Life Wide Open with CboysTV - CboysTV on Leaving Cormorant, Kens Secret Life, & Tax Evasion

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

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Yeah, we've always been buddies, Ken. Against Ken's will. I used to think that you were just a legend, Ryan. Really? He used to. You guys just feel it coming, thin ice. Yeah, I can't. I'm fired up.

I saw it. Iced over this morning. We messed up by giving Ryan a quad because he hasn't wrote it. If you're going to play the system, you can't do that and be public about it. Oh, come on. You got to be kidding me. I'm all left out today, dude. Brother.

Someone go give me some camo. I was going to wear that shirt and then I was like, I'll dress up and wear it a little I was about to do the same. This is pretty crazy. If it's not news to anyone that's listening, we love camo. Yeah, it's the best. Yeah, very noticeable. Oh, Mike, you look nice.

Sweater? Yeah, this is my Thanksgiving outfit. Well, I brought a second outfit, but I was like, I kind of want to like wear the nice outfit again. So here I am wearing. wearing the same clothes two days in a row just to look nice kind of an oxymoron you look nice is it yeah it's just like you you're oh you you put your nice clothes on again but they're dirty are they actually dirty though i don't know i mean if you're just wearing them inside all day i'd say they're not that's that's kind of my

thought too little uh pumpkin pie on them if i like sit in my office all day my clothes to me are not dirty i'd agree the t-shirt maybe but i'd agree underwear especially like pants like pants are good hands in a hoodie is good. At least three days, at least. I guess it depends what you're doing. I think you still got to wash it. Every single day. And that's fair.

You wear it straight in the washer. Really? And that's why Ken's hoodies, remember like his Milwaukee Doc Camel hoodie? Well, it's getting some washes. How many times you fire this thing in the wash? And you're like all of them every time. Yeah, every time you work.

Like any time you take it off, throw in the hamper and then straight in the washer. You know, but that's what big laundry has taught Ken. Exactly. It's true. You know. Ken's a slave to the system. Yeah. But it's like.

Just wear out your washer and dryer. I want to clean. I told you when I put it on. I don't want a slightly marginally dirty one. That's what he learned at the Hawaii May Tag. Yeah, when Ken went on that conference. Yeah, that conference. Thank you.

Always wash. Always wash your clothes. Isn't this, aren't we selling the appliances? Yes, but you need to wash. And make sure whenever you have the chance to talk about it, make sure people know they need to wash after everywhere. I guess it would keep them buying more washing. and dryers.

I just think it's gross. It's like... I think your t-shirt and your underwear and your socks are for sure. Well, that's a nice thing about your underwear is like they don't really get dirty because there's nothing that touches them on the outside. So you're disagreeing that? You think that you're going to rock your underwear two days in a row. Yeah, no, three, four.

I mean, they're not getting dirty. One way, flip it, one way, and then inside out and then flip it again. You get four good wares out of it. You can do the same with condoms. No, I'm just kidding. Siege, you're right. that that is the way to do it, I would say. What did you just say?

Just forget about it. Do you guys wash your clothes before, like if you buy a new sweatshirt, do you wash it, then wear it? I do because I'm a weird size, but sorry, I love, I love straight out of the bag. I normally don't, but Alex normally does because she thinks that there's germs on them from one they were made. That's what Sidney says too. Yeah.

Maybe it's just a girl thing. I love the like, yeah, that like fresh. department store fresh birch that more of the smell but oh love it smells good smells new yeah if you buy from seaboycv.com it might smell like burnt rubber quad a little bit but that's because ken's just run and laps in the warehouse you're going to get that sometimes we did it in the back area where there's all the clothing still like boxed up yeah but you still did like seven laps back and forth you were burning rubber have you watched a new bid yeah you have You haven't, have you?

I was just doing quad guy stuff. Oh, wow. I know that you haven't watched the new vid because you haven't said something about it. Oh, no. What did we do to me? Well, Ryan, we just didn't know that you're a full-blown rock star now. Rockstar? It's the confusion.

Yeah. Like, we didn't know that you started a singing career. Singing? Oh, no. Like, it was news to us, too. I actually have no idea what. Like, did you guys know that Ryan? Ryan started a singing career?

I do kind of look like a little K-pop star. Yeah. Have you been getting these comments in your DMs? Mm-mm. Or on your picks or anything? Like, hey, could I get some singing lessons or anything like that? Just give her a little refresh, see if anything pops up. Refresh.

Like, you have any new covers coming out? Christmas album, for sure. Ryan's doing a Christmas album? I love that. Man, I feel so fucking lame for not watching the video. Came out at 7 o'clock. I was with family. For the record, I haven't watched it yet either, which I feel bad about.

I have nothing. I didn't get home until late just went. straight to bed. What were you doing, Ken? Thanksgiving. Oh. Family Thanksgiving? I didn't know if you're at.

Swanies or something. Or swast. No. Yeah, that is Thanksgiving. Yeah. His family, I don't know what they were doing, but he was at sauce. He was at the bar. He gave meatballs.

How was everyone's Thanksgiving with their fans? I did it a little double time, so two times of food. What do you mean? Like you went to yours and then you went to SIDS? I suppose you got to do that when you're married. Yeah, but they're like, oh, it's so awesome. You get to eat all this good food twice, which of course is. But also, it's kind of a burden.

because you only eat you only eat once a day yeah so like that's a lot of food for me I had to ration heavily what about you guys what your families are the interesting ones our stars is like yeah it was good you know nice cordial conversation everybody was really too crazy with ours this year I felt like it was pretty really tame I felt like it was well it's different noity than normal there's like four kids like my one sibling has three kids and the other one has one but she's pregnant so like once you guys have little gremlins running around like the whole dynamic changes like it's like everything kind of just becomes about them and less about you and cj so annoying so annoying no no no no yeah like people's like attentions or priorities are like elsewhere no kidding yeah so we're not just sitting

around just like shooting the shit or like telling stories older stories or yeah like which is pretty much what it used to be like like we would sit down at the entire Thanksgiving table we'd be telling just, like, stories that should not be told at a Thanksgiving family dinner. I got scolded because I said smoking was cool. That's when I knew I had to watch what I was saying. Yeah. Yeah, me and CJ were going on this whole thing about how, like, smoking cigarettes is cool, vaping's lame. And because my brother's father-in-law still rips darts and me and CJ were giving him his flowers.

Yeah, that's cool. At least he stands for something, you know? Like, I feel like vaping, like, it's just too practical and like everyone does it, you know? It's too easy. It is too easy. Like, if you smoke... Cigarettes are slightly inconvenient. They're more than slightly.

Like, you got to step outside. You're in the cold. Like, you're actually about something. No, you don't. You can do cigs inside. Well, generally, you can't. I am picturing. So you're like, you're downtown.

You're on the dance floor. People are passing around a vape that's been in 20 miles. But if you're like, hey, you want to go smoke a dart, it's just you and whoever wants to come with. Outside in December. You smell like shit after. Yeah, your mouth tastes like crap. Like, everyone knows they're bad for you.

Like, there's not. No, there's no debate. Your hand smells like shit after, too. Like, no one really does them anymore. Yeah, it's just like, at least you stand for something. Yeah, it actually got sparked because they were asking about you. If you would actually quit. Did you quit vaping?

I have actually. So you have, yeah, I couldn't give them a straight answer. I got a, I got a notification for my Apple Watch today. It says my resting heart rate's been lower for the last week. Wow. I believe that. I mean, I'd do too. It's good.

You're trending in the right direction. What's your resting heart rate? Uh, 52. pro ken is so healthy it's unbelievable i'm sure it is and it was like it was like 63 last week wow 10% or 10 in a week ryan what's your resting heart rate i bet yours is high yours is probably 63 on a good day um that's what mine is i always just picture i'm getting mine so low that i can like you know go in like standby mode or something mike's just when mike's sleeping like he is literally out like 20 like he's like when you put your computer and

in a fucking power save mode. It's not. Well, Mike doesn't exert a lot of energy because he's so fucking slow. Like, he just operates at a slower rate. Mine says daytime lowest average. Is that, is that the right thing? Sure.

