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Ben's Car Got Egged

Publish Date: 2021/12/28
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Because they just don't hit like they used to. They don't. You know what is typical? I'm getting way too aggressive. Us being here and waiting on Micah. I see him walking. He's actually gotten way better about it, though. He has.

I mean, now he's still not good. Still. Yeah. He's to the point of like a 14 year old. You know, I feel like he's constantly in the mindset of, you know, when your mom was like, hey, take out the chicken, defrost the chicken before I get home so I can make supper. And then you forget. And then right before she gets home, you go, oh, shit, I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer. That's like his life. Like he doesn't meaningful try to slow us down, but he always does.

Ryan, you have analogies for everything, dude. It's my only talent. You know who has better analogies than you, though? Your dad. Randy has the best, like, one-liners, dude. Yesterday, him and our buddy Mark were talking about buying a truck, and Randy goes, oh, what color did you get? And Mark goes, ah, red. I don't really like the red. I don't like some of the options. And Randy goes, hey, you know what they say, though? Yeah.

Oh, fuck. What did I say? You say you die. You won't die with it unless you die in it. Well, it's actually a pretty good one. Yeah. I was very quick to be like, damn, Randy, that was good. Only person that had better one liners was Jake's dad, though. Dave. God, that guy was a savage. Still is, though. We don't see him anymore, but I'm sure he still is. Honestly, I'm sure he's out there making crude jokes somewhere. Mike, you coming? We kind of run in it.

What are you doing? Christmas lights? We got Christmas Mike. Christmas Mike. What about the one that we put up today? That's true. This one would go up today before Christmas. All right, Steven, come on. We'll take a shortcut, probably. Or we can keep talking. Doesn't matter. You just...

You're pretty, you're in it. I think honestly, yeah, you're committed. Just finish this out. I was maybe a little bit much tape. Is it ASMR or is it as mere ASMR? Who's ever called it as mere me? I don't know. You just look at something. It's like, what'd you use? You used to call me may maze or something. No, I never, I never did such a thing. Is it CJ? No, it might've been CJ.

Yeah, it was Brittany. That's funny. Maymay's. Maymay's. Hey, did you see this Maymay? Not. One of you. Well. I would maybe do it to trigger you, Ken. Maymay. But CJ might actually do that because he has a hard time with words sometimes. It's like CJ calling Wi-Fi Wiffa. Well, that's. I feel like that's just a part of his personality now. Wiffa. This one might be a little short, Mike. My bad. That one's shorter yet. Short Mike. Short tape Mike.

Cold Mike. Cold Mike. Dude. Ken is so fucked. Why? He's driving his Bronco through the car wash with no doors. How many likes do we have? 100%. I think we're all doing it, though. I like doing that. I think it's fun. But you've been doing that on the weekends lately, haven't you? Yeah, yeah. I like to go get just, like, whatever vehicle and run through. But I'm sure he's going to have something great to say here. Watch CJ.

ken if you sit down and say anything about not agreeing to it stand up right now i leave i remember when we did that in the uh what was it that shitty dodge without the roof and we did that in like april and it was freezing yeah it's gonna be cold ken it's gonna suck your car has heated seats it doesn't matter if you have heated seats when it's like 10 degrees out have you ever had uh pneumonia ken

No, but I think I'm about to experience it. Add another one to your list. All right, Steve, you ready? I just had to add that. Yeah. No, but it would be pretty freaking funny just to let Ken go through by himself. Just once. It'd just be so weird. The clip would be hilarious. Part of the excitement of it is you're laughing with your friends and your friend's getting sprayed, but you're not at that time, so it's funny. But if he's just in there by himself, it'd just be like...

It would literally just be a clip of Ken sitting there just going, ah, ah. Oh, shit. Oh, oh. Jesus Christ. Oh, that's going to be fun, though. All right, should we intro it? Yeah. Yeah. Intro mic. Well, we're back for another podcast. It is Friday. I know it's not Friday when you're listening to this. It might be, but we're happy to be back. We're on the grind. Lately, it's just been boys' podcast, which is honestly what I enjoy.

I mean, I enjoy having guests too, but it's great. So welcome back to Life Wide Open Podcast. CJ, Ryan, and Ben here. We got Jamie in the back working the cams. We got Tintin Mark watching. We got a little audience. And we are wildly close to hitting 100K. If we haven't hit 100K by the time this podcast goes live, I will be a bit disappointed. But if we haven't, it'd be great if you guys could help and subscribe. Yeah, last I checked, it was 99.6, so...

We're nice and close. Should hit it. Should hit it. That was a phenomenal intro, Mike. Thank you. Intro Mike. Hey, we don't call him intro Mike for nothing.

This guy. My favorite one from the last video is when you guys are just like, cold mic. Cold mic. Cold mic. Well, and there's a lot of GoPro mic comments too. Dude, that was so funny. Yeah, so if you guys haven't seen that, we definitely knocked that off from the train guy on TikTok. He's like the inventor of that view, but how funny was that? Yeah. It looked so silly. Oh, dude. Yeah.

Little arms. Yeah, that was probably the best angle is you running because you look so small and you look just so like innocent because you're just focused on one thing and that's just like getting to the car. And it's like if you were to throw it on a dog, that'd be a really funny view of just a dog just like running through. That actually would be. The life jacket looked like my body. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

My favorite comment from the last podcast was somebody commented, you guys should change your name to Steve Boys TV.

That'd be a great parody account. Great parody account. Talk about the depth of meme on that one. Our whole channel would turn into an inside joke. SteveBoysTV. Someone make that Instagram account. Basically, if we say anything, someone makes an Instagram account for it. There's already like two PinkEyeMike Instagram accounts. There's like a handful of Jonah, a handful of Cheddar. There's JetSkiRyan, RegularRyan. There's a ton of them. There's a ridiculous amount of fan accounts, and we still can't get verified.

It's typical to complain about that. If you're not verified, you complain about not being verified, right? But seriously...

It would be nice. It would be nice. I think it's about who you know, honestly. It really is. Personal pages is one thing because we don't really have that many followers on personal page. But the Seaboys page, I feel like... Come on. Yeah, it's got 340,000 followers and gets pretty good views on videos. Good traffic. It gets a ton of videos reposted. And there are fan accounts...

There's like literally 50 fan accounts. Yes, exactly. And that's part of the criteria to get verified. And you have to be like an LLC and have like an EIN number, which is like you're basically like your tax number to show that you're like a business, which...

Instagram wants to see to verify. And we have all that. And then every single time we apply, they're just like, nope. Yeah. I'm telling you, it's about who you know. It's because we didn't post all those reels when they wanted us to. That might be why. Yeah. Instagram like bombarded us to post reels because obviously they're trying to keep up with TikTok.

We tried it, but I don't know. It's just we're not really Instagrammers, you know? That's not really our thing. I don't like that the reels don't show views. Yeah, it's pretty dumb, dude. I'd rather have them show views. Oh, you have to, like, go to the page to check it. Yeah. Why is that? Videos never get more likes and pictures. I don't know. I think it's because I don't find myself. Yeah, I forget. I watch it and go, that was awesome. Nice playthrough. The video of you jumping over the quad is one of our most liked. Really?

Really? Post on Instagram, though. Really? For sure, dude. It's almost got like 70,000 likes on Instagram. It's like a series of videos. Whenever you do a string, it's likes, not views. I saw one of Evan's Reels, Cypress Hill. I don't know if you guys know who that is. I don't know who that is. It's 2000s, baby. He's like a 90s rapper. Did he start rapping in the 90s? Earlier, but...

He reposted Evan's video and on the same video on Evan's page, it has 2.6 million views. That is crazy. So I was like, wow, nice. And then that's like who Evan grew up listening to. So that's pretty dope. What? Yeah. Dude, that's sick. Yeah, actually. He was pretty hyped. It's so cool to see Evan just popping off on Instagram with all these different reposts.

Right. Because it's videos that like we don't even take of him. And oftentimes Evan will ask us like, Hey, is it cool if I take that video of me doing that wheelie from your guys's video and repost? We're like, dude, you want us to just like actually like make the video so it doesn't have music in the background. He's like, no, no, no, it's fine. I'll just download it from YouTube. But it's cool to see like his personal videos that he'll just have slim out there with his iPhone and slim. You can hear slim breathing. Yeah.

And then those are the ones that go viral too. That's awesome, dude. Yeah. If you are not following Evan listening to this right now, go follow him. He's growing fast. It's awesome. Yeah. Well, he's got the skill to back it, so he deserves it. Yeah, he does. I can't wait for Evan to start doing sponsored posts. Start making money off of his Instagram too. He'll finally get that Twisted Tea sponsorship. He deserves it more than anyone I know. Yeah, damn right. I mean, they're going to...

Literally lose tons of profits if Evan stops buying Twisted Tea. That's true. He is actually floating them through the Midwest right now. He is floating them, yeah. That's a great point. All the liquor stores in Cloquet and Duluth are like, damn, why do we have so much Twisted Tea right now? We ordered the same amount as last time. Oh, Evan quit drinking it. Evan gets it for free now. You didn't hear? They just sent Evan three pallets a week. Almost enough. Oh, that's funny. Mike, I don't know if we ever touched on this.

