Travis Pastrana's Gnarly Crash, CJ Might Lose His License, & Ryan QUITS the Freedom 500

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Life Wide Open with CboysTV
Episode Title: Travis Pastrana's Gnarly Crash, CJ Might Lose His License, & Ryan QUITS the Freedom 500
Date: April 8, 2025
Participants: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken

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Episode Overview

This episode is a wild ride, focused on CboysTV’s recent behind-the-scenes adventures: Ryan's epic (and ultimately ill-fated) run at Cleetus McFarland's Freedom 500, legendary stunts and crashes with Travis Pastrana, a new Texas no-speed-limit highway, the fall of the local Dollar General, Tesla drama, and some classic Minnesota small-town stories. The team’s signature banter and storytelling are front and center, blending humor with genuine insight into motorsports, the content creator grind, and life on the road.

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Freedom 500 Recap: Ryan’s Heat Stroke and DNF

Starts ~00:30

• Ryan recounts his Freedom 500 experience—highlights include qualifying well, taking an early lead ("I had the fastest lap time for the first 23 laps" – CJ, 01:01), and disastrous fatigue due to heat stroke ("I was literally, like, blacking out. I was really... I was, like, delusional" – Ryan, 06:30).
• The Cboys discuss budget constraints and why only Ryan attended ("The budget was getting small for the video, you know" – CJ, 04:23), with most of the crew watching on the stream at home.
• Mechanical woes strike again: their car blows up for the fifth time, and Ryan jumps into a backup but forgets his water, accelerating the heat stroke.
• Crash and aftermath:
  • "I went way too wide and pounded the concrete wall harder than I've ever hit anything" – Ryan, 06:55
  • Crew worried he sounded "drunk" post-race due to dehydration ("At the end of the race, you sounded drunk" – CJ, 07:41)
  • Required ambulance check and missed out on finishing yet another Freedom 500.

Notable Moments & Quotes

• On leading early:
  "For that moment I felt like the man." – Ryan (11:15)

• Passing a NASCAR legend:
  "I fought for, like, four laps to pass Greg Biffle... I go, holy— I just passed Greg Biffle." – Ryan (13:35)

• On heat stroke feeling:
  "I would describe it almost as, like, being really drunk... you don't really know what you're doing." – Ryan (07:19)

• Ambulance scene:
  "I'm like, oh, my God. I still haven't finished a race. I just got a little hot. Now I'm in the ambulance." – Ryan (08:29)

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Travis Pastrana’s Insane Stunts and Aftermath

Starts ~19:30

• The boys discuss their recent video with Travis Pastrana attempting a 360 at 120mph off an ice ramp ("He was trying to do a 360 at 120 miles per hour, if you haven't seen it..." – Ben, 19:30).
  • Pastrana’s attitude: "If you keep trying it, I feel like it's gonna work, man." – Ben reporting TP's words (19:51)
  • After yet another crash, TP was unfazed: "He doesn't even remember crashing because he's so used to crashing like that." – Ryan (20:20)
  • Fan and engineer feedback has TP determined to prove them wrong.
• Pastrana wins the Freedom 500, chooses to spray-paint the Corvette prize instead of selecting the Sprinter van his crew wanted ("He goes, give me that spray paint and let's paint that vet" – Ben, 17:45). The decision is lauded as classic TP showmanship.

Notable Moments & Quotes

• Content value of Pastrana’s choice:
  "He's the greatest entertainer of our generation... He said, 'I can't do a burnout in the sprinter van. What was I supposed to do? Slowly roll out of there?'" – Ryan (19:09)
  • TP vows to "jump this thing 150ft" (Corvette) after winning.

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On Racing, Endurance, & CboysTV Culture

Threaded throughout

• Group reflects on their racing ‘strategy’ versus others: maybe they should build up one killer driver rather than rotating (03:07).
• Discussion about being YouTubers at events—the shift from feeling like outsiders to being recognized by racing and creator communities (22:42).
• Interactions with other YouTubers, like WhistlinDiesel; some playful beef, with passing and blurring logos creating 'SE boys L' memes (23:24).

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Car, Culture & Tech Chats

Texas’ No Speed Limit Highway

Starts ~26:35

• Texas may open its first no-speed-limit highway, sparking debate on American car culture vs. Germany’s Autobahn.
  • "Seems like cars are way, way too fast nowadays for the average driver." – CJ (28:17)
  • The group speculates viral video chaos when it opens: "You know in the first month we're doing a video where we drive down there and drive really fast." – Ryan (28:01)

Tesla: The New Muscle Car?

Starts ~31:43

• Controversy and culture war around Teslas: vandalism, political statements, and Doug DeMuro’s claim they're "the new muscle cars".
• Ken shares personal experience with both admiration and hate for his Cybertruck/Tesla in Fargo ("The year I've owned that car, I've gotten so many people come up to me and give so many, like, just bluntly hate comments." – Ken, 35:17).
• Group discusses how changing perceptions have shifted Tesla from progressive to “MAGA” vehicle in some eyes.

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The Saga of Dollar General Closing

Starts ~37:07

• Small town drama: Their local Dollar General closes after hiring troubles, leading to apocalyptic bargain hunting ("I filled up my car with random for 100 bucks." – Ken, 38:01).
• The line for the going-out-of-business sale stretched around the block; people drove from out of town to score deals (38:07).
• Reflections on the impact of losing basic stores in rural Minnesota ("Now it's like we don't even have a Dollar General." – CJ, 40:46).

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Life Bits: Marriage School, Losing Your License, and Who You’d Call in Jail

Marriage School & College Nostalgia

Starts ~41:03

• Mike is at “wedding school" (marriage counseling class), and the crew jokes about note-taking and how little they'd thrive if they had to return to college in the AI era.
• On modern cheat culture:
  "How do they keep people from using Chat GPT now?" – Ben (42:47)

Speeding Ticket Woes

Around 56:44

• CJ is at risk of losing his driver’s license: "I can't get one more speeding ticket, otherwise I'll lose my license." (19:19, 56:51)
• He confesses to getting two tickets in quick succession ("I finally got clean for the first time... I got two in one week." – CJ, 56:53)

Who to Call from Jail?

Starts ~46:19

• The group debates which friend would reliably answer a late-night jail call ("You would never answer the phone." – Ken to Ryan, 46:27).
• General consensus is CJ or Ken would be most reliable, Micah least.

Losing the Hotel Room

Starts ~49:07

• Ben recounts getting locked out of his Vegas hotel room, attempting to find it across 10 floors, and ended up crashing with others—classic Cboys misadventure.

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Quick Hits & Funny Moments

• TSA flagged Dalton: "TSA pulls Dalton aside because he doesn't look like his ID anymore." – Ryan (24:10, full circle callback to intro)
• Camping on a Lamborghini:
  Ben and Gavin panic waking up in a rooftop tent, pitched half-joking nighttime scare plans, and misadventures camping at events (54:16).
• Random acts of Tesla hate: Keying, vandalizing, and, disturbingly, someone smearing themselves on cars caught by security cameras ("At that point, you're just playing yourself." – CJ, 34:31).

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Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• Ryan on crashing out of Freedom 500:
  "I was literally, like, blacking out...like, delusional." (06:30)
• CJ congratulating Ryan:
  "Didn't let us down, Ryan. So I gotta tell you, you did a great job." (15:37)
• Ben on watching the stream vs. being there:
  "It was so awesome, dude, because, like, they were just showing, like, the most entertaining stuff the whole time." (03:48)
• Ken on Cybertruck hate:
  "In the year I've owned that car, I've gotten so many people come up to me and give so many, like, just bluntly hate comments." (35:17)
• CJ on license troubles:
  "I can't get one more speeding ticket, otherwise I'll lose my license." (56:51)
• Ryan on the chaos of the Autobahn:
  "You know, that thing opens, in the first month we're doing a video where we drive down there and drive really fast on it." (28:01)
• CJ on the Dollar General closure:
  "Now it's like we don't even have a Dollar general and we don't have a post office." (40:46)
• Ryan on who to call from jail:
  "Ken's probably who I'd call to get me out of jail." (46:19)

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Key Timestamps

• 00:30 – 19:30: Freedom 500 play-by-play: racing, car issues, crash, aftermath
• 19:30 – 23:00: Travis Pastrana stunts, Freedom 500 win, spray-painting prize
• 26:35 – 30:16: No speed limit Texas highway, Autobahn comparisons
• 31:43 – 36:06: Tesla’s place in culture, vandalism, Cybertruck, shifting perception
• 37:07 – 40:57: Dollar General closing, bargain hunting small town life
• 41:03 – 47:45: Marriage school, college tips, tech in education, who to call from jail
• 49:07 – 54:48: Getting locked out of hotel room, waking up camping on Lambos

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Tone and Style

Upbeat, irreverent, and hyper-honest—heavy on self-deprecation, peer-to-peer ribbing, and the joys and pains of life as professional car guys and content creators. The episode delivers both insight and entertainment, perfect for listeners seeking unfiltered stories from the world of creative automotive mayhem.

