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You kind of do. You've got the flannel and everything. Ben, did you steal that hat from your dad? Did the flaps do me any good? No. I think they make you look more stupid, so yeah. No! Well, we're back. We're hitting two weeks in a row. This is really good for us. I'm surprised. I'm actually not surprised. We set a goal and we're doing it. We're switching up the seating. CJ's over there. Me and CJ don't mix very well because our knees bump into each other. You mean CJ's in the hot seat?
No. What? No. No, he's just sitting over there. And I don't think we've ever ran this formation of...
of uh us four before we got big ken back in here i feel like i should bleach this the seat before i really sit in it too much no it's okay it's been five to seven days it's all okay so because of the pink guy or because of something else because of the pink guy basically there's mike has something else going on i mean i don't know ben are you hiding something from us right i can't believe that you didn't go more in on mike last week i mean it's kind of tough
What am I going to do? People want to hear that you're mad, that you hate Mike, and that if he does your sister wrong, you're going to beat his ass and put him in the ground. He hasn't done her wrong yet. If he does her wrong, then I'm going to kill him. But he hasn't done her wrong yet. I mean, both of you guys are walking a fine line. Mike's walking dying. Ryan's walking going to jail. I mean, it's just...
you know if someone oversteps yeah exactly we hold each other accountable it's like a domino if one goes then all of them the whole family you know torn apart you know what i'm saying though is like when everyone asks you like so ryan how do you feel about that they so badly want you to just be like oh i'm so mad about it don't don't people come up to you in public and ask about it now yeah it's just a common thing at the grocery store they're just like oh i heard mike's dating your sister
Like, yeah. Comments on my Instagram. Actually? I think I've gotten a couple. It's pretty exciting. I'm not going to lie. It was actually pretty funny. The fan page. So I posted the video of Ken. He was just kind of BSing when we were setting up the Christmas tree. And I had audio. And Ken goes, yeah, it was all fine until he started talking to my mom. And then we didn't really get along or something along those lines. And the fan page picked it up and goes, damn, Mike, or something like that. Just assumed it was Mike. Oh, really?
And I was done. The only person Mike's going to have left after the sisters, cousins, and moms will be grandmas. Oh, boy. Oh, Mike. Grandma Mike. Would Mike technically be our grandpa then? Not date our grandma, Ben. I was just saying he's going to date someone's grandma. Oh, you didn't mean within the group. What, has Mike been into mobs?
Well, you know, the one friend that doesn't hang out with us anymore. Oh, yeah. Mike. Kind of fucked up that we just had Canada podcast and talked shit about Mike. Hey, he's not here to defend himself, so it's all good. Oh, that's hilarious. Maybe you guys have to do that. We'll have to hash it out. We'll do a hash out podcast if there's something to hash out. And then after that, we're going to have on our old buddy that left the friend group because of Mike's decisions with his mom.
Mike's sitting back there just like, I didn't do anything. Well, I was just like, if you want to fabricate this story, you can. It's been pretty fabricated. I didn't do it! Anyway. So I almost bought a Lambo last week. In my favorite city in the world. That's partly why I wanted to buy it. Viva Las Vegas! Vegas. God, I love that place. I didn't buy it. It fell through. So it's not even really worth talking about. But I was more excited...
To go to Vegas. Go back to Vegas. I was like equally as excited to get the Lambo as I was. Just a quick 24 hours in Vegas. I love Vegas so much, dude. It's probably unhealthy how much I love Vegas. We've only been there once. You haven't developed an unhealthy habit yet. That's probably true. You haven't like flown away for a couple weekends here and there. Just a quick gamble.
That would probably be unhealthy then if I started doing that. If we had more time, I probably would. Just take like the Elysian flight straight there and back. Dude, it was just so much fun. We went to Vegas a couple weeks ago for SEMA. And we didn't, I mean, you can't really film it. You can't like walk around the casinos and film yourself. That's illegal. So anyway, we were kind of, you know, off just doing us. And me, Ken, and CJ, and then our buddy, Tint,
Found a newfound love for gambling. Ken and I have had that love for a while. That love has been there for a while. You joined in the gang. Same as Tint. Tint loves gambling. Dude, we would just sit down. We'd find a nice open blackjack table.
And we would sit down, and all four of us would just all throw in $100. And then we would just watch it ride where one of us might lose it in the first four rounds or one of us might go up and up and up. And it was something new every single time, which was really fun. Yeah, it was a good time. Like –
It's one thing if you're just constantly losing, but the casinos just kept throwing us a couple dubs to have us keep coming back. Yeah. It's like I would... And now I'm hooked. It's like during the day, I would win. I could, you know, make my money.
And then go back at night after we've been drinking for a few hours and just lose all of it. And I'd have to start the cycle over again the next day. That's why I steered clear of the gambling table. The thing is, though, Ryan, you didn't have as much fun as us. You didn't have as much fun. I guarantee you spent more money than we did that weekend. Being that every time we would sit down to start gambling, you would just have to stand there and walk around. And then you'd have to buy drinks. And the drinks there are like $35 where we just get them for free.
Yeah, but I mean, like, we walked... It wasn't like we just stood there or stood there and walked around aimlessly. Like, we went and did things. We went and had fun. It is interesting. It was fun walking around. That's my favorite part about Vegas. The best part about Vegas is walking around. But I will say...
Last time wasn't as much fun as the previous times. And it wasn't because of like... Because of us? No, it wasn't. I'm not sure if it was because I've just been to Vegas enough times where I've just kind of seen it all. But also, realistically, what it really was was I just was so sick. I was like sweating and I was like, I was running a temp. And like, I felt like shit the whole time. So it wasn't fun like drinking and like having to walk like everywhere. You'd walk so many miles a day.
But yeah, so not kind of a little bit of a bitter taste about Vegas. I'm like hesitant to go back. But I mean, when you were going to go for that car, I was, I was fucking down. I thought it was just going to be me and you. Cause like those guys were at their concert. I was like, yes, this is going to be great. Who would have tore it up? Siege. We don't come back for a week. You guys don't hear from us. We pull a Dennis Rodman. Yes, exactly. Just like that. Just leaves the Chicago bulls and, and fucks off in Vegas for a week. Dude,
Dude, I think if anyone is listening to this and they're of age, you have to be 21 to even just get into the casinos in Vegas. So don't go to Vegas unless you're 21. But if you have a group of boys and you guys have never been... Nobody's ever been to Vegas and you guys all go, I guarantee you're going to have a good time. And just put like, I don't know, even 500 bucks aside to just like that's your gambling money. Because like, dude, I think if you go...
You got to just hit up the blackjack table because that was most of the fun that we had, I feel like. Yeah, yeah. And just, like, be okay with losing it. Obviously, don't bet the farm. But, dude, it was a good time. I don't know why it was so much fun. Maybe it was because it was my first time. That's probably why. But you can literally...
