

[CJ]

Is that.

[Ben]

So is that sweater. Is that, like, mist?

[Ken]

Probably mist.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Ken]

It's kind of warm up here, though.

[Ryan]

All right, so.

[Ben]

Okay. So what would be on the Wheel of Misfortune?

[Ken]

Well, I originally was thinking, like, nipple piercing would have been a good one on there, but that's already played out. Yeah, but I mean, things similar to that. Maybe like an ass tattoo.

[Ryan]

Oh. Oh. Oh, man.

[Mike]

Would you rather take. I'm not talking super hard either, but would you rather take a swift to the nuts or an ass tattoo?

[Ben]

I'd kick in the nuts. Or an ass tattoo? I'd take a swift kick in the nuts.

[Mike]

Same, same.

[Ken]

I think the tattoo.

[Mike]

Whatever you want. Because that's another thing. Picking someone's tattoo, I think heightens it so much. Oh, yeah. You have to get a tattoo. Okay, I do. Oh, you have to get a silly tattoo.

[Ben]

Would you let me.

[Ken]

I'll take the kick in the nuts.

[Ryan]

I think. I think ass tattoos are tacky.

[Mike]

Unless you're a girl.

[Ryan]

No, I still think they're tacky. Also, when chicks get the lips tattooed down here, I don't like that. Think it's tacky.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ryan]

Yeah. That's just my two cents. Didn't matter at all. If you've got either of those things, good for you. Do your thing. But I just think they are. I wouldn't do it.

[Mike]

That's definitely.

[Ben]

What about just a normal tattoo?

[Ryan]

No, normal tattoos are cool. And I don't even care if they're like the. You do the patchwork ones, which probably isn't my style, but I think tattoos are cool.

[Ben]

Mike, are you getting a tattoo you've been talking about for one day?

[Mike]

Dude, One day?

[Ben]

I think you would actually look hard as fuck. The whole sleeve, dude.

[Mike]

I love one, and at this point, who knows?

[Ben]

But, like, can you not see Mike with the sleeve?

[Mike]

I love the idea of, like, I think your buddy Brad was doing it, like, full sleeve and then like, using your skin as part of the art board and like, leaving some exposed parts.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, you have a full sleeve and then you have like two bands here. And this part is just like, just your skin. But yeah, it'd be pretty cool.

[Ryan]

I mean, make you look like, kind of like, much more interesting.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know, you would look at Mikey, be like, what's his deal?

[Ben]

I already wonder that at this point.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's like the older I get, like, the more fresh the tattoos will look when I'm older. Older. So, I mean, it's the only thing I have.

[Ben]

Question.

[Mike]

That's the only thing I have going for.

[Ben]

And you got any tattoos? Oh, I just want them to look fresh when I. I don't want my.

[Ryan]

Grandkids making fun of me for having crusty tattoos.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

When did people start getting tattoos? Like, how long?

[Mike]

Like Native Americans.

[Ryan]

Yeah. But like, I think Egyptians and stuff like that. I. I wish I had the answer to that, but I think it's way back.

[Ben]

I think that's like. I'm talking, like, sleeves, I don't think always. Oh, really?

[Mike]

Well, I guess, yeah. Think of, like, in Hawaii and maybe, you know, other tropical areas. They. They're very like. Is that, like, based in Hawaii? Where did tribal tattoos actually start? Like those just probably Native Americans, probably, but, like, whatever. I don't even call it tribal, but the Hawaiian tattoos are very distinct. You guys ever seen Moana?

[Ben]

Yeah, Mike, it's a full on Hawaiian tattoo.

[Mike]

I would look so well, just. It wouldn't be right for me, that's for sure.

[Ryan]

There is some tattoos that look better with, like, muscles. Like some, you know.

[Ben]

No, totally.

[CJ]

The rocks.

[Ben]

That's like what I picture. Like, can you imagine, you know, Andrew Tate's big one that goes across.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Ben]

Like, what, a mic gut that I'm just flat.

[Mike]

Like, I got no pecs for nothing. Little bit of a gut. If I got.

[Ryan]

Like, what's this guy's deal? Like, maybe one Day. He used to be fit.

[Mike]

Yeah. And welcome back, CJ Lotzer.

