We Almost Got Robbed In Miami

Publish Date: 2022/1/14

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You look like him. That's exactly what you look like. I'm going to be honest. I have no idea what that is. Ben didn't have cable TV when he was a kid. Oh, that's right. For a standard time. But you had direct TV. I had TV. No, but when you were really little, I remember I went over to your house and you had a cable. Oh, Ben, you didn't watch SpongeBob? That was in Fargo, though. I can't believe you're too young to know what SpongeBob is.

I genuinely feel bad for people that didn't watch SpongeBob. Still on to this day. What do you mean? I watched SpongeBob. I feel like SpongeBob was like peak 2000s. So I actually might have watched more SpongeBob than you guys. You just don't know what the signs are. There's no way. No chance. You're probably right. No chance. I feel like kids got robbed these days of good cartoons like that. Completely agree. Are you kidding me? They got YouTube now. That's true. That's true. Yeah.

Just kidding. I was more so being sarcastic. Well, and they have to go to YouTube because cartoons on TV probably are right now. Do they even have cartoons? Wait. Yes, Ben. Is Nickelodeon still a thing? The universe is still there. It was just at the Mall of America. Yes, it still has been. Well, when's the last time that you watched Nickelodeon, Mr. I-Know-Everything-About-Network-TV? It's still on. I can promise you that. All right. Okay. Fair enough.

Anyways, welcome back to the LifeWide Open podcast. We just got back from Miami. Ironically enough, Ryan, the one person who didn't go to Miami, is sick. Yeah, the fuck's up with that? Yeah, the whole weekend off. Actually, damn near a little more than that. And what the hell were you up to? Yeah, what were you doing? Honestly, I kind of did nothing.

It was nice. Finally got that week off that we'd been... We took a week and a half off the week before we left. No, you took the week and a half. You took the week off. That's true. So, yeah, I got my week off. But, yeah, you would think the people that go to Miami would be the ones coming home sick. Honestly, Ryan...

You didn't miss much. I thought it was quite a good time. I don't know if you can say that to me. I had the worst FOMO all week. I was sitting here, freaking 40 below. I blowed snow like six times because that's all I had to do. It does sound terrible. Now that I'm thinking about it, you might have actually missed something. And I watched like all the Marvel movies and the Spider-Man movies. That sounds terrible. Yeah. I mean, it was fun. I mean, sure it was. What else are you going to do when it was as cold as it was? Yeah, but so you guys got to go to Florida. Yeah.

And why was it not fun? No, I'm like, we're going to chat with you for a minute. Don't get me wrong. It was a great time. We have plenty of stories. Yeah. I mean, it was pretty eventful. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm not gonna lie. I'm glad we left when we did though.

Which we'll get into. Yeah, you guys. I mean, we might as well just dive right into it. First off, though, thanks for 100K. I think this is the first podcast since we hit 100K. I think we're up to, what, 104? Something like that. But thank you, guys. That means a lot. When we initially started the podcast, we were like, let's hit 100K. And then I think after that, it'll be a very...

organic growth because uh i think those first probably a hundred thousand people came directly from the youtube videos and from here maybe people might just know us for the podcast i don't know that would be wild that would be wild but anyway thank you guys for 100k well to start um i wrote down in my notes i love the airport i do love the airport don't you guys you want to know what i wrote down in my notes

How much the airport club that we're in sucks. Really? Yeah, so quite opposite of you. Oh, I feel like whenever we show up to the airport, we're all in a really good mood. Like, it's just, like, top-of-the-line bullshitting. That's true. And, like, we're drinking, and...

like it's something about the chaos of it. I think we like that. Like everyone's running around, they're late and we're just like, you know, getting drinks. It's so fun, dude. And then we're always almost not to the planning time and Ken's freaking out and we're laughing and we've gotten a lot better. How does that, we, every single time, every single time. And Ken is like the, we call him our, our travel advisor. And we always say if,

If YouTube doesn't work out, Ken will just go and just plan people's trips. Because he's good at it. He's so good at it. And he's got everything... Ken's travel agency. He's got everything down to, like, the minute that you should be here, you're going to pick up your car and you get your car from Tasha. The bags are getting dropped off here. Yeah, it's just like...

So everything's lined up. And that's about the complete opposite of how the rest of us travel, especially Mike. Mike kind of got snapped at when we got to. Okay, that's the other thing. When you said, we're all in a good mood, blah, blah, blah, I think Ken has so much on his plate. And I hate to, like, again, talk about Ken since he doesn't have a voice currently. He'll probably hop on later. We love doing this. But it's like, as soon as we start traveling and for how frequently you've flown, it's like immediately your mood is just heightened. Ken is panicking. Uh-oh.

Okay. Yeah, he's like freaking out. Dude, that was so funny. Was that when we were leaving Florida? No, on the way there. But like both, it's like even when we landed in Minneapolis, we, I don't know, we just landed. We had to get in our bags. No, we showed up. You were so apprehensive. So. So in a hurry. I was in a pissed off mood. Micah. Oh, my God.

How long are you planning on sitting here, Ken? I don't know. It's like when Ken moves my car 10 feet to snowplow, he'll do my steering wheel, he'll move my seat all the way back. He'll adjust the height. The rear view mirror. Okay, Ben. Well, your car, you have the seat all the way forward, so I have to move it just to even get in the seat. Why do you have to touch my steering wheel? Because it's also... I can't get my legs under it. All right. I'd rather have you do that than send my car through the garage door. Okay. So we get to the airport and...

And Mike is just on his bullshit, you know, just doing the, just being slow. Nah, I will defend myself until you lose if you want to get after this. Okay. But we had an hour from the time we stepped through the airport door until the door shut in the plane. And I'm like, okay, we got to get our bags checked and through security immediately. Right. And then we did that. But it's funny because we did that.

you're missing a vital point in this part. So we're checking the bags and we got the tags and Ken gives us all the tags to put on our bag. And I'm sitting here. I don't know. I've never had it where we had to put it around. I don't think Mike did either or we have, but there was like this extra little piece on it. And Mike goes, I said, do we need to keep this? And Ken just goes, literally all I said, and just goes, quit fucking around. We don't have time. We don't have time for this Micah. And I got scared. Genuinely asking like, what do I do with the tag? Quit fucking around, Mike.

And that was like early in the morning and I was like,

I get that we were in a hurry, but I wasn't holding anyone up. I wasn't holding anything up. You got to print the tags and then you got to like drop them off and stand in line. And then I said, do I have time to go grab a mask? Cause I didn't have a mask. I hate that you have to wear a mask. And so then I didn't, I just held off. I said, fine, I'll get in trouble for no mask versus like getting in trouble by Ken. Yeah.

I'd take a carrot over Ken any day. But the funny thing. Well, I was going to say, yeah, you go ahead. The funny thing is, the whole time I was like, I feel like we got plenty of time. And Ken's like, we don't have time for this. And he's freaking out. He's rushing. He's rushing. We get through. And as soon as we get into the airport after you check your bags and get scanned and all that, Ken just dips off into his little VIP Delta lounge. CJ, you also went there too. No, I didn't.

I mean, I just wasn't worried about catching the flight. Yeah, that's my point. I wanted to go into the Delta lounge to be a minimum of two drinks. I wanted to drink and some breakfast. That's all I want. Mimosa. Right. But it was the fact that you were like yelling at me, like we're going to miss the flight just so you could get into the Delta club. Ken's also got pre-check or the TSA pre-check. So we're stuck in the back of the line. Like,

probably 30 minutes behind ken anyways and he's just walking through people are like pampering him along the way oh yeah pre-check you can get pre-checked too you just have to go there and do it it just amazes me that you have all these different like little amenities to make your life easier actually it doesn't amaze me at all it makes complete sense knowing you because then you don't take your shoes off you don't have to take anything out of your bag it just it's so much easier right

No, it was nice. It was an interesting feeling having... Ken, CJ, I'm pretty sure Ryan also has it. They all have Sky Club or the Delta car, and I don't have that yet. So you guys would go to the Sky Club, and I would like, well, I don't know what to do. I'm not going to go. I didn't know what to do. So I'd go to the gate and just sit. And then it was funny. Then I'd get bored, and they'd start boarding people, and I'd get on the plane. And I'm like, man, this is so weird being before all you guys. And then seeing you get on the plane, and I'm just like, normally this would not be me, but...

