Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Buttery Films the Most Polarizing Figure in Motocross

Episode Date: March 25, 2022

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We're live. Welcome. You're at the C-Boys. What up, bro. Dude, thank you. Yeah, thank you for coming on. This is awesome. I'm stoked.

Best one I've done yet. You guys come right. walk outside. I'm in the motorhome and we're here. The news class service. Yeah, the new setup is honestly slick. We might have to just start running these podcasts back home. Otherwise, we're probably never going to get any guests on. Just stay on the road in this thing and hit all 50 states. They'll get someone cool in every state you go to.

Dude, I've been following you for a long time. You've been at it for a while, right? How long have you been doing that time? I've been buttery since 2009. How did you pick that in? Yeah, when you say buttery, what is that? I understand it, but it's like for the lingo at the time, like out here and Cali especially we throw around a lot of slang but i was 15 years old instead of saying like

sick or cool or gnarly we used to throw out buttery like oh that was buttery this was buttery so i made a video yeah smooth just steed definitely smooth and steasy my favorite thing is whenever i tell people about you or whatever if i bring you up all the girls are always like buttery i like that name that's sweet i hope they do say that they do say that's awesome so do people um okay so ben has been primarily calling you buttery if i'm referring like about you to anyone else i'll call you buttery but do you prefer i shouldn't say prefer do you get called connor or buttery more just buttery the just buttery the whole time barely i think honor ever okay which i'm cool with whatever you know the nickname sticks it's cool it's worked and like yeah whatever you want to call me it's all good

by me i think it's going to stick with you like you're going to be like 60 at the track and they're like yo buttery still i'm like some old dude dude that'll be lit my gray hairs are falling out of my helmet i'm still riding But keep telling us. So, yeah, we just, I was filming dirt bikes at the time. Just my homies, I didn't have my own dirt bikes. I was just doing a lot of filming at that time. And we made a pretty sick video, a buttery video.

And I was like, dude, I don't know what to call this thing. And my homie's like, dude, you got to call that thing a buttery film. So, like, we just put it up on YouTube as a buttery film. And it was like the first legit edit I've ever done. And it got picked up by like all the big mainstream Moto accounts at the time. It was on like Swatmodo, Transworld, RacerX. So like, kind of overnight I was able. able to gain the name what year was that 2009 so this first video that you 15 yeah it was it was cool

so it's been buttery ever since then and then i'd have only been doing youtube for i think like three years now i was kind of anti-y-y-tube because like some of the people you watch are cringe like you guys aren't that those people they're like over the top just like that's not me i kind of just chill so i was like anti-y-y-y-tube i'm like dude i'm not going to be a YouTuber but like now we just have fun with it kind of the same same as you guys do it and it's definitely changed our lives for sure YouTube's awesome. So up until that, it was just Instagram. Just Instagram, strictly.

So I'd already had a, I don't know, maybe 300K or so on Instagram before we put out our first YouTube. So I was very well known in the Moto industry on that aspect. But like once you go to YouTube, Instagram, your mind's trained to, you know, you look at something double tap, scroll. YouTube's people are locked in. So it's a whole other demographic. And you get like that cult following and a lot of super cool people on YouTube. It's sick that you were able to grow that big on Instagram. because, like, we're vice versa.

Yeah, yeah. So let's say, like, let's go to your fuck-round edits. That's what we call it. That's what we call it, I guess. But they're so legit. We look forward to every time they come out, especially, like, Tyler Riz, too. He's got sick ones. We look forward to those big ones for sure.

And so, like, did you get that from watching, like, crusty demons and all that? I loved it. I grew up on Krusty Demons doing stuff like that. And, like, half my following was from the Moto side, because, like, filming the pros. So I got all those dudes to shout me out and, like, giving me video credits doing it for them. And then the other half was, like, the parties. Yeah. And, like, really promoting the party stuff, like, dude.

And it works. It works. Like, then people expect it, though, because, like, anywhere you go, like, I can't even turn down a fan beer now. I think they do expect it for sure. I'm like, no, I'm like, I'm just going to hang out with these kids. They get bummed if you turn down, like, a big night of party. Yeah. Because you've got to be tough.

A little bit. That you're this party ass there. Right. And I'm getting older in the hangover, sir, but I'm always down for a good party. Yeah. Same. Same here. I don't know if you still get it anymore, but I remember, like, it seemed like sometimes some of the pro riders and, like, certain people were maybe, like, salty, because you were, I mean, at least I'll say it, you were popping more than them, and they're, like, professional motocross riders, and you're out just fucking around, you know, doing whatever, having fun with it. Yeah, a couple dudes were pissed at first, and, like, the people that know me, they're all cool with me, but a couple dudes, if you look from the outside in, you know, you see a novice rider, some good dude, they're out there putting blood, sweat, and tears for pretty much no promo on social. But, like, that's our job.

I'm going to ride, have fun. I get a couple of videos, so, like, I'm doing it that way. You know, the internet's for everyone on Instagram. You could do it, too, but they're more focused on their racing. Yeah. And I'm just focused on videos, but a lot of guys are kind of understand now where I come from and come around to it. We just have fun with it. But, yeah, at first, a lot of dudes are pretty pissed about that.

