Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Defending Ken Against Mean Comments

Episode Date: September 9, 2021

Haydays: https://haydays.com/ In today's podcast, Ken addresses the bullies after Ryan stands up for him on Instagram. We talk about Haydays grass drags. The beef we once had with Larry Enticer. We speak on the perception that some people have of us being dumb. Ben and his poor investing skills. Technology enabling Ken to be lazy. Micah sneaks into his own house Ken's Masterclass of deflection. Importance of setting goals 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 For merch check out: https://cboystv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We're filming a podcast tonight. It's currently Tuesday. It's not a normal Friday podcast time. No, no, we were, what happened? You were gone on Friday or who was gone? I was gone. Ben was gone. Yeah, both you guys going on vacation around here.

Anyways, we got a pretty good amount of stuff to talk about. Where should we start? I kind of want to just jump right into it. That post? Yeah, I, Ken, get in here. Sit down here. I got some questions to ask here. All right, I'm going to calm down.

Yeah, I think this is a question for Ken and Ryan. Ken, you sit down next to Ryan here. I've been refraining from asking either of you about this since I got home and I'm just so curious and confused as well as probably a lot of people watching right now Ryan what was that Instagram post about the Simpsons thing of like basically bullying and you said your little shout out to Ken about him having like the biggest heart and the funniest guy you know hold on let me let me just let me just play in the picture here, we're going to put it up.

Yeah, it's a Simpsons meme. For the people watching, and then I will read it for the people who are not. Candice, hold on. Hold on, hold on, Ken. Okay. All right, so it's a picture, and there's multiple slides to it. Anyways, it's Homer. He goes, how dare you talk about Ned Flanders like that?

He's a wonderful, kind, caring man. There have been times when I lost patience with him, even lashed out at him. But this man has turned every cheek on his body. If everyone here were like Ned Flanders, there'd be no need for heaven. we'd already be there and that's it and then the caption reads this is how i feel when people talk bad about my best friend ken matthes he's a funniest guy i know with a heart of gold if you have anything bad to say about ken take it up with me because we have some beef he's a legend and also the funniest guy i know and we've been friends for years i agree first off i want i want to start

by saying right it was it was an extremely nice post and i wasn't like what the fuck is this i was just confused as to one where it came from and then two i was very curious to what Ken was going to say about it. I haven't heard anything. Did you even like it? No, Ken didn't like it or comment on it, which made me even more confused. I'm pretty sure I liked it.

No, you didn't. You completely ignored it. You completely ignored it. So I have so many questions for both of you. So what an awkward situation for both of you. Ken, nothing. Oh, okay. Did you just see that and go,

oh, yep, I better come back to that and just double tap the. I'm pretty sure I got the notification when I was in my car. I swiped over it. It was like, oh, I'll read this later. And then I never came back. I feel like you never read it. That was Ken's first reaction to hearing that what Ryan posted that. A whole ass Instagram about you.

Wow. And it was like a nice thing backing you up. You just left it. So what spurred this, you to post that? Okay. Well, sometimes people say mean things about Ken in the comments that like that you don't add to a video or you're negative or something like that. And it always ticks me off because I, I feel like I can make fun.

of any of you guys because you are my best friend. But if someone else starts talking shit, I'm going to be like, you don't know them. You don't have the right to make fun of this person because you have no idea what they are. But we get to make fun of you because you're our best friend. And you get to make fun of us. And you get to make fun of us.

But sometimes I see comments and I'm like, why do people say that about? Because it's wrong. That's the part that makes mad. Because it's wrong. And then I also like posting memes to my Instagram story because I think it's funny. And then I saw that one. had a bunch of slides and i was like oh this is kind of exactly how me and ken's relationship is

because like ken and i will bought heads on things and i will lash out at ken yeah but i still love them all the same like sometimes you might be a little psycho a psycho your favorite word but instead of ken's back and thanks ryan thanks man thanks for sticking up to me making a hard post on your instagram he goes well you you can be psycho i don't know maybe i should delete it no no no no no no that's not the point i was just curious to that's kind of what i figured that's where it stem from but i'm more along lines curious as to why ken didn't like it commented or even mention it or yeah no acknowledge it in any way i okay i looked at it and i forgot about it and then i never came back to it okay again i feel like this is similar to your birthday a few years ago

every year not a few years ago every year people call him tried wishing him a happy birthday he doesn't respond doesn't acknowledge it you know No, like in a group chat when everyone texts, like, happy birthday, Ken, happy birthday, you know, maybe even a personal text. Nothing. I think I might even hit you with a personal text on your birthday. Red. No response. Nothing.

Dude. Our girlfriends? Our girlfriend, yeah, everybody. I think the girlfriends are more so. Why do you do that? I didn't text Greta back because I forgot about it. Bro. Can you do a lot of forgetting?

For a guy who scrolls on his phone seven hours a day. CJ, you can't talk about that. Ken's getting hot. Ken's getting hot or forgetting? No, you sit on your phone and you are buried in it. You cannot get out of it. Yeah, but he doesn't forget to text people back after they wish him happy birthday. That's the issue.

Glantzance of things, then I just go on. Thank you. Well, here's another vice versa to this. Playing devil's advocate here. Devil's avocado? Yeah. Ken, do you feel like you were almost kind of singled out by that post? I mean, he did mention me.

Did you feel? Singled out, possibly like Ryan was contributing to the bullying? No, because that wasn't the point in the post. Did that post trigger you? Is that why you didn't respond? It's because you were so mad. Ryan tries backing up, Ken, ends up bullying him in the process. Do you think Ryan is suppressing your voice?

But he thinks that he needs to be the one defending you when you can't defend yourself? No. I think that you're trying to take this one little grain of sand. No, no, no. You're trying to make a mouth out of this one little greenest hand. I'm just asking the, I'm asking the questions the people want to know, Ken. Do you feel like that's not Ryan's business putting your name in his mouth on his Instagram? I mean, Ryan's a strong, independent person.

