Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Answering YOUR Questions With Our Best Advice

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

In today's episode the boys reflect on the 2023 meme calendar, Ken's potentially haunted house, limiting phone use around your friends, the 6 P’s, gamifying health, doomsday prepping, and finally a few of you called in and we give you the best life advice we can. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/wideopen and get on your way to being your best self  Get a $3 trial set at https://www.harrys.com/wideopen Get 50% off your first week at https://www.cookunity.com/wideopen or use code WIDEOPEN at checkout  Follow us on Instagram @cboystv and @lifewideopenpodcast To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do you feel about building on those grounds that are haunted? Just get rid of what's there and then start fresh. I don't think that's how ghosts work. Those things are super dangerous. Oh, damn. She's on it right now! Oh, my gosh. It says, okay, this is a sticky one.

Oh. Yo, we're going to let the mic hand out. This one. Punch him in the face. Next one. What up, guys? Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. What are we, number 106 on this one.

It's a Saturday right now. The Vikings just played. They just lost. How many podcasts that started out like that? It's tough. Fresh off of a loss. Just getting that out of the way. Cracking the last Tony in existence.

Is it really? Yeah, I was running. Where did you find that thing? Well, Ryan actually found them, but in a cooler, like, from the summer. So they might be a little. They're skunked, but when Tony's skunk, they ferment because the alcohol is from sugar. So they get stronger. Like, I bet you that thing's running at least 11% right now.

Really? Yeah. No, they get the job. Don. The story is only one. The story behind the Tony's is, uh, there's a TikToker. His name is two turn Tony. Shout out two turn.

And, uh, he sent us an entire palette of his drink, two turn Tony teased. And, uh, they lasted us. You would think that an entire palette, it was 204 cases would last, long time. Didn't. No, I think we blew it through. I mean, we were pretty cavalier about giving them away because we wanted everybody to try it. But what did they make it? Three months?

Yeah, three months, man. And that's the last one. This is the last one in far as I know. I hope you enjoy that. The last melon. I don't know what's happening this winter. There is no winter. I feel like Cindy Lou who in The Grinch, you know,

sing where are you Christmas? That's how I feel right now. And I feel like I'm getting old because I'm like, as a young kid, if it doesn't snow before Christmas, I'm upset. Yeah, for sure. But now I'm just like,

roads are nice. Yeah, I'm not like that mad about it. Obviously, at some point we're going to need snow for the content that we make. But I'm like, if we need snow, like, we'll go west. But we'll get it. It's crazy. Winter came.

The lake's froze. And then fall came back. The lake's unfrozed. They're all unfrozen. So we're going to potentially go surfing on Christmas. I'm so excited. That could be the best Christmas gift that I could ever receive. Half the lake is frozen and half the lake is water.

So the other morning I was coming to work, one half of the lake had a boat on it. There's guys out there fishing in a boat. And then on the other half, there was two guys in a spear house, ice fishing. Dude, fishermen just love to fish. I know. And they love thin ice almost more than us. This is true. It'll be interesting, though, when we take your boat out on Christmas.

Hopefully we don't find any icebergs. I was thinking about that. I was going to ask, oh, are we going to use your boat? It's easier to get out. It probably serves better. But it sounds like he kind of just offered up. I mean, it was your brilliant idea, so I'll let you. Can't argue with that.

I was thinking about this, though. I was playing the side of my head. I was like, okay, so let's just. day, we hit an iceberg in the middle of the lake, the boat goes down. Like, how far are you making it swimming in that water? Like, it's 33 degrees. True. Like, put the life jacket on and you'll just, you'll make it.

Yeah, you'd be fine. You can do an ice bath. How many people lived from the Titanic? I've actually never even seen the movie. I haven't. I haven't either. No. Wow.

Ryan's the only one who's seen the time. It's a long movie. I haven't seen so many classics. Sit down or watching the Titanic tonight, boys. That's what I say, too. I go, okay, so it's kind of like a romantic. They made like a romantic movie. Yeah.

See, that's where I'm not that interested in it. Yeah, hours. 2,200 people and passengers and crew around the Titanic, 7606 survived. Wow. They only had 2,200 people on there. I thought it was more people on that. Ships weren't that big back. Like, a cruise ship today is huge compared to like what the Titanic was.

Yeah. And that was like a big ship back then. How did they survive? Who saved them? They have lifeboats. Is there any people that are like, like you're in the middle of, Yeah, there's, in the middle of like the Antarctic, right? Yeah, but there's, back then it was like the only way to get between the U.S.

and Europe was by boat. It's like there's boats going back and forth all the time. It's kind of like today there's planes going back and forth between the U.S. and Europe all the time, but a boat can stop. So they just called other boats in and then they just sent out a distress signal and took a little bit. Like I wonder how long these people were floating. The Titanic was like at the bottom of the sea by the time they showed up. But that only took like 11 minutes or something ridiculous, right?

Or was that a long sinking? Was it the Edmonds Fitzgerald that sang fast? I don't know. I don't know about that. Was it this year that the whole like Ocean Gate thing happened? Yeah. Yeah. The submarine? Yeah, that was this year.

Man, isn't crazy to think like how much stuff has happened this year? Like how many memes have been born and it just seems like you live like one week at a time for whatever like the whole news is fixated on. Exactly. Can't put the mean. Each year somebody does a meme calendar and then you can keep track. That's. And it's so fun because it takes you back to like,

To like, oh, yeah, I remember when Ocean Gate was a meme. Man, the world moves quick. It does. But, yeah, I love how like it. Okay, January was the cop. That one, classic. Classic. Good start, dude.

This is good. Space balloon. Yeah. Silicon Valley Bank. Bud Light, when Bud Light went down. Gorelock the Destroyer. Man, she was that big of a deal, huh? No, 15, bro.

June makes sense. July. Dude, I haven't even seen that video. I've never seen the full video But I just don't know I just heard in the back That motherfucker is not real Oh yeah I don't know about you

Yeah But that person is not real Yeah she was tweaking dude I feel bad for her Yeah but why was she tweaking? Probably as mental illness Or was on some kind of drugs She was just tweaking

No she just looks like a Karen She was just like No she's well It's funny she looks like one there But I don't think she was on every other She's owning it though She said like a mental breakdown Yeah like

She ended up posting some TikToks And she this newfound fame, and she seemed chill. Oh, that's good. Yeah, she's probably got a PR team. She's got a PR team now. That's like, all right, so here's your 12-month strategy to recover from this. And we have the merch drop going live this Tuesday.

What is August? What is this one? I have no idea with that. I don't know. I don't remember that one. I kind of want to see what's going on there. Zoom in on it, screenshot it, and then go to Google, and then just pop it in and Google. Crazy that you can do that.

