We Threw A Party in our Grandpas basement, Evans SECRET Car, & Our Highschool Jobs

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV – Episode Summary

Episode Title: We Threw A Party in our Grandpas basement, Evans SECRET Car, & Our Highschool Jobs
Date: February 17, 2026
Hosts: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah

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Overview

This high-energy episode of Life Wide Open is a classic CboysTV chaos-fueled hangout, where the crew chronicles the hilariously wild Super Bowl party at their grandparents’ house, gets real about car maintenance (or the lack thereof), deep-dives into barn finds and dream builds, and shares unfiltered opinions about gambling, pop culture, and their own high school job screw-ups. Their signature blend of camaraderie, mischief, and authenticity shines throughout—whether they're revisiting "outrageous behavior," debating the finer point of slot machines, or exposing Evan's impressive fleet (including a secret car!).

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Super Bowl Party Mayhem at Grandpa’s Basement

(01:00 – 15:00)

• Party Recap:

  • The group recaps a raucous Super Bowl Sunday at Grandpa Ron's, including “college partying” in their grandparents’ home, gambling excursions, and a legendary fall down the stairs (by Evan, into Ben).
  • Evan lost a bet and had to don a "Borat outfit" (think: revealing mankini) in front of Grandma, who took it like a champ:

    "I've been married to your grandpa for 40 years. I've seen worse... I've been conditioned." — Grandma, retold by Ken (05:37)

  • Discussion about the nuances of creative blurring in their videos (“Evan’s walking this way... then he’s spinning”—Ken, 03:24).
  • Multiple injuries and property damage—Evan puts his head through the Sprinter van TV, then front flips down basement stairs, causing Ben to panic thinking Grandpa Ron had fallen (06:36–11:18).

• Notable Quotes & Moments:

  • “Evan had his nuts out in front of our grandma, dude.” —CJ (02:26)
  • “You just jumped. You heard, ‘be careful,’ and you went, 'never mind.'” —Ryan (07:24)
  • “Your 83 year old grandpa that you just took out to the bars and then you bring home at 2am falls down the stairs, you’re going to be concerned.” —Ken (11:09)

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Gambling, Bars, and Culture Shifts

(15:00 – 20:00)

• Slot Machines & Gambling Culture:

  • Discussion on the proliferation of gambling—slot machines now dominate local bars and even apps like Robinhood incorporate prediction markets.
  • Reflection on the ease and risk of betting addiction:

    “It is insane how much gambling is now a part of, like, culture.” —CJ (15:19)

  • The guys share strategies, pitfalls, and warnings ("only gamble with fun money—expect to lose it," says CJ (16:30)), while joking about Ken playing blackjack on his phone during the Super Bowl.

• Pop Culture Tangent:

  • Brief dive into Stefan Diggs’ tumultuous week—losing the Super Bowl, rumored break-up with Cardi B, and facing a chef-strangulation charge (!).
  • Ryan highlights Diggs’ complicated personal life:

    “He lost the Super Bowl and his chick.” —Ryan (21:33)

  • The segment dissolves into mockery (“Can you imagine blowing off a $1.25 million party?” —Ken (21:56)).

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Behind-the-Scenes: Pranks, Cars, and Dream Builds

(20:00 – 51:00)

• Prank Wars and Evan’s Raptor:

  • Evan’s truck is in need of massive repairs, which he’s managed to score for free as part of a “deal with the ops” (the crew’s prank rivals), fueling conspiracy theories about what might be done to his truck as payback.
  • List of issues with Evan’s Raptor: busted front end, no heat, shot ball joints, “can’t go over 70 mph” (83:42), and neglected maintenance ("one oil change every 10,000...nah, 7,000 miles"—Evan (83:22)).
  • Speculation on pranks (“What if they wrap it pink?” “What if we donk it and burn the tires off?”—Group, 86:57).
  • Underlying ethos: Spend on fun, not repairs. Evan:

    “I wouldn’t be able to afford to do that if I fixed my truck.” (85:50)

• Evan's 'Secret' Car and Cboys’ Dream Garage:

  • Evan reveals a "secret" 1965 Plymouth, a family heirloom he keeps stored and all-original.
  • Banter about dream builds—90s Chevy restomods, putting “26s” (wheels) on a Lambo, the beauty of red vehicles, and a detour into subwoofer competitions involving concrete floors and windshield-rattling bass at SEMA (51:14–52:09).
  • “I never thought I’d own a Lambo… I don’t want to wreck it, that’s foul for no damn reason.” —Evan (90:29)

• Beer Taste Test Challenge:

  • Blind tasting of Keystone, Coors, Busch, and Miller: the crew bets if anyone can taste the difference.
  • Evan fails spectacularly ("Evan, just astonishingly zero out of four." —Ryan (71:35)), resulting in unexpected alliances and much laughter as they debate the realities of “taste.”

• Old Jobs & High School Antics:

  • Ben’s pizza delivery horror story: locking his car—still running, full of pizzas and his snowboard—in a ditch (59:27).
  • CJ recalls high school rides with oversized subwoofers ("It was too much. I couldn’t ride in it.").

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Tangents: Streaming Subscriptions, Soda Wars, and Caffeine Mania

(62:00 – 81:00)

• Subscription Fatigue:

  • The guys compare how many streaming platforms they’re signed up for, advocating for YouTube Premium as the best daily-use subscription (“The only subscription...everyone should have is YouTube Premium.” —Ken (65:05)).
  • Hilarious tangent: Ryan receives a mysterious “armchair athlete” award from Spotify for listening to the most sci-fi/action audiobooks (“I have never listened to a moment in my life.”—Ryan (68:11)).

• Pop vs. Energy Drinks:

  • Decline of traditional soda and the meteoric rise of energy drinks:

    “I rarely see anyone drinking pop anymore.” —CJ (80:42)

  • Discussion on lifelong Coke vs. Pepsi taste wars, and the odd rituals of people who obsess over only drinking the coldest, freshest Coke (“He would take a drink off one can, throw it out the window… the whole box is bad.” —Evan (75:23)).

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Closing Banter & Notable Quotes

• On maintenance and priorities:

  “You would rather just spend your money on gambling and other recreational things.” —Ken (85:58)
  "Bro, the guy drove by again, could hear to my house." —Ben, recalling complaints about subwoofers while delivering pizzas (59:02)

• On family and heirlooms:

  “Anything Evan cares about, we have no idea that it exists.” —Ken (92:18)
  “That’s a family heirloom…all original…just let it sit and pass it along.” —Evan (93:22)

• End-of-episode tease:
  • The prank war is unresolved, with Evan’s truck in the rivals’ hands:

    “I just hope they surprise me with how awesome it is and not surprise me with what the hell did you do?” —Evan (95:29)

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a CboysTV classic: equal parts chaos, misadventure, inside jokes, and honest talk. It’s an immersive, laugh-out-loud journey into the crew’s circle—where nothing is off-limits (even in Grandma’s kitchen), and every story comes with a lesson (or at least a prank). If you crave authenticity, wild pranks, nostalgic car culture, and a glimpse into the lives of digital creators who never take themselves too seriously, don’t miss this one.

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Key Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|---------------| | Super Bowl party and Borat outfit | 01:00–06:30 | | Evan falls downstairs & panic | 06:36–11:18 | | Gambling/bar culture discussion | 15:00–20:00 | | Evan’s Raptor troubles & “deal with ops” | 83:00–88:00 | | Beer blind taste test | 69:10–74:40 | | Subscription/streaming tangent | 62:00–66:00 | | Soda rituals and pop culture | 75:00–81:00 | | Prank speculation (paint/wrap/donk) | 86:57–90:00 |

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Listen for:

• Wild party stories and multi-generational shenanigans
• Candid confessions about vehicle neglect and creative DIY
• Surprisingly deep takes on modern gambling & digital life
• Relatable tales of high school jobs, pranks, and first cars

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Transcript

[Ryan]

Hey, y'.

[Ben]

All.

[Evan]

As a growing family, my husband and I love game night. Especially when it's Wayfair edition.

[Ken]

Let's do it. You gotta name as many Wayfair furniture and decor categories as you can. Ready?

[CJ]

Go.

[Evan]

Sofas, bar stools, beds, ottomans, outdoor seating, bookshelves, kitchen tables, garden sheds, mid century modern lamps.

[Ken]

Time. Nice. You got nine out of a lot. Not too bad. Keep practicing by visiting Wayfair.com which you can shop every style for every home.

[Ben]

Wayfair.

[Evan]

Every style, every home.

[Ken]

I've seen you flush $5,000 on poll tax.

[Evan]

I wouldn't be able to afford to do that if I fixed my truck.

[Ken]

You made a deal with the ops?

[Evan]

I did.

[CJ]

Without even us intervening? I'm sure they're pranking you.

[Evan]

You could have a Coors and a Keystone and you wouldn't know the difference.

[Ken]

Guarantee I do.

[CJ]

Basically drug your package across the top of Ken's head. Evan had his nuts out in front of our grandma.

[Ken]

Give you a little taste of your own medicine.

[Ryan]

Dude.

[Ken]

Super bowl was.

[Ryan]

Sunday was a big one. Sunday was a big one. Hanging out with Grandpa Ron is always a big one.

[Evan]

I think someone poisoned me.

[CJ]

You were hambonious.

[Ken]

Was it the little one?

[Ben]

I think it was the two Miller Light Pre games you had at four. That's what started it all off.

[Mike]

Well, that and the three drinks in the car ride to his house.

[Ken]

No one celebrated. No one celebrated the super bowl quite like Evans. Yeah, I think.

[CJ]

I mean, you're gonna see it on video.

[Ken]

That might have been the only way to. To really get through what you. What you had to do.

[CJ]

Actually, they would have already seen.

[Ryan]

Yeah, they would have seen. They would have seen.

[Ben]

That means they would have already been scarred.

[Evan]

Hopefully they can see that my friend Ben was feeling awfully loose as well.

[Ken]

I don't know if I want you referring to me in that manner, picturing what you were wearing and then picturing me also being off.

[Ben]

You were the second loosest of the night, I'll give you that.

[Ken]

Yeah, we did it pretty big. I was pretty much chalked up the entire night that I was going to be doing what Evan had to do. Wearing the little outfit.

[Ryan]

We'll call it the Borat outfit.

[Ken]

So I was like, okay, well, this is going to be me. And I guess to make it hurt less, maybe I'll have another beer, another beverage, make it less embarrassing.

[Evan]

I was actually feeling confident that I was going to win. That's why I was, like, pre celebrating.

[Ken]

Yeah, it was crazy how that was. The tables turned from you were the expected winner to. Then you took last.

[CJ]

You know what's crazy actually crazy is Evan was had his nuts out in front of our grandma, dude.

[Ken]

I kept looking contained.

[CJ]

I will say that his nuts are pretty much out.

[Mike]

Grandma is not surprised by what she sees come out of us. She is conditioned at this point.

[Ryan]

She still has to be. That was some of the most outrageous behavior I have done in.

[CJ]

Honestly, I wonder if you would have been better off naked. Like wearing that thing made it even in more insane.

[Evan]

It would have been definitely been way weirder if I was just.

[Ken]

Yeah, it would have been way weird.

[Evan]

Chips and queso naked.

[Ken]

CJ was like, whoever loses has to be naked running around the house. And I was like, well, keep in mind we're still at our grandparents house here.

[Ryan]

CJ also in a neighborhood.

[Ben]

Another thing though is that we were like, well, if they're fully naked, we have to do a lot of blurring. And we're still. After that little strang got placed on Evan, we're like, yeah, we're still have to do a lot of blurry.

[Ken]

The issue with it is just really, you know how fine detailed the blurring has to be because of how graphic all of it was. Like, Evan's walking this way. You're gonna have to blur. Then he's spinning and he's walking the other way and you're still gonna.

[CJ]

You're just gonna have to hold over his whole.

[Ken]

The whole thing is absolutely. If he's in the frame and it has to be blurred, it doesn't matter which way he's pointed or where he's going.

[Ben]

We just only pointed. We just blur his face for the entire segment and leave the rest just for his.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I can't remember who said it, but I think they're like, oh, we're surprised how like quick you put it on. But I was like, I have to do it no matter what. And I honestly felt that you guys were gonna feel a lot more uncomfortable looking at me than I would feel wearing it.

[Ben]

I think you're right.

[CJ]

I thoroughly enjoyed it in the least gay way possible. It was just hilarious. I'm not sure how the girls felt. Alex didn't really have anything to say. I.

[Ken]

She.

[CJ]

She seemed pretty unfazed by it, but.

[Ryan]

But she lives with you.

[Ken]

Yeah, with me. She.

[Ben]

I just. She screamed like there was a giant.

[Ken]

Sydney. Yeah, yeah.

[Ben]

Like. Like there was a mouse crawling up her leg.

[Ryan]

Maybe a little mouse.

[CJ]

What Alondra think of it, Ryan.

[Ryan]

She was pretty shocked. I think she's been fairly conditioned over the years, all of our girlfriends and fiance have. But, yeah, I think she just averted her eyes, which was good. That was good. I didn't need. I didn't need that image in her brain, you know?

[Ben]

Gotta say, it's probably in there somewhere, because, you know, all I'm saying is it burns in really fast, and it's hard not to look at least once.

[Ryan]

It is kind of like a car crash.

[Evan]

Respectfully, we weren't drinking as much as we were, too, so.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. That's kind of dumb.

[CJ]

Respectfully, Evan. Alex can look all she wants. I'm not worried about her seeing that.

[Ken]

Thinking.

[CJ]

Thinking anything poorly of me.

[Ryan]

Damn.

