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I want to start this out by asking you a question, Ryan. Okay. How is Hummer ownership? Honestly, dude.
Sometimes good, sometimes maybe shit. It was good up until this week, I would say. And things have really gone sideways in the last like nine days. You've owned it for a week and a half roughly. Well, it all started going bad when the roads became icy. You would think a Hummer would be really good. And it is good in the snow.
It is just not good on the snowy roads. That would be a problem. Yes. Yeah, I'm just slipping and sliding. Living in Minnesota, being that you bought it as a winter vehicle. A winter beater. Yeah, so I don't really know. It doesn't accelerate well or stop well or turn well whenever the road isn't perfectly dry asphalt, which is an issue. I can see where that'd be a problem. And probably the most embarrassing thing is...
Whenever I go out to it in the morning and it's been really cold, all of the air leaks out of the rear air suspension and it is full blown squatted Hummer. And it is just riding on the bump stops and I drive home or drive to the shop to work like a trucker.
Just bouncing along. Dude, every morning I pull into the driveway and I see that thing sitting there squatted out. The nose, a good foot above the rear end. I just can't help but laugh picturing you driving that thing around. It's a weird situation because hummers are supposed to be this baller thing. And then when it gets to be a clapped out hummer...
It's like the reverse reaction. I hate to say it, but yeah. So my question is, Ryan, we talked about this, I don't know, even a month or two back, how you were proposing to me buying a cheap car is more worth it than spending the extra money and getting something new?
Do you regret your decision yet? Because, you know, you buy something new, you don't have problems like this. Like, you roll around in style. It's comfortable. It works every time. I mean, yeah, it's going to lose a little bit of money, but then you buy, like, a blown-out Hummer, and you end up having no brakes, riding around on air suspension, hating every second of it, and spending money on parts and time fixing it. And not driving it 50% of the time because it's been broken. Yeah.
So, no, I'm just curious though, if you're like still feeling strong about it. This morning when I was driving to work and it was freezing cold in there and everything was fogged up and I had no suspension, I was like, I do, I do regret this. Okay. I do not regret many decisions in my life, but I do regret nine months ago selling my TRX. I missed that thing, dude. So what's a laundry thing of the Hummer?
She actually has a road in it, which maybe says enough. Wow. She just does everything to avoid it or what? No, no. It's just normally like if we go somewhere, we just take her car or the last couple of times I just haven't had to drive it. So has she shown any interest? Cars are just means of transportation to her. You know, it's not like the same thing. And also to go back on the thing of where you're like, oh, you spent all this time working on it. I have enjoyed it.
being able to like put my touch on the things yes it may have been painting the brakes the rust maybe it was fixing the brakes fixing uh the rust underneath putting new brakes in it i didn't really love that the wheels now are coming which is great put in some new headlights got to mess with the dash and it's all cheap things for the same price as the paint that you will be putting on your raptor that will eventually be showcased i have done all of these things to my hummer
And it like, it doesn't really bother me. I will definitely enjoy driving a nicer vehicle when I get it. But right now it doesn't, the scales haven't turned too bad for me. Fair enough. Okay. That kind of answers the question. Cause I was going to say, we gave you that out.
Last week, it's not even on the video, but we were like, let's jump this bitch. Let's jump it. And we were worried it was going to destroy it. And we said, if it destroys it, we'll give you 10K. Get your money back. And you were like, no, no, I don't want to do that. And literally the next day, if not the same day, all your problems came up and Bass put it in the ditch.
Well, all my problems came up when I let Vass and Evan borrow it. It came back with a destroyed windshield. The brakes were gone. And then now the air suspension has been leaking out every time I drive it. Vass put it in the ditch two times in one trip. And I mean, now after driving it, I can see how. Beat the hell out of it. Yeah, I don't really know what happened in that trip to Fargo and back, but I was like...
I was like, would they have done this if it was my TRX with the windshield wiper going off? It would have went, fuck it, dude. Let's just wreck the windshield. I truly wondered that. I don't think any of that would have happened with a new truck. He actually said, fuck it, let's wreck my windshield. No, but you guys did let it get wrecked. So that was the issue. So this is my last thing that I'll even say on this.
Are you sure that it's not making you mad because you've kind of been a little grumpy this week? No, it's actually good because it gives me something to hate other than things you guys do. You know, it's like an out. I can like hate on something else. Buy a shitty car to work on so you can take your hate out on that. Hate out on that, dude.
Also, I feel like we've all just been on edge this week. We all, you know, it's just like one person gets a little more snippy and then we all get more and more snippy at each other and then it raises the bar of snippiness, you know? And I think it would be unfair to count
All five of the other of us in this room out of why we've or I have been more upset this week. I feel like everybody has. It does seem like that Hummer, it really accelerates it, though. Really? I feel like I haven't been upset at all this week. Ben's been more snippy. Mike has been more sarcastic. Evan's been positive since I yelled at him last week, but...
Evan got like the first... If you guys go way back in, you know, the Seaboy universe, I have been known to be what some may call... Snippy. I'd say Evan had it coming to him. A psycho. They call me a psycho. And I think... Yeah, get Evan on here. Who wants to step out? We're working on an Evan mic. I was thinking about having him, you know, like how NFL sportscasters have like a headset and
It could just be Ev sitting over there. Oh, I like that. In the couch. All right, can I tell, like, my side before Ryan gave me a talking to? Absolutely. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, all right. So I could see, you know, I'm on his side. We're, like, the past week with the R6 and the Banshee build going crazy.
not ideal. And I had a less than positive attitude through that. So I will agree that could have been some building. It was a little, it was, that was like the tipping point, but it was like a buildup to that. Correct. Yeah. It was like a built, like you just kept getting a little bit more and more negative. And I've said this on the last, a couple of podcasts ago, but, uh,
The odds are already stacked against us in like every single thing we do. So we don't need one more person in there telling us what we can't do or like what isn't possible. And you just, we're doing a little bit more and more of that where we'd say something and you'd say, it's not possible. And then you'd throw your hands up. So what were you going to say? Now I'm just, okay, a little bit of backstory behind it. So the instance where I was being negative was where we didn't have
the proper tool to put the master link on the r6 so we were vast was just gonna bash it with a hammer and then i said well that would be great to be doing a wheelie at 60 and have that chain lock up and ryan flew off the handle okay i do i do feel bad i even said it to cj he did i said i i i told you off on the wrong thing i should have just waited another five minutes for you to be negative about something else yeah something better yeah it was it was slightly the
They're the wrong instance, but no, I mean, yeah. I mean, that's pretty much it, I think. So what do you say? Actually, me and CJ were gone for that. Everything we just talked about really just said you can't be complaining about it and saying it's not going to work or we're not going to get it done because we have to figure out a way to get it done. It's like you don't really have an option. It's like you got to make it work.