It's like a city of no rules and no laws. And it's like, it just feels like everything you're doing should be illegal, but it's just like accepted. Vegas is just such a different place. Like you can just go to the local convenience store and
and get a twisted tea, a 24-ounce twisted tea, so like the weapon one. For like two bucks. For two bucks, and then just walk the strip, and you walk through the casinos, and you can just like go anywhere, and you're just like drinking a twisted tea, and you're just like, what is going on? And like the people watching, like you said, it's just insane. And we barely even saw half of it. Yeah, what was crazy to me is like,
Everything was connected and you never really had to go outside. Like you'd walk through a casino and then you'd be in a hotel and then you'd be in a mall with like really expensive stores that none of us would shop at. And then you're in another casino and then there's a pool and it's just all this connected. Yeah, it's pretty labyrinth of stuff. I'm ready to go back whenever. Me too. Honestly, twist my arm. I can't find,
Fuck the podcast. We're leaving. Okay. I wasn't that hooked on Vegas until the airport. We sat down at that slot machine. That was the best. And had the little song, the little hot stuff song, and we were all in the airport cheering, making a scene. We were causing a scene. Yeah. Yeah. Because Tim was winning. We were acting such a fool that security came up to us and had to check our IDs because they were just like, there's no way these guys are of age. They're just acting like children.
Yeah, and then like other people would kind of come in and then like they would play the machine that we weren't playing. That one lady won. That one lady won and normally people that were like gambling on the machine and then somebody came and like jacked it, technically they'd be like all pissed about it. But we were like, let's go! We were cheering her on.
That sounds lit. Oh, that was the best. Yeah. Maybe that's why, dude. We left on such a high note. I mean, it was fun the whole time. It's that one last time you can gamble before you leave the state. That's true. Dude, that was so fun. You can go to local bars, Ben, and maybe not around here, but if you go not far from here, you can gamble blackjack. I played in Duluth. It sucked. It's not the same vibe. It's not the same vibe. Don't do it. Go to Manoma maybe for a weekend? I don't know, dude. It just doesn't...
Doesn't sound as fun. And if you're going to do it and try and be less of a degen about it, you know, just like reserve it for Vegas. Yeah, save it. You got to do it. Do it big in Vegas. Save up all those, all your money. When we were watching Ryan's girlfriend's brother, right? No, Ryan's. Hold up. He's not only looking stupid today, he's feeling stupid. Let me restart that. Ryan's girlfriend's.
boyfriend. There we go. Was just in Vegas, which is what made me think of that. And he went to the UFC fight this last weekend. That'd be fun. Man, I had FOMO and I don't even know the guy. I was like, dude, that sounds so much fun. I think next UFC fight that's in Vegas, we got to go. We do. And those fights were electric. That was probably the best UFC fight that...
I remember watching it. I think that's the best pay-per-view we have ever bought. Yeah, it was fun because there was quick fights too. They went hard and it only went two rounds deep. There's another big fight this weekend though. Jake Paul versus Tyrone Woodley. That's right. Who backed out again? Tyson Fury. Tommy Fury. Tyson Fury is like the legend. Why'd he back out? He had some kind of infection in his...
Liver or something? Or, like, his rib broke or something like that. And he had a broken rib, yeah. I don't blame him for backing out, honestly. If he actually is, like, fucked up because...
You don't want to go in there, not at your best, and then lose to Jake Paul as a real legit... Like, Jake Paul, I would say, is a legitimate boxer now. But as a real boxer, like, that is all you do. And you lose to him, you're just going to kind of be a joke for the rest... Like, you're never going to live that down. Yeah, nobody really puts respect on Jake Paul's name as a fighter. I think they are now. They're definitely starting to. They're definitely afraid of him. And I think they should. Yeah, I mean, you should. He's a great fighter. But do you think that people...
Say that about, like, Tyron Woodley, though, after Tyron lost?
No, he wasn't really... He's not a boxer. He's a UFC fighter, and he's known for wrestling more so. With UFC, there's so many dynamics to the fight rather than just boxing. You can't throw, obviously, kicks, or you can't take people down, use jiu-jitsu in boxing. Choke them out. And that's a huge part of UFC. You do have to be a well-rounded fighter, but obviously if you are just...
If you're an expert in jiu-jitsu, you're going to be able to hold your own and probably win a lot of fights still, whether you're a good striker or not. Whereas in boxing, you have to be a good striker. But anyways...
The only thing that's... The problem that Tommy Fury is running into is they were talking so much shit. And, like, talking shit on Jake Paul, like, oh, I could beat him with a cold, with one arm tied behind my back, with, like, a broken rib. And then now he's, like, sick or has a broken rib. He's like, I'm not fighting him, you know? So it's just like...
Kind of played himself there. Yeah. But I don't blame him if he actually is. You never know, you know. But also maybe he is scared. I have no idea. I mean, definitely the YouTubers that started boxing kind of got, you know, more of like the normal crowd that wasn't really watching fights into watching fights. But, dude, UFC, I'd say like the last six months...
We watch all the UFC pay-per-views. Dude, those are the big ones, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I should say that. That's like...
The most fun I've had in a long time just watching the fight the other night. Yeah, it's a blast, dude. Dude, it was so fun. It's nice. You just kind of get to chill in with the boys. Everyone's just, it's just a good time. It was just electric. Nothing too crazy. We're all just like cheering on. Yeah, it is electric. Yeah, it was electric. That's why I was like, man, we got to go to one of these in person. Dude, it'd be fun to like play some bets and stuff. If you were in Vegas, obviously you could then.
That'd make you even more invested in the fight. Yeah. Obviously, we could do some bets this weekend on the Jake Paul-Tyrone Woodley fight. Well, I mean, between us, we live in Minnesota, and you can't bet online in Minnesota. I'm saying between us. But obviously, I'm going to probably pick Jake Paul. I don't know if anyone else will go against that. Justin probably will. Definitely will. You will, Mike? Sweet. What are we putting here? $100? $100.
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Ken, what's your deal with Manoomin? Ken, you want to go to Manoomin so bad, dude. I don't know. I've just never been there. I kind of want to. Oh, you've never been to Manoomin? Never been there. Well, that's why you want to go there. I think it's kind of like saying you want to go visit Detroit. I'd never want to see Detroit. I think it's just like going to a place that isn't really desired to go in terms of casinos.
Check it out, maybe. Yeah, I think, honestly, we'd probably have a good time. Especially if we took the limo there. It's not as much of a vibe as you guys think. Well, it's not a vibe, really, at all. It's like a casino in the middle of a field. A native reservation casino. You know, and they're just smoking in there. And it's not, like, super lit. It's not, like, vague. It's five to eight. Ken will love that, dude. You can smoke inside? Ken will love that, dude. You can smoke at every casino. Well, you should love that, then. Ken's just a vapor. You can do that pretty much anywhere. That's true.
I did see that tornado that ripped through Kentucky or wherever it was last weekend. What was the deal with that? Apparently, it ripped the roof off the Corvette factory. What? I did hear that. They halted production for a week. Corvette prices just going through the roof.
through the roof? No. The week after I saw my Corvette. Dude, Ben, you are the worst investor. I would consider myself top five. Worst of all times. There was like a picture of the storage facility with a bunch of Corvettes and just the roof was gone. Dude, that is seriously going to slow up Corvette. They were already slow as balls. What's up with like natural disasters taking out Corvette factories and Corvette museums? You're right, dude. The Corvette museum was in a sinkhole, dude. It just disappeared. The whole thing?
