We Weren't Invited to Kens Birthday, Who RUINED Our Prank, & Big Wrenches Surprising Skill

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Life Wide Open with CboysTV
Episode: We Weren't Invited to Ken's Birthday, Who RUINED Our Prank, & Big Wrench's Surprising Skill
Date: February 10, 2026
Hosts: CboysTV (Mike, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Life Wide Open with CboysTV is a classic, freewheeling group chat, blending their trademark behind-the-scenes banter, prank war updates, and friend dynamics. They dive into hot topics like missing out on Ken’s exclusive birthday, a foiled elaborate prank, the sneaky spread of packing peanuts, and the surprising hidden skills of Big Wrench. Alongside all this, the group reflects on viral internet culture, growing their channel, conspiracy theories, and the ever-present chaos of daily life with the Cboys.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ken’s Birthday Party: The Great Exclusion

• Ken celebrates a low-key birthday but notably doesn’t invite most of the crew, leading to good-natured, slightly salty banter about missing out and "mysterious" friend group dynamics.
  • Ken defends himself, saying a friend organized it and reiterates his preference for a quieter celebration.
  • Ryan jokes, “[Ken], you did catch a Seaboy’s Instagram post, which is the first birthday post probably in 10 years that we’ve done.” (08:58)
  • Ben roasts Ken for not replying to birthday wishes: "No response. Radio silence." (10:02)
  • They reflect on group chat etiquette versus one-on-one texts for birthdays.

Timestamps:

• Party talk and grievances: 08:39–13:15

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2. Who Ruined the Prank? (Packing Peanut Mayhem and Rat Theories)

• Elaborate prank war backfires: The group recaps how their plan to ice over Jake’s vehicles in retaliation for a hot dog revenge prank was foiled.
  • The prank was discovered when Dalton acted suspicious, but it remains a mystery who spilled the beans—Dalton, the delivery driver, or a random tip-off?
  • “We don't know how they found out … But it's part of the fog of war.” – Ryan (20:05)
  • They speculate about mailmen, delivery drivers, and even the Uline sales rep.
  • The arms-race of prank escalation: Jake preemptively packs their offices with INSANE pizza peanuts, declares himself “Prank War Champ 2026,” violating the one-prank-at-a-time rule.
  • Group discusses "moles" (intentional or not) and how secrets accidentally leak in big friend groups.

Timestamps:

• Prank war saga: 14:24–23:02
• Rat accusations and prank secrecy: 28:43–36:24

Notable Quotes:

• Ben: “Jake called himself the prank war Champ... It's fudgeing January!” (22:10)
• Mike: "As a multi time offender, like, that is perfect. That is what you and I should be doing." (33:51)

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3. Secret-Keeping & Group Dynamics

• Lessons from failed secrets: The group laughs about the impossibility of keeping surprises in such a busy, overlapping crew.
  • Multiple group chats, accidental leaks, and the gradual group acceptance that it’s sometimes better to just NOT know the surprise.
  • This growth, especially for Ken, is called out: "Crazy personal development on Ken’s end." – Ben (35:33)
  • Ben reveals "there's probably four things in the works right now, Ryan, that are related to you that you don't know about" (36:51)

Timestamps:

• Secrecy chat: 28:43–37:19

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4. Behind the Scenes: The Cboys Office, Skate Ramp, and Lost Items

• Everyday comedy: Lost energy drinks, wallet mishaps, and classic “fridge blindness” get the group howling. (“I was fridge blind. It happens. Every guy has it.” – Ryan, 06:50)
• Skate Ramp pride: Evan singlehandedly keeps the half-pipe usable through freezing winter—Mike repeatedly forgets to skate with him though: “It’s a shame we’re not going to skate it.” (41:32)
• Big Wrench’s Secret Talent: Despite his tough farmer/mechanic vibe, Big Wrench shreds at skateboarding after a few beers, surprising the group.

Timestamps:

• Office banter: 06:10–08:39
• Skate ramp: 41:18–44:29

Notable Quotes:

• Ben: “What makes a good skateboarder is how good you are at crashing.” (44:29)
• Ken: “He knocked the cobwebs off and then, you know, let that sit … classic evolution.” (43:24)

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5. Cars, Hitting Deer, and The World’s Dumbest Animal

• Multiple deer accidents: After both Mike and Ryan hit deer, the group debates whose fault it is, discuss car damage, and riff on solutions (hunter safety, bumpers).
• Vehicle modding: Mike considers changing his Jeep after the accident but realizes he prefers stock; Ben teases it’s a sign he shouldn’t drive Jeeps.
• Deer population theory: Ryan blames less hunting for more road hazards, offers to sponsor kids to take hunter safety, “Get your kids in hunter safety and kill deer so I don’t have to do it with my car.” (64:32)
• Deer do dumb things: Anecdote about a deer breaking into a bank and chaos that ensues.

Timestamps:

• Deer/car stories: 59:00–68:21

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6. Internet, Viral Trends, and Conspiracies

• TikTok, memes, and Tourette’s: Discussion of viral "outfit of the day" content and how meme culture permeates even preschoolers’ vocabularies.
  • “There's so much in the world of memes and TikToks...anything could come out [if you have Tourette’s].” – Mike (04:11)
• Disinformation & The Epstein Files: The group riff vividly on the news hype, redacted documents, conspiracy rabbit holes, and internet skepticism.
  • Wild theories (e.g., “Island Boys” as Epstein’s sons), body double swaps, autopsy weirdness, and data leaks.
  • “It’s so easy for any kid that has Photoshop to make an email and then just post to the world.” – Ben (75:42)
  • “I think he's probably still alive.” – Ken (75:27)
  • Meta-reflection on how even their own group keeps secrets/fails at it, and applies that to the global conspiracy landscape.

Timestamps:

• TikTok/meme reflections: 01:55–05:06
• Epstein/Conspiracy: 68:21–79:56

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7. Business, YouTube, and Global Reach

• Top 10 subscriber countries game: The group tries to rank where their subscribers come from, with surprising results (India #2 thanks to Shorts views, not long-form).
• Cboys milestone: Two billion total channel views; most of their engaged, loyal audience comes from long-form content, not just viral Shorts.
• Discussion of YouTube’s internationalization: Reflection on AI auto-dubbing, accessibility, and why action sports are a globally relevant niche.

Timestamps:

• Nationality game: 82:38–89:25
• Milestone discussion: 89:25–89:56

Notable Quotes:

• Ryan: “Two billion views, boys. On the channel.” (88:41)
• Ben: “What’s really cool though is, like, a good chunk of those views come from long-form.” (89:02)

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8. Miscellaneous Memorable Moments

• Watches & Flexing: Mike shows off a knockoff “Relax” watch (“Is it a rolly?” “No, can’t afford a rolly.”—Ryan & Mike, 49:12), which prompts a discussion on fake vs real luxury.
• Skate ramp competitions: Ben’s surprise that Big Wrench can skate, and the group’s philosophy on falling safely.
• Friend group organic humor: Whether in jabs about lost wallets, Ken’s “growth” at avoiding secrets, or Mike’s perpetual story posting, camaraderie and inside jokes abound.

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Notable Quotes

• “You’re the outfit of the days, bro.” – Ben, 01:39
• “It got out somehow… We don't know how they found out.” – Ken & Ben, 00:40 & 19:53
• “It is part of the fog of war. Exactly right, Ryan. Whatever the hell that means.” – Ben, 20:06
• “If you don't know, you find something out, you’re gonna be surprised and give a good reaction…not a surprise…then we have nothing to work with.” – Ben, 35:33
• “What makes a good skateboarder is how good you are at crashing.” – Ben, 44:29
• “Get your kids in hunter safety and kill deer so I don’t have to do it with my car.” – Ryan, 64:32
• “There’s so much crazy s*** out there.” – Ben, 73:29
• “It’s so easy for any kid that has Photoshop to make an email and then just post to the world.” – Ben, 75:42
• “Two billion views, boys. On the channel.” – Ryan, 88:41

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Timestamps of Important Segments

| Topic | Timestamps | |----------------------------------|------------------------| | Ken’s Birthday Exclusion | 08:39–13:15 | | Prank War & Packing Peanuts | 14:24–23:02, 28:43–36:24 | | Group Secrets & Moles | 28:43–37:19 | | Office Life, Lost Items | 06:10–08:39 | | Skate Ramp & Big Wrench Skating | 41:18–44:29 | | Deer/Car Chaos | 59:00–68:21 | | Internet/Viral Trends | 01:55–05:06 | | Epstein/Conspiracy Talk | 68:21–79:56 | | YouTube Countries & Analytics | 82:38–89:25 | | Channel Milestone | 89:25–89:56 |

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Tone & Closing

The episode is rooted in the Cboys’ signature mixture of Midwest humor, chaos, and genuine camaraderie. Every story, theory, and roast is peppered with inside jokes and shared history, making listeners feel like part of the friend group—even (especially) through the failed secrets, pranks gone awry, and ongoing debates about life’s most important questions (like where a car should have its gas tank).

If you ever wondered what it’s like to live life wide open with the CboysTV crew, this episode is a masterclass in friendship, hilarious storytelling, and living in the moment—even if you weren’t invited to Ken’s birthday.

Transcript

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[Ben]

Like, I don't know what to believe.

[Ryan]

Did you get a watch? Is it a rolly?

[Mike]

No, can't afford a rolly.

[Ben]

They packing? Peanutted us.

[Ken]

It got out somehow.

[Ben]

We don't know how they found out. Can't say that out loud in public. There's children around. Did you know that Ken had a birthday party?

[Mike]

I didn't, No. I wasn't invited. All right, welcome back, boys and girls, to the Life Wide Open podcast. We got Ken, Evan, Ryan, and Ben.

[Ben]

Thanks for having me, Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah, of course. Yeah. How you guys doing?

[Ben]

Doing good, brother. How you doing?

[Mike]

So good. Like, camo pants. I put them on this morning. I'm just like, someone else is probably going to be wearing them, but no camera.

[Ben]

No camo pants, Ryan.

[Ryan]

No. I wore a camo sweatshirt. It's hard to mix the camos. You should kind of look like.

[Mike]

And I actually thought about ripping that hoodie just, just to be funny and just. Just dead on.

[Evan]

Dead double camo it.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Ryan, you are now the outfit of the day guy.

[Ken]

Really?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like, if I post a picture, like, putting on a new mono suit, people are just, like, kind of gay.

[Mike]

Huh?

[Ben]

Outfit of the day.

[Ryan]

You're doing it.

[Ben]

You're doing it.

[Ryan]

The outfit of the days, bro.

[Mike]

Isn't it crazy, like, how quickly that happens, you know? Like, CJ is just like, ryan, what's up with the outfit of the day? Snapchat. And now you're just the outfit of the day guy. Even though that's, you know, it's like.

[Ryan]

I start posting them to my Snap story every. Every day. Like, this is what I'm wearing today.

[Mike]

Would be pretty funny.

[Ben]

So I've been on this, like, Tourette's Tick Tock, where there's this girl.

[Mike]

I think her name is, like, Bailey.

[Ben]

But she has Tourette's, and apparently she's super famous. She's got, like, 12 million followers on Tick Tock. She used to have, like, a TLC show or something. Greta was filling me in on it. But she does outfit of the day. With her boyfriend Colin.

[Ken]

Colin.

[Ryan]

She yell calling yes.

[Ben]

Every. It's like one of her triggers. So now I'm on like outfit of the day Tik Tok. Because I like. I watch all of hers cuz she says like the most outlandish.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Ben]

And now I think the algorithm thinks that this is what I want to like.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Where you're more on the Tourette side of Tik Tok instead of the outfit of the day side.

