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Is that a drone? Yeah, but why? Oh, God. Dude, I do not know if this is a good idea. Ken's crashed the drone like three times in the last month.
And if you crash it again, like... You know, I've just been thinking a lot, like, how can we take this podcast to the next level? And I think, like, the camera work. Imagine having the drone just filming the whole thing. I love that. It won't affect the audio. No, it should be fine, honestly. Should be good. Well, anyways, I'm going to click go fly. Let's see how this goes. Watch this thing just zing straight into the ceiling. I'm pretty excited now at this point. CJ, have you ever flown the drone? It's working. Oh, fuck. Yeah.
Oh fuck. Is it recording? Yeah, yeah, we're going.
Alright guys, welcome back to the Life on Open podcast. Hold on man, I gotta pan over to you. What the fucking A? I really don't fly this thing much. Alright, hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you for listening. Today we got our good friend Justin Hanson on. He was our second ever guest. No, second ever podcast. First ever guest. Sweet. And he's back. Yeah, a little bit breezy in the studio today. We got a high chance of blizzard here in Cormorant, Minnesota. If you look to our left here, it appears really nice and aquatic, but I promise you it's frozen on the top of that lake.
All right, then on the other side of the podcast. Oh, no, pan that way. My bad. We got CJ. How's it going, guys? Otherwise known as our drone operator, also our cameraman. And then Micah. And we're going to get another turn. We have Ryan's sister, Ryan's girlfriend. Peanut gallery. My girlfriend. She looks like she's maybe scared for her life.
Yeah, do some tricks. Get it in there. Get it in there. Get it closer. Hold on. It's trying to land itself. It just... Hold on. Is someone recording this with a... Record this with a phone. Oh, Ryan's got it. CJ. Wait, why is it going up?
going up. Get it more interactive with the guests. Yeah. I'm trying, but it doesn't like having a ceiling three feet above it. It looks like it could use a haircut. Let's give him a quick trim off the top. Hey, well, it was... Oh, okay. Put it in sport mode? I got this thing in fast mode now. Oh! Jeebus. Okay, here we go, guys. You guys get to see our whole podcast set up today. This is all the more reason to watch on YouTube. Okay, I'm gonna move in.
Above the camera. No. Yeah, above the camera. I got it. I got it. I'm an expert drone operator. What's up, baby? You look good. Alondra.
Sydney. Aw. Okay. Mark? You got the camcorder right behind you. I'm going to fly this into the merch shipping operation right now. Dude, if this works. Oh, fuck. See, I get mixed around on the sticks. Like, which. Holy fuck, I'm close to the wall. I get mixed around on the sticks as far as. It's all right. It's only sheetrock. Oh. Oh, you're good now. Hey, Ryan, maybe go get a. Holy fudge, guys. We're really in this. Good.
We're in this. Normally, we can't fly this thing in an open field that might have, like, one pine tree on the other end, like, 200 yards away. We'll manage to crash it every single time. CJ's manning this thing pretty good right now. Dude, I'm not trying to, like, throw shade. Well, normally... Oh, there's Ken. He's got to be confused. Spotted.
He spooked. Ken spooked. Ken had some little smart remark, and he got the hell out of it. Oh, he's gone. It's good to see him taking the trash out because he walked right past the trash this morning, put two things out, and he just walks right past it and goes to the shop. I'm like, he could have just taken it, dude. Like, you have a Bronco.
All right, let's go check out how these kids are doing. This is how you monitor how people are working. Without them knowing that you're there. Yeah, totally inconspicuous. Oh, fuck. Holy fuck! That was really fast. So we got Ken's down there shipping orders from the merch shop, and he's got four of our younger good buddies in there working away. Ken's a little sweatshop.
It looks like they're doing pretty good. Yeah, they've shipped out like 800 orders already, and it's only been about a day. Hey.
Yeah, that's right, you little shits. Get back to work. We've got a live view of the minions. It's kind of weird not being able to hear the hovering of the drone right now. Dude, I'm really... I should be an FPV drone. I shouldn't have said that. I'm going to crash this thing now. We should get an FPV. We've been saying that forever. I think FPV drones, like, you know, the ones that... Is that those, like...
They can swoop and go around. All right. No, because it's like actually connect. It's like a GoPro connected to the drone. So, you know, it tilts with it. Yeah. With the drone. You see, I mean, flip over.
Oh, fuck. There's lights there. I genuinely think the FPV drones are like the future of action sports. Like the dirt bike clips with the FMX rams they have with that. CJ, you got a big future ahead of you. Pretty soon they're going to be slapping full-on cameras on them. Oh, yeah. Are you flying it back up here? Yeah, I just have to check for myself. If I crash this drone, don't worry, guys. We'll take out a Ken's paycheck. Okay. He's the only one. You can hear it again now. Actually working right now.
You guys get to see, like, the shop like never before. Oh my gosh! Oh, it just buzzed the wall. Bro! You were probably an inch away from the wall. I gotta land it back where I took it off. Just for my own, like, ego, I guess. Alright, don't hit the cam. Holy shit. I'm so impressed. You guys, I think you just witnessed history. I think you're right. The first ever... Let me just let it land.
The first ever podcast segment filmed with a drone. That was amazing. That was so cool. Talk about entertainment. That was great. Speaking of first ever and landings of sorts, Justin, you're a smart guy. Was the moon landing real? Let's just get right into it.
I don't know. Is this not the most American thing ever to fake that, though? They were probably like, oh, well, the Russians made it first. Well, we'll just say that we landed on the moon, and then we'll just fake that we put a flag on it. But I think we actually did it. Then why have we never been back, or have we been back? I don't think we've been back, right? Nope.
No point. Yeah, what's... I mean, kind of been there, done that, I guess. Yeah, but if you can make it there once, why would you just be like... No point in going back. I'm just waiting for, like, one of the, you know, one of our local billionaires on planet Earth to just, like, open an amusement park there or something. Like, how cool would that be if there was, like, a roller coaster on the moon?
That would be dope. That would be dope. I was listening to a podcast with Elon Musk, and the guy asked Elon Musk, is this Mars travel going to just be for the uber rich and wealthy to escape Earth? And he said, no, actually the quite opposite. If you're rich, why would you want to leave and have the possibility of dying? He was saying that there's a 70% chance that
He'll make it to Mars in his lifetime. But he was like, we don't even know if you can get back yet. Once you get there, you're going to be working around the clock, setting up camp. It's going to be like terrible living. No one's going to want to do that. No one's going to want to do that. Just go there to work? Yeah. So he was like, why would the uber rich want to go to Mars when you might die or you got to work like the entire time? Yeah.
if a billionaire wanted to live somewhere super like cold hot and desolate they could just live in the middle of a desert and they don't it's just it's just the adventurous type where it's like i want to be the first guy to walk on mars but until there's really like tons of resources or the ability to like colonize it i don't think people are going to be on mars for a while well uh speaking of colonizing land quick announcement what'd you do this morning ben
What did you... You signed your name? Well, don't tell him about that, but the other thing. Dude, you... God-nicing land. I'm not that... Where are we going with this, Mike? I think it was yesterday morning. What are you saying? Shoot, dude. I've been stranded.
at uh the iworks house colonizing land we just you just signed your name on the new land that we bought we bought 40 acres it's super exciting right i wasn't sure if that's what you were talking about let's get in that actually after you talk about where you ryan alondra and uh sydney have been uh the past what was it 48 hours you've been stranded out on ryan's point as you saw in the well i don't know when this podcast dropped but when we had to go save ryan and jake
You guys were literally stranded out there. Yeah, it was that road. Ryan's sitting there like he's about to do that. It was tough. Ryan's been snowblowing. Really? Ryan's been snowblowing for, I don't know, collectively 10 hours in the last two days.
