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All right, you guys, welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. This is our third reiteration of trying to get into the podcast. If you hit us with an ad right now, Ryan, if you hit us with an ad, this dude loves them. I just love reading ads the whole time. It's my favorite part of the podcast. To be fair, Ryan is paying our bills. So I do appreciate that, Ryan. We've seen a few comments about it. Now you guys are getting after him. That's the funniest thing. Guys, look.

We got some overhead here. Okay. Evan breaks a lot of shit. He's not cheap. Fortunate for us. Ryan's paying him. Somebody's got to bring home the bacon around here. Wait, this money's going to us. Cause I thought you were just pocketing it. I haven't seen any of it. I thought I, well then we're doing no ads in this episode. None. You won't hear me read an ad today. Yo, thank God.

All right. Okay. So speaking of calling my co-host out, I'm going to start with something that has been very personal to me. And I kind of dragged you guys into it because I've been trying to get to the bottom of it for the past,

like three weeks now, I walked into my office on a Saturday morning. Oh no. And there was puke on my floor. I was very confused as you can imagine. And I was like, what, what happened last night that why would, why would there be throw up in, in my office? Right. So I, I start like asking the guys like, Hey, uh,

Did you have like a dog over here like this early this morning? Did you happen to throw up in my office? You know, I'm just going around asking everyone. And I asked CJ and he's very confused and Ryan and Ken and Evan. And I go, well, there's only one guy left. There's only one person it could be, right? The last guy. So I go and ask Mike, hey, did you throw up in my office? And Mike goes, no.

Why would I throw up in your office? And I go, what the... Okay, all right. Well, everyone said no. We go about the day. And Mike then comes to all of us a little bit later and goes, who ate my rice? And I'm like, the rice that's been in the fridge right next to my office. And I'm like, dude, I...

I don't know. I did not eat your rice. I hear Mike go to everyone else. Did you eat my rice? I didn't go to everyone, but. I'm pretty confused, right? And Mike is finally like, geez, dude, you're making such a big deal about this throw up. I'll just clean it up if you're going to go around talking about it all day. No, this happened in a span of like 20 minutes. I'm starting to feel a little bit guilty because I'm like, man, maybe I am making a big deal about this. I'm accusing everyone. Like, I don't.

I still like maybe some random dog walked up in my office and threw up. Anyway, so the following Thursday comes along and I'm sitting there editing the video and I'm rolling my chair around and I keep hearing like a crunch. And I'm like, what? What is that crunch? And I finally look down and like get real close to the carpet. And I'm like, oh my God, there's rice everywhere.

in my carpet. So then I'm like, whoever threw up in my office must have ate Mike's rice and spilt it sitting at my desk. So I go, well, we got security cameras for a reason. So I start looking and thankfully the corner of my office is right at the edge. No way! Right at the edge. Who did it? I see somebody sit down at my

At my desk. Why does he have his flashlight on? This is my personal space. Keep this in mind, all right? I feel very violated at this point. Did you not know that there was rice in the place? I see somebody come in. I see somebody come in. Oh. I go, I knew it. I knew it. There was somebody sitting at my desk eating rice.

At 2.45 or whatever time it is a.m. And this goes on for about 15 minutes. Keep in mind, just enough time to eat an entire bowl of rice. Okay.

And I'm like that son of a bitch. Who could it be? Cause Mike had some friends over that night and I go, I go, Mike had friends over that night. I guarantee they ate Mike's rice and then sat at my desk and ate Mike's rice and then threw up on the way out. Right. So I go, all right, we got other security cameras. I'm gonna look. Okay. Here it is. Walking out, walking out more reflective. And at this point I'm like, Oh,

Oh, wait a second. Who's this reflective man? And then I see him come in. There's the culprit. Look at this fucking idiot. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. He's still holding the bowl of rice. He's still. The most impressive part is not only did you black out so hard that you ate your own rice and accused everyone of eating it. Accused everyone else of doing it. I didn't accuse everyone of eating my rice. Just me and Ben. And then you threw up in my office.

I don't think I threw up either because you ate the rice. No, no, something's not adding up here. Things are changing. I'm ready to fess up for sure. Okay. I'm here for it. I, when I cleaned it up, I have been going straight up, Mike.

I went full on like Nancy Drew mode there for a couple days. You totally did. Absolutely. Which is how you figured it out. And no, I was not lying to you from like a pathological standpoint. Just that you didn't want to admit it? No. No. He was just blacked out drunk and convinced he was self of it. Right. There is something to be said about that. After I got to the bottom of it, I was a little salty. I'm going to be honest. But I was like, the dude's not a liar.

I think he was just that drunk. He straight up doesn't even know. He's not a liar. He's just an idiot. He's just an idiot. It was like me not wanting to believe it, but it was the fact that I did have friends over that I was like, ah. So then I went to clean it up because I knew it was still my responsibility. It was clearly not Ben who spilled it. And then as I'm cleaning it up. Spilled it out of his guts. Spilled whatever. I look closely at it because if it is throw up, I'm clearly like,

Yeah, that's fucking gross. Even if it's mine, I cleaned it up and it looked like it was just a spill. Just the way it was. I looked at a spill of yum yum sauce, bro, on the rice. Oh, smell that. So I, it may be weird, but it's probably mine. And as I'm getting closer to it, I'm like, this is, this is the, the rice, the yum yum sauce on the rice. So then I'm cleaning it up. I'm like, thank goodness. This isn't actually throw up. You could just tell it was just yum yum sauce and a little bit of rice and a couple of steak pieces. Yeah.

right then and there I was like that's me that's the rice bro okay that actually does make me feel better so then it would have felt weird because that was the day that we when we filmed the last podcast with your a couple podcasts ago with your dad your dad was here even kind of roasting me too and I couldn't bring myself to fess up then and there because I didn't need to fess up because everybody knew it was you you were the only one here after 10pm to be fair I was watching the cameras because I went home and went to bed early that night and

I kept getting motion things. I'm like, what the hell is going on? See, we don't get those on this camera. I do. I set it up. Oh, nice. And it was like 1 a.m., 2 a.m. I'm sitting there. I'm watching the cameras because there's this group of random ass dudes I've never seen before in my life. And you two aren't anywhere to be found.

