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So we just jump right into it? I suppose so. Ben, you f***ed up this weekend. Yeah. F***ing bad. Yeah, big time. Why don't you just take your glasses off, Ken? This is... I can't... I can barely see, honestly. Can we get a tight shot in on his eye? Is there any way we can get a tight shot in on his eyeball? Usually when Ken is injured, it's funny because it's self-inflicted. Not... No offense, Ken, but usually when you hurt yourself, it's...
For the humor of something we're doing, and it's funny, right? You know, you're not wrong there. Yeah, thank you. It usually is something on my part. Like when you hopped on the dirt bike and you ran into the tree, or you tried kicking the ceiling in a bar and you gave yourself a black eye. Usually I'm in control, as little control I have, but at least I am the one doing it. Right, yeah. So if... I believe this is out after the video, but in last night's video...
You'll see me pick up an ice cream cake. It was Ken's birthday. It was Ken's birthday. We were celebrating. I pick up an ice cream cake, two lit candles, a giant six and a giant nine.
And I just wasn't thinking. I went to cake Ken. I lean in to blow the candles out. You go the opposite direction of the cake. Candle to the eye. Ken immediately drops down, grabs his face. I thought I broke his nose because it was an ice cream cake. So either way, it would have hurt. I didn't think about that. I didn't think about the candles. And now Ken has a burnt eyelid and...
a couple different burns on the actual eye itself. Dude, I've been talking about this. Ken's birthday parties are legendary. You did say this prior. You said it was going to be legendary. And now Ken's going to the hospital. His parties are so crazy. God damn, dude. Jesus. Really stepped it up this year. Going hard on his birthday.
You know, it would have been fine if you just want to... You know, if I could have just blown the cake out and we could have enjoyed some nice old DQ ice cream cake and... That was one of those dumb things, though, that, like, you can't even... I mean, you can definitely be mad at Ben, for sure. But, like, it's not like...
You know, something that was actually dangerous. It's one of those like fluke things where the candle just goes in your eye. It was a fluke. And then I got covered in candle wax and I spent two hours digging candle wax out of my eye. On the actual eyeball. That's where it's bad. That's where it's like not funny now. You know? And now I can't really see out of it that well. Hopefully that...
Just fine. You still haven't gone to the eye doctor yet. So they could just walk in clinic, referred me. And then I go on Thursday. So hopefully they're just like, Oh, it'll heal up in a week. Obviously that's what I'm hoping, but there's nothing worse than, um,
someone getting hurt at your expense and like not trying to make that obviously i was completely in the wrong but like it's all fun and when you play with fire you're gonna get burnt one of those things and i feel like it's just the worst when uh you know even if you hurt yourself doing something like you're to blame but when you hurt somebody else like there's nothing worse than that
God damn it. And now every single time I look at Ken, it's just like constant reminder. He looks so sad too. This is honestly like the worst pain I've been in, in probably ever. Cause it's just like a searing, like stinging pain right in my eyeball. And it's like, like, Oh, I can just wipe it to get rid of it. Like you're going to get something on your eye, but it's like, no, it's just there. It's pretty bad. I'm not going to lie. At first I thought Ken was being dramatic.
And then like, I could tell he was actually really mad. But then the next morning he comes walking up the stairs and I see his eye and I was just like, jaw dropped. Like I was like, dude, I think the first thing I said was like, you need to go in. Yeah. And that's, I texted Alex right before that. I was like, Hey, can you guys, are you planning on leaving soon? Can you bring me to the hospital? I didn't get to my car at the very least.
Well, we want to finish this movie real quick. So I think, Ken, you now have started like a new, I guess, PSA about the dangers of cake smashing someone with burning candles. Or at least blow them out and let the wax cool. Or just take the candles out of the cake. I thought the funniest part was
I mean, the thing that was funny is your Instagram story, Ken. It was basically Ken like, I hope this can all be a lesson. I hope this can be a lesson for everyone in that you shouldn't throw birthday cakes with burning candles at someone's face. It's like an obvious subtweet. Like, you should have just tagged me instead of saying, I hope this is a lesson for everyone. You should have just tagged me and just said, at Ben Roth. He didn't want to give you the clout. I mean...
Smashing a cake into someone's face really isn't that uncommon. I would have done it. So my dad was like, well, that's what happens when you get drunk. You make stupid decisions. And I was like, honestly, I would have done it sober. Yeah. I feel like that was something. I mean, it just wasn't thought out about the candles. If there was no candles, everything would have been fine. Right. But was this partially inspired by...
You know, we had gone to Jackass the night before. So you were just like, I want to hurt Ken in a really, really bad way. Like, did that fuel you? No, I definitely didn't go into it with those intentions. Are you sure? I think it might have been subconsciously. I feel like at dinner, you whispered to me and you said, I really...
Ken tonight. You said that. You did say. I don't think I said that. You did get up on a chair and yell at everyone in the restaurant, buy this guy some shots. Oh, okay. All right. But you skipped the first part of it, and that's that I told everyone to sing you happy birthday. Twice. I had three. You had the whole bar sing you happy birthday three times. I think we sing Ken happy birthday three times.
Way too many times. Four times at least. But so anyways, was that partially inspired by Jackass? I feel like you would have done it regardless. I would have done it regardless. Maybe it was subconscious. But yeah, so we went to Jackass. I don't know if you guys have seen the new Jackass movie yet, but we went to it as a crew. Wow. So funny. Unbelievable. I thought it was really good. Yeah. The stunts that they do are just like...
You can tell that they took a 10-year hiatus and they thought of certain things for 10 years straight. And they were just like, all right, we're going to come back and be insanely reckless and do the dumbest shit. Like when people are like, oh, so you guys make videos like jackass after watching that? I was like, no, no, not even close. We're not even trying to be like them. No, no. It's like when they're like... I do admire what they do. Dude, it's incredible. Especially when...
you know the outcome is going to be so, so, so painful. There's not a chance that it goes right. So, like, when Nitro Circus was making videos and –
Doing crazy things in the movies and everything. Everything that they would do, like all the stunts. Had a chance. There was like a 70% chance that you would land it. All the stunts they do in Jackass, none. If they land it, they cut it. I guarantee they had certain stunts that went right, and they were just like, well, let's just cut that one. They're literally built to fail. So I have a different view on it.
Um, I'm like a huge, like, I love jackass. I grew up watching it. Always thought like those guys were like kind of my idols growing up, like Bam Margera, Viva La Bam, uh, Robin big, like, like the skateboard. I was like a skater kid and I loved watching like the MTV reality shows. There were, that would be like them basically dancing.
just fucking around doing dangerous stuff and playing pranks and stuff on their friends, which like kind of integrated into, like, I'd say our channel is, is similar to that in a way. I mean, it's not like jackass where we're trying to hurt ourselves, but it's like, you know, it's, it's kind of all relatively in the same group.