Jesus. No, you snowboard from, what was that, 6, 7 a.m. to 2? Yeah, I guess, yeah. In a big-ass tractor. Just today, yeah. Insane. You got to pop up that picture if you saved it of how deep the snow was. So it wasn't even, like, snowing. I think it snowed an inch or two, and that road, as you guys saw in the last episode,
or two ago. Holy, it looks like no one, it blows over for one day and it looks like no one lives there in the winter. What would have happened if like an emergency happened? Like let's say Micah had a heart attack.
We would have had to call you. We would have called you guys. What? I would come and got you on my snowmobile? I suppose that's literally the only option. We don't have the Maverick with tracks anymore. Right. And yeah, I was just going to say the raising. Ambulance ain't getting through that shit. That drift was four feet tall. I mean, you could call it. If it was so bad, you could call a helicopter.
That's true. Helly. That'd actually be pretty badass besides for the heart attack part. It'd be like 30 grand, but you could do it. Wait. Health insurance now. Wait. Does health insurance cover helicopter rides? Well, thank God we got health insurance after Ken's birthday party. Seriously. Those guys must... What? What'd you say again? Helicopter wouldn't have flown yesterday. Oh. Helicopter wouldn't have flown. I would have had to drive it out there.
Dude, I got the trailer and that's just, there's no way. I would have came out on my snowmobile with one of those shitty ass little plastic sleds with the little rope and I would have just hung it behind and just fucking flew with my... Bouncing. Yeah. Yeah.
But yeah, so we got out finally after a day and a half. Thanks to Ryan. 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 now, can we get to it? Oh, yeah, the land. Yeah. The local colonizer over here. The local colonizer. You know, I've just been out planting my seed. I didn't know if that's what you were like getting at, Mike. I was like, oh, yeah. I'm calling. I thought he was saying seed.
That's what colonizing means. It doesn't mean planting flowers, man. You're like creating a community with your seed. Ben's colonizing his new neighborhood on his 40 acres of land that he bought. Yeah, no. So we just closed on 40 acres of land. If our shop is right here and then there's a little sliver right here where there's a house, we bought 40 acres right here. So it's pretty much right next to our shop. Because what are the odds? Literally.
Literally, we got so lucky. No one really sells anything around here. And for it to be right next to us, and also we got it for a good-ass deal. You guys got a really good deal. I don't know. Literally, it was up on the market for like two minutes. I don't know how we just got really lucky. Someone tipped us off. I feel like it could have really ran up if we wouldn't have snagged it when we did. Yeah, it did. And then...
Um, they did this. So if anybody out here is going to buy something that is under like in, you know, there's obviously not much supply. So like the demand of trying to buy a house or a piece of property right now is huge. And so if you want to buy something really bad, put into it an acceleration clause, I believe it's called where basically if somebody's bidding against you or offering, making an offer on a piece of property or house as well, if you have this clause in,
Um, basically it'll take their offer and then add like $2,000 or a thousand dollars, whatever you want to do. So then your offer immediately is just above theirs. So then the seller will just be like, well, I don't want to mess around with it too much more. They're going to offer more 2000 more than they did. So I'll just sell to them. That's what happened with us. So it didn't otherwise, like if we wouldn't have had that, they would have just been like, Oh, another higher offer. We'll just take that one. Isn't it nice though? You guys,
Like to see a plan coming together and working. Like we've been making noise here for three years trying to get our neighbors to sell. And we finally got one down. You know, it's just, it's just a matter of time. We're going to start weeding them out. Slowly take over. Yep.
Drive them out of town. Yeah, it's the best, dude. I love it. I love it. Seems like the locals have been extra spicy at us lately, too. So it's just great that we're kind of like planting our seed even deep. There you go. Like planting our seed. Yeah, we're like buying up around here. So, yeah, we just closed out. We didn't want to get too excited. We haven't even looked at the place yet or explored it at all. We're saving that for. From, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. From the road, you can see everything that you're getting, but we have not explored it. So instead of doing that on video, we're going to do woods, swamp, which normally you wouldn't want swamp on your land. But for us, we're like, fuck yeah, swamp. We can drive through that. It's perfect. Yeah, so it's going to be sweet. So you have to... I don't know if that'll be out by now, but if not, something to look forward to, I guess. Yeah, because I mean, just to put into comparison what Ben was drawing out, what we have now is...
Tiny compared to what that is. We have two acres. We have two acres. Our track is built on one acre. Right. So, you know, there's trees on there. We'll pop up a picture, actually. This will just put it into comparison. Put it into conspiracy. Conspiracy. We didn't land on the moon. That didn't happen. We're going to colonize our land. No. So this is how...
what our chunk of land looks like compared to the new spot so obviously it's a little bit of an upgrade people are like what are you gonna do with it we're like i don't know we'll figure that out that we get 40 fucking acres dude imagine the pit bike track you could make on the whole okay so then that that part almost stresses me out that means we have to like i mean love to have rich back that means we gotta like basically redo the all the hard work that we just put in on the old one
Granted, we could dial it in. It's like the old one's kind of boring now. Okay, so that's why I'm happy. Start fresh anyways. You guys could put it back in the woods where there's that hill going up and down. That would be so sick. Yeah, that would be dope. Or at least part of it. So I think, and then on the other half, we were talking about this.
You know, we're going to build a little neighborhood. We're all going to have our houses. This is like a long-term plan. All you ladies sitting over there, you're going to love to hear this. We're going to build some houses, right? Just five houses for all of us. Like a cul-de-sac. Yep, a cul-de-sac. So this is going to be kind of a little colony, like a cult some people may call it. Anyway, so we're just going to basically provide – then we'll have our kids there. And it will be great for them because we're going to put up a bar –
A strip club. And then what was the other one? I couldn't remember. It was a bar, strip club. What was the last thing you need? A casino. Oh, casino. Definitely not a school. You know, they'll just keep shit close and everything's within arm's reach. They'll all be homeschooled technically. Have a great upbringing, yeah. But they'll be able to bounce around between the bar to the casino to the strip club. I just grabbed the domain and stuff for Colony Boys TV.
Oh, that's great. Oh, hey, people are like, what are you going to do when YouTube's done? Pass it off to our kids?
You're going to be real degenerate with the upbringing they're going to have. Gambling, strip clubs, and the bar. All the necessities. Cormorant does need a strip club, though. Just saying. It would pop off in the summer. All the people running around here with money. Can you imagine? I don't know who the fuck is going to dance, but bad of the dancers. We'd probably put you out there, Ben. It'd be greasy. Honestly, no offense.
To the locals. Well, actually, I shouldn't say that because I can't even think of any local that would be like, yeah, I'd love to be a stripper. We'd have to fly them in.
Might be worth the investment. I don't know. It's just another venture we could look out to. It's the most ridiculous visual. It's just like the 14 residents of Cormorant all in the strip club watching somebody who flew in from Vegas for $5,000 and like, this is the life. Well, we'd have Ben up there, though. Yeah, true. We'd have him in like a little marble bag with his fucking whatever you got going on down there. Yeah. Speaking of marble bags. Oh, jeez. Dude, I can't.