Yeah, dude, because you're definitely a staple in the Motel community. We were talking about, I guess, niches and communities before we hopped on the pod. And, like, I think it's safe to say pretty much everyone in the modal community knows or has heard of you. It's pretty wild. I never thought it would get to this point. I always knew we were going to have a little fan base just because if you're passionate and you push it, it's all going to happen. But, like, I didn't think it'd get to this extent and the size that it is now. So I'm just thankful that we are.

you know, relevant and motto for what we do, and it's pretty cool. And I think just a lot of people, they relate to us because we just ride on the weekends for fun, and that's what everyone else does, too. There's only 40 dudes who can qualify who are going to be that fast you're going to see on TV, and everyone else is just riding to ride. So I think we're all kind of in that same boat. We're just riding dirt bikes because it's fun and we enjoy it and something to do with the buddies. Absolutely.

I think a ton of that is due to you, like, just live in it. Like, you're not ever, like, I need to progress to be better. I need to film some crazy stunt to be better, like you're truly just living it. Yeah, I try to better myself all the time, but I don't have to push it. Because there's no reason. Because say I go push it to do something sweet, do a backflip, then I can't put out YouTube videos for months. Exactly. Then I let these kids down.

Or if you get hurt, then what? Then what am I'm out of a job? Exactly. And I don't have to go big or be the fastest, dude. You know, I feel like, you know, with you and especially us, it's just like people relate. Not everyone's out there fucking hitting these giant jumps Or racing or doing backflips, whatever They just enjoy having fun

So when they're at work during the week They get to watch your video And it, you know, it's just It reminds them of it And then they get excited for the weekend And yeah It works a camaraderie of it's real You know

That's what it really is Is there any YouTubers that you watch That you're like, oh man I could see myself working into something like that or I want to aspire to do more content like them. I mean, you guys would be the most relatable by far. Because, like, you guys are, like, you do a little bit of everything. You're always outside.

You're always doing something new. All extreme sports, all action sports. I'd see, like, doing something like you guys do. I watch other YouTubers. The prank thing's big. I'm not really, like, prankster guy where I'm going to go out and, like, you know, like, no. Like milk?

Someone else. The Nelk shit's cool. I watch all of it, and I try to, like, take a piece of what everyone's doing, just to see, like, you know, what's going to be popping. I have ideas that I think would go, but I purposely don't do them just because it's not me, and I'm not going to, like, fake that on the internet. So I just kind of cruise with it, but, like, you guys are doing it the most. Like, I'd like to get into, like, trucks, war wheel stuff.

Like, with age comes cage, eventually maybe start getting into four-wheel stuff and start doing stuff like that, kind of whatever. I'm down to branch out and just do a little bit of everything, but you guys have kind of paved the way for that, for sure. Wow. Thank you, man. I think everyone loves the freaking challenge. charger, dude. Everyone loves you running over cones with the F-150. Everyone loves a charger, like...

Yeah, that beater truck. I need to bring that thing back out. You still have it? I was kind of wondering where that was, but... It's got two flat tires right now, so I'll bring that thing back out. Still runs, though. Still runs, pristine. I kind of fell away. I got, I fell in love with the van. The Mercedes Life got me. Too nice. Kind of pre-Madonna now and a little prepped up in the van, but I'd like to bring the beater back and get, like, OG, because some people on YouTube might not even know what that is. And I built such a following just off that beater truck and, like, mm-hmm. That's an interesting thing, too. It's relatable.

And you do something, like, let's say at a much smaller time than you were at now, you're like, well, I should probably bring that back because there's a bunch of viewers that haven't seen that yet. They haven't. Yeah, and everyone's got, like, a feeder truck. And, like, you know, half the people watching this probably have Ford's, too. So, like, either F-150 or Ranger, that's kind of like, Ranger. Ranger, that's the first one.

So, yeah, I'll bring that thing back for sure. I love that truck, and it runs great. I put a 60,000-mile junkyard motor in it. So technically, it's the newest vehicle I own of all my vehicle. do you do that the motor work do you do motor work on your bikes no i mean i hate i can do bike i can do exterior like pull parts off on parts changer yep and i can do that all but depending on how i'm feeling that day or the severity of it i'll take it to someone i'd rather nah that it makes totally sense dude it makes more sense well we tried getting you out to glamis

the other day and yeah pinched up too too too too didn't even make it we did i was struggling i was so hung over that day i really wanted to come out with you guys but i was it's probably good that you didn't come honestly because it was so windy we had a good time but yeah we were hoping you to be know to show us around a little bit though it changes every day so say you find a jump one day especially if you say it's as windy as it is you could go there tomorrow and it won't be the same overnight like that so it's the hardest part there's stuff there's kind of some staples that kind of stay stay around but not it's so ever changing and the hardest part about

glamis is you're almost out of gas by the time you find a jump yeah yeah we noticed that Yeah, we noticed that. And then we noticed when you do find a jump, they're either tiny and they don't look very cool or they're fucking huge. Mass. Yeah. You got the little ones that you probably wouldn't really start on Instagram because they're just warm up. They're like, yo, let's go look at this thing. And you're looking at it.

You're like, damn, that thing's probably fourth really on it. Yeah. 150 feet. I hope I make it. Now, that's why we're hoping you were going to pull up and be a good rider and look cool. That was my vision on my goal. I was hoping that I was going to be the case, but it just didn't end up working out. I'm bummed.

