Life Wide Open with CboysTV - CJ Addresses His New Group Of Haters

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

In today's episode we recap our vacation and what happened after we cheaped out on a hotel, we break down, CJ acquires a new group of enemies, our new (im)possible limo purchase and the boys reflect on Ken Block's legacy. Thanks to our sponsors! Get 25% off @trueclassic with the code CBOYS at https://trueclassictees.com/CBOYS Go to https://www.shopify.com/wideopen for a one-dollar-per-month trial  Get your new wireless plan for $15 a month at https://www.mintmobile.com/wideopen Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/wideopen. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! 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

And we're back. And we're back. Damn, I missed you guys. I missed you too, Mike. And I also missed, like, the subscribers. Taking a week off was wonderful. But, I mean, like, we were reading the comments from the recap video, but it's nice to It felt like, it felt like longer in a week.

It felt like a month, honestly. I saw all the comments. People were like, when are you going to post again? I was like, geez, it's only been like seven days. But a small handful of those people were outraged. Yeah. Dude, being away from the camera and just not being, like, filmed. Like kind of having to, like, think of what you're going to say.

As soon as me and Ryan opened up the last video when we were filming the R6, after the first cut, me and Ryan both look at each other and go, man, that felt good. It did. That felt good. We're like, good to be back to work. Back into it. Yeah.

Dude, I feel that. When I was on, when we were on vacation together in Florida, it was, uh, it was kind of hard on me, honestly. Like, I was having fun for like four days and I was enjoying it. but I think maybe halfway through the fourth day I was like all right like I'm kind of ready to get back to like doing something progressive here back into the swing of thing Ben told me the same thing I feel like Ben and CJA are incapable of taking a break I'm proud of you guys for making it four days and having fun but I feel like after that like you guys just get bored it was fun but we also like also didn't do anything that was a bad problem with the vacation it was like that's what I was like what I never used to get tired of vacationing when I was like like like I never used to get tired of vacationing when I was like like like I was like like I was like like I was like like I was like I was like like I was like like I was like I. my family was like oh yeah that's because we went to like see things and do things and other than

just like walking from the hotel to the beach bar to the beach home yeah yeah we kind of fucked up there we should have just done more than that and and like don't take this the wrong way because that looked like a blast that looks like a time that i would enjoy but after like let's say after seeing snaps for like four days of you guys kind of looking exactly what you just described walking around drinking like heavily um i was like okay i'm not i didn't go to preface that I'm not missing out, like, terribly right now. No, you really didn't. And I would tell you the total opposite, not to make you feel bad, but when they both go,

no, you didn't miss out on vacation. It wasn't fun. It was a blast. It was fun. It was one of the most fun weeks I had all year. I really enjoyed it. And I felt like I recouped so much energy that we expel constantly. Mental energy.

Yes, it was so nice to have a day where you wake up and you, like, didn't have to talk. You didn't have to work. You didn't have to do anything. You just could go to the beach, lay down. and sleep it was beautiful felt so good the first four days with a quick recharge and after that it was like you know when you charge a phone it gets 80% real fast and then the last 20% takes longer that's what the next three days were for me I feel like and on the complete opposite side of things Mike how was it staying back and working working it was fine like obviously I was working at like half

pace I was chilling crushing a lot of personal projects but what were you going to say That sounds like vacation for you, though. It's like your dream. It totally was. So, I mean, you guys laughed and I was like, well, I'm still on vacation. So I'm still going to treat this like vacation. So I didn't go with to Idaho to do the snowmobiling, which I had major fomo once I saw the R6 because that wasn't completed before we left. So I didn't, if I would have saw that, I would have been like, I'm going to Idaho.

I thought it was going to be another snowmueling video, which realistically, I didn't know how much value I'd add. So I was like, eh, I'm going to go back home, try to do some stuff there. when you're at the shop just you it's so peaceful it's so peaceful i really love it what about the large one wasn't he here with you he was but he locks himself in his in his room

or his office and sometimes he was here well you come on here the pinball machine clacking well ken wasn't here for a while too because he stayed back in florida why was it peaceful what were you like what was going on you know you just show up you kind of like could show up at any time and you just it's just nice you had the whole place to yourself and it was quiet, not that I mind you guys being loud,

but it was just, there was something peaceful about it. Yeah. I really enjoyed it. I think it's the idea of nobody's going to show up and you're immediately going to have to start doing something or like you're waiting for somebody else. Yeah, I was on anyone else's time. I was on anyone else's time, which was nice.

Because there's just such a long list of tasks that we all have, or they could pop up at any time. Anyone could walk in the door and be like, hey, we got to do this. And we're like, oh, shoot, got to do it. It was really nice. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed my time at home.

And then we went to Idaho, so I still got a little vacay. Alex got really mad at me. Not really mad. I shouldn't say she didn't get mad. She just, she got a little bit frustrated with me because I believe it was on like the fourth day. We were like going to bed and I was like, I'm kind of bored. And she was just like, what?

You know, she was like mad that I was kind of bored. But I was like, I'm just used to like doing more stuff than this, you know. Your trip was still like kind of domesticated. Like you're used to like literally having to walk out on the beach and make content like the one time we did in Florida. But this, yeah, now it's a lot more enjoyable when you like go out to eat and like get some drinks and stuff when you feel like you kind of earned it rather than just like you didn't do shit all day and now you're just like sitting there drinking like it just like damn. Man we crushed some drinks though. Yeah, that was fun. Holy shit.

Ben, you kind of were on a rampage that one night. Same night as me, but you were on a worse rampage than anyway. I mean, I didn't really see it. because I keep hearing it. Yeah, yeah. I just heard about it. Yeah, I keep hearing that too. I broke my phone that night.

I keep hearing that too. I don't really know what I did that was on a rampage, but like I have not stopped hearing about it. Could you guys describe it on the podcast a little bit about what he did? They don't have any examples of what I did besides for I yelled Robo Dick at dinner. This is Ben's embarrassing drinking story for the Clips Channel here. So we're at like a decent, pretty nice crab restaurant. Bro.

And Ben, Ben shows up already for the three sheets of the wind. And you went to one of those pregames, didn't you? Dude, I was on vacation. I was having a good time. As you should. As you should. It's kind of like when, you know, everyone else in the restaurants on one level, you know, there's the general restaurant volume.

See, why do you shake your head? Like, you know, because we didn't even know. You weren't even blacked out. We went there three nights in a row. You just immediately dismiss him. Let him speak. And you were the one blacked out. Here comes Ben, you know, at the bar.

1.30 a.m. screaming volume and it's just like... But what time was it? It was 7 p.m. It was like 6, 7 o'clock. What was I doing at this moment? Because I felt bad because we showed up late to meet up with you guys that day. And Ben was so drunk. I was like, I can't let my cousin be this drunk alone. Thank you. So I started drinking with him and this random dude that was telling security guard stories to us. You were slurring your words, but you weren't like out of control. You were pretty chill like you're actually quiet that was the quietest i've heard you speak drunk in a long time i think you were self-conscious about it you knew so keep going on and what was ben doing so j loves this

there's a a family of children behind us as ben the whole family with children yeah no it's like you know the parents were at one table the kids were at another okay they were also subscribers no different family different just bunch of kids and ben starts it makes it better then starts screaming the robo dick story which is hilarious had to get the word out it's a most viral story i just saw on ticot today four million views some random kid clipped it trying to get the word out doing god's work right dude just trying to save the kids i guess okay is there volume for this um Jesus ken you look kind of fucked up man oh what oh whoa whoa whoa look that camera roll and then there's ben screaming to

about Robo Dix in this restaurant as we're in the corner. I'm like, Ben, you got to know your place about telling these stories. Don't just screaming at the top of your lungs in a family restaurant. I don't remember screaming it at the top of my lungs, but I do remember talking to somebody on the other side of the table, and I guess I must have been overtone. Do you remember when you stood on top of the table? Get out of here.