Bro, for some reason I was imagining you in a leather print marble bag. You were imagining him just like. Sorry, not leopard. I meant leopard. Leopard print, sure. That works too. Yeah, so there's this show that I've been watching. Actually, I just watched. I binged it last night. All of us have been watching it.
I've been telling you to watch this for the past two weeks. So good, dude. Pam and Tommy. It's on Hulu. And it's the story of Tommy Lee, who's the Motley Crue drummer, and Pamela Anderson, who is an actress in Baywatch. And just like, she was just like known for being hot, basically. Dude, it's the craziest story. Yeah, it's just, I think it's really exciting for us because like,
For one, they're doing a great job of making the show. But also, we know who Tommy Lee is from watching The Dirt and obviously listening to Motley Crue music. But we didn't grow up in that time where we got to watch it all happen online.
In the moment. And obviously everyone knows who Pamela Anderson is, whether you know what she looks like. You've heard the name. You just know she's known for being hot, basically. Yeah, dude. You mentioned, you were like, dude, it was just genius of them. Yeah, genius. For both of their careers. Yeah. But when you watch it back in the Hulu documentary, or whatever you want to call it,
It's like they weren't even thinking about it from, like, a career standpoint. They were just, like... I think they were just maniacs. They were just that crazy. Yeah. And it shows... Dude, he was, like, the epitome of a rock star. Yeah. Like, living that rock star lifestyle. Just blowing money, drinking. Dude, I was watching it thinking, like, no one acts like this anymore. I feel you can't. Yeah. I've said it once before, but cameras...
Yeah. You'd be freaking in trouble pretty quick. You hear stories about people back then and it's just like, it's so much, it's just like tears above what happens. Yeah. Cause you get away with so much. Yeah. But, but think about this. They ended up kind of getting in trouble.
with, I mean, not necessarily probably helped them ultimately, but in the time, it seems like it ruins their relationship because they have this sex tape and there's like this worker that he doesn't pay ends up breaking into his house and stealing his safe. And in the safe, there's a sex tape. And it was like the first like viral celebrity sex tape because they put it on the internet. It was like, right. It just happened to be like,
Right in the pocket of time when the internet was like this thing and no one knew what it was, which also makes the show really interesting because it's like, you know, they're like, what's the internet? Yeah. And then, you know, they show that and like the computers and how slow it was, but...
It just took off basically by storm. It was really interesting hearing people talk about the internet because they were scared of it. They had absolutely no idea. It didn't make any sense to them and they thought it was useless almost. Imagine thinking that
These days, it's kind of like... I think people think the same thing about crypto and NFTs. Right, right. It's kind of what people say about crypto right now. Yeah. I think... So CJ just kind of outed the show, but also not really. Not really. I'm saying I think that was really important. But yeah, how crazy is it that they didn't understand the internet at all? 1995, around when we were being born, besides...
uh, Ben over here, but no, it is weird to think about the internet was just thing. And they're all like, so intrigued by it. And now like, imagine your life without it. Also, it wouldn't even work when I, how fitting is it that the first thing to blow up on the internet is a sex tape.
I mean, I think it was just one of the things, but yeah. It was like... I didn't even know that was a thing. Isn't it weird? Yeah. Well, right. We didn't like... We were young, but I do remember... It's funny because I see the computers on that show, and my dad had a computer like that. He was one of the first people... Or not first people, but he was probably one of the early adapters to the computer. So he had this old...
I think it was a Windows computer. It was white, and it looked just like the ones in the show. Thing was, like, the biggest hunk of junk. Oh, yeah. Because he kept it for so fucking long. And just like you were saying earlier, every five years, it's like it's... It was like... Back then, I swear, it was like every year. So, like... Dude, I swear, it was like 2003. And we were... I had to deal with this, like...
1994 Windows computer that had dial-up connection and it was so slow. It had a handle. You had to crank it. I didn't have that, but it was so fucking slow. It was literally useless. It was complete garbage. What was the first things you guys used to look up on the internet or on the computer when you get access to it? Do you guys remember addicting games? Oh, yeah.
That was the shit. I never could play it on my computer, but I'd go over to my friends. I'd go to the library and play that. Because I had this fucking dial-up computer. It was terrible. Oh, it wouldn't even load? Dude, it was useless. So, like, for the record, you said you had an old computer. Dial-up doesn't make it any slower. I stayed up.
We had like a computer in like 2013. So it's like a new laptop, like plenty of speed and shit. We still had dial-up. We live in the country. And so I'm like, this computer sucks, dude. It's so slow. It's just like tying up the phone line, dude. I can't make a call. Who even has landlines anymore though? So it's like a thing of the past. Yeah, it is crazy how far it's came in what, 15 years? Yeah, 15. Yeah. So I mean, back to the point of doubling every two years. Yeah.
Land lines are fun, though. Fuck it. We'll be on Mars tomorrow. Let's do it. What was the first thing you ever searched up, Ben? Dude, I was on this. Oh, do you guys remember Line Rider? Yeah. Line Rider. I was big on that. People still use that today. I was really big on it. I was in second grade, and I wanted to get a pocket rocket. Are you going to say something else? Hold on. No, I was like, no. Yeah. And then I just remember looking up boobs. Yeah. Yeah.
Dude, funny story. I swear to God. I don't know what grade I was in. I was young, though. And the very first ad thing I ever looked up was literally Pamela Anderson boobs. Actually, how full circle is that? Very strange. Yeah.
But I was just like a little kid. I had been fucking. Why? So, yeah, I was like, did you know? Because that was like 10 years. It's just like a name you hear. I don't know. It's just a name you hear. I'm not joking. I think mine was probably the same thing. Yeah, it was just a thing. People would just like you heard like older people like, oh, yeah, Pamela Anderson. And you just type it right in on Google Images. Yeah. Dude, you'd get all sweaty. Do you think kids still do that? Or do you think they just dive into the deep end? Those kids probably got way too much to look at. Oh, yeah.
accessibility is just bad for kids at this point. It's like, was porn still a thing though?
I don't think you had videos. I don't fucking know. It just seemed like images on Google Images. Just hot girl boobs. You know how many guys listening right now are probably like, yo, I did that same thing. Everybody did. Who didn't? Who didn't? Maybe Mike because he was at the library. What'd you do? Were you looking up boobs at the library? And then printing them off.
Printing them up, bringing them home. I'd pay, it's like 10 cents to print off a picture. The librarian just comes over, he's like looking over Mike's shoulder and he's just like, it's fine. No, no, I did not do that. Dude, you can't go to the library and do any of that. Don't even just stick to the script at the library.
Just stick to what screen? This guy knows from experience. But no, I think my first thing was MSN Messenger. Pop on there. Because that was way before you had a phone. What is that? It's, I mean, just a chat room. But like, for me, it was just only with my buddies. Or like, or girls or whatever. But like, it was just like...
getting on Xbox now. You just get on. You guys going to be on tonight? That's what it is. Was it called MSN Messenger? I thought it was something else. At least that's what I use. It's like the modern day Discord. It was just quick. Boom, boom, boom. It was instant Messenger. Modern day group chat, to be honest. You could just hop in. And you had to do that at the library.
