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Hey guys, welcome back to the Life by Don't Be Podcast. I've got Ben, CJ, Micah. Little boys podcast today. Give me a hit. I'm losing it. Where is it? Jeez, that's a big rip, dude. Oh yeah, baby. That cannot be good for you. Why do you kind of sound like Mini-Me from Awesome Powers? Wow, dude. Did he even share that helium over there, bro? Oh no, I got a whole other balloon for you. Take a hit, Mike. Mike might get addicted to this, though, guys. It's buzzing. No, it's not.
I can't do that much, CJ. That's a lot of helium. I don't even think I've ever done this before in my life. What? Okay. Hello. That feels so weird. Oh, my gosh. Bro, your voice sounds fucked. Wow. There's no way that's good for you. CJ's first time doing helium. It's crazy.
I sound like Fred. You do. Oh, my gosh. Why does your voice still sound different, bro? Yeah, CJ, hold up. I took a pretty big hit. CJ's is stuck. CJ's is stuck. I took a pretty big hit. It never goes back to normal. It's one and only time doing it. When you were a little kid, did they tell you not to cross your eyes because they could get stuck? I heard that. They did. Well, did they ever say the same about hitting helium? I'm pretty sure people just told you not to do it because it was bad for you. Cross your eyes? Both. No.
No, yeah, sure. So I was thinking the other day, I ordered tires, wheels. I got my bumper on the way, lights. Anyway, I spent a ton of money on my truck. Finally going to get it looking the way I want it to. And it brought me back to the TC. I also had a memory of it pop up. I kind of miss that car. I kind of miss. What do you miss about it?
I don't know. It was kind of like a legendary ride. I remember very distinctly when you were getting rid of that thing, you were getting rid of it for...
Most of the reasons because you weren't sure if it was going to make it to the next day. Yeah, that's true. What do you miss about that? And I think completely the opposite. I thought you were just getting rid of it because you're like, man, I've had this car since I was 15, you know, before you even had your license. I thought it was pretty funny seeing him buzz around in it. It was like a fitting car. That too. But so what I thought about is whenever I would do mods to that car, I did it in literally the cheapest way possible. Wow.
Like, I never bought new wheels for the car until I bent the wheels and I had to buy cans. Like, we plasti-dipped the rims. Remember when I had my rims white? And then somebody made fun of you, and then you pressure washed them off immediately. Dennis, our neighbor, dude, he was like, why did you do that? Bro, I thought it looked good. Why would you listen to a, no offense, Dennis, but Dennis. Guys, when everyone else is like, this looks sick, Ryan. I did it. But you guys have also told me many things that are cool when they are not cool. Dude, transition glasses are cool.
Ryan. You should bring this back. What have we ever told you that we said was cool that wasn't cool? I don't know if it was that, but I just feel like we always are encouraging each other to do something because it's going to be funny, not because it's cool. When you guys, you said, I think Ken, Ryan, you should go through with that car bed prank. That ended up being cool. Dude.
Exactly. I actually just didn't want to put a halt on it. I thought it was going to be good, though. I thought it had potential, yeah. I mean, it did come out to being pretty funny at our expense. I laughed. But I remember when I bought coilovers for that car, I had no money. And I had to do a blood draw study in order to get my money up.
So I could buy those coilovers. You guys did some weird shit for money. You guys were always doing those access clinical studies. Hold on. I wouldn't say always, but... Do you guys remember... Maybe you were trolling me, but I remember you guys went and did one of those studies where you go and stay there for the weekend or two nights or however long, and they pay you, but they give you this pill or something. But I remember you guys were like, yeah, we're going to do this. They're going to give us...
500 bucks for the weekend. Like, come on, come do it. It was like 1,400. Okay, 1,400. A lot of money. Yep. And especially back then. You guys were like, come on, come do it. And I was like, I'm not doing that. I don't, I mean, that's a lot of money and I'd love that, but. Yeah, it's not for everybody. I'm not taking a pill that they're running a study on. Like, you guys are the. What was the pill for? What was the pill for?
I don't know. They don't tell you, I don't think. No, they tell you. Mike's walking around with a stiffy. Well, that was the point. Then I'd probably figure that one out. Well, that was the point is they came home and you guys text in like our friends group chat. And I think it was Ryan. He goes...
Is anyone else having trouble getting a boner? And then someone responds, yeah, dude, I can't get a boner. Because you guys had spent all weekend sitting there. And you went home and immediately went to jack off. And you guys couldn't get a boner. And I thought that was the funniest thing. You know why it was? It's because there was 48 blood draws in 24 hours. That makes sense. They were literally jabbing you with a needle. And they were like,
Every like I think it was 15 minutes for the first couple hours. It was fucking awful, dude. You could not pay me a million dollars to do it. You could a million dollars to do it. And you are really tainted. No, dude, it was so brutal. You couldn't eat. You had to fast for like 16 hours. You had to get stabbed a million times by like.
They weren't like nurses. You were talking about emergency room doctors or whatever. These people were literally nurses in training. Right. They were fucking you up. They bring them in and they go, all right, here's your training session on how to get...
blood people. And then they're like, cool, go do four in there for like 12 hours. I'm just glad that we're not in a position to have to do that anymore. I didn't think it was that bad, but it's not for the faint of heart. I'm not saying I'm some bad-ass. It didn't bother me that much. Jake actually ended up having Jake and I did it. Jake quit halfway through. Cause he got sick. Everyone's like, yep, that's what happens.
That's not actually, doesn't happen that often. He was just a pussy. But Jake did get sick, so he had to back out. That's right. It was you three. They paid him like half still. But it was funny because it was, you mentioned it, and then the other one, or someone else chimes in, yeah, I can't get one either. And then like a minute later. I could. There's only three of us, and I could get bonus. Maybe it was just Jake then that was like, yeah, I can't get one either. I don't know. I thought it was really funny.
I'm glad we don't have to do that anymore. You can do a little lighter ones. They just put shit on your skin, and then it's like lotion, and then they pay you like $300, though. It's not as good. I mean, your health is probably like the most valuable thing you have. Well, right, but it's like, are you going in there? I needed those coilovers. I was risking it all. To make your life worse, now every time you drive down the street, just...
It was bumpy. It was bad because you could only afford the cheap ones. CJ always talks about you were pretty smart. CJ was pretty smart with his car mods. You know, you never did anything really too fast. I don't mess with Plassy, dude. No. No. Stickers. He was tasteful. You were tasteful. Whether it took you driving a stock car for another six months, you then saved up the money to buy the tasteful correct. Well, I think it makes you look worse.
No offense to anyone doing this, and there's plenty of people. No, they need to hear this. But I literally think it makes your car look worse if you try to cheap out by making your... So, like, someone will have, like, a freaking Chevy Cruze.
Just a normal car, and it's a nice car, and there's nothing wrong with them. But then they try to make it, they treat it as if it's like a WRX STI. And they go in and buy the cheapest freaking wheels they can find. They don't look good. And then they put a racing stripe on it. It still looks like a monster truck. And then they'll go to the muffler shop and get the exhaust basically just chopped and straight piped.
If they do that, dude, they might just go buy the freaking NVIDIA straight pipe cat back. No, going to the muffler shop and getting your muffler chopped with just a welded... That's like 50 bucks. And then it's like they just put a bunch of stickers on it and they try to street race everyone. Yep. That's what I feel like you kind of put yourself in that category. It's like...