[Ben]

Yeah, more so.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Did she have the one. Have the show on TV on tlc? Like, bailing out loud? It hurts her. Oh, sorry, my ears aren't working today.

[Ben]

It's okay.

[Mike]

Have you guys seen the Tourette's south park episode? If you haven't watch it.

[Ben]

All right. Anyway, I don't have.

[Mike]

It's so funny.

[Ben]

I don't think it's so good.

[Mike]

You got to watch it. Cartman pretends to have Tourette's and then he actually gets Tourette's. Oh, really?

[Ben]

Tourette's is crazy, dude. Like, I mean, obviously it's terrible for the people that have it, but like the shit that they say and yet they're still just like running loose in. In public.

[Mike]

Loose.

[Ken]

It's kind of like Grandpa Ron.

[Ben]

Yes, essentially. Yeah. It's like. It's like grandpa, you can't. You can't say that out loud in public. There's children around.

[Ryan]

Old people always say crazy stuff.

[Ben]

Yeah, they do. But like, people with Tourette's, they obviously can't help it, right? And they say some of the most vulgar you'll ever hear.

[Ryan]

But I think old people just don't care.

[Evan]

But can they not help it? Or do they just use that as an excuse so they can say whatever they want?

[Ryan]

Up, Ken.

[Ken]

That is pretty messed up.

[Mike]

That's what they cover in the south park episod.

[Ben]

People with Tourette's.

[Evan]

Yeah, I mean, are they just using that as a cover? Like, oh, I have Tourette's. And then they just. That's their.

[Ryan]

Their.

[Evan]

Their cue to just like, get away with it.

[Ryan]

That's what Dalton says when he says a bad joke.

[Ben]

Yeah, sorry.

[Mike]

I just wonder, like, in the world of like, memes and tiktoks, like, let's say the sound that's going around. TikTok that, like, fa sound. Like, are they just watching tiktoks and then it's going into their head and then they're just putting it out to the world?

[Ryan]

I don't know how the brain works, dude. I'm pretty dumb already.

[Mike]

It's A tough day and age to have Tourette's because, like, anything could come out.

[Ben]

Like, and you saying something.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Like you consume something on TikTok.

[Mike]

There's so much. And then you're in a funny sounds.

[Ryan]

Going on for, you know, going six, seven. Yeah, like that.

[Mike]

You know, Gosh. You know, I Turf combo. Just speaking of that, Ryan, like, it's a young kids thing, right? And we've. We all had things that we said when we were young, but I volunteer at church, right? And there's preschoolers, so they are five years old. And like, to me, they're just babies. Like, they don't really even know how to, like, say a full sentence. And they're over here like six, seven. And it's just the weirdest thing. I mean, they're like, they. To me, they're like toddlers. And I'm like, how deep does this go?

[Ben]

I think it goes pretty deep, but I. I think. I think, like, it's finally coming to the point where now it's becoming not cool to say it. You know, it's like the way if you're saying it.

[Evan]

Yeah, it went too mainstream.

[Mike]

The five year olds and Unc.

[Ben]

If they're saying, I agree though, now it went Cheeto.

[Mike]

Yeah. I also was cracking up the other day when we were filming. We were out on the road and we met these guys in the Budweiser truck they were delivering. They were stoked to meet us. They gave us some energy drinks. And then the last thing they say and tell Evan, he's Cheeto, you know, as a joke. But, like, the Cheeto army is still alive and well.

[Ryan]

It's good to hear. Yeah.

[Ben]

Didn't they kind of feel wrong? Mike, when he was like, you guys want some energy drinks, some product?

[Mike]

And they slid the door open.

[Ben]

I was like, robbing a bank.

[Ryan]

Like a truck.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Like, we can't give you any beer, anything.

[Ben]

But we could.

[Mike]

Yeah, energy drinks or whatever. And we. They just like ripped open the plastic on the pallet and like, pulled three energy drinks off and then gave them to us. And we're like, it's not. We don't need. We can go to the gas station right over there.

[Ben]

It felt wrong. And it also felt like I wanted to ask, but I didn't want to put them in an uncomfortable position. But I was like, yo, whose product is this? Like, is a store gonna be like, yo, why are these cases halfway, like, open? Yeah. Like, what, were we robbed?

[Mike]

Yeah, I did feel weird too, but.

[Ben]

I was like, thanks, dude. Stolen product.

[Ken]

It probably just marked it down as, like, damage.

[Mike]

Yeah. Yeah, probably.

[Ben]

Ryan.

[Evan]

Ryan got one and then he lost it, and he was just blaming me left and right.

[Ryan]

I was not blaming you.

[Evan]

You were.

[Ryan]

You. I was gonna blame somebody, though, that's for damn sure.

[Evan]

You're like, where. Where is my white. What was it? White gummy bear, ghost or whatever?

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was a white gummy bear.

[Evan]

Did you take it? Did you throw it away? I was like, no.

[Ryan]

I just asked if you drank it because that. That. But. But yeah, I was pretty accused of driving.

[Evan]

You had the right side of the fridge open, and then you, like, close it, run around the whole shop, and then you finally open the left side and there it was.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I was fridge blind. It happens. It's. Every guy has it. You look in the fridge, where's the ketchup? You can't find.

[Mike]

Where's the boiled. Hard boiled eggs?

[Ryan]

Where's the hard boiled eggs? No. Yeah. Where was my white gummy bear? And I. I couldn't find it.

[Ken]

Ken, what about when you lost your wallet in the sprinter van and freaked out on everybody?

[Evan]

Well, I was trying to find my wallet.

[Mike]

O. Lost it.

[Evan]

I lost it. And I'm, you know, trying to use the. The fine. You know, I had an air tag in it. So I was trying to find it.

[Ben]

And everyone was unbelievable that you couldn't find it.

[Ryan]

It's beeping.

[Ben]

It beeps, and it brings you to within inches of it.

[Ken]

But you're bowling at China, shopping in the sprinter van. There's not running around to move around. We got helmets. We got all kinds of stuff.

[Ryan]

I'm like, you're just rummaging.

[Evan]

I eventually came to the conclusion that it was in my back pocket.

[Ken]

And after you swore it, everybody, I.

[Evan]

Was like, be quiet. I'm trying to hear the beeps coming from because it was, like, close, but everywhere I went, it was like.

[Ryan]

It was like it was right behind.

[Evan]

It's always two to three feet away. Is this thing.

[Ryan]

How.

[Ken]

But how do you. How do you not check your pocket first?

[Mike]

Like it was in your pocket.

[Evan]

It was in my back pocket.

[Ryan]

Pocket.

[Ken]

You mean where the wallet normally goes?

[Evan]

Yeah, but normally I'm trying to keep it in the front pocket.

[Ben]

Were you wearing your overalls?

[Evan]

No, I wasn't. I was wearing. I was wearing some kind of joggers or something.

[Ben]

And so that's why you didn't know it was in your back pocket. Usually your pants are so tight, you know that there's something in your pocket and everyone else knows because it's Skin tight pants and there's a ball, like vacuum sealed. His pants are usually vacuum sealed onto his body.

[Evan]

No, that was definitely a dumb moment. I was like, wow, I should have just felt back there.

[Ryan]

And we were really close to helping until he shut the fuck up. And then all of us went okay. And then started talking constantly to make it harder to find.

[Mike]

Well, let's transition into another segment here. Ken, it was your birthday yesterday. It was a glorious day.

[Evan]

Very nice, very chill. Finally, the most chill birthday I've had in many, many years.

[Mike]

Really? Yeah, we usually, we usually do a little something in an event.

[Ben]

God forbid your friends celebrate your birthday.

[Ryan]

Ken, you did catch a Seaboy's Instagram post, which is the first birthday Post probably in 10 years that we've done.

[Mike]

I really enjoyed that. I was like, we should really post something for Ken's birthday. It's just legend it. We have so many good pictures of you. It's one thing I want to keep doing. I noticed like the sickos do it. They just post a bunch of embarrassing pictures of each of the guys in the group. And I loved it. Of Ken. But Ken, you're continuing on the trend of a bunch of people wishing you happy birthday and then you just not.

[Evan]

Saying that is any fake news.

[Ben]

You didn't respond to Greta.

[Ryan]

You didn't respond in our primals group chat or in our CFAM group chat.

[Mike]

That's what I thought.

[Evan]

Or I'm pretty sure I said thanks, guys, and then 15 other people said it.

[Ryan]

Okay, no, let's find out.

[Mike]

I'm not seeing any thank yous.

[Ryan]

This is not a new thing. This is an every year thing. You completely ignore everyone who said.

[Mike]

And keep in mind.

[Evan]

Did I?

[Mike]

Ken, this is tough right here.

[Ben]

Cfam. Happy birthday, Ken. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. Heart, Heart, Heart. From Greta.

[Ryan]

Damn.

[Ben]

No response. Radio silence.

[Mike]

And also, Evan had a good point. He goes, you know, maybe Ken, just wait until the end of the day. It's a group chat. It's not quite as personal. He's just going to fire out a thanks everyone.

[Evan]

So all.

[Mike]

Which would make sense.

[Evan]

All the people that text me individually, I did text back.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Evan]

When it goes in the group chat, it's kind of like I saw one.

[Ryan]

That was unread right there.

[Mike]

Brandon, you're gonna have a lot of.

[Ryan]

Oh, Megan, Megan, Megan. And Brandon, I want to know who.

[Mike]

You did text back.

[Evan]

David, New York. Jim.

[Mike]

Nice.

[Ben]

Brian, the close.

[Evan]

I didn't text sound effects back.

[Ryan]

Okay, Rich.

[Evan]

Rich, Nick.

[Ben]

Well, if you didn't respond to Rich. You would have been like, oh, you went big time. Hey, Mike, did you know that Ken had a birthday party last night?

[Mike]

I didn't know I wasn't invited.

[Ben]

Ryan, did you know that Ken had a birthday party last night?

[Ryan]

I knew Ken had a birthday party. And on Tuesday, I said, ken, what are we doing for your birthday this week? And you said, I don't know. Then on Wednesday, I said, what are you doing? You said, maybe just grab some dinner. And now on your birthday, I said, ken, what are you doing for your birthday? And you said, probably just grabbing some dinner with some friends. I went, no fucking taken.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Went home and had microwave rice and a protein smoothie.

[Evan]

Your dad came.

[Ryan]

I know my dad was invited, but I wasn't.

[Evan]

Yeah, so it was a different group of friends. They. She, like, organized everything, was like, sent out the invite and she's good friends with Brandy's girlfriend. So.

[Mike]

Okay. Yeah, I went to a different gathering last night and then like, oh, I'm surprised you didn't go to Ken's birthday party.

[Evan]

It was.

[Ben]

And you were like, it's Ken's birthday.

[Mike]

And then they're like, oh, shout out. Should I not have said something? And I'm like, no, it's. It's fine.

[Ben]

I'm sure it was a surprise. Yeah, surprise birthday, maybe.

[Evan]

There was already a lot of people and they just split our table up.

[Ben]

Us, Ken. What the hell? Is that supposed to make us feel better? Is that supposed to make us feel better about not being invited? Not being invited to your birthday?

[Evan]

There's already so many people.

[Ben]

None of us were invited to Ken's birthday.

[Evan]

Well, it was.

[Ben]

Is that not weird to anyone else?

[Evan]

It was on a Thursday and you were all.

[Ryan]

You started editing.

[Evan]

There was still pro. You're having problems.

[Ben]

It was kind of like, nobody knows that. Nobody knows that.

[Ken]

I had a lot going on, Ken, last night. I would have hated to come, have a few beers.