I didn't have anything to do. Ken's demeanor changed significantly in the Sky Club, though, Mike. I mean, he's in just the chipperest of mood. You know, he's just sitting there with his little fucking mimosa, and he's eating a muffin or a caramel roll. All right, so here's what I was going to say about the airport just kind of sucks. So we have these American Express credit cards. Let me just...

Okay, Ben. It'll add to the... Yeah, yeah, show it to the camera. It's like... Get the number in there. So it's like a pretty nice credit card, right? And we always gave Ken shit for having one because he's had one for like five years, right? And we're like, what do you need this like one pound credit card for, Ken? And he'd always be like, well...

The perks are incredible and I can do all these different things. And at the time they, they didn't mean shit because we didn't travel. So I don't think you got to use most of the perks, but Ken, you've always lived this somewhat bougie lifestyle. And then you find out Mark. Okay. Well, Mark has it. The credit card costs $750 a year. So it's like, if you don't use all the perks, like literally every single perk, you really don't get your $750 worth. So it doesn't,

really makes sense besides for the fact that we have started traveling more and luckily we can fly for the longest time we had to drive like from sea to sea and now we have the luxury of flying thank you guys for watching the videos because that is incredible and uh

i think the first time we flew ken got to go into his little lounge that he'd been talking about for the past like three years and we're like what's going on in there it's like all you see is just the doors open and it's like pretty bougie yeah it's like uh looks like paradise in there right and then they close and ken comes out he's just glowing well it's like an open bar you're not going to be excited about an open bar right so our friend mark

later tells us i think after that trip he was like oh yeah i have one of these cards too you guys and you signed up on the spot well literally on the spot you like okay mark's a smart guy he's one of those guys where you're like oh he's not gonna waste money yeah yeah mark you do that it makes sense like you do most of the things mark does make sense and it's not just because he's no offense but lazy and loves the luxuries ken

I was like, okay, well, it's probably worth it then. So I think Ryan doesn't have it. Do you? I've got the cheap Delta version. Okay, so the Delta one. He's halfway there. That still doesn't get you into the Delta clubs, which is the weirdest thing. So me and CJ get it, right? So we get access to this luxury club. I expected it to be, like, top tier. When you go in there, they greet you with, like, a warm towel. And it is pretty nice. I mean, you get, like, free alcohol, free food. You're...

basically surrounded by a bunch of other people that think it's worth paying 750 for a uh it's always like old like older like 50s plus like in business suits then you got us just like wearing no can-do gear just fucking so now hanging out filming so every single time we go in there we just try and capitalize on as much as we can basically to get our 750 worth because i probably

That's not the only perk. You know that, right? Right, but I can't see myself using all the hotel perks and things that you use. Using an Uber credit every month? I don't know. So anyway, as we're sitting in there, we're double fisting drinks, and we're filling up four different plates, but the food is pretty bad. I mean, I guess you get drinks, but...

You got to get quite a few drinks to make up for that fee every month. But I was sitting there, or every year, but I was sitting there and I was just thinking, man, you got all these people in here paying $700 a year and this is like the shittiest meal. It's like if you got like

I would compare it to like lunch food and like in high school lunch food. I was like, dude, all these other like high rollers, bougie ass people. You could get a better meal anywhere else in the airport and they give you this. I was like, what is this? But it's just you're just like a part of a club. Like if you can't drink or if you don't drink, I see absolutely no point. No point. You go for the booze, not the food. But what's the point if you don't drink?

Well, then it's just, it's quiet in there. It's nice and quiet compared to like, it's nice and quiet compared to like the rest of the airport and then.

Kind of. I don't know. I'd hate to be in that noisy airport. Yeah. So that's what I was thinking. I was like, I don't know if I'm ever going to sign up for this again, so I'm going to get every dollar's worth for this next year. But it is cool. It is kind of like a bougie experience. And now I'm just in that you guys, literally you're like, you should get it. And then you're like, it's not even worth it. I go back and forth. What do you think, CJ? I mean, I like it. Would you do it again just for that?

Dude, I fucking drank those people out of business. Honestly, I think I've already got my money back. When I go to the airport, I'm fucking... Every time the plane's about to land, I'm like fucking...

I literally think I'm going to have to take the paper bag out every time. I contemplate it. That's probably not good then. Well, I just make sure I get my money's worth. Yeah. I'm having a great time until we land. Like a normal beer in the airport is like 15, 20 bucks. So you get two drinks. Yeah. It's like going to Vegas and gambling and getting free alcohol and

and doing that instead of just walking around the casinos paying for drinks. I'd say it's kind of the same equivalent. I'd say it's worth it. It's fun. If you guys kept it, though, and I was sitting out there with... You'd hate it. Imagine Mike gets it, and you guys just don't tell me, and the first trip, everyone has it but me, then I'd have such FOMO. Mike, you can handle that stuff way better than I can. Like what? Like FOMO. Like just missing. Yeah. That's different, though.

And you do know that credit card also pays for your pre-check membership, right?

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Okay, so we land down in Miami. We head to the beach. We're like, holy frick, this is going to be insane. I'm just assuming Miami is going to be wild because it's supposedly, you know, there's

next craziest place along with vegas so we land down we head straight there just puerto rican women latinas everywhere like we were easily the minority i felt like everyone was looking down on us because we were like just some white men we're like they're like disgusting you know i don't know but anyways so we go and we go and get crab we're like okay we gotta get seafood so we go to this crab shack sitting there we're eating um and it's like a gate

I see we're watching all the people walk by and I see this guy come walking by and there's two like adults, like bigger men and they got like chains on. And then there's three kids following them in a line and they have these boxes of like candy, like full size candy bars. And, uh, and I'm like, what the frick are they doing? I don't know. I thought it was a little weird. Maybe they were eating it for dinner. I don't fucking know. They're a little bit rough around the edges. Um,

And all of a sudden, like I watched him walk by, and then all of a sudden the kid is at our table. And he's got a full-size, he's got this box. He goes, oh, hi, like would you like to donate to our school fundraiser? And I'm like looking at this kid like there's no fucking way this money is going to your school fundraiser. But whatever, that's all right. Yeah, I don't care. We'll support. I go to take some money out. All I had was $100. I was like I'm not giving this kid a $100 bill. Mike, of course, though, he had like a $5 or $10 or something. So he buys some candy bars from him.

I'm like, yeah, you know, and we're being nice. So do the exchange. Right as the kid's leaving, grabs my fucking phone. What? Grabs my phone. Starts trying to walk off with it. And I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Snatched that shit out of his hand. I'm like, what are you doing? He goes, oh, sorry, I thought it was my phone. I was like, this is bullshit. Totally picked us up because they walked through the whole restaurant, walked past everyone because we were on the end.

And just came straight to us. And it's because I was sitting on, like, the walkway part, and I had my phone right there. They totally scoped me out, you know? So, anyways, I was like, holy frick, that would have sucked if I got my phone jacked. Whatever, the kid kind of just darted off. But, yeah, they tried jacking my phone. Did Micah get his $5 back? I'm like, give me that $5 back. No, he just hit it, and we just had the candy bars, but...

So that was our first like hour. That was on South Beach, whatever. Yeah, in Miami. Famous South Beach, Miami. But it was, yeah, so that was that. Dude, I can see how easy it'd be for these kids to just walk the strip and even if they weren't selling something to the people because so there's this road and then a bunch of different hotels along the road. So you're basically just eating on the sidewalks of this road that they closed down. So it's just like foot traffic everywhere. It's just people walking like crazy. Yeah.

And there's so much people watching. You can sit at your table and then just watch the street. And there's just the culture there. Dude, you got just so many different people coming to one area. Hardly any English is spoken. Yeah, hardly any English, right? But there's just so much going on. Like we were sitting at lunch on the last day and you had this crackhead that was dancing for like three hours straight. It was...

Honestly impressive that he just kept going. We sent Mike in there to dance with him. Of course. Mike loves dancing. And then we had a, while the crackhead was dancing, we had a kid that was wheeling down the street that had no front tire. He just had, he just straight up. No, no, no. On like a bicycle. Goes around the block over and over. Yeah, dude. He was just wheeling back and forth.

And then the restaurant next to us, there was like a drag show. Like a dude dressed as a woman. I'm so glad we weren't eating at that place. That would have sucked. You're eating your expensive ass meal and some dude is dressed up as a woman fucking mopping on you. I would have hated that. So there's like so much happening all at once, right? And you're, I mean, all while you're eating, right? So you're not really thinking about like your purse sitting at your feet or your phone at the end of the table. We learned real quickly, keep this shit in your pocket.

