Life Wide Open with CboysTV - CboysTV on Stupid Laws, Ken's Phone Number Getting Leaked, and Micah's Dream Job

Episode Date: July 12, 2022

In today's podcast, our community is full of swingers, Ken's phone number gets leaked, and we discuss fake and bad YouTubers, and break down our bender of a 4th of July!  Follow us on Instagram @cboystv and @lifewideopenpodcast To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You think? I don't know, but I have a couple suspicions. I think there's a few swingers around here. I think there's more than a few. All right, if you're a swinger and you're watching this podcast around our area, just drop a pineapple, drop a pineapple down in the comments. I didn't know. So C.J. knows.

So I don't need to know. I already have my suspicions. You'd just be confirming it just because I see the way some of them act. I learned that it's an upside down pineapple. It's not just a pineapple because I was wearing a pineapple shirt. Someone made a joke about me being a swinger and I said no. And then someone else goes, well, no, they're not upside down. If there was any upside down, then he'd be a swinger.

Dude, you learn something new every day. I've had this prank idea in my head for a while, and I've wanted to do it for a video bit, but realistically, it just wouldn't work as a video bit because, like, just wouldn't translate well into video, but it'd be really funny. Imagine if, like, Justin and Megan went out of town, because they're, like, they're, like, just, you know, such a nice couple and, like, they keep their house up. Live in a neighborhood. I'm sure everyone thinks, like, wow, those two are so perfect and nice.

If they went out of town and, like, I just went over there and just deck their house out and, like, upside down pineapples, had a flag and everything. And then they come back from, like, a week of vacation, like, what the heck? And then they start getting random visitors. Imagine random people start showing up, like, in their underwear on the doorstep and shit. You put a note on the door that says, thanks for the fuck shack, dirty mic and the voice. And then you'd be like, why would people show up? in their underwear.

Well, normally the swingers don't... I know, but like, normally they probably don't show up in their underwear. But, well, you guys had 16 LED upside down pineapples in it and 12 more. You guys were so extreme. I had to match your energy. Blake was telling me it is illegal to strip in Portland. It is illegal to be outside your home and take your clothes off. That's got to be the only thing illegal in Portland.

That's the shittiest state. That's the shittiest town or city. in all of the United States. Yeah, that is the dumbest rule. Carry on. If you leave your house naked, it is not illegal to be new. See, there's a way around every law.

There really is. Especially a shitty-ass place like Portland. I wonder how they figured that one out. A cop pulls somebody over naked. Hey, you're getting a ticket. And he goes, nope. I left my house naked. And he's a...

He said, but your clothes are in the back. Okay, so I don't want to get super into the crazy. laws of each state but then that made me think of yeah are these real like isn't they are there's technically also like it reminds me of recently uh minnesota like accidentally legalized some sort of strain of of marijuana that just they accidentally did oh we thought it was safe but i guess not oh i've had mess ups at work but can you just imagine accidentally writing something legally in the law and then you go out and then people are like like throwing a parade your honor but these are more of those uh these are more of these laws that were set years ago

that no one really thought to change because it almost doesn't matter because they are not enforced but as far as i know still maybe not still but as far as it says online here it is illegal to sleep naked in minnesota what i just remember seeing that way back in the day being so mind-blown and also then not caring because like why would they and how would they enforce that? It's just one of those ones. There's a few other ones for Minnesota. All bathtubs must have feet. I don't know why.

A person may not cross state lines with a duck atop his head. That's what I mean is, are those actually real? If you go through a law book, is that law in there? Or is it like some weird interpretation of the law? Right. But I just think some BuzzFeed article that they like just push out to the rest of the United States, they're like, I've never been in Minnesota. So man's crazy up there.

How would I know? States with the weirdest laws Some person down in California Do you believe this? Minnesota's got the weirdest laws There's a list that goes on and on for each state. Barstville talked about that That they post like

Top 10 states with the prettiest people And they just pick 10 states And then they just know that a bunch of people Are going to tag their friends in other states And get pissed And it's all for clicks. Genius. There's absolutely no true fact in it.

Surprising, I know that there's non-true things on the internet. But I think Minnesota's like got some of the, it is like one of the prettiest states. I'm pretty sure. Did you read that on like USA Today? No, I mean, they just, I think I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. I think I saw that on the internet. You're right.

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driving with my big toe if I hadn't seen that SpongeBob episode. But since I have, I'm like, this is fun. I'm like SpongeBob. Yeah. So you guys don't know? I don't know if it actually is. No idea. Maybe another drop that down in the comments.

It's interactive, but post-interactive. We really, really, really got going on a role here, but I would love to introduce this fellow podcast with my fellow friends to our fellow viewers. For a second time, actually. For a second time, I know. We had to redo this whole thing. Some bad news. We recorded an entire podcast.

And it was good. It was really good. I mean, as any podcast we filmed, we really liked it. It sucks because like now all that stuff's kind of, I feel like it's gone. Because how do I like tell you it again? Right. There's a few stories that we tell on here that we've all heard before, but it's still fun to interpret them differently. But a lot of stories among many other podcasts that we don't and how do we get re-excited or even remember quite exactly how we told it.

So we filmed one. earlier this week and this is our second try at it so and it wasn't our fault some went wrong with the memory card and none of the audio was recorded so we're doing this again we're probably only going to talk about some of the topics we talked about in that one but uh yeah anyways we're going wrong and i'm sorry that we took two weeks off we're busy we're traveling and then it was the fourth of july and i'm sorry i had right well no there's no time there was no time we may have gone on an accidental four-day bender yes well that That was the problem was that the 4th of July landed on a Monday.

So that means that luckily I didn't celebrate Friday, but you could have celebrated Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, which is a four-day bender. And it is for the freedom of our beloved country. We're celebrating it. So I feel like it's almost obligated. Yeah, it was. And we did just that.

Unless you're a communist and you hate. So that's what you mentioned something about it being an. accidental bender. It really wasn't. The problem was it was Tuesday and I was still drinking. That's when things started to get messy and then it was like, all right, it turned from I'm just celebrating our country to I might be an alcoholic. And then I looked at Ben on Wednesday when we were filming the first podcast and he was

cracking a white claw. I was like, I couldn't believe he was cracking a white claw. He goes, what? It's Wednesday. We're on the down slope. It's hump day. What do you mean? We're closer to the weekend.

I was like, all right. When a 4th of July does fall on a Wednesday, it's so funny. It's like you get the down split. Well, we better take the whole damn week off at that point. And last weekend and this weekend is both Fourth of July weekend. So we better do that too. A lot of people did that even this week. Granted, like talking about some of these really rich people where they can just...

Anytime for the July. I think they're just trust fun babies. It's on a weekday. But they just take the whole week on. They've been down here. I was out. I took my parents for a boat ride on Wednesday night because they hadn't rode on my boat yet. Wednesday.

Wednesday, whatever. So we get out and we start cruising around. And luckily we kind of got out at a time. It was like five. And there were still people at the sandbar, like kind of leaving going in. But they were out there all day. Don't let the dream die. Drinking in the water swimming.

I was like, God damn it, you lucky son of a bitch. Granted, I am a lucky son of a bitch, but they really are. Yeah. Being a trust fund, baby, would be real nice. I mean, it says anyone ever. I don't know. I mean, it would be, but also it would. It's just like anything.

The problem with being a trust fund baby is, like, you show up. I feel like you just never get as much respect. Mike, you might be the last person I would expect to ever say that. But at the same time, who cares? You got a trust fund. That's fucking awesome, dude. And everyone would love to have that? The question posed, would you get bored?

I don't think I would. That's what I mean. I feel like it's, you play GTA and then when you beat it and you get the like a bazillion dollars and then it's just fucking boring. You just run around and shoot people. I feel like some of the trust fund babies. that, like, I know that run around here are the most fucked up out of anyone. Well, it seems like they're always having a good time for what I see.

They're always drinking and partying because they don't have any, they don't have to do anything. So that's where it would get, let's say, like, being a trust fund baby, and now you're 38. Now, what does it, do you, like, have to buy your friends in that sense? Unless you're a likable person, I mean, a lot of them are great. They're fucking fun to hang around. But even still, all your friends are. Like, they have fucking jobs. They're normal people.

So then it's kind of like, what do you do? That's more so what I meant. Go to Vegas for the week. I guess. With who? No one can go to Vegas. There's probably other trust fund kids you could meet up with there. Mike's true because they're a little club.