In your hot seat episode. But I had it written down in my notes. So I'm assuming we didn't. If we go back to the days of you being in high school. Or even maybe earlier than that. But I never heard of really pre-high school Mike. Pre-high school Mike. But it's not middle school Mike because I didn't have a middle school. So you can't say that. That's a fantastic name. Middle school Mike. That is kind of funny. So I didn't know you. But...

People often say that you were a bully back in high school. What? I was. I cannot picture that. I mean, I guess I can. I really can't. It is funny because I was obviously, but I had, I was in the pyramid of bullies.

For real. So you were like surrounded by him. Yeah, I was also bullied. It's so funny how he describes it. It's so funny how he describes it. Yeah, yeah. So it's like, well, I was almost in Ken's grade, but a lot of people in Ken's grade were assholes. They were just like bigger than me and like stronger. And like anything they said, they're just like, this kid's a punk. Like, fuck this kid. And I'm just like, damn.

Glad I'm not in Ken's grade. And then I had my friend group, and I know Ben's got a buddy in his friend group, Jace, who they kind of poke at. And I would, like, freak out, and then they'd love it.

You know, great reaction. What? I was that kid. Seriously? Yeah. They'd poke me until I, like, snapped. You'd actually snap? Like, get mad? Not, like, Ryan snapping. I'm saying the snaps were, like, more often. You know, I'm just like, screw you guys. Like, what's your problem? How old were you? I mean, like, 14, 15, right around that age. And anyway, so they did that to me. And so then I, like, channeled my...

and bullied other kids. He bullied people that were underneath him. So it was like Mike was somewhere in the middle, so then he was getting it from the guys at the top. Like the food pyramid. That's what you don't want to hear. Yeah, I was like, I guess I was punching down. Not really. I just, I honestly, it wasn't even if you differed from what I thought. I'm just like, man, some people are just so weird. And I would point that out. That was my bullying. Bro, what? Well, Mike, you have no, like...

No touch when you're saying something. You're extremely blunt. Which is funny now because I've obviously grown out of bullying. You're extremely blunt. Every once in a while, you'll catch me just saying something that is so out of pocket because it was like, man, I can't believe you just told me that. It's just outlandish when you say stuff to people that we aren't that good of friends with. You're just blunt. Dude, I think it's weird. You don't fuck around. I can appreciate that, I guess. Like when we...

Thank God I didn't try to do that myself.

I have fully done things around the home that I think look good and then a bang in the night and I wake up to a shelf collapsing, a painting falling off the wall. Like it, I've seen it all go south. I own a home and I can tell you, I know how much work it can take. Whether it's everyday maintenance and repairs or making dream projects a reality, it can be hard just to know where to start. But now all you need to do is Angie that and find a skilled local pro who will deliver the quality and expertise you need.

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From plumbing to electrical, roof repair to deck upgrades. So leave it to the pros who will get your jobs done well. Hire high-quality certified pros at Angie.com. Mike, when we were side-by-side blogging, you go, yeah. Kyle.

He just doesn't like you guys. And they were just like, they were just standing there, like leaning up against the truck. And they were just like, so caught up that Mike said that. And Mike was like, I tried telling him that you guys are pretty good guys. That's not how it went. But yeah, that's a great example. That's definitely not how it went. But,

No, yeah, there was, I mean, it's just interesting to see, like, a slight beef between YouTubers, and I brought it to light. And I probably just should have kept my mouth shut. Mike, you should start a drama. Why don't you just tell the story, Mike? Tell the story so that way both sides can be explained. Actually, yeah, I was like, this might be a good opportunity for the beef to be squashed.

publicly with neither of them here. I don't think that we're the guys to do that, honestly. I don't think so. But there's no really beef anyway. I don't know if it needs to. Kyle Cullen, if you're listening to this, I love you. Side by side, bud. If you're listening to this, I also love you. They're great guys. I think both of them are. Get out of here, dude. Mike, dude. Get out of here, dude. You getting bullied in high school does explain a lot because I feel like you're calloused.

to what we do. Like, Ken will shoot you with a paintball gun and you just calmly turn over and go, what? That's when he's waking up. Yeah, that's true. But like, you just, we don't even bother pranking you because your reactions are so monotone. I don't know if that's from being callous. I think he's just slow. I think, no, I'd agree with Ryan to help my case a little bit. I mean, you could like jump out and scare him. And he'd be like this.

I think that's different though. That's different though. Okay. Like, you know, like I mean getting scared versus getting bullied or, or I wouldn't call it. It's just funny how we all take it. Like if I can get something actually good on Ben, like he doesn't take it very well. Mike, I think, Oh,

Well, I know we always say that, but it's true. Yeah, Ben, you do not take it well. But there's not very many instances where I can make fun of you, to be honest. That's why he doesn't take it well. He's not used to it. Thanks, Mike. Mike, you are a bully in the fact that I remember it's in your bluntness and also you're such a sarcastic little asshole. But I don't even know if it's called sarcasm, what you do. I'll be like...

hey let's go get this thumbnail and then you'll be like you'll just say something like let's go and get this thumbnail and like i'll say that after you said like repeat after you said let's go get this thumbnail 13 times i will absolutely rip that you know so it's like because i might because i might be standing right behind you ready to go come on you guys like we we got to get this going you got to try and finish get what we got get done i'm trying to like

do some work here, you know? And then you're over it. It's not clear. No one's listening. And then it got you. I'm going to get this done now. Like, like, that, honestly, so funny. That is what makes me

go harder on you. That's where the pink eye jokes just really like we go in on then. Cause it's like, I think I am callous to that because I'm, I'm already expecting that out of you. I'm expecting that out of you, whether or not I pissed you off today or not. So fair enough. We all have each other figured out.

We spend a lot of time together. Like you said earlier, you're like, I know how to deliver a sentence to Micah versus. Yeah, I know how to. Yeah, exactly. Because everybody receives it differently. That's super funny. With Ken, you got to show up. I have like some cinnamon rolls, a little 12 pack of beer. Tap him on the back a little bit. Hey, buddy. How's it going today? You know, say I got this package that it's going to a friend in Colorado. Do you think you could send it to him?

Fine. Just kidding. Ken doesn't do that. He's not listening. We got to get a camera to just point at Ken. Yeah, we need a Jamie cam. Yeah. He's looking at his laptop right now. He's got headphones on. Ken cut. I mean, and you guys know this. He solely runs customer service.

That's it. It's just Ken. You don't talk to any robots or random people or receptionists or helpers. It's just Ken. It's actually really funny to think about because the people that are buying the merch are obviously big fans. They're supporting us by doing that. And then if they have any questions or issues, they're talking to Ken. They get to directly speak to him. I was sitting there on the toilet today, and I was thinking about you. What?

Well, in multiple ways. Oh, funny enough. Multiple. Well, for one, Ken loves sitting on that toilet. He spends half his day there. But for two, I was thinking about how much time you've been hustling lately with all the orders coming in with Christmas and Thanksgiving and all that. And he's sitting there, emails, emails, emails.

Like yesterday, I was at the shop until 10.30. I'm editing up the thumbnail. We just post everyone hit the road. But Ken was still there sitting on the couch emailing. And I was thinking to myself, how long is Ken going to keep doing this until he just literally is like, hey, I'm just going to find a helper. You know, like realistically, it'd be very easy to find a helper for Ken. Yeah.

Yeah, but I'm surprised you don't have him more dialed. You need like a – yeah, but you need like a – Like he does a great job, but I'm saying like I'm surprised you don't – you're not a little bit more proactive and like – Yeah, you're just a right-hand woman that like circles around you and you're like, damn, everything's done. But Ken's got – he's probably very particular when it comes to hiring an employee. Can you guys imagine if Ken got an assistant?

Just Ken, though? Just Ken. Ken hired an assistant and it came out of his own personal wages. Whenever we're like, hey. He would, too. He would be the one to do that. We'll match it, Ken. We go, hey, we're filming Saturday morning and we have to tell his assistant that. And she's like, okay, well, I'll check Ken's schedule and let you know if it's going to work. The assistant doesn't do anything. We don't even get to talk to him anymore. He just leaves all group chats. It's just...

Tell me when you need me. No, no, no. He starts sending the assistant to film with us so that he can keep working. That'd be the end right there. Ken is completely hands off. That'd be pretty good for him. Dude, it'd be kind of nice to have an assistant. It would. Yeah. But I mean. Except for the pain in part. Yeah, but other than that, I'm just talking like ease of life. Yeah. You should get one, Ben. I think I will.

I'm going to have her set up her office or like her desk right there. So then you guys check in with her before you come into my office. She has like a big phone thing and like puts you on speaker and you can literally do your stuff. Pretty busy. I've got a two-week appointment with Ben.

You're not on the schedule. Sorry. We can get you in for a four. You're like, what's he doing for two hours? You hear Paige, hey, Ben, CJ's here to see you. And then you just go, tell him I'm not here. You hear him. CJ. Your cousin. Oh, right. What's he want? No. Yeah.