Get out of here. So I was actually talking to Evan about this last night, because on the last night of the Idaho trip, Evan got so wine drunk. I have never seen Evan this liquored up, and I've seen Evan liquored up. And he ordered two massive bottles of wine. We'll pop up the video right here

and must have deleted, like, one of them himself. Anyway, got so drunk running around, and he was having a good time. And I'm not going to shame him like Ken is trying to do to me for getting super wasted. But the next day, I was like, Ev, dude, last night, and he was like, no, no, no, don't tell me, don't tell me, don't tell me. He had, like, anxiety about it.

And I was like, bro, I know how you feel. And I'm not going to make you feel like shit for not being able to remember what you did because I've been there, bro. And I was just there the other night. And I didn't like it. My favorite part about that story, we're all kind of licked up. He's just way beyond us, though. And we get back, shenanigans happening all over.

He's taking his pants off. He's running around. He's just saying, I'll land of shit, just falling over. It was so funny. Just out in them. And then, so keep in mind, we have to leave at, like. Pants were off? Yes, pants were off.

At some point. At some points, yeah. And we had to leave at like 4.30 or be up at like 4.15. So I'm like, I got to stay up the whole time, right? And then Evan's like, I got it too. And I'm like, no way you make it. But we both did. We both stayed up the whole time.

So keep in mind, there's like a stint of two hours where he was just going nutty. Then we make it to, we're like hanging in the bedroom, just like chilling. Pants still off? Not. Pan stayed on. Okay. But I think his shirt came off at some point. Really?

Yeah. And he literally, we get in the car. So this is like two hours after he was being a maniac. We get in the car and then we're like telling him. And he's just like, what? Like I can't out him on all the things he did. But like he's like, what? I'm like, Evan, that was like two and a half hours ago.

It was just such a weird thing that he did. He did so much crazy shit. And then just didn't remember it. And then came back to two hours later. and he's like, we got to leave now? Yeah, wine drunk is like just a different, brings out a different animal in them. I've never seen such a thing.

It was extraordinary. It was extremely entertaining, though. Yeah, it was. Before podcast now, we're like, hey, have a bottle of wine. We're all drinking sitting, no fear drinking wine. No, it was a good time, though. It was a good little reset for sure. Dude, there's something to be said about working together

and doing everything like every single day together. and then when we go on vacation, we're like, let's all go on vacation together too and just spend more time together. And it actually worked out pretty well. Yeah, it's nice. When you're all in the same mood and the same like trajectory, you're like, we're on vacation, we're going to go have fun. We're going to have fun together for sure.

That was fun. Just to preface. I'm happy to be back at it working, but I'm also glad we went and did that. I was just saying like I'm very happy to be home and back at it and making videos, podcast. and uh it does if i it had been 15 days since i was at the shop by the time this was all sudden done with of course the week in idaho and pulling back up to the shop it was like this overwhelming feeling of i'm home felt so good i love it here that was probably the longest i've

gone without seeing it was like 10 days for you and i but the longest i've gone without seeing you and ken yeah yeah 15 days just in like the last like since i've known you guys probably the I've ever gone without seeing you. So, Ryan, you slept with Ben one night in Florida. Yeah, we had different beds, though. I had to sleep with Ben one night in Florida. In the same bed? The same bed.

With Ben in different beds. Here we go. Ken loves just out. Let's hear that. What the fuck did you do, Ben? What do you mean? I don't know. I was drunk for one story.

And now I'm sleeping for the other. Pretty much out of control for both. What else did I do? Ryan, you've got a video when he slept with you. Oh, I do. I'll pop it up. He giggles. I went to bed.

He, him and Ryan kept drinking outside and I wake up. And ready, do we pour it up. It's like four or five o'clock in the morning. And I wake up to. He's like bolt upright, just giggling. Oh, he was upright? I was sitting upright. Ken was probably thinking, this is it.

He's really going to kill me this time. And then eventually you just lay back down. And then probably 30 minutes later, I wake up. grabbing my ass what what Ben Ben and I was like Ben get the fuck away I love Ken's feet when he did that I don't remember that I don't remember that you like this oh it's like he was fucking grabbing a whole blown grabbing it good a hold of it no no chance there's a good chance I just slap you away a couple like it wasn't just once it was like two or three times stop it stop it resist those cheeks ken ah yeah geez man did you

feel violated i felt extremely uncomfortable and violated i don't think i slept the whole night ken went to the police station file the report but then he retracted it right at like shortly after what were you like afraid of were you were you were you awake so much because you were afraid of it happening again he just kept doing things so frequently and it's like i'm about to fall asleep and then he just does something else oh what else did he do well he Giggled a couple times and then he grabbed my ass Just no trust I think he was awake

And by the time I I think he was awake By the time he finally stopped doing stuff The son was coming up He was just laughing Stop doing stuff Once I finally settled down Ken's a victim of the night

I better just go rip from coffee That's crazy man Ben touches my ass again It was an uncomfortable night I'm sorry Ken I actually really am I had no control over that And I'm sorry

I don't really have anything else It's funny looking back He probably thought he was in the moment I did I probably thought you were Greta Couldn't resist those cheeks You start feeling in his face Go oh Greta you're a little hairy I haven't shaved lately

What did I do when you When we were in the same room Just the one time you giggled Oh And I like I had my phone out because I couldn't sleep And so I got the end of it It was pretty funny It was okay I didn't I slept

All right enough about me Yes as much as I would love to continue to embarrass myself. Somebody else want to step up. That's how we got. Dude, the Robo Dick story, speaking of, has been kind of popping off. It's going viral in its own sense.

It's our number one clip. And then also today, just come across this random account that reposted it as a TikTok, 4 million views. Let me tell you, it's been a tough time for me. It's been a trying time.

Oh, really? Well, you start talking shit on vapors. You got half the population now that's going to disagree with you. They're not going to want to hear that shit. No. And then the other half thinks it's awesome. They think it's funny. So now it's like I got one half just like, hell yeah, CJ, that was so funny.

And then the other half, like, I really think CJ needs to get off the podcast. He's not that good on it anymore, yada, yada. I'm like, Jesus. So like, it's kind of funny. Is there anything you'd like to say to the vapors out there? Hey man, I know it's tough to hear But I'm just looking out for you Ken

I'm just looking out for you man Oh don't look at Evan Don't look at me bro Ken You can't deflect on to someone that's not even here Yeah Ken he's one of your robot dick brothers Jesus you're going to take your own dig out now Ken hates the Robo Dick story more than anything else

Mostly because it involves his two least favorite things Dicks and robot making fun of vaping. Yeah. Yeah. Do things he's passionate. So I've recently inquired even more haters after that story went viral. Yeah, I was going to ask you, you were anticipating the half and half or you, you've already seen it.

You've seen the comments. Like, are you getting attacked? No, I saw the comments, yeah. But, I mean, it only makes sense. Did you read the TikTok comments? No. So TikTok is, like, known for just being extremely violent in the comments. What are they saying about?

So I was like, oh, boy, here we go. And, like, the top comments. was like we should start a podcasting quote because I just pictured like just like some random group of friends that doesn't do YouTube or something like that but they're like yo I think we talk about some funny shit we should start a podcast and then that's like the first topic they'd be doing pretty good then if they went if they had too I mean oh shit it went so it's 61 podcast the comment had 35000 likes nice so is that you think that's negative towards me or that neutral positive

That's neutral. Okay. I don't know. I'd say a little on the negative side, but it's probably more as the whole group. And then there's like a lot of comments underneath it that were like, oh, you haven't like seen their podcast or like that C-boys. They're like YouTubers and a lot of people are like, who are they? And they were like, they have like two million subscribers on YouTube. And they're like, well, they must not be doing that good.