You were gone. And there was this group of random dudes hanging out. They picked up our camera. They were walking around, checking stuff out. I'm like, who the fuck are these guys? And I'm kind of just watching them. And I'm watching them. And then finally, Mike and Evan come rolling in. That's what they look like, kind of. And then, you know, some time passes.

And I was like, all right, they're there. Everything's good now. I was at first like, well, at least I felt a little better. It's just funny that the worst thing that was happening was me making Ben's office my personal space. Why Ben's office though? Yeah, why my office, Mike? Now kind of hearing this unfold and truly like, you know, seeing that camera footage of me in there, that's like,

to me. I know it's still not cool, but like when you get so nerve wracking, why Ben's office though? I don't know. That's what's entertaining to me. Like, why did I grab? I'm going to grab my rice and go, Ben's office is looking comfy. I want to sit down on his desk, spill rice everywhere. It's like when your boss is out and you don't take a shit on his desk. No, but instead you just didn't have to. So you puked on his floor. Yeah. He'll never know it's me.

No, that's not true. You liked it, Jack. No, I know. Imagine on that. You're taking shit on your desk and you're just playing it off and you just see the camera footage and Mike gets it.

No, it's pretty... You see him get up. You see his face through the window. Well, hold up. What's he doing facing backwards? My favorite part, though, was... No, wait. Sorry. Before you say that, I'm sorry, Ben. I would never maliciously also do anything in your space, but I do find it so funny that I...

Just was like, yeah, I'm going to eat this rice in Ben's office and just make it home. I appreciate the apology, Mike. You know, I just, this is just a suggestion and it's not my gun. It's not my, you know, I don't have anything to do with these guys. Just have Ben pull the trigger. But no, I was just saying, where are you going with this? Well, you got, you know, a couple of hooligans that like to have these late night run arounds with some randoms at the shop. Yeah.

Maybe don't have the AR-15 just chilling on the wall in your office. Oh, dude, we're not. Dude, I mean, we're not. I don't know if these guys are going to stop playing Call of Duty. They're going to say, I don't remember. It wasn't me. Be serious.

fucking leg is all wrapped up dude I don't fucking know I was watching the camera I would say that's a maybe valid concern but also if you actually have to be like worried about that or if you actually think that an accident like that would happen fucking kick me out of the business right now you know what I'm saying I'm kidding not actually but I'm kidding you have surprised us before but like to what caliber I'm just kidding I'm just kidding sorry

It was the wrong choice of words. What caliber though? No. Oh yeah. We had the one running with the 22, but it could get worse. I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about that. That's too funny. I was just cracking a joke. Cause that's what I think of like right where the throw up was right in front of the AR-14 that's hung on your wall. So I was like, damn.

No, it is looking at the gun. It is. Yeah, it is. We'll get you one of those fancy ones where it's locked to the walls. Dude, it's fine though. Like the buddies I had, most of them were in the military. So those guys seem pretty big. Yep. No, they were big. No, they were just like fucking jacked. Like I was watching them cause I was, who the fuck are these guys? You know, like get over there. You get all these notifications. Dude,

I'm like, what's going on at the shop? Is there a party without me there? And I click. The only people on the cameras are people I've never seen before. I'm like, is someone else having a party at our shop? Valid concern. He has watched for an hour and a half straight. Dude, it was kind of nerve-wracking. Well, no, I didn't. So I didn't see you guys for a while. I was like, well, they got to be there. And I was watching your guys' location. And then you guys were over at the track when I looked at it. So you must have been ripping the chev like you like to do in late hours of the morning. Yeah.

Or early hours of the morning. And these guys were kind of wandering around. It was like for quite a while. And I was just winding down for bed. And I started just being like, I feel like someone needs to be there. This is kind of making me nervous. You should have came, dude. No, it was fine. But, you know, you've never seen them before.

I actually got up and put my pants on. I was going to go over there. Bro, you could have stopped this entire rice debacle, man. You could have stopped that for my favor. The reason why I stopped was because I then saw your guys' location and you then walked back in because I was watching the camera. So I was like, oh, no, we're in good hands now. Yeah. So we thought. Yeah. We can get off this whole thing. Mike, I thought it was hilarious. I think you should throw up in Ben's office more often, quite frankly. No, no, no.

I like it over there. I like it. You know, just don't accuse me of eating your rice or whatever. I would. See, that's the... I know. Did you throw my rice out?

No, no, I did not. You're like Patrick in that episode of Spongebob when they're stranded and they only have two chocolate bars and Patrick eats his chocolate bar and he's got it all over his mouth and he goes, hey, do you eat my chocolate? I was that hot. I wasn't like, do you eat my chocolate? I was just like that. I was like, how's that going? Did you guys know where my rice went? Hey, hey. Oh,

Oh, yeah. I was yelling. Did you eat my rice or do you know where it went? With my eyebrow down like this? Hey, stinkers. You were mad because typically either Ben or I throw out your food or your half-drinking coffee or whatever the hell you're saving in the fridge because it sits in there for a week. So you probably thought that we threw out your rice, which was only like a day or two old, which was all valid. Yeah.

