Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Ryans Near Death Experience, Fan CRASHED At Our Shop, & Ben VS Evan

Episode Date: June 9, 2026

In today's episode the boys Ben shares the regrets of his own tattoo, Aftermath of the cheap car challenge and cj trying to blow up the 370z at Zorbaz. Evan getting a new dirt bike, Shrinking the game of golf, Cj running out of knives and accidentally cutting himself, Ben & Evan being in a special reading program, AI taking over schools and work. We watch extreme LARPing, and Ryan shares how he almost died driving his Corvette home. Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/wideopen! #squarepod #sponsored #ad To watch the podcast on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, or send this link to a friend: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

You were flipping that knife around and you cut yourself. Yeah, I did. That's not a good look for the knife guy. I don't love hot dogs as much as everybody thinks I do. I was a bad reader. I had to get pulled out of class and go and read in this closet. I think I almost died on Sunday. No exaggeration was looking out the right side window in my car at 80 miles an hour.

Are we going to talk about what happened filming last week? And don't you go. Suckin. Get it out. Get it out. Get it out. Mike. You don't want to say it. Better? Tits. Well, you could have saved that. You didn't have to get that out. Ken, anything you want to get out? Ooh, nothing that I want recorded. Smart. Hurry up. Let one rip.

Ken gets up and goes to the bathroom. We're like, not that. Not that. Well, we're back, boys. We're back. Back for now. That we are. Back in black. You're back in black, I see. I didn't really realize that. But yeah, I'm pretty much. it out. Dude, Evan's, Evan's been out just hitting the boys hard

if he doesn't approve of their outfits. It's summer, you know, shorts, shorts are back, and Evan's not holding back on his opinions of,

they're too short. I almost think that CJ's had maybe the more vocal opinions. I've certainly agreed. Me? Yes. I've never said anything

negative about yours, and that was, CJ was the one ripping you a new one. He also was? And I was just like, Jack was just minding his own business and you go, shh, your shorts, man, what are you doing?

I think he said they were gay. I think it was... Well, he also started that saying this short, short trend is gone too far. He didn't start it. I do agree. I mean, I've been vocal about the short short trend since about 2015. I just think they're a little too short.

It's tough though because like you're literally rocking them right now. No, I'm talking short shorts. These hangs are the top of my knee. Evan literally cooked me for. for the same length shorts as rolls. I think you're blacking out. That was CJ. I remember that, too.

I remember that too. Was it on the track? When did I do it? Before that. Yeah, you know, I don't actually even remember anything about that. I thought it was just really just roasting Jack for his short shorts, which was pretty warranted. I will say that they were pretty short, Jack. I don't think they were.

A picture, like, the stereotypical frat dude in 2015 with like the salmon-colored pink shorts. Like, that shit's what I'm talking about. Like, I'm just like, I'm glad that trend is gone. And now it's like, beyond that. Because you look at like what the kids are wearing, they're like, damn near caprice now. Dude,

he just got, he pulled his shorts down and there's still eight inches above his knees. And he pulled them down. I think we can all agree. I think we can all agree that five inch inseam isn't okay. I don't know the inch length. Yeah, where are we putting this at? You know, where's the inseam out?

Five inch is definitely, I would consider short. It's seven, I think. Seven to eight. those are like five inch those are too short if you don't got five inches in your shorts then I guess you can get away wearing them that short your inseam is good but your tightness is just

yeah em's got other problems you know the length is one thing but the tightness the the moose knuckle I mean it's damn here you gotta give a warning before walking into some of these rooms

but this is funny how full circle it went because if you guys have noticed maybe in the couple last six videos a couple times Dalton's like Ken your shorts are so short when Dalton actually rolled in at 18 years old and told us all of us we need to get shorter shorts and was rocking damn near underwear for shorts you know yeah he's he's definitely

