Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Ken's Mysterious Personality, Ryan Trying To Be Cool & Micah Copying Ken

Episode Date: January 16, 2024

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Yeah, I accidentally blacked out of Family New Year's. I picked up a Bronco Raptor. I copied Ken again. And I saw that, I was like, damn, I actually kind of missed Mike. It took taking a week or two off from Mike for you to finally appreciate his humor. I think the airport is the safest place. You're just believing. It's called Security Theater. Here's 2024, though.

Another year. You got me fired up there, Ken. 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. We're back. First podcast of 2024 baby. We're back boys. It's just wild in here. It is. It doesn't feel like anything's changed. But we did take a little

hiatus and dude, you guys are all looking amazing. Really? I almost feel more tired. I legit feel more tired. Do you really? Yeah, I feel like that. That happens every time we like maybe take a little bit of break. I, you know, maybe catch up on my sleep and then I'm just more tired. Oh, really? That's tough. That's weird. That sucks. When I came home, I was exhausted the other day. Then I hopped in the sauna, sweat at all. I've drank like probably two gallons of water since yesterday. I'm focusing on my sleep, no alcohol. I'm dialing back in. I don't mean to brag, but I have worked out the last four days in a row. Nice, right. Yeah, I'm off too hot. You're looking good. Right. Yeah, you can see yeah wait i've also drank the last four days too so and yeah that's all right that's balance

balance wait till we get back to work and then you'll work out zero day straight yeah exactly then i got to work more beer and then still keep drinking exactly it's hard but yeah we all took a little little vacation and last year we all spent it together but this year we went kind of our separate ways me mike and cj actually ended up in the same section of florida so we got to hang out which is pretty fun you guys can go all the way across the country but i still managed to find yeah i know still want to hang out how funny is that i don't i FOMO seeing you guys hanging out like when you guys were separate I was like Florida looks fun I was in Montana with Greta and then next thing I know

Mike's with Ryan and I was like oh it looks kind of fun and then CJ's hanging out with oh I'm like what the fuck you found a little unmooted yeah I was like I was like we had this plan for a year checking Snapchat see you go oh oh oh they're mini golfing oh that that looks so fun did you feel that too Ken did I did I felt the exact same way Ken's in Hawaii. Ken's sitting on a beach in Hawaii checking Snapchat. I wonder what the boys are doing. I was sitting out,

we were getting lunch and had a nice little pinocalada. And, you know, mini golf, that looks fun. And I saw what they were wearing and I was like, I'm definitely in a better spot. Oh yeah.

We were in jackets. How was Hawaii, dude? A shit ton of people, but it was nice. Was it? What kind of people? Just a bunch of Japanese people, a bunch of Americans.

They love Hawaii. I didn't know how much the Japanese loved Hawaii. Is it close for them or something? Yeah, it's as far as Japan, it is the U.S. West Coast. Oh, no shit. But there's probably like, the times that I've been there, the times that I've been there, dude, the times I've been there, it was like, like 75, 25. I was like, am I in Japan right now?

I remember that. I did have the best sushi I've ever had in my life, though. So who'd you go with their eyes? Yeah, Ken. I went with, uh, Tint and Angela. I almost wish we would have had Tint here for this. I should have called him. He's probably all pooped out.

He probably doesn't want to spend another day with Ken. he's waiting for two weeks yeah ken was third wheeling with our buddy tint and his girlfriend angela honestly ken props to you for following through i don't know what the plan was if if you guys just thought that if you booked the tickets everyone else would follow that nobody else booked tickets so just ken went with our friend tinton angela which honestly we love both of them so i bet that was a great time but was it was it weird third wheeling with them for a little bit and then i kind of went off did my own thing a few days and then came back together and met up again but yeah so you guys got a table for new year's yeah just you

bottle service it was it was fun yeah were you trying to like flag over some japanese gals that were dancing on no no just had a night and then new year's hit and just got out why would you get a table and not try to flag over some japanese well one it was it was a weird printing out what's the point of getting a table it was a weird crowd in there but i can imagine i mean i had fun i don't yeah i don't mean this in a bad way but based on your snapchats it kind of looked like it was a weird crowd really how so just like there's the local people and then you can tell like the rest of the people were tourists and like the tourists are just kind of sitting by themselves all the local people are kind of mingling around but it's a little clicky yeah at the new year's party in hawaii so do you do

do anything to break down some cultural barriers just talk to some people and then oh that's fun what'd you guys do just to explain just so you don't feel a little you feel a little better about this we only probably hung out like two or three nights and maybe for like I thought he's just one And it was only for like maybe five, seven hours. So it wasn't like it was like a full day. Yeah, wasn't the whole thing. You know, we were just like, went out to eat and got it down in and mini-gall. Oh, great.

Yeah. Two of my favorite things. Anyways. But, no, I was hanging with my girlfriend. And then her dad actually tagged along. I love hanging out with him. He is so fun. You guys know him.

I was more jealous of you getting to hang out. Yeah. Yeah, we're just, it's like hanging out with honestly is as much fun as hanging out with you guys. Except maybe even a little more fun because I hang out with you guys so much. And you haven't heard all his stories. He's so funny, man. Like, he's just doing the funniest stuff.

He's kind of like a grandpa Ron. He is. He's like, he's a grandperon in his own way. Yeah. I was thinking that when I was with him, I was like, God,

I would love to see those two together. It'd be a dangerous combination. Oh my gosh. It would be. Just anywhere. Anywhere. I think just anywhere. They'd be tearing it up.

Just having a blast. He's like grand Paran. Like he can't walk in and like like say something, without saying something. into somebody like, you know, cracking a joke or, you know, but everyone just receives it so well and loves it. Yeah, he's just waddling around, dude. God, I love that guy. Yeah, he's good guy. What an art. Yeah, I was thinking that when I was with him, I was like, I need to get better at just, like, commanding a room like that. Yeah. Well, he's got the gift of the gab. I don't know if I have that.