Yeah. And it makes sense why he came up after I was hot. Giant puzzle of making, uh, it got solved of making me. Dude, this whole debacle, we could name Rice Gate. Rice Gate. Rice Gate. Man, I'm glad we got that settled. I'm glad that we got the beef squash, Mike. Yeah. Just stay out of my office, man.

Puts a little gate on it, like a child-proof gate. You know what I mean? Wait, wait, yeah, yeah. We can't go over there. It takes two brain cells to open. It's like, I don't have to stop. I don't have to stop. Like a little bit of a puzzle. I don't have to stop Micah. Squeeze and pull. I don't care if Micah comes into my office, but the gate totally stops blacked out, Micah. You just can't get in. Fuck.

I just can't do it. They're both up there. Good stuff.

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I don't know a whole lot about this. I don't want to go too in-depth.

with it, but there's basically this new program. It's still in beta, but it's like an AI program that is wicked smart. I don't know how it does this, but you guys are going to be absolutely mind blown when I show you what it does. I think this is going to completely change

Honestly, everything. This is the first time that I've ever seen AI where I'm like, oh, wow, this could completely replace industries of like...

Again, I don't know coding. I don't really understand AI in general, but I had a friend show me this and I was mind blown. And so I wanted to just pull it up and show you guys this because I know you are going to be mind blown. You ready? Watch this. So I can type something in and it'll basically give me a real time response. Write me a short message.

story about a man that has a hog but also has an extreme

Anger problem. Put in whiny. Are you doing it anonymously, or where are you getting this from? It's just the first thing that came to mind. John has always been a bit of an odd duck. He loved hogs and had one of his own. But he also had an extreme anger problem. We're working on it, Ev. Whenever something didn't go his way, he would fly into...

He raged and those around him would quickly back away. No one is specific here. All right. Okay. So that's just like... John's hog was the only thing that could calm him down from his house burns.

He would take long walks with it, and the hog seemed to know that John needed it. It would lay its head on his shoulder, and John would say, I didn't know it was that long. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Have you not seen the picture? Hey, we're not getting into specifics here.

One day, John was walking with his hog and another man bumped into him. John was about to explode, but the hog saved him from himself. Wait. It jumped in between him and the other man. John suddenly remembered the calming effect his hog had on him. He took a few deep breaths and realized that it had been about to make a huge mistake. It basically responds to whatever you type in there in real time.

And this is just one avenue of AI. You know, like there's like writing and there's like visuals, there's like videos, there's like deep fake, you know. Yeah, dude, it's amazing. I wish I had this when I was in college, dude. Oh, shit, I never write me essays and stuff. You can change things over here, but I think you can set it to like write you an entire story. Type in there what's the easiest way to make money. Who is it? YouTube channel, CYC?

What? What? SeaboysTV is an American YouTube channel run by the Tyler brothers, Logan and Jake. Stupid. Stupid. They feature a variety of content such as vlogs, gaming, and more. Their channel was created in October 2016, which is true, and currently has over 4.3 million subscribers, which is... 4.3 million! All right. It's still a little stupid. It's in beta still. It's in beta still. This thing is gone. It's got the hog story down, you know? Yeah.

But that's how I also feel like a lot of the AI, like almost everything that's out right now as far as AI is like, it's in beta. It's in beta, which I don't know what that means. But I feel like this will just get really good and it'll almost like write your text for you. You know, there's like predictive text and it kind of sucks ass now. But like, you'll probably be like able to text like,

Can you grab me? And it'll just like fill it in. Right, because when Ben types something out, it really just fills in details around what he said. However, it was all grammatically perfect. Ask the AI system why Micah threw up in your office. Why did Micah throw up?

It's so specific. It's going to think you're a rock. This is an impossible question to answer given the limited information. You would need to ask Michael why he threw up in order to get an answer. We did ask him. He won't admit it. I lied about it. Okay, hold up. Write me a story about a business partner who got drunk.

and threw up in his partner's office. All right, this will be the true story since no one seems to know. This is the accurate story. John had known his business partner, Joe, for years. They had worked together on many projects and had been successful in their career. One evening, Joe and John decided to celebrate the success of their latest project with a few drinks. Now,

Neither of them intended to drink too much, but before long, Joe had had a lot much more to drink than John. Joe, uncharacteristically dizzy and still drinking, decided to head back to the office to continue the celebrations. Noticing how much Joe had to drink, John warned him against going back to the office, but Joe insisted he was fine and made his way there.

By the time John arrived, it was too late. Joe had gotten so drunk that he'd been sick all over John's office and was passed out on the floor with a bowl of rice.

John was beyond furious and horrified at what had happened. With a bowl of rice? Shut up! No. This was a huge mess that one could potentially hurt their business if word got out. Yeah, what were you two sneaking off going back to your office for? Joe and John? John was able to clean up the mess, but it didn't solve the underlying problem. Joe was too drunk to work, and John had to find a way to keep the company from damaging their business. Damaging business.

He decided to put an embargo on the office, only allowing himself Joe in. What? That's beautiful. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I'm going to start doing this. So that's what I love about it is like you give it a little something and it gives you a very proper, well-worded with big words, grammatically correct response or paper or story to anything. Yeah.

I'm going to start using this for all my podcast responses. You guys are asking me a question. I'm like, one sec. Ben's like, yeah. But I mean, and that's just one avenue of like AI. Like that's wording. It can write you stories. I remember Ryan mentioning something a while ago about like lawyers using it. Yeah. So I saw a thing on my Twitter and it was basically like, all you had to do was like type me a lease agreement and it would just like, yeah.