Mike, you're a part of a trust, or you, you're a trust fun, baby. What are you doing? What's your day look like? Dude, I mean, for sure sleeping in. That's a given. Fuck, of course. So what changes? What's your definition of sleep in now?

Like if you're, if you're just sleeping in, that's the motive of the day. That is not the motive of the day. It never is. It's just a luxury I would have. All right. What time he's sleeping in, tell? Depends on what I do the night before. What time are you sleeping in time?

Let's give me a time. 11? You sleep until 11 anyway. Mike, I'll give you one. You were setting me up for that one. That's fine. That's fine. All right.

Let's say one. All right, I don't want to be a trust phone baby anymore. If I slept until one every day, I would become depressed. And I have slept till one many times, many times, and I probably will do it again. But if I slept till, I've seen it before, it's like there's such a thing as like the lay gang girls who maybe are fortunate enough to not even be a trust fund baby, but just maybe take the summer off from college where they really don't do anything. And it's just a, it's an interesting sight to see. And that's not something I'd want to be a part of. And I would hope that I would chase hobbies.

I told you this before. I'd like, I really want to be like a, I don't want to say, I want to make music. A DJ? But also I, I want to make music on the computer. Mike's going to be a D-Gen DJ. You're old. You can do that after the fact. That's, that's the plan.

Later on, or hopefully we can just set this up where DJ, D-J. It doesn't take so much of our time. Can you just film and do cool fun stuff and then the other backend stuff gets taken care of? I could actually see you being a DJ though, Mike. It'd be so fun. But also, there is a certain level of, uh, again mentioning our friends twin sick how they're kind of like moving up the levels of the DJ ladder there is a certain point where it's like you have to go through the whole being a

rock star thing and after experiencing what we've experienced here like it's maybe not something that I want if there's like such a thing as like I'm pretty sure marshmallow is shown his face by now I don't know but something like that where you have this uh there's no uh face to your to your music but you still You get to reap all the benefits? I don't know. I think I'd want my face known. With all the negative things that come with fame,

I'd want to at least reap the benefits of it too. Imagine being a world-renowned superstar DJ. No one knows. And you walk through the busiest crowd and not a single person recognizes you or says what's up. Well, imagine this. What if marshmallow, they just ship the hat places or the little costume.

And it's really just a playlist, like any of those other DJ things. They just hit play. They're like, hey, just go up there and raise your arms, dance around, just do whatever. That would actually be crazy. I'm going to give you a couple hundred bucks. The marshmallow is that, and then I don't know how I couldn't think of this, but Daft Punk, apparently they've never. Like, Daft Punk is some of the biggest, the biggest DJ duo.

The Blue Man Group. The Blue Man Group actually are duplicated. Well, they switch out. Yeah. Yeah, they go to like, in Miami, hey, we need a higher group of, and maybe the original Blue Man Group there are. They were training them. The Blue Man group's kind of creepy. I remember when I was a kid, I saw a commercial.

They were advertising it for the Fargo Dome. After I got done watching the commercial, maybe it was just a really bad commercial, but I was like disturbed. I was like, what the heck? It was my first time seeing the Blue Man group, and I was like, Mom. I think they don't know how to talk,

and they just bang on little buckets. I think they do know how to talk. No, dude, they don't. They act weird, bro. They go like this, like, they're like, they're like, fucking looking around. They look like this, No, I know.

I think they do know how to talk about creepy. Well, I'm sure they do, but when they're in concert and you're a little kid, you're like, dude, this is creepy. I don't want to go anywhere within 100 miles of where they're at. All right, we got to bring CJ into a Blue Man Group concert. Honestly, I want to love it. I'm fucking lit. Is it?

Yeah, it's insane. I'd probably enjoy it now, but I'm fine. Emergency trip to Vegas. Yeah. I see you next week. I think they play on elsewhere besides Vegas. No, no. No, Mike, don't be ridiculous.

Since they are duplicated. Also, to go back to the trust fund thing, just to clarify, because I'm sure people are confused because we live in a tiny-ass town. The only trust fund people I know are just like the people that come here in the summer to stay at their lake house, which is like a lake mansion or their lake cabin, but it's a lake mansion. And they just stay for the summer and then they go. But that's how I run into trust fund kids.

Anyways, carry on. And if you're one of the kids and you're thinking, are they talking about meat? Most likely, we're probably not. No. Oh, I thought you guys said. We definitely are not. No, there's other trust on kids, though. Uh-uh.

Like, I could probably name five of them. I can't name them right now. Name them, I'll bleep it. See, they just die. I just don't. Okay. So you got? Honestly, I can't think of any besides for the one that I sat at the bar last night hugging.

You got, oh, sorry. Right, right. Hugging the man for 10 minutes and me just uncomfortably watching. Like, so this is what they do, huh? I mean, I've definitely. I definitely probably hugged you guys in a bar for a while. 10 minutes, though. But not,

there's like a point when you get, I lose track of time sometimes. You get, like, all drunk and you're like, I love you, man. That's my favorite. That's my favorite stage of drunk. You do that a lot, Ben. You always get that way,

which is good. That's a good way. Well, it could be the opposite. You're like, fuck you, man, let's fight. Let's fight. And that's like the opposite of what you want.

That does come out sometimes, too, though. That's just cheddar. If any of us were drunk fighters, we probably wouldn't drink. You're like, that would suck. Like,

You'd eventually probably learn your lesson, well, unless you're really dumb, but I feel like all, like, the rest of us would be like, listen, dude, you need to stop doing this or stop drinking, one or the other. But there is a lot of, like, small town guys I think it's just fine to go out and fight. If you're going to be a known person for whatever reason, but known as a fighter or a drunk fighter in this case, you have to be still very respectful, if that makes sense. Like, what if you're the guy who gets into fight?

They're picking that out, dude. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. at not being a D-Gen, but like I've seen a few guys that you don't mess with that guy. You'll put you in the ground. Literally don't even talk to him to that. Yeah, right. And then there's other guys that are like, you're looking at me? Yeah.

And then that's all it takes. And it's like, come on. No one likes hanging out with them. Right. Pretty much anytime we go out to the bar, though, and I know that one of my friends is like a drunk fighter, though, I always make sure to dab him up and keep him close just in case shit go south somewhere but i always know that that guy you just got to be tight enough for him to see like his homie getting i don't know looked that funny and that guy will be there because i

ain't trying to get in a bar fight but somebody that would want to get in a bar fight he's got your back i got kind of a story about that so uh all the bouncers at zorbas are freaking huge mother they are they're huge yeah you make friends with the bouncers we're like friends with them And I'm actually like, I talk to them all the time. Like, I'm friends, you know, whatever. They're good guys. And what I've only, I've had like a couple times where people were, you know, eyeball on me, like kind of trying to pick something with me.

And I wouldn't like stood next to them. And they're, and they just, that dropped real quick, dude. That dropped real quick. Now that you bring that up super nice. Yeah. I feel so safe, it's relieving. Because I know them. And I'm not going to be the one to pick a fight.

But like, I don't have to worry about any. almost to the point where you you don't even have to worry about doing the actual fight if there was one dude they would literally just come probably like tap him with their pinky and those guys would be sent flying out of the out of the bag of bones would go flying outside of the door it's like no exaggeration i mean you guys have all seen big bouncers but like i mean he's like six eight i think and pushing four 20 430 i don't know i don't know his dimensions but my My favorite picture is CJ holding a big bottle or no, he's holding the big bottle of Grey Goose and he's, and you're holding the little one. Yeah, in hindsight, like a blown up. Yeah, pop that up on the screen, but in hindsight, that picture should have been, we should reverse it. I don't know why we didn't, but it was because it was New Year's Eve and we were celebrating.

So keep your fighter friends close and keep your bouncers even closer. There should be a shirt. dude i saw a shirt uh on facebook i was scrolling through and some friend i have uh posted like a compilation of their pictures of friends with fourth july whatever anyways i saw this shirt this guy was wearing and said legalized smoking cigarettes on the plane on a plane legalized cigarettes smoking cigarettes on the plane can you imagine how much that would suck for everyone else on the plane i know i know it's a joke but it's just so funny to me because it's like legalize marijuana legalized smoking his cigarette's on a plane.

I just thought it was funny. You used to be able to smoke on a plane. You smell smoke on a plane. Really? Yeah. I mean, health to everyone else's side, that just seems like a safety hazard. They used to smoke in restaurants.

