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I have fully done things around the home that I think look good and then a bang in the night and I wake up to a shelf collapsing, a painting falling off the wall. Like it, I've seen it all go south. I own a home and I can tell you, I know how much work it can take. Whether it's everyday maintenance and repairs or making dream projects a reality, it can be hard just to know where to start. But now all you need to do is Angie that and find a skilled local pro who will deliver the quality and expertise you need.
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Because when it comes to getting the most out of your home, you can do this when you Angie that. Download the free Angie mobile app today or visit Angie.com. That's A-N-G-I dot com. Did you guys see Connie West got his Twitter deleted? Elon put him back in and then booted him back out? Yeah, man. The guy can't get out of his own way. He tweeted a picture of a swastika.
What? Yeah, I mean, it's like, bro, what are you doing? What'd you expect, bro? Dude, I just saw the funniest video of him the other day. So he's going on about how Jews are in ownership of all this blah, blah, blah. He's going on. Basically, just a guy asked him, probably like a reporter, asked him, hey, Kanye, what
Would you ever think back about like taking back some of the statements you recently said in the last couple of months? Like just a few things, like not, you know, kind of shaking his head, not really saying anything. And just a few of the like really big ones. And then he literally just goes and he names off. I can't remember. He just names off like five huge companies. I can't remember the names. And he's like, all the red are the like CEOs of these companies that are Jewish. Yeah.
And it was like 90% of the probably like 300 people on the board were in red. And that's all. That's all he said. He just didn't. He just doubles down. I guess I still haven't quite figured out what the problem with that to be on. I'm sure basically what it was is it's just business and he doesn't like how the business is going. And he's just like,
They're Jewish and trying to blame that. Like he's trying to correlate maybe just like not being satisfied with the way things are going with. I think he's trying to uncover something way bigger. Oh, they say Kanye's crazy, but they never say he's lying. But yeah, it's still, then he goes and does the interview and he's like, yeah, no, Hitler had good things. He had the right. And I saw a bar stool thing and they're like, if Alex Jones is looking like the same one in the room, you've got a problem.
I think even Alex Jones was kind of like, whoa, I mean, I wouldn't quite say that. He backed out a little bit. He gave him like three outs too. He's like, well, no, not everything. And then Kanye goes, yeah, but a lot of some things are really good. I saw a video of Kanye talking to his team saying like, never –
Again, will you be able to get out of billion-dollar contracts because of tweets? That's the thing. Thank God nobody got hurt along the way. And then he was laughing and his team was laughing. And then I was like, wait, hold up. So he was just saying all that to get out of his contracts. And then he goes and says stuff like that. It's like, wait. Wait, now what? No, hold up. Yeah, like he's doubling down on it. Yeah, he's doubling down on it. He's trying to just sweep up AFC.
Any loose ends there that possibly could get him back into the contract. Nope, nope, keep this guy out. I thought the best part, though, was that Kanye kind of like...
sent a jab at Elon Musk after his post got taken down because his post got taken down before he got his whole account banned. Like he's gone. He, he posted this picture of Elon Musk getting like hosed down on the back of his yacht is pretty unflattering picture. And he said, will this get taken down too? And then he said, and then Elon Musk tweeted back. No, this is fine. Yeah.
I think it's just so cool how like Elon Musk is the gatekeeper. He's like the mediator. It's so cool. Yeah, I don't know. I just love that. Basically, yeah, like I just love when he responds to tweets just like a normal guy. Dude, he responds to everything. He's so active on there for how busy he is. I saw Casey Neistat tweeted at him and Elon...
He's like, favorite it. He might have even responded. I know for a fact he favored it. Like, he's just out there running it. He had the time to do that, but also a lot of the responses are like pretty witty. Yeah. You got to take time to think of that too. I'm sure he doesn't take much time, but. That's awesome. All right. Well, I don't know if we really like introduced ourselves. I'm Micah. This is Ben. This is CJ. This is Ryan. This is Life Wide Open Podcast.
I had this whole intro planned, dude. I did too. I was going to say, welcome back. Yeah, double intro. Welcome back, Primals, to the LifeLive Podcast, dude. That's super funny. Our boy Liver King's been in the news this week. Yeah, it has not been looking good. And he posted an apology last night, but it was actually... I haven't seen that. I don't believe that you can do a YouTube apology and sound sincere.
Almost ever. It seems like none of them... He did a full-on YouTube apology. Yeah, dude. And he did hit it in one take, which I was impressed. No cuts. No cuts. He was kind of reading, but it was a lot of talking. But pretty much the whole time, he did kind of end up just justifying what he did. Hold on. Okay, for the people listening that aren't aware of who Liver King is...
We've talked about him a couple times on the podcast. That's why this is funny for us because we've been speculating over the last couple months. But anyway, just give like a brief little run through who he is. So this liver king is this guy who just blew up in the last year or so, and he's noticeably jacked, almost unrealistically jacked. But he promotes living this ancestral lifestyle and the nine tenets of...
Our ancestors or something like that. And he's just promoting like a lifestyle of wellness, which I think is really good. But he has denied that he's been doing steroids and he's, he's just jacked. He walks around, no shirt on. I'll throw a picture. He wears a, or he, he says you got to eat liver with every meal. Hence the liver, liver King, lots of other ridiculous meals, you know, and he posts all the time. Like he's an excellent, uh,
Instagrammer, basically. I mean, for just starting social media a year ago, dude, what he's done... He's smart, dude. He's very smart. So that's kind of what I wanted to get into. A few weeks ago, or probably months already, you kind of hypothesized that he was...
And that he maybe was who he was, but he just cranked it up to 11 and then went out and tried to become internet famous to sell his brands. Yeah. And basically he has a supplement company. Yes. Yeah. And basically that is exactly what he did. Yeah. I mean, I don't,
I feel like everyone probably thought that. He never really said he didn't do steroids. A few times he got cornered into it. He even admitted that he said no. Basically, he admitted that he...
has been doing steroids, which he had been denying the whole time. And the issue with it, no one cares if you do steroids, but the issue was it with it was that he was denying it and implying that if you eat like me, eat all this like healthy, you know, only meat and liver and all this. And then also if you can't do that, if you, if you take my supplements, which I have for sale here, you can live this lifestyle like him and, and, you know, basically get jacked and, and look like that. And that was the issue is that,
you know, he kind of deceived those people. At the same time, I feel like, dude, I mean, I guess not everyone can look at that and be like, that's unreal. Like, you can't be like that without being on steroids. But,
I do want to say I still like him. I like him for the entertainment factor. I always knew he was on steroids, and I always kind of was like, I mean, it's a little bit of a kind of lame that he's selling these supplements, and some people aren't smart enough to catch on. Just because you take these supplements and work out, you're not going to look like him. It's impossible. But what he is doing is he's preaching like, you know,
working out, working hard, being a man. And that's what he did talk about in that, in that video, which I think is great. I feel like you have to be so extraordinary to get anybody's attention that that's why he did that. He had to go the extra mile. So when you look at him, you truly go, I can't believe I'm seeing this with my eyes.
