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First class service. Yeah, the new setup is honestly slick. We might have to just start running these podcasts back home. Otherwise, we're probably never going to get any guests on. Just stay on the road in this thing and hit all 50 states. You'll get someone cool in every state you go to. Dude, I've been following you for a long time. You've been at it for a while, right? How long have you been doing this? I've been buttery since 2009. How did you pick that? Yeah, when you say buttery...

What is that? I understand it, but... It's like, for the lingo at the time, like out here in Cali especially, we throw around a lot of slang, but I was 15 years old. Instead of saying like sick or cool or gnarly, we used to throw out buttery a lot. Like, ooh, that was buttery, this was buttery. So I made a video. Yeah, smooth. Just easy. My favorite thing is whenever I tell people about you or whatever, if I bring you up, all the girls are always like, buttery. I like that name.

That's sweet. They do say that. That's awesome. Okay, so Ben has been primarily calling you buttery. If I'm referring about you to anyone else, I'll call you buttery. But do you prefer...

I shouldn't say prefer. Do you get called Connor or Buttery more? Just Buttery the whole time. Just Buttery the whole time. Barely Connor ever. Okay. Which I'm cool with whatever. You know, the nickname sticks. It's cool. It's worked. And like, whatever you want to call me, it's all good by me. I think it's going to stick with you. You're going to be like 60 at the track and they'll be like, yo, Buttery.

Still, I'm like some old dude. Dude, that would be lit. My gray hairs are falling out of my helmet. Still riding. But keep telling us. Yeah, I was filming dirt bikes at the time. Just my homies. I didn't have my own dirt bikes, so I was just doing a lot of filming at that time. And we made a pretty sick video, a buttery video. And I was like, dude, I don't know what to call this thing. And my homie's like, dude, you got to call that thing a buttery film. So we just put it up on YouTube as a buttery film.

And it was like the first legit edit I've ever done. And it got picked up by like all the big mainstream moto accounts at the time. It was on like Swapmoto, Transworld, RacerX. So like kind of overnight, I was able to gain the name. What year was that? 2009. So this first video that you... Yeah, it was cool. So it's been buttery ever since then. And then I've only been doing YouTube for I think like three years now.

I was kind of anti-YouTube because some of the people you watch are cringe. You guys aren't those people. They're over the top. That's not me. I kind of just chill. So I was anti-YouTube. I'm like...

Dude, I'm not going to be a YouTuber. But, like, now we just have fun with it, kind of the same as you guys do it. And it's definitely changed our lives for sure. YouTube's awesome. So up until that, it was just Instagram? Just Instagram, strictly. So I'd already had a, I don't know, maybe 300K or so on Instagram before we put out our first YouTube. So I was very well known in the moto industry on that aspect. But, like, once you get a YouTube...

Instagram, your mind's trained to, you know, you look at something, double-tap, scroll. YouTube's people are locked in. So it's a whole other demographic, and you get, like, that cult following and a lot of super cool people on YouTube. It's sick that you were able to grow that big on Instagram because, like, we're vice versa. Yeah, yeah. So let's say, like, let's go to your fuck-around edits. That's just what we call it. That's what we call it, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

They're so legit. We look forward to every time they come out, especially, like, Tyler Riz, too. He's got sick ones. He goes hard, yeah. We look forward to those big ones for sure. And so, like, did you get that from watching, like, Krusty Demons and all that? I loved it. I grew up on Krusty Demons doing stuff like that. And, like, half my following was from the moto side because, like, filming the pros. So I got all those dudes to shout me out and, like,

giving me video creds, doing it for them. And then the other half was like the parties. Yeah. And like really promoting the party stuff. Like, dude, it works. It works. Like then people expect it though. Cause like anywhere you go, like I can't even turn down a fan. I think they do expect it for sure. I'm like, yo, you want a beer? I'm like, no, I'm like, I'm just going to hang out with these kids. They're like, they get bummed if you turn down like a big night of party. Cause you've got to be tough a little bit. That you're this party ass. Yeah. Right. And I'm getting older in the hangover, sir, but I'm always down for a good party. Yeah. Yeah.

Same, same here. I don't know if you still get it anymore, but I remember like, it seemed like sometimes some of the pro riders and like certain people were maybe like salty because you were, I mean, at least I'll say it, you were popping more than them. And they're like professional motocross riders and you're out just fucking around.

You know, doing whatever, having fun with it. Yeah. A couple dudes were pissed at first and like the people that know me, they're all cool with me. But a couple dudes, if you look from the outside in, you know, you see a novice rider, some goon dude, they're out there putting blood, sweat and tears for pretty much no, no promo on social. Yeah.

But, like, that's our job. I'm going to ride, have fun. I get a couple videos. So, like, I'm doing it that way. You know, the internet's for everyone. Instagram, you could do it too. But they're more focused on their racing. And I'm just focused on videos. But a lot of guys kind of understand now where I come from. And come around to it. We just have fun with it. But, yeah, at first, a lot of dudes are pretty pissed about that. Yeah, dude, because you're definitely a staple in the moto community. We were talking about, I guess, niches and communities before we hopped on the pod. And, like, I think...