Heart rate, 70. Yeah, classic. Classic. I don't think that's bad, though. That's what I'm at right now. Oh. Currently in this high stress environment. Anyways, Ken's super healthy.

an athlete man and only getting more healthy by the day we're trying look at that he's got a body armor flash iv honestly you're so fucking healthy maybe you don't even need to quit vaping yeah get back on i might just do zins i don't know why start that if you haven't already that's like maybe it's probably i've kind of replaced vaping with uh online gambling and it it's getting a little destructive you've got to be so down ken you've got to be so down yeah like two two thousand week. Oh, Jesus. This week. This week, 2000. What were you down last week? Last weekend it was flat. That's pretty good. Well, next week you could be up. I will not download or like make an account for the online gambling because I know it's slippery slope. But in other points of my life, like at Deer Camp,

I was just rolling dice, just trying to get that thrill. Lost a ton of money to my brother. I might told that story. Well, then when he's coming back up for Thanksgiving, I'm telling him, bring your money. I'm winning. Bring my money. I'm winning that. shit back right so we're at dinner last night or after dinner and and i'm like all right let's start rolling he didn't bring it he did bring it and we we coerced my mom to also hop in and put some skin in the game and my mom ended up like taking all my money no yeah how much money i think she won like 200 bucks off me but i brought only i brought 20s this time like because me and my brother were playing with hundreds oh yeah and i just i lost a bunch of money so i just brought 20s get a little

bit more game out of it. And, uh, you got to lose a lot of times to lose $200. Like, I, I, I don't know if I won any. And she was just like cleaning up. So, yeah, no, I got my mom addicted to gambling. So, you know, that's not good. But spread the good word. Yeah, you know, it's a real problem of next family event. She's like, let's, yeah, come on. Yeah. I mean, it ended with her just walking away with a, you know, a bunch of money. And she was like, I see why this is kind of I like this. Yeah, this is great. I go to, Mom, should we go to, yeah, should we go to Minowman, like the local, like, reservation casino?

That would be crazy. If your family was running around, all drinking vitamin water and shit, but running the casino. Like, everybody else in there smoking darts and having vodka red bowls. It'd be the one time they'd be wearing their COVID masks. So they're not inhaled the, all the fumes. The secondhand smoke. Yeah, I don't know if anyone in my family owns a COVID mask. But they'd bring them out then.

Respirators, they're wearing full-blown respirators like for painting. Which honestly, that's the other thing, man. Smoking. Like, it's impractical for everyone around you even. But anyways, you got to stand on it. Like, everyone's hating on you. Like, fuck this guy, dude. It smells like shit in here, like all this. But anyways, speaking of gambling, we got Vegas coming up. So you got to save your money, Ben.

I know. I heard a rumor you might be dipping out. It's to be decided. What? It's in the air. Come on. You got Rich coming. Probably Gavin.

I got a really cool dinner reservation for the first. night. Do you need to hear any more? Yeah. We need to hear any more than that. Maybe if you're lucky, we'll go to one of those places that have doors without door handles. Oh, we run that house party back? We can't run that house party back.

Can't run it back if you were never there. Yeah, if I miss this one, it's going to be actually crazy. I'm going to be three behind on you guys. I want to go on like a golf trip. I think we got to run a golf trip. We can go to the wind golf course. Would you actually do that again? Of course he was.

Are you kidding me? When you golf the win, they have like a caddy with you. Oh, yeah, because a caddy's going to make the world of difference for you again. I would make a fool of myself in front of this caddy. I don't think I could do it there. Can you request not to have a caddy? Because, yeah, I don't know. It's also like $800 for the round.

Oh, my God. That's why I ask, would you actually go there? Because it's a lot of money. Like, if you're a big golfer, that's a crazy amount to pay to go play a round of golf. But if you love golf, it makes a little bit more sense than someone like you, who doesn't like golf, spending that much money to go golfing. Once I get a few more rounds under my belt, I think it'd be kind of fun of maybe a year.

I feel like it'd be so funny that you couldn't really put a price on it. I think Ken would go 100%. If you just look at all the golf outings that he's gone on, it's always for special occasions. That's a special occasion. He doesn't really care to go for the love of the game, but if there's a good group of people going on and they're drinking, Ken is out there, and he's in a great mood.

There for the lore. But if you're just going on a Tuesday night after work, He's like, fuck this. He plays four holes and he's going on. Especially, you play like a scramble. You're just playing best ball. It's way more fun doing it that way. I think we got to go, man.

I don't think you can bail on this one. I mean, I agree. But you might have to. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. We got a package in the mail this week. I love getting packages and then bringing them on the pod.

It's from our boy Rick Duff. Oh, let's go. Sent us assigned vinyl and CDs. Who even knew he was pressing vinals? I got to get one of those. Yeah. I think you're the only one of the... Well, there you go.

Mike, you just did. Well, I know. I mentioned we were going to maybe hang it up. Yeah, we probably should hang this in the pod. Yeah. But maybe he'll send Mike another one so you can spin the vinyl. I guess I could take the actual vinyl out and we could hang the artwork. Oh, that's true.

You could actually play it. And it obviously has Ford Ranger on it? Yeah, it does. Yeah, so this summer, our boy Rick Duff came up. Rick had made a song called Ford Ranger. And it's about our, Ford Ranger. My Ford Ranger wants to be like the one on Seaboy's TV.

Seaboy. Close. Six wheels in a little hat to wear. I'm messing the lyrics up, but. Track three on side A. Yeah, you also sang it on like Canada's Got Talent. I think we had played it on the podcast. Yeah, I had found it.

We popped it up on the podcast probably a year and a half ago at this point. Well, Rick saw that we were giving it love and we were stoked about it. So he hit us up and was like, yo, can I come out and film the. music video with your guys is Ford Ranger and you obviously so we did that this summer it went live this fall and now rick duff's got a new album so ricks rick's our boy shout out to rick shout out to rick that was a fun day filming the music video it's kind of crazy how like vinals are coming back it really is because they're they will never be practical i'll tell you that much yeah there's no way so does it sound as good off of this or is like the sound

design i'm not like i'm not going to be the better it's would be better Supposedly it's better. Yeah, supposedly there's no compression or anything because it's in there. I will say that it sounds good. It's amazing, man. It's weird that this came out before the other thing. Like, it just seems crazy that you just scrub it and it makes the noise. It makes no sense.

Yeah, I don't get it. Don't touch it? Don't rub around on it. Oh, okay. Sorry. I wasn't sure it didn't look like it was like a CD where it could get scratched. Like all those little grooves on the thing are like. What actually makes the noise?

Yeah, so when the needle scrubs. scratches over the groove. Why do you like records so much, Mike? Yeah, I think they do sound good. I think it is fun, like, putting an album on and, like, listening to it all the way. Yeah, like, you're not changing songs when you go through the work of putting that thing on. Like, you're just running the whole album. It stemmed from over listening to podcasts.

I just got to the point where I, like, would go to Spotify and be like, I don't even know what to play. So then I was playing, like, top hits, and I just wasn't viving with it. So you have one of those in your car? Yeah. Can you imagine? I think my dad told a story. back in the day he had some cool car and he was reaching over to change the CD or something like because he had like the you know like when you could put like six CDs in it or something like that

I think he crashed a car on the downer road like missed the ditch or something like that and rolled I do believe that yeah most of those six CD changers you're actually not supposed to operate while driving because you you have six you should be good yeah yeah maybe he didn't have that and he had just like maybe he just had the binder i don't know i i'll have to ask him on that we gotta get him on here one day he's got to tell stories he's got a bunch of different stories did he roll one of the the cobra replica cars yeah he used to work for uh like they would build replica cobras and he says that they were the best because they were made in fargo then they got sold out to a big company not as good anymore but uh yeah he was driving down the down the down road and i can't remember

if it was during a photo shoot or after a photo shoot but he basically like came up on a corner going way too fast and they just are light with no power no traction control nothing like that slicks on the bag yeah and it spun around and then it rolled down in the ditch totaled god that's got to be not the ideal car to crash or roll there's literally no roof there's no roof there's like a little little roll bar right behind you and that's it so the the little roll bar did its job yes wow dude so what his boss have to say that I would oh my gosh I think he said because he was fairly he'd been working for the company like since it started so I think you know you get like one gimmee big mistake you know like if you work here you get like 10 whoa

i don't know if we want them to know that though i think they already do know that yeah they see they've seen the repercussions of what happens i mean you know you had your gimmie and you get a few a week yeah you get a few a week so uh i think i think he was okay but yeah the boss ended up selling the company later and then it oh shit not because of that no not because of that but like after that it kind of went downhill and I mean not because of the crash after the boss sold it and that's when randy got out of the car business yeah and that's when he started framing in other big news we got our our new gear brand dropping this week which we've been working on for what two years yeah we've been working on for a long time the longest we've ever worked on something without it being released yet