He can do whatever he wants. Just don't make hard post about Ken. What are you trying to say here? I'm just curious as to what you, like, how do you feel about it to post? It's a nice heartfelt post. So that's why you didn't like it? No, I just forgot about it, okay? So you forgot about something that was nice and harsh felt?

Unlike you, I was folding T-shirts every Friday. Ooh. That was, damn, Ken. All right, well, I don't know if Ken answered any of our questions. I'm pretty sure he just, he sat down, he deflected all three of us, and I think we're all left more confused than we were going into it. Thank you, ProCapper. What is this?

How do you stand up for this guy? No, I don't know. I'm regretting it. I think I'm going to change it to, like, Micah or something like that. Ken's got a cloak of mystery covering him at all times. It's why he's the funniest guy I know. All right, thank you, Ken. I just get busy, okay?

Ken's busy. But for real, though, Ken does need to go up stand-up comedy. I think that that shit would be off the hook. I would be crying before he even got up on stage. Oh! What a deflection. The day CJ drives a speed limit. Were you tracking?

him in your Tesla today? I was. I saw he was doing 75 and a 40. 75 and a 40. I mean, it's hard not to do it in a Tesla, but could have killed someone, man. Ken's got what we called diagnostics. I don't know. Maybe I just hit the gas a little hard that time.

I'm not entirely, or not the gas accelerator. All right. Calling the Tesla, that's enough on that. Anyway, I was hoping to kind of get into something. Ken, you didn't do a whole lot of explaining there. You mostly just-cracks another beer back there. You mostly just deflected the entire conversation. We're trying here, folks.

We're trying to break the shell of Ken. It felt good having you up here, though, Ken. It did feel good. We got to get you up next time. What is it? It's Tuesday. On Thursday, we leave for Haydays. Haydays is a massive event, mostly snowmilling,

but I would say for any kind of like off-road motorsports industry fanatic. It's in North Branch, Minnesota. We set up a booth and a ton of you guys are there. Last year they didn't do it. Yeah. So it's going to be huge. But like all the big, you know, industry, big dogs are there. Like Polaris, Skidoo, like every race team, like it's a huge deal.

And people are selling stuff. People are, there's like shows, there's all this. But we have a booth set up and you guys will come and we'll have like a photo wall and we're selling merch and we're talking to you guys, taking pictures, signing autographs. last time we went which was two years ago because it got canceled due to COVID we stood in line for like fucking 10 hours taking pictures I saw we started at 7 a.m. and we went until 7 p.m. 12 so if you guys are anywhere near there definitely come check it out we're giving away a dirt bike this year we haven't said that yet or a pit bike obviously obviously yeah but just starting

Saturday morning starting Saturday night yeah so that's going to be the coolest one day and you have to do it in person yeah so so somebody who comes there, buys merch, takes a picture with us. One of those people is going to win a pit bike at the end of the day. And they're going to ride it out. Like, that's the coolest thing, you know, because all these times that we're doing these giveaways, you know, we get to call or FaceTime the winner.

But we never really get to see their, like, in-person reaction. Like how they react when they hear it, you know, obviously over the FaceTime. But it's not the same. I hope this person is stoked. Dude, it's going to be the fastest turnaround ever. And in order to find out you won, obviously, I suppose, You don't have to be. Hopefully, hopefully they will because we're going to tell everyone to come back at seven for the announcement, but we'll do it live, like announce the pit by giveaway. And I'm sure, I mean, I'd hope the person will be standing in the crowd.

And they're going to come freaking out and get a free pit bike. Yeah, it's going to be sweet, dude. It is going to be sweet. And it's cool because I don't think a lot of, a lot of brands, like, wouldn't do that because you don't really gain a whole lot from it in like an in-person event like that. Nothing to gain. It's just cool. It's a cool way to give back because the people come. me to especially haydies like paying to get in standing line take a picture with us support by buying merch like those are the rider dies like those are the people that we want to give back and we love giving back to them so it's like you know it's cool dude we like pit bikes and obviously it's it's a pretty cheap way to give someone something that's so fun yeah it is it is fun though like meeting all the fans talking you guys we have a lot of great interactions and

we have some kind of poor ones and but most of them are most of them are most of the Most of them are amazing. Yeah. And also, like, I would, this is a little bit of a brag here, but we have, like, the most popping booth at Hades. Yeah, by far. We did. Oh, it's going to be even more this year.

Thing that we were, like, kind of reaching out to them. This is no hit, but we were like, oh, we're going to get the best real estate next year, aka, like, this coming weekend. And they did not give us that? And I'm like, did you guys, did any of you guys working at Hades happen to walk by our booth and see a million people there? The line that went to the end of the row. I'm just saying this, but, like, we bring a lot.

of people in the heydays they should maybe treat us a little better otherwise we could just literally not go well go and just set up in a fucking parking lot or rent a place out and not charge people to get in yeah i mean they've almost threatened to throw mike in jail two nights in a row you know they can be a little nicer to us yeah it gets rowdy it well they didn't the police yeah they're like this is why we're not giving you guys any special treatment that two years ago was a crazy year and and we pull up so like country cat and it just saw a deal a big dealership and we pull up next kind of down to the fox shocks people and now we have none of our shit set up Friday night we had a hammer slogging table we had a hammer slog table and the red shifter cart sitting on us on a stump and they were like

these guys just came here to booze did they yeah we were just standing there just chill and drinking because our tent didn't show up yet yeah Jessica had it so we had nothing they had to been so confused because they were old timers too so they didn't know who we were they didn't have any clue and then the next day we pull it all together the booth the tents the tables all that stuff gets set up in it it looks pretty baller and people are standing in line like hundreds of people at 7 a.m. Yeah, bro. For goggles. Yeah, because we're going to give out free goggles.

But yeah, it was just I think they were really confused then. Man, that's funny. Dude, we have so many heyday stories. So if you guys remember Larry and Tyser, he was like the guy like the send it, just going to send it that guy, 69. She's still popping. I need a check. No, I don't think he posts anymore. I don't know.

