Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Hiring Back our Ex-Business Partner, Do We Fight? & Our Towns New Mayor

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

In todays podcast our good friend Justin returns to the podcast to talk about his new position here at CboysTV and what that means for the future. We dive into the unfunny joke that is American politi...cs, South Park becoming real life, Cormorant's Legendary Dog Mayor, Mayor Duke. Mistakes during our driving tests, Grandpa Ron on the news, and more! Enjoy Sign up for a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% off your @MUDWTR order by going to https://www.mudwtr.com/WIDEOPEN! #mudwtrpod #ad Follow us on Instagram @cboystv and @lifewideopenpodcast To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 People can change over time. This is a big personal growth moment. Look at Dalton's. This is 15 hours and two minutes. I bet I think of half of like the video ideas I come up with driving. We get along a little too well. So we might have to change something about that. I'm so much happier doing this.
Starting point is 00:00:18 Dude, when your friends are your coworkers and your coworkers are your friends, it's the best possible scenario. For a limited time at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio. Your choice of chicken or sausage McMuffin or McGrittles with a hash brown and a small iced coffee for five bucks plus tax. Available until 11 a.m. at participating McDonald's restaurants. Price excludes flavored iced coffee and delivery. I don't know if we can talk about this on the pod, but did you guys fucking watch the debate? Yeah, bro.
Starting point is 00:00:47 Dude, I've been getting so many, I served so many just videos from it, and it's amazing that that was, that was, like, actually something that happened. That was great TV in my way. Was it? Oh, my God. It's so entertaining. Literally, it's like a South Park sketch. It's so weird. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:04 I got served like a South Park reel right after I was watching debates. And it was like, all right, the giant douche against the turd sandwich. That's an old one. That's an old one. Yeah. I was like, dude, man, what is it? Reality imitates art. Art imitates reality or whatever it is.
Starting point is 00:01:21 If a South Park sketch hasn't happened yet in real life, it's only a matter of time. No, it was genuinely entertaining, though. I'm only about halfway through it. It was like a movie. Like, I would say if you have an hour and a half, like, just sit down a while. It's just genuinely entertaining. Wow. Here's my opinion.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Like, the Democrats knew what they were doing. They were throwing Biden to the wolves. There's no way that they thought that was going to go well. I'm surprised they let it go. They want them to maybe step down, like, whoever's pulling the strings. So they were like, oh, yeah, yeah, let's 100% send them to a debate early enough. So then, like, they can put Newsom in. I don't know if you guys watch, like, the commentary afterwards, but that's the only thing
Starting point is 00:01:59 people were talking about. I think it was CNN. That was the one that was like broadcasting it. And before they were talking about how like, yeah, this is going to be a great thing. Early as presidential debate in history. It's great. And then immediately after they're like, yeah, that was a big. That was a mistake.
Starting point is 00:02:14 And that was a bad idea. I don't know, though. Why would they agree to do that if there wasn't some like hidden agenda like that? It's still like a month or month and a half out from like the convention. Like still technically has been nominated as the. Yeah, I think this was. it was like a trial to see like if he if he had the chops or well that gives us enough time to maybe get somebody else in there yeah because like it makes no sense to me like I'm just trying
Starting point is 00:02:39 to make sense of it in general you can't avoid it for forever though you know like is inevitable how do you like avoid it for forever so they probably just had to start they'd eventually face it head on I don't know you know I'm not going to take sides on either either side it was great TV that's all I got to say you guys see there's another big election going on they're looking for a new mayor of Cormoron. Whoa. Yeah. That's really, that's big news.
Starting point is 00:03:01 First time since Mayor Duke. Biggest thing to ever come out of Cormoron, actually. It was in the paper. Did you guys read the Cormoron paper? Yeah. There's a paper. I nominated. Did they mention what species they wanted to be?
Starting point is 00:03:11 They said anyone of any age, shape, size, or fur. I nominated a guy by the name of Grant Matthews. You're running, Ken. Can you imagine Ken as the mayor? What would be your first thing? Tesla chargers on every corner. Absolutely. He's blowing through the budget.
Starting point is 00:03:31 What would be the first thing you change about Cormorant, Ken? Make it, I don't know. Great again. Make it a little less depressing. Damn, Ken, that's our town, dude. Can't believe the mayor would say something like that. I wouldn't say Cormoran is depressed, put a round about it. That'd be great.
Starting point is 00:03:46 I wouldn't say Cormorant's depressing. I would just say there's nothing there. Yeah. I would say, like, the nice part about Cormorant is you kind of a blank slate. Like, you're not working with much. It's not like you have to rebuild anything. thing there's nothing to rebuild there you just get the title and that's it just you're chilling what if we got a dog and we elected him mayor maybe he wouldn't be old enough by the time as a puppy there
Starting point is 00:04:09 was an election when's the election november uh i'm sure it's this summer yeah like because he would it's during corn run four months oh okay so he'd be like four weeks old i mean who says we got to get a puppy but that's true yeah we could adopt yeah we got to find an old dog dude anybody that's running for election has to be damn you're dead because they're so old. I don't know how well we've explained this on the podcast, but our original mayor used to be a dog. And it was like the first famous thing living being to come out of Cormorant. The reason that he got elected, it was because of him or our friend Jake's grandpa. And nobody wanted our friend Jake's grandpa to win. And no, it was another guy. Oh, and that one other guys. And one other guy. And so they said, well, we should elect the dog that
Starting point is 00:04:55 always just roams the neighborhood and that's that's what they did imagine that you two are going at it and then some dog ends up beating both of you you're like what the fuck wow they really did want either of us in there yeah but when they did that I think that like they were the first people to ever elect like a dog into running the town and so it kind of took over the internet yeah that and I think it just created a little bit of magic in Cormoron you know a little bit of magic and now there's just that you can just feel it in the air and that's why so many great things happen here yep but he was on Duke the mayor
Starting point is 00:05:30 was on Ellen I want to say maybe Dr. Phil I don't know if it was on Dr. Phil he kind of went on like a media tour yeah talking about his policies ah that was great yeah he he started saying he's like never fine
Starting point is 00:05:45 he had a Chrysler Sebring that he'd taken all the parades yeah he was driving it too yeah he paid for it with his media money that's what I would do if I became mayor i would just blow maybe not the whole budget but i would blow the budget on hell of a campaign i would duke on hot dogs no no yeah could use a hard dog saying no i'd be a giant duke uh memorial like a giant dog i still think that we just got to do that yeah where do we put it in cormoron
Starting point is 00:06:12 yeah obviously but maybe the cormorant park but ideally if we had a spot in cormorant then it could live there forever but i don't know who else is going to do it so we got to step up and yeah it have to be us that's also what's also why we have the dog with the dog bark at the end of every video or podcast for the copyright. The picture is actually the dog. It's just a nice tribute. A little special touch. It just makes Cormoran just that much cooler, in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Like, it's just funny. It's got a little bit more depth to it. Absolutely. Totally forgot to do a little special introduction for our special guest. We have our homie, our friend, Justin, Hansen, as you guys all know them, on the podcast today. You've been on the podcast many times before, but. Yeah, I mean, if you've been watching Seaboy TV for a long time, you would obviously recognize Justin.
Starting point is 00:06:58 He's been on the pod a couple of times as well. But you've taken on a new role within the team, which we haven't really talked about, but you guys could probably... Exactly. You guys could probably tell from the outside. Justin is now on as... What's technically the title?
Starting point is 00:07:13 Merchandise manager? Yeah, merchandise manager. Yeah. Fucking overlord. And so he's been on the team now for the last couple months, absolutely reinventing what we're doing, getting it streamlined because, you know, we're all creative and business-minded in our own ways, but some things need like an engineer's touch, a little bit of systems put in place. So he's been able to help us get things in on time,
Starting point is 00:07:37 create new products, and it's really exciting to have it. And better serve you guys at home. So, I mean, just from having better products to better service and faster shipping and doing a great job, Justin, we have some new stuff dropping. Is it, this week or would it be next this week? We've had a really, really cool custom. Lots of good stuff already, but yeah, something that he had a hand in. We've had some awesome help getting.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Like, we have skateboards coming out, which you see on the wall. It's actually not that one's a prototype, but that one and then another duck camel on, but just so much cool stuff that we got to bring the life. The coolers, the backpack coolers are my favorite. Oh, those are so cool.
