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Oh, what? What the heck's wrong with this wheel? Oh, oh.

Oh. Did someone smash this thing? No, but I did break it. How do you manage to break a chair, Mike? Well, when you needed to eat hot dogs, you and Ryan, I wanted you to have comfy chairs, and I'm bringing them down the stairs, and I'm like, not bad. I only broke one of the 10 wheels on the chairs. Man, Ryan, you have been...

You guys have really put in some work over here. You got a broken chair and a broken mic. Oh, geez. Yeah, I didn't even notice the zip ties. Yeah, we're switching it up a little bit. It's interesting having Ryan over here and Ben over there. Yeah, this is nice. We'll see how long I last over here until CJ kicks me out because we bumped knees the whole time. Yeah, we're both spreaders. Oh, true. We...

just sit really wide and it's just not a good combo. Like even like if we're sitting in the backseat of like a pickup together. Yeah, it's bad. I know. I will agree. Yeah. Normally the third man is the one who ends up getting it the worst. Yeah. Yeah. Because we both just spread. I feel like with the group you have strategic people that you want.

in different positions of your life. And I would say being in the back of the truck or maybe even sleeping in a bed, Ben is a spreader in bed. Like he, his legs, Jesus. Oh,

His legs are going sideways. Don't drag me into this, Ryan. Yeah, you want to share the backseat with Micah. Or Ken. Even Ken does not want to sleep with Micah. If we're staying at a hotel, not that there's anything wrong. He just snores so loud. You can't even share the room with him. It's like a megaphone. The thing about sleeping next to Micah, though, in the same bed as if he is snoring, you can shake him, and the dude sleeps so hard, he'll just stop snoring.

but like doesn't wake up. It's like, yeah, it's amazing. I just tell you. Yeah. I was like, go over there. Light kick, light shove. And I should stop. Yeah. But it's like, you got to get out of bed. Go right. Shove you like roll you over. Yeah. Yeah. But Mike doesn't also like fall asleep until like two hours after everyone else. So you should be like, hopefully deep into your sleep at that. That's true. Yeah. Like your sleep schedule is so messed up. Annihilated. Dude.

I like see the cameras of you up at like 8 a.m. It's crazy. Not not getting up for the day, though. Dude, how are you like functioning in

And then waking up, because usually we'll start filming at 10 and we'll wake you up at 10. How are you functioning at two hours of sleep? It's pretty rare that I get only two hours of sleep, but you do it. I still feel like you get the sleep in, you just get it in at a different hour. There was one time last two weeks ago when I was working on the merch shop that I legitimately got two hours of sleep. And it was brutal and it felt so weird the next day. But if it's like four, four and a half to five hours of sleep,

Totally good. Weird that I do it from, you know, five to 10, but it's a weird schedule, man. That's not always how it is, but I feel like it's just a creative mind. Like it's just, yeah. When I get checked in on my computer, it just, that's, I hate it to be honest.

But that's when my productivity is at its peak. It's so weird. Me and CJ used to edit the videos like entirely by ourselves. So I would take one and then he would take one like the next week. When we would do that, we would have to spend basically like 24 hours straight editing. You could start at like 7 p.m. on a Wednesday night and you'd edit basically for the next 24 hours straight. I legit cannot believe that you guys did that for years. For years. And then eventually we just got to the point where we were like, dude, this makes no sense for me.

For one of us to do the entire thing. And then when we're editing. Like the other ones just like chilling. Kind of just like a waste of time for the other person. But ever since. Yeah it started splitting. Way more refined now. Yeah it's more refined. And the quality of the edits are like way better. Because you're not running on zero sleep. Trying to be creative. I felt like it was the old days though. Just.

So last video, when we were preparing for our Black Friday drop, Ben and I were both here editing until 6 a.m. Yeah, we were here until 6 a.m. That was the funniest thing, too, because I'm here to work, and I go, I'm going to work as long as they work. I already know I'm going to be up late. And it's like, here comes 4 a.m.

damn dude I might go to bed here comes five here comes six and I was like dude now they're out walking around I'm going to bed I got a second wind I didn't they did yeah I was driving home and there was people jogging and I was like huh man this is odd

I haven't done that in a while. That was sweet. It feels good to just see everybody grinding, which obviously for Black Friday to make everything happen, we had to grind and it was so fun. Yeah. It was fun to see. You got Cody in here helping. Everybody coming together. It's so awesome. I was thinking, do they still do like...

They obviously still do like Black Friday sales at like brick and mortar stores. So like Walmart or, you know, wherever. Do they still do it? Like where they just open the door? They have it way more because you never see the videos of like people getting trampled. Like people would get messed up. That was like the biggest thing. It was like Thanksgiving six o'clock. Getting trampled. We got to get to the

mall just trying to save a hundred bucks on tv i think i think it came and went because all these companies had to fix it they bid off more than they could choose so it it like started for a while it was just like midnight no it wasn't midnight it wasn't black friday started like 6 a.m yeah and then they started moving it to midnight and then people were like starting to and then it was getting earlier 7 p.m on thursday that's eating into people's thanksgiving so anyway it just got so ridiculous that people were like also we

Who's going to a store to like, you might as well just go on Amazon or Walmart.com, wherever, and just get the sale there. Get the same, probably same price. Things have changed. Yeah, and then he's going to ship you. Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking about that because you never see those videos anymore. No, you don't. That had to have happened for a really long time because... That was like the rage for, I don't know. Yeah. I remember it like in high school. When I was in like middle school, I was just like, I'd like to go with like my friends or like their parents. Yeah.

And just because I was like, this is going to be lit. Same, dude. Me and my buddies would...

stay up all night of course because they're getting early and early we will go to fargo and just drift around in the parking lots until the stores of course wait wouldn't there be a bunch of vehicles in the parking lot like not really you know yeah but there's just the vehicles of the people that are standing in line but it's not filling the parking lot up per se so no joke just go drift around i love finding out about mike's like troubled past trouble his bad boy

Back when he was drifting in parking lots. His Buick LeSabre. And his one friend smoked a marble red when he was 15. Whoa. He died. So where's the little weasel? He's downstairs working. Got his tail between his legs. A little rat. Does Evan admit it?

that he's a weasel yet? No. He hasn't. So you don't get to decide whether you're a weasel or not. You just are one. Yeah, but has he admitted to his fault? Or does he still think that he's... I haven't seen him yet. He went home for Thanksgiving. So in the video, the whole reason that I got my nipples pierced, which I lost fair and square, but we had...