Yeah, I use it all the time. Really? I've actually, like, yeah, I've never. really used it but dude i know it's powerful if i'm watching something or like a like anything comes across i guess my phone and and i don't want to take the time to like research type out words yeah yeah yeah yeah that's probably a better way to put it sometimes you can't cheer wielding man folding chair in alabama brawl oh man they went w w e on it i don't think i have either that's his

weapon of choice the folding chair he watched too much w w w yeah john cina both how did this one make the yearly meme calendar but we've never heard about it yeah i don't know i guess anybody can make a meme calendar so anybody can put their meme on it oh shit is not video should have known that we couldn't have gotten trustworthy news from cnn oh ryan you're just trying to backtrack after they found that you're gonna find on this page yeah i know i left that in because i ben went oh i don't want you to get uh everybody to think you did but apparently everybody looked that part out no i left it in and uh everybody thinks i did now because i clear it up for you, I go, Ryan didn't, Ryan didn't.

And you took that my part out, I think. Because I remember listening to back, I was like, damn, he did himself dirty. Very confused by that. I even gave you an out. W, W.W.'s fucking calling that guy. September, I think that one's a good wrestler name, too. Reggie Ray.

That is a good wrestler. It was when they lost the, like, the fighter jet. Oh, yeah. Public to help find it. He would is up with that. That one, that one was, like, almost so bizarre. It came across my screen, and I was like, well, this isn't.

Yeah, there's got to be something, right? Like, I think the, funniest one is the cop in january that was a good start of the year of course they've been over using that that picture of her face for so long and i just saw another one on snapchat like what's she up to now i'm like what is she up to i didn't watch it i'm like who fuck cares that one just had trains calendar 2023 that was her fucking savage um mike was cleaning out his uh little side-by-side unit that he bought from his grandpa And he pulls out of the glove box.

What was it depicting? It was like a drawn picture. Yeah, it was like a, I didn't get it. It was like a funeral, and it said cost for the Norsemen, like, I don't know, people from Norway, it was $4.79 for the funeral. Cost for Italians was $479 and cost for Jewish people were $4,000. I didn't get it at all. And that was a picture of like an elaborate funeral.

And I was like, man, dude, grandpa was showing people memes. We were just cracking up about that. Let's say, like, it gets a good laugh from his buddy, you know, John. And he's like, oh, John loved it. I got to print out 10 more of these things. It was all folded up. Like, you can tell you put that shit in his wallet. Yeah, it was like, I can't wait to take this to the Steam Thresher's reunion.

Like, Corey's going to love this, dude. Yeah, Dale. You know, it's like, yeah, it's like the revolution of getting a chocolate out of your buddy. Now you just send it to them over, you know, messages. The revolution of it. Yeah. Yeah, the revolution, dude. The evolution.

You know what's bad when CJ's. Correct. The revolution. Oh, my God. I quit. Wow, dude. Guys are too far gone. This is bad times, dude.

Holy shit. You know how we talked a couple podcasts about my broken car? I crashed it. I took out a green box. That's what did that damage. But I got a bill the other day from the internet company. And I was like, this is weird. Why did I get a bill?

like my mom's, they sent it to my, like, home house. I was just confused. Why am I getting a bill from Arvig? And then it said, like, pedestal, like pedestal. No, no way. How much? 800. What?

Yeah. How they find you? I don't know. It's hard to say, man. Oh, man. Who would have thought putting it out on the internet? I think it's from the podcast or they, like, it was kind of by the roadhouse. So maybe they're like yellow car like this.

Maybe you should pay it, Mike. I'll probably pay it. You know what's funny? though is, is, I wonder, like, if a snowplow hit it. I get it. It's a public service. It's a public utility, isn't it? No.

I thought you're, they're private. Creating like a little merit here. No, I'm just, you know, like if a snowplow hit it, like, do they send the county? I mean, it was a pretty far off the road. You're lucky to be alive. You're, that was an accident. Yeah, they put it in a bad spot. That box could have hurt you.

It destroyed your car. You should send them a bill for your car. Yeah, exactly. The box hit my car. I think that was the worst part. Had I not hit the box, like, I mean, I'd be looking at less damages, obviously. Exactly.

You know what, though, Ryan and Mike, Ryan, you're pretty heated here. Mike, maybe just pay it because I don't want them cutting off our fucking Wi-Fi. No, I already wrote the check. So Adam, the guy who bought the SEMA truck. Yeah. Oh, did he make it home? Yeah, he's on his way. He loves it.

He's texting me about it. He's like, it drives great. Like, everyone is giving me thumbs up. I'm like, yeah, dude. You can't go anywhere in that truck without getting attention. Oh, kidding. So, yeah, he loves it. He's happy.

Oh, he's so happy about it. He made it back to Florida. Yeah, he flew up here and I guess is in the process of driving it all the way back to Florida. And he's just stoked. Him and a buddy came up and he's like, yeah, dude, his buddy was saying, he's like, dude, he just loves you guys. And this is a huge opportunity for him. I'm like, oh, really? $69,000.

That's cool. Yeah, what a deal on that truck, too. That was a good deal. That was a good deal. Good for him. His buddy was like, do not get the hype of this truck. I personally would never buy it And I think it's ugly

But he said that He said that to me I'd have been like Bro you drove up in a Nissan Ultima I don't know if he did say that to me But he said it to him I think He was like

I would not buy this But he loves you guys Man wow In my head I was like Damn Nissan Ultima It's pretty basic However Is this actual car

Is that just a rental car? No they drove up from Chicago That's where that guy lived He works With a Nissan Ultima There's nothing wrong with it, especially when you work for Nissan corporate. Well, yeah, there we go.

They didn't even grow up on Maxima? Well, what are you going to drive? A GTR? That'd be great. I'd be better in Ultima. I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with an Ultima. You just can't criticize another man's vehicle when you roll up in a maroon Ultima. Precisely.

And he was a great dude. Yeah, they were both. Just a little jibber jabber here. I've seen this clip a few times now just coming off like the roasting in Nissan, I guess, but Marquise Brown. Like very hot tape. Brownley, yeah. Very hot take.

He goes, hot take, but a Nissan's never made a good track car. I don't like GTR. And everyone's like, whoa, whoa. That is a hot take. And then they like clipped it over with some hard song of like all the sweet race cars, Nissan's built. I'm like, you can't see that. That is a pretty hot take.

That's a bold statement. Nissan's made some insane race cars over the years. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out where he's got that from. Yeah, I mean, between all of their GTRs, I mean, from the beginning. Yeah. Like they were pretty revolutionary. Pretty evolutionary. No, revolutionary.

Kind of evolutionary. They were revolutionary. So, Ken, your mom came over the other day and, like, dropped off your Christmas presents or something? No, it was Christmas decorations. Oh. She wanted me to have a stocking on her fireplace. Yeah, you need one, dude. That's nice.