[Ben]

Problem, Ken, whoever hosted your birthday, or you should have, the party started at 5. And nobody knew that there was problems with the video until I texted at 7:30. Two and a half hours after his birthday party was done.

[Evan]

Yeah, I actually didn't start till 7. And I knew you were still uploading, so I was kind of like, that's okay.

[Ben]

So what about Mike and me and Ryan?

[Evan]

I didn't organize it. I was told a time and a place, and then we just showed up.

[Ryan]

I did kind of feel bad about that because who organized it? Did extend an invite. But then when you were so kind of apathetic about me being there. I was like, maybe just won't. Won't bother you so that you have time with your girlfriends. But then I was like, what if it's a surprise? And I just said no to the invite.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And then, you know, then you were like, oh, damn, where's Ryan? And everybody else?

[Mike]

But gosh, that is too good, Ken. I just love how mysterious you are year after year.

[Evan]

Well, there's no shots. There's no shots forced down my throat last night. So that was really. That was a positive. It's an improvement from the last couple years.

[Mike]

Anything else forced down?

[Evan]

No, because normally. Normally it's. Oh, here's a shot, Here's a shot. Oh, take these seven drinks and it gets a little out of hand.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Never do that to you.

[Evan]

Oh, there's a video of it.

[Ben]

There is.

[Evan]

I think it was fun. I don't remember.

[Ryan]

I think it was Alondra.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan]

Yeah. That was a fun birthday.

[Ben]

Standing up in front of the entire restaurant and getting everyone to sing Happy Birthday.

[Ryan]

Maybe that's why we don't get invited.

[Ben]

Makes sense.

[Ryan]

It does make sense now.

[Ben]

Looked like you had a good time, Ken.

[Evan]

It was nice and quiet. C.J. and Alex showed up.

[Ben]

Oh, C.J. was invited.

[Mike]

Salt on the wound.

[Ben]

Yeah. So we still got packing peanuts.

[Ryan]

What? There's one right back over there underneath the bubbler.

[Ben]

I'll be just walking from my office somewhere and I'll be like, what the heck? I'll pick my feet up and there's a packing peanut on the bottom of it.

[Evan]

I. I even spent a good 20 minutes in here cleaning up, like, the remains of what was left over.

[Mike]

I think we did a bang up job cleaning everything up. There's just. I mean, yeah, they're everywhere, right? They keep coming out, but just like, one at a time.

[Evan]

They're in, like, every nook and cranny of this building.

[Mike]

We did a good job.

[Ben]

Yeah. So if you guys saw the last video, we had planned on pranking our friend Jake. So we're in this prank war, Right. So last October at this point, Mike bought a thousand hot dogs and then they expired. They were in the back of his truck, so we didn't know what to do with them. So we dropped them off at Jake's doorstep, thinking that he could freeze them and do something with them. Well, he proceeded to mulch them up, put them in his dad's Hydro Cedar, and then he came to our compound and he sprayed the entire compound down. All the cars, everything. So Our entire compound smells like hot dog water, and it has little bits of. Of hot dog everywhere still. It's still like that. It froze, like, pretty shortly after. And so now when it thaws in the spring. Oh, it's gonna just be nasty. Yeah, it's gonna happen all over again. Right. So anyway, we hadn't pranked Jake back after that because we were just letting it simmer. We were just, like, you know, had had our iron in the stove, and we were just waiting for the right time to burn them.

[Mike]

And we thought it was fun. They thought we were gonna strike back within, like, a week or two. And we're like, it'd be really funny if we just wait, like, oh, three months. Yeah.

[Ben]

Because he was so on edge, and his entire team was on edge. Jake had mentioned multiple times that he just wanted us to prank him so the anxiety of waiting for the prank could be done with. Like, he could go back to his normal life and be less worried about, like, leaving his shop for four hours at a time or going to bed at night. And so we were waiting for the right time to strike. And last week was 20 below out, and we were like, all right, this would be a good time to prank Jake back. We got Mike's water truck going. We were going to go to Jake's compound and cover all of his vehicles in his parking lot with Mike's water truck water and make it look just like just a big ice cube. A big ice cube. It's like when a fire hydrant breaks in the middle of winter, and it shoots all the water up and then whatever surrounding it. Usually vehicles have, like, feet of ice on them. That was our goal to do to.

[Ryan]

Jake's truck, which would have been so great.

[Ben]

And, yeah, so we are planning on doing that. And the way that we were going to get Jake out of his shop was Jake and his crew are rebuilding Dalton's truck right now or trying to. And so we were going to have Dalton just, like, go with Jake to his truck and try and figure out, like, the parts situation and, like, film an update or something like that to get him out of the shop. Right. Dalton goes over there and apparently was acting so suspicious that they put two and two together that we were trying to prank him. They figured out that the water truck was trying to get back in operating condition, which wasn't actually. It wasn't working at all. It started on fire in the process, which classic amazing. Another vehicle, it got cut from the.

[Mike]

Video, but if you use enough ether, it's flammable. It's going to start on fire.

[Ben]

So Jake and his team, like, call us, and they're like, yeah, we know what you guys are planning right now. Like, the gig is up. We're like, what the fuck? So then it pretty much turned into us just being like, yo, how did they figure it out? And we figured Dalton just told them.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Maybe spilled the beans.

[Ben]

Spilled the beans because, like, they're working on Dalton's truck. And we were like, did he. Did he, like, trade information or.

[Ryan]

Yep.

[Ben]

Like a deal on the truck.

[Mike]

But it turned out to be a.

[Ben]

Combination of things we actually still don't entirely know.

[Mike]

I think they just put two and two together because they. Because you and CJ had told them that you were going to soup the water truck up and surprise me. And then they came over to talk sunglasses. And then they're like, ask me what they're doing with the water truck. I'm like, oh, we're just trying to make, like, an ice rink out in the parking lot. And they're like, okay.

[Evan]

The more information Tony gives, the more I am. I'm confused about where they're getting this information from.

[Ben]

So anyway, we were like, all right, we're going to pivot. We're going to get them in on the prank. So they think where we're going to start taking Dalton's truck apart. Because then they were, like, holding Dalton's truck ransom. They were, like, essentially telling Dalton, like, if you let these guys prank us, we're going to dismantle your truck and send you part by part for the next month. And so he was all tweaked out about it, and we were like, okay, let's. Let's, like, try and get them on our side. Like, we're not going to prank them. We're going to prank Dalton instead by. By actually sending him the parts. Right.

[Ryan]

Little ruse.

[Ben]

So while we were doing that, we're gonna get them out of the shop, go to Jake's, and start pulling Dalton's truck apart. Well, meanwhile, we're actually gonna fill Jake's entire house up with packing peanuts. The day before we were gonna do that prank, they packing peanut us. They came to our shop and filled up my office, the podcast studio where we're sitting right now. CJ's, Ken's, Ryan's office. All with packing peanuts. Right? So the night before we were gonna do it to Jake, they did it to us.

[Evan]

And the only office they didn't. Packing peanut. Was Dalton's.

[Ben]

Was Dalton's.

[Mike]

And two questions were posed. One, how on earth. Did they like know. Was it just coincidence? And then two. Did they take our packing peanuts?

[Evan]

That takes a little bit of planning. You got to order those in, get them shipped. Like it takes a minimum 48 hours to get those.

[Mike]

And they left the bags and we checked and Jake did order them. So at this point it's coincidence.

[Ben]

But courtrots too small to have coincidence.

[Ken]

How long did we have the peanuts on hand?

[Mike]

Ten days.

[Ken]

Pretty crazy. I think that's it got out somehow. There's no way.

[Ben]

That's 100. 100. Got it. It's not a coincidence. We still actually do not know. We don't know how they found out. I'm sure we could like really press them and I don't know, maybe they would. They would tell us, but.

[Ryan]

But it's part of the fog of war.

[Ben]

It is part of the fog of war. Exactly right, Ryan. Whatever the hell that means. But I think we'll find out organically, which will feel a lot better. But we don't know how they figured out our plan. There's a lot of theories. So we posted the video last night. We said, comment? Who you think the rat is? A lot of fingers are being pointed at Dalton. I would like to think that it wasn't him. Like he wouldn't switch up on his team like that. Could it have been the mailman or like the delivery guy?

[Ken]

That's what I was kind of thinking is. I mean, we got a semi load.

[Ben]

Like you line sent an entire semi truck of packing peanuts on a Wednesday to Cormorant and then call it five days later they sent another half semi load to Cormorant. Yeah, but they're like, what is going on? Like why. Why is this little town of 25 people get enough packing peanuts to drown a city?

[Evan]

Unless the Uline rep told Jake. Cuz the Uline rep actually lives right next door to Jake's mom.

[Mike]

Oh.

[Ryan]

New information unlocked.

[Evan]

I just. I thought of that last night.

[Ryan]

I don't.

[Ben]

That's a good theory, Ken. That's actually a really good theory.

[Ken]

Did the delivery driver. I. I doubt what all these peanuts were for.

[Evan]

I wasn't there when it got unloaded, but I. I'm pretty sure that truck came straight from Wisconsin. I'm not sure at the quantity that Jake ordered where that truck would have come from. He might have got a local truck.

[Ken]

Can you imagine if instead of packing peanuts, we got cheese curds? It was just a mix up at The Wisconsin factory.

[Mike]

40 grand.

[Ben]

I was thinking about that as well. I mean, you guys, you guys obviously saw what the inside of your van looked like after we put Cheetos and, and cheese puffs in it. I was like, what if we would have balled out and spent like $10,000 on Cheetos?

[Ryan]

Oh my God, the dust would have been insane.

[Ben]

The puffs.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Oh, puffs, yeah.

[Ken]

Getting in your. Oh, that would be bad.

[Ben]

Oh, it would ruin everything.

[Ken]

You have to bring the shop down. Just start over fresh.

[Ben]

Jake called himself the prank war Champ. Right off the 26, he left a sign, he said prank war champ of 2026. And we're like, buddy, it was. It's fudgeing January right now. Just 2020. Yeah. What are you doing? Right? So he called himself the champ. And we were like, well, you can't do that. And so we had to like really ramp it up. And also, it was a war crime to strike two times in a row. Like, he didn't let us like hit him back.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

In between, which is punishable. That's. That's prank war. One on one. How stupid are you?

[Mike]

Right?

[Ben]

So it was like all rules out the window.

[Ken]

Yeah, we should get a big trophy made. It says prank champs 2020. He made a cardboard.

[Mike]

I know. I wasn't going to give it to ourselves. Yeah, no, we give it to ourselves. But then he'd be like, what is this? And we're like, yeah, they sent it to us. Who's they? I don't know.

[Ben]

The committee.

[Mike]

Yeah, the committee.

[Ken]

The experts.

[Mike]

Yeah.

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[Ben]

And then other people in our team that have also talked to other people in the community are like verifying that he was the mole. And I'm like, I just don't think he was.

[Ryan]

I don't think so either.

[Evan]

I do get his concern about his pickup and I back up. I get it. Like, he doesn't want like Tourette's.

[Ben]

You have Tourette's.

[Evan]

He doesn't want Jake and Tony to like just fully disassemble his pickup, throw it on his doorstep and say, here you go, put it back together. But and doesn't fully add up.

[Mike]

And Ken, something that particularly you and I can relate on is that there's unintentional moles. Like, I've ruined shit before all the time. And then it's. It's like, Micah, why do you hate us? You're A rat. You're a mole. And I'm like, it was an accident. Same thing happens to Ken. Like, he slips and it sucks.

[Evan]

Like, just CJ's done it before.

[Mike]

CJ has done it before. And so. And it doesn't necessarily. It, it makes you a mole by definition, but not by intention, which is a huge difference.