I was wondering, like, I feel like if I said some stuff like him, it just wouldn't be received well. I think it comes with age. I think that might be part of it, too, you know. It was a little bit. It's more disarming when he says. It would come off as sexist or racist. No, I guess, though I think that you have to like own it. So if you just try it, if you just try being like that, then you're going to be like, that was, was that weird? Yeah, yeah, you got to really be about it. If that is you. I mean, it's also like the room, you know, like the room can receive it good and like the people that you're with aren't like just bearing their heads and embarrassment. Yeah. I mean, I was probably a good like, you know, backup man. Like I'd laugh. I'd crack the, I'd laugh.

and you know like ha ha and then we'd all laugh together and but yeah it was fun he likes to drink we like to drink we were just boozing and just hanging out and it was very chill yeah yeah i accidentally blacked out at family new years i don't know how it happened a couple vodka red bulls lost my credit card we woke up in the morning with mike yeah yeah dude and mike was uh very responsible i think i don't know i don't remember so we're at we're sitting in the pool Ryan's like, what the heck should we do tonight? And then he looks up, he's like, in Cape Coral, the Baja men are playing.

Like the Who Let the Dogs Out, Baja Man? But we didn't know that at the time. We're like, sweet, maybe we'll keep looking. And then you're like, oh, they sing who let the dogs up? We're like, all right, we're going. That's what we're doing. What else do they sing? One other song I knew, it's like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

Oh, yeah, that was a bang. That was the one other one I knew. Bangers, dude, back in the early 2000s. They were very tropical. You can just make, like, one or two good songs that people are going to just consider a banger. You're set for life. And then you're just like, yeah, I don't know, in 20 years, I might be playing at Cape Coral for New Year's Eve. I shouldn't say set for life, but, like, you're going to always have work.

Yeah, we're going to always have work. For, like, those, like, special occasions. And it might be in a retirement home. You know, that might be your audience, but you're still going to have some work. I, like, was trying to figure out who wrote that song when I was a kid, because you'd hear it. And I was like, that song is so. good you know i'm probably in like kindergarten yeah i picked up one of the now cds just because that song was on it those were like the first mixtapes yeah yeah yes you're right they made actual

mixtapes it was just like the hits man and it was like clean hits it was like how apple makes like playlist for you every week now like that was what you picked up instead they had full-blown infomercials for it you know yeah yeah yeah the kids bop ones yeah have you ever listened to those now i don't know how our parents put up with them yeah i don't know like that's i just wanted us in I'm an explicit. Yeah, exactly. We're listening to Baby instead. This is some bullshit.

I don't know. Do they even have a clean version nowadays? I feel like music has just gotten so aggressive. It's like, how do you clean this up? I don't know. How do you clean this up? You just, this is just how it is now. It's just a beat half the time, I think.

Most of the words just get, like, cut. Just a minute of nothing, just a beat. Clean. Dude, I think we should buy stock and who let the dogs out. Like Ryan bought Chill Bill. Oh, shit. I should buy their right. They would have bought their rights in 2002.

Was everyone going hard? Oh, yeah. We were just like, this is it. It was last song. Everyone is it. Finally. It was who let the dogs out and then the ball dropped. So it was pretty lit.

You could hear it in everyone's chest. Who? But, dude, Ryan later that night was like, you know, pretty turned up. I was like, I don't remember this. So I'm pretty sure it was just those guys, the Baja men, who let them out. I don't know. Why? I think it was you.

I think you took a snap or something and you were like, 2024, is it going to be the year that we find out who let the dogs out? And I saw that. I was like, damn, I actually kind of miss Mike and his humor. It's like, that is such a Mike joke.

Oh, man. It took taking a week or two off from Mike for you to finally appreciate his humor. Yeah, exactly. Now you're coming back around, do it. Bro, this is the funniest thing I was thinking about when you got home on Monday,

much earlier than us. And I'm like, give it like two days. Ben's going to be ripping. Yep. And he was. Rippin. You were firing ideas.

Oh, yeah. I was just right back to work. Right. It was like nothing else going on here. You were just churning. Yeah, I was going. Sending the ideas questions. I was like, damn, dude.

I know these guys are like on vacation, but like where the fuck is I going on here? I'm like, I would like to go into the group chat and see how many consecutive messages I sent, how many days in a row without a response. A bunch of response. Keep checking. Like, come on. They got a fucking. Like there'd be a few easy ones getting answered. And then when it was like, should we run a meeting on Sunday or Monday or what are you thinking?

And then Ryan's like, CJ, want you enjoy your vacation? We'll plan for Monday. I'm like, God damn. Yeah, see, Joe's like, I can do it when I get back late on Friday. And I was like, just enjoy your vacation, man. Like, perfect. We'll meet you at the shop. That's like, I'll be there, dude.

Let's get back to it. Yeah, no, there is something about taking a little bit of time off that that does refresh, like, the ideas and, and kind of gets you re-inspired and fired back up. That's my notes have been, they've been going now. It's fun. You just try to add stuff back in. I do love it. That's a weird chiching feeling when you are, like, walking somewhere and you, like,

get to fire something in your notes. It's a video idea or a podcast idea, but I did that in the airport because we were flying, so we spent some time in there. And there's a guy loading an ATM. He's just on his knees, ATM's open, a bunch of people. Thought about Rob, walking. Not even that. I mean, I did.

Rob, ATM. Because he has stacks of 20s like this, like behind him. What? He brought him so? Here's the ATM and then it's like back here to his right kind of like the money. And I'm like, bro, is that a thing? Wait, where was this? In the airport.

I guess nobody's stupid enough to commit a crime in the airport. I agree because like that was an interesting thought. You could easily just slipped it. I've said that before. I think the airport is the safest place that you. you could ever be in America, safer than like the U.S. embassy. It really is. The airport is the safest place because they scan everyone and you know that nobody is like armed. And then what happens if they, you know, like what are you going to do? Run out the gate. Yeah. Oh, true. There's like

nowhere to go. You're just believing it's called security theater. Oh, like people sneak shit through that all the time. Like there's some bad stats, but like how much people like can sneak through TSA and get away with it. How? I can't even sneak through my... Like, people have snuck stuff through and they realize like after security, oh, how did I get through?