You wouldn't remember this, Ben, because you're, you know, so young. Just a kid. You know, one of those, what they call him? Kids. Two thousand's babies. Yeah. Anyways, when I was a kid,

we would go into restaurants, and there was a smoking section and a non-smoking section. The smoking section didn't. air was the same air it was like it was like a like a half wall maybe and the top half the important half is open yeah and anyways yeah so you'd smell that um or like i remember we'd go a place and they'd be like all we have is the smoking section open my parents like oh like we're not eating here yeah um but anyways my grandparents from my mom's side they all were heavy well my whole mom's

family all heavy duty cigarette smokers my mom doesn't smoke cigarettes um but the rest of them they all smoked and my grandpa he did not care like i mean towards like the end of his life uh he would just smoke right in the house and you would go over there you would leave and your whole body would reek of cigarettes i remember my mom like getting us home like come on we got to get you in the shower like trying to like clean me off as like kid and stuff but it's just 13 walking around smelling like cigarettes? Dude, you would seriously stink. It was amazing.

It was impressed. It smoked that many cigarettes in there. I think if you could smoke in restaurants, I probably would end up being a smoker. I don't even like it. I just think out of the accessibility. Well, I do not like smoking cigarettes.

I don't know. Vapes are more accessible than cigarettes. Maybe they have a vaping section. That's true, and I don't do that. The vaping section's all just bwomping music. Ken and all this. that would be really funny

there used to just be booths with the smoking section and booths without it and now the vaping section has LEDs everywhere and yeah and like all we have open

is the vaping section I'm not going back there not because of the smell or anything it's just the people the characters you see back there dude I think it's so funny though how many people vape and vaping has to be as bad as smoking cigarettes it is

it is 100% and i guarantee in like 15 years we're going to be watching tv or whatever we have for consuming our entertainment at that point and there's going to be the commercials that go if you smoked da da da da da da jule mango pods you are entitled to 15 000 dollars due to compensation uh yeah lung cancer and all these things and everyone's going to be like are you You're kidding me? I didn't know that you could die from these... Well, you want to know something. They told me it was good.

Think about this. Well, even back in high school, they used to have those little, like, E-Sig pens. I'm pretty sure I've told this story before. But we would go to the gas station and, like, get them, right? And they were just like, it was like a literal pen. It was before vapes.

It was before anything. And it was just called an E-cigarette. You would just puff on this thing. It had, like, maybe 500 or 1,000 puffs. But we would just buy it be like $20 and we'd just crush that thing in a night. But, uh, Anyways, I remember all my friends Dude, it's just water vapor.

It's just water vapor. It's not bad for it. I'm like, yeah, right. Like, I mean, there's no way that shit ain't bad for you. I remember, like, looking it up, trying it and, like, doing all this. As far as the vapor goes, that's not what's going to hurt you. It genuinely is the extreme concentrated nicotine. Dude, I disagree.

I agree with the nicotine part, but I disagree. It's not just vapor because have you ever been in a vape smoker's car? Yeah, the windows are off. windows are all coated they're all coated so if you there's like that coating to them and if you spill that shit or whatever that's in your that you're coating your lungs the other thing i just thought about is like i remember the rigs you know where you got the thing and people are packing the you pack the coil that i think it was worse than the stuff that you're literally heating up a piece of metal around a bunch of cotton or whatever was like that you know that yeah there's no way it's like

good for you it's definitely not good but i think it's a lot worse than what people think It'll come out one day. But the thing that I always think about, which I don't vape, I don't like smoking. The few times I have, like, done it, I always just think that shit just coated my lungs. And then I go to the gym and I start running. And it's always in the back of my head, like, man, I feel like I can't breathe as good right now. Last weekend, I offered Evan $1,000 to stop vaping on the spot. I had my Venmo pulled up, $1,000.

His name typed in. I said, I will press send if you agree and shake my hand right here. just because he, dude, he vapes so much, constantly. And it really became apparent when we were riding back in the truck for 14 hours. And I literally got out of the car smelling like his vape flavor. I know. I was like, dude, I will pay you $1,000 right now to quit. And he was like, honestly, I can't do it.

That's actually pretty cool of him to know. Like most people, probably myself included, would have went, deal, thrown the vape in the lake. But even if he would have vape like a couple times, but like tried to quit. But it's true. So he told me that and he goes, so Ben just offered me this. He typed it out on Venmo, this and that. I just got a brand new vape. It's middle of the Fourth of July weekend.

And honestly, I just didn't want to do him dirty. I didn't want to say yes as much as I wanted to. He's just like, that's something that appeals to me in the future. So it's good news. No, that was a one-time deal. Okay, that's fine. I was in the pocket of liquored up. A deal like that still would have.

appeal to him whether or not it happens, but he was like, I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it to him. I knew I was going to be lying to myself, called no deal. Pretty good of him. Yeah. Yeah, I respect that, but still, I guess, I don't know. Imagine being so addicted to something. For $1,000 you couldn't quit.

Then again, I mean, if he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to, it's one thing. Especially, like, the convenience factor of it, going back to, like, if it was still legal, like, I'd probably smoke cigarettes in a bar. It is extremely convenient. you are addicted to smoking nicotine, how many nicotine pens or whatever, like pods or whatever they are? Always around. Constantly going around.

I mean, there's so many people that smoke those things now. I bet it's the same as people smoking cigarettes back in like the 80s and the 70s or whatever back when they were very popular, even probably in 90s. So speaking of quitting, I told myself that I was going to shave my mullet off after the fourth. Oh, okay. I don't know if I could do it. I, like, I should. I don't remember what you look like without a mullet, like, I think I'm gonna.

I can always grow another one back. Wasn't that much work. But I've gotten so many, like, just, you know, just people are like, fuck, yeah, sick mullet. I think it's a look. I think you should leave it, honestly. Mullets have, like, came back in style. Like, if you would have done it a year or two ago, it's like,

that's funny, he got a mullet. But now you having a mullet, it's just like, he's not trying to be funny. It's just his mullet. And there's other people with them. It's crazy how trends come on fast like that. Because then let's think in 2010, if you had a mullet, it's just like, you just don't get it. Yeah.

Yeah, actually. Everything comes back around. They seriously, it does. And for the most part, as far as you're lame now, just wait long enough and you'll be cool again. With anything, like redecorating a house or fashion or anything. But it's like now with the mullet, most people are like, love it, loved it when it was in the 80s or whatever it was. Love it now. and then some people are like,

that hairstyle, get rid of that. That was supposed to be dead in the 80s or whenever the mullet was popular. I think it's kind of a look. I think it is too. I really like it. I miss your mullet, Ben. Ben looked pretty good.

You looked like a freaking, pretty mischievous with that bullet. Yeah, you did. You looked like trouble. I was going to say, that was full-blown D-Gen. I liked that kind of thing. I was on my worst behavior when I had that. Cheddar.

Yeah, that was cheddar. I don't know if I could. I behaved the same with the bullet, but I legitimately... I'd be like light and shit on fire for the long, not putting them out. I stopped wearing sleeps for the longest time, too. Look, dude, you're back.

Oh, shit! Where did they go? I did think about that too. I was like, Mike, I might... I might cut my hair into a mullet. That'd be kind of cool if we both had mullets together, and then he drops that news on me. But that's kind of what I'm getting at

is just far the joke of not being able to quit. I like can't bring myself to do it. I don't think you should. You're one with the mullet. I get emotional. You refer to the mullet as a whole separate entity. Yeah, like it's the mullet. Yeah.

The mullet. What up, baby? Show some love to the mullet now. It's like, floss. Whoa. You think you can just run your hands with the mullet first try? You got to ask the mullet if it's okay. Hey, is it okay?

Yeah, he says it's cool. That's a pretty funny, like, this icebreaker or something. That's funny. That's like one of those things that it'd be really funny to make into a video but it's like almost would be easier to make as a cartoon it's also weird that we call things the and a so it's like when we're going on liver king when we go out on the boat don't give me going on liver king we're going out on ryan's boat or your boat it's still just the boat we're going out on the boat so weird or even just like yeah it's like when when objects get almost a personality in

their own right but sometimes it's not they they don't get their own ryan's boat is it any different than the boat. It's funny that everyone refers to our shop as the shop. Think about that. Like everyone's got a shop around here. We go into the shop. Everyone's got a steel shed basically. We're going to the shop.