[Ken]

Just, I told like, stupid Gavin, stupid three wheeler. And I was a rat for years. Ben finally just doesn't really call me it too much anymore. He literally just started calling me Zurat.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Because I had to go. I had that horrible experience buying the OG the Gavin trike that he crashed into the ditch. The guy was trying to like take me in his car and go for a four hour drive and stuff. So it was a crazy, I had a crazy day. So then I like, told Mike about it, but. Yeah, you were pretty upset about it.

[Ben]

Which one was that?

[Evan]

The moped thing?

[Ben]

Oh, the moped three wheeler. Can I hit the ditch?

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. That thing sucked too.

[Ben]

I actually, I don't remember. I don't remember that.

[Ken]

That's like when you started calling me a rat. Because I told Mike about it. It was like, the surprise is on Gavin. Yeah, I mean, I get it. It's better if Mike didn't know, but I didn't think it was a big deal.

[Ben]

The issue with Mike knowing is a lot of times it'll end up on your story. Yeah, it'll end up. Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

Yeah. Or something like, I'll fire something in the group chat. And it's like, yo, the guy we're trying to pranks in the group chat that you just sent the chat about.

[Evan]

Like, Mike, you have to unsend this immediately.

[Ben]

Or when we're trying to pick up Axel Hodges to surprise Evan with. And then when we're picking Axel up, Mike is on his Insta story reposting videos of Axel being like, yo, headed to the Sea Boys. And he's sending them in our group chat that Evan's in. And we're like, bro, what are you doing?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

And he wore his actual pants that day. He was throwing a lot of flags.

[Mike]

True. But also it's like our Instagram group chat that Evan could potentially check three times a day or one time in three weeks.

[Evan]

Also, Mike, Mike spilled the beans on the rich pickup.

[Ken]

I like the one where you're secretly picking up a wheelchair for Ken, but then posted the guy.

[Mike]

Yeah, that was probably my worst. No, I, I, I sent it like to the group chat. I think it's, it's almost better if it's on my story because again, Ken might watch my story two times in one day or once every two weeks or ever.

[Ben]

It's like it just doesn't click with you though, Mike, where you care enough to, like, think it through.

[Evan]

Sometimes you got to wait until the content has already been published before you can post that. Those. Those stories or those Snapchats. Well, you just got to save it to your camera roll and then. Okay, this is safe.

[Mike]

That's the interesting thing, is that like 99% of time that is what I do. That's what we all do.

[Ben]

Realistically, Mike, I would actually call it 65% of the time.

[Mike]

Disagree.

[Ryan]

That's less than two thirds.

[Mike]

Still disagree.

[Evan]

It's like we're not even done filming something. I'll open up Snapchat. Oh, Michael posted this on there.

[Mike]

That's not true. You guys joke about that happening way more than it actually happens.

[Ken]

I think you think it happens less than it actually happens.

[Mike]

I think I do it the most out of anyone.

[Ken]

But yes, you guys, not a joke.

[Mike]

About it happening way more than it actually happens. Like, you guys rip jokes about all the time.

[Ben]

And I responded, the joke is not.

[Mike]

Even on my story. I just livestream the whole thing.

[Ben]

It hasn't even happened yet. And it's already on Mike's story.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ken]

Joke. Just to remind you not to. It's like.

[Mike]

Oh, I mean, it's like you. Yeah, you make jokes about the thing that someone's always effing up on. It's fair. But overall, like, I'd say Ken and I have effed up an equal amount of things because Ken is so okay.

[Ben]

Now where he doesn't even learn. He doesn't even let himself find things out. Yeah, because he knows how. How weak he is at keeping a secret. Like, he's. He actually is pretty self aware about it now where he'll, like, avoid all conversations. If it's even in the wind, I'll hear something.

[Evan]

Oh, this is going to be a secret. Okay, Let me just turn around and I'll. I'll go do something better.

[Ryan]

I don't even know.

[Ben]

It's not even on. It's not a secret that I can't know. It's. I don't even trust my.

[Evan]

Well, sometimes it's like I don't need. Unless I am required to be involved in this. It's like, what's the point of even overhearing something? Because it's just all it's going to do is get me riled up. Or something. Or pointless for me to get involved until we're filming the video or I have to go pick something up or like arrange something. It's just pointless. You might as well just stay out of it completely. Then you're not an accomplice in it.

[Mike]

As a multi time offender, like, that is perfect. That is what you and I should be doing. You get hit even harder with, you know, discipline as a multi time offender. So, like, for example, I remember, I want to say it was the rich thing, like when I. Everyone was like, Micah. He was the one you knew because of Micah. Right. And then he's just like, no, it was actually cj. And then that just gets brushed over. Oh, it was me. Damn. You know, because he doesn't.

[Ryan]

Oh, the other one, that C.J.

[Ben]

Blue, when he just literally said a few.

[Evan]

The axle was.

[Ben]

It was the axle. Yeah.

[Evan]

He heard it driving by and CJ just blew the full load.

[Mike]

And it's like, so how did you know? How do you know Axel is coming? Was it Micah's when he said that? No, it was cj. I'm like, yeah.

[Ken]

What did cj Sam say with it?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Oh, I hope Axel doesn't mind the cold.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Looks at me, I'm like.

[Ben]

And I look at, I look at.

[Evan]

Cj, I was like, cj, shut the up.

[Ben]

What I wanted to say is, Ken, you think, you think that way now, but even like two years ago, if you even heard whisperings, you're like this.

[Evan]

You were like a bloodhound.

[Ben]

You're like, what's going on?

[Ryan]

What?

[Ben]

What is it? What is it? What is it? And you couldn't help yourself but get like, intervene.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Evan]

The problem is everything is a secret. So it's just like, unless you're directly involved in it, it's. It's just pointless trying to like figure something out.

[Ben]

You think that now, but two years ago you, you. I know, but you help yourself. But. But figure it out. But it's like you had to figure it out.

[Evan]

It's just growth and, you know, trying to.

[Mike]

Let's grow.

[Evan]

Honestly, it's just way less stressful.

[Ryan]

Keep growing your beard out, Mike. You'll learn. You'll be more wise.

[Ben]

Crazy personal development. On Ken's end. I think the issue is, like, we're not actors and everything is just a hundred times better.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

If you are genuinely surprised, quite literally always. Right. So it's for like the benefit of everyone. Right. Where if you don't know, you find something out, you're gonna be surprised and you're gonna be excited about it and you're gonna give a good reaction. And then a lot of times if you do find out, you have no reaction because it's not a surprise. And then, and then it's like we have nothing to work with.

[Mike]

Right? That's. I think all of us are on the same page. When you see something that's, let's say it's directly for you and you accidentally catch a whiff and you're like, that's my reaction. If I, like saw something that was being planned for me, I'm just like, ah, I wish I could delete that out of my brain. Because yeah, again, like you said, we're not actors and it's just 100 times better.

[Ben]

And the issue with it now is like, there's so many moving parts and I don't even know how many group chats I have that don't have one of you guys sitting.

[Mike]

All of them.

[Ben]

Yeah, like, like we have like 12 different group chats that just don't have one person in it because, like, that's the person that's getting surprised. Right. So it's like when there's so many like cooks in the kitchen though, things just inevitably get spoiled.

[Ryan]

Damn. I didn't know you guys had a group chat without me.

[Ben]

Yeah, and there's probably four things in the works right now, Ryan, that are related to you that you don't know about that everyone else does that I'm hoping stay a secret.

[Ryan]

Fuck.

[Ben]

Four probably. Honestly. And that's why we brought Jack in now that nobody can find out because it's like so many things get spoiled because, like, I need help planning things and you know, it's. That's when you got to get other people involved, but you have to be.

[Mike]

Specific on who you choose to help.

[Ben]

Yeah, dude, it's. There's a science to this.

[Ryan]

There really is.

[Mike]

There might be a group chat for a prank for you, Ryan, that I'm not allowed in. For good reason.

[Evan]

It's like I only got involved in the axle group chat because I had to book his flights and all the everything else. Yeah, that's the only reason I figured that out. You didn't tell me who I was booking a flight for until I got his, like, information.

[Ken]

It's like I was thinking of going and seeing a hypnotist because just yesterday I saw something I wasn't supposed to. Ah, I didn't even try.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's. Dude, I love that we need an in house hypnotist.

[Mike]

There we go.

[Ryan]

The men in black.

[Ken]

Gavin. What about Gavin's buddy? The one that came here and had Gavin birthing an alien or whatever?

[Mike]

That was good.

[Ben]

Dude, that was crazy. We were actually talking about that yesterday.

[Ryan]

I've been trying to get a mind reader to come on the podcast, but they don't want to be recorded.

[Mike]

Well, because I think it'd be funny.

[Ryan]

Whatever, you know? Yeah, exactly. And I'm like, no, it's cool. Like, you do your thing, and we'll just. We'll just see. And they're like, no, we don't want.

[Evan]

To let the secrets of the trade go.

[Ben]

So what about Oz the Mentalist? Is that the guy's name?

[Ryan]

Yeah, but, you know, there's, like, performers, then there's people who do it for the love of the game. And I think we. We locally only have love of the game. Like the guy. The guy who does the lie detector test. Been trying to get lie detector tests as well. No one will do it. Everyone's a pop. I'm not gonna pop up. I'll do a lie detector. Check us on camera. I go, what about this guy? And they go, he's. He's not a part of the real culture. He's not even a certified electrician or whatever the it is. People are so against it. So you have to have the people in California that are just doing it for acting.

[Ben]

Why would they be against it?

[Ryan]

Because it's fake. Lie detectors are fake. They're not admissible in court.

[Mike]

And that's been a thing for a.

[Ben]

While because it's all based off of, like, heart rate.

[Ryan]

Yeah. So you could either be trained to not get excited and, like, fool it or train yourself to, like, spike your heart rate. And then you would get Gavin's on.

[Mike]

It, like, 4 Celsius deep. Everything this guy says is just off the charts.

[Ryan]

Just says he's having a heart attack right now.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I actually just saw a video about that with, like, CIA agents. Like, they're trained to be able to pass lie detectors.

[Ryan]

Polygraphs.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Evan]

There's something like, you can put a tack in your shoe, and you just step on it. There is something like all the movies or something have.

[Ken]

Can you imagine you're about to tell a lie, so you just stomp your heart rate like that.

[Ryan]

That's why. Because you, like, raise your heart rate for everyone.

[Evan]

You fake the baselines, and then, like, when the actual lies come out, then it's. It's already faked.

[Ryan]

Fake the baseline. So when the lies come out, nobody knows.

[Mike]

That's, like, if you're like, always use eye drops, but you're always stoned. No one will ever know your stone.

[Ken]

No, you know, it's. You never have to use the eye drop. They think that's just how you look.

[Mike]

Yeah. Dude, I looked up the other day. Sydney's like, how long's the longest someone's ever slept before? Oh, my God. That's interesting. And they have never really done any studies, but the one showed up. Then it was like this. So and so in 1962, slept for eight days straight, but they were under hypnotization. I'm like, eight days is still a long time to be sleeping.

[Evan]

It's not just coma.

[Mike]

Yeah. I was like, can you imagine sleeping for eight days?

[Ben]

The dream, right? Mike, the dream.

[Mike]

Actually, dude, not the dream.

[Ken]

I'd be hungry as hell when I woke up.

[Ryan]

You'd be like a bear.