It's safe to say pretty much everyone in the Moto community knows or has heard of you. It's pretty wild. I never thought it would get to this point. I always knew we were going to have a little fan base just because if you're passionate and you push it, it's all going to happen. But I didn't think it would get to this extent and the size that it is now. So I'm just thankful that we are...

you know, relevant and moto for what we do. And it's, it's pretty cool. And I think just a lot of people, we, they relate to us cause we just ride on the weekends for fun. And that's what everyone else does too. There's only 40 dudes who can qualify. We're going to be that fast. You're going to see on TV and everyone else is just riding to ride. So I think we're all kind of in that same boat. We're just riding dirt bikes cause it's fun and we enjoy it and something to do with the buddies. I think a ton of that is due to you like just living it.

Like, you're not ever, like, I need to progress to be better. I need to film some crazy stunt to be better. Like, you're truly just living it. Yeah, I try to better myself all the time, but I don't have to push it. For sure. Because there's no reason. Because say I go push it to do something sweet, do a backflip, then I can't put out YouTube videos for months. Exactly. Then I let these kids down. Or if you get hurt, then what? Then what am I going to do? I'm out of a job. Exactly. And I don't have to go big or be the fastest dude. You know, I feel like...

With you and especially us, it's just like people relate. Not everyone's out there fucking hitting these giant jumps or racing or doing backflips, whatever. They just enjoy having fun. So when they're at work during the week, they get to watch your video and it's just...

It reminds them of it, and then they get excited for the weekend. And, yeah, just a camaraderie of it. It's real, too, you know? That's what it really is. Is there any YouTubers that you watch that you're like, oh, man, I could see myself working into something like that, or I want to aspire to do more content like them? I mean, you guys would be the most relatable by far because, like, you guys are, like –

You do a little bit of everything. You're always outside. You're always doing something new. All extreme sports, all action sports. I'd see, like, doing something like you guys do. I watch other YouTubers. The prank thing's big. I'm not really, like, prankster guy where I'm going to go out and, like, you know, talk to someone else. The Nelk shit's cool. I watch all of it, and I try to, like, take a piece of what everyone's doing just to see, like, you know, what's going to be popping. And I have ideas that I think would go, but I purposely don't do them just because it's not me, and I'm not going to, like, fake that on the internet. Keep it real.

So I just kind of cruise with it. But like you guys are doing it the most. Like I'd like to get into like trucks, war wheel stuff. Like with age comes cage. Eventually maybe start getting into four wheel stuff and start doing stuff like that. Kind of whatever. I'm down to branch out and just do a little bit of everything. But you guys have kind of paved the way for that for sure. Wow.

Wow. Thank you, man. Thank you. I think everyone loves the freaking Charger, dude. Everyone loves you running over cones with the F-150. Everyone loves the Charger. Yeah, that beater truck. I need to bring that thing back out. You still have it? I was kind of wondering where that was. It's got two flat tires right now, so I'll bring that thing back out. Still runs, though? Still runs pristine. I kind of fell in love with the van. The Mercedes-Levitt. Too nice. Kind of pre-Madonna now, a little prepped up in the van, but...

I'd like to bring the beater back and get, like, OG because some people on YouTube might not even know what that is. I built such a following just off that beater truck. That's an interesting thing, too. It's relatable. Do something, like, let's say at a much smaller time than you were at now. You're like, I should probably bring that back because there's a bunch of viewers that haven't seen that yet. Yeah, and everyone's got, like, a beater truck. And, like, you know, half the people watching this probably have Fords, too. So, like, either F-150 or Ranger. Ranger, yeah. Ranger, Danger. That's the first one, so...

Yeah, I'll bring that thing back for sure. I love that truck, and it runs great. I put a 60,000-mile junkyard motor in it, so technically it's the newest vehicle I own of all my vehicles. Do you do that?

The motor work. Do you do motor work on your bikes? No. I mean, I hate. I can do bike work. I can do exterior, like pull parts off on a parts changer. Yep. And I can do that all. But depending on how I'm feeling that day or the severity of it, I'll take it to someone. I'd rather. Nah, that makes totally sense, dude. It makes more sense. Well, we tried getting you out to Glamis the other day and pinched a couple tubes. Yeah, I did the same thing. Didn't even make it.

Dude, I was struggling. I was so hungover that day. I really wanted to come out with you guys, but I was worried. It's probably good that you didn't come, honestly, because it was so windy. We had a good time, but... We were hoping you'd be able to show us around a little bit, though. It changes every day. So say you find a jump one day, especially if you say it's as windy as it is, you could go there tomorrow, and it won't be the same overnight like that. So it's the hardest part. There's kind of some staples that kind of stay around, but not... It's...

so ever-changing and the hardest part about Glamis is you're almost out of gas by the time you find a jump. Yeah. Yeah. We noticed that. Yeah, we noticed that and then we noticed when you do find a jump they're either tiny and they don't look very cool or they're fucking huge. Massive. You got the little ones that you probably wouldn't really stunt on Instagram because they're just warm up. Right.

They're like, yo, let's go look at this thing. And you're looking at it, you're like, damn, that thing's probably fourth really on it. Yeah. 150 feet. I hope I make it. Now, that's why we were hoping you were going to pull up and be a good rider and

look cool. That was my vision and my goal. I was hoping that I was going to be the case, but it just didn't end up working out. I'm bummed. It's all right. No, it's all good now. I'll come back up to Minnesota and make up for it. There we go. Today's episode is brought to you by Angie. Angie has made it easier than ever to connect with skilled professionals to get all your jobs and projects done well. Let me tell you, there's the version of it where you try to do something at home, and then there's a version of it where you have someone help you, you watch them do it the right way, and you go, thank God I didn't try to do that myself.

