Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Ex Prison Guard Stops Prison Riot, Beef With CboysTV & Ostacruisers 20 Year YouTube Career!

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

In today's episode, we sit down with Ostacruiser to talk about his 20 years on YouTube and what it was like growing a channel before YouTube became what it is today. We get into his time working in a ...prison, including catching someone trying to escape and experiencing a prison riot firsthand. Then we talk about Ostacruiser's history with the Cboys and the beef that started over his jet ski road jump. We also got into making money on YouTube for the first time, dealing with hate online, his thoughts on Canada becoming the 51st state, and more. Enjoy! Check out Ostacruiser's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ostacruiser Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/WIDEOPEN and use code WIDEOPEN and get $150 if you win your first $5 lineup! Don't sleep on [@ultrapouches]. New customers get 15% Off with code WIDEOPEN at takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #ad 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, 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  

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I do want to give you your flowers on that jet ski jump. Our fans would still get fired up. Be like, Sea Boys already did this. I'm just glad we've progressed past our beef. Oh, that was the best, yeah. Our prison was built in 1911. We had the worst disturbance since it was built. It was a full-on riot.
Starting point is 00:00:17 That's what future inmates are. They're brought up in the worst conditions that you couldn't even believe. Yeah, the deck that some people are dealt is so tough. 100%. I remember whistling going off about how, like, I mean, he complains about a lot of stuff, but I remember him one time complaining about he was in Europe. And that's how I kind of figured out they didn't have AC because he was talking about how they didn't have AC, which honestly, that was a valid thing to complain about. Yeah. Is there a stat of like how many
Starting point is 00:00:47 people die in Europe without because of AC or Latin? It is. It's really high, isn't it? More than gun violence in the US, if you're wondering. We should start a mini split company over there and just start installing mini splits for them. That's a really, that's so easy. It's a really good. That is a really good. That is a real. That is a real. really good idea. I don't think anyone's thought of that. I'm just kidding. Wait, does Canada have AC?
Starting point is 00:01:08 You guys are some North shipped over in a shipping container. You guys have AC though? Yeah. Nice. I work in a prison for 19 years with no AC, and it's like when you're done your shift and you get home, you want. Really? Hold on.
Starting point is 00:01:21 Do you still work there in the prison? Well, actually, let's hold on. Yes. We have a special guest here, Dave, Osta. How do you pronounce you last name, Oster Pew? Oster Pew. Cool. Oster Poo.
Starting point is 00:01:30 Oster Coo. Better known legend. As Oster Cruiser. A legend in the YouTube space. I believe, what was it, 20 years on YouTube? Yes. Crazy. That's insane.
Starting point is 00:01:38 That's what I'm trying to do. That's a big old staff. Wait, so what? 2006? When did YouTube start? Like, just before that. What was your first video that you were? Our videos were like a couple buddies had trucks.
Starting point is 00:01:50 We had a land cruiser. That's where the cruiser came from. And we would just go out and try to make it through snow banks. And there was no editing. Yeah, using a little picture camera that you could put onto video. And it was squit. Where. Yes. Yeah, like 480. What like what did everyone think when you started uploading videos to YouTube? It was like anything, right? It just, it took a while to get the ball rolling. And at first, like, it took probably two years. So it started in 2006, 2007, I took the job at the prison. And we, we built the cabin two years before that. We moved up to the lake. We sold our house. I took a better paying job. And then I bought my first quad.
Starting point is 00:02:27 So then we wanted to change. Quad? Quad guy. Fellow quad guy. I was born in like that, like born that way. Move to the country, started YouTube, you know, uploading YouTube. Got a quad. A lot of stuff happening in a short time there.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Job at a prison that you just so happen to then work at for 19 years. I just put my paperwork in, you guys. Wow. I've been off on an unpaid leave for like the last three years, which has been really nice because you always have that safety net. If things aren't quite going well, you give your two weeks notice, boom, you go back to So for three years, I have not been getting a paycheck because YouTube's been doing doing low enough paying the bills. And we're just getting all these awesome opportunities.
Starting point is 00:03:08 And so my boss calls me and he's awesome. He's every year, every March, he'll call me, hey, come in and sign for the next year. Perfect. So it's not anywhere near March he calls me. But he's, hey, come see me. I'm like, oh, crap. Here we go. So anyways, he's like, yeah, you just need to make a decision.
Starting point is 00:03:24 Like, you either got to come back or you got to look at retirement. and just so happens right at this time, they had this, it's called ERI, early retirement initiative. They're trying to get people out of the public service because it's a,
Starting point is 00:03:36 it's a federal job. Yeah. So it was like, why they're trying to get people out? I don't know, just trying to shrink workforce. I don't know. Get some more people in.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Yeah, maybe, maybe something like that, maybe get more high paid people out to get more cheap people in. Because you're getting benefits for working for the country. Yeah. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:03:51 yeah. And those, actually, actually, it's really cool after retirement. Oh, if I pass away, they follow her.
Starting point is 00:03:57 like it's a really, really decent. The benefit. I started sleeping with one eye open. He's looking at you like a smooth. Taste funny. That is cool. So you, yeah, I mean, you're full-time YouTube now.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Yes, we have, we have been, but we've always had that safety net. And now it's like, I went in and officially signed paperwork. And then everyone works like, because, you know, people you haven't seen in. Yeah, you're back. You're like, holy shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:21 And then you go there and so many new people have started. It's just like, they don't even know you. Yeah. No. They mistake you for, like, a prisoner or something. Yeah, like, or like literally, you know, I walked ready.
Starting point is 00:04:31 You have to walk by two, um, secure control post to get inside. And usually it's people you know. So they're, hey, hey, Dave, how's it going? Boom, they let you through. I finally happened just like a week ago. I came in person at front security. No idea who I was. Didn't recognize him.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Didn't recognize me. Person at me in control that opens the doors. Same thing. They just let me straight through. I was like, what you in here? Yeah. Yeah. Just like, hey.
Starting point is 00:04:53 So what were you doing? I was CX1. So there's CX2, which is. you're kind of more, I didn't say hands on, but you have like a case load and you're more interacting with the inmates. They're trying to get them into programs. You're trying to do this.
Starting point is 00:05:06 You're always checking in on them. You work on a unit. So here it's called like a cell block there. It's called a range. Like a range is a block of cells. I was a CX1, which is more external posts like towers. We have like a, we call the Jeep. It's usually a minivan.
Starting point is 00:05:21 We drive around the perimeter all 24 hours a day, stop throw over, stuff like that. It's pretty, pretty awesome job. But I just like, like, being a CX1. We worked 12s and it was like a 7, 3, 7 4, so you work 7, get three off, work 7, or work, what the heck was? Pretty, pretty good structure for a YouTube. It has been a while. Like, yeah, kind of, you have some time. What was that working again? 4, 3, 4, 7, work 4, get 3 off, work 4, get 7 off.
Starting point is 00:05:46 So every 11 days, you had a week off, and then I always had, you have your sick leave, you have your vacation, and so I always blow through that stuff. And that's why it was good. If my bosses needed something, I was like, yep, no problem. because a lot of times I needed stuff. And so they're like, no problem. So there's always a choice. And then to work 24-7 YouTubers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:05 If anyone thinks that you're going to take some time off, like, yeah, it just doesn't work that way, as you guys know, right? Yeah. You've got to have some good stories. Oh, yeah. So any escapes? Well, I always said, attempted escape. There is, like, sort of.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Like, just before I started, there's a really good one where we have this thing called a Sally Port, where there's an interior, huge gate. exterior gate and that's where vehicles go in and out. They come in the one gate. They get locked in. They get searched. Then they can come in. It's usually to drop off bread or whatever for the kitchen or supplies or whatever.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Yes. Yes. Exactly. So on the way out, um, this bread truck, which, you know, everyone knew it's the same truck every day. The spare tire was missing, but the cradle was still there. So an inmate crawled into the cradle where the spare tire was and it's up enough where it's pretty hard to see.
Starting point is 00:06:53 Anyways, the guy working was been working that same post for like 20 some years. So you'd think you work a post for 20-some years, you'd be like, yeah, you're good, you know, but this dude every day, does his job every day. And he checks underneath the truck. Yes, comes around with his little mirror, spots him right away. It doesn't say nothing, super smart. Because there's a tower right there armed, like we're up in the tower with really nice five, five-sixes.
Starting point is 00:07:15 And so he gets the guards attention up in the tower. And, okay, we know you're under there, like step up, because you don't know, maybe the guy's got a shiv, like, who knows, right? You don't know how desperate the guy is. But no, yeah, they caught him and back in anywhere. That was the only time. The only time, like, I would always joke, and the best time with an inmate is when you get to go take them out, like, say, to the hospital or so you're always taking inmates to different things. And when they're away from the prison, they'll talk to you, you can talk, have a conversation.
Starting point is 00:07:43 And I always joked. Before I retire, I want someone to try to escape. I'm like, you could try it right now. I was always that guard that, you know, it's like trying to escape. I don't know. Yeah, I was looking for a YouTube video, tracking down the inmate that escaped out of my car. That would be a good video. That's a pretty good video.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Use the shirt for that shit. Mr. B stuff. Yeah, yeah. What would happen to a guy like that that was, that got caught under the bread truck? Does he get more time now? 100%, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Escape attempt and depending on, you know, they bring up all this path, depending on whatever. I mean, if you're trying to escape, though, you must have a lot of years. So it's like,
Starting point is 00:08:14 who cares? Yeah, it's different. And it could be something as dumb as you want to go see your girl. You know, it seems like it could be this big thing, but sometimes it's the silliest reasons. I got to get out for something.
Starting point is 00:08:24 And it seems you tell a person. You're not going to be able to get back in, brother. Like, what do you mean? You're going to come back right back in. No one's going to notice. A rational person would look at it and say, but sometimes it's not the, they're not in there because they're rational. You said so they could go see their girl.
Starting point is 00:08:38 Do they do that thing where, like, your girlfriend can come in and they have a bed set up? We have, yeah, we have four. There are two duplexes. So there's four rooms. Wow. So you must have to be really good to let that happen. Yeah, totally. How do you get?