I haven't heard about them in a long time. Anyway, one of the booths or one of the brands or snowmobile brands or something like that had, Larry and Tice are basically standing out in front of their booth, signing people's shit all day. And it was just him. It was literally, he was just single-handedly standing in the middle of this booth. And people would just come up, have them send it. Or have them sign something.

And then he'd go, can you say send it for my story or whatever? And he'd be like, sign it, you know, do the 69. I didn't take a picture. He did not look like he was having a good time. Yeah, he kind of looked like a freaking zoo animal, bro. Yeah, just standing there. So it was back when we were filming with Jake and we would, I hate to break this to you, but Jake is Murph, right?

That's the first announcement. People still don't know that Jake is Murph. Yeah, so Jake used to have this alter ego that was called Murph, and Murph was just like a total idiot. He would wear this old snowmobile helmet. He'd be shirtless. and he was just, I don't know, he was just Jake's alter.

So we thought it would be so funny to have Murph go up to Larry and Tyser and be like, shock on a beer with me. And we would just film it and be like, Murph and Larry and Tyser, shotgun a beer together. And it's because we had a few friends who were like with Larry. We didn't really have as much notoriety as we do now. I'm not saying we have a ton right now, but back then it was significantly less.

So like he didn't really. know who we were we didn't have much poll um but like some of the people that we knew they were knew him because they were you know someone in the industry like oh yeah he'll love it just go over there and like do it and like he'll think it's funny yeah so we go over there and do it we run up we don't even give him a warning we show up filming which is kind of a no-no realistically now we kind of bombarded him yeah yeah we bombarded him when he's at his thing with the line we but he's used to being filmed too yeah Jake shows up or murf whoever you want to call He goes, hey, bro, you want a shock on this beer with me?

At like 10 a.m. on Sunday. And Larry just literally, Larry just goes like, no. We're like, well, he was also standing there doing like an autograph signing. You know, and I'm sure he was doing it with everyone else. That's true. That's true. Are you kidding me? We got the air compressor going on. It's my fault, too, dude.

I used it this morning. Oh, good. We have the loudest, shittiest air compressor ever, so don't mind that. Ken's going to go shut out. Did Ken just die? No, he's walking as slow as possible. I guess he does have a bum knee. But what did he just yell about?

Did he think, like, if he yelled, it would maybe, like, Stop, he'd scare it? All right, anyways, back to that. So fucking Larry and Ticer just goes, like, no, he just shuts down, gets out of character. And then we kind of shut down. It was, like, really awkward. And then we just ended up walking away, like,

well, that guy sucks. That was our defense mechanism. That was when we kind of created fake beef. I think he still probably hates us. I don't think he's too fond of us. Yeah, because we just walked away like, hey, fuck that guy. Yeah. He was talking shit in Fargo and Sports Bar.

That was after it. Yeah, because we talked shit about him on the internet. He came to Fargo and then talked shit in the bar. And then he went to Detroit Lakes for that snow and bill race. So he gave him a case of. We squashed the beef. We squash the beef. Yeah, so we're probably cool.

He was like, what beef? That was so awkwardly funny. He was trying and pretending he didn't. Such a weird story. I feel like there was more to that. Why did I think that there was. Well, basically the moral of the story is we did create fake beef with Larry and Tyser all because of one, like, one-minute interactions that he wouldn't shotgun in a beer with

Murph. Let's see. I think what really did it in was when we titled the video. Let me just look at all. Larry and Tyser breaks character. Yeah. Did we use Larry and Tyser for it? I think we did.

577,000 views two years ago. Larry and Tyser breaks character. Hey, think about this, though. And then it says not going to send it on the thumb. Damn, bro. Hey, think about this, though. Larry and Ticer was the first one to say, like, just gonna send it.

Think of what he started. Bro, I'm pretty sure full send started, which is Nelk's brand started because of Larry and Tiser saying that. That's wild. I think the send it thing definitely like evolved past the snowmobiling videos. It went into skiing, just doing anything in life. Which then turned into full send? Maybe.

I don't want to possibly. I think it transition into drinking. then it turned into because once they could get all like a party college kids to use it because at one time it was just an action sports saying yeah that's crazy you know what i hate what do you hate ben i hate when people come up to us and they go yo i love your guys's videos keep being dumbasses like do you get does that kind of get under your guys's skin like i'm not like it fuck you bro i'm like thanks bro you know it but then i'm just like well do we come off as like dumb asses i mean maybe some people think that but maybe it's just

because i know how we really are i'm like we're not that yeah and it and it doesn't personally get under my skin because i'm the last the last interaction we had one he was stoked on what we're doing right he did say he's like yep and he said it multiple times he doubled down bro he came back like seriously you guys keep being dumbasses and we're like hey yeah can you use anything else don't learn a thing yeah don't change don't change that's basically what we said Stay stupid. Yeah. Stay stupid.

That's a kind of a funny shirt, bro. Stay stupid. I do like that. Hey, nobody steal that. We'll have that pumped out soon. Stay stupid. It's a picture of Ryan. I'm not that stupid.

When did I become dumb? I don't know, man. You fuck up one time and you're just pegged as like the idiot. But I love how that that goes around this whole group multiple times of day practically. True. Like if someone else does something dumb and you're like, wow, you're just as dumb as bad. But then the next day, it'll be Ken or whoever. Yeah.

That also reminds me of when we, earlier on when we first started, which we did do a little more, like, crazier stuff. But when people would be like, oh, okay, so you guys make videos, you like jackass. And we're like, no, we're not jackass. Dude, because if you guys didn't seem jackass. Like, wow, we're not like jackass. Well, bro, I was thinking about this. Remember that jackass bit where they put their dick in the mouse costume and then put it in the snake?

Yeah, uh, glass jar bin thing. Yeah. Yeah, bro. That is ridiculously dumb. Yeah, just stuff like that. But entertainment. It's funny. But holy shit.

Can you imagine if we did stuff like that? I don't think we'd be on YouTube. No. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, there's no way. They are making a number four movie, which is insane because they're kind of old now, but they're just as crazy. I remember two.