I did that at home dial up can you imagine I like tied up the phone lines yeah totally could tied up the phone line so that I could talk to my friends that were at school that I talked to all day yeah
I want to be a part of it, you know? Yeah. I was like the opposite, I guess. I never saw the value in that. But something that did work out in my favor was literally we canned our computer and got Wi-Fi right in the perfect pocket of Halo 3. So like I got an Xbox, had Xbox Live, and I got to play that in like the old age. Kind of off topic, but... So you got rid of your computer and then got Wi-Fi? Well, he got rid of that one and got a new one that could...
Work with Wiffa. Yeah, Wiffa. Wiffa. But, yeah. Man, we've came so far. Yeah. Halo 3 is still goaded, though. That's probably the greatest. I know. They shut down the servers like a month ago, I saw. So sad. But I actually started playing when we took like a slight break at the beginning of the year. I brought my Xbox One over here and like...
Paid for Xbox Live again. Got back on my old account. There was, like, friends that, like, I went to high school with. They were, like, playing it, and I hopped in there. They were like, what the hell? And we were all chatting, and, like, I was playing Halo, whatever the new one is. Halo Infinite? They played it for, like, yeah, maybe. And I played that for, like, a fucking week, and I got bored, and I was like, fuck this. I got a kick out of walking, because I have to walk past CJ's office to get to mine over here, right back here. And...
I still think it was so funny when I'd walk by your office and I'd just see your headphones sitting there and you'd be gaming and talking. I'm like, is CJ on live right now? It was just so random to see. Yeah, you were on that kick for about a week. Yeah. Guys, CJ's playing Xbox again. Yeah, that's who he's playing. No, it was fun. The fun part was talking to them, but honestly, it just kind of got old because it was like...
And there's nothing wrong against video games. I think they're fun. But I guess for me, it was like I still have stuff I need to do. And when I'm playing that, it's like I'm working at leveling up or getting this thing done. But it doesn't matter. It has nothing to do with real life. So it's like, sweet. I just got leveled up and got this new thing or whatever. That literally did not help me at all. You got to take the fucking headset off and put the controller on and then...
Go do whatever else you're supposed to do. And it's just like, eh. So it was hard for me, but I used to be a huge gamer. Like, fucking loved it. Can you imagine making millions doing that? I would love that. That'd be great. That actually sounds like the best form of income for entertainment. It's tough, though, because they have to go for so long. Yeah, but I mean, if you like playing video games and you like talking, then it's...
And so I think a lot of... Then again, I don't know. Everyone's probably like, oh, I bet making YouTube videos is so easy. Yeah, exactly. I bet streaming is so easy. So I think for the people that have the personality to do it, it's good. But going back to wouldn't it be sick to make millions? Yes. But like a lot of people, you either have to look at gaming as it's for fun, which you did. Well, it's not a job until it's a job. But looking at it that way is a high, high...
Once you start making money at something and you rely on it as your only source of income or your main source of income, it becomes job. Oh, for sure. What I'm saying is... It's like, it's obviously if you love doing that more than anything in the world, it's still...
but it becomes jaw. Unless you just make a fuck ton of money right away and you get to go fuck off. But to achieve that... Is that still as big right now? Yeah, dude. I think so. It's huge. There's so many different ways of streaming. They have... I was listening to Steve-O's podcast and he had Andy Milonakis on. I don't know if you guys remember. I've been meaning to listen to that one. He used to have an MTV show back in like 2003 through I think 2007. That was so wild. And it ran in like the same era of Viva La Bam. And so...
As you can imagine, little CJ, that's what I grew up watching. But dude, he's so fucking funny. His show had so many funny bits. It was also really weird though at times. But anyways, he was one of the early pioneers of...
He was before YouTube. He was putting videos online and people would download them. Just like YouTube. Yeah. And then YouTube came out, and I think he got picked up for an MTV show before YouTube was really a thing. Because YouTube was like, what, 2006 or 2007? I don't know. So he got picked up and got his MTV show. But he streams nowadays, and what he does is it's called IR.
streaming or live streaming and basically what it is is they have this backpack on and there's like a camera above their head and they literally just fucking walk around and interact and do things. So IRL means in real life. It doesn't show his face? It does. It's really interesting dude. It's been going on for a while but because when he started streaming he actually used to just carry his phone around and I mean at this point he has like a I'm not sure what it's called
but like a chronic illness or disease that makes him look and act, or not, I don't know, act, but look younger. That's my choice. But he used to just walk around with his phone streaming his whole day for like 10 hours, five hours. But Andy Milonakis has a disease that basically it...
Like when he was like 35, he looked like he was 16. Yeah. Like you stay. Yeah. It's really weird, but it made for an awesome TV show because he looked like he probably looked younger than 16, like fucking 14. But he's like fat. So he looked like this fat little 14 year old and they would do like these funny bits where like,
He would be like selling beer at like a lemonade stand. And like people would come up like, you can't be selling this. And he's like, get out of town, lady. Like he would have funny ass things that obviously a 14-year-old couldn't come up with, like funny jokes. And then, oh, God, there's so many funny jokes on there. The lemonade beer stand bit is one of the best. Yeah. Yeah. He had this one. He had this one. I'm going to stop here after that. But he had this one where he...
he's like out on the streets in New York and he like goes, I was like, Hey, would you like to be in my interview? And like, they feel bad. So they're like, Oh yeah, sure. And then they're like, sit down at this table and it's like on this busy sidewalk in New York, two chairs. There's like this table, like a, uh, a pitcher of water and two glasses. And they're like, all right, uh, what are we doing? He's like,
Well, ask me a question. And then they'd be like, so what are we doing out here in the cold? And he'd just go flip the table and be like, this interview is over. And like run off and like the people would be just sitting there in this chair like. Don't know what to do. And they would like walk away. Like just confused as fuck.
I'm going to post that on my Instagram, actually, because that was the funniest shit. I remember rolling on the floor laughing at this stuff. Honestly, that is seriously what... He was ahead of his time. Those type of shows raised me, though. It's so weird. Early or mid-2000s, early 2000s, MTV was the best. Oh, yeah. That was like YouTube nowadays, I feel like. Yes, yes. You know? I think one day...
Ahead of now, 10 years, let's say, I think CJ could be a producer. Not could be. I'm not saying you would be, but I'm saying you grew up on it, and now after doing YouTube, I think you could be a producer. Thank you. I appreciate that. Or multiple good shows. But for starters, many seasons of a really good show. Thank you. I appreciate that. I don't know what it would be, but... It's really funny because... I've never thought about that until right now. I was thinking about that the other day. I was like, God, what is like...
The one thing, you know, like everyone's kind of got their thing. Like they get to like take away from our YouTube channel. And it's like, obviously you're an amazing design. Like everyone's got traits, but it's like, what, what's your strongest thing? And I was trying to think about that. I was like, honestly, I think maybe just producing. Like I'm not necessarily like an amazing, amazing editor, but I'm like pretty good at like visualizing and making it come together on camera. Maybe you've always had that. Like,
whatever you call it, that like 30,000 foot view of like, this is what this is going to become. And I don't know, you just always have such a great way of like laying out that path of like, okay, this is how we're going to get to exactly what it needs to be. Do you, when you, in the last podcast, when you guys were talking about jackass and how you guys all grew up on like jackass, um,
That was, I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, man, see, you have always, whether you intended to or not, like you were always so good at like spotting the things that this is going to be really funny. If it, whether it goes good or bad, no matter what, the outcome is going to be great. And you always are so like outcome focused. You would, you would be a great producer for, thank you, Justin. Yeah. And your ability to push through it, like the vision and then the ability to push,
Everywhere it's needed. Yep. It's great. Thank you. Appreciate that, guys. That was really nice of you to say. You don't have to cry, dude. I think I'm going to start. We've gotten to the point where I think this is a good and bad thing. I think we run into this a lot where we can almost, because we've been like making the videos and editing and we kind of know like the behind the scenes of it, you almost know right away if it's going to be good or not.