When you look at what he did, do you have a problem with what he did? My only problem with it is that... So he actually didn't admit to it. An email got leaked that basically exposed both things. Ironically exposed both things in one email. This is before he was Liver King, but he had an email called liverking at ancestralsupplements.com. And he's emailing, I'm assuming the supplier of who makes his products now maybe still makes them. But he was saying...
that he was taking, that he wanted to be an influencer. Here's my plan. He had it all planned out, right? But he told them how much steroids he was taking, and it is, from another bodybuilder YouTuber who was talking about this, was an insane amount. Really? An insane amount of steroids. It was like 11 grand a month, wasn't it? Yeah, he was spending $10,000 to $15,000 on steroids, and he's even saying like, yep, so I'm taking, he was taking steroids
five different steroids for like over the course of three years before that and then a couple more that he just started adding on and he's like yep I think I'm going to start doubling up on this he's basically taking three times what a major bodybuilder would be taking in a week from what I've well the breakdown was
Anyway, my only problem with it is that he was taking so much to look like that. He's like, I'm 43. I got to look like that. He's taking so much. Like it wasn't even just a little bit. So not only is it unachievable to look like that, it really is almost impossible. Yeah. Did he say anything about the implants? No, he addressed that. He addressed the implants and he said that he...
Has not done any implants or ab cutting or anything like that. Or no kind of like surgeries or. Yeah. I don't know. I just think, and I think I might've actually said this on a previous podcast. I think it was an extremely calculated and well executed, uh,
business model business plan and they did it perfectly besides for that little thing which honestly was was conning i think it was conning but i do still like that he talks about getting outside working out spending time with your family and like pretty respectable things that um i don't know just as admirable in a man
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Hire high-quality certified pros at Angie.com. Man, I'll tell you what. Besides for lying about the steroids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That aside, but the fact that he can eat, and I don't know if he's eaten all of it, but the fact that he can eat. If you've had liver, I had liver the other day. Shit was cooked, and it had onions in it, and it was like something that you'd eat as a meal. It was terrible. It was awful. I got it from a restaurant, and it was awful. So I can't imagine eating that raw.
Raw. Granted, I don't know if he eats all of it. Just like the little amounts he does eat on camera, pretty impressive. Cow tongues, pretty impressive. The testicles, dude. How do you just bite into a testicle like that, bro? Dude, it's...
It's insane. All right. So I, you'd have been steroids is one thing. Yeah. Steroids is one thing and lying about it. But the fact that he can eat the things that he is, is unbelievable. And I tip my hat to him. He's not a complete phony. Try liver. If you've never had liver, try it. Like order that arrest. I have a new respect for the guy. Cause I had one piece and I was like, Oh my God.
This is bad. This is terrible. At the end of the day, though, the cool thing about him and basically every other person that you watch on the internet is that you can take it in as little or as much as you want. Like, I probably see...
5 1 to 5% of the content he puts out this cause that's all I choose to watch. So like at the end of the day, he like did that, but he's still entertaining. So how much you want to take it into your life and act that way. That too. Yeah. It's all the same thing as like Andrew Tate. Like you can take every word he says or like it's the, you know, most important thing or you can take it with a grain of salt and just kind of laugh at it. Or yeah. Or honestly anyone like fricking the internet preachers. Yeah. Yeah.
Pretty much anything that anyone ever says, take it with a grain of salt. You never know. Speaking of us saying things. That's what we do here. That is what we've been up to. Okay, so Spotify came out with their year-end rap saying like...
if you're a Spotify subscriber, you can see like what you've listened to for podcasts and, and music and who's your top artists and everything like that. Well, on the other end of things, as a creator on Spotify, they give us the information like from our end of it. So I've got a couple of the stats here, which I thought were really cool. And these are just for Spotify, not including YouTube, not including Apple. Yeah. Just Spotify. Okay. I didn't even know like,
that we're popping like on spotify at all do you guys listen on spotify usually or youtube uh i listen i like like when we watch when we do ours i watch it because i like to see how we any podcast that i watch or listen to i watch on youtube okay um okay so anyway we were heard in 102 countries wow it's crazy your podcast was in the top five percent most shared globally
Uh, you're the top 1% of most followed podcast. We are no shit. Yeah. Really? That's pretty good. Yeah. Like the top 1% of the most watched on YouTube. That's like an insane stat. So that's pretty good. Uh,
You're a top 10 podcast for 63,000 fans. You're a top five podcast for 59,000 fans. And you're the number one podcast for 35,000 fans. That. Oh, wow. That means 35,000 people. This is their go-to. That's so awesome. On Spotify too? Yeah. Just Spotify. That's not even YouTube. Yeah. We love our listeners, but we do YouTube as well. And then you can see all the things that we put up on there. That's crazy, dude.
You know, it's so weird is like you say those stats and, you know, and even if you look at like the billboards for Spotify, I believe we're like we're ranked on like the top 100 podcast, which I don't know why. Maybe it's just like I don't.
Yeah, we broke into four different charts. I know. I guess I just feel like we're so small. Maybe it's because I compare us to like Full Send Podcasts and like, you know, these massive, massive podcasts. But like when you say that, I'm like, wow, I can't believe that, you know, relative to others, you know, like because in my mind, it's like this is a rather small podcast and I love it. But yeah, I mean, it is crazy. And also like...
We put a lot of effort into the podcast, but in respect to kind of everything else that we do day to day, it really probably only gets like 5% of our time. And obviously Ryan's a little bit more because he edits the podcast and he kills it.
We don't give it a whole lot of attention. We legit just sit down here and just start talking shit. And we legitimately talk all day long. It's impressive that we've been able to accomplish that. Yeah, that was my take. All those numbers really surprised me because I'm like,
Like, we're not undermining ourselves, but I think we sit down and do exactly what we do all day, and it feels very, very chill and natural. I mean, people have commented, that's what they get. They just get us. So since, they were like, sick, another one in the books. Like, we enjoy doing this. And then when we see the stats, we're like, wait, people are actually listening to us? I was surprised when we were on the top billboard or whatever, top 50 or whatever it is. Because it just doesn't, we're like, that...
Yeah, I couldn't believe that. It's awesome. Thanks, guys. Yeah, it's amazing. So thank you to our fans, dude. Yeah, seriously. I want to piggyback off that. That's how I was going to intro the podcast was like,
Really kind of heartfelt here. I just was like, you know, in one of those states last night, I want to say I love you guys to death. Us? Yes. And everyone. And Ken. Of course, love the viewers too. What about Ev? And everyone. And Ev. And Ev. No, like all the boys and everyone that we're connected to. Like, you guys...
to impress me more and more every day than ever. Like it blows my mind. I'm going to start crying. Yeah, everyone does. Like everyone does better every day. You know, maybe not actually if you look day to day, you know what I mean? But like, sometimes people are sick, sometimes we're off, but I mean, it's like crazy.
crazy that we just get better and better and so I love everything that we're doing. Yeah. Thanks Mike. We love you too bro. I just couldn't even think of anything better in life. I love our fans our supporters and I feel like we're
We've said it before, just steamrolling forward just on the start of things. But it's just also interesting. It's like I might go two days without speaking to Ryan, not for any particular reason, any of you. But it's like you're just right back at it. And I might be pissing one of you off or one of you might be pissing me off. But it's like being in a really good relationship.