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From plumbing to electrical, roof repair to deck upgrades. So leave it to the pros who will get your jobs done well. Hire high-quality certified pros at Angie.com. So how'd you all get into the dirt bikes? My pops put me on a dirt bike when I was younger. When I was six years old, I got my first one for my birthday. And as soon as I got on it, I fell in love. And instantly, I was like, this is what I'm going to do. So then I rode growing up, and I didn't have a bike for a long time.

And so I was just, I was like, oh, I'll be a filmer because that's the closest thing you could be to the action. At least you're at the track, you're hanging with the dudes, you're standing on the track. So I was a film guy, but I always wanted to ride. So I just saved up money and

I just worked construction, actually. I dropped out of high school, and I worked for a grading contractor. And I ran. I was a laborer for a long time, and then I ended up running equipment. But the owner who owned the company had a 450, and he fronted it to me. And I just took money out of my paycheck every month, so I paid it off. Really? That's dope. So that's how I, like, earned my first bike, so I was super stoked. I think it made me work harder for it, and...

That's why I respect it so much that I'm able to do it. And like, it's technically a job. Right. You dropped out of high school. Yeah. I wouldn't suggest that there's people probably watching this. I go, he dropped out, but don't do it. That's not that cool. Unless you, unless you plan on working. Cause a lot of people don't want to work nowadays. I just already had something set up where I made it through sophomore year. I had decent grades. I had a 4.17 freshman year.

That's my claim to fame. So you were confident enough with that, like the construction ahead of you, the flack that you got for dropping out? Did you get flack for that? My parents weren't stoked, and they weren't stoked about it at all, but I ended up moving in with my buddy. He rode dirt bikes as well, so I moved in with my boss as well. Really? Okay. It was on a farm, and I used to buck hay. We had horses there. We had 35 horses, so I'd buck hay, and that's what paid my rent to live there.

And then I would just go to work with him every day. And I was, like, dead set on being an equipment operator. I can kind of run any piece of machinery. And, like, I thought that's what I was going to do for life. And I was, like, pumped on it. Obviously, I would ride dirt bikes, like, on weekends. But I was, like, dead set. Like, yeah, I'm going to run equipment for the rest of my life. And, like, operating equipment kind of goes hand-in-hand with dirt biking. But then...

Long story short, I went to Vegas to an after party for Supercross, got all drunk, and my boss said I couldn't come to work hungover, but if I missed a day, I was fired. So I got fired. Oh, damn. And I lost my whole deal. I'm like, dude, I was banking on this thing. So I was like, what am I going to do? That was when you were still paying off that bike? Yeah. So I'm like, dude, now I'm sweating it.

And my homie's like, you should make merch. I'm like, dude, there's no way anyone's going to buy my merch. How many followers were you at that time? I had about 130K on Instagram. And I was like, dude, there's no way anyone's going to buy this thing. He's like, dude, I'm telling you, just try it out. And I thought it was kind of dorky because I was like, dude, no one's going to rock my name. And I don't think people really fuck with me that hard. And he pushed me for it. And sure as shit, dude, I just did 100 tees on the first drop. And they sold out in like an hour.

Buttery film tease. Yeah. It was just one buttery hit right here, nothing on the back, and that was it. What year was that? That was 2017. 2017. That's sick. No shit. So it was that point forward, you were like, ah, this Instagram thing might work. Yeah. I always knew there was going to be something. I had a platform I knew could go somewhere. I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but I knew it could go somewhere. So you aimed, you did...

Aim to kind of build this platform. At least I thought it was going to be big moto filmers. So I just wanted to maybe create my own website and host videos or be like the premier film edit dude where pros hit up buttery. We're going to get an edit with this dude or whatever the case. That's where I thought it was going. I didn't think I would brand myself to be my own writer, my own dude. That wasn't the vision, but...

It's cool as hell that it worked out because once I saw a piece of that and I was passionate for it, I'm like, dude, I got to ride this way. Best case scenario. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, I think you have one of the best balances between being a filmer and being a rider. Right in between. I can do a little bit of both. Yeah. And if you're a filmer, a lot of times if you're just strictly a filmer, you grow up and being like, I love my job, but...

I'd like a little more credit. You know, I always want a little more credit. But then the fact that you started riding and started riding really well, I was sick. I was super... Just being around the right people, too. Like, out here, you ride with dudes who are better than you all the time. And being around pros, like, it's easy to progress because...

They'll be like, give you technique or tips and advice on how you can better yourself. And especially when you film, like you watch them and you break it down, see what they're doing. And then you can try to mimic it out on the track. So I was able to progress pretty quickly as well. So that was super cool. We always say that too, just with anything, it's the people that you surround yourself with. It's everything. Yeah, that's the gnarly part about being here.

Everyone is so close. And everyone's here. There's so many people here. Every professional rider lives here. Every YouTuber lives here. TikTok star, like...

Anyone who's anyone on the internet or in the sport is right here. Why do you think that is? Obviously, I understand the moto aspect of it because you can ride year-round, but why do you think all the... It's got to be somewhere. I think there's hype, too. When you guys come out of state, there's not a lot of hype here. We do have nice weather, super nice weather. We got dirt bike tracks. You can surf, snow, skate, and moto in the same day, and it's all close enough to drive to all of them.

And being by the beach, I mean, it's just a nice area. And the houses are nice, but it's overpriced. A lot of liberals. Seems like shit. So expensive. Yeah, everything's expensive. Sucks. So, like, other than the expensive part, like, it's got to be somewhere. It might as well be here. Yeah, there's perks. We got chicks out here. There's girls everywhere, so that's always cool. Everyone's here. It's easy to connect. A lot of people out here move quickly because they connect and network so fast. You guys did it on your own by putting out the videos and building the following on YouTube, but...

there's dudes out here who will collab on TikTok or the Tubes, whatever, and overnight because they cross-platform and share. Does that jade a lot of people? Like when you were saying, I didn't want to be a YouTuber because a lot of the YouTubers are so cringy? I think...