So you make it work, you know? But you guys explained it right there so good. Talking. Okay, so we all have... Oh, you didn't... Ryan didn't have... I didn't speak so kindly. He didn't have the same tone. I gave him like the dad tone. Like I was upset.
But like you guys have your way of communicating. And it was for like two weeks making fun of Evan. Go, oh, Evan, we're going to throw your hands up again. It wasn't getting through. You know, it wasn't changing anything. And then so my negative way of communicating to Evan was probably more efficient. Yeah, but probably a little more degrading and a little more mean and what some would call being a psycho.
Sometimes you didn't take it like personal. No, I felt bad. Evan and I were quiet for a while and I was like, no dude, you don't understand. Like this is a rite of passage. It like it's happened to every single friend here. And if, if I haven't freaked out at you, you are not one of my best friends. We must be really good friends.
Since I showed up on that Sunday, which is two weeks ago, Ryan kind of had that look in his eye, and I knew it was coming. You didn't know how long? I knew the fuse was already lit. I wasn't going to be able to put it out. You're right. You were just the one who was there when it ran out. No, I agree. I've been negative. Sometimes you guys take me being totally negative as like, I'm trying to point out something that could result in a failure further down the line, so do we really want to cross that line?
that get too far into it and then go, Oh, that was a bad idea. But I completely understand. Yeah. Shit happens. It's a tough dynamic, Ronnie. We're, we're around each other.
I don't know, 80, 90 hours a week. Dude, seriously. And it's all fun and games until you throw away somebody's hot dog. And then friendship goes out the window. It's time to brawl. Like, yeah, but you cross the line. That's not cool. And like the gloves are off. Yeah, but I wasn't actually that heated about the hot dog maker going away. You just felt a little attacked.
That doesn't happen to you guys. Backstory. I threw away this moldy. It was not moldy. It was covered greasy. It was five year old, like disgusting. Five years old. Fake news. It was two years old. All right. Two years old. Hot dog cooker that we got for free.
zero money spent on it it got used maybe once a month maybe once a month because i threw it away like a month and a half ago and they just noticed it the other day it's also fake news and we have like a hundred different cookers on our our little kitchen table like literally a cooker for every every single thing that novelty cookers i will agree yeah and so i just looked at cj and i go hey
Should we throw this away? We can get another one if they're upset about it, but like, let's throw this away. I said, ask Micah. So I go and ask Micah. He's our, he's our resident glizzy goblin. So I go up to Mike and I go, Hey Mike, figuring that he'd be the most upset about it getting thrown. Can I throw this away? And he goes, yeah, I don't care.
something along those lines. I think that's because, so Mike just said it was very passive aggressive. I think that's because he learned, you could literally walk up and be like, hey Mike, here's your first born child. You don't need this anymore, right? And then he'd just probably have to be like, fuck yeah, I guess I'll have to get another one because like there's no arguing with you two. Don't bring us two in there because it was mainly bad. The only reason I chimed in when you guys were arguing was because I was like, he had a point.
He had a point with how many machines there were. I figured if he actually would have cared, he probably would have said... It put up a little bit of a stink and it went very easy. So I was like, okay, I'm going to do this. And then a month and a half later, somebody went to go make a hot dog, which I honestly, I might have saved you some kind of like food poisoning. I agree. It was bad. It should not be getting used. And we got it for free. We can get another one. I think...
that you guys came pretty aggressive at me for okaying it and then coming back at me for throwing it away.
You know the tensions are high. You were there, right? And that's why after that we go, man, Ryan's really upset about this Hummer, isn't he? Because it was just like one Hummer problem after another and then I threw that away or you found out I threw that away and it was just like it exploded after that. I was hangry, dude. I needed some food. But I think a little bit of it was I have been far more upset about other real things than
in the last two weeks than that. But it's,
But it was funny because you got so razzed and you just felt so attacked by throwing away this hot dog maker. Well, because you, Ken, and Micah were all attacking you. Whoa, whoa. Half the group. Okay, so my problem was I went to the C store, bought some hot dogs, was like, yes, I'm going to make some hot dogs for lunch. And then I find out the glizzy maker's gone. Which is growth for him, you know? We try to do a contest. You won't even eat them. This is true. I was very upset in the moment, but I...
The truth comes out. I knew it. You guys were upset. I'm sorry. Okay. All right. Three o'clock. I hadn't eaten anything all day. It did lessen the pain when I figured out that you can cook hot dogs in the air fryer and they're better. That's the other thing. We got literally a novelty cooker, like one after another. We guys just pop up a photo of what our, our kitchen table looks like. It is very limited space. Keep that in mind. So, so here's our problem.
We have all these little cookers, which is not an absurd amount for a normal kitchen. We just have nowhere to store them other than on the counter. And they all get like super dirty and no one really cleans them. And I mean, I, I was on Ben's side. It was valid and throwing it out. I didn't think Mike would approve it though. So when he approved it, I was like,
Wow. I was surprised. Hey, let's not forget about Mike getting heated when Ryan ate his brats. That was the best part. I was thinking about that the other night. I was like, dude, that was a dick move. He wins them at a meat raffle.
And they were so good. They were Mike's hot dogs, and Ryan just ate all of them. Well, I had two. I ate one. But that was like another in the moment. Like I was so pissed, but now it's just funny. Ryan ate two. I got zero. You guys' side, that's when you fell apart because your guys' group was all turning against each other. It was like you all had everyone against Ben, and then within your group, we all tore apart. Oh, man. All right.
All right. Well, I'm glad we got that beef squash. The shop beef is squashed. We're all fine now. It'll be good. All we need to do is go on vacation with each other. You know, that should settle things. We should just get wicked drunk together somewhere else other than here. We'll be good. I think we're going to have a blast. No, we are, dude. It's going to be so good.
I have something I've been wanting to talk about while we have Evan and now Ken on. A good friend of mine, he is a very smart man. He could have worked for NASA. They asked him to work for them, but he's a humble man and he likes to stick around his roots. So he works around here. He likes to smoke cigarettes. And I asked him, I said, so why don't, what do you think about vaping? Why don't you vape? He's like, no way, no way. You got, you've heard the conspiracy behind that, haven't you? And I was like, what?