[Ken]

Well, you're like, we're going to mend in black.

[Evan]

I'm like, what are you worried about, Ryan?

[Ken]

What are you worried about?

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Evan]

I. I am a bit furrier than.

[Ken]

You, C. You are a lot furrier than me.

[Evan]

Oh, do you use Nair or. How do you.

[CJ]

No, I just am not nearly as furry as you.

[Ken]

So. I will say this, though. When Evan was doing all this, I said, grandma, why? Before it happened, I said, grandma, stay downstairs. She said, I'll be fine. And I said, I think you're underestimating what you're about to see. And then it happened. Or it was in. In the midst of happening. Evan wearing his outfit in the kitchen. And I said, grandma, I am so sorry. And then she said, I've been married to your grandpa for 40 years. I've seen worse. And I said, there's no way. And she said, well, I shouldn't say worse, but I've been conditioned. And then the next morning when we were leaving, you know, I give her a hug, and I was like, all right. Love you, Grandma. Thanks for having us. Like, that was so much fun. And she just said, you guys are crazy. And that's. That's what I left on.

[Ben]

You guys are crazy.

[Ryan]

I did think that. I mean, we. We, like, college partied at their house. We took Grandpa Ron out gambling and bar hopping on a Sunday evening.

[Evan]

My. My personal favorite moment from the whole night that I don't completely remember, but there is a video of. It is where I fall down the stairs into Ben, but Ben thinks it's Grandpa falling down.

[Ben]

We do, probably.

[Evan]

Grandpa. Grandpa, are you okay?

[Ken]

I mean, pop it up, and I'll. I'll explain what's going through my mind. I came running along.

[CJ]

I'm like, oh, my God.

[Ben]

God.

[Ryan]

And I will say exactly how this happened. We're standing at the top of the stair. Top of the Stairs. Ben's walking down. Evan's right behind, and grandpa and I are going to be the last ones down. And I go, hey, watch out, because there's a bunch of stuff on the stairs. You know, like, I'm concerned. You know, we've been out all night. And so I go, hey, careful on the stairs. And Evan, I think, heard that and then swan dove off the, like, third stair from the top. You just jumped. You heard it. You heard, be careful. And you went, never mind.

[Ben]

Psychology.

[Evan]

I just wanted to prove, like, I'm not going to trip and fall. I'll just fall. It'll be fine.

[Ken]

Well, yeah, I mean, this was about five minutes after Evan put his head through our sprinter. Van tv oh, yeah, that was. Yeah, but multiple.

[Ryan]

Put your elbow through it.

[Evan]

Ben, we have a true.

[Ben]

A conversation.

[Evan]

Who pulled my pants in the Sprinter?

[Ben]

Luckily for.

[Ken]

Hard to say. I don't remember that.

[Ben]

Okay, Ken, bro, as you guys know, this is a lot of. This is documented because we film a lot of our lives. So Evan's pants were down. I couldn't tell if you were trying to pull him back up, Ben.

[Ken]

I was trying to pull him back up. Why would I want his pants down?

[Evan]

Why would I have pulled them down myself?

[CJ]

You pulled your pants down and then you basically drug your package across the top of Ken's head.

[Evan]

No, I did.

[CJ]

That's how you hurt Ken's neck. Yeah.

[Ryan]

You.

[Mike]

I don't. I don't really know, but I know you for sure somersaulted over me.

[CJ]

Pretty sure I have it on video.

[Evan]

With my pants on.

[Mike]

No, I don't know if they were on or not. I. I wasn't quite paying that much attention.

[Ryan]

First video.

[Evan]

So, like, look, it was my answer down. And grandpa has his hand on my arm, which is concerning.

[Ken]

I think. We were just trying to corral you.

[Ryan]

Okay, you're pulling them up.

[CJ]

Okay, you got your pants down right here. You pulled them down.

[Mike]

That is not.

[Ken]

It looks.

[Ryan]

It looks like Ben's pulling. Ben's pulling. First of all, you are peaked.

[Evan]

Look out the window. Look out the window. Mike's accelerating.

[Ryan]

Oh, you're right. He accelerates. Yes, he accelerates.

[Ben]

Oh, I accelerate still.

[Ken]

Just a punch.

[Ryan]

Look, you swung your arm.

[Ken]

Swung and punched it.

[Evan]

I was trying to catch myself.

[Ken]

I think I'm trying to get your. Your cheeks out of Ken's face.

[Ben]

Literally. I'm going to go 5050 on you, boys. You. You pulled him. Replay. Third down.

[Ken]

Evan punches the spring.

[CJ]

Grandpa's there, and you got your dick out again.

[Ryan]

He.

[Ken]

He does A front flip over Ken landing on his head and we're like jeez, this dude is destruction left and right. And then we proceed to walk into my grandparents house and they have an entryway into the basement from like the garage.

[Ryan]

We were sneaking in the basement?

[Ken]

Yeah, we were trying. We weren't going into grandma.

[Ben]

You guys were in the garage just cackling. I didn't know what was going on. That's why I originally started filming. You guys were sneaking in the garage like you were some college kids just cackling in the garage.

[Ken]

So let me preface this before we watch the video. I'm standing at the top of the stairs talking to Evan and grandpa Ron, right? And then Ryan is like be careful walking down the stairs. I hear him saying that to my grandpa Ron. Well, next thing I know I'm walking down, I get taken out from behind. I don't know what's going on. All I know is is somebody fell at the top and took me out at the bottom.

[Ben]

Right?

[Ken]

So my mind, my mind immediately goes to holy Grand. Just, just ate on the top of the stairs and slid down the whole thing and took me out in the process. Obviously that's not what we're about to watch.

[Ryan]

Let's just watch it and just in its full 25 seconds of glory.

[Ken]

Whoa. Grandpa, you okay? Grandpa? You look him dead in the eyes.

[Ben]

You look Evan in the eyes. You okay Grand?

[Ken]

No, I looked down, I looked down expecting him to be under me. Cuz I didn't. Oh, I, I just got taken out.

[Ben]

You thought all three of you went.

[Ken]

Down and I looked down.

[Ryan]

Right.

[Ken]

Okay Grandpa, see that? See how I look down? I, I expect to look down and see grand piled up underneath.

[CJ]

Scared the out of me cuz I was in the house, settled in on the couch, I jumped up and ran over because I literally thought he fell.

[Evan]

I've known Ben for quite a handful of years at this point and I have never seen the look of such concern on his face.

[Ken]

I mean, yeah, your 83 year old grandpa that you just took out to the bars and then you bring home at 2am falls down the stairs, you're going to be concerned.

[Evan]

I know, I know. But we've had scary moments and incidences and whatnot and that was just the most concerned. Which is.

[Ben]

Right we have, we have POV2 from Ryan.

[Ryan]

I was a little late, which my bad.

[Ben]

Okay, well that's okay because like so was icon. I didn't really get all of it. But I love how you panned to grandpa and he goes I'm up here.

[CJ]

Yes.

[Ken]

I'm up here.

[CJ]

You said it's so up.

[Ken]

You okay, grandpa?

[CJ]

Like our 85 year old grandpa just fell.

[Evan]

You okay, grandpa? Did you notice how I didn't spill my.

[CJ]

Hey, watch, watch this though. I just texted you Micah. Evan in the sprinter van. Something more concerning. Like his fall was bad.

[Ben]

Okay. Look at Evan pouring beer in his face right here. He, he's rolling head first down the stairs.

[Ryan]

Oh my.

[Ken]

Yeah, you were head first like in the eyes.

[Evan]

Drink. I was thirsty.

[Ben]

Look at that.

[Ryan]

So I want to also point something out.

[CJ]

You were hitting your head so much that night.

[Ryan]

God.

[CJ]

I know.

[Evan]

I actually have been dizzy ever since.

[Ryan]

The wall that Ben falls into is a concrete wall. And look how the pillow perfectly caresses Ben's head as he softly lands into a few pillows. Like it could not have been any softer of a landing. It was like you just like laid down in bed.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ben]

Gosh.

[CJ]

So you, you smacked your head there, Evan, but then you also threw your head through the tv.

[Ken]

Oh my God.

[Ryan]

Oh my God.

[Ken]

Stop him.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[CJ]

We're like, stop him. Stop him.

[Evan]

Did my eyes go across?

[Ken]

Look at the second bat. Look at the way like you are a wild animal. And then on top of that, when.

[CJ]

You teabagged Ken, you went from your nuts on top of Ken's head to the top of your head on the hardwood floor of the sprinter van. Bro.

[Evan]

I don't think that that's is, is. It's kind of like wrestling, you know, I mean there's, there's some give to the screen.

[Ken]

That's better in the floor.

[CJ]

It's better in the stairs.

[Mike]

I had your.

[Evan]

Better than.

[Mike]

Your full weight was on my head though. Like.

[CJ]

Yeah. Ken wasn't even concerned that your pants were down. He was more concerned about his neck.

[Evan]

I apologize. Dude.

[Ryan]

What a beautiful break on that TV though. Couldn't be more dramatic.

[CJ]

Yeah, it was dramatic and broke two TVs.

[Evan]

Luckily our mechanic Gavin had broke that same TV a year back or so. So he actually is very familiar with how to replace it, which he said isn't actually the easiest task.

[Ben]

Can't imagine.

[Mike]

It's almost like you have to disassemble the entire back end of that thing.

[Ken]

The way you look at the camera. Stop him.

[Ryan]

Ok.

[Evan]

Awesome.

[Ben]

You look through the camera but you're like, I mean business.

[Ryan]

You are awesome.

[Ben]

Yeah, that was, that was hilarious, boys. Like you guys really did.

[Ken]

Yeah, that was.

[Ben]

Did it big with the stairs and the TV and the other tv.

[CJ]

And dude, Grandpa Ron stayed up till like four in the morning.

[Ben]

Yeah. Playing pool.

[Ken]

Yeah, I know. We had to, like.

[CJ]

That's all right.

[Ken]

We gotta shut this down.

[Evan]

I must have lost every game of pool I played that night because all I had in my Venmo is 100 bucks, CJ. 100 bucks, Micah.

[Ryan]

No.

[CJ]

The reason why you were Venmoing me was because I was giving you cash.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah. Playing blackjack.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Yeah, I know. I just had, like, a half a dozen plus $100 venmos to someone or another.

[Ryan]

I will say I'm glad they didn't have all that. Like, those are college bars. I haven't been back to them since a year or two out of college. And they didn't have all the slot machines. They had the blackjack table, but it wasn't nearly as big of a deal. Like, nobody really played it. But half the bar is slot machines now.

[Ken]

Is it really? Yeah.

[Ryan]

The whole back wall, the whole entryway of sports bar is slot machines. And then the whole back wall of Fort Knox is.

[Mike]

They used to have arcade games that they just ripped out and put slot machines in their place.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Or a table for people to sit around and talk with each other. God forbid. We got a gamble now.

[Mike]

There's nothing wrong with gambling.

[Ryan]

There isn't.

[Ken]

But yes, there. Yeah. I will say, dude, I thought you.

[Ben]

Guys would be excited about something like that.

[Ken]

Listen, you are a sweet. Okay, sicko.

[CJ]

We are big gamblers, but it is insane how much gambling is now a part of, like, culture. Like, you go on Robinhood, they have prediction markets, the same thing as gambling.

[Ken]

Investing, you know, like, every football.

[CJ]

Like, and. And I'm not saying we're some goody two shoes that we don't do it. I might. I'm probably the worst.

[Ken]

But, like, it isn't. I think. I think Ken's the worst, but it isn't saying.

[CJ]

Yeah, Ken actually is the worst. He's always playing black.

[Ken]

He's the worst.

[Ben]

You guys are both bad.

[Evan]

But playing blackjack on his phone when we were playing blackjack.

[CJ]

That's because it was unreal.

[Mike]

It's because I.

[Evan]

Out of cash.

[CJ]

No.

[Ken]

Ken was gambling on the super bowl, and he was sitting there and he wasn't getting enough of a dopamine hit, watching the super bowl with his friends. So he was gambling on his phone, playing blackjack. You were a sicko, Ken.

[Mike]

The first three quarters was kind of a snooze fest. Nothing really happened.

[Ryan]

It was a super.

[CJ]

But I mean, you got Poly market. You got all these different prediction markets which are supposedly not gambling. But they are, you know, just betting. It's crazy as a society how much it is now a part of it. And I will say as someone who, who loves to do it is definitely not good for society.

[Ryan]

I know. Where do you draw the line?

[CJ]

I think I have enough control to like gamble and bet within what I can afford to lose. But like a lot of people don't have that. And I, I think play prize picks, bet on sports, bet on, play blackjack, do your thing, but only gamble like, you know, those extra funds that it's okay if you lose. You know, like just have like a fun fund that you understand you're pro, you're probably going to lose it.

[Evan]

But I mean if you lose that you can dip into the like car payment to try to win the fun.

[Ken]

See, that's the thing. But like, so now you're seeing the problem. So accessible.

[CJ]

Now it's so accessible. I mean, between Ken, they're playing blackjack on his phone. Like he used to only be able to lose thousands of dollars going to Vegas. Now he loses thousands of dollars while he's losing thousands of dollars watching the super.

[Mike]

I didn't lose thousands of dollars. I didn't lose thousands of dollars. I made thousands of dollars.

[Ken]

Well, you could have.

[Mike]

I could have lost, but I didn't.

[CJ]

You know, it's just, it is, it is wild. I don't know. What's your guys thoughts on like.