Type up a whole lease agreement in like a second, which you would normally have to pay like thousands of dollars for. Right. Which for stuff like that, it makes sense. It's almost like all that information is cut and dry. So the AI could do that. Do it. Like sometimes. Based off of old information. I worry that like one day, not to a full extent, that AI could take my job.

It's insane. I mean, you just, now you can go to certain. No, no, no, no, no, just the graphic design. Oh, okay. But you know, you go to a thing and then say like, create this and then it just does it create a logo. It just does it. Obviously it doesn't fully take the job of, of,

the creativity mind of a human, but like it could take, you know, it could take the generic logo, uh, illustration right out of artists hands, which is kind of wild because creativity is like the hardest thing to make up. Like you can't,

Well, I guess apparently you can, but you can't code creativity. Right. Coming up with something new. It could probably just reuse old stuff. Or I guess that's kind of what it does, but it produces so many different versions of it that either one, you're bound to like, or two, you're bound to take inspiration from. So are you telling us on this very podcast, in this one 40-minute span that you threw up in Ben's office and you're also easily replaced by the internet? Yeah.

I think so. You're not doing yourself much favor. I started diving into tip of the iceberg on this AI stuff. It's a computer. It's a computer. It's a computer.

Hey, all I got to say is a computer can't throw up in your office and lie about it. You are right. You are right about that. No, I'm just kidding, Mike. You are truly an invaluable member to this team. Too funny. God damn, but it is funny.

showing all of his cards. Good thing you don't work anywhere else, Mike. You'd convince them to be like, yeah, you know what? We don't need him. Which is not the case over here. I was talking to Justin, our good friend Justin. He is an electrical engineer in a place that he used to work at. I

I was always like, so like what project are you working on? And one time he was like, Oh dude, I'm a, I'm building this robot actually that is supposed to be like so smart. He can do this and this and this. And I was like,

isn't that your job? And he's like, yeah. And I was like, are you building a robot to take over your job? Like self-sabotaging. He just, he just starts taking his time. He's like, I'm going to take my whole career. No, I remember him talking about that. He genuinely was building a robot to like replace what he does, but luckily he can keep building robots to do more jobs, but still that was accurate. This, this robot is going to have a real temper problem. Yeah.

It's going to be hard to work with. And if you rush him, he's going home early. That's what God did when he made Evan. So what's the deal here? We got a little trip planned for the end of the year, a little celebration. We're taking the first week off of the year off. The only week we take off of the whole year. Where are we going? We're going to Florida. Who's all coming for that? And my real question before we even get into that,

Are we leaving our nipple piercings in or are we taking them out? Because I'm not trying to be the only guy there. Ev took his out, okay? I took mine out. Yeah, I took mine out too. No, you didn't. Yeah, I did. Mine fell out and I just didn't want to put it back in. Yeah, I took mine out. So no nipple rings. All right. Okay. Well, that answers that. Are you taking... Hold up. What do you mean? Are you taking yours out? Well, I was going to be... Dude, how I viewed it is like...

Dude, if we roll up to a beach bar and all of us have our nipple pierced. You're worried about looking cool, huh? No, I was just thinking about it like realistically, what's the point of me keeping my nipple ring in at this point? Just to be the laughing stock of people, you know? You're not going to be a laughing stock. So that's what you thought, huh? That's kind of what I mean. I'm like, Ryan.

No, no, no. I was just like, I don't know. I don't really see a point of keeping it in at this point. All right. Well, I kept it in because I thought that the only reason all of us should have them is if we did like a shot of all of us having our nipples pierced, which we never ended up even doing. I was going to say, didn't you guys even get a picture of it? That's sad. No, we didn't. That is kind of sad. It's fine. I'm not going to lose much sleep over that. Actually, we need to make an Instagram reel of all of us going, ah.

Like, dubbing, like, really quick of us all screaming, getting our nipples pierced. Dude, it's, like, actually wild to think that, like, all of us have... Pretty crazy. Had our nipples pierced, though. It's, like, a year ago, though. If you had said that, you'd have been, like, under what context? Like, why? No, that's what I mean. Even at a younger age, let's say, like, at 14 or something, I'd be, like, yeah. It's not one of those things you strive for. Never, ever, ever. It's just, like, off the list. Yeah. Something, like, girls do, but...

Well, I'm just glad because only Ken's going to be the only one there with the nipple piercing. Are you going to keep yours in? I took them out. No. You took these out? I heard. As soon as I heard. Did yours close up? As soon as I heard that those two took theirs out, I was like, it's done. It's a done deal. And I took it out. And I had to take a pliers and like unscrew it. It was super in there and it felt weird.

But I was like, I don't want to have fucked up nipples because I hear that's a thing. It's a thing. And they are kind of fucked up. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, mine is messed up. Yeah, mine looks... I have two of them. That's why I was kind of trying to get an assessment. But realistically, Ken's only one with a nipple ring. Evan, yours fell out?

Should we just have Evan hop in? Yeah, have Evan hop on here. We'll have the nipple boys on for a little bit. I can get off. I got to pee. You don't call us that, Brian. Preferably. Guys, I know this has been a long-awaited thing. We said we're going to wait until 150,000 subscribers, but we are gaining subscribers at an alarmingly slow rate on this podcast. So we're going to bring Evan in to say some really important stuff. Evan, get in here. I know you've been dying to talk, man, ever since the last podcast. You had a lot to say there, too.

Hop in, bro. You're not going to take his shirt? Wait, you guys got him a shirt? And he rolls up wearing a pretty sick shirt, too. Nice. That's what I'm talking about. I thought this one was funny because it says do milfs, not drugs. But I like to do both. You do, in fact, do that. Wait, you got that pre-broke, huh?