No, what do you mean? Like just pussies do it or what? You know, I got thinking like that's what he was going to say. And he goes, no, no. The whole reason vapes have been enacted. Ken, are you listening? I need to get this through to you. Oh, no, I don't pay attention when you're actively trolling me. What? This is a true story. How am I trolling? This is what's... It's the part two of this. What? Okay, so anyways, he told me that vapes...
are basically they've been placed and planted in society to get people addicted to them, obviously, with their dangerous and very toxic chemicals, but more so get them hooked on sucking on that little metal circle thing because, as you all know, AI is becoming more and more a part of society
There is worries that AI will eventually take over. And Elon Musk himself has said one day AI, like robots are going to take over and they're going to turn on us. Vapes have been planted for those to get on them because when the robots take over, the vape smokers are going to be sex slaves to the robots and just give them...
BJs. That's what they're for. Long story short, sucking robot dick. Vapes are just robot dicks. Yeah. So these two... I've been hearing you guys say robot dick all week. I didn't know that was why. That's why. That's why. These two have been training for the future. The only way to consume your nicotine. Bro, I'm sure you guys are looking forward to it. I don't know. That's fine if you are looking forward to the future. What do you even say to something like that?
I don't know. I'm happy about it. I don't fucking know. Dude, I'm kind of close ended. Dude, more robo penis for you and robot. Then I don't have to do it. I don't know, man. I was just saying like when he told me that I told you guys and you guys kept doing it. It's been two weeks now or whatever. Are you worried about the future? Excited for the future? That's probably a better question. Dude, this is so ridiculous. Ken, how do you feel about it?
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Robot dicks. So from now on, for those of you kids at home, if you have not started vaping, don't start unless you want to start sucking robot dick in the future.
And if you are vaping and you don't want to be sucking robot dick, you might want to stop. But if you're, you know, I don't know what these guys don't apparently have any problem with it. You guys know the ads that they used to play for like...
Quit smoking cigarettes. I should be the guy. They just used that clip right there. Robot dick. Don't vape, kids. It's bad for you. They play it in like high schools. Yeah, smoke cigarettes like a real man. Yeah, so that was basically... I'm kidding. The gist of it is Slick was then saying, yeah, I don't want to suck robot dick, so I'm going to just continue to smoke cigarettes like a real man. He did say that. And then I won't have that problem, right?
Ken, if that is the case and the only way to consume nicotine is through sucking robot dick, will you... I'm just going to stop you there. No. I see... Once again, you are... You are full-blown addicted to that thing. Once again, you're infatuated with dicks. I'm not the... How many podcasts in a row have you talked about dicks?
I don't know. What are we on, 59? It's at least in 60 of them. Hey, if you guys are trying to, you know, looking forward to the future, let's just say, so be it. I'm happy for you. As long as you're happy. I just want to warn you of the potential...
you're putting yourselves in. All right, well, you can sleep well tonight. Rest assured that I will not be sucking any robot dick in the future, CJ. You're quitting? No, I'm going to keep vaping every fucking day, but I'm not going to suck any robot dick. You're not going to have a choice, man. They're going to take over. AI robots are going to take over eventually. They're becoming smarter than us. Well, then I'll quit then. Especially you and me. I'll quit then. I don't know if it works that way, man. They'll have you hooked. They're going to be walking around with those little puff sticks as their wieners. They don't wear clothes, and you're going to break down to your knees.
I've seen you. You see it sitting there in the cup holder? I'm just telling you, man. How do I defend myself against sucking dicks? Or robot dicks? That's what I'm saying. The only way to protect yourself is to quit vaping now. I'll think about it. I'm just doing it because I'm a good friend, man. Because I'm a good friend. I appreciate it, bud. Ken, I want you to consider too. I know you're closed off to it, but please consider.
It's tough because it looks like he's been ignoring us, but our voices are just pumped right into his ears right now. So there's no way he can. There is a mute button, you know. You don't have us muted. Otherwise, you wouldn't have known what he just said. He just muted us. He muted Ben at least. I love how he picked you. I don't think he said a word during that whole conversation. Unbelievable. Somehow I get known now as the penis guy. Ken? Is that why you threw away the hot dog cooker? It made you uncomfortable? No.
Maybe subconsciously. Just like that. A phallic shaped object makes you uncomfortable now. No, it does not make me uncomfortable. Therefore, why we are talking about it on the podcast. We should write a song about robot dicks. I think we have a music video and you two star in it. We'll get real robots.
What's a fake robot? I mean like real functioning robots. With functioning robo-dicks. Yep. Yeah, I had dinner with my mom last night and...
She did mention a few things that I've been saying and endorsing and how apparently my aunts and uncles listen to this podcast too. And they found out that you're Blue Chew's biggest ambassador. Is that what she said? Yeah. She also said, I can't say I got a Hummer because apparently...
Jesus. What did, uh, what'd she say about your aunts and uncles? We said that they also listen. Oh, so they haven't said anything about it, but you know, I haven't seen him, but it's coming at Christmas.
They all just get you blue chew. It sounds like you're just flying through this. So here you go. So why can't you say you got a Hummer? Urban dictionary. Even better than a blowjob, it's when the person actually hums slash vibrates their lips while their mouth is around your cock. That's a blowjob. Or one of the least fuel efficient vehicles on earth. Also true.
They must be so proud. Man, where do we go from here? Anywhere up is positive. So you guys know how Argentina won the soccer world cup?
Because you told me. One, have you guys seen the streets of Argentina? So cool. After they won? Dude, insane. And they let them climb flagpoles there, streetlights. Here they grease the poles. Oh, really? Yeah. Really? That's actually awesome. In like big cities like Philly and stuff like that, I think is one city that's known for burning the city down when they win. Yeah, it's crazy. Pop up a video just like the streets. But after Argentina won the World Cup...
Everyone's obviously down on the field. And do you guys know the guy Salt Bae? You remember Salt Bae? He's like the guy that went viral for- He was famous for like three minutes in 2015. I guess being famous for three minutes in 2015 warrants you to get onto the field after like the biggest sports event in history, right? No idea how. No idea how. But anyway, this guy gets down there.
And is just like wreaking havoc. Just being just a piece of shit. Was he drunk? Watch him trying to get Messi's attention. This is him right here. Oh, he's in a suit. Look at him. He's grabbing him. Oh my gosh. He's grabbing on his arm. He's like trying to walk away. What the fuck? He's holding the trophy. No, he's holding the trophy, right? Dude, you got to give that guy quite a look. Watch. This is him. He took it right out of the thing. Just watch. He's taking pictures with the team. Look at this.
What the... Get the hell out of here. All right, so this is him after he finally got his attention. So he like finally gets it. You can tell Messi's just like, who is this guy? Why did he just spend... I couldn't find the clip again, but I watched a clip of him trying to grab him for like 30 seconds. And he like just kept walking away. He's like grabbing his arm. Dude's trying to celebrate with his team and his family. So this is after. And he's grabbing it.