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Transcript

[Ryan]

TSA pulls Dalton aside because he doesn't look like his ID anymore.

[Ben]

I locked up all four and we skidded down the highway. So he was trying to do a 360 at 120 miles per hour. If you haven't seen it, it's like.

[Ryan]

You have to get in the ambulance. Like, we have to check you out.

[CJ]

Can't get one more speeding ticket, otherwise I'll lose my license.

[Ryan]

Man. Fellas, this may be the first time ever that I'm not happy to be here. Really should be driving that Z06 home. You should be.

[CJ]

You really should be, man. I can't believe you're here.

[Ben]

Like, the turnaround time for real.

[Ryan]

Pretty.

[Ben]

I was just watching you on TV, like, 12 hours ago.

[Ryan]

In Florida.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

We got home or to the hotel from the freedom factory at 12:30. Took off at 6:30 out of Florida.

[Ben]

That's a quick turn.

[Ryan]

It's now 11:30 and I'm here.

[Ben]

That's in and out.

[Ken]

You were absolutely killing it for those first few laps.

[CJ]

It was more in a few can.

[Ryan]

It was fastest laugh 17.

[Ken]

Fastest lap time for the first, I think, like, 23 laps. I think it was really.

[CJ]

Yeah. You had the fastest lap time for the first 23 laps. You had no one in front of you.

[Ben]

I want to add some context here.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So Ryan just got done racing in our buddy Cleese McFarland's Freedom 500 race.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Ben]

And the stakes were high. Usually there's a pretty sweet prize, but this time there's a brand new Z06 or a brand new Sprinter van. So, like, $150,000 prize.

[Ryan]

I gotta say, the sprinter van was even nicer in person. Like, it was a pretty nice step up from ours, but less seating. It wasn't as big.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Ryan]

But it was fricking nice.

[Ben]

So we've raced in, I don't know, seven of these races at this point. Like, we've gone through the whole gauntlet of, like, each one of us have driven, and now we're, like, going back to it. So, like, everyone had drove. So this time we were like, all right, well, who. Who wants to do it for the second time? And Ryan volunteered. I don't want to say that we didn't have confidence in him, but, like.

[Ryan]

None of you bought a plane ticket.

[Ben]

Let's just say it's a lot of work to fly from Minnesota down to Florida and go and watch this race, which we usually know how it's going to end, and usually it doesn't end for us. Like, the car Gets taken out like halfway through or in the beginning at some point, we don't finish the race. I don't know if we've ever finished any of these races.

[Ken]

Like, I finished mine.

[Ben]

Okay, Ken finished his. Actually, Ken did start us out pretty hot with an insane first couple laps. Just trying to be a showmanship there, taking out barrels. And it's kind of all been downhill from. From there. So, like, people have already been like, I can't believe you guys didn't go down there. Look, we weren't quite as confident as we have been in the past and we've learned from the previous races. But Ryan showed up and put on an absolute show.

[Ryan]

Honestly, starting out, there was one other driver in front of me. I was number two on the poll, which I did get kind of lucky. But Cleat came to me and he goes, dude, you qualified 10th. That's really good. I qualified better than guys who have done it for like nine races. Like, we're probably not doing the right strategy where we send all of us. Like, it's the most fun for all of us. We all get a chance at it. But we should have, like, really been honed in crafting one driver. Probably sounds like Ken, I guess, but we should have been crafting one driver over the last nine races.

[Ben]

So, yeah, you qualified in the middle of the pack. You were out front. Because they did like, like an inverse.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like they cut. Cut the qualifying in half and anyone like 11th and back was in the front.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

It's kind of confused by that.

[Ryan]

It was kind of confused. It was. The idea was, is you put the faster guys in the middle so then there's more competition and all the fast guys don't just run away with it.

[Ben]

Granted, it was like the first time that I'd watched the race, like on the tv because we've been there, which has been sick. But dude, on the TV was like, arguably more lit.

[Ryan]

I was wondering, how was the stream?

[Ben]

It was so awesome, dude, because like, they were just showing like the most entertaining stuff the whole time.

[CJ]

Never missed anything.

[Ben]

We're like replays in the stands. You kind of. You're. I'm just watching like our guy, right? And usually our guys in the back. So it's not always the most entertaining. But like on stream it was just constant mayhem.

[CJ]

Also, the commentators, like, it was. It honestly was awesome. We were cheering so loud, Ryan and. And it's not that we didn't have faith in you. Not only that, we didn't really have that much faith in you. It Was just like, you know, we're saving the budget. The budget was getting small. The budget was getting small for the video, you know, and. And to send five, six guys down there with plane tickets, and then you got to get some rooming and food and all that, you know, you're looking.

[Ben]

Like 10 G's minimum.

[CJ]

10 G's if you're lucky. So, like, we decided we're going to stay back.

[Ken]

Maybe.

[CJ]

Maybe the reason why we were doing so bad is because we all go. Maybe our luck will change if we stay back. And it honestly kind of did because, like, you know, you were. You were dominating at the. At the beginning. Obviously, you were in the front. You passed whistling Diesel and you were leading for probably, I think, the first 20 laps or so until you're basically your. Your front left tire was gone. You could just tell because you'd watch.

[Ryan]

You just push through the corner.

[CJ]

Yeah, you were all over the place. It looked like you were out there on ice compared to everyone else.

[Ryan]

It felt like that. But. But I actually kind of thought drivers were like, you know, when. When, like, race car drivers are like, It's a fatigue sport. You have to have endurance. I'm like, I don't know, man. Turn, wheel, hold your body straight. But I was losing. I definitely was losing focus. Like 20, 25 laps. Like, it was definitely tires, but I was getting tired, and, like, I just wasn't breaking the same way I did. And then I got pushed out of my line. And what was dumb was I got passed and. And I was thinking to myself, I can just get back in the first. Like, I just did. Well, everybody else was catching up, and it gotten a few laps under the belt, and they all just started blowing by me. I just kept dropping back.

[CJ]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you can just say you were fatigued because you got hit with heat stroke.

[Ryan]

So what happened was the car blew up again. That's like the fifth time we've ran that car because it doesn't have the right side mirror. And it's getting more and more progressively dented, to be fair. Fast car. It is a fast car.

[Ben]

The red one.

[Ryan]

The red one.

[Ben]

You blew that up.

[Ryan]

Yes.

[Ben]

That's why that's what happened. Yes.

[Ryan]

So that's what. It died on me on the back stretch. I idled around, barely got to the pits, and they just, like, the. The pit crew was insane. They, like, got me out of the car, help me move all my stuff. I moved all the GoPros over. I get buckled in. They're freaking four guys are strapping. They're getting me back out there. Forgotten all of my water in the other car.

[CJ]

That sucks.

[Ken]

Oh, no.

[Ryan]

It's frickin 95 degrees in Florida at 10pm and you're in this hot car, literally in a fire suit, sweating your nuts off. And so after, like, 60 laps, I was literally drenched. I had my fire suit off. I had my hands out the window trying to get air in my neck thing off, because I was literally, like, blacking out. I was really. I'd never had heat stroke like that. I was, like, delusional.

[CJ]

And then you hit the wall.

[Ryan]

Yeah, and then I was, like, completely lost focus. And I don't know if I thought I was driving a freaking F1 car that I was in the center of and just went way too wide and pounded the concrete wall harder than I've ever hit anything. I mean, I didn't break the car, so it couldn't have been that hard, but just, like, literally drove sideways into it, and I was like, into, like.

[Ben]

The corner or into the. The wall.

[Ryan]

So dumb. I have doll video right now. Like, yeah, picture it. I. I would describe it almost as, like, being, you know, when, like, you're really drunk and you're kind of, like, on the edge and you're just looking for your bed and your eyes are closed. You don't really know what you're doing. That's how I felt during that part of the race.

[Ben]

And then I know we talked to you afterwards, and it seemed like you had. You had been substituting the water for alcohol.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, I literally was losing at.

[CJ]

The end of the race. You sounded drunk.

[Ken]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You sounded drunk. When we were talking to you on the phone, I was like, what the.

[Ben]

We were like, this dude starts celebrating early. He was leading the race for 25 laps, and he started celebrating.

[Ryan]

I just start cracking the victory champagne in the car. Well, that.

[Ken]

That's why I call. I called Dalton afterwards, and I was like, hey, this dude needs, like, some medical help. He does not sound okay.

[CJ]

It's funny, though, because Weston's on the phone and Wes off.

[Ben]

Oh, no, no, he's okay.

[CJ]

We're gonna go take him to Texas Roadhouse real quick after this. Y' all get him, right, Bro?

[Ryan]

He was serious. He came over once. I got out because the ambulance came up and was like, you have to get in the ambulance. Like, we have to check you out. And I was like, okay. I freaking get in the back of the ambulance. I'm sitting in there. Everybody's out there, like, oh, my God. What happened?