All right. Well, shit, I guess I think we should probably get a couple of them there. Yeah. I was thinking about it today, mainly because I was cleaning up a lot and it seemed like the masses were coming faster than I could clean them up. But we a lot happens around here during the week.

Like from filming two videos to the podcast, from all the merch coming in, we have seven boxes coming in. It seems like every day there's so much going on in the shop. It is a happening place. You know, I, my dad owned the shop before we moved in here. And it's really funny because I've seen it when it was like, he went here once a month to like back out a trailer or something like that. And then now all the stuff, you know, a FedEx truck, a UPS truck, the mail truck, like every day,

Or like how quickly the landscape of the shop changes. Isn't that weird to think that in 10 years it could potentially just be complete?

different. Think about 10 years ago from today. Think about two years ago. Yeah, think about a year ago. A year ago from today, I don't even think we had the shipping containers painted yet. Yeah, they weren't even red yet. That is wild. Now we're sitting on top of them. They were just sitting there and we were driving crazy carts in circles around them. Denting up the walls. Yeah. Dude, you know what I love is how much the shop came together from

the state it was when we moved in because when we first moved in i don't know if you guys watch the videos you can go back to like january of or uh june of 2020 is when we moved in and you see the shop and it's like it you almost wouldn't even recognize it because we had like the pine bay which is the far bay and we had like all of our desk and offices set up over there

The next bay over, it was separated. So right now it's like a massive bay right now. But before it was kind of cut into like a third. And that was all that was heated. So then the rest of it was just cold storage. It barely had like any lights or anything, which is pretty much where we're sitting over now. And dude, we came in.

And I'll never forget every single time we give a tour to somebody, they'd be like, wow, it just keeps going. And we're like, yeah, we're going to tear down this wall and then we want to get shipping containers and we'll put them here and then we want to build offices on top of the shipping containers. Then we want to extend this floor out over here and put offices over there. We want a bedroom right there and everyone would just look at us like this, like,

They were so confused. A majority of people didn't get it. They could not understand what we were saying. It was pretty hard to just point and be like, yeah, it's right there. No, but even when we broke it down, I would say over half the people were like, ah, I'll have to see it when it happens. Honestly, I was confused at first, too. I didn't think it was going to be possible to build it like this for some reason. I was just...

Like, I remember suggesting, like, the walkway across, but I, for some reason, thought it was just going to be, like, a smaller. I don't know. It turned out amazing. It really did. It turned out amazing. It would have been cool if we could have done two shipping containers on top of each other. Yeah. That would have been, like, technically four, and then we would have turned, like, CJ's office over here and then my office right behind this wall, and it would have just been a shipping container turned into an office. That would have been terrible, dude.

I would have been finished. We wouldn't have had a window. Oh. You would have had a window. We would have cut them into them. Anyway, well, that's originally, but the ceilings were too short, which is good, but that's also why the podcast is. I guess more so why I say it would be bad is I feel like it would be so dark and cold. Granted, you have lights, but then you'd talk and it would be like echoey. Have you ever been in my office? It is dark and cold. That's because you don't put anything in there. You've got to decorate.

It's just your shoes. Yours is shaped like a shipping container, Ben. That's literally what I told Ben. It was literally right above a shipping container. It's the exact same dimensions of that shipping container. That's true. I told Ben that you should at least just put your sneakers on the walls. That's all you really need to do. I don't want that much of a sneaker head. But...

He's got a $70 Nike's hanging on the wall. Like someone who actually goes shoes walks and goes, why do you have? Oh, I guess I was going to say, but then a huge sneaker head, I'd say, but yeah. Yeah. And then I was going to say, then you put your $400 sneakers on the wall. I think that's pretty cool.

If I were you, I'm not really into that that much. I guess I'll do it, yeah. Sick. Yeah, I guess I'll handle my $400. Yeah, so if you guys want to, like, come swing by, check Ben's office out, you can. Check out my sneaker wall. I got two pairs up on the wall. The rest are down there. Yeah, there's, like, a price threshold. So, uh...

Pretty big move. Pretty big step. We got health insurance. Oh, company health insurance. So not exciting, but like very exciting. Yeah. I think you're at a certain age, probably like 23 and under.

Doesn't mean anything. No, no, no. I'd probably say 25 because most people are probably on their families or their parents' health insurance. And then when you hit 26, is it? 26 and then you're booted. Or if you work for a job that has the health insurance included. But I never fully understood that when people are like, yeah, they pay you shit, but I got good benefits. It's pretty official. Because it's actually expensive. I didn't know that. I thought health insurance was probably pretty cheap because...

It's not, though. I guess, actually, I'd really never thought about it until I was like, oh, I should probably get health insurance. Well, you and I have never had health insurance, ever. I never had it, ever. Oh, you didn't either? And it's so hard hearing people. They're like, you guys know what you do. Yeah. Why don't you have health insurance? I got a funny story about that. And we've all got a lot, and I'm just like...

I don't know. It's not even really an issue of money. It's like, I just didn't know enough. Yeah, yeah, for sure it was. I guess, yeah, now I'm just like, man, I should just take out a personal plan because like if you, when I broke my foot, it was like 30 grand. That's a lot of money. You pay that out of pocket? Mm-mm. That is a long story, but, uh,

The buddies whose ranger I was in was like a work ranger and he did a claim with his company, his dad. Oh, like workman's. No, he just did a claim under his business insurance. I'm like, bro, you don't have to do that. Although it's like literally saving my life. So instead of having, I paid like three grand. Wow. Out of it.

$30,000 surgery. And you got a settlement too. And I got a settlement, which is just insane, which I didn't know what that was either. I'm like, you guys want to keep your mouth shut. I'm going to air on this podcast. Basically the settlement was from the insurance company was to, um, in case I have future complications with my foot. But yeah, it was like they offered like 10,000 and then I was like, that's insane. I get $10,000. And then my dad was like, that's what they're offering.

Let's go for 20. Oh. And then they, like, settled at 18. So that paid for my entire three years of school. What? That's crazy. So, yeah, me breaking my foot, like, literally changed my entire life. You breaking your foot was the best thing that ever happened to you because of that and because you didn't get into the military. That's not why, but then I met you guys. Military, and then you didn't go to college. Helped us, too. Dude, yeah. And then we became friends through it. Boom. I got a funny story about...

Health insurance. So my girlfriend's dad finds out like last year that I don't have health insurance. For some reason, she mentioned it to him. So I get a call from him. He's a nice guy. But like also he can be very serious at times. He's a character. Yeah, he's a great guy. Hilarious. He calls me up. I'm sitting here and he goes, hey, you know, I just heard that you don't have health insurance. And like he gives me this stern talking. Some people are appalled by it. Yeah, he was just like.

You can't be out there doing the stuff you're doing and not have health insurance. Like, listen, I got a great plan. We could probably get you in on my plan. And I was like, no, no, no, don't do that. Don't do that. I don't want to be, like, on your plan and whatever. But, like...

He was so appalled by it, he was, like, ready to try and get me on his plan. Wow. Yeah, and I was like, no, no, don't do that. I kind of lied. I was like, we're going to get a health insurance soon, so don't worry about it. Well, now it's saying that. Yeah, I mean, it just took a year, but, yeah. I just didn't want, you know. It's kind of funny that I would say Alex's dad, CJ's girlfriend's dad, is similar in...

Similar to Jake's dad. And Jake's dad, now that you said that, did the same thing to me. He was like, you don't... You're like, you dumb fucker. You don't have health insurance. I think that's what he called me too. He told me I was a dumb fucker. He goes, you must... You'd be a real stupid motherfucker. Something like that. You must be a stupid motherfucker. Oh, you didn't know that about me. Yeah, so freaking Dave had me like...

come I don't even know he had me come like mow the lawn once it was like yeah now you're on payroll I can get you insurance oh shit super random for like a year I was actually on his payroll and I didn't get that we didn't like you big difference yeah he didn't even call you by your first name yeah the older we get the more I realized that it's the not fun things that are expensive nobody tells you that freaking health insurance is like

350 a month yeah is like a cool car payment or something like that you know like no shit you're right all the time all the things that we go back to risking it i mean we've made it this far dude we might as well but it's even like you know when i've started looking into like houses and stuff like that people are trying to like yeah i'm gonna

put new windows in that's gonna be 90 grand I'm like holy crap yeah it's the lame stuff that costs a lot of money and it's your yeah put it in a furnace but it's the cool stuff you're like oh I really gotta save up for this Xbox it's a thousand dollars you're like crap and then then you realize it's like the power to supply the Xbox in your house

also costs a lot of money. Yeah. And it's just, it seems like the older you get, the more you got to spend money on things you don't like to want to. No, I, I agree a hundred percent. And it really shows like, like it's pretty easy to have like a lot of cool shit, but like to have like, but to be a good living, stable life, you know, you know, funny how like someone can have a Lamborghini and everyone thinks they're rich.