[Mike]

I couldn't make it. Evan's a classic. Wake up at three, rummage for a snack, and back to bed. You know what else, Evan, I got to apologize to you for? And I'm also really proud of you. So we have the half pipe in the back of the shop, right? And it's winter, and we. We've had some fluctuating temperatures, right? It's been negative 25 and it's been 40, and we're getting snow and it's melting, whatever. And the last three times now maybe four, Evan has cleared the half pipe of snow, completely cleared it, used the torch, got it fully dry, and then he goes, you should probably come over and we should skate it. And then I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I just get busy. And then it snows again, and then it snows more like he's cleared it off four times.

[Ryan]

You guys haven't skated it?

[Mike]

We skated it once for like 10 minutes, and then. And last yesterday, there was so much snow. How long did that take you?

[Ryan]

No.

[Ken]

Half hour.

[Mike]

Oh, okay.

[Ken]

Well, it's not.

[Mike]

It's not a little bit better, but it's all cleared off and I just look at it and I go, it's a shame we're not going to skate it.

[Ben]

I think we are with you.

[Mike]

We are.

[Ken]

This time we're going to have.

[Mike]

We are.

[Ken]

I think we have a long stretch of warm weather.

[Mike]

We do. It's been interesting. We. This. This winter's been interesting. But yeah, we have like a stint of like 35 degree days.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Did you see that? The other day, Ben Dalton heard you talking about you were gonna drop in, and then he decided he was Gonna try. And he just did it.

[Mike]

Luckily, really, it doesn't count until it's on the three foot. But he's. He is a step ahead.

[Ben]

I didn't know we were in. Yeah, I mean, it happened fast in competition. The only guy I knew I was in competition with now is Big Wrench or Big Red. Big Wrench heard that I was going to drop in on the skate ramp.

[Mike]

And he said.

[Ben]

And then. And then he was like, dropping on the skate ramp. I could go and do that right now. And I was like, what?

[Ken]

He did say he used to be more of a street skater, but he thinks he could get it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Big Rich was a skater.

[Ben]

I could go and drop in on that. On that ramp right now. And I was like, let's make this a thing. Do a little bit. And I thought that it was gonna just fall by the wayside, and I was never gonna actually hear anything about Big Ranch skateboarding ever again. So we get home from our trip the other night, and him and Evan got into the road. Beers on the way home in the Sprinter van. And I'm transferring footage up here, and I just hear, like, laughing down below Gacklin. And I'm like, what the hell is going on? You know, it's like 11 o'. Clock. I walk back down there and Big Wrench is skating around. Him and Evan are skating around in the. In the bay. In the Pine Bay. I was like, what the fuck is going on right now?

[Evan]

Never would have guessed that he skated.

[Ryan]

He might be too important to let skate. Yeah, you got a family.

[Ben]

I was like, bigger. How many beers did you have on the way home that. That you got home and said, I need to ride a skateboard. And he said, well, we were trying to finish the case, and we haven't done. We. We haven't done found the bottom yet.

[Ken]

We did before he left.

[Ben]

And how did his farm look?

[Ken]

There actually wasn't too much skating, I think. Yeah, he just knocked. He knocked the cobwebs off and then, you know, let that sit and then come back to it, you know, like an evolution. You didn't want to go too big, you know, on. In the first day back, which is a classic mistake.

[Mike]

The liquid courage for that type of stuff. Like, I just remember having a point in my life where I'm like, I gotta stop skating when I'm drunk.

[Ryan]

But you, like, you wanna even quit drinking?

[Mike]

Yeah, Evan, he does. He's just like, nah. You know, if he had six beers at the golf course, he already. He lets me know not skating tonight.

[Ben]

What about the other?

[Ken]

I don't know.

[Ben]

No, no, no.

[Ken]

I was gonna say no. It's the happy me. If I have 12, I'm not skating six.

[Mike]

But I knew you were going to Zorbas later.

[Ben]

Skateboard. No, you pocket.

[Ken]

Yes, the pocket thing.

[Mike]

But you.

[Ken]

To get loose.

[Mike]

It's just interesting. Like, Big Wrench with no beers. Much safer to be skating. Much, much safer. But wouldn't be skating at all if he was on no beers.

[Ben]

Ryan said it. I don't know if we should be letting Big Ranch skate.

[Mike]

Yeah, but we should let him drop in once.

[Ken]

Keep a man from accomplishing his dreams. Ben.

[Ben]

The thing about skateboarding, though, is, like, it's not if you fall. It's when you fall. And what makes a good skateboarder is how good you are at crashing. It's how good you are at falling.

[Ken]

Big Wrench got bodied on the E bike. He was fine. I mean, he said he was against building for a couple hours, banged up.

[Ben]

For a couple of weeks, but he ate it. He did eat it. Big Ranch is just super tough. He's just like that old, old man strength and old man toughness. Yeah.

[Mike]

We just got done with a little snowmobile trip, and Evan did have a great point. We were kind of like, oh, Big Wrench. You saw, because he came with us and was awesome. And he's like, and I really feel like this all the time and that. To your point, like, when we're skateboarding and falling, like, Evan and I kind of just feel a little bit sore all the time.

[Ken]

I think we were. We were talking about Ken.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Dinner was, like, in a whole different world. My back hurts and this and that, and I'm like, do you think he actually hurts worse than us, or is he just never used to any, like, physical inconvenience where, like, I wake up every morning and I hurt, but it's just been that way forever. But, like, some people are just, like, maybe not used to that.

[Ryan]

I don't know.

[Evan]

I don't know. Like, for me, it's like, I'm fine. And then, like, the second we stopped moving and, like, sat down for dinner, right, My back just, like, locked up. And I was like, oh, I got. I got to go lay down. Like, it was. It was fine when we kept moving, and then it's just. You stop, and it's just bad.

[Mike]

I wish I could, like, convey or, like, just show how when we were out to eat, we're all just, like, laughing, and, dude, you're just in the corner like.

[Ben]

He just found out his dog died or something. Yeah, he was.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He's just, like, playing music. And you looked. I mean, yeah. Okay.

[Ryan]

Like, we are all locked in, and cat's like, we're putting on the coat, and we're getting out of here.

[Ben]

Pop up the video of him in the sprinter van.

[Mike]

Oh, that was so funny.

[Ryan]

I love how Mike's geared up. Yeah.

[Evan]

No, I was just trying to, like, sit there and not sit in an uncomfortable position because my neck was killing me.

[Ryan]

Uncomfortable right there, bro. I do feel bad. Like, it's not fun when your back hurts, that's for sure.

[Ben]

Imagine how I felt, I guess, without spoiling too much.

[Mike]

Yeah. Imagine how, like, Ben felt.

[Ben]

We put in a pretty good shift on snowmobiles that were not optimal for long range, and I think everyone was pretty sore. But I had a stint of riding two up with Ken. You'll see in the video as to why. And the thing about riding a snowmobile by yourself is you see bumps coming, and you can, like, use your legs.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

To anticipate the bump. And then you just, like, raise yourself up off the seat. You let the snowmobile take the brunt of the impact. Right. And you're using legs to kind of.

[Evan]

Take a little bit of it.

[Ben]

You're hovering. And then when it's smooth, you can sit back down. Well, when you don't know when that bump is coming because you have a large man in front of you, and you're just holding on to him for dear life because you're hanging off the back of the seat. The only thing helping the impacts of the bumps is your spine compressing a.

[Ryan]

Little bit every time.

[Ben]

Every single time.

[Mike]

When the two of you were on that sled, we're talking full compression, no suspension. And then when you go into those bumps with double the weight that should be on the sled, it actually amplifies it. I was thinking about you, too. Yeah. Your spine was the only suspension.

[Ben]

I did feel bad for Ken, though, because I was. You know, I was trying to watch the best that I could. And when I would see a bump coming up, I'm just, like, using Ken as the suspension of, like, holding on onto him, hoping that he also lifts for this bump coming like a monkey.

[Ryan]

On his back, that he. Hopefully, Ken stands up, and.

[Ben]

And there was many times where, like, we're flying along this. This trailer, this ditch line. Right. And it's like bump after bump after bump. Right. So you can. You can only, like, lift for, like, the first one or two until the snowmobile meets you at some point of coming up, and I was like, yeah, what the. Slow down. Boom, boom, boom. Pause.

[Ken]

Bounce on it. Bounce on it.

[Ben]

So, yeah, that was rough. But it'll. It'll make more sense when you guys see the video.

[Ryan]

See it in a couple of weeks. Here. Oh, God. Good times, though, eh, Mike? What's that? You get a watch.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, read it. Read it to the mic, Ben.

[Ben]

Oh, my God. This is so classic. Relax. Who cares? I'm already late. And then it's all of the. The numbers on the watch that are supposed to go around just jumbled at the bottom.

[Ryan]

Is it a rolly?

[Mike]

No, can't afford a rolly. You kidding me?

[Ryan]

It looks like it.

[Mike]

Well, it says relax, not Rolex, Mike.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Dude, I about had a heart attack. I go, bro, that's got to be so limited edition. You gotta have a. Oh, your wrist here. Oh, this is. This is super sick, though.

[Mike]

Isn't that funny?

[Evan]

Yeah, I think Rolex made a watch like that.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ben]

With all it was.

[Evan]

It was a limited edition.

[Mike]

Who cares? I'm already late.

[Ryan]

Sick. I saw it poking. I was like, holy shit.

[Mike]

I just thought it was holy too fitting. But then I also. I thought that came across as a little. I'm like, I'm not that careless. Like, I actually do care. So then on the back you can get an engraving and it said, just kidding. I do care. I'll try to be on time next time.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

That's amazing.

[Ken]

I found one that.

[Ben]

It is a Rolex.

[Mike]

Oh, really?

[Ben]

$13,300.

[Mike]

That's. That's a cool goal for me to have. Like, I didn't realize that was real. So to me, there's two different knockoff Rolexes. There's like, let's say you get a gmt. Like, you can get a watch that looks like a Rolex, but they're just trying to look like a Rolex. They're not trying to be a knockoff Rolex. And then there's obviously watches that look like a Rolex, and then also say Rolex that aren't Rolex. But they had a few watches that look just like Rolexes, but they say relax. So I wanted to get this one since I didn't think that Rolex made a watch like that, but I guess they do.

[Ben]

Dude, there's so many counterfeit watches.

[Mike]

There's a lot. But that's what I'm kind of getting at. Like, so is this. Would. This would be considered counterfeit?

[Ben]

No.

[Mike]

Yeah. This is kind of just a fun.

[Ben]

No. There's so many, like, counterfeit Rolex watches.

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

That if you are a watch expert, you don't even know. It's really. Dude, it is insane how well they have just knocked them off.

[Mike]

And what are the price points on those? I'm curious. I mean, not a box.

[Evan]

Well, there's like, they call them super fakes. Those are like one to 2,000.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Evan]

And it's like, you got to get, like, microscopes.

[Mike]

So then at that point.

[Ben]

Yeah. Where you have to take it apart. You actually have to take these watches apart to see the movements. Yeah, to see if it's even.

[Evan]

Some of these movements are, like, getting so good. Really, really close.

[Mike]

That just seems insane to me. Again, spending $200 on the. The one that looks like it, sure. But spending $2,000 on the one that actually is conning people to think. I don't.

[Evan]

I know a guy, I thought he had a bunch of different Rolexes. And then I was talking to his kid and he's like, oh, no, they're all fake.

[Ryan]

What the dirty.

[Evan]

Like, his kid ratted him out with, like. That is rough to hear, but yeah.

[Ben]

That is solely for, like, flex culture, like, spending a little bit extra for it. That's almost like you're trying to convince yourself.

[Evan]

Yeah, I mean, you can get a full collection for like 10 grand, where you can't even buy one real Rolex for 10 grand.

[Mike]

It's all in the eye of the beholder.

[Evan]

I guess I get it. But also, like, what's the point? Like, you're trying to, like, aspire to buy something, not just buy the full collection. It's kind of a weird thought process to me, but yeah.