That's all right. No, we're here now. I'll come back up to Minnesota make up for it. There we go. So how did you, like, all get into, like, the dirt bikes? My pops put me on a dirt bike when I was younger. Like, the six years old, I got my first one for my birthday. And, like, as soon as I got on it, I fell in love.

And instantly, I was like, this is what I'm going to do. So then I rode growing up, and I didn't have a bike for a long time. And so I was just, I was like, oh, I'll be a filmer, because that's the closest thing you could be to the action. At least you're at the track, you're hanging with the dudes, you're standing on the track. So I was a film guy, but I always wanted to ride, so I just saved up money. And I just worked construction, actually. I dropped out of high school, and I worked for a grading contractor.

And I ran, I was a laborer for a long time, and then I ended up running equipment. But the owner who owned the company had a $4.50, and he fronted it to me. And I just took money out of my paycheck every month until I paid it off. Really? So that's how I, like, earned my first bike, so I was super stoked. I think it made me work harder for it, and that's why I respect it so much that I'm able to do it, and it's technically a job. Right. You dropped out of high school.

Yeah. I wouldn't suggest that there's people probably watching this. Like, yo, he dropped out, but don't do it. That's not that cool. Unless you plan on working, because a lot of people don't want to work nowadays. I just already had something set up where I made it through sophomore year. I had decent grades. I had a 4.17 freshman year.

That's my claim to fame. So when you were confident enough with that, like, what were you doing? The construction ahead of you that you, the flack that you got for dropping out? Like, did you get flack for that? My parents weren't stoked. No, and they weren't stoked about it at all. But I ended up moving in with, it was my buddy. He rode dirt bikes as well.

So I moved in with my boss as well. Really? And I would just, it was on a farm, and I used to buck hay. We had horses there. We had 35 horses. So I'd buck hay, and that's what paid my rent to live there. And then I would just go to work with him every day. And I was, like, dead set on being an equipment operator.

I can kind of run any piece of machinery And I thought that's what I was going to do for life And I was like pumped on it Obviously I would ride dirt bikes like weekends But I was like dead set like yeah I'm gonna run equipment for the rest of my life And like operating equipment kind of goes hand in hand With dirt biking

But then long story short I went to Vegas to an after party for Supercross Got all drunk And my boss said I couldn't come to work hung over But if I missed today I was fired So I got fired Oh damn And I lost my whole deal

And like dude I was banking on this thing So I was like, what am I going to do? That was when you were still paying off that bike? Yeah. So I'm like, dude, now I'm sweating it. And my homie's like, you should make merch. I'm like, dude, there's no way anyone's going to buy my merch. How many followers were at that time?

I had about 130K on Instagram. And I was like, dude, there's no way anyone's going to buy this thing. He's like, dude, I'm telling you just try it out. And I thought it was kind of dorky because I was like, dude, no one's going to rock my name. And like, I don't think if people really fuck with me that hard. And he pushed me for it. And sure shit, dude, I just did 100 T's on the first drop. and they sold out in like an hour.

Buttery films teas. Yeah. It was just one buttery hit right here. Nothing on the back and that was it. What year was that? That was 2017. That's, yeah. No shit.

So is that point forward? You were like, ah, this Instagram thing might... Could work. Yeah. I always knew there was going to be something. I was just, I had a platform. I knew it could go somewhere. I didn't know what I was going to do with it,

but I knew it could go somewhere. So you aimed, you did aim to kind of build this platform. Yeah. At least I thought it was going to do. going to be big moto filmer. So I just wanted to maybe create my own website and, like, host videos or be like the premier film edit dude where pros hit up buttery. We're going to get an edit with this dude or whatever the case. That's where I thought it was going. I didn't think I would brand myself to like be my own rider and my own dude. That wasn't the vision, but it's a

personality. It worked out because like once I saw a piece of that and I was passionate for it, I'm like, dude, I got to ride this way. Best case scenario. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, I think you have one of the best balances between being a filmer and being a rider right in between I can do a little bit of both yeah and like I mean if you're a filmmaker a lot of times like you if you're just strictly a filmer

you grow up and being like I love my job but I'd like a little more credit you know always want a little more credit but then the fact that you started riding and started riding really well I was sick I was super just being around the right people too like out here you ride a dudes who are better than you all the time and being around pros

like it's easy to progress because they'll be like give you technique or tips and advice on how you can better yourself and especially when you film like you watch them and you break it down see what they're doing and then you can try to mimic it out on the track so I was able to progress pretty quickly as well so that was super cool we always say that too just with anything it's the people that you surround yourself with it's everything yeah that's the gnarly part about being here everyone is so close and everyone's so many people here every professional rider lives here every YouTuber lives here, TikTok star,

like anyone who's anyone on the internet or in the sport is right here. Why do you think that is? Obviously, I understand like the moto aspect of it because it's just, you can ride you around, but like, why do you think all the, you've got to be somewhere? I think there's hype too. Like when you guys come out of state, there's not a lot of hype here. We do have nice weather. Super nice weather.