From a baby. He's grabbing it from the baby. You can tell, like, the player's just like... That player's not letting go. He's, like, not letting go, yeah. What the fuck? You ready? You ready? You ready? Bro. Wow. I don't know. Salt Bae just memed himself. He did. He was already a meme, though. It's almost like this is his personality. He's just continuing to be an idiot. So then I was looking up...
What is Salt Bae doing right now? And apparently he has his own restaurant or maybe a couple of restaurants. Look at some of these bills from his restaurant. $37,000. Wow. That's euros, isn't it? Yeah, about the same now. Pounds. Pounds. After bragging about a customer's $140,000 bill at his Abu Dhabi restaurant. $140,000. Wow.
So he's making a lot of money, obviously. I guess so. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe. $30,000 tip. Wow. Cripes. Why, though? Because he flicks salt off of his elbow? Yeah, I don't want your salt touching your dirty elbow.
My salt touching your dirty elbow? I wonder, like, after his little World Cup incident, how that's going to affect business after everyone sees him acting a fool out there. But anyway, that's what Salt Bae's up to. Apparently, he did something right to be charging those prices. Speaking of the World Cup, look up the billboard of Messi. First of all, we just got to appreciate how cool this is. Look, it's like 3D. Whoa!
When I watched that for the first time, I thought, finally, we're finally getting the advertisements that a true dystopian future would have. Like you see a bunch of buildings covered in that. You're like, yes, it is finally the future. Yep. Robots are coming. Robots are coming, guys. You look behind a dirty alley there and there's a robot.
And some sucker of a human getting his fix. Yeah, well, it was pretty cool. I'm not a big soccer guy, but I did end up watching that for a while. I mean, it's being regarded as like one of the best World Cups, best soccer games ever. But if you like soccer, good for you. I guess it had like a billion current viewers. And like the Super Bowl has like 120 million. Whoa. Yeah, I mean, it's by far the most. I mean, it's all over the world. I think he's the most followed person.
Messi? He's not, but he just had his World Cup photo is like the most liked photo on Instagram history. Damn. More than Bella Porch somehow. Huh? That was the other. That's the second most liked on like all of social media. I believe it was her TikTok. Oh, really? Yeah. That was the most watched.
TikTok ever. The Instagram photo that was holding the record was the egg. It was like the most liked photo, but then people went and started disliking or like unliking the egg. So then Messi's would pass it. Yeah. What's the egg? Like literally just an egg? It's literally just an egg. I'll pull it up. It's sick though. Yeah. Check this out. Actually, you're going to love this. I'm surprised you haven't liked it yet. I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you kidding me? Get your Instagram out after this and you're going to have to like it. What if I don't like it? World record egg. There's no way.
Egg gang. Almost 5 million followers. Just one photo of an egg. You and your girlfriend both like that egg. Yeah, it's cool, man. You're like a part of a community. It's a nice egg. What's the story behind the egg? Look at it. I am so confused. All right, Messi's photo. 70 million likes. Wow. That's crazy. Our R6 jump has like over half a million likes. Does it really? What is that? Which is a crazy amount of likes.
Yes. Wow. Not anything compared to messy, but some Kim K numbers. The video of us jumping the R6 has 19 million views on Instagram, 704,000 likes. Dude, if we hit a million likes on that, I'm going to black out. Dude, okay. That is so cool. Okay, and then the one R6 off-road video that we posted a couple months ago, that has...
28.5 million views and 763,000 followers or likes. Wow. Let's pour some out for the R6. Seriously, dude. RIP. I can't believe we destroyed that thing, but glad we did. I'm not glad we did. When we jumped it, we were trying to jump it into the tree. It
completely missed it but we're trying to hit the tree and then hoping that it either hit the tree and exploded or hit the tree and got stuck in it and then we're like if it gets stuck in the tree we're gonna leave it forever and it's gonna be like a piece of history the trees gonna grow around it yeah i don't like this new one as much we can send that in a tree for sure evan doesn't have the special connection to it so i really love filming podcasts when we just have like really
really good days. A lot happened today. Banger day at the shop. Woke up, the shift cart was on the ground.
started out positive okay started out negative now that you say that hung the shifter cart not so well apparently i'm not gonna blame it on you and evan honestly if you guys haven't seen that this we hung on the wall pardon it well you you absolutely have pardoned and i'm just not gonna give you shit for it who would have thought that one hook hanging into i guess not a stud wasn't enough to hold a 200 pound shifter cart on the wall so got the shifter cart hung back up which
which was uh that's where things started going positive you know had a couple good meetings today we won't talk about that but cj rolls in later tint brings over a atm for the shop that's money talk a little bit about that well we have a well some of the people in the shop i'm not gonna say names have you know a gambling problem and we're not gonna say gambling a problem but
They have a lot of fun betting money. And we have people that come over that want to bet money too. And there's oftentimes bets placed, the bet gets done, and...
oh i don't have any cash i'll you know get you back whenever or i'll get you next time i see you you never see that money you know so now it's like oh i don't got any cash when they say they'll venmo you after but then they forget and you kind of feel like a dick like hey you're gonna hit me with that five bucks you know sometimes people do that and it's like you're kind of like what was the point of betting because i was gonna pay him now it's like oh you don't have any cash go to the atm and yes i'd
I charge a steep fee. $5 fee. Well, that's what you get for showing up here with no money thinking you're going to gamble. Yeah, you're going to have to pay for your...
Not thinking. My favorite part is a lot of times people don't show up here thinking they're going to gamble, but it ends up happening. That's okay too for me. CJ just gets people to gamble and oh, you don't have money because you didn't plan on gambling? Great. Go to the ATM that I also charge five bucks. I also happen to own.
It's a great... It's a little side hustle. Well, yeah, I was going to call it a scheme. It's not a scheme at all. I mean, it's totally legit. Just a business. I'm going to get more of them, put them on each bay of this shop.
We have cash readily available for all types of bets. At that point, we should put one outside for the public. I have that plan. I'm going to get something bricked in. Like a brick mailbox? Yeah, exactly. I know how we're going to finish Ryan's Hummer off. Right.
Run it through and steal my ATM. We're running CJ's ATM over. I only keep fives in there. It's for the greater good. So, I mean, there's like a thousand bucks in the thing total. So, like, realistically, breaking my ATM, me pressing charges, not worth it. So then when Tint brings over the ATM for CJ, he also brought over a gift from himself and Mark.
which is an electronic dartboard. Not no joke dartboard, a legitimate electronic dartboard. Bar style, big one, like a screen. Which we've been wanting for a long time, so thank you for that. It's like a $2,000 dartboard. It's really nice. Oh, seriously? At the end of the day, it's so funny because it's truly just another game to bet money on. Yeah, exactly. So it's perfect that I have my ATM there now.