You want to be cool, but you don't really know how to do it. Mike, you had your Buick, which was before we knew you. Did you do any shitty mods to that? Other than the subs. No. Yeah, I was like, the subs were like, that's what made it fun. You get in there and you're like...
Well, the subs, there's nothing wrong with that. Right. And so luckily I did not do any stupid mods to the Buick. But then fast forward to the Jeep. I had a red Grand Cherokee. Didn't do a ton of stupid mods on that, but plasti-dipped the rims black and it made it look way better.
Way better. That wasn't too bad. But that's what I'm saying. There's levels to it. There is levels to it. And you also got to keep in mind, some people can't afford nicer things, but they're just, they're passionate and they're excited about doing any kind of work to your car. So CJ, anything that doesn't align with exactly what you would do, you immediately think it's like bullshit. It's not exactly what I would do. It's just when you're putting a freaking racing stripe on a Chevy...
Maybe the Chevy Cruze was gifted to them and they can't afford any different car. Well, I know that's fine. I guess it's just like it looked better when it was just normal. There's certain things that you just shouldn't do to a car. But then if you do have a car and you can't afford the nicest thing but you want to do little things, then let that be. Even if it's not an STI, who cares? Here's another example.
My little brother, and he was a young kid, got his license. I don't know. He must have been 15, 16. And he had a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee. So it's not like a Jeep that's meant for off-roading. It's just a Grand Cherokee. For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea to go to his friend's house and cut the
Right in the dead center, he basically just cut a hole in the exhaust to make it sound loud. And he comes pulling up to the house, and it sounded like complete shit. The exhaust leak? Yeah, he basically just made an exhaust leak to make it loud. And my dad was so mad. He was so mad. It was a normal vehicle, and then it just immediately made it look like shit. Granted, it was probably... I don't know, it must have been...
Dang, you're 22 years old at that point. Doesn't matter. But he was so mad. And I remember I just, I felt bad for him because it was like he was trying to do something cool. He likes cars and he didn't necessarily have a cool car. I understand that. But I sat down with him. I was kind of just like, you know, there's certain cars that you want to have loud. And there's certain cars that just really shouldn't be loud. Yeah.
And that vehicle isn't really a car that should be loud. But later on in life, you can get a car like something. I don't know, a Camaro. And then put a loud exhaust on it. That'd be awesome. But most of the people that probably have a 22-year-old Jeep Grand Cherokee and they're 16 years old and they like to go mudding, they're probably going to just make that thing loud. I don't know, man. I thought it was untasteful. I'm picturing you having... I mean, yeah, it probably is. But think...
Let's go to his next car where he put the LED lights on. So then the next car was a 2003 Toyota Sequoia. I like those. I still like those to this day. So did it look the best? Maybe not. But I bet you every time he walked out, he locked his car. You know the car guy look back at your car when you look back at it? I guarantee he did that. And that's worth something. It's getting kids into car culture. Yeah. It's like you're doing the things you can do at the moment. But sometimes it's just like,
the short-term gain isn't always the best. You could have just saved up all these little tiny mods or whatever and just put it into something that would have made the vehicle better or...
Just a whole new vehicle. You know? It's like this 2003 Sequoia that he had. This is like a family vehicle. Like, I mean, it's a family vehicle. Poor Jake's going to be listening to this podcast. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He was younger. He was younger. He was younger. He's got a cool-ass Jeep now. That's true. Jeep Wrangler. And it looks dope. It looks dope. But, you know, this goes back. Some cars just aren't supposed to be. Anyways, he had this 2003 Toyota Sequoia.
And he like went through and plasti dipped all the badges black. And like, I mean, it was just kind of like, why, why? If you do it right, doing that to this day, I'll do the tape job. But back then you guys were always plasti dipping all your stuff. And I was just like, it just doesn't, it's not the same effect. Yeah.
Yeah, but it costs the same effect instead of $600. And it gets people... It's something exciting. You're like, why don't you just save up and buy something big? Bro, you want little dopamine hits of the little things showing up, and then you throw it on, even if it's a fucking badge on it. My point is it never...
You never make it what you want it to be. Like, they're looking at all these vehicles. And that's okay. But you could have just saved that money. Save your fucking money. Yeah, but what are you really going to make into what you want it to be if it's not a car that's going to be something cool? Save your money and buy something cool. Save it up. Bro, I probably spent like $25 on Plasti Dip. I understand that's very minimal, but it's just like there is times where you can ruin the car. And then it's like...
If you would have just left it normal and saved that money, you could have sold this car to pretty much anyone else on the market that was looking for, for example, a Chevy Cruze. But instead, you put racing stripes all over it. And some other 16-year-old kid is like, yo, it's already got everything. No, no, no. But they don't pay for that car as much as it would be if it was just untouched.
So now you just... Yeah, but those kids don't think of it like that. Yeah, but most kids, they don't have money to pay what it should be full price. So now they're getting the cheap one. So you just lost money buying all these shitty mods and then you lost money on the car. You lose money on mods anyway. Yeah, no, you do. But if it makes a car look better... In your opinion, though. I guess we'll just have to agree to this.
I don't care about Plasti Dip. It makes sense. It's cool. I wouldn't do it, but go ahead and do it if it's fun. It's obviously removable. It's not permanent. That's true. You put freaking Lambo doors on a Chevy Cruze. That's dumb. Don't do that. Save the money. It is funny. I would see that and laugh. Don't do that. Don't do that for real because then you go to this car meet or whatever and everyone's just like,
What is this guy doing? You don't earn your self-respect. You just waste a bunch of money and you just look stupid. And I'm just trying to help. Some people maybe don't realize it. 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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Where it's got the lean in the back and you can barely see over the front. Whistling Diesel has made a couple videos on him. Hates them. And he kind of made it very clear to the public that these are nuisances to be on the road and they're ridiculous. Honestly, I thought that they were built as a joke.
I just love that he's... I didn't know that there was, like, people out building these driving around Minnesota roads. And the more squatted, the better it is. To these guys. Yeah, so my cousin goes, no shit, I found one in the wild. It's a red squatted truck.
It's like a 2004 GMC, you know, basically what you would picture it. And then opens up the door. It's got the fur headliner and everything. Yeah, there's certain mods that go with it. Yeah. So why is that a thing? That's something that shouldn't be done. I agree. And how I love how Whistle and Diesel is going after them. I don't think anybody's defending them. Nobody is defending them. And I just remember seeing there's one for sale in Fargo. It's just good old Carolina Sclean or whatever, SWAT.
And he is getting shredded in the comments. He's been trying to sell that thing forever. Yeah, and it's just like, dude, wouldn't you rather just take the lift off and then not have to deal with the comments and get the truck sold? But no. Instead, he's got one guy maybe interested and 290 other people being like, your truck's stupid. Well, it's not practical. And that. Also, yeah. And who thinks that looks good? Yeah.
He probably spent all his money trying to get this Carolina squat, and now he can't convert it back, and now he can't sell it either. Should have saved his money. When you roll up to your girlfriend's dad's or something, and you're rolling in a big truck or a stupid little Ranger, you know, dumb mods with plastic all over it or something, what happens when you roll up in a squatted truck, though? Well, I don't think you're pulling up to a girlfriend's house. That's what I'm saying. A vault. A vault. Yeah.
of all things you can pull up in it's family. It doesn't matter. Oh, that's funny. Whistling. Diesel's got this whole van dead against squatted truck drivers. CJ is going to start one against Chevy cruise driver. I don't, I don't have anything against Chevy. He's going to be like, fuck these guys. Who buys that? I'm just saying that as an example, it could be anything. Even like, I know what you're saying. In my, my opinion, a Dodge Dart is pushing it too. Like,
You ever seen that? He put a spoiler on the back. That was an anomaly, though. See, I think that guy might have been drunk. So that kid, he could have just...