The shop. That does get tough because the the, the can mean two things. Like I can be can go grab me the chair or go sit in the chair. Right. It feels weird saying that. I don't know. That sounds pretty normal. The chair has.

Go sit in the chair. Go sit in the chair. No, that was a pretty. That was a normal statement. But the chair has no significance. It's not important. You're just directing to it a single chair. I could go sit in a chair and then Ken could pick any of them.

But I'd go sit in the chair. That's one of them. But. We go with this, Ryan. No, but then you talk about the shop. Like you say the shop or the boat and you know what you're talking about. Maybe not. I do.

Yes, I agree. I agree. But it also depends. Who says it? Because clearly, like, we have certain, like, affiliations and affiliations to certain things. Gang. I guess it just circles back to then, how does this sound?

Hey, we're going to go out on a boat. It's like, we're going on a boat. Whose boat are you going on? You have questions. Well, which lake is it even on? We're going on an all lake. Yeah. Hey, I'm going to go hit a lake.

There's an English teacher out there right now that is, like oh my god you guys are so freaking dumb did you learn nothing there's just certain things that i just never got i was one of them we're going to go to a boat actually which one i used to put uh in front of words when i was reading third grade very traumatic experience for me i got pulled out of class and everything i was that kid the letter a not u h uh or you would say uh Are you saying UH is Uh Oh

UH? Like a Yeah Like peanut butter baby Ah Yeah just the letter A Yeah I don't know Sidebar though

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I'm not Shadow Band. I'll pop up. Please look him up. All thank you. I'll thank you to Abe, though. So, shout out Abe. This is such a subtle plug. No, he's a fucking man.

No, you're Instagram. Oh, yeah. And also, if you're not following, hit the follow. No. You're not subscribed to this podcast. I'm just glad because I debuted that I was Shadow Band. I figured it out on the podcast. One thing that gets me so excited about this podcast.

is that since we're elaborating on things that we like and want and don't like and need and make our channel work and don't so many people have reached out to us genuine people that can genuinely help us out that have their head on straight it's like so it's so great like i mean there's i'm just saying there's a lot of emails that are that are just like hey big fan and asking for this and that and they're good they're bad they're weird they're funny but like a lot of the people that ask us if we need help with something that we mentioned on the podcast is like pretty high and it's like really good to read like you know for example that like wide open ranch post like there's a dude who's just like we make those really we can help you and then I talk to him on

the phone and he's just like we'll get her straightened out so like I just appreciate everyone listening that has reached out Mike is always so willing to give out his phone number too you know how many subs out there have Mike's number just because he just willingly trust And no one abuses it. No. It always backfires on me, dude. But it always backfires on Ken. It really does.

Ken hates when we bring attention to this. Poor Ken, he gets like random phone number calls all the time. Just look at how many red. Oh, yeah. Ken gets a lot. And Ken's number got floated around somewhere from some business documents. So there's stuff like that. This is exactly why you can say that.

I don't even want to say it, but no, I'm not going to say it. Mine is incredibly public. Really? Insanely public. Oh, yeah. Like the most public number. It probably is out there more than 99% of phone numbers in the universe.

No, that's exactly. Right. But out of all of ours, mine is the most out there. It really isn't. Do you ever get calls? No,

never. That's crazy. Please don't start looking for my number and calling me. I will get so sad. I won't even be mad. I will just be sad. Just an inconvenience of having to change your phone number. Dude, I couldn't.

I don't. I mean, how do you explain that to your grandma? Just everyone. Who already doesn't barely know what your phone number is. So would you guys consider this? Like, my number is like an extension of me. Like I don't want to change it.

My number is like squid games. It's been, yeah, I might as well have it branded on my wrist. Oh yeah. No, it's like, uh,

Stranger things. Yeah. I like really might as well like have that because like if I had to change it, I would just be like, I'm not even the same person anymore. It's really that important to you, huh? Yeah. I really like my phone number, too.

Because of all the zeros. It's seven. I know two phone numbers and it's mics and my mom's. Really, I know my dad's really well and I can kind of, I can struggle through my mom's. But if I had to like go off the top, it's my dad and Ken's. Also, I remember like speaking of phone numbers and your dad, I just remember when he was like going through his phone and he was asking me to help him out with something. And this is a while back, but he had borderline no numbers saved compared to the average person. He doesn't.

No numbers saved. Well, it's something about something in the contacts. Yeah, it's just like. It's because it used to be really hard to transfer your contacts from phone to phone. Used to be this pain. Like you go, hey, can I get the drywallers number? You go, yep, you ready? Like, he would just memorize it.

Yeah. I go, I think you have some sort of skill that most people don't have here. Well, I called him the other day asking him a couple of questions. And I hadn't called him in probably like three years. Uh-huh. And I call him and expecting Benjamin. Oh, and he was. And he goes, hello.

Hey, Randman. Uh, hello. Oh, he's trying to figure it out. He's trying to figure out my voice. And I think I said, hey, Randy. And I go, what's up, Randman? Oh, Benjamin. Gosh, that's funny.

Going back to the people that watch the podcast that reach out, though. Mm-hmm. The best. The best. The best. It's also really cool when you meet somebody and they are like, hey, man, I, uh, listen to you guys as podcast. the second that it goes out.

Yeah. And, uh, you guys like, get me through the workday. Some way that you would totally not expect. I met the kid on the 4th of July on the lake who sent us the Pelican. No way. Yeah. Seriously. Did Kevin make that?

I mean, Kevin didn't make it. No way. Did that kid just lied to you? Wait, did he? Yeah. I was like, I made the Pelican. Yo. And I was like, I was like, you did?

No. Kevin got. that made from like vizta print oh no maybe he's the one who printed it maybe kevin consulted a logan company and he just printed it you think basically kevin just went to this website called fiverr where you can get anything made period and he said hey i have a buddy and he didn't even try him a back story and said i was like giving this kid so much love you need to make ken into a pelican and then he just printed it out and maybe i misinterpreted because i was drunk i don't know but And regardless of that, just forget all that.

When you meet subscribers, you meet people that watch, you're like, what's up? What's up? But when they say, I watch the podcast, it's like, it's like a whole other level. They've spent so much time listening to us. They know you and they always happen to be the cooler. Like the interaction is always cooler because they're just, I don't know. They just are cooler. It's a lot chiller.

It's a different group. And not so like, I don't know. We try to keep our YouTube videos like, digestible for everyone. I mean, that's the goal for really anyone on YouTube. We stay in our niche, but like keep it digestible for anyone. But for anyone also to listen to a podcast of anyone, there's got to be some. Yeah, you got to be about it.

I mean, realistically, if you listen to all these podcasts, it's almost like you know how we act. I feel you get a better idea. After a while, you can kind of see it. How we act, how we interact. Especially if you watch it. You can see our facial expressions, everything. Got Bush? You definitely do.

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I want a giant ass flagpole. I'm talking Perkins quality, car dealership quality. Say no, say less at Perkins. Yeah, the largest American flag possible outside of our shop. And I want it lit and concrete in the ground. ground, as tall as building codes will let us, big ass America. And they pay for it. And maybe we work out a deal where you pay for it and install it for free.

And then the rest comes out of Ken's paycheck. Yeah, yeah. No, we can do that. There's a little bit of wiggle room there, I think, this month. And every company's like, work down if you fly. Super expensive. That's kind of what I thought as soon as you get to cementing in the ground and like just the flag alone.

I think an American flag, it's got to be the size of this podcast room. Yeah, that would be bigger to do. And I think those flags alone are like a thousand bucks. But would it get all ripped to shreds if you don't take it down? I think they're pretty tough. Gosh, you would literally hear that thing probably inside. You'd be like, I like the idea of lighting it up too. Evan is like, look, guys, I don't complain about much, but I can't live at this shop after this flagpole was it put in.

So would we put it out at the track or, I mean, out at the land? Right in the corner. Right next to our big billboard. that we're going to put out at the at the land it's right on the highway we could do american flag but then also like the police like a flag with the blue with the blue just to kind of butter them up a little bit yeah yeah you know geez imagine they're like oh shit we can't we can't do it dude just put a sticker on the back of car they're like fuck I got to let them go that's actually kind of a thing though yeah I know for sure I think those people are just genuine

supporters I don't know I mean yeah I'm not saying I'm against I'm just saying we just do that as a strategic play. We get a flag that says, I love the DNR. That's just it. They're like, I didn't even know we had a flag. No, it's custom. We had a custom. Yeah, we saw.