But that's what I'm wondering if it's like an unintentional thing and then it goes into the stat. Like, that's not... You guys see that? They run tests where like they'll purposely send people through with stuff just to see if they get caught. And there's like some stat where it's a sting operation.

This percent of people got through and they didn't catch them. What do you think is safer? Probably any government building. I guess I didn't think about that. I don't know about that. Yeah, but why couldn't she sneak something through a government building? Like, do they do stats there? They probably just don't want people to go.

I think the volume of people going through there is just so much lower. Or, you know, like over the holiday weekend, I think like 400,000 people flew that day through the U.S. Well, you think that a government building, though, more of a target. Yeah, more of a target. Yeah, they got more of a reason to keep it secure. Yeah, but somebody bad could want to get in. I don't know. I don't know.

Whatever, whatever. Back to your ATM. That was it. Yeah, it was just an intrusive thought. Like, the fact that he's got like... So what did you fire into the notes in this scenario here? I mean, pretty straightforward. Or was it for the podcast?

I thought it was a video idea. Then I was like, what's the video idea with the guy in ATM, dude? I just typed in MoneyStacks stocking ATM at airport. Probably due to refill our ATM downstairs. We've been... Yeah, I think it's been out for a couple of minutes. Yeah, I know. That makes sense why there's no dice rolling over here.

It's been tough. It's a big idea, guys. So I watched this documentary on Amazon Prime. It was made a long time ago about blackjack players, like professional blackjack players, and they, like, can count cards. They have this whole system. They, in theory, should be able to beat the game.

Like, they're playing it. You know, it follows this guy who's a professional black jack player, and he's, like, making his rounds. And eventually when you're just, even though they're not writing anything on a piece of paper or anything like that, the casinos watch as you're playing and then when you're like betting and then you don't bet and then you're betting and then you don't like they know

he's counting cards in his head like he's a he's a professional and they'll come and like you're done here man we don't want your we don't want your business anymore and they can kick you out wow and once you eventually get enough of like reputation they're all linked and they will send like the security

photo from you and then you're basically like flagged book club on Monday Jim on Tuesday Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town on Thursday. Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine.

And it's good for your eyes too. Because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. So this guy, you know, he can win at Blackjack. And he knows he's, you know, flagged in the system so he decides he's going to go and uh hit all of the casinos do one last run

and try and like squeeze as much out of being a professional black check player so he'd have like hidden disguises and all this and go into one casino wearing like a mustache would ever play a little bit get caught he didn't go and get like a haircut like shave his head go to the next one he'd maybe be able to get away with that and and he would make some money or he'd sometimes even lose and this guy's got the most odds of anybody and he's still losing and he's still losing So I was pretty turned off by that because I'm like, how the fuck am I supposed to win? So anyways, this guy was up like $680,000. Whoa.

He played every day, seven days a week for a year and a half for 10 hours. Like at like a year, I think he was at like 600 some grand. And then he ended up losing like quite a bit and ended up walking away at like a year and a half with only like not only but $475,000. Wow. And like there would be times when he'd like lose $10 grand a day. Some days he'd go 30. but it was the biggest turnoff for me

because I was like this guy's losing 10 grand a day sometimes and he's like a professional he's the one who's supposed to be winning how am I supposed to win it all and then now I'm like I don't even know if I want to play blackjack anymore Wow after watching it it turned me off man

I'm just like what the fuck like this guy was playing hard dude a year and a half worth he's rigging it at least for himself and it's in his favor somewhat and he only went up that much Wow if it makes you feel any better people that play slot machines know they're rigged and still play them so what i'm more confused about is every time we sat down at the black check table you planned on on uh i was planning on winning

winning for everything you know i thought maybe eventually i'd get better and like having a higher chance like what is my what is my odds of winning if this guy's going in and losing no i know i know i know and i say that jokingly like obviously everyone wants to win that's why you gamble but i i think at this point how many times when we sat down at a blackjack table together got up a little bit should a walk didn't and then lose everything it's just a hail mary at the end every single time dude every single time i watched i watched my first live stream like kick you know twitch live stream last night and it was my favorite gambler vegas mat and steve will do it gambling together it was so sick like i funny because we ran into vegas mat at the stadium the stadium and he asked

you guys for a picture. It was so weird because you guys were, well, Ryan asked us for a picture. Ryan freaking loves this guy. He goes, holy shit, that's Vegas, Matt. He, Ryan walks up to him and he asked Ryan for a picture. I'm like, no fucking way. This guy watches our picture.

Turns out he just wanted a picture with Vikings fans didn't know that Ryan's on YouTube or anything, but it was so funny. And then cropped Ryan out of the floor. I was the only one who liked him. Yeah, Ryan put you in, wasn't it? Yeah. You two and Grandpa Ron were in it.

Oh my God. It's so funny me. But anyway, still supported the stream, and they sat down and played Blackjack. And, like, obviously were slightly degenerate, but I think we all have a little bit of... Those guys seem to be winning, though. Dude, it was chaos. They walked in there, and Steve was down at one point, like, 20 grand. And he's like, we got to get this back.

This big hand, big hand. He'll just, like, throw 10 grand on a hand. And they're, like, sitting there. And then it win. And then they ended up playing. up to where Vegas Matt was up five grand he was like I'm happy I was just down 10 I'm up five grand I'm happy Steve's like all right I'm just going to finish this I got to get up 25 grand and then I'll come and meet you Steve goes down another like where he was almost even I'm like Steve walk

like we're all Randy's there watching allander's on her phone because she wasn't obviously entertained by it and then we're watching on the TV and I'm like Steve walk away this is so bad ends up winning like 30k by the end of it like he was just kept playing and uh had all these different strategies and all the little side bets and it was it was magic to watch yeah it was it was exciting relentlessly i've recently kind of started watching some of their streams too they're kind of fun yeah it is kind of interesting because like the the veil is like taken down yeah exactly see how they actually are yeah you know because you're doing for three hours or you can have a better idea as far as what they're really like but uh

It's funny because I saw a statistic that live streaming is plateauing out. I saw that too. That's really weird. Manager, he put it out. So, yeah, slower cut content is on the rise. That to me was the most interesting thing. That's surprising to me, but it makes sense because I feel like it was like, you know, so heavy on being fast and like heart hitting and quick. And now people are maybe sick of it and it's kind of going the other way, you know?