[Ken]

Oh, it's unbelievable market, dude. It's every, every single app. And like Ryan said, Robin Hood, an investing app.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Is now just turned into a. It's got the prediction market side of things, which is essentially just gambling. Yeah. That should not be in front of you.

[CJ]

That's not investing. There's a big difference between buying stocks and guessing on who's going to win the coin toss.

[Ken]

You know, I think it's like, it's just so accessible.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's the thing that's becoming crazy. And I just watched an interview. The CEO of Charles Schwab, another investing brokerage like Robinhood, they were asking him if he was going to do it and he was like, no, like I don't think we should, but we might have to just due to like the competitive nature of the business.

[Ryan]

Everybody needs their cut, you know, like every, every app wants their cut. So it's just more and more.

[Mike]

Well, I mean, they're just trying to maintain market share.

[CJ]

It's just if everyone else share mostly.

[Ken]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

If everyone else is doing it, they have to do it. Otherwise they're going to Lose clients.

[CJ]

Exactly.

[Evan]

And that what peer pressure is. Everyone else is doing it.

[CJ]

Yeah, you should tell them that. But anyways. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[CJ]

I just made me think about it.

[Ryan]

I guess this isn't as much as I thought. Investing $5 a day over 10 years with 6 to 8% annual returns could yield around $27,000. Doesn't sound that bad.

[Evan]

$5 a day.

[Ryan]

$5 a day. I was thinking, I was like, what if you gamble five bucks a day, but you're gambling way more than that.

[Mike]

You're gambling five bucks a minute.

[Evan]

If you were gambling Ken, there's no way it was limited to five bucks a minute.

[Mike]

Oh, God, no.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I know. I agree, though, cj. I think it's like, where. Where do we draw the line in society here?

[Ken]

Everything.

[Ryan]

Like, am I going to be like, gambling in my car? Like, when you're changing a lane, like, are there. Is there going to be a gambling.

[Ben]

Oh, like, I don't know, like, turn.

[Ryan]

On your fucking blinker and it's already.

[Ben]

This playing on their Teslas and shit.

[Ryan]

Like, is there going to be a gambler's lane? Like, you can pull over and like, instead of having the toll lanes is like a gambling lane. Like, you pay five bucks to get in it and it might be faster, it might be slower.

[Mike]

Got to spin the wheel and if it lands on green or something, then he gets a speed 50 miles an.

[Ryan]

Hour gas pump, and they got a fricking little casino thing running in the gas pump. So you can g. Gamble while you're pumping.

[Ken]

Either free gas or double the price.

[Ryan]

Or double the price. There we go.

[Evan]

I try every time.

[CJ]

We know you would have.

[Ryan]

That's what I'm saying here. It's crazy. I even thought that about just having bars or TVs in bars. There's a new bar that reopened by us, and the old bar had like two TVs in it. It was inconvenient if you were trying to watch a sports game. Now there is legitimately 75 TVs on the wall. You go in there and there's a tv and in your whole peripheral view and it's. It's like Chive TV on too. It's just like Instagram reels going ham.

[Evan]

It is the vibe of a sports bar. I mean, it depends what the vibe.

[Ken]

Of the bar is, but yeah, I don't have a.

[Evan]

You go to a sports bar.

[CJ]

I don't have a problem with any of it. I'm just like, you're sitting in the.

[Ryan]

Bar and Then everybody's sitting there kind of watching the TV instead of talking with each other. It's like you can't even just drink and talk with people.

[Mike]

That bar did do a good job. They made the TVs well above your normal eye level. So you do have to, like, consciously look up to watch it.

[Ryan]

That's why just keep going up. Could be you guys hear about our boy, Stefan Diggs, ex Minnesota Viking, how his super bowl game went? Well, first of all, he didn't play that well. And then apparently, you could tell how.

[Ben]

Well we watched the game.

[Ryan]

Exactly. Apparently he didn't. And he's currently facing charges for felony strangulation of his chef, which is pretty up.

[Ken]

Dude, you can't.

[Ryan]

You can't strangle your chef.

[CJ]

Unless they burn something.

[Ken]

Exactly. Kidding.

[Mike]

Kidding.

[Ryan]

And then at the start of the game, he's walking around and he had his. Because he's currently dating Cardi B. Wow. I did not know. Yeah, he and Cardi B are together. He bought his baby mama front row seats. And then there was a video that was released of him walking by and, like, holding her hand. And then she goes, I love you. And then he, like, says something back. And then Cardi B left halfway through the game.

[Ben]

Oh, my.

[Ryan]

And then Stefan Diggs didn't go to the $1.5 million afterparty she threw for him. And then now they don't follow each other on Instagram. Wow. So he lost the super bowl and his chick.

[Ken]

Wow, Ryan, you are deep in the social media mud for that one, huh?

[Ryan]

I had to go down some freaking rabbit holes, but I was just like. Someone was like, damn, Stefan Diggs lost the super bowl and his chick in the same night. I was like, what? And then I figured out he's also facing jail time.

[Ben]

Can you imagine blowing off a $1.25 million party?

[Ken]

Can you imagine spending $1.2 million on a party?

[Ben]

Nope.

[Ryan]

No. That's pretty fucked up.

[Ben]

And then, yeah, the strangulation of his chef is just. That's crossing.

[Evan]

Can you see cj? What do you mean this isn't gluten free?

[Ken]

Yeah, Can I get some more context on that?

[Mike]

Where's my cashews?

[CJ]

So you had two women, two children born in April of 2025. Different mothers. Different mothers. And then with Cardi B, he had a son in November. But then it looks like there was another kid around that same time with.

[Ryan]

Holy smokes.

[CJ]

Drake's ex girlfriend, who is a model.

[Ken]

Four baby mamas knocked up in one year.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

Well, he had Four different women in one year. Four different baby mamas. But yes, two other kids prior to.

[Ryan]

That just wear a.

[CJ]

It's pretty impressive though. So like, honestly, I cannot even imagine juggling that many women. It's pretty cool though that Cardi B was even sticking with him that long. I mean.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[CJ]

But I guess if you're a rapper like her, she's probably. This is a different world.

[Ken]

But yeah, that is insane.

[CJ]

So. Yeah, I mean on top of that being a great wide receiver, you have to have that multiple baby mamas. But then also an assault charge on your.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Antonio Brown. That's some. That's just like him.

[CJ]

Did he have an assault charge?

[Ken]

He murdered somebody in like the back alley after. That's after some like twitch stream Aiden Ross threw.

[CJ]

That was post NFL career. But yeah, you're probably right.

[Ben]

Right.

[Ken]

It was like a month ago. Right.

[CJ]

He was on the.

[Ken]

He was on the run. He was like in Dubai or something.

[CJ]

It's crazy.

[Ken]

Allegedly he did that.

[CJ]

I. I don't know.

[Ken]

Shot at him or something. I don't know what he did. Jesus. Yeah, it was pretty aggressive. But cte. You know. So that's why we're trying to protect you from head button TVs.

[Evan]

EV TVs were the softest thing I hit my head on that night.

[Ryan]

That's the concerning part.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ken]

We need to put you in a helmet wearing around.

[Evan]

I don't know if that's like a strap.

[Mike]

We still got the football helmet rolling around somewhere. We can just have you wear that all day.

[Evan]

Walk into the bar wearing a helmet and a bib. They're going to turn me out the door.

[Ben]

There's a lot of places around here that just wouldn't. Honestly, they let you be for a second.

[Ken]

I don't think anyone would ask. Ask too many questions.

[Evan]

Something to look into.

[Ken]

Get you to wear a helmet for a month.

[Ben]

Remember that prank that we were going to do to Jake?

[Ken]

Oh yeah.

[CJ]

Water truck.

[Ben]

Did you guys try it on me? Kinda. Did somebody attempt to think about trying it on me?

[Evan]

What with what?

[Ben]

When I was clearing around the snow around my Corvette, there was a perfect.

[Evan]

Because I plowed with the skid steer when it was really warm out. It was like 40 degrees.

[Ben]

Oh. It was like. I'm talking like a perfect rectangle of ice around the Corvette.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was slush. It was literally like 6 inch deep slush. And I scraped around it.

[Ben]

Weird. I'm talking like a literal perfect 3 inch.

[Evan]

Telling you how it was possible. I took the skid steer bucket and I got as close as I could to your car without hitting it and then what was left froze.

[Ben]

Oh, that makes sense. It was just so weird, cuz like we had that wood down there and then it was like.

[Mike]

Like you kind of spilling the beans.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Fuck.

[Ryan]

We should have done.

[Ben]

I don't think I am.

[Ken]

Pretty good idea.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we should have done that. We did. That's on us, guys. That's on us.

[Ben]

But didn't we literally explain this in a video?

[CJ]

Yeah, we were gonna spray his.

[Ken]

Yeah, okay. That's what I thought when it was.

[CJ]

Super, super cold out. So it's fine. Because in order to do this, we're gonna have to wait another year. It's not gonna get that cold again anyway.

[Evan]

I think it's gonna get cold.

[CJ]

Negative 30 like that.

[Ben]

It happens every winter.

[Ryan]

I know.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

One of my buddies.

[CJ]

Again, I don't know if it Spring is here.

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[Ken]

Unfriend him?

[Ryan]

No, he's a good enough friend to keep her delusional. I know. I was like, bud, it's not spring yet.

[CJ]

Who said this?

[Ryan]

Our buddy Jeff. He was like, well, we're here. And I was like, ah, it's. And I don't think he was like commanding that spring is here. He just was like, spring, it feels like spring is here.

[Ken]

You know, whatever.

[CJ]

What Punk Stefani Phil say punk Tawny.

[Ryan]

Phil is a fraud. The other little marmots or whatever the he is were good, but he's been wrong out of like eight out of the last 10 years. All right, Punx hasn't been right. Look it up.

[Ken]

I Don't even know how to say his name.

[Ryan]

But there's been other pucks.

[Evan]

The guy that yells the weather.

[Ben]

No, bro, it's gonna rain. This is hilarious, because Ryan is clearly very passionate about punks. Tiny Phil. And then the other day, Sydney goes, I'd love to go out there when he does that and, like, meet him.

[Ryan]

And, you know, wait for a real rodent. He knows the weather.

[Mike]

I'm like, my chat. GPT's loading.

[Ben]

I don't know about.

[Evan]

Is it. Is it the. Is it the groundhog?

[Mike]

Phil saw his shadow. Which by folklore means we're in for six more weeks of winter weather.

[Ryan]

Yes, but see how many times Punxsutani feels been right?

[CJ]

It's pretty funny.

[Ryan]

Dude, dude.

[Ken]

How did they get started doing Let me see.

[Ryan]

And then figure out who was the Phils before because there's been a real name.

[Ken]

How are they kidding me?

[CJ]

You live under a rock.

[Ryan]

How do you not know about Paxidani Phil?

[Ken]

I guess I've never seen it happen.

[Evan]

I'm with you, Ben.

[Ken]

I've never seen it happen.

[Ryan]

But you know what?

[Ben]

Exactly. But I'm also.

[Ken]

I know it exists, but it's a tradition. I've never seen what you started. 1887.

[CJ]

It's only been around for.

[Evan]

We know that it's a thing. We've just never heard of Phil.

[Mike]

Here's the thing. Like, Punxsutawney Phil's in, like, Pennsylvania or something, and he's doing a whole forecast for the entire country, which does not apply.

[Ken]

What is this guy? Why does he deserve.

[Ryan]

I'm reading the Farmers Almanac.

[Ken]

Cloudy day.

[Mike]

So he's only been accurate 35 to 40 of the time, according to chat.

[CJ]

GPT. Terrible.

[Ken]

Exactly.

[CJ]

So that's great news, then, for us. If he saw his shadow, that means.

[Ken]

That we might have a means.

[Ryan]

But look about at the other rodents. The other ones were better.

[Ken]

Can I see a video of this?

[Evan]

Can I see Flipping a coin.

[Ben]

What rodent is this? Yes. Always comes down to, what is he again?

[Ryan]

He's a ground.

[Ben]

No idea. Groundhog. So you're saying you hear about this groundhog and the winter thing, you know, seeing a shadow or not? But you had no idea what his name was?

[Evan]

There's no way that this is the only one. It's just like a thing.

[CJ]

Punks.

[Evan]

If the groundhog sees his shadow.

[CJ]

I can't even say his name. How you say his name.

[Mike]

Puxatani.

[Ben]

What?

[CJ]

Punxatani.

[Ken]

I think. Not a chance in hell I could have ever repeated if you. If you Put a gun to my head. And you said, what is the groundhog's name? 0% Chance I would have been able.

[Evan]

To say that to be the one.

[Ken]

Groundhog, but it's punk.

[CJ]

Yeah, he said Pucks.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Punxsutawney Phil.

[Ben]

Yeah, great name. I've known about Punxsutawney Phil since like fourth grade.

[Ken]

And I know about.

[CJ]

Since I was.

[Ken]

Have you seen him in action?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Look at this old time he's getting.

[Ben]

I mean, they show him on the news every single year. Oh, I don't watch.

[Ken]

Watch the news, Mike.

[Ben]

But you didn't when you were a kid.

[Ryan]

You didn't play this on like.

[Ben]

Yeah, like wday.

[Ken]

What are these, the Amish?

[CJ]

My coop. Yeah.

[Ben]

And they do it different in Pennsylvania.

[Ken]

Down there's a shadow up here getting.

[Evan]

Ready for six more weeks of winter this year.

[Ryan]

Does he even look around and see his shadow or did they just make it up for him?

[Ken]

This is a hoax.

[Ben]

I mean, yeah, it's. It's all just for show. It's like a traditional.

[Ken]

Like, where are they getting this information?