Starting point is 00:08:15 I love those. Chug buddies. Dude, impact vest. Oh, yeah. We have a life jacket. Impact vest. Life jacket, yeah. All the party suits are still coming to. The party suits are going to be. There's so much stuff. I think it's really cool. Like the Life Wide Open is becoming more of a brand than
Starting point is 00:08:30 merch. I think that's really cool. It's really cool. I mean, to give you guys credit, like, when I started, I have no idea how you guys were as successful as you were because none of you have any time to manage some of the like details of what like goes on behind the scenes. And I was shocked at how much like of a backlog of work there is and still is but also you guys have so many ideas and really good ideas so it feels good to be able to like bring some of those to life so when we were looking for somebody to fill the position you know we had it posted out there and and Justin actually reached out because you saw the listing yeah I saw the listing like because you just happened to be looking for a new job or additional work I wasn't even looking for a new job and the whole backstory of it is
Starting point is 00:09:17 when we were going out to iWorks for the Super Bowl, my wife, Megan and I were talking about and, like, you know, it's so cool to see all the guys, like, be as successful as they are and how much the business has grown. It's like, so cool. And she just asked, she's like, if the opportunity ever arose, like, would you ever, like, want to get back on the team? And I was like, yeah. I mean, if it ever, like, came about, like, I would love to be able to help out and see what they're doing and do whatever I can. But a couple weeks later, I saw the listing. I just saw it. I don't know if it was on Google or wherever, but I was just like, huh. Indeed, yeah. And so I just asked you, I'm like, hey, I'm working from home. Like, I've got spare time. Is this something that you want me to do in the spare time that I've got until you find the candidate that you need for it? And then, yeah. Well, when you were like, yeah, so you text me and you go, hey, have you found anyone for that merchandise manager? And I was like, yo, CJ, I think Justin's got somebody for us. Yeah, we were sitting there. Which we had actually a fair amount of people applying and we were going through the applications, but we weren't.
Starting point is 00:10:16 by any means like oh this is the guy so we're like oh justin's got somebody and then i text you back and i was like hell yeah bro who you got i'm like uh actually me and i remember like sitting that i was like on the plane with cj and i was like dude you won't believe this but justin is interested in the merch manager and we were and we were immediately like oh yeah that makes perfect sense i think my first thing i said was how didn't we think of that yeah because we were like we were sitting there trying to be under our nose of like who like who do we know do you think that would be good at this and then he says that and I go why didn't we think of that things did move fast because you were like I wasn't necessarily applying for a full-time thing and then we kind of
Starting point is 00:10:58 were very quickly like that's what we need bro and like full circle I just I'm so happy that you said yes and we were able to offer you that position because I mean you you had a good thing going and I just got to say you're on to another good thing if not better I mean full circle dude I just like it's the coolest thing ever yeah dude it's it's so cool like full circle is such a great way to describe it where it was just like the door open and i was like yeah why not i didn't even put in like a two weeks at work like i told them like i have another opportunity like i'm able to start immediately like do i need to go through a full two weeks and they're like oh whenever you're done with your stuff you're good to go wow all right so i think i started like six days after i did the application or
Starting point is 00:11:43 quick turnaround time. I just remember talking with the guys and saying, we need somebody who's corporate to fix these systems, you know, to keep everything in line, but also a degenerate. Yep. We were like, all right. So they fit in with us. Degenerate. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:11:58 And we were like, okay, we're kind of getting hung up on just corporate people, which we don't want, or it's just a degenerate. And we were like, we got enough of those around here. And you texted me. And I was like, there it is. The corporate degenerate that we've been looking for. Justin's always had a term called big braining, and that's what we all collectively were like, Justin's going to come in here and big brains some of the shit.
Starting point is 00:12:19 No, it's been so fun. Like, well, you guys were all gone on a trip when I started. Yep. That's right. That's right. You guys were across the country, and it was just me and Ken here for the first couple of days. I just, like, sat next to Ken and asked him 100 questions a day, and he's like, God, this was a mistake. He just puts his AirPods in one time while you were talking to him.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Oh. What? you out. It feels really good. I know like there's a lot of stuff that's still in process, but yeah, it's, I'm so much happier doing this, which was like, I don't know, I was very fulfilled doing the work that I was doing before, but I didn't have any emotional connection to it really. Like I had great coworkers and I like the work that I did. But, dude, when your friends are your coworkers and your coworkers are your friends, it's the best possible scenario. So it's been really good. I enjoy it. And I mean, just speaking from like our side, it's like the flip of a switch
Starting point is 00:13:10 putting you into the team. Everything is doing so much better. But also it just feels so good having someone that we trust and we also know is going to do a good job. Like I just never once have we had any hesitation about that. And that made it so easy and just feels good. Yeah, no, I'm glad that you guys trust me to like make some of the decisions on the stuff that has been moving forward and in like the corporate world, you guys are all at like 180% capacity of workload. Like you guys work 14 to 16 hours a day every single day. You never stop.
Starting point is 00:13:47 So like if I have like a hidden agenda, it's to like pull that back so you guys can live and breathe a little bit outside of the insanity that is your day to day. And trying to get stuff in line so that everything can run a little bit more autonomously. And it's good to see that it's working so far. I would love to be able to chill out a little bit. I don't really foresee that happening anytime soon. It's not because of you.
Starting point is 00:14:10 I think they're just so, like, it seems like hiring you on. And then I was like, all right, sweet, that's covered. Now what's five other things that can just fill that void now? Like, all right, you got like 14% you know, open now. And then it's like fill it up with another 45. You know, when we release the products to you guys, it's obviously a ton of work in the back end. And so like that moment at 7 o'clock video ready or not is like the deadline.
Starting point is 00:14:38 Like everything has to be 100% perfect at that moment. And normally is me and Ken literally just furiously working at the last second. And this last merch drop before the R8, our biggest giveaway yet, you know, all these big advancements, like it should be 10 times as worse as it's ever been in the past. And about four o'clock rolls around and I had all my stuff done. And I walked back and Ken looked like he wasn't about to explode with stress. And I go, you good? You need anything?
Starting point is 00:15:08 He goes, no, I think I'm ready. And I go, I think I'm ready too. And I called you. And I go, we good. And he goes, yep, yep, got a bunch more things I handle. But we're good. And I'm like, holy shit. Is this what it feels like to have things ready?