very very nice stuff I mean I was wearing one of our jackets in the mega quad video and yeah I mean I love that that's my favorite jacket and I normally don't wear like a coat unless we're really in treacherous weather which then i would wear like a monosuit oh i love that jacket it's a lightweight warm comfortable looks good but uh yeah we got a bunch of good stuff jackets yeah we got how many jackets do we got we got three jackets sick jackets and we got three monosuits and then we got some gloves yeah obviously has love the work gloves yeah this is just kind of the beginning like we're we're excited to launch this brand and we're coming in winter we always wear monosuits so why not release some life-wide open gear monosuits to you guys yeah and they're

nice quality i mean they're debatably better than than other brands i would say yeah i'm very proud of them too they look cool and uh they're durable we wouldn't obviously want to promote them or have you guys buy them if they weren't and they've been tested by the entire crew and we love them and they're a very affordable price point which is what we wanted as well yeah we tried to find like a good medium ground quality good but not too expensive Yeah, we're fired up. We've been working on this gear brand for the last two years, like CJ said. And I think we're going to just be continuing to add products to it. It's called Life Wide Open Gear. And it's fitting the Life Wide Open brand. And we're just continuing to add products to it. So excited to see what it turns into over the next couple of years, you know, as we hopefully get our foundation. And people start getting the product and hopefully loving it. But yeah, we're fired up on it. So it drops this Thursday. at seven o'clock. Hoping to wear it snowmobiling soon.

Let's go. Dude, I mean, yeah, it's going to be awesome. Which one's your guys' favorite monosuit? I like the duck camo. It's just classic. Love the red. Definitely the red. Yeah, I was probably going to say the red too.

I think I like the black. Black's just clean, man. It's got that digital camo underneath. Looks cool. Yeah, all of it feels like Sea Boys branded, which is what we wanted. You know, obviously it's our brand. So we want it to feel like us and it does.

We're not trying to, like, make, like, racing gear and crazy stuff. Like, this is coming from us and what we do. And, like I said, we wear monosuits and the jackets that we wear when we film our videos. These are the ones that we want to reproduce for you guys. Like, it doesn't even have to be riding gear with the monosuits. Like, I would wear that ice fishing. I could really see the duck camo, like, the good old boys loving that and buying it. Even if they rarely go riding, like, just having that as, like, their ice fishing rig.

It's just sweet, man. I'm excited to see some people. wearing it. We also realize that most people watching our videos they're normal people right?

They're not like the extremist by any means of like all I do is ride mountains or all I do is ride trail so I need it to be

like the crazy warmest most people are just like yeah you know I go out and ride on the weekends and whether I'm riding four wheeler when there's this much snow

or snow in the ditches with my boys like that's the majority of the people that watch our videos and uh because that's who we are like that's what we do we're not like extremist by any means so we wanted to make gear that represents those people 100% and that's exactly what we're doing so we're getting our our toes wet or our feet wet with the snow gear and then the spring uh will

have uh moto gear as well and that's going to follow the same mentality of like you're not like the crazy extremist racers you're the guys riding dirt bikes on the weekend or hopping on your bike after work and just ripping around. So keep an eye out this Thursday. Yep. Yeah, this Thursday. SeaboystTV.com or LifeWodupongear.com? Are we launched on its own website or it's just on C-Boys?

Just going to start on C-Boys for now. I love it. Speaking of musicians, I saw something the other day that sparked a memory that I haven't thought about in a long time. Do you guys remember when we met Sean Kingston? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It was so weird. But did you guys see these in jail now? No. Tax evasion? Yes, wire fraud. WIRE fraud. I think he was just kind of using his clout to benefit him of like getting people's trust

and then just not delivering on like the money end of a lot of deals. I think rappers do that a lot. Yeah. They have the money sent beforehand. They don't do the, they don't follow back up. They don't do the thing. He seemed a little. Exactly.

Okay, so he got three and a half years in federal prison. Holy shit. Oh, and his mother went to jail as well. defrauding luxury vendors of over $1 million in property, including bulletproof escalade, high-end watches, and a large TV, just one TV. One damn TV. What's Sean Kingston thinking he needs a bulletproof escalate for?

I could see a use for it in Miami. Is he really that popping anymore? I guess he did have some big hits. He seemed washed up like, what was that? Seven years ago. He was washed up when I was. I met him. The story behind him is he came to a music festival.

One of our boys was putting the music festival on. And we were kind of like acting as like promoters for this music festival. It was crazy. Jake got up on stage and threw $10,000 out in fake cash. One of the wildest things I think like looking back at that was crazy that I did that. But yeah, we got to meet Sean Kingston who was like the headliner for this thing. But like he had like three layers of security that we had to get through just to meet them. this room in a locker room in a locker room of him he like we finally get through all of his

security and he just like daps us up so up take one picture and that was it yeah the worst picture ever too it's so grainy were like literally off a big reno took it on his phone and they were just it was just a garbage picture it's funny because i had like been in that locker room playing C squad basketball you know like a lot of good memories in there a lot of good memories it was pretty sweet you know just knew i was never going to touch the court the Coach coming in. Ryan, we're going to have you sitting on the bench here for the second half. I actually had a no dribble rule. What? That's where I sat on the first half.

I had a no dribble rule in C squad basketball. When I caught the ball, I was allowed to pass it or to shoot it. They didn't even give you the option to dribble? No, I had a no dribble rule. Are you the only at dribbling? I think there was maybe other kids, but it was it was publicized. Just nobody's dribbling. How bad were you at dribbling?

Like, how do they just say, all right, Ryan? I wasn't even that bad at dribbling. I just think that, like, I probably wanted to be better than I was. So I, like, would try to make a move and that never really worked. And so he was like, just do the play, just catch the ball or shoot it. So, yeah. You told you you couldn't dribble the ball. Yeah.

Damn. It did get me in some pickles sometimes because then they would, like, double team me and I couldn't do anything. I would just stand there, throw it away. So, yeah, my JVC squad basketball stories wasn't exactly a highlight in my athletic career. Who would have thought? So speaking about tax evasion. You guys see whistling? Of course.

What do you think on that? If you listen to the Doug DeMiro podcast, like Doug's a huge fan of whistling, he kind of dives into exactly why it happened, why it should still be a law, why people are abusing it. I mean, like the Montana registration thing. He's like, people with supercars have just been like using it to register supercars and whatever in Montana. And they're making an example out of him, I'd assume. Yeah. So basically he got jammed up. for tax evasion but he actually paid his taxes it was basically just on the car sales tax

end of things he had an LLC in montana where you don't have to pay sales tax and then had the car owned by that LLC so he could work around the sales tax and i guess they went after him which a lot of you know supercar owners do that but i i definitely could see like the gray area in where they're like oh we're going to try and make an example out of them because it is like the a loophole. But it's currently a legal loophole. And it's state by state. So that's what I found out too. Some states don't even They don't care. It's not worth it. It sounds like Tennessee and probably other states have finally got enough cameras that are always scanning license plates that they can actually

prove a vehicle has been in the state for 30 days, which normally would be possible. I think either way he's online. Yeah, I think if you're going to be rich and play the system, you can't also be publicizing that you're playing the system. Like everyone knows that's obviously, you see a Montana car. It's a known loophole. Yeah, it's a no loophole. The issue with it, though, is like for Tennessee's sake, I'm sure

they had like a flood of people from say California coming in with money. Moving in. There was quite a few like supercars around there with Montana plates. When Ryan I were there. Oh yeah. There was. And they're just like, all right, this is clearly becoming more and more of a thing because more and more people are learning about

this said loophole how do we go after one guy and make the biggest impact because he's going to wow did it work for him yeah everybody every headline is just like montana l lc whistling diesel tax evasion two million dollar bond like all these things and then everyone is probably just like hmm apparently there was like a typo in the two million dollar bond it wasn't actually there's no commas 20,000 or whatever. But either way, I think it got what they wanted the job done. Yeah, for sure. And I'm sure most people that were either on the fence about doing it

are probably not going to do it now. And I'm imagining a lot of people that did do it are probably like, let's maybe just register that car in Tennessee. Yeah, like, well, I'm already spending 400 grand. It's avoid going to jail. Especially that they just came on his property, took him away. You know, like no letter that said, hey, you got to fix this. You know, they were definitely trying to make a statement.