That spoiler could not have been cheap. He had to install it. I'm pretty sure it was an APR front splitter and rear wing. So that could not have been cheap. Could not have been cheap. Right there. That guy's got more money than brains then, okay? Why not just upgrade your car to... You could buy a used...
a Subaru WRX or a BRZ, it'd be pretty much the same cost as that car. But instead, you just ruined that car. No one's going to want it. And you just spent a bunch of money. I'm just trying to help people. Honestly, just save your money. Or use it on something useful. That's my whole point. Would you have seen that dart and bought that money? Yeah, but our SEMA truck, people love that. At what age? It's different. 16? Hell yeah. 20. Completely different. I don't think so. Anyway. So, at the end of the day, I guess...
uh use your judgment when modding your vehicle you know send it to send it to cj on dm ask him if this is okay i it doesn't matter i'm just it's just my recommendation and you know i would have never went and spewed all that if i wasn't asked my opinion on it so that's true you asked me if i wasn't on my goddamn podcast yeah i don't know so like that's just my opinion or like when you
Here's another really good example. You get carbon fiber wrap and you wrap your hood. Dumb. Don't do that. Don't do that. It just looks terrible. It looks terrible. Like I'm just trying to help. All right, whatever. Go buy your TC back. I'm buying it back. I'm wrapping the whole thing. Carbon fiber. Super long story short on it. Dude, my takeaway. All right. What? Look, Ken. CJ's rant. Don't modify your car unless you have a giant budget.
That's not at all what I'm saying. Shut up. This guy sucks. He buys like five cars. He's like on a car.
Car, YouTube channel, all of his buddies and best friends and partners are all blowing their money on their mods and everything. Ken doesn't spend a dime. He doesn't even buy an exhaust for his Focus RS that it's meant to have an exhaust. He doesn't do that because he goes, I'm going to sell it. Doesn't sell it for four years. He did buy Clevis's for his Bronco. Okay, so hot take, hot take. Ken, I think, granted you've had quite a few vehicles, hot take gets more compliments on his vehicles than I think
I mean, now we've all got some pretty cool vehicles. All I'm saying is, blue RS that got the Tesla. There's a lot of... He gets a lot of compliments. He drives the Bronco to the bar. Granted, it's not modded, but a bunch of guys are, you got that new Bronco. That's really cool. But if like I had a, you know, a 2021 Ford F-150 lifted and had...
a shitload of money into it like clean though no one would really they go nice nice chuck ken you were talking about modifying the bronco until we started saying well ken if you're gonna do it then you you gotta you gotta at least go all out and get this size lift and this size wheels and he's like well if i go too big it won't fit in the garage god forbid he hops in a cold car
A four-inch lift with 37s is not big enough. Is that what you ended up going with? Well, they can't fucking order anything, so... He wanted smaller, but he had no tools. Is that what you went with? Well, so far, every lift is on back order for like six months, so I'm taking what I can get. All right, well, baby steps, Ken. I like to see you... Yeah, I'm proud of you. I like to see you at least open to the idea. I may have another one in order next week. Oh, shit.
Another Bronco can? What Bronco could you be getting that would be better than the one you have? You guys can guess. How do you get that? You gotta ask people. Don't worry, it won't show up until 2025. Ken, you and Amelia pulling some strings? So, last week, we finally got to go check out our new land that we just got. We finally did. We could have had anything. It was funny. No, you don't want to ruin the authentic, like...
reaction to it. It was a good thing we did. It's a good thing we did. I agree. So, you know, we got this land and you could kind of see it from the road and there's a decent sized patch of trees, but I just assume there's nothing back there like all of us did.
I know we said this. We legitimately drive past it at least once or twice a day. I mean, it's just right next to us. And so anyways, we go and we're exploring it on video and we're walking through this patch of woods thinking like, oh, this is just going to be a bunch of trees back here. But we'll be like, oh, this will be cool for putting a trail for dirt bikes in it or whatever.
We come across this old house. There's an old abandoned house, an old abandoned outhouse. There's an outhouse and a shed? And a shed. And then we see this well pump. And it even still goes up and down. No water came out, obviously. Yeah.
But it said 1890 on there. I don't know why. We were just all so surprised by it. It was so cool. Yeah, and we talked to some people that have been around the area, and they're like, oh, yeah, you know, I don't know that you say that. There did used to be a farm set, but it was falling down when I was a kid. Yeah, and these people were like 70 years old. Yeah. I mean, the people that obviously must have lived there in that time, like they had to have been some of the first settlers of –
You know, in the late 1800s, there had to have been no one here, dude. Why would they go there? I don't know. How do you... Think about that. Near water. Not really. It was a swamp. Yeah, but I think the water table used to be higher. No, it was lower, I thought. Because the lakes were divided and then they came... In the, like, 1800s.
The 1900s, they were lower after the drought. That's when they went way down. But I think they were higher back then. I'm not really sure. I'm not a freaking geologist. It is interesting, though, because, like, imagine that. Like, you...
You just start heading west, and then you're just like, right here. It's super cold in the winter, miserable, and very hot in the summer. Here's something interesting. Detroit Lakes, which is a town right nearby, was founded by a French guy. Well, no, Colonel George Johnson in 1871. Okay, so it was founded...
20 years before that homestead was built. Well, I bet it was found. And I hate to be a Deborah Downer here, but this pump is from 1890. I don't know if that's, you know, they didn't go to the store and buy it brand new and say, plan it. It's 1890. Let's go. That's true. But I mean, in the same era. Yep. But the railroad came through in 1877. That's when they built the railroad here.
But I can't imagine many people were hopping off and, you know, like this is our spot. Like there would be very few. Why would you want to stop here for how brutal the winters are? Well, they probably didn't know how much further or really even how close they were, you know, to the edge. Man.
We find out CJ's a flatterer. And also imagine you've been traveling for so long. You know how long that took and how miserable that was? Yeah, you're probably just like, let's just... You got a whole family, all your stuff. You're like, all right, I've had enough of this. We've been in this little horse carriage forever.
Dang near died multiple times probably. And little Timmy is sick with polio or whatever. Yeah. And we got to stop. Like, it's just, let's stop. We're good here. This looks good. I think there's like a thing about how if, you know, like the strong people made it to the West Coast and if you were lazy, you stopped in Colorado.
Like that was the stop for lazy people because you'd made it across the easy part of the country. How lazy could you have been? Well, the pass. Well, true. But yeah. Right. You kept going. That makes sense. You know, like although there was the people, they were the top percent of like the adventurous people, but they were the people that got there and were like, fuck this. We're done with this. And then they just stayed. Yeah. Because you didn't have to go over the mountains and all that stuff. That's kind of interesting. I suppose, yeah. Because I feel like nowadays, like if you're known for being in like the Midwest, you're
Generally, the men around here are pretty tough. I'm not saying we are, but a lot of men, I'd be very confident. Winters killed them off. No, but I get what CJ's saying. I'm saying the people that live here now are very... You're a hardworking person. You don't really get away with being a lazy guy around here. A lot of these people are farmers or blue collar. You work hard and use your hands. I don't know if people...