We were looking all over, but you didn't. So we had them custom made. Don't worry, we got you the patent. The other side says, give the DNR more power. Whenever I think of anybody. That's a shirt we should have. Oh, my God. Make a shirt that says,

give the DNR more power. You walk in a Zorba's wearing that, and people would actually be like, what the fuck? Fuck this guy. They would. And they would defund road to be honest. The DNR.

Some guys would just go, why do you think that? Yeah. Can you tell me a lot of, there'd be a lot of people that are like, hey, come here. When they're around, I just feel safer.

Tell me about the shirt. What's the deal here? This is Joker? Oh, no, no. I just think that, you know, they just, should have more power. They'd be like,

now why would you think that? Like, there are guys that are ticked, dude. I always feel like when anybody, or when we do, actually, I'm not saying that we do or don't. But whenever anybody butters up

any kind of law enforcement, I'm just like, one step closer to being a mob boss, huh? You know, because like, that's how it was for them. Like, they just, like, paid them off to do anything or, like, Pablo Escobar. But it's just any, thing you do, even like a little sticker.

Just one step closer to being a mob bus, being untouchable. I saw a sticker today, a guy had a smart car, which I thought immediately was funny. That was so funny. And then on the back, it goes, before this, I drove an SUV. Before Biden, I drove an SUV.

Oh, my gosh. And on the back, it said before Biden, I drove an SUV. Oh, dude, we should buy a smart car just to do that. And I thought it was so. We have one. It's on the top of the van. That one's all jacking.

Pajacked up, it looks like a guy who... Pajacked up, does he just invent a word? Bajacked up. It's like bedazzled and jacked up. You just got bejacked up. Bro, I'm gonna get so bejacked up this weekend. I'm sorry, Doc. He's invented a word.

More of an emphasis on just jacked up. It's bejacked up. It's fucking bejacked. You just got bejacked. No, I love... It's like pit my ride. I just love that he did that to the smart car. Like, it could have been.

been on like a small Honda Civic and it would not have been funny at all okay but it was on one of the smallest cars you can buy if he looked like a total normal dude that you would see just driving a normal Chevy truck and then there he was jammed in that smart car and I go you just unlocked a new level smart cars are outdated they don't even get that good of gas mileage when I got mine I was thinking like this thing's going to get such good gas mileage I got like 32 miles of the gallon grand I was driving everywhere my foot to the floor but like it straight up didn't get that good a gas mileage and that's because those things were like 2008 like in 2008 that was great but nowadays like pretty much most normal

vehicles get that i could squeeze like 27 out of my car yeah but also i think it's still funny that nowadays i mean this is maybe we'll just use one brand as example dodge like nowadays there is still such a thing aka ryan's truck which is an extreme but it's like eight miles of the gallon like there is insane that hasn't gone away like low gas mileage vehicles still have not gone if you're rich though you don't give not that ryan is but like i sold it i saw really rich i saw one of the really rich guys around here he drives a hummer still like a 2008 like whatever the last year they made the h2 hummer he just drives that thing and loves it like he takes such good care of it and i was thinking to myself that thing has got it cost him so much in gas and

i remembered he doesn't care he's rich doesn't matter But anyway, so new topic. What do you guys think about the liver king? I think he's my absolute favorite, man. I like that. You know, I get my daily dose of liver king. I love him, but I also have, like, you know, what I've analyzed about him. What do you guys think?

Dude, he reminds me of like, so you know how Alex Jones is like super political? He's like almost delirious. Yeah. He reminds me of that but primal method. And I maybe could think of a few other examples, but he's just so like, Yep, yep, fucking problem. Yep, yeah, dude. That guy's jacked, man.

Obviously, Jacked that way, and physically, but, like, jacked up just on energy. Like, he's just like, yeah. Yeah, he's about it. He is. So Liver King's actually becoming a little bit more mainstream now. More and more people are finding out about him, but we've been on Liverpool for a couple months now.

And we even have a group chat called Primals, and he's the profile picture. Yeah. Dude, he's a whole other level of Jack. Oh, yeah. We'll text each other in the morning. Did everyone get their daily dose of liver king? Because he hits like every morning.

You just got to watch his Instagram. Honestly, it's hard to explain. So he preaches like the ancestral living. I think this is a very strategic business play that they have placed within the last six months. And they are absolutely playing it by the book and is going perfectly for them. They are crushing it. So he's out here, you know, just do an Instagram post, whatever. and he gets all these followers and he's just like absurd you know he's just ridiculous and he says

all these crazy things and and you just can't stop looking at him because he's such a he's so jacked and he's just yelling in the way he talks he has basically created this character right and he says that he's all natural and he lives like the ancestral ways and he eats all this stuff and it shows him i'd like to actually see him finish the food in front of him when they do like the thing he's got like 12 patties uh a bunch of liver a steak um you know all this different a bone like two bone marrow things like he does do if you really if you really scroll back in his instagram he would actually do time lapse of him eating all of them really so that's what i want to see i want to see just a raw video of him

actually eating all that because i almost wonder sometimes if they're just put a bunch of food in front of them and then he eats it i mean i'm sure to a point but dude i watched the video of him drinking 52 raw eggs. Did he do them like individually? Yeah. All in shot once. He had 50. That's actually no cuts, nothing.

It's just one consecutive. Well, see, I would like to see like more of that. I guess I haven't seen that one. There are some that he doesn't finish and some that he does. I think, yeah. I mean, like, he is about it. No, he is about it. You can't be that educated and like live that lifestyle and not really be about it.

But I think it's still. he's pushing it to the edge and I do honestly I hate being a hater and I'm not being a hater I fucking think he's the man and I don't even care if anyone uses steroids but this whole thing that he's saying he's natural

I just don't I'm I'm not buying it I'd just like to see a test because if he was natural and he keeps saying it I would fucking be showing things all the time but he hasn't came out and showed anything that he's natural

also it's like when you do steroids your organs they like expand and that's why his gut is so like pressed out like that or it's because he just ate 50 fucking raw eggs possibly but uh anyway maybe you'll never know but then it's like so at first i was like whatever this guy's just doing his thing and someone's film his wife is just filming him on portrait mode right on their camera all yep and he's just yelling at the camera and doing his videos and people are loving it

but then when he starts doing his what am i eating for lunch today and then it's this this this a whole beast a beast which he's selling so now Now he's selling product. And we just promoted it. Yep. And it's working. And honestly, I'd love to try it. I have, I fucking love liver king.

I think he's the man. I don't, I don't care. There needs to be a liquor. Liquor king. That could be Mike. Mike is the liquor king. I'm the liquor king. No, I'm not fit for that.

Anyways, sorry, back to the liver king. But then he ends in. And of course, the liver king bar. I don't know exactly what it's called. But he's selling like all these nutritional supplements now. Instead of a testicle, you eat the testicle. you eat the testicle a little supplement powder that he's got. So I eat a vegetable when you could eat a testicle.

Right. I think this whole thing is genius marketing. I think that he is on steroids. I still think it's awesome. And lastly, like it is awesome that he's all about his ancestral ways and that he thinks that we need to revert back to them, which like, you know, I agree. I think we have kind of swayed a little.

bit too far from them but also at the same time like not wearing sunscreen not wearing a shirt the whole time shit like that you do realize our ancestors only live till they were like 35 like if you live till you're 35 like that was like a pretty long that's a pretty long life so real like I think that's definitely we got to find a happy middle I don't know if he does no he comments people say that yeah no I don't remember his logic back no and I'm not trying to be a hater I think he's awesome if I I would love to meet him I'd love to talk to him but that's just like my immediate thoughts and maybe he could like answer it but i do find it funny i think he's a genius marketer he's reping this ancestral lifestyle and saying like everything needs

to be homegrown and organic and walks everywhere barefoot and then he's got a uh 200,000 watch on flying private jets i agree it is just kind of like i agree but then you see he has something bad for that too and he dude imagine this you're making a life worth living which i understand i get that but he's i don't know imagine this this dude was just a gym rat typical gym rat that's what i do imagine every that's what i imagine before six months ago he was just this gym rat and some really rich business people that want to start a supplement company they look around they come up with this genius plan we're going to do this ancestral living thing i don't i highly doubt this what happened

but it just just hear me out and they go let's go and start scoping out the gyms for the right guy they find him they're like yo you want to be you want to be the face

and the character of this you just got to basically act this way grounded yeah I think that's the case but I think he came up with it on his own

no I agree I agree CJ that was a pretty good I do I think but I think a good little theory you came out there no he's just a genius marker

that's my my theory on it I think his whole character he's created is about as like bullshit as like Beyonce and Jay Z's marriage like the whole it's just a marketing scheme

not the marriage sorry sorry Mike you're trying to get this show canceled here the fight that they created I don't think anyone watching right now gives a single fuck but certain people would it's like crazy huge things that literally define

your life to the masses um that just makes you money like I saw his one video of him he was out side of him He's like, we're, you know, growing our connection deeper and all this stuff with his family. And then we're taking a, we're going to be taking a 15-minute nap on the ground under the sun. And then it, like, shows him, like, it shows him in, like, the next, next, like, story.