[CJ]

Right?

[Ryan]

I'm like. I'm like, oh, my God. I still haven't finished a race. I just got a little hot. I just got a little hot. Now I'm in the ambulance.

[Ben]

Get them back out there. They get the ambulance out on the track.

[CJ]

All the racers were around looking. Looking at you.

[Ryan]

It was like everybody was coming back from the race. Yeah.

[Ben]

What happened to this guy? They probably thought, were you on the stretcher?

[Ryan]

Oh, no, they. Thankfully. They sat me down on it.

[Ben]

They strap them down and everything.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God. Everyone's like, geez. And so I, like, get out of the van or the ambulance and like, 35 people, like, our mix of our friends and their friends, just like, everybody's like, are you okay?

[Ben]

Yeah. No. They see you in the back of an ambulance.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Kind of.

[Ryan]

Concerning lights on and everything. I'm like, I don't think we need the lights on right now, guys.

[Ben]

Dude. The whole time, though, when we were at home and Dalton calls and goes, dude, cameras rolling. Cameras rolling on our end. And we're like, yeah, what's going on? And he goes, ryan got heat stroke. We're like, what the. Yeah, I was not expecting that.

[Ryan]

And then, so I do gotta say, the reason I pulled off, I was fighting for, like, seventh. Like, I was up in the mid pack. I'm pretty freaking stoked, right? My. When I got out of the car, my racer, like, they're talking to you the whole race, like, about where you should be, inside, outside, all that. Yeah, yeah. Ton of information. They have like, a guy in the stand that's telling, you know, to go to this person. Yeah, well, they talk to, like, the crew or the.

[Ben]

The whole pack on cautions where you're supposed to be.

[Ryan]

Exactly. And so, you know, he'd be like, all right, number seven, you're on the outside. Number seven, you're the lucky dog. Which means if you're a lap behind, which I didn't think I was because I was under caution, but apparently I was. Yeah, you get to go around. So I didn't realize that I was a lap down during this. I'm fighting, like, I'm fighting back for the win, right? And this guy, like, runs out on the track and starts pointing at me and, stop, stop, stop. And I'm like, what?

[Ken]

What?

[Ryan]

What's going on? As I'm in, like, a daze. And he goes, go to the back. Go to the back. You're now on the lead lap. And I was like, are you kidding me? I haven't been on the lead lap this whole time. And I'm literally like giving it all I got.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I was about to throw up in the car and I'm like, dude, I'm just going to pull over. Like, there's 15 laps to go and it's going to be mostly cautions at this point. And I have heat stroke. We might as well chalk it up as another. Did not finish.

[Ken]

So. So we saw the dude like, like point, like wave his hand at you.

[Ben]

We were like, what's this guy do now?

[Ken]

And then they. They cut. They cut to a different camera and then it's like the whole pack and your car was just gone. And we're like, where did he go?

[Ben]

Dude, I was.

[Ryan]

That's why I pulled off Ryan at the.

[Ben]

At the beginning of it when you were leading for the first like 20 some laps. You know, the announcers, they need to talk about who's ever in the lead, right? Because you're the man. You're the guy.

[Ryan]

For that moment, I felt like the man.

[Ben]

Dude. I was laughing. Like, the announcers are looking up like, what do we got on Ryan?

[Ryan]

I works probably nothing.

[CJ]

He.

[Ben]

He owns a.

[CJ]

A long pickup truck.

[Ben]

Have you said that? Yeah, we already said that. He's the.

[CJ]

He's. He's kind of known as the Hummer guy.

[Ben]

So he's got an electric. We mentioned that he's own two Hummers.

[Ryan]

Two Hummers, dude, they were scratching.

[CJ]

They were just scrapping, bro, trying to find something. And then you got Travis Pastrana, like up in third. Like, Travis Pastrana has won 17x game gold medals, lived a thousand lives.

[Ben]

He built half the Great Wall of China.

[CJ]

He jumped out of an airplane with no parachute. This guy's amazing.

[Ben]

You know, there's just so much back to Ryan. Were excited. It goes kind of silent. Have you to the middle of the pack.

[CJ]

Have you seen their long bed box limo?

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan]

Dude, just put them. Just put him in a bad spot. But I felt like for a while I was way out front. Like, I looked back, I was like a corner ahead of everyone.

[Ben]

Yeah, you were.

[Ryan]

Probably should have backed off a little bit and saved the tires in hindsight, but I was having so much fun, dude. I couldn't. I couldn't.

[CJ]

Yeah, no, it was good. I mean, honestly, that was kind of our plan though. Like, we. To be fair, we told you just go hard because it seems like in the past we try to save the car. And we're also kind of like we start out in the back and. And realistically, the only Way, I feel like, to, like, make some passes and even be at the front, you got to drive aggressive, and you also got to get lucky.

[Ben]

That's.

[CJ]

That's really kind of. I mean, there's so many good drivers in there. I mean, they don't win. Like, Travis just finally won. Like, yes. First one, he's like, look at how many things Travis drives. And then, like, no offense, but just look at you. Like, the fact that you are competing against him is. Is like, a major tilt in.

[Ryan]

You know what I'm saying, for sure.

[CJ]

So. So there's nothing. Nothing to hang. Hang your head about losing to really, any of those guys out there.

[Ryan]

I was pretty stoked because when I got in my new car, it was fresh tires, was pretty fast, and so I was just ripping through the pack. Like, I went from, like, last to the middle of the pack pretty quick, and I fought for, like, four laps to pass Greg Biffle, like, NASCAR legend. And I mean, yeah, he's in a Crown Vic, not a nascar. I can't drive a nascar. But I, like, finally closed the door on him and passed him. I go, holy. I just passed Greg Biffle. Yeah, like, that's pretty lit. That's so cool.

[CJ]

He's the most winningest NASCAR.

[Ken]

I think they said he won, like.

[Ryan]

40 or 50 races. Yeah, he's freaking a legend. You find that clip of me hitting the wall?

[CJ]

Yeah. Okay.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Let's see if we can throw it up on the tv.

[CJ]

Oh, holy.

[Ben]

That was hard.

[Ryan]

You can tell by the way where I'm looking. I was not looking at the. I'm not looking at the wall at all.

[Ben]

Oh, my God.

[Ken]

Knocked your visor shut.

[CJ]

That woke you up? It did.

[Ben]

And shut his visor on his helmet.

[Ryan]

Like, I'm on the gas.

[Ben]

Bro, because.

[CJ]

There'S, like, things on the side of the seat. Those things freaking bent so far.

[Ryan]

I'm so glad. Like, I. I kind of was. You know, I couldn't really remember it all that well, and I was like, God, it felt like I hit the wall really hard. But you know how it is. It might look. And it might just be, like, normally.

[CJ]

On camera, for reference, you feel like you did something crazy, and it looks less crazy. So the fact that that looks insane. I can't imagine how. How it felt. Did you look at your helmet, bro? You're surprised you didn't get it. Get back to the helmet's hat, like, sideways on his head. He's just looking at the dark.

[Ben]

Did you open your visor back up after?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I think so.

[Ben]

I was going to say maybe that's why you freaking overheated.

[Ryan]

You see them just sweating.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You really are. Yeah. So when you were talking to us yesterday, you weren't making a whole lot of sense.

[Ryan]

Oh.

[Ben]

Therefore why we thought you were on the bottle already, but you were like.

[CJ]

I, I hit the wall.

[Ben]

I had a heat stroke and then I hit the wall. So I thought that you like straight up blacked out and you just drove straight. Like after the straightaway you forgot to turn left and you just went, just straight into the wall. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Sorry to let us down. And just another. Did not finish on our record, I guess.

[CJ]

Didn't let us down, Ryan. So I gotta tell you, you did a great job.

[Ben]

That was straight, straight entertainment, bro.

[Ken]

At the start, your car was the only car with the hood open and the trunk popped.

[Ryan]

Wasn't that awesome? So they turned on my nos and I could just hear it hissing right on the starting line, like the block when they're doing it. And so all 10 pounds of my nos just emptied into my intake without the car running. It was like all frozen. We got a shot of it. So then they had to put a new NOS bottle in and a new NOS switch in, which they did in like 10 minutes on the freaking thing. They're like, we're ready to go as seven guys are working on it.

[CJ]

That's crazy.

[Ryan]

But the last thing I want to say about it is, dude, like I. People give cleat credit, you know, and say that like he's bringing back racing and all that. But people don't realize how lucky we are to have that race. Where else in the world can you show up to a race, not drive your own car, not pay a single dollar to enter the race and get a chance to win a hundred thousand dollar grand prize?

[CJ]

No, for real.

[Ryan]

Freaking insane.

[CJ]

I mean, when we were, when we get, you know, the race about to start, you're in P2. We're like, holy crap, Ryan might win. Yeah.

[Ryan]

The chance.

[CJ]

50 grand right here.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like it's the same as winning our giveaway.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You're going to win it in the.