I've never heard of them. And then other people like, really? Like, it was like going back and forth, going back and forth. And I was like, man, it's so interesting to see these people in the comments section. and how passionate they are on both ends of the spectrum of having our back and then people that could care less

just like going after us. It is funny. It is very entertaining to read though. I think there's like two general things that every male friend group does when they hang out. And the first one is we should start a podcast and the second one is we should open a bar. Every male group of friends

has had that discussion and went, we are so funny, people should listen to us. And then the next, when they started drinking, they go, we could open a really good line. And, well, that list can go on a long ways, actually, but it's like group of friends. We should, like, roll around a limo, like us. Yeah, but not that many people have limo. That's true, but not that many people own bars.

I haven't met a single other group of friends. Actually, I've, yeah. But I haven't met anyone else that owns a limo. No, no, no, no. I haven't met anyone else that owns a limo. There's a lot of friend groups that say we should start a podcast that never do. Probably most of them. A lot of friend groups to say we should.

And then there's a lot of friends groups to say we should. friend groups that say we should get a limo. I'm trying to think of more examples. But, like, you know, I'm sure every group of guys could positively be affected by a limo. Dude, every friend does need a limo, though, actually. The hard part then is finding a limo driver. Yes. Of a friend that is...

And somewhere to put it. Dude, those things are long. The limo is a cheap part. You can buy an old limo like we have for $5.7K. The first one was $3,500. Yeah, we've said that before. If you pulled your money up, you can actually get your hands on a limo. But it's just then you've got to store it.

and keep the mice out and also find a driver. Yeah. We even got Mark and Tint, our two buddies, they're in on our limo with us. Well, I mean, they were riding with it. They were riding with us in it, so it only makes sense. I think we should get a sprinter van. Yes. Yes.

I think that would be so sick. Sell the Seema truck, get a sprinter van. I'm cool with that. I'm cool with that. I think we should do one more good video with the Seema truck, because I know we got some ideas. I'm not going to spill them. But I think that we should get like a Steve Will. do it style though like it's nice like it's a big tv in there it's like sick and uh we roll around

in that if we like go places but the only problem i can see is like oftentimes we go off-roading so it's like not necessarily off-roading but like you drive through a field you go you know places that i'm curious if that sprinter van would really let's just get a let's just get a big one like i think they'd be up forward that'd be fucking they make if our sprinter van was on a diesel sprinters and with some like 30s on it. Yeah. I don't know if we need a duly. Doole.

It's going to ride like shit. It's going to be rough. Well, I'm just saying, I think you can get a pretty beefed up sprint. I think, yeah, the reason they are duly's is because there's so much stuff in them. That's true. It's probably so heavy. Like four recliners in them and shit. I think we should find one.

Not a really, really expensive one because that's a lot of money. Yeah, dude, the sky's the limit with those things. Dude, those things are, some of them are way too expensive. But it's just nice. So all being together. Decent. Although it will be. We're going to have to start drawing straws for drivers.

Like, I typically like to drive because I probably have, like, a weird control issue where I only feel safe when I'm driving. No offense. But I might actually want to sit in the back of that one. No offense. Well, just because you guys would be driving. I found Ben and Ryan flew to Idaho, and Evan and I and Cody drove. I'm not like, I'm going to drive every time now,

but I have newfound love for it. I drove most of it, and it went way fast. faster that is like a true thing like you're driving it goes way faster i don't know what it is on road trips like yeah you can do a little work yeah you can scroll instagram or tic talk or netflix for a while but even after a little bit if your trips like 16 hours you like run out of just like phone and yeah just things to do things to do and then you end up just kind of like sitting there do you think that we could get a sprinter van and be able to pull our snowmobile trailer no i was looking honestly with how many times like going up hills our ram starts chugging i don't think so

That would be very nice. We could get a semi. Did you guys see? It's coming through Barrett Jackson this week, I believe. And it is a semi with a limo and it has three bars. It's like a full-blown semi-truck thing. It looks like a saloon. Yeah, it's a saloon.

But it's a semi-trailer that you ride around in. In the inside there's five bars. Yes, Ken, could you please look it up three bars? Could you put it up to my phone? He's so excited. It's called us. It's like a full-blown semi-trailer. Why? Three bars you need from here to there.

Well, it's just three different areas. Like a pop-up shop? Like, it's like a deliverable exclusive. Well, I'm sure you could rent it out. Not a pop-up shop. Like, exclusive. Like, you would go in there with your high-end buddies. And the only, you can't sleep in there.

Like, the only thing you can do is chill and drink and smoke cigars. How much? Oh, there she is. Look at that thing, dude. Beauty. Midnight rider. Wow. They got three bars.

A limousine trailer. Look at that. What? There's one bar. And then there's the... It has like a booth in the back. A limo part. That's beautiful.

Hold up. Do I see $2.5 million? Oh my goodness, dude. It actually set a Guinness World record for the biggest limo. Biggest limo? Yeah. Because it's 70 feet long.

How is that a limo? It's being pulled by a semi. I know I was a little bit confused about that, too. I don't know what the definition of limo is. but how is that a limo? By definition, a limousine or limo for sure is a large chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle. Fuck, it should we buy it? It's really funny you just said that.

I looked at it. I just was like, yep, we're going to put that in the don't need section. Cool, but don't need. Yeah, who's buying, who's buying this? It goes to the economy. Dude, there's no way that goes for 2.5 mil. Unless, like, Elvis used to drive around in that, ride around in that thing. 2.5 million you got really love boozing

you got really love booze and I mean you can buy like a jet for that right yeah probably I'd rather have that than a large old Peterbilt but like so is our Barrett Jackson auction's like cool to go to I'd assume they're I think so relatively entertaining but like I've heard some people that are like once you go like we go every year it's insane I think it's just a lot of fun I don't know if we can film in there

yeah that's I mean I don't know for us but like I mean if you're just a major car enthusiasts. Like, I mean, you just watch it go through, but there's other stuff going on? I'm sure. I bet you's just basically like a, I know you can walk through the staging area.

So it's basically a gigantic car show. And they're, of course, all the cars are just mint. And yeah, they come through the auction. I'm assuming most people don't buy things because they go for crazy money. I feel like buying things at auction, you're either going to get a really good deal

or you're going to just continue to just get like outbid and it's going to just up the price more and more and more. And then pretty soon you're buying a vehicle for $50,000 worth more than it is. And then you're like, why did I do that? Right. That's what I'm wondering. The adrenaline of the auction. Yeah.

So I wonder if the auction just capitalizes on these people being in the moment. Totally. I think that's the thing is like if you're selling a car and you send it to auction, there's a 50% chance that it goes for more than what you wanted it for. And there's also a 50% chance that it goes for way less. And I feel like that's kind of the thing. You just hope that you get two people that really want your rig. Otherwise, you're going to send your rig that you love so much

and then no one bids on it and gets it really cheap. I wonder if we could do an auction. We have enough stuff for it. We can do like an estate sale. You know, like all farmers talk about like my four-hour auction when, you know, they're done or whatever. And you just spread all your shit out in the yard and just everything's for sale. My grandpa did that.

My grandpa did one too. Can you imagine we don't do any online consulting or anything? We do an auction. and it's just all in person. Like we put up, like, it has to be in person and some guy comes out. And then, it'd be pretty fun. No, it'd be a lot more fun than selling stuff online.