We had to run because Evan chimed in and altered the whole competition. And he was supposed to get his peers with me. That was part of it. And now he's not. Yeah, and it was weird because before we didn't see the footage. So I was like, I swear I remember him saying, if I win, you guys got to both get it done. But I didn't want to fully...

lean on him. But then I saw obviously when it got chopped up. So he's caught red-handed. It's tough because I think he did say that, but he didn't win. I feel like if you hop in a competition... Because he threw up. That's also true. Yeah. Either way, he should be getting his nipple spears. I think he got into it

I will admit, I definitely may have chopped a couple things out of the videos that basically just made it more blurry of like, well, was he a part of it or not? But I think, no, he definitely knew what he was getting into. And then as soon as he found out that he had to... There was consequences. There was consequences. That's when he backed out. And it's like...

I don't know. I just think it's like super weasley. I can already see it now. Us in the nipple shop again. With Evan. With Evan. I can already see it now. I don't know how it's going to happen, but like I'm feeling, I'm sensing some, the universe is pushing him towards the second nipple piercing. But the main thing I can't believe is just that Ryan beat me in a race. I don't know what the hell, dude. I gave up.

But also, I don't know where you pulled that out of. It was like this dude developed some superpowers when we were running. Bro, I haven't ran in probably since middle school basketball. It had to have just came down to you legit just...

Didn't want it more than me. 100%. And I don't know how much you didn't want it, but I really did not want it. I could feel it. When we were running stride and stride. It sounds so funny the way you guys are explaining it. Like you wanted the win, but the way you're explaining it, I was running so hard, like I did not want it. I did not want the consequences. It was like there was a person chasing me with a knife. Imagine how funny it would have been.

It would have been such a dick move, but when we were running next to each other, I thought about tripping you. I thought about it too. I thought about tripping you. It was so funny for the video, but then I was just like, fudge. That'd be... I don't know. It'd be like cheating. Or I thought about pushing you into the ditch. Thought the same thing too, trying to jam you up when we were at the mailbox, but I was just so focused on not throwing up.

After eating five hot dogs and then running half a mile, sprinting half a mile. But dude, in the video it happened so fast, but we for about...

a little under a quarter mile were stride in stride right next to each other. It was a very like Ricky Bobby moment. That's right. The music was going. Race to the finish line. I love the way that you edited it. Like, it was already lit and looked like, yeah. That was the best part of the video I thought. With the flashbacks. When we were running and the flashbacks. Yeah, that's when I was like, this is all on the line right here. That's when I was fully engaged. I was like, oh.

I am really disappointed in myself that I stopped. Like, I don't know. I just thought I had more willpower than that. I normally do. It's just like the circumstances. I don't know what the frick happened, dude. I gave up and I'm honestly pretty embarrassed about that. I quit. Yeah. Like I could have at least. There was just so many factors. I could have been there. I could have been. I could have beat you. I also at least could have been like.

At least right behind you. I'm just so disappointed in myself for stopping running. Dude, I think if you would... And you had a head start. If you would... No, he was ahead. You had the head start. But I gave up. Or I had started to give up on the run and you were like 25 feet ahead of me. I was so far ahead of him at the start. It wasn't on camera, but yeah. And I can tell you probably in your head were like,

Wait, if I lose this race, there's no like, yeah, but Evan Hopp, there's none of that. It was game over. It was also a little bit demotivating for me because I was thinking to myself, okay, he beat me in the backup challenge, and he beat me technically in the hot dog eating competition, and then it kind of got screwed up with Evan Hopp in. If I win this, it'd be kind of lame, which you beat me. Or a comeback victory. You beat me, but it would have been like...

We just spend the rest of the day doing challenges. I feel like you ultimately won everything, but also you did outrun me. Like I, I just, I, you, I don't know why I quit. I was probably, we were, when we were running next to each other, there was like one time you kind of like misstepped and you fell back like six inches and then you did it again. Yeah, that's right. And so that literally right there, I was like, all right, I got this. And I kept going. That's awesome. If that hadn't happened, I don't know how many, how much longer I could have kept at that rate.

Yeah, that was electric. That was fun. That was like an inhumane cricket. It felt very wrong the entire day. When I was running, I was thinking, this is inhumane. Yeah, it really was, dude. Every single challenge, I guess not the backup challenge, but especially like the longest to last in the water challenge, that one just felt like

I was really mean for doing that to you guys. It was great. You got your payback. It definitely had fear factor vibes. Just nasty challenges. That show was crazy. They would have people upside down, strapped in a car, feet underwater, dude. I could not do that. I could probably hold my breath for...

let's say 40 seconds right here but if i was in that situation i'd be five seconds yeah like panicking dude i'd go i just i'm not a water guy you never get hurt on that show i think that's a great way yeah is that the first uh is that the first experience you had because that's funny i use that word with joe rogan yeah like it was back when everyone yeah okay that was his first like thing acts probably bigger thing yeah it's so weird uh notable watching him with hair

It really is. Oh, that's Joe Rogan? He looks better with a bald head. I agree. Some guys just look better bald. Andrew Tate? That dude's full-on bald too. Somebody did die in a Thai version of the Fear Factor show. But it wasn't the American one. What happened? He got hit by a barrel during a stunt. I don't know how you get hit by a barrel. I'd imagine that was just such...

Think about how corporate that probably was because it was such a big show and how many legal advisors and safety people that they had on set at all times that were probably just tweaking. Oh, I'm sure. But I feel like also back then, things were more loose. Yeah.

they just and and i i think that's just a fact yeah like everything's really tightened up because obviously people did probably get hurt yeah like people don't mess around they couldn't even do that now right yeah they couldn't do a show like even some of the stuff they had to eat yeah like you probably couldn't do a show nowadays because people be like oh you can't eat live worms that's animal abuse like legitimately people would do that and that's that's like another way like kind of stuff's

change but yeah i think everybody's got a little wiser i was watching youtube before i came here and i came across this video of mark rober shop holy crap he's got a full-on it's pretty cool dude it's insane you guys got to watch it and then on top of that i've been watching a lot of fantasy factory lately i don't know why just like when i was sick i just started watching them i was like i'll watch every single one because i haven't seen them all and i started thinking this shop is great

But I think we got to think about building something even bigger. Like after watching both those, I'm like, God, this place is kind of small. I like where your head's at. Why don't we have a foam pit in our shop? I just don't know if we have room. That's exactly it. Yeah.

Like we should be able to like do some cool shit in here. We can't do any cool shit in here, dude. Because we got all of our stuff. We don't have a foam pit. I want a freaking skate park in the shop. Okay. We need an indoor pool, a foam pit, a skate park, zip lines. It's not that this place is small. It's just so filled up. It is. We have maximized a lot of the space in here. I think we need to do one that's like four times the size of this. Dude, I've always thought there's this old abandoned building in a town near us called Tools and More.

tools and more has been a host of shitty places that have gone out of business but it started as a furniture store and that thing's pretty big dude it just doesn't have high ceilings but other than that can you imagine like the races like you could have in there we could bring back the crazy carts but that place is probably like i don't know like 50 000 square feet or something like that dude it's got like that loading dock in the back yeah it'd be

it's about as close as it's going to get for an abandoned warehouse as far as that goes we got the room we got the land like that's what i'm thinking we gotta like build something on there i like that idea we build that and then we also build another strip and then use that for like we either like rent them out or sell them there you go that'll finance the five million dollar shop that we have to put a phone but yeah no i i totally agree i feel like

We're goldfish, and every time that we increase the size of the bowl, we just keep growing and getting more creative and stuff like that. And this shop really is, it's like business. That's what it would be. This is still useful. Yeah, you got the offices, the podcast studio, the merch bay. It really is about half strictly business. For sure. No, we definitely need in the next shop, though, to get...