Because the Oregon Trail, well, where did the Oregon Trail, like, if people were going west, were they going through Minnesota, though? That seems high. Yeah, like, not even, you know? We were like, that's why, I don't know if you came the north way if you were trying to go west. Right, like, I don't think people were stopping here. Like, you may have got to Chicago. This almost seems more, like, destinational, like you were going up. Maybe not, I don't know. You need a freaking local geographer. Yeah, seriously. This, um...
This area had to have been mostly for, what, timber? Yeah, timber and farming, I guess. Yeah, I mean, the house or the shed on our property in the woods...
granite's all falling down. When I was looking at the walls, it was literally just trees. Like they had a tree and they just somehow sawed it right down like the top and the long way. And they didn't even like do the other side. So like the other half of like, well, the other side is just like a legit tree. Oh yeah. You're like, it looks like a tree. Yeah. And then the inside, they just like made, made their own cement and just,
Put it on the walls. You know what's funny? It literally looks like they spread it out. I'm pretty impressed with that. That chimney is still standing. Yeah, it's still there. You know what's funny, though, is the rental house I just bought in DL was built in 1900. Really? Yeah. What? That old? 1900? Yeah. Just flat 1900. 1900. The fuck?
You're writing history, Ben. Yeah. Holy smokes, Ben. Yeah. We're just all concerned. Oh, yeah. No. Did you know it's old? That's really old, though. Yeah, but if you look at it, you wouldn't think that. They kept it up. Yeah, it looks fine, and the foundation is fine, and everything is not...
not 123 years old or 22 years old. Because they just don't build them like they used to. But then you also go into the woods and you're like, so they built this 10 years before they built that? Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. Holy smokes. There's different levels. Like,
I don't know when fricking skyscrapers were built, but you know, there was like, there was technology in that time. But then there was also people that were like, we're going to go start a farm in the middle of nowhere. So there was different levels of living. Like there was probably places where you took a bath at night and then there was places where you went to the pond and got water. Well, MDL is a, is a,
town yeah it's like a city like my grandma grew up and she is like 80 in her upper 80s like they didn't have power when she was a kid wow but you could live in the city like the fucking empire state was built yeah or the empire state building was built you know like there was different levels of life but did they have power in the empire state building i'm pretty sure they did yeah
But like, I mean, you've seen all those pictures in New York when they're riding around on horses and stuff. So congrats on that rental house. Thanks dude. Exciting. Yeah. We got our accountant just, he's like, buy real estate.
Buy money, making assets. Well, like, of course. He said we're football players. He's treating us the same equivalent of an athlete that could just piss away our money and then go broke. That's exactly. He must have told all of us. He said, I'm treating you like a football player. I was like, okay. He said, he's like, yeah, I spend money to have fun, but spend some money that will make you money, too. I mean, it's good advice to have.
And he's all about us meeting more people to get us better advice. He was stoked that we bought the land. It's not, the land's not necessarily going to make us money because we don't plan on selling it, but it's going to make us money in the content, in the content for sure. And I'm excited for spring. It was going to be cool to go and check the, uh, I guess those properties or the abandoned buildings when there's not a bunch of snow, there's so much snow we're tromping through. Yeah. What is our, what is our plan with that?
Like the... Take it down? Leave it? I don't... Well, it's tough because like... And I'm not saying that... That's kind of weird. Yeah. It's like, I don't know. Do we clean that up? I think we clean it up a little, but I think we like leave that foundation. It's tough. I got a little... It's kind of cool. Yeah, it's cool. A little less excited about it because when I was younger living in the country, I would like go wander and kind of do that. Didn't find anything quite like a foundation. You know, you find cars and old barrels and like obviously sheds and whatever. And so...
I like to leave it. I think it's cool. Yeah. Unless you want to put something there. We should go start putting like our cars out in the woods. Like we put your Ranger out there. Every time you destroy a peanut instead of the scrapyard, we just start putting them out in the woods. Like they used to back in the day. People are going to, why did they do that? I,
I probably couldn't get rid of it. Because it was the same way on my grandparents' farm. There was just cars in the woods. And they'd been there for so long, there was trees. I don't know how they would have gotten back there. They'd been there for that long. I mean, look, we've got two snowmobiles out in the woods here. We've got a couple of them over there. Good, so we're at a good pace. Yeah, we're at a good pace. We're picking it up. There is like a major transition between when those snowmobiles out there now, which are very sad, just buried in the snow, between now and when a tree starts coming.
Crowing through it. You know. True. But it was really funny too. Yeah. Someone I've worked with that lives around the area, drives by, takes a snap of the Ken van and then just goes, why'd you guys just leave it out there? I'm like, where have you been? That's been parked in there for so long. What do you mean? Why did you leave it out there? I mean, that too, but.
I'm like, you never saw that? Everyone's like, it was the first thing they noticed. You just left that Kanban out there? It's almost like a sign. Yeah, it really is. Like a billboard. Speaking of sign, I want to get a freaking huge flagpole. I want the biggest flagpole. Still yes. I was going to say I want to put like an advertisement. I want a billboard. Like the interstates. We've wanted to do that for a long time and just said home of...
No, I think it just says seaboystv.com. Can you just throw that up? Or it's just us like this. I don't know. Is there like rules? It's like the most useless billboard. We just have it say hi. Or like those that say smile. Yeah, because I was like, well, we could do something funny. And as long as it brightened everyone's day, they'd remember it.
You know, if it said seaboystv.com, then I... You could change it up as much as you want. Yeah, true. Should we get a digital one then? No, I want an old-fashioned... $25,000. $25,000. It might be more. It might be more. I'm talking big... Like digital. You could put, like, you would see in a movie theater and stuff on there.
there yeah like merch new merch drop let all the neighbors and shit know congrats on your weight loss Ben you know stuff like that and we think constant thing for us to just change every day we're changing you could put funny stuff up we got like the local business owners coming to us they're like all right what's the going rate I want 10 seconds
on Fridays. Yeah, Friday's our day where we advertise for Ken's Drinking. Yeah, we have at least 30. Congrats on your sobriety. We can guarantee at least 30 people drive by it, so we charge more. What if we did a final? It's going to be put right into the foundry. It's going to be in there, set into the ground. It's not coming down. Billboard? You got me on this digital billboard idea. I know, I know. I want an old-fashioned one.
Or what if we just did a billboard and it says, Days Ken's been sober. For the record, we're attacking Ken a little bit on this. It could go for any of us, but that's funny. That is really funny. Just zero every time. Or maybe just one. Days jacking off, zero. We're going to need some equipment now. I just watched Whistle and Diesel's excavator video. I'm not going to lie.
Super entertaining. Well, yeah, he spends 450 grand on things. On just the excavator, though. And then I love how he destroys a bus and then a shipping container. And then the tractor was hilarious. He just drug this tractor around like a criminal behind a horse in the olden days. Like, just...
flying everything around and it made me really want a $500,000 excavator. You should buy one, Mike. You should, Mike. I've been thinking about it. Do it. I got to make my money work for me. So do I rent that out? Excavator Mike. Mike starts a construction business. With just the biggest excavator I can get my hands on. You're picking up small landscaping jobs.
It'll take 50 men with shovels three days, but I'll do it in 10 minutes. So then, yeah, like whatever happened to that, you know, excavation business you had, Micah? First job I had ended up knocking half the house down. So got sued. Lost the excavator. Lost the excavator. Got out pretty good and never went back to dirt work again.
They actually don't even let me drive skid steers now. It's just a legal thing. Mike just dummies the customers out. Like digging in and then boom. He would come out and be freaking out at him and he would be so calm like, what? It wasn't my fault. We're going to get this figured out.