So, yes, to people who watch our stuff will be like, yo, now that I see your YouTube, like I kind of want to start a channel because it seems like you guys just have fun with the homies and chill. And I always promote them like, dude, take advantage of the Internet and like do this with your boys. Even if you guys don't get famous, you can look back on your videos. You got like, dude, we had a fun time. This was super cool. But if you're meeting like someone random, they're like, what do you do? I'm like, oh, I kind of make YouTube videos. People are like, oh, this dude's a dork.

And then I don't even go into detail. I'm just like, yeah, just another dumbass on the internet. We have the same dilemma. Same thing. Dudes that haven't seen your stuff, they'll be like, oh, these dudes don't know what they're doing. It's even more rare where we're at, though. Yeah, I guess for different reasons. YouTube, what is that? Yeah, they're tripping out there. Everyone out here, even old people, they're kind of tuned in enough to know it.

Right. Like I even have like an older demographic that's like sick. There's 60 plus people watching my show. I'm like, I believe it. Can't believe you guys even figured out how to log in. No, there's a lot of people from Minnesota, especially that watch you. A lot of people, uh, that's mostly our following is what we found, especially traveling like this. We're like, man, the more we travel, the more we realize that Midwest base is really the main demo that fucks with us. Yeah. And, uh,

When we post YouTube videos back home, so many people comment, yo, you guys should collab with Buttery. I think you're the most requested. Yeah, dude. Spice first. So many things like that. Really. Which that's what Medium was saying, like, all of our viewers are, like, Midwest. And I shouldn't say all. We got plenty all around the world. Majority. And then he said, when you guys go on trips up to, like, Washington and shit, you'll meet almost more people.

I'm sure a lot of people know you here, but there's a lot of people here that might be too good to watch your YouTube channel. Everyone here is kind of sweet. They're not going to take the time to watch your YouTube and sit down. And you could go, especially in moto, you could go to any public track and see any pro at any given moment. So it doesn't have that effect with them. It doesn't weigh the same. They don't need to go say hi. We see this all the time. So some dudes here, especially at the local tracks, they're probably kind of over us.

But the further you get away from your hometown and go to other states, I think because they think they would never meet you in person or see you two and you're in their tiny town where nothing happens. They're just so stoked that you're there. Right. So it's always super cool to hit road trips and...

get the feedback from people. It's insane. I can't even believe, like, the amount of people that come up to us. It's so gnarly. It's the best. It's weird because, like, yeah, you can, like, going through Instagram DMs, you can connect with 100 people in a day, but if you connect with, like, two kids that watch your YouTube channel at Glamis, like, we talked to some of them. The dad was stoked. He was just everything about it. And I'm like, this experience is worth, you know,

Unfortunately, worth those 100 DMs. Like, it's the best. They love it. They're always surprised to see you in person. They're probably tripping because you guys are like, yo, it's not snowing out here. What are you guys doing here? They're tripping that you guys are out there. What's your opinion on staying in California? So many people are leaving right now. I'm sorry.

I'm right in the middle. There's so many pros and cons. It's 50-50 right in the middle. Like I said, the networking, the weather, everything that you need is at your disposal right here. So it's super in that way. And as far as tracks and stuff, it's kind of the spot to be. But if you took your money elsewhere, like you guys got property out there and stuff, your money takes you so much further. I'm kind of thinking like, damn, maybe if we had property in another state...

I'm going to try to pull it off here as much as I can. But with like the way everything appreciates and inflation, like I don't know if that's going to be the case. So,

So my goal is to stay here, but if I have to go out of state, I'll just go somewhere else, get property, and we'll just start ripping dirt bikes out there. I mean, you guys made it happen, and you're pretty much in the middle of nowhere. I like that. That's sweet. I'd love to see you stay in California because it's just the vibe. I'd love to see you. It is your vibe. But at the same time, absolutely. I'll try to do whatever it takes to make it happen to stay here. It's just expensive. I just could not imagine...

For one, paying these gas prices right now. But for two, like, the taxes out here. It's gnarly. Obviously, there's a lot of really, really cool people out here. But also, like... But more. Like, the people out here are just way different than, I guess, what I'm used to. Like, they just seem a little, like... It's liberal out here. Their nose up too much. So liberal. Yeah. I don't know. It's a whole different world. Completely... People aren't as open to, like, say what up and... Yeah. Yeah.

And that's just a start. Like, I don't know why, but I'm just, like, have this ingrained in my head. Like, when I'm walking down a sidewalk and there's another guy walking, I go like this. Like, give him the head nod. I don't know. It just doesn't seem like it's like that around here. No. Everyone's very entitled out here. They either came for money. The weirdest part is everyone here is retired, but they're rich. And you don't know what they did to start. And, like, they got these...

five six million dollar beach homes but the lights are never on they're they're they're not vacation yeah they don't live they're not residents even pull this thing off and you got you're living somewhere else money mad money somehow but no one's really working i'm trying to i'm trying to be that dude not really where you can have money that is honestly the goal with pretty much if you can do what you what you love doing like it's just the best uh

I don't know if we can like really say it, but we can cut it off now. But so Evan, you met Evan. Yeah. He was on the stilts. So he's just our buddy, right? And he's been just hanging around for years. He comes around whenever and what he does is for a living is he removes asbestos. You know, asbestos is like super dangerous. He's been doing that for 10 years.