[Mike]

I think it's all just complete bullshit.

[Ben]

It's just for fun.

[Mike]

It's like, it's one of those things where they just do it for fun. Like, why do we have a dog Mayor? It's because it's fun.

[CJ]

No, because we believe in his hands on.

[Ken]

There's like, it's because his, his owner had a bigger pocketbook.

[Evan]

Ask your AI if there's other groundhogs involved with this other than Phil. Yeah, because I've always. I've always heard this thing my entire life about the groundhog seeing his shadow. But I always assumed it was just like, I don't know, like every farm might have a groundhog. It's like, oh, I wonder if the groundhog saw a shadow. That means there's winner. I never thought it was solely based off of one Phil. Phil.

[Ryan]

One rat.

[Ben]

I don't think that's a crazy take at all. But it is just one.

[Ken]

This Punxsutawney Phil, it's like the Farmer's Almanac. Like his one guy sitting there. A farmer sitting there writing in his.

[Ryan]

Almanac can look that up as well. Are we just. Is your chat GPT on fire right now?

[Mike]

Thinking chatgpt is saying there's either 80, 92 or 67. It doesn't know.

[Ryan]

Maybe we could try good old fashioned Google it. Google says, thank you, Jack.

[Ken]

80.

[CJ]

No, there's been 80.

[Evan]

I'm assuming there are multiple groundhogs and.

[Ben]

Other Animals that Predict. With over 80 rodents, specifically, that are, like, televised just like that.

[Ken]

Ken, when they say 80 different rodents, what does it look like for all these different rodents? Do they all come out and they get held up, and then some man in a top hat says he saw his shadow?

[Ben]

Are there other. Do you think I'll lit that other vibes, too? Do they do, like, maybe, like, a heavy metal show? Check my Wigs of Winter.

[Ken]

A quad concert.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It literally just comes down to, is it cloudy or is it sunny that day? Whatever day they do it, that's all it is.

[CJ]

Is that what.

[Ken]

Is that actually what it is?

[Mike]

Well, you don't see your shadow nearly as much when it's cloudy, but are.

[Ken]

They actually looking for a shadow, or is some guy in a room just being like. Just say he saw a shadow.

[Mike]

They're probably just picking whatever they want.

[Ken]

To pick that day.

[Ryan]

Well, they're not very good at it, because that's what I'm saying. 30% accurate.

[Ben]

I got it.

[Mike]

30% of the time, they're right every time.

[Ben]

I got to give it to Evan, and I take this one on the chin. I was completely wrong. It says, On February 2, there is no central spectacle event. Rather, Groundhog day involves roughly 100 different animal predictions across the United States, Canada, and beyond.

[Ryan]

But this one is the big one in Pennsylvania.

[Ben]

That's when they always tell us about. That's the one they always televised.

[CJ]

It's like a hot dog contestant film, and he's famous.

[Ken]

What? Is there, like, a form that all these groundhogs are on that is like, all right, what are we saying this year?

[Ben]

Are they breeding the groundhogs for better predictions?

[Ken]

Did we see our shadow or not here? So we're on the same page.

[Evan]

I always looked at it as kind of this wise tale where, like, you grow up on the farm or whatever, and you just kind of hang out and it's on whatever Groundhog Day is, and you're just, like, looking around, where's that groundhog at? And then, like, that's what I thought it was like. Oh, like, it's just like. And then obviously, someone's gonna have a specific groundhog apparently. Pucks it.

[CJ]

Pucks.

[Mike]

How do we know? How do we know the guys running these events aren't also betting on the events and then fixing it?

[Ken]

Well, Ken, we know probably nowadays. Yeah, we know what you would do. Dude. Sicko.

[CJ]

Did you guys see, during the super bowl, the streaker? So he's done it twice now where, like, the odds are, you know, very High on if there's a streaker and he'll bet a large amount of money, and then he goes and streaks it, and then all the fines and bail is always less than however much he bet.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Which is pretty crazy.

[Mike]

I think.

[CJ]

Smart hustle.

[Mike]

I think his Fines was like 40 grand or something, and he made like 150.

[CJ]

That's a good deal.

[Evan]

You think that, like, you think they'd void that bet? Yeah, like, it wouldn't, because, you know, like, it's like you can interfere.

[CJ]

Well, you.

[Mike]

Like you're betting on yourself then.

[CJ]

I mean, there's so many ways around it.

[Evan]

I guess you're right.

[CJ]

Well, you can bet on yourself. You're a boxer.

[Ryan]

Did you see that? He had.

[CJ]

Pretty sure you can bet on.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ryan]

You're going to win. Oh, that's cool. Did you see that? Maybe I'm wrong. That he had someone go out first and then get tackled. So all the security went over there and then he ran out of the video.

[Mike]

Yeah, he posted the.

[Ryan]

His.

[Mike]

His meta glasses today.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's how he made it, like, so far, because you.

[Ryan]

But he had wheels, dude. He was running.

[Ken]

Yeah, he was.

[Ryan]

And then he saw the football. Whatever the name of the football player coming, and then he just looked and then he just, like, slid and laid down. He was like, I'm not trying to get lit up by the worst way.

[Ken]

Why did that guy take it upon himself to stop the streaker?

[CJ]

Just likes hitting people, man. He's a corner.

[Ben]

They're fast. They're.

[Ken]

Yeah, no, I know, but there's like 25 security guards chasing after him.

[CJ]

Those guys aren't for the fast.

[Ken]

For, like, the lore of. Of the streak.

[CJ]

I would have let it keep going. I'd been like, let's see how long this can go. I wouldn't intervene.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I'm 50.

[Ben]

50.

[Evan]

Because it's. I'd be more, like, stoked if I was on the field. Let the guy do his thing, but also light him up. Legendary. Yeah, Just blow his head off.

[Ryan]

Just a civilian while you're fully a football player.

[CJ]

He'd run from the sideline.

[Ken]

Who was that?

[Evan]

As Evan.

[CJ]

Chef, third string, long snapper.

[Ken]

Can you imagine the thrill of streaking the Super Bowl?

[Ryan]

Oh, and here in the stadium. Light up everybody.

[Ken]

Dude.

[Evan]

I was exhilarated in grandma's kitchen.

[Ken]

Evan, wearing that little outfit, streaking the Super Bowl. With that, you might catch a couple more charges.

[CJ]

That'd be more charges? Yeah. Indecent exposure.

[Ryan]

I'm saying, people used to streak, and they would be naked they wouldn't.

[Evan]

They.

[Ryan]

But now they don't.

[Mike]

This dude just ripped his shirt off.

[Ben]

I was like, that's what.

[Evan]

There's complicated.

[Ben]

A lot of comments that were fired up, like, hey, did we. Did we change the definition of streaking here? I would say if it would have been Evan's little singlet thing, I'd consider that streaking. So, yeah, streaking should be primarily minimal clothes. But then what do we call it if you're fully clothed, just running the.

[Mike]

Field at that point?

[Ben]

Do you see the guy running the field?

[Evan]

It's called sports.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Trespassing.

[Ryan]

Yeah, just trespass.

[Mike]

Dude.

[CJ]

I think it used to be like, if you were a streaker, it's like, that guy's sick in the head now. It's like you're a streaker. It's like, okay, so why'd he do that for the Internet? He was just trying to get some Instagram clout. He was trying to get whatever clout. Back in the day, they were, like, doing it for possibly the love of the game or just because they were. They were just a sicko.

[Evan]

Perhaps a drunk. Bet with their buddies.

[Ben]

Yeah, that too.

[CJ]

Like, lots smaller things to do it.

[Ken]

For, but yeah, the guy that did it is the guy that has the Bugatti that Matt Armstrong is rebuilding right now.

[Ryan]

Oh, really?

[Ken]

Like the legendary Bugatti?

[Ben]

Yeah, that's right.

[Ken]

That was crashed because they. I don't know, the water one? No, no, that one is just like somebody pulled out in front of him and he like T boned them. But it's like a six million dollar Bugatti. Like super rare Bugatti. And after he crashed it, he bought it back from insurance for like $2 million. And then it was gonna cost him $2 million to have rebuilt, I think, by Bugatti. And he was like, oh, I'll just have Matt Armstrong, the YouTuber do it. And then Bugatti, the CEO, who we're in Disney World with, of Bugatti went like on social media and was saying, you don't have the tools to rebuild it. It's going to be a safety hazard. Like, there's only two places in the world that can take a Bugatti apart from, like, separate the motor and transmission from the tub. And, like, you physically can't do it. They're doing it and they're like 3D printing all the parts because Bugatti will not sell them the parts.

[Ryan]

I know it sucks because I love. I like Matei, and I'm a Bugatti guy, you know, like, I'm a fan of him or whatever, but, like, there was a whole thing about how you couldn't move the two separate parts of the car, and they used caster wheels from the bottom of a trash can to move around.

[Ben]

And, like, so it's interesting because.

[Ryan]

Sucks, because I get it for him. He doesn't want to rebuilt Bugatti that, like, could be cobbled together and not safe at 200 miles an hour.

[Ken]

I think it's. It's more just like the brand image aspect of it that, like, you can't rebuild this in your garage. And also you especially can't 3D print the parts.

[CJ]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

But also, Matt Armstrong is an insane use case. Like, big wrench, probably. Well, sorry, big wrench, big ranch. Probably couldn't rebuild a Bugatti in our garage.

[Evan]

But like, Matt Armstrong, he could his sticker.

[Ken]

Anything is possible.

[Ryan]

You're right. You're right.

[Ben]

It is interesting because he's, like, kind of clowning them and, you know, it gets more engagement. But he's also like, but we're still open to if they want to come and help us. It's like, why are they going to want to help you now, like, after all that?

[Ryan]

But it's come to an agreement.

[Ben]

Pretty cool watching Matt Armstrong, because some things, like, they had, like, a leak in one of the radiators on the Ferrari and they just JB welded it. So there's that, like, not kosher. And then there's other things that they go in there and they do it better than how it was before. And also his sourcing parts is just incredible. I mean, we have to source a lot of parts around here, and it's, like, moderately difficult. He's got to source parts for, you know, cars that they only made 200 of sometimes.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I think Stradman showed how difficult it is because he was trying to rebuild that Ferrari for cheap, that Michael B. Jordan crashed or whatever, and then how it's, like, not working.

[CJ]

So when they put those cars back together, let's just say Matt Armstrong or. Or Goon Squad, they're building them, and obviously they're building them for YouTube and, like, kind of getting them done. And it's a rebuilt title, whatever. But, like, I'd be curious. Like, you have one that was never crashed in that one. You drive it.

[Ryan]

Well, it's like our builds, you know, like, they look good and they work, but, like, you couldn't build a bunch of them and expect someone to be.

[Ben]

Also, like, case to case. Like, I'm sure they have some that's like, dude, that's rough. And then they have other ones that are just like, wow, that thing's fully back to life. It looks mint.

[CJ]

I was just thinking, because it'd be sweet. I wonder if I could buy one from, like, goon squad or something.

[Ryan]

I know.

[CJ]

And just like, if they ever are trying to liquidate, they got a bunch of dope vehicles, I think it'd be a good price and maybe it makes sense to give me a little bit better of a deal because, you know, it's going to another channel.

[Ben]

I think in the space we're in, that. That act does make sense.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I would be very interested in that.

[CJ]

But, yeah, like, typically, like, when I'm looking at cars, I don't want a rebuild title, you know, but it would.

[Ken]

Almost be better knowing price and those.

[Ben]

Guys knowing, you know, buying a rebuilt title from a dealership where they're like, yeah, we don't know much.

[CJ]

Yeah, you don't know who built it.

[Ryan]

They also don't care.

[Ken]

Yeah, I think these guys, like, the YouTube rebuilders, probably do a lot better job than some of these shots.

[CJ]

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. It is on camera. They got their name publicly on it versus someone who's like, let's just make it look good and get it out. Or let alone, like, a lot of those cars, they don't even have a disclose that they were crashed. You know, like, it gets crashed, and then you end up finding later on you're modifying the exhaust. You're like, oh, this thing's been crashed. Yeah, like, but it's cool.

[Ben]

Like, the community is very support. Obviously, you have a lot of people that are like, bro, like, why would you do it like that? Hating. And then you have a lot of other people. Someone will say, hey, I was a tech here at this, and this is how you do it. And then everyone will upvote it so it goes to the top. So he sees it, and then he's like, thank you for everyone upvoting it. Now I know how to fix that part. We've been caught up on this since the last video.

[Ryan]

That's sick.

[Ben]

And it's like, so there's just so many stuff he's. I don't know. He's pulling crazy views. Crazy views.

[Ken]

Yeah. I think with the Matt Armstrong case, though, is like, he obviously does enough to get the video done on, like, the main channel of, like, getting the car from wrecked to drivable condition. It looks good. It's YouTube worthy, you know, it looks good, but it's probably doesn't have like the. All the bolts in the fender liner. It's. It's probably missing some of the. The parts on the trunk. And then he has a second channel that I watch all the time that I almost enjoy more because it's like more behind the scenes of like, all right, we just got all the parts in to finally finish the G wagon build. And it's not worth, like showing on the main channel, but it's like, yeah, we're going to get this thing, you know, buttoned up and then finish the build completely. I think the issue with it at this point is a lot of those guys are so big. You can't just sell a piece of shit that isn't fully done or it was half assed when they were building it and then expect whoever buys it to not just be like, oh, yeah, I bought one of his rebuilds and it's terrible shape.

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's all you, man.

[CJ]

Because if you're the buyer, you'd almost have to.

