What (& Who) Were Responsible for Starting CboysTV, Our Other Dream Job, & Talented Fabricators #182

Summary

Life Wide Open with CboysTV – Episode #182
What (& Who) Were Responsible for Starting CboysTV, Our Other Dream Job, & Talented Fabricators
Date: August 20, 2025
Cast: CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah (Mike), Spencer

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew goes deep into their origins as a group and YouTubers, reminisces on the chance moments and key decisions that shaped their channel, explores what their "other dream jobs" would have been, and celebrates the behind-the-scenes heroes—the talented fabricators who make their wild ideas reality. The conversation flows from hilarious stories about hangovers and school to behind-the-scenes anecdotes from their compound, and even their views on modern music, band names, and viral fame. Throughout, the Cboys' signature humor and camaraderie shine.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Alternative Dream Jobs & Imagining Other Lives

• The crew debates what they'd choose if they weren’t YouTubers:
  • Ben: "Country artist of some or just some kind of musician." (56:10)
  • Most agree that being a musician or performer would be the next coolest career.
  • CJ points out the parallels: "They'd be like, ‘All you do is just make a fun video and then do nothing else,’ same as people think about us." (57:36)
• The group playfully discusses forming a band, who would take which roles, and the accessibility of music careers thanks to social media and tech.

2. Compound Life & Summer Chaos

• The Cboys’ compound is likened to iconic shows’ “fantasy factories.”
  • CJ: "We got a drift track. We have a skate park. We got moto tracks. We got pit bike tracks... I think we finally did it." (16:25–17:01)
  • Ben: "It's just became, like, one of the frequent stops. We're pretty welcoming if you're our friend. If you're a random person we've never met, we're not very welcoming, so don't show up." (15:14–15:26)
• Hilarious stories of hangovers, boat mishaps, and shop chaos show the reality of their busy, friendship-focused lifestyle.

3. Origins of CboysTV: Retrospective and Nostalgia

• Ben’s old dirt bike:
  • CJ surprises Ben by tracking down his original childhood TTR 90 dirt bike on Facebook Marketplace.
  • Ben: "Like, that dirt bike got me into riding dirt bikes, obviously, which became, like, me and CJ's thing together. We met you guys because you guys rode four wheelers. That's what brought us together... The little things from our past built us into being where we are today." (29:45–30:25)
• CJ started filming early on, and that hobby ultimately grew into the CboysTV channel.

4. Talented Fabricators & Wild Builds

• Shoutout to the “Wrenches” and their ability to bring wild ideas to life—e.g., a wooden dirt bike.
  • They praise the team’s ability not only to fix things constantly breaking, but to do custom builds without blueprints.
  • Mike: "We get a ton of emails and DMs, like, I want like a blueprint on how to build the Cummins Ranger. But people don't realize, it would take twice as long just to make the blueprints..." (26:28)
• The group toys with the idea of challenging Amish craftsmen to outdo their wooden builds.

5. On Breaking Things and Shop Life

• Constantly using and abusing equipment leads to hilarious tales of things breaking, DIY repairs, and racing to fix stuff off-camera.
• Ben: “If there's one thing that we are all okay with, it’s like, things are going to break...it’s pretty gnarly how much moving parts.” (22:13)

6. Pit Bikes, Crashes & Old Bikes

• Many stories of injuries and near-misses, with Mike recounting spectacular pit bike wipeouts and Ben reliving youthful dirt bike crashes.
• The sentimental value of old bikes shines through, with talk of displaying them at home or passing them down to kids.

7. Music, Musicianship, and Going Viral

• The Cboys talk about how musicians today can rise via TikTok and YouTube and riff on the differences between being a “real” artist and simply going viral.
  • Ben: "I think if you have a social media mind, then you can be a good musician. Your music doesn't have to be that good." (59:25)
• Debate over posthumous releases: is it honoring artists, or a money grab?
  • Ryan: “They are literally called artists...and maybe they never put that song out for a reason. And it kind of was almost like their choice to not publish it.” (66:07)
• Discussion of the cult of “Lil” rapper names and viral fame transitions from influencer to artist.

8. Stories from School & Blue Collar Humor

• The crew swaps stories about the “designated smoking pit,” side hustles in high school (like dealing Monster energy drinks and tech decks), and why school, in hindsight, was easier than adult life.
  • CJ: "School is easier than life...Just enjoy your time in school and in the present. Just hang with your friends." (77:47)
• Reminiscing about unique high school experiences, the pitfalls of being a drop dealer, and how weird some school rules seem today.

9. Guest Drops & Cboys Lifestyle

• Midway surprise as Canadian friends show up—demonstrating, as Ben puts it, “people just drop in” at the compound. (85:44)
• Their open-door, fun-loving philosophy continues to be a through-line.

10. Working With the Amish & Big Build Ideas

• Toss around the idea of taking wild build projects to Amish craftspeople, hoping to see what their skills could produce.
  • CJ: “Let's see if anyone can build a better wooden dirt bike than us. I mean, ride it at your own risk, but I don’t think anyone's building a better wooden dirt bike than us. Maybe an Amish colony. That's it.” (87:30)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• CJ (16:25): "Our compound... might have surpassed all of those fantasy factories."
• Ben (30:25): "If my parents would have never got me that dirt bike, like, we wouldn’t be sitting here."
• CJ (77:47): "School is easier than life... Just enjoy your time in school and in the present. Just hang with your friends."
• Ryan (66:07): "They are literally called artists... and maybe they never put that song out for a reason."
• Mike (105:44): "You need good builders though, dude. You get some shit builders in there, oh my god, you have a mess."
• Ben (59:25): "I think if you have a social media mind, then you can be a good musician. Your music doesn't have to be that good."
• CJ (87:30): "Let's see if anyone can build a better wooden dirt bike than us... Maybe an Amish colony. That's it."
• Ben (51:03): "I think that it's... shows that the videos have, like, kind of reached like a family dynamic of the whole family can come together to... watch the video."
• CJ (26:53): "We get a ton of emails and DMs, like, I want like a blueprint on how to build the Cummins Ranger. But people don't realize, it would take twice as long just to make the blueprints."
• CJ (78:03): "Imagine just like you had school coming up in a week. It'd be pretty exciting. Get to see the friends again."
• CJ (15:26): "If you're a random person we've never met, we're not very welcoming, so don't show up. But pretty much all our friends are always welcome."

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Alternative dream jobs & imagining a band: 01:46, 56:10–58:00
• Compound growth & shop life: 15:14–17:00, 16:25–17:01
• Ben’s dirt bike and the start of CboysTV: 26:53–30:25
• Fabricator shoutout & wild builds: 24:03–27:01, 87:30
• Breaking things, repairs & shop ops: 20:12–22:13
• Pit bike crashes & injuries: 46:56–48:09
• On viral music and social media fame: 59:25–61:51
• Reflections on school, high school, and early hustles: 77:47–81:21
• Drop-in guests & open-door philosophy: 85:44–86:07
• Building dreams with the Amish: 87:30–92:02
• Music industry / posthumous releases debate: 64:22–66:07
• High school mischief & designated smoking pit: 81:08–84:10

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a perfect mix of laugh-out-loud stories, genuine reflection on chance and ambition, and candid insights into the behind-the-scenes operations—and chaos—of CboysTV. The crew’s reminiscence about the simple sparks that launched their YouTube journey is especially touching, while their ongoing banter about music, viral fame, and wild builds grounds the conversation in classic Cboys energy.

Whether you want wisdom on chasing dreams, a walk down memory lane, or just a good laugh with the Cboys, this episode delivers.

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Transcript

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[Spencer]

Like a designated smoking pit outside the high school.

[Mike]

Shut up.

[CJ]

If you guys weren't youtubers, what would you want your profession to be?

[Ben]

We started a band.

[Spencer]

Ken, can you spin a track and we'll start singing.

[Mike]

I think that's the worst hangover I've ever seen.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's the king of hangovers.

[Ryan]

I don't actually know what happened on Saturday.

[Ben]

You kind of been beating our stu up, Spen.

[CJ]

This might be a hard thing to hear, but school is easier than life.

[Spencer]

I was talking to my brother yesterday when I was in the skitty and he heard the podcast about it. He's like, dude, don't get the fake tits, man. He's like, he's like, just don't do it. He's like, then you're going to be like categorized as like a mutant. Like people are going to be like, you're going to be like one of those mutants. He's like, that's just.

[Ben]

Just so whack going. He thought you were contemplating. Yeah. You thought I was serious.

[Mike]

Was the wooden dirt bike Cole's idea? He's ripping them, dude.

[Ben]

He's.

[Spencer]

He loves it, bro.

[Mike]

I mean, the ice rink idea was.

[Spencer]

That's a great idea. So, I mean, you know how we always go on the ice in the winter with the studded tires? My brother was like, dude, you guys got to do a video where you pull up to, like a skating rink and rent it out, but then stud up the bikes and take them and run them in the ice rink in the summer. Think we've never thought about, like, just.

[Mike]

Doing our ice stuff in an indoor ring? And then, ironically, I got a call from Buddy Spencer, and he's like, yo, I talked to the guy at Fargo Force, which I believe you talked to. And he's like, yeah, they'd let you do it like, in the arena? I'm like, even better.

[Ben]

And then he's so good.

[Mike]

One more. Yeah, one more step. He's like, no, he wants you to do it like during a game. So at the very least, I'd love to do it in the arena. Like, it's a great idea.

[Ben]

I told him we're down to do it, but you got to at least let us run a couple laps on the Zamboni.

[Ryan]

That'd be sick.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I've always wanted to operate a Zamboni.

[Ben]

Yeah. Can you just drive a Zamboni on the streets?

[Ryan]

Some guy got a Dewey in some county on a Zamboni.

[Mike]

Impressive.

[Ken]

I think it was in Canada.

[Ryan]

Of course it was in Canada.

[Ben]

Zamboni.

[Ken]

I lied. The guy actually got a DUI on a Zamboni in Fargo, North Dakota.

[Ben]

Shut up.

[Ryan]

Shut up.

[Ben]

Where.

[CJ]

Where was he driving it?

[Ryan]

On the ice or on the road?

[CJ]

Oh, at the hockey rink, I bet.

[Mike]

Hockey arena. Like, owners and staff have dealt with that a lot. Like people drinking while Zambon in the ring. Cuz they're like, what?

[CJ]

Who's going to know the Zamboni guy? Yeah, he's in the back having a few beers.

[Ryan]

I think that's a job you can comfortably have a few beers and do.

[Mike]

Yeah, okay.

[Ken]

This name. But he looks hammered in that picture.

[Ben]

He probably.

[Ryan]

He looks pretty sad.

[CJ]

Well, where is he driving it?

[Ken]

I'm trying to figure out where.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Which town. Like, I feel like there's a few jobs out there that you can have a few beers and still do.

[Ben]

Like, I mean, there's more than a few.

[Mike]

Few jobs mowing, obviously.

[Ryan]

Evan's proven that mowing is like, it's almost a requirement. Like being a doctor. Probably shouldn't have a few beers and get in and do some open brain surgery.

[Spencer]

I'd say the blue collar guys, they run beers. Like my brother, he's a refridge guy and they go rip, like two, three, four beers at lunch all the time.

[Ben]

Really? Okay.

[Ryan]

And he's running H vac, Correct?

[Spencer]

H vac.

[Ryan]

H Vac. That's a two, three beer job. I think electricians, you got to be more dialed, cuz you get zapped.

[Spencer]

He'll like run a couple beers and you'll call me after lunch and be like, yeah, just had a couple beers. And like, you can tell he's kind.

[CJ]

Of, you know, feel tuned up a little bit.

[Spencer]

Going back to work.

[Ryan]

What's another job you can have two, three beers and still do?

[Ken]

Bartender.

[Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can be a bartender.

[Spencer]

Like, you can buy them shots even. Yeah, I have a shot.

[Mike]

A funny story, like when we started, when I started bartending at Zorbas, you used to, back in the day, be able to drink while you bartend. But then that got cut and I was like, oh, that's so lame. Oh, it'd be so great to drink while you bartend. I get why it's a rule. Because then when I went to we fest and I got a little bartending gig for the night, they're like, yeah, yeah, just sling people drinks. And then you can drink too. Don't. Don't worry about that. And I blacked out.

[Ben]

Wow.

[Ryan]

Bartend.

[CJ]

How many years ago is this?

[Mike]

I don't know, like six. And I blacked out while I was bartending and I woke up with like 300 bucks in my. Stuffed in all of my pockets. And I'm like, all right, not bad.

[Ryan]

Seems like you did good. See, that's what I'm saying. The blackout method works. Bartending.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

Bartending is for sure one of them. What's one more?

[CJ]

I think it's more common than you guys think.

[Spencer]

Blue collar boys, for sure. Roofing, you know, anything like that.

[CJ]

See, I would say you should. I'm just, I think it happens more than you think.

[Ryan]

Like roofing maybe isn't a good one to have beers at lunch because you're up on a roof, it's dangerous. Like landscaping. You can drink a couple beers and build a retaining one.