Tennessee actually has the second highest combined sales tax in the country. Oh, wow. At 9.61% is their average combined rate. What? The statewide is seven. Man, that sucks, dude. I don't know why everyone likes Tennessee so much. 9.61% is heavy.

And that's coming from a Minnesota resident. Does Tennessee? We're seven and a quarter. so it's Tennessee does not have state individual income tax okay so that that's where they're getting it where it's like they're taxing your sales tax is heavy but your income tax is nothing so I mean you got to play one yeah it'll be interesting to see how this shakes out I uh it is weird that they're really only going after like what 40 50 grand that's a lot of money but also like a lot of bigger bigger fish but you take down one big person and then you're going to get 50 other

people that don't you know they don't have nearly the online presence but they're going to pay the tax but they also pick the one guy who's never going to fucking lay down and just take a fine but that might also be that's kind of what they wanted of okay how do we go after somebody who's clearly going to make this public they don't lose man you like when it's you versus you versus the state or the government or the federal whatever they always win i i if i was him i would honestly just pay the thing move on not do again that's my two cents because like it's just going to be a pain it's going to be an uphill battle and i don't think you're going to win i think you're going to waste a lot of time and

energy just pay the thing go back to making your videos register your cars in in tennessee and just move on that's my two cents i don't know what are you guys saying fighting it dude i just don't think it's gonna it's so tough because it's kind of in a win-win situation with it honestly like on the side of like say he fights it it's going to be so publicized and in the all Ultimately, he doesn't have too much to lose. Like, he's probably going to just... Yeah. More publicity, the better.

And, uh... He's going to get a ton of content out of fighting it. But I'm assuming that the government crossed their teas and dot of their eyes to make sure what they were doing was fully, like, their investigation, everything was fully complete. Yeah, I don't think... Fully vetted before they even touched his property. If I could grow a beard, I'd use Harry's racers. You actually kind of have one right now.

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Realistically, it's not like he's going to prison for a few years. or anything if he when he loses he'll just pay the fine and he's basically just adding some more money on top but he's going to make a big splash and everyone's going to hear about it and I'd imagine it's the original fee that he didn't pay plus interest plus a fine plus court fees and all that stuff no doubt it's still going to be a shit ton of money lost and a bunch of a headache but like I don't know that's a crazy part about being a YouTuber's you can kind of turn lemons lemonade yeah exactly so it's definitely doing what they wanted though of like he's making it a big deal whereas if they were to go after

a big dog that is like i don't want one the headache and i don't want the bad publicity pay it make it go away do whatever you have to do to not make this go like grand where he's just like i'm going to fight this make it as big as possible everyone in the world's going to know about this and tennessee's like great hopefully people know that we don't mess around exactly yeah uh whatever happened with that whole jet ski case that he was was fighting like there's never really a conclusion to that he said they dropped the charges I don't know it's gonna be interesting though

but I've always thought that from day one the Montana LLC thing you can't do that and be public about it like it's just one thing it's just like publicizing like tax evasion essentially yeah there's a there's a really rich guy around here that uh was doing that and he got in trouble too and had to like switch it all back

and I just paid that you know whatever just don't make it Imagine most cases are like, all right, yep, I'll pay it. And then they had to pay the sales tax plus interest for the time period that the vehicle was in Minnesota. I mean, who knows? Maybe they'll just nix the whole thing all together. That'll probably take a while. But like, I don't know, if you live in California and you, like, imported a car from China and, like, it wouldn't pass emissions, even though it's, like, totally fine. It's just like some collector car.

That would be a reason to register it in Montana, just so you can drive the thing. You're not trying to. No, that doesn't work that way. You wouldn't be able to get it past customs. Well, whatever. Let's say it was a car that was made in the U.S. And it was a collector's car, but it wouldn't pass emissions in the state. Yeah, like having a skyline that wouldn't pass California emissions.

Correct. And then you'd register it. You're not doing it to save money on taxes. You're doing it so you can drive the car. Well, that's what Jay Leno's law, but they shut that shit down. It got made it all the way to the end and they shut it down at the end. What's that? It was that collector's cars that were driven below a certain mileage.

and where of a certain rarity could be registered in California as like a collector car and they didn't have to pass smog and have different things that California is super hard about and it got all the way to whatever core I'll look it up here

but I mean made it all the way to the end and then they shut it down Jay Leno's law it's kind of like your no dribble rule Ryan's law that's probably what they talk about and like for still years to come the Ryan rule half this squad over here

Ryan's law No dribbling. No dribbling allowed. Leno's law refers to a proposed bill, exempt classic cars, 35 years or older from smog checks, provided they have historical plates and are insured as a collector vehicle.

It passed California Senate, but it was killed by state lawmakers. Same. California doing California. Anyway, yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out, though. Yeah, no kidding. It would be interesting if he loses, if he'll stay in Tennessee.

Like, I could see him being salty and just like moving to Montana just like that's what I would do about Sam like just like just move to Montana and end up like all right well I guess now I can do it but then it's a lot of work that you got to pick up shop like a lot of work like we realistically

think how much work it would be to pick up like we just can't move to it I mean we could but it would be such a pain yeah he's got such a cool property out there like what you're going to spend trying to find that in Montana in a good location is absurd it's true yeah he probably could make quite a bit of money though if he bought that thing back

in like 2020, 2020, I'm sure it's gone up quite a bit. Yeah, so many people are moving to. So many people are moving. Yeah, you got lucky in that. Now there's this huge wave of people going there. Tennessee's sick, though. I don't know if it is. I think it's got good weather.

It's got good landscape. I like Tennessee. Like the Smoky Hills vibe. I can agree with that. Yeah, I think it's a good place. I don't quite understand the hype. Have you explored more like other than just Nashville? Me?

No. I don't think so. I don't know. Have we gone there and drove around someplace for a video? I always forget where we've gone. I feel like we've been there. Bristol. No.

Bristol, where's that? We've been to the east side of Tennessee. To the hills a bit. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like we were driving around. They had like really narrow roads if I remember. They did have narrow roads. That's right.

I don't know. I think Florida, if I was going to move anywhere, like Florida. Got the ocean. Like I see a draw there. Number one benefit. Cletus lives there. We used to be like so hot on finding a place in Florida. And then we just kind of fizzled out of like, I don't know.

I mean, a lot would go into it. We'd have to essentially just build what we have here, but there. And it's taking us eight years to build what we have here. I think realistically, we just need, like, a shop. I just don't foresee us using it that much. Realistically, nowadays, like, there's only realists, like, three months out of the year that you'd probably want to use it. But you're not going to be there all three months.

And then we still got to pay to maintain it and, you know, keep up on everything. make it an Airbnb. And once you have like a family, like you're not going to be leaving two weeks at a time. So it's like realistically just, I don't know. And we like, we got buddies down there now. Like, thanks to Cletus, like, realistically, if we need to like ship something, have it sitting there for a week, he would probably say yes. And then we can still go about whatever we're doing.

Yeah. Makes it a lot easier. Yeah. It's nice having friends and more places too. That's for sure. We are getting at that time of the year, though, where like filming is getting harder with the snow and the weather. but I don't know.

I feel like we're making it work as always. Can you guys just feel it coming? Thin ice? Yeah, I can. I'm fired up. I saw it iced over this morning, like the smaller lakes, the ponds. And I was like, oh, I saw it.

Dude, my parents pawned. I was leaving their house this morning. And it was, it was iced over. The OG spot where we used to go. And I was just like, I want to go walk on it right now. I know it's probably like two inches thick. It's some real thin ice.

And I was just like, ah, I want to go walk on it and jump on it. and see how much it flexes. I do too. We really lucked out this year with the, I mean, we had nice weather legitimately up until like Monday of last week. So basically beginning of December, we had nice weather. There was a couple cold days and it was the best. We filmed and we filmed and we filmed.

And whenever we had something to film, we go outside and we film it. You know, rain down there. And then now that snow rolled in and then the wind followed. And it's just, it is what it is. But I did take it for granted. It's being nice. Yeah, it's full on winter now. It was nice, so long into the year.

And I'm just like, this is the best. We are just rolling. And that winter just hit me like a right hook to the face. Yeah, we filmed the video like a week and a half ago, snowmobiling on our motor track. It's coming out this Thursday, like off-road snowmobiling. And we were like, all right, we don't have any snow. And yeah, it's crazy how fast that changed. And now we still barely have any snow.