Alex said, they're just for decoration. That's fine. The stockings? Well, yeah. And then they're not going to match, and then it's going to be weird. Oh, so I think that's fine. Do you put it up downstairs, though? you have your own there you go no not

Ken won't you go hanging up at your new house and when do you want me to help you move into that place when are you leaving uh maybe three years three years maybe you are a patient man Mike she looks at me after she got Ken this docking goes you probably don't even have one there and I was like no I don't but I thought it was a Christmas gifts I was like so Ken's not going to Christmas huh

we gotta get Ken's mom on the pod I would love to is your mom busy right now call her up sure she's doing something I think she had a, what was it today? It's like their garden club thing. Sounds about right. It's December. It's December. They're preparing, Ryan.

They're going to get these gardens ready for April. You're right. I'm sorry. That's why I'm not in the club. Prior preparation prevents piss poor performance, Ryan. Wow. Preparation prevents piss poor performance. Yeah, they call that the four piece.

It's actually the six piece. The six piece. Real celebrity. Yeah. Your mom pulled up in a new car. Yeah. She tried to hide it. She tried to hide it from you.

She was like, I want to buy a new car, but I want your advice on a new car. And I was like, okay, you know, when you get back from Alaska, I'll help you go car shopping. And then she just goes and buys a Subaru. But she had previously had a Subaru that she sold because she didn't like it, right? Yeah. So how does she like this one? She's going to like it for about six months and then she's going to hate it, think it's the worst car in the world. She's going to sell it and then think it was the best car in the world.

Oh, so that's what she's done with every car in the last. 20 years. Well, she's already reached a hate in line. No. So she was saying that there's AI in there because she's a pretty big conspiracy theorist and she thinks that the Chinese are listening to her or that the AI is trying to get her. I'm sure they are. You know what it would be funny is if we like hid a hidden camera and then like a little speaker in there

and then like had like a Chinese person speaking into it. The Bluetooth device. She'd go just like, what? Dude, that would be funny. We stopped pranking Ken and we start pranking his family members. They're just like, what the fuck is this? I'm not sure if Carolyn even knows that we have a YouTube channel. It takes a little bit of explaining what we've been up to.

I'm sure. I mean, that's a pretty fair statement for anyone, though. So it does surprise me that you bought a house right next to your family. Good deal. It was good enough that the family being next door overrode it. I mean, I can build a wall. Ken's going to build a wall. So he separates his family

Not just a fence Like a yeah Something Trump would build Yeah that really would put a weird Like thing in the family Because they're about building the wall But then also they're like But the wall separates me from Ken

No no the rest of them They love They love open walls Oh really So the wall would also piss them off If you put it between the two of you Oh okay my bad Didn't know that

I think that'd be pretty funny though Ken I think that'd be far from course The first day you get in there you build a massive brick wall. I can't see over it. They're just like shadowed from the sun. They have no sunlight anywhere on their property because it's so big. At the top, Ken just puts barbed wire too.

Yeah, yeah, it doesn't even look pretty. It looks like it's trying to stop bad people. Well, it just says to look good on my side. We got to go over there, Ken. I got to check that place out. I wanted demolish it before summer. Let's get to it. Let's go over there right now and destroy it.

I have the limo through it. Brain starts racing when you say stuff like that, Ken. We should open up. Pretty good about that. Have like a driving range in there. Like that would be funny. For cars and golf balls. There is like a half basement.

So you drive a car in there, it is going to like fall through the floor. I almost guarantee. I take it that it's pretty old. Oh yeah. Nobody's lived in there in probably 10, 15 years. There's mold all over the place. There's dead mice all over the floors. It needs to be.

It's not salvageable. You could save it until Halloween and run a little hot hunting house. Yeah. A little side biz. Dude, I was on the outside of it. His curtains are, like, just, like, deteriorating. Ooh. Oh, it probably is haunted.

Really? How do you feel about building on those grounds that are haunted? I mean, just get rid of what's there and then start fresh. I don't think that's how ghosts work. I agree. Yeah, you just, they go with the house. The house disappears. I'm not sure if they like that.

What about the hallowed grounds? Yeah. I don't believe in that. Ken, we got to check the walls before we start tearing that thing down. I can see there being some, like, money or some hidden valuables in there. Or we might have to call it. Well, Evan, there might be a bestus. Yeah, man, you know, Mike's turning you into the county.

Dude, that is a brutal job. How's the farm coming along? I haven't been over there in probably three weeks. Oh, is it really? Have they painted the shipping containers yet? Not yet. No. Well, that will really start changing it.

But they're going to start cheap rocking this week. Really? Yeah. They're chipping away. Yeah, we've got to go check that out. Yeah, the farm remodel's coming along. It just, when it was here, it was like you were so involved in it, but you can almost kind of forget about it over there,

which is nice. We don't do anything over there. Because we can keep our work flowing here, but I try to go over there at least every other night and check up on it. And it's so fun having something like progressively changing. Yeah, you're getting like that. You can physically watch the change happening.

Yep. Which is pretty legit. I had to take a break this week editing and do a little dirt work in the skid steer. It's like therapeutic for your soul, man. Get in some heavy machinery and mindlessly operate it. I felt good. think even doing manual labor like like i me personally i don't want to do that every single day but like

you spend let's say one day doing some good manual labor like for instance us cutting all the ice with the chainsaws and then using the show you know that's quite a bit of like work like physical labor or even just like helping like my dad build a a brick retaining wall let's say or shovel out some stuff you know it just feels good like it's rewarding it does you get done and it's also just good for you know that just comes down to the i guess the main thing you could equate that to is like mowing when you quit mowing you know we don't mow our lawn anymore well evan mows it here but it just reminded me of like two chains they're like what you've been up to two chains he's like i about law mower he's like ever since he's like i i lived in an apartment and then i when i was rapping i got

money and then i never mowed my own lawn i've never mowed my own lawn before that's crazy so he got a lawn mower and mowed and i'm like that's every man should at least mow I wonder if we have any friends that have never mowed. I'd be curious. I'm sure there's somebody. There's somebody that's just been in the city. Just pampered. Never mowed before.

I guess if you grow up in a apartment. Well, yeah. A development where they mow your own lawn or something. That brings up a good point. Yesterday I spent all day around here cleaning, basically. And it's one of the most therapeutic things to do is clean. But it's also on like the same token draining. Like I have this weird.

balance where when I'm working or have other work to do, it's like, damn, I really could be doing the state sales tax, but also the shop floor needs to be scrubbed. So I think I'm going to do that instead. And then you tend to put yourself further behind. And it's something that I really, really struggle with is trying to find the balance of like cleaning up around here and keeping the shop in order so we can do other things. And then also doing the tasks that are on like your secondary to do list you know cleaning the floor mindless that's those are the best jobs when you're trying to like get away from the stuff you have to do that takes all your all your brain but yeah it was like you're cleaning the shipping container it was like you're taking all the stuff out you're like this is going

great and then as soon as you had to start thinking what should we keep what should oh then how should I I don't want to do this I got everything outside and I almost just quit right there but I was like damn I ruined the whole shop it's so dirty I have to finish we got one of those it's basically like a push lawnmower, but it's a sweeper. It's got like two little things. Floor scrubber. Oh, yeah. And the sweeper.