[Mike]

I'm going to go out on a little left field here. I'm going to say marketing. If you're in marketing, you can have four beers at lunch.

[Ryan]

Yeah, we're talking about what jobs. You can have beers at lunch and.

[CJ]

Still be good sales.

[Ryan]

Sales.

[Ken]

Well, at that point, you're just client entertainment.

[Ben]

Cashier at the liquor store, your dentist out ripping a couple lunch beers.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, I think somebody's up in.

[Mike]

Your list of jobs you can't drink.

[Ben]

Beers long, pretty heavy.

[Ryan]

But, like, maybe your eye doctor, they could have a couple. Yeah, as long as they're not doing surgery. But, like, is there if they're doing the one or two, you're doing all the work.

[Ben]

They're really just.

[Ryan]

They're just taking down notes.

[Ben]

They're just sitting there telling you if you can see or not.

[Ryan]

Yeah, exactly. You're the one doing all the work at the eye doctor.

[Ben]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Ryan]

But a haircut you don't want your barber, they're doing.

[Spencer]

They're doing the eye test, and they're like, what are you seeing up there? And he's like, I think it's an eight. No, I don't think it's an eight either.

[Ben]

He's like, oh, you got me on that one. Okay. Oh, my God. Maybe I am a little more piled up.

[Ken]

Barber's a fine line. Like one or two might be fine. Once you get past, like, three, then that haircut's going to be uneven.

[Spencer]

Nothing worse than getting an uneven haircut, too. I get self conscious when I get them.

[Mike]

Yeah, you just. You just kind of get cluster. You get warm and you're like, every.

[Ben]

Time I get a haircut, there's like a sweet spot in, like, the awkward stage of, like, post haircut. I feel like maybe. Maybe it's just my hair, but it's like two weeks of, like, after a haircut, it's just not where you want it.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Isn't that weird how normally I didn't actually think that until Ken's mom before the wedding goes, micah, now don't go and do something silly like get a haircut the day before, because you're gonna look like an idiot.

[Ben]

Good point.

[Mike]

And then I didn't think about it, but yeah, I'm like, actually, there is that, like, fresh, I just got a haircut type vibe that it's like, whoa, man.

[Ben]

Did she show up to your wedding and just go, you didn't listen, did you?

[Mike]

Well, luckily, I. I played it kind of safe, and I got it five days before. She was giving me all kinds of jokes. Can I show up in Carhartt? And I'm like, you could wear whatever you want.

[Ryan]

It's just an outdoor wedding.

[Ben]

Carolyn.

[Ryan]

So you blacked out bartending?

[Mike]

That's actually, yes, but it was like I wasn't being paid. It was at a music festival.

[Ryan]

Oh, it's kind of like your pay was like.

[Mike]

Yeah, exactly. I. I mean, I probably had, like, 20 jello shots. I mean, that.

[Ryan]

That feel like it'd be hard not to a we fest serve one.

[Mike]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

Why do I not remember you?

[Mike]

It was. I think the bar is the Morehead bar. It got shut down.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That.

[Mike]

Yeah, you were working that.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He just was like, you want a bartend? Like, people will tip you, and the booze is free, so you'll make a lot of money. And then I blacked out, and I, like, woke up. I woke up in my blue van with a bunch of money in my pockets, sleeping on the velvet couch.

[Ben]

Pretty solid night.

[Ken]

Now that you say that. I think I remember dragging you out of there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Good guy, Ken.

[CJ]

Whenever Mike blacks out, or anyone for that matter, Ken's there.

[Ben]

You know, he's the first one there to just be yanking you out.

[Ryan]

My 21st birthday. Surprised I made it out without, like, a spinal injury.

[CJ]

I remember he needs to go in the bathtub, flip them over.

[Ben]

Flip him over.

[Spencer]

He's gonna choke on his pill.

[Ben]

He's just tacoed over the bath. And Ken is like, that's perfect. He'll be fine.

[Ryan]

I didn't. I made it through.

[Mike]

I actually, like, vividly, vividly remember the next day. Kind of just nurturing you back to life.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Mike]

And I'm not. I don't think I've ever seen someone so hungover. I'm not joking. I. I think that's the worst hangover I've ever seen.

[Ben]

Yeah. Ever. Ryan's the king of hangovers.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Every so bad, dude.

[Ben]

He'll be downwind from booze, and he'll get a hangover the next day.

[Spencer]

I don't even bother texting Ryan the morning after him drinking, because I just.

[Ben]

Know he's just, you know, fighting the demons.

[Ryan]

Dude, Saturday was so fun, though.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

When we hung out on Saturday, when Ben was at We Fest, you and.

[Mike]

Glenny were tearing it up.

[Spencer]

Yeah, dude, look. And Ryan got hammered.

[Ben]

Yeah, dad.

[CJ]

Pretty drunk.

[Spencer]

Yo, him and Ryan were going drink for drink for, like, four or five hours. Six hours.

[CJ]

Your dad was chilling.

[Spencer]

It seemed like every time he jumped in the boat to go take a pee, he drifted 60ft away from the boat. We had to.

[CJ]

He didn't quite grasp the concept of, like, when you have to pee on the boat, you Just hang on to the back. He would jump off every time. And it was a super windy day, and he would drift that way. I'd drift. You know, we'd basically drift apart. Then I'd have to go get him.

[Ryan]

And go pick him back up.

[Spencer]

It was so far that, like, he.

[Ben]

We. He couldn't swim over.

[Spencer]

Like, we had to fire up the boat and do a loop and get him.

[Ryan]

I didn't. I honestly thought Glenn and I were having a pretty good time. And then I tried surfing, and then I couldn't surf. I was so hammered. I couldn't surf a lot.

[CJ]

It was. It was pretty bad.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

And I feel bad because C.J. was kind of, like, not at the level that me and Glenn were. So was Benny.

[CJ]

No, I was fine. I didn't. I. It really wasn't bad. I was just.

[Ben]

Your.

[CJ]

Your surf performance. I was surprised, dude. I felt so bad that Ryan's a great surfer. And I literally was like, ryan needs to go. Everyone watch Ryan. He's gonna do great. And then he just went out there and fell like, three times.

[Ryan]

I know. And I kept going, one more, one more. I can get it. No, dude, I. I mean, I'm a pretty good surfer. That's a job you can do after a beer or two. I just could not get my feet underneath me.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't know.

[CJ]

It might have been my driving.

[Spencer]

The funniest thing. When Ryan, the last time he went, he's like, I'll go one more. And he goes. And he falls. And nobody was watching, but he goes into the water head first. And then I like, look, look away, look back. And his feet are up in the air and he's. I remember that.

[Ben]

I remember that.

[Spencer]

Doing a headstand. He's kicking his feet above water.

[Ryan]

I was trying to swim down. I was embarrassed. We got home and Andre was like, oh, Long bridge was so good last night. And I was like, we went to Long bridge, dude. I don't actually know what happened on Saturday.

[CJ]

I actually have a video of you, Ryan.

[Ryan]

I do.

[CJ]

You're drunk, man.

[Ryan]

I don't know what happened.

[Ken]

We ripped a bunch of pull tabs and didn't win anything.

[Ben]

Really?

[Ryan]

That's where all my money went, dude. I had, like, a couple hundred bucks that were gone.

[Mike]

Burnt it.

[Ben]

I knew that something was going on when I was looking.

[Ryan]

When I was dancing next to Glenn.

[Ben]

I was getting videos of Spenny's parents, mostly his dad dancing to ymca and like, that's, you know, a pretty American song right there. And the Canadians in the boat were just loving it.

[Mike]

Okay. That's just really hilarious that you say that, Ryan. Because I was like, I'm pretty sure the YMCA song is Canadian.

[Ryan]

Is it really?

[Mike]

And people was inspired by a YMCA location in Vancouver, British Columbia.

[Spencer]

Is it?

[Ben]

Yeah. And then Trump kind of just because.

[Spencer]

That'S why I was like, man, Glenny's.

[Mike]

Really getting into this. This must be a Canadian song.

[Spencer]

He just loves, like, that's like an old. What is that song from, like, the 80s?

[Ryan]

Oh, my God, I'm so nervous.

[Ben]

Oh, my God, dude. Oh, no.

[Ryan]

Dude. Me and Glennie had the time of our life, but I just. I think I was trying to have fun.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Mike]

That's the vibe, dude. Yeah, right?

[Ben]

That is good.

[Mike]

Ryan and Glenny were flinging their tongues out.

[Ryan]

I actually never get anxiety because I just don't.

[Spencer]

Who's more on Glenn?

[Ben]

Oh, Glenny's tongue was firing, huh? Ryan's a rock star when he's rocking out, bro.

[Ryan]

I will say, though, dude, I love drunk me. I'm pretty embarrassed about that, but at least it looks like I was having a good time.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I don't. Not much embarrassing about that.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Was Glenny kind of like, hitting the. The emote right there? Yeah.

[Ryan]

Glenn. He's got an emote.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It was just so far. I think I just wanted to show Spenny's parents a good time, so I figured I better just do my best to ruin it.

[Ben]

Oh, no.

[Spencer]

I thought you were being hilarious. They thought you were so funny.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

They thought you were hilarious. You were saying such funny stuff.

[Ryan]

Like what?

[Spencer]

You were like. I think at one point you were like, glenny, where did you find a burn? I think you said that.

[Ben]

No, I did not.

[Spencer]

Where did you find a bird?

[Ben]

Oh, I'm sweating.

[Spencer]

He was like, where did you find a burn, Glenny?

[Ben]

What?

[CJ]

So what else do you say?

[Mike]

I can't.

[Ben]

Oh, man.

[Spencer]

I can't even remember, but he was being so funny. What were you calling him? Glengeman.

[Ben]

Yeah. No. Yeah, you're being hilarious. Well, that.

[Ryan]

That's good to hear. I was feeling pretty bad about. I was like, oh, man. Hopefully Spenny's parents don't think I'm an idiot.

[Ben]

You're so funny.

[Mike]

We've had a lot of visitors this summer, and I'd say our hospitality rating is got to be at five stars.

[Ben]

Going up for sure. But, I mean, we try and show everyone that comes here a good time.

[Mike]

And people, like, they might. They have lots of things to say about how much fun and this and that. But they're like, the hospitality is just insane, which is good. We're really doing that for Rich this time around. Rich is here now, and we're going above and beyond for him, trying to.

[CJ]

Make it worth his while.

[Ben]

Yeah, bro.

[CJ]

We had five different groups of people here yesterday at the same time.

[Ryan]

On Tuesday.

[CJ]

On Tuesday, like, we had literally five different group. We had Rick Duff and his. His crew.

[Ben]

Yeah, we filmed the music video yesterday.

[CJ]

The beyond, the Spotlight guys filming a podcast down below. We had Noah cleaning the cars. We had the Enduro guys show up, and we had Grandpa Ron, and all of them just kind of came. We didn't. You know, it's like this. This place is just a revolving door. It's crazy, but I like it. I'm glad that people have fun here and, like, feel comfortable and want to keep coming back. So clearly we're doing something right.

[Ben]

It's sick. That's the best part about this area in the summer, too, is there's so many people that just, you know, kind of come to the lakes area, and the shop is just kind of became, like, one of the frequent stops.

[CJ]

We're pretty welcoming if you're our friend. If you're a random person we've never met, we're not very welcoming, so don't show up. But pretty much all our friends are always welcome.

[Ben]

I mean, it's pretty much guaranteed a good time when they come over. Like, they know something's happening six days out of the week.

[Ryan]

Yeah, if you come on a Saturday in July, it's going to be a good time.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's almost guaranteed there.

[Spencer]

And if something isn't happening, we'll get something quick, you know, like pull out the. Dig out the pit bikes and hit the pit bike tracker.

[Ben]

Yeah, that is.

[Mike]

Yeah, we don't. It's like, we don't, like, awkward silence around here. Like, if not much is happening, we're like, all right, what should we do?

[Spencer]

Let's dig up something. Yeah, let's go do some wheelies.

[Ben]

There really is. There's just so much stuff to do. And that's the cool part about, like, the compound is like, back when we were younger, like, Fantasy Factory or Nitro Circus or, like, Viva La Bam. Like, all these different shows had, like, their compound that was, you know, the set of the show. And we have, like, really capitalized on just making our compound a constant playground of fun. Shit always happening.

[CJ]

I hate to be cocky, but I think we might have surpassed all of those compounds. Like, I mean, we got a drift track. We have a skate park. We got moto tracks, we got pit bike tracks, we got, we got literally all that. Like, the fancy factory is iconic and like was probably nicer, but yeah, we got like 40. We definitely got more 60 acres. We got more to do here than in the fantasy factory, although I'd love to go there if it was still assembled. But yeah.

[Spencer]

And then the crazy part is you got the sickest surfboat and jet skis right there too.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Five minutes away.

[CJ]

Not trying to be cocky. I'm just saying I think we, we finally we, we did it.