I mean, it is what it is. It's like when you hire an arborist to cut down your tree in the front yard and then they cut it down the wrong way and it lands on your house. If you're an arborist and you cut a tree down on someone's house, it's like, hey, man, I hired you to do one thing and you did the opposite. Well, it's tough getting a chainsaw guy, a lumberjack to come over. Even when your roommate's brother is one. I can't even get Cody to come over.
We can't give Cody too much slack, though, because he came and cut the hole in front of our house for the ice for you guys on pretty short notice. So I got an interesting topic for you guys. So we didn't post that video because we had to. We didn't end up posting it at its expected time or the planned time that we had because we needed to finish it and cut this hole in the ice. And you guys were going to jump in. And that was going to be the end of the video. It would have been weird if we wouldn't have put that in or held it until the next one.
So, and we're trying to cut the ice ended up just taking a lot longer than expected. And we post this thing. We're like, Hey, we're not going to be able to get the video out on time.
And there's like... I'd say they're a very small percentage of our subscribers because obviously it's just the people who say something get noticed. But I'm not kidding you. Like, just the meanest, most aggressive DMs just calling us like lazy pieces of shit. Like, you need to get your shit together. Like, what are you doing? Like, you guys are so dumb. You know, just being this flat out mean. And I'm like...
What? So you like watching our videos so much that you obviously must like us, but you also like them so much that you are chewing me out, calling me a lazy piece of shit? Like, I've been working on this thing for two days. Like, you don't realize how hard it is to put this together. But it's such a weird concept. They like you so much, but they're like talking to you, literally trash talking you like they hate you.
Yeah. Because you're not posting a video for them to watch of you just doing whatever you normally do. It's unfortunate. Man, they are confused individuals. Yeah, I almost... Dude, I almost ripped some kids back. But honestly, it's just not... I don't really care. It's so hard not to. Yeah, but it's just like I'm not going to waste my time responding to something like that. You're just an idiot. If you DM us stuff like that, you're an idiot. I'd rather respond to somebody who has a nice message. That's true. Spend the time...
Saying something back to them. Which we try our best to do. Again, I think we've said it, but I would be lying if those comments weren't the ones that I wanted to reply to. And some of them, some people aren't quite as mean and some people are just like...
Yo, are you guys good? There was no post on Thursday. Seriously, if there's anything wrong, you should let us know or something. And I was like, no, it's good. We missed the Thursday for reasons that we can't explain over an Instagram comment. Yeah, to make a video for you, suddenly we end up having two videos this week. We had one Monday, and then we're going to have one on Thursday. It was still the same number of posts. And after a certain amount of time, I'm talking like,
Two weeks, no video, maybe three weeks, no video. You should be concerned unless we say something. Right. Yeah. For us. Even with like so many other, there's YouTubers that literally don't post. They sometimes post one video a month. Yeah. And that's, yeah. I wonder if they get reamed like we get reamed. Yeah, I know. But also like we're pretty like we've been on the schedule for so long. That's true. But still, it's just sometimes things come up.
It's just how it goes. Yeah, that's the tough thing about being on a schedule. I think being on a schedule works in our favor so much more. I think it works against us. Being on a schedule on YouTube I think works better.
better for most youtubers a lot a lot i think i think the the it creates a routine it creates a routine but mostly for the viewers and when the viewers are on routine to watch our videos at a certain time it boosts the numbers and everyone i'd agree with that but also it's for us because otherwise you can just keep saying like oh we'll do it tomorrow right we'll do it the next day yeah we got time
I think that's the difference between idea-based creators and then relationship-based creators. If you're an idea-based creator, it doesn't really matter when the title and thumbnail pops across your viewer's screen. They're going to click on it either way. But relationship, they build some kind of trust in you. And then as soon as you... It's like a routine. Right. It's a routine. And they're like, well, Thursday night.
I always watch the Seaboys video and then as soon as they miss one Thursday, they're like... They're like mad about it. Yeah, it kind of maybe threw off the routine. But it's tough because we are just as much idea-based as we are just vlogging whatever the heck we're doing. You know? Like, we try to make our videos as good as possible and as big as we can within reason.
So, like, that's where it sometimes comes in that way. Yeah. But moral of the story is that's why we're doing it. We're trying to make the best videos we can. Good. You know, I think it's like... We've also been doing it for a long time, Thursday nights. Yeah. You know, so it's not like we're switching up the schedule where it's like, yeah, we're on a schedule, but, you know, sometimes Mondays, sometimes Thursdays where it's like every single Thursday guaranteed Thursday.
And then the sprinkling Mondays. Yeah. So missing a Thursday is a little tougher. You're going to get more. We're going to get more comments if we miss a Thursday. Yeah. But if that makes you mad, your emotional response is wrong. You should just be like, well, I now I'm looking forward to Monday or like, I hope they're okay. Or I hope that they're getting something done. Or I'm excited. It'd be like me messaging Logan Paul. Like, dude, fuck you.
You need to get your shit together, man. I don't know what the fuck you're doing, but figure it out. You lazy asshole. You need to start posting. It's so weird. I don't know. It's just a weird way of encountering it.
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And maybe it's the way because we have like dealt or like now that we are creators, we see the other side of it. I just don't understand how someone can be upset. Yeah. Right. It doesn't make you. It is a compliment in a way though. That's true. It's a compliment. It doesn't like you make them any, doesn't make you like them any less. I'm glad that we're able to elicit.
such a strong response out of people because they must like it, obviously. It'd be a problem if nobody said anything. Yeah, right. Then I'm not complaining. I just think you could say it nicer. That's true. I did think it was funny when they called us cheap fucks for not hiring an editor. Dude, I wish we could. So, obviously, you guys know we are working with Polaris, and the new 23 sleds came out.
We just got to ride a few of them in a video. It was super cool. They boosted the trail sled. They put turbos. They put turbos, factory turbos on the trail sleds. Even the one, the short track, the 128. It is...
Bananas. Bananas. I can't believe that they could sell these to people. It's a safety hazard. Dude, the snowmobile I have right now is already so fast. Not everyone maybe has seen it, but you will see it. Ryan wheeling this thing, it just wheelies on its own. You could wheel it over backwards if you really wanted to. Like a snowmobile...
Really, you couldn't do this before, just very recently. You had to set it up. And in the same segment, also go over 100 miles an hour. Yeah. Bro, you can't legally drive a car 100 miles an hour. And you're telling me you can strap yourself to something? Going 100 on a snowmobile is very sketchy, in my opinion. Unless you know exactly where you're going. But if you're going across a lake, and you haven't done a test run...
It is so dangerous. There could be an ice ridge. There could be anything, you know? I remember one time when I was a kid, me and my dad, I must've been like maybe eighth grade. We're going and we were probably just going like maybe 50 or 60 across this lake. And still buzzing. We're buzzing. And anyways, he was like, uh, up here. And then I was behind him, uh, just by a little bit, but like next to him at the same time, if you get what I'm saying. And, uh,
He hits this ice ridge because it was kind of like the visibility wasn't great. Hits this ice ridge and I'm dead ass. So he hits it and flies in the air. Your dad? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was really high, like to the point where I was looking underneath. I saw the bottom of the snowmobile and I immediately grabbed the brake and like kind of like absorbed it and managed. I still jumped a little bit, but like I was able to prepare for it.