Just like more workspace because if we ever start a project. Oh, yeah. Dude, if it's there for like more than a week, everything else just like kind of becomes a mess around it because there's just no room. So it's like you're like kind of like every time we think about starting a project, we're always like, is it worth it? Is it worth it? Yeah, because then it's like basically takes like, let's just say one fourth of our time

production area and then it's just out of the question. Yeah. So I think the next job we need to have a spot dedicated to just builds that can take a long time. And then we also need to just hire a full time fabricator and mechanic and then just constantly have them on cool builds. Yeah. I think that's the next step. We just got to find a good one, a good one. And somebody who's also like good on camera and, and mostly just like,

can work for us like full time and kind of just like chip away at whatever. Yeah, just always be working on one project and then maybe if there's like a hang up, we start the next one. But I don't know. I think that's like...

Our biggest holdup right now would be our mechanical and fabrication skills. I agree 100%. The skills, but also like the, you know, like we're pretty capable at not fabricating, but when it comes to like, if we need to build another trike and a big wheel. Yeah, we can build. We can totally do that. Even that though, it's like, we got to take a full day.

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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. To be fair, I am pretty impressed with how much we have learned in the last five years. Like we went from hardly knowing how to change the oil on a dirt bike to, I don't know, you know, build the three-wheeler downstairs and stuff like that. Like we've improved. Not a ton, but we've improved. Dude, Ryan fixed a clutch on a Harley. Yeah.

it took me three tries i did i was i was impressed that's something a mechanic would do yeah also though we've never really put like a huge emphasis on the actual like build side of it mostly because we haven't done anything like that crazy but i think we build like the cool things but then where we excel is like ripping them and like the camaraderie of like have

Having fun with it. Exactly, yeah. So if we can show the actual build process of it, maybe it's on a second channel even that's like more, like dives in deeper into it, like Seaboy's TV Garage. Yeah, I think that's a huge, when we get into that, it's going to be like a major expansion because when you can do more unique, just like one-off crazier builds that we're unable to do right now. Yeah. Dude.

Those videos are going to pop off. It's going to go insane. We've had pretty bad luck with how they run, but pretty good luck finding some really unique stuff on Facebook Marketplace. We just got to buy the good ones. The step past that is a major step past that where we have these ideas in our head. Just bringing them to life is hard. You can't just assume that you're going to find it on Facebook Marketplace one day. I want an all-wheel drive Corvette.

They're making one of those already. Really? Well, yeah, but... One that you could hoon yourself. Yeah, like Weston made the C5 one that he bought, but like that, but it's got all-wheel drive, and I can daily it in the winter. Put a snowplow on the front of it. Oh my gosh. That'd be amazing. That'd be a sweet snowplow in front of Ben's Lambo.

Well, that'd be insane. Did we just come up with a new video idea? I don't know where you found it. So we'll go down with the saw and cut some spots. That way we can put it right to the frame. So then we can just weld it straight to the frame. So it's going to basically just be a snowplow for the rest of its life or a salvage title. I had to get a new back

bumper for my gtr so you can get it i'm sure i'm sure it will be just the same price like we're throwing it around what is it bumpers gotta be like 10 grand yeah dude i do it but my car just doesn't work in the snow so like i'm sorry right right yeah yeah it's a fair fair point i think we should actually start finding like a really good fabricator though and you can't be shitty

You got to be able to either live around here or live here. It's going to be a full-time gig. You have to. 100% would pay you salary. That one dude that's coming up to do the R6 mod, he might be our ticket. We'll see how he does, but...

Obviously, he's familiar with R6 swaps, but maybe he'll be really good at a lot of things. Yeah, he's a pretty gnarly builder. Scrolling through his Instagram on all his builds got us pretty hyped up. And he's a YouTuber, so it's like he'd kind of... It'd be...

Maybe it'd be a good blend. I don't know. Speaking of YouTubers that have crazy setups, did you guys see Dude Perfect's headquarters? I don't know if it's a headquarters or if it's just like a... Their amusement park? Yeah. Dude, that place is insane. I'll pop a picture of it up here, but what? Is it real? I think it is. I think the news articles may be misconstrued a little bit. I think that place isn't like...

filming setup. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think they bought it and they're basically turning into like you go there to like do fun things kind of like a Sky Zone or even like Chuck E. Cheese is a terrible comparison, but it's more of like a business where like...

hey, do you want to go to Dude Perfect? You know, and then you go and you shoot hoops and you jump on trampolines and you do stuff like that. I think it's more of a thing like that. It's a pretty good idea. Or maybe it is their headquarters like this, which that place is so big, I feel like that'd be just overkill. Yeah, I would say you're right. It's like a place for people to come. Yeah, I think it's like a, not

I guess a brick and mortar physical location that you can sell product or sell a good time. Host a birthday party there. That's exactly what it's going to be. That would be the most money. Birthdays here. And we'll have you manage it. Yes. No. Yes. So you just have pizza. I'd be pretty good at it, but I wouldn't like doing it. Mike, Mike gets all the kids in the razor. Yeah.

You were bringing someone on a ride in our Maverick and you backed into that grandma's car. Oh my gosh. Have we told that? Yeah. It's so funny. Yeah.

Yeah, so like they came over and they were local. It was our old shop, yeah. They were locals. So like we'd seen them around plenty. The kids were, they watched the videos. And we don't do this anymore, but I was like, obviously be careful. We're going to wear our seatbelts. I'm not going to, I'm just going to, whatever. It was a different time. Yep, it was a different time. And I just straight up backed into this grandma's car that the grandma that brought the kids over. And I felt so dumb. There's just no, nothing, no excuse. What did it do to her car?

It just, you know, like the front bumper, like a perfect. Yeah, she had to get a whole new bumper. A wheel, the Maverick size wheel. He broke it, mate. Yeah, it basically just like shattered it. I just remember it being one of those ones, you know, when you like pour steamy water over it and then suction it. Pop it out. Mike pours water over it and gets a plunger. I'll fix it for you. Pulls the paint off. She just was not, I was, you know, clearly felt bad. And she goes, ah, ah.