Shout out Brenco for that. They hooked it up, dude. With the scrubber. Well, for the scrubber, but the, uh, the pusher sweeper and you just literally just push it around like it's a lawnmower and it sweeps up the floor. So nice. It's amazing. I love doing that after like a long day of editing.

It's so therapeutic. That's what I mean. It's like this therapy for it. Yeah. There's nothing better than cleaning the garage. Besides we're drinking beer in it, Ryan. Well, that's true. at the same time, though.

Exactly. And you've got to clean the garage to drink beer in it, I feel like. One job that I hope that I stop enjoying at some point, but my therapeutic job is breaking down boxes. I just love grabbing the empty boxes. Yeah, yeah, just throwing the utility knife in them, breaking them down. It makes it feel like there's a, oh, that was the end of the process.

The merch came in in the boxes. But yeah, I just love breaking down boxes. And I sing a little song, Breaking Down Boxes. Bricking down boxes Never heard that Yeah No I made it up

I made it up What do you do That's therapeutic CJ I'd say working out It's probably my most therapeutic thing You know Just go to the gym

Which for me It's probably not the same As other people Like most people hate going to the gym Where I'm just going there Like I'm just kind of like Maintaining

I'm just doing like Bench whatever I'm not pushing myself That hard But I'm listening to a podcast I've always wondered What you do I'm listening to a podcast

I mean I'm still putting in work But I'm not like like hating it you know yeah you are going leaving trying to keep your heart rate above 85% for the hour and a half yeah it's just nice it makes sense i remember like and i'm in no position to like say anything about what you do at the gym but the few times that i went with you i'm like damn like cj just chilling over there chilling now look at him he's chilling again over there now well you gotta get rest in

between sense yeah but then as soon as you told you like i do the gym differently it's therapeutic for me i'm like makes sense totally makes sense Dude, that's me in my sauna. Like, it's like the absolute best thing ever. Turn that thing on, sit there, and just watch it warm up. So excited to hop in it. Sometimes I'll just turn it on and hop in it. It's just nice sitting in there.

And then by the time it's warm, I'm ready to get out. I just love it. It's the best. I'm trying to get one of those. Very therapeutic. I was in the sauna with Gavin the other day, and we like chat quite a bit throughout the day. And then we both got in the sauna. Just quiet time.

Just didn't speak. Dude, that's beautiful. sitting in there and just chilling, sweating. And your hands are too sweaty to go on your phone. So, yeah, you might play some music, but no music at that point. But, yeah, you're not like, you know in the hot tub. Like, you keep your hands out so you can go on your phone, which I enjoy. But, like, in the sauna, your hands are too sweaty to operate it.

Yeah, I pop my phone up and I just watch something. It's interesting how much phones have changed the game for hanging out. Like, hangs aren't as good anymore because the phone is so accessible. and even just a few minutes like right now when we're all sitting nobody's looking at our phone because we're chatting but if you're at dinner and even one person pulls out the phone for just a little bit it's like a it's like a ripple effect before you know way drug to other people exactly then someone goes oh well mike's on his phone i i'll check my instagram quick and then before you know it the other two are like oh shit well they're on their phone i'll grab mine

and you just fall out of the conversation it's it's honestly like sad i feel like and then the few times that we do do the stack, you know, stack your phones in the middle. We talked about that before. It works. 100% of the time when we put our phones in the middle, the conversation gets better. Obviously the phone use, but extremely annoying when we're watching a movie

and you like look around and like half the people are on their phones. You're like, you're not even watching the movie. Like theater, you're saying. No, I'm talking like sometimes like we do. Like if me and Alex say, like sit down to watch a movie and she's like, let's watch a movie. Let's do, you know, whatever. I'm like, yeah, sure.

I'm prepared to watch and pay attention. but you just go on your phone you're like you're not watching the movie like sometimes when we go over to your house and have like theater nights sometimes half the people are on their phones I'm like it just kind of like what the fuck we're doing here

like no one's even paying attention exactly and then you're like well damn I'll just watch the movie I want to watch yeah I'm sitting here watching a movie because you guys all want to watch it and you guys aren't watching it but you try to come together and pick a movie but yeah like no one's caring

especially if it's a movie you vouch for too you're like come on I think it's difficult with us because we spend so much time together that even let's say that is a airport or a dinner and stuff like that isn't necessarily special not that it's not important but we're just like i spent 12 hours with the boys today dinner is just the final step to me going home and then getting on with whatever i got to do so we're we're a little more apt to go on our phone but i think when we don't and we do

the phone stack we have this game that we play when we go out to eat where everybody takes their phone they put it in a stack and you can't touch it because likely your phone is in the middle of the stack and there is a consequence for if you do touch it yeah what is it is it shots or pay for dinner either or we only do that though when we have like let's say our girlfriends or our friends outside of this but like if we all just went out at lunch i would literally not care if you guys are on your phone no for sure not but if you got like oh they're like you should pay attention try to be present in the moment give them give it your all yeah i think the looking at your phone looking for some type of whether it be like dopamine stimulation

something like that and then it takes away the fun from whatever you're actually doing like i've noticed that when i get in these like black holes of like constantly looking at my phone even like i'm working or we're doing something and you're like hey go grab a jump pack and i'll like run over there and then i'll i'll look at my phone quick and it just takes you out of the moment you're living in and the worst part is is that i mean i'll speak personally like i can't stop doing it i know yeah it takes you away from the moment so bad whether it's really quick or for a long time Well, you guys are whoop guys now, but do you think, Mike, having an Apple watch

makes it better or worse for looking at your phone? Better, because you, I'd say better because, yeah, again, your phone doesn't light up when you're wearing your watch, notifications come on your phone, and then you know what you're getting. Whatever you're getting, you know what you're getting, and you don't take your phone out, and you also can't scroll Instagram or, you know,

Facebook marketplace. You can't do that on your watch, so it's not going to make me do that anymore. Yeah, the issue with the whoop, though, is then you're just constantly checking your stats. Yeah, it's like game of, I mean, yeah. I like the whoop because it's like anything, dude.