Anyways, yeah, I do like watching the live streams. I don't know if we could do it for sure. but it just seems like there's so much risk to it like you could slip up on something or it could just be boring and it's or it's just boring it's funny because like those guys are rather like they're large influencers and like if they're pulling like 10k on a live stream it's like that's really out at 13k they're like this is a huge one yeah but like you had that on youtube you'd be pretty very disappointed yeah you know i did think of that i was like you could probably live stream like ev it and mike's like track nights you know out at the track you

could set something up and like follow around and they whip in and I think people could watch different parts of that but you'd have to make them entertaining so that's where I think they're talking about it plateauing out I think so many people were just like I'm just going to live stream me watching TV and then it got boring it is nice I think it's a good thing to just put on in the background a lot of times yeah it was easy we're talking but yeah we could three hours long yeah you just throw it up there Michael yes new bronco oh dude I love it I love it. I picked up a Bronco Raptor.

I copied Ken again. I don't know what to say. Ken got a Bronco raptor and I was like, well, now I need one. I was like bummed about Steve for a little bit, the green Bronco. Yeah, for like a week. And then I drove this for a week. Way better. It's just like, oh.

That thing is huge, dude. I didn't realize that. But even park next on my Hummer or like your guys's truck, they have some beef to them. Especially from the back. They just look so much wider. I think it might be wider in my pickup, which is a raptor. I think it's, I want to say they're about the same. That's wild, though.

Because it's a smaller cab. When I was ordering wheels for it, I think he said it uses the F-150 Raptor rear axle. So it's about that width. It's the body so much narrower. Obviously, it's nothing like you, but it reminds me of like a sprayer with a big gap underneath. It does kind of look like that. Dude, it's like the wheels are like a bulldog. It's got kind of a little dense body, but yeah.

I love Broncos, man. Me and Ken, right? Ken, too. I think you love them more, though. I think so, too, yeah. I was, like, looking at the security cameras, the night Mike picked it up, and I was like, what's he doing to this thing already? Call him and he's like, I'm just putting some accessories on this thing.

Yeah, you already had the wheels, the bumper. Now I can sell the wheels and be like, drove home from the dealership. Yeah, and that's it. Put the bronze wheels. You have to pop a picture up, but I love it. It reminds me of like a big hot wheels car. Did you see that we have new blackout plates in Minnesota now? Really?

Minnesota? How do you do that? then yeah Minnesota released new plates so like in California you know you get the white with the red but the cool people do the black with the yellow I always thought they painted them themselves no yeah they're like from the state it's like an option you can you gotta pay for like some additional upcharge but it's like find like the white tail one or like you can buy a Vikings one now I don't know why you'd want to do that wait but now yeah it's a black plate which just says Minnesota above it and then it's just white white text oh so it looks like a classic

Like an inverse of a classic plate. I was had one for like a couple years if you've ever seen those, but it's looked pretty sharp. Yeah. Oh, dang, that's sick. So that's what I got.

I got for the Bronco, a black plate that says Steve two. Steve two? That's what you went with? Oh, I love that dude. I can't think of anything better. Did you guys see that Minnesota also got a new flag?

Oh. Why? I saw that on the internet. I was like, what's the point? I was hoping you would know. Yeah, I was looking on the internet.

I could not find a reason why other than, they needed a new way to fuck up this state like of all the things they can worry about they're worried about the flag yeah it did seem uh I was like I didn't I didn't know that was something we needed and they're like yeah we made it modern and cool don't don't you guys love it everyone in Minneapolis is like

yeah yeah classic I don't know why did this it was like late at night when I read about the new flag and I see the design I'm like well this is bullshit so then I went on Amazon and ordered like four Minnesota flags of the original I was wondering who ordered those. I saw that on our Amazon account and I was like, I was like, what is somebody planning here?

And even, am I ruining something by seeing this? Me ordering them, I'm like, I don't go to March. I'm going to Mars. Planting that on there. No, I even asked myself the same thing. I'm like, I don't really know why I'm buying these flags, but, you know, just in case. You can't get them anymore?

That is such a. Mike thought, that's like, oh, man, I should throw this away, but what happens if I needed in the future? I better hold on to it. Well, that's because he's a true collector. Now I'm getting advanced. A true collector. I didn't, I haven't even thought about throwing away because I didn't own it.

I needed to acquire it first. Yeah. Well, he's not going to think about throwing away. You will, Ben. When you see four flags sitting in the shipping here, what are these flags doing? They're not, they're not even the new, the new Minnesota flag. Are we good at, CJ, am I good to throw these? I don't care.

Throws him in the garbage. Three months later, Mike's wondering where his flag. Pulls him back out. That's exactly right. I'm going to hook it on the razor whips. Show my Minnesota pride. Man. Like it becomes,

I don't know if I have much Minnesota pride. I hate to say it. It is tough. I do. I'm proud to live here. Unapologetic Minnesota pride. I don't know why. I think it's the southern half of the state that maybe

paints the feeling of the state. But like I'm proud to live here. Yeah. Which obviously I know you are too, but I see what you're saying where you're not like Minnesota. Dude, I don't think we always make the greatest decisions. Yeah. Yeah. It's really ironic that we're, like, talking this much about our state

because last night I watched like a informational video on YouTube about it, like 13 minutes long. Some dudes like, today we're going to be talking about the state in Minnesota. Really? Minnesota is one of the shows the whole history of it and how it used to be split up. Like, what am I doing? Did you learn anything new?