Yeah, so it was like, that'd be way more entertaining. Because, like, I know. It tells me if we had enough cool stuff. It would be pretty fun. Right. But what were you saying? Sorry. Like how, yeah, like throttle just did it with a bunch of their cars.

And you just go on, you bid for them. It's pretty cool. You can buy a car that you've been watching on YouTube for a while or whatever. But I like, now you talk me into having a live. The guy pulling around on the train. Yeah, in the little box up there. Gosh, I wish I could do that. I take that back.

I don't wish I could auctioneering and talk. It would be kind of a fun, though. It would be fun little party trick. Now that I think about it, I don't know if we have anything that's worth money to people. I mean. Sorry, sorry, let me rephrase that. That's worth sell, that we want to sell? No.

I do. Like what? All my cars. Oh, really? My jet ski? No, no, I don't want to sell them. I was picturing, like, the things that we would be willing to let go. Right, right.

And we'd throw up, like, just some broken pit bike. Yeah, it's like pit bike plastics and stuff like that. We are going to do a booth at Haydays. Evan and I figured out Slim is going to sell all of our parts. Yeah, that's money. We have so much parts that we take off vehicles that, yeah. To destroy our sexes. And we're just, and we're cutting them in another snowmobile.

I actually would really like to get auction access. You know, like you can bid on like Mannheim auctions and stuff like that. And I see them in like the car. groups that I'm in. They're like, here's a preview of what's rolling through man I'm this week. And it'll be cool cars. And you know that they're going for less than retail. And I really, really want access for that. But you have to have a dealership license. In order to have a dealership license, you have to have a dealership and you have to have an LLC and you have to have a location to have all this stuff. So I really just want someone to let me use their auction access.

Or we become a dealer. Or that. It's like a lot. There's a lot of lot of work. Really? Yeah. It's not. not an easy thing you have to have be insured and bonded like you literally put i think depending on what type of vehicle you're going to sell you have to like just put 60 grand in a limbo for as like insurance in case there's like some type of thing you have to have a certain sized sign dedicated storefront storefront facilities like a dedicated bathroom a dedicated showroom a dedicated office like it we would literally have to create a dealership a dealership what i didn't not that all Minnesota.

North Dakota is pretty similar. And then people are like, we'll just hit up the public auctions. Those aren't any good. I mean, they're... Yeah, I want the dealer one. Yeah, yeah. What about the corner dealerships that don't have that? Well, if you look at, like, where I bought my Hummer, he's got a big sign, he's got his own

dedicated shop, it's got an office, it's got a bathroom, it's got a workspace. It's got a stupid clientele. Mm-hmm. No, dude, Ryan just put wheels on his Hummer, bro, and it looks. Flipping amazing What do you mean how's it going? He's wearing a Hummer sweatser He's clearly pretty proud

Bro Okay well he'll pop a picture up right here He put like big old black wheels on it And they're like 135 wide Looks amazing Yeah it's a good rig now I mean I don't know I guess Just needed wheels

All the problems He put the wheels on and the rear Stop the rear The brakes started working The brakes still doing The motor stopped knocking Motor knocks a little bit You didn't have Sizz

Fix the brakes? No, he wanted to like put all in their system and it was going to be like $1,200 bucks. That's 12% of the vehicle. Yeah, precisely.

And I know you guys love to just belittle me for buying this cheap car because I don't have as nice as stuff as you. No, we're not. We're not. You put it on the Snapchat,

polishing a turd. Like, I don't know, dude, I save so much fucking money driving this car for the five months that I have to drive it.

It does just fine. I drive nowhere. I don't need to spend, all the money on another car i'm going to next year i'm gonna buy a nice no no no but that's not the point that's we're not belittling you we're just we're just not about how much money i know it's just a constant joke funny no it's just funny it's a constant joke it's just not funny to me broken though it's just like no it isn't i literally have not not driven it like one time because it was broken driven it i've driven it every day getting

home right and i'm gonna i can't completely agree with that but i i do want to say we're not making funny because it's uh because it's not expensive or it's not nice or whatever it's just more so funny that like you got it and just like it's caused so many problems i think it's like and it's not like major issues obviously so it's like kind of funny to like it's also funny that's a hummer i think that's why i got it i'm just wondering because cj really wanted a hummer too and at one point on age two and i'm like i wanted to exactly right yeah lesson learned but i was like would he be getting the flack I don't know if you'd have cool hummus

It depends if mine was breaking like his I suppose And knowing you it wouldn't You would have spent 25K on a minty minty one Yeah And I rode in one like that And I still was like This thing seems like it's gonna give me a lot of trouble So I didn't do it

Ryan was gonna sell it to siege No not I didn't do it I was so close Yeah now we've talked one of my vehicles Into the dirt so much I won't be able to sell it That's what I was gonna say These are Ryan's least favorite topics

on the podcast because now any buyer is going to just come back to this. You got to say, you did say that one day, I came down after editing and you were like, the brakes, they're shot. Yeah. They told me how much it's going to be. I don't give a fuck. I'm, let's just fucking flip it over with the skid steer. That's the only time that you were. I'm definitely still down to do that. You were mad about it. I don't know. I still am mad at it sucks, but it was just more so funny. And up until that point. I think that is awesome that you did it. Yeah. I love it. Made an awesome bit when vastly stole it. I think it's great after you bought it. It's amazing fucking vast dude made way more content than ben's truck yeah yeah i mean that's what

trying to do yeah i'm and i'm not making fun of you for it i'm just bringing the situation to light and just laughing with the boys and i'm trying to make something out of it yeah i don't know that is good at least at least we've gotten some good subjects out of it and i got this cool croonac from someone there you go who gave you that some dude who runs a vintage shop no shit you just sent it to you or what That's pretty lit. Yeah. I like it.

It's even the classic Hummer yellow. Yeah. It was made the same year as my Hummer. No shit. Some of our like subscribers are like insane for that. Like so I just got a Venmo when we were gone for 500 bucks. What? For he's like to figure out your Suron problems.

Laughing face, laughing face. He no shit. Yeah. Whoa. And so I was, I Venmoed it back. I'm not going to take that. I Venmoed it back and I was like, dude, that made my day. like that's so funny and then he was like you should come to Utah snowmobiling that you like

respond to do it but anyway bro somebody 500 dollars yeah damn that was really nice like out of the blue it wasn't like do you actually want like help with it or something like just out of the blue 500 bucks so yeah I mean I've been moved back to him but I was just taken away by that yeah I would have been too that's amazing yeah I'd get requests from people yeah I get that yeah I got some kid a case of beer one time that's nice same yeah yeah Oh, maybe it was a kid. No, hopefully not, dude. I got that same request, and I didn't respond to it.

I was going to respond, if you can't afford beer, you probably should go get a job or something like that. You probably shouldn't be drinking it. You should just go, you just get back to work. Well, Ben and Ryan just paid me 40 bucks, so I didn't respond that, but I thought about it. I just left it. So speaking of taking the cheap way out, CJ, how'd that go for booking a cheap hotel room in Florida? What do you mean the cheap way out? That's exactly what I mean.

I mean taking the cheap way out of booking the cheapest hotel on the beach. Oh, well, first off, I thought we were staying on the beach. And it was not a cheap hotel. It was still very expensive, but it was just cheaper than where Ken was staying. And supposedly, Ryan was going to stay there too. I kind of feel bad about this because I feel like I misled you. You said, this is where we're staying. I didn't look in any further.