Anyways, we offered him like a spot. Like we're like, yo, like you can quit your job and we'll just – we'll pay you and you can come be on the team and just –

come with us and make videos because we love having you around. You've got such good energy and you fit in so well. We just did that actually this morning. He accepted. Oh, really? Yeah, he texted his boss already. You inked it this morning on the way up. On the way here, he texted his boss and he gave him this too. I was trying to tell him. I was like, yo, maybe wait 24 hours. Yo, am I cool to fire this text? I was like, shit. I was down. I'm like, dude, the offer's going to be there forever. That's cool, though. My point, though, is that, you know,

Doing what you love doing is more important than...

you know, it's not like you don't feel like you have a job. You only got one opportunity in one life. Exactly. And Evan was, you can just tell he's just so happy about it. I'm so glad that he can do it. He's about to drop a tear. Right away. He was the first dude to just hop on the stilts. He's getting content right away. Yeah, he's just, but he's like that. He's not trying. He's just like that. That's how he'd be at any, at any buddy's house. And so we definitely hope that it doesn't change. Like it obviously will change the more ingrained we get together, but like, uh,

We hope that he doesn't, like, feel like he has to put on for the boys and, like, make extra hard, like, just be yourself. Do your best to be yourself. I just told him, yeah, just keep doing what you've been doing. But it's easy to get jaded to it. Yeah. And, like, you always got to stay, keep that perspective, like, how lucky you are to be able to do what you do. For sure. We're so lucky, dude. We are. To make money on the internet. This is a dream. And, like, literally a dream come true. Do whatever you want and people come up and say what up to you. I mean, that's something you dream of. And to have it a reality. So, like, what is your...

daily or weekly routine? Like how, how does it look? Do you have a schedule or you just kind of run it and you're just kind of going with the flow? We kind of sometimes go to the similar tracks on certain days, just depending if they're open or not, but we free flow, totally free flow. I wake up, I'll text Eli medium. I'm like, yo, should we ride a day? He'll come over, he brings Chick-fil-A, whatever the case. And we just go, we try to make it as busy as possible, but we don't have to be anywhere. We're not, no one's expecting us to do anything. Um,

So I've pretty much been retired for a couple years now. I think, like, anybody listening that watches your videos is like, fuck yeah. That's what I kind of thought, in a good way. Like, they just... And that's how people feel watching your videos. They're like, man, they just...

Along with the flat end. It's chilling in the back, but that's Cali kind of stuff. We're on full cruise control. We just cruise it. But, yeah, we don't plan nothing. Here and there, like, stirring the Supercross, trying to be busy and go from round to round, state to state. Do things. But, dude, I'll just wake up and be like, should we ride today? Should we not ride today? And we'll just do whatever.

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And he was homeschooled. So we would just ride 110s together. When I got off work, we would come home and we'd just ride 110s together. He'd go to homeschool all day, and we were just neighbors. And he was little boy for probably the first four years, and he was branded pretty well little boy. I think over 100K little boy. What? How do you have that many followers? I didn't know that. He was a filmer too, so he was little boy films. He was doing his whole deal. That's sick. People also knew who he was, and we always kind of rolled together.

and then uh one day he just got big i'm like damn you're kind of looking pretty medium size now so there's not a little boy he upgraded medium everyone wants him to go large i don't know if he's going to not yet it's stuck to he doesn't he can't go to large until he like yeah starts hitting the gym i'm not saying he's weak but yeah yeah he's on roids yeah he's trying to definitely up it but uh yeah we've just been boys forever just we're homies and in the beginning everyone thought we were brothers and we

We wouldn't even tell them otherwise. We'd run with it. That's always fun, too. Just leave a little questions, keep the comments running up. Yeah. People like it sometimes to unknow. I haven't even known. I met these guys when I was...

I don't even know. 17? Oh, okay. 16, let's say. I guess you would have been a little older. I don't know. So, like, I would not consider myself growing up with you. I went to school with Ken. We weren't even friends in high school. Oh, really? He's pretty crazy, honestly. We're just funny. That's classic. It's like he's your, like, you'd take a bullet for him, per se. Oh, yeah. Lifelong homies. Had to bail him out of jail a few times now. It's been a couple scenarios we've gotten ourselves into. Dude, I was going to ask that. So...

I just see it from following you on social media. It seems like you're always surrounded by guys like starting beef or like crazy starting fights in some form. It's like pit bike races or races.

Or at Supercross and someone's getting in a fight in the stands. Dude, it's like everywhere you go. I don't know if I draw that attention or people know that I'm there and they kind of get drunk and want to show out in hopes that they make it on a video. I don't ever promote it or provoke it and tell people that they should go do this. I'm kind of the dude that's like, yo, let's not do this. Just being older because I've seen a lot of experience. I haven't been arrested, so I'm hyped on that. That's good.