Dude, I got so caught up in the t-shirt, I forgot I was standing over a plastic chair. And the second I sat down, I felt the leg almost kick out. Did you have that pre-broke? Yeah, I took a saw to it. Oh, that's what you were doing. I got too aggressive with it, so I had to tape it back together. All right, so real talk here. What do we got going on here for the end of the year little celebration? We always take, for those of you at home, if you aren't aware, we always take the first week off of the year.

to go on vacation and just do whatever. Do whatever the hell you want.

And we're going to Florida. But it seems like there's this whole divided thing. It's like, Ben, you're not coming. You and Greta aren't coming. No, no, no, no. It's like, who wants to go on vacation? Everyone's like, oh, I don't know, man. I might not go. No, I'm coming now. Oh, you are? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So is your girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We booked the tickets last night. Mike, you're not coming or what? No way? No, I wanted to. Things didn't work out. Fair enough. But looking forward to the time off. What are you going to do? That was my thing. Like, with...

all of you guys leaving, I knew if I just stayed back, I would kind of just like end up hanging out at the shop, kind of just like doing what I normally do. And I was like, oh man, I gotta like take advantage of the

the off time in some way. I mean, I feel like I add more stuff to my to-do list every day than I complete. So I'm going to take that time to do that. Also, no days off with Mike. Do love chilling at the shop. I mean, you guys know, like I genuinely love chilling at the shop, but I'll just chill back. Mike chills at the shop more than anyone. No, dude, I own this fucking place. Don't worry, Mike. 4 a.m. He's roaming it. I own this place. Like a ghost. Dude,

Keeping an eye on all the other zombies. Evan will be back here with me and we'll just keep an eye on it. Dude, we have like 19 things to fix. The Razor needs to be fixed. The Banshee really needs to be fixed. The Thrower needs to be fixed. We have so much broken stuff. The YFC needs to be fixed. The list goes on and on. Like I said, add more stuff to the... So anyway, just going to stay back. Just going to...

Just going to grind. Just going to chill, to be honest. The real question is, how do you guys feel about me and Mike holding down the floor for a week? Terrible. It doesn't feel very good. You guys are not proving yourself well at all. I might change the codes and lock you guys both out. Fuck yeah.

That would be really funny. We send security here just to stay out and don't let these two in. I'm just imagining. What security would you send? Russ, 100%. Well, his name's Ross, actually, but Russ. It wouldn't stop me. Russ would have some other things to say. What are you going to do, Mike? If we have security posted up at the door, what are you going to do? Outsmart them.

How so? I know the place ten times better than they do. What are you going to do? Give me a game plan. I mean, I would just trick him. I would try multiple times. He's like a fox. Dude, just put him, find your way through a bowl of rice. How are you going to break into the shop with armed security?

But it's also funny because if you guys have hired security, it's like, I don't get in trouble with the cops. My name's partially on the building, so it's like, I'm not going to go to jail. So it's like, I just have to outsmart these guys. We're going to set the DNR up. They'll find a way to ticket you. Although you guys are just like, we didn't say who we hired. Yeah, they're going to beat your ass if they catch you.

We'll hold down the fort, whether you guys believe it or not. I don't at all. We'll just send the carpet cleaners in before we come back. Yeah, if you guys want, that'd be great. Carpet cleaners ain't no harm done. Yeah, just book that, actually. Yeah, just get that locked in.

Take all valuables out of here. So do you guys see in our C-Boys TV DMs that kid that, well, I don't even know if he was a kid. He might have been a man, but he hit us up and said that there was a Corvette Z06 coming in. I saw Ben sent it, and it is some pretty monumental information as far as. Yeah, if we could get that, that'd be sick, dude.

And I know I talked a little bit of trash on the Z06 Corvette initially. I don't know. This might have been a couple months ago. I am because I saw the video and honestly, they're sick. They're so sick. And I never said they weren't sick. It was just like...

For how much money they were, I was like, why would you buy a Corvette for that? You could buy something, you know, like an exotic or whatever. Something a little bit cooler. But I don't know. They're pretty damn cool. So I think someone needs to take it up on the... If we have an allocation sitting there and they're like, hey, do you want this or not? Someone needs to grab it. So he basically said he was legit. It's coming in...

It's black, too, dude. That's sick. Oh, I didn't even know what color it was. It says black. And so that's a big deal. I mean, I know you've been just trying to get your name in for one. It's a hell of a car. But you guys, both of you keep saying, like, someone needs to jump on that. Like, I'm going to be honest right now. It's not going to be me. Yeah. I love it. But, of course, like, it's not going to be me. It's not going to be Evan. So, like, let's start...

Kind of narrowing down on who would take that. Don't count Evan out like that. Sorry. He's not buying a Z06, dude. He's not buying a Z06. He put his dirt bike in the passenger seat. Yeah. Just imagine. Dude, the only car I'm driving is an El Camino. Oof. I don't even think that's a car.

I don't even know if it is a car. That's not a car. That's a truck. What are the requirements? Two-wheel drive. That sounds like a car to me. It's a pickup car. No, if it has a bed. Pickup. It's a pickup. But the cab is a car. The front. It's a car. That's always going to be up for debate. Always up for debate. Always. No, I think Ryan's taking it. I already pledged him to it.

Yeah, that's what I'm kind of getting at. I was like, well, it seems like you two checked out kind of when they became real, and then you're like, right, yeah, that's you then, right? Yep. Yeah. I get an opportunity now.

He's got all this Coors money, dude. Ryan's going to be like my rich friend, Ryan. He's going to be like 2005. He's sponsored by Coors Light and Blue Chew. He drinks a lot of Coors Light and then when he gets home, he always pops a Blue Chew. Man, it sucks getting roasted on the podcast, especially when you're not on it. The liquor makes it not work, but the Blue Chew does. It's a collab.