I said, great, we'll stay there too. Because then Alex and Alondra, at least close by. They can hang out, whatever. Ryan ends up not staying there So we show up and we're staying at this hotel And honestly as like I never went on vacations I only went on one vacation growing up We went to Disney World

We only went to Disney World like And then the only time I've ever really traveled around And like seen stuff or like gone different places Was filming with us You know And Ken books all the hotels I don't really care We stay in shitty ones

We stay in nice ones I just show up. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I, yeah, I really don't care. In my mind, usually you kind of deal with it because it's like, well, Ken booked it and clearly Ken ain't booking us. Yeah, but very rarely do we, very rarely do we ever even like care. I mean, no, exactly. But usually we're just like, yeah, we're just here to fill.

Yeah, we're here. So it's supposed to be this big vacation. I thought we were staying at a resort on the beach as it was on the beach. And in my opinion, it was expensive. Yeah. Well, we show up. And also, I need to preface one more thing. My girlfriend traveled around, done a lot of very nice vacations.

Same with Ben's. Yes. And he dealt with kind of the same thing that I'm going to be talking about. Anyways, we show up, we check in the hotel. I could kind of tell, like, she was, like, looking around at first. Where's the rest? You know, and then, like, we go and go to the room. And, like, I was looking at the pictures.

I didn't think the picture is that bad. I thought it was fine, but I mean, I will say they misled on the pictures. It was probably built in the 60s, the hotel, and it's on the beach. So you'd think, like, it's a fucking beach hotel. It's got to be nice. Yep. And, but it just maybe hadn't been very updated since then. Yep.

So we go walking over, and I'm like, well, at least we're going to be in this courtyard, like, there's, like, a pool and stuff. We're on the backside. Okay. We're on the backside. We've got to walk through this, like, dark little. tunnel to get to our room and it's on the backside like motel style there's cars parked out in front of our door there's like like kind of just some like grimyer people sitting outside like maybe walking by and like I open up the door we get in and I'm like okay it's not great I wasn't like happy

about it but also I wasn't like whatever I wasn't like mad you were the one that booked it so you're dealing with the cars then yeah right right and then I could just tell immediately from my girlfriend's face she was not pleased she was not pleased and I was not a good way to start out of vacation I'm looking around she wasn't very happy whatever and

we ended up like going and meeting up with Ryan and Alondra later on and you could just tell she was not very happy about the room and I will say it wasn't really weren't either let's say I really wasn't

but so if it was just me staying there, I would have just wrote it out. Yep. I would have just, whatever. But being that she was with me and I wanted her to have a good time, it was a problem now. And also, it's like, it was kind of sketchy in the fact that I couldn't be like, maybe out on the beach, be like, yeah, you need to go back to the room, go ahead. Like, I couldn't just send her on her own, which almost ruined my time, too.

So we have to go through this whole fiasco change in the room. She wanted a new room, and I was like, okay, yeah, so got to get out of the room. can't get out of the room already paid for it's through the airline yada yada is like 1,700 bucks or maybe more i don't even fucking know and uh the people are just being douchebags to me i'm like i went down i'm trying to solve this i'm like yo like can we get out of this room can we get a refund they did not want to work with us and uh moral story is end up booking the hotel next next door that ben and his girlfriend were staying at And cheap out.

You were the, Hey, you were still a shit hole. If you ask your girlfriend and my girlfriend, maybe we still cheaped out. Well, the issue is you're spending like 450 bucks a night. Yeah.

For a shitty hotel. Do you have to? And I'm like, okay, 450 bucks a night or 800 bucks a night to stay at where Ken was staying. Well, I paid $350 a night from my room. Well, Ken's working is at all of his angles

with his 15 different fucking credit cards. And he's getting, all these discounts and these kickbacks. I don't have those. And I don't know how you get these deals on these hotels, Ken, but... You have the exact same access to stuff I do. You have the exact same credit card. Okay, well, I didn't get those deals.

Yeah, I didn't find... Maybe I just didn't find those deals, and I wasn't down to spend $800. Well, I should have just paid that because I ended up probably doing that, because I'm still waiting on the refund from these fucking cheap skates over there. Oh, really? Con artists. Over at Allegiant. Oh, you booked them through...

If I don't... get my refund by now we're putting it on the the postcard in the postcard in on st pete's beach go leave a fucking review oh really yeah no they're not they haven't gave me the money yet it's this whole ordeal it's and uh whatever hopefully i have it by now so we can leap it out yeah but uh anyways so i go to the door the one next door and i was like fuck as because we walked in that one she goes i thought we were staying at the one ken was staying oh i was like god damn that was never in I'm about this one. How about this one?

And, you know, she was fine with it. And we stay in this room. We, basically, we end up switching three rooms in the course of seven days. Two of them were in the same hotel because we got put next to the bar, which was super loud. I thought it would be nice to be next to the bar. She didn't like that. So we went to the other side.

I'm not, I'm not trying to say Alex was being difficult because, realistically, it was, I think any of the girlfriends would have thought, uh, the first place. Yeah. Wasn't right. it was it wasn't even a matter of it being shitty it for me the changing point was just like it wasn't really safe and I couldn't just have her go back by herself but you can't just have this cute little blonde girl walking around by herself type of thing when me and greta got into our hotel room I knew immediately how I was going to go like before I even got I saw the outside

the hotel and I was like oh boy and and the whole time I'm like checking in and Greta's kind of looking around yeah you already felt it like I can feel it and And we get, we're like walking in and I like put my key in open the door and I'm like, golly shit. This is nice. I did that too. This is nice. This is nice.

Isn't it, baby? I'm like, look at this. I'm like looking at like just couch. I'm like, oh my God. I didn't even know we got a couch. I'm like, I'm like taking my phone out filming it. I'm like, I can't wait to show the boys this room. Oh wait, wait.

I was just like it. I was hyping it up. I don't think he was though, or were you? That'd be so much funnier if you weren't hyping it up. You were just like, decent place. I actually thought it was pretty decent. It was decent. I knew that Greta was kind of leaning the other way, so I was really lean in the other way.

I thought it was just trying to upsell it and really persuade her. And I'm like, look at, yeah. I'm like going in the bathroom. I'm like, shish. Like shower? Nice. Take videos of the whole thing. I can't wait to flex on the boys of this one.

I just love it. It's like a blatant. It's almost like a blatant lie. Yeah, she's like, are you seeing the same thing I'm seeing? I don't see why hotel rooms. really matter i don't know i was just like you just go there and you just sleep in them anyways as long as it's safe which i agree first one wasn't safe and also when we the first one when you close the fucking door you'd see the light coming around the fucking edges of the door like it was

just like open like wind blowing it was pretty shitty dude you know what it is this is what it is this is what it was out apparently no it was the vagus trip ken got us the bougiest hotel the bougiest rooms in the vagus trip and then we go on this one with our girlfriends and then we put them in just a dump and they're like are you fucking kidding me like that came up multiple times it was expensive and i and i was like spend two nights there it's damn near the mortgage of my house yeah dude but i was like hold up can book the vagus trip on the company card and i had no saying it and they're like well oh so this was actually and honestly i bet i had it with your girlfriend too was not much more expensive

than those hotel rooms. Those were very expensive hotel rooms and I believe that Florida's really living off of that. Love Florida. Really do. But they're just living off of being shitty but people just love going there because it's in America

and there isn't a cartel war going on. And so they just charge a ton of money for a crappy place. That's where I was to see. For like 200 bucks a night, all inclusive. You've got to fly to Cancun though. Yeah. You're spending that much money on a hotel room.

You'd think it would be fucking nice. I agree. So I didn't bother like digging in. I was like, we're staying here. It's right next door to Ken's. What I did was I looked at the hotel reviews. You're the travel agent, Ken.

So from now on, I booked one hotel in my whole life. One hotel I've ever booked. And it was, I mean, the whole thing was a disaster. I was constantly having to switch rooms. It was just fucking. I felt bad. I was so excited. We're sitting on the beach and you guys took a long time.