Starting point is 00:08:51 Everything's based on behavior. Yeah. How many of those do you get? I don't even know if you can get more. than one a year. It seems like, oh. Yeah, no, it's not like, to be honest, that's more than I thought. Yeah. That's pretty good. And like CJ said, like, man, you got to, you have to have like, you know, good behavior. It's just so they, because you're sort of unsupervised. You get checked on several times throughout the day. So you get 24 hours or what? Yeah, I think, no, sometimes it's a
Starting point is 00:09:18 weekend. Like, it's, it's all different. I think you apply. This is what I want. And then they'll say, okay, you're approved for this. So I think it's different in, in a lot of cases. Sometimes it's a wife and kids. Sometimes it's girlfriend. Sometimes it's a brother. And they just hang out and play cards. And, you know, you're just someone else. I would have thought cleaning the toilets in prison was the worst job. Cleaning that room. Oh, it's for sure the worst job. Bro, terrible. It's an inmate that does it. And it's inmate that's happy to do it. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Just to do something else. You're just like, not even nicely. What do you mean? Like, it's the same guy that cleans up when there's a big fight and there's blood everywhere and
Starting point is 00:09:57 or when an inmate smears crap all over. Oh, there's people that like it. Gingamino. There's people that are in. Whoa. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:07 Really. What'd you say? Sorry. There's a guy that likes to clean up shit and come, I guess. Yes. What the fuck. That's crazy. Volunteer, like, just happy.
Starting point is 00:10:15 Something happens. He's just, yeah, he's ready. He's got to be pretty bored. You guys are happy to. Prison fights where it's just like a full out war happens, like in that.
Starting point is 00:10:24 that cell block where everyone's fighting you, that ever happened? How often does that happen? We had the worst disturbance. Our prison was built in 1911, maybe 2014. We had the worst disturbance since it was built. Half the prison got taken. It was a full on riot, like a full on riot. Like they were against you guys or against each other?
Starting point is 00:10:44 Thank God. No, they, they, it all started, it all started in the kitchen where their food. Like the kitchen staff, it's like they get a, a bonus if they spend less money. So they cut back portions. And we're like on the inmate side. If it says eight ounces of meat, that's what they need to get. And so they literally would start bringing scales down and wait. It's only six ounces.
Starting point is 00:11:04 You know, and this went on for weeks and weeks. Totally. But they're like, oh, no, you know, like they didn't care. And it's us that has to deal with it. And so anyways, that just went on for weeks and weeks. And they tried grievances. They tried that. We tried deal with government, right?
Starting point is 00:11:18 Everything just take, as you guys know, the whole, you know, everything takes so long. And so it just one day, I don't know. what it was and it just started as an argument and it just went from there. With who? Like an argument between, yeah, between, between guards and like basically lock up like stuff's going on. You know,
Starting point is 00:11:34 we don't like it like go lock up. No, we're not locking up and that's how it started. Just this kind of standoff. Like when you say lock up though. Into your cell. Okay, go go off the cell block because they owe it during the day they're free. They go to jobs, they're on range. They have all this free time.
Starting point is 00:11:48 I worked in the medium. The max is totally different. I worked in the medium and they had lots of free. time. So, you know, but if stuff was going on or you figured something's going on, you yell lock up. You got to lock up. But that's how it started. It's like, I don't know, it's all like they were like planning this because it went like from range to range also. Oh, these guys aren't locking up. Those guys aren't locking up. It's like, oh crap. Everyone just decided that they were going to unite 100%. 100%. And if they were smart, they would have did it when they were at their jobs. They could have
Starting point is 00:12:15 taken off that part of the prison. They could take, but they were all on their range when they did it. So all we did is backed out and locked the door and then plan from there. Well, now, everyone's going crazy. Like, I don't know how much I want to tell. There's some really, like, really bad stuff. But they got in a fight. Big fight. Why would they start fighting each other?
Starting point is 00:12:33 You have a beef with someone? This is the perfect time. Oh, this is not. They smash all the cameras. There's no one. The guards are pulled back. Oh, my God. It's terrifying being those guys in there.
Starting point is 00:12:43 Bro, like bad stuff happened. Right. Even if you could think, worse than that happened. Like, it was terrible. How many people died? A couple. And it wasn't for us. And we shot a lot.
Starting point is 00:12:52 Like, we have our ERT or. internal emergency response team. So those guys get extra training or whatever. And those are usually the first line of the fence. Something happens. Boom, we call me ERT. They meet with a warden. They sign a thing called a Smeyak, which basically gives you full cart blanche to shoot
Starting point is 00:13:08 whoever you have to. It's now a full blown riot. They read a riot act. Normally say the inmate escapes, you shoot them. You get charged with murder. Oh, whoa. You go to trial. They look at everything.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Nope, you're all in the good. He was at this fence. You did your job. Yes. Mey Act there's... But with this... Yes, once that's red, it's like... It's like whatever happens happens.
Starting point is 00:13:28 So anyways... Quite wild. Quite wild. So it got to that point. And that takes about, I don't know, half hour, 40 minutes. So in this time... Long, 45 minutes, I'm sure. One range is smashing apart their bed frames
Starting point is 00:13:39 trying to get through the floor to the... Range to try to just... Oh my God. What? Seriously. You're probably let those guys go. Dress. Bro, they're trying.
Starting point is 00:13:48 They were trying to get through the ceiling. Just to cause more chaos. To get them. To get them. To literally, like... like, I mean, and them. So who is in the, the bottom range trying to get at the
Starting point is 00:13:59 SAs? Like general population in me. It's like just people in there for whatever reason. The drug charges. Yes. Murder. Everything. Everything. Oh, they separate them. So just. Because they have to be because they're so. Yes. Targeted. Yes. Wow.
Starting point is 00:14:15 The only thing that's left in society is, is prison still for the most part, for the most part. Some prisons are like, you know. There's more of them than there is general population. So, Whoa. Anyways, yeah, so they're smashing through the floor to get up there to, like, we're going to, we're going to get these guys.
Starting point is 00:14:30 So then finally our guys come in and we, we use 12 gauge shotguns with number four bucks. So there's nine bs in each one. And we're trained to do bounce shots, not center mass shots, like escape your center mass, but. Yeah. Riot situation, we're trying to control stuff. You're trying to take some steam off.
Starting point is 00:14:45 And so they just start shooting. And the inmates are like, this is how crazy inmates are. They're, they're like, They're like, crazy sport. They're like, they're like, they're coming on to range
Starting point is 00:14:56 and the inmates are yell at this is Sparta. Like this is how. Whoa. They're just like, they're just in it. They're probably having fun, honestly.
Starting point is 00:15:02 And what did they have? What did they have for weapons? They just have like, like chunks of bed frame, like any shanks that they add hidden. Lots of wooden stuff because we have metal detectors everywhere. There's lots of plexiglass, lots of wood stuff,
Starting point is 00:15:13 but anything they could steal whatever from their workplace because there's wood shop. There's, so there's screwdrivers sometimes the gold missing. There's, they had a, you know, like a carpenter square, big long.
Starting point is 00:15:22 they got one of those, they cut it. They made a giant sword out of the one, what point to a tip. And we got a, like, a kite that's called, like a little note saying, hey, get this fucking thing off range before someone dies because there's this giant sword. So they told us what light to look on.
Starting point is 00:15:36 You go down there, oh, shh, take it, take it off range. Like, hidden in, then somebody was like, this is going to be bad. 100%. They're like, we need this out of here. So they, and they hide it in the common area, because when you find it, you can't charge anyone because it's not in their cell, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Whoa. Yeah. So anyway, so they come in and they start shooting and the inmates are like, it's just rubber bullets. Like, don't, don't worry. And for the most part, I'd say three quarters of them locked up. They're like, okay. Yeah. This is here.
Starting point is 00:16:04 Yeah. We're coming out. We're locking up. But, but, you know, was there like an announcement over the loudspeaker that says like, we're in riot mode now? And then I think they, I think they announce it too just before they go on. And so anyways, they start shooting. It's like, yeah, it's Robert Bullets.
Starting point is 00:16:18 It's the first guy gets shot. It's like, it's not like goes down. It's not a Robert Bullets. So then most of the other inmates locked up. Like, okay, it's crazy. So then they just start going down range and just throwing inmates in whatever open cell, lock, next, push, lock. They get to the back and the inmates made this giant of all bed frames and they barricaded
Starting point is 00:16:38 themselves. There's maybe five or six left at the very back of the range. Like, we're not, you know, until the finally got there and then pepper sprayed the crap out of them and finally got them locked up and then onto the next range, onto the next range. I think it went way quicker after that, after they shot a few times on that. Yeah. Their numbers are diminishing.
Starting point is 00:16:55 I'm sure they started hearing that, yeah. Yeah. But like, like you said, can you imagine be in another range and you just know that like 60 guys are trying to get through the, like,
Starting point is 00:17:05 oh, shit. Man, they had to be in trouble. Yeah. After that. Yeah. Oh,
Starting point is 00:17:10 conjugal visits after that. How do people get charged after something like that? Like, are they just like, you're the ring leader? When it's, you know, when it's that many people.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Some in meets, some of me, died and they could not prove who it was because the cameras are smashed. Yeah. No one's going to give testimony. I seen. Right. No one's in an arc.
Starting point is 00:17:28 They probably knew who the players were and those guys get shipped out. They like, they broke apart every. Yeah. Separate them. And for like two years of the rebuild process, we had half the population. So for us, it was very easy because you have half the inmates to deal with because half the prison was destroyed. Like they, they tried starting fires.
Starting point is 00:17:46 They tried, they tried everything to wreck it. They smashed all the windows out and it just, it just, it just, they just, they just went crazy and like way worse stuff happened let me talk about after this but it was like holy shit it was like yeah it was nuts so anyways wow i was not even at work i came in on midnight's the night after come in after all the and you just look it down range it is just like a wasteland yeah yeah like wondering how they could even pull this off in a matter of a couple hours and you think how does that happen because all the years you're there you get a couple guys that are just real problem people you deal with them for the most part people they want to do
Starting point is 00:18:20 time they want to get out and they want to go in with life. So you never have something to happen. I was like, how did it happen? There's a small group had like really good shanks. We're riding. Other inmates are like, I'm not riding. No, like first guy. Stabbed.
Starting point is 00:18:34 Just stab. Like everyone else. I guess we're right. Yeah. Yeah. Like blackmailed them into riding. Yeah. So that was where the 75% that ran back to their cell.