It's snow just like a little bit. I know, blue around. And, yeah. What's the verdict on those snowmobiles? They honestly handled it pretty well. Besides the one that Big Rinch didn't put any cooling in, because obviously competitors tried to do that, yeah. No, I think they're good.

Like, they're 100% fine. Yeah, dude, I swear. Well, race slides especially are just tough as nails, but it turns out you don't need snow. Honestly, yeah, they just had a couple extra, like, wheels on the skid, on the bogey wheels, and that was it. I'm sure the high facts, the skid slides. They weren't even that fucked, dude.

They weren't. Like, they still had life in them. Dude, I'm fired up for snowmen. in this winter though same me too i hope we get snow but even if we don't get snow we got to go find it just go bang some ditches i'm actually fired up to bang ditches yeah it's been two the most minnesota thing ever it's so fun it is it is fun just hopping on the sleds on like a saturday and just cruising around get going to like some burger spots whatever i went once last year i think the only time i wrote a sled last year was at snowed in oh yeah in snowed in snowing yeah

you're kind of a ride or not okay and after last video so I'd imagine you're probably going to ride one to work every day. Probably not. Are you back into it now? By Into It. By Into It, your new nickname is going to be Boondock and Ken. Probably not. I think we got to get Ken back on a quad, though.

He was back on a quad. But it was like his own. You know, we messed up by giving Ryan a quad because he hasn't rode it. Yeah, you haven't even rode the thing. We should have gotten it. We haven't filmed any more quad videos. We filmed a quad video last week. A real quad rider would be out running laps, whether we're filming or not.

Take it out to the track sometimes, but not to ride. What you look at? No, you just like take it out there, a little ripper device to go, you know. Take it out there, go take some pictures and then come back. Yeah, yeah, exactly. No, I think we need to get Ken back on a quad. Like, did you guys see these picks? Renegade 800 or 1,000 now they make that.

800's the sweet spot. Yeah, I agree. Perfect power to wait. Yep. Look at it. That's red in. That's drifting. Literally any kid with a quad ever.

Dude, Ken and I were out. Like, every weekend, I would have a whole face. Facebook post about like Ken and I ripping. I know, that's why we became friends, right? Just like ripped laps around the field out there. If it wasn't jet skis, it was four wheels. And then snowmills. Yeah, Ken needs to get back on a jet ski too.

The most classic thing ever, Ken and Ryan pull up on jet skis we had just met. CJ goes, hey, Ryan, can I ride your jet ski? Of course, you hop on it, bro. Take it. Ken's sitting there. Hey, Ken. Grant, can I ride your jet ski? who I don't think so

I think you're a little young That's what he said He said he thinks here And that sets of presidents You were the rest of Ben's life You were like 10 at that point No I was not I was probably 15 years old

No you were way I was probably 15 years old I would have been probably Yeah no you'd have been Yeah not that You'd have been like 16 I would have been plenty old Yeah

I was old enough to ride a Jetsky Ken A lot longer than that It was funny if you just hopped on it and then just ran into the dock. I knew it. That still reminds me. I've told this before, but when I thought you and Ken were like the dynamic,

when I first met you guys and I was snowmobiling with you, and then we like ran out of gas and you're like, Ken, I'll just take your sled. And I was like, dang, he just can hop on grants at the time. His brand new Articat,

like M8 and just like take it. And then you were kind of hesitant to let him take it. I'm like, ah, they're probably really close. Yeah, We've always been buddies, Ken. Yeah.

Against Ken's will. What did you do that day? I don't know. Broke. What was the day that we met? Was it on the jet skis? No. Yeah, dude.

Was that the first time we ever met? Yes. Pulled up to your guys' dock. I remember it. Yes. Ken and I were just on the prowl looking for friends. Because we were, I think we met up with Matt and then you guys were there. You were so crazy too because I used to think that you were just a legend, Ryan.

Really? He used to. He used to think. Well, let's go back to my legendary days. Why was I a legend? Well, I didn't know about this old no dribble rule. That's also how Jake explained you, too, because I met Jake first, and he's like, you came behind the TC past Zorbas, and he's like, oh, that's Ryan Awex.

You've got to meet him. His dad does construction, and he has so many sick toys. Like two snowmills at the time. Yeah, a warwheeler. 600 XRS. And the snowmobile. It was pretty lit. Yeah.

And then Ken pulled up in his. Subaru and Preza, and we were like, this is a rally car. We kind of did. From day one, just bullied Ken into drifting against his will. It was fun, and then kind of got boring. You said drift in the Holly parking lot. Really? Yeah.

Dude, it's crazy to think, though. Ken got his name because we were like, dude, you got to drift this Subaru and Preza. And he mobbed it around three corners. And we were like, he's the greatest drifter of all time. He's just like Ken Block. Let's start calling him. I don't, in retrospect, that was like probably some of the lamest drifts,

but in, in the moment, it was pretty cool. Like, you probably went around three corners and we were like, this dude is just like Ken Block. I think it was around Dave's shop. Yeah, it wasn't even around corn. It was just around like Dave's buildings with all that, like, expensive stuff we could have hit, but the sharp stuff to hit. Never did.

Think about how different it would be if you were Grant. Be weird. Yeah, what would you life would be like? It would be so weird. Really? I don't think it'd be that different. I'm super bummed that we wouldn't have the whole no can-do branding. I love no grant.

I love, yeah. It doesn't work as good. It doesn't work at all, actually. But I think you'd still be just as big of a savage. I'd hope. Yeah. But it's hard to say. Yeah, do you feel like this is kind of like an alter ego of yours that has just became

your new personality? No, it's just nice being able to keep certain parts of the life separate. So like you can keep the life. You know, you know where I meet people like where. It's based on how they address me. Do people call you Grant, though? Yeah, like anyone from the bank calls me Grant. Okay, outside of a, like, a legal setting.

Anyone in a legal setting calls me by my government name. CJ? Anyone else calls me by the YouTube name. Do you still introduce yourself in CJ? No. That was just like a total, total black out there. One time. That was one time.

Never live it down. It was crazy, dude. I was standing right next to you. I didn't know what to say. Who am I now? Like, if you're CJ, who am I? I'm like, uh, I guess I'm Grant. Gosh, I don't happen again.

Where, where were we? He's just, Hey days. You know? How hard do you have to block you to introduce yourself? You're meeting the Arctic Cat as somebody else. Like some, some big guy at Arctic Cat and they're like,

I've heard about you guys, you know, introducing Ken, CJ. I don't know. I was, I think I was looking at you, CJ and I said,

CJ. And then I'm like, okay, uh, Ken. I keep forgetting to run that back. Because think of all the people we meet as a group. It's so easy to be.

For the last eight years or whatever, now I just want to remember to do that. Just right before you're about to shake their hand. Do that one day. Wrong name. Are you guys excited for Steve will do it to be back on YouTube? Yeah. I'll be interesting to see his return.

I don't know. Is he actually going to post when he says he's going to post? I was wondering the same thing. It seems like he's just got so much money that I feel. like just running a regular YouTube schedule is going to be way too much of an inconvenience for him. Like after you post a video, why is he going to like immediately start working on another one? Like it's a lot of work and I feel like he's just going to be like, yeah, I'll do it and then I think it's going to be sporadic. I don't think it's going to be like his last run. So Steve will

do it. I like him, but I just don't think it's going to be like his last run. He got banned from YouTube and now he is back on. He got the go ahead from YouTube. Yeah, he had to start a new channel though. So he doesn't have his old channel back. He's coming back with a Christmas Eve special and a Christmas special, whatever that means. And then he said he's going to be posting every week after that. And being that we post every week, yeah, we know what goes into. I just don't think he's going to do that. I don't think he's going to post every week.

He's got way too much money to be working out of hours. And then it'll get a lot more infrequent. Unfortunately to start, not that it needs the money, but to start in January. He made great videos because of like what he was doing. But I think like the landscape has changed. I agree. When you would see him give somebody like 100,000, dollars it was crazy and now i mean he's going to have to be giving people like a million dollars

and how sustainable is that and also like his editor was so good so good he still was his editor is he okay because i was going to say like if uh he doesn't have that editor anymore like that i think no he still that was like a major major part of what made his videos good so that editor stuck with him huh that's cool i'm sure you just kept paying him i'd like that his format will be different but who knows. I think it's going to be the same. I think it's going to be the same. I think that he's got a diehard audience that has not left him. And I think he's going to get a lot of views. I just, I don't know if he'll have as much reason to work as hard as he did back then and, like, stay as consistent. I think he'll, you know, post, but. I wonder, I wonder why they let them back on.