Yeah, I heard it's like the craziest one yet. Really? Uh, I remember CJ gave us one piece of advice, very early in our YouTube channel. It was after the Shifter Cart video blew up. And we're like, let's make more Shifter Cart videos. And you're like, no, you don't want to get stuck as a Shifter Cart video. And then another, or some of the best advice you ever gave early on, in my opinion.

Yeah. And then shortly after that, we were upping the level of like stunts that we did. And then I remember you said, you're like, guys, if we keep doing this, we're going to get like pinched that we have to keep doing this ridiculous stunt every single video and it's going to get out of hand. And then we pivoted. Yeah, it's all about the, it's all about the vlog and the personality, man. Unless you're into stunts And you fucking are a tough son of a gun That's really good

I guess that's where it comes back to When people are like Keep being dumb asses like I mean there's there's a certain art to Yeah having fun And it comes off very natural on camera Because we really are just out playing And you know

Having a good time And it works for the camera And we do do some crazy shit But also risking Also like okay If we're gonna do this Like if somebody's gonna jump into this bus how can we make sure that nobody gets impaled by something yeah and most of the time we take

kind of precautions behind it you know so it's like yeah might be being like stupid but but it's fun at least conscious of it and we're not just full on like dude let's jump this bus 4,000 feet at a million miles per hour and if we die fuck it yeah yeah dude I just remember that's why me jumping the golf cart off the retaining wall. It makes me uncomfortable when people come up to me. And, like, again, it's usually distance people who don't watch our videos that much. But they're like, I saw you jump off that retaining wall. You're fucking invincible, man.

Like, that was the craziest shit I've ever seen. And I'm like, no, no. My ankle hurt. Mike, you do fall phenomenal, though. So that was fun. You're a really good following. Actually, I do have to compliment them, too, because they hype me up. I'm like, that was fun.

That was hilarious, bro. I had a good time doing that. But like... Well, we also stood around that retaining wall for like 20 minutes contemplating one, who was going to have to jump off of it into how they were going to jump off of it. A little behind the scenes. And I explained that to a few people.

I'm like, no, we literally chilled around and was like, all right, who's going to do it? And then, you know, the cloud is nice, I guess. Yeah, that was the determining factor of like, all right, who wants the Instagram clip? Who do you think is the best bailer for this? Because we're like, well, you kind of got to bail out because the car. might go over. Realistically, though, you could have rode that shit out. You probably could have, yeah.

The seat probably would have bucked you out, though. You know, because the seat came up. Or what if me being in there would have made it go end over end? You know, just because of that was a little. I've been bad. I wouldn't have mashed the brakes, but maybe if I panicked. Then again, you probably would have been going faster. So you would have kept the momentum.

Hey, you know what? Let's go back. Let's go back. You'd probably be our right. We might be blacklisted from that golf course. Retaining while golf. golf cart retaining well redemption challenge

should I ride it out as well as I thought it would honestly but the comments bro people did our first golf video though and then maybe it's a long term play I think it's out of our normal wheelhouse of what people expect to see from us and it we had fun doing it yeah it was darn right we did

that was so fun bro that was so much fun this is the second podcast we've talked about and we don't really like talk about videos that we film that's how you know was a good time. Yeah, that's true. We love golf. It's a good thing we're not welcome back because we suck.

We got kicked off all the golf courses. All of them. At least that one. Yeah. We can't golf ever again. We've been blacklisted from the game of golf. We create our own golf course because we got banned from all of the rest. And that would be probably one of our dumber investments.

We wouldn't use it for golf, that's for sure. Speaking of investments. Crypto. It was kind of, it was popping in. the earlier parts of the year. Then it dipped down really low, really low. I mean, nearly half from the, from the high. And then it started just recently climbing back up. And it's getting back into like Bitcoin, per se, it's getting back into the 50,000 range. Um, Ethereum is getting closer and closer to 4,000. We have this joke around here, well, more so just me. Yeah. Whenever Ben

buys Bitcoin or any kind of cryptocurrency. Really any kind of investment. No. No, no, no, No, no, no, no, any kind of investment. I could, it plummets. It plummets. Like, I mean, it's amazing. It's literally the next day. It is down bad. It might be that hour, even.

If Ben ever said, I'm going to buy, run the other way. Then sell, then sell. I tell Ben, hey, man, why don't you just do the world of favor and just sit this one out? Or at least tell us. I mean, when it was going up, when it was going up, I was dabbling a little bit. And then when it was really going up, I was like, there's no way. lose on this like crypto's only going up right so i kind of drop a bag or at least a bag for me boom next week yeah yeah in the tank i literally lost like so much money right and then i sit it out i'm like

yo investing in crypto or really just investing at all is not for me it's just not you know i just don't do my due diligence enough to be like all right i'm falling the market here this seems like a good time this or this or dollar cost averaging where you just like slowly put in money i'm very impulsive you know so yeah i said it out and finally it starts rising back up you know and then i get the bitcoin bug and i'm like top back in baby the other day i put more money into it so that's where i was going with this that's where i was going one day so we're sitting here uh before the podcast started and we happened to get on the top of it about crypto i was like man yeah it was it was up so much and just today just plummeted and bang goes yeah i know i bought last night

i go yeah of fucking of course sense of course why don't you just do the world the favor, Ben, and just pull your money out and let it keep climbing because you're affecting a lot of people possibly ruining lives when you try to just invest your measly thousand bucks whatever the hell you put in. So, dude, I'm going to be brought on like Foxx. I'm going to be brought on like Fox business news or whatever. Like Ben Roth, so what's your investment strategy lately? You've been buying or not? Everyone's just at the edge of their seats. Just like ready, Just getting ready to sell. I'm like, nope, I actually have it.

Buy, bye, buy, buy, buy, buy. Yeah, man. It's kind of sad, but just wait until I get into, like, the housing market or anything like that. And then we'll really see some, we'll really see some effects in the world, you know? It's pretty amazing because you're good at most things, but investing, Ben, it's just not my thing. I just don't think investing likes you. That might be true. Where do you go?