But the guy that lives in like the normal size house and, you know, it's probably decorated nice and all that. He has way more money than the other guy because he doesn't have a bunch of debt or whatever, you know? Yeah, he has furniture in his house. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, dude. It's actually crazy to think about. Really, you don't have to – as long as you have your –

priorities and balance, things are pretty attainable until you get to a certain spot in your life where you have like a family or you have kids. Uh, and then you have all these different expenses. You got a little shit bird kid and you got to put them through fucking private school.

My kid's not going to private school. I was looking away. I'm like, I know he's looking at Ryan right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but... He'd probably be sitting there 10, 15 years later on some stupid podcast wearing a green little beanie. The one time I wear a hat. No, no, no. You know what I'm saying, though? It's like...

And that it crushes. It's crazy to think I shouldn't say it in the most depressing way like that. But having a kid curbs a lot of people's dreams or goals or even just having fun. Yeah. Growing up. No, no, no. Growing up. Yeah. And getting in a position where you have a nine to five job and they cover your health benefits and your dental and vision.

And then you make... 401k possibly? 401k, your IRAs, all that shit, right? Well, it's stable. It's like safe bet. Yeah, so you have a decent income, right? Say you're making... 60 grand a year? Yeah, 60 grand a year, right? But you have all these things covered, making 60 grand a year.

And then you have a wife, kids, your kid is growing up. Say maybe your kid has to get a car soon. 16 year old kid. And you got to do that. And then sports, sports and all these different things that hot like hockey, like certain sports are very expensive. Right. So it's all these little things. And then you're like, oh, man, I hate my job. I hate my life. I kind of want to quit and do something that I like. But you're like, fuck.

The commitment. I can't speak. Yeah. Yeah. Versus. Well, that's why it's better to do it young. Versus. If you can set yourself young, it's a lot easier, but obviously. Yeah. Yeah. Versus like a kid that's just like, let's see here. You can fuck around for a lot longer. I'm trying to think if I had any expenses when like we, when I quit my like summer job to start like full-time YouTubing.

I don't know. Gas in the car. Yeah, gas in the car, but I lived at home. I wasn't in college. And you weren't, I mean, none of us really were. You weren't a big spender. I wasn't a big spender because I didn't have, like, any money. I couldn't be. I didn't have any money. I couldn't be. But, I mean, yeah. But you never could be. But also, you would be smarter with it. Yeah, so I'm just trying to think of that. But, you know, like, I get it. Like, society, like, really keeps people in, like, a box based out of fear. Yeah. Yeah.

but also there's all, there's factual parts of it. I mean, yeah, it's tough to being like, all right, I'm going to go full time on whatever it is, but you, yeah, you have a family to provide for. That sounds terrifying. Well, Joe Rogan's talked about that. Like, obviously it's a lot easier and it's, it's better. Like when you're young, like that's the time to take risks and try to like do things that, uh, you know, are riskier, you know? Um,

And like kind of follow your dreams. But if you, you know, missed out on that and you're older, he was talking like, you know, it's obviously going to be tougher for you, but you can still do it too. What you'd have to do is, you know, really save up all of your money and then spend all of your time when you're not working that nine to five job. So then you spend five to 10 or whatever, working on that second thing. And meanwhile, you're saving up all your money, saving up all your money,

You're calculating your plan, and then once you have the right time and the right plan, that's when you act, and you got to make sure you execute or just do your best that you can. Take your best shot. Slightly more or maybe quite a bit more calculating. Yeah, it's just a lot more calculated, and it's a lot more difficult. There's a lot more things into it. I feel like this is one of those things that, remember when you were a kid and you really thought you knew?

Yeah, you knew stuff. This can be one of those conversations we can look back on when we're 40 or something like that and listen to what you said. Not all that. That was all good. But all of us talking about stuff and going, man, we didn't know shit. Like how much life can educate you in 20 years because there's definitely people listening like, what do you mean, you know, this? Yeah, but I guarantee that. I mean, that was way more kids listening right now that are like, I don't.

I don't fucking understand a single thing they're saying because what do you mean? I got like the whole, my whole life to figure shit out. That's true. I'm 15, but it's like, life comes fast, man. Shit happens fast. Shit happens fast. I saw a thing on Instagram the other day and it was like a post and it was when I was in elementary school, I thought like the middle schoolers, they had it all figured out and they were still growing up. Then I got to middle school and I was like, oh man, like the high schoolers are still growing up and figure out

Like growing up, I think was more so the thing. And then when I got to college or when I was in high school, I thought the college kids had it all. They were all growing up and had it figured out. And then in college, I thought the adults out in the real world were so growing up and had it figured out. Now I'm an adult in the real world and like no one has it figured out, you know? So true. Or almost no one. And it's really fun to talk to the people who do have it figured out. Everybody's figuring it out. Even the people that seem or act like they have it figured out.

Still. Yeah. There's always a better way, I feel like, to do something. Yeah, or there's even the most, like, you think freaking Bezos or Elon Musk, they probably have many days where they're like, what am I going to do? Yeah, they're figuring it out. He may figure out how to get to space, but, I mean, he's figuring something out. It's like that one thing you have to say, Ryan, like, fucking back when you were, you know, trying to be, you were building, like, working as, like,

a builder for houses or whatever you were doing, a construction worker. And you realize like, dude, no one knows what they're doing. Or like you have to like work with all these, you know, high up people at whatever. And like, they don't know what they're doing. You'd think like everything's so official and people are just so dialed in. But most of the time, everyone's just kind of winging it. Yep. Everybody is. Yeah. They're just doing the best they can.

So you really can't expect too much from people. That is the sad truth. Yeah. You just, it's a contrary to what you would think though. Cause you'd think like, Oh, this person is like, you know, so high up or they have so much going for my bet. They're just like,

locked in, but yeah, you'd be surprised. Yeah, that's very true. Yeah. Like you think you go and try to get your exhaust welded by someone who welds exhaust all day. You think it'd be good, but it turns out it's not 25 bucks right there. That's true. Why did you not end up being good? Well,

Doesn't look good. It looks like a $25 weld. Yeah. I could have done it for you for free. Yeah. Yeah, but that would have been... I would have gotten a free weld. I'm glad I paid my $25 for the weld. It would still have a leak if you welded it. My truck would be on fire, I think. Or that. It's probably a good thing. I miss my welding days. I just do. Short stint. We have a...

Butch still has that welder. I think about it every day. You gave it to him? You brought it back? Yeah. Well, why didn't we weld Ryan's exhaust then? I offered! Because I didn't want my truck on fire. Ryan shot me down, dude. I just knew that was one of those things that we shouldn't do. I shouldn't have went to a cheap exhaust trap and gotten a welded butt. I did. Welding is one of those things that it's like, I don't know if most people listening, did you guys weld in high school? No. No. No.

I think a lot of people took shop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's like wood shop and then there's obviously like metal shop. And we learned to weld and it's like you learn just enough that you're like, yeah, I can weld. But you can't. You just know how to use the welder. You don't know how to weld. Right. Same for, I mean, anything. Did you guys take sewing class in high school? Like home ec?

I think it was a group project, and I think I made the girls do it. Yeah. I remember at one point. Very sexist of you, Ryan. Nope. They just were mad at us. It was okay back then, Ben. It was a different time. It was a different time. It was before you were born. I remember at one point in home ec, they're like, all right, we're going to sew teddy bears. And at this point, I'm like eighth grade. So you think you're older than you are. You're like, okay.

Whatever, I'm in high school at this point. I guess that is the official. No, that's still middle school. Blah, blah, blah. We make teddy bears. I remember like sewing this teddy bear. I'm like, what the heck am I doing right now? Look around. I'm way too much of a man for this. Yeah, that's how all the guys thought about it. Mike and then the other kids. Shut up, Mike. And then Mike takes it home and sleeps with it. I'm pretty sure I use like John Deere fabric or some shit. Of course. That checks out. That checks out.

You know, back to like taking risk while you're young. Good example of this. My friend, Sam, shout out, Sam. Hope you're listening right now. One of my best friends from high school.

He, you know, like one of those kids that you always just know he's like, they're going to be successful. You have no idea what they're going to do, but you're like, you'll figure it out. You're a smart kid. Good. You know, like charismatic. And you know, like I'm saying, like, you know, his dad and his dad is a hustler too. Yeah. It just comes from like a successful, like just well, well raised. Yeah. Successful mindset. Anyway. So Sam graduated college with a, I want to say like civil engineer degree. Yeah.

And instead of going into becoming like a civil engineer, him and his dad moved to Missouri and they started a goat farm. Missouri? So random. Yeah, Missouri. And started a goat farm. Yeah, like where even is that? Yeah. Not Mississippi. Mississippi.

Anyway, Missouri. It's where Missouri is down south-ish, I think. And yeah, started goat farming like big, dude. Like they took like a big ass risk. Like I want to say like 2,500 goats. A lot of fucking goats, dude. And they butcher them? They're meat goats. They raise them and then they sell them to be butchered. I've never eaten goat. Well, it's because like goat meat is like...

extremely popular in India. One of the foreign ethnicities. I don't want to say it because I probably heard India might be India. Anyway, it's really big in the United States too. And goat meat is insanely expensive because it's super hard to get.