Dude, it always seems to happen anywhere I'm at. Yeah, it's like trouble. It doesn't follow you, but it just seems to be chaos around you, right? It's right there. I'm just like a news reporter. I'm like, no, I just film it, and they just provide the content. I'm just there to capture the moment. Not something you're losing.

interested in getting tangled up in. Yeah, I try to separate a little bit. If I can post a clip of this and then not talk to anyone about it. I feel like that's kind of like the Cali. Yeah, I was going to say, is that just a Cali thing? I don't know. It's like, you see a lot of stuff out here. You've got to be the big dick in the room or something, yeah. And you see a lot of stuff going on out here, but yeah, everyone thinks they're sweet out here. Everyone's got something to prove. The people who've done the least...

and have the least accolades are going to act the sweetest. Anyone who's earned it and come up by themselves, you'll just know that. You don't got to talk about it. You can just be a cool-ass dude. But everyone who's trying to show up and be sweet, be the least sweet dude in the room every time.

God damn. Have you ever been in a fight then? Many. Many fights. Not that I want to be. You just had to. But yes, many fights. A lot. The first few I was in were people that were haters. Like, I was out at a bar and people would come up and be like, shit. Like, because of your content. Start chirping you? Your creations. They're just like, yo, you think you're sweet? I'm like, nah. Because of your content or because you're like,

I think it's just you have a name and a following and you're at a bar. That would be weird. We used to have the same thing. Same thing, but they don't... It was just jealous. People are jealous that you guys are doing it. You're the big name in the town. It's easier to clown on someone when you're still kind of starting out because you don't have much behind you. No accolades, as you said. But now if someone said, like, chirp me and I'm at a bar, I'd just be like,

I don't even care. I sit back and laugh. I'm always like, yo, dude, I don't even care. I sit back and laugh. Unless they're throwing the first punch, which tends to happen a lot. Damn. Really? Yeah, that's happened a few times. I feel like Cali guys are quick to fight. I don't know. It just seems like what I see. Yeah, we only have to deal with the small country boys who, like, hey, have you seen Letterkenny?

No. Anyway, just some small country boys who are just ready to country boys that are those aren't the guys beefing. Usually the country boys are the ones that have our backs at like all time. It's like the weird like like, yeah, that just kind of goes. I don't know. Kind of the country dudes like earned it. You know, they they have a job. They earn their stay. They're keeping everything. Everyone out here is entitled. They don't have jobs. Their parents are rich.

You know, they're pulling their credit card out, looking sweet, buying shit for chicks. It's on their parents' card. So then they're all drunk, and they want to look like the hero and come out swinging and throw the first punch. You're like, oh, I knocked out buttery, whatever. And they'll go for it. Yeah, I was kind of going to say, like, the...

There's frat boy white boys. I think it's the street cred. Yeah. Now that I just realized it, because everyone kind of knows everyone, everyone talks around here. You know, like, if you did some shit like that back home, it's, like, not cool. True. You're going to piss off a lot of people because everyone kind of stays in the community. But out here, it's, like...

I don't know. It's an easy way for them to earn the name over that. They get their name out, and they sound cool. I landed a punch on buttery on Saturday night. Like, what do you guys think? Yeah. That shit's silly. I try to stay out of it all the time. That does suck, because that literally, let's say it was you. They'd be like, yep, I'm going to get clout from that. From what?

I've been beefing with you. Temporary. Yeah, temporary. I haven't been knocked out yet, so. That's good. That's good, too. We got a strong chance. No KOs, no arrests. Someone was fucking with Medium the other night. I didn't even really know this scenario. My homie's like, yo, and I look behind, and they got him pressed up against a wall. What?

So I just went up to this kid and just threw him straight on the ground right away, and that ended that quick. There was 10 of these dudes. I'm like, oh, we're about to go 10 v. 2. But luckily just one clean throw, and that's all it took, and we were out of there. You guys don't seem like you're the type to back down if it ever arises. Not if it's not. If we have to, yeah. If you have to, you do it.

Which I'm going to avoid it at all costs. The people who talk the most are the ones who are going to do the least, too. Especially like the dude who's cussing and puffing his chest at the party. He's not going to be the one to throw. The dude who's quiet is going to be the one who's going to start throwing out clean punches. Yeah, one time we were in this bar in Michigan. We were up on a snowmobile trip. And Jake was shit-talking this dude.

random old dude. He was like a 55-year-old guy. And Jake was kind of beefing with him, right? So he started it. Yeah, Jake started it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jake started it and they were kind of puffing up. I only remember one part of the story and it's Ben chirping him for being short and saying, never mind, never mind. We're cutting this anyway. Okay,

Ken takes shits bigger than you, and that's when he tackled him in the bar. That's when he had to get on it. He tackled you. The little dude went first. Yeah, I was like, but you can't. And we all said it's kind of a universal thing if you make a little man joke, he's going to come after you. The best part, which kind of shows how it is out there, next morning, see each other at McDonald's,

Yeah. People around us are like, hey, man, I'm sorry about that. Just boy up real quick. Everything's good. You wouldn't see that. People would never apologize for nothing out here. Even if they're in the wrong, they've got to stay strong and say that they were the right dude. So I always apologize. There's dudes that I had beef with or they had beef with me previously from years ago. I see them in the pits, and I didn't even know it. You'd probably turn down a pretty decent-sized sponsor, obviously, like,

You don't want to be a sellout or anything. But let's say, I don't know, like Honda comes by and we're like, we're just going to fund you. We're going to give you bikes and we're going to give you money. But if you had to change... You would never. You would never. It would kind of ruin the content. Yeah. And that's the biggest thing. Honda's the most corporate out of all of them because everyone... Right, that's why he's that as an example. But you wouldn't be able to ride on the streets. Nothing illegal. No...

Nothing that's fun or something that could gain you traction. So if you take a deal that's going to steer you away from how you built an audience, how could you go back on what you just took years of building? Yeah.