Starting point is 00:15:21 I'm glad it went as smoothly as it did, you know, like for my first time being on that side of it in however many years, like to see how much you guys have grown and how much that process has changed. It was good to get it all smoothly ran out for that first time. So it was good. And it's still been going really good. Yeah, it's crushing. But, uh, you know, something that we're trying to do is like build out the back end. Like we're building this new warehouse right now. And it's just going to be for merch. And then we're going to move it from here, actually, over to, uh, the new spot that we're building at the farm right now. But we're just kind of trying to, you know, reinvest back into what we're doing. And that's why we brought, you know, you on and turning this into more
Starting point is 00:15:59 of a brand like I said than just merch and I think we're on the right track and you guys have a fantastic brand and you've got a lot of aspects that you're going to and plan on expanding on so dude the more we do of it too and the more that we get for products that aren't just t-shirts and sweatshirts like the more I love life while same you like it's like seriously grows on me like as a brand name like every single day like it is just so cool and the more I see it out in the world of people wearing it and tagging us in pictures of them dirt biking or at a concert or like so many different things that are like actually you know seeing it in the real world is just so cool to me and the more I the more I love it yeah it's it's awesome it's it's such a great I mean there's a reason so many people get that tattooed
Starting point is 00:16:42 that's like that that's one of the biggest things yeah so universal and like such a great like motto to go by yeah and there's a life wide open homemade tattoo kit coming oh my gosh yeah just a little stencil. But no, seriously, like the more and more people I just keep coming across as the more it grows, there's so many people that literally live by that. And then, I mean, it seems more and more evident to me that anything moving forward with products should be something tied in with that. Just to move backwards a little bit. One thing also I love about Justin is he'll like do these crazy like calculations. He's like, yeah, so we're going to need a warehouse by this much square footage and and then you'll be outgrowing that in about this many months and like he's just so dialed
Starting point is 00:17:27 you know like it's just it's just great but uh going back to life wide open when grandpa was on the news yeah dude dude he's living life wide open he even like he's like the biggest freaking advocate and like merch plugger for us did you guys know that was happening i did not yeah not until like the day earlier my mom had texted and asked if we could send this photo or something, which they didn't end up using, but he had called me last Friday so a week ago and was like, hey, so, you know, the Roger Maris Cancer Center, I don't know if they've just taken a liking to me or if they heard my story, but they're doing an article on prostate cancer and prostate cancer awareness. And they're wondering if they can use your guys's
Starting point is 00:18:14 footage of the haircuts. And I was like trying to kind of put two and two together. I was like, so they're doing an article or what now? And he was like, I don't really know much. But yeah, I mean, I'm assuming that he walks into that place and it's just like so grandpa Ron about it and has made friends with everyone. Well, he has made friends with everyone. My aunt, his daughter, was telling me that when he walks in there, everyone, like, you know, giving them hugs.
Starting point is 00:18:41 They know. They love them. They know them by name, you know, the nurses that aren't even working with them. And they did the news article on them. And, dude, I was watching. the news before that like what a depressing oh yeah i don't know the last time you guys like watched all the news but it was like dude they were talking about drug charges and homicides and all these things that they were just like trying to get clicks off of right that are like happening you know
Starting point is 00:19:05 local or even just like in the state and then it was just kind of refreshing that it was like an actual like heartwarming story and i'm i'm sure they're positive i'm sure they try and do that too this was the longest one it was a long it was two minutes everyone else had like 15 second. Yeah, but I was just watching it, and then that came on, and I was like, maybe there is a little bit of hope for the news here, but it was a great article. I bet you what happened is they were planning on writing an article on prostate cancer. They maybe went to the clinic and was like, hey, like, we're trying to do this? And they're like, maybe asked for like, do you have like a certain patient who would be like
Starting point is 00:19:39 a good spokesperson or whatever? And they're like, Ron. Yep, there he is. And then he just also happens to be YouTube famous and have all this footage as well and just have an interesting story. America's grandpa. I love when they had Ron Schmidt and then it had like the quotations, Grandpa Ron. Yeah, that was funny. I literally burst out.
Starting point is 00:20:03 I don't know if it was laughing or in shock when he said, yep. And when he's done with treatment, he wants to go skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon. I know. I called him. I was like, dude, come on. You can't just go around saying that kind of stuff. Now you got to do it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:17 After he completes his treatment, Grandpa Ron says he wants to be the oldest man to go water skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon in August. Well, so he was saying that to me when I had talked to him last week when he was asking if they could use the footage. And I was like, you know, I kind of just brushed it off because I don't really want him doing that. I was like, yeah, grandpa, yeah, we can talk about that. Just hoping that it would kind of just end there. And then he said it on the news and I'm like, dude, we're actually going to have to do this now. You can eat shit water skiing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:49 You're going pretty fast. Yeah. It just not seems unnecessary. And let alone, why do you need the world's fastest pontoon? You're not going to be going full speed. Exactly. That's the one outside to it. Left that in, no.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Not just behind a pontoon. The world's fast. Or with his grandkids behind the world's fastest pontoon. You know, I was watching the news and watching the segment play out. And I was like, oh, this is great. And then they show him eating shit on the bowling. Yeah. And I go.
Starting point is 00:21:15 come on the news just had to do that didn't they i'm just curious how they knew to find that footage because unless he mentioned it to him because you it's not like that's labeled in a video like he would they would have to go to a video that doesn't have anything to do with grandpa on out of like the 500 videos you go to the back end he must have mentioned it knowing him he knows he knows every single video that he's a star in oh yeah dude though i was like you you really had to mention that one out of all the things that we've done with grandpa on and you got to go if he's not playing golf, he's out blind man bowling. He's not faking being blind.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Yeah. I was like, all right. I'm not sure if that was necessary. You could have left that out. The rest of it was good. I could blame him for it because that is also my favorite grandparent clip too. Yeah, I mean, we're guilty of always showing it too,
Starting point is 00:22:02 but it's always like adding context to him being like a crazy bastard. Like the guy is just off the handles. You never know what he's going to do. And that's a perfect example of it, right? But as far as like the news article of like a heartwarming. You know, this guy, this guy is... Just hit him with it. It's like a jump scare in the middle of the...
Starting point is 00:22:19 Yeah, I was like, that was just not tasteful. It was so unnecessary. I was recording it just on my phone and then that pops up and I'm just like, ooh. I just can't help, but just still go, fuck. That's bad. That was bad. I mean, the Duke can eat a fall like Gavin. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:34 And after it happened, and after it happened, we bring him back because we were trying to bring him to the hospital to just get him checked out. And he was like Evan refusing to go, but he was actually like putting down his foot. He was like, I'm not going. If we're going anywhere, we're going to the bar. Yeah. And we were like, well, we're not doing that. So we'll just, I guess we'll just bring you home. And we bring him home.
Starting point is 00:22:53 We walk in. We see Grandma. Grandma just sees it on our face immediately of like something happened. And we go, he ate shit. Like really bad Grandma. And her first, her first words are, well, ho, he's pretty tough. And I was like, no, grandma, you don't understand how hard he fell. And she's like, I don't think you understand how tough he is.
Starting point is 00:23:14 To be fair, I mean, yeah, he never did complain about it. Like a rock. Exactly. So he knows that it would take a fall, but. I'd like to talk a little bit about last video. For one, you mentioned Evans back. Yeah. Like, dude, that guy.
Starting point is 00:23:26 So he injured it on the sandrail. He is actually gradually getting better. He's been going to the chiropractor. You can see him getting better as he goes. And he said literally he went there, felt like shit. And he like noticeably feels better after leaving. But we still went to go get him x-rayed just because the chiropractor actually suggested just to double check just to make sure
Starting point is 00:23:45 because, like, he was seriously, like, laid up. He was walking around. Yeah. And then the freaking little toy car in his hinder. That's something else. So he thought that we were going to do, like, a x-ray and then Photoshop a really small penis in there because, like, sometimes an x-rays.
Starting point is 00:24:05 But you couldn't put that on YouTube. That was the initial plan. Yeah, so we settled with toy car. Yeah, we were kind of fucking with them. It was an actual debate we were going back and forth with. Well, we were fucking with him like, oh, man, I hope your X-ray doesn't show your little dick and all this stuff. And he's like, oh, my God, he already knew where he thought that's where it was going. And then just a toy car up there.
Starting point is 00:24:23 It was funny. They got it out, and they found out that it was a Honda Civic. Oh, really? Well, at least it wasn't like a Gen 1 Cummins or something. Yeah. I know Gavin was here during that time. It was still a Honda, though. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Good point, Ken. Good point. After it, Evan goes, well, man. Maybe I could shove a tow truck up there. That's funny. Yeah, after Evan, we lead the sandrail, you know, it's like weird to throw your back out. It can happen on anything. And that's what it happened on.
Starting point is 00:24:53 And he was like bedridden, aka we're out in the mud, and he's just laying on the ground. Yeah. For the next hour while we're filming. Ken and I were mobbing our Broncos around. I was hit him. I did too. I legitimate because he's wearing brown overalls laying on the ground all muddy. Can you imagine how mad he would be actually like you got.
Starting point is 00:25:12 Yeah, he wouldn't take him out. He'd just be fucking pissed. Dude, I thought he was like, Seriously? Yeah, what the fuck you're doing? I do love when he freesty. Bend your wheel. Mike's got a bent rim.