I had watched like the first couple of jackasses, uh, the week prior. Cause like I'd go home and I knew we were going to go watch that one. So I was like, I'm going to just watch them. I haven't watched them in a long time. And like, I thought they were all really good. And I even thought this one was really good, but I don't remember being as wowed watching them in my age. Now I was like, damn, like that looked like a fucking hurt. Like that, that was bad. I wouldn't want to do that for like pretty much all the stuff.
But I wasn't like necessarily amazed by like the ingenuity of it, if that makes sense. And the reason why I think so is because nowadays it's like you see shit like that every week.
Like you see, you see that stuff all the time, whether it's on YouTube or not. You can just go on your Instagram explore page. And my explore page is just funny stuff like that happening, happening, whether they were trying to do that to themselves or it was an accident or whatever. So like you, it was, I felt like that movie was kind of like the same thing as scrolling through my Instagram explore page. I haven't thought of that.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, there's so many people these days that just want to be famous and they're willing to do anything to be famous. I just personally, I really appreciate the ones where there's a lot of thought put into that so-called bit. Do you think that's you not being 16 and just being amazed by someone willing to take a punch to the nuts? Probably. Maybe I'm getting older. Maybe I'm getting older. I thought it was all funny. I'm just saying like...
you know, if they hadn't already built up their legacy. So rewind. And when Jackass 1 was released, when the show Jackass, it started off as a show, was like happening and then they went to the movies. Back then, even during like Jackass 3, like these type of videos, like you couldn't, you didn't have access to seeing stuff like this back then. You really couldn't find it.
like you can now. That's true. You could if you looked for it, but it was not much stuff out there. And nowadays, I feel like it was all... I mean, not all of it, and I loved it. I really like those guys, and obviously the reason why it's super good is because of the characters that are doing it. But I mean, most of that stuff I felt like...
I don't know. I just wasn't that amazed by it. And I think it's because it's all accessible at your fingertips nowadays. Well, it's even like with X games, people are like, yeah, X games isn't as big because you watch everybody do tricks right as they come out. And you're so flooded with like, like I follow Instagram, uh,
an Instagram account called Kids Getting Hurt and then there's another one that is Adults Getting Hurt and it's like people bailing off of big BMX tricks and stuff like that all the time. You can see it every day, every minute if you want to go watch something new, I feel like. But they had good, I actually really liked when they did more creative things, like when there was a little more, like you were mentioning, I'm trying to think. More thought put into it.
Like the vomitron at the end was pretty funny. Yeah. When they had just all the stuff coming together and the opening bit. Yeah. But honestly, generally the whole movie, I was just shocked. I think I sat there like this. Dude, Alondra's face was like that. We brought Ryan's girlfriend with. She was just like, and then she'd occasionally laugh and then she'd just go, oh my God.
Oh, my gosh. I feel like I was in shock most of the movie, honestly. You forget halfway through the movie that those are like real people. Real people that don't need to be doing it. That's true. They are like so successful. They have so much money. They do not need to be doing it, but they still are. And that's like half the entertainment to me. And I'm not trying to discredit it. Like I freaking thought it was amazing.
I loved it. I would go watch it again. I'd even pay to go watch it again. I'm a big fan of all the people that are a part of it, but I just don't remember the same
that I got out of it as when I was younger watching all those movies for the first time. So back when me and CJ were kids, the very, me and CJ had a friend, Matt. Maybe one day we'll go into the history of Matt. He's to this day, one of the craziest motherfuckers I know. Matt, he was like our stunt man. He was like,
Yeah, he was dangerous. And, like, Jackass was a big part of our entertainment and lives back then, right? Because there wasn't really, like, YouTubers or anything like that. So it was just, like, those kind of movies that we, like, would watch and...
be influenced by. Yeah. So back when, let's see, dude, I was probably what, 10? You were 13 maybe? You had one of those little flip cameras. Yeah. So we were always setting up these jumps like the plastic ramps
and uh seeing if we could get matt to jump over things or well we would all do them right we would always do them but matt always wanted to just push it to the limit he wanted to be the one to do it a little bit better like he wanted to jump a little bit further but it was always really hard for him because it just seemed like if he ever went like a little bit bigger we would just fall right up after him and like land it right after him yeah no matter what it was on if it was dirt bike scooter
freaking tubing i don't know you know just like doing stuff like that yeah so there's this tree next to my house this was how he was going to one-up us doing a stunt that he knew we would not try to replicate after yeah okay that's a great way to put it so there's this tree next to my house that had a swing hanging out or uh swing hanging off one of the branches and this um the swing was i don't know probably three feet off the ground like the butt part of it
Maybe two and a half feet off the ground. Swing height? Yeah. So we had a plastic ramp and a good run up. And then I was holding one side and CJ's little brother, who was probably like six at the time, was holding the other one just wide enough so Matt could jump his bike through the swing. And the handlebars would not get caught on the rope. Right? Makes sense. Yeah. So Matt...
uh, gets a good run up. This is the first try. CJ standing there with his flip camera shooting like seven 20 P if that thing was like four 20. Yeah. And, uh, and Matt gets a big run up and he jumps and he perfectly clears this swing and lands and rides away. And, and you can see like on our faces, we were like, we cheered him on. Wow. That was crazy. You should do it again. Cause you were like, there's no way he can do this twice.
It was amazing. It was amazing. Yeah. Like, it was just such a slim jump. Yeah. So, he was like, all right, I'll do it again. Goes around the house, comes back, gets even more speed this time. But he didn't pick his back end up, like, as much when he was going through the swing. So, his back end catches, like, the seat part of the swing. And the swing goes up with him. And he's stuck now in this swing. And then this swing...
Comes back down and lets him go out the bottom and just pile drives him into the ground. It was so funny. And it was like the very first stunt I think ever recorded. So CJ's like laughing and you can hear me in the background dying. Matt's on the ground going, uh, uh, uh.
Did he get the wind knocked out of him? Yeah, I think so. Matt was the star of a couple of YouTube videos back before we YouTubed because we had the bottle rocket to the face. Yeah, true. See, if someone had burnt an eye in that, I would have been like, well, yeah. Well, he wore goggles. He wore goggles. That happens.
He was prepared. And then we had the pogo stick. The pogo stick. Pogo stick. The bottle rocket to the face is still on YouTube. I think I saw it was taken off. Oh, was it? I took it down. But we can just dub it up over this. Matt thought it would go viral if we shot him in the face with the bottle rocket. I don't know what his plan was, honestly. Yeah, did he ever even care about, like... I don't know what his plan was. I think he just was trying to be...
Do dangerous stunts. He loved stunts. Back then, it was all about just like... I feel like when you're younger, you care more about going bigger than other people and proving your toughness. I don't know. Just doing stuff like that was...