You didn't know that? Yeah, dude. Probably 10 years ago. The whole Corvette museum, like rare, rare, super rare Corvette. What? Just fell into the ground like a long, a long ways. I mean, not like to the core of the earth, but I mean like. A good 50 feet. Yeah. How the fuck does that happen? I don't, I don't know who built that and was just like, yeah, it'll be fine. I think it was like a water leak or something under it. Really? Yeah. But just bad news bears. So all the cars were just done. Yeah. And then now they have some of them. They kept them.
They craned a bunch of them out of that hole, and I think some of them got restored. Some of them sat as is. Yeah, they leave them as is. That's terrible. You guys ever hear about that old car that the guy put in the box, the concrete box, and buried in the ground? Oh, yeah. I remember you a little bit telling me about this. It wasn't even that cool of a car. Well, it was probably back then. So like in the 50s, this guy took this car and put it in a watertight, airtight concrete box and buried it in the ground.
In like Kansas for like some city event. And he was going to pull the car out and it was going to look perfect. How many years later? I think like 50 years or something like that. Wow. So that'd be a event. They pull this thing out. What a spectacle. Yeah. So they pull it out. Wait, so they, hold on. They put it in the ground. So yeah, they, they build this concrete box. Okay. And then they put the car in it. Yeah. Yeah. And then you crane that down into the ground.
And then that stays. Can you not watch TikTok right now, Mike? Can you turn your fucking ringer off?
So they crane this whole box into the ground and then they buried it. And so the goal was you to have this perfect car that like hadn't experienced anything. Wow. That'd been sick. So then they go down to pull it out. 50 years later, they crane it out and they noticed a little bit of water leaking out of it and they open it up in the whole thing. Groundwater got into it and just wrecked the entire car. Like it filled up with water and just rusted the entire thing. But I think they left it as is because you know, it was like this whole thing that they tried to preserve this car and then it
I couldn't. I was watching. That is crazy, dude. Because I'd imagine that. You'd have been better off just putting it in a storage unit. For sure. Probably driving it. The concrete cracks. They didn't think about that? Yeah, I don't know. I think there was like plans in place. But yeah, they just didn't do a good enough job. They were stupid back then. I was watching TikTok last night. And I came across a TikTok of Nipsey Hussle. R.I.P.,
Talking about his brother when he was like 15 years old, his brother must have been a drug dealer or something like that. Who was like 18 older than him.
And I don't know the context of it. So, I guess the brother buried like a quarter million dollars in the mom's backyard. What? And I don't know if the brother ended up... Cash then, obviously? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have to be. Yeah. And I don't know if the brother passed away or what, but they dug it up a year later. Just a year later. Just one year later. One year later. And half of it was molded. Yeah. And it was like molded together. Well, he obviously didn't do it well, though.
Like he didn't wrap it up. Wrap it up. Yeah. Like a Ziploc bag or something. I'd assume not. But then they, he was like, yeah. So then we had a quarter million dollars spread across my mom's kitchen table and living room. All of us with blow dryers trying to dry it out. So then we could get the money dry or the mold dry or whatever, and then peel the dollars apart without ripping them. Imagine that. Wow. Yep. You don't have to worry about that anymore with,
Crypto. Bitcoin. You just hide your money in there, but you can't convert it from cash to... That's what they say. I'm sure you can. No, no, no. That's what they say about NFTs. NFTs is the biggest form of money laundering now.
Makes sense. We should make an NFT of that Pelican back there. Yeah, that'd be good. We could sell it for a million dollars. Yeah, if not two. If not two to ourselves. And then we sell it as a discount. And then we make money out of it. You sell it for what? $10 as a discount? We value that $2 million. Does anybody have any idea...
like how they launder money through NFTs. Can you talk about that at all? I don't really know. I just know that they do that. I don't understand the logistics of how because like you still have to have a trail of like how did you buy that? You got to like buy the Bitcoin and then you got to like
do the nft but you have to convert that ethereum of income to buy the crypto no i don't think you have to do that with really any cryptos yeah but you still gotta as long as you have the money the cash has to end up somewhere so you gotta buy you gotta trade the cash for crypto but how do you do that like i can understand like how money laundering through like a
I don't know, like a laundromat or something works or a gas station. I think the laundry and money laundering doesn't have to do with a laundromat. That's very common because it's a cash-based business. They don't do car washes or laundromats. That's where the term money laundering came from because they use laundromats. I just got mobster educated. My bad, dude.
uh the one of one of the most successful mobsters i can't remember the guy's name but what he did was bought a bunch of gas stations and was just charging tax on this gas which wasn't real tax and that's how they were laundering like hundreds and millions of dollars
No idea. That was a terrible explanation now, but I know like gas stations with like gas tax. Oh yeah. I think I remember it was like a Netflix show or something. Yeah. Imagine having so much money. You got to figure out how to launder it. What a weird problem, dude. Imagine having that much cash. It's pretty useless. It is kind of useless in this day and age. I know a lot of drug, aren't a lot of drug dealers using Venmo and can't you just transfer like Venmo? That'd be sketchy. Cause that, that's still like a super long paper trail.
They'll find you normally unless you're really good. Yeah, that seems sketchy. Pay your taxes. Go to church. Don't money launder. Not financial financial advice. Not a certified financial advisor. Yeah. So, Ryan, you went to put your exhaust on a couple days ago. This is a pretty funny story. God.
Are you, like, trying to get, like, a re-up, a third rendition of the Dummy Zone shirt with your latest stunt? No, dude. I just... Was it an accident, or were you just doing this because you wanted the attention? I don't even know. Like, I don't know how someone manages to do this. Okay.
I have noticed this in other parts of my life. I am lazy. And in my laziness, I make more work for myself. Because you don't think. Because I rush through it. I'm like, I don't want to lay all the exhaust out. So then I end up. Nowhere to cut it. So what I did. You're putting exhaust on your TRX. I'm putting exhaust on my TRX. And the bolts weren't really coming out. It was all tight. And I go, screw this, guys. Let's go get the Sawzall.
So we get the saws on. I start cutting. And I go, well, yeah. So I start at the back and chop it all up and go, you know, start throwing it out the door. And I get it all taken off, get up to the cats, and I go, okay, I bought a cat-back exhaust, so I better stop here. I go to put on all the new exhaust, and I realize that I was supposed to include the factory pipes from the cat to the X-pipe.
So there was like the mid pipe. There was about six feet of exhaust that I cut off that I did not get with my exhaust kit. And I had just a big sawzall mark. You legitimately straight piped your car. Yes. On accident. Accidentally straight piping my TRX. So dumb. But get to the best part. Yeah. So I put all the exhaust on.
hammer it together and i'm like oh my gosh this is so dumb i fit all the pipes up so there's literally just like a slash through my exhaust where it's supposed to be so it sounds like a freaking truck with an exhaust like i have a video of me sitting in traffic silverado just top in the high school parking lot yeah this sounds pretty good what do you mean when you would accelerated like clap
Yeah, it was so bad. And I have a video of me sitting in traffic and you can hear it reverberating off the car next to me. Just sounding like crap. And you're just revving it. Yeah, just revving it. So I realized I'm going to have to get this welded. So I call the exhaust shop. And I didn't really know. I called a couple places, like more professional places. And they're like, sure, we'll get you in in three months.