There's always the battle of, like, you could take the handout or whatever you want to call it, or you can just keep doing what you're doing and make that handout and some. Over a long period of time, usually. But, you know, usually, like, if you don't take the sponsor, you've got to work for it. We've said this about Danny Duncan. We've said this about us. We've said it about you. It's like a cult following. Usually cult is a negative word, but, like,

You work for it. And then the people come to your video, no matter what you title it, you know, no matter what's in it, they're, like, stoked that it's there. They're diehard. That's what's cool. Like, you create these lifelong fans, and, like, I didn't even think I'm that cool. So the fact that people think I'm cool enough to, like, watch this every time just keeps me stoked and motivated to want to keep going. So if you have, like...

fan base it's marketing a sense you guys have built a brand I've built a brand like these are companies pay millions of dollars to do what you're doing organically making videos so if you can get people behind you and you're cool with them and you're and they're cool with you game over that's the coolest relationship in the world is having a fan who's gonna be there for you you know like with your merch like I take a lot of pride in our merch like I went to school for that yeah your merch yeah yeah I love like

Because think, we follow a lot of YouTubers. Almost all of them do merch. I keep an eye on as many as I can. I love yours so much. Yeah, you got some great designs. It's just good, yeah. And that's why people are stoked on it. And we said the same thing.

Would anyone really wear our name? Our name isn't even a real word. You know, buttery is a word. But it's sick that they do because they're stoked on you. Obviously, they're sick designs too. Super, super thankful. And I always try to be as involved as possible with the merch. So...

That's the biggest thing is if you don't want to wear it, you got to wear it. I think it's cool. It's all we wear. I think it's cool, yeah. It's all we wear. And we actually struggle with it. I think you have a wide variety of people wanting, I don't know, wearing cool shit here. We actually kind of have to cater a little bit to our audience. Yeah. And then so we drop a lot of easy to digest pieces and some...

different stuff, some hunting stuff, and then we'll drop in, like, a tie-dye like this or something. Just to mix it up. And it works well. You just never know who the next customer is, so you kind of want a piece of everything. Just if you have a solid lineup of everything, if someone's going to catch someone's eye, you have no idea. So it's cool to diversify and have stuff like that. Like, this is all Cali out here. But it's weird because I'll go, like,

out of state and I'll do stuff specifically Cali style in Louisiana he sticks out like a sore thumb he's in a bright pink tie that is the only dude out there I'm like damn it looks kind of weird out here it looked normal at the house party last week but out here it's kind of weird

But it's cool just to see that it's grown to be as big as it is and hit all the states. You guys ship international too? Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is crazy. It's like Germany, Australia. Tons of Canada for us. Canada. You obviously ship Canada. Huge Australia. Yeah. Like, we got places all over. I remember – so we do all of our own merchandise fulfillment, and Ken does most of it. But sometimes I'll come back and help with him, and I'll be like –

I've never even heard of this country. You don't even know they have internet out there. Dude, I'm like, how? They don't even speak English. Do they speak English there? They're just watching subtitles. Yeah, it's insane. They just think what you're doing is sweet on subtitles. But they're that involved, at least, that they even bought some merch. It's so cool. It's just crazy. And people don't know how supportive it is. It's cool. You're building a brand, and then that money just goes back in to make videos and to keep doing it. So they're paying for the content, in a sense. So it's cool when people support in that way.

in that way. And literally every single dollar since we've started, like it's gone. We just invested back into something like if it, if it can make content, then it's great. Like, you know, and obviously there's,

How much content can it make is, like, the cost, dollar cost for it, worth it. But, yeah, we've done the same thing. Yeah, you guys make some big purchases with all the vehicles and stuff. It's insane. I mean, we've... We're 100% all in, you know? It's cool, though. But, yeah. And it's tough, like, with...

and a good thing in like personal purchases. Like, so if you get a new bike, like it's going to directly benefit the channel. And so every purchase that we make personally, we want to benefit the channel, of course, but that, that varies so much, you know, Ryan bought a 15, $14,000 jet ski and then blew it up right away at like right away. And we were like,

This is, this sucks. We'll figure it out. We'll help you out on the rebuild and shit. I didn't tell him to buy the jet ski. And so, yeah, it's tough how that works out. And, you know, Ben gets a, Ben and CJ and Ryan freaking $100,000 cars right now. Like, we want them to put out for these videos. But, like, that's hard because if you break something, like, it happens fast. Yeah, I don't know. It's like.

you go into something and you can either make content with it or not and you kind of got to, you know, put up some of your money to, you know, benefit the rest of the company. Content's always good though. Content's king, man. Right, exactly. Because the only reason we own these things is because of this, because of the channel, yeah. Dude, you see that Tesla jump the other night? That was insane. Yeah, dude. I didn't even want to ask you about that because we've all seen it a million times at this point, but it's crazy.

If that was your guys' deal, obviously there's kind of some legal behind it, but you would get out of it and that thing had seaboys on the hood and you jumped it? Would we get out of it? We were wondering what the repercussions for something like that is. I don't think anything's going to happen. They have to be there and see it. The video's only enough. Exactly. But he hit that car as part of it. We're not going to jail. Yeah, it's not like a hit and run.

was the... Yeah, you're not going to jail. That dude's going to get out smooth. No one knows. They don't even know who it is yet. The worst part, though, is that dude's not getting shit from it. Everyone else is getting it. He was just trying to show off for Alex Choi, I think, was it? Yeah, that's what it was. Is that hill pretty gnarly, though? Because you jumped that hill on a bike, right? It's insane. It drops out real fast. You go so slow to go so far, and there's a tree that overhangs. If you cut the tree a little bit, you could go really far. You could go deep.