[Ryan]

Dude, I feel bad.

[CJ]

That was hot.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I bet that was really.

[Mike]

Dude, are you good?

[CJ]

My mouth is on fire still.

[Mike]

Oh, really?

[CJ]

It's not nearly as bad. Like, I was pacing down there, but.

[Ryan]

Did you. Did you yak?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Oh, man, that sucks.

[CJ]

Yeah, I threw up and everything. It tasted terrible. It tasted so bad at first. It was like a sneak attack. I put it in because I've done it before. Maybe it's because I didn't know when I put it in. Oh, my gosh. It was like. It tasted just like a weird tasting gummy bear at first.

[Ben]

Sorry.

[CJ]

My mouth is still so hot. That was bad.

[Ryan]

Oh, poor kid.

[CJ]

That was bad. It still is bad.

[Ryan]

I wouldn't wish that upon anybody.

[CJ]

I knew I had it right away.

[Mike]

I didn't.

[Ryan]

You did because there was a little.

[CJ]

Hole poked in mine.

[Mike]

Oh.

[CJ]

So I was like, they injected something in. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I'm surprised that that shows how honest you are. I would have probably just been like, this is for sure it.

[Ben]

And plopped that on the table for them.

[Ryan]

Evan would have been so, like, we call him betrayed.

[Mike]

Evan was like, definitely expecting it to be him.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He's like, wait, when you went to film. He's just like. I'm like. I was like guaranteed that it was me because, like, why else would you frantically call me in here and give me a gummy bear?

[Ryan]

And also Ken thought that too, because he's like, I've been set up so many times.

[Mike]

But we.

[Ryan]

We've never up to make it be you.

[Ben]

I don't know if that's true at all.

[Ryan]

Oh, have we?

[Mike]

I don't know if that's true, but. But I. I agree.

[Ryan]

Never mind.

[Ben]

Sorry. I take that back. We have.

[Mike]

I agree most of the time.

[Ryan]

Actually, you know what?

[Ben]

I have. Somebody else has. Maybe I just showing my cards.

[CJ]

How do we get Ken to eat the gummy bear? That one time I just plopped it down. Was like little nitro. World's hottest gummy bear.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

What was the.

[CJ]

Oh, remember one time when I.

[Ben]

No, that was for you.

[CJ]

Bowls of candy out. No, that was just for whoever.

[Mike]

Well, yeah, I got it. Yeah.

[Ben]

Why did Ken eat it?

[Mike]

Why did you eat.

[Ben]

He lost some bed or something.

[CJ]

Ken placed it on someone else's, but yeah.

[Mike]

And that's when he drank the vodka milk.

[Ben]

Dude, it's the Snapchat profile picture of Ken.

[Ryan]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

He's looking off into the distant land.

[Ryan]

Oh, that's right. When. When the sirens go off in on his face. That was one thing that was really fun about the old shop. Like, there was so many good memories there. But maybe this wasn't even at the old trap. Okay. But I do remember, like, times at the old shop. Being in that little kitchen, so confined together, it was just like, stuff was always happening. We're always dancing on top of the desk because, yeah, we all share.

[Ben]

We were drinking a lot more than.

[Mike]

Because you really couldn't be in there without. If you and someone else were in there. You, like, had to vibe together. You could. Yeah.

[Ryan]

There was not enough space to feel alone. Yeah.

[Ben]

What?

[Ryan]

Well, you know how it is.

[Ben]

I'm picturing you two in the kitchen.

[Mike]

Dude, Ryan and I vibe together. I have so many snap memories, but.

[Ryan]

They'Re both, like, popping.

[Mike]

I had so many funny snap stories just from that little kitchen, living room, office. Alone. Alone. It's so funny.

[Ryan]

My favorite. I'll pop it up right here. Is when CJ goes. If I got you smoking that same. I think you're imitating somebody's mom or a mom in general, but. Oh, God damn, that was funny.

[Mike]

All right. I have a really funny story that I'm pretty excited to tell. It is another assisted living nursing home story. You know, it's gonna be good. So my grandpa, chilling in the assisted living. My mom's new husband went to go visit him. I don't know if he's dropping them off, pick him up, whatever, but he's there. And my grandpa, apparently, he has. They have, like, their supper or just eating buddies. It kind of stinks that they. I'm sure they can sit with other people if they want to, but, like, assigned, buddy.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Ben]

Assigned?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It's like, I'm sure it's hard for people to come.