What do you do? I think you just need to save your money and just put it in the bank and take it. take whatever the fucking bank pays you an interest. That's the only investment you're getting back, bro. You should start buying jet skis. Or just invest in videos because that's the only thing that seems to work. Yeah, that's probably a good idea. We should stop taking money out of Ken's paychecks and start taking them on a bans.

Yeah. Do the world of service. Wait, why? Why? Because you just said. I thought that there might be something somewhere. Sorry, sorry, because you just said, Ben, you should save your money. Actually, you should put it into the videos.

And that's what we do with Ken's money. That's true, actually. That's a good point, yeah. Yeah, we put Ken, yeah, it's paychecks into the videos. So it's a funny story, actually, the other day. We're at the gas station. It was hot day, right? We're all getting food and drinks and stuff.

And Ken wanted this water bottle, right? He wanted this, like, dollar water. And he's like, you know, he didn't have enough money because obviously we don't pay him. He's like, CJ, could I please that? I'm just kidding. Did you imagine? For the record. Fucking Ken hasn't been getting paid enough.

You can't drink a water bottle. I told him, Ken, you got to be wiser with your money. Hey, Ken, Ryan's your biggest fan over here. He'll buy it for you. Why did my mind go to, when you said that, I was like, Ken would never buy a dollar. Oh, water, butter. Picks out the Evian water or whatever it is.

Do you guys have any more expensive in the water in the back? Exactly. Sorry. On the topic of Ken actually. randomly spending way too much money on useless shit. Ken, why do you think that every single light bulb in this entire shop needs to have its own remote so he can turn? Can we get him back on here?

Yeah, you can't get on here. Ken, sit down here. We actually have another question to ask you. Do you feel like as technology advances, you become more lazy? Yes. I agree. If there's anything that can possibly. make you have to do less work.

You are all about it. Like, you're blinds. His blinds, he replaced in his room, are on a remote control. He doesn't do them with his hand. He's like, he like goes like, Siri blinds down or blinds out. And like they go up and down, bro. It's so it's on a schedule. So when my alarm goes off, my blinds open, and it's nice.

Just today at Menards, we needed a keypad. And then I see that there's like nine million of them ranging from like $40 to like $300. And you pick up the like $280 one. And I was like, do we really need that? It was 190. Okay. Well, it was a lot of money. And you were like, it has Wi-Fi.

Why do you need Wi-Fi on the lock? So when this guy decides to leave the door unlocked all day, you can close it from your phone. I don't do that. You do it all the time, Micah. I always lock it. You're the last one in the house. Now that I have the three roommates sitting here, actually,

I have a question for all of you guys. do you guys think that if you walk up to the side of your like front door camera and cover it up really fast it doesn't get like who's walking there or because you guys have to like sneak you guys have to sneak into your house because you know Ken's watch and that thing like who's coming and going out of this house right Ken sends me at least a video a week of one of you to like sneaking someone in or trying to sneak in Whether it's like too late. I don't have anyone I'd be. It's just Micah.

But I didn't notice it until you mentioned something about Micah saying something about he made like some funny face. And then I started looking through the video history. And it was fucking every day for, like, two weeks straight. Yeah, Mike, you slip off the camera normally. Yeah. Yeah. Because I was like, Ken's like the dad that I didn't want or need really right now.

And so it's like I get home late and I just go like, fuck you Ken. You feel like you rebel against Ken? Well, yeah, I'm mostly just having fun. I didn't notice until somebody mentioned it. And then I was like, oh, I'll go look at that. And then it was just like video after video, you're going, I think the funniest one was when you climbed over the side of the balcony and then you, like, covered up the camera so you could sneak in at like four in the morning.

Yeah, why do you do that? Because Ken, probably the next day is going to go, the first thing he says to me, so you came in at four last night. Well, why are you coming in at four? Or on a weeknight. Because I like to have a good time. And then you show up at noon. No, I mean, sometimes, yeah.

So maybe you do need some guidance. Yeah, do you do need Ken. We should cuff, handcuff Ken and Micah together. Mike, maybe it's back. Can we do that for the next video? No. No. But Mike, it's like, it's like, come on.

No. Why? Oh, no, we didn't ruin the shirt today. Literally why, Ken? That would be so funny. Like, my handcuffs then. Ryan, can you over there. Hey, CJ already has some.

You can just use it. Oh, I don't want those. Those are really real. You might have to sterilize them, but you can use them. Put them in bleach all day. That would be something I'd have, but I actually don't have those. We have to like, pink fuzzy ones? We have to postpone the video because we have to sterilize the handcuffs for a day.

I guess if I have to do it, I do not want to for the record. And I don't think Ken does you. I don't want to either. Well, here's the thing. You guys both have cute together, just walking around. Well, you guys got to bring your public places. You got to compliment. Luckily, you guys both love to booze, but Mike, your schedule is a little bit...

No, it would be really funny than Mike's. We got to pick the outfit that you guys wore and we dressed Mike up as a cop and Kenneth as like... And I'm like so much smaller than him and they're like, like, damn, this guy really handcuffed himself to the cop. You guys have to sleep. It's a 24-hour challenge. That sounds awful. No. That would ruin my experience.

You know, Michael loves Hayd is. I would do that for, yeah. Don't take that. Actually, at Haydays, I would do that for like an hour or two. That's lame. But, yeah. I mean, Mr. Bees is out here bearing himself alive, 10 feet down for 50 hours straight. I think you can handcuff yourself to Ken for at least 25.

Who do you think would have it worse? You guys don't answer that. Who do you think would have it worse? I think that Ken would hate it the most. But also, Mike would probably just take Ken to the bar and Ken would love that. It'd just be an excuse for Ken not to, like, ship orders. Talk about Ken's pooping. Oh, shit.

I forgot. How would you poop? Ryan from the back goes, it gets sadly. Mike would have it worse. Talk about Ken's pooping. That's actually true. Ken takes like four shits today. So Mike would literally spend like, and they're 20 minutes shit.