Starting point is 00:25:24 I thought he was a pile of logs. Oh, my God. Or he was laying it just looks like another clump of mud. Yeah. Yeah, that would have been so bad. The wheelie trainer. Oh, yeah. A lot of comments about the wheelie trainer.
Starting point is 00:25:39 People are loving that and they want one of their own. I think it'd be great. That'd be something for us to... Yeah, you two really have a passion for it. So, like, I mean, you're like, we really got to sell these things. Well, the thing about it... I don't see us making a ton of money on them.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Obviously, that's not what it's about. It's about training people. Giving people the gift of a wheel. Yeah, yeah. So the thing about it, though, is we got scammed three times trying to buy one. Yeah. Like, there is no company out there that makes one that actually will deliver it. You got scammed, like, where you paid them money?
Starting point is 00:26:09 Yeah, Ken, we need to get that money back. Can you a refund? that on the credit card or dispute it? I mean, yeah, just let me know who the person is. Yeah, I will. It happened three times. Like, I got quite a bit of shit for my whole Suron deal, which was pretty stupid.
Starting point is 00:26:22 But you got scammed three times? I think you guys might be the dumb ones. So much money did we spend in total trying to buy one. I don't know, five, six grand. Oh. Well, we were trying to make this video happen. And obviously, you think one of them, like, the first, you know, one of them's got to work, but like,
Starting point is 00:26:37 did you pull the trig on the second one before you knew the first one was a scam? No, the first one probably was... I'm just wondering how that happened. I don't know the context of it, Mike. You got a good point. You got a good point. It's a valid argument, especially when you bring your suron in.
Starting point is 00:26:52 Three times as an exaggeration. The first one was like a legit. It looked great. The site looked legit. And I ordered it. I remember that's the one you showed me. It said it would be here in seven to ten days. I'm like, perfect.
Starting point is 00:27:03 You guys were going to be ready to roll on this video, whatever. It was ordered like in April. Yeah. Still never came. And then I was like, fuck, what the hell? Maybe we'll maybe we'll maybe we'll, Maybe it's going to come, but customer service wasn't working. I'm calling them, emailing.
Starting point is 00:27:14 Couldn't get anything. Start looking at other options that people have built the same thing. And it's typically just like some sketchy bike life guy on Instagram, you DM them. It was a Venmo type of situation. Didn't send him any money. This was kind of like, I mean, I'm sure they'd probably do it, but Big Ranch and Gavin said they could build it in like two days. So that's what we ended up doing.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Based on the first one that you found that you did pay for and never came, like that one's just crazy. Yeah, that was like, You were showing to me. I'm like, wow, you know, it's got adjustable, whatever, and it's got the swivel wheel. And it was just sick seeing Big Wrench and Gavin being able to look at that, and they recreated it, like, to a T. And, I mean, I've been vocal about it from the start. I don't see how you guys don't think that we could sell that many of them.
Starting point is 00:27:56 I'm not worried about how many we could sell. I'm just not trying to jam up Big Wrench and Gavin. No, no, no, no. You would have a different, like an actual manufacturer, manufacture them at scale with correct equipment that they're laser cutting all these pieces and Every single one is identical. And, yeah, you're not going to sell as many of them as t-shirts or whatever, but there is definitely a demand for them. And if you can set the price right, not price gouge these people.
Starting point is 00:28:21 Obviously, it's going to be expensive to build and whatever. So they're not going to be, like, cheap. The competitors are selling them at, like, 2 grand. That's how much one cost or 2 or 3 grand. I mean, I think if you could do 1,500 or even 1,000, a thousand sounds a lot better, but who knows how much you'd have into it. I just think you could sell them. I mean, you saw how well it worked.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Yeah, my back is all blown out after that. What? What? How? I got to go to the chiropractor. How? Dude. No facts.
Starting point is 00:28:48 Hey, picture. You wrote it down to the ground. Picture how blowed out it would be if that didn't exist. Yeah. But it's been hurting for a couple days now. Really? So that was a prototype. We'll obviously need to do a bigger pad.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Yeah, wrong time for that plug. Bigger pad. I think, no, seriously, so many people are interested in learning how to wheelie, but they don't want to skit. But they don't want to skit. their back off. I did tell you, Ken, whatever you do, don't let go of the handlebars. And I did. Why? You were popping some wheelies. You were at 12 o'clock at one point. It felt cool until it was like too far and it was like, I can't save this. Well, that's the beauty
Starting point is 00:29:26 part of it. You don't need to save it. Yeah, I know. And then I'm on my back getting dragged across the side. Can I got to just tip my hat. You still did it. And I can honestly say this, you would never do a wheelie. Like without that. No, no, I probably would never do one without that. Right. At all. So I got to, I got to just say, I was pretty impressed to see you out there hanging 12.
Starting point is 00:29:49 Yeah. Even though it was only for a couple seconds, but still, it was a sight that I never thought I'd see. As I would say, it was Cheeto, but I did do it. I don't think it was, dude. No, I, no. What if Evan got addicted to the Wheely machine? I can dance on the seat.
Starting point is 00:30:02 It's great. But no, for you, like, I mean, think about how good he could actually get at wheeling, where you can, like, work out the, off out the details of it. And then changing the full front tire on it. It's like a sim. It's like a sim racer for like, you know. Evan or really anyone yet. No matter what your skill is, you could still learn something from it.
Starting point is 00:30:19 But if you guys watch the video, Ken before he fell off the back did amazing. Like you went 12, you pressed the back break. And I think the beautiful thing about it is that it shows someone what the balance point feels like. That's what I think. I mean, that's what everyone's scared of. Yeah. Like our filmmaker Dalton, he's ridden dirt bikes before a lot. And he was kind of in the power wheelie crew
Starting point is 00:30:40 And he's like, oh, that's what the balance point feels like Makes wheeling so much easier So much easier But it's scary to find, especially on a big bike But if you're on like a little pit bike Finding the balance point is way easier Because you're going like 15 miles per hour You know, you're not going to eat pavement
Starting point is 00:30:55 Quite as far if you do slam But yeah, like me and CJ When we used to wheelie back in the day Like you're just power wheeling and you're just chasing it Like you're constantly just like running the front tire down Yeah, next thing you know you're going 70 I get to give you a little more credit and one thing that you did forget to mention is that
Starting point is 00:31:12 at least on a four stroke there's some engine braking and that's where you guys finesse that you were like because you could stand up wheelie for like honestly as long as you had a road for so like there is some engine braking and then you obviously eventually chase it out. Yeah I feel like you guys are underselling yourselves a little bit for how
Starting point is 00:31:28 you guys could really for a long time. We just wouldn't drop back. It was a power wheel we wouldn't drop back. It was just like you'd get to this point and you'd kind of just hold it like you'd just be like idling I ate shit so hard back in the day. Do you guys remember when I was riding the 150, my 150, and I went over backwards over by Jake's mom's.
Starting point is 00:31:47 Yeah, that was bad. That's the thing with... And I went through it. It was a jacket, sweatshirt, t-shirt, and then into my skin. And now I'm still scarred, like, on my shoulder from it. But it just road rash. Yeah, dude, Ken didn't even care about road rash. He was out there in those little shorts.
Starting point is 00:32:00 He had the wheelie trainer. It's just funny when you bring up like a wheelie simulator. I feel like simulators are getting crazy and everything. Obviously, there's driving and flunkers. and all that but now with VR dude look at this you can simulate working on an engine oh yeah I've seen this and it's like it's all extremely realistic bro if you guys need an engine to work on we got plenty of broken shit come on over and you can work on it yeah no experience needed um you don't even need to have any VR training that's the beauty of this is like there's no way
Starting point is 00:32:33 I'm gonna like if even if I had all the time in the world like I can't just like take an engine Can you imagine? Yep, I'll get it back together. But, I mean, again, if I had all the time in the world, maybe, I don't think I would do this. But, like, at least you could learn something. I'm sure it trains people. I could see them using it at, like, tech schools or something.