Starting point is 00:18:45 But that was 75% was once the ERT got there. It was like, it was like 80% commitment. at first. Some people did get in and and I think there was a guard lock in some cell. So if you got in and you got locked, because once you're in, your cell still open, someone could just come and open the handle until we lock at the panel at the front. So if they got in their cell and that guard actually locked it, they're safe. They're in their little thing. People could
Starting point is 00:19:08 try to get at you, but it's pretty tough, right? Yeah. So yeah, it was crazy. That was like that was in about 2014. And like I said, we went through two, three years of rebuilding and craziness and then we started getting everything back. And, It was a good job. It's like 90% of the time. It's a great job. Just the 10% some stuff can go really off the wall.
Starting point is 00:19:26 And I was lucky my career was pretty good. I would go to work and do my job and come home. I lived far enough away at 45 minute drive home. And on that 45 minutes, you had a little bit of time to decompress. For sure. I never, never really brought my job home where some people, it affects everyone differently, right? Some people just can't leave work at work and it really affects their life. Hop to, you know?
Starting point is 00:19:47 Yeah. Yeah. Like anyone in that? You see the worst of the worst. job going to see a lot of bad stuff. And you're just like, is this real right now? Yeah, it feels weird. Then you're like, it's like a whole other world in there, I'd imagine.
Starting point is 00:19:59 Yes. So does that make, does you, I mean, because you talk to the inmates, you get to know them. Does it make you your outlook on people, just general people any different? Like, are you trusting of people? Are you? It does change you a lot. What it did for me is maybe I'm just a little bit more of a compassionate person, but what it does for me is, what it does for me is because we have a really strong following of young native kids that have
Starting point is 00:20:25 the worst childhood ever. And that's what future inmates are. They're brought up in the worst conditions that you couldn't even believe. So if anyone ever makes, gets a job and makes them their life, that should be so celebrated because people don't realize what are these people like, if you grew up like they did, you wouldn't even make it one. And then you know what I mean? So, so when I talk to these guys, I'm like, man, I like, you know, I can see, you just, you can see the full circle and, and how long it would take to break that cycle. You know what I mean? Like, you'd have to start today and it would take two generations to break out of that.
Starting point is 00:21:01 It's just, it's crazy. Yeah, the deck that some people are dealt is so tough. You know? 100%. Yeah. So you see, yeah, you see a little bit behind the scenes and, and, and for the most part, like, you know, like 75, 80% inmates are fine to deal with. There's always going to be like the, you know, dickheads that are just. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:17 their dickheads pieces of shit so but yeah no it was it was a good job and and you had a lot of really great friends like that's all i miss is the people you know when i go back there but even you run into them all the time here and there and they're just like it's it's changed it's like there's no point in coming back like so and so and so and so retired oh yeah all your guys yeah so like you'll come back and and and 70% of the people aren't even there anymore so it's like oh so then that starts playing into the whole thing too like i guess before we get off this topic do you ever run into any people who've gotten out that are still around town. Yeah, like, like, not so much anymore.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Like, even being gone three years, it's like, three years is like almost a lifetime for some stuff. But yeah, lots of times you'd be like in like a grocery store and they always call you boss, hey boss. And you get that sometimes. Hey boss. And you look. Hey.
Starting point is 00:22:04 And you just say, hey. You were. Lots of time they're just saying hey. But you were good. I was going to say you're the nicest. One of the nicest guys I don't fight you. But obviously they're not trying to go back either. They're like, I'm not going to fight this guy that I saw.
Starting point is 00:22:16 Yeah. Who is a prison guard. It was got to be a concern, I'd imagine for some of the guys. 100%. Yeah. You got, you got, you know, you create some enemies. 100%. You get, you get like, you know, death threats like, I'm going to kill it.
Starting point is 00:22:30 You know, like, and there's very few where I was like worried where for us, it's like one guard to like 30 inmates sort of popular for movement. When you call work in the morning, like 60 guys walk by you. So in the medium of something goes bad, it can go bad really fast. The max, you have way more dickheads. to deal with, but it's like four guards to one inmate. Yeah. Oh, wow. One at a time, Pat down. Like, you know, so, but they've done over time, you know, they jammed Kleenex in so that a door wouldn't allow, like, over time, they've, you know, there's been some situations there too, nothing as crazy as the riot, but there's been some
Starting point is 00:23:02 situations where they've almost took control of the dome and just because they've planned it out and, you know, and you get a little bit complacie, you don't wait for that door to lock, show green before you open this door, little, little things like that. And the inmates know, they, they, they, they, they Keep track of everything, man. They don't got anything else. Yeah, they don't got anything else to do. 100%. Yeah, they're so bored that, you know, and some inmates, there's just whatever, sleep 23 hours a day,
Starting point is 00:23:24 but others are just, they can't shut their brain off, so they're always like scheming, right? That'd be me. How was your sentence, Mike? I slept the whole time. Yeah. Do you think a lot of people like that go to jail and it completely changes them? Or do most people put in their time, get back out on the streets, and then resort back to old ways pretty quick? For our stuff, the recidivism it's called is it's so extremely high because the crowd you're hanging out with that got you put in there, they get out and they go with that same crowd.
Starting point is 00:23:54 It's like just a matter of time. It's like, but then again, you see people that are, say, a drunk driver kill someone, you know, just a dude that hangs drywall Monday to Friday got drunk poop, kill someone. He goes in there, pretty normal dude. They try to, they try to get those guys into the minimum, which is outside the wall and it's a lot less and a lot less crap to deal with because they stay in the medium. man, you just fall into this crazy world and it totally changes you. Like you just, you think you know what it's going to be like and it just is whatever you see in the movie times 10. Like it's just, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:24:25 And that's, and that's your life now. So hard to go through that and not and not be all into it. Yeah. But it was a good job. Like you work at nights and it was a good job. Yeah, what a days. It was crazy. But then you have, whatever, you have stories.
Starting point is 00:24:38 I was lucky, you know, you get in fights here and there. It's usually inmates fighting and you're breaking it up. I was never not too much directed us like yeah you'd be you just be smart right like sometimes you're walking inmate you know other inmates want to get them so you just stay back a bit because he's going to get shit and piss bombed and you don't want that on you so little little things you pick up on after the years you know like I'm not going to be right behind this guy because they really hate this guy and stuff like that so what's a guy like that doing to piss people off in in jail and it's usually like why would you create enemies like usually debts it's you
Starting point is 00:25:10 you get drawn into playing cards you get drawn into this because you're so And you run up a big debt and you can't pay it. You don't, what do you do, right? You can't pay it. And then, yeah, so then you're just, you got a mark on you. And so then those guys check in to our segregation, which they don't have segregation anymore. Our liberal government for the last 11 years, man, it's a way different job than when I started. Like, you know, for better or for worse?
Starting point is 00:25:30 Way worse. Really? A million times worse. They took all our power away and it's like, you know, something happens. You used to be able to put them in segregation and this is like something happens. They're like, yeah, just go back on range. Oh, yeah. No shit's going to happen again.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's probably a good time to get out. One good thing about your guys' government is they let you drive through the cat tails, man. Yeah. They don't let us do that down here. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:25:52 Minnesota's terrible. They have some money from here that. But got like full charge. Like when they go across the border, they question one of these charges that was like 15 years ago. Being on a snowmobile trail before a certain date, you know, even though the snow's gone. Yeah. But it's still a snowmail trail. It's not a designated ATV trail until a certain date.
Starting point is 00:26:09 What did they get charged with? All sorts of whatever. Like being on the run. Like, I don't know the exact. Like, the wrong season. Yeah, like, just basically crimes against nature. Like, crazy stuff.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Crimes against nature. That sounds really bad. Crimes against nature. That does that. Holy fuck. What did you do? That guy is, stay away from him. Crimes against nature?
Starting point is 00:26:34 So how do you ever? Hold on a one second. Have you ever seen the video? The guy who's jumping, he's a rope swinging off the cliff. And the park rangers come up and try to stop him. And he goes, you jump off this, you're going to jail. And he does like some huge gainer, big flip, gets pulled up and they have a video of
Starting point is 00:26:50 them and they go, what, what am I being charged with? And the girl behind him goes, dangerous games. Yep. Dangerous games. What the fuck is dangerous games. What a legendary reason to go to jail. But sorry, Mike, I cut you off. Well, I was just going to say, like speaking of cat tails, so you ride the skeg, it's called.
Starting point is 00:27:09 Yeah. And can you elaborate on that? And what is the skeg? and how, what is the limits to it? Where is it? We ride like 99% of the time are marked trails. It just happens. There's a lot of muskig area.
Starting point is 00:27:23 It's a lot of like, like just barren. Like no one else goes there. And you can ride through musk. Yeah, on the, you try to stay on trail, right? You're not trying to go and, you know, create problems for yourself, right? There's so much fun stuff to do that's on a trail that there's no point in going off
Starting point is 00:27:40 trail, like to create, great issue, especially if you're doing a video, right? Yeah, there's, because they'll find you. Exactly, right? So, so Muskeg, there's, there's a couple different kinds. Like, there's the, like, floating mat where there's like, like, literally floating. Yeah, like, if you cut through, you're done. Like, that's why we all like to try to run big power, because you've got to try to skim it. There's just, you can sort of, like, pick your way across, going slow, but what's the fun in that, right? You're trying to just smash
Starting point is 00:28:05 across. And then there's more like, you know, like Pete, like Pete Moss, like you get for potting, so it's that, but with water. So that's the stuff you throw. I didn't know that. So yeah, because you're saying, yeah, there, it's cool. You can kind of see it go up and down, but there's one where you, you can stop because if you were to sink, you would just go like, let's say five feet down. But there's other ones where if you made it through that top floating layer, it would just be. You're just done.
Starting point is 00:28:31 No matter what. Like, yeah. And a lot of times when you're in an area like that, there's no trees. No trees grow there. So like hook up on. If you screw yourself, now your buddy's got to come out to try to get you at. So that's the whole domino. But I was all sort of pre-shirp.
Starting point is 00:28:43 But that seems we got the Sherp, everything's so much easier now. Like I was just saying, we used to have like you'd get back at midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m. Because buddy broke. Well, now two guys are towing him. Well, then this, it's this domino effect. Always, always these issues. They were the best, best rides. Like, people will never forget those rides.