It sounds kind of like a little bit degen when you list them all. I mean, we're playing dice. We're betting on dice. We're betting on pool. We're betting on the pinball machine. We're going to be betting on darts. Sports games, fights. There's often times where people don't have money. It's really also funny because I'm so excited for just everything, the dartboard especially. I'm like, just what I need to spend more time at the shop. Spending money somehow instead of making it here. Yeah, usually...
Work is the safe place to make money and not lose it. So is the house going to be starting a line of credit program? No, you go to the ATM. What do you mean the house, the line of credit? What do you mean the line of credit? Go to the ATM. What if I start a line of credit and I run you out of business? We get money from you. Yeah, it's a line of credit and there is deep interest. ATM's easier.
Sorry. I like the idea, though. Because you have a bad night. Oh, yeah. You bet the farm. Lost the farm. Start betting the cattle. Hoping to win the farm back, you know? And then before you know it, you're left with no farm, no cattle, no wife. Did you win? No, I lost the house. In the perfect world, you know, things go well enough for me. I run CJ out of business. I buy the ATM and then...
And then I lower the fee and then everyone wins. That would be one way to look at it. In another way, maybe there's a competing business that comes in that loans CJ money and we work harmoniously together and grow our empire. I think Ryan needs to start charging money to play a game on his pinball machine. I think he should too. I just ordered a change machine. Then you can take money out of CJ's ATM. You put it in the change machine. Well, then what are you going to do with all this extra change? Well, you better play some more stuff.
I am going to put a vending machine. Stock it with little Debbie's, you know, chips, granola bars. You know, maybe you get hungry around here. I'm sold. Yeah. I'm sold. But wait, there's more. Okay, good. Then you put in a soda pop machine. And then you can, it's full service in here. You get games, you get entertainment, you get food, and you get drink. You know what I love about...
everything that you guys have said, you guys are going to be your own best customers. You guys are really going to keep your business alive. It's called being your own boss, dude. It's going to just be a revolving door.
Yeah, like think of the amount of money. We keep saying when we bring friends around because they are. They're going to use it. Ain't no one friends coming over. We don't have any. We're going to start hosting. Yeah. Hosting parties. If we all brought just a couple buddies at the end of the day. CJ's going to be a promoter. Large groups of people and I'm going to tell them just...
Go to the ATM, get a little cash out first before you even, you know. I'm definitely going to start using it. When we go on a trip and I don't make it to the bank beforehand, I'm like, ah, I don't have any cash. If I don't have any cash, I'm going to hit up CJ's ATM. You're going to be running around with $500 and $5 bills in your pocket. Also, he filled it with fives, which is extremely inconvenient.
Well, you could only put one bill in for some reason. And it makes sense. And I was like, well, fives is probably better than 20 because sometimes people come over. If they don't have any money to begin with, they're probably not trying to bet 20 bucks at a time. So let's do five. That's a good, happy medium. So do you guys...
Think that our shop is turning into more of a arcade or more of a casino? I think it's just more of a fun haven, Ben. I feel like they go, yeah. You know, a casino, it has a bad reputation. It's our take on a casino, but yeah, I don't want to use that word. Yeah, arcades are for nerds. I think it's just something cool. We've got to come up with our own haven. You know, it's just a fun haven. Me and CJ's grandpa has actually been telling us for a while that he has a...
old blackjack table that he's going to give to us too so that's kind of going to solidify the casino start moving stuff out that we actually use my best friend from high school his mom used to deal at a casino so she could come down and deal for us and then when she's not being a blackjack dealer maybe she could be the bartender yeah yeah that's all we need now is a bartender that shows up five o'clock works till 2 a.m yep we pull up it'd be just like you know going out
Except you're still here. And you're not spending as much. Yeah. If not more. Well, depends, you know. I might be hiring the bartender and be selling the booze. But CJ gets a liquor license. Still is his best customer. Yeah.
And then, you know, after all the long nights here drinking and stuff, you go, oh, man, I really need a place to stay. Or a ride home. Or a ride home. I got both of those. You know, yep. You start charging for the room upstairs. Then I have my little brother driving everyone home. Yeah, it's perfect. It seems like you guys are just explaining, like...
Almost like a speakeasy type environment. I mean, you can call it whatever you want. It's going to be a good time. The only thing we're missing now is some brochures for the Fun Haven because now it's just this full-blown thing. You just see me out somewhere passing out, hey, Fun Haven, come on over. Swing by, a couple nights, one night, whatever you want. First beer on us. First bet's free. First bet's free. What we're running isn't a scam, but did you guys see that Logan Paul is...
In some hot water. I didn't actually. Like a scam type thing? Well, yeah. So back... Let's rewind eight months ago. When cryptocurrency was making money. When cryptocurrency was up big and NFTs were the next big thing. And a lot of people made NFTs. We were even approached if we wanted to make an NFT. We didn't want to do it because...
We were like, I don't really want to have our people buy it and then it just be worth nothing because then they just lose their money and that's just pretty lame. We don't want to rip off our subscribers. Some influencers did. He made his own crypto zoo, hyped it up, talked all this big game and basically it was like a massive failure. I don't think it was a deliberate scam, but it was a massive, massive failure and people lost like
A lot of freaking money. And now he's like in trouble. Really? And I don't know. He's under hot water. It just recently came out. So I think the gist was you had an elephant and a lion and it was like a hell of a lion or whatever. It was dumb, dude. It was dumb. Did they ever release any of them? Well, that was the thing. So basically all they did was like,
Take two pictures and mash them together. Like Adobe Photo... I think Photoshop, like stock... Or maybe even use AI. Stock images. They were pretty legit. They were not, dude. They look like shit. It looked like they spent literally like a couple... Like a minute on each little picture or whatever that you supposedly got. And there was supposed to be this big return for like the people that bought these things and like...
held on and they just drove straight to the ground. At the end of the day, like an NFT can look like shit. People pay like millions of dollars for, you know, at the end of the day, a monkey. But there was supposed to be stuff that came with it. Yeah, and it just shot straight to the ground. But anyways, while I was watching this video, it's by CoffeeZilla. He's explaining all this stuff. You just would have to go watch it. Can we pull it up, Ken?
Pull up the first video. Play it loud. I don't think we need to. Play it real loud. I don't think there's any need. Even their community manager, Ben Roth, promised people. Community manager, Ben Roth.