No big deal. We came over and wanted a ride. She was like, I'll say I got hit in the Walmart. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think that is what she said. Classic. What the heck? Yeah, that was a good thing. We had a cool. She had a cool grandma. Yeah, she was chill with it. Gavin texted me after the last video of us destroying his three wheeler that we gave him. Oh, no.

and uh he was like dude my chinese moped how is she is she okay and i was like no she is not okay dude she's totaled and he was like oh no like like undriveable and i was like yeah bro dude it hardly drove before i hope you had insurance on that thing and he was like i didn't and i go okay put insurance on it on monday and say it was in a hit and run

He was like, okay, okay, yeah, I'll do that. Progressive, State Farm, anything, just get it. How are they supposed to pick up all the Gunnison girls, dude? Oh, he'll figure it out. Yeah, I'm sure he'll figure it out. I did do a little research post last podcast about the Taylor Swift thing. So I was thinking all those people waiting for Taylor Swift tickets. I'm like, man, a lot of people took their time and spent all day waiting for these tickets. Yeah.

I looked it up and 14 million people were trying to buy the like 2 million tickets. You have a better chance of getting into Harvard. 2.4 million tickets. 2.4 million tickets. You have a better chance of getting into Harvard than you do getting a Taylor Swift ticket. Holy crap. Which is pretty wild. Is that true? The internet told me and the internet realized. Is that true at all? I don't know. Because I guarantee I could not get into Harvard. I feel like I have a better shot at getting the ticket. 100% could. That's true. Yeah.

Anyway, so the average U.S. income is $221 per day. They just search the average. I figured the average person spent eight hours waiting, figured they wasted the whole day between waiting and then being upset about it. Yes. So during that day, the total lost GDP of America of these 14 million people was $3 billion. No, I'm sorry. $3 billion.

The total GDP loss was $3 trillion. No. $3 billion. It was $3 billion. No. Yeah. It was $3 billion. Ryan's got zeros on him. I even put in the freaking little things. Anyway, it was $3 billion that was lost that day. $3 billion. Wow, that's ridiculous. That's crazy. No way. You know what's funny? So I was watching the VMAs just the other day, and Taylor Swift –

Was winning everything, dude. Dude, Taylor Swift is popular. Even though you don't like her, Taylor Swift is popular. No, I don't have a problem with her. I didn't realize she was like...

She wins everything. My girlfriend is the opposite of Greta. She was like, why is she always winning? She shouldn't be allowed to win anymore. I'm like, what? She's too good? She's not allowed to win awards? It was actually really surprising. It makes sense. She clearly is... She's a superstar. A superstar amongst the superstars is what I'm saying. She sold 2.4 million tickets.

tickets at 300 a piece how much is that i think that's like 700 million dollars wow it's got to be the highest yeah yeah it's crazy bro i uh and it's just her yeah that's true it's not like she's like a band where you got the tommy lee on the drums and whoever playing guitar you know it's like that you gotta split it with it's just her yeah me and greta watched the documentary she's guys probably seen it 14 times but i watched it with her the other day and it's it's

Really interesting, actually, because Taylor Swift, although she's extremely popular right now, like, she's really had, like, waves of, like, come-ups and, like...

Probably three years ago, like, people hated her. Yeah. Kanye did it. Dude, her and Kanye got this big feud. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Kanye started out by taking her... I thought he made that bitch famous. Took her award. He said... Took her award, and she was 17 or 19 or something. Like, super young. Oh, so that was a long time ago. Yeah, but you have Kanye come up, bro. You win an award, and you have Kanye come up and take it from you and say that Beyonce deserves this award, and you're, like, a teenager. Yeah. Like, what the...

What would you be thinking? That would be such an insane moment. Jeez. Yeah, when you put it that way. I'd be scared. I'd be scared. That's crazy. Yeah, but I guess the whole Kanye thing and then 10 years later made the song. I made that bitch famous. And then, yeah, everyone was like, yeah, he did. He did make that bitch famous. Yeah, for a while in that song. Why is she famous? Yeah. Dude, Kanye is crazy, bro.

he's got like deep platform dude yeah major kicked off man yeah i've still seen some stuff i feel like isn't there people are saying it was a strategic way to get out of all of his contracts and that's why he said that maybe he's pretty whack but i feel like kanye goes on these episodes like at least once a year yeah of just like going around saying like the craziest shit and then it's like people almost forget that he's crazy

And then the next time he does it, they're like, I can't believe this. It's like, what do you mean? He does this like once a year. Twice a year. Yeah. But I think the worst part is when he's kind of spitting game, you know, like he's saying agreeable stuff and he's kind of like hyping everybody up. I don't know when he was like saying he was going to run for president. Like there's a stint where he's like talking pretty straight and then he'll go and then tip over the edge and start saying crazy shit. And then everybody has to go, aww.

He's crazy again. Dude, that would suck so much. And like all the stuff he leaked about like Kim K when they were like going through their divorce and everything. And it sucks so much just like having your like anything you ever told the guy or like any kind of secret that he had. When he's going through these episodes, you got to be like, oh, no, don't say it. No kidding. I hope he doesn't pick me. He must have been so torn up.

I just didn't think he would. I thought he was too much ego, too big of a man to just like, I thought he was going to be like, yep, you know, F her, F Pete Davidson. Just that. But no, he was like being kind of a crybaby about it. Dude, he's got like the emotional strength of a first grader. Exactly. I just was surprised to see at how

horribly he was handling the divorce. I don't know. I also kind of like Kanye because he's extremely entertaining. So it's like kind of a catch-22. It's like he is crazy, but he's also entertaining. I think he's still a legend. Yeah, I love his music. Yeah, amazing music. I'm trying to find this clip. Kanye calls into the freaking Charlamagne Tha God podcast or something. Calls in? There was something. Dude is such a loose cannon. Yeah.

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boy with a tennis penis and you're telling me that's your friend? What are you doing? He's so dang funny. He's a loose cannon though. Alright, well, should we have my dad on? Yeah, we should. He's been waiting for his moment to shine. Alright, dad, hop on in. A special guest appearance. People have been requesting for

Like to have someone's dad on. Yeah, I thought it'd be a good twist on the podcast. And you've sat in probably 75% of the podcast audience chairs. So not that many. Pretty close. Makes sense to have you on though. Well, thanks boys. Yeah, welcome. Happy to be here. How's it feel to be sitting on this side?

Pretty cool. Have you ever done like a radio show before? I have. You've done anything like this? You have? No, I started my practice. I was on the radio a lot. Ooh. Really? You've got experience. Doing what? Telling the message. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. 25, 28 years ago. Is it kind of nerve wracking going on the radio though, knowing that it's like live as you speak? It was. It was.