Ruin the moment. It's like being in a really good relationship where you just know, even if you're both pissed at each other, you just know that it's all good. It's all good and it's always felt like that, but more like that than ever. Not that we've had any more issues than ever, but that's the best part. Knowing the next morning you can still...
come to anyone with whatever. Yeah, I think everyone is just kind of like finding their place more than ever and just like doubling down and just like really trying to perfect what we do. Dude, I agree. I love you guys. And I was thinking about that too when I was listening to the Full Sam podcast coming out here. They were in this huge heated argument going back and forth with each other and like it was like this whole thing where I don't even know if you guys listen to it but these two guys like
Basically, they're a part of this YouTube group, but they mostly just work together. They're like, if you don't need anything, we don't talk. It was pretty heated. I was thinking to myself, God, it doesn't even seem like we even really get in arguments about anything anymore, which I think has came with our age. Yeah.
our maturity of it like we'll maybe have a dispute on how something should be done but it's never like heated or like blood boiling and like we're all we've all gotten a lot more cooler headed in our uh age in our age yeah and also even maybe just a better perspective on things which goes to show because you were just you know what you were just saying like it's just i don't know it's been it's been fun
Coming up on seven years. That's crazy. You know? It's all good until somebody spray paints without opening the door, you know? I did open the door. It just got a little fumey up here. Literally five minutes before we started the podcast, Ryan was spray painting his new vehicle. Maybe it's out yet. Maybe it is. I don't want to spoil it. And I'm upstairs. Dude, it smells like fucking spray paint in my office. CJ, say! Micah? It's fine. It doesn't smell nothing.
For no reason. Brian, crack the floor. I did have the door cracked. And then I opened them more, and then they were too open, and then I closed them, and then they weren't open enough. We're screaming from all of our offices. Yeah. Dude, so people are probably like, spray painting his new car. Yeah, I know. It doesn't make a lot of sense. It'll make a lot more sense. You want to just say it, actually? I guess give the podcast a second. You guys can get the inside look.
I bought a Hummer. A Hummer H2. H2. That's a big girl. It's a chicken nugget cinder block on wheels, girl. Dude, cinder block for sure. I remember people like, didn't Ryan like want a Hummer when I told him that you got one? I'm like, yeah, he really did. Not a new Hummer. Not a Hummer 2005.
2005 Hummer, the classic. What I think of when I think of a Hummer. Not the truck Hummer, just the square box Hummer. You've officially etched yourself. I shouldn't say etched, but you are officially living the lifestyle of a true celebrity. I know, in 2005. In the year 2005. Dude, like every rapper had a Hummer. Bam Margera had a Hummer. Like if you were just like...
I don't know. They're just sick, dude. Does it... NBA player. How does it feel when you're driving it? Like, what kind of feeling does it give you? Do you feel like, man, this is a cool car or like, holy shit, I could hit any car or anything on the side of the road and I would run it over? Like, what do you feel behind that steering wheel? Both. Funny enough, I was driving home and there was...
a couple deer and they weren't getting out of the way. And I kind of just like started driving towards them. I was like, let's do this. See what happens. I mean, he got out of the way and I didn't actually run over it on purpose, but yeah, you feel like in a giant vehicle, you feel really safe.
So that's good. Like I don't feel it because in my Cabriolet, which is tiny, I feel like I'm going to get run over by everything. The Cabriolet in the Hummer. It's on 37s. Yeah, it's already on 37s. It does suck. Occasionally you'll click through like the information screen and the miles per gallon will come up. And I've been averaging like anywhere from seven to nine. Wow. Which is pretty bad. It's not even double digits. Not even double than your TRX was though. What'd you get in your TRX? Probably 12? Like 16.
on like a good day. Holy shit, that's really good. Yeah. So I mean, the only, the only upside to that then, there's not truly like, not really an upside, but the car was much cheaper than your TRX. Like you do have a little bit of money left over for fuel. Yeah. Much cheaper. Dude, he spent 10 grand on it. You literally cannot believe
buy a vehicle that drives down the road and it's not a safety hazard to you and everyone else for 10 grand anymore yeah maybe maybe the car market is starting to come back down but like the fact that you were able to pick that up for 10 grand i think is that was a steal i thought uh so i mean it kind of was so this won't make it in any video so we can talk about it but
literally the first day I drive it, drive it here, turn it off. And I just left the keys in the ignition, go to start it. And it wouldn't start. And I was like, crap, I killed the battery or maybe it's a bad battery, whatever. So I jump it starts, drive it to my girlfriend's apartment, which is in a DL and it's right behind an O'Reilly's.
So I kind of know I'm like, I'm probably going to have to jump this thing in the morning. So I was like, I'm going to park over by O'Reilly's so then they can help take care of it in the morning. I had it all planned out. Nice. But I was hoping that when I took the keys out of the ignition, it wouldn't die. So it wasn't like a guaranteed dead vehicle.
Anyway, we get there. Sure enough, I go out in the morning. It won't start. And it's just the starter's clicking. And I'm like, oh, man, must be a battery. We go get the jump pack. Doesn't start it. We go get someone's truck. Won't jump start it. Oh, so it was bricked. Yeah. And I'm like, dang. And he goes, it kind of sounds like the starter. I was like, it's not the starter.
Put a new battery in. Doesn't start. And then they were like, it's definitely the starter. So I go in and my buddy, Lauren in there, he's a beauty at a rise, takes care of me. And he goes, I got this guy. We call him spaz. Spaz will come over and he'll change the starter for you.
So I got a new starter put in right in the O'Reilly's parking lot for $60. Man. Too good. That's service. Yeah. That's service, dude. We got to hire this guy. I know. $60? Yeah. In the freezing cold? It was freezing. That was colder than shit yesterday. Yeah. So he drives over to O'Reilly's, parks next to the thing, pops the wheel off, replaces the starter right from O'Reilly's. Did you get Spaz's number? No, I didn't actually. Spaz.