Something that was just a part of our lives. Man, he did just so many entertaining things. I would love to have Matt on the podcast one day. He's just only gotten more entertaining. I got to get out from behind these lights. Okay, you're good. See you, Steve. Steve, want to hop in? One Steve to another. One Steve to another. Dude, are you guys going to be able to tell CJ and I apart here? Yeah. Yeah, one of you is...
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I'm dealing with this cyber quad. Yeah, he said he'll sell it to us. He still got it? I said I could come get it tomorrow. Damn, we maybe should have came in cheaper then.
Fuck. Whatever. Oh, well. I didn't even know that those were for sale at all. That's cool, dude. That's so cool. It'll look real good in the back of Ken's Cybertruck. Yeah. Yes, it will. People ask about the Cybertruck so much. At least, dude, I see a comment on it at least every couple days. Dude, no offense to those people, but are you dumb or stupid? Get a clue, right.
The Cybertruck hasn't came out yet. So when they go, oh, whatever happened to Ken getting the Cybertruck? Well, he would get it, but it's not released yet. The only one who has one is freaking Joe Rogan and Elon. Joe Rogan has one? Yeah, he went to the plant and toured it. But that's it. I think he just got to take pictures of it. Yeah, no, he doesn't have one. No, no.
You're the only person who's seen it. They're not even out on the road rolling around. People just, I don't know. I love that people think that out of all the people in the world, Ken is going to be the first person to get one on social media. He and Elon talk every day.
Speaking of Joe Rogan, you guys see he's getting canceled? Yeah. Trying to get canceled. By the mainstream. It's like he's his own form of media, and then the mainstream media is like, I don't know. It's just like the left side. It's because if Joe Rogan didn't have any opposing views to the mainstream media, they wouldn't try and cancel him. Joe Rogan pulls like, I don't know, 12 million views on average a podcast. Crazy. And I think CNN and all these other media outlets pull like,
million, two million maybe. And so it's like, yeah, obviously they're probably pretty upset with it and they're just going after him for, for everything now. They're not upset about his views. No, no, no, it's not. It's, it's, well, it was initially the thing cause they, you know, he had on some controversial guest that didn't fall into the same agenda that all these mainstream media outlets were trying to push and
And then now they're trying to say he's racist because they pulled out videos of him saying the N-word. And he made an apology on it, and he talks about how all of them were, like, pulled out of context and how he would never, like, be racist or try and use it in, like, a derogatory way. Negative context way. But, I mean, obviously, anybody who wants a reason because they didn't like what he had to say about the clout or anything like that, they're going to use that against him, but...
So, I mean, basically what it is, he is not pushing, you know, or conforming to their agenda that they're trying to push, you know, basically about, let's say right now. So now since like, you know, them pulling off Spotify isn't change anything. These like left, uh,
I don't know what you'd want to call them, but they go and dig up all this stuff on the person that they don't like to basically try to derail them or cancel them from that.
just because they don't like really what he is saying. Well, more than... Yeah. It's like a smoke screen. Sorry. It's like a smoke screen. More than what he's... They're saying that he's spreading misinformation because they don't agree with his information. So they're saying it's misinformation. I thought it was really interesting when he was like,
Listen, everything that was accepted as fact six months ago is now not true. There's so many things that are not true. And he's like, things are always changing. I'm just bringing on people who are literal experts in their field, and this is what they have researched at the time. Yep. Right. But he has the left. He has the right. He has all these different guests, but they just don't like that.
he's saying something that goes against what they're saying, what they want, you know, exactly. Yeah. But I just think it's bullshit that then they pull out all this racist card because of that. That's when they dig up all this stuff and start, it's not there. They're trying to derail him, um, on a whole different thing just because of, they don't like what he's saying about something else. You know, it's interesting though.
Whoever dug those clips up had to have listened to hundreds and hundreds of hours of Joe Rogan podcasts. I was thinking about how they did that. How do you listen to that and then still go, no, this guy's racist? I wonder if there's a way they can search through it. I think the saddest part of it is that that's their job. I bet there's people at CNN, let's say, that their literal job is to go, hey, here's your guy, dig up dirt. We got to.
We got to have something. But I was watching like, I mean, you can't again go completely one-sided on, oh, they're trying to cancel Joe Rogan. So I'm like, I'm watching this stuff on Reddit and I like see how they compare. He had this guy on that was talking about.
about it in Italy. Like this is like two years ago before it even happened and how he was like genuinely concerned. And now he's had like a whole bunch of other people on and his view kind of opposes, like this is Joe Rogan's kind of opposes what his own view was two years ago. But at the same time, it's like, he's talked to a bunch of smart people from now and then. So yeah, he could be a little brainwashed, but I think most of it's just knowledge coming in. I don't know, man. I just am sick of cancel culture. And I think,
is just going to come around to bite everything in the butt, you know? Yeah, I think so. I read this post by David Goggins, actually. I should pull it up. Well, you pull that up. Rumble offered Joe Rogan $100 million to go exclusive on their platform. The audio platform? I don't know exactly what it is, but it's kind of like the same Spotify deal that he got before, but they don't do any kind of censorship or anything like that. Wow.
Who the hell is Rumble? Where did they get $100 million? I don't know. If Joe Rogan went over to them, I'm pretty sure everyone would then know who Rumble is. Listen, Joe, you want to do a LifeWideOpen podcast exclusive, you come here, you just post all your stuff. You got 100,000 subscribers you can start out with. We'll pay you $200 million. That's the new high right now. He honestly would probably make that, though, after a certain amount of years.
Yeah, true. With his sponsors and all that, but I suppose he wants to pocket that. All right, so David Goggin said a bunch of stuff, basically. Who's David Goggin?
He's like an author. He's like... He was a Marine. He's just like this crazy... Not crazy, but he's like a very fanatical, like, work hard. He's super into working out and just like being... Inspiring. Inspiring. His best self and inspiring other people to do better than what they currently are doing. But basically, he like said...
He's Joe Rogan's friend. He doesn't think he should have said the N-word and all that, but he doesn't think he's racist or he says he's not racist, all that. He says this whole spiel saying that he's met a lot of racists in his life, but he knows for a fact Joe Rogan is not a racist.
And he mentions in it about canceled culture. We are slowly being walked down a path where we lose our voice. We don't all need to agree with one another, but we have to respect the fact that people should be able to say whatever the fuck they want to say. Otherwise known as freedom of speech, whether you listen or not should be your choice. I remain completely independent with no sponsors or partnerships, so I don't have to have an issue with this.
Um, what the hidden message here to me is the fact that people in positions of power don't believe we are smart enough to be able to hear different opinions or capable of making our own decisions. I'd have to read the whole thing. It's so long. I think it's just tough because people are figuring it out with the internet. You know, you never before, uh,
was someone able to just project their voice like it was like you know like in the old days when people would stand on soap boxes and they'd be like that guy's fucking crazy yeah like now you have a soap box that you can project anywhere yeah and then eventually there'll be enough people that will listen to you and go well maybe that guy's not so crazy and so i think that now with the internet and stuff like that there'll be like a time of people figuring out how they can
I don't know. Right. And even then this isn't even canceling, but it's just like, so you get a big enough following, AKA entertainers, influencers, whatever. So you get a big enough following and you were speaking. And then all of a sudden here comes a sponsor like that guy just said, I don't do sponsors cause I don't want to have to deal with people telling me what I can and can't say.