changed a lot in the last two years you're welcome that's some of these shorts that are being worn if you were wearing a little bit too long of a shirt it looks like you're not wearing fucking pants yeah like I mean that is too much in my opinion that's just too much there's a guy at the gym he's older guy but he is jacked i know you guys know who i'm talking about exactly jacked and i swear he wears underwear yeah i saw him he shut up and they got smaller from last year they're shorter

it's like damn near not even pass like it's damn near like uh speed oh almost yeah he's got him kind of height but i mean it's tough because it's like if you're that jacked you can kind of just get away with it yeah you can kind of do whatever you're really i don't know if you're jacked if that makes it okay. I think it's different when you're in the gym than when you're just walking around to public. And it's like a performance thing, but I don't really know what kind of performance you're gaining by that.

CJ, I have noticed your shorts have gotten a little shorter now that you've got the tattoo popping. I feel like I've noticed the short will occasionally get pulled up show off the tattoo a little bit. No, those look fine. Those look fine. I'm just saying occasionally I'll notice you're sitting and then it'll just be like this.

Show it off. Show it off. Mine's like high. Mine really has to be like, I got to be wearing like, mine says wide open and Alondra's like, can you just either have a not show or it says life wide open? Alondra does not like. Ryan, you just can't win. Well, that's just, I just, I just, I just, mine's just a little too high. And so I like C.J's placement.

No, I was going to say like, yours is in the primo spot. Cody. Sherbrooks is also way down. Cody's always running his. Yeah, I remember you being like, I want it to be pretty high, you know, it's going to be hidden. And same for like, dude, I just regret putting it. You could get another one right below it. True, Mike. I literally run a Kimbo.

The same thing. I mean, as a joke, I've entertained that idea. I'm like, what if I just rocked another one? Dude, I will say this. I did a way better job of drawing all of your guys' tattoos than my own. Like, mine doesn't even look like any of yours. I was so drunk when I did mine. It doesn't have the same style as everyone else is.

I don't think that you can talk about being drunk and getting your life quite open tattoo. We all did. Well, me, Mike and Cody, we were... We're more drunk. All right, Evan. Do you see... Our drawing, though, you're talking about your drawing. Ours are...

Yours is good. I think yours is great. You think yours is, like, not good compared to my... No, I think yours is more of, like, the standard of what all of them look like. Without the X. Yeah, yeah. But mine was like, I was just, like, one eye open and stir just... I think yours is good, too.

Yeah, I'm glad you did a good job drawing mine. Yeah. I did a great, yeah, yours is really good. Yours is really good. And I was mad that you guys would go out and get them without me after sending me back to the hotel saying you're going to meet me there. But I will say, I will say it worked out in my favor because I kind of got to like see your guys is. And I was like, there's is too high. Like I wanted it right here.

But I also saw Cody's, his is too, in my opinion, a little bit low. So I was like, even in my drunkenness after Gavin got married, I knew, okay, I need it like in this vicinity. and it turned out great. Also, it helped being at an actual tattoo parlor, not just a tent on the side of the street. Well, it was. Or leaning up on... It was a restaurant converted into a fucking tattoo shopper.

So whatever. You know, I will start tattoo guns sitting on our pool table. So I got lucky. It actually worked out in my favor. There's really no greater honor than somebody wanting to get a tattoo of our brand on their body for the rest of the There's a lot of them, though. I know, it's crazy, but it's like, dude, what an honor. Fortunately enough, I feel like a lot of people can look at it,

and if they don't know, they're not like, oh, you have a brand. It's more of a slogan. Or you know what I mean? It makes it a lot easier to like get the brand when it's... Yeah, it's a slogan. It's like represents something. It's not just like a brand that sells stuff. Like Nike's logo on your arm or something.

Right. Then it's like, what are we doing here? Put it on your forehead and at least charge them. Send them an invoice for some marketing. Have you seen Nate's are? One of our merch workers. Dude, he had that before he worked for us. Yeah.

That's cool. Man, I feel bad. I didn't see what's up with his. Looks great. He has your hat logo like thick right on his ribcage. It goes hard. Heck yeah.