We're like, oh, great. They must be having fun. You know all that. And you guys, I could see instantly. CJ's face was like thinking. He's like, how am I going to fix this? You weren't mad, you weren't doing nothing like that, but you were like, I am going to fix this. I'm going to do my job and fix it.

And I was like, ooh, something's going on. Yeah, I did. I fixed it. You did. That's kind of funny that you said, like, that was the first hotel room you've ever booked. Because I haven't, I've booked probably like three times. And one of them was just when we were, Evan, Cody and I were headed out outside of. I heard about this too.

So, yeah, like, I don't know where to start. Cheapest one's the best one, right? Not, not, but then I go up a little bit. You're just sleeping there. Who cares? So there's like six, 65. $5 a night ones and I was like okay just go up to like I went I got a room for like 95 bucks

I don't know if that it's probably pretty cheap but it's the days in and the super eights and all that those are now bought by like mostly Wyndham and just like bigger so I think that tricks people in the thinking that they're nicer now you know days in by Wyndham it's gotta be halfway decent it no it's just a days in that's rotting away and yeah we went it it was fine but it was crusty

man like I mean you guys what you guys would all walk in and go, what is this? There's like a little blood stain on the sheets. So there's a toilet. Evan still has not stopped talking about how shitty of a hotel. He was pretty torn up about it. I was surprised.

Like, Evan, when he worked his best, he used to stay in some nasty places. And that's what he said. This is about caliber of those. I don't know why. I just personally don't see why hotel rooms really, really matter. It's not like we went on vacation and go sit in the hotel room.

You're just there for maybe, yeah. 10 o'clock to, Eight o'clock in the morning. Or maybe even 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the morning. You know, it's just like, who cares? As long as it's somewhat clean. And the bed's half decent. I think,

I think the bed in the shower is really where I like to have. And the showers, even if you, but the bed. Yeah, I guess the shower of the bed. But it isn't. Moral of the story. Moral of the story. Ken's booking our ship from now on. I'm going back to that.

That's why he is our travel agent. It's not working for me. Big Ken? I told you where I booked and you guys booked elsewhere. I listened to Ryan. It's not Ryan's fault. That's on. I also tried to save a couple bucks.

Yeah. Doesn't everyone? I knew Ryan was staying in an Airbnb before he left. Most, most do. It was CJ said, hey, we're booking. Where are you guys going to stay? And so I was like, this is our flight. This is our hotel.

And we start doing that. And I'll just like, oh, I found this Airbnb. It's this and that. And I was like, I don't really know. I'm staying in an Airbnb. And it ended up being a better move for sure. But I felt bad because like you guys just took that word and went with. And I totally understand.

understand why you did. I fucked. It's not your fault. Yeah. Ken, you got a special talent, bro. Yes. Yes, you do. Dude, dude, Ken doesn't get enough credit for working the angles that he does and getting us in these credit card points. These living situations of like kind of living above your means. Big Ken, but like, by not. Yeah, by not. Yeah. Big Ken could run a course. He could sell a course kind of like Andrew Tates, except Ken's is just showing you. how to live the good life. Just a little bit finer. Just a little bit nicer.

And it would be called The Good Life with Ken Matthews. How to make credit card companies pay for your lifestyle. Of course. Oh, Chapter one. We're getting into it early. A course on living luxury while not spending for it either. I think Chapter 1 should be...

I'm not paying for it. Invest in Tesla. And then Chapter 2 is buy a Tesla. Pump stock. No, but yeah. Pump stock. can you like you could be a travel agent and I'm just going to throw it out there probably a realtor too

I just want to some background my girlfriend wasn't out of line on not like that yeah to be clear the first one was bad the first one was bad the second one she was fine the second one she was fine with we had to switch rooms because it was so noisy and she's a light sleeper

I slept like a fucking I hit the bed like a rock hey what's up with the 15 tequila shot Yeah, exactly. I slept on the floor. What's up with the fight? Outside your door that one night. There's a fight?

So we get moved to the new room. Maybe it wasn't that nice little hotel. We get moved to a new room and we're fucking sleeping. All of a sudden, she wakes up and she's like, get down. Get down. She thought there was going to be like gunfire. Holy crap. She really didn't trust this place.

I'm like, what the fuck? And there's this whole commotion and we're on the bottom floor. So I like, walk out. I got my contacts in, none of that. I go and open up the fucking blinds. There's like these two frat-looking college kids, and a dad and the girl, they're fucking freaking out at these other two dudes.

And then there's, like, the security, the hotel security, trying to, like, you know. Disper some. Like, stop them. And the police ended up coming. But this fucking, like, frat kid, like this college kid. And then there's like, so there's a dad and a mom, too. And I feel like they were, like, the girlfriend's parents.

parents i'm like dude i really hope this kid this i hope this kid wasn't on vacation with his girlfriend's family because he had to have looked terrible no hopefully not but anyways the fucking frat kid picks up this security guards uh walkie-talkie and like threw it at the ground like spiked it and the security cars like you're fucking asshole it's such a such a mess meanwhile alex is like i'm like baby these guys are pussies they're not they'll get guns we got worried about on nothing and I'm standing there in my boxers just like from here to like not far at all like they can very clearly seem I'm just watching and uh the cops come and like they're like trying to hold like they're detaining like the oh my god the uh the frat looking kids the other guys were kind

they pull them off this way and the mom is like he's a criminal justice major he's a criminal justice major oh my god and it was the funniest fucking yeah you know who else was a criminal Justice Major, the guy that murdered the four students. He was a criminal justice. Yeah. Yeah. And I thought that was funny because I was like, oh, yeah, he's, never mind, guys, you got to let him off. He's a criminal justice major. He's drunk throwing walkie-talk. He's picking him fighting. I just thought it was funny. But he knows what he's doing. He's a criminal justice major. And I just kept saying that then for the rest of the way. I was basically just making fun of college degrees, which then Alex, you know, she maybe just got annoyed at me. Concedon.

Criminal Justice Major. There's, there's, and I almost opened the door and started cracking some jokes. She's like, stop it. Stop it. You know,

dude. There was his fold like this. He's a criminal justice major. Okay, there's no major that she could have, you got to let him go. That would have made it better, right? No.

Criminal justice major. He's going to school to be a doctor. It'd be like, okay, he just tried to kind of assault me. He'd be like, he's going for communications. Well,

he obviously isn't very good at it. Hey, guys. This guy's going to college. We got to let him go. He's a criminal justice. bro that's amazing yeah so yeah i mean going back maybe the second hotel wasn't as nice we thought but yeah speaking of criminal justice majors that one the the idaho killer yeah also worked at a college he was a a t-a he was a t-a in criminal justice classes and then he goes and kills these

people yeah dude it's crazy it's crazy honestly i should i should have greta on here because she know she's i know alex knows way no i don't they know it they don't know it they talk for 40 minutes. I can't even pay attention. It's too much. Why do all, like, all females on this planet and the United States know about this. And Evan. No, but I'm not talking. I'm not talking about crime shit.

Evan falls asleep to crime junkie podcast. He listened to like nine date lines on the way back. That's all it was his date line. I wish Evan or our girlfriends were here. Dude, Evan and our girlfriends could go awful about it. Evan's gone right now. He turns out he's just back at home on the couch all in his blankets lane. Just crying watching the bachelor.

I guarantee. If we called Evan, Evan's in the car right now. He's got Kleenex's. If we called him, he would be listening to Dateline. Let's call him. Let's call him. It is crazy, though. Those girls do love the crime stuff.