Starting point is 00:32:49 But you learn a lot better just literally working on something. They'd have those. I just imagine Gavin doing, like, a full day of wrenching here, going home. That guy lives for it. Rens simulator. Being a farmer and playing farm simulator, I don't think it happens. but it would be crazy. I love the comments.
Starting point is 00:33:09 Little kid holding flashlight a DLC. That's so funny. Did you guys have that like growing up holding the flashlight for your dad? And just constantly like, hey, no, over here.
Starting point is 00:33:20 My dad would literally call me the gopher. Is it possible to lose the 10 millimeter for ultimate it? I was actually wondering that. Like, can you drop a tool and like lose it? So circling back towards Justin, Justin prior to working here
Starting point is 00:33:33 was an electrical engineer at a company. went to school for it, the whole things. And I saw this, uh, this reel where this guy created this kind of like a Jarvis type machine. And Justin is always doing what we would call big brain activities. He's always big braining things. Look how sick this is, dude. So it uses chat, BT, and then it like, it scans golf clubs and like knows what they are
Starting point is 00:34:04 and what he wants to do to it. Let me go in. farther here I love the people are actually using this AI stuff for like something cool how come every time
Starting point is 00:34:13 there's a computer like a voice you're talking to they name it Jarvis it's because of Iron Man okay yeah but but even
Starting point is 00:34:21 even in like the bench warmers that he was Jarvis like Jarvis Nick I think they talk to like the house Was it Jarvis and like Richie Rich or whatever There's a lot of Jarvis
Starting point is 00:34:30 started out as a butler name Jarvis And then he's just like Yes sir Interesting I have this one kind of a dumb bitch on my phone named Siri. So they're not all named. Yeah, dude.
Starting point is 00:34:41 My series is a dumb bitch, too. Never, ever works. Ever, I guarantee you. Watch this, watch this. Hey, Siri. Well, nothing. I have that turned off because that shit's annoying. No, my just doesn't listen.
Starting point is 00:34:54 See, Siri. Man, mine turned on. He's asking this thing. I know he has a setup. Yeah, he's asking it to do all this stuff and like, yeah, just build me this. And all I'm is asking Siri to do is make. me a reminder for my hair coat appointment on Thursday and don't forget to actually remind me and then she'll just put it in my to-do list and then it just never reminds me my grandma uses
Starting point is 00:35:17 syri like religiously like if we're sitting here and we're like wow i wonder how many gallons fall through the hoover dam she go hey syri how much like instead typing because you know it's easier for her to speak no old people love it because they're just not super quick with the typing most of time. Every time that I try and use Siri or even type text or talk to text, it always messes it up so bad. I'm usually driving when I'm doing it. And I have to like then take my time to delete it and then try and do it again.
Starting point is 00:35:50 I'm like, oh my God, this is not working at all. Do you run like car play when you have your phone in your car? Yeah. Okay. So that's another thing that I noticed. If you're talking to your phone and you talk to text, it's pretty accurate. at least in my experience, it's pretty accurate. But if you're in your car, it goes through the mic into that.
Starting point is 00:36:07 And so then I'm like, oh, it must just not work in the car. And then I'm like, let me try yelling. So I'm like, I'm on my way. And then it starts typing it all perfect. I'm like, I look like such an idiot. I won't back down. I think it's just the mics and the Broncos are so bad because it's so windy in there. They're just focused more so on performance when they build those vehicles.
Starting point is 00:36:29 Another thing I got to get off my chest is Ryan was. scrubbing through that video quite literally not scrubbing because Instagram took away the scrub feature and in my opinion makes the app way more trash it makes them more money I'm sure more engagement longer like you just have to sit there and watch it again a minute long video or maybe that was even longer you can't scrub through it and then there's the part that you want to watch again like how dumb what did they refresh I did notice that I wasn't sure if my phone was just glitching yeah you can't on the bottom my phone only does it on videos that are over a minute. Mine only does it on videos that are over three minutes and at that point, definitely should
Starting point is 00:37:05 scroll fast it. What you guys put that show on YouTube? Phone time. Oh, no, this again. Oh, God. So I'm not going to lie, mine is going to be horrendous because lately I've been watching King of the Hill. And so I set it up and then I fall asleep. But instead of turning it off, I just hit my phone down and then move my head on the pillow and the air pod falls out and I deal with it in the morning. So it's going to, how do you find it? Just search screen time. Hey, Siri. Finally. screen time. Dude, we're going to be messing up everybody at home, dude. Hey, Alexa.
Starting point is 00:37:35 Ah, you're welcome. Holy shit. I spend a lot of time. Mine is almost double yours, CJ. Oh, shit. Yeah. I have seven hours, 48 minutes. Holy fuck.
Starting point is 00:37:45 What do you have, Ken? Two hours, 56 minutes. Wow. I do not believe it. For the week? What? For the week? Holy fuck.
Starting point is 00:37:54 Look at Dalton's. This is 15 hours and two minutes. What are you doing, Dolton? That's what you're doing. in your office over there? You can shut it off, you know. Does yours include your computer? No, computer's separate. How is that even possible?
Starting point is 00:38:08 Dalton's texting his girl. Hold on a second. How do I know? Because like I do watch a lot of video. Mine's all from watching podcasts on YouTube. Yeah, because like I have eight hours of being on max. That's just when I fell asleep. I mean, I got six hours and 50 minutes. And even if that is a little bit skewed by falling asleep, which looks like at least an hour or two.
Starting point is 00:38:29 What was yours, Mike? four hours and 55 and what's yours ben 430 us three are really in the same boat what are you at ryan seven hours holy shit but if you look at the thing it's it's uh seven hours and it's down 150 from last week that's that's good because mine's up 158 oh oh because i started falling asleep to it yeah so it is skewed but yeah like mine says up nine percent from last week it's one of those many things like you don't actually want to do the math on it because then you start looking at you You go, dang. How many pickups do you guys have?
Starting point is 00:39:00 That's a thing. I only have one pickup. That's a Ford Raptor. 94 today. Holy shit. How many pickups? Daily average is 309 pickups. Mine's 192.
Starting point is 00:39:12 169. Mine is 50. Damn. So Ken, when you're ignoring us in the group chat, you're really just ignoring this. You're not looking at your phone. I just don't pick up my phone a ton.
Starting point is 00:39:20 Are you on your Apple Watch, though? No, I don't have, I never wear that. I lost it. Actually, no, I found it in my car because it was under one of the seats and it's just dead i gotta say i'm pretty surprised by that ken we used to give you so much crap for all the scroll yeah i'd like the lowest of all of us he used
Starting point is 00:39:36 used to just call him scrolls literally are scrolls some people can change over time i guess so actually i i had 150 pickups this is a big personal growth moment i'm impressed i i'm impressed that makes me want to be better ken started wheeling won't you get outside and ride a dirt bike something i just learn how to wheelie maybe like my phone just doesn't does everything in scheduled summary. So it's like it just summarizes it every few hours. How do you do that? What you got going there?
Starting point is 00:40:03 Then it's not like a constant ding, ding, ding. It's like every hour. It's like here's a summary of what you missed. Holy. Mine's like Shopify orders and all that. Like the best for urgent stuff, but other than that, amazing. Yeah. Can you push us through?
Starting point is 00:40:16 So like our texts that matter. If I need to get a hold of can, I usually call them. I don't even waste my time texting them. So I'd change that on my phone. We're now like if any of you guys call. sorry mark i don't know if you're on this but i'll get you on it uh it rings where like if other you know so yeah it's like an emergency bypass oh right yeah and i grabbed evan i was like hey evan let me see your phone and he's like why yeah he probably didn't like that no and i was
Starting point is 00:40:43 like i'm going to turn it on so when when i call it rings so i can get through to you you know like i'm not going to call you on friday afternoon to talk about you know your week because you were here you know like i'm gonna call you something important so like you can go through He goes, uh, no, no, I'll just do it later. I go, I know you don't know how. Like, I'll just do it quick for you, buddy. Like, let's do it together. He's like, no, uh, we'll do it later.