[Ben]

We're doing it.

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[Ben]

I wouldn't say we did it. We're. We're in the process of doing it. It's constantly. Still building out. Yeah.

[CJ]

Right now we're building another track. Right now Rich is here, extending our current track, and then we're building another track. I don't know how much we can say, but another version of a track.

[Spencer]

I've been ripping the skitty pretty hard. Long hours in the skitty trying to get her pieces.

[CJ]

That thing's still going to be, like, rolling by the time you're done with it. The skin.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

It'll still run.

[Ben]

Yeah. You kind of been beating our stuff up, Spenny. I feel like, you know, Evans, he doesn't, like, go under the radar. Like, everyone knows that he's beating our stuff up, but you've kind of been, like, just sly about it where, like, you just hit it and quit it real quick. And then, like, we're on to the next thing. And then we're like, hey, who destroyed our lawnmower? And then Big Wrench is like, Spencer. We're like, yeah. We're like, oh, yeah, Big Ranch. You didn't have to pull out the whole name on us right there.

[Ryan]

The full government name.

[Ben]

And then we're like, what's going on with the skid steer attachment? And Gavin is just like, yeah, Spenny, that one up. I haven't really noticed it, but the wrenches are definitely. They're the ones fixing.

[CJ]

They're taking names.

[Ben]

Yeah. They're keeping track. Yeah.

[Spencer]

It's because I had a committed to doing it, though.

[CJ]

Well, that's good.

[Spencer]

That's why I told them. I said, hey, I broke the skid steer.

[Ben]

Usually it just gets parked there, and then nobody says anything about it. Yeah.

[CJ]

That's when I'm not the reason why.

[Spencer]

They knew about the skid series because I broke it. And then I was like, all right, I needed to use it, so I had to fix it. So I asked Gavin. I was like, what should I do? Should we. You want to weld this or should I just go out there and fix. So I just went out there and fixed it on my own.

[Ben]

Really? Yeah.

[Spencer]

Well, I needed to use it still ice.

[CJ]

Nice.

[Ryan]

You're fixing. You're fixing.

[Spencer]

I'm breaking, but I'm fixing. I want to fix the mower, too, but I. I left back to Canada.

[Ben]

So a lot of shit does get get broke on the daily. That's, like, not a part of the video, is not a part of, you know, content. And it's just like, that's just the cost of running the operations around here. Like, there's something that is constantly being mowed or transported, dirt removal or moving things around. It's just, like, such an operation that things break. So I understand that. I don't really lose much sleep over that at all. But it's just kind of getting to the point where there's so many moving pieces, and then when things do break and you're like, they're out of commission there for a little bit. And then we got the wrenches on five other projects. Yeah. And we are like, yo, can we get this fixed? Because it's got to be used to keep things moving because there's just so many moving parts around here.

[Mike]

Anybody who farms knows that drill.

[Spencer]

I'm sure the thing, too, is, like, it's not like sometimes stuff is like, needs to happen like that because we're filming and it needs to go. And when I broke the skid steer, we were moving the cars around, so I was, like, rushing. I wasn't taking my time. I was, like, ripping the cars, and the car slid back and broke the fork. And it was. I was just like, God dang it. Like, I get it.

[Ben]

Things.

[Spencer]

Things do try to get the stuff out.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Get the video done with and.

[Ben]

Yeah. No, it's just kind of how it goes. Like, if there's one thing that we are all okay with is, like, things are going to break. Like, when I was growing up, if things broke, like, my dad would get so mad at me, like, if I broke things. And now I just know that it's just kind of just how it goes. Just wear and tear. But it's pretty gnarly how much moving parts.

[Mike]

Speaking of broken stuff, I'm trying to track down. Okay, so Gavin hit the rail for the second time on my three wheeler. Totally fine. Horrible crash. Epic crash. Bent the forks on the three wheeler. No big deal.

[Spencer]

And he's like.

[Mike]

I think he was trying to make a video segment out of it or something, but he's like, mike, I'm going.

[Spencer]

To get you a new three wheeler.

[Mike]

I'm like, full wheeler. A full wheeler. Like, I'm pretty Sure. You just bent the forks. I don't think anything else is wrong with it.

[Spencer]

He's like, yeah, but they're really hard to find.

[Mike]

So I'm going to track down a new wheeler for you. Well, what do you want? I'm like, I, I don't want another three wheeler. I just want this one fixed.

[Ryan]

I just want you to not ride mine when you're trying to hit the rail.

[Mike]

And it was for a good cause. But long story short, he's like, yeah, the forks are really hard to get. And so I just like, didn't even look. I'm like, yeah, man, I, I really wish I had some straight forks on this. I, I love this three wheeler. And then I go on ebay and they are a dime a dozen. And I just like thought he would know that they are like, they use the same.

[CJ]

Only uses barn find parts.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

So they use the same like, not. They're the non suspension forks for like 10 years on like a shitload of three wheelers. And so like I bought forks for literally $65 and they had my stepdad powder coat them and he just texted back and goes, where'd you find those?

[CJ]

Oh, I've been. They were made a lot of barn finds, like searching through them and they were.

[Mike]

But Yep. Stuff breaks anyway. I was just like, I feel like Gavin should know that those forks were a diamond dozen.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Trying to buy me a new three wheeler. I probably shouldn't have said anything.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Speaking of stuff breaking, man, how about that wooden dirt bike?

[Ben]

We just stronger than one would have thought. Yeah. Like if we would have just kept riding it normally, anything but hitting gap jumps, you would have been chilling on it for a while.

[CJ]

I think the wrenches could. They're damn near Amish at this point.

[Ben]

Oh, yeah.

[CJ]

Building wooden dirt bikes looked fantastic. Road great spending. Ended up cracking it, breaking it on the jump.

[Spencer]

They used to do it back in the days out of wood.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

They can fix it too. Just slap the metal swing arm back on there.

[Ben]

Oh, true. Yeah.

[Spencer]

Just get the metal swing arm on.

[Ben]

It, it'll be back. That one was the quickest turnaround in a while. Like usually like these projects are taking like, like four to eight weeks. A lot of the builds that they're doing and like Gavin will be on one, big wrench will be on one and they kind of just like shift back and forth of like when they get done. But this one was just a quicker turnaround and I honestly just expected them to make like a 2x4 esque frame.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

And then expecting two.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Make it super janky. And then when it broke, them being like, yeah, what did you expect? It's a wooden dirt bike. But like that just shows like the talent that they have. And they don't half ass anything anymore or. Not that they ever did, but they just like, they just don't. They just won't do it. Like if they're going to do it, they're going to do it like 100% how it should be done, which is awesome. And when they were like shaving the things down to get like.

[Mike]

Like the front fender.

[Ben]

Yeah, like the front fender.

[Mike]

That was very legit. It could have just been a plank.

[Ben]

It could have been a plank. But they shaved it down to look better and the frame wasn't going anywhere. Like the swing arm, they had to, it just had to be so, so thin at some point. But like, I don't know, it just like blew my mind that they didn't just go the easier route with like the time frame that they had, but they still just made it exactly how they would have made it in like four weeks. But instead they just did it. Rush through it. Yeah.

[Ryan]

It honestly is impressive. And you said they built it how they should or something like that, which is funny because nothing we've ever given them is like normal. Like the most normal thing that they've had to make in the last year was the first ever stark three wheeler. You know, like other than that, it's pretty much uncharted territory. Like builds a frigging wooden dirt bike. There's no forms to look at. Like how do you build your wooden swing arm?

[Mike]

One thing after another. Yeah. With zero blueprints. Figure it out as custom.

[Spencer]

100% full custom.

[Mike]

That's what I mean. We get a ton of emails and DMs, like, I want like a blueprint on how to build the Cummins Ranger. But like people don't realize it would take twice as long just to make the blueprints because you're figuring it out as you go. It'd be rad. But it's just hard enough just making it work in time frame that they, that they have. But it was super fun. I think we should fix it. It's like a little Lincoln Log. Work of art kind of art piece.

[CJ]

I agree. 85 in the shop somewhere.

[Ben]

Dude, shout out CJ for finding my old dirt bike too.

[CJ]

Yeah, dude. What are the odds?

[Ben]

What are these? That is insane.

[CJ]

So Ben's very first dirt bike, it was a, was a 2001 TTR 90s.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That he had when he was a little kid and he would ride, and then I'd ride my little dirt bike next to him. Anyways, I'm scrolling Facebook Marketplace like I do, and I'm not even in the market for a TTR 90 or even really pit bikes in general. And it just is on my home screen.

[Ryan]

That's what I was wondering.

[CJ]

A little blue dirt bike. I go, looks like Ben's old bike. You know, I click it. I'm like, man, this is exact same.

[Ben]

Year and everything, I think. And then seven recognizable.

[CJ]

I see the stickers, but when I knew it was yours is when I saw the monster sticker. I go back, wait a second. And then I saw the dc, I saw the sun star, obviously the seven. I go, holy. And it had the pro taper, pillow tops, grips. And I was like, this is Ben's old bike. So then that's why that one podcast I just dipped out and I wasn't in it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Because I wanted to get this right. I was just worried someone else would for some reason buy it. So I was like, I gotta get over there and pick this up right now. Because that thing's priceless, essentially.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's definitely priceless when. When we're filming. And I don't know if you said something regarding like dirt bikes or wood or what, what the alley oop into it was, but I was like, if he's about to surprise me with like a new 250 dirt bike right now, like, it'll be sweet, but I don't know if I really need a new 250 dirt bike.

[Mike]

I mean, it'd be like surprising you with a Lambo.

[Ben]

No.

[Mike]

No, but I'm saying be like surprising you with something that you literally already have.

[Ben]

No, I would have just been like, little random, Right? Yeah. And then like, that's way cooler than any anything else you could have gotten me. Honestly. Like, it's priceless. It's so sick.

[CJ]

I just can't believe it still has the same stickers on it that you put on as a kid. The same grips.

[Ryan]

No other kid got their hands on it and just changed it all up.

[CJ]

I think they didn't ride it. From what I could gather is there it had exchanged hands multiple times. Because obviously your dad sold that thing 15 years ago, probably.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

So it's exchanged hands and it sounded like it was pretty far away. And then this guy bought it for his grandkids. Like it managed to get back into within an Hour radius.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Have to align for that to happen. Because think, like, when I pick up a bike, I have a wrap on it, you know, and then. And then, like, let's say there was a wrap on it. You probably wouldn't have known that that was Ben's.

[CJ]

No, you wouldn't. But I'm just saying, like. Yeah, it's just this little kid bike, you know, with the. With the same stickers and all that. But, yeah, no one modified it.

[Ben]

They didn't see you.

[CJ]

They didn't crash it, and, like, have.

[Ben]

To put new grips on.

[CJ]

Decide to do. Yeah.

[Spencer]

All the plastic was just cherry.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

It literally looked the same as when he was a kid.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, the bend marks and stuff work.

[Ben]

It's light, it's cool. And, like, I said it in the video, but the impact that that dirt bike had, like, that dirt bike got me into riding dirt bikes, obviously, which became, like, me and CJ's thing together. We met you guys because you guys rode four wheelers. That's what brought us together back when.

[Ryan]

You were more accepting.

[Mike]

Yeah. Right.

[Ryan]

You let anybody hang out.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. One thing after another grew into Seaboys tv. So it's like the little. The little things from our past that built us into being where we are today. If my parents would have never got me that dirt bike, like, we wouldn't be sitting here. Like, we wouldn't have a chance.

[Ryan]

Pretty crazy.

[Ben]

We just wouldn't have had the interest that, like, started, you know, It'd be.

[Ryan]

Hard to make a C Boys TV channel on, like, tennis or something, you know?

[Ben]

Yeah. It wouldn't. Wouldn't hit the same.

[Ryan]

Soccer. What was your other sport? Soccer?

[Ben]

Golf.

[Mike]

We do like that.

[Ben]

We do like that. Yeah. But it's cool. And it's just like. It's just paying homage, I guess, to, like, everything. And, like, you asked me, Ryan, if you could go back and tell yourself at seven years old or eight or nine, when I was riding that dirt bike where you'd be today, I1 wouldn't believe it because I. I always, like, dreamed big as a kid. I was always taught that, like, like, dream big and you can achieve it. And I always wanted the most in my life. And I don't think that young Ben could comprehend, like, where we are today and believe it. Honestly, like, it's crazy. Just, like. I guess what we've been able to, like, achieve because of the love of riding dirt bikes is kind of how it started and then one thing after another, but, like, it's absolutely insane. Like, what it's grown to. And like, it's all thanks to the people listening right now and like the people that have subscribed and bought merch. But, like, it's just wild to think that it all started from just like the love of riding.

[Spencer]

It might have a tear in the.

[Ben]

Eye here after hearing that, Ben. I mean, it's crazy, dude. It's, it's. It really is. Like, it's special, dude. I can't stress enough too. I said this when you asked that. But like, C.J. picking up a camera and like filming us. Like, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for CJ doing that too, which I think doesn't get enough credit.