[Mike]

It's tough. It's like. Yeah, they're just. But it's like, the same. Like, twice a day, just, like, silently kind of sitting. I mean, they talk, whatever. But Kermit guy.

[CJ]

His.

[Ryan]

His name's Kermit?

[Mike]

Yep, his name's Kermit. His supper, dinner buddy. He. He's known him for a long time, which makes it funny. You know, they both grew up, like, in the same town. And he likes to. I just preface this. He likes to poke fun at Kermit for not remembering stuff.

[Ryan]

Classic.

[Mike]

So funny. Yeah. Kermit says he's gonna take his imaginary girlfriend to Texas. And I said, well, when are you flying? Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Schizophrenic.

[Mike]

And then my grandpa's. When you fly.

[CJ]

Typical sandman. Typical Sandman just putting them in their place, making fun of this hole.

[Ryan]

Thinks his dead wife is alive.

[Mike]

No, no, no.

[Ryan]

Oh, you take Mary to the army ball.

[Ben]

Mike is like, hey, grandpa, tomorrow at lunch, make sure you kick him in the nuts really hard about something super personal.

[Mike]

Put him down.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So, but I mean, I guess the only reason he's able to do that, and I think that it's somewhat okay, is that he's also losing his memory. You know, if he was just like quick witted and all there, it'd be really mean. So this actually doesn't have anything to do with my grandpa. Besides that. Him and Kermit, our homies. But every day when they eat, Kermit thinks that someone's paying for his meals. You know when you start to forget a lot, I think a lot of guys, they get worried where their money is. Where's my money? I got money. Yeah, I'm good. I got money. Right? And so he ends every meal and is like, my meals are free. Like, are you got? Who's paying for your guys? It's like, who's paying for mine is what I wonder? So I'm gonna.

[Ryan]

This.

[Mike]

Basically, he's accusing people of picking up his tab that doesn't exist.

[CJ]

I got money.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You don't even pay for me. Listen, man.

[Mike]

Exactly.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And so he apparently accused this one guy so many times because there's only like, you know, eight dudes.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

10 people total in the room. And the guy got so upset that he kept accusing him of paying for his food that he walked over while Kermit was watching TV one one evening and just bopped him.

[Ben]

What?

[Mike]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Nursing home fight club.

[Mike]

And. And then what? Like how Hard enough to make him bleed.

[Ryan]

Nice.

[CJ]

He punched another member. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I can't imagine that's good for picking up his tab.

[Ben]

I.

[Mike]

You know, I'm sure they would be mad at Kermit. Yeah. Yeah, he was mad at Kermit.

[Ben]

Wait, who got punched?

[Mike]

The Kermit?

[Ryan]

Kermit.

[Mike]

Because Kermit was accusing other homie of picking up, being like, dude, stop paying for my food. Which is just.

[CJ]

Maybe it's more Tried knocking some sense into it.

[Mike]

But. Yeah. So my mom's new husband was there, watched it go down.

[CJ]

No.

[Mike]

Yeah. And so my favorite part is then the cna, those girls or guys don't get paid enough. The best part is since they don't get paid enough to deal with that. They didn't. They just were like, they. The one girl says to the guy who sucker punch and said, let's just say his name's Steve. Steve, I told you to come to me when you. When you get this angry. So clearly it was a problem from before.

[Ryan]

Steve talked about this, and to Kermit.

[Mike]

They literally was just like, how you. Kermit, you okay? Yeah. All right, well, here's some paper towels. Clean yourself up. Jeez. Somebody said it about how it went. I'm like, that is wild.

[Ryan]

You know?

[Mike]

Like, can you imagine just the whole situation, seeing it, being Kermit just being one of the CNAs, like, yeah, Kermit, definitely.

[CJ]

The last place I'd expect to get punched is in a nursing home, right?

[Mike]

To get punched, dude.

[Ben]

Yeah, I bet.

[CJ]

Sucker punch.