I literally blacked out when I saw it. Ben Roth. And when he just kept saying, talking all this trash on this Ben Roth guy that supposedly ripped all these people off of money. I've never met another Ben Roth in my life. And this dude was really talking big about NFTs. Ben Roth. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Go watch the video and if you're a fan, you guys, you will shit your pants. It's so funny when he says Ben Roth. So my question, Ben, do you have something to explain? How'd you pay for that Lambo?
With the funds of the people you stole? The money you stole from the people? Can I take the Ken approach on this one? With your shitty little pictures? No comment. No comment. That makes you look extremely guilty. Makes you look like you want to suck some robot dick, quite frankly. No, no, no, no. Dude, I watched the same video and I blacked out. I blacked out when that part hit. And I literally was driving, listening to it.
pull over and go, I had to have heard that wrong. I've never met another Ben Roth. I've never...
I've never even like ran across another... Another Ben. I've never met another Ben before. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was very rattled, obviously, and looking pretty guilty. So I start getting messages. Oh, no way. Okay, so that was my next question. Yeah. I would assume if I had recently watched this video, I would look that guy up, and of course, you're going to be the first Ben Roth that pops up. Totally. Yeah, it was not a good look. What are people saying to you? They were like, is this you? Like...
Couple like saying like I've heard you like talk about it on the podcast. Like, is this you, LOL? Oh my God. And like people just like sending screenshots of like the actual CoffeeZilla post and be like, this is fucked. They're like things like that. They're just stealing money. Wow. I'm like, what do I say? You con artist. Like, do I just...
Comment on the video and just be like, hey. Do you say sorry? There's ways to make money legitimately, Ben. Like ATMs. You maybe should put in your bio, like, I am not the Ben Roth that scammed you. Because I feel like if it became a slightly bigger issue. It's got like...
I could see some idiot news source like the New York Times or something literally just searching up Ben Roth and seeing somebody in YouTube moderately prominent on social media and going, this is the guy. And it's like a picture of you and Greta. And you're standing next to your Lamborghini and they're like, that's where my money went to.
You look mighty guilty. It's really not a good look. Not a good look. I just don't know if there's literally anything I can do about it. Dude, the video is blowing up. I think there's two videos and they have like collectively five million views, which is a lot of views. You know what's funny? Oh, there's also a couple comments and messages that said, man,
Every investment you touch turns to... Dude, especially when you're running it. Yeah, I was like, dude, it just doesn't look good. Everything just adds up. It could have been me. You know what's funny? It could have been somebody that watched the podcast and they wanted to just go anonymous and they just used my name. Imagine they used your picture. Then you'd be screwed. And then they became the community manager. Yeah.
That's what he is. Well, the only reason they use your name is if they were trying to throw the game. If they were trying to... Can we look this guy up? I just want to see what... When I search Ben Roth, the only thing that pops up is your face, Ben, standing next to your Lamborghini. Like every other CryptoCon artist. The first thing they do is...
buy lamborghini steal the money second thing they do buy lamborghini yeah it does that third thing they do take pictures and post it online about how rich they are like this fourth thing jail this is the type of guy that you have to find on like uh linkedin you know whenever i have to like find someone who you cannot find on social media you have to look them up on linkedin nfts i don't know i feel like it was definitely a wave
Yeah, but everything's a wave. It might come back. I wouldn't count it out yet. But for your sake, Ben, I wouldn't even just touch it. I'd stay away for a little bit. CoffeeZilla really is one of those guys, though. He could turn your Starbucks order into a full-blown documentary hit piece. Dude, it's crazy. He throws together a hell of a documentary, YouTube documentary thing on people and does some pretty solid digging. He does some pretty solid journalism that seems...
I mean, if it's against you, definitely not in your favor. But, like, bro, the lengths he goes to is...
is like insane, insane. And it all seems super credible. Granted, that's probably what I don't think he really puts much hip pieces out on people. I think it's just, I think it's just, yeah, probably deserving things. Yeah. I mean, he tells it straight up. He's a man of the people. Yeah. Like I wouldn't necessarily trust what H3H3 has to say, which he doesn't seem like he's popping as much anymore. Um,
Not H3H3, Drama Alert, sorry. I wouldn't trust so much what Drama Alert, but even H3H3 has to say. They seem very biased and like whatever. But I'd say CoffeeZilla seems, he just kind of tells it how it is. And what is no one? He's like the new iDubbbz, which like iDubbbz is like almost complete comedy, but when he did a content cop on you, you know like he did one on like Tana Mongeau.
Joe. Because he would make it into a joke. He'd be a meme. Yep. Like when Coppyzo does, he just basically reports everything. Just kind of makes you look bad. I wonder how he does that without getting sued or hit with like defamation. That's the one thing I've always worried about defamation is if it's true, can you say it? I mean, look at Amber Heard, like made a whole trial out of just like what she was saying. That's true. So it's like you do hit somebody with defamation, even if
It is true, and you're just trying to win a case. Still sucks. Still got to go to court. Still got to do it. And that would suck for him. Like, every single time you piss off somebody super rich and you drag their name through the mud, even if it is true. Yeah. And then you get hit with a lawsuit. It's like, damn, man. Is it worth it? In the docuseries, I think it's the first video, CoffeeZilla calls, gets a hold of Logan Paul's manager, Jeff.
And they hop on the phone and he answers and he tells them like, hey, I'm CoffeeZilla. I'm doing a thing on, you know, the CryptoZoo, yada, yada. I'm trying to get all the facts, whatever. And then he asked him, he just goes, no comment. He's like, you have no comment? And then basically, which looked pretty bad, I'm not going to lie. He was pretty jumbled up. I'm sure he wasn't expecting a call. And then he kind of basically said like, if you...
We take things very seriously. If you release bad press on it, that's not true.
uh-huh basically kind of like indirectly threatened suing for defamation but i don't know if he they will be able to you know right if you because if it's true and it's true i don't know it would definitely have to come out in court because they'll have to pull i don't know if he'd want to get in court though on something like that theoretically kind of scammed everyone out of his money and it's even like the same thing with uh ftx isn't like graham stefan he's a
YouTuber and a few other, I'm just actually a number of other like celebrities or Tom Brady. Yeah. People like that who promoted it are in trouble too, aren't they? There's a class action lawsuit for them. Yeah, exactly. So like everyone involved, dude, anyone, it seems like anyone that promoted it. Wow.