A lot of times that's pretty hard when that sponsor has endless amounts of money to give you. Yeah, to make you do what you want. And sometimes people say no. And sometimes people say yes to that. Then you're in your, your audience of let's say a million people.
They are in their hopes of tainting them. They're like, sweet, we're paying them enough money to make them say what we want. Yeah, that's very true. It's like part of cancel culture, but it has nothing to do with it. Well, shout out to Spotify for not just canning Joe immediately. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Oh, dude. I know, that's right. All these musicians pulling their music off, I don't understand what they're doing. What their plan is, dude. They're only pushing...
for a world of like less free speech especially what's that one guy's name the neil neil young because isn't one of his songs like his one of his most famous songs is like rocking in the usa or something like that hold on let me just double check this here okay so neil young one of his most famous songs is rocking in the free world so you think he would be in favor of free speech
wow, the irony. Yeah, exactly. And then instead he's him like pulling this shenanigans where he's not going to have his music on Spotify anymore because he doesn't like what Joe Rogan is saying, which is free speech.
How ironic is that? How ironic? So funny enough, I have Elon Musk's tweet notifications on because I used to invest in Bitcoin and stuff. And you could pretty much track. No, still do. But you could pretty much track what it was going to do based on what he said. And he just tweeted, why is the traditional media such a relentless hate stream? Real question. Probably because it sells. Yeah, it does sell. The human brain is more attracted to negative than positive. Yeah. Really? Yep.
That's true. Sex sells and hate sells. Like you get, you, when someone's like talking about something that's like bad about somebody, you're way more intrigued than somebody talking about something good. Yeah. Or, or I mean just a YouTube video. So-and-so stole this or that. People love to see that, you know, or, or I got in trouble for this. From like an entertainment, entertainment standpoint, all the way to you. Like if someone is like,
that you don't know, let's say it's not your friend, and they're just like, yeah, you see that they got their car stolen, and you're like, damn, that's crazy. And you kind of like maybe read about it, and you're like, at least I didn't get my car stolen. Their mishap makes you feel like you're sitting in a pretty good place. But if someone is like, yo, I just won this car, and you're just like, damn, dude, that'd be sick to win a car. I never win anything. You can kind of gravitate towards...
Other people's mishaps to make you feel better for no good reason. I never thought about that way. When you read something bad about someone else, you're like, you feel like subconsciously in a better place than them. I don't feel that way. I just try to avoid any kind of negativity.
pretty much at all costs. Yeah, you literally won't even listen to sad songs. No, I won't. I won't listen to, like, sad songs like Juice WRLD. I think he's really, like, he's got some catchy tunes, but they're all sad. Depressed and nasty. Yeah. That's true. And, like, just makes you sad. Yeah, especially if you're in a sad state of mind. Exactly. Anything like that will just bring you down. Or you could be in a happy state of mind, and then you start listening to those songs, and you, like, start trying to feel bad for yourself, you know? That's why I just don't mess with it. Um.
Today, we sat down and basically planned out a couple video ideas for the future. And one of our ideas was an RV trip. I'm so stoked about this. Basically, we were just like, we want to do an RV trip and we want to do it in March sometime. But we haven't mapped it out.
I mean, yeah, it was just the idea that got planted and then we're like, this would be fun. I think that'd be so fun. Cause basically how it started was we were like, what's something, I guess I asked her when I said like, what's a video idea that just forget about if you think it would get a lot of views, forget about if it would have a good thumbnail, forget about cost. What's something you would want to do? Like just,
have passion for, like you think would be really fun and would be excited to go do. I think one, you said an RV trip and I was like, that's right. We've been talking about that. So it wasn't my necessarily idea, but it's just like the boys, a man, a real road trip. We've done all the way across America. So many road trips in a, in a truck.
And they're all awesome, but I'm talking RV. Like multiple stops and like just... Stop wherever you want in your own time. Messing around the whole time. Almost like no plan, but to just go and have fun. Start going. And whatever comes our way, comes our way and...
That's cool. I mean, a bunch of people do that. It'd be like a two-part video. For sure. I mean, I think we'd be at least gone for over a week. But I always see, like, Buttery do that. He's got his moto van. But, like, at least him and Medium Boy load up in it. But a lot of times a few other guys. And, you know, they're like, all right, this we're just going to string up along the coast all the way to Washington, over to Montana, and back down. Well, that's the cool part about California, though, is, like, you're –
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Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, California, like that kind of that direction. And then we want to hit Vegas and then maybe like loop back that way. But we're going West, not East. In case people in New York are like, Oh, come to come to Albany. Yeah.
Or something like that. I think I was listening. Yeah, it needs to be something sick. How big of an RV can you drive? Do you need an RV license? No. Actually, kind of crazy. Luckily, you don't. You don't? Do you drive a 40-foot RV and pull a 40-foot trailer? What? Just a unit.
I mean, that's basically our trailer. It's like 36 feet long. We probably won't have a 40-foot RV. But, I mean, like Ken's parents, they pull our snowmobile trailer all the time. Right. And that's who we're taking? Yeah, Bob said we can take. I gave him that snowmobile, so he said we can take the RV, right? What snowmobile? The ZRT. But, yeah, it'd be great to just, like, get out. I'm excited about that. We're excited to get out of town for a little bit.
And like maybe get some better weather. We're in the dog days of winter around here, you know. It's not necessarily, it's like kind of the last little stretch that always kind of just gets old. Because then once we were talking about, we came up with like 40 more video ideas. And we're like, once the snow is gone, we can do that. Yeah. Once the snow is gone, we can do that. When it's warmer, we can do that. So like we're stoked to come back from that trip. We should bring the podcast stuff with. Oh, thank you.
Oh, for sure. Oh, my God. That's a great idea. And just get all these different people on. We just enjoy it too much. Well, we have everything we need. We have a Wi-Fi hotspot. We're not coming home. Mike, you'd maybe do that. I would love that. I could see you doing that. I could probably go for a month. Yeah. I mean, as long as it's not summer, maybe I could too. We'll see, though. Yeah, we'll see how we feel after a week or two on the road. Yeah. So we got that coming up. We need to start planning for it.
If you guys have any suggestions, comment them down below because we're totally open and we're looking for some stuff. We got to bring as many pit bikes as we can too. Luckily, they're small. Luckily, the dirt bikes, pit bikes...