[Mike]

And there's the whole like, it's never too late thing. I always tell people that too. Like, so you got that dirt bike at such a young age. And for a split second I was like, man, Ben's been riding forever. Like, what's it going to take to like, get good? And I didn't get. I didn't get a dirt bike until I was 18 and I felt like I was too late to the game. I don't know. I'm just saying you, you, if you're 30 or 40, you could still get a dirt bike and like be a part of the movement of how awesome two wheels is. Or filming this is never too late.

[Ben]

I'm not sure if Mike really ever did get good. He rear ended me today.

[Mike]

No, I got. I got good. I know somebody has to tell you that, but I got, I got all right. I got all right.

[Ben]

Remember when we still rear ended me though, Mike?

[Mike]

Yeah, because you were in the way. You were a lapper, bro.

[Ben]

Lap traffic, bro. Traffic.

[CJ]

That old, that old TTR 90 does not stand up even close to a modern day pit bike, dude. It's kind of crazy.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Granted, I mean, you're running like a full BBR build.

[Ben]

Yeah, full build, whatever.

[Ryan]

110 pit bike.

[CJ]

But. But yeah, dude, that. The 90 was still great though.

[Ben]

It still rips. Yeah, it was awesome.

[Mike]

That to me is like a. Well, same for like a stock 110. It's like a true pit bike where you just kind of chill on it, sit on it, ride it.

[CJ]

The craziest part about that thing is I'm pretty sure your dad bought it for. It was either 700 or 900 bucks back when you were a kid. And I ended up paying 1200 bucks for that thing 20 years later.

[Ben]

So that thing appreciated in value.

[Mike]

I'm like, not surprised.

[Ben]

But that's why in that crazy.

[CJ]

It just more so. It just shows the value of the dollar has just gone down and.

[Ben]

Yeah, I got to put that thing in a glass case. I'm done riding after. After jumping it like that. Breaking the foot peg off.

[Mike]

And then.

[Ben]

And then.

[CJ]

Yeah, clean it up. And then like when you build your house, do like some kind of ledge that's like up high, raised up and like have it.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like in their house.

[Ben]

I'm gonna pitch it to Greta. She's probably not gonna like it, but I'm gonna say that dirt bike paid for this house.

[Mike]

I just. I know. It's like, I can't wait for the. Why. Why do you want to display a dirt bike?

[CJ]

Or you could have. Or you save it and then your kids can learn how to ride on it. That'd be cool.

[Spencer]

It's like when. Like when you win a championship or something. Put your championship bike in the house.

[Ben]

Yeah, exactly like that. Yeah.

[Spencer]

It's just like a small bike too. People walk in and be like, why is that little tiny bike up on your shelf?

[Ryan]

It's not quite old enough to look like real vintage.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

It doesn't look, you know, like when something looks old. So you're like, oh, this is obviously a legacy piece, but it's. It's just kind of like a medium old dirt bike.

[Mike]

You going to buy another dirt bike for somebody or.

[Ryan]

She found my first quad.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Buy it for me.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I think actually I destroy everything. I don't think it ever made it out of my possession.

[Mike]

I think it just.

[Ryan]

We were.

[Mike]

We were supposed to light it on my red Renegade.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ken]

Go to the scrapyard or something.

[Ryan]

I have no idea what happened to it.

[Mike]

I actually don't know.

[Ryan]

I'm pretty sure.

[Mike]

No idea.

[Ryan]

I'm pretty sure it went back to Seabergs.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Ryan]

Which is now you motors.

[Spencer]

How many?

[Ryan]

I'm sure they gave me like $8 for it.

[Mike]

Ken, how old were you when you got that 800? First time. I met Kenny at a 800 renegade, which is a lot of power for a kid.

[Ryan]

Big freaking.

[Ken]

I don't even remember.

[Mike]

I know they make.

[Ken]

It was whenever. Whenever Ryan got his. That's when I got that one.

[Ben]

Mike, you think he remembers?

[Mike]

So like ballpark me, I guess just.

[Ken]

Like 12 or 13.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah. It's a lot of power.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

You weren't driving a car yet.

[Ken]

No, no.

[Mike]

And they just keep making wheelers and stuff. More powerful. Like, I love that 12 year old age where like you'll just get like a DM that's like, yo, you only have a 250 dirt bike. I have a 1000. And you're like, okay, okay.

[Ben]

I know this for sure, though. I am going to teach my kids how to ride dirt bikes. Because if you learn how to ride dirt bikes, you are light years ahead of other people with motorized skills.

[Ryan]

I agree.

[Ben]

Driving, drive. Driving cars, four wheelers or snowmobiles or anything like that. But like, dirt bikes, you get the balance, you get your like, situational awareness, hand, eye coordination.

[Spencer]

I'd say everything.

[Mike]

Everything. But just like cars. It still blows my mind that, like, let's say 14 is the first time you've gotten in a car and you're like, okay, we're going to put in the drive here and steer it. I'm like, what are you. This should be easy.

[Ryan]

That's actually a good point. Well, like the general majority of people, the first vehicle that they operate is a car. Car is the biggest.

[Mike]

It's the fastest.

[Ryan]

It's the most, like, out of touch. Like, you're way more out of touch with a car when you're driving it than you are with a dirt bike or a, like a side by side little buggy. It's kind of crazy. A bunch of people who, like, legit don't know how to drive and are just figuring it out in a car.

[Spencer]

I feel like riding bikes makes me, like, such a better driver on the road even.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Just because, like, I, like, know what it feels like to spin the tire. So when I'm driving on, like, ice and snow and it's like, super icy, I know to, like, be super light on the throttle so that I don't, like, spin the tires and slide into the ditch. I. I'm always, like, using my. My, like your moto?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Like, I'd say a lot in life, honestly.

[Mike]

All right. Ben's going to buy a dirt bike as well.

[Ryan]

He's gonna go buy spending.

[Mike]

But yeah, dude, like, I'm thinking even if you don't pursue, like, dirt biking, like, you're not like, gung ho all in, like, trying to race or anything. If you just have like a farm four wheeler and you happen to put a lot of hours on that, you're gonna, like, be better off, dude.

[Ryan]

My first ever rig that I would drive around was my grandpa's zero steer lawnmower, bro. I love that thing.

[Mike]

It's hilarious too. Like, I used to practice. I go, I want to mow the lawn so bad.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but they wouldn't let you.

[Spencer]

You're like seven.

[Mike]

And so I would just.

[Ryan]

Yeah, you would just drive around.

[Mike]

But I would practice going in lines without the mower on, which to me is the most insane thing now.

[Ryan]

I think they were all scared of the blades. Boy, what were we gonna do, jump underneath?

[Spencer]

Scared of me running the mower too, when I was young.

[Ryan]

Dude, next time your parents come back, we gotta ask them about you smuggling grizzly. How did we not? Dude, I thought about it this week. I was like, oh my gosh.

[Ben]

Yeah, forgot about that.

[CJ]

I didn't want to incriminate him.

[Spencer]

I wasn't sure already out there now.

[CJ]

Ryan, you were saying you wish you had your first quad?

[Ryan]

Yeah, my renegade. Remember that thing? But then we flipped it over backwards at that off road park when Cody put diesel on his dirt bike.

[Ben]

I love that that day is just known by that.

[Mike]

The sand day.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Snap the bar off and then, yeah, I like snapped the bars and the shifter. Like the whole transmission that was the problem is the transmission got like broke. Holy.

[Ben]

Sorry.

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[Ben]

There's dude, my text. I texted my dad because I want him to come down and see the dirt bike. Like, because he's gonna.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's gonna lose it.

[Ben]

And so I texted him. I was like, yo, are you coming out tonight? I want to show you something. And he was like, probably. And then like 10 minutes later it goes, send me a sneak preview pick. And then like, 10 minutes later, it goes, I already saw your tat. My tattoo. I. Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell him.

[Mike]

I forgot to tell my mom too.

[Ben]

And then the podcast went live.

[CJ]

Oops.

[Ben]

And I said, it's not that. Haha. And he goes, what is it? Question mark? Question mark. Like, he's got. No, chill.

[CJ]

Just say it's.

[Ben]

And then he just called me me.

[CJ]

Say it's a vehicle. Because then he'll for sure come. I mean, he definitely won't guess it's your first dirt bike.

[Mike]

He's gonna be very surprised.

[Ben]

I knew I shouldn't have said anything.

[Ryan]

You know, he's not even thinking about work.

[Ben]

Yeah. Tweaking on it now.

[Ryan]

He's gonna be thinking all about it.

[Ken]

He's gonna close the office early.

[Ben]

But, yeah, I was riding that bike, and my older brother ran into me and broke my foot. Told me I couldn't tell my parents.

[CJ]

And then we told this story.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah. And then today when Mike hit me, I thought I was good, but now I think my. My ankle is a little jammed up. Mike's toe just pop up. A picture of me laying on the ground. Dude, neither of you moved.

[Ryan]

You were just like, you know, because you're down.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You're done kind of laughing.

[Spencer]

But then I walked up, and you're like, yeah.

[CJ]

Why are you sitting like that?

[Ben]

Well, because I. I was just tangled. I was tangled up, like, on the ground, and Mike was also tangled up, and the bike was on my leg, and so my leg was kind of stuck. And then you picked it up, and I was just. I don't know.

[Ryan]

You still laid there?

[Ben]

Stayed in that position.

[Spencer]

I was like, oh. Oh, he's. He's tweaked on the ground.

[Ben]

My ass. My. It, like, it kind of hurts. It does hurt right now, actually, just sitting.

[Spencer]

Gotta be sore.

[Ben]

I am sore. I mean, Mike just.

[Mike]

I honestly wasn't that tangled. My foot was just on fire. I thought I broke it.

[CJ]

Take your sock off so we can.

[Ben]

Look at it, Mike.

[CJ]

I don't understand how you didn't see him.

[Mike]

And just like, I have my head up.

[CJ]

So you just looked down the whole time?

[Ben]

Who said that?

[CJ]

You said you didn't have your head up.

[Mike]

I did have my head up.

[Ben]

Pretty rookie riding mistake, Mike. How far ahead?

[CJ]

He wasn't. That. He wasn't right at the bottom. He was, like, a ways away.

[Mike]

We were concentrated on. We're like, getting shots of single jumps. So all I have to do is hit the two jumps in front of me and look good doing it. That's It. And so, like, I wasn't like. Yeah, I guess I just wasn't paying attention for potentially someone stopped at the bottom of the jump.

[Spencer]

It is the one thing that I noticed is that there's so many people moving around, it's hard to keep track of everybody. Like, when I'm riding, I'm riding around the track, but then somebody's, like, driving their truck behind a jump somewhere else, but we're filming on another jump. Like, you try to be aware of it all. Hard to be aware of everybody because there's so many of us and everybody's riding around and doing different stuff.

[Ben]

Yeah. You come over and there's like a guy on a three wheeler parked in your landing spot.

[Spencer]

I mean, the same. Even that pitter track. Like, I've almost hit Gavin on the track.

[Ben]

I mean, Right. Surprise the example.

[Spencer]

But yeah, I would. I mean, looking ahead is. You'd want to be looking pretty far ahead, but hit the jump and then you're looking back to see if somebody's coming behind you.

[Ryan]

And it's another good thing that riding bike teaches you, is to look ahead.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Like, when you're driving, people, I think, like, look just right in front of them. You're supposed to look out.

[Ben]

I mean, I don't know. Yeah.

[Spencer]

It was a big crash, though. I was scared, honestly. I thought you guys were joking.

[Ben]

It was pretty uncalled.

[Ryan]

It sounded like a big football hit, dude. There was like this, like.

[CJ]

That's what it sounded like.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Sounded like shoulder pads.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Helmet, Shoulder pads.

[Ben]

After it happened, I was just laying on the ground going, classic. Yeah, classic. Like, you're out doing, like, the least minimal. Yeah. The least risk or lowest impact thing, just. And that's when it happened.

[CJ]

How did it feel, though, crashing that bike 15 years later?

[Ben]

Yeah, felt good. Brought me back, though.

[CJ]

There you go.

[Ben]

Definitely brought me back. I was like, the bike that started it is going to be the one that ends it.

[Mike]

I've crashed pit bikes more than anything. It's like small wheels, dude. Yeah. It's like small wheels. You can catch a rain rut and be over the bars.

[Spencer]

I always wanted to pit bike. My parents would never let me have one because I was racing. But, like, they were like, yeah, my dad's, like, too dangerous. That's where you're going to get.

[Mike]

Where you're going to get. Yeah.

[Ben]

I don't know. It's a little ridiculous, but, yeah, there probably is some truth to it.

[Ryan]

We probably have had some of the worst injuries. And Mike's knee, dude, how About.

[Ben]

Yeah, I just saw a tick tock the other day of. Of Mike crashing.

[Mike]

The first time I've ever rode in a 110.