Wow. Dude, yeah, that sucks. So what do they get sued? Do they have to pay money? Do they have to pay their promotions back? It's not done yet. How does that work? Who does the money go to? They probably haven't come to an agreement, but they're in trouble, basically. That's crazy, man. It's just the whole thing. Right now, we're in kind of the Wild West. Everything's still always obviously evolving as time goes on. You go back a year or two, people are able to basically promote this new coin that they made.
have everyone buy into it because they had these followers and then they would just dump their whole portion after the price got drove up and they'd make even more money leaving their followers with basically worthless, pointless digital currencies. And now they got in trouble for that. They came down on them and like, you know, it's just same thing now. NFTs, people are coming down on that. And now it's like if you were promoting this podcast,
Basically, you just can't promote shit. Well, I think it's all a gamble. It's a gamble buying crypto. It's a gamble buying stocks. It's a gamble buying NFTs, but it's also a gamble as a creator or anyone making them.
We would have taken a gamble had we made an NFT. Glad we didn't. It would be a gamble. Yeah, there's a bunch of money to be made maybe since it's a gamble, but there's also a bunch of loss to be had because it's a gamble. You know what I was thinking about? It's full send when they had their Metacard NFT and we bought... Ben bought two, I bought one. They were like $1,000. Yeah, well, it's literally probably worth $100 now. I haven't even looked.
They were talking about all the shit they were going to do. They were going to do gyms and...
these clubs and all these special things and then legitimately they don't even talk about it anymore. They don't do anything with it. And then in our minds we're like, well, dude, Nelk is so big right now. They're always posting. I believe in them, which I still do, but now they hardly even post. I'm like, bro, they just made all this money off this NFT and now we're sitting here. We just basically funded their retirement and I'm sure they already had their retirement. Maybe. I don't know. I feel like
Their case is a little bit different, and it just so happens that, like, NFTs are all kind of shit right now. That's very true. The economy has driven them down. Because think, though. You buy an NFT or you buy something that is...
basically backed by nobody, like anonymous people or just like the hype of it though. I feel like that's at least kind of backed by their name. That's true, but now it's like hardly even talked about, which obviously is tough to talk about when you're not doing anything with it. Hopefully it comes back. I do...
I do truly believe that NFTs will somehow come back. I do also believe they're kind of pointless, but I wouldn't doubt if the price goes up. Really? Yeah. That was the most tone-deaf thing I think I've ever heard. Yeah, I think they really dropped the ball on that because they fucked up and did it eight months too late. I didn't understand it at all. Why did they just do it now? Is it funding his political campaign? I doubt it. I mean, $45,000 sold in around...
12 hours collecting around $5 million, which is a lot of money, but Trump does nothing, dude. It's not like it's needed. Was it his campaign that did it? I think it was just Trump. I think it was just Trump did it. Did he promote it? The thing was he was releasing these policy things and then
They promote the NFT as like major announcement. And it's like your major announcement should be the policy, not the NFT thing. You're running for president. What an interesting guy. They're expecting something kind of monumental. And he's like, NFTs. Bro, too late. Too late. Too late. Yeah, actually.
Dude, it's crazy. The 45th president of the United States just dropped NFTs. Aren't they of him like riding like unicorns and shit to pop up a Trump NFT? It's pretty funny.
They're all great, I must say, but they just look like Trump put his thing in the AI generator and it gave him 12 superhero images back. All right, speaking of making money. So about a month ago, we started seeing just clips of our videos being uploaded to YouTube. So just like random little bits that we'd done throughout the last four years. Super random, but under the name of SeaboysTV Clips.
And we weren't doing it. It was just some random kid doing it. So we saw like the first couple pop up and we're watching them and we're like, oh, some kid is just like uploading our clips. And then some of them started pulling like pretty crazy views, like 200,000, 300,000 views. We're literally just downloading our video and snipping a clip out of it and uploading it. And just re-uploading it, right? So we're watching it for a couple weeks and he's like pretty consistent with it. He's doing one a day.
Some are popping off. Some aren't doing much. And we were like, we should probably like put a stop to this. But like, let's see if he keeps doing it and how they keep going. Because we get notified actually in YouTube. It says, you know, you basically it's a copyright claim and it pops up and we could claim it if we wanted. Yeah.
Yeah, so YouTube gives us the option to either completely delete it or just demonetize it so that he can't make any money off of it. It's growing, dude, and he's staying consistent with it. So finally, me and CJ email the email connected to it and we're like, hey, this is Ben and CJ. Let's hop on a FaceTime call and let's just have
have a chat. So me and CJ hop on a FaceTime call with a 17 year old kid named Ashton. Shout out Ashton. I know he's watching this right now. He's a good kid. I like him a lot. I just talked to him the other day. So long story short, Ashton, 17 year old kid, high schooler, was just cutting our videos because he knew nobody else was doing it and just re-uploading it, having just a screenshot for the thumbnail, arrow, some text, and he was making like $4,500 and
It was monetized for 20 days and he made 4,500 bucks in 20 days. Oh. And he was like, dude, I was making more money in a day than like my friends were in a week working normal jobs. And it was taking me like 30 minutes to do it. Right. So me and CJ are like pretty impressed, you know, like that's crazy. It takes initiative to, you know, think of that idea. Right. But also it's, it's very easy work in, in,
you know, yeah. Comparison to what you do. Well, even just filming the video, editing it, whatever, making it because he was just snipping it, putting it and it would just pop off. But it's a very useful thing that he's doing because he's doing a good job at titling and taking a screen grab and making a decent thumbnail out of it and just making an intriguing clip that makes people click. Yeah. You know, correct. So we were like,
Man, we don't really want him to stop doing it. But at the end of the day, he is kind of just stealing our shit. We have no control over it. And he's just basically profiting off of our content. At the end of the day, it's just copyright. And we're not getting anything. It'd be like selling someone else's song, basically. Yep. So we just worked out a deal with him where he's still doing it. And we...
We told him do one video a day from the main channel and then do one podcast clip a day from the podcast. We're giving him a percentage of all the earnings on the revenue. He can see the revenue, so he's motivated by it. The more he posts, the better the title or thumbnail is. The more money he's going to make, the more money we make, and he gets to just sit in his room for 30 minutes a day and continue to do it. He said it takes him, I think, like an hour. He spends an hour a day. He gets to chill there and do it. But the thing...
Anybody can cut that. Most people don't have consistency or the discipline to continuously do it every day at the same time and just have the discipline of it. But what he had that...