Lauren brokered the deal. Why do they call him spaz? I don't know. I didn't ask, but he was like, don't want to ask. He's good shit. He's good shit. Don't worry about the spaz thing. I was like, don't worry about the bad thing, but do not come when he's here. Yeah. I didn't even have to do that. I just gave Lauren the keys. I was like, here you go. Do you have at it? That might be part of the reason why when you said, okay, I'll,
I'll take it. And the guy selling it goes, really? I did call him and I was like, hey man, this happened. Is there any like, you know, did you ever have any issues with it? Any warranty from a corner store auto salesman? Yeah. And so he goes,
No, when I walked out, it started right up. Like I just put a new battery in it last year. I didn't even have to jump it when I started. Like, I'm sorry that the starter went on. He's like, I'll stand behind it. I'll pay for the starter. I'll fix it if you want all that. And I was like, nah, it's fine. I got spaz working on it. Yeah, I got spaz. No, I think that guy was good shit. Otherwise, he wouldn't have tried to rip you off at all. That's awesome. Man, that is funny. The day after you buy it. I did think, I was like, God damn it. I should have just stopped.
spent a little more and gotten like a reliable vehicle, but it can truly happen anything. And hopefully this Hummer goes for a million miles. Okay. So we did the math the other day. If you were to drive it,
What's it at right now? 250. 250, all right. So if you were to drive it 750,000 more miles to a million miles, how much would you spend in gas? We're going to, I mean, if we did it nicely and so we got 10 miles per gallon, that would be 75,000 gallons of gas. And we'll say 350 for gas. That would be $262,000. To drive his Hummer? Holy crap.
That's just the gas. That's just the gas. Not anything that happens along the way. Oh, man. All the road mountain dues and stuff like that. Exactly. I'm just glad you got it, though, honestly, because I've always wanted one, and now I'll just drive it a little bit when you let me, and I'll get that fixed. You get the same feel. Also, yours looks sick. I feel like if you get just a new set of wheels that are a little bit lower offset so there's some poke. Yep.
It's going to look badass. I think I'm going to wrap it. A little buff job. Oh, wrapping? Yeah, dude. It's going to be sick. I brought it to Shining Armor Buddy, and I was like, hey, here it is. And he's like, I can fix this. But he's like, all the big scratches, we can fill them in, we can do whatever. But he's like, you're still going to see it. And I was like, I'd rather spend the two and a half grand on a wrap as opposed to paying him to...
level three correct the entire time. Yeah, I guess it would be the same price. What color? I was thinking matte black. I feel like that's just... It's maybe a little too standard, but it would look good. It'd look really good. And then because you have the gloss black window tint, the gloss black wheels. I wish they still made a gas Hummer. Yeah. And even if it just looked like that still, but it was just a little bit more updated, I would probably have one. When you park it next to the Broncos, first of all, it's...
massive and our broncos are pretty big ken's bronco with a four and a half inch lift on it yeah it looks huge next dude i feel like the broncos are modern day hummers like they kind of are but they're they don't have that like they're a little more gp baller image though to them yeah sorry to out you like this ryan but our ups driver actually a new ups driver some guy that i'd never seen before you know comes into our shop to drop off some package and pick up the orders going out
And he's just about out the door. No, no. And Ryan, he came up to us in the shop. He like came up to us as we were building the Banshee and like, and he asked, is Randy here? And I go, no. Oh, is that how it went? He came up and he handed it to me and he said, I'm supposed to deliver this to you. And I said, no, you're not. You're supposed to bring it to my house, which he is supposed to bring it to my house. Where's the dress? Okay. Now take over.
All right. So this guy was kind of caught off guard that Ryan kind of snapped back at him, right? He like, you know, defense kind of goes up and he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't drive down that road.
What am I supposed to do? I can't deliver to your house. I can't even drive down the road. And Ryan goes, looks at him and goes, buddy, I drive my little red convertible down that road. I think your truck can do just fine. And the guy was legit so rattled. He's probably thinking Ryan's talking about like his...
Ferrari. He's like, now you're yelling at me first and now you're flexing on me, man. I was trying to say to him that I was driving a 1987 two-wheel drive car that literally is just like the most unreliable winter vehicle ever down our road just fine. But I left out all
the parts. They make it a bad winter vehicle and just called it a red convertible. I could drive my red convertible down that road. And the guy was like... He just caught off guard. I thought that he was like kind of, oh, had a tail between his legs and he like kind of walked out like, whoa. And then when we started thinking about it, we were like...
that guy's got to think you are the biggest asshole, Ryan bragging about your red convertible. He didn't say it like he was cocky. Yeah. I wouldn't like, I drive my red convertible, but I was very, a matter of fact, as, as a matter of fact, Lee saying that his truck could fucking make it down. And also he does deliver the, the,
the packages that are supposed to go to my neighbors, he delivers them to our house every other day anyway. So it's like, that's what was the frustration came in. He called and he was like, I can't get this package to you. Anyway, because it's a minimum maintenance role. I might be exaggerating how it went just in my own mind to make the story even funnier. But I'd imagine...
This guy went to the bar with his buddies later that night and goes, man, you guys. So I was at the Seaboy's shop and one of them started flexing on me about his red convertible and how it can go more places than my UPS truck. If he told it like that, that would be really freaking funny. I'd be like, which one was it? You know, I...
For the record, love our service workers. I love all of our UPS drivers and USPS drivers. But yeah, I just, it was frustrating. And then it was also the midst of the Banshee thing not going well. And it was stressful. And I knew that he was supposed to do his job. And I told him, I was like, yo, you don't have to go down the road in a blizzard. But I was like, it's 45 degrees out today and sunny. You can make it down the road. I'm on Ryan's side because he got a little whiny and he started backing up. We don't...
We don't drive down that road. Okay, well, you don't have to drive through when it's a blizzard. Just go down the road when it's not, like a time like today. No, our trucks aren't that good. Yeah, he just didn't want to do it because it takes too fucking long driving there and back. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway. I just thought it was really funny. If you're a UPS driver, you're already driving everywhere anyways. What does it even matter? I got to admit, I have not watched the video yet. Oh, really? I got started on it. That's all right. I'm sorry.
I'm sure Ken hasn't either. I'm going to watch it. I'm excited. I'm surprised that you got started. Obviously got interrupted, but did we in the video show how much of an absolute biatch putting the Banshee together was? No, I literally didn't show any of it. Can we talk about reality? We must.
of the banshee belt dude such a disaster yeah let's talk about it i mean we've talked about how we try to make the videos fast and we try to make them entertaining for everybody and it's tough maybe we'll get better at it trying to show the challenges that we faced but wow yeah it was just like every single issue that you could possibly think of we ran into it started with all right
What are we doing this week? Like most Sundays start out. We're like, all right, we got the Banshee. Let's do the build on it. We got all these parts. That'll be a great title and thumbnail. And then we'll film that this weekend. It should be good to go Wednesday night. And then we can edit it Thursday. That...