Yeah, I did, but I need to go to bed. I didn't retain any of it. One of those videos. Yeah. Although 65% of people live in the Minneapolis, St. Paul area, in Minnesota. That only leaves 35% of people live in the rest of the state. That is why it's so different. That is pretty wild.

And we got a strong hold on us. A couple of cities, mostly Minneapolis, Fargo, because they counted it. And the rest, that was it. If I were to move away, I'd want to go Florida, otherwise, Las Vegas. And then I'd say Utah third. Because of the Mormons. Yeah, Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City is sick.

I think it's just a nice place. At a hub, you're like four hours away from anything. How was Florida? Did Florida kind of reignite like we should get a place down here? I love Florida. I'll never stop thinking that. But no, I guess it's hard not to think about it when you're there. You're like, man, I love it here.

But I'd love to do that one day. I think it's in the cards. But I haven't put a lot of thought into it. Yeah. I feel like there's other things that we probably need to acquire around here before we do that. We should probably finish. finish our shop. Yeah.

And it'd be tough. Like as we, as we get older, like you're married and stuff. And then you leave and you're, and you're like, we're going to just go and all live together in a house. Like you'd almost need to have each of us have like our own crib or some kind of

spots. That way you can bring like the fam with. Or we, yeah, we capitalize in school. In the case that we're all married, we also film like a live stream, maybe not live stream,

but like a reality TV show in our house. house. It'll be exhausting. It'll be exhausting. It'll be a big ass fucking house. Huge house. A really big beach house. The show would pay for the house. Oh my God. Can you imagine? And then we're also filming our YouTube videos in a day. I don't even know if it'd be a TV show. It'd probably just be another YouTube channel. It'd be the most lucrative. It might be more entertaining. And then it takes off like way bigger than Seaboy's TV. I often wondered that too.

You saw the off camera lives with all of our girlfriends and friends and everything. It'd draw like a new crowd like like all the guys that watch all of a sudden they're girlfriends and they are like more interested in that version of our life but they're all like that sucks they don't do anything cool i mean it is pretty intricate i think people would definitely find it entertaining but it would it would add another layer of stress for us oh at that point like our life just like they're just running real we're not even you know our life legit would not often yeah that scares me i did find a nice place down in uh naples and that two properties next door were actually for sale if we

wanted to pick those up, but it was $175 million. Six beds, 16 baths. Holy shit. So, yeah, the payment's only a million dollars a month. Property taxes is probably a million bucks. Yeah, it was about $750. But I just couldn't believe. Yeah, year. I couldn't believe. I was like, who's buying this? How long have been on the market?

I don't know, probably a while. Apparently nobody's buying it. When we were on the pontoon in Florida and the canals, it was so great we could just be like Ryan what's this house is for sale what's it worth oh yeah my dad away zillow just like he can't believe it yeah he's like how do you find that so fast like you don't even know the address I'm like well you just press the little yeah I do that all the time except I do I use on well I use zillow to see but then onics also for like certain things but yeah I love doing that creeping on on people's personal

life it brought a more entertaining aspect to for sure just like house looking that is one thing when you talked about Florida like did it reignite anything i absolutely the minnesota in me loves florida for that because here like everybody who's ever been on a lake you cruise around in the pontoon slow in the lake you look at the houses you look at the water so you do but you have the same lake the same circle that you go around a hundred times of summer but there there's like i don't know how many hundreds of miles of canals go all over the place you can go all over the place you drive to like 10 different restaurants it's the best yeah that's weird i'd never experienced that until I was with you and your dad last year

but it's like you're legit on just roads but you're in a pontoon. Yeah. It's like every road has a canal on the inside of it so you can go pretty much everywhere in the city just on a boat. Yeah. It's like the weirdest thing ever. It has more like I guess waterfront than Venice, more canals because that's what Venice is always known for.

Is the canals? Around here we always gawk at the really big houses. We're like we're so basic for that. Like when someone's building a house house. We're like, oh, yeah, how are they coming along on that? But in Florida, it's cool that you can kind of see, you know, you can look at any different tier. How those little houses are nice.

Oh, I love that. Oh, look at that house. Oh, look at that house. And then you go to Miami and then, like, it can just keep getting bigger and bigger. You got the $100 million builds. Yeah. You see that guy in Fargo, he's building like the new, it's going to be the biggest house. Mm-hmm.

In North Dakota or something like that. And then the newspaper, like, freaking made a, wrote an art. on it and like page news release the floor plans and i guess initially like had like labeled like where his kids rooms were and shit and then yeah that's fucked up i think it's i think the whole thing's pretty fucked up like just weird why would you even need to write an article on that strange i think they're hands on that i guess it's public knowledge like what we were saying how we like to look into people's life right yeah i know it was interesting that just made me think of it yeah so yeah i mean you could everything's public knowledge

when it comes of that. I'm just surprised that, like, someone had the idea to be like, let's put the blueprints in the article right there. It's pretty polarizing, though, because some people are, like, I was looking at the comments. Some people are like, this is so fucked up, like, respect their privacy and all this. And then other people are, like, just hating on them because, like, they just hate anyone who's rich or has money.

Yeah. And, like, they don't have any sympathy for them. And, yeah, it's just interesting reading the comment. Then they're fighting in the comments. Facebook's always good for that, dude, I've really come around to Facebook. Really? Yeah, I love Facebook. Mainly, marketplace.

There's just, you get in everything. You get in everything. I've always loved marketplace. Yeah, I know. I know that. Yeah, we know that. I've been getting a lot of inquiries lately. To buy people's stuff.

Just starting to become more frequent thing. Yeah. Any good ones? No, nothing good yet. Nothing that would be like worth adding another headache. You know? Like, how many vehicles you got right now? So you got your Bronco?

You have four? Four. Run me through them again. Rock him, Subaru, 350Z. Oh, that's right. Water truck. Water truck. Five.