But you just cruise and that thing will take you all the way down. It's like a ski jump. It's insane. Like the long distance ski dudes. It's kind of like that setup. I can't believe they think when they built that. Yeah. Crazy. How come they haven't cut it down?

That's the L.A. If you guys go, you haven't been to the hills of L.A. yet, huh? That's where all the rich people are. This is like what you hear, the hills, Travis Scott, L.A. in the hills. You'll see why they want it, but it's just having a view of the city, so they didn't want to grade the thing. When you're there in person, the thing's massive. Yeah, I saw a picture or a video of the runoff. It's like almost a quarter mile from top to bottom. It's long. So you think he was just on it the entire way? That dude was hauling ass, and I just think,

That dude had no idea how big he was going to go. He thought he needed to go, you know, 70 to jump this car, not knowing, like, for every foot it falls away, you're going more feet out. Yeah. Like, he was hauling ass. And dude's like, that Dobrik dude jumped it. Yeah. Well, he let another guy jump it. Josh in the jungle, he jumped it and, like...

You don't have to go that fast to go that far. Yeah, that was nuts. If you guys had the Razors or something, the Can-Ams out here, and you went and jumped that thing, you could boot that thing to the bottom. I bet so many people do. No one has taken it. I've seen dirt bikes and Harleys and Teslas, but I haven't seen anyone like a pre-runner with built suspension jump it yet. And they can crush that jump. You know, I don't know how California works, but that spot has become so popular that

I feel like they're going to do something now after this Tesla jump. They're going to probably have some signs up or some kind of repercussion. I don't know, but I'm sure the people that live there fucking hate it. Dude.

Dude, I went on dirt bikes last time and everyone came out and was stoked. But I think that Tesla thing is kind of going to ruin it for some people. A lot of people don't know where it's at, though. But if you could jump that thing with a pre-runner, you'd be the man. We should have Ryan jumping on his quad. Yeah, you got the quad out here? It's in there. It's tucked away. You got doing tires on it, though. You want a viral quad video?

Honestly? I got a jump for you. It's in L.A. That'd be pretty gnarly. Quad jump? Ryan's not much of a jumper, unfortunately. No. We're not much of quad guys. Keep it on the ground. He hangs 12, but he put his dune tires on backwards, so if that's it. I see that all the time in Glamis. Dude's first time, the cups are backwards. Okay, if we did it on our – I mean, again, I can't make that much fun. We could definitely have that happen to us. If we put our cups on backwards on our dirt bikes –

Oh, you see that? You just got to quit. You see the guys on dirt bikes putting backwards? I haven't seen moto. I see the quads. That'd be pretty fun. I'm sure there are dudes out there on dirt bikes who put their paddles on backwards. I just haven't seen it, but I'm no for a fact it happens out there. I damn near did it. Yeah. Because it's weird because you think it would go the opposite. You're all stressed about doing your tire and not popping your tube and then you put it on backwards. Because the moto knobbies aren't directional on the rears, so then you just think about slapping it on.

Yeah, you got to look at the sprocket there. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Well, this has been good. Yeah. Any questions? It's been good. Close it down. Yeah, this has been awesome. Let's go. We're going to ride some pit bikes. Yeah, we're going to go ride some pitters, hopefully. Yeah, let's go cruise around. I'll show you the Cali. Maybe we'll get some cops or something. Yeah, it's kind of like on our bucket list. Yeah, so what is the urban pit bike life?

Like if you do run into cops. Every time I've ridden into cops, I've always been okay. I think it's just the way I come off or maybe the way I approach them. Everyone else out here tells me they have a problem, like especially in my hometown here, Escanida, they get their bikes yanked. Yeah.

What? Really? I've never had that problem. Very different. Can we get them back if they get yanked? Yeah. If you have the titles. I don't have titles for mine. Oh, fuck. We don't got titles. I mean, they're at home. You kind of just got to weigh out your options. I'd always be cool with the cops at first because a majority of the time they're going to be cool with you, just tell you to bail. I have ran before. You got to kind of fight or flight. You got to figure out that scenario. I've ran, but if you run, you got to make sure you're gone. Yeah. Because then if you get caught...

From fleeing, now you're talking about, like, actual jail time. So if you're running, you're gone. But if you kind of know how to ride, I mean, you're on two wheels. You're going to be out of there. You're gone. And is that always with helmets? I mean, like, a lot of times pitters don't get ridden with helmets. We ran away. We had a house party here. We went down for something. And there was four of us, and we all had chicks on the back doubles. So those things are kind of bogging, and we were in our hometown, and we panned it away. Yeah.

Kind of slicing dice, kind of some back alleys. It's all about the weaves. Everyone got away, yeah. Dang. Little bob and weave. The chicks are, some are crying, some think it's sweet. They're like, hell yeah, this is awesome. It's like a movie. But yeah, as long as you get away, you should be okay. But yeah, if we go out and ride today, I'm sure we'll have some fun. Perfect. We'll see a motocop and he'll want to ride with us. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Let's go do it. Sounds good. Well, go follow Buddy Buttery on Instagram.

And YouTube. And Go Show's Merch Some Love. Hell yeah. Thank you guys. I appreciate you guys for having me on and coming out here. We'll link you down below. Perfect. Thank you. Absolutely. Thanks for having us over. See if we can get this RV out of here later. We'll try our best. If not, we're stuck here.

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