And nobody was really doing it at a big scale. So they were like, well, if nobody's doing it at a big scale, like, why don't we just take the wrist and like go all in and do it? Wow. They converted over like turkey barns. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Go in, convert a turkey barn. I don't want to give those are huge. Yeah. Secrets away. But yeah. And now, dude, he's going to.

He's killing it. And he, the biggest part of, I mean, well, I should say the biggest part is starting a goat farm and moving to Missouri. Like, you know, there's like, Oh, I got an opportunity in Florida. Well, everyone's like, sweet. Why would I not go to Florida? But I got an opportunity. I don't know. I'm not making fun of any states. Just there by yourself, you know? Yeah. Yeah. You uproot your whole life. Yeah. At 23 or four. Right. But then I guarantee when he's 45, he's like,

Be happy you did. And he can... Go anywhere. Go anywhere. He can go out and start five more of these goat farms because it's such a massive operation and they're the biggest in the country at the time or they get bought out by whoever the fuck buys goat farms. I don't know for a...

bajillion dollars be like man I'm sure glad we did that 20 years ago and instead of being like 60 you're like 40 that is great like this is that title yeah I'm a goat farmer one of the biggest yeah apparently he just like when he gets dressed for work his girlfriend was telling me this he would never personally tell me this but he he just wears like cowboy boots jeans and like you know seaboy sweatshirt and he just has like velcro gloves that's all you need really

That's all you need to fuck a goat, huh? Oh my God. Yeah, dude. I don't know what you're saying. As long as he doesn't take any videos because he's in a C-Boy sweatshirt. I have to send him a text and be like, hey man, this is bad for the brand. Gotta take that off. So anyway, an example. A very good but abstract example. Very abstract, very different. Not many people can say that one of their best friends is a goat farmer.

I was reading through the comments on the last video. What's up with people that live in cold temperatures getting so butthurt about how much colder it is where they live? Every time we mention how cold it is, they go, no.

Negative eight, it's negative 40 up here in Ontario. It's like a competition, dude. Yeah. What's up with people being sold? I think it's like partly our subscribers, dude. They always want to one-up you. I just think that's the type of person. It's not just with cold. It is. Right. And I'm not saying that. Don't be that guy. Okay, now I feel bad saying this. Ken and I went on a cruise once.

And I know people are from all over and someone goes, yeah, I'm glad to be here. It's almost freezing back at home. Yeah.

20 below back at home. That's nothing. You can't complain about it. That's the thing. I find myself doing it. Someone's like, oh yeah, it's so cold here and wherever I'm at. I'm like, really? It's 9 below this morning. They're like, oh wow. I don't know why there's such a universal conversation. I always resort to it. If I have to make a small conversation or say hi to someone, it's kind of like

don't have anything to talk about. I'll be like, staying warm out there. Yeah. You know, just the classic talk about the roads thing, which is basically talking about the weather in Minnesota. Small talk in general is one of the worst things. Cause I don't think anybody looks forward to small talk, but nobody like, so I'm thinking about going into Fargo tonight and going out to bars. Yeah. Yeah. It's just being cordial. And I know I will have 40 conversations of yo bro. How you been? Good man. How about you? Good. Good.

End Small Talk 2022. How do we do that? Just don't go up and talk to Ryan. No, not that. I still want to talk to people. Why is it that every...

It seems like small talk is such a pointless conversation. How do you... Well, you're talking about people that are acquaintances that you have grown up with or you went to college with or just haven't known throughout. People you see infrequently, but at least know them. It seems like every conversation starts out... It's always just not knowing enough to want to say something because then if you do say something that you...

they're like expected you to know, then it's just awkward. And it's like, I'd imagine with you, when you see a bunch of people that obviously know that you're a YouTuber, but they don't watch, they don't want to like ask and be like, yeah, sorry, I don't, I don't watch. So instead they just don't bring it up. Yep. And then I'm like, are you in school? And they're like, no, bro, I'm 26. I graduated three years ago. And I'm like, oh yeah, crap. Are you, do you have a girlfriend? They're like, yep, married, have a kid. And I'm like, I,

I just don't know. It's so hard to keep up with people's lives, even with social media. I think small talk will never go away, the way you say that. So I watched this thing on HBO Max. Not if Ryan has anything to do with it. It's called... He does like... It's John Wilson. Don't know who it is, but he does How To. And the first episode is How To Small Talk. I thought it was dumb at first, but he genuinely...

Makes you a better small talker at the, I don't know. So I'm watching it and he said, you like, you can't ever get too personal because either you'll end up making a friend that you didn't want to make. You end up making like an emotional connection that you didn't want to make. So don't get too personal. Don't ever get too personal when you're small talking, if you don't want to be, especially if it's a person you've never met, but it basically just shows you how to small talk. I never thought about it. He said, it's a very important thing to like work together in society at airports and gas stations. Um,

Most people would just be like, nah, I just don't want to talk to people. Interesting. Yeah, it was. You have to watch it. Like if more of the world knew that, then you could have better conversations. Yeah, he touched on as soon as you bring emotions or personal stories into it, it's no longer small talk. I feel like whenever I do that, like I try not to, but if that happens, I always leave the conversation like, goddamn.

God damn it. Why did I fucking say that? Like, why did I say that? It's the worst feeling, too. You know? You're just like, God. Why do I speak? Yeah. Why do I speak? I need to stop. Yeah. Luckily, small talk with our subs doesn't feel like small talk because if they are outgoing about it. I like it when. Yeah. They'll ask you all kinds of questions. That's always cool. I love it when. It's much easier to have a conversation. With a sub, it's way easier. Yeah. Yeah. Because, like, they have, like, questions normally and, like, it's easy to answer. And, like, I'm interested in, you know, asking them questions. Yeah.

It's kind of fun to hear where they're from or what they do. Dude, on a note from that, just thinking about... I noticed this when I was watching the Britney Spears documentary, but paparazzi doesn't exist anymore like it did. It's insane. Dude, that shit was illegal the way they were doing that. Yeah.

Yeah, they're like chasing her. She's like speeding off around cars. Like trying, almost hitting them. And they're driving around like, it was nuts, dude. Someone was going to get hurt. Right. Well, that's how Princess Diana died. That is so fucked up. Yeah, she was getting chased by paparazzi and her car hit a... Allegedly.

Yeah. I think there's a conspiracy, but that is what happened. But it doesn't happen anymore like that. Thank goodness. Dude, go watch the Britney Spears documentary if you haven't, and you will literally be like, what the fuck? How was that happening? How did the cops not come and do something? They weren't even treating her like she was human, dude. It was fucked up. I'm not really a Britney Spears fan, but I found it really interesting. It's a really good show. It's on Netflix. I think they have another one on Hulu, too. Really? There's a different one. And then you wonder why...

she turned out crazy or however you want to talk about that and that's just her there's so many you know how they talk about like free britney get her out of her conservatorship yeah i think there was a reason that she was probably in that because i think she's actually a little bit crazy no i think but i think that was like to a degree why she first originally got put into it yeah you gotta watch it but i think okay i think the conservatorship was like

taking it too far. No, no, no. It was 100% taking away her... violating her rights of being a human. Yes. But also when you have the world at your fingertips now with social media and all these things, it's like, you know, keep an eye on people like that. Make sure that they're not

acting up. That's what's crazy. You kind of can do that. Like before when you found out that she, like, I literally found out Britney Spears shaved her head from a people magazine at the grocery store or whatever. I remember I was so little. Whoa. I was, I was very small and I would always look at those cause they just have the most outlandish clickbait headlines. Yeah. And, uh,

And I remember there was a super overweight couple that were kind of redneck behind me in line. And I'm like looking at it. And then they're looking at it. And they go... The wife goes... She's like leaning on the car. She goes, yep, she's gone crazy. And then the husband just goes...

Shakes his head. Wow. You know? And then, yeah, I remember you see all that before phones and stuff. You kind of just believe it. Well, they're going to print it in a magazine. Yeah. That was at a certain age, but... I think the equivalent to, like, People Magazine or TMZ clickbait headline on magazines now is Snapchat articles. Dude, Snapchat articles are the worst. Absolutely out of pocket. They are...

The things that they will clickbait in. You have a good folder. I've been keeping track of them. Because they're outlandish. Astronomical. The most ridiculous things that don't even make any sense. Like, I think one of them was, is Millie Bobby Brown a robot? What does that even mean? That's one of the more normal ones, I feel like, that I've mentioned lately. Yeah, I always get baited. How did Tom Hanks raise such an idiot?

Jamie Lynn Spears keeps running over her cats. Yeah, that one was super funny. Is Millie Bobby Brown a robot or a human? And Satan just wanted her number. This is like just a few of them. Dude, Justin sent some really, really funny ones. Yeah, he did send a funny one. Let me pull. And then you like, I don't even, I feel like stupid when I do click on them. Yeah, it's always a waste. I hate that. You got to click through it. You get hit with a couple ads. You know they're making a couple bucks off that. And then it's just one slide. The content you went there to look at is shit. You know?