I mean, if you're a local or if you have been there once before, you probably... Yeah, but you don't look like such suckers. Yeah, we looked like suckers, honestly. But if you know what to expect, I guess you kind of protect yourself from being the guy that gets his shit stolen, right? But for us, like, dude, we're from Minnesota, corner of Minnesota. We're pretty trusting young lads, right? Yeah.

Yeah, they spotted us out from a mile away, right? So, to preface, we were there because we went to go film with this jet ski razor thing. I don't know if you guys follow us on Instagram, but it's like this contraption. You'll see it in a future video. And we went up to Palm Beach, which is where, like, Jeffrey Epstein...

He lived like seven minutes from where we were at. Wow. It was like the richest part of Florida, I think. One of them up there with Miami, but it's like the houses, like Jeffrey Epstein. Fucking insane houses, dude. Yeah. Wow. That's where Trump has his Mar-a-Lago resort in Miami.

A bunch of celebrities have houses up there. And, like, dude, once we got to the ocean, it was yachts, dude, the size of our shop. And I was like, dude, these are insane. And the guy we were with, those are nothing. I was like, that's a big boat, man. Yeah. Yeah, it was wild. It was better than the lake around here, I'm not going to lie. Really? Like, because it was, dude, we went to the sandbar. There wasn't that many people there, but...

We were just there at the wrong time of the year and probably day. But, like, it's insane. Like, the ocean and, like, there's no way we'd be able to afford a fucking house on the water there. But if you could, I don't think it could be any better. Millions upon millions upon millions. Where we were, yeah, $50 million homes. 20 million. Just, like, along the ocean. So, way different than frickin' Sarasota where we were.

Right, right. Way different. Yeah, it's such a different, like, bougier area. I think, like, the people that can't afford Miami probably go. No, I wouldn't say that. The people that probably want it, like, quieter than Miami go there. So probably, like, the uber-rich.

And, yeah, it was like a really bougie area. But anyway, so we were there up to film. If you've seen it... It's called Shadow 6 Racing. Have you seen that on TikTok or Instagram? It'd be hard not to if you're in any of the scene that we're on. We've gotten tagged in it so many times, and people have sent it to us so many times, being like, yo, you guys should hit this guy up. But it's basically two jet skis with a razor built on top of the jet skis. So...

The dude. And super fast. Super fast. Yeah, it was insane. But the dude that built it basically just like made a TikTok once he finished building it, took a video of it sitting in his garage. And then that was like the first thing that went viral. And the next day it had like 8 million views. But I saw that video the day he posted it and then just DM'd him on C-Boy's Instagram. And I was like, yo, this thing is so cool. Like we're YouTubers from Minnesota. It'd be awesome if we could come and film this thing.

And we were the first people to reach out to him. So he was like the, you know, honored the word because he responded. First converser, basically. Wow. Well, he responded and was like, yeah. Everybody and their cousin. Oh, dude. He's trying to ride with them now. Yeah. I mean, he said he had people like Mark Wahlberg and like Post Malone and like a bunch of like big dogs, like hitting them up, trying to buy one. Post Malone?

What does Post Malone want it for? Well, because Post Malone isn't... He, like, lives in Utah and loves doing stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, they're just dudes that have, like, insane amount of money, and it's kind of like one of those, like, fuck you toys. So is it...

All the Snapchats are from super far away. Is this thing actually legit put together? Or is it more than a couple bolts? It took seven years to build this thing. And the guy that built it, you would think he's an engineer. He wasn't an engineer. He was just like a dude that had a lot of money and wanted this contraption basically for

For himself, he wanted it to be like a one-of-one and he just wanted to have it at the lake. At the ocean. Sorry, on the ocean. But he was like, I didn't plan for anyone to ever be like, oh, I want you to make me one of those. He just built it just for himself to have and then posted it to TikTok and everyone was like, I want one of those now. Right. But to answer your question...

It was more legit than you'd ever even expect. It costed like over $250,000 to build. Right. And he's just obviously got a shitload of hours into it. But it was like unbelievably like well done. Everything looked like you literally bought it from Polaris or bought it from Yamaha. It didn't look like custom fabbed. You want to hear the craziest part too? Two jet skis, wave runner, wave runner, and then he built the razor on top. It's not a razor.

He just built a buggy and

And then he just bolted razor panels to it. What? Like he built it with all the same mounting points, which just didn't make any sense. I was like, so what'd you do with like the motor? Did you buy a totaled razor? He's like, no, it's not a razor. We built the cage and then put razor stuff on it. What? That part was the crazy part. I think that's maybe actually the key to success is looking like a razor. Right. It looks like the guy just bolted it on. Yeah, if he went and tried to make all his own panels, I think it might look corny. Yeah, it would look like, oh yeah, that's custom built. Yeah.

which obviously the entire thing is. But like when you see the fricking razor on top of two jet skis, was it smooth? Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it still had like full suspension basically on top of these jet skis. So picture a jet ski. And as you're riding a jet ski, like there's basically no suspension. It's obviously just your legs and your arms working. Right. So it's this razor then had, you know, like fully built Fox suspension on top of it. So the razor is,

is doing this on top of the jets so the jet skis will go and the razor will take the waves or bumps or whatever. Just like a side-by-side. And then there's a seat on the inside. So it was basically like two seats in one. It was a bench seat versus bucket seats. And then that had a shock underneath the seat too. So then the seat then took some of the brunt.

But the first thing we noticed when we jumped in or when I hopped in was like, where's the seatbelts? It didn't have seatbelts. I guess it kind of makes sense. You're like a boat. You don't want to strap yourself into a boat. That's initially what I thought, too. I was like, oh, yeah, it makes sense. You don't want to be strapped to an anchor, basically. And he was like, no, you just don't need them.

And I was like, don't need them. He's like, yeah, the... What did he say? The Gs. You know, the force. Yeah. The gravity will just hold you in. And I was like, damn. I wouldn't think that would work. He was like, no, it worked really well. I was like, okay. Well, that's pretty cool. Anyway, we're just like docking over this thing. But...

I want to go back to the point of like, so when we reached out to him and we were like the first people to ask for permission to film this thing basically because before it was just him like taking some iPhone videos of it like going up and down this pond that he had behind his house and

There's nobody, basically no other YouTubers or really anyone else had filmed this thing. So I was like, oh, it'd be so cool to be kind of the first people to be able to do that. So that's when he was like, I want to honor my word. You guys can be the first. Yeah, really cool for him to do that because he's a super busy guy. For him to just honor us, being like, yo, whenever you give us the okay. So we got the okay on a Tuesday. We flew out Wednesday, filmed it Thursday. Super last minute, but...

Yeah, I mean, we really didn't know what to expect going into it because nobody had filmed anything with it. And we obviously wanted to do a good job because I think this is probably going to be a really good video and do really well.

Man, it was hard. It was so hard to film. Dude. I saw freaking CJ on the back of a jet ski. Everything about it, dude. We just got thrown into it. So we drop it in the ocean, and this guy tears off. This thing is so fucking fast. It accelerates faster than a Lamborghini. 600 horse. 300 in each ski. What? Because it's like two super fast jet skis. So it just tears off, and we're on these jet skis. Ken's driving. I'm on the back with one hand holding a $5,000 camera set up, the other hand holding onto a little strap.

We're in the ocean. The ocean is freaking rough, dude. And it's so weird because you'd be on the jet ski and you'd be kind of on a roller wave. So you'd be up here and then the other person would be down here. It's so strange at times. What? Yeah. And we're flying. This guy...

maybe he just, the, it probably hasn't done much filming before. So we didn't quite understand, like try to stay around the camera. Yeah. Just fucking tears off. Ken's trying to catch him. I'm fucking boom, boom, boom. Hold on his camera. If it drops, it's done. Yeah. That's all I'm thinking. Like, I mean, five grand down the toilet and you don't have a camera and all the footage and all of it. Yeah. It was honestly very nerve wracking and pretty scary. Uh,

Ended up not dropping the camera, thankfully. Yeah, so we go and we mob it and whatever, and basically that was kind of it. You guys will just have to watch the video. Is there anything else you want to say on it? I mean, that thing was genuinely, compared to the jet skis we were on, we were on just the base, like sea dues, it was probably three times as fast as our jet skis. I'm wicked, and then I was like, how fast were you going? He's like, I don't know, like third throttle.