And maybe the shifter carts, we can fit a lot of machines in our trailer. But then you put some sleds or a side-by-side and you're just packed. So we'll figure that out. We also actually do need to figure out an RV. So I got a notification today from Robin Hood. And it said, happy one-year anniversary, Ben. You've been investing for one year. That's it? Yeah.
Yes. That is it, Mike. It feels like all the time. Again, I don't even mean this in a bad way, but it feels like, and I know CJ has, but it feels like you and CJ have been talking about crypto and YouTube for a long time. Besides for Bitcoin and stuff. Right, okay. I guess that's like Coinbase. Yeah. Just normal stonks. Yeah.
Well... How's your investing going, Ben? Are you up at all? No. So something that worries me... No. ...is, you know, obviously I know to stay clear or dump whenever you buy any kind of crypto or stock that I have, I know that shit's going down quick. Yeah. So...
Something that concerns me is you just bought two rental houses last week. Does that mean the housing market's going to shit? Because it might be time for us to list the house. I'm going to crash the entire economy, baby. Jesus, dude. If that happened, it would just be funny. Not actually. Ben, why don't you go and buy a Lambo or something cool so that way all the car prices can go down and we can all just...
Go back to living life in peace. Normal. Yeah. Something tells me that's exactly what's going to happen when I do that too. Probably. Yeah, dude. I, uh, last week, um, I was on my Robin hood and, and, uh, or Coinbase or something. And I've, I used to have, um, quite a bit in Sheba.
Because back when Shiba kind of blew up, I was dabbling in that and everything. Didn't make any money, of course. I was dabbling in it. I actually don't think I lost much. Well, that was like the small like replacement, right? Right, right. Because it was down. He considers it a win. Yeah. Yeah. Because it was down and then it skyrocketed. But of course, I didn't sell. And then it went crash back down to where it was. So the other day.
After like six months, I was like, you know what? I'm going to just sell this. It's not doing anything. It hasn't gone anywhere in literally six months. I'm going to just sell it. And I was going to buy like an NFT or something, which I would have lost money on too. So I sell the Shiba. And then Ryan shoots us a text in the group chat today and goes, Shiba with the sneaky 50% increase overnight. Yeah.
Ben, dump everything else you own. Just sell it all, dude. I've actually been thinking about it. Do us all a favor. Yeah, it's bad. I don't know what...
It's bad. It's just your timing or your luck. You know what? I mean, they say this with everything. If you just don't sell, then you can never lose. That's true. You got to keep selling, Ben. That's why I was like, I haven't sold ever. All right. Mike, have you even bought any crypto? No, but I haven't sold any either. There you go. I saw a really... No, of course I bought crypto, but no, I just have literally never sold. I don't see the point. I'm waiting for like Ethereum. I bought it at like 25. I'm waiting for that shit to go like 10,000. Yeah. Yeah.
I saw a really funny tweet. It was like parents telling me to invest and do stuff like that. It was like my investing portfolio. I'm down like 15%, meaning I've lost 15% of the money that I put in.
What? Sounds nice, Ryan. I thought it was supposed to be easy. You could have just used that money for fun, Ryan. Yeah. Might as well have gone to Vegas. I know. I actually probably would have had better luck gambling. I mean, this can go back up, and I'm still holding strong. It will. But still, it's hard. Dude, every single time I either invest or gamble of any sort, I just lose. I'm just not lucky or good at that. And I think I'm going to stop.
Investing? Well. Or gambling? Gambling for sure. Pull tabs for sure. Probably smart. Pull tabs for sure. But you never played. We go to the bar. We buy a bunch of pull tabs. We lose our ass. We're like, hey, we never do this. Not never. We don't do this very often. Ben really doesn't. Loses his ass. Quits. Yeah. But if you quit blackjack, then now we're talking. I don't think that you necessarily should. But if you do, that'll be a statement.
Well, I'm not. I don't think I'm going to do that. I don't think I need to do that. I'm only losing like a couple hundred at a time, Mike. It's nothing that's going to bankrupt my future kids. That's where it starts. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see about this whole housing crisis, though. I don't think the housing market is going down anytime soon, honestly. I hope not. I think that just everything that got raised up with...
you know inflation is just this is just the new standard it's where it's at because i mean when has it ever really gone down you know look at look at in like the housing crash the cost of like a house and yeah but like it doesn't ever go back down it came back up but so like 20 years or like 10 years like i feel like everything just constantly is always rising up
Yeah. The cost of everything is more expensive. Bread, fucking cars, you know, gas. Like, just everything in general consistently is more expensive because the value of the dollar is just getting less and less. So you have to spend even more and more. And that's what I tell myself. I say, hey, you know, this money sitting in the account is going to lose money, so I might as well lose it faster. You know, it's like a race. Yes.
It's a great mentality. It's weird that we, like, you were never able to, I mean, you were, obviously, but you weren't able to necessarily see inflation, like, month to month. You weren't able to, like, oh, like, it's happening. It was always just this slow and steady thing. But as of the last, like, two years, you're able to see the prices in front of your eyes go up on everything. And it's, like, the same thing. Here's another example.
Minimum wage. When I was a kid getting my first job, minimum wage was $7.25. Nowadays, what is even minimum wage? People at McDonald's are making like $15 an hour. Minimum wage isn't that much higher, but base pay is a lot higher. McDonald's is hiring at like $15 plus. That's not minimum wage. Just think about that, though. Everything has just gone up.
It's true. Well, it's because they have to to get employees, and then they can't get them. Because everything else is more expensive. They can't get employees, so then they have to pay them more, so then they got to charge people more for the hamburger. Do they even have a dollar menu? Like, go to McDonald's. Shit is like 15 bucks, dude. McDonald's is just as expensive as eating anywhere else. Dude, like, I'll go there, like, ah, fine, whatever. Like, I'll go get McDonald's because it's quick and it's going to be cheap. I end up spending like 13 bucks. I'm like, well, Jesus, I should have just gone to the...
To the pub and got in a burger grilled by a guy on a grill, you know, and at least had a beer with it, you know? So there's a CNBC pie chart posted and it said the budget breakdown of a 25 year old who makes $100,000 a year and is excellent with money. And it's a typical monthly spendings pie chart.
This is ridiculous. It's got $825 to rent, which is probably pretty accurate. Seems cheap. If you're living on your own, that is cheap. Most 25-year-olds make $100,000 a year. No. Just of a 25. No. Okay. And then it's got $615 allotted to donations, dining out $250, groceries $400,
And then cell phone, $40. House cleaning, $30. Internet, $20. Transportation, $130. Like, are they high? You think 25-year-olds making $100,000 are donating $600 a month?