[CJ]

Next hour and a half and it's literally solely up to you.

[Ryan]

I know.

[Ben]

You know.

[Ryan]

Pretty crazy.

[Ben]

Yeah. Against racing, against the guys that you are. I don't know, dude, it is so bizarre. Like, what a crazy, crazy race I have the opportunity to be racing in or be invited to. Like that's so sick.

[CJ]

Dude. It was so sick watching TP and his crew spray paint it.

[Ryan]

So yeah, I was in the ambulance Then what happened?

[CJ]

How did he got it?

[Ben]

He's like, well, they were like, yeah, what do you want, the Sprinter or the Corvette? And TP Goes, give me that spray paint and let's paint that vet. And we're watching at home. So, like, when TP and his crew was here a couple weeks ago hanging out when, oh, we just dropped that video. We'll talk about that after. But we were rolling around with the. The 199 crew in our Sprinter van. And the whole time they were like, dude, we need one of these things.

[CJ]

These are.

[Ben]

This is so sick. We need a sprinter van. We need a sprinter van. So after TP1, we were watching it. We're like, oh, dude, they're taking the Sprinter van. They're taking the sprinter 100%. Like, they were so juiced up on it. And then when he goes, give me that spray paint and let's paint that vet. We were like, what the. One, I. I was surprised they took the vet. And then two, they. They just started rattle, rattle canning this $150,000 Corvette.

[Ryan]

I couldn't believe it. Like, I was out of it. I hop out of the ambulance and there's a vet sitting there spray painting. I go, what the. What just happened? Like, I think. I don't want to cause any ruffles in the. In the 199 crew, but everybody was sad he didn't take the Sprinter van.

[Ben]

All those guys were like, dude, we.

[Ryan]

Could have had a Sprinter van. It was so funny.

[Ben]

Dude, that's actually. Honestly, though, it's. It's so sick that he did that. Like, TP is the greatest entertainer of our generation, right? And the fact that he was like, he had the two options. The sprinter van would have been so chill for him and his whole crew. But he was just like, nah, I'm gonna take the Corvette. I'm gonna make a spectacle of spray painting it in front of everyone here. I'm gonna toast the tires tomorrow at, like, the burnout contest. And then I'm gonna jump this thing 150ft. He said that. He said, I'm gonna jump this thing 150ft and then do something with it after.

[Ken]

He was going to, like, motor swap something, bro.

[Ben]

You know, TP is about to just toast that thing just for the love of the game.

[Ken]

That's what he said.

[Ryan]

He goes, I can't do a burnout in the sprinter van. What was I supposed to do? Slowly roll out of there. He goes, that's not cool.

[Ben]

That's what he said to you.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. He was talking about. He's like, I can't pick the sprinter van in front of all the people watching. He goes, that would have been lame. He's like, I had to do something cool.

[CJ]

So, dude, honestly, it was a good move, especially for, like, content purposes. Yeah, Going to be able to make three videos off of that.

[Ben]

We just dropped the video. Speaking of tp, of TP crashing when he was in Minnesota doing his gnarly ass stunt. So he was trying to do a 360 at 120 miles per hour, if you haven't seen it off of an ice ramp. So spinning, spinning, spinning at 120, spinning off of the ramp and then do a 360 or 720 in the air and then land and drive away. That was the goal. So he came to our shop and he pitched us this idea or what he was thinking about doing. And like, pretty much from the rip, we were like, have you thought this through? Like, is this gonna work? He was like, well, I've tried it twice before and it hasn't worked, so, yeah, we're gonna just try it again. That was basically the thought that went into it. He was like, I don't know. If you keep trying it, I feel like it's gonna work, man. Did it not work for real?

[Ryan]

Like, the thing is too, I talked to him about. I was like, how are you? You know, whatever. And he's like, oh, that. I don't even remember crashing because he's so used to crashing like that. But he was like, dude, the worst part is, is now I've got all these engineers in my comments saying, talking about rotation and inertia and all this stuff. He goes, everybody's telling me how they could have done it better than me. I have to do it again and I have to successfully do it. Like, I don't know if it's possible.

[CJ]

With a different car.

[Ben]

The thing I saw from all the comments and you know, the engineers saying is it seemed like everyone just saying, oh, this is impossible. Like, I've done the science, I've done the math. It's not possible. If you're spinning this way and your wheels are spinning this way, you are going to rotate off axis and flip. Yeah, it's what everyone said.

[CJ]

I feel like he just needs a lower to the ground ramp. Like, that ramp was freaking huge. And I think everyone was thinking it when we showed up.

[Ryan]

Such a big.

[Ben]

Well, he was like, yeah, he said that. I mean, like, I was hoping that this ramp was going to be about half size yeah, if it would have.

[CJ]

Been lower to the ground, I feel like there's less air time for you to. For the car to like, realistically, if it's low enough to the ground and it's a little kicker spin, like you're almost going to just hit your wheels and end the spin before you end.

[Ryan]

Up on the roof.

[Ken]

But.

[Ryan]

Yeah, or at least land on the back tires and then kind of just like teeter around instead of freaking. Yeah, it's like the most violent crash I've ever seen in person, thankfully, is.

[CJ]

A well built car by the freaking wheel and the A arm.

[Ryan]

Yeah, the whole rear assembly. That thing was insane.

[CJ]

You know how bad that would have been if it would have hit somebody? It would have probably killed somebody.

[Ryan]

Would have hurt. I was talking with him about that and I go, dude, we got to find a middle ground on these temps because it was like 100 degrees at the Freedom Factory. We're all sweating. He goes, well, it's better than Minnesota where it's 40 below. This is all. Their whole crew is like, I'll take this over the 40 below. That shit sucked.

[Ben]

That did suck.

[Ryan]

They're like, why do people live there? And they're all talking that. And I'm standing there, guy who lives here, I'm like, yeah, we don't really like it either. It's great in the summer though. Come back.

[CJ]

Who else did you talk to? I mean, when you were there. So you were hanging with TP's crew a little bit.

[Ryan]

TP's crew chatted with Axel for a little bit. That was cool.

[CJ]

What was Axel like?

[Ryan]

Just chill. Just exactly.

[CJ]

Anything cool.

[Ryan]

Everything he says is cool.

[Ben]

That guy just dripped cool.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's just cool. No, it. It was fun this year because now we've come for so long, like people, People recognized us and even me and they were like, oh, yeah, you know, you guys are. You do this thing. I've seen these videos and stuff like that. So it was fun because for a lot of times I felt like we're outsiders there and people are just kind of like, oh, whatever. But this year especially, I felt super included. Like, everybody walked up to stop and was like hanging school.

[Ben]

Did you ask Whistling why he talks shit on his videos?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I didn't. Didn't get much of an answer there.

[CJ]

You asked him?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What'd you say?

[Ryan]

I was like, hey, saw your video. And he was like, oh, really? Which one? I was like, the one where you.

[CJ]

The most recent one?

[Ryan]

Yeah, the most recent one where you blurred our logo and put Us in it. And he was just kind of about answered.

[CJ]

Never left, never actually said anything.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, I'm sure it was all good fun. But I did see he put on his Snapchat story when my car was out. He said, typical SE boys.

[Ben]

L. Seriously?

[Ryan]

Yeah. He blurred out SE boys because we couldn't get the credit for it, of course. But.

[Ben]

What?

[Ryan]

So I don't know, man. He just. He's just doing his own thing. That's cool.

[CJ]

I saw that you guys were talking to him.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Chat with him.

[CJ]

What they mean by common Seaboz tv. L. I mean, are we taking L's? I don't know if we.

[Ryan]

I passed him on the freaking first lap. You know?

[CJ]

Like, just look at everything we got going. There's not really any L's.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's true.

[Ryan]

Cheers to that.

[Ben]

That's true.

[Ryan]

Actually, last thing on this trip, so me and. Me and Dalton, two. Man, this trip, right? It was just us and Gavin we met up with. When we're there, we go through tsa. TSA pulls Dalton aside because he doesn't look like his ID anymore. The facial recognition flagged him.

[Ben]

Really?

[Ryan]

Yes, because he's got his dark beard, no hair. Now. They literally pulled him aside, and the guy looked at him and he. Dalton verified all his information. They were like, okay. You know? But they, like, did extra checks on him to make sure it was him because he looks so different.

[Ben]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Ryan]

Freaking so funny.

[Ben]

Is he laughing or was he like. No, I think, like, dude, what do you mean?

[Ryan]

No, I. I think Dalton just answered the questions. But, I mean, the. The guy was like, who are you and Dalton?

[Ben]

I mean, it's like the classic. Like, even when you are going through tsa, you're like, I gotta be doing something wrong right now.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's just something.

[Ben]

It's like a stressful environment, or you kind of feel guilty about something, or you're like, I had to have forgotten something in my backpack that I'm gonna get pulled aside for. And then he does get pulled aside. Like, is this really you right off the bat?