Well, they reenabled a bunch of people. Like, kind of across the board. Yeah, I don't know. I'm glad they did. Yeah. It's, it's good for. everyone like sneko got put back on you guys listen to him on the logan the impulsive yeah i did listen to that that was rough dude it was rough i couldn't watch it um just to your point of like he's got a die hard following i scrolled on the comments yeah everybody not one comment was like yeah regardless of how you thought the podcast went like who who you think maybe like was overstepping everyone's like common steve w yeah i i didn't think it was a steve w i hate to say I hate to say it too.

So if you went from like top to newest comments, then you could see more of like a little on the negative side. But still it was like the vast majority, even on the latest ones, were always like positive. And that's where I'm going back to he just has a core diehard audience. I will stand next to him literally through whatever he seems to do and say. So I think he's going to,

I think he's going to be popping still. Like people love him. And he's done a lot of things that give a lot of reason to love him. But yeah, I think that was a rough pod, dude. He was on drugs or drunk or something. He posted that he was blacked out, right? For sure drunk, but yeah. He posted on his story.

It was like, I was blacked out for that pod. Big Mike told me that he would let me review it. I was blacked out. I would have never done that if I was blacked out. There's a bad look for honestly. Kind of have all parties involved. Probably should have just not posted that one. Yeah, then they got to the end.

They're like, should we not post it? And Mike was like, no, dude, we did it. Like, it's not that bad. Let's post it. Which, I mean, luckily, we've, I mean, I guess we did the podcast with Dave, but that was different. There wasn't any, like, beef there. Well, that was straight up because Dave said, you can't use that.

You can't use that. You can't use that. We're like, well, we don't have anything, Dave. But, yeah, it'd be interesting to, like, get a guest on here like that and then have, like, have it not go well at all, like kind of tensions. I like Frankie Lepenna, but when Frankie Lepenna was on here, he wanted to talk about a bunch of, like, really crazy conspiracies. that I'd love to talk about off-camera,

but I don't think that it's something you should have on YouTube. So, like, we need to keep, like, trying to steer them back to, like, all right, let's talk about something that we can actually use here. And he just kept going. He did not want us to get off the conspiracy talk. And I'm sure that's what it felt like for them on Impulsive, except a hundred times worse when Steve's basically saying the N-word. Like, you know, you just can't say that, dude.

I don't think basically, I think just, yeah. Literally. Yeah, it wasn't basically. He just can't do that. So that's what I wonder is he gets reinstated on YouTube and he says like he got knocked or kicked off because he used like links and he opened up a new channel after the other one got deleted. I think that there was someone that just didn't like him.

Well, when you're saying stuff like that, you're going to rub people the wrong way. Right. And I think he got kicked off and I was like, okay, well, now that he's reinstated, I wonder if that's going to change what he publicly. he says. Dude, it seems like he's gone worse. I was like, oh no. No, it has not changed one bit.

So then, and he talks all the time about how depressed he was getting kicked off YouTube and that's the only thing he wants and like he'd give all of his money away if he could just be a YouTuber again. Yeah, it seems like he's self-sabotaging himself. It does not seem like it. Like you're biting the hand that feeds you essentially of like, dude, you kind of got to play by the rules a little bit and now he like everything he stands for is like, I'm going to just say what I want.

Yeah, it's, you can be a YouTube. and, like, push the boundaries of that, but you can't just jump the fence of, like, I'm going to just say, like, the most outlandish shit, dude, and then be pissed if I get kicked off again. Evan was saying this one day, he calls when someone self-sabotaging himself as Aaron Hernandez syndrome or whatever, like, basically, like, you get something good going for yourself, and then you self-sabotage. I almost wonder, I did, I did think about this.

When I was watching it, I was like, okay, why is this guy acting like this? He's finally getting back on YouTube. and now he's acting worse than ever before. And I was like, I wonder if he's almost thinking he's not going to be able to live up to what he once was and just like acting crazy and maybe he'll get, I don't know, you know, maybe he's not even thinking about it all. I don't know if he's that self-aware. No, he's not that self-aware.

But it's almost like in the back of his mind he's just doing that without even thinking about it. But I thought that same thing. I go, dude, you finally got what you've been complaining about for the last three years coming back to you. And now you're doing this? on like a huge podcast. It was crazy.

It was crazy. But at the same time, dude, yes, it's nuts to see that when I went to the comments, I was like, pro. Like, it's pretty tough to stand by that,

but people were standing on it. They love him. And I don't know. Dude, he was my favorite YouTuber back when he was posting it. 100% by far. Yeah,

it was unbelievable. So entertaining. It was unbelievable. Like, he was so entertaining. I still think he's super entertaining. Like, watching his stories on Instagram. Like,

he's nuts. He did a really. good job of staying relevant and I mean I know that's not that hard when Instagram and all that exists but like he was posting his videos on X he was trying and I try I'd watch some of them and and clearly he's finding out that YouTube is like the best to post long form content but yeah he was posting on X and like people are still watching his stuff so I don't know we'll see yeah man see how it goes on Christmas Eve or Steve I hope the best for him dude I watched an insane YouTube

video last night this Red Bull athlete It hiked up Mount Everest with no oxygen and then skied down down. I got to watch that. And it's like a 35 minute video. Essentially, the entire thing is him just skiing down. So that kind of puts in context of like how long skiing down Mount Everest take. Like aren't you not supposed to drop that much in elevation? Like isn't like the death zone.

So like Camp four to Camp five is like a big change. Yeah, I want to say maybe 2,000 meters maybe in elevation. change so you like get out of the death zone you can only be in the death zone for like 16 hours and he was in it for like 18 so he's like pushing it did he make it to the summit yeah like he's from the summit and he did that without oxygen yes that is insane what people have done but yeah I mean dude he's skiing down and he's stopping like every 30 seconds tops and like trying to breathe and can barely breathe I know that it's 33% yeah yeah you've had it yeah but it's 33% of the oxygen that you get at sea level

when you're that high. That's so bananas. Eight, almost 9,000 meters. It's a crazy, it's a crazy video, dude. I'm gonna watch that. You guys got to watch it.

So you can descend really fast. Like if you, and then you're in water. No, he had to camp at camp two or something like that. Got it. So he was able to go down some and then he had to stop it.

Yeah. Because I was wondering, like, you know when you're diving, like you can't just shoot up otherwise you get the bends or whatever it's called. Yep. You know,

I saw that guy that we were talking about a while ago that's walking across the world. Yeah. is almost done. Or did he just finish? I don't know. I think he's still going. He's like almost, almost done.

I don't think he's that close. I think he's still like six months away. He was just on the news, right? Yeah, he was just on the news. Yeah, pop it up. Pull it up. Let's get a little tracker on this guy. So essentially, this guy started walking 28 years ago.

Yeah, something like that. From the southernmost point, I believe in Chile. And he walked all the way up North America through Canada, Alaska, across the barrens. straight into Russia and then all the way across Russia, Asia. Yeah, he's walking across the whole world and he's done it all alone. And he's not, the UK. Think how much the world has changed and he's just been walking every day. Like, that's insane, dude.

So he started 28 years ago. Let's say he goes back to where he started, like how different it was from when he started. It's amazing. I wonder how he has money to do that. I don't need much to do that. You really don't, but obviously you still need to eat. You need to sleep somewhere. So he would make it like as far as he could.

say on a visa you can be in the country for 90 days or whatever it is and then he would go back to like Mexico he'd work until he could like rebuild a little bit more time to then get back in the country so it wasn't straight it wasn't straight and that's why it's taken so long like I don't know how many days he's been walking but like there was little breaks here and there oh that makes sense you freaking you're doing all the walking you stop and he's an istin bull now and he stops he just picks a point like I assume on street corner goes all right i'm done here and then you fly back and then can you imagine you have to get back on you like you go back to your life you get back on the plane and you load up all yourself

and you walk back there and you stand back on that corner like here we go it's like logging back into gta yeah dropping back i don't know where am i'm walking out of the hospital all right start this back up yeah maybe i mean he probably has a different outlook on it he's not dreading it he's probably looking forward to the next time he can walk but like pretty crazy mental game 100% it's not as cool that I thought that he was, like, sleeping in tents and shit. No, he is. Well, obviously, but, like, I thought it was just... For the last 29 years.