I don't know. So mainstream media, pretty out of touch. I guess the fact that they even made that, uh, it's such a niche, uh, thing, you know, to beat, I guess, 25 and making that much a year and come across this and go, Oh, it's not accurate at all. Yeah. I thought that was a little ridiculous. I pulled mine up though. Just my credit card spending report to see just from expenses, not my investment portfolio. Otherwise I'd be probably, uh,
Looking super dumb if I showed that. But yeah, surprisingly, a low amount of only 25% to restaurants and food. Really? In the last month and a half at $1,700. It was still $1,700 eating out. You spent $1,700 eating out last month? That's since the beginning of December. Oh. So the last three months. Two months. Two months.
I don't even want to look at it. It's his eye. Yeah. I don't know. We all for sure have spent more than that. I feel like Ben goes out to eat the least out of anyone, so that's very concerning. What? What's your StockX bill? My StockX bill? It's your StockX bill. How many shoes? Yeah, hopefully they give you rewards points. That would technically be under merchandise and supplies. Which is your highest category. Which is my highest category, but that's also just like random stupid shit, and that's $4,700. Pfft.
My new goal is to save money, and the only time I'm going to spend money is when it's investing or investing in a YouTube video. Or eating air? Yeah. No, ramen. Oh, I guess I forgot about that. Going back to those days. What about putting gas in your car? Well, obviously, you got to get gas. What do you think? Are we going to get a bike? No.
I start pedaling the bike. I only drive the GTR when we're filming. You could just catch rides back and forth with Mike. I really could. I could get a horse. That's the one thing I've thought about. It's like realistically could ride share here and there. It doesn't have to be every day, but I'm like, ah, it's just nice. It's nice having your own car. Luckily we don't make an hour commute. If we had to drive an hour to work, I would not drive every day. Totally ride with you guys. Yeah.
CJ and I, well, we had our snowmobile meetup this weekend. Yep. Which was honestly, it was awesome. It's a banger. A ton of people came out. We had snow. Big turnout. We came out and rode snowmobiles. That was the most snowmobiles I've ever ridden with. Yeah, it was insane. It was literally miles of snowmobiles just in a line. I directed traffic in Cormorant because everyone would come up and stop and then go, and it was just taking forever. So I came out and was being a traffic cop. That's crazy.
Like stopping people. Yeah. And so I'm going and I'm kind of focused on like this direction for a second. I turn around and it was a sheriff. And I was like, I stopped the snowmobiles and I was like,
come on through. And he just like rolled through and kind of like looked at me and waved. I bet he was happy. You were. Yeah. I mean, it was probably good. I was standing out in like a black coat and black pants and a black jacket. I was like fricking blending into the road, but I mean, it worked. So the DNR was out there handing tickets out to everyone, not everyone, but as many people as they could, our good old pal, Jacob, the same guy who's giving us a ticket for everything. Uh,
uh and i i guarantee you they were trying to get us but it's like how the fuck do you know which one's which there were so many snowmobiles and everyone had their helmets and their gear on and i guess he pulled someone over right in front of ben and just gave him a laundry of tickets because i guess his can was too loud he did a wheelie i didn't even know you couldn't do wheelies i didn't know that either but he got a ticket for that and then obviously he didn't have his registration done or his
Trail, whatever. Snowflap. Oh, is it the same one? Oh, they get you for everything. It's ridiculous. I just thought there'd be no registration. But yeah, like the snowflap, the can I get. Funnest part is none of us got stopped. Nope. Thankfully. Yeah, Jake got stopped in our driveway. Jake got stopped too. Yeah, even Jake Sherbrooke got stopped right in our driveway. How ironic. It would have been tough if they would have stopped...
Well, I was in the front, so I had, you know. Yeah, you were. Everyone would have stopped right behind you. Hundreds of snowmobiles behind me, so I don't know. Bro, everybody would have stopped. That would have actually been pretty intriguing. Because then he would have been able to go right down the line. Holy crap, can you do that? Just hold them? Well, I got everyone stopped. By the third person back at the lake. Everyone would just start moving. I'm just going to go. Yeah.
Yeah. But it was... Him trying to give us all tickets, everyone just like scattering, dispersing. It was chaotic for sure. And then we stopped on a pond and all drove up a hill and watched everyone roll their sleds down and stuff. God damn it. And then Mike's snowmobile rolled right on top of him. It was like I was watching all these, no offense...
Like I'm by no means a expert snowmobiler, but like these noobs try to go up this hill and they would just roll their sled down it. Pretty much like 90% of people were making it. And then there's like this 10% or 5% that were rolling their sleds down or hitting trees or...
falling off and then all of a sudden I hear Ryan yell CJ CJ and I turn and look and it's freaking Micah underneath his snowmobile trapped under his snowmobile and like four people like jump off and like have to run over and pull it off and I was like that was my favorite part is like the level of whenever anyone else flipped over everyone goes oh
And then you go up and help them out. And then I did, and it looked like... We gotta save my God! It looked like you were trapped under the snow. I was good, but I didn't know how long. You looked like you were being cried. How many people came to your rescue? Four, but they were just like...
It was so funny. You looked like you needed urgent assistance. Yeah. I think I was close to. Were you embarrassed? I was a little bit. Yeah, because I had gone up three or four times before that. Dude, honestly. And then I started to get cocky. I didn't even go up. Oh, so it was straight up. I did go up. Like on accident. You weren't trying to be funny? No, no, no. Yeah, because I'd hit it and then like you're starting to get chewed up. I'm like, all right, this will probably be one of my last times.
And then I just hit a big dirt clump. I was nervous when everyone was watching. I was like, honestly, I just don't trust myself to fucking do it. In front of this whole crowd. I knew I could, but then so when everyone went, I went up it and left. But, uh.
I didn't want to crash in front of everybody looking like a noob. At the very beginning, I was like giving everybody high fives. I just hopped off my sled, getting GoPro, giving everybody high fives. And I ran really far from my sled and I was running back and some kid just hits me with his ski. Ran him over. Yeah. I mean, he didn't run me over, but he like bumped into my boot with his ski and just, yeah, knocked me over. And I'm like, what are you doing? And he's just like, I don't know.
I didn't see him. I didn't see him. I know there's a lot going on, but I was like, all right, keep your eyes open. We got a lot left of the ride here. Mike just screams at the kid? No, I didn't. He came up and then took a picture with us and was like, I'm the kid who knocked you over. And I was like, hey, thanks for telling me. I was wondering who it was. He was driving an Articad, so. That's funny. CJ and I were talking to this guy. We saw him kind of standing off in the distance, and he never really came into the crowd and we're like,
It's super hard to talk to everybody who comes. But we saw this kid and we're like, he doesn't really seem like he's coming up to say hi, but you can tell he wants to. CJ and I went over and talked to them. His name is Peter. And he actually... Hey, Peter. He was telling us he came down from Grand Forks and he was Amish. Yeah. Well, he used to be Amish. He used to be Amish. He used to live in the... Hutterite. The Hutterites. Oh, it was that. So he was an Amish. Yeah, but he left...