We got dirt bike tracks. You can surf snow, skate, and moto in the same day. And it's all close enough to drive to all of them. and being by the beach i mean it's in a nice area and the houses are nice but it's overpriced a lot of liberals seems like so expensive yeah everything's expensive sucks yeah so like other than the expensive part like it's got to be somewhere it might as well be here yeah there's perks we got chicks out here there's girls everywhere so that's always cool everyone's here it's easy to connect a lot of people out here move quickly because they connect and network so fast you guys did on

your own by putting out the videos and building the following on youtube but there's dudes out here who will collab on TikTok or the tubes whatever and overnight because they just they cross platform and share yeah does that jade a lot of people like when you were saying i didn't want to be a YouTuber because a lot of the YouTubers are so cringy i i think so yes to people who watch our stuff will be like yo now that i see your YouTube like i kind of want to start a channel because it seems like you guys just have fun with the homies and chill and i always promote i'm like dude take advantage of the internet and like do this with your boys even if you guys don't get famous you can look back on your videos you got like dude we had a fun time this was super cool

but if you're meeting like someone random they're like what do you do i'm like oh i kind of make youtube videos people are like oh this dude's a dork yeah and i don't even go into detail i'm just like yeah just another dumb ass on the internet so we have the same same dilemma don't worry yeah same thing yeah same thing dudes that haven't seen your stuff they'll be like oh these dudes don't know what they're doing it's even more rare where we're at though yeah i guess you differ youtube what is that yeah they're tripping out there everyone out here even old people they're kind of tuned in enough to know it. Right.

Like, I even have, like, an older demographic that's like, there's 60 plus people watching my show. I'm like, dude. I can't believe you guys even figured out how to log in this shit. No, there's a lot of people from Minnesota, especially that watch you. A lot of people, that's mostly our following is what we found, especially traveling like this.

We're like, man, the more we travel, the more we realize that Midwest base is really the main demo that fucks with us. Yeah, yeah. And when we post YouTube videos back home, so many people comment, yo, you guys should collab with buttery. I think you're the most requested. Yeah, dude. Spice versus.

So many things like that. Really. Which that's what Medium was saying. Like, all of our viewers are like Midwest. And I shouldn't say all. We got plenty all around the world. But majority. And then he said when you guys go on trips up to like Washington and shit, you'll meet almost more.

I'm sure a lot of people know you here, but there's a lot of people here that might be too good to watch your YouTube channel because everyone here is kind of sweet you know they're not going to take the time to watch your YouTube and sit down and you could go especially in motor you could go to any public track and see any pro at any given moment so it's like it doesn't have that effect with them it doesn't weigh the same yeah they don't need to go say hi we see us all the time so some dudes here like especially at the local tracks they're probably like kind of over us but the further you get away from your hometown and go to other states i think because they think they would never meet you in person or see you too and you're in their tiny town or

nothing happens, they're just so stoked that you're there. Right. So it's always super cool to hit road trips and get the feedback from people. It's insane. I can't even believe, like, the amount of people that come up to us is so gnarly. It's the best. It's weird because, like, yeah, you could, like, going through Instagram DMs, you can connect with 100 people in a day, but if you connect with, like, two kids that watch

your YouTube channel, a glamist, like, we talked to some of them, the dad was stoked. He was just everything about it. And I'm like, this experience is worth, you know, unfortunately, worth those hundred DMs like it's the best they love it they're always surprised to see you in they're probably tripping what are you doing here yo it's not snowing out here like what do you guys doing here they're tripping that you guys are out there what's your opinion on staying in california so many people are leaving right now i'm i'm right in the middle there's so many pros and cons it's 50 50 you're out in the middle like i said the networking the weather everything that you need is

at your disposal right here right so it's super in that way and as far as tracks and stuff you're It's kind of the spot to be. But if you took your money elsewhere, like, you guys got property out there and stuff, your money takes you so much further. I'm kind of thinking, like, damn, maybe if we had property in another state, I'm going to try to pull it off here as much as I can. But with, like, the way everything appreciates and inflation, like, I don't know if that's going to be the case.

So my goal is to stay here, but if I have to go out of state, I'll just go somewhere else, get property, and we'll just start ripping dirt bikes out there. And, like, I mean, you guys made it happen, and you're pretty much in the middle of nowhere. like that that's sweet i'd love to see you stay in california because i it's just the vibe i'd love to but at the same time like absolutely i'll try to do whatever it takes to make it happen to stay here it's just expensive i just could not imagine for one paying these gas prices right now but for two like the taxes out here and obviously there's a lot of really really cool people out here but also like the people out here are just way different than i guess what i'm used to like they just seem

a little like it's liberal out there nose up too much so liberal yeah i don't know it's a whole different world that completely people aren't as open to like say what up and yeah they're not that's just the start like like i don't know why but i'm just like have this and grain my head like when i'm walking down a sidewalk and there's another guy walking i go like this like give him the head nod yeah i don't know it just doesn't seem like it's like that around here no everyone's very entitled out here they they either came for money the weirdest part is Everyone here is retired, but they're rich. And you don't know what they did to start.

And, like, they got these $5, $6 million beach homes, but the lights are never on. They're their vacation home. Yeah, they don't live there. They're not residents. How do you even pull this thing off? And you're living somewhere else. Money, mad money somehow.

But no one's really working. I'm trying to be that, dude, not really work and have money. That is, honestly, the goal with pretty much, if you can do what you love doing, like, it's just the best. I don't know if we can, like, really say it. We can cut it off if not. So Evan, you met Evan. Yeah, he was on the stilts.