I was like, oh, I can't wait till then. So I end up working down the list and get to sketchier and sketchier muffler shops that I have seen. Probably going to get a better price on it too. Oh, I did. I'll tell you how much it was. So I call and the guy goes, oh yeah, you know, I explained to him what happened. I go, yeah, I bought exhaust from my truck, but I accidentally cut the wrong piece. So I need this piece welded together. He goes, okay, yeah, yeah, no problem. We can do that. It's going to be 25 bucks. I'm like, Jesus. Okay, cool. Yep.
That's almost when you get worried. I was a little bit worried, to be honest. And so he goes, so what year is it? And I go, oh, it's a 2021. And he goes, no, what year is the vehicle? And I was confused. I go, it's a 2021. He goes, oh, I thought you were talking about what year is it today? It's a 2021? Oh, okay. I go, yeah, it's a Ram TRX. He's probably pretty confused. I go, it's a Ram TRX. And he goes, long pause. He goes, okay.
Okay, yep. We should be able to get that. He's like, man, we really got a genius coming in here later.
The whole staff is like, oh, I got to come in to see this guy. They're taking bets on what you're going to look like. Dude, I feel like such an idiot. So I pull up to this place and hop out, and I got my girlfriend's dog with me. I got a little golden doodle on the whole thing. Oh, my God. Freaking out. And I'm like, yep, here's the spot where it is. Weld it up. And he's like, all right, it's going to be $25. Should take me about 30 minutes. I go, all right, sounds good. My daddy should come through to pay that bill.
Ryan walks up. Holding my little puppy. Got a pink leash. I was like, oh, my God. And as I sat there, the guy came in. He was like, yep, I also tightened up all the clamps. They were really loose. So I got that all tightened up to make sure, you know, keep watching on those. But should be good to go. So now I don't have an exhaust leak. Nice guy. $25, too. You get under there and you find out he just did, like, the Bondo around. He taped it up or something like that.
gasket maker gasket maker yeah it's quiet who cares yeah i mean it sounds good i i tested it and it seems to be good but it is nice now have an exhaust i feel like a real truck asshole now yeah but it actually does it fits the truck more because it was so fast but it was so quiet
So it was nice to be able to hear the engine a little bit. So it's interesting after last video, I was reading the comments and, uh, a lot of people were just saying like, you guys just like, I don't care what you do. Like there was so many like this. I don't care what you do. Like, just like film. Like if you're just doing stuff in the shop, whatever, like yada, yada, yada. And like to us, we're always kind of like, ah, it seems kind of boring, slow, whatever. So we, we normally cut most of it or don't even bother filming at all. Um,
I'm just curious, you know, like if we should try showing more of that. But obviously it's just not going to be a typical Seaboys TV video. But we would totally be able to make more of them. I don't know. That's tough because, yeah, I think a lot of people would find it more interesting. But for how long? It would also like limit. Yeah, I agree. I think they'd get sick of it eventually. And I think...
at least for me and you, we would understand this is like, even when we drop a video that we're like, not so proud of, it's like, we just call them like base hits. Like, yeah, it's a base hit. You know, it's not a banger, but it's a base hit. Like that's,
That's like the hardest part is being just like keeping ourselves excited about what we're filming because we've done so much at this point. But it's like, yeah, people might be more intrigued to see it, but if we're not super excited about it, then yeah. But I mean, you put yourself aside if people want to see that, but that's the podcast. Like, yeah. And that might be a different channel. Like that might just be like a garage channel or something like that. I think like,
our videos are so refined and they have such a style to them. It's like, why switch it up now? Doing us a disservice realistically because then it's like if you are new and you come across the channel and then it's like a slower video, you might be opted to not. You don't understand. You kind of want to keep it consistent of what you're going to get when you click on our video, you know, and that's what we do.
Have been at least trying to do. Like, I mean, I'd just be interested, I guess. Obviously, the people that watch the podcast will pretty much watch anything. Yeah, those are like... That we put out there, our diehard fans. Yeah. Subscribers, yeah. So, I guess I would ask, but I'd be curious, you know, drop it in the comments. It's really fun reading the comments on, like, the podcast.
It's a lot more. I think there's more... It's like a closer connection. Yeah, there's just... They're more in-depth comments, I guess, you know, rather than just like, this is a great video. You know, it's like... Which I like those as well. Thank you, but it's interesting. They normally have more... Something to say. More critical things to say, yeah. Also with that is...
Wow, I just squeaked. I haven't squeaked in a while. I was doing pretty good, actually. You're just finally damn near out of the woods with puberty. Might get a little bit more dick growth, though. Don't hold your breath, buddy. Yeah, I'm joking. I think we're in such a weird...
uh like when the camera comes on it's like we're doing something for the camera or we're explaining something or or um you know showcasing something whether it's entertaining or explanation something like that right so it's like somebody comes around well not somebody one of us comes around with the camera and you're just like showing it it's like kind of
It's like breaking that mold of what we're used to doing, too, which also might affect how we act when we're not doing that. I don't know if it would help or hurt it, but...
It would just be such a different style and format. You know what I'm saying? I was kind of just asking, I guess, because I saw it so many times and figured maybe we could explain it. Well, dude, the thing is, though, is we do everything. We do so many random things. And that's the videos. We just make it entertaining. I was going to say maybe the answer is to try and slow it down slightly. Just pull it back a tiny bit, slow it down.
not be as critical with like the cuts but that that'd just be the only thing i'd say we could maybe do one thing i wonder about it's like you get a piece of pizza and you eat the piece of pizza and you go wow that was really good that's all the pizza you get you want more pizza then you get a full pizza and you have to eat the entire thing about halfway through you're like there's a lot of pizza i don't want all this pizza it's like that with the video when you get the
that ran through version where everything is just the best and it's funny and you're, you're hitting all the points. You're like, that was great. I want more.
and when you when you guys watch it you're like that that was good i enjoyed every minute of it but if we started slowing it down and putting in lots of these things that a lot of people wouldn't find interesting do you watch the video and you lean back and go right i'm glad that's over i'm good yeah no i agree with that i'm not saying throw everything in but no definitely not but i mean that's like a do they at that point do they click through it faster do they skip parts and yeah i mean that is about everything like off i think
I think ours is a pretty good mix of both, though. Yeah. But it's like, I don't know, dude. We've been doing it for so long, and our style literally has not changed in like four years. It's definitely evolved. No, it's 100% evolved, but it's all very similar. Yeah. It's like a better...
crafted version of, you know. It's just constantly getting better and better and better. Yeah. I find. Yeah. But like you guys say, we'd love to hear. What do you guys think? Yeah, that was more so my question. But, I mean, David Dobrik switched up his style. So David Dobrik, who was like the king of vlogging for like four years or three years, I don't know, like a bajillion views, and then got canceled.
And then he took, like, eight months off. And then he came back and he did, like, a couple of the same style vlogs. And then he, like, just completely switched up his format pretty much. I don't know. I honestly, I was so used to his old format. I was that guy that didn't really like the new format because I liked the old one versus it being, like, refreshing. Mm-hmm.