Starting point is 00:41:04 And he ran away. Just got to FaceTime him. Then it always goes through. He had like every number blocked. I don't know. He said he gets like 150 calls a week. Really? Or maybe a day or something like crazy.
Starting point is 00:41:15 Those are light numbers. Yeah. Yeah. And so obviously if it was Ken saying that, I'd be like, well, yeah, we put his phone number on a billboard. Like, no, no joke. It got, it got leaked. But for Evan, I was like, well, we haven't done anything with you. So I don't know who's calling you unless he's just a part of some like scam program that's like hit this guy.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Gambling help hotline or something like that. But instead of help, it's just like people that call each other when they want to go gamble. You guys watch this video. I just saw on Instagram. It's of a bull. Oh, yeah. I saw this dude. Just watch.
Starting point is 00:41:47 Oh, no. So this is like the national anthem. Everyone's, you know, getting ready fired up. Oh, shit. Just wait. Yeah, he's. Don't wear red. Don't wear red.
Starting point is 00:41:58 Oh. Looking like Johnny Knoxville at that thing, dude. Is this one all right? Dude, I don't know. I don't know. I can't imagine that was good. Man, so many people had this on camera. He just goes and starts fucking people up.
Starting point is 00:42:12 I think. Where do you hide from a bull? In a white t-shirt. I think just in a black t-shirt. Or just run. Like, you got to do circles. I was so confused, but like, look at this. Like, they don't even move.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Bro, he tripled tapter. That's so unnecessary. They're just watching. Yeah, dude, they're like... I don't think they were paying... You don't expect to have a fucking bull on a... Everyone has so much to say about this, but, like, really... Three hits, dude.
Starting point is 00:42:37 She was... She and her crew was larried at the radio. You weren't paying attention. She's like, dude, I didn't have... You don't have a much of a drink. You're not standing in the middle of the ring, but one thing, if a bull's ever chasing you, not that I've had to deal with it.
Starting point is 00:42:51 Ryan should be the one telling us. Really? You're supposed to go side to side, or... Like, you know, like, if you run straight, that's your... Because it's faster than you? Well, no, I mean, you just have better odds going... I'm not getting...
Starting point is 00:43:02 Running in, like, zigzags or going, you know, go left or right or turns. Do turns because they like running straight. Interesting. What slows them down is when you start fucking turning, because he's charging you, it's like, yeah. You got to run a slant. In Madden, like in Madden, you just can't beat the jukelet. Circles. You just can't beat it.
Starting point is 00:43:21 I guess that makes sense. If it starts getting close to you, almost like circle back around it. and then keep going. Don't wear red to the radio. That's probably the best thing to take away from that video. What the fuck was she? Yeah. I guess you don't expect for a loose bowl.
Starting point is 00:43:36 How common is that, though? Like, how many times does that happen where the bull jumps out of the arena? Solid lick. I mean, that was really rough. They're like bad ideas. Okay,
Starting point is 00:43:46 so you got wearing red to the rodeo. Yes. You got walking into your dentist holding a pop. A sucker. Yes, eating candy. That's a bad idea. Taking your driver's test with a beer in your hand. That's probably a bad idea.
Starting point is 00:44:02 Pretty obvious. I heard one yesterday where this guy said that he failed his driver's test. It might have been Ed Sheeran because he picked up the phone when he was driving. Well, what was he thinking? I slipped through a stop sign in mind. Did you really? Go past. Not all the way through, but just, you know, like.
Starting point is 00:44:24 farther than you were supposed to. In the winter? Yeah. I did the opposite. I stopped and there wasn't a stop sign. Oh. Yeah. I was like a extra save.
Starting point is 00:44:32 I don't know. I was being extra careful. Have you guys seen the new trend? Uh, raw dogging a flight. No. Dude, I showed up. I do rod off flights. Yeah, sometimes.
Starting point is 00:44:42 But then there, I think some of the guys are taking too far. Raw dogging a flight on a base level would be like no headphones, no, no phone, no movies on your iPad, no book, like, just. nothing you just sit there you watch the flight thing and that's it but then guys are taking it to another level they're like just raw dogged an eight hour flight
Starting point is 00:45:03 no water you know no snacks no nothing like a fast yeah and then I don't know if they're actually doing that pretty funny though and then some dude I saw a meme that was like just raw dogged a 15 minute drive to the liquor store
Starting point is 00:45:18 no music no beer there is nothing quite more mind clearing than rod dogging a drive though where you're just like where you have no music on and then just like kind of the background noise of driving down the road and then you just like
Starting point is 00:45:35 dude it's amazing the things that you'll think about yeah but I always hate when some of those drives I'll get done and then be like what did I even think about maybe there's some beauty in that maybe not but then sometimes when I consciously try to think and then think about how I want to remember what I'm thinking
Starting point is 00:45:51 about later and still don't remember about it yeah you got to write them down in the notes i bet i think of half of like the video ideas that i come up with driving really yeah and i will always either put them in my notes or text them to cj if they're surprises or things like that and that's where my Siri comes into play or my my talk to text and then i'm like no because it's like a big thought that you need to get out i'm like trying to get it done and then half the time it probably comes across it's like makes no sense you ever watch the lincoln lawyer no it's the whole basis of that show or not the whole basis but it's a lawyer who can only think effectively when he's driving in a car.
Starting point is 00:46:26 Wow. Really? So what's he do when he's in court? He just pulls his Lincoln all the way into the courtroom. It's pretty crazy. Of course he drives a Lincoln. Yeah, what do you guys think you listen to more in the car nowadays? Podcasts or music?
Starting point is 00:46:39 I always used to make fun of my dad as I got older or in my younger years because he would listen to the radio. I go, who in the right mind is listening to the radio? And now I would say for like 90% of the time, I either do. podcast if it's a long drive and if it's a short drive radio and if not radio nothing i thought you were just going to say i only listen to the radio i'm like we lost them boys yeah why why is that did i listen to the radio yeah i think it's sometimes just a pain to find music and the radio is normally awful music but at least it's on you don't have to connect your phone you don't have to
Starting point is 00:47:14 pull your phone out if you're driving i do the same thing just it's either that or nothing but if i'm going to go for like a drive to the gym throw on a pot on a podcast because you're dating a little personal DJ, too. Like, you don't have to I don't have to think about music. No, you don't. She's normal size, though. My point was, she's probably a normal,
Starting point is 00:47:31 normal size DJ, but I kind of, five, six. I was going to say this when you were talking about how rodogging and thinking of whatever at the drive, like, it's such an interesting way to say, like, yeah, you're, you're not doing anything.
Starting point is 00:47:43 But a podcast kind of ruined, like, my love for listening to music, because before there was a time, it was just, it was either music or nothing. And now, and it was like, music. Yeah, well, yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:55 Sometimes, yeah. And I don't do that nearly as much. But if I, like, am not in the mood for a podcast, I'm still like, yeah, I'd like to listen to a podcast. I definitely don't want to listen to music right now, though. And I'm like, when do I ever say that? Like, it feels weird to say. Like, do you still listen to like hard, hard EDM?
Starting point is 00:48:13 I hear in Justin's office sometimes to come in there. It's like, I still get a lot of it. It's actually from Justin. Ooh. or boom boom someone sample that dude Mark's in the back like damn that actually went kind of hard
Starting point is 00:48:27 dude I can't get away from it even with like podcasts I still listen probably 20% podcast 80% music and it's not all just mayhem music Justin you gotta get the subs back in the truck dude so Justin had a BMW what was your BMW
Starting point is 00:48:43 it was a BMW 325XI God that thing was awesome and falling apart by the dude because of your That thing, that thing didn't have a tight bolt left on. And then you have what? Two 12. Yeah, it was two.
Starting point is 00:48:58 Competition. Two sundown essay 12s and like a 3,500 watt amplifier or something like that. Those subs are actually in the boat. Are they still running? I believe they both are new because they've independently quit and then I buy a new one of the same thing. But the am still going on those things. Yeah. Jake actually for a stint before the boat put them in his mom's outback.