So he's just our buddy, right? And he's been just hanging around for years. He comes around whenever, and what he does is for a living is he removes asbestos. You know, asbestos, it's like super dangerous. He's been doing that for 10 years. Anyways, we offered him like a spot. Like, we're like, yo, like you can quit your job and we'll just, we'll pay you and you can come beyond the team and just come with us.

and make videos because we love having you around. You've got such good energy and you fit in so well. And we just did that actually this morning. He accepted it. Oh, really? Yeah, he texted his boss already. You inked it this morning on the way up. On the way here, he texted his boss and he gave him this too much.

I was trying to tell him I was like, yo, maybe like wait 24 hours. You might be cool to fire this text and we're like, shit. I was down. I'm like, dude, the offer's going to be there forever. But my point, though, is that, you know, doing what you love doing is. more important than, you know, it's not like, you don't feel like you have a job. You only got one opportunity in one life. Exactly.

And Evan was, you can just tell, he's just so happy about it. I'm so glad that he couldn't do it. He's about to drop a tear. Right away. He was the first dude to just hop on the stills. He's so freaking. He's so freaking. Yeah, he's just, but he's like that.

He's not trying. He's just like that. That's how he'd be at any. And so we definitely hope that it doesn't change. Like, it obviously will change the more ingrained we get together. but like we hope that he doesn't like feel like he has to put on for the boys and like make extra hard like just do be yourself do your best to be yourself but it's easy to get jaded to it and like you always got to stay keep that perspective like how lucky you are to be able to do what you

what you do for sure we're so lucky dude we are to make money on the internet and like literally do whatever you want and people come up and say what up to you I mean that's something you dream I've been to have it a reality. So, like, what is your daily or weekly routine? Like, how does it look? Do you have a schedule? You just kind of run it, and you're just kind of going with the flow. We kind of sometimes go to the similar tracks on certain days, just depending if they're open

or not, but we free flow, totally free flow. I wake up, I'll text Eli, medium. I'm like, yo, should we ride a day? They'll come over, he brings Chick-Flay, whatever the case, and we just go. We try to make it as busy as possible, but we don't have to be anywhere. No one's expecting us to do anything. so I've pretty much been retired for a couple of years I think like anybody listening

that watches your videos is like fuck yeah that's what I kind of thought in a good way like they just and that's how people feel watching your videos they're like man they just go along with the flying but that's Cali kind of stuff

we're on full of cruise control we just we cruise it but yeah we don't even we don't plan nothing here and there like stirring the super cross beach and trying to be busy and go from round around state to state do things but dude i'll just wake up and be like should we ride today should we not ride today and we'll just we do whatever today's episode is sponsored by honey we all shop online and we've all seen that promo code field taunt us at checkout but thanks to honey manually searching for coupon

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eli when did he become medium so that was 2009 as well so when i moved into that house he was actually my neighbor and so he was homeschooled and so we would just ride one tens together when i got off work we'd come home and we just ride one tens together he'd go to homeschool all day and we were just neighbors and he was little boy for probably the first four years

and he was branded like pretty well little boy like i think over a hundred k little boy what oh how do you have that many shit i didn't know that he was a film or two so he was little boy films he was doing his whole deal that's sick people also knew who he was and we always kind of rolled together and then uh one day he just got big and we're like damn you're kind of looking pretty medium size now so there's not a little boy upgraded him he upgraded him he upgrade to medium everyone wants him to go large i don't know if he's going to not yet it's stuck to he doesn't he can't go to large until he like yeah starts hitting the way he's been in the

i'm not saying he's weak yeah he's trying to definitely up it but uh yeah we've just been boys forever just we were homies and in the beginning everyone thought we were brothers and we wouldn't even tell them otherwise we'd run with it be like yeah that's fun too like just leave a little questions keep the comments running up yeah people like it sometimes the unknown i haven't even known i i met these guys when i was i don't even know 17 oh okay i guess you would have been older i don't know but um so like i would not consider myself have growing up with you i went to school with ken we weren't even friends in high school oh really it's pretty crazy honestly That's funny.

That's sick that you, it's like, he's your, like, you'd take a bullet for him, per se. Oh, yeah, lifelong homies. Had to bail him out of jail a few times now. It's been a couple, a couple scenarios we've gotten ourselves into. Dude, I was going to ask that, so I just see it from following you on social media. It seems like you're always surrounded by guys, like, starting to be for, like, crazy. Starting fights in some, for, it's like, hit by races or, parties or at Supercross

and someone's getting a fight in the stands dude it's like everywhere you go I draw that attention and people or people know that I'm there and they kind of get drunk and want to show out in hopes that they make it on a video I don't ever promote it and tell people that they should go do this I'm kind of the dude it's like yo let's not do this

just being older because I've seen a lot of an experience I haven't been arrested so I'm hyped on that that's good dude it always seems to happen anywhere I'm at like yeah it's like trouble it doesn't follow you but It just seems to be chaos around you, right? It's right there. I'm just like a news reporter.

I'm like, no, I just film it, and they just provide the content. I'm just there to capture the moment. Not something you're interested in getting tangled up in. Yeah, I try to separate a little bit. If I can post a clip of this and then not to talk to anyone about it. I feel like that's kind of like the Cali, like people seem to like a Cali thing. I don't know. It's like you see a lot of stuff out here or something, yeah.