Yeah, you can say whatever you want here. Very stressful. And then you can just call me and be like, Ryan, cut that out. That is the nice part about this. You got to be careful. Ryan's pretty good at chopping it up, making people look bad. Just makes my dad look so dirty. Does him dirty? No, I'd do that. He wouldn't do that to me. All right, Dad. So we thought that it'd be...

an interesting take on, uh, your opinion on just like everything that you've witnessed over the years between, um, everything we used to do, like before we would film and then the early days of our YouTube channel. And obviously like, as we've started the podcast and like all the stories that you've heard behind, uh, the scenes and everything, but, um,

I don't know. I just want to get your take on everything that goes on. I think the people would think that's super interesting too. Your standpoint of everything that you witness us doing day to day and back when we were kids just starting. First of all, I think I'm speaking on behalf of all the parents. Everybody's just so incredibly proud of what you guys have done. I remember when you started...

doing the screen printing in our furnace room yeah you know and in bed's bedroom and there'd be you know six seven of you guys in there you know and then it moved to the loft above the garage and i had to put up with micah living above the garage for a whole summer i'd literally have to move his car so i could go to work

And then from there it went to, you know, the shop over the old shop. And now to what you guys, now you guys are talking about, you know, you need 50,000 feet. So it's just amazing. Absolutely amazing. And then, you know, that's not talking about the cars. You know, I used to think I needed cars and snowmobiles and fast motorcycles. And I had all of that. And it's like when you guys started,

this thing it's like I can just sit back and watch and I get more thrill from that than having all this stuff myself I was thinking the other day how often did you see a Lamborghini in the lakes area I mean I've been here 30 years

I never saw one. Yeah. And now, you know, we get to see one every day and then I get to drive one. Yeah. On a gravel road. On a gravel road. You get to drive that bitch anywhere. So it's like, hell, it's just been amazing to watch you guys. So good job. Hey, thank you. Wow. Okay. We didn't bring him on to pump up our tires, but okay. So what was everyone's thoughts more so in like the beginning? Cause obviously you guys had to have been really confused. Like what the frick is going on? Cause obviously,

Some of the first weekend, CJ brought a camera around. Also, that was your first time seeing an inside look to what we were doing when we were just out messing around and having fun. But before that, nobody had seen it. So what are the boys up to? So here's what comes to mind. I thought you guys were just wasting your time until...

We went to Idaho on a trip and you missed out on that call from that MTV. That's right. And I thought, oh, shit. Wow. This, this.

They're gaining traction here. I don't know what it's about. And then the next thing that happened was you guys had a drop, and I don't know what you collected, maybe 18 grand or something like that. And I thought, oh, I get it. This has potential to do something. And then, you know, so one of my mentors said,

There's different levels to look at. You know, when you're building a practice, I'm a chiropractor. You can have a vision that's as big as your community. It can be as big as your state. That's the next vision, you know? Yeah. And then you can have a national attraction. People fly in from around the country.

Or, you know, and what's the top? You can have a global impact, you know? 100%. And when I started seeing addresses on your merch going out to Germany and New Zealand and Australia and Canada, it's like, oh my God, these guys have something.

that they don't even realize they have a global impact now it's just a matter of scaling it you know and it's been awesome to watch it that's so true about the going back to like it's as big as your i guess like as you want to make it and i i always tell that uh

Cause there's like local rappers and stuff in Fargo and like, they're a local rapper and they're like trying to, you know, take off for instance. And they're like, yeah, I like need to, they're making songs about Fargo and stuff. I'm like, dude, like,

and they're asking everyone to like listen to it and reshare it you got the internet you got the world at your fingertips and that's that's the beauty of like today you know you guys have that machine it's running yeah it's absolutely amazing um i was up early yesterday i was up at five and i watched him drive in at six you know and and you know that that brings up another message that you guys can send to your viewers you know it's like

you didn't get here by accident. I watched you guys grind hard. You know, I've watched him come home on the cameras at three o'clock in the morning a lot, you know? And so you got to have a vision, but you don't get there sitting on your ass and just thinking about it. You guys have action. And so I was up early yesterday. I was watching this guy and he talked about, you know, your ladder to success and,

And he said, the top of your ladder needs to be above the clouds. And you know what's up there. You know where you want to go. You just don't know what it takes to get there. But you've got all these steps to go through.

And you just focus on the next step and the next step. And as you get closer to those clouds, that will reveal itself, you know, eventually. So, yeah, you guys have been awesome to watch. What's your, like, favorite thing that we do? Well, I can tell you what my least favorite is. Okay. You know, you guys, before I stepped up, you guys were talking about having Ken come and do his reveal of the no neck brace thing. Yeah. You know?

And I think I'm speaking on behalf of all the parents there as well. You know, it's, I just, I played this game long enough. You know, we can get into it. You know, I was on a course of seeing the world on either a snowmobile or two wheels. And then a snowmobile wreck just definitely was a defining moment. You know, when Ken broke his neck, you know, that, as a parent, that is what I...

I live in this world of people that have injuries and now 30, 40 years down the road, they're dealing with them every day. So that's my biggest concern is you guys getting hurt. And now you're bringing in...

You're bringing in talent that's way better than you and way skilled, more skilled than you. Also little weasels. Well, yeah, that's a talent. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Evan is amazing. No, I know, I'm just joking. He is. He's amazing to watch. So what was your question? Oh, just like what do you most enjoy? I figured that was what you were going to say on like the least enjoy. And I agree completely. Like after, especially after like the Ken part,

all the parents in like basically anyone close to us, whether it was like texting or calling or like in person, they were like, I love what you guys do, but watching that makes all of the rest like hard to watch and not worth it. Yeah. When I got that call from you, he said, dad, come, come and check out Ken. He just hurt his neck. You know, I've taken care of Ken for a long time, so I know his neck and he was leaning back and,

On that couch and his neck was swollen out to here. Yeah. And I'm like, you guys get your asses back here and get him, you know, take him in, you know?

Yeah, you didn't know.

You know, I just love the idea of striving for success. What's next? So that's what's, it's not about the cars. It's not about the money. It's seeing you guys evolve. You know, I see you guys sit down here and you can just spark up conversation and it just rolls. Well, that takes talent. That just doesn't start, you know. And, you know, my mentor also told me those that can move the, move, um,

People with a message, that's a form of power. So you guys have a lot of young people watching you. For example, I just talked about

You guys work. You work your asses off. You know what? And it bugs me to know that there's worker shortages out there and people are sitting at home on their ass. It's like, get up and get moving. And you guys can be an example of that. And you are an example of that. You know, your message is far-reaching in that respect as well. People, I read those comments, you know, these...