Yeah, and he had that way before he worked for us. I still think. It's crazy. Uncle Rich might have the narliest one. It's a little bit different than what, but I mean, his is a true work of art. Yeah, it is. Yeah, he definitely put the most time and effort into his tattoo. Like ours are like scribble.

you could even call it, where his is like a full-on C-boys logo off of a t-shirt onto his skin. He didn't have you there to draw it. So he was like, well, what am I going to do? He's got to pick a logo. Yeah. And then he was like, all right, I ran a C-boys one. You get a Puppies and Coffee one. I was like, oh, shit, Uncle Rich.

I feel like a dick saying no, because you got ours. I do appreciate that. But it's a big commitment. Shout out Puppies and Coffee. Yeah. Shout out Uncle Rich's Puppies and Coffee. Maybe not put it. on my ankle. Come on, Ryan.

Ankle? I don't know. Tramp stamp? No. Not a big fun of the male butt tattoo, honestly. A lot of guys out there have. Lower lower backs, even. Who the fuck do you know that's got a male that has a tramp stamp? I don't know any that have tramp stamps,

but I know of quite a few that have butt tattoos. And a lot of them are, they're pretty funny. Yeah, that's fully committed. You know, that's fully committed. I for sure thought Rich had more tattoos on his leg than just that one. I love that he put fucking cripes on it. That's insane.

Yeah, you got to start saying cripes again, dude. For the sake of Uncle Rich. You can't let cripes die. It's kind of like the butt tattoo. Nobody will ever see unless you actually want to show them. I don't have a good butt. You know who definitely doesn't need a butt tattoo? Shred 80.

He has no butt. Where do I put it? Ev, I saw that you got a new dirt bike. I did. It's good to see, actually. I saw that, and I was like, the kids back on a button. Super pumped. Shout out base camp out of Billings, Montana.

Sean hooked it up. That's super sick. And that would be why it's not a yellow. That's why it's not a Suzuki. Also, this has been probably two plus years in the works. Yeah, you're getting off of electric. Kawasaki has been teasing. Oh, now you want a Kawasaki?

Listen, Kawasaki's been teasing that they're going to drop a two-stroke. And there'll be constant posts that pop up and it's just troll posts. Like Honda's dropping a two-stroke. Shit's not going to happen. Kawasaki literally today, or was it last night? Today, yeah. Drops a 327 fuel-injected two-stroke motocross bike. Damn.

Sick. But that changed. I mean, do I want one? Of course. But does that change the fact that I got a brand new Yamaha 450 anniversary edition? Absolutely. not. No, it's the sickest bike ever. Hold on now. So they dropped a 327?

Yeah. So it's bigger than a... My KTO. What's the equivalent of that in like a four-stroke? Like a 500? I mean, they're just trying to make it keep up with a 250-stroke at this point. What? The 250-strokes have literally like surpassed a 252 stroke with technology. Back in the day,

a 252 stroke and a 450-stroke were comparable, but the four-stroke technology is just so far. I mean, maybe the 327s, I guess, would be making to run at the 450, but it's just... Didn't they stop making two strokes because of regulations and emissions? And so why are they allowed to know? Well, I think that's just how they have to find a way to be able to meet emissions and still

make a two stroke. Got it. And I think it was patents, too, like, with fuel injection systems. Like, once KTM locks something in, I think it's hard, or, you know, every... Yeah, yeah. Just different patents. Yeah, so it's, like, fuel injected. So that's sick.

Nice. I think it looks great. It's a great... It is a good-looking bike. Speaking of going from 250 to 450 to 450, how did Deegs do this weekend? I meant to watch it. Dude, he took fifth, right? And then Jet Lawrence took fourth, I believe.

Okay. I think that was the ranking, but... Dude, that was the first time I've, like, ever, ever cared about, like, an outdoor motor race like that. Like, after it happened, I was busy. I didn't watch the race, but as soon as it was done, like, I was looking up. Like, who won? Like, I was just, like, invested.