And my sister thought it was a breath of fresh air. She's like, it's so nice. The switch up. So there's so many different opinions. You get half the people that like it, half the people that don't. I mean, I personally like it. I can't say I've watched many of his new videos, though, since he switched. Ken, you don't even watch YouTube, though. Do you watch any YouTube? Yes, I do. What's the last YouTube video you watched? And you can't say Doug DeMero. That actually was the last video I watched. Come on.
What? Well, that doesn't particularly surprise me. Ken, do you watch our videos? Yeah. Okay. Did you watch... Like, who else do you watch on YouTube? Oh, God. I don't even fucking want to go through it, but... Why? I watch Steve and Nelk and... Speaking of Steve, totally off topic here, but have we told the story of Steve...
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Should we tell the story of Steve? I wish Mike was here. In the last couple of months. Yeah, Mike wants to sit in. Steve, you want to hop in on this one, Steve? So when we were getting our shop remodeled and built, which was like a seven, eight month process, probably around then, there was two guys working on our shop, Dan and Steve, and they were just beauties. Great guys. Anyways. And Jeff. Then there was Jeff as well. He wasn't here as much. He was here probably half as much. But he was like the drywaller, and he would kind of work on his own.
Anyways, we go and we're checking out this house that's getting just down the way that's being remodeled. They had the whole thing gutted. And just Jeff is there. And we're in there. We're walking around. And we got to know the three pretty well. Yeah, we got to know them pretty well. We'd bullshit with them, talk with them. You know, we'd see them every day. Yeah. Anyways, so we go and we tour this house. And it's a really nice and all that. Anyways, Jeff is there. He's just kind of standing there in the kitchen. And we're about to walk out. And I see Ben and Mike are kind of like...
whispering to each other and like chuckling. I'm like, huh, I wonder what they're talking about. And then I keep walking. And then right after that, Mike just walks up and goes, and, and keep in mind the guy in the, that we've spent the last eight months with name is Jeff standing right next to us. Mike goes, see Steve walks out. No, no, no. I literally like salute him.
see you Steve. And like you said, like eye contact and all. eye contact and everything. He like doesn't say anything and I just, I thought that you guys, that you were like, yeah, you should call him Steve. That'd be funny. And we walk out and I go, why'd you say that? That was, that wasn't funny at all. And he goes, what do you mean? I go, you called Jeff Steve. And Mike goes, and,
And everyone bursts out laughing. Bursts out laughing. Meanwhile, we look over and Jeff is hopping in his pickup and he like tears out of there. Slams it like he was pissed. I don't know if he was pissed. I don't think he was. But it looked like he was. So ever since then, we've just been calling everyone Steve. Actually, everyone Steve. You're Steve. He's Steve. He's Steve. He's Steve. It's pretty confusing around the shop because I'll be in my office or whatever and then I'll hear one of these guys yell, Hey, Steve! Hey, Steve!
And I don't know if they're calling for me, Ken, Ryan. Well, that's the nice part is everyone, you basically, you get everyone's attention. It's like a corral of all of us. I've started ignoring it because I get so annoyed when I go, well, what do you want? And then you go, not you, Steve, other Steve. Well, it worked for a while.
I did the same thing. I was like, I kind of started ignoring it. Also, based on the way you say it, I can tell if you're talking to Ken or me. Steven. That's true. Steven's Ken. So it's Steve, Steven. I call my girlfriend Stevie. See you, Stevie. So yeah, now the actual Steve is kind of a legend.
Right. Dan and Steve, the one that was working on our shop. Steve, he's the best. And then Jeff this summer gave me – now he plays into it. I can call him Steve freely, and he laughs. Yeah.
He gave me like a sandwich just with the two butt ends of the bread and then just butter in the middle. And then he's like, to Mike from Steve. I still don't understand the context of that. Well, it's just a shitty sandwich. Yeah, it's just like, ah-ha-ha, thanks for calling me Steve. Oh, okay. Stupid ad. Yeah, and then... You just don't get it, dude, do you? He's just...
He hasn't lived enough life. That's the problem. I'm a 2000s baby, right? Those kids, they're just different. They're just different. You know, they don't make them like they used to. I don't know. You know, it's for sure. Dude, talk about, oh my gosh, man. But yeah, I mean, when you're talking about like, Hey man, you're the Dan to my Steve.
We have created quite a meme out of that crew. It's such a meme, and we talk about that a lot. Do other friend groups just make memes out of people? Because we pretty much got a revolving door of characters in our life that we just turn into memes behind the scenes. We have so many behind-the-scenes jokes. Editing last video, I couldn't put...
90% of that 95 99% of them in because no one would get it. But the whole time we're laughing about it. We're chuckling about the whole time. We're going to chop this tree down. But it's like, if I put this in the video, no one is going to get it. There's going to be like, what? That makes no sense. But like, we have so much just like,
Just layers and layers of just jokes that no one else would get. Just inside memes, dude. Yeah, inside jokes. Our life is a massive inside meme. Yeah.
It's just a big inside joke. Yeah. It's like for the record, it is called inside joke, but we kind of twist it into like memeing people. We have plenty of inside jokes as well, but it always revolves around a certain person that we all find really funny or peculiar or something. It's when they just slip up one time and one of us happens to notice it and then we mention it to the other. And they also notice it. We also notice it and then it's like, oh shit, I'm sorry.
They're mean. But, yeah, some people listening to this shaking their boots right now. No, I think most of the time, like 90% of the time, we're just strictly just giggling about it. We love them more for it, dude. They're so stupid, dude. Like, the jokes are so stupid. I thought you were talking about the people. No, no, no. No, like, the joke is so stupid. Like, if you try to explain to someone, they wouldn't get it. But it's just like...
We just have that chemistry. I'm sure everyone, there's probably a lot of people watching that. They have their friend group and they're just, I don't know, it's just the best. Just chuckling the whole day. When I was at deer camp a couple weeks ago, we were out at the bar that night. We met this one guy who was seriously just a meme. He was a walking meme. And we just made such a joke out of it. And we went home and all of us are crying, laughing about Jack and everything.
I get to the shop on Monday, and I'm like, I sit everyone down. I'm like, you guys will not believe what happened to me this weekend. I give them the whole story. I tell them about Jack.
Not even a chuckle. They didn't understand it in the slightest. I was like, you got to be there. You guys just don't get it. Yeah. You have to be there. Yeah. That's one of those things that's going to come with age. Just knowing, you know, like, hey, this is a joke that, you know, you had to be there. So I'm not going to waste telling other people's time. I wasted you guys' time. Then you start doubting your... No. Because then you... Like, I've done plenty of times. Right after you do that, you're doubting yourself. Like, was it that funny? Like, I don't know. Am I not funny? Like, what...
God, that was stupid. Why did I say that? What's a good meme? Like, we got to have a... I was trying to think of an example that we could explain in the next three minutes. We just have so many. They just cover... I was going to say, okay, so this... You know, correct me if I'm overstepping some turf here, but I'm just going to say it. We kind of made... Because we equally memed ourselves in this situation, the meme with...
I don't know if we can talk about it. Can we talk about that? I don't know. I didn't mean... I get where you're at, but I just want to... I wonder if we can think of another one. We just had to cut a whole bunch out because it literally would not make sense. We were just going back and forth trying to figure it out. It would be like a joke that isn't funny. You have to be there. We don't want to do that to ourselves. It's interesting. I think there's a lot of friend groups that have that.