And, like, we often catch ourselves, like, if something's not going well, almost just, like, almost giving up on it and just be like, fuck it, let's just do something else. Like, let's stop wasting our time. Let's think of something new. Whereas, like, Micah and Ryan especially are like, no, let's just figure this out. Because we're already started. Like, let's just do this. And then most times after it gets put into post-production and everything, we're like, damn, this is actually fire. You know? So it's like...
It's good to have both. The balance of that. It's really good. And, yeah, it was like a lot of times those situations push for other situations that would never have happened. It's really weird. It's kind of like after we filmed the jet ski razor, we were sitting there like, frick, we flew all the way out here, and shit wasn't cheap. We filmed that video. It was probably...
five minutes worth of content. Most of it was just impossible to film. Yeah, it was just super hard and it was kind of like, all right, that was that. And we're like, we got to make another thing out of this. But we had no connections in Miami. We really didn't have anything to do. I was like, honestly, I feel like if we just go to the beach...
And we have the camera. I know some interesting characters are going to come up to us. And it literally just all happened right there in front of us. Yeah. Right. But even before that, I remember we're literally all four of us just walking like no, it's no plan, no idea what to do. We're just like, we're not Vitaly. We're not Ross Creations. We're not Danny. We're not whoever goes to the beach and makes shit happen. But I mean, I'm sure it goes for the same for them. Like they go there until shit happens.
and then it did. So that's super fun. Like if you're in a good vibe, I feel like shit just is so easy. Like I love it when we're like vibing, like honestly, like this podcast right now, everyone's in a good mood. So it's just going really well. It's just vibing. Yeah. And we have Justin on too. Cause he's our boy. Vibes. Vibes. Doesn't he vibe in that? It's cause it's Saturday. I'm vibed out dude. I'm vibed out. It's cause it's Saturday. How vibe are you? I'm pretty vibed. Honestly, like seven out of 10 vibes. Hey, uh,
When do you guys want to grab us some Schmidt beer? Yeah, I was going to say, can we get a refill on the Schmidt? These guys drink. Well, Justin, well, actually all of us. We just started a couple weeks ago. We switched over to Schmidt. Not full time, but. Well, we found out that all of us have Schmidt. Wait, do all of us? Yeah. Our grandparents grew up on Schmidt beer. Yeah, but we also are all related beers.
To a Schmidt. Yeah. Thank you. Me and CJ's Grandpa Ron. It's our duty. Me and CJ's Grandpa Ron, who we surprised him with the TV. CJ smashed his TV, and then we came out with a new one. Everyone loved Grandpa Ron. He's a Schmidt. That's his last name. Thanks, homie. Justin. My mom was a Schmidt. And then my mom's maiden name is Schmidt. Yeah. Dude, what?
Hey, cheers. Cheers, guys. And they make a hell of a beer. Hey, and so... You think we could get Schmidt to sponsor us? Probably. Maybe. Maybe. That'd be lit, dude. That'd actually be pretty detrimental to our health. Yeah, then we have to start drinking Schmidt beer. Oh, God. That's what I was going to say. So, like, the vibes are high because we got a big old... Like, we have a good night plan. We got a great audience out here right now, as you saw from the drone footage earlier. Yeah.
But on top of that, we have a fun time ahead of us. Nothing too serious. We're going to hop in the limo. Go bowling. Go to the golf simulator. I'm going to bring the camera with just because I feel like it's going to be something will be fun. If you shoot as many strikes
So CJ shoots a strike that I get on video. And then he goes, well, video the next one. I'll get another strike. And then you're like, video the next one. I'll get another strike. And he took your shirt off for that one. And I was like, nah, I respect it. Then you get the strike. And I was like, do whatever you want, man. And then he takes his pants off for the next one. Doesn't get a strike because he falls down.
I was going on. Imagine if he would have. And either way, a turkey is what a three strikes called. A turkey, not bad. I was going for five. No, I got four. I got four in a row. It was weird because you just naturally took your phone out. But then that's why I kept escalating. I was like, well, fuck. I took my shirt off for that one. It was crazy. And then he had no clothes on and he was just flinging balls everywhere. But now we got blacklisted from that bowling alley. We got to switch it up now, though.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got blacklisted. We're going to a different one. We got blacklisted from the last one. I do have a slight concern, though, because it's like, I mean, we fucking tear it up when it comes to golfing. On the golf course, we tear it up. Oh, shit. Should we bring our own golf cart? Yeah. It's an indoor golf simulator. That's such a good video idea. Bringing our golf cart to an indoor golf simulator. Oh, my God.
They have double wide doors. You're in your gear. You got your clubs. What are you doing? I got the golf simulator at 630. Nobody steal this. That's good. Just keep playing dumb. If we could get somebody at the wherever we go in on it, then we could get the golf cart inside. I'm very excited for a golf simulator. I've never done a golf simulator before.
I thought I was okay at golf because you guys, you had the golfing videos. I'm like, yeah, I should get, I should get a decent at golf. You bought a golf simulator. So I just built a golf simulator in my bed. No, um, I went golfing. I am atrocious. Can't be worse than me. Micah's,
It's going to be worse. Dude, we're going to have to get insurance on these clubs. No, head-to-head tonight on who can score a worse golf simulator score. The golf simulator is so different. I'm just – I don't really like them, for the record. It is a little weird, but it's fun because, like, it's more so just chilling. Ryan and I went to one in the cities a while back. Shout-out, Ryan. Yep. Shout-out to Ryan. There he is, just walking in. So, yeah, that's kind of our plan for tonight.
Should we have Alex hop on? Yeah, I was going to say. There's a lot of people commenting about you should have your girlfriends on or your dad or whoever. So we brought my girlfriend's dad. We got my girlfriend Alex in the crowd tonight. Do you want to come on up, babe? I'm taking my schmitz with me. Oh, actually, no, no, no. We were going to have CJ step out.
I just leave. We all get up. All the girlfriends take over. That would be interesting. That would be interesting. I don't know if any... See where it goes. What would we talk about? This is a little test run, I guess, mostly, but also keeping it casual. You guys match, though, so I like that. Yeah. We got sand, desert, tangling. You're always copying me and shit. What's up, baby? Hello. How does it feel? Kind of overwhelming, but I'm glad I'm next to my Benny. Just got to talk right into the mic, and you're good to go. Okay. The subtle direction. Okay.
Alright, so those of you guys that don't know, this is Alex, CJ's girlfriend. I gotta, like, get used to hearing you guys through this. Yeah, you gotta talk more into the mic, though. And definitely hearing yourself. I mean, that's talked about all the time. Everyone's like, is that what I sound like? You get used to it, but not in one podcast or not in one video. I love it, dude. I do, too. I like it, too. It makes you feel very immersed into the conversation. Like, just say something into the mic, babe. I feel like a lot of girls don't like their voice, though.