Starting point is 00:29:00 But since the Sherp came, no matter what happens, you hop in the Sharp and your broken junk gets drugged out. And, yeah, you're good to go. So you're laughing about E Dave right now, aren't you? Yeah, I'm just thinking about E. Dave. Nobody's a bigger quad guy than Uncle Dave here. A legend.
Starting point is 00:29:17 I will go as far as far as say is the final boss of quads. The final boss of quads, Dave. He was with us when Kyle Cullen came out and Miller and Kyle's brother. And you guys were swamping
Starting point is 00:29:31 on our new land and kind of discovered that our pond just so happened to be the perfect little mudding hole. And you had your electric. He Dave was in his zone. He had his electric,
Starting point is 00:29:42 can't am, and boy, it's exactly what you think. You can just drive it underwater. And you just were underwater like the whole time and you're like, hey. Yeah. Dave, have you always been a quad guy or did you have you ever messed around with bikes? Not like dirt bikes. I got ridden them. I used to
Starting point is 00:29:58 have a couple different like sport bikes when I was younger or whatever and it's like it's like having a horse. It's not when you're going to crash and hurt yourself as always or not if it's when. If it's when. Yeah. Oh, you believe that about horses because I do too. Ben hasn't fuck with horses. Horse people are like,
Starting point is 00:30:12 are you getting me? You just don't know how to handle that. I'm like, no, they just decide when they are sick of you. I think I might, and then you, I think I might give that,
Starting point is 00:30:21 that explanation to Shred 80 so he can use it because he, it would be accurate for him too. I don't know, you can get bit pretty, pretty quick on a four wheeler. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:30:31 like, and it's bad when it does. So it's like, you're almost always in that muskeg, and I've flown off so many times and you just land, like it's like, Like shred 80s.
Starting point is 00:30:40 When he piles in, pop up to club of him coming on. Exactly. Like just somersault right into it. It's kind of like snow, but dirtier. You'd think that front wheel would skim like for a little. It's like it dug in instantly. And he just, he did the classic. Well, I mean, that's the issue with having one, one wheel in the front.
Starting point is 00:30:59 You know, it's you just set up for failure across all fronts. You've never really just been set up to win. There's a reason they're not around anymore. Yeah, yeah. But they're so fun, right? They are. They are. They are fun.
Starting point is 00:31:12 That's where they do. They are always fun. We're a little concerned about Gav's riding abilities, though. Like, he's almost gone so far to the point of crashes where that's almost all he expects now. Yeah. It's kind of like evil-connevling himself. Yeah. Like, where he doesn't know, like, almost what to do with himself if it's not crashing.
Starting point is 00:31:35 If he's not crashing. Yeah. Like, you know, let's say we're on a solo bill of trip. Like, you guys, yeah, yeah, we filmed a couple. good jumps. Maybe they're not even us. The pro riders. Yeah, we got some good hits. Gab's like, yeah, I had like one good crash, so it'll be a good look
Starting point is 00:31:47 video. Totally. Like, and it doesn't matter where. Like, he went to Snowden with, with Dave there. Do you stuffed his 250 on tracks and you already out of the parking lot? I do love it though. Like, when I crashed the e-bike the
Starting point is 00:32:03 other day, a lot of people were like, you need Gavin to teach you how to crash, brother. You got the crash down, but you didn't quite have the tuck and roll. Didn't roll away and stand up. It was just a solid. It was like a sack of potatoes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:16 I did see that. Yeah, it looked like it hurt. It was a quick stop. Are you good on that, Mike? I guess I haven't even asked. Yeah, Ryan asked me if I was good, and then I thought about it, and I am good. Oh, that's good.
Starting point is 00:32:28 That's a good point, too. That part of it, I did feel like Shred 80. Like, I kind of bounced, got the wind knocked out of me, and then I was like, I'm okay. Yeah. There's not the best feeling when you have, like, a pretty gnarly, and you just get up, and you're like, man, man, totally lucked out.
Starting point is 00:32:41 I love helmets. Bounce a little harder than I wanted. Have you gotten, I mean, 20 years, 20 years of YouTube. Yep. Have you gotten bit? Not terrible. Like, you know,
Starting point is 00:32:51 small stuff where it's like a week or two and you're good, but never, I've never broken a bowl. I've never, I just cut my pinky off like a couple months ago with a chainsaw. I was sort of unrelated.
Starting point is 00:33:02 That was non- YouTube related. I can't bend it. Oh, shit. Jeez. I'm working on it. It's just for handlebars now. It's good enough for a handlebar. bar, which is good enough.
Starting point is 00:33:11 But it'll get cold in the winter. Oh, I bet. There's no, yeah, there's, I cut that nurse. There's no feeling on this one side. So you're doing something else. You look and you have a big blood blister. Like, how? Because you just, yeah, you aren't realizing it.
Starting point is 00:33:22 That is the nice part about four wheelers, though. I mean, probably side by sides, too, is with age comes a cage. Yeah, yeah. And you can kind of, you are more protected, I guess, unless you can. Totally. It didn't work out well for them. He's got to have reinforced cages. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:36 And if you're really tall, a tall enough cage. Like a little. Like a little bubble on the roof. Yeah. Just nothing that's lowered. Yes. That's all the matter for me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Like a chop cage. Exactly. Which sometimes tend to be the stronger ones, but I feel yeah. You, you, there's just no room in there. Yeah. You ever, you're still, I'd like, good or you have any after effects from that? I haven't having some more issues the last, like, year, I think. It's just like stiff and yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:01 He's an ex and pretty sore. He got rear-ended pretty heavy by Evan yesterday. Yeah. That didn't help. He was in a mini cooper. and Evan and was in a fucking Durango. And Edgge's not a good matchup. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:34:14 And Ken is just, grabbing his neck. He's grabbing his neck in the mini-Coopers. He's off the bag of the burm like this. Oh, my God. You guys have like local fair activities like that, like Combine Demolition Derby's, figure eight racing.
Starting point is 00:34:30 Combine demolition derby is insane. I know. I know I really want a guy. There is one. Where did you find all these new ones? That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Also, what.
Starting point is 00:34:39 And oftentimes in a combine, you're the most forward, the cockpit. That's why I don't get. I think they're very unprotected in a combine. It's just like a square glass. Yeah. Yeah. And you can't even like, obviously, you could do the reverse. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:51 But like what have you just reversed into someone's front? You can't see. It's not like it's dangerous version of a definition derby. And they're constantly like reverse wheeling. Yeah. Because all the weights up front. Gosh, that's funny you say that. I don't, I don't think I've ever seen this.
Starting point is 00:35:04 I never seen a combine. I don't, I don't think I've ever seen a combine. You could pull it up. Right. I got you. Ryan pulls it up so we have like our neighbor 10, 15 miles down the road. He's got a combine for sale. He goes, you guys
Starting point is 00:35:15 should buy it. I said, you know how it goes? If we can think of something funny to do with it or good, we'll buy it. And then he goes, yeah, you can reverse wheelie it, like super easy if you buy the header too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you need to wait in front of you. How much? It's 5Gs for the combine and then I think another three for the header. Wow.
Starting point is 00:35:33 I mean, these ones are really, oh shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Just that right there. Okay. That could be bad. These ones have like a makeshift header on it. Yeah, something just take a bit of abuse. They almost look like they really. But let's go to these ones are a little newer.
Starting point is 00:35:48 Like, look at that rig. No, what? What? That thing isn't really going to quit either. They take abuse for so long. They got torque. I'd imagine the people that win probably just like debed. A tire, yeah, that's a good point.
Starting point is 00:36:03 Finally, the engine blows up from getting cooked to them. Dude, they are smashing each other. You know what? We just did yesterday, Dave, was we went to like an oval track, our friend Jake's. Yeah, yeah. And then we did like the, uh, the trailer load up challenge. Oh, yeah. So four people were driving, chasing Ryan and the TRX with a trailer, trying to load up on the trailer as Ryan drove around the oval track. Awesome. And when you get on? Yeah. Yeah. Yes, nice. Evan Damner jumped into the back of Ryan's TRX. We spent so long, you know, the wrench is spent so long reinforcing the gate, the ramp.
Starting point is 00:36:39 to drive up. The trailer broke in half in the front. Snap in half. You can't really buy a trailer for cheap. The trailer was actually more expensive than two of the cars. Oh, wow, yeah, yeah. $600. $600. As a good cheap, yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:52 No, and then it just snapped right at the tongue. So it's probably a good thing. We... It's crazy. We took care of it. I can't believe that... There's nothing good that's like, oh, that's a great deal. The fact that the TRX didn't snap now that I think about it? Because I was asking...
Starting point is 00:37:06 T.R.X is more bent. For sure. Is it? The bend angle and already bent? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. You know, it's like a, it's like a, like a metal spoon when you it just gets easier to bend every time. But you can always put it back straight, but it's just it takes less and less every time. It has taken some abuse. It has, but that vehicle is. Just just doesn't just the content from his binge. Did you see the clip of us wheeling it? Yes. With the water on the back. Yes. Just the first one just like, oh, we need more weight. That's really what did it in.
Starting point is 00:37:40 That freaking. Oh, so much force on. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, that was kind of my idea, too, I felt like. And I was like, we got to make this tierx wheelie. And then I just watched it bend the entire frame and half and total out of $60,000 truck. I went, ooh, maybe not a good idea. I think that was pretty awesome.
Starting point is 00:37:58 The first wheelie, when it was just power wheeling, like 60 miles an hour was, okay. It was good. Evans, Evans, driving it? Like steering the wheel, you can barely see over this. Exactly. But still just stays in it. I know. That's one thing he's good at.
Starting point is 00:38:13 Yes. He is so good at just committing to staying in it. Yeah. Yeah. Most people check up a bit more. Yeah. When it comes to doing it, like a car stunt, he's like there's no point in half ass in this. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:28 True. Honestly, it's like a superpower. Yes. It is. Yeah. Yeah. I won't spoil it. But we just, there's a car jump coming up.