[Ryan]

At 5am in the morning? They're just freaking examining him.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's funny, dude. He really does not look like he used to.

[Ken]

He's a completely different person.

[Ben]

Even when I see him around the shop, I'm, like, kind of catching me off guard.

[Ryan]

It was hard to find him. Like, I was looking for him all weekend, obviously, like, all right, you know, where's Dalton? If I need to say something to the camera, you know, I mean, he was obviously everywhere he needed to be. But, like, I'd look around the crowd and I'd, like, glance over him. I'm used to seeing the wing.

[CJ]

I saw a picture of Dalton last year.

[Ryan]

He's.

[CJ]

Dalton's been with us literally about one year now, officially. One year. He has worked with us now. I saw a picture of him when he started. I saw a picture of him that was taken last week. I was a. Holy shit.

[Ryan]

Holy smokes, dude.

[CJ]

The dude looks so weathered now. Look like he went to war, came back a new man.

[Ryan]

What is it about this? Like, if you look at Evan, when he was doing asbestos removal, he looked like this jolly little kid. And then now it looks like he's been to war, too.

[CJ]

He went to Charlie's Chocolate Factory. I'm sorry.

[Ben]

I'm sorry.

[Ryan]

We should do, like, before and after pictures of all of us. Guess for us it's been eight years.

[CJ]

But, yeah, we've just slowly deteriorated.

[Ken]

Yeah, I feel we've stayed pretty good.

[CJ]

Yeah, we just look a little older.

[Ben]

Did you guys see that? Texas is thinking about opening up, like, their first no speed limit highway.

[Ken]

I did.

[CJ]

That'd be sick.

[Ben]

I don't know, man. I mean, like the Ottoman in Germany, right? Autobond, Autobahn. I don't understand how that works without people, like, getting in really bad car accidents.

[Ken]

It's like, it's not just there's no limit. It's only, like, certain stretches of highway and it's only at certain times.

[Ben]

Oh, really?

[Ken]

So it's like this stretch can be no speed limit, but it's like, say there's traffic, then they'll. They'll put a speed limit in place.

[Ryan]

I still feel like I see in those videos there's cars in the slow lane and then there's guys ripping by them. And like, if I'm driving and I look behind me and a car's way behind me. Like, what if you merged out to go around somebody?

[Ben]

That's what I'm wondering. Like, how do you have people doing 65, 70 miles per hour and then people doing 150?

[CJ]

It seems like some idiot would just come flying up and rear end somebody.

[Ken]

It almost has to be like an HOV lane where it's like you can only get in and out of it at certain points. And then it's like you can go as fast as you want, but you got to, like, somebody's always going to be going slow in that.

[Ryan]

I think the only reason has worked in Germany is because when it opened, cars weren't that fast. Now they're progressively getting faster and now the USA's never had one. So like, you know that that thing opens, you know, in the first month we're doing a video where we drive our down there and drive really fast on it. Yeah. So the whole country is going to do. That's what every idiot teenager in the entire country finally has an opportunity to do that where in Germany it's like every year you get a crop of new idiots. But it's not the whole country of idiots all at once.

[Ben]

It's a good point, Ryan.

[CJ]

Cars are way, way too fast nowadays for like the average driver. Like, like any dude that makes 100k a year could buy a new Corvette. And that thing is fast. Yeah, like, yeah. Way faster than their driving capabilities are, you know. So like I don't know, it's just seems like they've for a disaster. I think it's going to be awesome though.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm for it.

[Ken]

They've also be bad. They've also had like the culture for that where they know like okay, I'm not doing a buck fifty, I need to get out of that left lane. Let somebody who is like going pedal to the metal. Just keep ripping where you know somebody around here, they're going to do 65 in the left lane and just cause an accident.

[CJ]

It's kind of Germans are just crazy. Like they're like down to drive really fast too. Kind of like Russians.

[Ben]

It's crazy. That highway has been open for however long it has been and nobody has ever like replicated it. I think there's only one in the world.

[Ryan]

Is there, Is there only one non speed limit road in the world?

[Ken]

No. I mean it's like there's multiple highways and it's not just one highway in Germany, but it's like, you know.

[Ben]

Yeah, but it's like the one country like just Germany. If it is like successful and it actually works how they want it to work, you know, if it speeds up traffic, isn't it kind of weird that nobody's ever tried doing that in other places?

[Ryan]

It seems a little sketch, but I like it.

[Ben]

Yeah. How aren't people's tires on their 23 minivan when they're doing 105 miles per hour pegged out gonna like expand and explode.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's the only Germany's the only country that has a road with no speed limit.

[CJ]

So when's this supposed to open up in Texas?

[Ben]

I think pretty soon. I think they were gonna do it in 2025 and then if it's, like, successful and it works, they're gonna roll it out into more places in 2026. Wow.

[Ken]

It must be the highway between Dallas and Austin where it's like the speed limit's already 90.

[Ryan]

Yep, that's what it says here.

[Ken]

So it's just going unlimited. You know, people in their pickups, they're going to do 105 the whole way, and it's really not that much faster.

[Ryan]

I don't want to sound like freaking Kanye here, but the CNBC article says the Audubon owes a lot to Germany's unique and difficult history. The first build out of the system was essentially a Nazi propaganda project. Interesting. The more you know, I guess it's.

[Ben]

A good thing that you preface that. You didn't want to sound like Kanye.

[Ryan]

Well, I don't know, man. You bring up stuff like that, it sounds a little people twisted.

[Ben]

I still can't believe, like, half the stuff I see Kanye doing. I feel like it's just like. I feel like it's a fever dream. Like when he's going on podcasts and he's wearing, like, all black. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And what's up with him dressing his wife? Are they still together?

[CJ]

I don't know.

[Ken]

I think they broke up.

[Ryan]

But, like, I should say maybe. Lack of dressing her last.

[Ben]

Lack of.

[Ken]

Yeah, she was wearing something, but the something was see through.

[Ben]

Yeah, I was gonna say he's a cookie, man.

[Ryan]

Really weird, dude.

[Ben]

I mean, who else would do that with their wife if they weren't?

[Ryan]

It's a good point.

[CJ]

I felt bad for that girl, dude. I feel like she's just, like, a prisoner, dude. I'm sure, like, who knows what the happens behind closed doors with that guy if he's making you do that in public. I don't know. Maybe she likes it. Who knows? But I. I don't know. I feel bad.

[Ken]

Maybe it was all her idea.

[CJ]

Maybe just doesn't, like, know how to think for herself or something too. Like, you know, like, who knows?

[Ben]

Did work out in Kanye's. Like, if Kanye wanted to, like, make a scene, he definitely made a scene.

[Ryan]

He's good at that, using her, that's for sure. Did you see Doug Demiro saying that Teslas are the new muscle cars?

[Ken]

I missed that one.

[CJ]

Yeah, they go fast in a straight line.

[Ben]

They are kind of just perked up.

[Ryan]

Go fast in a straight line. Can't turn cheaply put together and heavy. Yeah. Solely focus on horsepower. He goes, tesla's are the new muscle cars. And I actually kind of like it. But I feel like when you drove a muscle car in the 80s, you were cool. No offense, Ken. You're cool, but. And I drive an electric car, too, man. But the general consensus around Tesla's is they are not driven by cool people.

[CJ]

I think if they were more exclusive, they would then be extremely cool. Like, think how cool a cyber truck would be if it was hard to get.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they were super cool.

[Ben]

They used to be. You know, no offense, Ken.

[Ken]

They were hard to get.

[Ben]

Ken, Are you.

[Ken]

Now they're not.

[Ben]

Are you getting, like, vandalized at all? Any of your.

[Ken]

I actually haven't. I. I was a little worried. We went to the gym yesterday. I was. I was a little worried about my.

[Ben]

Cyber truck getting vandalized in the gym parking lot.

[Ken]

It's far. It's Fargo. Like. Like multiple Teslas have been vandalized in Fargo, of all places. So I turned the security cameras on before I walked inside.

[Ryan]

You see the one? The guy got keyed at Costco?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Guy got arrested.

[Ryan]

He did. But that guy.

[CJ]

That guy was. He was keying a bunch of them.

[Ken]

What the heck's up with a dude? A dude let superchargers on fire in Fargo.

[CJ]

How stupid are you? And they're doing this all for political reasons?

[Ken]

Yeah, because they think they're gonna get it to the Elon or whatever, and.

[CJ]

All you're doing is you're gonna have to van.

[Ken]

All they're doing is, like, making individual people's lives, like, just a living hell for a little bit, because then they, oh, we got to get your car repainted. We got to do all this stuff to you. And then that. That then causes them an insurance claim, which then just makes them look like babies too.

[CJ]

Dude. So, like, yeah, you didn't win the election or you did something didn't go in your way, so now you're going.

[Ken]

To behave like children.

[CJ]

Like children. And do illegal things. Vandalize. Like, that's not the right thing to do. So, like, why would anyone think that you were right thinking your side should win?