You know, I hopefully people... There's probably people listening to this right now. You guys do that to me. You clickbaited a live podcast. No, we didn't. We are going to move it. That's true. That's true. Yeah. No, it's the argument of what is clickbait is loose. Relatively loose. God damn, you had to bring up another meme. Sorry. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, did you...

Just arrow forward him right there. Ben just shows me a picture of street speed and I just lost all my thoughts. So lately, I've been saying that Ben looks like street speed 717. I don't see the resemblance at all. Well, when you're taking a thumbnail pic...

With your arms up like him, wearing the fucking aviator sunglasses, you look like Street Speed, dude. They're not aviators. I don't know. You can't even look like him right now. I don't look like him at all. You wouldn't catch any of us dead in aviators for real, though. From now on, refer to Ben as Street Speed Jr. Come on.

The madder you get, the more you look like him. I'm not mad. I'm just not agreeing. I just don't see the resemblance. I wouldn't want to see it either. Yeah, I'm pretty mad. I mean, he's not like an ugly guy or nothing. It's just like... It could probably be worse. Just don't let us get any clips of you. If you're talking to a GoPro in your hand, bad news. Then you're really going to look like him. That's the only other factor. I mean, you had the Corvette. You had the Aviators. Okay. Valid. Valid point.

Hey, I think he's a great YouTuber, so I guess that's not a joke. That's what's funny. I was like, he is a great YouTuber, so it's not an insult. It's just the aviators. Also, the funny thing is, like, it's not just him that does this. We've done that. So we call it. We meme it. I don't think he even does that. Dude, we meme it now. He doesn't do that. Brayden Price fucking does that. Don't do this. We're like, no more of that.

Don't even, like, if I'm taking a thumbnail and Ben puts his arms up, I'm like, put your arms up. Put your fucking arms up. Ken did it the other day with the Bronco. I go, Ken, put your fucking arms up. We'll pop that picture up. I'm like, nah, we got to get a few with your arms up. The most YouTuber pose. It is. I think that that pose is so used and, like, clickbaited that it almost, like, hurts your views. Like, if I was a person and I see someone I haven't watched before and they're doing this in the thumbnail, I'd be like, yep.

Yep. It's a scam. This is going to be bullshit. Don't click it. Yeah, this is bullshit. We're turning into those grandfather YouTubers that we're just getting mad now. Little things like that just trigger us. Like, come on, why?

I think just a simple thumbs up or just stand next to it and smile. Hit them with the old. Just so they know it's you. That's a tough thing is that in thumbnails, you can't always see the eyes and the facial expression because that tells a lot about it. I'm super excited to show you my new whatever. If you can see the excitement in your eyes. That's why Mr. Beast's thumbnails are so good is because his facial expression, it's almost animated and it's like new thumbnails.

I haven't quite figured that out. I'm not sure if it is animated, but it looks a little animated. Does it not? It looks almost fake. It's like a fake Mr. Beast face. Almost cartoonish. Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

But it's very up close and personal. He's got to be the most uptight about thumbnail. I mean, you guys have watched the videos where he explains why and what he does. And he changes a thumbnail three times. Or he has three backup thumbnails. Just in case the video's not doing quite as well as he was hoping. I'm surprised that he hasn't gone back and fixed old thumbnails too. I wouldn't be surprised if he did that. Mr. Beast is hands down the best.

Best YouTuber, the smartest YouTuber. Most invested in what he's doing. He makes, or he pulls 400 million views on his MrBeast channel, and then like another 200 million on his like Espanol. A month. And he's got like a Russia channel. Yeah, a month. Then he's got MrBeast Reacts, and then he's got MrBeast Gaming. He pulls like a billion views total. Right around like a billion views. That's like world influence. A month.

What? Yeah. Which is cool. He doesn't really try to influence. Dude, do you know how much money that is? I think that's probably like $10 million a month. I think it's more. Probably more on his CPM, but an absolutely ridiculous amount. And people are like, how does he afford giving away $458,000 to one person or spending that much on a video? And it's like, dude.

He's making so much fucking money. Yeah. Like, so much money. He's making, like... It's all scalable, you know? If you make this much money, you can... Like Steve, he makes a shitload of money, and he... It's $14 million. Dude. Wow. Give or take. If you have a $14 CPM, which is probably low for him. Wow. A month. That's crazy.

Just off of views. Because he's like one of YouTube's favorite creators. He's like YouTube's son right now. He's very clean. Yeah. Very clean. Doesn't have any scandals or anything like that. Family friendly. Doesn't swear. And he's got very entertaining videos. Honestly, he's a pillar in whatever YouTuber aspires to be that wants to scale their videos and get...

billions of views. Yeah. And I also love that his crew, or this is back, you know, let's say two years ago, his crew is, and I'll say this about us, we're not anything special, but like his crew is nothing special, but he grew them into personalities. Right. Because at first I was like, man, these are just his buddies. They don't know anything about anything. And now they all have their own channels. I don't know, but yeah. Yeah. I should say, I should say,

being a YouTuber that big and having monetization still. Because you can be that big and not have monetization. What do you mean? No, you can't be MrBeast big. No, but like David Dobrik has like 6 billion views. Yeah. But he has like no monetization and his videos aren't like family friendly. But MrBeast...

is raking in the dough off of all those views. I feel like there's quite a bit of, like, Mr. Beast is the definition of a YouTuber. He's like, like, Arak, definition of a YouTuber. Ryan Trahan, definition of a YouTuber. Like, they do videos that are strictly just like a video, like a YouTube video. Like, they're not filming themselves, like, out just, like, fucking around or, you know, they would never do any of the stuff we do because, like, it's just not, it doesn't have the potential to, like,

do 30 million views. Yeah. Like they're only interested in ideas that are going to do that. So like idea based, idea based creator versus like,

relationship with the audience like the creator and having a personal yeah you really don't know their personality in it like it's almost just their videos is just them almost like narrating yeah what's like what's going on and if they do it for long enough you start to get to know it but yeah yeah but you still never really do but uh mark robert just watched like his latest uh glitter bomb video so

So funny, dude. I don't know. That's like the definition of a YouTube video. Puts out one video a month, but that video gets 20 million views. Imagine if we drop a Glitter Bomb video. How confused people would be. Glitter Bomb? Glitter Bomb our SEMA truck. Of course you wanted to Glitter Bomb the SEMA truck. I mean the SEMA truck over my truck, yeah. Wait, hold up. Inside of it?

Why? Why would we ever do that? The funny thing is the Glitter Bomb is more, it has a car, and his new one had a car horn in it. It has fart spray. It has like four phones that record the whole thing and has a tracking device on it. Oh, wow. Wait, what? He's on 4.0, so.

I'm confused as to what we're even talking about. Me too. Oh, okay. It's just a thing because he gets his packages stolen from Amazon. He's like, I know I'm going above and beyond, but you're going to steal my shit. Oh, so it blows up? Yes. Oh, shit. That'd be sick. My favorite thing about him, so this is similar to a prank YouTube. It's like a modern day Unabomber. Whoa. For good.

Whoa! He's doing it for good. He's like, yeah, for good. But it's, you know when you're like, when you go out to do a prank and you load up like three good reactions. Everyone's happy. They got three. And some people load up like 10 good reactions. Sometimes you can get old. But anyway, he gets like, I'm not joking, 10 people to steal his package. He made a whole bunch of these.

Where the fuck does this guy live? California. Yeah, California. So they... And then, yeah, he gets... Yeah, he literally puts it out. He's like, yep, in about three hours, someone stole my package. I'm like, how the hell? He's like deer hunting. He's like sitting there by the window. Yeah. That'd be pretty fun, dude. Have you ever seen... This is kind of the same play. People would do it during like political season, you know, when like the elections are coming up. I said,

I saw this one guy. He had, like, a Trump sign in his yard. And people kept stealing it or whatever and, like, taking it out or whatever. So he, like, booby-trapped the sign. And, like, on one of them, he put, like, a tripwire. And he, like, filmed it. It was the funniest fucking shit. And then on one of them, he, like, had a charge going to it. So it was an electrical current. And, like, the people fucking go to grab it. And it...

Like, scares the shit out of them. And then he had one. This one was fucking savage. No, he's defending his property. He's on his land. Yeah, that's true. What are they doing? Running up trying to shoot? Can you booby trap land? It's his. It's not really booby trapped. Like, what are you doing grabbing his sign? Yeah, but keep in mind, somebody that's going to try and steal a Trump sign is the same person. Maybe not all, but... I shouldn't say that. Yeah, I was going to say. But, well...

Then on this last one, this one was savage. He put fucking razor blades on the bottom. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. But it was so funny because he cuts his hand, and the guy goes back and grabs gloves out of his car and then takes it. What? What a fucking. Wow. They really were. Determined. They were out there fucking working for their party. Wow. Yeah, I saw it on Facebook. It was one of those Facebook videos, but it was entertaining. It honestly looked really fun. I'd like to do that.