How many of your vehicles run right now? Uh, I guess. Don't need work need to be done to them. Two? The Subaru runs. Are you saying, I know you're hesitated when you said that. How about doesn't need to be repaired? Uh, just one.

In some way or another, dude. Yeah, when Mike was waiting for his Bronco, he was driving the company truck for a while. I was like, man, this guy's got all these vehicles, but he doesn't have a single one to drive. Well, he was driving the Subaru, too, for a little bit. Before Evan jumped it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you're driving the blue Sub. That was pretty funny.

Or a rear bumper. Yeah, that was pretty funny. Like, I can't believe. Although then we thought, man, like six years ago, us would have been like, frick, yeah, the company's got a Subaru, like we can hop in. But then I did the same thing with the RAM. I'm driving and I was like I really hope I you know the Bronco comes in or the Subaru gets done faster or something I was like so I can stop driving this and then I was like wait we didn't

work our asses off to get a company truck to not drive yeah I wasn't drive it right right care it is nice too I kind of fell in love with it like going to a diesel truck sometimes can be tough if you come from like your guys's trucks it would ride rough and stuff like that but once you get used to it ooh I started the Bronco and I'm like doesn't smell like diesel I like that. It doesn't smell like diesel. I love that smell. Diesel on your hands after you fill it up. Yeah.

Smells better than gas. What's that? Am I right, Ken? Oh. Gas. I've never heard of that. I've been stuck driving an electric car for the last two months. Yeah, exactly.

Stuck doing it doesn't want to. Stuck? When I was flying down to Florida, I was going through my phone because I didn't have internet. And you're pretty limited on what you can do. And I had about four Jack Harlow songs. And that was all that was downloaded on my phone for music. Yeah, it was tough.

I don't know like, I think it got like my normal stuff got bumped off. So I was just like scrolling through pictures listening to the same Jack Harlow songs. And so as I was laying there listening to way out by the last, or for the sixth time, I remembered something about Jack Harlow. Me and Ben went to the concert as well as my buddy Ken. And then my buddy Ken disappeared. You remember when you were up on stage? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, I got asked to leave. But you were, before that happened, what, what brought you to the VIP, like only girls in bikinis and Jack Harlow and his cronies? You guys had, you guys had snuck onto the floor, which you had to pay extra for. Kind of like, fuck that. And I couldn't find an opening to sneak into that. Okay.

So I snuck around to the backstage bar where there's a restroom back there. Okay. And then from there, it's just a quick little security line into the back area. And the security line people got occupied by somebody else. And me and like six other people, random people just walked straight in there. What was it like up there? Like, did you feel like you were living on the other side? It was kind of weird.

It was kind of more. I feel like it'd be more fun on the floor because, you know, up, you're just like elevated. Everyone's like, looking at it. It was a little like too snooty. Yeah. And then Jack Harlow bumps in you. He's like, get out of my way, man. And then security rolls around and it was right wristband and you're just like,

Oh, they saw you and they just kicked you out. Oh, yeah. Like right before they like did one little security check, checked everyone's wristbands and everyone that didn't got asked to leave. Damn. Legendary though. I forgot about that. Yeah.

That's what I was just, I couldn't believe it. I was just sitting there in row 37 on an Allegiant flag. I go, man, my buddy Ken snuck up on stage. Dude, it's a wild man. Two days. Two date. I've never seen women act the way they acted around Jack Harlow. It was crazy, dude.

Yeah. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen. These gals were just swooning, just swooning, and he's not even a good-looking guy. I was so confused. That's how I felt, I know it's a little different, but the same thing at the Skizzy Mars concert. Oh, yeah. He's a little more underground, but chicks were going nuts for him, and he is, yeah, he's not the best-looking guy either. Dude, girls love a guy with talent and musicians, athletes and musicians.

How do you- I think they got a lot of money, too? That helps. That helps. How do you acquire that type? of the i almost use the word juice but i don't like that word so like how do you how do you acquire that aura you know like how do how do i how does this turn into you probably stop wearing a a white long sleeve under it's cold out it's cold out you know ryan i feel like you have a lot of uh

anti juice no no no no just listen i think that you if not already, I mean, obviously already, you're extremely cool. I think you're extremely cool and you have that factor, but it's not the same factor as like Jack Harlow. I think it's more of like a Kirk Cousins type of factor. Right. Right. Like you, like for people that don't know Kirk Cousin, wouldn't you guys agree? Like everyone loves Kirk Cousin. He's fucking cool. Okay. But like you, you may be more of a line in that lane. I like that. So he's kind of asking how to obtain more of a Jack Harlow. How do I, how do I get in my

Kirchow chains? But, yeah, but that is a good point. You're like, you can't. Well, I think you could just put a chain on it. We'd be funny. You know, like, holy shit, right? We're going to be. This is so funny. And then you had like three chains on that. It was insane. But then, like, you got Evan over here, and he's wearing, like, three

chains. And you're just like, yeah. That's how he is. He's wearing like a camo, full camo onesy. Yeah, I think you could, anyone could obtain that. they want but they have to again they have to like uh years i'm talking like years whether it's rapping or like singing or just like gaining a talent and gaining a mindset that you're going to be i think you're just who you are man yeah can't pretend your whole life where you can pretend your

whole life yeah but what if you wanted so bad that you're not pretending everyone just thinks you are what do you mean why did you quote ken what is ken pretending to be someone he's not well when he goes on dates he does you're saying you don't embellish stuff no when I go on when I used to go on dates no my whole persona was not a lie

what if you were on a date with 12 women in on camera cameras with your best friends with the other side of glass laughing I mean I'd feel more obligated to tell the truth I'd be like damn you definitely got to

to know what you're saying and who you're saying in front of because they might take advantage of it, which Ken is now You think I don't know that already. He's learned that so many times. Everything you say and do will be held against you in this group of God, dude.

Will be. It's the key word. I don't think Ken day to day, you're not a, you're not like lying to anybody yourself. I think you're just a man of mystery. I think you're kind of like Like, you know, don't we really know this.