[Ben]

Because right before it happened, too, which I completely forgot about, is I go, you want us to film it? And you go, nah, it's probably not even worth it. And I think C.J. or if I was filming, was like, we'll see what happens. And then you hop on it. You literally hop on it. It go over a hill, and then about 10 yards later, you whiskey.

[Mike]

But I think I saw someone filming, so I'm like, well, I'm not gonna do anything cool. That's why I initially told them not to film. So I'm gonna ride like a goon. So don't ride like a goon if you don't know how to ride. You need to be good at riding to ride like a goon. I figured that out quickly.

[Ben]

Yeah. And I broke my foot, cj.

[Mike]

Like, you did end up breaking it.

[Ryan]

That's right.

[Ben]

It was a severe sprain, but, yeah, it was.

[Mike]

You couldn't walk.

[Ryan]

Even worse.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Yeah, I hurt my hand on the pit bike.

[Ben]

Bike. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Backflip in it. It's a little different.

[Spencer]

I mean, I never do. I never get hurt on my big bikes or, like, rarely.

[Ryan]

Yeah, don't knock on that right now.

[CJ]

Dangerous.

[Mike]

No. Yeah, I've, Yeah. Crashed on pit bikes way more than anything. Anything.

[CJ]

Cody's hand, too, when he backflipped.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Cody. True. That was almost bad. Hitters just bite you.

[Mike]

Yeah, they're like.

[Spencer]

They're just like dead.

[Ben]

False confidence. Yeah, False confidence. Honestly, you get on there, you think that you're good, you get overconfident. Like, you almost respect a big bike more.

[Ryan]

Like, there's also more room for forgiveness. More suspension.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Bigger wheel.

[Mike]

The suspension travel on a big bike does forgive you a lot.

[Ryan]

Kind of like a bear on a unicycle on a pit bike, you actually.

[Ken]

Got a clutch on those.

[CJ]

It's way easier to get off tilt, too, in the air.

[Mike]

That's the biggest thing.

[Ben]

For real.

[Mike]

Like, I don't know what it is about pit bikes. It's the small wheels for the little bump or the big bumps, and then you get off kilter in the air. I don't know what it is, but just dead weight.

[Ben]

So we had we fest this weekend, which is like the country music festival that's in our hometown lineup was pretty weak, I'm gonna be honest. But there was one artist that was in town that I was super excited for. And CJ was there to the same night. Gavin Adcock was so lit.

[Ryan]

Was he?

[Ben]

Yeah. So he's like a up and coming country artist. That's like pretty core country, I would say. I think like country music has kind of like started to stray away, maybe towards more like hip hop.

[Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ben]

More pop, more poppy. But he's got like the country twang to him. But yeah, he started the concert with a bottle of Jack and he ended it with the bottle of Jack gone. He fucking threw that thing out into the crowd. Like. Yeah, he was. He ended it drunk.

[CJ]

Yeah, he was a rock.

[Ben]

His whole. His whole band was sipping off the bottle. Right. And so I'm pretty sure all of them were drunk. And he. He threw the bottle of Jack, jumped out into the crowd, took his shirt off, jumped out in the crowd, was running up through like. Like the VIP section, got back to ga, like, jumped into the ga. Crowd was singing. Security was. Security, was losing their damn minds. Yeah, bet. Because they were like, right? And then next thing you know, he's coming back through, like walks them back through, like the vip and he's. He had to have been pretty laried up, but I think that's just his thing. And it was awesome. And a lot of people afterwards, like, older people were like, oh, that was just too much. That was.

[CJ]

Oh, really?

[Ben]

Yeah. And I was like, like, what? That was the only good concert of the whole.

[Ryan]

The whole night.

[Ben]

Yeah. So it was awesome. Like, if you're a country artist and you're trying to get the crowd into it, get pissed drunk, I guess, and freaking jump out there.

[Ryan]

Yeah, jump out in the crowd.

[Ben]

It was lit. And then Treaty Oak Revival was lit too.

[Ryan]

They were really good.

[Ben]

So good. They were so good.

[Spencer]

Yeah, you were there that night. So good.

[Ben]

But like, the whole crowd of Treaty Oak Revival was like throwing their beer cans and like water bottles up in the air. So you like look back and it was just like. Like, it was. It was crazy. It was awesome. Yeah, man.

[CJ]

It's just crazy how many subs I run into at a country music festival. Like legit. Can't walk like five feet without just saying what's up? Everyone was nice and it was. It was awesome meeting everyone, but it was insane there. And a motorcycle race would have like.

[Ryan]

Yeah, it was fun there. Cuz everyone's so stoked. Well, they're lared. But like, everybody was so stoked between meeting people that I hadn't met before and then everybody that we did know. It's like a freaking school reunion. It's like A town reunion. Like, everybody around here goes to We Fest.

[Ben]

Yeah. Like, older people will come up, if 40s or 50s or 60s, and be like, hey, can I get a photo? Like, my kids are big fans, but for them to know that they still got to, like, watch to be able.

[Ryan]

To recognize at least recognize a face.

[Ben]

In a crowd, which is cool. I think that it's like kind of just shows that the videos have, like, kind of reached like a family dynamic of the whole family can come together to, like, watch the video.

[Mike]

That's my favorite part. That's like. I mean, there's. I appreciate how anyone watches it, whether it's on a phone tablet with your family alone, but, like, sitting down in your living room on a Thursday night and tuning in is my favorite thing to hear ever.

[Ben]

Yeah. A lot of families say the best. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike]

It's the coolest thing ever. Like, they watch it like it's their favorite show. Because for a lot of people and families it is. And I mean, there's no cooler feeling.

[CJ]

Yeah. Over 50% of our views actually come from a TV.

[Mike]

Oh, really?

[Ryan]

That's awesome.

[Mike]

Okay, so that's even cooler.

[CJ]

That's. That's really like you're seeing now, especially, I think just YouTube videos are becoming more of a production, which. You want to watch that on TV now.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And when you're watching on the tv, then it's like you get the mom that's walking by and she's always seen it. And that's why we're getting more views now and just more subscribers. But now it's like, it makes sense, I guess, why it's crazy. Say they watch them now and also they recognize us. Yeah. 50.

[Ben]

Holy. I talked to a mom and a.

[Spencer]

Dad and they were like, the videos are the only things that get my kids on the couch at the same time as me. They won't even sit down to talk with me, but they'll sit down to watch the video every Thursday. They're just like, so stoked. It was pretty awesome.

[Ryan]

That is awesome.

[Ben]

You.

[Spencer]

I heard you guys always talk about we Fest, but I couldn't believe how big that place was.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Even the stage. The stage is massive.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Like, I thought it was going to be couple thousand people, nothing crazy. This is like, it's a crazy festival.

[Ben]

Yeah. It's like you. 40,000 people come into our town and like the biggest town near to us, like where a couple of us live, is like 7, 500 people. So it's still pretty small. So it like explodes. Yeah, explodes.

[CJ]

It's always sad though because that means like summer's pretty much over.

[Ben]

I mean not really.

[CJ]

Not really, but it is for most people.

[Ryan]

Dude, I say that. I say we fest is the end of summer and heydays in a few weeks is like it's full blown fall after heydays. But dude, the Saturday or no, the Sunday morning after we fest it was like 62 degrees and cloudy and windy and I go, like I said, summer's over, dude. It's sad, honestly, so quick. It really does.

[CJ]

It doesn't have to be over, you know.

[Ryan]

No, we'll still have good times, but just like the generic summer night of where it's like 85° still at midnight and it's hot and it's calm out and everybody's around.

[Mike]

Car hearts are back on on.

[Spencer]

I love that guy.

[Mike]

You see that guy.

[Spencer]

I know that guy.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Car hearts are back on.

[Ben]

Have you guys seen the American Rejects band popping up and doing like the pop up shows in like fans backyards?

[Mike]

No, like All American Rejects.

[CJ]

Yeah, they wrote the song.

[Ben]

They have a bunch of classics.

[CJ]

I used to play Runescape while listening to that on Limewire.

[Ryan]

Holy.

[Spencer]

That's a crazy, crazy sense.

[CJ]

Back when Napster was free and then they got sued.

[Ben]

Yep. They've been doing pop up shows just in fans backyards just as like basically college parties. But they get really.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Cuz I mean they're like a big band.

[Ryan]

Yeah, no, they're huge.

[Ben]

They're huge. Right? And so they'll do a show in a fan's backyard and then it'll turn into like Project X just like. Yeah, like every time. What?

[Mike]

That's what always it intrigues me when a band, let's say the band that normally plays for 40,000 people or even 10,000 people and then if they play in the backyard of someone's house and a thousand people show up, which isn't even that much for their show but.

[Ben]

It'Ll explode a house. So they've been doing it like they'll pull into town and the post on their TikTok, like All right, here's the address. Just be there tonight. And they'll give like an hour heads up, two hours heads up. And then you know, a couple thousand people show up. It's pretty sweet, dude. Like it's really cool to see. And they started doing this I think because they maybe weren't selling out big shows and now this kind of just like reignited.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's crazy. You were once at the top and now you're back down. Again, how quick you can get. Get back shot right back up to the top. I mean, I say it all the time. One instance. I mean, you could go from being a guy in our video that everyone hates, and then in one moment, everyone loves you.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean, the. The tides change quick and people forget to go. The vice versa. Yeah, people forget very quick. Dude, it's like, which is sad.

[Ben]

Just go on TikTok and just look up All American Rejects and it'll be the top one.

[Ryan]

Yeah. This video is crazy. Can you imagine going to a concert in the backyard and only filming the lead singer?

[Mike]

That's what the drummer's been saying for years.

[Spencer]

They get any screen time, he just.

[Ryan]

Stood there and only filmed him. Nothing else. No backyard party shot.

[CJ]

If you guys weren't youtubers, what would you want your profession to be?

[Ben]

Country artist of some or just some kind of musician?

[CJ]

I'd agree for sure.

[Mike]

That's what I said, too.

[Ben]

I was like, dj, being a musician is so sick. We were just hanging out with our new buddy, Rick Duff. He wrote a song called Ford Ranger. And it was. The lyrics are based around our Ford Ranger. And so Rick Duff was in town, and we were filming a music video with him the other day, and I was just like, I think that being a musician is the sickest thing ever. You get to basically do nothing all day. You show up for a sound check, and then you get to do nothing for another couple hours, and then you get to go and perform in front of a bunch of people that love you. Like, it's got to be like the coolest, coolest feeling ever. Like, the most euphoric feeling ever to hear people singing back. And obviously, if you're, like, not a big artist in general, it's definitely like a hit to the ego. I'm sure when people don't show up to your show or don't know, you.

[CJ]

Gotta work your way up.

[Ben]

But yeah, yeah. I mean, everybody starts at nothing and builds their way up. So if you could build your way up to become a big artist, I think that would be so sick.

[CJ]

I mean, I'm sure there's so much more to it, and you're constantly traveling around and all that, but also at the same time, it's like, once you make it, some of these guys, they only release maybe like an album a year, if not an album every two years. So, like, what, you're in the studio, you gotta write 20 songs, I guess. And most the time they have ghostwriters. But I agree, that'd be the best Career.

[Ryan]

It is hard to speak on. The work they put in would say.

[CJ]

The same about us.

[Ben]

Exactly.

[Ryan]

They'd be like, what do you mean? All you do is just make a fun video and then do nothing else.

[Mike]

Yeah. Rick was kind of cut. He's. I mean, he's like. I see a lot of similarities to YouTube, obviously. He's like, the fun kind of comes first. The point in the camera, the getting the video out, the getting the views. He's like, that's cool. Same with the song. It's fun to make a song and get it out. It gets the views. And then he's like. But then all of a sudden, you need T shirts and you need someone to plan out your. Your tour and book your shows and same for, like, we need lots of planning. Turns into a business really fast.

[Ben]

Yeah. I think that's just surrounding yourself with, like, the right people and having enough of a business mind that you can. Right. You know, capitalize on it.

[Ryan]

Yeah. Performer would be the coolest thing, though.

[Ben]

Yeah, it'd be sick. We started a band. We just. We just switch up. Who do you think would be the lead singer? Who's the best singer in the crew?

[Mike]

Probably you.

[Ben]

No. Yeah.

[Spencer]

You got a nice voice.

[Ben]

Thank you.

[CJ]

Ben doesn't know lyrics, though. He makes his own lyrics.

[Spencer]

I don't know.

[Mike]

I don't either. I don't remember. I don't memorize songs for.

[Ken]

That's what make each show unique because each show will be different.

[Ryan]

He's up there singing.

[Ben]

Sure. You never know what I'm gonna say up there.

[Mike]

But, I mean, there's. There's singing. There's obviously rapping, too. None of us can rap either, but.

[Ben]

Can you guys play any instruments?

[Mike]

The drums a little bit. The trumpet a little bit.

[Ben]

Okay, so Mike's on the trumpet. Mike, I bet you can play the flute.

[Ken]

I know you said you've never played it, but you do have a guitar in your office.

[Mike]

Well, I haven't played that guitar. Like, I could pick guitar back up, and I could not be lead guitar car, but I could be back up.