Do you guys see, and I don't know if this is true or not, but the deal with Danny Duncan now. Bro, fucking Aaron Sunhat K. He's like, bro, you're supposed to pay attention to me. You're supposed to pay attention to me. It's a serious thing, and who knows if it's all real. I'm not taking sides, but fuck, dude. Now it's like he's got all these girls coming out against him. Not necessarily saying...
That he, like, assaulted them unwillingly or anything like that. But it's like, they're just underage girls that he was, like, talking to and maybe doing things he shouldn't do with. Yeah. And with, like, Sun Hat Kid, he was able to respond. Right. But with this, like, how do you respond? Dude, it's just like, you... He opened up that door and now fucking...
the floodgates are open. It's just like a fucking domino effect now. Sun Hat Kid was the wooden horse to get through the Trojan horse. Dude, he's got a... Anyone else that has an issue with Danny Duncan is like, now they're coming out, hopping out. And I'm not defending... I don't know if it's true. I don't know if any of that stuff... If it is true, that's wrong. You know, you can't fucking talk to underage girls. That's fucked up. But...
But, yeah, I don't know. I just keep chuckling to myself that fucking Sun Hat Kid. Trojan horse. Yeah, man. It is. That kid. Dude. Man, Danny Duncan's got to hate him so much. I'm sure. And, you know, like, Sun Hat Kid, now it's like he is just a thing of the past. It's all these new stories. I'm sure he's sitting over there like, hey, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm supposed to be the main story here. Yeah. Not these people. What about me? Yeah. They're like, oh, yeah, we don't care about you anymore. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know, though. It's interesting because I feel like there's, like – it's just, like – and you don't know, like –
How many are true? How many are not true? And I'm sure, you know, just with situations across the board, with previous things that have happened with different people, it's like, I'm sure there was a lot of people that were, you know, being honest. And then there's also people that just want to get some clout or try to get some money or whatever. And then they come out with allegations or they're just fucking crazy. You know, like it's just a thing with being a celebrity. You can't slip up.
Yeah. And especially doing something like that. That's fucked up. Which I'm not saying did it. Who knows if it's true. But the allegations. Yeah. It's not sounding good in general. Don't be a bad person. But goes back to last podcast. Shit gets. Yeah. Yeah. Just don't be a bad guy. It's also like people love to watch the downfall. Watch the downfall, too. Yeah. Yeah.
That's true. I mean, if you're actually a piece of shit and you did something wrong, then it's justified. But it's like there's so many people that are just they're just praying that you fail. And then there's also people that are like, let's say you're not a Danny fan, but you literally don't pursue him. But then all of a sudden you hear about that and then you take the.
You take everybody else's side, the hater side. You know, like you might not be that big of a fan, but you also don't really like watch them or whatever. And then you hear about that and you're like, yeah. And then you hop on the hater side. That's when... Yeah. I agree that people love to watch a downfall. And I believe that drives a lot of it. But that being said, like...
That doesn't excuse that someone should be let off for a certain type of behavior. Whether you like to watch a downfall and that's why it came out, you can't let the people love to watch a downfall be the narrative of why someone came out. And you know that these girls that this happened to aren't doing it for clout.
You know, maybe some of them see and then now they're like, dang, someone else spoke out. And like now I feel empowered to speak up. Because I'm sure it happens to people and you'd be scared. Yeah. You know what I mean? You think when something bad happens to you, you're like, oh, wow, I don't want to say anything. But then someone else does. Who knows? Yeah. Exactly. So, I mean, it's really just like a sad thing.
situation that I mean it's not for us to know exactly like you know obviously we gotta stay neutral because obviously we're not the judge we don't know the facts so exactly just know what what has been you know came out and what has allegedly been said and happened or whatever yeah dude imagine being those chicks though going against like
A cult army. Right, yeah, because he's got a diehard fan base. Yeah. Yeah, that's a terrible thing. You can't defend either side if you don't know the facts. Yeah, I agree. I feel like you've got to stay neutral and shit like that. I mean, at least until the fucking facts come out. More facts, you know? Yeah, I wonder if...
in that situation or any of those situations, if they get a lot of DMs from said diehard fans. They do. They do. They get like, oh, I'm sure so much hate, so many threats and people defending Danny because they think Danny's right and they think these chicks are just lying and they're, you know, I don't know. Right. So if they're not lying though, imagine like how much that would suck is you just got like an entire fan base just coming after you.
When you're technically in the right. You've already been through. Yeah. On lighter, on a lighter subject, back to the meme. I have a good example of this now. Gary Vee. Granted, I think Gary Vee is a national meme at this point.
But, dude, we have this one joke between, it's mostly me, Ryan, and Mike. CJ mostly doesn't understand our memes, our inside memes. I get it. I mean, it's just like those weren't super. It's just silly, that's all. But there's this TikTok of Gary V gone, or this dude imitating Gary V. Which is basically memeing Gary V. He's the original memer of Gary V. And he goes, but are you happy?
And it's just like a whole bunch of other. But we thought that was the funniest line is when he goes, but are you happy? So when Mike's will just be talking and I'll just go silent. I'll just go, but are you happy in the Gary V voice? I think it's just funny that you guys done it literally a hundred. I didn't think it was as funny as you guys. Obviously out the gate. I was just like, yeah, it's pretty funny. Like that sounds exactly like Gary. Yeah.
But that is a good example. It's just like when you find something about a person that you find funny, and it's not a flaw. It's not like you're making fun of them. No, it's just like. But you find it funny, and then you just take that character trait of that person and exaggerate it. And then that is what they become. I feel like if there's someone in our lives or area that we end up memeing,
It makes us like them more. Yeah, exactly. Every time. We're more opted to want to hang out with them. We just think higher of them. If you have a nickname in our group, you are in. You're in. If you get nicknamed, just consider yourself good. The best are the people who are hilarious to us.
But they don't, they're not trying to be funny. They're just doing their life. Yeah. That's the way to, that's the best way to put it. Like Ken, you are a fucking comedian. You don't even know it. You don't even have to try. Like the way you're sitting right now. And I wish that, you know, people could see it back here. But I just wish that the subscribers would appreciate Ken as much as we appreciate him. Because I know, actually I'd say like it's like a half-half thing. But.
Still makes me kind of mad when people are like talking shit. Some people just don't get it. They just don't get it. They think that he's a cranky man all the time and that's just not true. Only partly. I mean, what would you guys do if you had to make YouTube videos with Ben?
But no, that's not the case. And he is genuinely very funny. So funny. So entertaining. You guys wouldn't know who this is, but we got a buddy named Slick Rick. Oh, dude, I was literally going to say Slick Rick. Hilarious. Hilarious. So funny. He's got a nickname. And every time we go, dude, Slick, you got to come over, bro, and film with us. You're so funny. The world would love you. I don't know about that. I don't know how the wife would feel about that.