Kids that have had, you know, whatever, parents die or divorce and all the shit that we come into nowadays. And you guys can make them laugh and cheer them up and, you know, give them a better day. That's why you're here, you know. Mm-hmm.

that's why you're here is to serve you know we're all on this planet to serve people so ultimately you guys are serving people through entertainment yeah hopefully making them happy uh you know i see the crowd that shows up at some of your events it's like some of these kids you know they just need need a little little bump little boost little inspiration as to what's possible and

I mean, you guys had came from families that are successful. Yes. We saw like the success, but also we didn't have like any like kind of handouts or anything like that. That's my point. That's where I was going. Do you remember when I was, I had to have been what, 13 or 14 years old and I rolled Sam, Sam's a four wheeler and I broke like the plastics on it. It was like 800 bucks. I didn't have, I didn't have any money. And, um, you,

You made me go and get a job, which wasn't even legal to get a job. I had to have been 13 at the Cormorant store and I would ride my dirt bike to and from work. And then basically I've had a job ever since then. Probably had to work like three months for that 800 bucks just to pay for the freaking...

plastics oh yeah you know but everything after that i mean just like having a job and the same thing with like all the guys you just bought and we just bought like we bought our cars we bought our our uh dirt bikes and four-wheelers and everything so like nothing was ever you wouldn't work for dave yeah and then i was working for dave and i don't think i don't think i ever told you this i don't think he did either but one day i knew you had to be to work at seven

And it was like 10 after 7, and he's still in there sleeping, sawing logs. Oh, man. So I kicked the door open. I said, get your ass to work. And then I called Dave. I said, Dave, let him have it. Make sure my son fears his life. Oh, he did? Yeah.

And he did. I still remember it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so you were part of it. No shit. I've talked about that story on this podcast. No kidding. Yeah. I called him in advance. I said, Dave, no, this is a learning lesson. Let him have it. He's going to be 20 minutes late. I was like 18 minutes late. And Dave comes in just screaming. And I was like, fuck.

fuck this guy. I was like, I worked for him for four years and I was 18 minutes late one time. And then I think he put you, this guy behind me. I think he put you on just a shit job scrubbing those pads that were sitting in the swamps. God damn. You know? Yeah. That was a defining moment in my life. I swear to God.

After that, I remember vividly him screaming at me. And I remember just being like, dude, I was 18 minutes late. And this is how I was being treated for it. I am, one, never working for somebody because of how terrible of an experience I had just throughout the years. But mostly in that moment. And two, I was like, when I have employees, I am not going to treat them like this. I will not. Like, shit happens.

And you're 20 minutes late. I am not going to treat a 17 year old kid in such a way of just like disrespect. Like there's just like no respect. So the fact that you actually put them up to it, put them up to it. No, thank you. Thank you. Because that was like a, such a defining moment in my life, which is so funny. It's so funny. I've had, I've had big,

I've had beef with Dave ever since then, but it was you behind it. That's hilarious, actually. It's got to be kind of cool for you just because you grew up dirt biking. You're a huge... I mean, like you were saying earlier, you were super into snowmobiling and motorcycles. And now it's like you pass that down to Ben and he's basically made a career. He's technically... I mean, he's a professional in his own way with it. He's not out racing or doing...

X Games, but he's getting paid to ride under a bike. Yeah, getting paid to have fun. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah. We've always... Man, we've gone on some crazy adventures throughout the years, though. But, like, back when I was...

two years old, you'd put me on the snowmobile and I'd sit in front of you and hold on to the bar. Yeah. I had that switchback and it had the loop on it. You know, we put on hundreds of miles. Thousands. Oh yeah. Thousands. Yeah. Yeah. And trails. Yeah. And leading. I hate trails now after that though. We like, yeah, we put on so many miles on trails. And then once I was like old enough to just ride my own snowmobile, I was like, I don't

I don't really want to ride trails. You're like, I want to go somewhere else. Yeah. Kind of over this. So do you remember in any moments, probably when Ben was a little younger, maybe when we were doing a YouTube thing that you, you wanted to step in and just be like, Hey buddy, don't do that. I'm coming back from the Cormorant store in the car and he pulls out of the trail that goes down alongside the road in a snowmobile. And he was little, I mean, little had to stand up. Yeah. On the,

On the sled. Like my feet wouldn't touch the running boards if I was sitting. And I'm going 55 miles an hour in the car. And the snowmobile is...

you know, dude, you were just, I had that five 50 fan just wound. And I'm trying to think, okay, so how am I going to deal with this one? When we actually get home and meet in the driveway, I just smoked them on the way home. Yeah. I was behind them. Yeah. You know, so I'm like, how do I keep the lid on this kid?

well by that time it was he was too far out of the box i remember you get home just screaming at me oh you were so bad it's just so dangerous i mean he's got a he's got a row of trees on this side and a highway with cars coming at him on this side and it's like 70 pounds yeah no control over it at all really you know i knew at that point there was just no stopping it it's funny though because i was just a chip off the block in that aspect i was like what are you

what do you mean you do that we do that all the time when we're together you're just mad because i was alone technically not following you i was like this is not fair at all it was like how are you yelling at me for going fast

when you taught me that. Point is well taken. Do you feel like you're a... Was mom like, Jason seems like I wonder where he learned that. Yeah. She was always good at that. I feel like there's like the phrase you get your payback for the way you were. Do you feel like you're getting your payback now? Yeah. Do I stress you out? You know, like I say, when I see you guys doing wheelies over black ice that's a half inch thick and... Falling through. Yeah. Yeah.

I just know that eventually we run out of rope. I think we've done our best in the last few years to try to reel in the rope as much as we can. I think you have. I'd agree with that. Back in the early days, though, I can't imagine. That's what I mean. I'm trying to think back to us when we were 19, 20, 21, didn't really know anything about anything. We were just

doing whatever and then filming it and like i my mom still says like she'll text me before she watches the video i was like are you okay yeah like if it's about something i'm trying to think of one that maybe happened uh like with my backflip jet ski she texted me before like before i watch this are you okay and i was like yeah i'm good she's like okay then she can watch it otherwise it stresses her out too much you know what used to piss me off

Randy was always so much better at this than me. I mean, he was so good. Like you guys would total something out. Yeah.

okay you know what do you mean wood what are you talking about you guys would wreck something terribly you know and randy's just like oh okay you know let's replace it and he was just always so much cooler about you guys wrecking shit than me you know you'd wreck something and i would just be pissed yeah i know like what it's just terrified to just tell him i broke it all like like your dirt bike like when he broke it you know um

your brother broke your ankle or whatever you guys did. Yeah, but I remember breaking snowmobiles as a kid too. Oh man, I was so scared to come home and tell them. It was the worst. I think I'm like, you got to be the complete opposite of that though. You are. Yeah, and I don't get you guys because it's like you relish when something's broken and you look forward to destroying something. Well, it's kind of fun. Have you ever done it? Have you ever done it?

No, my conservative mindset is just take care of stuff and pamper it. Yeah, but who cares? It's just stuff. Well, that's what makes you guys great is because you know that you can replace it with something even better. It's like when you're burning the bumper off your GTR siege. I'm like, what? What?

What the hell? I always wanted to shoot flames out of that thing. What's funny, though, is most people probably think that way. And then so most people watch it and they are like, it's entertaining because they can never see themselves doing it. But then in your... It kind of pisses you off watching it, too. It's like, I don't know. I think that's maybe, you know...