It just provides stats to like your life, for instance, and basically the way you're living. And then it gamifies trying to be healthier, which is good for you. You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like when you play Call of Duty at the end of the round, you know, or the game, you get the, you watch it go up a little bit,

gives you your points and how much more you need to get ranked up. I'd say it's kind of the same. Like, that is what made Call of Duty addicting for me. For sure. this is kind of the same way like you're like trying to get better sleep you're like trying to figure out how to just be healthier yeah with the sleep too they do uh sleep debt so if you get like you know seven hours of sleep one night you're supposed to get a little more let's just say seven hours and 45 minutes and so then you're in debt 45 minutes and then if it continues to like add up

throughout the week and then at the end of the week you're in debt like three hours four hours your body then you can like you know sleep in a little bit bring it back to you know where you're supposed to be at i like that interesting i just think it's a big thing like everyone is trying to be healthier nowadays like it's seriously amazing but uh just the fit bits the whoops that even the apple watch like all these things that provide statistics and basically gamify life is contributing a pretty fair role to it i feel what makes you interested and you can see it Because even if you were every day, you're like, okay, I'm going to go for a walk. But then when you can see your steps or your hour counter or whatever, it's like heads up.

Yeah. That's nice. Dude, today, this is very out of pocket for me. Considering I haven't done this in two and a half years, I was just wait. I didn't know there was a Vikings game today. I was waiting for you guys. I was like, man, I got pretty much everything I was doing done. And I'm like, I'm going to go run a mile on the treadmill.

We didn't have a treadmill. We didn't have it. Fuck. I went downstairs into the workout room. And I was like, oh, yeah, we used her treadmill for a stupid bit. You should just run outside. No, and then I thought about that. I'm like, well, I'm not going to go run outside.

But I was seeing if I was just looking on Facebook Marketplace, is it cool if I pick up another treadmill? A couple hundred bucks. Go ahead. Yeah, good one, though. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, get a good one.

Dude, Greta got a treadmill. Oh, I've told this. I guess she got a Peloton treadmill. Nice. Those things, like, super dangerous. They were, like, all recalled. Really? Why?

We got to call Greta. Oh, damn. She's all. I better stop it right now. Oh my gosh. Ben just throws headphones off, sprints to a dog. A kid died on one, so they, like,

recalled all of them. How? Thank God, dude. Kids are dying for pop and soda and candy at alarming rape, but a treadmill takes one out. He should have stayed on the couch and played video games.

He was trying to ride his pit bike on the treadmill. No, he had it at full speed, and he just kept rolling. He got pulled underneath it. And they ate it. ate him up. How old was he?

Do they have the, that's super. sad. Yeah, that is sad. You must have been really young. It doesn't say. But then there's 87 other people got injured from it. Wow.

Oh, my God. You know what, though? Dude, I'm not surprised one bit because me and my dad and I had to call in Justin to move this treadmill down my stairs, bro. It was, it legit had to have weighed 500 pounds. Maybe not that much. But it was so heavy. It was a full three man.

So heavy. So anyway, next time you want to run, Mike, you can just come to my house and use a treadmill. I got a heavy sign the waiver. Yeah, of course. Obviously. Are you going to run on that treadmill too, Ben? I probably should. I don't know. We'll see. Probably well at some point. I have not used it yet, but I set it up like 14 minutes before I came here to film this podcast.

So I have a pretty valid excuse today. It was gnarly, though. I literally thought I was going to have to call you guys in for backup too. Really? It was that big. I was like, this might be a five-man job. My dad is like, call everyone you know. Not that I've had to do it really at all, but like there's something about me that just, I don't want to call you guys to have.

help me move stuff. It's one thing if I'm like, hey, I just need help for five hours. I'm moving like everything out of there. That's one thing because you either are going to be like, I mean or I'm out. What if I'm like, hey, I need to move a couch like the next time you're in Fargo, can we meet up? I get that. I don't help you. I know you would.

I don't like asking for that stuff. It's because I get what you're saying. And I've dealt with the same thing just moving into my house. It's because I ask so much of you guys every single day. I feel like you don't, you don't, yeah, you do actually. You don't owe me like one more thing, especially on your free time. Yeah. That's it.

That's what I, that's why I never ask you. Just because I'm like, I'm getting some free time. I'm not trying to have him waste it using, trying to help me, you know. I feel bad too because I've called Justin a couple times. But he lives right by me. You owe him a case to be here. I do owe him a case. And every time he comes over, I give him a hug.

I go, bro, I am so sorry. But this is one heavy. bitch, dude. Justin's at home right now, ice in his back. He helped me moving my son up. I swear. The poor guy you got to use it. He lost so much trust in me

after that one. Do you not tell him what he's moving before he comes over? I said it's a sauna, but it shouldn't be that bad. Oh, yeah. That's for sure. It was gnarly. Well, I bet he's going to be pumped for your new safe. Oh, gosh.

That's the cherry on top. All right. It's a gun safe. It would legit block me. Yeah, I've got this in-room 72-gun, 72-gun-safe. Can you help me carry it down the stairs? I don't want to tear up the yard. We need to do it today because they're cementing the walls around it tomorrow.

Is anyone... So it's me, you, and who else? Just us. Oh, Greto helps you. Yeah, I go, Greta. Yeah, that is crazy when people have to, like, crane them in while they're, like, building the house. I guess. Guns safe.

I know. That is cool. I was watching his Claire video, and he got like a Mac Daddy safe. And they had to build it. They had to build it around, like the house around the safe. That's so baller. I don't know if it does, but that's got to, like, essentially bring the value of the house up. Not a lot, but it's a little bit.

I got a built-in massive safe. Can you get out of the safe if you were in it? Probably not. That's a good question. What are you asking? Well, I was thinking it could double as like a safe room. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Well, obviously safe. But like a, you know, like a bunker room or like a tornado room or something like that, right? I feel like there should be if it's that big. It would make sense. Like what if like a breeze came and blew that door shut? Walked you in there. You didn't have a phone. Don't.

You're a single man. Yeah, that's a good question. Think, too. If you go missing, I guarantee if they came and checked out your house, they wouldn't look in your safe. They can't get in your safe. They don't know the code. Yeah. That'd be a bad.

Oh, my gosh. But let's say they do get up to the safe and you weren't yelling at the time. because you've been in there for 48 hours or whatever. They probably went here anyway. That's what I'm saying. It's like a super nice safe. So you're like, I'm in here. And they just look.

Yeah, you're like, damn, I didn't need this fucking safe to begin with. Like, what if a tornado rolls through, knocks out like all the cell towers, the power and you get locked in there? And like the house collapses around it.

What do you do? I don't know when you're just done. Man, shit, dude. I don't know. You probably. do the same thing is the first scenario just sitting there and wait for going to come is your house have a safe that you bought fuck no because like well yeah what if the hypothetical person we're speaking of was trapped in there and then they just went oh yeah he disappeared but we can't get in the safe because he had a big code and then he's in your house how long would you last oh this is a great question horror horror movie scenario let's say zombie apocalypse not what are you doing how long you want to live

A long do I want to? I think about this a lot, actually. Every time I watch a scary movie. I think about this a lot. Like, if a zombie apocalypse comes, one, am I ready? Absolutely not. But two, do I even want to live? I would.