Starting point is 00:38:35 that he's just like, yeah, yeah, I'll do it. I'd be happy to do it, actually. I love that. So how have you seen, like, being a YouTuber change over the last 20 years? We have a lot of YouTuber friends, and we're OGs. And we've been doing it for 10 years. Because you've seen, you've always done your own thing, but you've seen that that daily vlog trend,
Starting point is 00:39:00 you've seen the videos be eight minutes, you've seen them be an hour and a change. We've been making videos back before you were, even making money. You would have been hosting YouTube videos strictly for the love of it. That's true. And that's how I started. You would just take videos and upload them so your friends
Starting point is 00:39:15 could see it. You want to share it. Yeah, exactly. 100%. And then it took maybe when I moved to the lake and then bought an ATV and then a few guys around, because no one went out in trucks when we moved up to league. Everyone had quads. So I bought a quad or whatever. We started going out and that's really when stuff started to gain traction. And I'm telling
Starting point is 00:39:34 you back then, there was like four good ATV videos on YouTube 4. Mark Freeman. 1, 2, 3, 4. Yeah, like Mark, Mark was super OG. Yeah, we grew up watching Mark Freeman. Yeah, yeah. Boys, do you ever go back and watch your guys this collab with him? How awesome that is. You guys are just in your startings and you, yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Do we do an outro or like it? Yeah. We were just talking about it the other day, actually. That's awesome. Yeah. Like, just the you know, the progression of everything. It's crazy how things, yeah. I'm just glad we've progressed past our beef. You're maybe the first person we ever had beef with. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:05 The whole show, I was like, wait. Oh, that was the best, yeah. Maybe, maybe it was just our fan, our car, our commenters against the originality of what we had done. I'm sure we saw your video of the jet ski jump. Yeah. And then Jake thought it was a good idea. But you made it looks a damn easy. Man, it's, it just for the amount of time we put it, like, we were there for like 15 minutes.
Starting point is 00:40:30 Yeah. Just laying some puckboard on the bank, shoveled a little bit. That's how it's like, too. That's it. Well, yeah. beautiful thing. I think if I remember correctly, I just remember you commenting on the video, at least I landed it. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And then people probably, oh, yeah. I was going to say, I don't think Jake or us tried to steal the idea from or copy you or anything. I think Jake
Starting point is 00:40:55 just generally has just drove past roads like that and's like, man, it'd be sweet to have a jessky, just like you probably did. 100%. As on my drive to work. Did it? Really? I bet I could clear this. Because, like, I remember once we started the comps, like, what? Someone's done that already? Like, I thought we did something new, you know? And then it was like, it's hard to be original. Oh, like somebody's done something. Can you imagine starting now?
Starting point is 00:41:18 It'd be way harder. Think of. There's a million people doing it already. Also, the barrier to entry is just so much higher. I mean, you need better equipment, but also you need, uh, the quality of production. Bro, when I started, there was no editing. Yeah, it would take clips and upload them. Like, that was for two years.
Starting point is 00:41:35 I mean, I remember like 10 years ago when we started, you could probably get three million views taking a Lamborghini and doing some donuts in the snow. We didn't have Lamborghinis or anything like that. But I just remember those were like big videos at the time. So it's like with a video doing that. Like just think how easy that would be. If you did that today, no one would care. That's like the lamest thing. You got to like go jump your. You got to go jump your Lamborghini like 100 feet. And that's what one thing I found over the years is trying to create good content without painting yourself in a corner where you're constantly, one-uping yourself and that's where I see people like you guys are really great at just coming up with ideas that other people haven't done and it's awesome but there's always a chance of people getting hurt but it's the risk versus reward is in check where you get someone say say like whistling how many times can you burn down a you know what I mean like he's kind of he starts to paint yourself in a corner set the bar pretty high for himself like burning down to Ferrari or 100% where do you like where do you go from there without people say oh you're falling off well bro there's there's only There's a ceiling to everything, right?
Starting point is 00:42:36 That's true. And it's a conversation. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. That we've had many times, and CJ said it from the start, like, you just can't go off and set your bar too high. You can't go out and just, like, get yourself locked in a corner. Ben will say, you can spend more money, you can get more creative, or you can get more risky. And that stays true. Yes.
Starting point is 00:42:57 I think the one thing I was going to say, like, the thing we try to do is, like, obviously you have your activity, but it's like we bring this personality. into it and this group dynamic and we have i truly believe like the best most diverse group of friends 100% like you got just so many different characters yeah and i think that's truly what makes see boys tv our channel the thing that's agreed from an outsider looking yeah it's not like we're the best rider or driver or whatever like and i mean the people we do have on are very very very very good and sometimes we have the best in the world nowadays but yeah especially from the start it was always just more so about relatability and just having fun. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Being positive. Exactly. Who doesn't want to watch people having a good time? Yeah. You're watching the video, you're having a good time. That's kind of the thing. It comes down to the bottom. As long as you're doing something, you're having fun,
Starting point is 00:43:49 you're always going to have an audience you necessarily don't have to be, I might die if I do this. Yeah. And some of those are actually my favorite. Not where, again, not a blatant copy, but this Miata skate park, it's been done before. But those are my favorite when we go. and do it and people watch us love doing it. They love seeing us doing it. They love seeing us
Starting point is 00:44:11 love doing it. Yes. And then all the stuff that happens, right? Boom, something happens. Pun, the one. Yeah. The one ramp so far. So good, right? Go back. You know, make some changes. Come back. Like, it's good. Sometimes it doesn't really need to go like perfectly right for it to be good. Like it's like, as long as no one gets hurt, it's just like, oh, dude, that was hilarious. Like, you know, like you couldn't have going to wrote that. And that's what I did for years. And my wife will attest to this. Like we'll be, say, on some mountain top,
Starting point is 00:44:42 we're on some big, you know, mission and on track machines and something goes wrong. And all I'm thinking about is dealing with this, getting a fix and getting off this mountain. And she'll be like, should we film this? I'm like, no. Like, I just want. And then after you're like, why didn't we film that? That's what happens. That was where the good stuff actually was.
Starting point is 00:44:59 In your head, all you're thinking is like, you know, I don't want any. want to get worried. I don't want anyone to have a good, a bad time. So let's just get this fixed. You know what I mean? Like it's just like everything's content and film it, whether you use it or not. You don't have to use it. But if you don't film it, then you're kind of, I agree. Is she your full time filmer? Yeah, she's, yeah, way more than that. She's, she gave everything on track, man. Full time. Everything. Yeah, totally. And especially like when I had my job, you know, we do it on the side. When you had time, you'd do it. And I think that's where over our 20 years, our channel has always been like this. because when you have time, you make videos, when you don't have time, you don't make videos.
Starting point is 00:45:36 And so it was really hard for us to hold our really core. We have our small core audience that's been like been there for a long time. But it's tough if you're not on a really good schedule. Like you guys know, and what Kyle is really finding out is when you're on a really good schedule, people are like Thursday. Like you guys know, if you're an hour late posting like you're hearing about it. So yeah. Yeah. You get people like anticipating that.
Starting point is 00:45:58 And so our whole career was always, you know, job first. kids, you know, so much other stuff took precedence. So, and then you just do it when you did it. And we're just lucky that we're still sort of relevant after doing it for 20 years. Like, it's hard to think of another channel that's been going that long. That's still. I honestly, I don't know anyone who's been, I mean, there is obviously some, but you're in a very, very small group, which is super respectable.
Starting point is 00:46:25 And, I mean, we're at year 10, but I've always, whenever people always ask, I always say I want to do two decades on YouTube. So, like, we got another 10 years left in us. But I'd say, like, when we really started catching our striders, when we came into it with more of, like, a structured approach and had more of, like, a strategy. You know, and just there's so many different elements, which we don't need to go into on here. But at the same time, with that structured approach, keeping the chaos and, like, enough freedom to, like, let things happen. Whenever people ask, I always say it's organized chaos.
Starting point is 00:47:00 Yeah. that's just 100% yeah uh i mean before we get too far away from it i do want to give you your flowers on that jet ski jump yeah i like we watch it can we yeah i think we should like so when we were we were at sorb us it was like a whole pile of us and and you were kind of telling us this the original story of how it happened which it was it was very impromptu and you said you kind of had a whole crowd there i'm like how electric must that have been what year was that 17 i think And you just bucked the whole road, landed it perfectly. You had a whole crowd.
Starting point is 00:47:36 And then I was also laughing when you're like, you know, that was a, as a fun clip for me. So I'll repost it every once in a while. And then our fans would still get fired up. Yeah. Be like, see, this, C-boys already did this. Yeah, all every time no matter. And for a while there, that's, that's my buddy's video of it. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:47:55 That was good. It was so clean, bro. It was such a good pauper. It was such a good copper. It was literally perfect. I bought that C-Doo the day before. So that was, what year was that? You did it in 2018?
Starting point is 00:48:10 17, I think. 2017. Now it's pull up Jake. Oh, it says, maybe it was 18. Yeah, it was 18. Pull up Jakes. I got to watch, I got to watch Jake's fucking jump, dude.
Starting point is 00:48:19 And then ours became such a big thing because we got the tickets. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's funny. A lot of people still assume that was like our big moment. Oh, that's when you got your big break. Because, like, we were on local. local news.
Starting point is 00:48:30 Yes. Jake's like, I'm gonna do it. We're like, I'm like, yo, we grab the cameras. He's about to go.
Starting point is 00:48:36 And I'm telling you, I did the same thing. I forgot my GoPro. I didn't have the drone. I'm like, I got to do it because if I don't do it now, I don't know if I'm going to do it. Dude,
Starting point is 00:48:43 look at this ramp. Same ramp. Just, we got like a sandbag on her. She'd a plywood and some sandbags. Mike, you really made this dramatic. It just kicked them enough
Starting point is 00:48:57 where it just popped them off. Yeah, Jake's never better. a jumper. No, he really hasn't. Yeah, it was just a little bit. The flip. Dude, he's kind of like commitment. He's wearing full blown snowmobile here. Man, didn't he smash into the handlebars? Yeah, he did pretty hard. Hit his thigh pretty good. Yeah. That clip before this one was from a local farmer that came to watch. Oh, yeah. That was great. We were laughing so hard. Oh, my God. It's funny, too, because it was, you know, that year and I guess we were, Mike was in dubstep. Can you? Pull that up. What was the
Starting point is 00:49:29 date of that. One year after you. Just over 29. I was 17. We did do it before. Yeah. He's like, we got it. You did the Jetsky jump first. Oh, yeah. A hundred percent. But it just has the nastiest dub step. Like, oh, I could show you the nastiest.