[CJ]

I think it's easier now than ever to be a musician.

[Ben]

There's probably a lot more competition, but. But you don't even really have to have that good of a boy fix.

[CJ]

That and do it.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Mike]

It's a barrier to entry. Like, to call yourself a musician, you really just need, like, I have, you see the Max Spotify that has a million views.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Call yourself a musician.

[Ben]

I think if you have a social media mind, then you can Be a good musician. Honestly, like, I think that if you can just make good TikTok content or Instagram content and get people to care about you, your music doesn't have to be that good. Gavin Adcock is a pretty good example of it. Granted, he does have good music, but the reason I found out about him is through Tick Tock. Like, he's like posting a Tick Tock video every single day. Like doing crazy. Yeah, Just saying. Crazy. Starting controversies. Yeah. Living like a rock star. But he's getting people to talk about him. And like. Like, I think that's kind of what you got to do. I was telling Rick Duff that too. I was like, bro, if you're not posting on TikTok, like, you're immediately behind the rest of the guys that are. Because it seems like that's kind of what's pushing things.

[CJ]

Yeah, dude, the short form content for sure.

[Ben]

And that's not all of it. But, you know, there are songs that prevail without having anyone know who's behind it.

[Mike]

It's cool. We're at a point there was a stint where it's like, oh, yeah, you're trying to. Yeah, you're just trying to push on Tick tock, though. That's not gonna like amount to anything. But now I don't think anyone can say that.

[Ben]

That.

[CJ]

I mean, I think you gotta do more than.

[Mike]

Of course, of course.

[CJ]

But I think you should definitely. That's one of your big.

[Mike]

But it's like if you're.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Rules right now and let's say that's where you're pulling your biggest numbers, but you're still making songs like, you can't on that at all.

[Spencer]

Taylor Holder did it. That Tick Tocker he went on.

[Mike]

Went on.

[Ben]

Yeah, he kind of had a transition too. He went on boxing Talker to.

[Spencer]

Went on tour with Post Malone.

[Ben]

Really?

[CJ]

I guarantee, dude, he was sitting down. He figured out. He's like, yep, musicians, definitely the route to go. Alex Warren, bro, Bro. Same with him.

[Ben]

Alex Warren was a YouTuber and then a Tick tocker, maybe vice versa. And then he switched to music and everyone just on him and was like, buddy, you're a tick tocker. Buddy, you're a YouTuber. You can't make music. And now he's like the biggest artist of the last couple months. Dude, his streaming numbers are insane. Wow. They're insane. He's got a song bigger than Drake's right now.

[CJ]

Dude, I think if you can blow up on, let's just say YouTube, oftentimes those people like, you don't just have a team to do your shit. You're the camera guy, you're the fucking writer, you're the producer, you're the editor, and you're the talent on screen. So, like, anyone who can accomplish that, like, you got a pretty wide skill set. And oftentimes I think those people can move into different ventures and do well at them. And you just look at the line, like Taylor, Holder, Alex, Warren, Logan, Paul, Jake, Paul. Like a lot of big YouTubers, I mean, they.

[Ben]

They have been able to transition.

[Mike]

It is funny to think we are, like, one step away from essentially being able to be music makers. Like someone who could produce us and then us putting some time and planning into lyrics. And, dude, honestly, we have the rest of it.

[Ben]

See it happening too. Like, I'd be down to make a good song. It's just gotta be good. Yeah.

[Spencer]

Like, it's just.

[CJ]

Especially with, like, computers and AI now, like, you can make, like, you know, the backbeat and all that. I don't know. We got a lot of tools. That's what I'm saying. Like, it might be. I think it's probably easier than ever to.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Become a musician.

[Ben]

My brother, really, he writes music and he knows how to, like, produce and stuff. I should just have him. I don't know. But it's got to be good enough where people can't roast you for it.

[CJ]

They're gonna roast you no matter what, right away.

[Ben]

Yeah. But if it's a good song, then people will actually be like, oh, it's a pretty good song.

[CJ]

But I think it sucks. Yeah, I mean, if it sucks, it's. Then you're really in trouble. But I think even.

[Spencer]

It's hard, though. What genre are we going, you know.

[Ryan]

Like, I don't know, spending collabs with Nickelback.

[CJ]

Dude, I think you dj, where you're making, like, noises. Noises would be the easiest. Put some noises together. You gotta have an ear for it, obviously, but barely. Yeah. I mean, some of these songs, dude, we got Mike.

[Spencer]

We got Mike's. Ken, can you spin a track and we'll start singing?

[Ken]

I don't know if I can do.

[Ben]

That back there, dude.

[Ken]

Well, we can get Justin to like, like, ghost mix some of this stuff.

[Ben]

Dude, if Ken was. If we had a band, Ken would be the bass player. It would just say the whole time, glasses on.

[Spencer]

Yeah, he'd have his big horn hat on. His big horn helmet.

[Mike]

There's this guy on Instagram, just since we're speaking of music, his name's Ari. At home, he Streams. He's a streamer. He has his beats making like piano, beat pad, whatever, streaming. And he just goes around nyc, he finds people to rap and then he's like, all right, what kind of beat do you want? And then he cooks up the beat on the spot and then they rap and you just have to go check it out. There is people who know how to rap and sing incredibly well. This crawling around NYC everywhere. It blows my mind. The talent that he finds on a daily basis and you just have to go check it out. It's so good. Are you at home?

[Ben]

Guys that can freestyle, that's a special talent.

[CJ]

The problem is like those guys that can freestyle doesn't necessarily translate into being able to make like a good hit song. A lot of these hit songs are just written by someone else. And then you go in, you could have a literal shit voice. And then the producer on the back end adds the beats and all the other shit and then fixes your, your sound and then it sounds amazing. I bet you the guy producing the song might be one of the most important pieces.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

If not half of it, you know.

[Ben]

You guys ever hear like Juice WRLD get up and freestyle though?

[CJ]

Like some of he was good.

[Ben]

Some of his biggest songs are one take. Yeah, you're really crazy. Yeah.

[Ryan]

What's your guys's thoughts on dead artists like Juice World World, like their families putting. Continuing to put out music after they're gone?

[Ben]

Yeah, I just saw a collab between XXX and Juice World.

[CJ]

I don't know. I mean, you know, obviously the producer made it, you know, mashed them together to make them work. Because it probably wasn't recorded as one.

[Ben]

No, I think it's AI.

[CJ]

Oh, you think?

[Ben]

I think a lot of it's AI. I think really, I think a lot of the voice that's actually.

[Ryan]

You don't think.

[CJ]

I think.

[Ben]

I think a lot of it, I.

[CJ]

Think but some of it lame. Some of it. It is like they recorded parts of a song and they just hadn't put it out yet. They were looking to finish it or they were looking to have someone else come in and help complete it, you know, be a feature on it. So they have like this bank of half done songs and then they would sell them to other artists that are still alive and then hop in on it and make a. Make a song.

[Mike]

And I think just like leave it up to the fans, I guess essentially. Like, is it. If it's good, then like, sure, run it. Like if it's not just a giant money grab and you're actually wanting to put their art out there. They're obviously the families or whoever own, owns the rights are going to make money off of it. But, like, rappers just, like, record songs and then just, like, put them on the hard drive. Well, you know, whatever. They put them away, that's it. Like, they don't see the light of day.

[CJ]

I think it helps them live on.

[Mike]

I agree, but. But also, like, yeah, again, if it's for a money grab or if the music's just really shitty, it's like, what are you doing? Yeah, you're gonna muddy up their legacy here.

[Ryan]

I do agree with that, that it, like, does help their legacy live on. But I think. Think with, let's say, Juice World for the case, he's released, like, more songs after he's been dead than he has when he was alive.

[CJ]

Dude, he wasn't popping that long.

[Ryan]

And my beef with that is, is they are. They're literally called artists. And artists have a vision for how they want their song to come out and be portrayed to the world. And maybe they never put that song out for a reason. And it kind of was almost like their choice to not publish it. And then now the family takes their name and just starts throwing stuff at the wall or even just puts things out that maybe the artist, the person who created it, didn't want out and then kind of gets all the benefit off it. I think that's, like, a weird place, because I think there's never.

[Mike]

Yeah, there's never a right and a wrong way to do it. Which is, like, the toughest part, because think, like, I've heard of stories where you have a buddy that raps, and I somehow get a hold of a couple of his songs, and I just put them on SoundCloud. I'm like, dude, my buddy's so good, but he's. He's too scared to show the world.

[Ben]

World.

[Mike]

I put his songs on SoundCloud, even though he wasn't planning on releasing them, and then they get a bunch of views and people are like, damn, yeah.

[Ryan]

But if it's like, Mac Miller and you're gonna. The family goes, all right, if we put out this song that Mac never released, we're gonna make $19 million.

[Mike]

Exactly. Money grab.

[Ryan]

I think it's a dirty. A dirty thing.

[Ken]

And it's also kind of like, what stage of development were these songs? Were they just in the studio one afternoon and just had some lyrics recorded? Or was it like, this was part of an album that was 75 of the way there just need polishing touches on.

[Ryan]

It's a good point. It's a good point.

[Ken]

I feel much more comfortable about, like, where they had a bunch of work into this, rather than it's just some random studio wordings here and there that's.

[Mike]

Like, really, like, playing the song. Ken's like, I don't feel comfortable listening to this one, boys. But, yeah, I feel you. There's no right and wrong last one. But I'm just saying, you could literally have that song in the studio where you just sat. You're like, dude, I just walked in there, and I was just goofing off with my buddy. And then you make a hit hit.

[Ben]

I don't know.

[Mike]

There's no right or wrong way to do it.

[Ben]

I had heard somewhere that Lil Wayne had, like, an absurd amount of songs unreleased. So I just looked up how many unreleased songs does Lil Wayne have? And top answer was, Lil Wayne is rumored to have over 1 million unreleased.

[Ryan]

Oh, my gosh, Dude.

[Ben]

I think that. I think that's pretty inaccurate.

[Mike]

But a lot.

[Ben]

I've heard him say a lot, but.

[Mike]

Let'S say I'll say a lot.

[Ben]

Yeah, probably more than that. I bet More than that. That, dude.

[CJ]

Yeah, because, like, they oftentimes, you know, they're recording all these songs, then it's like they got to choose what's going on the album. And, I mean, that guy's been popping since, what, 2000?

[Spencer]

2000S.

[Ben]

2000S. Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

You know Lil Wayne, he used to be a part of that group. What was this? What was his group's name again?

[Ben]

Kirk Fit. Why is Lil Wayne still popping so much?

[CJ]

Because he's just a legend, dude. When I was in middle school, Lil Wayne was the guy.

[Ben]

He was like, the top rapper guy.

[Ken]

It was the Hot boys.

[CJ]

Yeah, the hot boys. That's what I thought.

[Ben]

Are you calling them Little Wayne?

[CJ]

I think the reason why they called him Little Wayne was because he was, like, 16 at the time or he was young. He was little. And I remember this video, dude, they had the PT Cruisers, and it was lit.

[Ben]

You had a pt.

[Ryan]

We sold it.

[Ben]

That's lit. What was the origination of Lil? Like, why are all these. Why are all these rappers called Lil?

[Mike]

There's so many. I want to know that. How many rappers go by the name of Little Something?

[Ben]

It's gonna be hard to come up with a good rapper name these days.

[Ryan]

You put Lil in it, and everyone's.

[CJ]

Kind of like, okay, Lil Ryan, that works. You're good.

[Ben]

That's actually not bad.

[Ken]

Big Ken, Little Man Jay he was the youngest member. The youngest member of the time of the the hot boys.

[Mike]

Okay. On Spotify alone in 2018, they were reported to have over 8, 000 artists with Lil at the start of their name game.

[Ben]

How many of those are overlaps?

[Mike]

That's a lot, bro. Yeah.

[Ben]

You're out here trying to get a trademark or at least a domain.

[Spencer]

I don't know if you guys watch it or not, but Tanner Fox just dropped a new video.

[Mike]

Really?

[Ben]

Really. I haven't seen it.

[Spencer]

I watched it too. This is new gtr.

[Mike]

Oh, okay.

[Spencer]

That he rebuilt.

[Mike]

Yep. Saw a little bit about that. And honestly I was happy to see that. I was like. Because that was the kind of peak Tanner Fox days when we had Guaczilla.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That thing is sick.

[Ben]

Sick.

[Mike]

And yeah.

[Spencer]

Rebranded the gtr.

[Ryan]

How is it? Is it sick?

[Spencer]

I thought it was good.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

I thought it was pretty sick.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He did like a little fast and furious tribute.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

To the Paul Walker Original r34 or r32. But it's cool.

[Ben]

Yeah. Tanner Fox making the comeback. He was. He was like the first YouTuber that we had met. That was like how eye opening Angeles. Yeah.

[Mike]

Who also happens to be scooters.

[Ben]

But when we met. Met Tanner Fox, we were like, holy crap. How is this even possible? Like this kid is.

[CJ]

He was like the first moving.