Like, there's so much shit talk between the two. I don't know. I think it's like amazing for the sport. There's so many good riders. In there too. I mean, it's like between those two, amazing. And then there's like 10 other contenders. Dude, people just love to see a good beef.

Especially with racing. It's just, it's fun to have, because I mean, everybody's competing, but it's fun to have like two people that you're either rooting for or against. It makes the whole thing more interesting. Especially with Dirt by guys,

we were out on the course, C.J. hour at a bachelor party this weekend. So I played, I played 36 holes of golf this week. That had to have sucked for you. Thirty-six? I don't believe it. Didn't everyone play like 72? Yeah, everybody else played more the day before, but I was on Thursday we were working. But I was out there on the course and I was watching it and they were like, oh, this like goes for a while. And I go, yeah, like the last two holes, three holes we've been playing. Like they had been running wide open the whole time. People, non-dirt bike guys were

impressed. They were like, damn, that's like a lot of stamina. Because they were all, they were watching soccer or some shit, some team sport. And I was like, look at that guy. He's standing there, doing nothing. I go, look at this guy. He's hitting whips and triples. Dude, they're the most fit athletes.

Yeah, I would believe. Also, watching the outdoor, like, it's sick because they go faster, but there's so many breaking bumps and so many ruts and so many, like, bumps. It just looks. It makes super cars seem pretty smooth. It does. Obviously, it takes way more technical riding.

It's timing, yeah, a lot of timing. But, like, dude, the ruts and the breaking bumps in outdoor looks so brutal. How was your guys' Bachelor Party weekend? It looked awesome. It was so fun, dude. You guys do it pretty big. So get this. So, like, it was a combined Bachelor Party, two of our friends.

And I would say how I fit into this crew is some of these guys were, like, my best friends in high school, like, guys I went to school with. and then the other half were like guys that now Ryan met in college. So like we kind of met. You guys came from two separate crews. There was like three Venn diagrams of friends that all overlap. But it was like an awesome crew of like probably 22, two guys. And we were basically golfing, staying at this cabin resort thing. And then there was a Zorba's in the area.

So we were hitting Zorba's two nights in a row. Hard. Running up hard, man. Yeah, I felt like I was in high school. They're still talking about you there. Right. Not good things. Yeah, it was fun.

It was just a lot of fun. And, yeah, I mean, I don't really know if I had much to say. I just, I just was, I just, was anybody bundled? Oh, dude, everybody was bundled. CJ and I did our best to make sure everyone was bundled by the end of the night. Did you behave on the golf course to some extent? Yeah, we did. I played when I got there Friday morning.

I was like, all right, I have more golf to play today than I've probably ever played in my life. The last place you kind of called it. Yeah, by like, or five on pretty much. done. So I'm like, all right, it's 95 degrees. I can't black out like I did a Ben's bachelor party. I'm going to actually try to play some golf. And I think you guys would have been proud. I mean,

I had a couple double bogeys. I had one par. He was in a group ahead of me. I was surprised he was playing. Like after a whole nine, I kind of figured he'd have been just like, you know, I'd peek ahead. I just kind of figured he'd just be sitting in the cart drinking a beer. But he was swinging and it seemed like he

was like on the green at the same time as other people and yeah i was talking to me a little more to get there i good job i was surprised it's fun i was surprised he was playing bad i was surprised he was playing well no i was surprised he was playing at all yeah i figured you would have tossed the town it was so goddamn hot the first day yeah it was dude i've been seeing comments on just like different golf videos saying like shrink the sport like golfers that are like purest and maybe hard more hardcore golfers are trying to get the new guys back out. I was actually,

the courses are busy and like, like golf is kind of like a new hyped up thing that like everyone's doing and like the guys that have been golfing, the golfers are like, get these guys out of here. Off my course. I actually golfed with the first day. Poor guy, dude.