I'd fight back. So you're a fighter. I'd see how long we could go for. And what are you doing? I'm doing something sick, dude. You'd be freaking traveling with other people that are not infected yet, and you'd be fucking walking dead. Yeah, dude, they don't make any movies about the people who quit.

They make them about the winners. You just lay down? Like, what? You just go fine. No, I do something sick. No, no, I've just thought about, you know, like, how prepared do you want to be? Oh, I guess I'm not going to be prepared for that. I'm not going to waste my time.

Like, obviously, you're going to have the will to fight, you know, but like the doomsday preppers. Like, what state of mind are they in? Because, like, you know, what's the volcano that if it erupts the entire world is fucked? Yellowstone. Is that what it's straight up Yellowstone? It's straight up Yellowstone. Straight up Yellowstone. This season on Yellowstone.

Rip. Yellowstone's going to explode. God damn it, John. If that volcano or rocks, you go over a rope, boy. This is Jamie's work. This is Jamie's work.

I'm going to kill that. I think like basically everybody. I think like everyone within like 100 or 200 miles is just like instantly dead. And then the ash cloud is going to like pretty much cover the one. That's what I'm saying. Put me in the vaporization blast zone. The whole world is going to be Antarctica for the next millennium. Take me out, dude.

Right. That's what I'm wondering, you know. You could probably make it through that, though. You'd have some fucking gear. You're like, who? I got my monosuit on. Yeah. What kind of geared you?

What do you mean? I mean, if the whole world's going to be Antarctica, you'd just rebuild. Oh, you legit mean snow gear. Yeah. Yeah, you'd probably be all right, right? Yeah. I can't believe this dude's like, I'll give up. There's like half the, we spend half our life living in Minnesota.

No, in Antarctica. No, that's not the problem, dude. It would kill off, like, every life form, like, every plant. Every plant. And pretty soon you're living on hard. We've got all this. Twinkies. Yeah.

So we'd be fine. If you have it. Like, the air outside wouldn't be safe to breathe. I don't have a goddamn twinkies in here. Yeah. Ryan's wearing his monosuit. Running around the world of my. Jake and Dave are over there.

Like, thank God we bought all this soup. Yeah. One of my dad's really good friends bought, I want to say 100 pounds of rice. Wow. Might even been more. I know it's got to be more. 100 pounds. How much soy sauce did he buy, dude?

Yeah, that's a good question. Better have some yum yum sauce. He's got to think about that, dude. A lot of rice, and then he bought like 15 ARs. Okay. Lucky. Because he's worried about what? His neighbor's coming over and asking him for rice.

So word gets out that he's the only one that has food. Yeah, I mean, you need guns. All right. So you guys got, there's just a new movie ironically about this on, Netflix called Leave the World Behind. Crazy. And yeah, it's good. They have a bunker in it and all that.

I don't love the ending, but worth the watch. It's kind of what you said. It's like, yeah, I'm going to fight, but it's like, yeah, how much are you going to prepare? You might buy 15 ARs and a bunch of food and build a bunker, and you'll never see more than a dog trying to bite you, you know, as far as danger goes. So that'd be tough. But yeah, I'd on the, what would I do? I would fight, but I wouldn't build a handle much. emotionally. Let's say like I'm fighting and I have to watch like Ken gets like bit and we have to like

watch him die and and I feel like you have to watch everyone around me. You are stone cold. You would literally handle the best. I would just I would after so much people around me dying I would get really discouraged and then like that's what would they're the emotionally like losing other people around you. If I had a good crew all time I'd be like we're fighting till the death. But it's the point of living if like all your homies die. Dude I think a really good podcast would be. With a doomsday prepper in his bunker. They don't show those things off, dude. Someone might.

Someone might. A flashy doomsday prepper? Looking for the smart one. Yeah. Some of those guys can like straight up, straight up live off of their food for like years. Like 50 years. Wow.

That was what I was going to say is that this is more of a terrorist attack and the whole plan of the terrorist attack was to turn the country into a civil war, which I am, I don't know. Well, that was the interesting part is it wasn't. even a terrorist attack. It was the U.S. trying to tear apart itself.

But yeah, like, I don't like to think about that happening, but it, I mean, it kind of is. It's like, when someone's in rough shape, like, I bring CJ over the neighbors, and the neighbors, like, get off, my lawn. I'm trying to save me and my family. Like, even though you've known him for 10 years, like, just everyone was cutthroat. And then you might get someone that wandered their way from three miles away that's just like, well, let's just kill whoever, because I feel like living.

Perched out. Yeah, it goes straight. Perch. Yeah. that terrifies me is people turning on each other just to survive makes a guy wonder you know that's what i'm saying that's that's my hot take the world starts ending it's it's not like the gradual you know like oh you can maybe make it through but freaking zombie apocalypse style like shit's going south it's it's not good you're one you're one of like a couple thousand people left

i'm like come on dude let's rob a plane go skydiving no parachute style like let's go out with a bang I'm not trying to fight off zombies and live in a bunker for my whole life And I'm sorry if that's a hot take and not the correct answer But I'm not trying to live in a bunker my whole life Yeah, I don't want to live in a bunker That's what I'm saying That's what I'm saying fucking yellowstone goes off You can't go outside because the whole world is

Nox, noxious That's a little different Toxic fumes Because it is toxic so you'd have to stay in a bunker So you literally have to stay in there But for the like zombie thing I personally taking the Worst route and staying in the bunker.

If I don't have to, like, risk dying every day. There you go. You guys can eat me then. I'll sacrifice myself for y'all. Really makes you think. Yeah. Man, I've been watching some heaters lately on Netflix. I feel like I'm so many good shows behind.

Yeah. Same. Do you guys have, like, that list that you put into your notes when someone tells you about a good show and you've got this list, like, infinitely long of the shows that you could never watch, but, you know, you're sitting at dinner with somebody or drinks. And they're like, you've got to watch bodies. And I go, yeah, for sure. That sounds great.

And then you never watch bodies. Ryan, you are my list. Every time that I finish a show, I go, what should I watch? I'm going to ask Ryan. This dude knows, you are so well diverse on what shows you do watch and you'll know which ones I would like. For sure. Appreciate that. It goes back to what you were saying earlier about like being on your phone during a movie.

me and greta started a series the other day and she was on she was reading a book on the first episode and then and then get this get this dude get this i'm actually fired up about this she was reading her book right and i go are we not watching this then and she was like i'm just reading my book uh like you can keep watching this we've been traveling i download all these episodes i'm three i'm three seasons in oh bad and greta comes to me last night and goes Should we keep... We should watch suits. I go, I've been watching suits.

We're too deep. I'm on the third episode. The third season. The third season. And she was like, we were watching that together. And I was like, no, we weren't. We were not watching that together.