Starting point is 00:49:20 And, like, had he left them in there as long as Justin left them in his BMW, also would have rattled that apart. Yeah, yeah. How's the boat doing then? Yeah. It's okay. When you turn it up, the side of the hall flexes so hard, the water, like, bubbles on the outside. Yeah, that is.
Starting point is 00:49:36 Yeah, I didn't realize probably how annoying it was until there was another boat out on the lake that, like, has a decent speaker system, and you can hear the base, like, in your house. And I was like, damn, our setup was quite a bit better than that. Yeah. Dude, it was with your boat and the subs, the only time I didn't like it is when I happened to be sitting above them. Oh, yeah. That was just miserable. Yeah, because you got to pack boat.
Starting point is 00:50:01 There's nowhere else to go. Yeah, it just shakes you. He's got to take it. Yeah, but now we turn them down. We've matured. The thing about the boat, though, is it's an open space. Yeah. But with Justin's BMW, for example, is it's just such a confined area, you know?
Starting point is 00:50:17 So, like, you feel the air next to your head, shaking yeah like you feel every single boom of the sub like in your chest and your hair and your face and like everything about it it was like such a experience that only should last like 30 seconds oh yeah i should i had no business driving to school every day with those going but yeah i was gonna say so like that was just when like the homies were rolling with you but were you rocking that when you were rod dog in it the rod dog that i had then was i would just sit no music on and it would just be the amplifier static, and the subs would still be firing it.
Starting point is 00:50:55 It's like, oh, my God. Just to feel something. Yes. You could, like, fold down part of the back seat in that car, and I cut out the foam in the back seat so that I could fold it down. It would be all the way open to the trunk, and I could float a piece of paper in my driver's side window
Starting point is 00:51:11 as the subs were going, because it would just, like, move so much air, and it would just sit there. Mark is like, hell yeah, in the back. Mark sitting on the couch back there. Did you have a concrete floor in your car? Yeah, you put a concrete floor in because it, like, to flex is the enemy of... Flexy glass, bulletproof windshield.
Starting point is 00:51:27 There's just levels to it all because... Dude, Mark's done old. He's lived a lot of lights. Yeah, your setup would put... Four 15s. Oh, my God. I'm just trying to put myself in that position where that would be... So it'd really be about it.
Starting point is 00:51:39 Yeah, you got to be about it. If you at the age of whatever you would have been when Mark had that, your granola ass would have disintegrated. I'd imagine you were, like, saving up for, each sub at that point though where you're like all right just made an extra 200 bucks buying another sub that is insane did tint have that too that's wild everybody did i mean yeah everybody everybody something to be said is that so many cars their their stereos aren't very easy to replace so that makes it more difficult but like they come with the factory sub whether it's shitty and tiny or decent
Starting point is 00:52:13 but you're not going to like pay a bunch of money to then replace that sub one you got a sub most of time it's For the cars, it just have no base whatsoever, which, in my opinion, is a horrible experience. Yes. I'd agree. You call me a granola ass? I just called you a granola. Oh, okay. I think he said granola ass.
Starting point is 00:52:32 Grinola ass. Like, why would he disintegrate just because he was so small? Yeah, he just, he had no gluten in him and. No glue, nothing holding them together. There was actually a couple comments that was like, Mike's got to throw it back. Ben's being hard on Mike this episode. I think it was when he was talking about maybe you almost burning your. house down.
Starting point is 00:52:50 Mike's got to throw it back. Yeah. On bed. Pause. The people will be glad to hear you did. Everybody likes a little bit of controversy or this and that, which we don't have a ton of around here. Controversy sells.
Starting point is 00:53:03 It does. And we really don't. We get along a little too well. So we don't see it much. So we might have to change something about that. No fist. Granola. Beach.
Starting point is 00:53:16 I know the bad. Granola ass. Granola ass. It's more. along the lines of just not always just being like on the exact same page like at some point you got disagree or argue or throw a shot just to make things a little yeah a little spicy yeah a little spicy people love it when we make fun of each other which we just do naturally but like if we cut all that out a lot of like the funniness like people just love that too dry yeah people love it we fight like
Starting point is 00:53:42 brothers basically like when people say like do you ever get knock it along you go yeah kind of like You all know whatever you're doing, like, we all do it with each other's best intentions at mind. But we are with each other all the time. So we get on each other's nerves. I know I'm guilty of it. It was funny one time I was hanging out with my other friends, like my college friends. And I was with him for a whole weekend. And nobody said any, like, mean things about each other.
Starting point is 00:54:07 And I go, we don't know each other. I go like, holy shit, this is a positive environment. Driving nuts. If no one's talking shit for a whole weekend, I would lose my. mind. What do we say? I messed up and no one called me an idiot. Yeah, that was strange. My self-confidence was through the roof. Yeah, I didn't get completely crucified when I dropped that that thing. They actually told me it was going to be okay. Yeah. I was just so caught off guard. I figured they had to been messing with me and something big was coming, but if I'm being a little
Starting point is 00:54:41 whiny bitch, then you're going to get called out. Well, I get called out, but also like if it's your significant other year like oh i got it whatever it is i don't know what yet but i got to do something about it but for us you're like well yeah give him a couple hours and then we'll just get over it yeah just blow over ben's going too hard on micah about his hot dog addiction it's not a problem it's a problem it's a lifestyle i thought you were going to be on my side can it's not a problem it's a I thought you were going to say it's not a hot dog, it's a brat. If there's anything that would be my line, that's my line. So, Justin, since we have you here, we'd be remissed to not bring up some things of the past.
Starting point is 00:55:25 Oh, boy. I was reflecting the other day about when you edited one of our videos, you remember that? Oh, my God, yeah. Damn, do I wish you would have stuck with it? I don't know if you do, dude. It was life of a C-boy, right? Yeah, it was one of the... No, that was Mike.
Starting point is 00:55:42 That was Mike. It was the one. It was, uh, Ken edited a video, too. Ken edited a video on his MacBook air. Shut up. Yeah, it's like the first, it's like the third one. It was, uh, C-Boys TV, Summer 16. Oh, I thought that was Mike.
Starting point is 00:55:58 There, it was more of a montage. Yeah. Boyce TV, summer 16. Yeah. I, um, I hate to say it, but it might be our least viewed video. It probably is. At a hundred and 19,000. It deserves to be the loose.
Starting point is 00:56:11 They were like, well. Oh, I'm more interested in summer 17. Had to put a year on it. Yeah, the SEO on that video is pretty bad. Ken edited a video. He edited the, uh, when Spencer got his silver Mustang. Oh, it was the snowmobile one. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:23 Which snowmobile one? It's a winter one, I know that for sure. We break too much stuff? Uh-uh. It was the old sled gets big air. Really? Blenders give away. Not bad, Ken.
Starting point is 00:56:33 651. He left. I get it. Where'd he go? The old intro. It's like, freaking you wonder where everyone is. And it's like, Ryan's at work
Starting point is 00:56:43 CJ's at work Justin's being a pussy There's no way he edited that Because they added in cats I'm pretty sure it was the Spencer's Mustang I think I edited that one It was the snowmobile one We'll see if you remembers
Starting point is 00:57:02 Yeah it was jumping the 370 Ken do you remember which video that you edited I don't I remember it was a painting He asked to upload though Was it the old snowmobile gets big air Was it the jumping to 370? I have no idea. You don't have any or nothing?
Starting point is 00:57:15 I think there's a couple I did. We're going to have you start getting back into that, Ken. Next week you're going to edit it on top of shipping and all that. It's super stressed. A holiday week. Yeah, that's right. We're all going to be on the boat, so we're going to have you go back into the editing. I can't believe I was even able to edit that video on the laptop that I had.
Starting point is 00:57:36 That laptop had no business editing anything. I don't feel like at the time, though, at the time, you were probably like, it's a power. You're for sure, it was good until this one has six gigs of RAM. It's going to handle it great. It was great. I didn't have any problems with it until Jake put Gabe corn on. Oh, my gosh. On a Friday and then left it open all weekend.