I think a lot of people say that. I think most people. I don't know if I'd say that's like a girl thing. I think most people are, once they, especially if you hear it back on video, then like talking to a camera and then watching that back, like, ugh. Most people are like, ugh, I hate that. That's taken us a long time. Now we're so used to it. Or like the laugh. I think it's. Oh, yeah.
Well, it's the laugh. I don't want to laugh on camera. Well, the laugh is tough because if you're so into the moment, then you don't think about it and you might just let out just the most atrocious laugh and you listen to it back and you're like, holy, is that what I sound like? That does happen a lot with us.
Like in a group. I cut that out a lot of times editing because I'm like, dude, if I was listening to this, I would be like, man, these guys are fucking annoying. Yeah. But in the moment, we're just like hysterically laughing and you can't help it. That's one thing you two have in major common is the hyena laugh. And I don't say it like it's a bad thing because you guys, when you laugh really loud, high pitch, it's,
Obviously, whatever's going on is so funny. Yeah, I think it's important, though. I think it is, too. And my favorite thing is that you also do this editing. I don't have this. I'm not loud like that when I'm editing. Even if it's the funniest thing, I'm just like...
But you guys are laughing out loud. I can hear you from your office, and I can hear you from your office, and I love it because I go, of course, if it's funny. That's the best. That's the best. It's always a good reassuring. When you're lying in the back and you're just dying. Ryan and I and Ken are downstairs, and we go, tonight's going to be a good video. Yeah, usually if CJ's laughing out loud, I'll get out and the floor creaks. I'll go, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo. And I'll be like, let me see this. And the same with, I'll be laughing, and I'll hear, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo.
CJ Pop is heading. What are you heading right now? That's the best. All right, so Alex, we basically just wanted to have you on here to interrogate you and make you feel incredibly uncomfortable. Please do not. I'm just kidding. I'm joking. I'm joking. That's what she was worried about. I was. No, we just wanted you to come on to give... I think people are always curious what the girlfriend's...
Point of view. Point of view and think of, I mean, I don't know, just like everything that goes on around here. Yeah. And you've been a part of... How long have you guys been together? Like three years now. Three years. You were around a little bit before that even. Yeah. So you've been a part of it since relatively the beginning. So like a good question would be...
You know, like, we're pretty closed off, like, as far as, like, Ben, Micah. Like, we kind of just stay here. We don't really – we don't talk to a lot of people, I don't know, like, outside. Like, so, like, what's, like, the – what's, like, your friends' take on, like –
The youtube thing like how do they when you tell people like oh i'm dating a youtuber like how is the How's it take it's really hard to explain Honestly, I think it's really hard for you guys to explain what you guys do or like the types of videos And then amplify it by 10 when someone asks me about it because i'm like, oh I can't explain this at all. Really? You think it's more hard for you to explain? Yeah, sometimes it is. Absolutely. What do you tell people? Um
Um, you know, I just say like, I kind of go like the creator route. You just say I'm a creator? They're influencers. God. I think. Okay. I don't know. Well, I feel like they, a lot of the attention for the girlfriend or at least a significant other. Oh, he's a YouTuber. And then the next question might be.
They making money? I feel like they either know who we are or they think we're bums. Yeah. Or they ask, like, oh, do they do that full time? Yeah. I'm like, yeah. How does that work? So here's a funny story about this. So Alex just recently, I don't know, a month or two ago, got a new job, right? I'm not going to say where it works just for purposes of that. But anyway, so they all, like, go out. People are showing up to Alex's work. Well, not even that, but just, I don't know. Anyways, they go out to this, like, team.
team dinner thing. Really fucking nice restaurant. Like this guy balled out. Like he treats his employees really, really, really well. But I was going to be late because I had to finish editing a video, upload it, and then drive an hour in Fargo to go. So we walk into this nice ass restaurant. Of course, I have to like, I barely ever dress up. So I'm like trying to find my dress clothes, like throw it on. I feel like I look like shit.
And I come in late. Yeah, exactly. It was like this super, super nice dinner. And that's where it gets hard to explain. Cause I'm just like, he literally doesn't have a choice to be late right now. Like however long it takes him to edit a video is how long it's going to be. Yeah. They just don't get it either. But, uh,
Anyway, she had already told everyone at her work that I was this YouTuber, and they kind of picked up on it. They received it pretty well, I thought. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, they all thought it was super cool, but I think they've all seen you previously before. So then I think they looked me up or whatever. So I show up, and I was just so... The question that came up was...
So you drove a car through the car wash today or something like that. I don't know why. And I was just like, God damn it. Like the fucking worst example of like what kind of content we made. I was like, God damn it. Like it just sounded so like stupid. Yeah. So stupid the way they were like asking. And then they were like,
The guy goes, well, tell me more, you know, like, because they're interested. So I try to explain and I do. I don't know why. It was like the one time in my life I got nervous and she even noticed. I got nervous. Like, I could feel my face getting red and I just did a god awful job of explaining what we do here. What did you say? I don't fucking know. I blacked out.
I rambled on. He had that nervous. He absolutely blacked out. I've never seen him like be so timid of explaining what he does or like how he does it. And he got really nervous. I don't know why. But then again, it was like something that was so new to me too. So I get done like telling all these people whatever the fuck I was jabbing on about. And then I come back to earth and I look around. I'm like, everyone's got an even more confused face on. And it was just quiet.
Oh, shit, dude. God damn it, dude. Yeah, it was pretty funny. God damn it. Yeah, I've never seen you get nervous. And it's like you, of course, you were trying to be respectful on one, but it was a guy that you weren't necessarily trying to impress. No, I was just trying to blend in. My whole goal that night was to blend in. I wasn't even going to talk.
I was going to shut my mouth and sit there and be here. How do you... Yeah, I mean, how do you explain it for most people to, one, make sense of, but two, respect in the slightest way without coming off like a total asshole and just be like, we got this many subscribers and all this shit. There's no way to do that. You have to watch the video and get the...
That's the other thing is people don't get it without watching it because they don't know the dynamic. Yes. And they don't know that we're not just... It's more like a group of friends and a camaraderie. Yeah, like taking a car through the car wash, just do it. That's our big stunt. It's like, no, there's a storyline behind it. Ken, who's one of the members, that you will not understand within the first 40 episodes. You have to watch like 100 to even understand the guy. No, for sure. It's just not...
No, it's so hard. And I did a terrible job of explaining it because I was trying to just keep it as simple as possible. And yeah, it was pretty embarrassing. And what did you do, Alex? Were you just there like... She was just like this.
I honestly just started drinking my espresso martini so quick because I was like, oh my gosh, I've never seen him get nervous before. So now what though? Do they understand it? Do they watch it? Oh yeah, absolutely. Literally, I think as soon as someone, like even anyone that I talk to, like about like my boyfriend or things like that and they don't know like who he is or what like you guys do, as soon as like they watch a video or something, then it like clicks in their head. They're like, oh, like they're YouTubers. I like that. I think usually it does take like one video.