[Ben]

I bet Mike's grandpa was, like, the instigator. He was, like, going behind, and he was like, hey, so he has been paying for your meal. He just doesn't want you to know it. To Kermit and Kermit's like, I knew it.

[CJ]

Probably doesn't even like his name, but Mike's grandpa just gave it to him. It's like, poop Stain, Mike's other neighbor, or whatever.

[Ben]

You.

[CJ]

You had just mean names for all your friends growing up, right? Not friends, but just. I should say vict. Hey, Poop Stain.

[Mike]

There's this little kid growing up that lived next to my buddy Dylan's house. And then I would always roll over to Dylan's, and sometimes he wouldn't be there, but Corbin was outside, and I'd roll up to him, and I'd go. And I don't. That's what Dylan called him.

[CJ]

So you call him what?

[Mike]

Poop Stain Corbin. But keep in mind, I'm like, 13, 14, and poop stain Corbin is, like, 6.

[CJ]

Oh, wow. Hold up, hold up.

[Ryan]

Isn't Corbin Earn his name?

[Mike]

No, that's the other.

[Ryan]

Never even had a poop stain.

[Mike]

Never.

[Ryan]

That's kind of fun.

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean, never once had an issue with poop or stains or anything. And then I.

[Ben]

Is you being 14 and him being 6 supposed to make the story better.

[Mike]

For you or worse better? Because it's funnier.

[Ben]

Oh, I wasn't sure if you were, like, justifying.

[Mike]

No, no, no.

[Ryan]

Sounds to me like you're picking on a child.

[Mike]

Yeah, no, I guess in a roundabout way, I definitely was. After that, I was like, yo, I'd always ask him, where's Dylan? And he'd be like, I don't know. He's your friend. Go over to his house and check.

[CJ]

I just saw.

[Mike]

But then I would, all right, Poop.

[Ryan]

Stain, give me the Attitude.

[Ben]

All right, you little nerd. Give him a wedgie.

[Mike]

Dude. It's just fun, like, messing with, like, as in, at the end of the day. All I did. Sure, but all I did was call him Poop Stain Corbin. Never beyond that, actually.

[CJ]

Try explaining that to the principal. Mike.

[Mike]

Mike. True. We weren't even in the same school. I was in high school.

[CJ]

Good thing you didn't grow up in today's time, Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah, true. I'd get canceled.

[Ben]

Would you?

[CJ]

I think you'd be in a problem, dude.

[Mike]

No, I was already. I'm sure they handled stuff.

[Ben]

Oh, really?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What, calling people Poop Stain Corbin or other names?

[Mike]

Yeah, I mean, did you act?

[Ben]

Did you get in trouble as a kid?

[Mike]

Yes, but not, like, a lot. Not where they would look at me and go, dude, of course he's in there. I didn't quite, like, get to that point or anything. Like, oh, yeah. I mean, obviously he's in there. He's in there every other day. It was, like, probably, you know, once or twice a semester would grab a good detention. Like, really just a solid detention for, like, mouthing off or something.

[Ryan]

Classic.

[Mike]

Yeah, just something where I, like, tipped over the edge.

[CJ]

Yeah, definitely makes sense.

[Mike]

Yeah. Or, like, one time we got detention for. I was told this before, but this is just straight up bullying. When we were running crushers, and then this. This dude ran all funny. Not that he didn't have any disabilities or anything. He just ran funny. So we ran. We just ran like, him. And the gym teacher was just, like. He caught on right away and was like, if you're gonna make fun of him, you're out of here. So our whole squad, four of us, got detention.

[Ben]

Did you guys run like that to detention?

[CJ]

Oh, man.

[Ben]

When I think back to, like, the kids that used to get bullied, that would obviously just give a little bit of a reaction. Enough to, like, have, like, the cool kids just keep doing it to get, like, a laugh out of all.

[CJ]

I give a reaction.

[Ben]

You don't want to give a reaction. But, man, I. I actually. I do really feel bad about. Actually, I never bullied these kids, but I also. I didn't stick up for them because then it's like, you're sticking up against, like, all the cool kids and shit. Actually, wrap it back to Facebook. I know what some of them are, like, up to now, just because from being, like, Facebook friends with them, I see that. I'm like, man, would they have turned out different if they wouldn't have, like, gotten bullied?