[Ken]

Yeah, it's. I think a lot of them have a name to uphold and a reputation and you're not trying to screw over your fans that you sell.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's interesting. Not even if not even a creator bought it. If just a random fan bought it, but made a video on it and made it halfway decent video, that video would blow up regardless of how many followers they had. If the build was bad, I think.

[Ken]

It'S, you know, obviously it's not the same in all cases, but rather than just a sketchy shop that does a sketchy rebuild of it and then they're just like, wash their hands of it. It's the next guy's problem, which a lot of people come out and make videos on those, but people don't care as much, obviously.

[Ben]

Gavin, I were just talking about, would you rather own a body shop or a mechanic shop? You have the mechanic shop where you send them on their way. Like the car is fixed. If the motor runs, it's fixed for the most part. And if it doesn't run, then they'll come back. But a body shop, you got people that are picky. Like, you might do a 9 out of 10 job and someone says that looks amazing and then someone else looks at the same job and goes like, I'm not impressed with that work at all. Whereas, like a mechanic shop, like, it's pretty straightforward. Either one of them sound like a nightmare to own.

[CJ]

It'd be a lot like a house builder, like a contractor. It's very subjective, right? You know, like some people are like, oh, that looks great. And other people are like, this is not right at all.

[Ben]

You know, like it would stress me out like doing that.

[Mike]

I feel like even like the mechanic shop, like you fix one thing and then the next day something else breaks and then they're like, oh, you did this. Which then broke this thing. It's like you can never win in some of those situations.

[Ben]

Yeah. Kind of like two separate worlds of problems though. Body shop to mechanics. It just makes me think of like all like the paint match TRXs. That was a huge undertaking.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

How much money was that against?

[Ben]

The bill was just shy of 22,000.

[CJ]

22,000 to paint match two TRX. That shit's insane. Yeah.

[Ben]

And once they showed the photos, they had the.

[CJ]

It looks amazing.

[Ken]

It looks amazing.

[CJ]

And they did a great job. But it's like 22 racks. I did not expect that. I thought 11 for both.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

So it's like bumpers, fender flares, grill.

[Ben]

The bottom of the doors, vents on the hood.

[Ken]

It was a whole thing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I think it was worth it. I think it was worth it. But like straight up, the TRX should not.

[Ken]

It's just paint match.

[CJ]

Like it's a hundred thousand dollar truck.

[Ken]

Why is it, why is there any.

[CJ]

Plastic on the outside?

[Ben]

Well, right. And it's not going to come like as paint matched as we got it because like they just never do that. But why do they got that black strip on the bottom and. Yeah, and then the matte black fender flare is like, what are we doing?

[Ryan]

I think it's because they, they want to hide rock chips. Like that truck just throws up so many rocks. Like mine literally was your rear quarter panel.

[Ben]

Like basically your bedsides on your first TRX were cooked.

[CJ]

But you also drove gravel roads every day.

[Ben]

True, but not much.

[Ryan]

I'm sure you were ripping Baja.

[Ken]

Yes, of course, you know said wheels that stuck out.

[Ben]

All right.

[Ryan]

Yes. But you know what I mean, like that over time the bottom would just like chip away. And so I'm sure that's they're trying to. They used to do it on old chevs. They'd put the plastic across the bottom.

[Ben]

True.

[Ken]

Yeah, I suppose.

[Ryan]

Evan, I saw two clean Tahoes on after looting.

[Evan]

There was one. It was really clean. It had just a speck of rust on. On the front of the rear door. And it was pulling into the drive through at McDonald's. And about 30 seconds later, an even cleaner one drives out to drive through.

[Ben]

That'll get a guy.

[Ryan]

Can you imagine our State, Monday morning.

[Ben]

Holy.

[Evan]

I'm running on four hours of sleep, throwing my twisted tea away at the McDonald's and just excited beyond believing.

[Ryan]

Enthralled with that. That's for sure.

[Ken]

I can imagine.

[CJ]

I think you should get, like, a Tahoe ev. Like an. Maybe like an O4 bourbon with, like 26 is on it and have it, like, lowered and. And maybe it's like a white tile with white. White big wheels.

[Evan]

See, the thing is, is you guys are the people that think I like the big wheels, Especially that guy. It's like a huge misconception that, like, I like Donks more than, like, any of you guys. Like, I look at him and I'm like, maybe. Perhaps, like, I think I feel the same way that you guys do. Like, I think it's cool.

[Ken]

Well, to be fair, we don't know.

[Evan]

Why don't you get one?

[Ben]

We need to get cj.

[CJ]

I don't necessarily, like, love tahoes and like that the way you do, but.

[Evan]

I would rather just have a crispy clean top. It doesn't need to have white 26s on it for me to think it's sick, I guess, is what I'm saying. I'm not.

[CJ]

I mean, you can appreciate it in stock form, but I was just saying it. It'd be even sicker.

[Evan]

So you do like donks.

[CJ]

I think it's cool.

[Ryan]

He's projecting on you.

[CJ]

Yeah, I think it's cool.

[Evan]

No, but I mean, yeah, I'd love to run back another hinder finder. Yeah, the white one was legendary.

[Ken]

Did you see Sean's the guy that built the amazing.

[Ryan]

I've been following.

[Evan]

It's super sick.

[Ken]

So sick. Pop that up, Ken.

[Ben]

Eight to one.

[Ken]

That thing is amazing.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Evan]

What I really like is. Is a 90s. A 90s Chevy. I don't know if resto mods the exact right word, but you know, the modern 6 liter, maybe 62 supercharger tuned up. I think that'd be like.

[Ben]

Like a pickup is escalating quickly.

[Evan]

Yeah, probably two of the superchargers about.

[Ben]

As big as it gets.

[Evan]

Like a cran Chevy motor. I'm not even saying like a little vet motor or whatever. I don't even know what leaders those are. But yeah, just like an LS swap into an obs is what I'm saying.

[Ben]

So sick.

[Evan]

But I've also never been a big bourbon or Tahoe guy because where the am I gonna put my dirt bike?

[Ken]

All right, Ken.

[Ryan]

That's what we needed to see. Let's watch this whole 41 minute video here.

[Ken]

Go to his Instagram.

[Evan]

Oh, CJ, tell me that wheel setup ain't way more lit than. Than a donk setup.

[CJ]

I mean, it's definitely more of a performance setup, for sure, dude.

[Ken]

Like, that might be the most Evan vehicle I've ever seen in my life. Obviously. Besides, for an El Camino. Donked out and Lamborghini Gallardo. But third up, this thing is perfect.

[Ben]

I put that at number one.

[Ken]

Above a. Above an El Camino.

[Ben]

Yeah. I've only seen him drive the El Camino, like, twice.

[Ken]

But what about Lamborghini Gallardo?

[CJ]

Same.

[Evan]

I'm scared for the day. I come back to the shop and you got 26s on the Lambo. Don't even think about it.

[Ben]

Yeah, don't even think about it.

[Ken]

If it has 26s, you wouldn't drive it or what?

[Ben]

That's just the next idea. I really think we need to dunk.

[CJ]

I would never do that.

[Ben]

It'd be messed up because it would just ruin it.

[Ken]

But, like, this is such a proper car. He's got to come. He's got to bring that up. Yeah, but we also. Oh, it's so sick. You need one.

[Ryan]

You're gonna want to buy it, aren't you?

[Ken]

I think we should.

[Ben]

I mean, I think we should build one.

[Evan]

Let's just think of one good reason not to.

[Ken]

I can't.

[Mike]

It's a practical rig. It can hold damn near everyone.

[Ken]

But think about how many subwoofers you could put in the back.

[Evan]

Oh, half a dozen 15s, a couple.

[Ben]

L brackets on those on the drift rig.

[Ryan]

Add another alternator just in case.

[Ken]

And then you could put. We could lay cement down and then do it on top of the cement so it had, like, a real foundation to just vibrate everything else in the car loose. That's what those guys do. Like, our buddy Mark used to build vehicles for subwoofer competitions.

[Mike]

You're saying you would ratchet strap the windshield in place? It wouldn't blow out.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ken]

And they would put concrete in the car.

[Ben]

Wow, I didn't know that part.

[Ryan]

Concrete?

[Ken]

Yes.

[Ryan]

Like the floor?

[Ben]

Why?

[Ken]

Apparently it was. It was better for the reverbs.

[Evan]

As soon as you surpass good sounding music.

[Ken]

What the hell is the point?

[Evan]

Like, I watch. I watch them all the time. You know, the hairs flying around or they dump a bag of chips and it's floating.

[Ken]

I think the love of the game.

[Evan]

How freaking expensive those vehicles are. And it's just, like, absurd.

[Ken]

Well, you remember seeing them at sema?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

It was kind of sick. Honestly, I was pretty stoked. That was like the first time I've seen a bushel in dude.

[CJ]

When I was in high school, one of my buddies had like a 99 Tahoe with like subwoofer set up like that. Like I think there was like 15s or something and then like some 12s. It was too much. It was straight up too much. I couldn't ride in it with them. And then also to top that off, it was on like 24s that were white. It was white. It was pretty sick actually. But.

[Evan]

So you really just want me to buy your buddy's Tahoe?

[CJ]

That thing's long gone.

[Ben]

But.

[Ryan]

But yeah, you don't hear like you used to drive around town and there were just at most stoplights. There would be one.

[Ben]

You are. Yeah.

[Ken]

Every once in a while.

[Ben]

You still do. And honestly you say that and some guy had blowed out Buick that should not have had the rattling probably had in it. And it 1 reminded me of my high school career and 2 made me happy. Just classic trunks blown out.

[Ken]

But Justin's BMW, yeah, we had that was like the epitome.

[Ryan]

He legitimately rattled that car apart. Like it fell apart due to the subwoofers.

[Ken]

And then if you rode with him, you know that he's just ripping it the entire time. Like the subs, the. From the second you get in to the second you get to wherever you're going. It doesn't matter how long of a drive it is. If it's an hour long drive, you're gonna be listening to the subs on full volume, blow your eardrums and it's like, Justin, I know your subs are super loud, bro. Let's maybe just tone it. I don't know if we need to do this.

[Ben]

That's.

[Ken]

How many were those?

[Ben]

Interesting. But he had two competition Same same.

[Mike]

Subs that are Ryan's pontoon now.

[Ryan]

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[Ken]

It's like, how do you make it more obnoxious for everyone on land?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Bigger subs.

[Ryan]

Oh, man, that was so awesome. You sitting there, all the cans would be rattling around. A can with a quarter full would rattle out of the cup holder.

[Ken]

It's freaking awesome. And this is the.

[Ryan]

That's awesome.

[Ken]

This is the epitome of why people do it is like, you see the look on Ryan's face, how he's smiling thinking about that can rattling out of the couple.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

It's just why it was lit too.

[CJ]

Like, if it was the right mood, having those things going when you had the volume cranked made it more lit.

[Ken]

But you're a single lyric.

[Evan]

No even makes more. Because you're like in there with a bunch of people partying.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You're not.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Not driving around. 3 hour.

[CJ]

It was great.

[Ben]

That's where I thought it was the most funny is that you. You would just look for any excuse to go driving so you could blare your subs. And then like I remember when I was on pizza deliveries and obviously have a giant sign for where I was delivering pizza and a number to call and they would call in and be like, the bro in the maroon Buick's gotta chill on the subs because you just. Blair and I couldn't chill. So we got more calls. You know, like I would turn it down for the night and then I'd back delivery the next day and then they'd be like, bro, the guy drove by again, could hear to my house.

[CJ]

Mike, why does that piss people off so bad? You drove by my house and I heard it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Shaking. Everyone's trying on their house, Mikey. Those pizzas had to have been cold by the time that they got to wherever they were going. If you were the delivery man, I.

[Ben]

Mean, you have the heater bags.

[Evan]

That's still only good for.

[CJ]

Mike trusted the heater bags for three hours.

[Mike]

Mike had to go to the gas station and maybe wash his car a little bit.

[Evan]

Ice cream was melting.

[Ben]

I would have got fired so fast if that were the case. The only time I delivered cold pizzas was when I. I told this story before, but I put my car in the ditch. I left it in drive since it wasn't moving, because I was in a panic. And I did grab my snowboard out of the seat and then, like, shut my doors. And then my door is locked, and I'm like, my car is in the ditch, the pizzas are in it, and I'm locked out.

[Evan]

And it's in drive.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And in drive. And my. My boss is like, what?

[Ken]

Yeah. That's insane. Why did you grab your snowboard just locked out of the car.

[CJ]

It's in drive.

[Evan]

That is funny, though, that in a panic situation, I left the hoona truck, the 4,7 Cheeto truck, in drive when the wheel fell off because it was at a complete stop.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Evan]

So I get out, and I'm, like, jacking it up or whatever, and then it starts going.

[Ken]

That was amazing.

[Evan]

So, I mean, it happens when you're flustered. I can understand.

[Ben]

That was the only time I delivered cold pizzas. I love the joke, Ben, but, yeah, I would have got fired if I would have done the shit Ken was saying, going to the gas, like, you can't just go off. You got to deliver the pizza also. You want. You want good tips. So, like, every. Every minute counts, and the faster you get it.

[CJ]

What kind of tips were you getting?

[Ben]

Like, dude. But yeah, yeah, yeah. At that time, five bucks was a good tip. Five bucks, you were like, let's go. Those people are balling. And then, like, you might catch, like, not that uncommon for someone to be like, keep the change. And they would just round up.

[Ken]

It was like, a cent. A couple. Yeah.

[Ben]

I mean, like, it was. They might write a check for 37, and the total was 36. 25 checks.

[Ken]

Recollecting checks.