So you'd spend roughly an hour in the bathroom with them. Just moving your office into the bathroom. Gosh, for some reason I was imagining doing this at heydays. And I'm like handcuffed to a guy in a porta potty. Why? With the door close? Is when Ryan said. A guy?

Just a random guy? Ken. Well, normally the first one is like immediately after I finish a coffee. And that's the, okay, Ken? That's the way I don't want to be there for. And then it's like usually two hours after that and then I'm good for the day. Ken, did you ever think that maybe the coffee isn't good for you? Oh, 100% is because if I don't drink coffee, I'm fine.

Oh, and normal. Ken's out here spending 500 bucks on an espresso machine. It's like his ex-girlfriend that you just can't stop loving. Toxic relationship. And here's Ben buying shoes that he will never wear. This dude, Ken, you are a master at deflection. If you're going to, if you're going to poke at me for. You know how these YouTubers are out here doing like business classes

and selling all these different, uh, these like five hour, ten hour group sessions? It'd be like Ken being like, are you just sick of? Conversating? Well, you need to learn how to deflect, and you won't have to worry about that ever again. Do you want to leave your friends and family confused and disoriented? Take my course. Ken Matthews, Deflection 101.

All right. People sign. My coffee maker. Have you used it? Ken, I never once gave you a hard time about your coffee maker. Cheddar has. The only way, actually. Keep cheddar out of this now.

I have it actually all on video when you got your coffee maker. because they, like, thought it was such a big deal, and I didn't say shit. I remember thinking you bought it on the company card, and then I was like, what the fuck? And you're like, I bought it for myself. I'm like, oh, cool. And then I ended up really liking it. Yeah, and then here Ben is just still going after it. Ken, do you sometimes just go into the bathroom just to sit on your phone?

Yeah. Sometimes you just need a break. You don't want to be by people. Do you pull your pants down still? I mean, sometimes. That's a great question. Well, just in case, you know? Sometimes.

Wait, is it one of those like, I might have to go, but I also might not, but wait. I got to go pee. I'll just sit here for a couple minutes. I've been shipping orders for about 45 minutes. I'm due for a good 35 minute break. Well, like four hours. Yeah, is it weird to sit in there on your phone with your pants on or? I feel like it'd be super weird to sit on there with your pants on.

We walk in. And he's just like sitting on the counter. He's just chilling. He's like, why don't you get a recline and turn there? Hey, you know the Robin Big? Oh, shit. I've said too much. Keep going.

I just had a really good idea. I've said too much. All right, keep going. I think we're kind of done on that. I mean, do you have anything else to say about your pooping habits, Ken? You make it out to be this giant deal. Oh, they seem to be, I mean, maybe four. CJ, how about your pooping habits?

I have one a day, Ken. No, but you go, whenever you're in there. No, no, no, no, no, no, whenever you're in there, you're like, ugh. Yeah. Oh, that is similar to how it sounds. I'm not going to lie, I've never heard that. I don't know if it's that aggressive,

but I mean, if I had, like, if it was anchalada night the night before, obviously it's really coming through hard. I just think you always sound like you're pushing super deep, you sound like it's painful every time I hear you in there. I mean, sometimes it is. It just, it doesn't sound good. Ken, how are you so good at this? How closely are you listening to me?

You're taking a shit, Ken? I'm across the building sometimes. He hears it. So it's like hearing a deer in the woods perk up. It's like, I need to get closer. Somebody's on my throne. It's like the Rick and Morty episode where the guy finds out that, or Rick finds out that somebody's been pooping on his sacred toilet.

That is how it's going to be when Ken has his own toilet. If we get Alex in here, she can attest to it. It's loud. Just right back to it. Should we? All right. Well, that's probably enough, Ken. You're good.

Go back to be in Jamie. We'll call you in if we need you. I'm interested. I think Ken should stay. I like it. Okay, Ken. I want Ken to stay, but I don't want to talk about his pooping anymore. Yeah, I'm done.

Can we please move on? This is getting uncomfortable. Sorry, Ken. Something that doesn't involve shitting or. What do you want to talk about? I didn't make the notes. I wasn't involved in that. I'm coming in here blind, okay?

Ben, you had a poll on your Instagram this last weekend, and it had a hurricane that's for sale in the state over, a Lamborghini hurricane, and then your Corvette. They're both red, they're both sharp-looking cars, and you said, which one would you take? Yeah, I was just curious to see, like, what our audience would rather have. Because you look at your car as an investment,

so, like, you want to buy it. something that other people are interested in that they would have a fun time watching. Yeah, exactly. And yeah, I've been thinking, you know, one day, probably next spring. But I saw that one pop up. I was like, man, this would be kind of in my budget, not really, because it's so much fucking more. Double and then some.

But I was like, ah, I don't think they're getting any cheaper. And it might, I kind of like the red and everything. So I was just like curious, what would our audience think? Corbett, Huracon. And they happen to both look very similar. Yeah, and to my surprise, I honestly thought that people would just say, oh, it's like a Lamborghini, it's cool. They would vote for that.

But it was 50-50 split. 50-50 split after 24 hours. What did you guys vote for? I voted for the Corvette. Really? Just because I think it looked better. I think they, honestly, for how much more you're spending on a Hurricon, it doesn't look $120,000 better.

Performance isn't that much better. Nothing about it. Except for the badge. Except for the fact that it's a Lamborghini. Why? I don't know. It's cool. Fuck me.

You know. It's cool. It's just exclusivity, but it's like, I don't know. It's just something about having a Lamborghini. I think that doesn't make sense. Not really. Would it be cool, though? Yeah.

Yeah. I wish I could like. But the audience didn't agree. Well, 50% of them did, but I thought it would be more than that. Do you want to know my thought on it, though, Ben? Yeah. Can you say what you were going to say first? I wish I could like your Corvette,

but I don't. I don't fit in it. Oh, I thought you were going to say it, but I just don't. No, because when I sit in there, I have to sit like this because like the roll bar is like right over the seat and my head hits it. Legitimately too big for a Corvette. Ken couldn't buy Corvette if he wanted to. I want to see a convertible.