He has literally just been on the road. Because I thought it said that he hadn't been home. He hasn't. He hasn't gone home. He just goes to... He cannot go home until he finishes the trip. Yeah, CBS just did an article on him, or a thing seven days ago. Man prepares to finish walk around the world that took 27 years.

I saw this ad on Facebook. geos swarm drones it's a drone that flies over your house to have a security camera from the air and it senses anything that moves on your property and then goes over to it films it from the air and it just stays flying all day yep it operates under the FAA registration hassles but it like knows when it's going to die and it comes down it lands charges and then it takes back up how long can it really fly for though I don't know I can't be up there for that long yeah I mean our drone last like 15 minutes and it looks like just a DJI but I mean they use a lot

less battery when they're hovering versus zooming around but still sleeping at night with your window opening a check I'd imagine they're making them as quiet as possible and they're like they're pushing technology for drone blades to not make sound when they cut through the air but can you imagine if

like even half the houses in a neighborhood had them bro the whole thing would just be neighborhood you wouldn't even be able to hear yourself think how much are they charging for a one of them? Ken's going to have three. A bunch of them flying around.

I'm not sure I'll have to look it up. You can secure it. One person and one person only is you going to just program it to recognize me and CJ's face. He's just going to program it to follow you guys around. And it's going to have a little explosive charge in it. It's coming down. I look out my window in the morning.

Ken, is your drone over here? Like Harry Potter like owls? Just trying to make sure my place is secure. They marked the neighbor's house. on Google. I've been reporting it every day just for his sake.

Yeah, that one's a tough look. I know you guys think you're really fucking funny putting things everywhere and it's semi funny on ours but like you got, you had to put the angry neighbor at this guy's house.

Every day pulls into his house. That's not that. He's never going to live it down. Carplay pops up just Google Maps angry neighbor. Yeah. I want to try to park my car there. Hey, what's your address?

He sends it just says angry neighbor. Yeah, and like one of the reviews says he called me slurs. What? I drove by and he yelled at me. To be fair, the guy's name is Brady. Is there really any kind of slurs? Do you call me slurs?

So yeah, don't fucking do that. I'm excited for your house to be done, Ken. I'm excited. The drywall's up. It's really starting to take shape and hopefully get out of CJ's basement soon. Actually, regardless, I do have to get out of CJ's basement by Monday. Are we having a housewarming party? By Monday?

Where are you going to live? I'm moving. upstairs you're not out of the base yeah i was considering i got promoted i was considering moving back in my parents until i went home for thanksgiving i think i'm just going to stay here no that's no promotion kens ken's bedroom was huge down there cj's remodeling the basement now so i got to take everything the landlords evicting you i didn't evict him at all just evicted from the just relocated him i tried actually having i figured you'd be able to stay in your room at least i thought they'd just like cut the carpet,

leave your room, redo all the other shit, and then do yours last, but they want to do it all at once. Which makes sense. So, yeah, I feel a little bad about that, but,

I mean, ultimately you show up at like 10 p.m. every night, and then you leave by seven. Like, you, nobody, he goes straight to bed,

gets up early, he's gone. You even have, like, a glass of water? No, he doesn't have anything, dude, it's insane.

Brush my teeth. He literally just, no water next to your backside, too quick. Like, if you don't catch him on his way in, like, he's already in bed. If I drink anything before I go to bed, then I have to wake up, go pee, and then I can't fall back asleep. Man, Ken, you are going to change so much when you have your own house.

Optimize. Like, you're going to be like, oh, I can eat a snack now. I can watch TV. Yeah, because he's not allowed to eat a snack or watch TV at my house. I just don't think he feels, like, comfortable doing that. He can't do it. He just doesn't. Do you have?

He goes out to eat every meal. No, I'll eat the shop. Yeah, Ken, you got to get one. one of those robot maids at your house to cookie dinner comes home hello honey i guess if you had a smart oven and the robot didn't actually have to like manually like turn the oven on if it could just use your oven we'll have it'll be like a i it'll just know as soon as the chicken's done to cut the power i just wouldn't trust a robot trying to manually turn my oven on get one of those like what are those like x ai whatever what are those things called ryan you showed it once

the robot that we're talking whatever the robot thing is he tries to take something and just starts itself on fire. Speaking of start stuff on fire, CJ, I saw your story the other day of that flashlight that started that piece of paper on fire. Pretty sweet, huh? That's insane.

Yeah. That's a high power flashlight. It is. It is. That it is. Where did you even get that? Amazon. It was the brightest flashlight I've ever seen.

It is. It is one of the brightest flashlights. And actually, it's not even that much money. Are you trying to gatekeep this thing or what? Kind of. Put it on your Amazon's doorfront. It's only like 60 bucks. dude is insane or maybe it's seven i don't know it was like for how nice a flashlight is i cannot

believe how cheap it was we came a long way from mag lights you know like maglights were like the flashlight to have and you stuff it with the batteries they were probably 60 dollars but they were not good no it's just nice dude because like you can literally shine that thing across the lake like you can scope it so it's like super tight and condensed or you can have it wide like i just use it for shining see if there's any deer what's making what's making noise out in the woods what's all that noise but Do you hear that? I got a pistol.

I'm like, I go like cop mode. I'm like, oh, it was just a squirrel. But then I, I, pooh, what is he doing now?

What is he doing now? You can light up houses across the lake without that you get you. It's just insane. I mean, you can light a piece of paper on fire if you hold it

right next to it. Isn't that cool? I mean, it's just, it's unbelievable. What lights it on fire? The beams? It's just so hot. It's not actually,

it actually doesn't light a piece of paper. I said that wrong. It'll light a match on fire. Oh. But still. Still. Yeah. How crazy have lasers gotten, too?

I remember when Ryan got that laser that you could, like, damn near hit the moon with. Yeah, that was pretty lit. And also, lasers, like, now you can, if you wanted, like, DJ in your living room and you wanted to, you could, like, build out the laser on your wall and then have it project, like, whatever you want. It's crazy. Is that what you have at your house? No, I know.

You got to get a little at home DJ set. Well, maybe when I learned a DJ. I don't know. I feel like we should use. some of our discretionary money around here and just do things like that like have a little laser wall do we have discretionary money yeah instead of blowing money on one thing we can blow money on something else like think of all the money we've saved this month and not having to buy a new drone we did have to buy a new drone no no we bought the drone last month Dalton crash it and then

I used our insurance to get a new one oh yeah they're gonna get rid of that insurance program that was unbelievable they're gonna be losing so much money it was incredible Dalton destroyed it beyond repair, and they just sent a new one. That's great. It's pretty awesome, actually. That's how it would be, like, if Ken had drones hovering over his house, those things would be getting crashed. They would crash into each other, knowing this guy's drone history. And shoot them like clay pigeons.

That's what we'll do before we go to prank you. Ken's got his drones. All right, move in. We only got 15 minutes dollars here. You know what we need to get is one of those net shotguns. Yeah, we net it down. Yeah. Net gun.

We need one of those. We could do like... See, there's our discretionary spending for the month. Yeah, net gun. That shotgun. Yeah, but that we would actually use for something. Yeah, we would... A net gun we could actually use.

Exactly. That's our discretionary spending for the month. Well, if that's the case, then everything we buy around here is discretionary. Now you're starting to get the picture. This is why Ken became a YouTuber. Look this guy. Buy something weird, make a video, profit. Wow.

Ken was so strategic. in the way he drew this hall up. Yeah, Ken. We're still playing out, Ken's 10-year vision. Get nickname, make video, disappear. Yeah, I have abstract products. And it's Black Friday, so I'm going to go spend some money. Yeah, what are you buying, Mike? I don't know. What should we get?

Asking Sidney. You already spent all of our money. That's what she's thinking. Did you just buy a bunch of shit last week? I think it's worth a stroll, like, through the mall. Here's a tough thing. You go into Best Buy. You think that all these great deals, like, best buy at one of many stores that was a great place to be on Black Friday, right?

It's not the same anymore. All of that shit's online. So why would you even go? I went to the gym this morning, drove by all the, like, retail stores in the area, which are small town stores. And I have never seen these stores busier. Like, every single good. Like, people were parked on the street. They were so busy.

For the record, how it's always been. And so I'm glad to see that it's still. It's not even small business Saturday. It was L&M Fleet had like cars on the side of the highway trying to get in there. Everybody loves a good deal. A good deal, people need to start fighting in stores again. Eln. Fleet is a good example of like they don't, do they have an online store? Maybe they do.