The way the liquor and the blue chew collaborate into my tummy. They came in as one. If this doesn't get us dropped from our fucking contracts, I don't know what will. They'll pay us double to shut up. Driving this Hummer home, pops a blue chew. Looking like 2005 Gucci Mane in the Hummer.

I'm only six feet away. How can you guys shit talk me this much just because I don't have a mic? We're not shit talking. We're just talking. Dude, I compared you to Gucci Mane. That's a good thing. I'm sorry, guys. It's okay. I don't know what's going on with this podcast. No, but I do want to take back what I said about the Corvette. Yeah.

CJ. I think the new Z06 Corvette is really cool. Bro, you are killing me tonight. It came and went. Bro, this guy gets a fucking perm and he's a goddamn comedian. I don't know if the perm has to do anything.

Dude, get it together, bro. I don't know. You guys are like... Sorry. You're good. All right. So now that we finally have Ben... Not Ben. Evan on the podcast...

you know how you're kind of the troll master can we just bring up briefly the story of evan like kind of getting you because like i'd never get no not kind of getting yeah yeah getting getting i got a good yeah i got i can tell it i think you should tell it all right okay so in the last podcast we were talking about liver king and i briefly mentioned that the other day i had liver and it was terrible

The story behind it is it had to have been at least six months ago. Honestly, maybe nine months ago. It was a long, it was a long day.

When that started. Oh, okay. It was that same meal. What a glorious memory. When we found out that Evan was a fraud. We'll get into that later. But Evan is like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Liver's good. I'm going to order it here on the menu. We're out to eat. And he gets it. And I must have just been on the other end of the table. But Evan, I guess, gets it. And he finds out that it's the worst meal ever. He choked it down.

And then I missed that he was like, this is terrible. And I must have gone, hey, how is it? And you went, it's so good, dude. I'm going to get this every time. And then CJ and Ken both chime in like, dude, Ida Peace is delicious. And I was like, oh, I'll have to try that. So then for the next six months, Evan, every single time we went to eat, Evan was like, hey, you going to try that liver and onion? And I'm like, I'm not really feeling it.

So finally the other day last week, we're out to eat. I order it, and Evan is sitting over there just like...

Like in disbelief that I finally ordered. Yeah, I never said anything that day though. You did it on your own accord. Yeah, because you'd said like probably 35 times like, dude, you should really order the liver and onions. It's really good. But only like once when we went. I didn't want to overdo it and just. Yeah, you have to get it. It's just a beautiful amount. It was done flawlessly. It was a long wait. Yeah, it was like a long play and I have so much respect for it. And I order it and I get the meal and I take a bite.

And I literally put it into my mouth and I was like chewing it. Oh my God.

And I look over and Evan's filming me and he goes, how is it? And I immediately go, no, no. This was a troll the whole time. He's getting better. He's getting better because he's been a weasel little rat for the longest time. And he, he trolled me after six months and he put in the time and he put in the work and

And he got me. And honestly, probably more respectable than Evan doing it, Ken. I was going to say, this is a collaborative effort. You got to hand it up to Ken. Ken didn't ruin it, which is equally as amazing. He didn't spoil the beat after like 10 minutes. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I was just in disbelief that Evan one got me. And then I look over and Ken is pointing and laughing too. And I was like, no way. This was a collab effort.

And then CJ's laughing, Mike's laughing, and I was like, wow. The whole team was in on this except for me. So, like, I got to tip my hat to you, Ev. Seriously, well thought out, well played, and I actually have respect for you. Thank you, Ben. That means a lot. Coming from the troll master, it took me six months to get one.

But I got it. And it feels so good. Crazy. You got me. Still weasel. You got me. Call me whatever you want. I still got you once. Rat? That's fine. Weasel. It's not the same when you call me a rat, but you don't do this. Oh, that's the worst. When he just looks at Evan and goes...

You gotta get in here, Ken. CJ's got a piss. I got a piss too. Hey, just don't use the toilet. Septic's full. Septic is full. How am I related to this? I was wondering the same thing.

I was wondering the same thing. I genuinely think CJ just hyped up Ken to be... He goes, you need to be in here. This is about you. It's not about Ken at all. It doesn't have anything to do with Ken. He just needed to pee really bad. Do you remember when you ghost rode the Indy across the driveway and then it launched off of the...

I'll never forget. Over the trees. That was my first stunt. Was it? I think when I came aboard, yeah. I think that was like the first thing we did. That's right. It was just me, you, and CJ. Everyone else was out sick. That video basically got posted in a Polaris Indie Facebook group that...

loves these snowmobiles very specific very specific but like i wouldn't looked at the comments there was 330 comments on this and there's like a thousand members of this group the of this gosh yeah of this indie group so i was like man they are very passionate about i bet they didn't say nice things about me they weren't super happy so most of the 330 comments are just negative like

Old guys like, oh, disrespecting such a beautiful machine. These things are the best thing ever. Yeah, there was parts left in that. Like, what a waste. This thing could have lived for another 50 years. Which is what I was expecting, kind of reading the comments. But what I thought the funniest...

comment was is this guy goes into it and he screenshots the thumbnail of the Polaris Indy being lifted up by the helicopter and he goes I hope this makes some more people cry and then he links the video to it with the thumbnail of it

Because that's an indie getting robbed. Yeah, it's like, what is the... He just wants to see the world burn, okay? I guess. Just let him have his day. Whatever happened to freedom? Like, if you buy something, can't you do whatever you want with it? Yeah, you would think, but there's still going to be people offended by that, by like...