[Ben]

Yeah. I think Tanner would even say this though. It's just like when you're that young and you're exposed to that much money and success, I don't know how good it is for you, especially if you're not, I guess, mentally ready for it. I think the last couple years have been pretty tough for him.

[Spencer]

That thing is nice.

[Ben]

He's been trying to figure out maybe.

[Ryan]

That thing is nice. Holy.

[Mike]

Well. And the toughest thing and this happens at any age, but think it happens the most at around that 18 year old age is like how do you know who your friends are? They're your friend. You get a couple close friends. So you think. And then you let them live with you and stuff. And then like you just. You truly don't know who your friends are.

[Spencer]

I'd say it's like it's like the make or break, you know, like you have the friends that are out partying and you could be out partying or you could be out doing other stuff. It's kind of like maker. It's like the make or break couple of years. 16, 17, 18.

[Ben]

Yeah. But.

[Mike]

And even if you're partying, like you got to make sure those Friends aren't just using you to party harder or party harder than they could have. If they're partying with you and, like, taking care of you at the same time, it's great. But a lot of times it's just like, yeah, my buddy, he likes to party, so I'm gonna piggyback off him so I can party hard with him. I don't really care how. How his well being is. I'm glad we weren't so young when we, you know, we were young, but I'm glad that we weren't. Weren't so independent and young when we made it. Made it big.

[Ben]

Yeah. I don't know, it's just like, the Internet's a pretty tough place to grow up if you're in front of that many people.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Especially if maybe you are validating your confidence off of what other people have to say. It was crazy, though, just like, hanging out with them back in 2018 or 2019, whenever we became 20. 2020. Right before COVID hit. Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Just, I guess, I don't know, being exposed to, like, I guess the success of someone like that popping that way.

[Ryan]

So eye opening. I remember we went down there and he had, like, his house, he had a track. Just like his whole operation was like, whoa, you know, do it.

[Ben]

He's like, oh, this is. This is possible. This is cool. And he was just kind of a. Just a normal dude.

[Ryan]

Did you guys see Cleat's new pool?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[CJ]

That's sick.

[Ben]

It's so awesome.

[Ryan]

The Chevy pool.

[Mike]

He made the right decision.

[Ryan]

Go so hard. So dummy hard.

[Mike]

Obviously I'm not digging an in ground pool for myself right now, but I'm like, why didn't I think of that? That's awesome.

[Ryan]

When they walk by the hot tub here, George goes, oh, we should have done the hot tub in the shape of a turbo. And I'm like, damn, that would have been a good idea.

[Spencer]

You think Chevy's paying them for that?

[Ryan]

No. Which is actually crazy. They should be.

[Ben]

They should be.

[CJ]

Ben, are you going to build your house sick like Cletus?

[Ben]

Yeah, for sure.

[Spencer]

Gonna go Lambo pool?

[CJ]

Yeah, that'd be sick. Lamborghini.

[Mike]

That would be a cool shape.

[Spencer]

That would be a cool shape.

[Ben]

When Cletus was talking about building his house, he was like, I think I'm gonna just make it, like, so sick and do everything that I want to do. And hopefully my wife is okay with it. Which is exactly what I see he's doing right now.

[Ryan]

Insert giant Chevy pool.

[Mike]

Oh, it's so good.

[Ben]

That's actually so sick.

[Mike]

There's the happy medium.

[Spencer]

Because it's like, if you tell your.

[Mike]

Wife we're getting an in ground pool. Yeah. She's gonna be happy.

[Spencer]

Well, like, say, listen, baby, people would come over and they'd go in there.

[Ben]

And be like, no, no.

[Spencer]

From this.

[Ben]

From the house.

[Spencer]

Yeah.

[Ben]

You probably don't really notice it.

[CJ]

How many views you got? 1.6 on that. That's a great title and thumbnail.

[Ryan]

It's a good shape for a pool. You got the sun deck, you got the wider spot for volleyball, and then you got the deep bent.

[Spencer]

Looks better than a square.

[Ryan]

Like the Dodge logo wouldn't be a very good pool.

[Ben]

No.

[Mike]

Well, I guess then neither would the Lamborghini because it's just a big oval. Yeah, right. I was thinking of the Lamborghini.

[Ben]

Yeah. You guys come over. I got a Lamborghini pool. You walk. My dirt bike is hanging right on the entryway.

[Spencer]

It's a nice.

[Ben]

That's what it should be.

[Spencer]

Just whack.

[Ben]

That's what it should be.

[CJ]

Did you guys see Hayden Deegan while he's building for his house?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I don't know if that was a joke or like, was he being serious?

[Spencer]

He posted it serious.

[CJ]

It was just like a rendering. It's on his Instagram, but I mean, that's what.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

A guy like Hayden Deegan should be building for a house. And Ben, I think you should take note. Take note because you should have a dope ass house like this.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

I mean, we all should. But you're the only one building the.

[Ben]

House, so I might have to postpone it another year to go extra dope.

[CJ]

On tennis court too. We need a tennis court so you.

[Ben]

Can build some sweet stuff. Obviously, if you have like a bunch of money, you can do anything with it. But, like, people are just getting more and more creative. Or like architects and designers are just getting. I don't know. Some of these houses are just insane.

[Mike]

Internet stresses me out. Like, I was asking Sydney and she had a good point. A normal answer was, that's why you hire architects. That's why I hire interior designers. But I'm like, when the sky is the limit, like when you're learning, like, oh, I didn't even know you could do that. And then you learn about it when it's like you're halfway into your house build and you're like, oh, I really wish I could do that. But you have concrete and metal and wood laid down. Like, you can't just go back and like, redo it.

[Ben]

Yeah, no, people are just getting more and more creative and maybe it's just because, like, you have access to it on the Internet where you can see what other people have done. Yeah, but yeah, that's true.

[Mike]

Yeah, you kind of only see, like, you could either see houses in person or in a magazine. That was like, it.

[CJ]

You need good builders though, dude. You get some shit builders in there. Oh my God, you have a mess.

[Ben]

CJ's been hurt.

[CJ]

Like, even so, like, if you want to do some really sick shit, you better find some really good builders because there's a lot of people out there that can't even do the basics, dude.

[Mike]

When my parents built their dream house, the one I grew up in, it was so bad. There was so many things that went wrong and I was like, whoa, they should be on the line for that. Once I finally got old enough to learn. And they're like, no, they filed for bankruptcy and dissolved right after they built our house.

[Ben]

Dude, that's what happened with my parents too, so.

[Ryan]

Really?

[Ben]

Yeah, we're just literally last house they ever built. And the window company went bankrupt afterwards, so they can't replace them or any of that.

[Ryan]

I remember that people are really hating that the podcasts are too short cuz we're making the videos.

[Mike]

People are back damn long.

[Spencer]

People are back in school, they want to listen.

[Ben]

Who the hell's back in school?

[Spencer]

I don't know.

[CJ]

I saw colleges start up next week. Like, I don't hang around really anyone who's in school. And obviously I don't have any kids or anything like that. I forget, like, it'll be the middle of summer. I'll be like, I think kids are in school today. Like, I'll literally drive by. I'm like, oh, must have no school. Yeah, I'm like, oh, it's summer.

[Mike]

I asked my neighbor that, like, how is school today? She's like, it's July.

[CJ]

Yeah, it's just crazy because I'm so uninvolved from it. But like, I imagine kids are gonna get back into school soon because I was reading. Com, I always read the comments, or as many as I can. So when you guys comment on this podcast or even on. On our YouTube vids, I more than likely will see them. Yeah, I just see comments like, oh, like, so excited, like that this podcast dropped because now I can listen to it at school. Like, you know, and I'm like, damn, kids are already firing up at school. But you know, one thing I do want to say, this might be A hard thing to hear, but school is easier than life. It sucks because, like, school is really boring. But, like, just enjoy it if you're at school.

[Spencer]

Dude, it was so easy.

[CJ]

Like, I look back, that was.

[Ben]

Was fun.

[CJ]

Dude, you were hanging with your friends. You were goofing off. I wasn't really doing a lot either. And I don't know, you just like, just enjoy it, man. Just enjoy your time in school and in the present. Just hang with your friends, I don't.

[Ben]

Know, your buddies every day.

[CJ]

Imagine just like you had school coming up in a week. It'd be pretty exciting. Go get to see the friends again. And, you know, that's a good way.

[Ben]

To look at cj. I don't know if anyone out there looks at it quite like that.

[CJ]

Trust me, when you get older, though, I wouldn't want to go back to school. Especially college. College. But like, you look back at like, high school, middle school, elementary school, it was kind of fun.

[Ben]

You got football games on Friday.

[CJ]

Like, that was fun.

[Spencer]

Everybody's firing a big party, texting it out. You're heading to somebody's house on a Friday. Dude, school was a blast.

[Ben]

You're selling Copenhagen.

[Ryan]

He was just going to work.

[Spencer]

But I was just going to work.

[Ben]

Another day at work.

[CJ]

Yeah, you can even make money at school if you're a drop dealer.

[Mike]

Well, I sold tech deck. Made some money off that.

[Ben]

Really?

[Spencer]

Actually, another thing I used to do is I used to sell them because I'd be on all these dirt bike races, I'd steal them. Cases of monster.

[Mike]

That's a good idea.

[Spencer]

Yeah, kids.

[Mike]

Because like, hot commodity, hard to go.

[Spencer]

To the gas station.

[CJ]

Low cost business too.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

Two, three.

[Mike]

Everybody wants an energy drink. In high school.

[Spencer]

It was like the cool thing to like have an energy drink on your desk.

[CJ]

Dude, really? When I was in high school, kids weren't really drinking energy drinks. My group, yeah, I remember they're pretty taboo. Like, if you showed up drinking an energy drink, it was like the same thing as drinking a beer. Yeah, like, they damn near were like, really? You know, just like the teachers energy drinks. I don't know, it was just strange how, like, there was one kid that.

[Spencer]

Came to my locker every single day. And it's hilarious because his name was Kyle and he wore these purple big Osiris, like, high top shoes.

[Ryan]

Holy. He and Evan would have been buddies.

[Ben]

Dude. Dude.

[Spencer]

He was just such a goofy kid. And he would come up at like 10:30 when we were switching classes because he knew I'd be at my locker and he Would come and be like, hey, can I get a monster?

[Ben]

And he.

[Spencer]

Like, sometimes he wouldn't add money. And they just be warm. Yeah, they're sitting my lawn.

[Ryan]

It's a hot monster locker.

[Spencer]

And he'd buy one every single day.

[Ben]

Did you get shut down?

[Spencer]

No, I didn't. Well, I mean, the principal. I actually. And then I had another thing where, like, I went to Vegas for a race, and Glenny was getting those, like, little cards with, like, the chicks on them.

[Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Spencer]

And I took those to school, and I actually got. I got sent to the office for that because they found that I. I was handing them out to all my buddies.

[Ryan]

You were handing out porn?

[Spencer]

The hell are you getting all these cards? And I just bring a big stack and just deal them out to all the boys and just for free.

[Ben]

Just trading cards?

[Spencer]

Yeah, just literally trading cards.

[CJ]

Has anyone ever called those numbers? Like, one of those numbers? And, like, what happens, bro? Like, does actually get bugged? Does that girl actually show up? Or do some people show up and just inevit.

[Mike]

Inevitable Cat, I don't think it's break your.

[Ben]

You get mugged, take your money.

[Mike]

Like, I think it's like, hey, call this number. And, you know, Lamborghini is going to pull up. But then really just a Civic pulls up.

[CJ]

Yeah, that's what I'd imagine.

[Ben]

There's context for the listener. There's like, these basically Pokemon cards, but with women explicitly showing.

[Mike]

No, it doesn't have their process on it.

[CJ]

It's basically a guy.

[Ben]

And then it's got their phone number on it. And then. Then there's guys in Vegas, like, on the sidewalks, like, handing these things out, like, hey, you want this girl to pull up to your room?

[CJ]

50 bucks. Supposedly I'm like, bro, I think it's like.

[Ben]

I mean, most people know it's not real.

[Ken]

It's like 50 bucks for something to knock on your door. And I think it's.

[Ben]

But what does happen?

[CJ]

I don't know. I'm worried about the girls. Like, what a dangerous job.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Like, you're just some random girl and you're gonna show up to some dirty guy's room. A lot of bad could happen. Like, I feel bad for. For the women that are in that position. Hopefully they really enjoy their job because.

[Ryan]

Like, the world's oldest profession.

[Spencer]

Another funny thing that was at our high school, too, is we had, like, a designated smoking pit outside the high school.

[Mike]

Shut up, dude. I had.

[Ryan]

Shut up.

[Spencer]

No lie. There was a straight up smoking pit. And there was this couple kids I was in a. I was in, like, the low English class because I sucked at English.

[Mike]

Because you only knew Canadian at the time.

[Spencer]

There's a couple kids who were, like, kind of, like, gnarlier dudes. And this one kid would, like. We would be doing, like, a test or something, and he would. He was just, like, such a loose cannon. And you would stand up and he'd be like, Mr. Ma, I'm going for a smoke. And he would just stand up and he would walk.