[CJ]

But so you feel like you Fully set them off on the wrong path.

[Ben]

I wasn't, like, the one bullying. I wasn't being like Mike, but I also wasn't, like, sticking off for him. So maybe.

[Mike]

And I guess it's tough because, like, maybe, like, most of the people that I gave a hard time to, I could see now and be like, what's up? And we're, like, having a normal conversation. We're having a normal conversation. Like, I guess none of the. None of the people, I guess, that I ever poke fun at are turned out as, like, to be honest, that I can think of, actually, I take that back.

[Ben]

We had one buddy. He was one of my best friends, but that we, like, really bullied.

[Mike]

Yeah. I was like, we don't have to say his name, But I was like, there's one person. One person that I saw you pick on, other than that you really didn't. But there's one person.

[CJ]

I feel like there's a difference.

[Mike]

I was impressed at. At what your line was of stopping.

[Ben]

Which was really far.

[CJ]

I feel like one of, like, the.

[Ben]

Best friends, like, one of my best homies still to this day. But, like, would just give that good reaction.

[CJ]

It's different, though. You hang out with.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Yeah. That's. Off on his own in the lunchroom. They're totally two difference. You're like, your friend who you invite and hang out with and play sports with or do whatever with, you know? Big difference.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Weird dicks.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I will say, though, when you're in, like, high school, you just don't know. You don't fully have a good graph. You don't realize. Yeah. So, like, you can't hold that against them because I had. When I had a really bad concussion in high school, there was kids calling me a pussy and all this.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And, like, honestly, like, I was pretty mad about it even, like, probably like, a year or two after. But now I look back, I'm like, God, you're just still. It seems like you're old, but you're not.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You're still, like, you just don't know. And, like, even right now, we don't know. But, like, back then in high school, if you're in high school, you just don't know.

[Ryan]

You know even less.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You know even less.

[Ryan]

So what's the excuse of Micah's grandpa making fun of his buddy for remembering his dead wife?

[Mike]

Life.

[Ben]

This is something.

[Mike]

That statement was astronomically something. But.

[Ben]

Yeah. Right. He just made that one up.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Kermit's just, like, reminiscing about Taking no wife to the ball.

[Mike]

He thinks one of the cnas is his girlfriends.

[Ryan]

He reminds.

[CJ]

Well, maybe it is, dude.

[Ben]

Maybe.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Maybe she just doesn't want people knowing or something. But he's tapping it.

[Ben]

He said they're going on the low.

[CJ]

Just a young. Just a young, like 24 year old girl.

[Ryan]

Imagine dating like, sounds. Knowing that girl sounds great for him, dude.

[CJ]

He's probably loving it.

[Ryan]

Like.

[Mike]

Yeah, no, no money, no house, no. Nothing to really. I mean, I shouldn't say no money, but. No, no, I'm like, nothing to provide.

[CJ]

Don't tell him he has no money.

[Ben]

Dude.

[Mike]

Okay, this is so messed up. And I obviously wouldn't do it, but it's just some as subtle as, like, seeing him next time. Yeah, I go in there and can eat with them every once in a while if it's the right time. And if I was like, kermit, how do you feel about me picking up your meals the last couple of weeks?

[Ryan]

That is Mike's. It's in a statement. Right. There he goes, this old man.

[Mike]

That's funny.

[Ben]

That's hilarious. All right, should we wrap it up? Yeah.

[Mike]

Good times. Good to be back. Good to have you healthy. Good to have everyone healthy. So, yeah, you guys saw a little tweak of Evan there for what, a minute?

[Ben]

So if you subscribe, you want more of them? Yeah, man, we are really hyping him up. He better be good. When he comes out, he's gonna open.

[CJ]

His mouth, he swears.

[Ben]

He swears he's gonna say something.

[CJ]

Say some really, really good stuff.

[Ben]

I thought you were just like, really good stuff.

[Mike]

He's gonna open his mouth and he's.

[CJ]

Gonna swear like you're gonna want to hear it. So maybe even watch him say it. So make sure you hit the subscribe button.

[Mike]

Stay tuned for next week. Thank you for listening. Oh, that's so funny.

[Ben]

You said. He said he's gonna say.