I'm just wicked. Just trying to catch up to him. But it was super fast. That's what I think it liked to do the most. It was so funny, though, because he kept saying it didn't need a seatbelt. And he hits this wave. Weren't you guys jumping it? Yeah. Yeah, like folded up into the room. Yeah.

Well, he was wearing a helmet, and I was like, what are you wearing a helmet for, man? Like, I don't have a helmet on. I don't have a seatbelt on, and this dude. What's he know that you don't? Yeah. Yeah, and I was like, do you need a helmet? Like, what are you worried about? And he was like, no, no, no, I don't need a helmet, but the internet just thinks I'm reckless for not wearing one or something like that. And I was like, oh, okay. Well, about 15 minutes later, it just takes the...

the roof of the razor just straight to the dome going over these. It was like his back, bro. He folded up into that thing. I zoomed in on the thing on my phone. Yeah.

He wasn't on social media before this whole endeavor. For some reason, if you guys look at the comments on it, they're very naysayer, hater-ish. Oh, are they? Yeah. I would say more than almost 50%. When I saw it, I was just stoked. This thing's badass, looks fast. He's doing a really good job making it look professional. People are just like, that's not going to work. I'm like, come on, give him a little bit of a break here. Are you going to build one yourself? It works amazing.

But yeah, he took a lot of those comments to heart and we were like, bro, don't even worry about him. You built a badass machine. Don't even sweat those. But yeah, people telling him to wear a helmet. People tell him this isn't going to work or to do this. But yeah.

One thing it needs is seatbelts. Once I got in there, oh, it doesn't need seatbelts. We hit the jump. Just tossed around. Oh, no. I don't have, like, the water shoes on either, so I'm, like, jamming my feet up against it. And then, like, we smack, and my hand starts bleeding. And, like, I didn't tell him to slow down because we wanted to set a dude. I don't know. I'm just like, I need something. I'm like, a grab bar maybe? He's like, yeah.

We're still in the works. I'm like, just a grab bar would be great. That's true. And it is still kind of like a prototype, like first one ever made. So nobody had probably ridden passenger with him. Not going that hard. Going that hard or jumping it. And so we were like kind of the test dummies, which is the cost of being like the first ones to do it. But yeah, we're like, yeah, I don't know. Maybe seatbelts or harnesses or at least grab handles. Yeah. Yeah. Is he going to like sell these things?

I don't think so. Well, that was the other thing is he was like, dude, the people that want to buy these can obviously afford it because they want to buy them to put on the front of their yachts. On top of their yachts. On top of their yachts to basically just have like a one of...

or a one of 10 thing in the world. Like not very often can you even do that anymore. And he was like, yeah, I could probably charge like 250,000 for him. So he was like literally like Lamborghinis on the water. Yeah. Well, you'd have to do that shit is not cheap to build. We're like, you could probably

be charged more than that for the people, the clientele that would buy something like that. I don't give a fuck. $250,000 drop in the bucket. Can you imagine having a boat big enough that you can put a side-by-side on it? The boat, you should have seen it, right? I mean, there were fucking yachts. Yeah, there were insane. Huge.

And he doesn't sell jet ski next to him. He wasn't going to build them for people. And then when you get guys like that that are like, what do you want me to pay? I just want one. It's hard to say no. So obviously a bunch of people are going to hate on anywhere near that price. It's not for those people. I would say it's honestly worth it.

Like, it's cool. Dude, it's literally a one-of-one machine. And it took the guy seven years to make. Like, how do you put a price on that? And that's not how long it would take to make another one. To make another one, yeah. Everything's built out of titanium because it doesn't rust. I didn't really know that, I guess. But, yeah, he's like, you could literally drop a piece of titanium in the ocean and nothing happens to it. Oh, yeah.

It makes sense. Again, if you're paying that much and spending that much time building it, it makes sense to just put all the best parts on it. It was awesome, though. So we get done filming that.

We're in Palm Beach. We go out and, like, we're basically just getting drinks and dinner or whatever. It's, like, a bunch of old rich people. We, like, go out and get drinks and stuff. And we all, like, went pretty hard and end up, like, coming back. And we wake up the next morning. Keep in mind, we have three more days of staying here in Miami or Palm Beach or wherever. We're going to go back to Miami now the next day or that day. And we're just like, ugh.

You guys came home Friday night. Yeah, basically. So it was like a two-day little thing. So we head to Miami now just to go mess around because that's where we're flying out of. And we start filming the people, you know, like hanging out, just walking around, checking it out. Oh, my gosh. This is when our second occurrence of possibly getting robbed happened. What? This one was actually way sketchier. Yeah. So we go to the beach, and we meet this guy, and he –

He sees we're holding the camera and keep in mind, this beach is fucking weird, dude. It's like a public ass beach. And there's like girls walking around with no top on. It was fucking weird. I don't know how that was. I figured the cops were going to come or something. No one even bat an eye. It was the weirdest thing. I'm not going to lie. So anyways, we, this guy's come up to us. They're like selling weed and like, uh,

Like selling drinks and stuff, which is probably illegal. They're hustling. Out of a cooler. They're hustling. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Probably illegal. One chick walking around with basically a cooler selling like bags of alcohol. And then the other dude next to him selling weed or joints. They were nice guys, though. I like their energy. And they come up and they're like, yo, you YouTubers. And they're talking to us and all that. And he's like, I'm going to make you go viral. I don't think they understood like to what degree we were.

Like, obviously we're not, we're not big, but like, I don't think they realized just that we were, you know, I had a million subscribers or anything like that. Uh, they maybe just thought we were just a couple of kids walking around filming with a camera, which I mean, technically we are, but, uh, anyways, he goes, I'm going to make you go viral. I'm going to make you go viral. This one guy, he's like, got this Jamaican accent. And he's like the best. Yeah. Yeah. I loved his energy. Easy to film with. Yeah. Great. And he's like, I'm going to, I'm going to want me to climb a palm tree and get you some coconuts. And I was like,

Yeah, sure. So we go up and find this palm tree, which is like right next to kind of like the road slash like where a lot of people are walking by. It's on the strip, basically. Yeah. This dude climbs this palm tree. Had to have been, what, 40, 50 feet high? In like 10 seconds. He scaled it so fucking fast. Two stories high and it literally... It was higher than that, bro. Had to have been fucking three.

He climbed it like there was a ladder, like a straight-up ladder built onto this tree when it was just kind of curved, and he was just barefoot. What the... So he climbs up this thing, scales it so fast, and it starts with just us sitting there watching him. Pretty soon, there's a crowd, and the crowd keeps building. This guy starts kicking down coconuts. He gets up there. He gets up there, and he just... It's like...

It's residency up there, bro. He's like just sitting there. I'm the king of the world. I'm the king of the world. He's hitting his chest. I'm Jamaican Tarzan, man. Yeah. He's like just sitting in this palm tree, like comfortable as me and you sitting here. Kicking these heavy ass coconuts down and they're breaking when they hit the ground. So he's like, you need to catch him. You need to catch him. Ben tries catching him.

We all know Ben really can't catch a fucking football. It's like a bowling ball. Yeah, so now he's trying to catch a heavy ass. It was heavier than a bowling ball. That shit was heavy. So they drop. So anyways, I end up getting in the place to catch him. And all these people are gathering around watching. And his buddies over there are like fucking filming. Yeah, my boy. How is it up?

there, like all this. And then, and then pretty soon they catch wind. The cops are coming. Oh shit. So I like yelp. I'm like, yo, yo, we gotta like, you gotta get down. I want this guy to get in trouble. Yeah. You, the cops are coming. So he, he like kicks a couple more down, grabs onto the fucking palm tree, like leaves that hang down, starts swinging around the, the,

Like, he's kicking off from the tree. And he's holding... Just the branches, the leaves are holding him. And he's just swinging around. He's, like, turning. And he's, like... I don't remember what he was yelling because I was in shock. I'm the Jamaican Tarzan, man! Everyone is, like, supermanning. People are, like, behind, like... Yeah, like...

Oh, he's going to fall. Yeah. I'm like, dude, just get down. You guys are holding their film. So he gets down. Fucking all these people start trying to like take the coconuts. And this guy's whole vibe changes like this. He like goes into like, I don't even know. Just hustler. I don't even know. It was like, it was the biggest change I've ever seen. He goes, grab the coconuts, grab the coconuts. So I grabbed the coconuts, you know? And he's like,

If you go get a knife, I can cut it up for you or whatever. So I'm thinking... So now this is where my wheels start turning. I'm like, okay, we got all these coconuts. And he grabs all the coconuts. I don't know if we weren't supposed to have them, but he dips. He's like, wants us to follow. This guy's just shooting across traffic. He's darting across traffic, stopping traffic. Well, we go, dude, let's go to a store and get a knife, a machete. And then let's...