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[Mike]

I don't even know like what statement I'm trying to make with watches. I just genuinely find it fun. I I can I have like the one expensive watch Sydney got for my wedding. The rest of them are like under $300 and they get lots of compliments and that's as far as it needs to go.

[Ben]

But do they say, oh is that a ap? And then you're like nah, it's this and they're.

[Mike]

I mean sometimes. But then I do think it's funny when I'm wearing the Casio Mod. Like it's a Casio watch that someone else modded that I bought for 300 bucks. That's like, Mike's got an AP. And I'm like, bro, like, it's not even like they thought I had an AP. It's like, no, I don't have an AP. I didn't spend 60k on a watch. And then I guess it's actually not obvious because, like, Money Mike Persona.

[Ben]

That's the thing. That's the thing is when people are like, oh, Mike's got. Of course he has an ap.

[Mike]

Yeah. That just would be insane. Buy another car for that. You know what I'm saying?

[Ryan]

Yeah. I saw an interesting theory on TikTok, and it was that the side of your car that your gas tank is on is whether it's a girl car or a guy car.

[Mike]

Really Completely disagree.

[Ryan]

But zippers, you think zippers is also as well?

[Mike]

But zippers is actually.

[Ryan]

They say it started when there would be cars that women would drive because they put it on the passenger side because the man would get out and fill the gas. Like Alandra's Malibu passenger side. My Corvette driver's side.

[Mike]

But. But yeah, it does get a little.

[Ryan]

Because. Because if it's a woman's car, the man gets out of the passenger seat.

[Mike]

Which I personally think he should be driving the car.

[Ryan]

I. I think so too. But that. That the man gets out of the passenger seat, pumps gas.

[Evan]

I think a lot more like domestic cars have it on the driver's side and a lot more like imports have.

[Ryan]

It on the passenger on the other side. Because that's the side the steering wheel's on in the country is made.

[Evan]

Not necessarily.

[Ben]

What? Yeah.

[Mike]

What.

[Ben]

Yeah. What is the science behind where they put the gas tank?

[Ryan]

Probably wherever there's room. You know, I always thought cars were on the. On the passenger side, but then I realized it's not trucks driver's side. That's a man's car.

[Mike]

Should just be on the driver's side, if possible. But there's some engineering restraints, I'm sure.

[Ryan]

Theory. I've been looking now when I, like, look at a car, I go, is that a man's car or a woman's car?

[Mike]

Ryan's just.

[Ben]

So.

[Mike]

It's like he's really loving a car and he's conflicted because it's on.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Oh, it's on the passenger side. Can't. Can't do her.

[Ben]

So besides, for a Malibu, though, like, does that theory.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's been passenger, but that's because it's an import, like Ken said, because the steering wheel is normally on the.

[Evan]

Other side, your focus. Have you even put gas in that car yet?

[Ryan]

It's on the passenger girl car.

[Evan]

My Bronco's on the driver's side.

[Ben]

It is.

[Ryan]

What side's the Jeep on?

[Mike]

Drivers. Yeah, that just debunks it.

[Ben]

Yeah, that debunks it right there. But. But, like, I did hit a deer.

[Mike]

So taken after Ryan.

[Ryan]

How'd that feel?

[Mike]

I didn't like it.

[Ryan]

No, it's not fun at all.

[Mike]

And I will blame myself. I was sending a Snapchat to Gavin. He was. He was wondering how somehow always involved in a crash, he was, like, wondering about how some of the builds worked out throughout the day when we filmed. But he was gone. And I was, like, just giving them an update, and I, like, was just watching it back and press send, and boom. Oh. Like, you know, in that situation, had I not been on my phone sending him a Snapchat, I would have probably slowed down enough to either do less damage or not hit it at all.

[Ryan]

How'd the Jeep fare?

[Mike]

It's all right. It's one of those ones, like, I don't think I'm gonna make a claim. I noticed some more density. You know that when you look at it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You start looking.

[Mike]

The hood is cocked and the. The door is dented. Oh. The funniest part was when I. I turned back. I won't show this because it's just kind of gross, but I turned back to see if the deer was dead or not. You know, if it's not, you go, take care.

[Ryan]

Go dispatch it yourself.

[Mike]

And then I get to town. I've been driving all over town. Go to eat. And then I realize there's blood.

[Ben]

All.

[Mike]

Right. All over the wheels. Oh, yeah, it's dead.

[Ben]

You did a number on that thing.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I was surprised the way you, you know, you send a text, oh, I hit a deer, blah, blah, blah. And then you, like, I saw the car, and I was like, oh, that looks a lot better than I would have expected.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Smoke a deer and all.

[Mike]

That wasn't horrible. Fender grill, light, bumper, door.

[Ryan]

It's funny that. Well, the. That's when you start getting fender door. Like, that's when it really, you know, you take out a bumper and some front stuff.

[Mike]

Just before I did that, it was funny. You were like, micah, if you're gonna drive the Jeep, it'd be cool to, like, soup it up. I know you love, like, not. Not leaving bumpers. And so then I. Of course, after I hit the deer, I started looking for bumpers, and I realized I just don't really like modded Jeeps. I actually. I prefer the way it looks like stock. Unless you're gonna go crazy and make it like this over landing. Sick rig. I think putting, like, an aftermarket bumper on a Jeep, like, with a big bull bar or whatever, is just pointless. They have, like, hundred different bumpers for these things, and I maybe liked one.

[Ben]

Maybe this was God's way of saying that you shouldn't be driving a Jeep.

[Mike]

But maybe. Maybe that's just Hummer. Maybe that's just you conveying that you don't want me to drive a Jeep.

[Ben]

I don't care what you drive.

[Mike]

I don't think God does either.

[Ryan]

Okay, just wait now, Mike, if you have. If you have one more deer, then people start going, don't let him drive the company vehicles. He's gonna hit a deer.

[Ben]

He hit two deer in the last month. True.

[Mike]

You hit the one.

[Ben]

Mike. Two years.

[Mike]

The last month I missed. You know, I literally hit the mirror. Like, that'd be. That's like.

[Ryan]

Because you were driving a nimble car.

[Mike]

Yeah. In the Corvette.

[Ryan]

But the deer are getting dumber. Like, CJ Was driving the sprinter van back from our latest video, and we had to lock it up, everything flying multiple times because there was so many deer that we almost hit. And, like, someone would look out the front window, and sure, there's a deer standing in the middle of the road like, they were close.

[Ben]

What are the odds that the two brothers of the group are just clock and deer?

[Mike]

I mean, it used to be Ken.

[Ben]

It's got to run in the family.

[Ryan]

My take is, is all the land around here that used to be hunting land they're putting sheds up on, which we're partially guilty of. But all the hunting land, nobody fucking hunts around here anymore. So all the deer that used to get clobber by guns, nobody's hunting, and now they're just running around committing suicide in the front of my car. Get your kids in hunter safety and kill deer so I don't have to do it with my car.

[Evan]

What if you put.

[Ryan]

I'll put a kid through hunter safety. If you need money to go through hunter safety, I'll venmo you. How much is it?

[Mike]

Yep. I don't know. Probably 100 bucks.

[Ryan]

100 bucks? I'll venmo you 100 bucks to get you through hunter safety. If you hunt in Becker county, what.

[Evan]

If you just put, oh, Jesus, like, a steel bumper on your Hummer and then just plow over?

[Ryan]

I don't need to change my Life for a dumb animal.

[Evan]

Well, you can.

[Ryan]

And they don't live yourself for the Hummer either.

[Mike]

I think.

[Ben]

I think there is actually something to be said about that.

[Ryan]

Yeah, maybe.

[Ben]

Ryan. Yeah, it's a pretty good. No, there's definitely more around here if.

[Ryan]

You look at even like where our farm is, that whole field, like somebody would have been out there hunting that shit ten years ago. And then now the deer fuck around and reproduce and get stupider. All the smart ones are hiding up in the north woods getting bigger. And all the stupid ones are staying down here running at cars.

[Ben]

I'll tell you what, there's one less deer after last night.

[Ryan]

You took out one too.

[Mike]

No, no, no, I'm joking.

[Ben]

Oh, there was one person. There was one person in front of me. I'm driving Ben's raptor. I'm coming back from. From Ottoman and this guy's like right in front of me and he's going like really slow.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Watching for deer. It's super annoying.

[Ken]

50.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah. And he's got this brand new Chevy truck.

[Ryan]

You know, it's got.

[Ken]

Was it sick?

[Ben]

No, it was a brand new Chevy truck.

[Ken]

Sounds pretty sick.

[Ben]

Anyways, hits this deer and he goes, oh. It was like slow motion in the air. Oh, it lands and the dude just drives off and leaves it in the middle of the road.

[Ryan]

He was probably pissed.

[Mike]

It's usually the case. Yeah, you're so pissed, you're like, don't even care.

[Ben]

And so then I went, I drug it in the. In the woods or whatever.

[Ryan]

But that was nice. Yeah.

[Ben]

Dude, people are dumb.

[Ryan]

Deer are dumber.

[Mike]

Oh, deer are dumb.

[Ben]

Yeah, people are dumb for hitting deer. Why would you just leave it in the road for someone else to hit?

[Mike]

I don't agree.

[Ryan]

You shouldn't do that.

[Evan]

Normally you're so pissed off, you're more like, oh, this freaking deer just hit my car. And you're just so flustered about that. You just drive.

[Ryan]

You keep driving. Don't look, I've done it. Luckily for me, both mine bounced back in the ditch. That Hummer actually vaporized them. There was nothing to clean up. Just needed another little rainstorm.

[Mike]

And that was my.

[Ryan]

The evidence was gone.

[Mike]

My immediate thought was, man, I wish I had my truck.

[Ben]

Yeah, I think that that's more the. The point, I guess I was trying to make, Mike, about you driving the Jeep is you gotta. Well, pretty sick truck.

[Mike]

But then the thought after that was, man, I'm so glad I was driving SUV or, you know, truck would have vaporized it. But then I'M like, what if I would have been driving my Viper?

[Ben]

That would us. You might have scooped out underneath it. That thing is.

[Evan]

So you just got to take out all the deer in the winter. So when the roads are nice in.

[Ryan]

The summer, There we go.

[Evan]

Then there's no deer to hit.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's how it works, everyone. That.

[Mike]

That makes the drive from our lakes area to the Fargo Moorhead, Fargo, North Dakota area. We take the road called the downer road. And the guys at the body shop are like, oh, yeah, yeah. If you drive that road every day, it's not a matter of if, it's when, which is so true.

[Ben]

You do clock a lot more miles, so.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you do.

[Ben]

It's just in doing.

[Mike]

Well, it just scares me. I don't know. Like, I'm gonna. It's not gonna be the last year I hit. Let's just hope it's in the truck next time.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Deer dumb. They. I'm just. Now I'm all. I'm all pissed off.

[Evan]

You see the video about a deer, like, broke the window to a bank and was just running around inside.

[Ryan]

Now they're robbing banks. Yeah, now they're robbing banks.

[Mike]

That one was pretty funny. It just like.

[Evan]

Well, it's like. It's the body cam of a cop, like, crawling through the window of a bank because they're thinking that all this bank's, like, a robbery's in progress, and it's just a deer just sprinting around the lobby of this bank.

[Ryan]

Did he get to shoot it?

[Evan]

No, they wrangled it and got it back outside.

[Ben]

Is that real or is that AI?

[Mike]

No, it was last. I thought it was before AI.

[Ryan]

It's happened. Yeah.

[Evan]

Can never tell these days, but it looked real.