It's just a video of him laying, like, on the dirt underneath a tree. And then he had a log as his killed. I'm like, surely this guy didn't sleep like this. They took the video and he got up. He might have, though, man. last time, genius marketer. I do agree with that. Fucking genius marketer.

Yeah, Ryan and I were just watching something that could be put into that same category of, you know, the primal building. It's like usually time lapses of tools. You're seeing those, yeah, the Thailand guys that dig the whole pool and all the houses and all that stuff. Handmade tools. Those guys got to get

done with that and then go back to their $10 million mansions. Yeah, just way, you hear the thing I've got a video. It's not even like that. You tell it. So, yeah, I started on TikTok. Pop the video up though you got to like explain anyone who has ever gotten drunk or high and one on facebook has definitely watched one of their videos because i've never seen it before you guys show me i watch so many different things so just explain what it's actually also it's more of like

if you sign in to or don't sign out if you just go to youtube and you find so many different people it doesn't youtube seem so uh you feel like you've got it pretty covered on the platform if you're under your account but if you go to youtube unlogged in the whole home page is a bunch of people you've never even heard of before and then every single time i do that i find out that mr beast has a new channel that he just started that only has 10 million subscribers instead of a hundred poor guy yeah uh so anyway yeah these these basically they're time lapse videos of two guys generally in thailand or some country in that area pop them up just show a little clips over on the podcast thing in the middle and that's all the ones i'd seen but apparently

there's like 10 or 20 of these channels yeah and they just Just dig a pool. They start, and they're like digging, making a pool. And now the titles have gotten ridiculously out of hand. Let's take a pause. I got to read one. Here's one with 212 views in two months. 200 days building a model.

Wait, $212 million or $212 million? Okay, you missed the million part. That's damn near how many years our whole channel. I was like, that's got to be the lowest counted video on YouTube that of people doing this. They're so shareable. The Wild Most Wonderful Mud Villa, Twin Waterslide, gorgeous swimming pool, and pool top. It sounds like a Zillow listing.

And they almost list it like they don't know English, but they are very capable of. No, they do. Like India and Thailand is like the next closest. All right. Okay, yeah, yeah. So get to the point here, Ryan. Are these people living good or bad?

So somebody exposed them. They're obviously making a lot of money because they're making these time lapse videos that appear to be relatively cheap, to make, and they're pulling incredible view numbers. $44 million is like enough to live off of for a whole year and have a good life. Like, you probably live off that for years. So they're also, keep in mind, they're wearing like a skirt, barefoot, no shoes.

They look like they live in a third world country. And it looks like they're living, they're living in this. Correct. And they're making this to. Now people have figured out, they go, man, there's no way these people can be making these. And so as the internet sluice do, they go in and they start investigating them. And they've slipped up a couple times in videos where they, it shows the guys digging and then it cuts to the next shot. Well, you can see excavator tracks that pull up and then have dug and then the guys go back in and start digging a little bit.

And then they make get their shots. They pull out, excavator comes in. And so someone that actually works at those companies goes, it is still pretty impressive. We'll have, they said, no less than a dozen or two dozen. They said a dozen. That's the other part is that keep in mind, it's never just two guys, it's never just one guy, it's never just three guys. As they have portrayed.

It's multiple people. But they come in with these crews and in like a week they'll build these villas that you see, but just a large crew of people will do it. And they completely sell it as two dudes out there with their sticks. Like chislet and tears. chisels and not using an axe, like sharpening a rock and then cutting down the tree. Talk about genius, freaking strategic play. So have they talked about the people behind it, though?

Do they even know their names? Like, do they know their names? Probably don't. They're living situations. Are they the ones running it or like calling the shots? Or is it just a douche canoe from L.A. flying over there and setting up GoPro. That's how I would assume it is.

Is it some dude? probably in Thailand, because some guy in Australia actually did it and built primitive huts that looked like they were primitive huts that looked like they were primitively built and got crazy views on it. He's the one who started it. And so people copied that format. And when they copied that format, I assume it's a bunch of billionaires or millionaires. And they go, this is what you guys are going to do.

And they go hire some guys to go out there and do it. Because they said that all of their, their channel was their IP address was in the States. their YouTube ranking was all based on United States. There were USA creators, but they weren't creating in the U.S. One, I know something that I've learned over time is just like, what you see isn't always what it really is. And like what you were saying, a lot of this stuff, there's some guy or an investor, whoever, there's investors,

and then there's some guy running it in L.A. And they casted some people and those people are the, like, there's so many things that are. so much deeper than how as they appear to be i think that's very common honestly like nowadays with even that kind of stuff but it's almost like so right you're so right there's probably some producer that's that's running the whole show and initially there's two investors those guys literally sit on their ass and their million dollar homes yeah in california on the beach and tune in for the 35 minute video of some dudes dig yeah they're like yeah check out this one this week

and they're running multiple different channels like that i think it's like when they figure they're replicable that yeah on youtube that they're like wait so it doesn't cost any money to just like put whatever works on youtube you know they're obviously looking for whatever works right you just got to put some money you know normally if they were like yeah i want to invest in a show well that show's got to get a pilot got to get pitched a freaking discovery and then made on but they're like i never thought about like that as far as like an investor i never thought about yeah like like some dude being like watching youtube and the algorithm but also not wanting to youtube himself and then just hiring it out and, like, pushing this whole thing and, like, making it work.

Dude, you guys should see, like, some of the, it's just insane some of these channels, though. I mean, Mr. Beast is the biggest, like, he's the best attitude. I understand, but there's so many other channels that you've never even heard of. Like, this girl, Rebecca Zamolo, she popped up on my home page when I hopped on YouTube and I wasn't logged in. A full-grown woman, like, she looks like she's probably like 35, maybe 40, and she makes these videos transforming into a superhero for my daughter, like Mr. Beast type of thumbnail. I clicked the video.

I'm like, I got to see what, what is she doing? It was all so scripted. It was like a whole production. Like I was like watching the cuts. I was like, it's so obvious. They're like, okay, now you say this because I already had the storyline. This is typical. YouTube is turning into this like reality type of TV or whatever.

And if you just can find that, like I guarantee you just little kids watch that. Right. Like very little kids. Typical. But there's an audience for it. In a non-proverted one. just to bait kids to watch

fucking nonsense. Yeah, bro. It's just like a children's show, like any children's show. And I'm not saying all the children's shows on YouTube are nonsense, but dude, I've seen a lot of like reactions

to just really cringy channels and I think the most depressing part about it is that they have millions upon 10 millions of views and they just dilute themselves into some weird fashion of content to make a lot of money. And I'm not saying that they shouldn't be doing that.

I'm just making fun of it. Yeah, I guess the thing about that is, though, is like those people are straight up just working. They ain't probably enjoying it. Like, they're just working for a paycheck. And it kind of is what it is. Like, if it works, they're just like, oh, it works. You know, that's our audience.