And then let's go and sell these coconuts. Exactly. That was my whole, my whole idea was, okay, I go, if you bring me to the store, I'll buy you a knife and we can cut them up and sell them on the beach. And he was like down, but he goes, anyways, he, he must not have thought us buying a knife was a good idea. He wanted to get his own knife. Okay. So he starts darting across traffic. We're chasing them. And it's all of us. We're holding these fucking heavy ass coconuts, dropping shit and picking them up. And, uh,

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Back to the pod. You know, like we're not in the tourist area now. And I keep looking at Ben with the camera and he's like, how much farther are we going to go? And like, we both like kind of had our, like our, you know, guard up. Something was, was maybe a little off here.

So we're still following, like, if he tries going to, like, an apartment or an alley, we'll just, like, kind of dip and say, like, hey, man. But he turns off into this, like, smoke shop, like a vape shop or whatever. So we're like, oh, great. Like, we're going into a business. Good. You know? Yeah.

So we turn in, and keep in mind we're like rushing because it started raining at that time too. And we turn in, and we're carrying these coconuts, and there's two like big black dudes at the door. And we turn in. I didn't think anything of it. I thought they were just waiting. There's like four, dude. Then we walk in. There's like four more in there. Like very large dudes. And one of them was the dude who was leading the pack for the cell phone. No. The cell phone thieves.

dead ass dude i look at him i go in my head i'm like fuck dude and the first thing he says he just sees the camera goes that's a nice ass camera i'm like oh my god so i'm the one standing there holding the camera and i'm like here i hear him go that's a nice ass he's just looking at the camera and i'm i'm like standing there and i was thinking about just being like

It's not real. It's fake. It's not worth anything. It's a PS4. Keep in mind this Jamaican guy that we had the coconuts with. Now, he's on the ground over in the corner brushing the sand off. It was very strange. It kind of reminded me of a crack addict. So he's doing that. He probably wasn't. I hope he wasn't. But he's brushing off the sand.

He's not protecting us at all. They're with me, making sure we're good. These guys are just looking at us, and they're kind of like... And I remember I look, and there's this girl there, and she's just like...

like kind of like smiled and like, like, but it was like a face like, Oh, I feel bad for them. And like looked away. Cause I think she knew like they were going to probably, it felt like we were going to get robbed. They were going to like slug us, take the camera or just take the camera. Um, which honestly at that point we had so much good footage. I would have just been like, just give me the memory card. I just need the memory card. But, uh, we're in there for probably 30 seconds, maybe a minute. And as soon as Ben and I,

saw the first chance to dip, we both just look at each other without saying anything. We're out the fucking door. Keep in mind, it's just, it was me, Ben and Micah in there. Well, hold up. He says like without saying anything left my ass. Well, okay, but well, Mike, you got to be,

We're about to get raw. Mike, come on, Mike. It's time to go. I'm going to have to hold your hand out of there. I was picking up on that. Were you sketched out, Mike? When he said the camera shit. You heard that? I knew that you guys went outside. I literally went to go put the coconuts in the fridge. It's so confused. Put the coconuts in the fridge. There was more coconuts in there, too. We were like, this guy's...

But next thing I knew, you guys were gone. Because he said it again. Right. And then he doubled down. He might have even tripled down. He goes, seriously, that's a nice ass camera. He had like gold bottom teeth. Not that that means anything. So we dip out of there. Ben and I were like, we got to get the fuck out of here. So we start going down the strip.

The whole thing, besides for just that guy, though, the whole vibes, like, there was, like, two big guys standing at the door, like, guarding the door. I didn't think we were going to, like, make it out, honestly. I thought they were going to stop us. It was a weird vibe. Like, it wasn't just that one dude. We slipped out so quick and quietly. That's why it worked. Like, if we would have been, like,

Mike, time to go. Like, as if any other time we try to leave. Dude, I can totally see Mike chopping it up with them going, yeah, look, just got the new iPhone. Well, for the record, for the record, I was chopping it up with him and that's why I was okay. You want to know something though? I don't think they thought you were with us. Cause you were like, he was dressed kind of like he fit in. He was wearing like a Chicago Bulls jersey. He was slacking.

with them and fucking, like, he was chilling, dude. He didn't look like Ben and I. Like, and he didn't, it was almost like you didn't walk in with us. You were either a little bit behind her. And he didn't give off sketched out vibes. Yeah, and me and CJ were probably just sitting there just like sketched out. You didn't have a camera or a backpack on. I'm sure they just looked at you like, oh,

You almost look like a local. And I was still very confused. I knew where we were going. I just didn't know I was quite as far away as I thought. He was like, hey, we're going to my buddy's smoke shop. But then when we roll in there, the only white guy in the whole vicinity was the smoke shop owner. Which that doesn't matter if you're white. Well, I'm not. No, but it was just funny because he looks at me. He's like, what are you guys doing? I'm like...

putting the coconuts in the fridge. I'm like, I don't know what's going on. If you want to take these coconuts out of the fridge after we leave, I don't know what's going on. Just gets his fridge stuffed with coconuts by this guy. Sandy-ass coconuts. Right, they were all sandy. I do have to preface this. When Homie was in the tree, we didn't know his name, right? So he's up in the tree getting the coconuts, kind of a little flashback. We were like, shoot, we don't even know this guy's name. What's your name? And I dead-ass think he just came up with a name on the spot.

What did he say? I don't think he pulled it out of his ass. Did he say Mises? No, he was like, call me Maestro. Maestro. Yeah, that's a great name for him. And so that was his name, Maestro. But it was like even when I was in the shop, I was like, do you know Maestro? And he was like, uh...

It was weird, though, because... So we dip out of there, and Mike's in there, and we're like, fuck, Mike. So I'm trying to call Mike, tell him, like, dude, like, dip, dip, you know? In the meantime, Ken, of course...

to be found. He followed back. He didn't fucking follow us. The biggest motherfucker with us doesn't have our back. Nope. He just, we end up finding him fucking kind of just browsing the area. Yeah, once you guys started running, Ted was like, I'm not doing that. He was out. And then, so I saw, you know, you get a block or two off the strip and I saw like the whole, you know, the scenery, the landscape change from like, this is a tourist area to this is like a sketchy neighborhood area. And I was like, ooh,

Well, we had our guards up too, and we weren't going to go much further when you went in the smoke shop. I felt good. Also, you guys buzzed through like a green light full of traffic. Yeah, we were chasing after them. We were trying to get that fucking content. I was like eight feet behind you, and by the time I get to traffic, it's just solid cars. CJ, can you imagine we walk back and we're like, what's going on here? Yeah, some idiot walked out and got hit by a Toyota Camry. He's like, oh, God.

Ken never even made it to this. No, but we see him and we're in a panic. Ken was like a block and a half away. And literally by the time the light turned like red so I could actually cross the street, you guys are just bolting down trying to run away from these guys. And Ken thought we were pulling a prank on him. He's like, what, what? And we're like, cause like we were honestly kind of nervous and like he thought we were maybe pranking him, but he's also like well aware possibly of what could happen. Um,

I wasn't sure if they were going to start chasing after us. Yeah, that's why you were like, who's going to be there? At that point, I was probably running, and Ken is like, what's going on? And we're like, run, Ken. The part I thought was extra, another part I thought was suspicious, was his buddy was pretty overweight. I mean, he was a big boy. His nickname was Biggs. Yeah, he was...

He was very overweight. He did not run either. And he was walking towards the smoke shop as Ben and I bolted. And it was like we were meeting him on the sidewalk. And, like, we had just spent the last while with him. So, obviously, he knows, recognizes us. But he, like, did, like, one of these, like, turn and look the other way. Like, almost as if he maybe thought, like, oh, fuck, they might have already gotten, like,

I didn't even think about that. Yeah, but he, like, acted like he didn't fucking know us, like, looked the other way and shit. Thought that was a little weird. But anyways, we dip out. We get back to, like, the main area, and we hide out in this, like, little beach bar thing. We're calling around. We finally get Mike. Mike dips out of there. Yeah, I just... They were all like, yo, your friends left you. What's up with that? And I was like, I...

I don't even know what I told them. I'm just like, yeah, I just figured I'd chill with you guys. And because I'm like, because it's raining so hard. And it was. It was like classic Florida, just pouring. No, it was Maestro that asked you. Well, yeah. And one other guy did too. And Maestro was just like, so should we go find them then? Like, you got their location, right? And then I was like.