[CJ]

That was. Okay.

[Mike]

That's wild. All right.

[Spencer]

Like, gotta respect that.

[Ben]

That's back when you couldn't just hide a vape in your sweatshirt, you know, you actually had to go outside and rip a dart, dude. You weren't hiding, like, literally.

[Spencer]

And then, like, he would show up late, and the. The teachers would be like, why are you late? And he's like, oh, I was just. I was finishing my dart. And, like, what? They never said anything to him. Like, he was just like, was it legal?

[Mike]

Was.

[CJ]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He wasn't even of legal age. That blows my mind.

[Spencer]

It was illegal to buy them, but it wasn't illegal to smoke them.

[Ryan]

It's like having window tint.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Except for the opposite.

[CJ]

What age can you use tobacco? 18.

[Ben]

Oh, really?

[CJ]

In Canada? So they would just.

[Spencer]

Some of the kids. I mean, like, every high school had, like, smoking pits. And you, like, knew that that's, like, smoking pit. It was just.

[Ryan]

Describe this to me.

[Spencer]

It was so, like, there's the parking lot, and then the school's right here, and there's, like, a batch of trees.

[CJ]

So it was a designated spot established by the school for smoking. Or was it just, like, a nose?

[Mike]

That's where the kids went.

[Spencer]

But, like, the principal and the school cop would go cruise by at, like, lunchtime because they knew, like, the kids were out there smoking.

[Ben]

And what. What tell them.

[Ryan]

Want to make their presence.

[Spencer]

They wouldn't tell them to stop, but they would just be, like, making sure they weren't, like, smoking weed or, like, doing drugs.

[Ryan]

Just cigarettes.

[Spencer]

Like, obviously, like, that's where you would go to deal the drugs. Like, you'd meet in the smoking pit. Or, like, if there was ever a fight, they'd be like, meet in the smoking pit. And you'd go to the smoking pit, and that's where you.

[Ben]

How big was this?

[Spencer]

Probably, like, as big as just, like, this room.

[Ben]

Oh, wow, that's pretty big pit. And is it actually in the ground?

[Mike]

No, it was not an actual.

[Spencer]

Like, it was like, we're like the. There was, like, a drain or Something like a bat.

[Ben]

Little cup. You guys are just standing and walking. Water.

[Ryan]

No, there was just a water on the low lying. We found a wetland.

[Spencer]

Just a little low. A little low.

[Mike]

Had a drain. There's no water.

[Ryan]

So you guys would just stand around a drain.

[Spencer]

I didn't go into the smoking pit. I was just.

[Ben]

You sure know a lot about it. I bet you're dealing monsters to them.

[Ryan]

Taking a troll.

[Ben]

By the.

[Ryan]

By the smoking.

[Mike]

Meet me at the smoking pit. You're like, I'm not doing the deal out there.

[Ben]

What about, come to my locker?

[Spencer]

What about, like, cafeterias? Did you guys have cafeterias in your school?

[Ben]

School? Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. Every school is a cafeteria. Wait, what?

[CJ]

I love school.

[Mike]

You didn't have a cafeteria?

[Ben]

No, no.

[Spencer]

So we had. We had this restaurant called Cocoa Brooks.

[Mike]

Oh, that's cool.

[Spencer]

And it was a pizza place. It was in a.

[Mike]

Our school wasn't big enough.

[CJ]

In your school?

[Spencer]

In the school.

[Mike]

Big schools.

[CJ]

So all you had, your choice was just a pizza?

[Spencer]

No, no. So they had, like, calzones. Pizzas. They had banana bread.

[Mike]

But you had a standard hot lunch with lunch ladies too, though, right? No, but you could.

[Ben]

No, we only had that.

[Mike]

Interesting.

[CJ]

So you didn't have, like a lunch lady, these things?

[Ryan]

There was no buffet line where you just ran through.

[Spencer]

No, it was called Cocoa Brooks. And you'd go up there, you'd order a pineapple barbecue pizza or pizza every day? No, like, not just pizza. They had like, salads and like.

[Mike]

Either that or you pack your own lunch.

[Ryan]

Yeah, but you never had, like, chicken.

[Mike]

Like chicken. Today's chicken nuggets. And you never had.

[Ben]

You didn't have a plate with a little. With a little milk. Dude.

[CJ]

You know, I'd like to go back to my high school and see if the school lunch still holds up today.

[Ben]

Day.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Spencer]

Who is that?

[Ben]

Who is it?

[CJ]

Hello?

[Ryan]

Yeah, what's up, dog?

[Ben]

What the. What the.

[Spencer]

It's our buddy from Winnipeg.

[Ben]

Oh, what up? What? What the.

[Spencer]

It's about time to show up.

[Ben]

No, just drop in.

[Mike]

Holy hell, that's hilarious.

[Ben]

How's it going?

[CJ]

Did they not tell you coming?

[Mike]

No, no. I knew.

[Spencer]

I knew.

[Ryan]

Nose.

[Mike]

I didn't know. On the hour.

[Spencer]

I could feel it. I could feel it.

[Ben]

This is what we were saying earlier in the podcast. People just drop in. I love Just another day. Hey, I got the same hat. It's just another day. What up, dude? How's it going, brother?

[Mike]

How you doing?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

All right.

[Ben]

We got the whole crew coming.

[Ryan]

Let's go.

[Ben]

Love it.

[CJ]

Take the walk through how's it going?

[Ryan]

Come on through.

[Ben]

Come on through. Come on through. Hey, thanks for coming. Hey, how's it going? Yeah, take a seat.

[Mike]

Unbelievable.

[Spencer]

But, yeah, anyway, so it was sweet because we could eat in class, too. I don't know if you guys could eat in class. Like, we could literally. We could be in class and 30 minutes in, you're hungry and say, hey, could I run to, like, the bathroom or whatever. You run to the bathroom, hit Coco Brooks. There's a couple boys hanging out in the. In the. Like, the little.

[Mike]

They were open all day.

[Spencer]

Open all day. Grab a slice of banana bread, head back up to the classroom.

[Mike]

What the fuck? It was actually.

[Spencer]

Actually so sick, dude. Canada High School is lit. I was honest.

[CJ]

You didn't graduate spending. You could go back.

[Spencer]

No, I graduated.

[CJ]

Oh, you didn't grab. You said you didn't.

[Spencer]

No, my brother didn't. But then he went back and got it after.

[CJ]

I was gonna say, you still have a chance, dude. Like, that much.

[Spencer]

I even had a sick wood shop teacher that we would be in wood shop, and we'd be like, hey, is it cool if we run to McDonald's?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Spencer]

And he's like, yeah, just get me a double cheeseburger.

[CJ]

And we would.

[Spencer]

We would leave class for 30 minutes, like, all the time and go to McDonald's and grab my cheesebur. He didn't care.

[Ben]

Paying them off.

[Mike]

It's always the. Like, just shop. Well, I had one shop teacher that was the biggest cheese dick I've ever met. But the other shop teacher was the same as that. He let us do whatever we wanted.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Build whatever we wanted. Yeah.

[Ryan]

I want someone's shop class to build another wooden dirt bike.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah.

[CJ]

Let's see if anyone can build a better wooden dirt bike than us. I mean, ride it at your own risk, but I don't think anyone's building a better wooden dirt bike than us. Then maybe. Maybe an Amish colony. That's it. But, like, straight up, like, we gotta.

[Ben]

Go down there and maybe start seeing if they can do some projects. Yeah.

[Mike]

Honestly, challenge those guys because they'd be happy. They want to make money. They want to make a living.

[Ben]

I saw a pretty funny video the other day. It was going into an allus call Amish colony and just telling them wild things that have happened. Like. Yeah. Did you guys hear. And then. And then showing them an AI Video. Video.

[Spencer]

Did you hear that?

[Ben]

Yeah. Like, a pack of, like, rabid dogs, like, took over, like, the next town over, and then just show them a video of, like, the dogs, like, going into bars and, like, kicking people out. Like, just, like, bizarre things. That was a bad example.

[CJ]

Remember our Amish buddy that gave us this hat, Peter Yodel?

[Mike]

He was.

[CJ]

Well, he left his Amish colony. Now he's got a phone. He's.

[Mike]

Dude, he. He FaceTimed me when he was at Gavin Ad Cop. And I was like, bro, it was so random. And I'm like, what are you doing?

[Ben]

He's all.

[Mike]

I'm all piled up. And then I talked to him the next day, and he goes, oh, I don't even remember seeing that Gavin Adcock. I'm like, yeah, you called me last night right here.

[CJ]

Yeah. Let's hear this.

[Spencer]

That crazy news about.

[CJ]

So there's cats in the Olympics now.

[Ben]

Cats. Cats.

[CJ]

Oh, you can get these guys with anything now.

[Spencer]

Cats.

[CJ]

So look, there's cats.

[Ryan]

The kids, like, this lit kind of insane.

[CJ]

How do you train a cat how to do that?

[Ben]

This one's from America.

[Mike]

This one's from America. This is a real sport now.

[Ben]

People are training their cats. Go jump kind of me boards.

[CJ]

I mean, I think the guy's not believing.

[Ryan]

Yeah, he's not. But he's got to be like, how the hell do you make that?

[Spencer]

That has pretty serious Amish spec, though, dude.

[CJ]

You guys remember when Nelk made that video with, like, they take the Amish guy to Miami?

[Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Ben]

Yeah. They get a bunch of backlash for that.

[CJ]

They did. Yeah, they did. And I think the Amish guy left in the middle of the night. Like, he felt very uncomfortable. He was breaking his rules, you know?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

Which I think that's not cool to, like, take someone out of their. Their religion or whatever and ruin it, you know?

[Ben]

I wonder if we could drop in, though, and, like, be like, yo, for example, can you guys build us a wood nerd?

[CJ]

I bet you they would. Because, I mean, you can hire them to build you, like, late cabins, I.

[Mike]

Think, like, worst case, little.

[CJ]

Little homes.

[Mike]

Worst case, they would just say, like, we don't want to be on camera.

[Ben]

Yeah. It just literally shows us pulling up.

[Mike]

Giving them the assignment.

[Ben]

Yeah. And then coming back and being like, all right, let's see what they built.

[CJ]

It doesn't have to just be wood, dude. They can build. Build, like, anything. They're super. Like, if you take, like, an old car, Grandpa Ron tells me all the time, he's like, yeah, take an old car, bring it to the Amish. They'll have that thing looking brand new, fully restored in, like, three weeks.

[Ben]

How did they do it? They.

[CJ]

They have a guy for everything. They will build it themselves. They're super good, and they take a lot of pride in their work. And they charge you an honest wage.

[Ryan]

There we go.

[Spencer]

That's where you should have taken the hoonicoin.

[CJ]

I think we do got to go venture out.

[Ben]

Let's do it. Let's do it. That'd be a good video, I think.

[Mike]

Great. I like that idea.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Come up with some good builds.

[Spencer]

They probably got good eggs too.

[Ben]

Ron said he got hammered off their wine.

[CJ]

Grandpa Ron used to hang with the Amish all the time.

[Spencer]

Really?

[CJ]

Yeah. Yeah. You do, like, business with them. Cuz, like, basically he was doing some kind of job. Where say they're transporting groceries from wherever to this grocery store. And let's just say. Say they didn't make it in a certain time span. Then they would show up with, like, this truck full of, let's just say, peanut butter and nope, we're not buying it anymore. The grocery store says we're not buying anymore. So then they would sell it to the Amish. Then it'd be, like, his job. He would, like, go and, like, sell it to the Amish for, like, a quarter of the price or half the price. They would buy all of it.

[Ryan]

Interesting.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[CJ]

And they'd always pay in cash. They'd always paying cash. He said they got big money.

[Mike]

I'd be like. Like, wait, you just pulled out an amex. What? Yeah.

[Ryan]

I got to get the rewards. The travel rewards. All right, well, perfect.

[Ben]

I love that idea, though. Maybe drop a comment. What? We should have the Amish build.

[CJ]

That'd be actually a really good title. We had the Amish restore the Hunicorn. No, just kidding. We got Robbie Layton built the Unicorn, but let's just say something else. Another vehicle we have destroyed.

[Spencer]

F. Chevy.

[CJ]

We have. We can have them fix the wooden dirt bike. That'd be easy for him. They'd have that done before long lunch.

[Mike]

You can have them. I mean, like, I'd like a list of things because it'll probably knock it all out in, like, a day. Have them build us a couple ramps.

[Ben]

Imagine we drop off all of our broken stuff there. None of it is, like, traditional. And they're like, who are these guys and what are they doing?

[CJ]

Yeah, and just fix it.

[Spencer]

Drop off the boat car. Ask them if they can make it float.

[Mike]

Probably could.

[Ben]

Okay. Subscribe if you haven't. We post podcasts every Tuesday, and we'll see you guys in the next one.

[Mike]

Take it easy.

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