Was not the case at all. It was an aggressive timeline to fully tear down paint and then reinstall a Banshee. The thing is, everything we do is an aggressive timeline. True. Legit, every single thing we do should not happen as fast as it does, but we just make it happen because we have to. We're determined. We tell Evan, like, all right, here's what we're thinking. And he is like, he was just like against it from the start that it was even a possibility, like the slightest possibility. Yeah.
and which I kind of hate. Well, it's when you threw, he was for sure. It's when you threw in painting the frame, then he was like checked out. He's like, he literally did it. He threw his hands up and he went and played pinball. I was like, this is not the answer, Evan. This is not what we have to, we got to get this done. But anyway, to be fair, he was a smidgen, right? He was a smidgen, right? But like I said, every single thing we do is against evidence.
the timeline and all odds right so anyway we tell him kind of like the plan and he was like there's no way we're gonna get this there's no way we get this done in two days and we film it on wednesday like on the ice like built and ready we're like yes we will this thing we start breaking it down we realize that we're missing like 50 of the parts so we overnight the parts and then the next day
we're we start putting it we start putting it back together we realize that we're missing like 25 of the parts that we thought we ordered so then we overnight those parts again luckily if anyone in minnesota here's like a shameless plug yeah it's like a hack dennis kirk you can order parts for your motorcycle or like four-wheelers and they're out of minnesota so you get them the next day
We're not sponsored by them. They have just come in clutch so many times. They deserve that shout out. You don't pay extra for shipping and it shows up legitimately like the next first half of the day. Yeah, it's crazy. So anyway, that puts us out to Wednesday. So we're, we're like putting it back together and then we were still running into like every single problem imaginable. We get the motor back in and the thing is like pretty much fully built and
And the clutch wouldn't engage. And we're like, what the heck? We have to tear the whole motor apart, basically. Pull it back out. We're calling Evan's buddy who's drunk at the bar, who we think knows a little bit about Banshees. He knew a lot. He ended up knowing a lot. He knew everything. He's on FaceTime trying to explain to us what it possibly could be.
That takes most of Wednesday. That's the worst part. You can't drive without a clutch. Yeah. So we finally get this thing together Wednesday night at like nine o'clock and we're like, oh my gosh, okay, it's good to go. Let's wake up early in the morning and start filming it and then hopefully be done by like
10, 30, 11, and we can edit the rest of the day and it's going to be up. Because our original plan is always have the video completed by Wednesday night. Yeah. So like, yeah. Yeah. So then you guys can add it all day. Cause it takes all day. That was a plan. When we get out to the lake,
And then the Banshee won't run. So we're messing with like the carb. It's like... Electron? Yeah, electron carb. And it's supposed to be like easier to dial in. But then it's like 15 degrees out. Yeah, because... Keep in mind, it was running...
flawlessly in the shop yeah you know we started yeah and then you get outside and you're running into an issue with like all carbs completely didn't run yeah so then we spend the next honestly i'm gonna give mike and evan the shout out for this one because they mostly took it but they spent the next two hours in like 15 degree weather 40 mile per hour winds trying to dial this thing
Finally, we were just like, screw it. Got close. It was running as good as we could get it to go. Barely ran. We were just like, fuck it.
Let's just run it, run it like shit, and try and just make the best of it, which we did. It still ran pretty decent. You were able to rip it. Once you got it screaming, because we put a wide kit on it and six suspension, once you got it screaming, it was the most unreal feeling ever, taking a big, fat turn, just locked in. The moral of the story is, no, we didn't show any of that in the video, but that happens like...
Honestly, 50% of the time. He seemed to hit some type of dead end along the way. The final kick in the nuts was after spending...
Each night this week, we were here pretty late solely working on the Banshee. Like normally people, some people be late, but you're doing different things. You're getting stuff done. It was like just this Banshee all week took all of our attention. And the final kick in the nuts was Thursday afternoon. After we'd done everything we could to make it work. We missed the good weather. The Banshee didn't fricking run. Well, what are you going to do? You know, but that is how things go. It's true. And I, I,
Try and tell, obviously we're all kind of aware of this, but I try and tell Evan this, dude, we don't have a choice. We have to make it work and we have to figure out what to do. Like there's no option. Like we're posting on Thursday. We owe it to 1.8 million people. Not that we owe it to them, but like they expect a video. And we've been doing this for years. And we've been doing it and I know we can do it. We
We just have to like get creative and figure out how. Yeah. Right. And, and that boiled down to, you know, we, we met, we made it work by waking up early and really having to cram it all together. But also, you know, sometimes you got to make do and it was running like shit and we kind of were like, well, it's good enough to run. It's still fun. And, uh, it was, it was good time. And it, it, yeah, just can't give up.
I'm curious though, like the audience, maybe drop up a comment. I'm genuinely curious if you guys are interested in like the behind the scenes of like the videos or if being that we've already like released the video, it's kind of just like said and done and you guys don't really want to like hear about it. I don't know. Cause it's like something we go back and forth on is like,
Like a garage. Do people want to hear what they've already watched? Yeah. I like talking about, like, backstories, parts to stories. I do, too. I think that's interesting. Like, when I listen to Rob Dyrdek talk on a podcast or whoever, and he kind of tells, like, oh, when we were filming this, this was actually going on, and this. Like, I think that's fun. Mm-hmm.
But yeah, I did think it was funny how, not to out Evan, but he was not having it from the moment we proposed doing the Banshee build. Well, I'm sure he's worked on some four-wheelers and has known that not often does a full rebuild, tear down, paint job, upgrade go well in 36 hours. He threw his hands up multiple times. He goes literally like this. It's funny, dude. It's hilarious. And I think one of the harder parts is we definitely needed his help. We needed him for it. Evan was huge in the build. He probably did fuck
50% if not more. A lot of it, yeah. And I mean, we had five guys. Five guys, yeah. Have you guys ever heard the story of Fenn's treasure? So this 80-year-old man was dying of cancer and he hid a treasure chest somewhere in the Rocky Mountains from New Mexico to the Canadian border. Oh my. Worth $2 million and he released a pumpkin
one poem basically saying like where it was with like kind of like little clues in the poem, but you had to like dissect the poem and I'm sure it's pretty vague. It was insanely vague, but I could never be smart enough to do that. I'd write like the most complex thing. I'd be like, nobody's ever going to find this in someone,
would have it before i died yeah they'd be like found it and i'd be like my whole my whole legacy it's all over yeah so this this guy hides a two million dollar treasure chest which is cash or stuff full of like gold and like old antiques and gems and jewels and stuff and um the guy was like an art collector so maybe he just put in that and uh hid it somewhere in the rocky mountains
Dropped his poem and then basically said... Dropped it? Yo, just dropped a new poem. Check it out. He put it in a book. Put it in a book. And this treasure hunt went on for 10 years. He did this in 2010. And the treasure hunt went on.