And you just see a lot of stuff going on out here. But yeah, everyone thinks there's. sweet out here everyone's got something to prove the people who've done the least and have the you know the least accolades are going to act the sweetest yeah anyone who's earned it and come up by themselves they'll just you'll just know that you don't you don't got to talk about it you can just be a cool ass dude but everyone is trying to show out and be sweet be the least sweet dude in the room every time god damn have you ever been in a fight then you many many fight not that I want to be you just had to but yes many a fights uh a lot the first few I was in were people that

were haters like I was out at a bar and people would come up and be like shit like because of your con start turban you creations they just like yo you think you're sweet I'm like nod because of your content or because you're like I think of your content or because you're like I think it's just you have a name and a following and you're at a bar and that would be weird we used to have the same thing same same thing but they don't yeah it was like it was just jealous people are jealous that you guys are doing it you know yeah you're the big name it's also in the town it's easier to like clown on someone when you're still kind of starting out because you don't have much behind you.

No accolades, as you said, it's when you're like that. But now if someone said, like, chirp me and I'm at a bar, I'd just be like, what do you care? You sit back and laugh. I'm always like, yeah, dude, I don't even care. I sit back laughing unless they're throwing the first punch, which tends to happen. Damn. Really?

Yeah, that's happened a few times. I feel like Cali guys are quick to fight. I don't know. It just seems like what I see. Yeah, we only have to deal with this small country boys. who, like, hey, you've seen Letterkenny? No. Anyway, just small country boys who are just ready to beef up.

Those aren't the guys beefing. Usually the country boys are the ones that have our backs at, like, all time. It's like the weird, like, like. Yeah. That just kind of goes back, though. The country dudes, like, earned it. You know, they have a job. They earn their stay.

They're keeping everything. Everyone out here is entitled. They don't have jobs. Their parents are rich. You know, they're pulling their credit card out, looking sweet, buying shit for chicks. it's on their parents' card. So then they're all drunk and they want to look like the hero

and come out swinging and throw the first punch. You're like, oh, I knocked out buttery, whatever. And they'll go for it. Yeah, I was kind of going to say, like, the frat boy white boys. I think it's the street cred. Yeah. Now what I just realized it? Because everyone kind of knows everyone.

Everyone talks around here. You know, like, if you did some shit like that back home, it's like not cool. True. You're going to piss off a lot of people because everyone kind of stays in the community. But out here, it's like, I don't know. It's an easy way for them to earn the name over now. They get their name out. and they sound cool.

I landed a punch on buttery on Saturday night. Like, what do you guys think? That shit, I try to stay out of it all the time. That does suck because that literally, let's say it was you. Did they, they'd be like, yep, I'm going to get clout from that. From beefing with you. Temporary. Yeah, temporary.

I haven't been knocked out yet, so. It's good. That's good, too. You got a strong chance. No chaos, no arrest. Someone was fucking with medium the other night. I didn't even really know this scenario. My homie's like, yo, and I looked behind and they got them pressed up against a wall.

So I just went up to this kid and just threw them straight on the. the ground right away and that ended that quick there was 10 of these dudes I'm like oh we're about to go 10 v2 but luckily just one clean throw and that's all it took and we were out of there you guys don't seem like you're the type to back down if it ever rises not if we have to yeah if you have to you do which I'm I'm going to avoid it at all costs but a lot of the people who talk the most are the ones who are going to do the least too especially like the dude who's cussing and puffing his chest at the party he's not going to be the one to throw the dude who's quiet is going to be the one he's going to start throwing out clean punches.

Yeah, one time we were in this bar in Michigan, we were up on a snowberry trip. And Jake, Jake was shit-talking this fucking random old dude. He was like a 55-year-old guy. And Jake was kind of beefing with him, right? So he started. Jake started it? Yeah, yeah, Jake started and they were kind of like puffing up. And I only remember one part of the story.

and it's Ben chirping him for being short and said, never mind. We're cutting this anyway. Ken takes shits bigger than you, and that's when he tackled him in the bar. That's him he had to get on it. He tackled you. I'm like,

you can't. Yeah, I was like, but you can't. And we all said it's kind of a universal thing if you, like, make a little man joke, he's going to come after you.

The best part, which kind of shows how it is out there, next morning, see each other at McDonald's. Apologize. Yeah. People around us like, hey, man,

I'm sorry about that. Just boy up real quick. Everything's good. You wouldn't see that out. People would never apologize for nothing out here. Even if they're in the wrong, they got to stay strong and say that they were the right dude. So I always apologize.

There's dudes that I had beef with or they had beef with me previously from years ago. I see him in the pits and I didn't even know it. You'd probably turn down a pretty decent-sized sponsor, obviously, like, you don't want to be a sellout or anything. But let's say, I don't know, like, Honda comes by and we're like, we're just going to fund you. We're going to give you bikes and we're going to give you. money, but if you had to change, you would never. It would kind of ruin the contact.

And that's the biggest thing. Honda's the most corporate out of all of them, because everyone comes in Japan. But you wouldn't be able to ride on the streets. Nothing illegal, no, nothing that's fun or something that could gain you traction. So if you take a deal that's going to, you know, steer you away from how you built a audience. How could you go back on what you just took years of building? There's always a battle of like you could take them, take, take,

the handout or whatever you want to call it or you can just keep doing what you're doing and make that handout and some and it makes over a long period of time usually but you know usually like if you don't take the sponsor you got to work for it we said this about danny duncan we said this about us said it about you it's like a cult following usually cult is a negative word but like you work for it and then the people come to your video no matter what you title it You know, no matter what's in it, they're, like, stoked that it's there. They're diehard. That's what's cool.