Starting point is 00:49:46 Well, you're right, but it plays on the news. They left the song in. They left the song and it was just so aggressive. And it really does add this flavor to it like, what are these kids doing? What the hell's going on here?
Starting point is 00:50:03 I know we've talked about this before, but like, nothing could have prepared me for, yeah, the local people assumed that was our claim to fame. And at the time even, you know, seven years ago, that was just one video of many that we were putting out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it was, you obviously saw Jake run it back.
Starting point is 00:50:23 Yes. Yeah, that all, like, landed a butterhole, like, barely. Yeah. He still came off. If he didn't land it, I was literally I would load it up and I'll bring it down. I say you have to tandem or you should. Have him up on the back.
Starting point is 00:50:37 I'll let I'll help you land it. How far are you from us? 12 hours. Well, okay. You drive that for a jet ski jump? 100%. 100%. I think you have to drive 12 hours to get anywhere
Starting point is 00:50:48 in Canada. As I say, how far is it? I'm like, we're in the middle of nowhere. Like you drive 12 hours to start your drive to where you're going until you get to the edge of the province and then you can start to go. Well, you actually, that is true because you're on your way to Haydays and you were
Starting point is 00:51:03 actually like an hour from Haydays. Yeah. Backtracked all the way up here for this. Appreciate that. Yeah, no problem. Yeah, just the way things worked out. We had to stop in and see Evil. I got to ride like, drive a like a 500 horsepower of Maverick car. Holy, really? How was that? Oh, it's insane.
Starting point is 00:51:19 It was so much fun. Like, so first I went for a ride with Jimmy the owner. He's driving on the passenger and I'm like, okay, I've been lots of fast stuff. So is Jimmy, is it, it's New Leon now? No, no, Jim Cicone. Got it. Yeah, he's, he's been owner started like 2011, 2012 and his garage was snowmobiles.
Starting point is 00:51:35 And it's like they have one here and I think one in Phoenix. Like they're pretty big time now as far as 200 more. Yeah, like it might even be more. Maybe it's, I don't know. It's insane. It's a big block. Like they built the motor to 1150 C from 999 and biggest turbo they got and big, biggest everything they got running on E85. So anyways, first gear is so short.
Starting point is 00:51:54 So let's it get into second and then punches it. And I thought it was ready. I got so much butterflies. I thought I was going to pass out. Like not even any, like, if we did it again, it probably wouldn't happen,
Starting point is 00:52:06 but the first time. And so I'm like, oh, and then he's like, oh, you want to drive? Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:52:10 I'm like, here, you got to get in with me. And I'm like, she's going to go over the top. So I do it. And so I'm like, how was that?
Starting point is 00:52:15 She's like, it's pretty good. It's like, she's used to just being a passion. You're not. You're more used to ride. Yeah. That's what it was.
Starting point is 00:52:24 Yeah. It's like Evan. That's passenger, hey. Dude, I was riding with Mike earlier today in his truck that he just got. It was fun scared. And I was scared too. I was. Dude,
Starting point is 00:52:35 he was actually terrifying. I was. I was. I was like, Mike, Mike. He went like this. You know what I'm going on the ditch?
Starting point is 00:52:40 And I mean, and I, and then I told him this won't make you feel any better. I was like, but if I would have kept around for another second, I think we would have crashed. Well, he goes,
Starting point is 00:52:47 dude, it's a good thing you told me to light up or, or, uh, because if I want to, I for sure would have crashed. I was like, oh shit. That reminds me of the...
Starting point is 00:52:59 All right, let me out of here. Just speaking of high horse, side by sides, when side-by-side blog built the two J-Z... I was just thinking about that. I had that same feeling when I wrote on that. Dang, that thing was... It was scary, dude. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:12 Just the roost. Do they still have that? Yeah, I think they do. They sold a lot of style. Like Doug sold a lot. Doug actually just reached out and said, you guys want to buy Hellforce. And then I gave him the same answer.
Starting point is 00:53:22 I said, well, if we can come up with something, funny or cool to do with it. It's probably a lot. What's a price tag on one of those? It's got to be expensive. No, he didn't say. He's like, if there's interest, we'll work some on. What about the 2JZ? The 2JZ? I don't feel ever sell it. It's something like, cool.
Starting point is 00:53:38 Who is that? Not that the health force isn't. It's like a divorce. Who got that in the divorce? We were the kids in the divorce. We were the guys a lot. Yeah. I suppose. And it all went down and we're just like, what the heck? Yeah. Along with you guys.
Starting point is 00:53:53 Side by side. They had great. They were great guys to hang. Every time we hung out with them and it was usually at Polaris launches, we'd be in Vegas. Oh, they're fun at Vegas. The best times. We'd be in Vegas with them too. Honestly, a little too fun in Vegas.
Starting point is 00:54:06 But yeah, I mean, Mike watched a guy or a girl eat a cigarette with Doug. Remember that? Yeah. Mike would rather not talk about it. I ate the fucking cigarette. And they, she like, the security guard came up and was like, You can't smoke right here in this spot. And the security guy was coming over and the guy, girl, whatever.
Starting point is 00:54:29 Got so nervous, you just ate it. Imagine. Can you, dude, that's actually, that's actually fucking hard. And then everybody went, why would you do that? Oh, geez. Where can you not smoke and vaid? I was confused by that too. Like, what is it?
Starting point is 00:54:48 The one spot in the whole town? I can't remember what the hell. Yeah, something. It's because they were on the second floor. You can only smoke on the first floor. Classic. Even though all the smoke probably goes up there. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:54:59 That's really the only, obviously, all their downsides of Vegas, but really, it's just like, you know, because you, it's been so long since it's kind of been out of restaurants and out of, like, you know, you don't realize how, if you don't smoke. Yeah. How much it actually smells. Yeah. Well, you should go to Europe, Dave. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:15 They still smoking inside there. We've been a few times. No AC and smoking inside? Yes. Yeah. Everyone smokes. Yeah. They eat, even little kid.
Starting point is 00:55:23 They eat healthy. That's kind of funny. They eat healthy, but everyone smokes. So they, yeah, pretty much. Yeah, they, you know, they get their exercising by walking. Yeah, a lot of work. They got, you know, good bread, good bread. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:36 I don't know why, but like if you have, like, celiac, you know, you have to eat gluten-free. But not that. You can eat, yeah, you can eat bread over there. Honestly, it makes sense. Because of preservatives and everything. But, yeah, it's pretty crazy. Greta, Greta has to eat gluten-free here. She does not eat any gluten.
Starting point is 00:55:50 And she was a meat bread there. She could house a loaf of bread over there. Wow. That's crazy. That's totally nuts. It's because they've, they've sprayed all these, what, pesticides and chemicals on that, like the wheat. It's all the GMO wheat. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:02 Yeah. Like, our wheat is different from their wheat, 100%. Is your, what about Canada? I think we're the same. In the same. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:09 And how do you feel about, um, becoming a 51st state? I thought you said 50 first date for a second. The more stuff that goes on with that, like I just, it's just, to me, it's comical. As a Canadian. For, for, for, for, for, for a 50 first date. us for a person that works and has a job and what he's doing makes so much sense like but alberta was saying they they weren't they saying we would be okay with yeah being the they have like i don't know what the exact number is but they have like the say the fifth
Starting point is 00:56:38 largest oil reserve in the world like maybe it's not fifth but canada in general is like third but alberta's like it's it's oil sands was kind of crappy oil it's hard to get out of the oil sounds, but everyone's like, oh, they could never do it on like, just run some numbers. They could easily do it. They'd be like the, be their own. Yeah. They'd be like that ninth largest GDP in the world and just in one province or something crazy like that.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Holy shit. I'd have to look at it. Yeah. Wait, are you in Alberta? We're in Saskatchewan, which we have a lot as well. They're just more. I think they have more. We're really good too.
Starting point is 00:57:09 It'd be really nice if the West. If the West would separate like us, like Manitoba, Manitoba is kind of liberal too. I don't know, man. There's no easy answer. Yeah. Okay, got it. Got it. You're between. Yes. You're between. Okay. Right in the middle, we are. Can we?
Starting point is 00:57:23 Montana, North Dakota. How close are you to like Alaska? Pretty far because it's so far west. Okay. Yeah. We're like so central. Okay. You can't really drive up that part. There's just not. Where we are is actually center of the province, but above us is just nothing. I'd like to go to Alaska. Yeah, we could do that this winter. I think, oh, totally. I'd be totally in for that. Yeah, that'd be a blast. 100%. Like, it's just, it's like, it's like, it's like,
Starting point is 00:57:47 the wide open just Wild West up there. I want to do like a fishing video up there with us. Like we've done two of them now. We did ice fishing and we did a summer fishing. Yeah. And it's not like our typical style of content, but we all enjoy doing it. And it seems like the viewers enjoy it.
Starting point is 00:58:03 So we're like, let's do it again. But I'm trying to think of what's a new version. So like if we went salmon fishing, no, I mean, that would be a blast. Like I said,
Starting point is 00:58:11 like Ryan and I did it in Michigan and it was incredible. Dude, it'd be like us racing around our drift track. And then like the next is like our, yeah, exactly, our fishing video. And then it'd be like going to the Nuremberg ring fishing in Alaska. And there's also the snowmobile element. Like I just think Alaska would be a lot of fun. And we've gone a lot of places.
Starting point is 00:58:30 And we just haven't done that. We tend to kind of go back to the same areas a lot just because. Yeah. You know. You know them. And we have friends there. But the toughest part is the first time doing something. Because you have figuring out so much stuff.
Starting point is 00:58:43 Yes. Yeah. Especially when you have to make a video on it. You're like, I need to know what's going on. So I want to just rewind a little bit since you are a true obviously OG of YouTube. I was trying to think of like a pioneer. I would say, yeah, yeah. You're a pioneer.
Starting point is 00:58:57 I was thinking pilgrim. I was like, you're a true pioneer of YouTube. We've been on it since the start. What was it like like obviously initially it was just like these kind of silly videos, just people posting whatever. There was like the original YouTubers like Fred. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:15 And Ray William Johnson. Ray William Johnson. I remember him. Yeah. Jenna Marbles. Jenna Marbles. There's all those. And, you know, you were kind of in that class.