I don't know what they call them, their village or whatever. The colony. We should have him on the podcast. I'm so intrigued by that. Yeah, no, he left his colony in the middle of the night. He had to call somebody. I don't know how he called because he didn't have a phone, but he had to contact somebody, and they came and picked him up in the middle of the night, brought him out to Staples, a small town, and like...
It's just crazy to me because I was like, so how long have you been watching? He said, about around a year. He's just the nicest guy. He's a real nice guy. So nice. I remember meeting him.
But it was just so... I was fascinated. It was so easy to talk to him, too, because I had so many questions. It would be really cool to get him on. We signed his Amish hat. Yeah, Ryan and I were talking about him then. His Amish hat. Well, Ryan and I were talking about him then last night, and I was like, I wonder if he has an Instagram. And I was trying to find his Instagram because it was in the...
It's in the, you know, I just was looking at my followers, but I couldn't find him. So, I mean, who knows? But he did say he listens to the podcast. So, Peter, comment your Instagram down below if you do. Hopefully, you listen to this because we should honestly have Peter on. That'd be really interesting. Dude, I'm so fascinated by the Amish culture and especially the one just right down the road, the Hodorites. Right. It's not far from here, and I've never met anybody. I've never even really met anybody. Well, it's because they have...
They have like two weeks when they turn 18. I think they have like two weeks or a month to leave, but they don't give them any money. They don't give them like any... Obviously not a phone. They don't have a choice. Nothing like that. And they say, okay, if you want to go and leave, like go out and live your life. But if you want to come back, this is your only opportunity. So you either leave now or you come back now. I think this is how it goes. Yeah, I've heard that. But get this, dude. So like...
he's 20 years old now, or, you know, a year ago maybe he would have been 18 or 19, I don't know. But, he's experiencing all this stuff where he's never been on the internet, he's now got a phone, like, and then he finds out, like, imagine how much freaking stuff is out there. You think the Hooderheads would come after us if we put them on the podcast? No, they're nice people. They're nice people. But, I don't know, we'd have to double check. It's not how much he's talking. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it'd be interesting, if he doesn't feel comfortable then I'd understand, but...
um maybe we have to bleep his name i know he's just said peter i don't even know his last name is fine but nice guy nice guy and we need to get him on here wow that'd be great yeah at least just talk to him it was so interesting interesting could you imagine it wasn't really the situation to ask questions because we were literally standing in a cold parking lot with a bunch of people around all around us but could you imagine experiencing life that fast
At this age. At this age. That's the part that would be so amazing and overwhelming. I wonder what his deciding factor to leave was. I didn't ask him, but I would love to ask him on the podcast if he wants to come on. That would be freaking sick. We should get him on here. And then we also need to get Millennial Farmer on here. Yeah. If you guys can't tell, we love having the boys chat, but when we have guests on, it's just so much easier. It's just...
I don't know. I feel like it's more fresh because we know so much about each other. It's tough, though, living in Minnesota. There's not many. There's actually just one other YouTuber, Millennial Farmer. So we're trying to get him on. Yeah. Yeah, we were supposed to meet up with him last week, but the weather was like nasty, nasty. And so we were like looking him up crazy how many views he pulls.
farming YouTubers it's not that it's undeserving we're just legit mind blown that there's that many people out there watching him do basically day to day farming he's a relatively big farmer it's entertaining though he's an entertaining character it's funny it's not necessarily the content it's the character right yeah it's funny
Speaking of the ride out, though, it's really cool. We were talking about this afterwards. It's really cool getting the chance to meet everyone that comes out to it. Obviously, we wish that we could spend more time and be more personable with each person because obviously if you drove four hours or some people drove eight hours, you want to meet us, but it's so hard to give each person...
you know, enough time to like have a conversation or, or have like a personal interaction with you because then the line gets a little bit longer and then you got to have that same interaction with the other people that drove eight hours. And it's just, you know, it's, it's, it's a tough thing to balance, but we want to figure out a way to, you know, be able to show everyone our gratefulness of, of coming out and supporting us. So I don't know. We don't know what that looks like. If we're going to keep doing the meets. Yeah.
meetups like that. Yeah, because we hate for people to feel like, oh, they didn't give me the time of day. And it's not like we don't want to. It's just there's so many people. It's so overwhelming. I'd say one nice thing is that we're pretty established in what we're doing and what our personalities and our roles and all this. Before, we were like a package deal. Still obviously are.
But if you, like, some people are, in a sense, they're almost equally as stoked to meet one or two of us as they are the whole crew. I'm not saying you're going to come to the meetup and not meet...
At least all of us at one point get to say hi. But if someone gets to grab a picture with CJ and I, they're still just as stoked as it is and then grab a picture. Yeah, maybe we separate so then you can kind of be more... That's what I had thought. I'm like, I can take a picture with 100 people real quick and have 100 conversations. But if I need to go, CJ, get over here, that's when it gets long. Yep, exactly. And that's just part of the...
Like the group wanting, we want to be together as a group. Well, we want to be together as a group, but like, you know, a lot of YouTubers, they're just, you know, one or two guys. It's a lot easier to manage than five guys, burgers and fries. Yeah. Being a group, you know, it's a little bit more moving parts. So, you know, anything else? No.
I think we're good. Only the last thing I want to say is I think Twin Sick, the band that we were at last weekend, is going to be a big deal someday. Oh, I believe you. That's it. But, I mean, they were just in that one video. But I just want to have that publicly noted because I really do think they're going to be a big deal someday. That's your comeback to when I said that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, those guys are killing it. So shout out them.
Yeah, dude, they are. Well, it's one thing to become like, hey, CJ and I are going to start DJing. Dude, people will pay you to go do shows and DJ at bars or whatever, but when you start making original music and it's good, like they have like two songs and they're good, that's when you start taking off. Anybody can DJ. Not anybody. Yeah.
They just have it, though. There's certain people that just got it, and they've got it. They've got the looks. They've got the attitude. They've got the lifestyle. They've got the lifestyle. They love to party.
get the party going get the party going and they're insanely talented yeah so yeah i'm excited to see where they yeah it'd be cool to do like uh on the you know rock out with your doc out type vibe but with that with the music we want dj and big leg party that'd be sick for sure or like a shop party i don't know how we do that but yeah i mean yeah that'd be sick too sounds like evan just rolled in so you want to hop in
Evan, you got a clip. Pull up. Oh, are those cold? Mike, you stay on with that. Relatively. Are they really cold? Oh, fuck yeah. These are cold, dude. They're all the fridge in Wadena. Let's go. Yeah. Take a seat, Evan. What are you doing back here? You're back again. And I mean, I love it. I'm great. Oh, really? Really. Let's go. Have you seen his eye? I know. Well, Evan, you were there when it happened, right? Dude, Ken, I feel seriously bad for you, bro.