But their presence isn't crazy there. Like that's like go to the store and buy the palette of monsters for 10 bucks and some tools. Aldi had a line when I went to the gym this morning. Wow. That seems crazy. It was. At a grocery store? How much money are you going to be saving?

You're like, I went... Grocery stores aren't running Black Friday deals, though. Let's say they are, though. It'd be pretty sweet. You save... Yeah, is Aldi running Black Friday deals? 40 bucks on your grocery hall. I don't see why they wouldn't.

I feel like you can't be a business and not be running a Black Friday sale, you know? You know what I wish had a Black Friday sale? The stock market and Bitcoin. Like, how awesome would that be? Get a little bit of a discount? It was a... Black Friday sale was last week when everything dipped. Yeah, it was on sale.

Ryan, you brought up a good point. People need to start fighting in stores again. Yeah. Yeah, people just don't have this, you know, ferocious deal-hunting mentality anymore. Well, they run it differently. They've learned from... Dude, people used to, like, die on Black Friday, like, trying to go into Walmart. And there'd be, like, a stampede.

They get just trampled over trying to get, like, a fucking TV. That's because Walmart and these big retail stores wouldn't be open until midnight. Like, but now they're running these sales, like, yeah, Black Tuesday. Dude, it was way more lip. when they do it, yeah, at midnight on Black Friday right after Thanksgiving. But then it's like people started cheating the system

and they start doing it a little bit earlier because they're trying to beat the other person. Now it's like they're running Black Friday deals in fucking October. It's just like pointless. But dude, I remember in high school, me and my boys, we didn't even need anything,

but we just were like, we got to get in all chaos. So we just went to places and like stood around and then like fucking got in there and then we just like grab something, like just something stupid like a fucking toaster. I go on it. we used to do that no it used to be like early friday morning like so yeah you'd wake up

if target were open at seven they would open at five for those door buster deals okay cool we'll go and then it was like midnight and we would go and just okay i guess we're not sleeping look at the shit look at the go pro too oh oh shit get up get up you do not want to be at the bottom of the pile dude that's insane dude the lady with the car my god Oh my gosh, dude. And it's like... Dude, this is like watching the Travis Scott festival when people were in...

Yeah, that's the world. I would go there and buy a microwave. I don't even need a microwave, but I'd come home with one. Also, screw me. Like, what is they going on, dude? It's one thing. Look at a fighting. Pink-haired lady, dude.

She was pink-haired lady before pink-haired lady. I got it. That guy got it. You got it. Oh, no. She threw it to their friend at the cash. Someone else threw it back. They don't care.

Dude, they're fighting over these TVs, dude. Like, how... Like, this. This shit was fun. They're fighting over vacuums. This is insane. Yeah. I'm not going to lie.

It's insane. Like, that is insane. Dude, you're going to save how much? Screw being a worker during this time. Yeah, for real. It's one thing to just have to check a bunch of people out and get a bunch of people going. That's one thing. But another thing to have to, like, be a security guard.

They're crying. You didn't sign up for this. I wrote fighting over things. We missed out on some opportunity, guys. We should have been filming this ship. It's not like this anymore. They've figured out how to set it. up so there's just too many there's you just buy stuff online there's half as many people

are actually going they have like ticket items too like so when you're standing in line it's like okay you're we have a hundred of these TVs who's in line for the TV I am here's your ticket here's this that so then it's like they prevent that I've even seen that like online you know if you are you get this insane deal on a TV but there's only a hundred deals to be had and who knows that sometimes could be a lie sometimes not they're just running black Friday deals like Maybe an exaggeration, but like CJ said, in October. Like, they're running Black Friday deals from last week on Amazon. Amazon started November 20th, which was eight days ago.

So then here I open up Amazon today, thinking that they're at least going to have, like, the best deals today. They're all the same. Just all the same. Maybe they're a little better, but all the stuff I looked at, same price. All right. Here we go. What do we got here? So the thing about this, though?

Two TVs. The thing about this is you're capitalizing on panic buyers. So people go. in they do not need a TV but they see all these TVs flying off the shelves and they're like you know what I do need a TV oh look at this guy he snuck on the escalator to grab him yeah you're right then they're just like all right I guess I just gotta get it dude panic buying's a real thing dude they're just fighting over it look like that guy grabbed dude the elderly are just a Samsung bro I feel like TVs used to be like such a premium item oh I mean like Sean Kingston was

willing to go to jail over it I mean like like but especially like back in the day remember like that really big TV that I broke at grandpa's with the pool queue yes yeah it's like a TV like that was just like such a luxury item like you know what I'm saying like you have one of those you're big balling I remember when we got a big screen TV it was like getting a new car like yeah it's like you spent you spent you were researching you're doing all this stuff now it's like TVs are so cheap and so easy to just like buy like you don't have to like you know think about moving that thing dude like it's just it's unbelievable It used to take three people to get the TV downstairs.

Also, yeah, dude, they're almost, they're just a disposable product. You know, if, like, if you were in a pickle and you're like, oh, my TV broke, does anyone have a TV I could, like, have or, like, buy it? Someone's been like, yeah, I got one. I got one in, like, a room I don't use. My mom has a famous Black Friday shopping line. I used to hear her and all her aunts when they returned from shopping. We saved more than we spent.

And that was their rationale as to spending probably three. I mean, you know, they were grabbing Christmas gifts for everybody, but it was, you know, collectively as a crew. I'm sure they spent thousands of dollars, but we saved more than we spent. Dude, if you're saving more and you spent, you did a really good job. Also, if you're only buying it because it's on sale, you shouldn't be buying it in the first place. They were, they were buying stuff they needed. Are you trying to get punched in the face by Mike? Well, no, I completely agree.

If that's the only reason you're buying something is because it's on sale. I think to your point, like the panic buying is totally a thing. But, like, if I was going and I was getting through trying to grab a TV, it's because, like, I waited for Black Friday to buy a TV. Maybe not now because, like, I have, you know, a little more money to work with. But, like, before, if I was, like, waiting outside of Best Buy, because I wanted the GoPro that I knew would be on sale for Black Friday. Yeah, I can't argue with that.

It's kind of what I was getting at. I might go out shopping today, and I just want there to be, like, actually good deals. I don't want there to just be, like, a waste of my time. This is so crazy. Dude, I tried firing up my Xbox. Yeah, dude. Can't figure it out. That thing's just giving me a hard time, honestly.

It's like everything about gaming just doesn't work for me. Ben's like, yeah. I'm just bad at it. I'm bad at even turning the Xbox on. I'm trying to think. Did you get into a game last night? No. Oh.

It's straight up wouldn't let me sign in, dude. It was crazy. It just got the red ring and just the... DJ was even there watching it. It was crazy. Oh, if he could help you... If he could figure it out, then your Xbox is broken. Yeah.

No, it's just, it just had the bad Wiffa. But James, your brother-in-law, had a great idea since you're so bad at playing Xbox, he thinks you should Twitch stream it. And I was like, that's actually a genius idea. I love that idea because you are so bad at Xbox, that would be the draw. Like, people would be like, I can't believe how bad he is. They'd have to keep watching. Like, there's no way he's actually bad. But they'd be like, what, is this guy blind?

Like, is there a blind man with the controller? You'd be doing some shit. Then you'd look down like, okay, A's right there. Like it would be insane to watch. I don't know. I think you should do it. I think you should do it. Twitch stream it.

I mean, you know, eventually I'm sure you start to get good. So it'd be a short run. Yeah, it'd be a short run. But like you'd be that guy. You could be the top streamer for probably a week or two. Until I got good enough to not be getting murked by eight-year-olds every second. Yeah, no, I do agree. I do agree.

It's just not my, uh, it's not my thing. Not my thing. Apparently I don't even know how to, I don't even know how to turn it on. Good for you, bud. You can go read a book or something. I don't know how to read either. Hey, you're right. That's my bad.

I forgot. Yep. We'll go listen to a book. Go listen to a book. We'll get you in some VR goggles. You know how to use your hands? Yeah, I mean, I would like to think, but it's still kind of leaning on like the video game. Walk into Ben's house, Ben's and VR's.

What's up, guys? Are you, you use the front door? Yeah. I can see you being good at VR. Well, good stuff, fellas. Thanks for being here. Thank you guys for watching. We got a couple more podcasts.

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