Starting point is 00:59:25 Yeah. And then they have retired or they've stopped or they've gone wherever. Yeah. And you've stuck with it. But you were there when, like, YouTube first started paying people. What was that like? Like, how did you hear about that? What was the pay?
Starting point is 00:59:41 Like, was it shitty pay? Was it, were they overpaying? So it was very cool. So basically, yeah, like I said, the first couple of years was kind of just like two years of YouTube was bit like like 12 videos type thing like you you know you weren't posting on a schedule or anything but so once I moved up bought ATV we started doing some ATV videos and some of those started catching on and you'd get an email from YouTube hey would you like to put this video and they'd only pick
Starting point is 01:00:06 the one that was doing good on this monetization and so you'd look at it like this as a scam delete you know next month you'd get this you know email maybe that one and another one how many views were you getting for them? Like maybe like 80,000, something like that. Quite a bit of views, especially back then, because you got to consider not that many people were actively going on to YouTube. But it was like the fifth. That's a lot of views.
Starting point is 01:00:26 The fifth, you know, ATV videos, probably not that little, but they're just, I think what really helped us is we start out so early and there just wasn't a lot, like a lot of, like, not to say good stuff. If you were searching ATV, that's what came up. Exactly. It was when me and CJ were little kids. Yeah, dude, we used to watch, oh my gosh, we used to watch like snowmobile water skips. So we would watch Mark Freeman.
Starting point is 01:00:46 We would watch. We used to watch a lot of Baltimore City, the bike life stuff. Oh, yeah. With like the band, the 12 o'clock boys. And we were just like, we want to do that. Yeah, yeah. It's like a takeover. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:00 Sorry, not to tie track. So they would hit you up with this email. Yeah. And so for the first however many months, you're just like, you're just like, and then I'm like, well, man, they keep messing me. Maybe there's something. Because you talk to people. No one knew anything.
Starting point is 01:01:13 No one did it. No one had any. information. There was no Instagram or anything to even like see other YouTubers and talk to them. Yeah. And and yeah, to try to get hold. It's like, you know, like it's impossible. So you're just like there's no, you can't make money on YouTube. What is it? Where are they even talking about? So then yeah, like Google search and and and yeah, it turns out. Yeah, monetization, whatever. So yeah, third month, whatever. Yeah, sure, sign me up. So whatever they put a couple on or whatever and and, and one month goes by and you make like, like, like $4 and you're like, okay, this is like obviously going to go nowhere.
Starting point is 01:01:41 And, but the next month they picked out like a couple more and it is kind of. It's kind of. It's snowballing and then I would message them saying is there a way to just put every video I upload onto this program and and they're like actually yes we will invite you to be a YouTube partner at the time that's what you need to be a partner so that everything you upload are automatically how many subscribers do you have at that point I don't even it took me a long time to get to 10,000 I remember so it was under 10,000 but also like the biggest person on YouTube probably didn't even have a million at yeah yeah like everything down there's scaled down yeah like They were,
Starting point is 01:02:15 1000s of what it is today. It's pretty cool. You probably had like a legitimate person you could just email with the question. I bet. I bet. Now like you try to get hold of someone. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:25 It's impossible. Well, what year did YouTube get bought by Google? I don't even know. You know, so it's like YouTube was running their own ads. Yeah. They were running themselves and putting ads on the videos.
Starting point is 01:02:37 Like now it's, you know, Google biggest company, one of the biggest companies in the world. They've got ads everywhere, right? So it's just plugged in. Google bought YouTube in 2006. Wow.
Starting point is 01:02:47 Right away. Wow. And YouTube itself only started in 2005. Okay. Wow. Wow. Wow. Man, Google was quick on that.
Starting point is 01:02:55 They bought it for $1.6 billion. In 2006. That's crazy. That was a quick turn on whoever started YouTube. Yeah. Especially in 2006, bro. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:06 That's a banger. The dude at the zoo. That's the guy started YouTube. Yeah, I know I've seen that video. That's crazy. I didn't think of it's that early. Wow. Wow.
Starting point is 01:03:14 So anyways, yeah. So then you got a YouTube partner and then it used to, they had mail you out a paper check and you had to get to $100 before they'd mail you to check. Oh, yep. So it took months and months of, you know, thinking, whatever. And you never, I never did it for that. You just did it for, you know, to share with your buddy. So it didn't ever matter. And then you got your first check and you're like, this is, if I could make enough to buy a new camera that shot in like 720 instead of like, you know, just like, you know, and then a few months later, boom, you could buy a new camera.
Starting point is 01:03:44 And it just, you know, it just kept snowballing. And yeah, you, ah, man, it was it just, the whole run has been, there's been so many people you meet. That's the best part for us is the places you get, the experiences you get to partake in, the people you meet, the fans you get to run into, you'll be at some place way far away and someone will come up to you. And or you'll be at a mud park and some guy will come up and be, I, I've been watching you since I was 12 and I'm, I'm 22 now. Or like, I'm 30. Like it's like, it's, it just blows your mind. and you're just, you know, for us, nothing's really changed.
Starting point is 01:04:16 You still do it. We just go out and have fun with our buddies, you know, film it, put it on and it's just such a such a good time. It's cool to people that it gets you in the room with. Yes. Being YouTubers and just like, you know, because we're all like minded.
Starting point is 01:04:29 Yes. And that's, we all get along. Yes. So then it's just finding people that think the same way and operate the same way. And you don't get the, you know what it takes, you know all the behind the scenes, you know all that stuff and you kind of weed out
Starting point is 01:04:42 the must be nice people. you know, like, yeah. And now it's getting to the point where I'm like, it honestly is. Like we've been grinding for 20. It's super nice. Like yeah, you know, like we move to the lake
Starting point is 01:04:51 and we're doing this. I'm doing my job and we started looking after people's cabins because people are only there in the summer, whatever, so all winter and then they come up in the summer. They don't want to cut their grass. You don't want to do it. You don't have time. You've got nine other things going on,
Starting point is 01:05:04 but they're like offer you to the point of money where you just can't say no. So here I am cutting grass and and, and that's what's playing through my mind is the people that must be nice. And I'm like, no one realized. is all the stuff you do because you need clutches for your quad. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:18 Yeah. You're, you're cutting grass, literally cutting grass for your neighbor to make money, to buy parts, to make better videos to, you know, just the stuff that goes. No one cares about the journey. They just focus on what you have now. Why wouldn't you be filming and editing 13 hours a day? They'll tell us like, man, you guys just blew up so quick. I'm like, bro, we've been on YouTube for 10 years.
Starting point is 01:05:38 What do you mean? Yeah. Hasn't felt quick. So since this is the era that we started, CJ I remember said, you guys got to talk to the camera. You guys got to talk to the, because I came up, I came up in montage era where I was like, whatever we were doing, scootering, add a song to it. Just one song, put all the clips together.
Starting point is 01:05:57 Yeah. So I'm wondering if you remember like a bulb, do you remember being like having that turning point of like, I'm going to give updates? I'm going to, I'm going to talk to the camera like it's my buddy. Yeah. And you know, it took me a long time because on that BF Goodrich event where I met Flair, I ran into Matt from Demolition Ranch. And Matt's the coolest dude.
Starting point is 01:06:16 And he's so, he's got such a business oriented mind. And it was so funny. He doesn't know, know this, but because they're like, you get a list of people who are going on this thing. And I look, I'm like, oh, Matt, I would love to meet him. So they're like, they're putting everyone pairs in this truck. You had to drive two hours to the vent in these new trucks with the, with the BF Good Rich tires on.
Starting point is 01:06:35 And so, and so. And I just went to late. He said, okay, if I wait and get in the truck with Matt, oh, he's not going to be here for two more hours. I'm like, that's fine. I'll wait. So when he got there, I was like, oh, hey, you know, blah, blah, blah. And he never watched videos, whatever. I was there, maybe, maybe around 300 and some K subs or whatever. And so we talked the whole way there. And he's just the nicest dude and just two guys chatting. And we get there. And then obviously that night in the hotel, he looked up a few videos. And in the morning, he just came. He said, listen, videos are great. You got to start being in the video. You got to start turning the camera. Really? That's cool. Because people will, will start following you, no matter, almost no matter what you're doing, you know, type, type thing like that. But it even took me a while after that. Because like, you guys know, right?
Starting point is 01:07:18 No, it's, it's not easy to just say, cool, I'm going to talk to the camera like it's my best friend. 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Not a flip you switch. Yeah. Or switch you flip. And you run into people, like, and they feel like they know you because they sort of do, because you've been talking to them for a good while now.
Starting point is 01:07:34 So. Yeah. I love hyping people up when they say, I feel like I know you. I'm sorry for fanboying. I'm like, you do. Yeah. You do know us. Now you're talking to me right now.
Starting point is 01:07:42 100%, yeah. It is true. Not saying that people, when the camera comes on, you don't add maybe a bit of a layer. You're the same person you are on or off camera. It's just a, it's like a, like a plus 10 plus 20 of your normal personality. We get that all the time. Me and my wife will go somewhere. Oh, you're exactly like you're the, yeah, like totally.
Starting point is 01:08:00 Like we're just. It would really suck to be acting for 20 years. I would say we are like all of us, all of us, but there's also other people that we've met that definitely aren't. It's very true. 100%. Not totally not ever. Sometimes you're like, yeah, 100%. You're watching it. You're like, whoa. Yes. And that's what's nice when you run into someone
Starting point is 01:08:18 and it's like, yeah, like it's. Yeah, like when you see we've seen it, when they, they turn it on and you're like, you literally go, whoa. What is it? What is it? What is this? And then it's off and you're just like, who's this? What the fuck was that? What just happened? What was that? The crazy thing is a lot of times they're really fucking good at it. Yeah. If I said, hey, can you do this ad read for that can over there and you're like, oh yeah, and then you kind of read and it's, it's kind of a little awkward, but you go, hey, yeah, sell me that fucking pen over there.
Starting point is 01:08:46 And they're like, hey. Yeah, just get it at it. Yeah, they're good actors. Oh, yeah, give them that. It's a different talent, but I wouldn't want to have to act for years. Yeah, it's a nice part. Maybe we've said this before. It's a beauty of like having a big group for us.