Jesus Christ, dude. What was that? Mike. I don't know. I spelled. That's what happened. Evan's been staying with us here now for a week. This has been a week. I thought you were gone. I was honestly like missed it, but now you're back. Yeah. I mean, if you think about it on Friday, a week and a half ago, whatever we went to Iowa every single day. You've been with us since 10, 11, 12 days. 12 days. Yeah. We got to go for a month. Evan.
You're so on brand. The twisty tease. You come walking in like everyone at home must just be like, this guy's just always strapped, which you are partially. So that led me to think about something. I signed something this weekend. Evan was at the ride out, and Evan has become –
in himself. I mean, people are coming up to you asking for autographs, taking pictures, all that. We'll get to that in a second. But I was signing this thing and it was already signed by you and it said, stay twisted. And I thought that was the funniest thing in the world.
I mean, there's a couple meetings. I mean, like, twist the throttle, twisted tea. Yeah, it was good. I thought it was great. I thought it was really funny. But what do you, like, think about that? Like, is it just, I don't know, is it kind of, it's relatively new to you still, isn't it? Yeah, it's pretty crazy having kids while my autograph and
Kind of like, why? Why would you want my autograph? But yeah, no, it's super cool. And then just like talking to them and they're hyped and, you know, just ask them how their day's going. And it seems like it means a lot to them. Yeah. Super cool. Yeah, dude, it's funny. I mean, just watching you like kind of become like a star. Blossom into your own. Yeah. Yeah.
All thanks to my friends. Yeah, you did it for yourself, though. No, dude. You will go and post a dirt bike video of you doing a wheelie on the ice or you doing like a massive turn on the ice. And it'll get like...
an insane amount of views like on instagram reels like you were telling me the other night that um somebody reposted the video of you doing like the big swooping turn on the ice and it got 50 million views on instagram reels 50 million views think about that 50 million people just evan just going on an untag yeah i was like that's bullshit bro yeah that's some bullshit
But a lot of them are tagged. Yeah, I would say like 95% of people. Dude, Evan's got like 50K followers. That's freaking good, dude. I remember hanging out with you guys when I was at like 6K or 7K or something, and then you're like, CJ was like, we're getting you to 10K or whatever. And that happened real fast. Yeah, dude. I guess I don't even know how long it's been, but I'm pretty sure...
it's hardly been a year like a year ago i have 10k i'm sure i mean you should start getting instagram brand deals how do i do that we actually might be able to help you yeah we can maybe figure it out uh what do your parents think about like all this because we met your parents and i don't know why i just thought it was i was so uh
Like, I was almost, like, surprised because you are, like, polar opposite of both your parents. I would not expect you to be the, I don't know, just, like, the result of them. And I love you, Evan. They're offspring. And I really like them, too. But you guys are polar opposites. I agree with what you're saying. Clearly, I see that.
I think now, if anything, they've supported my riding the most they ever have. When I first started getting into it, they were so over it. Your mom was worried about you getting hurt. Yeah, and you've never rode dirt bikes when you were younger. Why are you going to go try to hurt yourself now? You have a job and responsibilities. I can totally see that. And then obviously, yeah, you can't turn away after you're like, well, clearly...
not only you're doing well doing it but people like watching you do it you start riding dirt bikes when you're 20 years old that's crazy like that's so late in the game for people to be like really talented i feel like yeah i think it's good though because it keeps it super fresh if i would have started when i was eight i might have burnt out by the time i was 20 i mean you never know either that or i'd be super good it was like really in time though because like you you've done bmx and stuff i feel like
You had the build up to it. Everything slightly kind of leads into another. Yeah. No, I think I had a proper background of doing all kinds of action sports. For lack of a better word.
So is Slim going to get that snowmobile going then? Dude, he's pulling the jugs off it tomorrow to assess the damage. We sent the Mountain Max home with Slim in his minivan. You guys will probably see that in the video. But, yeah, tailgate open. He had a three-hour, let's say, three-hour drive home. I felt bad for her. The lift gate was open. This guy's going to be driving home with the back open four hours.
You took that little video. He's just cheesing. Yeah, did you ever talk to him? How was that ride or that drive home? No, I think the heat was fine. I mean, the heat's blowing in the front. It was all good. We pulled in to get gas at the Wadena gas station, and we're in the store, and we're checking out, and some other guy walks in, and he's like, no, that's one way to haul a snowmobile, and then another woman in line starts chirping in, and
Before we knew it, we got a group of people standing around the van checking it out. It's so Midwestern. Sounds about right. He got slim, like the most Midwestern guy I know. He's got something to say at all times. Well, you know, the minivan heater. Well, that's sick. He's going to get that thing going. Yeah, we told him that he could have it as long as he just gets it going and that we get to see it.
fire up again. I think he still thinks we're going to like take it back from him though. Like he couldn't believe that we were just giving it to him. We were like, no, you're doing us. You're doing us a favor here. You guys should actually steal it back. Wait till he has it good. Like I know the code to get into his garage and just steal it. And I'll, that'd be pretty funny. He won't, he won't know until the video drops. We should steal his dirt bike. Then he'd really be cool. You'd probably cry.
No, he would cry that. I'd be afraid of getting shot if I snuck into his house. He would. Dude, you would rather steal his wife than steal his son. That's what he said when she was joking around. And he was like, you can keep her. As long as I got my KTM, I'm fine. He loves that thing. When she was kissing Ken for his birthday on the cheap. That is what she was doing. So it's not a burn, it's pink eye? Oh, it's a burn.
Dude, it looks worse than my pink eye. Mine was in both eyes, but Ken, if he shows you his eyeball, it is burnt. God, yeah, it's tough. It's bad. It's bad. It's not what you want to see. And on that note, let's just hope the real doctor this week gives us good news, gives him good news, most importantly. But, like, seriously, so you only went to the walk-in, and now he's got to see a real doctor this week.
All walk-in doctors right now. Ryan goes, all walk-in doctors right now. The walk-in doctors just couldn't help, just couldn't give him the help. Dude, it just reminds me, like, when I, like, busted, when I broke all four of my five toes in my foot. I didn't have health insurance at the time. Pretty stupid, but that one was kind of on my mom since I was only, like, 15 or 16. But she takes me to the walk-in clinic.
And they're like, dude, why'd you come here? You know, like that vibe. Your foot's flat. I just love it. Yeah, they're like, this is like talking to the other nurses. This is the craziest thing.
walk-in like injury we've ever had i'm like yeah i shouldn't be here it's just that's that's why i should never have came here and they're like yep you gotta go to the er i'm like cool i already knew that what do they fix at the walk-in i mean they give you like you know like strep throat cold medicine like uh prostate checks like uh physicals all that stuff but like nothing serious
Maybe they are stitches. They'll do stitches and stuff. Oh, okay. Anything else you want to talk about? You got anything, Evan? Anything you want to say you've always wanted to say? Not that I can think of. Fair enough. Say nothing. On that note, thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Hit the subscribe button if you haven't. And we will see you guys next time. Peace out. Thank you, Steve's.
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