We had to pick out. If you had to write a bio, I could write a bio on everybody quickly. But when it came to Canada, I go, I don't know, great dude, love him, hilarious, but I don't know. And then you start making stuff up. You just don't know the guy. You never know what's true. You don't know what he's up to, where his next move is. who he's with what he's doing you just don't know that's what i mean he's going with the flow i love

that like in a mysterious on a mystery river yeah as long as nobody knows not not a bad thing i think people like mystery girls really they might like that you on your speed dating you could have just instead of just lying you should just played cool guy just like no what's not said anything what do what's your i don't know i don't know you tell me that'd be a What's your favorite drink? Why don't you find out at our next date? And then the girls would be like, oh, my gosh. Ooh, she's like, you know, sometimes I'm just not quick enough on my feet to come up with that kind of stuff.

I mean, I don't know. What's your favorite drink? Lye. That actually was not a lie. That was not a lie. You could ask any of the restaurant, like the bartenders are on, dude. They know I order that. I will.

Tito soda with a line. I don't know if it's a continuation. of the uh now you're you're trying to do that more or like make it real but now that i've been paying attention to it i do notice you that was a summer thing anyway uh right i think back to your question though um i actually listened to a podcast with jack harlowe he was on caller daddy greta wanted to listen to it call her daddy guys can listen to collar daddy is the greatest podcast interviewer of our generation i mean up that's just a heavy statement do it's a very I don't know a lot of people

That's a heavy statement What about the guy who does hot Hot ones? I think he's got a production The Yovon Okay and Theovon All right All right

Call her daddy What about Oprah? All right Oprah She's up there too She's top 10 She's top 10 She's top 10 Um

No she's she's just fantastic though She like goes in between like sucking dick And then like Tell me more about your business That you're building I don't know Two of your favorite things

She sucks Maybe that's why do you like that's why i'm like damn this girl that just sure knows that it's a great show i like this you're looking at grotto she's not even listen anymore yeah i got morely intrigued jack harlowe was like like basically just like flirting and like trying to riz the whole time and i think like people like that that do have that aura they're just constantly like kind of flirting with them or like playing with them and like ah you're so funny you know like having confidence yeah yeah there you go i think it's tough to just have confidence out of nowhere you know that's when it comes in like oh you're super talented

something now you have a lot of confidence in it because you're like I'm the man I'm a good quarterback you seen me drift a front wheel drive car like that's your go-to do you have any say like accolades or just skills that you feel like you really bring to the table I can swing the tc I was really cool when I was 16 at it so yeah you guys missed out last night we had a time Oh, I heard about this. Kind of called for a boy's night. I know you were just getting home. But, you know, we still made do with, without you.

But we played fibbage. Have you ever, no one's ever heard of pitch? Yeah, I played it. Yeah. Bro, we were crying. You should probably run through like the group. So it was me, Gavin, Ken, Justin, Cody, Jake. Oh, my gosh. And we were just ripping for, we played for three hours.

And we were crying, laughing. What is it? The playing fibbage for three hours doesn't sell me. me like I missed out, but the crying laughing does. I can picture it because I know you guys, but I just I'm trying to figure out. I'm sure it's still fun. Just hanging with everyone. Who can come up with the most messed up response to these questions? It basically is just like a random fact and then it'll leave a word blank. And so you're supposed to come up with a lie that is like convincing that someone else would pick. But we just came up with the funniest thing possible and then

played it like apples to apple style. You know it's good when the next morning in the group chat somebody text man i'm still crying yeah so uh ben are you still on your carnivore diet yeah you are you're back to it now yeah so you kind of deviate when you when you travel though just to make life easier yeah i mean i feel like shit like i i definitely i try not to um because it like sets me back and i don't feel good if i don't um but yeah yeah i'm still back i might hop on that i just want to try it really i mean it's i'm not gonna go as extreme as you because i think i could probably still Like, you should be able to put seasonings and shit on. Yeah, I just use, like, salt and pepper.

But it's difficult if you're traveling. But, I mean, if you're at home and you can just set up. Sounds kind of nice. Just eggs in the morning and then do a steak at night. Yeah, I've lost, like, even more weight. I'm probably, like, 25 pounds down. Damn, dude. And I've tried to, like, eat as much food as possible.

Like, this morning for breakfast, I had four eggs and four pieces of bacon. Whoa. And then a bunch of fries. fruit and so I kind of all I can eat and I just try and eat like larger portions of it and I'm still like you're hungry uh or you just don't feel fulfilled because it's just the same thing yeah both both but also I'm trying to like gain weight like I'm trying to put weight back on why I don't think like where I'm at is like a like a healthy weight like I would have been like happy like losing 10 pounds what do you weigh now like 147 holy shit dude I haven't been really the rest of you

Yeah, I haven't been this small since, like, 10th grade in high school. What'd you wait before, 175? I was like 172. Holy shit. I think I could lose some weight. Not necessarily even doing that. I just, I want to do that. And I want to try the Dana White's fast.

How fast? Where you, like, fast for, is it 72 hours? So you'd only drink water, but the reason I'd want to do it, not necessarily to lose weight, but it cleans out, like, your system, because I guess, like, it just, eats all that you just burn off all your garbage that's in your system but i've just recently like i'm just trying to be more healthy not that we're old but as we're getting older i just want to like try to make my body maintain it and be able to go for longer i mean we used to i mean some of still do but like i'll say for me like i was i'd drink every day eat shit like i wouldn't get any sleep

now I like prioritize just like getting good sleep and like not drinking alcohol every day and all that. So I want to try like some new stuff. So yeah. And I've been getting like on my supplements and everything. I think probably too more than even like obviously appearance is nice. But it's like how you feel. Yeah. I feel better. I agree. And I think that is what I could see for you to like what you really are searching for. It's just feeling. Yeah. I just want to feel better. Yeah. That's right. You know, what's funny, though, is, I guess I didn't drink, like, every day. I would say probably, like, two or three times a week. When I quit drinking, because of my stomach, I was curious to see, like, how I would feel, like, mentally from, like, quitting drinking.