My dad, for a dude who should not be airborne. I mean, he landed, like, on the front of the snowmobile. Like, his leg, like, bent the handlebars down, broke the windshield. He, like, tumbled off to the side, which honestly, he landed pretty good for a dude who's never hit a jump in his life. But, I mean, it was... It just happened like that. And ever since then...
I'm like, I need to know where. Or I just let someone else, if they want to drive super fast, I'll ride right behind you. But I'm a distance myself. It was back before you had phones with internet on them, or at least we didn't have them. And he had this Garmin that we would use to like navigate the trails. And he had it in his pocket. And that's the part that like hit on his leg on the handlebar. And it like crunched it.
They, like, crunched it around, I remember. Holy shit. Oh, jeez. But, yeah, these new sleds that they just released are, like, legitimate rocket ships. Yeah. Because they used to use the turbos to make up for the power. You lost at elevation. And now they're doing it. On mountain sleds. Yeah, on mountain sleds. And now they're doing it on the trail sleds for around here, so they're just making more power. And if you think about the comparison of, like, a Subaru Impreza to a WRX, imagine strapping...
the same device to something that weighs like 400 pounds. Well, and that's the thing. They have, I shouldn't say as much as a WX, but...
Circling back to Ryan's TC, that had 180 horse. At the time, it didn't seem like a lot, but 180 horse, it was plenty. That's how much these snowmobiles have. And they weigh 400 pounds. So fast. I actually didn't see that coming. They don't, like, obviously disclose this information to us. I didn't see the Midwest Turbo coming. Because my brain, not necessary. Yeah, you don't really need it. They're so good right now, they have to start doing that. I know, yeah. I don't know. Then we rode it, especially the Assault, a little longer track.
If you guys like doing wheelies, that is... I don't know. They all do wheelies, though. Oh, yeah. I think an 850 will do wheelies. Yeah. So when they came and, like... So they show up with the sleds. They have these two sleds. And then we're like, wow, turbo snowmobiles. That's really cool. Like, you know, it was a complete surprise to us. And we had to sign these waivers because it was, like, a month before they were going to be announced. And these were, like, the two units. And they were going to be going around and showing them with other athletes. I literally spent...
like two minutes on it because i just didn't trust myself i'm not kind of saying this thing i'm not gonna wreck it i don't trust myself i don't want to be the one who does it and ben dang near erected at the end he hit a tree so i mean tap the tree basically but if you were going any faster he was going like 60 and then went down to zero and use the tree for help i couldn't see
My goggles were like completely iced up. So I came over a hill and I'm looking through the bottom part of my goggle, right? Everyone's been there. And I'm like, okay, I think this is a corner here. I was like, oh shit, this is a corner. Grab the brakes. Dude.
Did basically nothing. And I hit, like, a snow bank that just pushed me around a tree. And then I got smoked by a branch. So I was, like, in this tree well, like this, basically. And then the dude, Nels, that brought the sleds up to us that works for Polaris, just poked... I think he didn't even want to come look. He's the one that I was riding in this tree well, and he would...
I don't blame him. I feel bad. David goes, because David was up there with him. He goes, please tell me that isn't the new one. The problem is these are one-of-one snowmobiles. Like, they are hand-built prior to this. Like, they don't come off an assembly line like...
I don't know how much they're worth, but they're basically priceless. Being considered that they're the only ones and they need to use them as the marketing unit. Yeah, like this, this snowmobile is then going to go back to Polaris and then be used to take pictures of so they can market it for like the whole thing. They probably already took pictures maybe, but hopefully, but yeah. If they were smart, they did us last. They probably did, honestly. But then we're out there riding it and like, you know, I mean, say something had gone wrong. What?
You broke a prototype like one-on-one thing. It's pretty weird because I don't know what exactly they're going to do with those, but it's just like the marketing unit like cars and stuff that they'll send out. They crush them. I think they have to because there's not a VIN number on it or something. Why is that?
Probably because it's not built for consumers. It's not built to be bought. Yeah, that's why. They probably just don't have all the same warranty. It's such a waste. I don't know if they do it on a car, but when they're hand-building a machine, it's not considered OEM. So it would mean this big company is selling a modified car.
vehicle to a consumer. They should give us them and we can just launch them off a jump. They're going to get wrecked anyways. Might as well make it entertaining. They're watching this right now like, what's a great idea? I had this idea of, I mean, I clearly didn't come up with it, but...
As many times as we brought Whistling Diesel up in this podcast. Jesus, Mike. Don't suck his dick, dude. This is only my second time. Sorry. I'm not sucking his dick, man. He crunched up all the Toyota Hilux and then the two things and put them in the jars. I thought it was cool. And a lot of the things in cool. So we were like, what if the Fast and Furious movies crushed up...
Is there anything anywhere from their Hellcat to their Pagani? What if they crush that up and put it in jars? I would buy that. Part of the... I mean, the new Fast and Furious movies are getting kind of ridiculous, but I would buy that to support of it. Yeah, like these cars do get crushed after that. I would totally love to have a piece of Paul Walker's car. Granted, I think those ones go in museums, but... Yeah, I think some people are able to sell them. A lot of those new ones... Yeah. I just saw this guy... That's a pretty good idea, though, Mike. Yeah, that is a pretty good idea. You know what, Mike? What?
You should do that. No, CJ, you should do that with your Dodge Darts. I don't have anything against Dodge Darts. I just don't think that people should stick $10,000 into modifying it over the course of two years. No, I saw this guy. He blew up a Lamborghini, like a mid-2000s. Yeah, it's technically selling as an NFT, but he blew it up, and then he's going to be sending pieces out to people that buy a part of the project.
Okay. Very similar. Yeah, it's like, and I remember a lot of people saying that. So you buy, you spend money for this NFT, and I'm going to send you some scrap of a blown up car. Right. I love how that's looked at as stupid, but then you buy it without an NFT attached to it. Yeah, but Whistlin' Diesels is more of a memorabilia. That's what I'm saying. But if you attach an NFT to it, then all of a sudden it'd be this big NFT project, and it'd be like, okay, cool.
But I just think buying a part of a blown up Lamborghini is fucking dumb. Like, could you imagine sitting on this shelf and it's like in a jar and it's just a bunch of shit? And they're like, oh, what is that? Like, oh, some YouTuber's Lamborghini or some guy's Lamborghini. But in general, you don't like the idea. No, I like Whistling Diesel's idea. Or like, it has to be a memorabilia type item. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like a novelty item. Yeah, it's not just any guy going out. It's not just like blowing up.
Like if we went and did it to Ken's Bronco, everyone would be like, yo, I want a piece of Ken's Bronco. But if we went and got our... If we went out, literally walked to this car lot right now, bought a car, blew it up, and then sent it out, people would be like, I don't care. That's cool. You got to put... And that's the fun part about...
All the vehicles we buy on our YouTube channel is bringing the sentimental value to them. The Shambo was just a piece of shit Fiero kit car until we made something cool out of it. Dude, I saw a Shambo going for $60,000. So then that made me think, should we have not left ours in a snowbank? Maybe we did a good. Well, I was like, yo, everything else is appreciating in value ridiculously. Did our kit car too? Yeah.
Maybe. I've seen some ridiculous prices for kit cars, and it just makes me go, ugh. Ours was ridiculous. I'd be down to get rid of it for $60,000. Well, obviously. I'd be down to triple our money. I don't know.