Like, you create these lifelong fans and, like, I didn't even think I'm that cool. So the fact that people think I'm cool enough to, like, watch this every time just keeps me stoked and motivated to want to keep you on. So if you have, like, a fan base, it's marketing a sense. You guys have built a brand. I've built a brand. Like, these are companies pay millions of dollars to do what you're doing organically making videos. So if you can get people behind you and you're cool with them and you're cool with you, game over that's the coolest relationship in the world is having a fan who's going to be there

for you yeah like with your merch like i take a lot of pride in our merch like i went to school for that yeah yeah you're the a i love the design yeah yeah i love like of because think we follow a lot of youtubeers oh almost all of them do merch everyone i keep an eye on as many as i can i love yours so much yeah you got some great design it's just good yeah vice versa you guys and that's why people are stoked on it because you like and then we said the same thing would anyone really wear our name it's not our our our name is even a real word you know buttery's a word and then but it's sick that that they do because they're stoked on you

and obviously they're sick designs too super super thankful and I always try to be as involved as possible with the merch so that's that's the biggest thing is if you don't want to wear it you got to wear I think it's cool so yeah it's all we wear it's cool yeah it's all we wear and we actually struggle with it like I think you have a wide variety of people like wanting Like, I don't know, wearing cool shit here. We actually kind of have to cater a little bit to our audience.

Yeah. Like, we want to, and then so we drop a lot of, like, you know, easy to digest pieces and some different stuff, some hunting stuff. And then we'll drop in, like, a tie-dye like this or something. Yeah. Just to mix it up. And it works well. You just never know who the next customer is, so you kind of want a piece of everything.

Just if you have a solid lineup of everything, someone's going to catch someone's eye. You have no idea. So it's cool to diversify and have stuff like that. Like, this is all Cali out here. But it's weird because I'll go, like, out of state and I'll do stuff specifically Cali-style in Louisiana. He sticks out like a sore thumb.

He's in a bright pink tie. That is the only dude out there. I'm like, damn, it looks kind of weird out here. It looked normal at the house party last week, but out here it's kind of weird. But it's cool just to see that it's grown to be as big as it is and hit all the states. You guys trip international too? Yeah. Isn't that crazy?

Yeah. Yeah, it is crazy. It's like Germany, Australia. Tons of Canada for us. You obviously should have Canada. Like, we got places all over. I remember, so we do all of our own merchandise fulfillment. And Ken does most of it.

But sometimes I'll come back and help with them. And I'll be like, I've never even heard of this country. You don't even know they have internet out there. Dude, I'm like, how, they don't even speak English. Do they speak English there? They're just watching subtitles. Yeah, it's insane. They just think what you're doing, sweet on subtitles.

It's just, but they're that involved at least that they even bought some merch. It's so cool. It's just crazy. And people don't know how supportive it's cool. You're building a brand and then that money just goes back in to make videos and to keep doing it. So they're like, they're paying for the content in a sense. So it's cool when people support in that way. And literally every single dollar since we've started, it's gone.

We just invested back into something. Like if it can make content, then it's great. Like, you know. And obviously there's how much content can it make is like the cost, dollar cost for it, worth it but yeah we uh yeah you guys make some big purchases with all the vehicles and stuff it's insane we i mean we've well we're 100% all in you know it's cool but yeah and it's tough like with tough and a good thing in like personal purchases like so if you get a new bike like that's going to directly benefit the channel and so every purchase that we make personally we want to benefit

the channel of course but that that varies so much you know ryan bought a 15 14000 dollar jet ski and then blew it up right away and we were like this is this sucks and we'll figure it out we'll help you out on the rebuild and shit I didn't tell him to buy the jetty right and so yeah it's tough

how that works out and you know Ben and CJ and Ryan freaking $100,000 cars right now like we want them to put out for these videos but like that's hard because if you break something like it happens fast I don't know it's like you're going

to something and you can either make content with it or not and you kind of got to, you know, put up some of your money to, well, it's great though for me, you know, benefit the rest of the company. Yeah. Content's always good though. Content's king, man. Right. Yeah. Because the only reason we own these things. Yeah, I would never buy any of this. Like, dude, dude, you see that Tesla jump the other night? That was insane. Yeah, dude. I didn't even want to ask you about that because we've all seen it a million times at this point, but it's crazy. Yeah. If that was your guys's deal, Obviously, there's kind of some legal behind it, but you would get out of it, and that thing had C-boys on the hood, and you jumped it?

So, like, you're laughing. What did we get out of it? Like, we were wanting what the repercussions for something like that is. I don't think anything's going to happen. They have to be there and see it. The video is only enough, and, like, you're going to get hit with the fine or slap on the wrist. You're not going to jail. That's not like a hit and run was the.

Yeah, you're not going to jail. That dude's going to get out smooth. No one knows. They don't even know who it is. The worst part, though, is that dude's, like, not getting shit from it. Everyone else is getting, yeah. He was just trying to, like, show off for Alex Choi, I think, was it? Yeah.

That's what it was. Is that hill pretty gnarly, though? It's insane. You jump that hill on a bike, right? It drops out real fast. You go so slow to go so far, and there's, like, a tree that overhangs. If you cut the tree a little bit, you could go really far, you could go deep, but you just cruise, and that thing will take you all the way down.