Starting point is 01:09:00 Like, you can just jump in with a joke that maybe you've been trying to think of for the last like five minutes. Yeah. Like, that's what helps having a big group. Like, oh, you guys, I don't know. I think you guys are pretty funny. But yeah, you jump in with a joke at the right time. And it's because you, you have some time to think about it.
Starting point is 01:09:18 You ever gotten hate being a YouTuber for 20 years? Man, I've always said, like, no matter who you are, what videos you put up, man, there's going to be people out there that will just, you know, just hate you just because you seem to be doing okay. You look like a person like Cletus, freaking some natural disaster happens. He gets in his helicopter, spending his money, taking him his Starlink so they can contact their families.
Starting point is 01:09:44 You know, and then you look and people are just shitting on them for this or that in your list. You have haters that I think it comes with anything with life. If you're doing okay, rather than the person look at it themselves, like why am I not successful? You know, they'll come up with a bunch of silly reasons why you're successful
Starting point is 01:09:59 because you're lucky or you did this or you did. No, it's because it's a lot of hard work. And you don't, And you don't want to do that. So you'd rather just hate on someone, you know, who puts in the time rather than just, I want to do that. Well, then work towards it. We couldn't have did what we did if you went to work came home and sat on the coach. You just can't.
Starting point is 01:10:15 You have to be hustling five different side things. And it just, man, it's, it's tough. But you get to a point where it's like, wow, it's really paying off. It's much easier to criticize than to put in the work. And you got to take the initiative. I was going to say one of the things, even though, like, you know, you get hate. And it seems like the bigger we get almost, you know, we're really lucky. We really don't get much hate.
Starting point is 01:10:39 Yeah. But there is some haters now that you start to see just, I think, because of the larger audience. But the thing that I actually really enjoy is people are genuinely excited when we, and they're waiting for us to make this video. And I think it really brings a lot of joy when it drops and they just feel good about it. And I know what it feels like to be that. because I was a YouTube kid. Like I watched YouTube videos and like shout out Danny Duncan.
Starting point is 01:11:06 Like I was so when I if I saw him post, oh my gosh. Like it was like, I'm like saving that for like this moment. I'm gonna like have some food and watch it. And like seriously shout out Danny. Like I'm like kind of buddies with him now. We text and talk and it feels good being able to work towards that every day with these guys. You get one message from some dude that has fought through cancer and says that watching your videos help me you get one of those and it'll wipe out every hater you have just be you know it's like
Starting point is 01:11:36 you help someone through the most maybe most difficult part of their life with just your videos you get one of those messages or some dude a dad with his two year old kid you know this we'll get those all the time so i like same with you guys you try to keep it as clean as you can because you never know who's watching you get one of those videos like we're just we watch your videos all the time me and my little boy it's our special little time and it just, it doesn't almost doesn't, for me, it just, after being 20 years, it's only so many times you recalled something where you're just like, you kind of like, same with my job, right? You know, you get yelled at so much. It's just, the stuff I don't like is when they, they'll start critiquing carry in, like, oh, who's that annoying voice behind the cat? And I just
Starting point is 01:12:14 delete those. Yeah, she's, she's my best friend and has been here through this whole thing and she's out waist deep and muskegook film me. That's who she's, you know? Like, it's, yeah, Why would, why do people feel like they should say some things like that? Yeah. Like, what is, what is wrong with you that you have to feel like you have to beat someone down? Yeah, tear someone down. I think in that way. Like you talked about the people in jail, they just, some people think differently.
Starting point is 01:12:42 Yeah, some compulsion. Yeah, there's some compulsion. Like, you're a person that brings the world up. And that's how most people should try to live. Yeah. And some people just don't. It's crazy. It's a crazy way to live.
Starting point is 01:12:52 Yeah. But yeah, it seems miserable. It does. So you're going to have to hold it down at hey days. Yeah, without us. Man, like, we've been neighbors for the last three years.
Starting point is 01:13:02 Totally. Yeah, it's going to be a different haydays, although you guys, I don't know if they know, but they're going to know. It'll be good, though, for you. Like,
Starting point is 01:13:08 I think you guys are still going to have a lot of fun. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's always a good time. It's just, yeah, like, you guys bring, you guys bring a lot of, you know, a lot of everything, right?
Starting point is 01:13:17 A lot of fans, a lot of excitement, a lot of, a lot of cool stuff. And it's going to be, Yeah, let us know how it goes. It'll be different for sure. It is always, always a good event. Always. For us, you know.
Starting point is 01:13:28 So I remember a lot of imaginary beef out there, but, you know, did our own event. We don't view it. Like, I know, none of us at any point were like, now that we're not there, watch it go to shit. Yeah. I was eight years old. I was just fine. It's a fucking crush me. It's a blast.
Starting point is 01:13:43 It's also not, we weren't propping up pay days by any means. A million fucking people to go there. No, it just, it got to a point. I mean, you saw it. We were having an event. inside of an event. It was a five-hour line. It was just felt like we were, yeah,
Starting point is 01:13:57 we were kind of almost messing it up. Like, it was getting, like, so many people. In my eyes, they should have been taking steps to make that easier for you guys. I think they definitely could have made it better for both of us. I will say that.
Starting point is 01:14:09 But it's okay. We're going to start doing our own events now. And it's fun doing new stuff. 100% too. I'm getting out and doing some new stuff. I'm bummed because Haydays was fun. Yeah. Like in the aspect of going as a normal person,
Starting point is 01:14:22 fun. Yeah, we couldn't really walk around after that. But it was fun like at night, running around, losing my appendix. Who came in with me at the Sharp like three years ago? Yeah. To the to the backwards. Yeah. We're just like cruising around the show. That was so fun. That was super fun. No, that that was actually my plan was to go to Haydays, run under the radar. I mean, obviously not trying to like not meet people. Yeah. Hit the swaps. Yeah, maybe even put a little mustache on or something. Hit the swaps. I spend somebody. Yeah. Uh, go. to the Backwoods party, like do all that, which I'll do next year if I have the chance. Octane is also running an event this weekend that we are not a part of. So there's that.
Starting point is 01:15:02 Obviously, that already happened. And then we have, yeah, Shredfest. It's definitely going to be weird, though, not going. Just because we've done it for so many years. And it's kind of like this, this turning point in the year where you're like, okay, now it's fall. And like, you know, and then you're like, now we're looking forward towards winter and just whatever. But This will be the first time in like 15 years where I haven't gone to Haiti. Yeah. I've been going to like nine or eight. Yeah, I've been going, you know, probably 12 years a little bit after you guys.
Starting point is 01:15:33 And it's always so fun. It is. You know, we were just. It is crazy. So you hold it down for us, E, Dave. It's crazy that just a giant, like, set of trailers and RVs and snowmobile parts in a field is such a big event. Thousands and grass drags. We won't forget about that.
Starting point is 01:15:49 Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fun part about it. There's nothing else like it either. The fun part about it, though, was like the people that you were with. And like the friends that we've made just like through that snowmobile like industry, you know, David, Trent, Uncle Sane. Brett. Brett. So many guys I'm probably forgetting. But that's like, yeah, exactly, like a good place to sort of network, right?
Starting point is 01:16:12 And meet people maybe you wouldn't normally run across or very cool. Well, Dave. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time coming out of your way up here. For your first podcast under the belt. Yeah. That was your shit. Not bad, dude.
Starting point is 01:16:24 That was good. Yeah. He's a good talk. It's easy to talk. Yeah. If you guys haven't subscribed to Ossa Cruiser on YouTube, go check his channel out. He's been on there for 20 years.
Starting point is 01:16:35 If you like our videos, you're going to like his. Exactly. And we got to make it up to Canada and do that gag. I got the best video idea as well. A dual stark swapped anything. 160 horse. Could be a golf cart.
Starting point is 01:16:49 Doesn't matter. 160 horse, bolt on whatever. muskig tires we need. Boom, there's your build. Come up and the test. There we go. I love it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:59 We're ready. Let's do it. All right. Sounds good. Yeah, Spenny. Oh, see,
Starting point is 01:17:02 perfect. Spine. He'll just make his way over. Yep. Yeah, just one little step over province. Boom, he's there.
Starting point is 01:17:09 Let's get our Matt Black, RAM and Corvette giveaway going on. Head to C-BoysTV.com. Every $5 you spend gets you one entry. Go check it out. Thank you. The truck is beautiful, too. It is.
Starting point is 01:17:20 Of all the giveways, you guys have, man, How does that feel? Like you guys have some of the best giveaways on freaking YouTube which is saying something. Dude,
Starting point is 01:17:27 I tell people it's similar to our content. We try to switch it up in the best way possible every single giveaway and every single video. Yeah. But we do it big, you know,
Starting point is 01:17:36 like they do a big risk. It's $180,000 giveaway right there. 100%. People don't realize that either. Yeah. I try and keep it exciting. I saw TikTok. It said,
Starting point is 01:17:44 CBOY giveaways are my generation's powerball. Oh. I'm saying, that's fucking awesome. I mean, it's life. By the way. I've seen some comments from wives that are like seriously
Starting point is 01:17:57 stop with the badass giveaways. Yeah, yeah. Closets just full. We got to do one for the moms coming up here. They've got one of the vehicles. Black Friday. Black Friday would be a sick one for the moms. Heck yeah. A mom to win.
Starting point is 01:18:09 Finally, someone cries. It'll be a family. Husbands getting a badass rag. Also, I wasn't here, but the red, white and blue winners came and picked up their cars, the muscle car giveaway and the Hellcat guy was, just mobbing the Hellcat, right? That's side of Mike's stories.
Starting point is 01:18:24 The White Mustang didn't get picked up. That one's all the way in Maine. That's getting delivered to me. Wow. The Hellcat guy did a burnout right away. Yeah. He had to. That's so sick.
Starting point is 01:18:34 He was like, sorry, I don't really know what I'm doing. I was like, dude, I feel the same way all the time. So whoever wins this next giveaway with the C-7, 900-horsepower. Wow, Corvette. Either will ship it to you, or you can come to the compound and burn the set of tires. off of it. Or just even do one burnout. Save the tires, but come hang out with the woods. You can do whatever. And then haul it on the trailer with Mike's badass ram home. Such a nice ram. So sick, dude. Forties. Forties. Forty. All right. See you.
Starting point is 01:19:06 See you guys. Peace.

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