And I quit for probably, like, a month and a half. And I, honestly, I didn't feel any different. Really? Yeah. Yeah, to me. To me. Yeah. Yeah.

I was not. I wasn't expecting to say that. I wasn't either. I was expecting completely, yeah. Yeah. Like, honestly, the only thing I felt was more depressed. Because you don't have anything to look forward to. Because, yeah.

And you're not getting like that dopamine hit from eating whatever you want. Yeah. And I don't really think that I had like a drinking issue where like, you know, I looked forward to it at the end of the day and like that's the only thing like getting me through. It was just always like a nice little reward. Yeah. And I just felt like without, you know, having like that little reward. Granted, I had, like, no reward of even, like, good food.

Yeah. So that was part of it, too. But also, like, I think a lot of good time to come from, like, drinking with the boys or, like, when we're, like, out and about doing something, you know, just not experiencing that. You know, you have a little bit more, like, mental clarity, I guess, from not being, like, fog by, like, the booze or, like, hungover for a day or two days after if you really go on a bender.

But, you know, those aside, just, like, overall happiness and overall just mood. it's maybe not even so much the drinking but it's the like not getting the social like the camaraderie yes that yeah that too i mean to me i guess i don't feel like the drinking is like a mental fog like i can get up and oh yeah but what i notice is i don't sleep as well and now since i quit drinking so much i like i know what like a good night's rest feels like and honestly like not not a paid thing but like with my woup and now i'm like able to put numbers to it i'm like well no wonder I don't feel good and then you kind of start figuring it out and I think I just know what it feels like to have a good night's rest and wake up like actually ready to go which I mean

I don't know like you can wake up and still be like hung over a little drunk still and just like start firing and be ready to roll like I mean that's not like my problem yeah but at the beginning of the podcast I was like man I just feel like drained and like more tired you know even after taking like a week off um what I noticed too is like when you guys were all gone I was a little sick, but, like, you know, I didn't have a reason to, like, get up and, like, get going. And, like, I didn't have to be to the shop and I didn't have to, like, get shit done. And I would just, like, find myself, like, sleeping in later, staying up and then staying up late. Just scrolling.

Yeah, scrolling because I'm like, I don't have to get up. And then, like, my whole day is just shot because I woke up late and I kind of got a, you know, a slow start. And then I'm just like, I'm literally sitting at home, like, texting Greta, like, yo, when are you going to be here? I'm so bored, right? I know how she feels probably all the time. Yeah, and I was like, I was like, that's why I'm sitting at home fucking firing text in the group chat. Like, all right. Because you're thinking.

No, I feel that. When you guys can't be home? Like, I'm like driving myself crazy right now. I'm sleeping in. I'm getting more sleep and I feel like exhausted because of it. And, uh, yeah, there's something to be said about just like just getting back to, to, uh, to work or like whatever you're working on or excited about or just, something to do you were missing those dopamine hits of productivity yeah of doing something like moving uh we'll just say the business along you know so like maybe if you would have started working out

i did work out that's how bored i was did you feel a little bit better after that yeah but i was like well now what that is short live now what but i felt that even on like the last like day or two i'm like damn like been here for like seven or five days now i'm like i'm kind of ready to go and then it's like We've got two more days of kind of just hanging around. I agree. Like, I was getting bored. I was like,

I was doing some stuff on the computer. But, uh, I think that's the best part is when you get the break, you, uh, like when you're burnt out on doing it, not necessarily like I'm over as I'm not doing it,

but you're doing it like slow or not as like efficiently and take that break. And then your next thing you do, you're doing it because you want to do it. Yep. That's what that breaks for. Yeah. No, there's a huge difference when you're doing something because it,

because it has to get done or, or it needs to get done versus you want to do it. Like, you're going to do it so much better when you want to do it. That's just the, I mean, the basics of like anything you're doing. Yeah. And sure. If you want to do it and it needs to get done, then it's really going to be good too. Yeah.

But, yeah. I'd say, like, the main thing I took away from being away from you guys, even though it was like a week or maybe a little bit less even, is just like coming back, inspired and excited for just like continue to create videos and um have a good year yeah i'm so excited to to make some bangers this year and we've got some bigger ideas some of our best ideas like coming up uh in this first like six months and um i'm just excited to film them and produce them and and drop them for the people because people have been really liking the vids yeah yeah dude like looking at the calendar like a blank canvas or like you know looking at the calendar on the idea board like it's

It's so fun. And they'll be like, we'll do that this week and we'll do that. And then we'll do that in a month. Oh, it's going to be great. Yeah, I'm excited. How the last meeting felt. Yep. And three million's coming up.

I can't even remember what I guess. And a billion views. A billion views. Yeah, we're coming up on one billion views on total channel views. That's fucking crazy. That's insane. You think about that. One billion views.

There's not that many channels. You'd be surprised. If you go to like some of your bigger, like, most favorite channels, there's not a lot of people that are in the one billion. like large creators that you think would be in it they're not interesting which i mean we got the we've been doing it for so long and you know shorts and whatever else that is boosting it but yeah yeah we did five 500 million views last year 500 million views about a million subscribers i think we're i think we're the top 1,000 YouTubers for subscribers subscriber rank yeah easy

that that was that's a real that we're in a room full of 1,000 people would be like a smallest dudes there yeah small dogs which i don't think we're that big on youtube i always say that but that is cool i'd say that's like the threshold you know when we first started let's say it was even at like how many channels there are at a hundred thousand but a lot a lot and then getting to the top 1,000 is pretty cool we're at 1,050 so we're still outside the room we're waiting to get it right but there's uh it's probably very competitive once you start getting closer and closer, you know, because they're going to be posting and...

100%. Well, here we go, boys. Here's 2024, though. Here's to it. Cheers, boys. Cheers, boys. You got me fired up there, Katz. All right.

Well, that's a wrap. Peace.