I stand behind the camera with you guys, but I don't want to be in front of it. He's like the most Minnesotan guy ever with his freaking fur coat. I'd love to get slick and slim together. I think that'd be pretty good. That'd be amazing. It'd be a great collab. Two similar names, too, even. Yeah, seriously. So we've been talking about this basically since we went to Florida, but... I've been saying it for a long time. Yeah, you have been saying it for a long time. I think we're ready to go.
buy some land or something somewhere else and uh like commute back and forth you know maybe a week here three weeks there during the winter or two weeks here two weeks there in the winter just like that'd be the way to do it somewhere warm just switch things up i mean we wouldn't like stop doing you know winter winter winter content or anything like that because i think you
you know, obviously a large majority of our fan bases from the Midwest. And that's, they, they love that. We do that like change with the seasons. And I do too. It changes the content. You wouldn't feel deprived of it. It would just open us up to more. It would give us more possibilities because oftentimes, I mean, when we get into the dead of winter, you know, it's end of January when it's 30 below and we like,
Dude, you can't do much when it's 30 below. Your car barely even starts. Your camera won't work. GoPro's dying. GoPro's won't work, yeah. It's so hard on you. You can't really stand outside to film. People aren't excited about it. It's just like, I don't know. It kills the vibe. It kills the vibe. So we've been talking about maybe...
a piece of land or a compound or something like that in Florida or even... Florida, I think, is the place. Florida, Texas, somewhere warm. Florida is the move, I think. When we went to Florida, it was like, dude, you're close to the ocean. Florida is our kind of people. I feel like Florida people, and it's like a known thing, they just don't give a fuck. And there's a lot of YouTubers that come from Florida because you're kind of surrounded by that environment. I don't think we would really collab with many.
No, no. It would just be, we'd just be doing our same thing, except it would be like summer, you know? How dope would it be to be here filming a snowmobile video? And then we go to the other compound in Florida and we can film a video that we would do in the summer, except it's December, you know? Because it's like, I might have an idea or whoever has an idea and they're like, oh, like this would be a great idea. We should do this. Well, we got to wait.
Because of the weather. You know, and it's like, all right, so we got to wait six months. Or in a sense, it like closes your mindset because we don't come up with video ideas to do in the summer, in the winter. Why would we? We couldn't do them. Dude, when we went to our Florida video, it's titled the 1,000 Horsepower Racer, which has like Ken's race in it, us going to Florida. The vibes were just high. It was just fun. The entire time. Because like it was just, we were just, it was easy to like be outside and like, you know.
It was fresh. It was refreshing. Definitely. I love it. Well, that's why it'd be... From a personal opinion, I think it'd be hard to say, like, wouldn't do much collabing because that whole video was like a collab. I mean, no, I'm not saying that. It's not like we're moving to Florida to collab. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. That was my point. Yeah, definitely. But Florida would be sick. CJ has been saying this for a long time. Obviously...
None of us are like, that would be lame. I guess I've always agreed too. I just wasn't gung-ho about it. My favorite thing was when Ben, as soon as Ben got sick, right in the thickness of your sickness, you were like, screw this. Let's buy land wherever. I don't care. Mexico, Texas. No, actually though, it kind of all just hit me at once. Dude, I used to be that kid that when I was growing up,
I this was like my place and I don't ever want to leave it. And granted, I still love it here. But I think we've gotten to a point where we've seen so many different places when I come back here and I and I can see the environment that I was like raised in now that I live in. It's not as enticing and it's not as exciting to me as it used to be because now I'm old enough to
to know that I don't want to be stuck here for the rest of my life, surrounded with these people. And granted, a lot of the locals are our friends and they're good to hang out with. And we have like, you know, a lot of great people around us. But there's also a lot of people that just, they just suck and they're just drained. They just drain the life out of you. And you see it, especially when everyone leaves for the summer.
And it's just like you and the locals here in the winter and you go out to the same bars every single day and you see the same people. And it's just like, I know now that I don't want to be a local. Like, I don't like...
You know what I'm saying though? Is like, dude, we have like three places to go to eat. I mean, I, I would say, I mean, I, I understand what you're saying. I would say I'm on the opposite page. I, I'm, I love it here, dude. Like I love, I'm proud to be a local and like be the lakes, you know, this, I think this is the greatest place to be in the summer, the fall. But I just think for content purposes and whatnot, it just would open us up to doing more
more things. Yeah, but it's like, yeah, but we're also not, if we're just staying here, I don't think we're like evolving or changing. No, I'm not saying we stay here. I think that
I'm just disagreeing on saying that you're not proud to be a local. I'm not saying I'm not proud to be a local. I'm just saying I don't want to be a local for the next 70 years of my life just living here, seeing the exact same people going to the same places every single day. I don't know. I feel like there's so much more to life than that. Now that we're in the position that we are, that...
It makes sense to go somewhere else or experience more. I don't know. I think just having more options, just not...
being here all the time and i walked into the bar the other day and i was we were talking about we were like yeah if we got like a place you know spend a week there come back or travel or do things like that and this lady over one of the local ladies overheard me saying that and she turned around she goes you're so full of shit like just like dreaming like like right i mean dreaming bigger than than cormorant i think what you're saying is and the locals
Like, a lot of them, they just are like, why would you do that? Well, I'm just trying to say I agree with you on that. Like, there is certain people. But there is certain people that just are like that everywhere. But they have, like...
I wouldn't say a lot of them. I'd just say there's certain people around that have smaller mindsets. So you're just trying to get out of that small town mindset is what you're saying. But you don't have that. You're not stuck in a small town. You don't have that small town mindset. No, I don't. But I also don't want to be... I don't want to be...
Constantly surrounded by that. I agree. I just didn't want you... I guess I was just saying I don't agree with the not proud to be a local part. And I like a lot of the people. Well, I do too. I know. I like a lot of the people too, obviously. But then there's mostly just the older crowd and shit. And it's like, you see that and I just know that I don't want that.
I'm just trying to defend you because I don't want this to come off the wrong way. Maybe 2% of the people. But everywhere you go, Ben, there's going to be people that you don't like. But yeah, I just didn't want it to come off the wrong way. I'm not saying it's like our friends. Obviously, the guys that we go out and we talk to at the bars and shit. It's more along the lines of like...
everyone else. Well, you get that everywhere. You could literally be in. I'm not saying that's why I'm not saying the people are why. Okay. That's what you just said. You just said why? That's why I'm disagreeing with you. Yeah. Yeah. That's that. I like the people around here. All of them.
I mean, I don't have a problem with any of them. I like them all, I'd say. I don't either. No, it's just like there's the few. I remember, for example... You just don't like the haters. Smaller scale, like when I left, when I was done car detailing, most of them are... They're happy. They're like, cool, you know, we'll see you around. And then you get a few that are like, really? Going to a new job? Like, they were so butthurt that I was like quitting. I'm like, I don't like it here just as much as you don't like it here. And so it's like...