Five people died looking for it. A couple people sued the guy because they thought that he was like moving the treasure when they would get close. Oh, he was still alive. He was still alive for a while. Yeah. Yeah. So 10 years after he dropped like the poem, the poem,
some guy found it no way it was real i just figured the guy faked it yeah no it was real and then uh he died like a month after it was found okay i'm super that's cool that he was alive for it but he stated like i'm never gonna tell anyone where it is like i'm gonna take it to the grave if nobody finds it by the time i die yeah but like 250 000 people were looking for it whoa over that 10 year span that seems like something your dad would do
hide it yeah no hide like go and look for it that's really cool it's just like like the fact that you can do anything you want like you know what i'm saying like he's just like i'm gonna create a treasure hunt for 250 000 people that it amounted to but think if you're a rich guy and you don't have any like kind of like family to pass down on to yeah that's that's
Way more fun. Cool way to do it. I agree. Way more enjoyment. People were suing this guy. Where was it? In Wyoming somewhere. He never said where it was. The guy that found it said he spent... He had the general area of where it was. I don't know if it was a mile span. He spent 25 days straight
in this little area looking for it and you finally found it. Where was it? Where was it? Somewhere in Wyoming. But the guy never said where it was. Like buried or what? That's what I'm trying to like picture. Is it under a tree? Like what are you looking for? That's like the part that's like the most annoying is they never said where it was. Yeah, just be curious to know that.
Yeah. Cause like, I mean, think even when you're looking for something, like if, if you threw that basketball over there out into the woods or the field, it'd probably take a while to find that. And you know, I'm looking for a basketball. Imagine if you don't even know what you're looking for. Yeah, dude, people were dying and the police were contacting them like the, um, part of Yellowstone.
They were like, you need to call this off. Like, people are dying. And he said, people drown in pools and you don't drain the pool. He was like, so then he released a statement and he said, I hid this when I was 80 years old and unhealthy.
You don't need to die to find it. Okay. That's smart. Like it is somewhere very accessible to find it. Cause like people are like repelling down massive faces of rocks. Trying to like get rid of it. That's a good point though. If he really did hide it himself, they kind of are a little bit silly. I mean, I guess he could like helicoptered in somewhere, but still. Yeah, dude,
Dude, but some guy broke into his house in 2018. It's at his house? Yeah, the guy stole another treasure chest that was fake or something like that. Oh, okay. And got caught stealing it at gunpoint. It says just in the article, he was held at gunpoint until the police arrived. So I'd imagine this Forrest Fenn is just holding him with a shotgun or something in his face. That's awesome. You're not going anywhere, but...
When I was reading that, as soon as I saw that somebody broke into his property, I was like, oh my gosh, some guy probably broke in, held him at gunpoint, and said, where is it? But then it took another twist, and I was like, oh, that isn't how it went. If that happened, the dude just seems like such a badass that he'd be like,
You really going to shoot me for it? I'm not telling you. Yeah, I mean, he said he was taken into the grave. Dude, that's crazy. Wyoming. Remember the dude in Wyoming that we were talking to at the bar that was like, he's super interesting. And you asked him something about killing someone. You didn't just go, would you ever kill anyone? But he's just like... Are you talking about Butthole? I didn't want to drop a name here. Oh, okay. Sorry. Butthole wasn't much of a name. Yeah, I know. Butthole.
The police are like, we got him. But yeah, he was just like, oh yeah, I know where to do it. Ride a horse up there in the mountains like in Wyoming. He's a true cowboy. You don't want to fuck with those cowboys. He didn't even like, it wasn't a joke. He's just like, yeah, I mean, I could do it. I could do it and I know where I'd do it and how to do it. Not going to do it, but yeah. Don't piss him off. People apparently were like,
quitting their jobs and getting arrested for like spending too much time in, in the Yellowstone national park. You can get arrested for spending too much time. I don't know. Like being there without a permit and stuff and the camping in places that you're not supposed to. Oh, another guy also dug up a grave site thinking that he would like put it in a grave.
And he was like digging up graves. Dude, when you first said that people were quitting their jobs, I'm like, so dumb. But also you get people, I'm not saying they're delusional, but they're like,
Two million bucks? We could take the next year off and then I'm good, set for life. Like, it almost reminds me of, like, a movie. We just got to find the fence treasure. Dude, I guess there was, like, a big deal at the time. There'll probably be a documentary on it. Yeah, there was, like, podcast, obviously. Podcast series on it, like, trying to figure out where it was. Speaking of podcasts, and CJ's girlfriend Alex just walked in, and this made me think of it. Why do girls like...
like scary crime true crime documentary podcast that's i think it's everything like she'll want to like go to bed and not watch youtube so then she throws on like this like murder documentary of this lady or some guy that killed a bunch i'm like i don't want to fall asleep to this yeah it is weird i think it is a girl thing however is it why is it however like all of them like it like evan
He listens to true crime podcasts all day. He goes to bed watching true crime, gang-related rapper stuff. Seriously, it's insane how much he watches. He's just obsessed with it. I think it's the same reason that cops in thumbnails pop off. People are just...
I think they get like, it's like they can watch it and it's just this like, it's something that's happening in real life. So it's interesting, but also it's like, oh, that's never going to be me. You better hope. I don't know. But like a lot of people get like freaked out. Like we'll just be listening to it and she'll go like, I'm going to be like listening intently. And I'm like, are you serious right now? Like why, how is this comforting? You ever heard of the Life Wide Open podcast? Yeah. True. True.
Just easy listening. It's true. Every word here is true. No crime here. Geniuses. I don't know, man. I can't even watch scary movies. Yeah, Ben, I've never, I've really never understood why people would be interested in listening to podcasts about true stories. Because most scary movies are fake. And I even know that and I still don't want to watch them. But did you like watch like Dahmer? Uh,
I watched the first episode. Oh, okay. So you really didn't make sense then. Like, you're just not into that. But like, and I'm not super into it, but I watched it, enjoyed it. And then at the end, you're like, but you even ask yourself, you're like, man, me watching this, glorifying it, like...
I had to quit watching it because it started grossing me out when I would be eating. So say I was like eating meat, like chicken leg. Yeah. I'd be like eating it and I'd start, I'd just think about the show and this guy legitimately eating shit. Like, you know, like I'd have a hard time eating. And then I just, I just quit the show at like five episodes. Haven't watched a single one. And I forgot about it until now. So I don't know.
Well, just relax. Friendsgiving is going to be a little tough. Relax. I just want to take some pictures. So are we doing Friendsgiving? Tomorrow. Oh, so that's tomorrow. Yeah. Where are we doing that at? We haven't decided. I don't think anyone has stepped up to the plate. We have a trend. I'm sure you guys know what Friendsgiving is. You know, you get together with your friends and eat food, bring food, just like Thanksgiving. But we have a trend where we break shit.
After every Friendsgiving. It's insanely destructive. I feel like we've grown out of that. I think we have to. Maybe not. We'll see what happens. I kind of want to just get insanely destructive. Like incredibly drunk and break so much shit. The three steps are one, none of us know how to cook, so we bring food, our favorite other types of food. So you'll have wings and Chinese and pizza and whatever.
And then step two is eat it and then get wicked drunk. Yeah. And then...