I honestly really love that thing. It's just a content-making machine. It is. It's gold. And probably pretty hard to replace. Apparently it is for $60,000. Screw that, dude. I know what I've got. I know what I've got. It's fake. It'd probably be harder to obtain another fake Lamborghini of our caliber compared to just going and buying. I mean, obviously you could go and buy a new one if you have the money, but...
but you'd have a harder time finding a fake Lamborghini than... Ours is nice in that every time I look at it in the snow bank, it does make me feel a little bit bad. I don't feel that bad about it. I was over here... Oh, the seals are all terrible. Yeah, but as long as it's not melting, it doesn't really matter. I think it's tough. I actually...
Well, then that's when we got to get the snow off and keep it dry. But I feel less bad because we leave it with the windows down while it's pouring rain. That's got to be way wetter than the snow melting in. And every time I watch it, I go, man, I hope we get another snowstorm so the Lambo just covers completely up. We should set a little live stream up on it, and then people can guess when the Lambo will be uncovered in the snow.
You know, it's like when penguins are being born or when the ice goes off, you go like, okay, guess the date. When penguins are born. Yeah, the zoos do it. Like when they have like a baby polar bear or something like that that's going to be born, they like set up a little cam or an eagle and then hatches and then people. Well, those are a little bit higher ticket items than the penguins. Could we sell that? Like sell raffle tickets to it?
He could run ads on the live stream. That'd be so dumb. I mean, not the ads thing. I love the idea. So is it dumb or do you love it, Mike? I love the idea if we add one thing, we go put the Shambo on the ice and then it falls through. I don't want to do it with the Shambo though either. I like that thing. Let's do it with your WRX, Ben. Let's do it with the Ranger. I don't know if I like that idea as much. I'm pretty sure it was cheaper than our fake Lamborghini. Yeah.
I don't even know if that's legal because we'd have to retrieve it, right? People do that in our pond. I think that would be completely illegal. Oh, maybe. Our pond is only a foot and two inches deep. I think our pond is grass right now. Yeah. It's toasting. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't take it very well if you deliberately sink a vehicle to the bottom of the lake. Yeah, I mean, Vlog Creations drove their RC car into the pond and it took them freaking two weeks to retrieve. There's a little bit of a difference between a Ford Ranger and an RC car. Well, that's what I'm...
That's what I'm getting at. What does that have anything to do with it? If it took them that long to find their RC car... I think we could find a car, Mike. I meant to get it out. To get it out. That's a totally different story. It's not like we're bobbing with a magnet. They weren't either. It's still a car, and they still couldn't get it out.
It is an RC car. Are you delusional? You know what we should do? So you're saying we would find it and get it out within days? I don't want to ruin this moment of Mike trying to make sense. What are you saying right now? I guess I'm saying, like, how long would it take us to retrieve the Ranger from the lake? I don't know. A day? A day?
Oh, man. That's pretty good. Dude, you call a scuba diver. They come here. And what do they attach it to? They report it to the DNR. The DNR shows up. Our good friends, they'd be pissed. Well, they'd probably be pretty happy. They'd write us a ticket. They'd probably make the news. And then, actually, it'd probably tick a lot of people off because there'd be fuel, oil going into it. But you just call a scuba diver team. They come in. They attach a floaty, and they pull it up. People sink their vehicles.
That's in the winter. Hold on. Wait, that's in the winter. That's what I'm getting at. Has anybody... That's what I'm getting at. It's not deliberate in the winter. All they have is these big floaties. They're super simple. You go down there. Just float it up. You attach it. And then air it up. And then it just airs up. I didn't know that. It carries it right to the surface. And then you tug it to shore. But where I was going, it'd be really fun to get our scuba diving license.
And you go at the bottom of the lakes and you start getting... Because there's so much weird stuff at the bottom. Is this where we learn Ben's also scared of lakes? I hate that shit. It is going to be very creepy. I hate that shit. Dude, we should do that. Because it's weird. Going back to how farmers used to just throw their vehicles in the back of these...
woods and stuff, they would used to go out in the lake for some reason and drop like garbage, garbage, but also like garbage, which is kind of weird maybe because there's like cars and stuff in some of these lakes. There's a car on DL still.
Was that car stolen? Why'd you put it in? Because it seems like a lot of work to go drop it off in the lake. Were they hiding it? They fell through in the winter and they just never covered it. But they're also, like we were talking about how the lakes were way down. Like the lake used to be there. Yeah, there's like a sidewalk and foundations. Oh, you think? Yeah. But I think it'd be cool. Also, just imagine if we're going across the middle of the lake and we do happen to sink it 80 feet down. If you have your own scuba diving license...
We don't have to call the scuba diver guy, and we just swim down, hook that thing up with a really, really long rope, and we pull it to shore. With Ryan's wakeboard boat. And we're going to have Ken on the back holding the rope.
That is where I wonder. And so you say 80 feet deepest part in Big C is about that. We get our scuba diving thing license. What can we do? I mean, dude, bro, 20 feet can't be that hard. I agree. I think you can go as deep as you want. Okay, right. And so Ben's just like, I don't like that feeling. I'm not trying to go deeper than 30 feet. It's going to be scary and it's going to be dark. It's going to be cool. I don't think it's that deep.
I'm down to do it with you, CJ. I think the problem is going to be finding the time to get scuba certified. Each morning, CJ and I are getting up at like 5 a.m. to go get fucking scuba certified. I tell you what, CJ and I will get scuba certified and you guys can skydive. Oh, I was going to get my pilot license. You get pilot and then you guys can skydive out of my airplane. And then we'll skydive with Ryan and CJ strapped to our chest and then release them right when we get above the lake.
And then you guys keep going. This is brilliant. Who's going to film, though? Oh, shoot. Evan. We'll have a filmer by then. We'll just strap GoPros on your guys' heads. The airplane license actually is a really good idea. I was listening to, I guess it was Nelk's podcast, and Wires Only was saying that it's like...
You buy an airplane, and it's all tax-deferred. Oh, yeah. You can deduct the entire thing. The whole thing. Yeah, and maybe we should buy an airplane. I mean, obviously, it would be a little dingy. It would have propellers. It wouldn't be a jet or nothing. So would we be able to put an airstrip on our land, or is that not quite long enough? I don't think it is. But it would be cool. Maybe.
No. It'd be a real small little airplane. We'd have to talk to whoever owns that other part and say, you'd be surprised though. Airplanes aren't like the really small personal or like couple passenger airplanes aren't that expensive. No, you're like, they're not as much as you think. I'm not saying 50. Right. And that's still a lot of money, but like you, when you think of an airplane, you think like that's a little cheap. No way. That's affordable. You know, when he gets, dude, I'm going to get my pilot license. Great. I don't know when.
I'm going to find time, but I'm going to do it eventually. Because how sick would that be to just, oh, we got to go somewhere. It would be very useful. If we're going out west, we got to get a nice plane then. Just you guys for I don't know how many hours. It would definitely be a lot to earn. Instead of 12 hours.
Eight hours. I'm just shook. It's freezing up there because we're just... I'm dialed in. Ryan's over there and Mike's passed out in the back. Sounds pretty nice, actually. Yeah, it does. No, dude. Wouldn't that be sick, though? Yeah. If one of us had our pilot license, for how many times we would use that? Yeah, and I'm not shooting it down at all. I'm just like, this is only if we have our own plane, right? Like I said, you can't do it. You shouldn't down my plane, Mike.