I'm sure they're not just like, that's my point. Yeah, this is awesome. That's what's cool about Mr. Beas is he has lived it since day one he's so genuine on it even though he's doing the most outrageous things there's teams behind it whatever but he is yeah the dude no realistically but even his videos are like the same like when i watch and i'm not discounting him at all but when i watch it's so clear to me that they had a storyline and there are they probably had a list of shots to get and i think they went and did those for the most part because like you watch it just not all of it seems authentic like

like the last video where he went without eating or whatever like the intro and stuff was very like obviously like you're going to say this and then I'll say this oh yeah I mean but that's how they pump him out that's how they pump him out so much like he goes in there but that's also how it works though like they had the script and everything on how he was going to film it and yeah the other obviously the other stuff he ran he just that that's where it's running gum but even his to a point are relatively pretty structured out well he's talked about that like on podcast before he'll have like a base structure of like this is all right this is what i'm going to say and then pan over to chris or whatever and he's even said like my most my crew is so fast like they're just

so witty they'll just say stuff like unscripted and it just works that way but he said that's the hardest part about filming with all these randos that come in is they don't know the story they don't know the story they don't know how to talk to the camera nothing like that so he was was like it's very, very difficult to have these randos act as actors and it just doesn't work like that. So he was like, we couldn't fake these things. Like you can tell it's like pretty awkward, you know, like the people winning all this money and shit.

It unfortunately does seem like the more that you script or storytell or exaggerate or stuff like that, it seems to work for the larger audience. And I hate this because it's almost kind of like in movie theater. I'm sure a true movie buff hates a Marvel movie because they're like, this is so fake, this is dumb, the storyline's dumb, it's all just, you know, some guy at a film festival is like Marvel movies suck. But people watch them. And it's kind of the same way with YouTube.

You could almost go to ours. You go, well, yeah, we've been working for years and years and years and have a mass 1.5 million subscribers. But if we went in and we went, hey guys, today we are going to build a quad snowmobile and then we're going to jump it. Yeah, and then took out all the swearing. and you did everything very just cut to the yeah and we went in we had old team behind that built a snowmobile that actually freaking worked and you know did all the things in the

background to make it all great and you had a thing at the end whatever if you if you scripted it out like that probably would get more views and probably more people watch it but to a point it's like who do you want to be you want to live it's like almost the further away you get some uh being who you're portraying the better it works yes exactly And the problem is you have to act. And right. And I think all of us. Exactly.

Primo's like if you go back to his earlier videos, he's like, good morning. I'm going to showing what I'm eating today. And he's like, this, that, and that. And now he's like, eating a whole beast and yelling and stuff because he's being that character because it sells. And the more it sells, the more you get into it. But I mean, encircling background to. But that's the thing is we, with us, I would say, we don't really go down that path. because it's like every day you have to get up and act it's the most we are the most genuine

versions of ourselves and you've seen it grow throughout the last six years where we have changed as people but it is are who we are i think it would be easier if you were showing up though and there was already a camera crew and like a whole set and they and obviously it wouldn't work for what we're doing but let's just imagine you're an act and obviously acting's hard too but they're like here's a script and then he stood behind and they had to like all the shot set up like all right your line is hand me the 10 millimeter wrench, Micah. And you're like, hey, Mike, can you hand me the 10 millimeter wrench? That'd be pretty fucking easy.

It'd be very boring, but it'd be, like, way less stressful. Yeah. Because you got to show up in a good mood around here. I guess, yeah, dude, I could not do it. Right, this is better. And also then the worst part is, the worst part is that that format you just talked about is probably making us five times the money that what we're doing right now makes us. So then does it seem easier?

Yeah, it does. but it's just come such a less admirable creator. Exactly. That's what I mean. You got guys at film festivals that are living in vans, and they're making something that they're really proud of and are genuine things. And that people in the scene are really loving too.

Wow, that's amazing. But I think circling back onto, like, the idea of a bigger person with more money having an idea, like that's an interesting take on it. And I really just applaud the people like Mr. Beast or, like, Ryan Trahan for and he didn't Ryan Trahan didn't invent his the whole like live on a penny thing but I just love seeing creators invent a new um addicting type of content that's actually good to watch like a new format that works because seeing someone create something new that's that hasn't

been done before that then works and is super entertaining you like almost can't put a price on that yeah if you guys haven't seen the ryan trahan penny series go and watch it it's insane but basically he lived off of one single penny and all the profits made from the penny is what he used to pay for food sleeping and traveling the whole u.s all the way from california to mr beast in north carolina but crazy and he also pulled like 250 million views in one month and raised 1.5 million for feeding America. Yeah. All simultaneously in a month.

So there's 30 videos. Well, I haven't watched all 30 videos and maybe you don't have time to either, but you'll watch like one or two or three or four and you'll go, I kind of want to watch all 30 videos because it's that good and it's that refreshing. I just love seeing stuff like that.

Yeah. Dude, the fact that he made or pulled 250 million views in one month putting $0.0.00 in to his content is insanely impressive. I agree. But also, that they were able to output them like that at that level. Because back in the day when daily vlogs were popular,

the quality of the videos were just, they weren't anywhere near what they are now, or let alone what he was doing. Like, he was still producing quality videos day after day because, and obviously I had a filmmaker that would follow him around. So he was being himself and being entertaining. The filmer is filming him, following him everywhere. and then they have a guy that's that's an editor back home getting all the footy and and oh his editor

was with him oh he just rolled with his editor was with him in a van and he would just drive to each location and just edit in the van all day bro that sounds so miserable for the next day yeah but i guess you would do like 12 hours a day frick dude so you're doing that every day for 30 days but the thing about ryan trahan is he doesn't strike me as a guy who's really chasing the money or or anything like that or even like the fame i think he just genuinely likes making youtube videos i watched an interview with him and that's kind of what he was saying and like he did that all as a fundraiser yeah like so just think how much money he lost there or not lost but he gave away if if all your ad rev goes in a fundraiser no it wasn't he he raised money additionally the 1.5 million was uh community donations

he i believe matched no i know i saw that oh so your ad rev doesn't go with it no no not in this Never mind. Then he just made a shit ton of money. If he wanted to, he could absolutely donate that. He probably made... I think he's donating another, like, $250,000 for his $2 million and a half bucks this month? Yep. Yep. What? Dude, he probably pulled in $2 million.

$3 million. Wow. $3 million of $2.50. And then he got... And then $1.5 million donated just through people clicking the donate button. It's insane, dude. You could take off the next fucking years. Interesting.

Like, with stuff. And he just quits. He just, like... I'm investing. He's like, the market's down right now, and I'm planning on, you know, just capitalizing when it comes back. He was like, I, uh... He likes making YouTube videos. I don't think he cares.

No, I know. But imagine he's just like, that was the hardest shit I've ever done in my life. And I'm so burnt out on making YouTube videos. I just don't think I want to do it anymore. Or he was just like, that was a hardest shit, but now I'll never have to do anything again. Yeah, it'd be like Michael Jordan going out on the top. That'd be pretty legendary, but it's tough. He said he was taking a break.

When do you get up? out. Do you get out at the top? Do you ride your fall down? Because you never know. It depends on. You could quit and not be anywhere near your top. This like circles back around to the type of content you're making and how admirable it is and how much you like it. You know, like if you, when do you get out?

Well, if you're making weird kid videos and you don't enjoy it, don't enjoy it and you're not even yourself and it's just all like. For money, I'd say you get out when you can. Like when you get out when the money. He might not be as relevant or as popular as he was at his peak. But I bet you he'll be able to post a video and still at least pull a million views because people care. And also people just don't. And he's an example.

As long as the video is still good. Like as long as you can keep making like pretty decent entertaining videos, people will continue to follow along. It's like I would be interested to listen to a podcast. I was thinking about this before this. I was like, man, Bam Margera does no, there's really no interviews. There's really no way to really see or hear. Like, he's only done a couple podcasts, and I've listened to both of them,

and I was very entertained by it because as a kid, I just, for some reason, I idolized Bam because he was so cool on his show. Obviously, nowadays, you probably don't want to. But, like, think about that. You know, realistically, he could probably pop out, and I guarantee he would be able to pull a decent, just because he has such a large fan base of people who are just genuinely interest in them. Yeah, but then you always have to be doing something entertaining, which is exhausting. It is. And you always have to be making good videos because otherwise somebody watches a video and it's

shit. They're like, oh, this guy isn't a legend anymore. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think there's a line like. Well, there's like specifics. I think like for someone, I guess to just dive a little deeper into it. For someone like Bam Margera, if you were famous on TV at that time, then I think the least you could do is a podcast. And if you don't want to do that, that's okay. But, like, I think, you know, like, if you literally just sad and said, let me tell you a story about these two episodes and then next week will tell you a story about these

two episodes, I'd listen to it because it'd be fun. Just telling stories, which is a beautiful thing that you can make funny on it. Dude, if Hulk Hogan started a podcast or he hopped on a podcast, a lot of people would listen, a lot of people. Even I wouldn't. I didn't even really grow up in the air of him wrestling and watching them, but it would just be entertaining and interesting. A lot of people, especially if you were in the media, like, pretty heavily at one point, and then now no one has any access or insight to what you're doing. People were interested. Only with certain people.