Step three is destroy your surroundings. And I don't know why. You're firing me up. The last couple of years, it's just happened. Well, and the first time that it happened, it actually just happened. And that's the most... Like, the best one. It's like we didn't plan to get wicked drunk, but did. And we definitely did not plan to break all the chairs and tables and plates in our surrounding, but we did. And then the next year... It was fun, though. Oh, it was a blast. Yeah, it was fun. It was like the next year, then we...
We did it last year. We did it last year. I don't think tradition though. Yeah, but we weren't necessarily planning on it. But as we're breaking shit, we're like, tradition though, right? And then the next year, we just broke shit just because it was tradition. We knew we had to. And then this year, so we're looking for a place to host it.
I laughed when Megan offered up Megan and Justin's house. We were like, are you sure? I was like, I'm down. Do you remember how these end up? I didn't. I offered up our house and then I also said, but it would be fun to do that at Megan and Justin's too. I love going there. Are you guys looking for a new dining room table? And then you were like, you guys remember what happens at these, right? And then we're all like, yeah, do it at your place.
How do you guys feel about everyone bringing some food and then everyone bringing $100 in cash as just like a deposit for the destruction of like the house? Oh, I'd rather you bring something to break, I guess. That's actually a good idea. Oh, that'd be pretty good too, but I'm just picturing having it at Megan and Justin's house.
And they're like flat screen TV. I kind of want to throw a plate through it. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, dude. That's the problem with that though. I think that'd just be incredibly satisfying. Yeah.
Yeah, it'd be fun. The one other actual issue with it, though, is then Justin's got to go out, get a new TV. He's got to hang it up. It's more so even the work. Even if you buy him a whole new TV, it's still kind of an... I guess you're right. I'd like to think you buy him one. You're thinking about the complications of it. What the fuck? You're throwing up? Holy shit. Dude, how sociopathic YouTube prank would this be? We do that, but really just punching holes in drywall. They can't stop anyone. They're like...
And then, but then we like, you know, it's all over and like they're practically crying and we're like, we got you a full house renovation. And they'd be like, I'd be like, yeah, we're sick. Okay. It would be cause it'd be a lot of money, but I agree. It would be sick. But then they'd also be like, well, shit. How long is it going to be? It's funny. Cause me and CJ have literally already done this to our grandpa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That was so funny, dude. She was rattled. My only regret from that... For the family back then, dude. The family still... They were confused. I don't even know if they knew that we were YouTubers. Like, the extended family that wasn't, like, our direct relatives that were there. Man, they were confused. Yeah, they just thought I, like... Oh, watching you do it. Yeah.
Yeah, granted, everyone was confused and concerned when CJ lost a pool game and then snapped the pool cue and then put the pool cue through the TV with the entire family watching. I can't believe you got that through that TV. It would have been kind of embarrassing if it just went boing. My favorite part wasn't they weren't necessarily concerned about you being mad in general. They were like,
They were concerned about me. They were concerned about something wrong with my head. And then they probably look over at my dumb ass standing there holding a camera laughing. Man, these fucking idiots. They just don't... They are so out of touch with reality that they think this is okay. This is funny. Yeah, this is funny because I'm probably smirking. I'm like... Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, it was good times. Good times. Dude, so Ryan...
a Corvette branded Bally official pinball machine. It's dope. It's vintage. Works amazing. That's the year it's from. Refurbished. And we were like, Ryan found it first. You can tell. You grew up with some pinball machines. And so it's always been your thing. Guys, this would be fun. Yeah. A little shop thing to have around the shop. Yeah, I love it. Nothing too serious. Little did we know, it's on track to bankrupt the company. Dude. Cut us out of business. It's like crack. Yeah.
It's so addicting. Very similar to a slot machine. Obviously, there's skill involved. You got to do things. You can't suck. You got to have quick reflexes. But at the end of the day, a lot of lights, a lot of flashing at you, a lot of sounds, a lot of power-ups, a lot of chances to get a lot of points, multipliers. I'm like, this is just like a slot machine. And then when you- I don't have to pay for it. Well, that's the best part. I think the real draw though is that we want to have our name on
the top three scores. You got your name up there. I'm like, God dang it. I just want to have my name going across the screen because it's always lit up going across. You guys are so close. You're like, next game is going to be the one. I'm going to get this. It's so frustrating when it goes down the middle. The worst part is that I scored that pretty early on.
I'm stoked about it. I still don't really know how I did. You're asking me, how'd you do it? How'd you do it? And I'm like, dude, I don't know. I got four times multiplier and got lucky. Pinball Mike. But... Bro, this might be the reason that the Banshee build took four and a half days to finish. I was pretty good about it. Bro, I swear, we would just be getting rolling and then...
Everyone would just get up and go and play the pinball machine. It's such a distinct noise. You definitely know when someone's playing it. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, man, they're really getting into this. Dude, it's even got Ken yelling. Yeah, I know. Ken doesn't like sharing, though.
I looked at the thing. You can see how many games we've played. And I reset it when we got it because I was very interested. Wow. We've played over 1,200 games and we've had it for six days. Oh my gosh. It's like 200 games a day. That is insane. If you start averaging out how much time that takes, granted there's a lot of us, but still.
Unreal. Yeah. So then it's like, it's so fun, dude. I love it. I'm a, it's so fun. You want to know what's actually, I've always actually liked pinball machines, uh, ever since when I met Ryan when we were kids and he had two pinball machines at his house. It was so fun to play on. Um, but then also I think what really got me into the pinball was how back when we used to print shirts at Ken's uncle's shop.
they had this playboy pinball machine in there and I didn't, I didn't just like it cause it was playboy. I liked it. It was just fun. It was fun. And, uh, Alex is sitting over there. Uh, and what I found out though with pinball machines, cause I started looking into them and it's crazy cause they, you can buy a pinball machine and it goes up and back. Like certain ones are rare. Certain ones go up and it's just, I,
I honestly just, I don't know. The way I look at pinball machines is it's an investment. It can be an investment. Just Ben, you keep your dirty little fingers out of the pinball game. Okay. So, so there's this, make us go bankrupt. There's this, uh, I haven't touched it. Actually, you can,
I think the only reason why you don't play two or three games tops. Yeah. It's because you aren't good at it. You just can't. You don't like it. Just because you're not good. It's just not fun. Yeah. You just because you're not good. You got to practice. I don't think it's that fun. Come on. If the same thing happens every single time,
Unless you get a high score. It goes here, it goes there, or it goes around and it comes back and you're just hitting it with these little paddles the whole time. Like, it's not that fucking fun. I hate to break it to you guys. No, but you got the strategy of hitting the different things. Yeah, you got to aim and you got to hit. There's no aim. You're hitting it with a paddle. You have no control. You're good. There's a little aim. You're aiming. You ain't aiming.