I hadn't seen him in a few years and he's the GM of a golf course. Like a very nice golf course around here. I'm like, dude, I'm sorry. I go, it's going to be a fucking problem today. I'm going to go, I'm going to do my back.

but like this is going to be bad. This guy's getting at a mile. Ryan's hitting at 10 feet. Yeah, exactly. And so he was like, no, it's okay. And basically we had a conversation

after a whole three and he was like, it doesn't, it's not a problem if you play bad as long as you play fast, which I had been doing. Like, I don't even bother fake setting up

for the shot. Fake setting. I go, what the hell is it going to matter? I'm going to whack it and it's either going to go good or it's going to go bad. And we talked about,

like, what's your take on on growing the sport, shrinking the sport? And he was like, listen, As a manager of a course, it's a double-headed thing where we want more people to play. But he goes, there's a lot of people that come out on bachelor parties that are really disrespectful. And he's like, dude, as long as people are respectful on the course, it's good that more people are playing.

Because he's like, it could have died, like bowling or some shit, you know? Wow. I mean, it's hard to compare golf to bowling. I don't know. An old man sport. I do agree with what you're saying. So he was like, no, I don't think the sport should be shrunk. But he is like anything, 5% of the people should not play.

Dude, I will say one thing. I'm tainted to, like, golfing during the week. When I go to the course, I can get my own cart, whether I'm with two or three of you guys. You know, Wildflower is so good to us. They give us our own carts. We can play nine holes in 45, 50 minutes. And there's no one in front of us, whatever. If I go golfing, say on a Saturday, me, Grandpa Ron, whoever, we go to a different course or,

or really just any course, just because that's when people have time to go. Like, I'm like, what the fuck is this? Like, we're waiting around. You got to,

like, wait at the next hole for them to get farther than off the head so you can hit, like, if that's how it was always when I'd go golfing, I don't know if I'd like it that much. Like,

I don't like the waiting part. Yeah, I guess it depends, like, what you got to do that day. Like, if that's the, that's what you're doing,

you know, but if you're like... If the round takes more in four hours, I'm out. Yeah, but I agree with what CJ's saying, like I don't like to overthink it. When you can just drive up to your ball,

you know, check your yardage, grab a club, hit it and keep moving. And then you do that throughout the week, and that's just how you're used to playing. Now when you double your time, you get to your ball and you stand there for five minutes, 10 minutes to hit, I think it throws your whole program off. Like, now I'm overthinking shit, and I'm just, I like to just keep things moving.

Right. And I've said before that even when I'm playing fast, I'm not playing fast enough. So I don't know. I don't know what's going on. there. Like you just, you just operate at a different speed. I do, but like, it's funny. Even when I'm like, I get to my ball, pull out my club, hit it. And then like, like I said, I lose my ball a lot. So that's, that's where most of my time goes now that I think of it. I definitely feel like I can play a lot faster when I'm in the cart alone and I can just go straight to my ball.

Same. So you go to somebody else's ball. I just lose my ball. Well, Kenna actually is a pretty fast golfer because he like, damn near doesn't even give himself enough time to like put the ball on the tea. Like if he misses the tea on the first time, it just, falls up and it's right there. He's just like, eh, it's all the same. He's just hit it off the deck. He doesn't even look for his ball. He just goes and drops and he's going. After he hits it, like, he needs roughly 100 balls to play around. He's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's realistically, you probably get three shots per ball. Like, you probably go through what? At least 20, 20 balls a, at least a nine. A solid 12 and an 18, oh, 12 and a nine. 24

24 golf's expensive for Ken golf course loves to see Ken coming though I do a lot better in the spring when the grass is short

and I can find the ball in the grass if it goes into the grass I just give up and drop the ball yeah well that's good Ken you're keeping the pace of play moving and I agree

sometimes when I'm out there playing with my buddies they're playing not that it really matters but it's like a shit golf ball it's not like a brand new pro V that you kind of want to find and I watch this thing go

a hundred yards into the rhubon so it's just like don't even attempt yeah like just just drop the ball and let's keep moving they're wandering around the brush stumbling that's my picker bushes cut up on the leg he's like what he's doing let's just keep moving bad year for wood tics too been seeing that don't get those hold three yesterday if you get bit with this new yeah I learned about that strain of that's the deer ticks of lime it can cause you to not be able to eat red meat what was that I didn't look it, but I heard that's like a thing. Yeah, Bill Gates made it or some shit like that. It would doubt it.