You read a book the entire first episode. Similar scenario where I'm watching the movie. I'm like in this movie. It's actually that movie I was just talking about. But I'm liking this movie. And then Sidney was on her phone. and halfway through, she goes, can we watch something else?

And I'm like, yeah, sure, no problem. I'll finish it later. And then I'm like, I had to watch half of it and get into it the whole time and turn it off. Alandro will do this thing when she gets bored with a show. She'll just search up the ending or if it's really scary. We'll just Google the ending. I'm like, why do that to yourself?

It's good for her. So I'm like, just don't tell me. Let me live through this moment. But I'm always like, why did you just Google the end of the movie that we've been waiting to see for a long time. Yeah, or like on Netflix, you can, like, scroll through the episodes and then, like, read them and then,

and then, like, get, you know, keep going season to season. They don't give you much, but they still give you enough to, like, you know, spoil what you're watching it for. For sure. And I was like, what's the point? It's just like the teaser.

It's tough. But yeah, I agree. Whenever I'm downloading them for the plane, I like try not to read them. Yeah. Just click the things. Same for that. That Squid Game show is just talking about,

the game show that they did someone like a news article posted that the winner hadn't gotten her money yet and then everyone's just like bro you just outed the win because the episode hadn't quite dropped everyone's like bro

I really like it dropped maybe the same time they released it but people didn't have time to watch it and you're like bro all right so I put out on our story a few weeks ago on the Life Wide Open podcast Instagram had some people voice memo in if they needed some advice. That is it fun?

Wow, I love this. This one's from Weston Hackbarth. Dude, this is like a radio show. What do I do if I'm riding my dad's brand new sled around the yard and I try to drift it and I slide there into a tree and it takes out with the skis? Do I call him always at work and tell them that I crash this brand new sled? Or do I try to fix it before he gets home?

Oh, that's tough. Oh, no. You order the parts and then you call them. Well, first off, you're not going to fix it if you took out the whole front end. I love trying to drift the sled because, like, if you kind of know, like, snowmules don't really drift. And when you try to drift them, they end up going, like, you know, tipping over and whatnot. But yeah, I guess if we learned anything trying to hide, you know, your mistake from your parents, rarely, rarely ends well. If it were me, I'd, like, do what I could to order every part that I need and then be like, I broke it. I don't know if I'm capable of fixing it, but I order the parts already.

I feel like in any situation like that, you've got to come clean. You're not getting anywhere, no matter what you do by trying to lie or hide your way out of it. I definitely wouldn't call him at work. I just wait until he gets home and be like, listen, I messed up. And I'm going to take full responsibility for it. I'm going to try and pay for whatever damages I can, if not all of it. One thing in this day and age, a new snowmobile, it ain't cheap. Fuck, no.

Fifteen plus. So, like, that could be a factor, too. It's easier to total, a slide out, too. There's one from Dylan. Yo, boys, uh, yeah, scenario for you. So I know you guys kind of live in a small town and had some success. Um, just wondering kind of how you deal with other people's opinions or how people look at you. Does that stuff get to you?

or uh or not really all right peace it's a good question that is yeah i mean we definitely deal with that there's some haters for sure and i'd say general consensus we don't let it get to us yeah we don't even care that doesn't mean that it never does yeah we don't care at all has yeah yeah it's it's funny though because you don't see your haters until you have like a little bit of a bobble and then they come out and they're like oh i knew they would fail or like this so it's uh it's uh it's it's It is always interesting to see, you know, like the people that actually have your back. If shit goes south for an instance, those are the real ones. But like any small town, like you're going to have like the small minded people that like

they clearly don't want to leave the small town and they don't get what you're doing and they want to just almost like hold you down. I think you're going to have that literally anywhere that you go. I think the less that you like give a fuck actually what they think as long as like you're okay with what you're doing. Like, if you're not confident in what you're doing, then you're going to let other people's opinions, like, get to you. But, like, when we first started making videos, I think back to it.

And, like, I can't believe that, like, we didn't care about what anyone said or, like, thought watching these, like, videos back. Because it's, like, most people's opinions were pretty valid. Like, it was, like, you know, stupid or, like, cringy. And, like, at the time, it's, like, we didn't care. And, like, didn't let that affect us one bit. and we were so stoked on it. But, yeah, I mean, there was plenty of haters.

There's still, so, like, here's an example. I'm not going to out the restaurant, but there's an owner of a restaurant that we eat at frequently. And he's never said anything to our face, but he talks shit about us to other people. And Dave told us, you know, yeah, he's always saying whatever about you guys. And, like, from my understanding,

he's just saying, like, oh, yeah, those guys are fucking idiots. Like, they're doing all that, you know, whatever. And there's plenty of stuff he said, but we don't care. And we still even go there and eat all the time. In fact, my plan was next time I see him, just because I've been hearing more and more, is I'm like, I'm going to eat and I'm going to go up. And like, when I'm walking, I'm like, hey, it was great as always, appreciate you guys. You know, just like, to kill him with kindness.

Because I'm sure he probably doesn't know that I hear that he's talking shit about us. Yeah. But, yeah, so anyways, I mean, you just can't care. That's probably the bottom line on it. It's easier said sometimes than done, but you really do. you just got to focus on whatever you're doing dude the only people hating are people that are below you very true like nobody's ever like hating on someone lower than them you know the people winning aren't like like making fun you know like talking down yeah or they're scared because you're coming for

them yeah yeah that's the only other reason i guess but yeah true but yeah i was going to say we use this line as a joke and as a real thing um if some if one of the boys is like screwing some something up they're doing you know ben and i might look at each other and go Some people just don't get it, man. But then we also use that as a real term. You know, someone's hating. Some people just don't get it, man. They just don't get what you're doing.

Yeah. It is funny, though, how the tides always turn. Especially in moments of... The babble, I like what you're saying. Yeah, like the bubble or when stuff isn't going right, that's when... People are quick to turn. Yeah, then you see their true colors. Yeah.

Let's hear another one. I just graduated three months ago, high school. I've been working 50 hours a week. full-time as a technician in a Ford dealership. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing with my life. My dream was what you guys have. I grew up as a kid, always doing YouTube videos. Stop doing it because everybody told me it was unrealistic.