I mean, the same thing with yesterday. Why were you so worried about us launching that R6? Because it was... Can't we do what we want with it? That one had true... It's the emotional ties. It's like if you have emotional ties to it, though. Yeah, no, I had emotional ties to that R6. We've been through a lot.

But if we're being real, we were launching it into the neighbor's lawn. That's the part I was sketching about, but we can cut that. It was not his lawn. CJ, you fucked up this chair. There's a complete wheel just missing off of it. Easy with the potty mouth here, buddy. All right, so the other day we were talking...

On the podcast about stories that have happened that we like held from our parents. But off the podcast afterwards, Evan came up to me and was like, dude, when you guys were talking about this, I had the funniest story of when I was a kid and I was I was like, stop, stop, stop.

Just tell me on the podcast. I've been waiting for this moment. Ryan's been like, oh, we're holding out till 150. So I've been holding this for a while. But where were you going with that story? I was younger. I was still in high school and I would sneak out all the time. Like all the time, go hang out with my girlfriend, hang out with whoever, just do whatever I wanted. And one night I, I sneak out and my girlfriend would pick me up a couple blocks down the road from my house and

I'm walking down the sidewalk. It was kind of irrelevant, but like a cop drove by and it's like 11 at night. There was maybe curfew. So I was a little sketched out. How old were you? Like young? 16, 17. Okay.

And so I kind of like dip around this bush, whatever, like go back onto the sidewalk and roll my ankle on a on a crack. This is why you're getting picked up? Like on my way to get picked up. Yeah. Like 11 at night. I just snuck out of my parents house. I walk a couple blocks, see a cop drive by and then like just roll my ankle so bad. And like it hurts.

I like limp over, get it, get in my girlfriend's car, like go back to her house, stay the night there, taking ibuprofen. And it hurts so bad. Like, I think I need to go to the hospital, but I'm like, I can't just go to the hospital and then tell my mom,

So she, my girlfriend drives me back home at like, I'd always sneak in at like five, six in the morning before my parents would get up for work, go to bed for an hour and then go to school. So I sneak back in the house, immediately go to the bottom of the basement stairs, make a bunch of noise or whatever. And it's like, wait, wait,

This part of this, but this is a decoy then for you. Yeah, so it's actually like 10 hours after the injury happened. I recreated the injury in my basement going down the stairs. Oh, like you fell down the stairs? Yeah, or something. I just said, well, it made sense. Like I rolled it on the edge of a sidewalk. So I'm like, I rolled it on the edge of the stair. Okay, yeah. Either way. Yeah. And mom brought me to the hospital. My foot had like a hairline fracture in it.

So, like, not that big a deal. Got put in a walking cast or whatever. A boot. A boot, yeah. But you broke your... I just love how you broke it, like, sneaking out. It wasn't... No shenanigans or anything. Like, there was no... At this point, were you even running from this cop? Like, you were just, like, moving quick or what? Yeah, exactly. Like, I was on edge. No shenanigans at all. He was just speedwalking away from a cop. Yes, he was speedwalking. The only shenanigan would be, like...

If our town had a curfew and I was out like too late, maybe the cop would have stopped me. But I don't think he was even looking at me or knew I existed. It was just in my head like, oh, I got to be sneaky. Go over here. Oh, my ankle. So you faked rolling your ankle down the stairs for your mom to bring you to the hospital and she never questioned it? Nope.

Does she know to this day or is she listening to this right now? No, I did tell her like years later, like probably my early 20s or whatever. When you tell your parents all the shit you got away with. One of those things, yeah. You got to get that ha ha ha ha.

I did this and that. Like her hinges on her garage door squeak like crazy because no one's there to WD-40 them anymore. I used to keep those things just greased. Okay, that was a complete other side of the spectrum. You're like, yeah, you know, you're like 25. Guess what? You know why your garage door hinges never squeaked? It was me the whole time. She's like, no.

Oh. Oh, you were doing it to sneak out. Yeah. I keep the doors lubed up so they didn't... Oh! It didn't cross my mind. I thought you were just... Oh, you did too. I thought you were just being nice. No!

Just grease. On my list of chores, grease the hinges. Yeah. Yeah. Jokes on you and not about the house. So you did that so you could sneak out. I'm surprised you used a garage door to sneak out. But that is smart. No, not at all. But the one time it backfired, exact same scenario. I'm getting brought home at 536 in the morning in the middle of winter and

And I'm coming in the backyard. I'm looking at like our kitchen window from about 75 yards away, like through the bushes. And I see a face looking out the window. And there's lights on in the house. I'm like, oh my God.

They seen me. So I'm wearing basketball shorts and I did have a jacket on, but I'm like laying below the four foot snow bank that the snowplow left. And I'm just high. I peek my head up. It's like, oh, it's still there. And I duck down. And after like 10 minutes, I hear the snowblower running in my driveway. I'm like, this is really bizarre. And I look up a little more and I can see my dad.

snow blowing the driveway in the front yard and I'm hiding in the bushes in the backyard and

And then I really look at the window and realize that's like a life-size window cling of Santa Claus, and it's made to look like his hands, and he's peeking around the window. But I was so nervous when I saw the face. I just ducked right away, and I'd look up and see it, and ducked back down again. Oh, no, they're still looking. So then I realized, I literally, my dad, I waited. It was like a video game. My dad's coming down the driveway, and I just wait, and as soon as he turns his back, I just...

Shoot right in the house behind him. You came home early enough in the morning that he was snowblowing. He got up to snowblow before work, I guess. Ryan, hop in on this one. I got one more sneak out story to tell. I'm going to pick up my brother from the bar. Okay. All right. No, you can stay up. I got pissed. I was, I don't know.