[Ben]

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah.

[Ken]

I suppose they wouldn't, like, pay over the phone. They would pay when you would deliver.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was Actually way more common for checks and cash than it was to pay over the phone when I.

[Ken]

First started pre Uber Eats days.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's. A lot's changed.

[Ken]

And Uber Eats is, like, just coming to the area that I live in. The town that I live in, it's pretty small town, and I think there's like, there's got to be, like, one person that. That delivers. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like, well, you got to see if they're on the other side of town, because if they are, it's. You're gonna have to wait. You're probably behind somebody else in line. But I. Dude, I'm still mind blown. Every time it gets delivered to my house, I'm like, holy. In the future, bro.

[Ryan]

When Alondra and I figured out we had. I don't think we opened the fridge for a month, we just, we doordashed everything. It was awesome.

[Ken]

The one guy is just straight from Zorbas to your house.

[Ryan]

Yeah, just all the bars and restaurants.

[Ken]

Back calls you up. Hey, you guys not home tonight?

[Ryan]

You okay? Does wellness check on me? Because I didn't order any food.

[Ken]

It checks in.

[Evan]

You should probably just work a deal with him, cut out the middleman.

[Ryan]

Yeah, probably right.

[CJ]

Honestly, just text him. Yeah.

[Ken]

Doesn't Walmart deliver groceries too?

[Ryan]

They do deliver out here.

[Ken]

I actually haven't used that one, but.

[Evan]

He does it all the time, and I'm just like, go to the fucking store. Like, it drives me nuts. She literally is not doing anything else. I'm like, we're 10 minutes from Walmart. Just go and get it. And I don't want some weirdo touching my groceries Anyhow.

[CJ]

What's it cost?

[Mike]

It's free if you have Walmart plus, it's free.

[Evan]

Well, I don't subscribe to that, so I'm sure she's paying.

[Ben]

I get your point, though, slightly more.

[Evan]

You got to tip them.

[Ben]

The city. It was always like, we have delivery. Oh, I don't why. I'm like, why are we always doing delivery? It's like five minutes away.

[Evan]

Plus, I like to browse.

[Ben]

I, I same. But, you know, we're just. We live in a place where, like, to go, you know, most things, you gotta travel a little bit. But I mean, if the store is five minutes away, like, I don't mind driving.

[Ryan]

The good thing about getting it delivered is you are a little more selective with what you get because you don't browse.

[Ben]

That's true.

[Ryan]

You don't hit the Oreos at the end of the aisle.

[Evan]

Because you've already added them.

[Ryan]

That's true. I would never go or place a Walmart order without Oreos. But, you know, something. Something else of the sort. An ice cream bar or something like that, you know?

[Ken]

Ken, how many subscriptions do you think you have?

[Mike]

Netflix, YouTube, TV?

[Ben]

It's gonna be a lot.

[Mike]

Boys, HBO or.

[CJ]

No, Premium.

[Mike]

No, I don't have that one. Oh, I got Walmart plus because it's free with my American Express card. I have Disney because that's free with my American Express card. Yeah, the who? The Disney Bundle.

[Evan]

It's free with American Express. I'm like, how often are you going to Disney?

[Ken]

You need a subscription.

[Mike]

Oh, Spot. Spotify.

[Ben]

Do you have Coinbase one?

[Mike]

Oh, I do have Coinbase. Yep. I think that's it.

[Evan]

I bet you could add five more on there.

[Ben]

Yeah, I know.

[Evan]

Yeah, definitely five more.

[Ken]

I always get an. An ad for. I don't even know what it is. I don't want to plug them either. But one of those companies that, like, oh, sign up for our subscription to see what your subscribers.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ken]

And I'm like, I should really do that. But I'm gonna forget to cancel that subscription after it cancels all the other ones. But I'd imagine that I have so many subscriptions that I don't even know exist.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Really, just go through your credit card.

[Mike]

Oh, don't forget about the car wash, too.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah. Wash nine or.

[Evan]

I forgot that one night when we were drinking beers, I got a Peacock subscription so we could watch Supercross, but forgot I had done that. So then I was still, like, asking Slim for his Peacock account so I could watch Supercross at my house and then finally realize that, like, I've had my own subscription for, like, a year.

[Ken]

Espn.

[Mike]

No, I don't. Don't subscribe to either of those, I think. No, I get ESPN with the Disney Bundle, but it's ads.

[Ryan]

Do you have any news sources that you're subscribed to?

[Mike]

No. Ryan, you gotta have, like, all the streaming subscriptions I know you have if.

[Ryan]

You can subscribe to it. I have.

[Ken]

Yeah. Ryan's definitely got the most subscriptions.

[Evan]

Yeah, 100 premium on everything. Right.

[Ryan]

I did run Hulu with ads for a while, but I recently upgraded.

[Ken]

I'll tell you this. The only subscription that I use on a daily basis that I think everyone in the world should have is YouTube Premium.

[Ryan]

I agree.

[Evan]

I'm dropping the ball on that one.

[Ken]

It's so good, and it's. It's cheap, it's cheaper than Netflix. It's cheaper than Hulu. All these. These better apps that you might use once a week, right? If you use who. If you use YouTube every single day. Like, I do. Like, yeah.

[Ryan]

100 worth it.

[Ken]

No ads.

[CJ]

And TV is by far the best. Like TV streaming subscription, I believe as well.

[Ken]

And it's a double, right?

[Ben]

A double whammy with like YouTube. I know there's YouTube music too, but you can access all the songs with YouTube Premium.

[Ken]

When you have YouTube Premium, you can listen to music and shut your phone off.

[Ben]

Okay, so I guess what I'm getting at is, yeah, like, you can't listen to music with Netflix and Hulu, but you can with YouTube.

[Ryan]

I can.

[Ben]

Like, there's a lot.

[Ryan]

But yeah, you can't listen to Life Wide Open podcast on Hulu.

[CJ]

Exactly.

[Ken]

Yet one day you will though. Like, yeah, I think that it's going to be. Netflix is going to continue to take over the streaming platforms of YouTube and Spotify.

[CJ]

I bet.

[Mike]

We've basically just come over.

[Evan]

I think they're going the other way.

[Mike]

We've basically just gone full circle and now it's just cable again going down.

[Evan]

But they're like, their content is becoming such Netflix exclusive stuff and everyone else is. Everyone has their own apps.

[Ken]

No, I think that Netflix is gonna like give creators deals. So you just release your podcast.

[Ben]

Prime has already done that. Like, you know, prime bought like Ryan Trahan's Penny series. They bought a shitload of Mr. Beast videos and they're just playing them on there. At first I got excited and then I was like, oh, These are just YouTube videos that they paid for, you know, Relicense. Which makes sense.

[Ryan]

I did see that Netflix's share of streaming time is down, but stock is up. What you will.

[Evan]

I just saw this chart where it was like, of the content on Netflix. What's like, produced by Netflix? And it's like the percentage is like at an all time high because it's like Disney plus and Paramount and whatever. Everyone just does their own. That's all I meant.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Can I ask Ben why you had four Crispy.

[Mike]

Oh, but before that, this is gonna be relevant to what we were just talking about. Ryan, I saw you got a gift in the mail from Spotify.

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah, I did.

[Mike]

Ryan Iwerks, the armchair athlete. Wrapped awards. 2025.

[Ben]

What?

[Ryan]

Spotify sent me a wrapped gift and I wasn't sure if it was for the podcast or being quad or just for my alter ego.

[Ben]

Ryan, can you imagine songs? Dude, do the songs exist on Spotify yet?

[CJ]

No.

[Ken]

Can you Ryan is in his agent or the laziest artist in existence, apparently trying to get their music to the world.

[Ben]

I do got a but how funny would it be if it was for quad? You don't even have songs on Spotify.

[Ken]

The armchair athlete Raptor. What the heck?

[Ryan]

I don't know what the hell it was for. What is the car addressed to? Me. Not to the Life podcast, but the box was addressed to the Life Wide Open podcast.

[Mike]

And what. What did the little card say it was for the top?

[Ryan]

I was listening to the most sci fi and action audiobooks, which I have never listened to a moment in my life.

[Ben]

Okay, so that is the reasoning behind it. But.

[Ryan]

So I didn't bring it up. I. I actually was the box that was sitting right here for like three weeks. I never brought it up because it never made any sense to me.

[Ken]

I guarantee this is why they said, all right, who do we send this award to? And they say, well, how about we send it to the guy that we send the money to every month? Oh, that's a good idea.

[Ryan]

That's solid gold Ryan.

[Ken]

And I'm the only one making money here.

[Ben]

I think that part makes sense. But the then arm chair athlete wrapped.

[Ryan]

Awards, maybe they just saw how athletic I am.

[CJ]

I feel like giving someone a trophy. That's like armchair athletes. Like, almost offensive.

[Ken]

Like, I think that's like, do you want to.

[CJ]

Do you want to receive an award for sitting in a chair?

[Ryan]

Have you seen your award? Do you have an award? Do you have a piece of solid gold Spotify?

[CJ]

This thing is heavy. It's pretty nice. Well, let's get to these beers over here.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What do we got going on?

[Evan]

So Ben made an accusation earlier that Keystone was the worst beer. And I love Keystone. And then I told him, you could have a Coors and a Keystone and you wouldn't know the difference.

[Ken]

And I said, I guarantee. Guarantee I do.

[Ben]

Are these.

[CJ]

Are they drink it and tell which.

[Ryan]

Ones they just labeled with like a one.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Oh, nice.

[Ben]

Nice.

[CJ]

All right, nice.

[Ryan]

Good job.

[Ken]

So we have four different beers here. Coors, Keystone, Bush, and Miller. I'm not a huge beer drinker, but I feel like I can decipher which one is which. And I know Evan can. That's not a question here, but Evan said that you will not be able to tell the difference between Coors or Keystone. And I think I can.

[Evan]

Is there a difference?

[CJ]

Yes.

[Evan]

People out there, you say, of course there's a difference. Sure, I'll admit there's a difference. But can you taste it? No, I don't know.

[Ken]

All right. We're about to find out.

[Ryan]

I'm the judge over here. I got the list.

[Ben]

I think you guys should all do it.

[CJ]

I'd like to. Yeah.

[Evan]

Let me. Let me have it.

[Mike]

I'll do it.

[Ken]

Oh, this is actually gonna be way harder than I thought. Let me have a little.

[Evan]

So you're gonna guess that, right? Right away you're gonna guess what you think it is.

[Ken]

No.

[CJ]

Can I.

[Ken]

Can I?

[Ben]

Yeah, I try to.

[Ryan]

Wait, I can tell which one is the Miller from all.

[Ben]

Damn near drank half of it.

[Ken]

Oh, God. This is actually way harder than I thought.

[Evan]

Oh, I know that one.

[Ben]

Yeah. We'll give you bonus points if you can guess all of them.

[CJ]

Have.

[Ryan]

You can have another. You can have another one of whatever flavor you guess, right?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

But if you get them wrong, you don't get any beers.

[CJ]

This is very hard.

[Evan]

Okay, I think I got her.

[Ben]

Nice.

[CJ]

All right, let me. Dude, I straight up can't tell the difference.

[Ken]

Send it back over here.

[Ryan]

That is interesting that you guys are struggling to decipher on Miller. I thought Miller would have been a clear outlier beer. Because I like all four of the. Or all three of these beers, except for Miller.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Evan]

All right.

[Ben]

Ben's two swigs in on all four beers. He's got his list. Evan made his list double quick.

[Ken]

You ready?

[Ryan]

I'm ready. At the edge of my seat over here.

[Ken]

Should I say it?

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[CJ]

All right.

[Ken]

The first one is Coors.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Ken]

The second one is Keystone. The third is Miller. And the fourth is Bush.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Evan]

Miller, Keystone, Coors, Bush. Am I.

[Ken]

What's. What's the answer? No.

[Ben]

You guys both have Keystone as number two, so there's that.

[Ken]

Who's got the answers?

[Ryan]

I have the answers, but you're good.

[CJ]

No, I. I'll just let them do it.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I have no fucking clue.

[Ryan]

Evan, just astonishingly zero out of four.

[Ken]

Then I would.

[Evan]

Then I would switch it to Bush, Coors, Keystone, Miller. Still wrong.

[Ken]

All right.

[CJ]

All that beard, you can't tell a single one.

[Ryan]

Likes the effects, not the taste.

[Ken]

What do I.

[Evan]

What?

[Ken]

Did I get any Right?

[Ryan]

What was yours?

[Ken]

Coors, Keystone, Miller, Bush.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Mike]

Coors.

[Evan]

Correct.

[Ryan]

Then Bush, which could be pretty easily mixed up with Keystone. I agree. Then Miller, then Keystone.

[Ben]

You got two. Right.

[Ryan]

So Miller was two out of four.

[Mike]

So. Have you just said. So Bush is now your favorite beer?

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Ben]

You're a Bush guy now.

[Mike]

You're no longer a Keystone guy.

[Evan]

I don't. I don't like Bush.

[Mike]

You just said I Love that taste.

[Ken]

Oh, I know that one.

[Evan]

It really did taste like a keystone for a second there.

[CJ]

No, that's.

[Ryan]

That's so interesting because if someone was like, hey, man, do you want a Miller?

[Mike]

I would.

[Ryan]

I would legitimately say I. I'm good. And now I feel like an idiot.

[Ken]

I will say this. They all taste the exact same.

[Ryan]

That's what's throwing.

[CJ]

Very close. Yeah. I think when you think about the glass questioning life right now, Stone was the last one.

[Ben]

I also think there's a huge difference. When you're five or six in, that's when that taste really starts to matter.