Yeah, I got it. Mike's like, should I share it with you? And then he went back inside. I'm like, yep. And I was just gone. Yeah. Never to be seen again. We went pretty far into this bar just to make sure if they do find us. Right, you guys were hidden. I don't think they were searching after us after that point. I wasn't worried about it then. Yeah, I knew they weren't going to do anything then. But yeah, a lot of people when we were walking around with the camera, like locals be like, that's a pretty nice camera to be walking around here.

Like shit like that, but we're just running around being goofballs. Right. Yeah, in hindsight. On the beach, like when you have a nice camera with a big mic on it, people kind of gravitate towards it. Yeah, that's why I knew it would be good if we took it out because I knew characters like that were going to just –

They were going to congregate to us because people that, like, I don't know. I just knew they would want to be on camera or interact with you or they'd be curious. And it literally took, like, a minute. Like, I mean, we already met these characters. We literally made it from the beach. Yeah, from, like, the mangroves to, like, the water. And we found those guys. Yeah. It took no time at all. Yeah.

So, yeah. I mean, and I don't want to, like, presume they were going to rob us, but I think they were going to rob us. If the guy who was trying to steal your cell phone the previous day. They would have. And it's like, you can obviously be like, oh, yeah.

maybe it was an accident and he did think my phone was, was his doubt it, doubt it. It didn't seem that way. And I'm pretty good at reading people. And then when we were in there, it happens to be the fucking dude that was leading all the kids. And he's saying, that's a nice ass camera. Fucking dude. It was staring at it. And like the one lady like shook her. Like I just, I could tell, but maybe Maestro would have stood up for us and, and,

We would have been okay. I don't know. I feel like all those people are all intertwined. I don't think Maestro was trying to set us up, though. That wasn't his plan. We just happened to follow him into his spot, which maybe he somewhat works with those people or just is around them. And he probably wouldn't. I don't know if he would have had our backs when they tried jacking the camera. He was pretty...

Pretty interested in his coconuts. He was just fucking sanding them off on the floor. The poor smoke shop owner just got sand all over the floor. We were just more so out of our element, like surrounded by a bunch of people we didn't know. We didn't know their intentions is the biggest thing. It didn't seem, and who knows, maybe they would have been like, oh, these guys are cool. Let's not rob them. But also, maybe they would. Well, they kicked it off with Mike after we left. Yeah.

Because they found out how many Instagram followers I had. And then I let a couple... Like, yeah, I'll follow you, bro. Because, you know, I can always go on and follow them. And then one guy, Biggs, is like, you go out and follow my boy. And he grabs my phone and follows, like, three accounts. All right. Well, come on, man. What are you doing? I was surprised you gave him your phone. I just figured... So, I guess, moral of the story is... No. When they found out you had clout. Or not. I know. You know, that you... No, but moral of the story is...

One of these days, it will bite me in the butt. I'll say that before you guys would agree. One of these days, I think it's going to bite me in the butt. I think I was noticing that the guy was eyeing up the camera. But I guess in my head, I'm like, but what are they really going to do? Step up on us and say, yo, hand me the camera? Absolutely could happen. I think they were just going to slug us or just be like, give me the fucking camera. What are you going to do? And keep in mind...

He was eyeing up the camera in the smoke shop, but the smoke shop owner was so chill. I'm like, they really going to do this in public? Keep in mind, kind of ghetto area, but in public in front of this dude where there's definitely cameras in the shop? Are they going to do this? I don't know. But hindsight, good thing you guys did. It kind of seemed like that guy was... I mean, it was like two days later and he was still wearing the same shirt. I guess it would have been a day later. So my mom called me. She was in the car with my grandpa and it's all over the phone.

And so she's talking. She goes, did you almost get robbed in Florida? Grandpa said you got robbed in Florida. And I kind of snapped. I was like, what? No, they didn't get robbed in Florida, like whatever. Then I go on Instagram and I see the caption is almost got robbed. Oh, yeah. And then I was like, oh, that's probably what they mean. And then now my grandma's going to listen to this podcast and go, they did almost get robbed. Because I was like, no, they did not get robbed. What the? No. No.

It was kind of like sassy, Vax and I feel like a real idiot. I didn't realize it was... No wonder you guys wanted to leave. I mean, it was just... We really had not much left to... If we weren't going to film something good there, and I felt like we had... We damn near got robbed, filmed it all on camera. Fucking we're catching coconuts. We filmed the whole jet ski thing. At that point, we were just going to hang around, drink, and...

blow money which is literally we were already blowing like it was like 300 bucks for drinks every time we went like and we were going all these stops not worth it was that coming out of Ken's paycheck or everybody's dude Ken did no Ken did pay for it no he still took

God damn it, I should have brought it up. Anyways. No, we were, I mean, I was just like, it just seems like we don't have a whole lot more to gain here. As much as I love having a good time, if we had the whole crew with, then we probably would have, like, it would have been a blast. But I just felt like we did our job. It was a business trip. And we didn't have a lot of fun, too, at the same time. I got to say, being at home, watching, like, I was, like, salivating.

I was like, Micah, post more stories. I think I messaged at least for sure Micah and was like, send me more videos of this thing. And then nobody did. And I was like, damn, I feel like I'm so on the outside right now. God damn it. Wait, Ken, what the fuck? You want $100 for Miami drinks? It was $425 for that.

Well, yeah. For what? For what? It went from $330 to $425. Yeah, what are you talking about? I know there's a tip. I want some receipts. Oh, so Ken. Actually, I do have the receipts. This dude over here. So we spent $500 sitting there for an hour. $425. $354 plus I had to add a tip on that. Okay, so that's why I was like, no, we got a tip. But did you have to add a tip? Okay, so another thing that they do in Miami is they- Thank you, Christ. I got hat again. You got what? I got hat again.

Yeah, that's why. Ken, again! I'm not doing it. I'm not paying that. That's on you, dude. That one's on you. What just happened? Okay, so the first night we go out to dinner. The first night we go out to dinner. So we put it all on one tab. They actually don't even give you the option. They put it all on one tab. And then...

When the bill comes, right, you do a normal bill, or I guess maybe this is just a Minnesota thing, but you tip. They don't add the tip to it, but they added the tip to this like 300- They're like sneaky add 20%. Right on it. Right on it. And it says on the bottom. So it was a $300 meal, right? And then 20% of 300, so $60. So-

They add... So it was a $360 meal then. So then Ken tips $20 on... On 360. On 360. So they got like a $150 tip. And you're almost like... Service wasn't even fucking good. You're tipping on...

Your tip in a sense. You're like adding that. And he just did that again. That's why you have a $425 bill. I am surprised. The look of this guy. Assume they don't fucking add another 20%. We knew that though. You wouldn't just look. Quite the opposite because we learned after the first night. Ken knows this one's on him. Ken's out here paying for somebody's butt lift, dude. Yeah.

Oh, man, they really do. The large service charge, $20? Yeah. $54? Yeah. Well, it's because you guys got four shots of Casamigos. Right. Can you also earn those? I didn't want that. Hey, we didn't know they were going to cost $29 a piece. Those aren't even good. Those are terrible. Yeah, they didn't even show them. That's why I think Miami's the worst fucking city in the world.

I agree. I've never heard you say that before. I had a good time. I didn't know you felt that strong about it. No, I just think it's overrated for a couple reasons, but, like, it's just so expensive. Yeah. That's why we ended up heading back early, because if we would have done that for two more days, we probably would have lost the camera. Bankruptcy. Lost all the footy. Fucking had to declare bankruptcy, and then...

Probably would have just joined Maestro and fucking selling coconuts on the beach. Yeah. Well, so the reason that I had to stay home was I got to stay home, had to stay home, was I won Vikings tickets. So I went to the best team in the league. The Minnesota Vikings. The Minnesota Vikings. They're the best, best head coach and quarterback and everybody. But anyway, I was going to that game, had plans with my girlfriends, and you guys were like, oh, girlfriends, girlfriend.

And so you guys were going to come back. Two sets of seats. He was just kidding. Did you just out yourself? Yeah. So anyway, I, you know, had to be back for that.

And so then you guys go and you were going to come back Sunday night. So I'm like, well, I guess I won't make it. And then you come back Friday. So not only did I not get to go to Miami and then you come home and you're like Saturday morning, let's film a podcast. I'm like, I only wanted Saturday and Sunday off. I was like, this is what I've been waiting for all week.