[Ben]

Hot topic. But, like, all the Epstein files, like, I don't know what to believe because there's so much that can just be fake.

[Mike]

Yeah. There's a website called. This is kind of crazy that someone made this. It's called JMail World. And you go. And they coded it like a Gmail website. And you can go on to it and, like, search all of his emails. Like you're in his Gmail. And you can search people and you can go to a pictures tab. Like, it's. It's pretty impressive that someone. That they made it. But yeah, JMail World.

[Ben]

But there's what, like 3 million documents?

[Ryan]

Holy crap.

[Mike]

So much.

[Evan]

I think they've released three and a half.

[Ryan]

Someone had to go in and black them all out.

[Evan]

Well, they missed quite a bit originally.

[Mike]

They redacted like so much shit. And now this new wave that came out, there's a lot less that's redacted.

[Ken]

They also that it's less that it's like 30% and what's not out isn't gonna come out. Like now they've fulfilled or whatever.

[Ben]

That was 30% of it.

[Ryan]

Busy fucking guys.

[Ken]

I thought it was like over 10 million. Like if there are 3 million pages or documents, it was like like 10 million.

[Evan]

So they also did like an the worst job possible of like censoring this stuff because you could just highlight it, copy and paste and then see what was underneath that.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan]

Did you see they were talking about Pizzagate Pizza gates back on. That was a big thing. And when we were in like middle.

[Mike]

School confirmed that Pizzagate was real.

[Ryan]

Was real before. And when you Google Pizzagate they were saying it's like a debunked theory and there's like 11000 references to pizza. It's like did you enjoy that pizza last night? It was sure cute.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Mike]

The pizza party last night was so fun and yummy.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

I guess the thing that I've taken away from reading a lot of the emails is like a lot of them seem like damn near illiterate.

[Ryan]

What are they doing?

[Mike]

There's a lot of code.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Like they're just talking dumb.

[Ben]

It looks like a Chinese owner's manual.

[Ken]

Now that's something dumb about.

[Ben]

We need Evan to get in there. He's the only one that can decipher it.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I did see this. That they think that there's these two guys are the.

[Mike]

Oh yeah. I don't know. That one is a good example of something I don't know is true. That there's a theory going around that the island boys are Jeffrey Epstein's strewn sons. So. And if that were true it'd be wild.

[Ben]

There's a lot so many theories that I see a new one every single day where it's. It's hard to figure out which ones are real and which ones are fake or which ones. You should feel like the Internet is just running with essentially you can say or do whatever you want at this point because there's so much many documents that like unless you're really deep in the weeds of it, how are people going to debunk it?

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

I guess besides for that website. I didn't know about that website but.

[Mike]

Like check it out. But then did you get. There's just came out as of yesterday that he his his fortnite and he was Playing Rocket League. Like, his account is active. You know, they found his activation emails and that account was in his emails. And that account is still being played today in Israel. It's just what they say.

[Ben]

Really.

[Mike]

Yeah. As of. Or as of, like a couple weeks ago, he's playing Rocket League.

[Ben]

What?

[Ryan]

Somebody was.

[Mike]

Supposedly somebody was with that account from Israel. That's where the IP was.

[Ken]

I wonder if he's got good skins on Fortnite.

[Ben]

Yeah, I don't know, dude, there's so much.

[Ryan]

No, he's playing a Sabrina Carpenter for sure. You know, he's running around in that.

[Ben]

Ken, do you think that he killed himself?

[Evan]

No, I. So I don't know if you guys saw. There was a theory that, oh, he got swapped out with a body double. And then in that last little trove of documents there was.

[Ryan]

They.

[Evan]

They tracked down the guy that made like an anonymous 4chan or Reddit post or something along those lines, were able.

[Mike]

To prove that he actually did.

[Evan]

And that guy did work for the jail that, you know, where Epstein was at.

[Ben]

And what did this guy say, though?

[Evan]

He was like, oh, there was some suspicious activity in Epstein's area. There was a guy that got brought in in a wheelchair and then, you know, whatever. And then the next morning he's dead.

[Mike]

Like a van that wasn't on the schedule.

[Evan]

It's all very suspicious.

[Ben]

So do you think that he killed himself, was murdered or is still alive, living in Israel?

[Evan]

He did not. Fucking absolutely did not kill himself. He might have been swapped out or he's like. Or he got murdered or he's playing Rocket League. I think he either got murdered or they swapped out with a body double because there was another picture of like.

[Mike]

For sure, one of those.

[Evan]

His ear looks a little funny in the. The death picture too.

[Mike]

And it like, again, you go down all the rabbit holes, but they didn't even look close to the same when they look at the ear features and the nose features. Yeah, I think he's still alive somewhere.

[Ben]

I saw a theory where they were just talking about on the autopsy, the bones that usually break when you hang yourself. You, like, there has to be so much like brute force or impact of like, you know, doing it. Sometimes one bone is broken, rarely two bones are broken. But in this case, three bones were broken, which is like damn near impossible when you're paying yourself. But that's where I wonder, was it even him?

[Mike]

Right?

[Ben]

Bro, there's so much crazy out there.

[Ryan]

Think about how much tomfoolery and secrecy are going on between this freaking 11 of us around here that I don't even know about.

[Ben]

Like, for real.

[Ryan]

The rest of the world, brother.

[Mike]

It just brings me back to, like, why. I know this is before a lot.

[Ryan]

Of, like, not weird. Sorry, I better. I better clarify that. Not weird, but just, like, just the pranks we're working on here, you know, like. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

Normal secrets, but.

[Ryan]

Sorry, continue.

[Mike]

So it was a time in emails, like, 2013. Let's say it was a time of emails. Right. But, like, didn't they know that all of these are, like, they just stay existing.

[Evan]

Well, why is he using Gmail? Why isn't using, like, a private email?

[Mike]

Genuine question.

[Ken]

I listened to this deal yesterday, and they were saying that every email that he would send, it had, like, disclaimer on it. Like, you're supposed to destroy it. And, like, if it ever gets used in any other way or whatever.

[Mike]

Like, I had a. Yeah. A footing on all the emails.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Be prosecuted if this email leaves the intended.

[Evan]

That's just any email with a lawyer has that.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

Weird.

[Ryan]

So it doesn't hold up.

[Mike]

Is there even any, like, messaging platforms that exist today that wouldn't document everything in some sort of way on some server? Like, I just. I'm genuinely curious. Like, if you, like, talk back and forth on WhatsApp and they needed to pull up the. Those conversations from seven years ago, do they exist?

[Evan]

Because on email, they for sure do WhatsApp and Telegram. They're supposedly encrypted.

[Mike]

Right.

[Evan]

And they can't access it from their server side without the encryption key. But how do you actually know that's the truth and not just, like, their marketing?

[Mike]

Right.

[Ben]

What have you been seeing about it? Ev, you're pretty.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

You're pretty deep into the conspiracy theories.

[Ken]

Not really. Too much is obviously the random stuff that'll, like, pop up on Instagram, people reposting crazy stuff. But I listened to, like, one podcast yesterday. Like an hour podcast that. Nothing that we didn't just talk about.

[Ben]

Yeah. What do you think?

[Ken]

I think he's proud. I think he's probably still alive.

[Ben]

Really?

[Ken]

Yeah. But I'm on the same page of, like, who knows? Like, some of the stuff. Like, now you can just write the most outlandish thing because there probably was a lot of outlandish happening. And then you can write stuff. It's like, what really happened. I don't though.

[Ben]

It's so easy for any kid that has Photoshop to make an email and then just post to the world.

[Evan]

I mean, just chat.

[Ben]

Nobody does their due diligence. To see if it's real or not. And then it runs runs wild.

[Mike]

And then it is interesting if someone were to post something blatantly fake, but no one was believing it was fake. And then you're in the comments saying this isn't real. Everyone's like, why are you defending him? Right.

[Ben]

Yeah, you can't defend them. And that's not the point. But it's more the point of like, just not believing everything you see.

[Mike]

Yeah, this is definitely a lot bigger than left and right. I think there needs to be some arrests and I don't really care which side it's on. But. And also, it was interesting. Evan just posed. He's like, dude, like, what if, you know, if it ever gets out that like, he's alive somewhere, like, you know, confirmed, like, there's going to be like a worldwide manhunt.

[Ben]

But it's like, how can someone hide for this long when you're world worldly?

[Mike]

So then I said I was.

[Ken]

You have a shitload of money been hiding.

[Mike]

If he's been hiding since 2019, like.

[Ben]

The only way would be like, a ton of people are protecting you. That would be the only way.

[Ken]

There's no handful.

[Evan]

Think about how many people he was associated with that have a reason to like, keep that quiet or keep that under wraps. There's so many people affiliated with him where it's like they have every reason to either kill him or make sure he is silenced.

[Ben]

And that's where I understand, like, just killing him.

[Mike]

That's why you can't rule that out. Yeah, right.

[Ben]

Like, for how many powerful and, you know, politicians and celebrities and how many people are like, compromised by things that.

[Mike]

He knew, then you wonder, was he such an asset to certain super mega powerful rich people that if someone else that was also associated with him is like, I got to take him out, would then they be targeting that person that took him out to protect them? Yeah. Being like, why did you take him out?

[Ben]

We, we needed him because he's like an Israeli spy.

[Mike]

Such an asset to them in whatever ways. Pretty crazy.

[Ben]

You got to wonder like, is there things that the world will just never find out? Is this one of them? But it's like, this is one of those things that people have not moved on from where obviously it's so crazy. And it's the things that he did justify people not moving on from. But like, in this day and age, the Internet, just, like one thing happens this week and then next, everyone forgets about it. And this doesn't seem to be one of those things, like, you go into like, any politicians comment section on X thread or on an Instagram post, and that's like all the comments. Top comments. Right. And it's been like that for a long time. Can I see the government and higher ups just, like, never giving people what they want?

[Evan]

Absolutely.

[Ken]

Moon landing 9, 11. There's plenty of, like, controversial things that someone's got the answer to, but there's still just no one knows the answer.

[Evan]

But also, like, say they do just release everything, and then there's always gonna be that group of people. Or it's like there's something else back there that's just buried evidence. I mean, you never truly know, like, what is the truth. Like, is there truly some stuff that's just will never see the light of day, or is this genuinely everything?

[Ben]

There's no way that this is everything.

[Evan]

Oh, absolutely not.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

With that, though, like Evan said, like, this is all that's being released. Like, does it end here? Like, do people now move on? Well, when is this. Is the release of the.

[Mike]

Of the files when it.

[Ben]

Does it end. End at this point? And then people are like, okay, well, we didn't get our answers, so we're gonna just leave it.

[Mike]

Well, that's why I'm curious because, like, the Clintons are, like, there. They agreed to testify. They were about to be held in contempt, which would basically mean that they could arrest them for not testifying. And so then on the last day before they were held in contempt, they agreed to testify. But it's behind closed doors. Nothing will happen. And then, yeah, nothing.

[Ben]

Nothing will ever come happen.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And everyone's always like, oh, as soon as this happens, like, it'll all be exposed. Like, I feel like there's been so many instances like that in so many different, you know, events or. Or like, Hot Topics that never come to light a day.

[Ryan]

I keep thinking about Hot Topic.

[Mike]

Of course, every time you say that, I do too. Of course.

[Ben]

You want to go back there and.

[Ken]

Shopping some black trousers with a few chains.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You know what? I just wonder if we'll ever get the full story on is shred 80 and spenny in Australia.

[Ben]

I've been. Dude, I've been calling, trying to get updates.

[Mike]

I know.

[Ryan]

And just wonder what's going on. Gavin's running around in that swim shirt all week.

[Mike]

I know.