I'm not like shooting it down, but I was like target practice. Um,
How, like, if this is, we have to have our own plane for that, right? Is that what you're saying? No, you can technically, you don't have to. I think it's easier. Oh, not to get it. I'm just saying, but like for us to fully utilize, not, I mean fully, but I'm saying like, what do we do if we don't have a plane and you have your pilot's license? Do we go? I mean, if I had my pilot license, I'd probably buy a plane. Okay. That's what I was kind of asking. Maybe with the company money. Yeah. Ken's paycheck maybe. Yeah.
But Ken likes flying. Or does he? You wouldn't like flying in my plane. No. He only likes it when the... I love CJ. That's what he's like, dude. Like, the planes that we can afford, it's going to be... They're going to be small, and they're going to get shook. But you're going to get there fast. Faster than a car. Ken only likes flying when there's a little flight attendant wearing a tight dress bringing him booze. And he's sitting in the front, and I'm sitting in the back. As far away from you as possible. Ken ain't hopping in my plane. Yeah, he gets in, he goes, um...
No complimentary peanuts then? They're here. Just fucking pour them out. I'm flying. Speaking of planes, one of the Ukraine pilots shot down like six planes and then now it just came out that it was like fake or it was like the ghost of Kvive or something. Yeah, no, I saw that there was fake. Do you know that's fake?
Well, the sources that said it was real are just as sourceable as the places that said it was fake. That's why I feel like there's so much fake shit constantly. Dude, it's just crazy. Just think about this. Think about this. Obviously, unless you live under a rock, Ben, you know that Russia is invading Ukraine. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so there's this Ukraine...
Ukrainian fighter pilot that supposedly shot down a bunch of Russians like fighter jets or planes or whatever and now it's like fake but my point that I guess I was gonna say and Ryan was like yeah I don't know what's real because yeah people saying it's fake there's people saying it's real and they're just as reliable as each other this is the first ever war in a time where
everything is so accessible you know on social media you know like people in russia are able to like be like we don't stand for this imagine if they didn't have social media you could probably be probably sitting over here be like dude all the russians are like nuts like they want this but it seems like most of the russians are against it then for it i'm not sure about the social media side of things i wouldn't be surprised if it was with that too but i know like
most of the media in Russia is all tailored to... Well, for them, but they're posting this on social media and it's making its way over here from Russia is what I'm saying. That's what I mean. So, like, we know now that there's a lot of people in Russia that don't support the war. And you're also able to see all the terrible things going on, like...
you typically wouldn't be captured because everyone's got a phone and everyone's got a 4K camera on it. Isn't it crazy to see the Ukrainian videos of just out their window? These bombs and shit. It's terrifying. I feel so bad for them. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's so dumb. I said this in my friend's group chat. I said,
I use the term pretty cool, but pretty interesting this war is captured in 4K. Never before would you ever get to see 7,000 cell phone clips of everything. The day of, the minute of. Dude, it's just... It's so real and raw, obviously. Scary. And it's just terrible. Have you guys heard of Anonymous? You know, like the dudes who wear the masks, they're basically hackers. Yeah. And they...
They made a response. Again, you can assume this is real, but it's just a dude in a mask talking. But they threatened. They're like, and this isn't just Anonymous saying this. It's like, everyone's like, we're seeing what's going on here. No one likes it. No one has Putin's back. Anybody with their head on straight is like, this is...
Fucked up, dude. So what was anonymous? And so they said, um, uh, you know, we're with, we're with everybody. We're with NATO. We're with, we're for these sanctions. We will do everything we can to, uh,
hack your government. We're taking down sites left and right and they're like, that's just the start. But they're like, we'll do everything we can and every corner of the world will come after you via hackers. And that's just one way to attack. I wonder how secure they are. You want to know something really admirable about this whole thing though? That you would have never known who Ukraine's
president is. I didn't have a clue about it before this, but that guy is amazing. What a great president. I guess I don't know a whole lot on him, but just from what I've been seeing, he's got his boots on the ground fighting with the people. It's crazy. Pretty much, I would say, 99.9% of presidents wouldn't do that. Don't do that. That is just awesome, I think. What's your guys' opinion on Ukraine asking for normal civilian help?
I think that they're doing what they have to do. They're so small. It's like, but imagine this, Ben, do you think that they're getting, if, if normal civilians are fighting alongside of like very highly trained professionals, do you think that they're almost just getting in the way? I don't know if they're necessarily fighting. I guess I don't know exactly how that's working, but if you're just defending your home with a gun,
And they gave you a gun because... Is that what they're doing? You're better off than just handing out... Yeah, they're basically handing out weapons. But I think you're able to do as little or as much as you want. But if it were me, I think that's what I would be like, cool, I'm armed now. Yeah, I don't know enough, I guess. I'm not unarmed. I'm not useless. They're probably more useful with it. Imagine this, though, Ben. If...
So at first I was like, fuck, that would suck, dude. Like if I was being invaded by Russia and I'm, you know, Ukraine's rather smaller, significantly smaller than them, aren't they? Yeah, quite a bit smaller military as well. It seems kind of like doomsday. You'd be like maybe in your best interest to run, but you have to leave everything you have built, everything behind. So if Russia or someone was invading here,
the United States, you wouldn't run. You'd be like, I'm fighting, you know, you'd, you'd go down with it. At least I would. Yeah. Like you're not gonna, it's, you know, it's their home.
Because it's tough. And then, like, I mean, I thought about that in, like, our position. Well, where do you run? I guess you run to Canada. Yeah, but screw that. You can't get in unless you're vaccinated. I wouldn't do that. And so, you know, it's just an example. But it's like, yeah, can you imagine relocating to just a province in Canada? But not just relocating, just getting out of there and trying to get across the border. No, I think you'd.
Kind of try to hold your own. Just imagine, and I really, this, I hope this doesn't happen. And I'm going to, this isn't going to happen. Just going to say it. But imagine if they did like Russia invaded here, like Biden's old policy on like taking guns and stuff.
Now we're all unarmed. That's what I'm saying. We don't have any ammo. We ain't got shit. An unarmed person is pretty much useless. Is he going to start handing them all back out? Yeah. It's just crazy. This is like a time you just never really thought something like this was going to happen in this day and age in established countries. Russia just seemed off to me. It's the same. Even when like...
Trump and Putin are working together, I'm like, oh, so we're good with Russia then, I think. Russia just had a lot of pent-up aggression, and they were just waiting. You know he's been planning this forever. I watched a little documentary on Putin's rise. He was just waiting for Trump to get out of office. I don't know exactly why he picked the timing right now, but...
It is interesting. He waited almost until he saw a little bit of weakness, maybe. I get a kick out of seeing Joe Biden talking shit to Putin. To preface all of this, none of us are experts on this. This is us spilling our feelings.
talking about what we do know and what we uh i guess think some of our opinions but we're not experts on it no i think we're just watching it like anyone else like on on instagram or twitter or facebook or really whatever you see that's i think the tough part i mean on a really really real note i'm like posting about the the 23 polaris leads that just came out today like i
I'm hyping my followers up for this, which is a big deal to us, but there's a full-on war going on across the world. Yeah, it really puts things in perspective. It is a crazy time, but hopefully everything can resolve. Resolve with the least amount of destruction. Yeah, right.
Well, guys. Yeah, we kind of took off on a serious turn there. That was, yeah. That was all just right off the cuff. We didn't really have much to talk about, but it was still fun. Hopefully you guys enjoyed listening to it. It's about as real as it gets, I'd say. But, yeah, thank you guys for watching. I think we dropped three pieces of content this week, so we're happy about that. Three videos. Hey, if you guys are lucky, I might even drop an Insta pic.
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