And they were all over at us three's house, watching the Vikings game, and I was sitting there with Ken. And they were all talking about it, and that's how I kind of got filled in. But how fucking crazy. You go to college, and your own TA is a killer. And then he went to class the next day after killing him. and talked about like was like yeah you know like talked about it like as if not not him doing it but was you know like Greta that that school's got to be getting a lot of flack but how do you know someone's like a killer that's a pretty pretty rare scenario the world's fucked up dude uh yeah apparently like the guy went to like the memorials and like was like seen like being basically like a change of attitude afterwards yeah like he was grading the papers easier went from being like kind of an asshole to after it happened was like happy and like like see that's what i think someone like that wants the publicity yeah i think he wants his name all over the news he wants his pictures all over the news that's why he did it

i believe getting away with it bro yeah but i i mean maybe yeah he tried to get away with it but like i feel like it's like a half you want to kill somebody and then the other half is like you want to be famous you just thought that someone that is supposedly have this criminal justice degree would at least be able to get away with that killing a little longer than like you think they would have been there's people that have killed so many and they're still on the run there's still like can't there's so many unsolved murders and this guy is like fucking trained in like how to solve them and he still couldn't get away just because of show dude college doesn't teach you shit man college people are stupid it is just ironic I'm not saying that though yeah we shouldn't

I shouldn't make such light about fucking those people it's sad it's awful it is it is but I would like to have like our girlfriends on here to hear them go full on do a crime episode you wouldn't even go to get a word in no I know they would just go off I think it'd be kind of entertaining we'll have a girlfriend episode I can circling back around to the he's a criminal justice

major the hotel probably wasn't that fucking good but if there was criminal justice major staying there shit maybe it was better than Ken's you had to felt like you were just watching like a movie no I was just sitting there with my fucking in my

underwear sliding glass door like half cracked just watching kind of cucky no it wasn't Alex was hiding peeping over the bed I thought we're going to get shot by a stray bullet over at coconut charlie's um so uh I wasn't there for obviously the R6 video but I was reading a lot of the comments and they were like why didn't you guys call heavy d to come haul it out and you know i obviously knew that you guys did try talking to heavy d and he did respond he was like down to do it but what was the whole ordeal he was he was down to come helicopter the r6 let me add some context to this we had r6 with a snow bike on it we brought it 12

miles into the back country into the mountains went over like probably five really really steep hills like up and down up and down we knew after it blew up getting out get getting it out of there would have been like a full day ordeal if we could if we could do it and um so i was just immediately trying to find helicopters in the area to do it i hit up one guy and he was like yeah i have like the helicopter but uh i have to like fit it in my schedule and i was like well bro i leave in two days like i don't i don't really have time and the weather is like so gnarly in the mountains it could be bluebird down low and blizzarding up top so you never know that and helicopter pilots do not fuck around with the weather, obviously, because it's extremely

trying to fly a helicopter and winds like that. So anyway, I hit up a couple different people. Both of them basically told me no. And then I hit up Heavy D and I was like, hey, dude, here's the issue, here's where it's at. Do you think that you could come in with one of your helicopters, the Blackhawk, more specifically, that'd be so badass. You can make a video bid on it or a full video.

We'll put you in the video. and obviously like work something out you know if he was like yeah but it's going to be like this much in fuel i would be like yeah let's yeah we'll take care of that no problem but anyway i figured he would be down for it because he does all these recovery does all these recovery videos so he responds and he was like dude i'm so down i'm waiting to hear if i can if i can get the license to pick stuff up with the helicopter because it's specific to each helicopter and i'm waiting on my black hawk license so he was like i'll call tomorrow see if if they can push it through if not like i can't really do much for you and yeah it must not work but that would have been

obviously best case ontario for him coming in with a black hawk one but two us not having to drag this thing 12 miles out of the back country like it's sucked and it's it's hard to it's hard to show on video how much it sucked but like we're we're not acclimated to that elevation So, like, even just walking from me to Ryan through the deep snow, you feel it, bro. When you're at, when you're at 10,000 feet like that. And then, two, this thing was 600 pounds. Yeah. Like, and there was no good way to pull it.

If a snowmobile were to break in the backcountry, it's sitting on two skis and a track and you just get the track to slide and you're good, right? But this one was like, it would tip over. We tried every which way of like a toboggan underneath, the whole thing in there. the whole thing upside down um and there was just like no good way to pull it right it was gnarly though it took the whole how many of us like 10 of us nine of us plus the three guys that stopped and helped seven hours yeah to get that thing out yeah it was it was crazy dude like the podcast that my dad was on he said when when you're in need the right people show up bro they're like one jane blaine just being there was like having the right people there those dudes i haven't met

them, but they seem like such beauties. Oh, they're the best. And Blaine is a full-on cowboy. Like, he's a ranch hand at a ranch. Like, the dude ain't afraid to work, you know. And he was out, he did most of the work for us. Shout out, Blaine. Hell of a rider, too.

Hell of a rider, but he was, like, on his, on his knees, freaking no gloves on, tie in knots. Like, he had to have done it, like, 50 times. Yeah, it was windy. Like, when you're at the top of the- Like, how cold, like, colder in here or warmer? It was probably, it was probably like 20 degrees, but when you're at the top of the mountain and it's just so windy it just sucks yeah i mean you get the right guys there and then when we were

we got it to uh we got it down this hill which was just a pain in itself getting it down a hill and then four guys came in that were like going into the back country to go snow snowboarding and they were like hey what's going on one of them ended up being our buddy baker that we'd met at a trip prior and uh he pulled out his drone documented the whole thing on his drone so we got all that footage shout out baker for that it was amazing And then his other buddy was like he was there pulling the R6 up the mountain with us. It would have been a total pain to do without just like one more guy's help. Like it's truly crazy how when you're in desperate times, the right people show up.

It was good for the content, but yeah, bro. Yeah, it was like one of the hardest things I've probably ever done. You know, like it's not, and it's a little bit mental too. I remember when we were like pulling it down this huge hill and it's supposed to go straight down the path. It's super huge hill, the one Evan drove of the R6. up and it starts going the wrong way into like no man's land and it's getting dark and I was like dude this is bad do what do we do do we still keep trying and just into the night and that's exactly what we did it was pitch black when we got back I don't think the video probably did it justice

no and like it's in dragging it back because like I know how it probably looked and especially like hearing you guys talk about it it it almost looked easier but it clearly wasn't yeah I mean we literally at the top of the two of it hills we would get the sombule up as far as it could go before they would get stuck and then we literally tied ropes to it and like the 10 of us just dragged it up the hill a few hundred feet it was yeah it was a deuce the importance of a team you know couldn't do that alone if you were out there with like just a couple guys to leave it no way yeah yeah and and so many people were like why did you guys go in that far and honestly looking back at it just having too good of a time

no idea why we did it besides you're going to ride at all just say we were just so confident in it. We were like, this thing's working great. It was just ripping. We were all ripping. It was the first day. And so we went back 12 miles. And there was also a lot of comments saying, like, why didn't you guys just pull the spark plugs and unhydro lock it? And I guess looking back, knowing how much work it was to get it out of there would have definitely been worth the, you know, a couple hours it would have taken.

But we were like so unconfident in our ability to wrench on that thing out in the middle over the mountains having all the right equipment being freezing snowing all these different things we're like that's that's going to take five hours in itself let's just spend seven hours and just drag it out and it's going to be a for sure thing yeah mostly just because we had one day one day to get it out somehow some way uh helicopter would have been better obviously easier on us way cooler and we wouldn't have uh almost totaled out our six so i guess the reason that long story short Evan got so fucked up at the bar that night is because we were like after that

everyone's just dripping in sweat we finally got it back we were like open bar tab on us tonight boys we truly deserve it. Evan's like yes yes Evan was getting his drinks paid for anyways what's he happy? No he was just like just an excuse to celebrate

what was the bar tab like six five 550 with dinner yeah that's actually really not as very well probably like 12 people that's really good yeah Yeah. But the other guys, the snowboard guys came. We were like, hey, you guys are coming. We're getting your drinks. Yeah. It was a good time. It was just like, dude, the mountains are gnarly. Especially being from the Midwest. We don't have to deal with those kind of problems. And like when you go out on the hill, you don't have to think about so many different things that you do when you're in the mountains. And it's also obviously very dangerous out there. Very dangerous. Which we've known for a long time. Yeah.