[Ben]

Also, the thing is, is, like, most people driving Teslas are liberal.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's flipping 180.

[CJ]

Oh, really? Now it is.

[Ben]

But like, before.

[Ken]

That's like 10 years. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know what I don't get is I just got to assume the guy that hates Tesla's enough to try to sabotage them around town has to at least have given a quick Google to know that Teslas are the only car with a built in 360 degree security system on it.

[Ken]

The only car the Picture of the guy that got arrested. He is exactly what you imagined. Like, just not the brightest looking person in the. In the bunch.

[Ryan]

It's hard to look smart when you're walking up to Kia car.

[Ben]

How about the guy that, like, walked up to a Tesla, stuck his hand down his pants and then like, grabbed out of his pants and like rubbed it on like that is.

[Ken]

That is at that point, you're just.

[CJ]

Playing yourself, Ward type right there.

[Ken]

Dude.

[Ryan]

It is. It is. Dude.

[Ben]

Dude, that's a tough look. That's in the. The video went viral.

[Ryan]

So, like, you know, you've got a video out there of you just freaking digging in your trousers, bro.

[Ben]

Of all things that you could do to a car, like keying it is one thing, but rubbing your own on it.

[CJ]

Dude, these people need to quit worrying about whatever they're worried about and start just focusing on themselves for real. Apparently on their wiping the politics and the way that these giant corporations are moving. You're not changing the thing. You should just focus on yourself. You got so many problems if you're going out of your way to do these things.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they don't even care.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Do people, like, look at you differently now, hopping out of your Tesla? Are you ever.

[Ken]

Honestly, I've got a lot of weird. In the year I've owned that car, I've gotten so many people come up to me and give so many, like, just bluntly hate comments. Driving around yesterday in Fargo, I've never gotten more people give me like a thumbs up. Like, actually like, oh, that's a cool truck and all that.

[CJ]

Everyone, I think they're just maybe trying to like, show like that they're on your side.

[Ken]

Like everyone else in the past year has been so bluntly, oh, that thing's ugly. That's such a stupid thing. Why'd you buy that? And like, I think the tides are.

[CJ]

Turning, but now it's kind of more of a political statement. So like, they view you maybe as like a. A Republican, and they're also Republicans.

[Ryan]

Republican.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

You know, like, they're.

[Ben]

They're.

[CJ]

They're giving you like the nod of approval versus before it was more so just like, dude, it's kind of nice driving around.

[Ben]

Imagine how much that pisses off, like the liberals that actually hate Elon. But they're like, well, I have this, this Tesla. It's a great car. I'm going to keep it and keep driving. And you're driving around and like, just hardcore mega guys are just like, yeah, yeah. It's like lesbian being. Yeah.

[Ryan]

All the diesel trucks that used to roll coal on you are like, hell yeah, brother. They're giving you thumbs up. You're just like, hating it the whole time.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's funny.

[CJ]

Is.

[Ben]

Didn't. Is your girlfriend's dad buying a Tesla? Like, just in support?

[CJ]

I. I can't remember what he said. It was something funny, but it was like that Elon guy, man, for all the. Everyone with him, I. I might just go and buy my own Tesla or so I don't know. It's something like a lot of lines just because, like, he likes them. So then he was gonna go out of his way, but he's like more of an old fashioned, traditional guy. I don't foresee him actually driving a electric vehicle, but he does, like, cool.

[Ben]

So knowing how to run that thing.

[CJ]

Yeah, I mean, he. He would. He would figure it out. But, like, he's just. I see him more in like a Silverado kind of guy.

[Ryan]

How you been doing since the Dollar General's been closed siege, dude.

[CJ]

I went there. My God. So, like, our Dollar General. Every small town has a Dollar General is going out of business because they couldn't find people to work there. Place was a mess. But they. They put in an area that I think, Grant, it's a small town. A lot of the people are more like higher earners around here. So I think they had a hard time finding someone in the area, being it's so desolate to work it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, everybody's working in bars and restaurants or.

[CJ]

Yeah. So then basically it's going out of business. And they just marked everything 50 off, which is already dirt cheap, but not 50 off. So my girlfriend, all of her friends are going there. They're like stocking up. They're dropping like 200 bucks and so much little things.

[Ken]

I filled up my car with random for 100 bucks.

[CJ]

Yeah, it was just like, great. We're gonna be stocked up for like a year on deodorant and toothpaste. More than a year, probably three.

[Ben]

But I saw money. Mike was even there. He was shopping. He was buying things that he'll never use, never need. But he was like, camp.

[CJ]

He stood in line for an hour. So I went there to go get some stuff because I just wanted to see. And I was like, maybe I'll pick up some, like, some waters and stuff, you know, just because you never have enough water. And I grab a bunch of these smart waters. I'm like, well, sweet. Yeah, this is a pretty good deal. And I'm. I'm trying to get in Line. I noticed the line is literally going all the way around because people from, like, neighboring towns drove like an hour to save. To save some money. But yeah, the line was basically like. It was like an hour wait. I was like.

[Ryan]

To save freaking $7 for water.

[CJ]

I don't know how. Yeah, I was like, screw this. I was. I put the stuff down and walked out.

[Ken]

I've never seen the Dollar General more busy than when they were going out of business.

[Ryan]

Really brought the community together, dude. There's group chats created about, like, the sales.

[Ken]

Everyone was bargain hunting. See what they can find, see if they can wait. Because it started off at 50, then it went to 75 off.

[Ben]

Really?

[Ken]

Is this gonna be around when it goes to 75?

[Ben]

So is it. Is it sold out? Like, if they close down, they're gone.

[Ryan]

They're gone, they're gone.

[CJ]

Look at this.

[Ryan]

Man. Busy in there. People are crying, everything.

[CJ]

Wait.

[Ben]

Are you going to pool?

[CJ]

Oh, yeah. Everywhere. It's live right now. Channel 5 news.

[Ryan]

Channel 5.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Just kidding.

[Ryan]

You know, that lady knows freaking.

[CJ]

I need to catch up on my news.

[Ryan]

She knows what the news channels are.

[CJ]

My news channels. Yeah. Apparently there's not even a Channel 5 news. She. But at first I had her, so. Channel 5.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Look me up and down.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, we're live right now.

[Ken]

It's from the next on over.

[Ryan]

You.

[Ken]

You haven't heard of it?

[Ryan]

That's funny. Yeah, man. People just love, love a good bargain drive, my dude.

[Ben]

They'll drive hours for it. They're going to lose money.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

No, that's true. Save more than you spend.

[Ben]

Damn. I am kind of going to miss the Dollar General. Even though I didn't go there very often.

[Ryan]

Nice to have around.

[Ben]

It was nice to have another option and kind of a backup. Like if. If you couldn't find what you needed at the C store, you go down to the Dollar General. It was like, well, I know that they're gonna have it.

[Ryan]

They should have it.

[Ben]

They're always gonna have it. But now I feel like the C store is going to just have a monopoly and they're gonna just start running up prices even more than they have.

[Ryan]

Hopefully not.

[CJ]

It's like I. I felt like we, you know, I knew we lived in a small town, but at least we had a mall.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And now it's like we don't even have it. We don't even have a Dollar general.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we don't have a dollar general and we don't have a post office.

[CJ]

Talk about desolate.

[Ken]

It was nice because the Dollar General was open like two hours later than the C store was now. That's just not an option.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So Big Mike is at money Mike is at wedding class, marriage counseling or something.

[Ben]

Wedding school?

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's like wedding school, marriage school.

[Ben]

Is this a thing?

[Ryan]

I guess.

[Ben]

Apparently like people watching that have gotten married right now is like. Does everyone do that?

[CJ]

No.

[Ben]

No.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Do you go to marriage college?

[Ken]

It's like a tour.

[Ben]

Three day thing is three day thing.

[Ken]

He did it last night and then it. I thought it was like all day today or something.

[Ryan]

He's at his house now.

[Ben]

So what do you gotta learn? Can you picture Mike sitting there taking notes? How to be a better husband. He's gonna forget that as soon as he walks out the door. You gotta wake up and take your future children to school when they need to be there.

[Ryan]

Set an alarm so your kids aren't late for school.

[CJ]

Dude.

[Ben]

Actually, this might be a good thing for Mike.

[CJ]

I think we all know Mike's not going to be responsible for getting the kids to school, no matter what.

[Ken]

Kids can find their own way to school.

[CJ]

I think that'll be Sydney's job. Make sure they're fed and to school on time. And also.

[Ryan]

Yeah, just marriage school. I didn't know. I thought I was done with school. Honestly, like, I legitimately do not think I could make it through a semester of college. I think my brain has recessed back down to. I think I would go insane sending a class.

[CJ]

Dude, you don't have to go to class. True.

[Ryan]

But if you're as dumb as me, I don't think you can make it through.