Starting point is 00:57:59 Yeah, did that have something with how long it was open for? That laptop ended up dying very soon after Jake messed with it. Yeah, so that's right. Man, he's going to post it. Jake, watch that corn on your... I love where you grab your computer. I knew it, dude. Well, he was doing it to mess with him, I think.
Starting point is 00:58:17 It was like a prank. And then it toasted it. Yeah, it got so many things down on it. But that's because you like Windows, dude. If you were on a Mac, you'd been just fine. Are you still on the Windows? Well, no, he's on, like, 10 years. I'm on Mac now.
Starting point is 00:58:30 How do you like it? He's fully converted as a... I like it. Do you? Oh, you'd rather have a Windows? If I were to build, like, a PC that was going to be, like, I don't know, like a crypto mining one or like a gaming PC then I would want it on Windows but I don't know Mac is great for everything that we do here yeah you're just saying that because we gave him a Mac
Starting point is 00:58:48 no once I got used to it like the key binds and everything are different but it's it runs great for that's a 2018 and it still works awesome so they last a long time I feel like in that type of deal it's like Macs are like Mercedes you don't really mess with them they just they come and they They are what they are. Yeah. And then a Windows is like a 2006 Corvette or Subaru. Sure. It's just like as it is, it works.
Starting point is 00:59:18 But if you take all the pieces out of it that it comes with and custom make it to your liking, it's a pretty good rig. Yeah. It seems like to me... And not nearly as reliable. Exactly. Yeah. And my experience with Windows computers is like, yeah, they're better probably right out the box
Starting point is 00:59:35 if you get the right one. But they don't last. as long. They seem to only last like two years, maybe three Macs, whereas like a Mac just lasts for a long time. Yeah. And that's, I mean, in my opinion, that's honestly changed during the last couple of years. Like, now that Apple makes all their own silicon, sorry, this is getting nerd shit, but
Starting point is 00:59:52 Apple makes all their own silicon for their chips now, and they function way better than anything else. Like they all perform most things on the market. Interesting. Do you want to know? Like the plastic wrap that they wrap it in? Yeah. So, like, they make the custom...
Starting point is 01:00:08 No, that's what they make the integrated circuits out of. So they have their own chip that is their GPU, CPU, and RAM, all in one chip, I believe. And it's, like, it's incredibly efficient. Ryan, I thought... Not that all the listeners are asleep. I love just because, you know, like, Apple's always, like, they just like to go iPhone 7, 8, 9. They're like, we went from the A16 chip to the A17. Obviously, it's going to be better, but I don't know anything about that stuff.
Starting point is 01:00:36 all you need to know yeah right when you said that you were digging up some old stories from justin's past i thought for sure you were going to talk about the incident oh god i thought that's what you were like when you were like referencing that i was like i think that's blacked out of my memory how aggressive that was i was like oh man we were on the phone with them right now was that all over the phone yeah yeah yeah and i was just thank god he was on the phone otherwise i don't know what would happen we would have to have called the cops i don't even remember what the context was like i don't even remember what the background of it was i just remember there being a phone i just remember you and you just that's it he didn't even know you was so passionate yeah you didn't know what you were talking
Starting point is 01:01:20 about or who you were talking to but you were fired up yeah it was that was bad that was really that was pretty funny it was funny i i don't think i could unlock being that mad like anymore i don't think i've got that in me fired up context we were talking to like a a supplier that we had worked with for our old. Well, we just got in this big jam up and then we were trying to fix it. And maybe I'm forgetting, but like, weren't they
Starting point is 01:01:45 in some, like, weird type of personal, some cahoots. Yeah, there was some weird, I don't know, entire end of the stick. And we were just getting shafted on it. Yeah. And I would now I'm getting mad at you. All right. All right. Maybe change the subject. Justin's getting fired up. There's a couple
Starting point is 01:02:01 ounces of whiskey in your tummy. Oh, yeah. I don't remember exactly like the details of it but i remember asking jake because i was like man like maybe we really like overstepped on that one and i was like who's like a successful business guy like and how would they handle it i was like hey jake what would your dad do if that happened to him he's like he would have probably hopped in his plane flew right to wherever they were at and been like what the fuck is this i was like oh maybe we didn't but i was like man if you had a plane then we probably would have done that i'm glad we didn't have a plane i think of that in so many things i'm like oh it's a
Starting point is 01:02:34 thing this was a slow grow because man there could have been some some mistakes like that that were just good to make early dude 100% yeah i think we've made so many mistakes and i'm very happy that we got them out of the way grand we still make a mistake every single day i think back to how many things that we've done wrong and there's no way that you can learn that without just doing it nobody can teach you that or tell you that to like how to avoid things unless you just go through it that was just one of them but because we were talking about that a couple podcasts ago and just then text us the group chat afterwards. And he goes, just listen to the podcast, kind of blanking on what story you guys were talking about.
Starting point is 01:03:13 But I think he's coming back to me. I just started sweating in my bed. I'm like, God damn it. That was so funny. Your voice just kept getting higher in like, as trying to not like yell like, what the fuck? You're like, what the fuck are you thinking? It kept going higher and higher. By the end of it, you were like,
Starting point is 01:03:33 Dude, I couldn't breathe because I was probably so mad that I was just running out of breath. Yeah. Oh, man. We had to step out, too. I think we were all in it. I'm pretty sure I scared you all out of the room. Well, we were like, I think he's handled it. No, I was definitely scared.
Starting point is 01:03:48 I was like, I don't know what to do. You know, it would be fun is to go back to that old shop, that first shop, and just see it. I don't know. For some reason, like, I remember a lot of it, but also it's like it never even happened. And we were in there for so long. I can still feel like, why. walking on that carpet and like going up to Mike's office or bedroom bedroom slash office and being crunched over CJ falling down the stairs
Starting point is 01:04:13 fuck yeah shit bringing a man getting stitches I think it feels like I have more memories there because like we still here if we move from here I go like man the memories at this shop far away that but yeah there's some really good memories at that first shop especially because it was so small like we quite literally had to stand closer to each other when we were like in the kitchen area and stuff yeah well you live there mike so you spend more time that's true but like i lived here too for just as long as i lived there that's true longer true yeah i'd love to if if the people want to see it maybe we'll do like an unlocking memories of the old shop and we can go through some stuff and talk just about it because man
Starting point is 01:04:51 carpet in the bathroom that was diabolical decision to have carpet in the bathroom that was good times though i was just at my parents house the other day and i went upstairs to the loft where it all started we're like Mike you used to live there too man Mike yeah Mike's just kind of bounced around he's like a nomad some might call it a couch surfer couch surfer there's a little more dialed than that but pretty much couch surfer and I was just up I was up at uh in the loft where we used to you know first started editing the videos and shipping the merch out and Mike live there and it was just like it seems like an eternity ago yeah I guess thinking back to like nine years ago what that is a pretty long time ago like think about nine years before that i would have been like
Starting point is 01:05:36 eight we're actually we're actually at eight years you said nine eight yeah july 20th of 2016 when the channel got made so we're actually coming up on eight years coming up on eight the next month like you know 20 days got it i've been saying it's wrong i've been saying we're coming up on nine i don't know if we're boosting or hurting our stats yeah you know probably better off saying eight years you know with the journey of of people leaving coming back all the things that have happened along this i don't think well i know for a fact if it had happened differently we wouldn't be here right now but i i truly think if things hadn't went the way that they did i don't know if we would all if we'd all be here right now so thank god it did happen
Starting point is 01:06:16 that way justin it's fucking fantastic having you back around and we're a great addition to the team we're thankful to have you it's awesome to be back it's awesome to be back well said stronger than ever now next time we're on a pod like this we'll have to have jake on too it might get a little tight but we'll go back to the uh just be like the old to the original yeah the original seven leave a leave a comment down below if you want to see that pod with uh the o g crew yeah back at it but yeah we'll see you guys next week subscribe if you have it peace peace peace

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