Sophomore in high school And I had Ryan and my buddy Sam over They come over, we're hanging out And we had like a couple girls that were neighbors And I think we must have like Snuck over to the girls house And we were there

I should say I was there till like maybe two or three. And then I went home, went to bed. The next morning I wake up to my dad standing over me being like, get your ass out of bed. We're having to talk. And I'm like, Oh, this isn't good. I'm like trying to think of like, what do we do? Did I get caught? I'm looking, I look over and like the guys are like sleeping and I'm like, they're here. Like what, what happened? And,

And long story short, I leave, these guys stay. And it's like five o'clock and they're hanging out at this girl's house.

And this girl's dad comes down and catches them all in bed together. At like 5 a.m. too. It was like an unreasonable time for him to be awake. They're like all in bed together. Popping blue shoes? This girl's dad and my dad are like best friends. So...

He's like, Ryan, Sam, I think you guys should leave. Go home right now. Ryan and Sam leave. He probably calls my dad and tells him. I just caught so-and-so in bed. Just sent him home. His daughter had went to bed too, so it was like the friends that had really all messed up. Her dad wasn't mad.

And then your dad wasn't really mad because you didn't mess up and his daughter didn't mess up. But we were just the idiot friends that messed up. Yeah. So I wake up and my dad is like, like questioning me like, what was going on last night? And I was like, I came home. I went to bed. The rest of the guys. And, and like, he was like, oh, okay. And it didn't really like care. And he was like, all right, let's, uh,

Let's go. We're going up to Ely, which is like Northern Minnesota, right? So this trip was like planned, but he was like, all right, let's head out. We're going up to Ely. And when we leave, I hadn't really said anything to Ryan or Sam. Yeah, I think your dad took you out of the room to go have this talk. And then you guys basically left briefly after that. We were tired from being up all night. So we just woke up and you were gone. Yeah. So I'm gone. And...

And I'm like way up north without cell service. Ryan is back home like, where did Ben go? He just disappeared. CJ, the creative genius he is, comes up with the- Young age too. Possibly the best troll of all time. He goes, oh yeah, you didn't hear? Yeah, Ben got sent off to a boys camp. No. No.

You would say that. That's such an accurate joke. Hop in on this. Hop in on this. Yeah, so he goes, oh, I guess I do a boys camp up in Ely. And I go, oh.

The best part was that I knew there was a boys camp up in Ely. There really is. There's like a boys camp where they send troubled kids. So like he's going up to Ely. Yeah, he's going to a boys camp. I guess he's going to have to spend the school year there. And he might have felt all bad. And so I'm freaking out. It was right before school started. Yeah, it was Labor Day. It's something I did. Yeah. And so I'm texting Ben. Yo, dude, what's up? All this stuff. Ben's got no cell service. So he's not responding to me.

And I'm like, oh, no. Oh, no. So me and the other guy are freaking out. We're on our way up. And my dad was like, hey, you should text Sam and tell him that I'm pissed and I'm going to tell his parents. And I'm like, that seems like a little far, you know? And he was like, no, it'll be funny. I was like, okay. You guys really did. Yeah, see where he learns it from. He's really your dad. So...

I text Sam and I was like, just letting you know, my dad's going to tell your parents. And he goes, no, if you don't tell him first, that was, Oh, is that? Yep. We had to tell the parents first. Oh God. Okay. So then Sam, I'm sorry. When he said that, like what did, like, what was he going to make? What was your plan to tell your parents? Like,

I think kind of the pitch was like your parents are going to find out it's going to be a lot better if it comes from you. To probably try to teach us a little lesson in honesty. And I'm like, fuck that. I'm dying with this thing.

I was like, I'm not going down. Ryan and I were hanging out the whole day. Because Ryan and I got caught the week before. Sneaking out. So I was already in the doghouse, dude. I was a repeat offender, dude. I was getting life in prison if I got caught. I told you at the end of that day. I just kind of let you ride it out because it was entertaining for me. And then I think it was before I went home. You were like, hey, just so you know. Yeah, I didn't want you to spill the beans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I text Sam that. And then probably like...

Three minutes later, I text him back, dude, I'm just kidding. Like, he's not going to tell anyone you're good. So I send that three minutes later and he texts me back two minutes later and goes, dude,

Are you kidding me? I just told them. They're so pissed. They're so pissed. You went right to them and told them. Yeah, yeah. Immediately. So Sam gets grounded for like the next month, two months. Phone taken away. He was like, all right, well, this is my final message. Like, I'm getting my phone taken away. And my dad is like, damn. He was just like kind of silent. You know, he's like, he responded to him in three minutes. Couldn't have predicted that. All right, buddy.

Dude, I mean, actually. He just told him right away. That is something like him to do. So funny, though. Nothing wrong with that, either. Be honest now or later, but you got to do it eventually. But in three minutes...

And I was good, too, until now. So that never went anywhere? No, never told him. My whole family was in town. It was Labor Day weekend. It was like this whole thing. I was like, I am not going down. Dude, my dad still laughs about that. Him and his buddy laugh about that, saying I walked in there. I was naked. No. I'm just kidding. I'm not naked. The little story embellishers they are. I can't say it. I can't say it. There's a reason. Say it. Say it. They had their tents pitched.

We'll see you later on that one. Little freaking story embellishers. Don't do it, Evan. They're tense, bitch. Did he say that? He did, yes. Oh! We did not. We did not. Oh, man, on that note. I haven't heard that side of the story. Ugh.

On that note, this one's been a ride, fellas. You truly got to see a late night conversation with the boys. Thanks for watching. Thanks for viewing. Thanks for subscribing. We'll see you next time. Peace.

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