[CJ]

You just Google the answers. Dude, schools. I'm sorry, but when I was in college, it was the easiest thing I ever did. It was so easy.

[Ryan]

Did you use Chegg? You have Chegg, remember? That was like 30 bucks.

[CJ]

I didn't even pay for that. You just literally take the. You copy the answer and it would give you the answer. And then when it was time for the test, you had a little study sheet. You read the thing and then you go sit down and do it.

[Ryan]

He's using your resources.

[CJ]

It's just memorizing.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

How do they keep people from using Chat GPT now?

[Ken]

I don't think they can.

[Ben]

You know, like Chat GPT can answer all your math questions. It can write your essays.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's probably easy.

[Ben]

It can do all the. But even like Apple AI, I think you can like straight up on the Notes app. Maybe it's not out yet, but they were like Promoting that, you're going to be able to like go into the notes app and then just like a paper and pencil put in your math equation and it'll spit out the answer.

[Ryan]

Remember when like in elementary school they said you won't have a calculator in your pocket all the time, and then you ended up having a calculator and now you have legit, it can do anything. Yeah. There was one time I wanted to figure out. I can't remember why. I was trying to figure out like the area of a circle or something like that. Like pretty easy geometry. And I didn't know how to do it. And I was like, I should have listened and I. Maybe this would have come in handy right now.

[Ken]

So we just google it for.

[Ben]

The thing is, is like, how are you gonna retain all that shit that you learned in like school that they're like, you might need this one day, but by the time that you do need it, you've got like 15 years of living in your brain of other memories. Like you can only remember so much shit.

[CJ]

Right.

[Ben]

So certain things are gonna just slowly get pushed to the edge of the table and eventually fall off. Right. And I feel like it's. It's finding like the, the circumference of a circle. That's one of the things right on the edge.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

That you're like, I know that there's a couple things there, but I gotta look it up just to make sure.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. It's funny I, I should ask Randy if he was good at math, but like, obviously he's really good at geometry. Building houses and stuff like that. Like, he does all those equations, probably not even the way they're supposed to be done, but he like has all his formulas and he can just rattle them off like off the top of his head if he's, you know, pitches of a roof. And he's like, all right, well that board, you know, we cut this last board and it was at 16 inches. Well, now it's another 16 inches down the roof truss. It's a two. It. It's a two degree pitch. It's just going to be this length. Like he just knows.

[CJ]

He didn't learn that in college though. He just learned that from building houses.

[Ryan]

Yeah, from doing it for so long.

[CJ]

40 years doing construction.

[Ryan]

He also remembers all phone numbers. You could ask.

[Ben]

That's. That's wild to me.

[Ken]

The fact that his contacts list is just non existent and yeah, he sees a phone number pop up and he just rattles off, oh, that's this Person.

[Ben]

Like, I guarantee I could call him right now and he would answer. Benjamin. I guarantee it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ben]

Like, dude.

[Ryan]

But then you could call him and be like, hey, I need. I'm not trying to think, like, plumber, electrician, whatever, he's going to know. But, like, what's a hard. A harder number that he would just, like, know off the top of his head?

[Ben]

Like, you think you would know? Like, Mike. His number off the top of his head.

[Ryan]

He has gotten worse at it, to be fair. Probably, dude.

[Ben]

Mike's actually. I know, like, three phone numbers, and Mike's is the only, like, one of the three.

[Ken]

Really?

[Ryan]

What is it? I know. I know my dad's in Ken's. Kind of my mom's.

[Ben]

Yeah. What's Ken's?

[Ryan]

It's on the billboard in town.

[Ken]

Please don't spread that it's getting worse.

[Ben]

Is it?

[Ken]

Yeah. All right.

[Ben]

We won't talk.

[CJ]

A new number.

[Ken]

I. I think I am going to get a new number.

[Ryan]

Do you know your girlfriend's numbers?

[Ken]

No.

[Ryan]

I don't either.

[CJ]

I don't either.

[Ryan]

Probably should do that.

[CJ]

I feel like this is not important anymore to memorize.

[Ben]

Yeah. The only time you need to know it is if you went to jail.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And if I go to jail, I don't know if I want to call her anyways. I'll call one of you guys. Come get me out.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I guess I probably better memorize. Well, I got Ken. Ken could get me out of jail. Ken's probably who I'd call to get me out of jail. Yeah, who's your call to get you out of jail?

[Ken]

Well, I know not you, because you would never answer the phone.

[Ryan]

I'm better about that now.

[Ben]

He has always said that.

[CJ]

Yes.

[Ken]

Honestly, I think cj. CJ always answers the phone.

[CJ]

Honestly, if I went to jail, I'd call Ken because I know Ken would just come. He'd drop, know what to do, show up. He'd probably pay the bond or whatever, the bail money. We'd get out. I'd be in the car. Let's not tell anyone about this. Yep.

[Ken]

I do think the last person I would. I would call would be Micah, though, because Mike would be like, oh, yeah, I'll come get you out right away. Four days later, he would finally show up.

[Ryan]

You're sitting there in the freaking whatever, like, in the public cell like this and just waiting for Mike food.

[CJ]

Three days later. So where's your guy at? He's coming. Yeah, he said he was coming.

[Ken]

He said he's on the way he just has to do 17 other things that are slightly more important.

[Ryan]

Sorry, I forgot. I figured you just call me again when you wanted to come. I only got one call.

[Ben]

It's actually a good point. I probably gotta memorize somebody else's phone number. Yeah, the more I think about it, I only got my mom's and mics. That'd be so pretty bad. My mom's out of town. I'm just like, oh, no, this isn't good.

[Ryan]

They gotta let you look at your phone to, like, find another number Now.

[CJ]

Now.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I don't know.

[Ben]

That's a good question. I've always wondered that.

[Ryan]

Who would you call, though? If you were in jail, who would you call to get out?

[Ben]

Yeah, I mean, I'd probably call cj.

[CJ]

Hey, I'd come get you.

[Ben]

I would call you.

[Ryan]

I would say, like, you would know what to do.

[CJ]

Yeah, for sure.

[Ryan]

Get you out. You drop everything.

[Ben]

Well, I know that you'd also grab.

[Ryan]

A camera and you capitalize on it.

[Ben]

Yeah, we gotta. We gotta make the most of this. I know, exactly. Yeah. So I just got a call from cj.

[Ken]

We called Dalton.

[Ben]

Dude, you told me I could have the day off. Yeah, well, I didn't choose for Ben to go to jail, so. Grab the camera, bro.

[CJ]

Dalton, is the camera ready? No. It's three in the morning. I was sleeping. Why is the camera not ready?

[Ryan]

Dawn, there was a guy at the Freedom Factory yesterday that said. Because he was like, you're that guy that's always getting in trouble to me. And I go, yeah, you gotta be talking about somebody else get in trouble. Yeah, I think he was talking about Evan, maybe. I don't really know how he confused us. Yeah. And then I was like, no, I'm probably the guy who gets him out of trouble. Which is also probably not true. I don't even know if Evan would call me to get him out of trouble. And he goes, well, you got to know how to get in to trouble to get out of trouble. And I thought, that's some pretty sound life advice right there. Yeah, exactly.

[Ben]

I might actually have to change my answer because about two weeks ago, I was locked out of my hotel room in Vegas, and I was staying with C.J. and I called him about 14 times, and he didn't answer.

[Ken]

Forgot about that.

[Ben]

So this is. This is how this goes, right? So shout out Ken. He books our. Our hotels, which I am grateful for, but it doesn't always tell, like the information that you need if Ken's not around to get into your hotel. Right. And most of the time, they're just underneath Ken's name. Right. So if you forget your room number, you go down to the concierge. What's your name? Ben Roth. Ah, we don't have a Ben Roth staying here. Well, no, no, no. It's under Grant Matthews. Sorry. You're not him, Right? It's happened many times. So we go on this late night kind of Vegas bender. I say bender with an asterisk because I was dead sober. I was just hitting the tables pretty hard until, like, 3:00am it was so.

[Ryan]

Funny that you got locked out of.

[Ken]

Your room dead, only person gambling, dead sober.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was bizarre.

[Ryan]

Right?

[Ben]

So.

[Ryan]

Well, you didn't get locked out.

[Ben]

So, like, me. Me and CJ are sharing a room together, but he goes to bed at 1. I was firing pretty hard. So me and Spenny and Gavin are just hitting the tables. And it's about 3:00am I go, boys, I gotta go to bed. And I was up. I was like, I'm walking while I'm up, and I'm gonna just clean my hands of it and go to bed, right? And I go to the elevator and I go, what floor was I on? And I started playing. Playing back, like the. The. Just everything that led me to this moment. I remembered when we got to the hotel, Ken booked our room. And then when we got to the hotel, he was like, oh, just. You're on this floor. I didn't hear what floor he said, but he hit the button for us. Right. Because Ken is such a travel advisor. Right. He just wants to make the whole experience seamless. So he hits the. Hits the room number for us, and then we go up to the floor. So we go up to the floor and. And then I follow C.J. to our room. I've got on my phone not really paying attention. So I know where the room is, but I don't know what floor it is. And these hotels in Vegas are like 60 floors tall. Yeah.