Steal signs? No, no, no. Sit in the house and watch people try to steal my sign. And that's the funny thing. Could we do that around here? Absolutely not. No one's stealing our signs. Well, no one's. It'll just be like, yeah.

Well, I'm saying just in general, no one's stealing anything. You could let an Amazon... We could go put an Amazon package... We could. ...that says PS5 next to the road and no one would steal it. See? Another great thing about the runner. They would stop, come inside, hey, your package is outside there. So I picked it up and I brought it here. Here it is. Like, you could go into a Minnesotan stealing... The store, leave your keys in it. Yeah, leave the car running. You could leave the car...

like you don't have to worry about nothing around here. It's the best. Yeah. I got jacked one. Yeah. My friend Jace did that same thing. He went to the gas station. What was he in Detroit? That's a town. I'm talking about Cormorant. Yeah. Of course he did. Went to the grocery store and came out and his car was gone. I would have loved to see his face. Yeah. Yeah. I shouldn't say I didn't get carjacked. I didn't get my car. I got everything in it stolen.

Because I left the keys. I left it open. I think everything. Everything, bro. Yeah, I remember. That was in DL. Well, DL again. See, town. I'm talking about corner. That's what like... I got my car egged on that same street. In DL. So maybe it's that same street. Wait. It wasn't on that... It wasn't on that... I don't know where we... It was the first party I'd ever been to. And at the time, I was like... Who's that up? No, I was like, I shouldn't be here. I'm just giving my friends a ride. I shouldn't be here. I'm like...

I'm like, everyone's smoking weed and drinking. I'm like, I should not be here. And then all the shit out of my car gets stolen. And I'm like, that's what happens when you go to parties. They punked your ass, dude. Did you know who it was? The worst part is I found out who it was later on. Who was it? I don't know his name, but it was an acquaintance of whatever. And I found out who it was, and I was so upset because I met him before. Did he know it was yours? I don't think so, to be honest. I don't think he knew it was mine. What did he steal out of there?

Everything. Like what was in there? iPod, skateboard. I mean, yeah, I used to have all my fun shit in my car, but skateboard, longboard, golf club, sub, amp, deck, iPod. They should have cleaned up. Camera. He's like, you should have never got a replacement set of golf clubs. That should have been the sign, dude, to quit right then and there. The set of golf clubs I have now is the replacement to that, too. You should have never. He doesn't have much clubs left. I read this tweet the other day.

Yeah, true. I read this tweet the other day that made me laugh. It does not apply to me, but it was like, either you're a guy that has a massive cock or you're good at golf. You can't do both. I bet that made you feel good. I was like, nice, nice.

You should have retweeted it. It was funny. No, I just wanted to screenshot the tweet, put it on Instagram, sort of vibe. Nobody uses Twitter anymore. What you should have done was screenshot it. Well, you still can. Screenshot the tweet, put it on your Instagram story, and then I'll give you one of my Snapchat videos of you golfing. Just hacking it. Hitting the fucking ground and just follow that up with that. That would actually be pretty funny. I love how when I said that, Ben goes, fuck. Ben is good at golf. There, I said it.

Yo, now you're not good. You're so humble. I don't like this topic. Mike's got a slump. Whoa. See, dude, that's what I'm saying. Jokes just don't hit like they used to with Mike and...

certain jokes why don't you guys just talk it out i'm gonna talk out because then we make a joke and then mike doesn't think it's funny because the joke's about micah and before it was like me cj and ryan and kenneth would laugh and you know and now it's just me and cj like kind of like chuckling but now feeling bad about it because ryan's just like i'm not that i'm not that bad about it i yeah and that's why you have to keep

Realistically, you have to keep the boy talk pretty universal. Huh? You can't get personal with it. Otherwise, it gets weird. I agree. Now, what do you mean? What? We can't crack the joke about you being a...

A golfer? I'm not a golfer. I do it with him. I do it with him. He goes, I'm not a golfer. You guys heard what I said about that tweet. For the record, that's why I prefaced it at the beginning. I said, this doesn't apply to me, but I thought it was funny. I said that. It's like saying no offense before you say something offensive. He looked at Ryan as he said it. I'm not a golfer. I'm not a golfer. Fuck me, dude.

Be careful Ryan, I might. Jesus! Whoa!

I do have a left field topic to change to if you guys like. Sure. I kind of want to get more into this. There's nothing to get into. There's nothing to get into. All right. You're not going to kill him? I was watching another podcast, and they brought this up, and I never heard of this animal. It's an animal. And I don't know how I've never heard of it. You'd think you'd see it on Instagram, and someone goes, holy shit, I can't believe this animal exists. Ken, you'll have to pull this up. It's called a flying fox bat.

Or an old world fruit bat, right? So you guys have seen flying squirrels. I always wanted one. You've seen bats. Bats are kind of creepy and gross. There is a fox with wings that looks like a bat, and it's massive. It is massive.

literally Matt like the wingspan fox with wings it's a fox with wings and it looks like a bat but it's it's like this big and the wing the wingspan is like seven six feet long where does it live what the Philippines and I'd never seen one before I was like right this this is a real animal wait look at the one where it's flying over the trees yeah can we get a wingspan pretty cool dude holy I just there you go right there I had saw it and I wanted to bring it up like this is a dinosaur looking thing

Dude, it looks like a dog. It's like a chihuahua. Yeah, it's like a... With some bat wings. Yeah, dude. That is literally what it is. Yeah, I think it's probably similar size to a chihuahua or a fox, obviously. So yeah, it looks like a bat and they hang upside down. How many are there? There's not many. Really? Yeah. I don't think it's becoming extinct, but yeah, they're in the Philippines. And apparently they're not actually...

mean animals. Thank God. Can they coast like a sugar glider? But they can't take off? Not really. Can you believe that these exist? I don't know.

Flying squirrels are cute, but bats are not. And when you mix a bat and a fox together, it's pretty gross. Funny story about bats. My mom calls me because she knew I was in Fargo, and she's screaming bloody murder. I'm like, oh, my gosh. What happened? She goes, CJ! CJ! CJ!

There's like a bat or something in the water case. So she bought this water case at the grocery store. I don't know if the bat was already in the water case or if it somehow crawled into it. A case of bottled water. Yeah, it was unopened.

And it was in the garage. And she opened it up and went to grab water. And there was a fucking bat sitting in between, like in the middle. And it was looking right up at her. And she, of course, freaked out. Freaked out. She does not like that kind of stuff. And calls me, of course.

But anyways, she's like, I'm going to try and push it out. So anyway, she managed to push the case of water out into the driveway. It was really fucking cold that day. I'm screaming the entire time while she's doing it. I'm trying to... She took like a broom. So anyways... Neighbors are watching. I come home...

Or Michael over at their house. He must be really scared of water. Yeah. And so I drive over to their house after we're done eating. And I see this case of water out there. It's got a blanket over it. She threw a blanket. I don't know why. To keep it warm. Keep it warm. I don't know if she was trying to keep it warm or, like, make sure it didn't escape. I don't know what she was trying to do. You'd think you'd want to. Anyways, so I get out there. And I pull the thing off. And it's still in there. There was a bat sitting there. And it was looking up at me. And I was like, oh. And, like, you know, I'm just...

Left the thing off and I was thinking it would leave or just be frozen in between all these waters. It seems like a terrible spot for, I don't know if it was, I don't know how it would have called in there either. Cause the water was so fucking tight. The bat must've came from your house for the record. They don't like cold. I don't like, I don't know. Unless it was in the water already prior at the grocery store though. Well, it comes from somewhere else before it gets to the grocery store.

I'm just picturing, can you imagine buying a case of water with a bat in it? It comes with a included bat. Dude, I'm just telling you, I'm looking at where it was. It was like in the middle of the case. That's weird. Yeah, they can squeeze through a little. Because it would have had to. It didn't get packaged up in there. It's a weird spot. Like, how the fuck does a, why would it go down and like, you know, I don't know where, man. Either way, maybe their house has bats. Dude, bats are crazy.

They're kind of gross. Mike used to have a couple bats. In the walls, yeah. Back in his T-ball years. That was something I had to get used to. Animals crawling in the walls. Yeah, that shit was bad. I thought it was squirrels. I think it was squirrels for the record. But it could have been a bat. You would hear... Pitter patter through the walls. It's something I genuinely had to get used to. At first I was like, I hate this.

Yeah. Bats, whenever you see them in a house, I remember being in my grandparents' house and it flew past me. And I was like, there's such a little black shadow animal that it seems like you're seeing some sort of... It's basically just a rat with wings. But I felt, I'm like, am I seeing things? There's a mouse with wings. They're gross, huh? Is this some sort of weird dark omen thing? What you need to get to fix a bat problem is a tennis racket. Really? Yeah.

Play tennis with them? I'm already picturing CJ just saying he hates tennis. Dude, it's pretty aggressive. Think about smacking it with a... Or barn swallows. You ever had barn swallows? Never actually hit one with a tennis rack. Tried.