[Ryan]

I'm just so intrigued. I just can't even imagine what those two are up to.

[Ben]

Well, I told. I told him they, like, Spenny should just put on a live stream and Follow Gavin around Australia and see what this dude does.

[Ryan]

Yeah. I mean I could just see him ordering copy. Yeah. Good day. Latte.

[Ken]

I was under the impression that after you were like double digits, like 10 years old, you're not supposed to wear a swim shirt.

[Mike]

Yeah, I. I just am really curious what his reasoning is. I guess.

[Evan]

I mean, it's Australia. This. It's summer down there. The sun's pretty strong.

[Ben]

I'll tell you why.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

This dude's a ginger and he.

[Mike]

Yeah, he is a redhead.

[Ben]

He burns if he's indoors.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

The sun's probably intense in Australia, right?

[Evan]

This guy, it's summer down there.

[Ben]

He looks like when you bring a little kid to the beach, like little kids just like lose all their shit, right? So the hat that he has on has. Has a strap with a clip on it. And then you got the sunglasses that also have the band around the back. You can't lose the sunglasses. He just looks like you dressed your 3 year old son to bring to the beach.

[Ryan]

I love that guy.

[Ben]

I FaceTimed him last night. Spenny was actually nice enough to just flip the camera around and just let me watch him in the wild.

[Ryan]

What a treat.

[Evan]

Yeah, it was just screen record it.

[Mike]

Of course, looks like a pretty good time. So spending.

[Ben]

Look at him.

[Mike]

Spenny's brother lives in Australia, so they're visiting him and riding and. And it's just so funny that he brought Gavin a little side mission, but a pretty big side mission actually.

[Ryan]

He's ripping two wheels down there.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Down under, dude.

[Ben]

I think we, we gotta go to Australia though.

[Ryan]

100. Benny was like, Bro, come. And I was like, ah, I'm just, just a little busy.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

They were like, dude, just come this weekend. I was like, isn't it like a 24 hour flight?

[Ryan]

Yeah, bro. They were in the plane for 15 hours straight. That sounds like literal hell.

[Mike]

It is crazy. Like the way he, Gavin posts when they're getting on. He's like, yeah, we're on the plane. It's going to be a long 18 hour flight. And then post basically the next day and was like, can you believe we're still on the plane?

[Ryan]

I played Xbox for a few hours.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Slept, woke up, went to the gym and they were still on a plane.

[Ben]

We got a pretty deep roster of fans in Australia though. So I think if we do go to Australia someday, we'd be able to have a pretty good time.

[Ryan]

This is actually the perfect time.

[Ben]

How many people have hit us up like, hey, if you ever make it to Australia. Hit me up, mate.

[Mike]

Yeah, my.

[Ryan]

Yeah, let me just pull it up here. This is a perfect time for a little game I have.

[Evan]

Okay, you're getting deep in those notes. Holy crap.

[Ryan]

Oh, brother. I've got so many notes. All right, little game called blind ranking our top 10 subscriber locations, country by country by country. This is for the main channel, okay? So I'm gonna. I'm gonna give you a country, and you put it in which position you think got it?

[Ben]

Who's doing it?

[Ryan]

Are we like, just kind of everybody as a group? And then I'm gonna. I'm gonna take a note of it here for you. All right, let's go, Australia. Where do you think Australia ranks 1 through 10?

[Ben]

3. I agree.

[Evan]

3 or 4?

[Mike]

I'm going to say 4. I guess we all have to agree here, boys.

[Ben]

It's three.

[Mike]

All right, we'll go with three.

[Ryan]

We're going to go a little. A little different one. India.

[Evan]

That's got to be 10.

[Ben]

9 or 10. India's got a ton of people.

[Mike]

It's got a lot of people, but.

[Evan]

They don't speak English.

[Mike]

Should we go nine?

[Ben]

Yeah, let's go nine.

[Ryan]

All right. Canada.

[Evan]

Two.

[Mike]

Two.

[Ryan]

Germany.

[Ken]

I'd say. Yeah, I'd say five or six.

[Ben]

I'm gonna say six.

[Mike]

Six then.

[Ken]

Man, they love beer over there. They still keep it cold.

[Mike]

And the cylindrical meat.

[Ben]

Yeah. What is up with that warm beer?

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Ben]

That's the way they do it.

[Mike]

No, that's not how they do it.

[Evan]

They drink it so fast, they don't have time to get it cold.

[Ryan]

That's funny. Okay, Brazil.

[Ken]

I think that could be the top six. One, two. What did we guess the other one? Six.

[Mike]

But Germany at six, because you got.

[Evan]

You got to think. UK and New Zealand are okay. So it's gonna be, like, probably four or five.

[Ben]

I think eight.

[Ryan]

Okay, Ken, you brought up the U.K. where do you think the U.K. is at? You have 1, 4, 5, 7, 10 left.

[Mike]

4, 4, 4, 4, 4.

[Ryan]

Sweden.

[Ben]

Oh, I would have put Sweden at four. So we'll put it at five.

[Mike]

Five, five. Can you just put United States? We'll just.

[Ryan]

We'll put the US as number one. You're. You're right.

[Mike]

Can you imagine if it wasn't number one?

[Ryan]

The Philippines.

[Evan]

That's got to be number 10.

[Ken]

Yeah. Call it 10. What are we missing?

[Mike]

There's only one.

[Ryan]

There's. Last one is Indonesia. Oh, you're gonna stick that one at number seven.

[Mike]

Seven. All right.

[Ken]

Yeah.

[Evan]

New Zealand's not on the list.

[Ryan]

New Zealand is not on the list.

[Mike]

Oh. Huh.

[Evan]

Surprising.

[Ben]

All right, so how we do.

[Ryan]

Alrighty, let's pull it up. Number one.

[Mike]

All right.

[Ryan]

United States.

[Ben]

Nice.

[Mike]

Very nice.

[Ryan]

Second, you guys ranked at number eight. Second is India. What? Wow, that's crazy.

[Mike]

Really do have so many people that they are Number two.

[Ryan]

You. Duration.

[Evan]

That must just be shorts because the view duration is.

[Mike]

That could be.

[Ben]

Oh, that is. Yeah, that is.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ben]

Shorts exclude shorts.

[Mike]

This is why we do wish YouTube would split shorts, analytics and long form content. Well, yeah, but not clearly for this.

[Ryan]

Then you were right on the right track. Canada, number three. Then you had.

[Mike]

Still wrong though.

[Ryan]

Yep. Then you had Australia. Australia is all the way down to number five.

[Ken]

Australia. Uk. We had.

[Mike]

We were close with. Yeah, Australia and UK and then.

[Ryan]

Yeah, Indonesia, Brazil, Philippines, Germany. Sweden last.

[Ken]

But I guess it's going to be a pup.

[Ryan]

But again, to Ken's point, the view duration.

[Mike]

Yeah, yep. You can tell where they're watching short, so they're watching the full videos in Sweden, but Germany looks like just shorts. Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, just shorts. Australia, they're obviously watching long form. UK they are. Canada, they are. India, they are not.

[Ben]

But I will say we do a great job of with the shorts is you don't need to know English to watch Seaboise TV shorts especially. I mean there's just so many viral shorts. Right. So I think that it's going to get to a point though where you go on YouTube and. And it's all just dubbed into. Into your language, not just captions.

[Evan]

I've seen that on a few videos. I can't remember if it's either Instagram or YouTube. It'll automatically change the voice into whatever your native language.

[Ben]

Yeah, I think Instagram is starting to do that more. But we've looked into it for YouTube and it's third party. It's a service that you have to pay for it. You have to pay for like every single minute. Right. So if we have a 50 minute video, it's a lot more expensive but they actually go in and like they.

[Ryan]

AI your mouth and they have like.

[Ben]

Voice actors so it matches the words that you're saying.

[Mike]

You're right, Ryan. But like think of Sora.

[Ryan]

Now that you know sorta's good enough.

[Mike]

They just take your voice and.

[Evan]

No, it's. I've seen. I forget what platform is on. They don't change any of the. The video side of it, but they'll automatically translate the audio side of it.

[Mike]

Right, but we were just saying they take it one step further.

[Ryan]

And they, they sink the mouth. It actually works pretty good, I think.

[Mike]

Yeah. You're saying like YouTube will eventually just integrate that?

[Ben]

I think it will, yeah. I think it'll be integrated one day. But like, that's the beauty of, I guess the content that we make is I think that it's going to be applicable to the entire world of like people that like, you know, action sports and automotive content where as soon as they can somewhat understand what we're saying, it's a pretty universal thing. Right. But like a lot of creators are pretty like niche focused to the country that you live in.

[Ken]

Right.

[Ben]

Especially if it's like a political or like an. I don't know. Well, that's why answer anything like that. That's kind of like dependent on the area that you're in. Right.

[Mike]

That's why we never really could watch KSI because we couldn't understand him. He's just speaking English.

[Ryan]

But uk but I mean, you know, that's pretty cool to appreciate, apply to the rest of the world. But actually what sparked this challenge for me was which, how many did you guys get? Right? I was gonna, I was gonna have the podcast.

[Mike]

One, bro.

[Ben]

I think we got one. Right.

[Ryan]

Damn. I was gonna have the podcast donate a thousand dollars to each one of you based on how many you got. Right. But then I was gonna have. If you got them wrong, you would lose money.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

We would be lost $9,000. Oh, go figure. You got our freedom money from this podcast. Ryan's the only that walks away with money.

[Ryan]

You're welcome.

[Mike]

We got a freebie, right? That's it.

[Ryan]

What started this is. I looked at our total views. Two billion views, boys. Oh, two billion views on the channel.

[Ben]

That's pretty awesome.

[Mike]

Wow.

[Ben]

We just rolled over.

[Mike]

Rolled over it.

[Ryan]

It's pretty cool. I mean we rolled over by 43 million views, which is a ton of views, but I mean 2 billion.

[Ben]

I think what's really cool though is like a good chunk of those views come from long form.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Which is of just a much better trophy.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot easier to get short form views and then it's, it's even easier to get short form views that convert to subscribers. But like, I mean we can look at our stat, but I'm assuming like 90 some percent of our subscribers come from long form.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Just what you want.

[Ben]

Yeah. Same with the views. So that's, that's pretty awesome.

[Ryan]

Good stuff, boys.

[Mike]

Absolutely.

[Ryan]

We're going to go see C.J. had an appointment with his knife Connoisseur. So, yeah, knife dealer today. His arms dealer.

[Mike]

TX giveaway.

[Ryan]

I'm just gonna beep that.

[Mike]

All right.

[Ryan]

People can think.

[Ben]

Would you beep what he said or what he did?

[Mike]

Well.

[Ben]

He got the mic closer to it.

[Ken]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Mike]

Your loose hinder is what we are.

[Ben]

Why? I mean.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Should we.

[Ben]

Yeah. Say. Or at least just say it.

[Evan]

It.

[Ryan]

We'll give the podcast subscribers a heads up.

[Mike]

And what will we give them? A little insight to the next giveaway that's going live on Thursday night at 7:00 clock with a new drop two paint match trxs. They're so sick. Fresh wheels on them. You get [e-mail] Five dollar spent gets you an entry, as always. Check it out.

[Ryan]

TRX is two separate winners. And how much we spent on paint matching? Like 30, $25,000 on paint matching these things. So there's damn near another trx.

[Mike]

Not really, but either way a lot of added value with the paint matching because TRXs come in like this two tone. And you, you guys, when you see them, you'll. You'll love them.

[Ben]

Yeah, they look a lot better.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

So, yeah, stay tuned for that. We got a very hellcat video on Thursday to go along with it. So we'll see you guys next week. And subscribe if you haven't. Peace.