It's maybe those people. So what you're saying is you don't like, you just are trying to avoid people with small mindsets. Yeah, I don't even know if I would, I wouldn't even say that. I wouldn't put a title on it. I think that comes down to two, like think. Your parents have lived here for a long time. My parents, you don't see...
your parents or my parents at the bar every night we go out to eat because it's like our escape we get here at well and we don't eat to 9 a.m and we don't like to cook but like we get here at 8 to 9 p.m we work till 8 and then we rush to the nearest restaurant before the kitchen closes because there's no one here and the kitchen closes early and we eat at one of those few places so that's where you catch those people that are gonna go you know they they say those type of things because
They might be a bit unhappy, but there's tons of people around here that have wildly successful businesses and wildly successful things that they do and are quality people. But sometimes you just don't always see those people, which is what I feel like you run into everywhere. You can go to Florida and you could be right off the beach or in one of the highest income areas. There's just negative people everywhere. Yeah, you're going to run into some lady and you're talking about how you want to
Buy a house. Start a new business. Start a new business. And she goes, oh, no, that's dumb. I feel like you run into people like that everywhere. I agree with that. I think cutting negative people out of your life is a big thing. I just don't fuck with negative people. I like positivity. Even if they're not necessarily in your life. I'm saying a lot of these people are hardly acquaintances. Some of the small-minded people around us.
I'd say that we'd be like part-time snowbirds would be what I would call us. Like we leave in the winter when it's not snowing.
necessarily a great time to be outside because we film outside. And then we go to Florida cause it's a great place to be outside. And it's also a lot of fun. Florida's got a lot of new stuff and different stuff that we can do to make new videos, new video ideas. What has been nice for me to see how you've been is cause you know, we've been friends for some years and, and I've been fortunate to do quite a bit of traveling with my dad to Florida and, and,
And seeing things. And I was always like, oh, I just, you know, I'm excited to go places. And every time you were always most excited to come home, which I can appreciate. But now that we've started going to some places that really like are cool, say Utah or Florida, or even we were kind of all the juries out on California. But I mean, you know, different places like that where you go, man, I really like these places for what they're worth. It's been cool to see you grow and be like, you know what?
Maybe Big Cormorant isn't the only lake I can live on. Maybe I could live on stuff like that. That is very true. I used to always be equally as excited to come home halfway through the trip as I was to go there, which is good. Don't get me wrong. I still love it here. I'm just...
To a point where I know that this isn't the only place in the world that we could... Thrive. Thrive and be happy. Are you? And, yeah, I don't know, dude. It's just like we're in such an interesting position to be able to do this, to be able to even...
talk about buying a piece of property or a house or something like that in Florida right now at the age we are and things like that.
And mostly like the work that we can do, like most people when they do that, like they just have to retire and then they do that. Whereas we can like, well, you can, our business, our business will only get better and bigger and more entertaining if we do that. Yeah. It'd be a nice element to the videos, you know? Totally. Yeah. And before, before I honestly just didn't have the mindset to want to even, to want to even accept that because I thought it was,
you know, just outlandish. And this was the best place in the world. Yeah. And we were like a little bit of a prideful stay true to your brand thing. I don't know. I'm still staying true. No, no, no. I'm, I guess we were the whole reason we never entertained the idea more was because we were just like,
You know, we weren't worried that our content would go to complete shit, but we were like, no, we got to... Cameron is where we make our best content, blah, blah, blah. But no, you're right. I think... And the best part about it is now is a better time than any. I think we can make it everywhere. Yeah, that's the way to say it. I think we could. Not California. Just not California. Fuck that place. We did not like California. I'll say it again, though. I loved California. I also agree that we couldn't make it in California. Mike, that's because you like Joe Biden. Joe Biden.
Just kidding, just kidding. Does he live in California? Yeah. No, it's just his favorite state. Everyone there loves him. Gas is reached $4.50 a gallon. Do you ever think that would happen? The only thing that I will say is none of us ever want to leave here in the summer. We could never beat it. Someone could be like, hey, come to freaking Dubai. We're like, oh, sorry, it's...
It's July. It's July. Dude, you just can't. You can't beat it. I've never understood when people take vacations during the summer months when you live here. It's like, why? This is the place to vacation, too. Yeah. But you want to know something that is nice, though, Ben, about, like, the small town and everything is just like we walk in and everyone knows your name. Sound like that.
that sitcom from the nineties. Everyone knows, you know, I don't know. What show is that? What show is that? Cheers? Wouldn't know. You wouldn't know. But, uh, uh, it's like where everyone knows your name. But anyways, um, calm down. Well, if you know what that is, uh,
It's just nice walking in. Everyone knows your name. And hi, you know everyone on a first-name basis. It's just, I don't know. There is a nice community in that. And I really like that. But, yeah, I agree. I think just Florida is going to really open up our playbook.
So Florida then? Florida, I think. I know, Mike, you want to go to Cali. No, no, no, no. I don't want to. Listen, Mike, you can go to Cali. Ken will go to Antarctica. We'll all go to Florida. Well, we still got a fun place. That's true. I'm not married to the idea of Florida either. Hawaii it is. I am. I don't think we could do it in Hawaii. I don't think we could afford Hawaii. Florida's got cheap flights. Land is like in excess. People don't seem to give a fuck around there just like here.
It's nice. Also, they don't have taxes. It wouldn't affect us. Which, yeah, true. But I don't know. I feel like Florida is our best spot. Where else would you think? I don't know. I don't know. That's the thing. It's like...
consider myself open for the first time ever. I feel like this one... To just exploring and finding other places and I don't know. Yeah, well, let's keep going around and checking it out. I feel like this wouldn't happen until like next fall though. Yeah, it'd probably be a year out. It'd be pretty pointless to do it now because it's, you know, pretty deep into the thick of it. Yep, and...
Who even, you know, yeah. Who knows? I just wanted to say that because people are like, when are you guys doing this? You know, I didn't want to add a little bit of a timeline to it. Just talking about the idea of it. Yeah. It's definitely became more serious in the last week. Yeah. Which I'm very happy about. Florida is actually pretty reasonable price wise. Yeah. Yeah. Especially dude coming from around here. I don't know if the rest of the United States is like this, but like where we live,
it's such a like booming market for real estate right now because of the lakes area so it's like dude i i want to buy a house in the next six months i can't find a house for under like six hundred thousand dollars that's like livable year round yeah you can't even live in it year round right and um if it's on the lake yeah if it's on a lake yeah and uh
You go to Florida and $600,000 could get you quite a bit. Right now, who knows if we wait for a while. We were looking, dude. There's like five acres and like decent houses. We'd all just like find a house, five rooms, maybe four, and then Ken and Mike would bunk it up, bunk beds. Why would we be doing that again? You nodded your head like, yeah. I'm thinking of cousins and stuff.
No, no. Ben's too gassy for me. Both fart in your sleep. Both would be stinking of that room. We'll get installed some special vent fan for you guys and we'll call it a day. You guys have an exhaust fan in your bedroom? It's a backwards air conditioner. So it's taking air from inside the room and pushing it out. Yeah, yeah. Like an exhaust fan. And then the vent goes into Ken's room.
That would suck so bad. And you guys make it like ass-double. Okay, then I'm down with bunking with Ben. Do you have a vent system that vents into Ken's room? That'd be fucking hilarious. Ken is sitting back there shaking his head. Mike, that's your room too. I don't know. I wouldn't be sharing a room anymore. No, you can still sit together. You're still bunk beds. We're getting a three-bedroom. And then you're going to be race car bunk beds. Ooh.
Yeah, we do that. It's a deal. Well, that was fun. Yeah. That was a good time. I think we're good on today. We got to go film this video. Oh, yeah. We get to go film this video, which is going to be fun. Anyways, subscribe. We are almost to 100,000 subscribers. Going to get another play button, hopefully, if we can manage to scrape that.
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