[Evan]

Well, no, I think the taste only matters on the first one. Dude, why would it matter after four or five?

[Ryan]

This is why.

[Ben]

Okay, I got a little tummy. Five or six beers is a lot, so they gotta taste premium.

[Evan]

Here's this.

[Ben]

Well, yeah, I mean, you. I max out at like three.

[Ryan]

It's not how things work.

[Ken]

You want to know what I like.

[CJ]

The most important thing? How cold it is.

[Ben]

Yes.

[CJ]

The coldest. Whatever one's the coldest is probably the best beer, at least in my opinion. And I think there might be something to do with if it's out of a can, a glass, a bottle, if it was, you know, poured into the bottle or if it was poured for, you know, like, those tasted really good. For some reason. I. I'm not. Not necessarily. I haven't been drinking a lot of.

[Evan]

Beer, but it's beer. Sometimes I get kind of beard out.

[CJ]

Like, they just.

[Evan]

I don't know.

[Mike]

I've never ordered a Miller Light or drinking Miller Light outside of a music festival where it's 95 degrees and the beer is half warm anyways. So normally I thought, oh, I just don't like Miller Light. And then I had this one, which is out straight out of the fridge, and it was good.

[Evan]

You gonna have another?

[Mike]

I probably will.

[Evan]

You gonna finish those?

[Ken]

You can have them.

[Ryan]

Let me take a sip of number three when you get it over here.

[Ken]

Here. Sidebar, though. For a tick tock, we should honestly just have a straw into four different cans and have. Evan.

[Ryan]

We'll do. We'll do it again.

[CJ]

Straw is gonna throw off the taste.

[Mike]

We should.

[Ben]

It will, but we'll.

[Ken]

It'll do this.

[Ben]

We'll do them fresh out of the fridge.

[CJ]

What if you just blindfolded him?

[Ryan]

I hate that. I know.

[Ken]

Now you just do it in a box and the box is open to the camera, but he has the straw into him.

[Evan]

I don't know. I'm saying maybe there's a little dish soap left in this cup. This key stone ain't tasting right.

[Ken]

Okay, well, I.

[CJ]

All right.

[Ken]

I don't know what that proved. I. I don't know if that proved actually anything, because I was wrong and you were more right. Evan was more wrong.

[Ryan]

It did get you to take a sip of beer, which is good.

[Ben]

And it brought keystone awareness.

[Evan]

And next week, Ryan will be doing this with Mountain Dew.

[Ken]

Oh, yeah. What about, like, Diet Coke? Ryan, I've seen the videos of people trying, like, Diet Coke from McDonald's. Chick fil a out of a can, out of a bottle.

[Evan]

You're.

[Ken]

I guess you're a Coke.

[Ryan]

I don't like Diet Coke. And I think.

[Ken]

No, but, like, normal Coke, could you do it? Normal Coke?

[Ryan]

No, I. Maybe. Maybe a can versus McDonald's. But other than that, I mean, yeah. Tastes different out of plastic or metal. Like, that's why it's different. Or a bottle, you open and close like, a can. You open it once, it just sits there. But every time you open the bottle, it goes like. And it loses its carbonation.

[Evan]

There was this old timer I used to work with that lived off of Coca Cola, and he would go into a gas station, he'd buy a full 12 pack. He would take a drink off one can, throw it out the window, take a. Take another can, take a drink out of it, throw that out the window, maybe get to the third one. And if he decided he go, they're all bad, he'd throw the whole box out.

[Ryan]

He just liked littering.

[CJ]

Yeah, seriously, he'd just throw him out.

[Evan]

He was so anal about his food. I seen him do the same thing with two orders of chicken wings. Because he's gonna bring him back to the hotel and keep him. He eats one chicken wing, bitches them, goes the other box. Bop.

[Ryan]

They're fucked.

[Evan]

Throw them off.

[Ben]

You know how annoying that be to, like, date someone like that?

[Evan]

He'd also buy almond Hershey's bars, but he didn't like nuts. And he'd suck the chocolate off the nuts and then spit the nuts on the floor because he said the chocolate was better, making life so much harder than it is.

[Ben]

Dude.

[Evan]

But the thing was, the first time I saw him do it, I. He's. Maybe he's missing teeth to begin with.

[Ken]

What a prima donna.

[Evan]

Spitting his teeth out.

[Ben]

He probably was.

[Ken]

That was no good.

[Evan]

It was the omens.

[Ken]

Dude, that's the craziest thing I've ever heard. What the fuck's wrong with this guy?

[Evan]

Shout out, chat, rip all the Chickens.

[Ben]

That have to die to make a couple trays of wings. And he eats one and goes, they're all bad.

[Evan]

And I'm like, the most anti litter guy around. Like, I don't litter, but when I'm driving a vehicle down the freeway and this psychopath, like, there's literally nothing I can do, If I yell at him, he might throw me out the window.

[Ben]

So.

[Ken]

So hold on. Were his taste buds that dialed that he could taste the difference of a good Coke out of a can versus a bad?

[Evan]

And then. And that's the thing. It's not like he was pissing money. Like, he was, you know, living on a budget, spending his money on this stuff. So I. I don't know what. What the disconnect was. I don't know. He'd just say, it's bad Coke. There's a bad Coke. The whole box is bad. Or the chicken is just bad. I don't know.

[Ryan]

I don't like, how do you end up dying?

[CJ]

Just.

[Evan]

He was just rotten, I guess.

[Ken]

His.

[Evan]

Body shut down or whatever.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Ken]

Ryan's dad, he loves Coca Cola, but his go to is the. The bottled Coke. And if he's working on a project and you go to that project, he's a. He's a contractor. And say, we're walking through a house that he's showing us that he's building. There's Coke bottles in every single room.

[Evan]

Like, half full.

[Ken]

Not even. Not even like three, four full. Like, he drinks the first quarter of it, which I thought that this is what that guy was gonna be like. He drinks and then. And then set it down and then moves on to the next, oh, I need a Coke. And then cracks a new one. Like, every single room has, like, three different Coke bottles. Like, you'll just drink the first sip and then crack a new one.

[Ryan]

That's his method of not. Like when he says he's cutting down on pop, he won't finish. Now he's down to cans. But, like, he would. Would normally just finish the whole bottle. But he's like, all right, I don't need to drink anymore, so I'm just gonna not finish this drink. Still gonna have another one in like, an hour or two. But, like, that's his way of, like, not drinking as much.

[Mike]

I just assumed he always wanted the freshest Coke possible. So he would take, like, the first couple sips and then be like, I'm done with this. I can't let it sit for more than 10 minutes.

[Ryan]

No, not 10 minutes, but. Yeah. No, he's not gonna. He's not like a. Oh, I'm just gonna drink a warm Pepsi because I'm not gonna. Or a warm Coke, rather, because I'm gon.

[Evan]

You imagine Pepsi?

[Ryan]

I don't know why I blacked out. Sorry. But like, yeah, he. He would be like, well, if I'm gonna have a pop, it might as well be cold and fresh. So if it's been sitting on the shelf or on the thing for, you know, an hour and it's warm, you just like, I'll just go grab a freshie.

[Evan]

It's mainly the Coke guys against Pepsi. But, like, I like Mountain Dew way more than mellow yellow. But you know what? When I go to the restaurant and they bring me a mellow yellow, it's fine. But the Coke guys, if they say we have Pepsi, they're disgusted.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, see, I'm not. I'm not like that. But I'm lucky because I like Mountain Dew. So I can switch. I like Coke and I like Mountain Dew.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

That's a balanced life right there.

[Ryan]

It is, exactly. Because then it would suck if I liked mellow yellow and Coke because, like, then you go to another restaurant, you're.

[Ken]

Who the hell likes mellow yellow Mountain Dew?

[Ryan]

I don't.

[Ken]

Not a single.

[Evan]

I think it's got to be regional. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. But it's like Pepsi. For some reason, Pepsi is a big company. I don't know who the hell is drinking it.

[Ben]

Dr. Pepper.

[Mike]

No, Dr. Pepper's their own thing.

[Ben]

Really. They are not owned by Pepsi anymore.

[Mike]

Pepsi just distributed it.

[Ken]

Huh.

[Mike]

Because I think It's Keurig and Dr. Pepper. The same company.

[Ben]

I did not know that. I wonder. There's such a force. I thought Dr. Pepper was just floating Pepsi along all this time.

[Ken]

Dude, pop is so strange.

[Ryan]

So it's really.

[CJ]

It's been on the decline since 2000.

[Ben]

Wow.

[CJ]

Pop consumption seems like they're doing fine.

[Ken]

Ryan is doing everything.

[CJ]

I'm not saying they're not doing. I'm not saying they're not doing good, but it's. It's interesting. Yeah.

[Evan]

A lot of people now will drink energy drinks where maybe a bushel years ago would just have some pops.

[Mike]

When you walk in the gas station and there's like the. The two doors that have all the pops in them, and there's like four doors that have all the different varieties of energy drink.

[Ryan]

White gummy bear, cooler of just like Mountain Dew.

[Ben]

Yeah, that is interesting. Think as like, you got to get up early. It's either coffee or like Mountain Dew. Dew or, you know, obviously coke, whatever. But coffee or Mountain Dew. And now it's like coffee or whatever energy drink you want.

[CJ]

Yeah, I feel like I rarely see anyone drinking pop anymore. Like, I mean, obviously like you drink pop. Ryan Randy drinks pop. But like, when I was a kid, everyone drank pop. Like, I probably drank a pop or two a day.

[Ken]

I probably drank a pop, you know, at least.

[CJ]

And like, my parents, like, we just had it. Like, I feel like it's just kind of crazy how it's been on the.

[Ryan]

Decline, but Ben's like, not in my house.

[Mike]

I'll do like a Celsius or a monster a day, but shut.

[Ken]

No.

[Ben]

How about when you were a child?

[Ryan]

How about when you had a coffee or a monster, a Celsius and a coffee all before 9am that was. That was insane. And then you had a second coffee at Starbucks.

[Ken]

That was crazy behavior, Ken. You had, what was it, 900mg caffeine before.

[Mike]

I was just trying to be.

[Ryan]

I don't know if that's gonna help.

[Ken]

When was.

[Mike]

This is when CJ was getting his wisdom teeth out.

[Ryan]

Ken was caffeine.

[Ben]

Caffeine maxing. Really? Yep.

[Evan]

On this, the Shred 80 program, which I'm.

[Ken]

I'm pretty concerned about. Our buddy Shred 80, what was he doing? 1200 milligrams of caffeine a day. Like 4 Celsius.

[Ryan]

It's good moderation.

[Evan]

What's the Celsius? 300 or 200.

[Ken]

The big ones are 300, the little ones 200.

[Ben]

Yeah, it varies.

[Evan]

I don't drink Celsius. There was one exploded in my back seat and I had to think for a second and I looked in the bag and there was a Danish. Shred80 left his bag in the back of my Raptor.

[Ben]

How long was it?

[Evan]

A long time. I just hadn't got to the bottom of the mess and then, yeah, exploded Celsius all over my seat.

[Ben]

There are heaping mounds of bottles and trash in Evans Raptor. But now that I hear that you're this big non littering guy, you can't blame him.

[Ryan]

No, you can't hate a guy for that.

[Mike]

Yeah, just live in your litter.

[Ken]

So, Ev, you are making a deal with the ops. Oh, sorry. Let me. Let me rephrase this. You made a deal with the ops?

[Evan]

I did.

[Ken]

So Evan is having his truck worked on by our buddy Jake. We are currently in a prank war with. I'm very nervous as a trade for something and we don't know exactly what.

[Evan]

That Is I was gonna hold his keys hostage after I let them peanut us.

[Ken]

Guess. You know, it's hard to say. It's hard to say.

[Evan]

It's not hard to say.

[Ken]

I'm so for debate. Okay, so Evan made a deal with Jake's team. They're gonna fix his Raptor.

[Evan]

But here's the deal. I think it's gonna be deeper than they think.

[CJ]

You have a car bomb in there?

[Evan]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Ken]

Once they. Once they.

[CJ]

Once they get out of their shop.

[Evan]

Needs a lot of love. Since I've gotten that truck, I've put 90,000 miles on it, and I haven't done anything but. But two sets of tires and. And some soft brake lines.

[CJ]

How many oil changes?

[Evan]

Oh, one every 10,000. Nah, 7,000.

[Ben]

I underestimated how little maintenance you did on that.

[Evan]

Yeah, like, there's not been a serious thing, but, like, the front end, it's got about 160, 165,000 miles. The front end is just blowed out. Like, I can't go over 70 miles an hour in it at the moment. The heat. Yeah, it's bad. Like, really bad.

[Ken]

Bad.

[Evan]

The ball joint, like, they're not there.

[Ken]

Well, good thing you drive like a grandpa.

[Evan]

Well, I have to. It's not even an option.

[Ken]

Well, yeah, it works out, though, for your driving.

[Evan]

And then. And then we got the heat issue. And then no heat.

[Ben]

None of that.

[Ken]

The lack of.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah, the lack. Lack of heat.

[Ken]

And then on the reverse side. Right. Lack of air conditioning.

[Evan]

Yeah, but the air.

[Ryan]

It will.

[Evan]

The heat's more of a problem. But yes, it's both.

[Ben]

It's.

[Evan]

It's the climate control.

[CJ]

Okay.

[Evan]

And then the.

[Ben]

Like that.

[Evan]

Maybe because the Raptors are notorious. Oh, yeah, the exhaust shield. But that's nothing. I just neglected that your backup camera.

[Mike]

Occasionally causes the radio not to work.