Aim it, CJ. Yes, I am. No chance. Oh, yeah. I am. Aiming by timing. No chance, dude. Yeah. I'll stop the ball. They're like, put it in the pit because it's a car racing one, Corvette one. I'll fucking nail it into the pit. And it just gives me a little dopamine dump every time. A little dopamine hit. So great. Ben, for you, it's just like people who say, like, I don't watch TikTok. I go, good for you. Don't. That's it. That's it.
If you don't play that pinball machine, don't. Yeah, I wouldn't start, man. You don't play pinball? More time for me. It's like smoking. More time for me to play pinball and more time for you to probably be productive. Yeah, you go make money so we can play more pinball. I wish it was more fun. I wish it got me off the same way it does for you guys. I swear, you guys are over there with just boners. I'm going to go down there right after this and play some pinball. I believe it. I think we got to get one more, though. So there's this debate. So Ryan went and...
Bought it himself. So he sent it in the group chat. He's like, we should get this. It was on Facebook Marketplace, not far from us. And we were into it. We all like pinball machines, but also it was kind of like, where are we going to put it? And I was like, I'm down, I guess. And then it was kind of mixed reviews. So Ryan's like, whatever. I'm going to go pay for it with my own money. And I'm going to set it in the shop and see what happens. So he sets it up. Because I don't have anywhere else to put it. Everyone starts playing that thing. And...
I'm cool with the company reimbursing you and it being a company purchase. I think everyone's cool with it except for Ben. I got to win Ben over. It's like six grand. One... It's 5,300 bucks. One, I don't care if the company buys it. I've told you that five times. I'm outruled. He doesn't care. I'm outruled. There's four to one. I guess, yeah, if you did...
I think we need to get another one. That's where I draw the line. I feel like everyone... Is this place going to turn into a fucking arcade? We should tear up the jam and we should put it in an arcade. Oh my gosh. We could get a blackjack table, an ATM for when our friends come over and we want to play dice and they're like, oh, we're going to cash. Cash.
Go to the ATM. I would love an ATM. No more of this like IOU shit. And we do an ATM. Go to the ATM. I don't even care if it doesn't have fees. Just so that there's cash. No, we're putting fees on it too. You don't show up here with no money thinking you're going to play dice. That's awesome. It does take the Venmo factor, which is lame. Yeah, the Venmo is lame. Your bank reimburses the fees. Nobody's paying ATM fees anymore. Do they? Shit. Really? Up to a certain point. I need to get on that. Up to a certain point. Okay, you'd have to ask Ken. Anyway though, I don't care if the company buys the pinball machine
I just don't want it to become this thing of like, all right, we got one. Let's get 17. So that we do have a tendency of doing that. Yeah. Cause you guys are like, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, we can get a Tom Cruise, a top gun one over here. And CJ is like, Oh my gosh,
Oh, okay. I found this one. It's a Transformers one. What if we got that one? That would look good next to the Tom Cruise one. It's kind of like artwork, dude. It looks good sitting in the shop. It's cool. It lights up. It's just another little cool addition. I don't get it, dude. You're too young. That's where I want to stick with. Dude, he's so used to those fucking video games on the screen. He can't just play a thing. Let's get a bunch of Nintendo Switches and you'd be all over it. Yeah, he'd be like, oh, let's get one for every room. Hey.
Or Wii's or whatever you kids play. Get an Nintendo Switch for him. It's portable. Who knows? Who knows? There's like 12 of them. We could just get one for every person. That's actually funny.
Dude. Imagine we're doing some kind of YouTube Cribs tour and we go through and of course we got a Nintendo Switch again. They're all mounted to the wall. In the podcast room in case you want to play some Zelda or whatever. Yeah, they could just have the docks for them. But dude, at the end of the day, it comes down to the time that we have and we don't have a lot of it. And we shouldn't spend it playing pinball, but there is that. Dude, like...
I just bought a PS5 today. Really? What do you mean?
I don't have time to play that. It's like Ken buying an Xbox last year for Black Friday. Ken plays his Xbox. Remember? Does he? Flight Simulator? Oh, you weren't here. You weren't here. Still, I want to know if you can see the shop. No, he doesn't. He's just like everything else. He doesn't go and check it. He doesn't. It's too much work for him. As dumb as it sounds, though, I actually really don't have a lot of time to play it. I've been wanting a PS5 since they came out. Vowed not to buy one above retail. Here's the thing. At the end of the day, I just...
want to like kind of play it a little bit just like feel normal. That sounds dumb. I off some steam. Yeah. It's like do nothing. I basically, once we started YouTube quit playing video games altogether almost. And, and,
Or that's what I would do. I'd go over, hang out with Jake, and play just a little bit of video games. And I love it, but just don't have the time. I think you quit doing things that were productive. Or that weren't productive. If there was no productivity or anything like that to it, and I think all of us kind of quit doing that. We're just like, I don't do that anymore. Yeah. You see, I've always loved video games. I was a huge gamer growing up. Played all the Call of Duties, Halo. And before that, I mean, freaking, you know,
Tons of games. And now...
Nothing. And I tried getting back into it when I was sick earlier this fall and I got my Xbox Live subscription back up and I hop on and my friends were playing. And I hop on and they're like, CJ's on! This whole thing. Yeah, because most people still play and I think it's awesome. It's so fun. But I kept running into this thing and I was like, it'd be like four or five games and I was getting frustrated or I'd be getting happy about like, oh, I ranked up. But I was like...
it doesn't, none of it matters. Yeah. None of it matters. It's like, like false, like gain in your life, but realistically none of it matters. But if you're having fun, which I was having fun and that's what you got for, it's really fun. But I think you get hooked by this idea that you're like ranking up in, uh,
Well, you're ranking up in the game, but not in real life, but it gives you these dopamine hits. It does. That's why Call of Duty became so successful, not only because it was a fun game, but after every match online, you get your XP bonus and you watch your bar. And you're like, oh, I only need this many more points, and then I'm level 55. And you get ranked up and get this gun. Wait, so you're telling me
That my high score on the pinball machine isn't real. So I was going to jump in there. That though is for bragging rights. Exactly. You got the bragging rights. It's right there in the shop. It's coming by. Every time Ben walks by and all of us have the top score, he's going to go.
Yeah, he's going to go back and play his Wii or whatever those kids plan out as. Wii. I don't know if that's going to happen, but maybe. We're going to check the security cameras and Ben's going to be here like 3 a.m. on Friday night just playing, trying to get good. I tried getting into it the other night. I genuinely watched you play about three games. Every single time, the ball would just go down the middle. It's because you're not good. You're not aiming.
Dude. You got to know where the ball, how it's going to hit, how it's going to spin off. The mini games of it. The rebound. Yep. Yeah, you want to know which lanes to hit it in to activate different challenges. At the right times. At the right times. You got to follow them. All right. Well, I'm happy for you guys. Thanks. It's just not for me. And with that, that's the end of today's podcast. Thanks for listening, guys. We'll be back next week. Hit the subscribe button if you haven't already. Love you guys. We're going to go play pinball.
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