To be fair, I thought you were leaving Saturday night. Yeah, no, that's okay. But yeah, anyway, so that was the reason that I wasn't there. So Ryan's dad is like part owner at this restaurant in Cormorant. And they ended up doing like this giveaway for Vikings tickets. And, you know, it's a very small crowd of locals that go there. And everybody...

And everybody wanted these Vikings tickets because they were really good seats. There was four tickets they were giving away. They've been hyping it up for a while, too. Yeah. And the deal with it was, like, every time you ate, you got to. Every time you ate during a Vikings game. So it was a really small pot. You would get a ticket, and then you would write your name on it, and it would go into the bucket. And then they were drawing it this day at this time. So it was packed, relatively packed in there. There was quite a bit of people in there. And everyone was waiting for the big Viking ticket announcement.

Meanwhile, that whole day prior, I was cracking jokes at Ryan because I was like, watch you end up winning this, Ryan. How fucking mad everyone would be because it would just look like it was rigged, which it's not. It would just look that way.

Anyways, Ryan goes, yeah, yeah, I was worried about that. So I just would write my girlfriend's name on all my tickets because if I win, that would not go over well. Fully thinking I'm not going to win. Yeah, I mean, you just kind of assume normally, I guess. So we go and we eat, and comes a big drawing time, and Ryan's sitting there just like chilling and laughing.

This girlfriend ends up getting drawn. And the worst part was, it was my ticket. Yeah, you wrote the name. It was in my handwriting. Dude, but everyone was looking at you like, I thought Ryan was going to get beat up. I was like, dude, you can't sit with me anymore. You're making me look bad. Like, I don't want to be anywhere near you. And Alondra was just so happy because she loves going on Vikings. She was so happy. And you were just like, it was like a whirlwind of emotions for you because you're like, fuck.

I was like, it's pretty awkward, but I don't want to look not happy because that makes me look even worse. But I don't want to stand up on the table and celebrate because that makes me look like an asshole. Alondra is like super excited. So I'm like, all right, she's she's technically the one who won. We can just play it off. No one will even notice that she's my girlfriend. Then she's like grabbing on. She's like, it's going to be so fun. And I could just feel the whole restaurant looking at me. People were like whispering. They're like.

And like, that's I work son. Seems a little fishy. Yeah. But it wasn't rigged. But yeah, so that, I thought that was pretty frigging funny. It was. And that's why I didn't get to go to Miami. Well, I mean, at least you didn't get sick. Yeah. Hmm. Really just down bad. Yeah.

I didn't get robbed, though, so that's good. Yeah, or you could have gotten sucker punched. Who knows what could have happened if Ryan was there? It could have been shit. No, I mean, you know, just one more thing. I would have been in there. I probably would have freaked out, you know? Probably got a little bitch. Go psycho. Ryan would end up beating all them up. When we were at this bar in Palm Beach before we went back to Miami,

CJ bumped into this guy that had like a... The only other young person in the car. Yeah, had like a pretty thick accent. And I think he was like, oh, sorry, mate, or something. And I go, are you from Australia? And he goes, no, Canadian. Canadian.

And I was like, oh, cool. I was like, what are you doing here? And start chopping it up with this guy and and super nice dude. And so he was like, oh, what are you doing? I was like, oh, we're YouTubers. And he was like asking a bunch of questions about that. And I was like, yeah, how about you? And he's like, oh, I work for Airbnb. I was like, oh, cool. Doing what? Or how do you work remote or how's that work?

He's like, yeah, I work in the luxury homes department of Airbnb. I was like, oh, wow, that's got to be so cool, man. How did you end up in that position? Because he said he was like an executive, overlooked everyone in the department. I was like, oh, how did you end up in that position?

And he was like, I started a company when I was 16 and I ended up selling it to Airbnb like four years ago. So in 20 or five years ago in 2017. And I was like, oh, wow. I was like, that's crazy. I was like, how did that happen? And he kind of gives me a backstory and everything and said they had like 3000 or 4000 like luxury home rentals all over the world, basically.

Like Airbnb before it was Airbnb. Airbnb before it was Airbnb, yeah. Airbnb basically just came in, bought that, bought the entire company out, and then just rebranded it as like Airbnb luxury rentals or something like that. And I was like talking to him for a while at this point. We were buddies. And I was like, dude, I got to ask, like, what did you guys sell for? And he was like, oh, man, just...

I can't say. I was like, understandable, understandable. And he was like, just look it up. And he was like, you just look it up after you leave. Look it up. Dude sold his company for $300 million. What?

To Airbnb. I'm like, holy shit. He's a young guy, yeah. Yeah, he's a young guy. He looked like he was 25, but he said he was like 35 or something like that. CJ doesn't even give him the respect. Just bumps into him at the bar. Bumps into him. I don't give a fuck how much money you got. I still said sorry. I was like, oh, sorry, bro. Yeah. Kept going. What do you mean? Yeah, I'm kidding. So I'm like, that's pretty crazy. Like, this dude's a baller, right? I start doing some more research on it.

And I cannot find a single thing about him anywhere. And now I'm wondering if this dude catfished me. I think he was capping. Dude, I cannot find anything about him. Because he gave me his email and he goes, yo, shoot me an email and we can work something out if you guys want to get like a nice place somewhere. Sick. And everything. But, dude, I can't find anything. I know the story's real, but I think this dude might have just

came up with said he was that guy yeah that's genius it'd be so random to do though like why he was wearing he was wearing a mask in the bar which was pretty suspicious if you ask me he was the only one in the entire bar seems like someone who would lie so now i'm i don't want to claim that he catfished me but dude i can't find anything on him

And you'd think somebody worth that much, you'd be able to find something. Maybe it has to go off the grid. That's the only other thought I'd have. Maybe, but I found stories about the guy, the original guy, or pictures of the dude that started the company that he was telling me about, and the company that sold for $300 million. It's not him. It's not him.

And it's not him. Oh, maybe. Man, sounds right there. And the dude told me how he started. He was like, yeah, I was like 16 and would go to Barbados and just knock on doors because my parents had family, friends, houses in Barbados. And that's the story of this dude that started the company. But it's not him. I'm so confused.

When people get rich, they go back in age. Look at Bezos lately, dude. Guy's yoked. I saw a really funny meme about that, actually. He was like, Mr. Jeff Bezos is turning into Pitbull. A little more Pitbull. Mr. Worldwide ever since he went out of space. Can you imagine just living a different life in like a vacation destination town because you just meet different people every day or...

Every time you go out, you'll never see them again. Right. And you just come up with a different story. That's what I started thinking then too. It's got to be like if someone, I'm sure there are people like that. They have like a, yeah, it's almost like a social disorder.

You know, like, they get a kick. They get their rocks off by, like, telling people different stories of how awesome they are and how successful they are. Who knows? Yeah, who knows? I don't know. I'm just glad that you guys made it out of there without getting your ass beat, Ken, hitting on some guy's chick.

No, that chick was not into that guy. Yeah, that guy was so funny. Dude, I thought that Mike was going to get beat up because that guy was all mad at him. And I obviously was just chilling back. And it was me and Ben with this guy. And I like nudged Ben. I was like, yo.

I think this guy might, like, start some shit with Mike. Be ready to go. Like, I was ready to, like, step in. Oh, it wasn't Ken? No, it was Mike, dude. Oh, I thought it was Mike and Ken. No, Ken dipped out of there. He did not have his back. Bro, I just can't stand when, like, at first he's like, oh, I got a mullet too. Nice. And we, like, start. And then he gets a little cower plank tiki toss. And he tries to do, like.

special moves and he wasn't nailing any of them. And then this girl walks up and says, hi. And like, it's almost like they were, they knew each other, but blah, blah, blah. And he's like, Oh, you're below. Okay. And then he like starts saying hi to her. And then, um, he was being just kind of a jerk. And then she like brings up how the last time she met him, he was being a jerk. And, uh, yeah, he, she's like, yeah. And he's like, what? That's pretty mean to, uh, say to a guy that you're sleeping in the same house with tonight. I was like, why?

Don't hit on her after she calls you a jerk. Did you say that, Mike? Did you say that to him? Say what? Did you say, you can't hit on her after she calls you a jerk? Pipes up? No.