Yeah. I guess that's going into like Ken Block. Yeah, it seems like a good time to transition into that. So yeah, Ken Block, the legend, Ken Block died in a snowmobiling accident about a week ago. Yeah, a couple days before we had got, we were going to the mountains. Literally two days, yeah. I've never felt a death like hurt me as much as that one for somebody that I'd never met. Yeah, that's well said. I'd say same. I mean, it was like as soon as I read the news, sinking. Everything was sinking. I was like, and then also being rushed with a bunch of memories from someone I've never met. Yeah.

A bunch of legendary memories rush my head. It's weird because I feel like we have met them. Yeah. Like, we never, never did. And this is Ken Block's rally wheel on the wall. We've had that since the day we started the podcast. There's just so many things that Ken Block impacted. just on our lives alone for us never meeting him.

Like there's just so many like inspirations with a lot of people. With a lot of people. And the dude was such a creative and marketing genius. He impacted the action sports and the motorsports world more than anyone I can think of. Dude, talk about the loss of like such a legend. And especially doing something that you, you know, he probably was just, I don't know, I guess the full story, but it seems like he was just out there. for a leisurely ride yeah just having fun you know and out of all the other dangerous stuff he's done

you know just a fluke thing he had talked to people that he was close with and that we know and and he had been telling them about how much he had found joy in snowmobiling and like how much of a passion was of his and how it was one of his like favorite things to do and that's why i think the most shocking thing was is it was like that guy lived life wide over i think one of his mottoes was, you know, like, go fast, take chances, stuff like that. I mean, you know, he lived his life, uh, on the edge. Definitely to the fullest. Yeah, to the fullest. Exactly. And it's just, uh, yeah, it's just jarring to have someone who, you know, almost invented, well, he invented a lot, DC Shoes. And then he also really has popularized like a YouTube motorsports auto, you know,

type of content and stuff like that a whole brand of hoonigan you know i mean he's revolutionized i would say modern media it was like everything he touched turned to gold yeah but and it wasn't for good reason exactly for good reason because that's what i was i was like all the posts coming out i was so inspired by like i've never seen so many rip posts that were that inspiring people or actually thoughtful and so just like a you know rip continuing like sorry he was just yeah yeah yeah Yeah, he was just like, I mean, everyone that was like, had the opportunity to work with him, but there's like, they're like, you don't work with Ken. You just are fortunate enough to work with him on his idea. Like, he is just, everything he touches basically turns to gold.

And like, he had such an eye for everything. And he did everything so much bigger than everyone else and so much better. But not because he wanted to be better than everyone else because he wanted to be the best. Yeah. He was just like so much different. And you could see that through his work, obviously. Yeah, so David, one of our best friends, the 509 guy, he had done a lot of stuff with Ken and was fortunate to work with him and knew people in the industry. And yeah, he said every project that you got to work on with Ken was not your project.

You were just helping Ken's vision come to life. Dude, I haven't. Hell of a life. Hell of a life, man. Yeah. Hell of a life. I haven't been able to stop, like, thinking about it. Same.

And yeah, it was so frequently in my mind, you know, when you were riding, it, it affects, you know, your decisions, fear always does. But, like, having something so similar like that, it just, it was just, it's like gut wrenching. It puts like everything in perspective, too, of like, fuck, is this worth it? Yeah. And I hate to, like, live in fear like that. And obviously our lifestyle is kind of crucial to not live in fear. fear like that um and i don't think he did either you know i don't think he like just everything he did he did to like the fullest and and i don't think if he could i i cannot put what he would think but if i could imagine what he would want i don't think that he would want people to live in fear of something such as snowmobiling or rally car driving or something like that i i wouldn't imagine that he would feel that way you know because he wasn't that type of guy yeah i saw a quote him that somebody asked him are you scared when you're when you're driving that fast and he said

if you're not scared you're not driving fast enough dude's a good answer straight to the point on that but yeah on a positive note i don't i don't think we will ever stop learning from him i don't think everyone who ever followed him will ever stop learning from him you know he he did so much stuff that it's something that you could study and just be happy to watch and take in yeah be it no one will ever stop learning from just that much of a legend yeah there's just like certain people growing up in this era and especially in the world that we live in that are so crucial in just the development of marketing and creative and he was definitely one of them and man the industry will miss him immensely i mean shit we even named kent after ken block i mean you're going to talk about i mean

that's part of that's part of ken that will live with us of Ken Block. I mean, literally named Ken after Ken Block. But, yeah, what, should we tell that story, I guess? I mean, we've kind of told it, I think. So basically, Ken's first car was a Subaru Impreza, like a 2008. Not a WRAX. Subaru Impreza hatchet.

And he pulls up with it. It's basically a very lame economy car. But, I mean, it was a drift in the snow. Well, it was all-wheel drive, and we, you know, we had to test that. So he pulled up, and obviously we had, we'd been watching the Jim Connas, and we were aware of Subaru WX's and STIs and all that and that was like basically our dream car

at the time so when Ken pulls up we're like holy shit dude like this is pretty close to like this is pretty close to like the cool version of this like it's almost there and then we're like well let's go see if it can drift so we all

pile in like I mean five deep maybe six who knows and I mean we would do this frequently we would go down to like gravel roads that were windy and we'd just peer pressure, Ken into drifting. Because he would always have to send it at the start. And then I think we would just get on him so much that he knew the only way to just get out of it

was just actually send it. And he would end up doing it. And he would rip like some good drifts. And at that, we're like, man, Ken is like, he's good at drifting. Like that's how we looked at him, which his name at the time was Grant. And then we're like,

so we started to call him Ken, Ken Block, which was funny because it was like, The real Ken Block with his built Subaru W-R-X-S-T-I drift car machine doing all these crazy videos, crazy drift maneuvers. And then you got Ken, Matthews. A small town kid still going through puberty with a Subaru Impreza, 100 horsepower, drifting down some gravel roads.

In our eyes, they were one and the same. Yeah. And that's where that too. we just wanted to be just like Ken. Yeah, like he is. Well, I think like, like people that have really, um, inspired us, you know, obviously Ken Block, like we said, Rob Deer Dick, um, Jeff Tremaine, uh, Bamar Jarrah. Travis.

Travis Pastrana. A lot of the Nitro Circus guys, Street Bike Tommy, you know, just a lot of Greg Godfrey, you know, there's just so many different people that we watch growing up and looked up to. World's going to miss them, but what a hell of the life. talk about a life worth living, you know. Talk about an impact made. Yeah, yeah.

It seems like couldn't have lived it much better. Totally. Hug your homies. Yep. Hug your homies. Yeah, I hate to end on kind of a, you know, sad note like that, but a lot of people have been commenting on our videos, and I wanted to say something about it. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I think a lot of people were actually, I saw it, too. They were asking on it. Yeah. Which is cool Before we said anything There was an overwhelming amount of comments Just like

Just kind of bouncing back with us They were big fans too So I mean But on a sad note for sure But on a positive note Legends never die Exactly I mean

Yeah Yeah his he will live on forever With what he's done You know So left a good legacy That's for sure Absolutely All right guys

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