I wonder if that has one more head. Every time Ken, he's sitting in the Corvay's looking over the wind. He's got to wear the goggles. Like you put on your dog when you have them on the motorcycle with you. Can we do, we could stage some rollers like that. You sit on some phone books. Can you could just take the T-top off And then you'd be good

Then I'm like leaning forward still Oh really? All right Anyway anyway So my theory is that I think some people Took it as like You were just like asking

And they were like Oh like I like Ben He has a Corvette Like I'm gonna let him know Oh yeah yeah yeah So maybe that That might have had a role But also maybe not

Either way I think you should buy a Hurricom Because I mean Just kind of gives you a new goal I feel like the Corvette Is so much more relatable Just because the Lamborghini Is double the price

It's way out of anyone's, way further out of anyone's, like, budget or aspirations. That's more of, like, a dream car. I think the Corvette is badass, but, yeah, I think they're both dream cars. But, yeah, I know what you're saying. It is more attainable. And it's interesting that I would say, like, I don't know, five to eight years ago, Lamborghinis were finally getting on YouTube. People were vlogging, buying Lamborghinis.

And before that, you didn't get to see a whole lot of videos unless you're watching, like, compilations. But now you've seen so many Lamborghinians. Everybody has them. Yeah. And that is the, that's the tough part is, are you that special on YouTube? No, not at all. But like you said earlier, it's something to work for.

You know, it's a goal to have. And I think literally just having a goal, like you have to have goals. Yeah. You have to have goals. If you don't, you get too comfortable. You have nothing to strive for. And honestly, we've gotten pretty comfortable, you know. Yeah.

Not saying just me, all of you guys. Yeah, I agree. We just gotten too comfortable. I think it's time for new goals. Yeah, new goals. New goals for everyone. Talk about that a lot. Like, for the longest time, our goal was to just hit a million subscribers.

Million subscribers, millions of subscribers. It was like, for the longest time, we were trying to fucking beat the case. And then, you know. And then we got it. Like, the whole fucking split-up drama. Then it was, like, trying to be able to pay for the shop. And, like, before that, it was, like, trying to get a Maverick. You know, it was, like, always, like, little certain bars.

And that's like, we hit, you know, I think we'd kind of. to accomplish a lot of the shit we wanted or not shit but stuff we got to search for that next i think we need to like up it i think we need to like say like we need to hit two million subscribers by like this date and then it'll like keep us on the grind like okay here it is and like you know and then also like some personal goals some personal goals um for everyone individually that they want to accomplish on their own time get back to that grind we're hitting two videos a week Because once you get in that, like, swing of things, it's so easy, I feel like. It's not easy, but it just like, it just happens.

You build that momentum and that's the most powerful thing in life. It's tough to get it going, but once you have it going, it's easy to keep going. Exactly, exactly. And I feel like we've, I don't want to say we don't have, it's not that we don't have any momentum. I think we just need to up it and get back to the grind, which has been really hard lately, because I feel like there's so many things that need to get done. around here we're almost like short on time or hands kind of drowning in it a little bit like our biggest problem is time management i'm not saying that we handle our time the best but like like we need

employees we need like to hire like like some help just for certain tasks that yep so we were not spending our time doing things that really anyone else could do well that's that's the hard part being where we live yeah yeah but being that there's five of us right everyone's got their own role in the business whether it's you know merch uh shipping designing merch shipping out the videos or the podcast or getting things like that for videos fixing shit yeah editing the yeah but like at the end of the day if five of us could just sit down come up with videos and film videos and then the rest is just you know allocated to an employee to do it's like it would just go so much better dude it would just go so much better because then when it does come time to film a video

So, you know, Micah might be designing merch or doing something for that. Ken's got stuff to ship out. Like, there's so much happening. I feel like I'd free up so much headspace too. Yeah, that too. You'd be in a better mood. You'd be like, yeah. Well, we've been saying, we've been saying this for a long time.

A long time, but we just aren't doing anything about it, which is the last person any of us want to be. Like, none of us want to be cappers, like say something and then not do it. That's just one thing that we need to, like, literally just focus on. and just get done i mean we we took the next step for like finding a new designer and like someone to help out with video editing we got resumes but we never like most of those resumes i'm sorry to people that apply but they were like pretty shitty like they you got to have some experience this is definitely something to be said to about the how we're like anxious to take that first leap for sure right we've never hired anyone we've had people help us out but we we didn't hire them on as

employees and pay them money uh pay you know pay them obviously a salary or whatever um so yeah i think we're scared to take that leap and we haven't we haven't found anyone yet that was like that stood out to us that we were like let's do this but still i got like one or two editors that i want to like have come out and just like give them of a blank video and have them edit it and see how it comes out and see what happens you know where do you guys think that the bottleneck of our company is or the brand or efficiency like where's the bottleneck where are we getting hung up the most i think it's prioritizing people like oh i i think this is important but at the end of the day it's like i could use my time more effectively elsewhere i think we have pretty decent time management

honestly can i think our bottleneck is just like uh ideas and filming it and then editing it personally I think it's just the editing. I would be able to bring even more to the table if I didn't have to like spend a day editing or I would just be coming up with ideas and filming all the time and like just making shit happen. I don't know. Yeah, we say it a lot.

We're so busy working in the business. We don't necessarily have enough time to work on it. You expand. Expand and think, you know, more than just what are we filming tomorrow or next week? What are we doing? Everything this is like film edit. Two months, yeah.

The bottleneck of us is like us. getting together and moving as a whole. Like, you know, because we're always doing different tasks. And sometimes maybe we straight up just don't want to. But like other times we're always working on our own personal to-do list. So then getting together as one hole to film a video sometimes gets hard. Eventually allotting those jobs to other people, we would be moving together as one more often. You guys are literally watching us grow.