And now I'm trying to join the Army. And I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing with my life. It's kind of going to shit. And I don't know what to do, honestly. I haven't been able to get a girlfriend or nothing. Been single. My ex cheated on me one night. Long so short, I don't know what I'm doing.

love you guys that's tough dude uh my advice to him is like 99% of the world doesn't know what the fuck they're doing yeah but this guy's actually doing something yeah it sounds like you're doing 50 hours a week he wants to go into the military like both of those are extremely honorable it sounds like he wants to make youtube videos but he's thinking he he should go into the military because he doesn't know what he's doing but you're right most people don't know what the they're doing we don't know what the fuck we're doing half the time but we just figure it out as we go and i think that is actually the biggest thing is figuring it out as you go it's very easy to be like oh i don't know what to do and then you just stand still nothing happens but if you if you're like

well i'm gonna figure it out as i go and you just start then you can at least get the ball rolling it might be a slow roll at first or whatever but at least you're doing something but but still yeah there there's literally nothing wrong with what you're already doing exactly I mean, working as a technician, 50 hours a week, or going into the military, like, both those great jobs, man. There's nothing wrong with that. But if you truly want to be a YouTuber, I would say that you should probably maybe keep working, but also do, start doing YouTube on the side and start evolving and building as a YouTuber, you know, it would start, just start, start making videos and then focus on making the videos better and just study YouTube and figure out. Listen to Don't listen to the haters, man.

Listen to the haters a little bit. And, yeah, they could sit there and talk shit and say all that stuff. But if you're already doing a job, you can say, well, this is my hobby. I like doing this. Because if you actually do like doing it, that'll be the true testament. Like it doesn't happen overnight. Yeah. Yeah.

Should we work this and another job for, what, like three, four years? Three or four years. We were doing both, you know? Like working here at night, printing shirts, editing until two in the morning and then going to work the next day and or something. school or whatever you were in but also it's not as glamorous as like you would think that it would be like it's not easy no it's like becoming i guess what's your pinnacle success like youtube would be it's not like you're going to have everything figured out you're not going to have no more money

problems you're going to be working way more than you already are right now uh you're probably thinking about it all the time you're probably still going to have relationship issues because you won't even have time for one like it's for sure it's not always better on like the other side of the fence like the grass isn't always greener truly like there's a lot of differences but the only real difference is like you're working for yourself other than that like yeah the work doesn't get any easier yeah i'd say that's that's probably the most glamorous side it's like being able to do what you want make your own decisions but as far as like feeling like you've like made it or like it's you're happier because you're now a YouTuber like that's not that's not the case I think it's

just doing whatever you want to be doing and also that's a good thing to mention not trying to discourage you from doing it but behind the video that you watch each week on YouTube there is so much more work and thought that goes into making these things happen than what you see so like and not trying to discourage you and you'll you'll learn that as you start going If you want to make good videos and videos that are getting, you know, high views, there's a lot more that goes into it than just being funny on camera when it's rolling. Yep. And the last thing I'll add, this obviously his kind of goal is to not be a technician at the Ford dealership.

However, that among many other, like when you're working for someone else, it is worth walking the walk. So proving yourself with the work you do, it is worth saying to your higher ups that I'm working, like, I want a promotion. You don't walk in and say, I want a promotion, but yeah, I think I forgot to do that too. Like, you just, when you're working for someone else, the boss is rarely ever going to come to you and say,

hey, I want to pay you more, man. It just doesn't happen. So that's a big part, too. Like, if you think you're working hard and can show you're working hard, it's not insane to ask your boss for a race. And hit up our boy can because he's got a squeaky roof that he really needs fixed. They're supposedly almost.

gone. Oh, on it's Bronco. Oh, yeah, yeah. All right. One more?

Yeah, yeah. It says, okay, this is a sticky one. Oh, we can't mention any names here because we've got to stay anonymous.

But, um, what would happen? Or how can I solve this issue? If I potentially fucked my best friend's ex-girlfriend. And I haven't told him about it. Yo, we're going to let the mic hand at this one.

Yeah. Yeah. Punch him in the face. Next one. He's going to get punched. To be honest, every situation is different. That's a different situation. We don't know what his friends like.

If he's a hot head or if he's a chiller. Yeah, and what their relationship was like. How long have they been broken up for is a big thing. Like, as he moved on from her, I mean, definitely hate to say it, man, but not that, not a bro move. But, I mean, there's nothing wrong. being sorry about it and coming clean for sure you know i this is going to be a lot better coming from you because that otherwise she's going to hold that over that's true somebody else figures out

from somebody else it'll probably come out yeah unless you're lucky so then i mean if you if you don't say anything and then it comes out definitely much worse than just coming clean but if it's like a lot of time is past man that is a stick man if he's got an inkling that you did it and you did and he's going to like it'll just never be the same so you'd be better off just coming clean godspeed brother yep i'm enjoying these i i'm talking to a girl i already met her parents and it's only been a week but i'm not completely sure if i like her and i'm going off to college so i don't know and i feel bad if i bring things break things off with her after i just met her parents. Man, if you're not feeling

if he's not head over heels, as far as going into college, if he's not like head over heels, you know, like can't stop thinking about her. Yeah, it doesn't get any easier. Let her down easy, children. Or you could just let it kind of play out and see where it goes. Yeah. I mean, that's not true. To me, it's not that big of a deal, but I guess it's different and situational. Like, me and you're like this girl's parents, like, if you just, I don't think that's, especially if you're in high school and

like you went over to her house to hang out and you were saying, hey, you know, not that big of a deal. Yeah. It's only been a week. It's nothing for sure. I wouldn't let the parents hang up your decision like that. Exactly. I've heard that before and people are like, oh, yeah, like I met the parents like right away. And I'm like, oh, yeah, around here we just call that like normal.

You know, like hanging out. Yeah, like going. Yeah. Nice to meet you. And then, yeah, yeah, I don't think they. I think maybe if you were older, let's say you lived in a different city and you meet this girl. You go out at the restaurant and then you go to her hometown and meet him and eat dinner. Like, that's much more official, but, like, if you just, you know, it depends on how you met him,

which sounds like it was pretty casual. One week is nothing. And they're in high school. Dude's just like, I don't want to be with her, but I already met her. So I'm going to have to marry her. It just spends the rest of his life because one week. But as parents meet him and they're like, that dude's a fucking idiot. Yeah, who knows?

Maybe they're hoping it doesn't work out. And the worst part was they were kind of mean to me. Yeah. I mean, obviously it's a tough spot, but I feel like you do a lot of maturing and growing in college. And it wouldn't be the worst time to be single or start a new chapter in your life. It's situational. Who knows what's going on?

Maybe we're going to read that. And they're like, we got married 10 years later. I don't know, man. But I wouldn't let the parents, that's the best advice. I wouldn't let the parents hold up your decision. Just see where it plays out, man. You do your thing.

Don't take it too serious and see where it goes. No need to make a solid, like, right now decision but damn that was pretty fun yeah i like doing that we're gonna do that i think from yeah send in more we have uh we have a instagram and uh just send in a voice recording of uh your questions or advice or they don't have to be serious they don't have to be um about anything in particular and we'll do our best to give you advice about it and also we have like 2,000 subscribers left to go less than that i believe actually to hit a million 100 k 200k on the a podcast, which would be pretty sweet.

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