But yeah, I think it's really hard for people to understand that you guys do it full time. It's so weird to think though because- The same thing with like your dad too. I feel like at the start, god damn, they were so confused. Oh, absolutely. They literally thought I didn't have a job. I think any parent right away would just be like, okay, what does he do? Yeah. What kind of job is that? Your mom thought I didn't have a job, I don't think. Can he make a living? Yeah.
They just thought I was fucking around. Like, this is just something we did for fun. Yeah. And it's like. But not like now you're saying. No, now they understand. But, you know. Yeah. It's hard, I think, for people to perceive. All right. I got something so crazy right now for Alex. Oh. I wasn't expecting it from you. No, it's more bad for me than it is for you. My face is going to get so red. All right. So, I don't follow Alex on Instagram. Oh.
That is rude. Right? But I think it is rude. I promise you it's rude. So I think at one point you followed me
And I think you unfollowed me, which I was happy about. So to preface the story, I don't know if I followed you before. Like, I know a fall is whatever, a big deal. Like, not a big deal. But anyway, I feel so bad about it. My ex-girlfriend had a little bit of beef with you. Mike, where the fuck is this going? I guess what I'm saying is... Keep going. I'm interested. I'm interested. Like...
I like my like I'm not going to preface it but like I think at one point I unfollowed you because I think at one point I did follow you. Oh she straight up made you unfollow her? I don't think that's. That's why she's your ex girlfriend. Yeah. I don't think that's the case but anyway I don't follow Alex and I haven't for a long time and I felt really bad about it so it's like well why don't you just randomly follow her but at that point when I noticed it was like too late and so I was like well why don't you just randomly follow her so I was waiting for like a funny time like this not particularly for this moment. You're gonna
follow me yes i'm gonna follow you of course you don't even have to follow me back can you imagine if you're just sitting here and i had my phone out and it just said micah salmon followed you oh you wait no not right i think she unfollowed me but i'm saying for good reason i'm sure she came across me one day and goes damn micah doesn't follow me and then like unfollowed me did you know that i did that
Did you know he didn't follow you? I don't remember that. Just say you know. No, I didn't. Yeah, I know. Oh, you do know. No, say, I was like, say you know. Hold up. Do you know or not? I'm so confused. I don't know. Oh, you didn't know? Mm-mm. Who gives a fuck about what we follow anyway? So you didn't know. That's what I'm getting at. Like, a follow is a follow, but I'm saying in our group. Like, I felt so bad, but I noticed this like six to seven months ago. Yeah.
And I was like, it is kind of like a big family. Like, yeah, like it's like you got all of us because we always have to be together. And then you got like the girlfriends. And then, I mean, for the most part, they're all friends. At least the group right now is. But well, dude, there's been a couple renditions of the family that have not meshed. Yeah. Yeah.
To say it lightly. Yeah. That was honestly pretty entertaining. That was a confession. That was really funny. I feel red. Glad we cleared the air there. Thanks. Yeah. I was super mad about it. I felt a little tension there. So is it hard dating CJ? Being that he's an idiot and all? It's a challenge when it comes to scheduling and things like that. But honestly, it's the moms.
Like moms love my boyfriend. Honestly, that's hard. Yeah. Have you guys ever seen this guy at a bar and moms come around? I have. They love him. He's a mommy magnet. So yeah, definitely. The biggest challenge I would say is, you know, the moms. I think that's a good thing. There could be worse challenges. Yes, absolutely. I'm not going to disagree. Does that worry you? Oh, I was like clearly a little bit.
That doesn't worry you? I mean, sometimes they are really hot moms. That doesn't matter, though. No, it does not worry me. No, but actually, though, besides for the moms. I would say a lot of people probably, again, don't really get the schedule thing. You guys can't make it to a lot of your girlfriends' family events sometimes or certain events or holidays.
I think that is definitely a big one. Like whether it's Thanksgiving or Christmas, like you guys aren't able to just like come to all of like our family, like dinner and things like that. And it can be really hard. I think what you're saying also is just like, we're always gotta be ready at like the drop of a dime. Like you might be like, Oh, we got like an opportunity to film this really quick. Like for example, back to Miami, like we found out,
And literally an hour later scheduled the plane ticket or the flights and left the next hour. It was like she thought I was coming home that night and then, nope, I'm going to Miami. Yeah, exactly. So it can be a challenge. Why? Because it's like so you feel like in the dark or why is that challenging? I think it's just probably hard. I don't know. Sometimes when plans change really quick, it can feel overwhelming or something. When he was just like, oh, we're going to go to Florida tonight. I'm like, okay.
Okay, like that's a bummer. But like, of course, I know that like it's for a video. So I totally get that. But right away when like we first started dating, it can be really hard to like grasp that and like, just be like, oh, okay, like this is how his schedule is going to work. And it's going to be all over the place. And I like, you know, I'm supposed to be like supportive of it. But like now it's much easier to just kind of like go with the flow.
It's probably especially because like where we're at, it's like everyone kind of has a pretty set in stone schedule like around our neck of the woods. Like, you know, so most people have like,
They come home at 5.30 and, like, we make dinner and then we watch TV and go to bed, you know? Yeah. Or easier to, like, plan a vacation together, like, as a couple or things like that. But, like, all of you guys have to kind of figure that out, you know? So I would say that can be a challenge. What is, like, your first thoughts when we first started dating? You know, you, like, started coming around. Were you just like, what the fuck is going on? Why are they the C-Boys? I want to preface that me and Alex have known each other
since I was like eight years old and you were like 12. We have a picture of you as a baby. We were like little kids and we've known each other for so long. So then the fact that we kind of obviously went to college because she was friends with my sister.
And we like kind of, you know, didn't see each other forever. And then you started talking to CJ, my cousin and business partner, and you like started hanging around us. I was like, Alex anchor. It was honestly so weird because it's just so random. So close, like friend groups wise, but like we had never hung out or like met each other or things like that. And so it was kind of actually weird when we met. I saw her at a bar and I walked up. Yep.
Yep. And I asked him actually on our first date on a party bus with all of my friends. And he came wearing baggy dress clothes. Yeah, and he continued to see me. Couldn't fucking find my dress clothes, dude. So he's wearing his dad's. I was wearing like literally the fucking worst. Absolutely bring up a photo right now. You need to see this.
Pop it up. You're dead. Well, for one, how much that sucked. Like, I'm sitting here. It was back when we printed our own shirts. And she asked me to go on this party bus. Cold called me up. And I was like, I mean, yeah, sure. She's hot. I'll come with. So, like, I was like... And then I don't hear anything from her for, like, the next...
full day and then it's like I was supposed to meet her at like six o'clock or seven o'clock and I'm still printing shirts I texted her in the middle of the day you didn't respond so I was like oh maybe we're not doing it anymore whatever I'll just keep working and then you text me when I got like an hour to be there and I'm already an hour away from Fargo so like
I was like, God damn it. Drop everything, hop in the car, speed all the way to town. Can't find my fucking dress clothes. Throw my dad's on. And I show up. I don't know who the fuck dresses up for a party bus, but I'm like, who are these kids? It was considered a bomb party bus. They were like men and women, but who are these guys? They must be some high class people. So...
I show up in literally the worst dress clothes ever. I look like shit compared to everyone else. I didn't know how to tie a tie. I know how to tie a tie now, but I didn't know how to fucking tie a tie. So I was just like, fuck it. We're running it without... And yeah, I mean, it still worked out, I guess, in my favor. I think so. I think it did. Yeah, it did. But I mean, and I know you spoke on...