Like in real time. We definitely just did a little brainstorming, a little self-reflection. If you guys are listening to this or watching this right now And you're like I could actually bring real value to them And whether it's editing or dude If we had like an assistant or something like that But if you're like I could I truly believe I could bring real value to them And this is how and either figuring out how to do it

Get a hold of us somehow like some way whether it's email or DM or like send us video proof of like hey I edited this for you Yeah, like, I don't know. I feel like it's pretty easy if you actually think that you're worth it and you want to work for somebody, you just got to show them. Yeah, sometimes I feel like we don't have the same, like, connections or amenities at, like, our fingertips as other YouTubers because they're in, like, a big city that has many of other people that are in, like, technology or understand this type of business

or like can integrate this model in which is going to help you like if we ever want to do anything we have to do ourselves and that's our biggest problem and it's hard to like find those people over phone calls and DMs and stuff sometimes too like whereas in bigger cities you can like actually you have find the right you can meet people in person network and then you just are like oh this this guy this gal is nice they're hard working and you see it for sometimes when you get to meet them in person but like my point mike is like we can find anyone to come and help us but I'm saying you've got to find the right person. Exactly.

Which is hard to do. Exactly. Over DMs and shit too. Yeah. You got to be good if you want to work. The pool of people to pull from in our area is very small. That's the problem, realistically. It's like we're doing everything ourselves and we're doing a great job of it,

but we just can't expand anything. It's hard. It's hard. We can't expand past this. I think that everyone should say one thing, your goal, that they just want of them, but I want everyone after this to go home tonight. And, like, set some personal goals, set some goals for the channel, what you want in, I don't know, we could do a year. Let's do a year.

Yeah. Like, what you want to get done, what you want to accomplish. Just one thing. But let's say one thing today on the podcast that you want to, I don't know, just a goal for yourself personally. I'm going to buy a Lamborghini next spring. Okay. All right. That's a good one.

By the time I turn 23. okay one thing you want to get better at or accomplish or goal what can anything you know you kind of put the seed in my head i want a boat a boat yeah all right ken it's great uh does it doesn't it doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be yeah yeah because i've my goal is to like better continue to better my schedule and and and i guess also and i said but also like try our very best to hit two videos a week yeah because that that again when we get that momentum is like also just fun to watch unfold. Yeah, that feels so good too.

Yeah. I think my goal would be to become more time efficient so that way I can, it's kind of like two goals, but like more time efficient, so I have more time in my hands to research more in just like stocks, crypto, and like be more on top of things rather than just like hearing it when the news hits or like, you know, just being more connected with that. I'd like to like, I think that gets, it's like exciting for me. to like look at investments and stuff like that that you know can grow in a year's time just being able to do things more things i don't want to just know how to make money off of making

youtube videos and all the other things we do mine's kind of like a two-part thing one my monetary one is i'd really like to be able to buy a home like have somewhere we could have like at least the option for it and then uh two would like have a our lives be a smidge less hectic like almost we figured out constantly throughout our life but yeah like figure out something so we don't feel like we're constantly on our heels like playing catch up with everything help us all feel less stressed and less disorganized yeah organization seems to be a big thing here i think that's the biggest problem around here yeah damn all right i'm gonna come up with another one for the next podcast that isn't like material based because i kind of feel like a

I don't know. I like, it tied in. Yeah. It's cool, it's cool, but yeah. Hey, I think free time is the most valuable thing as long as you're doing what you want with your free time, you know. Yeah. So, all right. And more of that you have, I think the better off you are, the richer you are.

Free time? Yeah. Yeah. But free time to do whatever you want. Obviously, you need money in order to do whatever you want. That's true. Some people listening right now are like, hey, I have a lot of free time. Yeah, but they don't have money so they can't do anything.

No. I'm so glad that's over. I didn't mean that. I was so glad that, yeah, the end of the end. It's not over. It's not over. It didn't just end in, like, no, September.

Oh, is it? Yeah, I think it's, like, done just recently. Oh. Thank goodness. Yesterday, today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. I think.

Maybe it was last week. So, we're going to have some jobs again, or getting jobs filled. Because do you think people, because people aren't going to be collecting their unemployment check that they're going to want to go to work now? Well, they're going to have to, basically. Yeah, they're going to have to.

Maybe. Who knows? Or those freaky little bastardsers. We'll figure out a way. around it yeah there's always some way i'm sure it's a little random today we kind of just sat down and started talking honestly it almost feels weird not doing a podcast so we you know no i like doing it try and stay consistent do one a week yeah it uh yeah it's like anything you know like we're just saying if you're on a schedule it really hold it to it yeah so we're going to improve we're

going to keep getting better those you at home want you write down some goals that you want to accomplish in the next year and uh and figure out what you got to do in order to make them happen and um inspirational that was that's that's i honestly do that all the time and i have like notes in my thing vision board vision board i also used to write i also used to write like goals down on like sheets of paper i should honestly go like look at them because like it's just crazy like i remember like i wanted to make like you know like this much money a month and like then i'm doing significantly more than that or like you know just certain little things are like a million subscribers was really big or like averaging over 500,000 views, a YouTube video, and all those

things honestly are, they've happened now. So yeah, just do that and develop a plan. There's actually so much more to talk about that. We kind of just skim the surface on, on, you know, writing things down, looking at it every day. Manifestation. Yeah, but like vision boards and all these different things, which, I mean, all of us are kind of big into, but yeah, me and CJ especially have been doing that. And I feel like you've got to learn that at a young age. You know, and if we can... Or an old age, there's never too late.

It's not too late. Right, right. But the earlier, the better. And, yeah, we'll talk about it throughout the years of our podcasting. So, hey days this weekend. If you're in the area, come to that. We're giving away a pit bike. Doors open this Saturday.

It's in North Branch, Minnesota. We'll actually link it down below. If you guys are in the area, come on out. Come on. you'll get to see us in person. We'll talk to you as much as we can. I'm sure there's going to be a pretty long line, but we'll be signing stuff, taking pictures

for as long as people want to take a picture or talk to us for. We've got a pit bike we're giving away. That's right. So we are. Okay, we're giving up away a pit bike. I guess we're giving away a pit bike. We can always cut this out later. You know, Ron, you can just cut that out, right?

All right. Well, thanks, guys. All right. We're listening. Peace.