They're fast, dude. No, you can... Barn Swallows will attack you. And I've been attacked by Barn Swallows many times. They swoop at you. What other life have you lived? They never land and they swoop at you. Well, they used to always put nests up underneath my parents' boat lift growing up. So you'd go into the boat and then they'd be in there and they'd get mad because they laid eggs. And they would be flying around. They'd soar. And I'm not kidding you. I've had it happen.

multiple times where it would come back and fucking touch your hair. Like, it came back and literally, like, tried to, like... I don't know what the fuck it was trying to do, but it, like... Yeah. But if you get a tennis racket, I mean, you can kind of figure out the rest. A baseball bat, that's pretty tough. Or a BB gun or an airsoft... There's no way. Yeah, I tried doing it with a BB gun once. You can get a shotgun, but, I mean, your neighbor's... Just shot out my window. Yeah. Get a tennis racket. Did you guys see, um...

the story with Jackson Mahomes, the TikToker, the brother of Patrick Mahomes, the one of the best NFL quarterbacks right now. Yeah. Is he actually one of the best? I'd say so. Like two years ago. Okay. I'd say he's one or two, number one or two. He's like the next Tom Brady. Okay. But no, I didn't. So. Okay. So his brother looks very similar to him and he makes like Tik Toks and he's kind of like, he's like a pretty popular Tik Toker. And I think he's,

I don't want to... I'd assume that he's really only popular on TikTok because he is his brother. And, like, he's always posting shit with him and, like, game day shit. And his wife, too, is, like, besties with him. And, like, they're just, like, really aggressive on...

On social media, it's kind of weird. Because, like, they're always just, like... You just would have to go and look. But they're very aggressive and, like... Weird. They're just annoying. They're always, like, fucking flaunting that they're, like, on the field with him. And, like, it's really strange. You'd think they would be, like, maybe... More respectful? Yeah. Um...

But anyways, uh, you want to tell a story? You want me to? Yeah, you tell you probably better. Well, anyways, so I guess like Jackson Mahomes, like tried going to this small bar. So he's got a bunch of Instagram followers now because he's whoever, um, Jackson Mahomes went to this like small bar with his crew or something. And, uh, there was like no spots cause it was a small bar and he had like a bunch of people that need to be seated. They never room for him. And he goes on his Instagram and starts like talking shit about the establishment. Right. He's got this big platform and, uh,

Then basically, like, the little bar, like, clapped back on social media, and he is getting fucked. Like, they just... Because they didn't do anything wrong. They didn't. They were like, hey, like, I'm sorry that...

Our bar is so small and we weren't able to seat your large crew of six that night. We're also sorry about how you have a platform and, you know, use it. You have a bunch of savage stuff. Yeah, yeah. Like, you have a platform that you don't deserve and use it for, you know, harming a small business like ours. I don't know. You'd have to go read it, but... Yeah, they were like, we're sorry that we weren't born into a famous family. Yeah. Like, get everything handed to us. It's pretty...

It was pretty out there. They were harsh. Damn. But he kind of, I think it's generally observed by the internet that he does it. Yeah. That guy is a freaking, he's annoying. I think probably most of the internet hates him. Yeah, I think a lot of people do. I guess just for me, every single time I see or hear anything about him, it's people just talking shit about him. How much he's a...

Yeah, he just thinks he's like a hotshot, but he's only there because of his brother. Like dancing on other teams' logos and shit. Yeah, what the fuck's he doing, dude? You think Jackson or you think Patrick Mahomes, like his brother, would be like, hey, you should probably tone it down because now I have to deal with this. I'm the fucking quarterback of this team. Yeah, dude. I'm actually good. The coach would probably be mad. He'd be like, yo, you need to tell your brother to knock it off. Like, what?

I mean, the thing about that, too, is they share the same last name, and people are out here buying Mahomes jerseys and supporting him and, like, you know, repping him. And then you got the little brother over here, like, shitting on local businesses in the hometown. It was in Kansas City, right? Wow. So, like, a local establishment, and he's over here shitting on them on Instagram. You know, it's just, like, it's the things that...

I'm surprised are happening because it's like, dude, the older brother could just be like, yo, stop. Like I'm, I am successful and you are now making me look bad. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like,

It goes to show that a lot of people that think they are famous act a lot more like assholes than the people that actually are. Yeah. I'd agree with that. Yeah. There's like a, I see on TikTok too. And it's like guy who like is kind of rich and they're in the scenario is always a snooty asshole.

And then it'll be like guy who's actually rich. And he's always like, Oh, my Mercedes won't be done. That's okay. I'll just, you know, deal with it. And it seems like that, like people that are right on like the cusp of something are always the biggest assholes. It seems like they got something to prove. I guess I can't say always because yeah, that's true. But weird entitlement. Yeah. Weird entitlement thing. And maybe that humbleness goes a lot way along. Yeah. A lot way. A lot way. Uh,

It is interesting now. I mean, we talked about this on the last podcast. Internet keeps you in check. Typically. Like people on the internet keep you in check. Typically. And typically ego is like not good. You do not want to have an ego in any way. It's only like really negative. And I mean, everyone has an ego, whether it's this big or this big, you know. But having as little of an ego as you can is going to do you better than...

Having a big one. Definitely. You know who doesn't have an ego at all? He's absolutely one of the biggest stars right now. Tom Holland. I don't know if you guys are into Spider-Man. I heard Ben. Go to Spider-Man after this. Really? I'll be sick. Tom Holland. I didn't know he was Australian either. He's got like a... He's like British. British or whatever. Like, hi, mate. Whatever. Yeah.

Um, but he, I saw this video of him and like everyone just loves him because he's very lovable and he's got this video where he's just like, who's your celebrity crush? And then he's just like Zendaya. And then it shows that he's dating Zendaya. And then he's dating Zendaya. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Which is awesome, dude. Zendaya is a lot of people's celebrity crush. And so being able to actually pull that off is pretty crazy. Impressive. Then super young video of him. It goes, what kind of like superhero would you want to play in a movie if you ever did? And he goes, ah,

I think I'd like to play Spider-Man maybe 10 years.

And then he's playing like he's crushing Spider-Man. And then they're like, what's a famous actor that you'd love to work with? He's like, Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah. And then he did that whole movie with him. So it's like, how can you hate on that? He's just so nice and so humble and crushing it. Damn. Manifested that shit. Yeah. That's crazy, actually. Yeah. That's crazy. How long ago did he say that? He was young? The Spider-Man one, he looked pretty young. But he's still young now. He's like 23.

Three? I don't know. Wow. Holy shit. I didn't know he was that young. Six years or something like that. Wow. Old TV interviews. That's insane. Just going to watching his movies, how the heck do Australian and British people do such good American accents? I know. Dude. I know it works vice versa, too. That's so impressive. I don't get it. It doesn't work in my brain. You guys watch Yellowstone? The show Yellowstone? Haven't yet, but. Fantastic show. Anyone here watch Yellowstone? No. Yeah, yeah.

Just our side has it. All right, okay. We'll talk then. You know, Beth is...

What? And she probably does a nice like rancher accent. He's like a western accent. That's a good actor right there. It's impressive. So yeah, I think when an American actor does a British accent, I for some reason find it less impressive. Yeah, I think it's probably easier to talk British than for British people to talk American. I think so. Could you imagine walking into a bar and talking like an American to pick up a chick? Yeah.

Like, you know how people talk British or something like that? It's really funny. Like, I don't picture a British person like, watch me talk like an American. I've never been to Britain or over in Europe where they speak British like that. But I speak English. They just have an accent. Yeah. British. I don't think that they like Americans, though. Maybe. I don't know why. I don't know if I've heard that.

What are you talking about, Ryan? You just said that they speak British. Some people say Mexicans speak Mexican. Then both of those are wrong. Yeah, I know. I did say I thought Brazilian people spoke Brazilian. And we speak American. British accent? Damn right. Hell yeah. Bald eagles. You know what I'm saying. British accents speak British. I heard one time. They speak English with a British accent. Sorry, I didn't know. Jeez. All right. You get what I'm saying, though. Never mind.

A British person clapped back one time or I don't know. They gave some scientific, realistic reason and they're like, actually, British people have to move their mouth less to talk, which is true. You know, we say the weather, the weather. We say er. They just say the weather. Like they don't have to. Ken starts speaking to save on energy. It's so funny. All right.

Brian's saying how he does things because he's lazy. How did you deflect that on me? Brian, you can't deflect that. What did you just say? I fucked up his exhaust because he was lazy. Did you just deflect being lazy on Ryan? I'm just saying, I'm not the only one here.

Well, at least Ryan does aftermarket exhaust. On that lazy note, we need to get Ken a riot shield. That's it. That's it for today. All right, guys. Why do we need to get Ken a riot shield? Deflections, man. You know what a fucking riot shield is? Wow. Okay, I'm an idiot. We're all getting dumber. All right, catch us next week with Ken with a British accent. And a riot shield. And a riot shield. Can you come over here and give me just one good British sentence?

Say, can we get like a... Hold up. I fucked that up again. I want to hear what no sounds like with a British accent. No. No. No can do. That's a no. Can do. That's a no can do. All right. All right, Steve. Peace.

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