[Ryan]

And they're all the same maze.

[Ben]

So I'm just hitting a floor, going to the room that I know that I'm like, the room that I'm staying in because I know where the room is, how to get there. And then just trying my card. And I tried that on probably 10 different floors.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ben]

Right? On 10 different floors.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Ben]

And I'm calling CJ the whole time, like, hoping he's. He's gonna answer. And about like a baby, after the 10th time, he doesn't answer. Right. So I go back downstairs and I call Gavin up. Call Gavin. And spending. I'm like, boys, I hate to say this, but I got a bunk. I got a bunk with the boys tonight. And they were like, all right, that sounds great. So I end up staying with them. It was all jokes. We were laughing the entire time. And then the next morning, I go, yo, cj, what floor are we on? Because he sends a text at 6:30 in the morning. He goes, anybody know where?

[CJ]

Ben? To be fair, yeah, I did wake up. And then once I could see in the room, I saw you weren't there. So I was like, well, something's wrong.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And then I went on my phone, so I missed some calls from you. But then I was, like, looking at your location. It said you're still in the hotel. So then I was chilling. I knew you were probably fine. Yeah.

[Ryan]

Not in a ditch, out of town.

[CJ]

Yeah. I was a little worried for a second. Yes.

[Ben]

So I'm like, dude, what floor are we on? He gives me the floor. I go, I could have swore I tried that first because I had kind of just an inkling I had an idea where we were. Sure enough, it was the first freaking room that I tried. But my key got, like, deactivated. Must have been, like, next to my phone or something.

[Ryan]

Like, all for nothing.

[Ben]

It was all for another.

[CJ]

Scanning on so many doors that it just deactivated.

[Ben]

Could have been that. It could have been that. And so I, like, went to the room the next morning, and sure enough, it was. I was locked out of our own room.

[Ken]

I did actually spend the 20 minutes it takes to add everyone's names to those reservations. So you could have gone to the desk.

[Ben]

Yeah. Figure that out, dude. It was like. It was dark times at like 3am in a casino when you're. When you're sober and you're realizing, you know what, everything that's going on. Like, I was trying to get into my room, and there was this girl just, like, sitting on the floor, bawling. And she was in the same position I was in. She was saying she was staying with her boyfriend. She didn't know what room or what floor he was on, and he wasn't answering his phone. I was like. I was like, sister, you don't even know. But she's just, like, hammered and bawling. And then the security was there, and then there was like, three security there. And then I don't even know what they ended up doing with her, dude.

[CJ]

I'm sure they got her into a room. Maybe.

[Ben]

Maybe I wouldn't call cj.

[Ken]

Pro tip. Next time you check into a hotel, just take a picture of the room number.

[Ben]

Yeah, I got that now.

[Ryan]

Well, we just. We'd been moving around so much, it was. It was hard to remember.

[Ben]

I tried calling you too, Ken, and you didn't answer.

[Ken]

Oh, I was fast asleep.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

There's no waking me.

[Ben]

So maybe I would call Micah because he's gonna be awake at.

[Ryan]

It depends.

[Ben]

Like, the weird hours that you get arrested.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, if you're getting arrested, it's probably between 1 and 4am Right. And, you know, Mike's up.

[CJ]

We were on the road for so long and sleeping in a different bed each night. Like, now we're home, but, like, I'm sleeping and I'm thinking, like, wait, where am I? You know, like, you guys do that, where you wake up in the middle of night and you're trying to. You're like, where am I? What day is it?

[Ryan]

Yeah, I did that in my own bed for the first time. I slept there.

[Ken]

Woke up.

[CJ]

Where am I?

[Ryan]

But, yeah, it was weird. And I was like, oh, I'm.

[CJ]

I woke up today. I was like, what day is it? Like, I thought it was a Tuesday, but a Saturday is so weird.

[Ben]

I actually woke up in the middle of the night when I was sleeping on the roof of the Lamborghini next to Gavin. And I started, like, kind of panicking because it was just pitch dark in there, and it was just like. I could feel, like, the tent wall. And then I could also feel like.

[CJ]

Because he was sweating.

[Ben]

Yeah. Gavin next to me. And I was, like, panicking. And then I, like, sat up and, like, started, like, spinning around. And Gavin. Then Gavin started freaking out, like. And then that spooked me, too. I was like, what the. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're camping. Camping on the roof of a Lambo Picture.

[Ryan]

You too.

[CJ]

Yeah, Once you.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[CJ]

What we were going to do, Ben. But then you guys were so far away. And also, we wouldn't have been able to get in. But initially I told the spending and Ryan, like, all right, we're gonna pull up on him tonight with masks on and scare the out of them. And then we got to our hotel, and it was so nice. We were just like, let's just stay here. Yeah.

[Ben]

And then rolls reversed.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And then we woke up and came and messed with us. But I figured I was going to be safe out there. And that's what actually what Gavin said, because the next morning, I was like, dude, do you remember, like, when I woke up in the middle of the night. And you started freaking out. You were like. And he was like, yeah, bro. I fell asleep just knowing I was going to be woken up to somebody messing with me.

[Ken]

I knew we were safe.

[CJ]

He's around us.

[Ben]

Yeah, actually. So he was just like.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So I thought that was just my time in the middle of the night. And I was getting spooked because I didn't know what was going on. It was pitch dark in there and all I heard was just frantic moving.

[Ken]

I knew we were safe there because it was like we were pretty much the last people that got on that island before.

[CJ]

Imagine you guys are up on the roof and you just hear the car start up and it just starts ripping.

[Ben]

Dude, that.

[CJ]

In the tent, like, that would have been it.

[Ben]

Crazy.

[CJ]

That would have been.

[Ben]

Actually, I should have done that. I should have done that to Gavin.

[CJ]

Woke up the whole campsite.

[Ben]

Yeah. There was a noise ordinance put in place.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I think we did wake up the whole campsite because we Left at like 6am and that thing was loud.

[CJ]

Yeah. That twin turbo Lamborghini is easy. The fastest car I've ever driven.

[Ben]

So fast.

[CJ]

That thing was so fast, like, you could. You could damn near break your neck. The thing was so fast.

[Ryan]

Was it fast like you want one or fast like you're just glad you got to experience it, or is it like, I want one like that?

[CJ]

I mean, it's like so much extra money. I mean, you have to buy a Lamborghini, which is super expensive, and then you also to buy the turbo kit and have someone put it on, which is also super exp. That's like 60 to 100 grand. I think it's maybe not worth it.

[Ryan]

It's cool to just.

[CJ]

It's just so fast. Yeah. Like, it would be like, I already. I can't get one more speeding ticket, otherwise I'll lose my license.

[Ben]

Really?

[CJ]

No.

[Ben]

I was clean years.

[CJ]

I was clean. I finally got clean for the first time. I had zero tickets within like a year. So, like, technically you get three in Minnesota before you lose your license. If you get three in one year and I got two in one week. So I'm like, well, how am I going to do this?

[Ben]

When did you get two? In one week.

[CJ]

Or maybe it was two weeks. Sorry. Like recently.

[Ben]

Yeah, before our trip.

[CJ]

Yeah, before trip. I was actually coming home from the Dollar General.

[Ryan]

Everything's bad.

[Ken]

Deals were so good. You had to unload and get back.

[CJ]

Yeah, I don't know. No, I didn't even buy anything, but. Yeah. So that kind of sucks. So Yeah, I don't think I need a twin turbo Lamborghini. So Driving a Lamborghini, the speed limit is already hard.

[Ben]

It was insane driving a twin turbo Lamborghini around a town that I have no idea where I'm going. So Gavin is my passenger, and he is. Is my. He's my directions guy. He's telling me where to go. Dude doesn't even know, like, Duke can barely read, let alone tell me when to turn right.

[CJ]

Should have got, like, a map since he loves the 80s so much.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Ben]

Dude, we're mobbing around at, like, the speed of light in this Lamborghini with the tent on top, and then just taking left and right and left and right. At the last second, at one point, we were going down the freeway, bro, and I was doing a poll, and he goes, you got to go right. You got to go right. Last second, I lock up the brakes. The brakes on those things are so fucking touchy. I locked up all four, and we skidded down the highway. My God, dude, it was gnarly.

[Ken]

Yeah. We got on the highway because I was following you, and you were just gone immediately.

[Ben]

Yeah, you're gonna be gone when you have 1500 horsepower again.

[Ryan]

Ken had 15.

[Ben]

Yeah, a little bit of a difference there, Ryan. I'm glad that you're good and the heat stroke didn't take you out, and that wall didn't take you out. That's gnarly. But if you guys haven't subscribed, hit subscribe, and we'll see you guys next week.

[CJ]

Peace.

[Ken]

Peace.