What keeps some people coming back is the entertainment factor and then the disbelief of some people in certain aspects. But yeah, you used to get so mad at me when I would break something. And that was another thing too. I just remember always being like...

Shit breaks. It happens. I'm not going to like get too hung up on it. Dad, I'll go work 75 hours to pay for this hand guard at the Cormorant store. Yeah, I was like, I'm paying for it. Like, what's the big deal? That's funny though. So you'd kind of mentioned like the adventures that you've gone on.

Whether it's on two wheels or snowmobiling, what have you done? Like 50 states on a motorcycle? 48. 48 states and then like how many? For some reason, I didn't get into Alabama. I was like, oh, okay, you didn't hit Alaska or something, but Alabama. No, I've been to Alaska. Yeah. That was an amazing trip. As a kid, I remember you just like...

going on like two week motorcycle trips and then you just like come back and you'd be home for like a week and then go on like another two week motorcycle trip where were you going like why were you doing that like where were you going what was the drive yeah i guess you know i don't know because i sure don't have anymore but i just remember you like yeah like you didn't used to do that and then you got a motorcycle and then you were just like gone for the next five years yeah

So I bought that BMW GS, which is kind of an on-off road, but it's just a touring beast. And I don't know, I put 100,000, some hundred and some thousand miles on that bike. Went to Alaska, went to every province in Canada. It's like I would study an area. Okay, so I read this book, The Drummer of the Band Rush. That's what started it.

Guy's name is Neil Peart. He's dead. Just died. I read this book. It's called Ghost Rider. Basically what happened in that book is Neil Peart's daughter died in a car accident and his wife died of cancer all within like two years. He quits the band, gets on a GS Adventure motorcycle, BMW, and he tours the

all the provinces in Canada, up to Alaska, comes all the way down into the States. I think he goes all the way down to the tip of South America and he documents this trip in the book. And I'm reading this book and I'm thinking, I would love to see and experience what he experienced. So I go and buy that GS, went to Alaska, went all the way up to the Arctic Circle,

Little village called Inuvik, as far as you can go on a motorized vehicle. Went through 1,000 miles of permafrost, you know, over permafrost road. Just amazing. You were just like addicted to it. I was addicted to it. This was a 10-year run. Wow. Did you just do it by yourself? Most of it was. So when you're like just hauling down the road on a motorcycle, it's

At any given point where you're like, one, this is kind of dangerous, but two, I'm kind of over this? After 100,000 miles on a motorcycle? No. I don't know. There was such an adrenaline rush. I think it's 500 miles across this frozen tundra road that's built on the tundra. And then I get up there, and I'm checking into this camp. It's not even a campground. It's just a place to put.

pitch a tent, you know, and everything, because it's permafrost, everything is built off the ground. Yeah. Like the houses are all on stilts. Even this little campsite was a wood platform built off the ground because the heat of your body would sink you in permafrost, right? You're so far north that, you know, like TV dishes normally...

are like this up into the sky, you know, like your dish network. Yeah. You're so far north, they point down. What? It's so strange. Holy crap. So it's just goofy stuff like that that you experience in these adventures. Didn't you blow a tire on that trip, like in the middle of the 500 miles? So I get up to this little Eskimo village and...

The guy goes, how was your trip? I said, it was good. It's all Inuits. And there's one spot halfway across where there's a gas station to fill up. So this road is made out of crushed shale. And it was like razor blades on that tire. And I get back across the permafrost 500 miles to what's called Klondike Corner, which is now Tar again. It's the Elkhorn Highway.

And I look at my tire and it's gone. I mean, it's just Fred showing. And I am still a day from Alaska. Dude. You know? I'm a day from a town, a civilized town.

And I'm like, this is never going to get me there. And so I'm driving down the road and sure enough, it goes flat. In the middle of nowhere. I'm in the middle of nowhere. I'm 150 miles from Tokalaska. So my dad's a world traveler and he always said, you know, when in need, the right people show up. So I'm sitting there for probably three hours because it's fall. All the tourists that go to Alaska, they're all back down. This is like the first week in September.

and this guy comes by, and I said, I got a flat tire. I don't know what I'm going to do. He said, I'll see if I can send you some help. And I'm sitting there. So now three hours have gone by. So he's going to send you help. You're just stuck on the side of the road. I'm sitting on the side of this gravel road. Do you have a phone? There ain't no service up there, even if I had it. What the heck? Okay. So you're literally by yourself. Now listen, when in need, the right people show up.

I'm sitting there, it's like, what the hell am I going to do? Here comes this truck, this county truck with a Tommy lift on the back of it. The guy goes, we're going to take care of you. Well, halfway between Klondike Corner and Toke, Alaska, is a main service, Alaska Highway Department service road. Basically, these two guys live there year-round, and they just keep...

the road open so that people can get through. So I was about a half hour from that. Anyway, we get the truck, the bike in the back of the truck. We get back. The guy gets on a satellite phone, calls into a guy he thinks in Tokalaska has a tire for my bike. Wow. He says, I think he drives a BMW, but we'll call him. So he calls him on the satellite phone. Yeah, I got a spare tire in my shed. The guy goes...

Hey, you can take my truck. Gives me his truck. I drive to Tokalaska with the rim off the back of the bike. This guy puts the tire on the rim. Didn't quite fit, but he made it fit. And I drive back, put it on the bike. I take $200 bills and I lay it on the counter of this guy that gave me his truck. It's the least I could do, right?

And then I get on the bike and I drive, I get to Fairbanks where I'm going to have new tires put on. And I open my saddlebag and there's those $200 bills. What the heck? You stuck them back in there, you know. So back to your question, it's just stuff like that. It was just so cool, so many cool experiences there.

people just you know and then you meet other bikers and just awesome so what about the one story of uh the the one night that you were going and then that car passed you uh fourth of july we closed our office for like 10 days and i thought i'm not gonna sit around i get on i had an fjr

Yamaha. It's a crotch rocket, touring crotch rocket, just a missile. I want to go to Seattle, experience Washington, see the mountains. And what instigated that trip was I was watching this thing on the Discovery Channel about these four guys that died on Mount Hood, which is in Washington. Mm-hmm.

And I was looking at the scenery and the beauty, and I thought, oh, man, that's beautiful. Maybe I'll do that. And this is like in January I'm watching this. Maybe this summer I'll do that. So then I get out there, I look at Mount Hood, drive along the Columbia River, go to Seattle, and just beautiful, you know, just absolutely beautiful. Now it's July 3rd. I wake up, and I'm in Oregon. And at the time, Oregon had a –

a rule or a law that you couldn't pump your own gas. You had to have a attendant fill up your motorcycle or your, or your car. So anyway, I'm like, I can get the hell out of this state. It's July 3rd. I got to be out of the state by July 4th because you can't count on any mom and pop gas station being open. So it's like, okay, I'm going to haul ass across Oregon. It's just before dark. I'm going down the road.