[Evan]

Well, maybe we don't know that. And they're not even. Probably get into that. That's a whole separate issue. Power steering.

[Ken]

Sorry.

[Evan]

Crack the. The. God damn it. No, they're notorious for power steering pumps going out. Like, CJ blew it out before I even got it, however.

[CJ]

But it was. It was fixed.

[Ryan]

We gave you a new one.

[Evan]

Yeah. No, no, no, no.

[Ben]

Yeah, right.

[Evan]

I'm just saying they're notorious. That' Gen 5. Like the power steering pumps half revs at full crank. It just. Problem is, is I don't think it's actually the power steering pump, which is a reasonable fix. It sounds like it's actually the whole, like, steering rack, which, from Ford cost is like 2500 just for that steering rack. Which I think they're thinking that they're gonna put a couple hundred dollar power steering pump in this thing and it's gonna work. But I don't think that's the problem.

[Ryan]

So you're saying you have to cut a bigger deal with them?

[Evan]

No, no, no. They were the deals already made. They're going to fix it all, man.

[Ken]

Imagine how nice that truck would be if you just fix the things when the maintenance came up or when they.

[CJ]

Broke care of it.

[Evan]

Right. Or just however I didn't. I made it this long. And now I'm saving myself probably upwards of $5,000 right now.

[Ken]

You can't put a price on $5,000 for driving a truck by making a deal. No air conditioning. Can't go over 70 miles per hour.

[Evan]

The ball joints really got bad within the last month or two though. That, that was extreme. The heat thing, pretty crazy. I've went three with three Minnesota winners. Three Minnesota winners.

[Ken]

I just. I just don't understand it. I've seen. I've seen you flush $5,000 on pull tabs.

[Evan]

I wouldn't be able to afford to do that if I fix my truck. Hey, and you know what else?

[Ken]

That's.

[CJ]

That's a lie.

[Ken]

Is the priorities.

[Evan]

You.

[Ken]

You would rather just spend your money on gambling and other recreational things.

[Evan]

No, I was thinking about my future knowing that it would get fixed.

[Ken]

And how has that.

[Evan]

This is just a dumb luck situation where I'm very stoked it's happening.

[Mike]

Where Jake and Tony offer a way to fix your pickup for a little information. Is that what the deal was?

[CJ]

No.

[Evan]

It was for keys to their truck that I stole and I was going to hold them hostage to give back to you guys and I just go watch the video. Ken.

[Ken]

You know, it's just hard to say if you can believe what you see.

[Evan]

You think I gave them information?

[Ken]

I think the verdict still is you.

[Mike]

Can never believe everything you see on the Internet.

[Evan]

But no, I'm pretty. I'm pretty stoked to get the Raptor back up in tip top shape. But I'm also a bit nervous.

[CJ]

You think they're gonna with it? Perhaps. Honestly, it could happen her chance.

[Evan]

I mean they already told me it's gonna be like, like at least like two weeks. They can do a lot in two.

[CJ]

What if they wrap it pink?

[Evan]

Honestly, I think they're gonna. I already put that into existence where I'm like God, I just hope they don't wrap it pink.

[Ken]

And what if they Paint.

[Evan]

I'm like, you guys are gonna make them wrap it pink. It's not even gonna be them.

[Ben]

You guys are gonna, it's not a bad idea.

[Evan]

Like wrap it pink. And then it's just gonna be like, God damn it. Now I have to drive a silver truck because I'm gonna rip it off immediately. And it's like I actually like the red. And now I'm gonna have to drive a silver truck. So because I'm not gonna spend 7, $500 to rewrap it.

[Ryan]

You don't think you would like, if we donked it?

[Ken]

That would be funny.

[Evan]

Okay, see, here's the thing. If you donk it, it'll be great. I'll burn the tires off, everything will be great. And then I can go back to where it was. If it goes wrapped pink, it's just never gonna be red again unless you rewrap it.

[CJ]

Are you planning on running it?

[Ken]

Who would put it for forever put it back.

[Evan]

So like there's just like other cooler things. Spend money on the Lambo or dude or like even literally just buy a whole nother suburban or anything rather than like take my daily and buy something else. Like I think the first gen Raptor really is the perfect truck. Contrary to what I said about like, I haven't fixed anything, but I would always reason it's an affordable truck to fix, you know.

[Ken]

If you wanted to fix it. Especially when you don't.

[Evan]

But I mean it's a good old fashioned. It's a V8 with a six speed transmission. It's not twin turbo V6 with a 11 speed or whatever the hell are in like, it's just way less. It's just a perfect truck.

[CJ]

I, I agree.

[Evan]

They tow way better than like Ben's Raptor. It does tow, but it's so. I don't know, I just think it's a perfect truck and on it, it does everything I want it to do. So I'm like, I might as well.

[Ben]

Just keep running over 200 for sure.

[Evan]

Oh, so have that by spring. Okay, maybe not.

[Ryan]

But do you think. Are you worried about possibly falling in love with Ken's raptor when he borrows it to you?

[Evan]

No, I'm not weird. I don't see it falling in love, but it seems like a little go kart.

[Mike]

My, my Raptor just kind of like becomes the rig that everyone drives when their, their vehicles are in the shop or broken. I only get to drive it like every couple months.

[Ryan]

It is nice if you can, man.

[CJ]

Whenever you guys call your Bronco, Raptors, Raptors. I get they are Raptors, but it always throws me off.

[Ben]

I never did that.

[CJ]

It's a Bronco.

[Ken]

I think we've caught Ken even big different truck before. I think he got a severe spanking for that one.

[Ryan]

You did verbally.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

That one's just a little. Little far fetched.

[Mike]

It's. Yeah, I. I did stretch. Stretch it a little bit on that one.

[Evan]

Plus you seen the way that Tony's been twisting up Raptor frames lately. And now we have possession of mine.

[Ryan]

That's true. They might jump it.

[CJ]

What if it comes back in worse shape? That'd be a funny prank.

[Ken]

It's more fucked up. And it's like, well, this is what.

[CJ]

You get for not fixing it.

[Mike]

Comes back with a Cummins motor in.

[CJ]

It and you're coming up with good ideas. We put Gavin's old Cummins motor in it.

[Evan]

That would suck. It'd be like prank me on the El Camino because it's awesome, but I don't rely on it every single day. The Raptors just like shoving a stick in someone's spokes, like it's really wrecking their day.

[CJ]

You have to drive your Lambo.

[Evan]

Yeah. And when it's 20 below out, put winners on it. It's fucking rear wheel drive, bro. And I know Mike does it with his Corvette. It's just not a winter car.

[Mike]

You just need to put a new battery in it and it's good to go.

[Evan]

That gives me way more traction on the ice.

[Ben]

You're right.

[Mike]

Well, it's a good thing. It's. It's basically spring. There's no ice on the roads anymore.

[Evan]

You know what? Honestly, it is so by far the nicest thing I've ever had. I never thought I'd own a frickin Lambo. I don't want to fucking wreck it. That's foul for no goddamn reason. Like both of you guys literally slid off the road, like not even moving because you didn't have the right tires on it. And now I'm gonna pull this thing out and I'm gonna be right where you guys were. I won't even make it out the driveway.

[Ken]

True. You would know very quick.

[Evan]

I'm just trying to like at least make it till summer and. And then I can enjoy it. But if I pile it up now.

[Ken]

You'Ll have to daily drive the El Camino.

[Evan]

I wouldn't mind that, honestly.

[CJ]

It's a great car.

[Ben]

I'll do it if I have to.

[Evan]

I would have to switch the wheel setup Though. I mean, why.

[Ben]

Well, that's why. When you're like, if you guys don't.

[Evan]

You hit a.

[Ken]

The.

[Evan]

Even the one time, you're like, bro, I got, like, the same size tires on my Lamborghini. And I'm like, I don't think so. And they were parked next to each. You're like, oh, yeah, those are way thin.

[Ken]

Like, dude, they are actually.

[Evan]

Feel it all, dude. You really do. And in that El Camino suspension, it's, you know, not exactly modern existent. Yeah, it's. It's a rough ride, but can't put a price on style.

[Ken]

It's true, man. When you love donks the way that you do, you're willing to sacrifice.

[Evan]

I do got to get a second battery in there too, for the subs. They only bang for like, 30 seconds, and I start getting interference from the alternator.

[CJ]

Do you think if you ever got another vehicle. So say you get a fourth vehicle, like you're talking about getting a Tahoe. Would you do a red one? I think you got. Stay with red. You have three red.

[Evan]

No, no, no. I actually have a fourth red vehicle. You guys just, like, don't know about it. I have a 65 Plymouth. It's sick. Just sitting in storage back home.

[CJ]

So. Yeah, you could have a fifth red vehicle. I think you got to stick with.

[Mike]

You've also got that Buick just sitting in the field.

[Evan]

What that. It's not red.

[Mike]

Maroon. Isn't it there?

[Ken]

If you guys know. You guys happen to notice that anything Evan cares about, we have no idea that it exists.

[Evan]

Would you like me to drive the old Plymouth out here next summer?

[Ken]

I don't think that you'd let us be around it.

[Evan]

I would.

[Ryan]

I wouldn't look at it.

[Evan]

I. I'd take you guys for a little ride.

[Ryan]

Touch it.

[Ken]

We're gonna film a video one day where we go up to Evan's stomping grounds and we. We break his shit.

[Evan]

Everything I've worked my whole life for just. Just gone in seconds. Ben just happier in hell.

[CJ]

Happier than a pig. And.

[Evan]

Oh, is this a really. This is that nice snow you were talking about? And just kick the windshield off it.

[Ken]

It's like, God, it's a good idea.

[Evan]

I mean, they probably do deserve it, honestly.

[Ben]

But nothing's off limits. Vehicles like your plumbing, family heirlooms, could be broken.

[Mike]

I can take care of the plumbing.

[Evan]

And that actually is a side note on that Plymouth. That is a family heirloom, is a little. Ah, my grandpa's stepdad, whatever, he passed down.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

That's why I haven't took it out, because there was a time where I was gonna, like, motor swap it and do stuff, and then it's like. It's just VIN matching, All original type of thing where it's like. And now that I have other stuff that's cool, like, it's not even worth.

[Ken]

Don't even look at it.

[Evan]

Don't even look at it. Leave it under a cover.

[Ben]

It's under a roof. You're good.

[Evan]

Drive it once a year and let her sit.

[Ken]

Little investment sitting there, Ev, it's only.

[Evan]

Investment if you sell it. I ain't gonna sell it. I'll pass it along.

[Ken]

Net worth goes up in value until we have something to do with it. Give you a little taste of your own medicine.

[CJ]

The barn it's staying in falls on it. Ben hits it. Like you hit the chicken coop.

[Ken]

Yeah, I accidentally hit the brakes late.

[Evan]

Well, as long as that video I get the revenue from, then we'll call it a even, because that's usually how it works, right? I break and.

[Ken]

Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I don't know if that would be. We'll see if that'll cover it. I don't think you want to make that deal. Well.

[Ryan]

Got a lot to think about.

[Ben]

Yeah, we do.

[Ryan]

Maybe not that much.

[Ken]

I think we gotta go and really get to the bottom of this. This beer situation. And I don't know if the evidence is there. I think that maybe things have been tampered with, and we just can't be sure.

[Evan]

We could try what Mike said after 5. It's different. So we'll. Yeah, try that.

[Ken]

Yeah, we'll get right to it.

[Ben]

And honestly, I mean, given the circumstances, Evan, I am happy for you for your truck. It's awesome to see it. Get some maintenance. It's a little scary that who it's coming from might impact the rest of the crew. We don't know yet.

[Ken]

We might have to hop in on it. If anything.

[CJ]

He's at the most risk, that's for sure.

[Ben]

Yeah, that is true.

[CJ]

Unless Evan put a car bomb in his Raptor risk, it's gonna come back.

[Evan]

Looking like Ben Subaru. That's what I'm scared.

[CJ]

We have, like, cameras on their shop. We call them over the things, and they were like, all right, everyone's out of the shop, right? They're like, yeah. What do you got going on? See this?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

What is that? That's our shop.

[Ben]

Our detonator.

[CJ]

Film their reaction.

[Ken]

Yeah, that'd be. That would definitely be pretty good prank to get them back.

[Evan]

I just hope they surprise me with how awesome it is and not surprise me with.

[Ken]

With.

[Evan]

What the hell did you do?

[Ken]

I guess we'll see about that.

[Ryan]

Only time will tell.

[Ken]

Time will tell and we might have to intervene. You're definitely see what they are planned.

[CJ]

You're definitely. I'm just telling you.

[Ben]

You are.

[CJ]

You're gonna have to without even us intervening. I'm sure they're pranking you.

[Mike]

Well, as long as you drive my Bronco less than Gavin did, it's probably fine.

[Evan]

Well, he's probably gonna be driving like 10,000.

[Mike]

Gavin drove it for six months miles. I. I don't remember what the mileage was.

[Ben]

I would be curious though. Kind of dawn, if they do destroy your truck, you could always head over to cboycv.com and get entered for a little TRX action.

[Evan]

Am I eligible?

[Ben]

No, you're not. But that's just.

[Ken]

Yeah, but everyone else is.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

2 TRX is given [e-mail] every $5 that you spend on the website gets you an entry to win. We had a new merch drop last week. So much stuff on the website. Two paint match TRXs. They are the best trucks ever. They're so good.

[Ben]

Freaking sick.

[Ken]

So stoked. So yeah, head on. Overseeboystv.com get entered and we'll see you guys next week.

[Ryan]

Peace.

[CJ]

Peace.