I disagree. I disagree. I disagree because I think so many people see that, especially the podcast. Now it's like everyone in their cousin has a podcast. For us, it makes sense. We're content creators. It's for us. But people that have just like not done anything for five years or they like kind of got like

washed. I'm saying hope making YouTube videos. It goes on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's going to blow up. Yeah, but it's, it's different than if just Hulk Hogan started his own podcast. Yeah, I mean, because there's so many people I think that just. start podcast now just because it's like the thing to do. The thing to do or the trendy

thing to do. They think it's easy. They think it's easy. It's like, hey, you can just use your fame and likeness and like you'll get views. That's hard. You got to come out here and drink an energy drink, maybe two. And then yeah, you guys like if they were a celebrity before, like basically a producer comes to them and then they put the team together and they just

show up and they'll have like talking points and stuff like no shade towards Mike Tyson. That's totally the deal with them. Like he has a a crew that came and they're like, hey, we got an idea that can make you some money. All you got to do is sit in and talk. It's a podcast. And then they got all the equipment.

They hired everyone, hired the editors. They produced a whole thing, come up with talking points, get the ads, all that. Mike shows up and talks to people. Like, that's a pretty common thing nowadays is. It goes back to, like, kind of what I was saying earlier. Like, you look at people that are starting these, that are running these things in the back end. The only problem with that is, is you can do something and survive on it, or you can reinvent it and grow larger from it. Yeah.

Like let's, I'm going to use Logan Paul as an example. He started out and he could have done a podcast and rode out his level of fame and just dwindled off tell nobody cared about him and then be done. But he reinvented a podcast. He made it entertaining to watch. He gained a new audience, myself included, gained a new audience. And then also along the way, goes, all right, I've been podcasting for a few years now. We're good. I'm going to get into boxing.

Maybe he might be chasing passions, but these passions are calculated. He goes into boxing. I think he was doing the boxing before the podcast. Well, he started his first boxing, but then he launched a podcast. But yeah, he was. That's what I mean. He kept growing. He kept growing.

He could have came on and went, all right, me and me and my six buddies that live in this house, we're just going to talk. I'm going to pay the bills for a while. Be done. But he came in and he reinvented and he constantly wanted to grow. And I think that's what makes it good. We didn't listen to it and go, yeah, those 20 podcasts were cool, but just kind of got over it, you know,

or nothing new happened. And then it went, I think that is the big takeaway from content today is reinventing. And I'll even say this, like if you were a big movie star, and then let's say you even started YouTubeing and it went well, and you reinvented once. And then you could even die from that.

and if you reinvent again and obviously it goes well because a lot of times it doesn't you can come back from that like you can in a sense reinvent yourself as many times as the mask will let you you know is as many times as you can pop off like YouTube and social media will let you yeah sometimes it's not always sometimes maybe you might reinvent yourself for the worse or better but like you can always reinvent as long as something fresh and entertaining that's what it just blows my mind and it's so hard and sometimes when people are like how do you make it on youtube i'm like we just got lucky man i mean i'm talking like right away right away like before we put thought and and a ton of work

into it or enough work to make it equal a full-time job it's like we just got lucky you know things yeah but you got work hard don't you're lucky you got take risks yeah you get risks and chances. Yeah, take risk for sure. And then once you get lucky, the hardest part is actually doing something with it. Yeah, exactly. That's what I mean. You get to the level and you got to do something. You got to actually, the hardest, harder than like getting there is maintaining it, honestly. That's kind of enough on. The harder you work, the lucky you get, see just got that hanging up on as well. I totally agree. So it's slightly off topic. I just want to say I'm so glad to be back working again. Because going back to we were on that four-day bender or three-day bender, we took like a slight break when we came

back from filming we have four videos in the bank right now guys so that means they're filmed and everything which is a lot of work typically to like film a whole video and get it you know just a lot of moving components the only thing you do now is just edit it um so that's good that means we're two weeks out if we were doing two videos a week so anyways we got back from our trip and we took this break and then also happened to be the fourth of july weekend and uh i was having i was enjoying it man i was like friday i did nothing thing. They didn't go out. I just hung inside with Alex. Saturday. Hit it hard. Went on the lake all day. A bunch of friends over. We're drinking whatever. Sunday. Same exact thing. And then Monday comes

rolling around. And I'm like, all right. I've been fucking off for like three days now. And I kind of want to just get back to like doing something productive. And it kind of goes back into like the trust fund kids, like being the most messed up and like saddest. It's because they don't have anything, like, anything to do. Like, they have too much freedom. Like, you got to have something like you got to get up and do. Keeps you, you know, straight. And then you appreciate that free time.

Anyways, on the last day, which was the 4th of July, I was like, I kind of want to just, like, not do this and just go and go to work, which is, I guess, good. But, did you guys feel that or, okay. Yeah, we were all feeling that. And I had so many people over at our house, which was fine. Which was fine. I love all my friends, but yeah, like there was no option.

Yeah, especially it's after weekend benders like that, multiple days of drinking or like not doing anything. Like on Tuesday this week, we still kind of like had an off day. I was just trying to just chill. The leading up like three weeks to that was like video, video merch drop, travel, trip. We get back 4th of July weekend bender and Tuesday was like the first day

of like finally off. and I was just like had anxiety of like not working where I was like I should be chilling right now and just like trying to relax but I just like can't and I don't know if that's due to like the alcohol and it's like you're kind of in like a low

you know it's like the Sunday scariest or if it was just like I'm just so used to like not having a day off or like being busy I was just like driving around in my car and I was like what the fuck am I doing right now? Like I should be working

where the boys are. I can't afford this car. We're the boys. We've got to make some videos to make some money. And then we shouldn't be taking a day off. We don't need a day off. And I was just like, wait, maybe that's, maybe we do need a day off. And there's like days that are easier and harder.

Like, oh, you got like an easy day at work tomorrow or an easy day of whatever you want to call that we do, do? But like, do you got a long day? I'm like, any day I want to be can be as long as it can be. You know, like, let's say I just chucked my phone in the pond. and you know didn't go on social media and shit because sometimes I catch myself doing that any day can be as long as I wanted to be

and as busy as I want it to be which I don't know how long that would last being like a freaking trust fund baby but like I love that like the to do list is as long as the day is long normally the to do list seems longer you should become a trust fund baby Mike you should all right comment down below

if you want me to become a trust fun baby you could be a trust fun baby doing you just become one Yeah, I decided one day. Can you imagine seeing a link to a GoFundMe and then you go click on it and read the description? And it's just like, yeah, I'm just trying to become a trust fund baby. You should start on. GoFund me.

Dude, and no, no, I know we for some reason got on Trust Fund talk this podcast, no hate towards any of the trust fund kids that are around here that we were referring to. Honestly, they're all nice. Like, I don't have anything. And there is such a thing as there is absolutely such a thing as a trust fund baby that, starts things even bigger than their parents did. Yeah. That's accurate. But I'm sweating.

I guess it's hotter and shit up here. See, you guys, you just want to keep going? I guess it's just me and Mike now. All right. You guys want to just end it because I'm going to hit it. Hey, real quick, though, actually before we end, Ryan, I'd like to congratulate you on getting a Mountain Dew sponsorship.

Thanks, dude. We all got a Mountain Dew sponsorship, but it means the most to you. It does, dude. I've been training. my whole life for that. We've been making jokes, slugging Mountain Dews. And I think the cool thing is, is that you guys see it. We do ads for plenty of different companies,

but it was really cool and just like almost relieving, doing one for Mountain Dew. And the comments on it, we're like, just proud. People like, when do we ever do a promotion for anyone that, that, like, fans or friends come up and, like, you particularly congratulate Ryan, but all of us, they're like, oh, that's so sick on the Mountain Dew. Yeah, it's just like, we literally,

posted an ad you weren't annoyed i'm glad yeah and i guess i shouldn't say sponsorship more brand brand deal but still hey so step in the right direction and um happy for you man i knew that toll on my body would pay off one day it did it just it just goes to show never never stop working never stop drinking the do never give up on your dreams never give up on your dreams and that's a good note to end on boys all right let me hit the subscribe button thank you so much we love you all