I honestly couldn't find with other people that I've tried having do, do stuff is he knew exactly. He's really good at making like a title and thumbnail for these clips. Cause in a sense we have, let's say you take like a minor bit from a video that we would never title and thumbnail around. He's able to take that and make this thing. And it says like Ben from seaboys tv.com.
you know, does this or whatever. And they just pop off and he does one a day. That was like the beauty of his thumbnail and titling was he was titling. That's the thing. He gets it. And also what you said about learning to, you know, there's only so many bits you can pick out of our video, but learning to pick the ones that do well. He's good. He has intelligence with it. Sometimes we read the title of the videos he's posting and we're like, that's so funny. I laugh, bro. It's stuff we wouldn't think of nor ever title a video, which I love. Yeah, he's got a very outsider look.
Yeah. About. And it's perfect for those. It's working. Yeah, I think it's, like, the touch that we were missing. We're, like, so focused on, like, the inside. And, like, he almost...
is coming approaching it at like an angle that is like so not like youtube friendly too yeah and it's working like so many things i'll like text cj about like yo should we text them like probably don't use this in the thumbnail or use this in the title because youtube is gonna like throttle it most of the time if we were to do it and it works like it'll go like number one i just let them do it because and like that was the the reason why we were like
We don't want to put a stop to this because this kid gets it. So it was like, if we could just get him to start working with us on it, now everyone, it's a win-win for everyone. He's no longer stealing content. We're no longer getting stuff stolen from us. We're both winning. And the best part was you didn't have to train him in. Like a lot of people DM me, like they hit me up and then I'm like, okay. And they're like, yeah, I do all this stuff. I like...
and photos and all this. And I'll say, send me a portfolio. Let me have a fucking portfolio. Like, if you don't have any examples of your work... To be fair, this kid probably doesn't have a portfolio either. He could send the YouTube channel and say, I titled and thumbed out all these. But it's a different type of thing. Now he does. Now he does. And he got the job because he didn't need one. He, like, proved it. I'm just talking about this case...
I know what you're saying, but we just pretty much just took a risk like on the kid. And he just took initiative. I don't think it was a risk at all. Yeah, but he just started doing it. Yeah, that's what he did. He showed us that he proved that he could do it. But it's like you got to have some kind of examples that you can do it. And he had an example because he was doing it. That's why he was able to do it.
I think a super valuable thing for people in any space trying to get a job trying to get a client doing anything is make yourself useful yeah we get all these emails I can quadruple your revenue I can do all these things prove it a little bit of yeah like proof or making yourself useful or having uh an example of things you've done and you know maybe you're trying to like you know
mow lawns or something like that. If you want to come and you want to be like, hey, I want to mow your lawn, come with the mower or come with pictures. Be like, hey, look at the nice lines I did at my lawn at home. And then that way someone can look at that and go, I like the way that you did that. I'm not...
totally banking on someone young and maybe inexperienced, but I'm now I'm able to see the proof in the pudding. That's a really good point. I think that's why he got the job. If he had emailed us and said, he's going to, I want to make clips for you guys. I can come up with good thumbnails. I can come up with good titles. I know what to do. Would have been like sweet delete. Yeah. He'd have been, he proved it like with the one more. That's a perfect example.
If you want to start a lawn mowing business, show up. Say, hey, sir, I'm running a lawn mowing business, yada, yada. I see that you haven't mowed your lawn in a couple weeks. Maybe you don't have time. Maybe you're old. Maybe it's too hard for you. I just want to do your first lawn for free and...
prove to you. I just want to show you what I can do. And after that, if you don't like it, whatever, it's all good. But yeah, I'll do the front one for free. You can pay me for the back, you know, or even just do the whole thing. I guess that'd be best. It is, but I'm just saying like,
That's how you get jobs. It's not really about like, oh, I know how to do this or I know how to do that. Show it. You got to do the walk before you do the talking, in my opinion. To your point of how many, we get a lot of those. And we talk about it on here and I really appreciate everyone that shows interest. We get a lot of them. And then to your point, how you're like, yeah, but we still took a risk. It's like the calculated risk. Anyway, it's like if they send...
I want to be your editor. I can do this, this, this, and this. And then they send like, let's say just one video and like, that's it. We can't take a risk on that. It's just, you can't take a risk on that. But what we saw from him, we can take a risk on. And we did. You know how many kids are probably listening to this right now? Like, damn, I should have done that.
but like, yeah, he took it up when I talked to him. He was smart. He took the initiative. And I think that's an awesome present. Also, you can't do it now. It's done. It's done. There's one person doing it. And if you do do it, like you take it down. Yeah. It gives us the option to just like copyright it, but sorry, you can go subscribe to our C boys TV clips channel.
And our Life Wide Open clips, podcast clips channel. We're coming up on that. When we were sitting there asking him, we were like, why did you start doing it? And he was like, dude, I've been thinking about doing it for two years. And then I heard you guys talking about like on the podcast, you had just like take initiative. And I was like, I think I'm going to just start doing it. And he said that he saw there was a couple other channels that had tried, but it looked like they only did, you know, four, five, six, seven videos. And then they didn't stay with it. And that's the biggest thing, dude, is he stuck with it. Even with our pod, so like,
The C-Boys TV YouTube clips are popping, in my opinion. The LifeWide Open clips, we were very inconsistent with because we didn't have time to do it. So he kind of got put into a slightly inactive channel, but he stayed super consistent with it. And he's been hopping in the algorithm. And if you look at the views for the clips before he was running it or our previous...
you know sporadic posts on it to when he took it over and post one a day they just keep climbing yeah he's keep climbing and i don't know i just i can appreciate that and we love for him man good for him he could do it for a bunch of other people's channels too if he wanted if you think about it true he just basically got to get the attention of them or find the right people right luckily at the end of the day he is a big fan so that helps a lot yeah maybe he'll make a clip about this
hopefully the best part about Ashton is you don't even have to talk to him anymore like I mean if you want he can just call me or text me anytime or I could do but like I don't have to monitor nothing I don't have to tell him to do anything you two said this when we were talking to the car last Friday you said the biggest asset someone can be is you not having to tell them what to do them just doing it you don't have to tell them on Wednesday morning to make a clip makes a clip and if he doesn't I mean I guess that's his loss
but he's been consistent with it. Yeah, he's incentivized by percentage. 100%. Yeah, might as well make a million of them. I told him, I was like, dude, I hope you just continue to make bank
It's only like the more, the harder you work on it and you can just like, it's not like it's that hard. He just like the more cuts and the more creative you are with the titles and thumbnails, like you're going to make good money. So go from here, subscribe to this channel. If you haven't, please. Uh, we, I, by this time we have finally hit 150 K. Thank you. Thank you. Um, go, go check out the clips channels. It's kind of fun. You get little bite sized pieces. Maybe you might've missed some, you never know. Yeah.
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