It's like a ski jump. It's insane. It's like the long-distance skis-dudes. It's kind of like that. I can't believe. They're thinking when they built that. Yeah, crazy. How come they haven't cut it down?

It's the, that's the L.A. That's, if you guys go, you haven't been in the hills at L.A. at all the rich people are. This is, like, what you hear the hills, Travis Scott, L.A. in the hills. Like, you'll see why they want it, but it's just having a view of the city, so they didn't want to grade the thing. When you're there in person, the thing's massive. Yeah, I saw a picture or a video of, like, the run-up. It's like almost a quarter mile from top to bottom.

It's long. So you think he was just on it the entire way? That dude was hauling ass. And I just think. that dude had no idea how big he was going to go. He thought he needed to go, you know, 70 to jump this car, not knowing, like, for every foot it falls away, you're going more feet out.

Yeah. Like, he was hauling ass. And dude's like, that Dobrook dude jumped it. Yeah. Well, he let another guy jump it. Josh of the jungle. He jumped it. And, like, you don't have to go that fast to go that far.

Yeah, that was sweet. That was nuts. If you guys had the razors or something, the can't-ans out here, and you went and jumped that thing, you could boot that thing to the bottom. I bet so many people do. no one has taken it like i've seen dirt bikes and harleys and teslas but i haven't seen anyone like a pre-runner with built suspension jump and they can crush that job you know i don't know how california works but

that spot has become so popular i feel like they're going to do something now after this tesla jump they're going to probably have some signs up or some kind of repercussion i don't know but i'm sure the people i live there fucking hate it dude i went on dirt bikes last time and everyone came out and was stoked but i think that tesla thing's kind of going to ruin it for some people a lot of people don't know where it's at though but if you could jump that thing with the pre-runner you'd be the man we should have ryan jumping on his quad yeah you got the quad out here it's in there it's tucked away tires on it though yeah you on a viral quad video honestly i got a jump for you it's in l-a that would pretty gnarly quad jump ryan's not much of a jumper unfortunately

we're not much of quad guys he just he hangs twice he hangs twice he's in But he put his dune tires on backwards So if that says it was I see that all the time In Glamis dude's first time The cups are backwards Okay, if we did on our I mean again, I can't make that much fun

We could definitely have that happen to us If we put our cups on backwards On our dirt bikes Oh you see that? You just got to quit The guys on dirt bikes put them backwards? I haven't seen Mo. Oh, obviously you wouldn't ride

Yeah, see the quads It'd be pretty fun I'm sure there are dudes out there on dirt bikes You put their paddles on backwards I just haven't seen it but I'm no for a fact it happens out there. I damn near did it. Yeah.

Because it's weird because you think it would go the opposite. You're all stressed about doing your tire and not popping your tube and then you put it on backwards. Because the moto knobbies aren't directional on the rears. So then you just think about slapping it on. Yeah, you got to look at the sprocket there. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. This has been good.

Yeah. Any questions? It's been good. Close it down. Yeah, we're going to ride some pitters. Yeah, we're going to go ride some pitters, hopefully. Yeah, let's go. cruise around, I'll share you the Cali.

Maybe we'll get some cops or something. It's kind of like on our bucket list. So what is the urban pit bike life like if you do run into cops? Every time I've ridden into cops, I've always been okay. I think it's just the way I come off or maybe the way I approach them.

Everyone else out here tells me to have a problem, especially in my hometown here, Escanita, they get their bikes yanked. What? I've never had that problem. Very different. Can we get them back if they get yanked? Yeah.

If you have the titles. I don't have titles for mine. Oh, fuck. We don't got titles. I mean, they're at home. You kind of just got to weigh out your options. I'd always be cool with the cops at first because a majority of the time they're going to be cool with you just tell you to bail.

I have ran before. It just, you got to kind of a fighter flight. You got to figure out that scenario. I've ran, but if you run, you've got to make sure you're gone. Yeah. Because then if you get caught from fleeing, now you're talking about, like, actual jail time. So if you're running, you're gone. But if you kind of know how to ride, I mean, you're on two wheels.

You're going to be out of there. You're gone. And is that always with helmets? I mean, like, a lot of times. Pitters don't get ridden with helmets. We ran away. We had a house party here. We went down for something.

And there was four of us. We all had chicks on the back doubles. So those things are kind of bogging. And we were in our hometown and we painted away. Kind of slice and dice, kind of some back alleys. It's all about the weaves. It's all. Dang.

A little bobbing weave. The chicks are, some are crying. Some think it's sweet. Hell yeah, this is awesome. It's like a movie. Yeah, as long as you get away, you should be okay. But yeah, if we go out and ride a day, I'm sure we'll have some fun. Perfect.

See a motocop and he'll want to ride with us. Hell yeah. Well, let's go do it. Sounds good. We'll go follow Buddy on, Buttery, Buddy. Buddy Buttery on Instagram and YouTube and Go shows Merch Some Love. Hell yeah, thank you guys. I appreciate you guys for having you on and coming out here.

We'll link you down below. Perfect. Absolutely. Thanks for having us over. See if we can get this RV out of here later. If not, we're stuck here, so. Hey, I got extra room, so come on in. Yeah, we might end up just crashing here.

Yeah, we got to go find Evan anyways. All right, brother. Peace. Thank you.