And this grand dam comes up, whoa, comes up behind me, goes around me, and he's hauling ass down this tar road. And I'm thinking, okay, I'll just get behind this guy. And he's doing, I'm looked down, I'm doing 105 miles an hour. At night too? At night. Jeez. Just before dark. Yeah, dusk. And I thought, this is stupid. So I back off. I ride, and about 10 minutes later, I come across this, what looked like a cow.

It was like you took a watermelon with all your might and threw it at a concrete wall. It was, the only reason I knew it was a cow because I could see it was a big bull head, you know, with that fuzzy forehead. And otherwise, there is just, I got the brakes on and I'm just navigating through this pile of exploded cow. It was, you guys have no idea. Okay.

And then I look out in about 100 yards out into this field is this car on fire. And I'm like, I'm not going out there. Is it the middle of the night at this point? It's dark. Yeah? Yeah, it's dark. And I hear this woman screaming. Oh, geez. It was horrible, you guys. I had PTSD, and I still kind of do when I think about it. And I thought, I got to go help her. She was sleeping in the back seat. It crushed the...

the top of the car down and broke his neck. And she was trying to get him out of this burning car. And I'm walking up assessing this thing and it's like, ah, I have to help her. So she couldn't get him out. She couldn't get the door open, you know?

And so I put the shield down and I got all my body armor on and my gloves, leather gloves. And I put my shield down on my helmet and I'm, why the hell won't this door? And I thought, well, maybe it's locked. And I reach in and I, and it was locked, you know, and flames are blowing over the top of this guy in this car. It was horrible. And, and I, and I, I get the door open.

And then I, I mean, you are so full of adrenaline. I grabbed this guy and I go to rip him out of that car. Well, the seatbelt is on him, you know? So now he's laying out of the car and reach in through these flames. And I, and I undo the seatbelt and I, I pull him on. I could see right away. He's got a broken neck. Yeah. He didn't make it, you know, he didn't make it. So I, by this time,

There's other people walking up on the scene and I just got out of there. You know, I knew they were going to take care of him anyway. And I get back on my bike. Now, you guys don't know what an adrenaline rush is until you go through something like that. It was, I get to Twin Falls, Idaho and I'm just driving slow and it's pitch black. It's midnight now, July 4th.

And I get pulled over by a highway patrolman going too slow on the freeway. And I told him what I just experienced. And he says, go get a hotel, buddy. Yeah, just go to bed. Yeah. And so I go into this hotel parking lot. And I'm thinking, I'm not going to pay $150 for a hotel and go. I'm not going to sleep. I can't. And just lay there anyway. So I get back on the bike, go to Jackson Hole, have a little breakfast. Yeah.

Go through the Yellowstone Park, end up in Glendive, Montana that night. You know, just all on adrenaline, you know. Jeez. You know, you hear about guys doing iron butts, which is 1,000 miles in a seat, you know. Yeah. You know, you get off to fill up with gas, but 1,000 miles in a day. Yep. Did 1,800 miles that day. Whoa. Crap. Yeah. Man. Yeah, it was just an adrenaline kick for 10 years. Yeah.

It's just awesome. So you did that, Uncle Buck, your brother. He's done, like, what, all the way to, like, Argentina on a motorcycle? I think he did, yeah. And he had an experience where he's on this road in Mexico, and these Mexicans are holding a 2x4 with spikes, so...

So you could not drive through on a motorcycle, right? Yeah. And he gets off his bike and I think he bought them off for 50 bucks and they let him go. And they had a family on the ground. What? They had a family? They had stopped a family.

And they had them like laying face down on the ground, holding them ransom. Holy crap. My brother knew, you know, he had everything kind of hidden. Sketchy area. And kept a $50 bill because he kind of was probably suspecting. Anyway, he came back. He had PTSD for a while. Yeah, I bet. Was he able to pay off for the family that was laying there?

I don't know. I think he got 50 bucks. He said, you go, amigo. He was like, I'm out of here. Holy shit. So that's why we do this stuff. Grandpa did the same shit too, didn't he? Yeah. Like all over the country, all over the world. Yeah, he's 74 years old, just drove his motorcycle down to Cabo.

And then I talked to him last week. He says, yeah, I think I'm going to ship my bike over to Europe. Man, I wonder if I'm going to do that one day. When's your vagabond adventure coming? Yeah, I don't know. It sounds like I got the same genes. I got the same adventurous soul. I don't know. I don't know if I have it that much, though. Was it your dad, the one that was on the sailboat? Yeah. That's a great story. Yeah, that's...

That's too much. Yeah. We won't get into that. That's a whole nother podcast. That again is PTSD. You know, when your dad's missing for 21 days, they find him washed up on a beach in the Louisiana Bayou.

Yeah, that's crazy. I'm kidding. I can't wait to see where you go on your motorcycle, Ben. You know? On my dirt bike? Yeah, on your dirt bike. Probably not very far. I don't know. I don't really have much of a desire to even get a motorcycle. Not yet. Maybe one day, though. This is cool. It's kind of fun to do something different. Here's some cool stories. Yeah, guys. I hadn't heard any of those, but I feel like we've had a million conversations. We've got a whole bunch more. Yeah, I would say that's the tip of the iceberg there. Yeah.

Yeah. Again, man, it's just, it's been,

been so fun hanging out here thanks for letting me come over and just hang guys of course we miss when you come over on Fridays and grab a beer and hang out with us remember when he used to come over for like a couple months there and then on a Friday would hey is it cool if I drink a bubbler and then after a couple months he goes how much alcohol is in this I go there is none there's no alcohol in them and he's like oh I was still getting a buzz I could have swore I was getting a buzz so

Because, yeah, you'd be like, oh, I might have two of these. And I'm like, go for it, man. There's no sugar.

Oh, that's funny. I got more stories, you guys, when you were little. What kind of stories? Yeah, what are we talking about here? Well, I remember the time that CJ puked across the whole back of my car. Dude, you are a puker. Dude, he is. Dude, I got car sick. So we were on a dirt bike trip in Ely, and it was just like this really windy road, and I was on the very back, and it was super hot, I remember. And I kept saying, I was like...

You didn't say nothing. I said, can we put the window down? Stop. I swear to God, I said, can we put the window down? It's like when he puked, he did this, but it was like it compressed it and we had puked

He was in the back of a Sequoia. And there was puke on the dash. Yeah, I puked all over the place. Oh my goodness, dude. Everyone in the car is covered. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that was embarrassing. Not really, but that was funny more so. All right. Well, on that note, I think we're going to wrap up the podcast. If you made it this far in the podcast and you're not subscribed, hit subscribe. And we'll see you guys next time. Peace.

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