Totally silent. And then he, like, all of a sudden he just snaps. Like, after he saw that, like, listen, Ken was just making small talk. Oh, yeah, she was talking to that. Because she didn't want to play, like, tiki-toss or whatever and making small talk, and he wanted to play with me. And then after, like, she just says that, and then he, like, gets all sulky in the corner, and he's just like...

You're dead to me. You're like something like that. And that was pretty funny. You're not my friend now. And you never were. And she's a full grown man. And his name was like Tommy. And she's like, Tommy, like, no, it's.

Not like that. Nope. Don't talk to me. It's fucked up. We got a mic goes over and I'm just like trying to like calm down. And then you guys were, you guys were, well, even before that, you guys were trolling him that just, we do this to everybody. We're like, Oh yeah, that's true. Ben's actually 16 and he like freaked out. You don't know who I know around here. Did he like splash his balls or his dick to you or something like that?

No. He did something weird. And then we're like, oh, that's fucked up. He's a minor. He's 16. And he goes, like, got kind of worried. He got really on edge. Well, you can't be in here drinking. Like, you'd get in trouble then, too. I go, bro, who cares? Just step away. He goes, you just don't know the people that know me around here. It's not cool. And then we, like, kept trolling him. And he's like, so he's not actually 16? Like, God. And then we go, no, he's 18. He's like, what the fuck?

Some people just like we just find ourselves in really funny situations. But the whole time I wasn't worried that the dude was a little. I was I was a little bit worried. He was a pretty big guy. And it's not like Ken was going to back back you up standing there. So, yeah, me and CJ would and CJ is not trying to get bonked. And I think the worst thing we were like on the deck, the deck next to the water. The worst thing you would have done is like chuck me in the water.

He just throws up all over the fucking ocean. First of all, he was not big enough to throw me into the water, but if he pushed me up against the thing and threw me in. The whole time, I kind of thought it was Ken's ex-cousin that's kind of a shitbag, but he's from Florida. I thought it was him because he kind of looked like him, and Ken was kind of mingling with him. So I go, wow. Wow.

Man, Ken's cousin really is a shit bag. Ken doesn't even want to stand by him anymore. The best thing about it, though, about any vacation, especially in areas like that, never see those people again. Yeah, ever.

Probably ever. I wouldn't care anyways. They were the ones being fucking idiots. Right. But, yeah. So what do you guys think about New Year's resolutions? Do you partake in them? Like, last year. Everyone said, oh, I'm going to go to the gym four days a week.

Which is so basic, but also... I know, it was an example, but... Do you guys set up that kind of stuff? I've never set a New Year's resolution and kept it, no matter what it is. Besides, last year, my New Year's resolution was to give up pennies. What does that mean, you may ask? Like, it's so funny. I'm sorry. It's just like, I just don't...

use pennies ever like when i get a penny from the pay with cash get four pennies back walk out of the gas station fling them onto the just fling them onto the the street wherever i'm at sometimes i just throw them in the garbage there's cars driving well no i don't hit cars okay that'd be funny if i did but sometimes i just throw them in the garbage sometimes i'd like put them in a stack somewhere like most of the time why don't you just put them in the little free penny thing

If there is one, I do that for the record. If there is a penny thing in the gas station, I do that. But anywhere else, just chuck them. Throw them out the window, whatever you want. And then people are like, well, why don't you save them? Okay, well, if I saved 300 pennies, like that's a lot of pennies. It takes a lot of transactions.

What does that get me? $3. Right. So it's like I'm not saying I don't care about the little money. Like, I'll still pick up a nickel, which is ironic. But anyway, 300 pennies gets me like a monster. Right. Who cares? Okay. So anyway, I genuinely had a really good time just whipping these pennies out. What?

It's so fun. I would love to be just a bystander, seeing Mike walk out of the store just with a wad of pennies and just chuck it. Right. And I never have, like, more than five, usually. Kids in his little Subaru. Vaping. Yeah.

I, uh, I got like a change, like big old change jar from my uncle. And I was just a little kid. I remember it had like, maybe like this much change in it, but it was so fucking heavy. I was like, I'm fucking rich. I thought I was like a millionaire. You know, I was like, there's gotta be, you know, probably not a millionaire, but there's gotta be so much money in here. Um,

Anyways, I always use that jar and I'd always put change in it. That's also why I don't use pennies because if you put pennies in your jar, it feels heavy and again, not worth anything. I have a big jar with no pennies in it. Money's money, dude. Right.

I disagree, though. I agree with the pennies, though. Yeah, it's just fun. It's the most ironic New Year's resolution that I just so happen to actually honor. I love that. Well, that's a great New Year's resolution, Mike. I'm proud of you for honoring it. That one stuck with me for life, to be honest. Otherwise, yeah. You're anti-penny? Yeah. You're going to run a campaign one day. I'm not against. Yeah, now instead, before I was like, the U.S. should just stop making pennies, which I think a lot of people can agree on.

But I might be sad if they do now because my entertainment will be gone. Mike, you should invest or get the app that just rounds up to the nearest dollar and then invest. That's with a card, but yeah, I should. So then it offsets all the pennies that you throw away. Right. Yeah, no, whoever invented that, that's smart. That's if you pay with a card, though. Yeah, otherwise, yeah, I don't know. I'm not big on the whole New Year's resolution thing. I feel like you almost like...

I think it's just better to set goals in general. Right. Yeah. I think definitely setting a year goal and having the one year. I have one year to accomplish this goal. Last year, I wrote down just a bunch of different random goals from my personal life to finances to YouTube, like the company goals and just different things like that. And I looked...

back on it the other day after I realized that, oh, I should go and see if any of those, you know, after a year came true or where I stand in it. And I think I like accomplished most of them. Yeah. I was like, damn, you know, when you set those, you kind of obviously you hope that they do come true, but I like,

I specifically even wrote down, like, I hope I buy a C8 Corvette. And it's just different things like that because then once you write it down, then you're thinking about it. And then once you're thinking about it, that's when you accomplish it. Yeah, I think it's better to set a goal and then figure out how you're going to accomplish that versus just saying –

I want to do this, you know, because then it gets old. Gym, for example, I want to go to the gym three days a week versus I want to make a transformation in my body. I want to look kind of like this guy. Yeah. And then how do I get there? That's true. Because if you have no end goal, if that's just your goal to go three days a week, it can get loose pretty fast. Yeah, I was going to say, I wonder why New Year's resolutions typically don't get –

like met you know where does it fall i think maybe it's because everyone's setting like new year's resolutions they go what's your new year's resolution you don't like really want it you're just kind of like oh yeah it'd be nice to do this so you're not really about it right like if you really really want something i feel like you just would set the goal that's true doesn't need to be here yeah but it almost forces you to which is probably good and i think i've found when people set more unique new year's resolutions they get

Like, they happen. Right. You know, when it's basic, then they're like, eh. I just said that because it was New Year's. Dude, gym owners. I was thinking about this. Gym owners got to love New Year's. They got to. New Year's is like the Black Friday for e-commerce. You know? You want to know what's weird, though? It's like I've been going to the gym, and honestly, I'm not seeing any new faces. Really? I mean, I haven't seen. Doesn't seem any more busy. Doesn't seem anything.

Maybe not then. I thought it would be more backward. Maybe not around here, but I'd imagine in busier areas. You guys got to start going to the gym. Yeah. We got this company plan that we're paying for. I'm the only one using it. I don't think we really need it anymore. We also have a gym downstairs that we haven't even used.

That's true. I worked out there every day you guys were gone. One of them. It's probably why you're sick. Your body's like, what are you doing to me? More Mountain Dew. More Mountain Dew. Yeah, dude, I'm fading right now. Yeah, so after this, I was like, I assume you're going to need to go bundle up in blankets and hopefully sleep. Taking a nap. Yeah.

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We Almost Got Robbed In Miami

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Chapters

What Happened at the Airport Lounge?

Miami Beach Adventures and Near Robbery

The Jet Ski Adventure in Palm Beach

Another Scary Encounter in Miami

Reflections and New Year's Resolutions

Sponsors and Final Thoughts

Personal Stories and Wrap-Up

Closing Remarks and Goodbyes

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We Almost Got Robbed In Miami 01:24:51

Life Wide Open with CboysTV

Chapters

What Happened at the Airport Lounge?

Miami Beach Adventures and Near Robbery

The Jet Ski Adventure in Palm Beach

Another Scary Encounter in Miami

Reflections and New Year's Resolutions

Sponsors and Final Thoughts

Personal Stories and Wrap-Up

Closing Remarks and Goodbyes

Shownotes Transcript

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We Almost Got Robbed In Miami