One podcast about this, but originally, I just remember it so vividly for some reason. It was one of my core memories. We're at the Fargo Dome, big arena in Fargo, and it was cold, and you were trying to film a video bit, and you go, man, should I call this girl that I've kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of been talking. That's kind of where it started. I just met you at...
Like a bar like the weekend before. And you were wearing this like fur coat. And you had your nails done. Like very like... You know, done up. And I was like, man, that girl would hate coming to Monster Jam. I should invite her. That would be a funny bit. So I like...
tried inviting you to like get you to come like an hour before and then she's like, I can't swing it. But it would have been amazing. Imagine like, I wasn't even planning on dating her. I was just like, I'm going to bring her here and it's going to be a funny ass bit. It's because she gets swooped up by the grave digger. Yeah. No,
No, I actually, I would have, but my hair was like kind of greasy. Oh, that's why you didn't go? No, yeah, 100%. Otherwise, I would have said yes. Yeah, I think it was. We just asked, like, I mean, do it. I needed to shower, Ben. Like, sometimes girls' hair. Ben's like, how do you get greasy hair? Imagine,
How legendary that would have been if I could have... We could have been like, yeah, our first date, CJ took me to Monster Jam. It would have been. And it would have happened. So funny. But it's so funny that you asked me. Yeah, I guess. And you did. I remember you like calling her. Yeah, you did call me. I remember standing in my kitchen being like...
Monster Jam? This is weird. Why? You thought it was weird? No, and then I also took it obviously insulting because I was like, oh, this guy invited me on this date just to like make a fool out of me because he knows that I would like maybe look out of character. Oh, you knew that? Because you know, you did say we're going to be filming. I mean, that was kind of my goal. But I didn't know you at the time.
I knew why you were doing that. You just appeared like you shouldn't be there at Monster Jam. Yes. It would have been funny. I love the honesty. Yeah, it would have been amazing. Could you see yourself, Alex, ever becoming more of like a character in our videos? Absolutely not. No, I'm not as creative as you guys. You don't have to be. You don't have to be. You're just the character. You just get involved whether you like it or not, just like Mark and Tint.
And Ken. Yeah, Ken. He doesn't want to do this. I've had a couple people come up to me. You think he wants to be here? I've had a couple people come up to me, like, girls, and say, like, that I'm funny. But I think it's just funny because, like, in most bits that I am in the videos, it's, like, me being mad or something. Yeah. Like, you know, that one time when you... Oh, shit. Well, you guys tell the story really well, too. Yeah. You know, like, yeah. One time, I put...
Chickens and... Goats. Goats. I mean, it's chickens. In the boys' new house, if you saw the video. They were mad, but they thought it was funny. More funny than mad. Alex was like 99% mad, 1% funny. I was mad because...
She was in tears. I cleaned. Not happy. The day before, right? Scary. Yeah, like you guys had just bought the house. She spent a full day cleaning. Yeah, and I spent a full day cleaning. I'm not kidding you. I wiped the walls. Like that's. Everything. She was working really, really hard. I re-wiped them. Yeah, I mean you guys cleaned up. I.
Yeah, I remember walking in the house and I was so mad. I left and like I cried. And then it like has like a shot in the video of me like peeling out of the driveway. Well, I guess that's that. Everyone thought like for sure it was fake. And I was like, no, like I was very mad and I was absolutely over it. I saw Alex when I was going back to the house and she was doing...
a solid 70 miles an hour down our like 30 mile an hour road. Okay. Don't incriminate her. Allegedly. So I was like, okay, something's up here. I wasn't mad until she was mad. And then she was mad. And I was like, God damn it. You guys just pissed off my girlfriend. Yeah, exactly. I remember that.
I cleaned it though. Yeah, yeah. It was all cool. You washed the carpets and everything and I appreciated that. Well, I didn't go that far. Yeah. Well, you blocked off the bathroom. I think I was mad because I envisioned chickens crawling over like the bathtub and like the sink and everything. And I think that's what like really just made me mad. But then you were nice enough to block off the bathroom. So that was good. What can I say? Yeah. Right. That was, now it's down in history. Yep.
Pretty sure someone put it in their book. Yeah, but again. Best prank. I don't know what book, but somebody book. Definitely something that a lot of girlfriends don't go through. So, you know, it's just, it's different. But now I've learned to definitely go with the flow and like, it's just all part of it. And most of it is really fun. That's good. That's good. Yeah, you get to have a fun time. Isn't it fun dating someone where you never know what's going to happen next? It is. Yeah, I mean, you take the good with the bad, but obviously it's got to be more good. Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely. Right? It's got to be, right? Can you imagine going back to a...
No, I already know what you're going to say. Like a nine to five guy? Yeah. No. Yeah. I don't know. Wouldn't it probably be nice in some aspects? Don't get me wrong. But so it's so fun hanging out with all of you guys. And I don't know, like I see all of you as like my close friends now and I get very like protective over you guys and like your channel and like things like that. I don't know. I think I've definitely gotten protective. You
You're invested. Yeah, I was just going to say that. You're invested. Because I see how hard you guys work. And so, like, yeah, if someone uses the word, like, stunt or, like, for instance, like, oh, they're stupid video, not stupid videos, but, like, they're stupid, like, crazy ideas. I'm like, no, you guys don't understand, like, how much thought went into that video or, like, how many outcomes, like, they had to, like, think about, like, okay, like, if we do this, if we do that, you know. Well, thank you. Thank you. It's cool to hear from you because you're one of the...
I mean, 10 people that really see it, maybe less, I'd say. Exactly. So there's so much thinking. And yeah, people think that like when you guys do jumps or something, it's just winging it. But it's very calculated, I would say. Well, I don't know if I'd go jumps. Okay, not calculated. But you guys think about it. I don't know if I'd go jumps. Yeah. So I definitely find myself getting protective over, you know, people saying things about your videos if it's ever negative. Not that it is, but. Ah, thank you. That is nice to hear, actually. Yeah.
It is. Well, we got to get bowling. So sorry to cut the podcast early. Oh, yeah. Shit, we got to leave. Literally one minute. That's true. Did you fire the limo up? Yeah, I did.
Oh, that's cool, baby. So, Alex, seriously, thanks for coming on. I know, you know, my face got a little red. I don't know. Oh, wait. I have one more question. Last question. Last question. What the... Did you watch a YouTube video of ours before you started dating me? No, I didn't. And everyone finds this shocking. I still remember barely watching your guys' videos when we first started dating. I feel like normally if someone starts like...
Potentially talking to someone They like Scope them out on social media I have a hard time believing that No I No I feel really mean Obviously Instagram Like we follow each other on Instagram But I'm not kidding you I remember when we first started seeing each other And I didn't watch the videos Right
I don't know why. That might have been better. You were never just like, maybe I'll... Well, I'm not doing anything for 15 minutes. I'll watch what this guy is all about. That's funny, actually. I don't know. Yeah. All right. We got Google...
We're going bowling. My brain just quit. All right. We got 6.30 tea time at the golf simulator. We're not bringing the golf cart this time, but next time we are. That's a great idea. That's an amazing idea. I love that. Thank you for coming on. Thank you, Justin. Thank you for coming on. I love you. Everyone listening, thanks for the support on the merch job. Appreciate that. Oh, true. Subscribe, like.
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