It surprised me. I wouldn't doubt it. But in general, it's the deer ticks that are... The problem. Yeah. The wood ticks are actually... That's just a bad tick season in general, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, I mean, I've been getting... The wood ticks are crazy, but you don't really have to worry about them. Well, bastards. They're just annoying. It's growing. I had one on the back of my ear for long enough, though, when I finally got it, it was white, like a pumpkin. No.

So you're like that. Sucker was on there for probably 24 hours. I remember pulling a fucking tick off one of my buddies when we were little kids. It was in his hair and it looked like a fucking blueberry. It looked like a fucking blueberry. It was so bad. I used to pull those

off my dog like all the time but on a person is it's just different. It was a fucking blueberry. You just know you were carrying that thing for like a day. Like how did I not notice that it was but I'm looking up right now but it's called like the L

alpha gal tick or alpha gal syndrome if this certain type of tick bites you you're allergic to red meat how much would that suck you can't eat fucking steak you took steak and burgers for me and all i'd eat was chicken and fish that would suck i'd be fucked i'd be fucked i'd be cooked i think i have like high cholesterol so it wouldn't be the end of the world you have high cholesterol mike yeah you just find all the hot dogs yeah dude i do eat a lot of like salty food you're kind of a fat today's episode is sponsored by Square, the business platform that helps sellers become neighborhood favorites. When you're gearing up for a busy season, you need tools to keep your business running smoothly, and that is exactly where Square comes in.

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Plummed into my house. And propane accessory. Taste the meat, not the heat. I approve. Okay, nice, good. All right. That's great. It can bury just so much.

I mean, just like cars or. anything like the grill i have my grandparents had and then it went to my sister and then it went to me and i'm talking this thing might be like 189 at walmart like it is so crappy but is a great's rusted or no many years yes oh not i mean not like not the great so that we're putting me on it's good but like they're yeah the burners are like starting to disintegrate because yeah and it's just like it's literally like a tiny ass cheap ass girl but it just keeps working dude i was running like a hammy-down grill from my parents old grill for the longest time too like and I realized the grates were like kind of rusted and like everything underneath was kind of fucked and I was just like what am I

doing like I just went and got a new grill it was like 200 bucks so you know like just for something decent I was pretty surprised by the price of a new grill it was yeah my one was like 213 or something people aren't grilling I don't well I think they're all going to the fucking frack triggers no the friars black stones blackstone thank you that's honestly I I'm kind of on that because I'm afraid. I don't know how to. That's Mike with his high cholesterol. He's back home.

He's got a fucking fryer. That's how he's making his steak. He's slicing his fries. Dude, one of my friends was building an outdoor kitchen at their, or like somebody that I know built this outdoor kitchen at their house and they have a fucking deep friar. What? In their outdoor kitchen, I go, how much you love fucking frying? Damn.

Is it just dangerous? That's just dangerous. That's what it is for. But I was like, let's put some fucking. fucking Oreos in that thing in front of shit, Ryan. Ryan starts bringing his own snacks over. Cool if I fry these. Maybe an unpopular opinion, but with the Blackstones being so huge,

I don't really like smash burgers. Oh, yeah, that's... Why squeeze all the juice into... I'm not a smashburger guy either. I don't like how they're so thin. Like, there's just like, I just don't like him. Nine times out of ten I have it, I'm like, man, we could have just made a nice half-pound cheeseburger and it tasted fucking delicious, but now I have three.

Dry little tiny, like, crunchy. They're not crunch of it. The double smash burger I have at Freddy's is arguably way juicier than most burgers. It's the way you cook it. You're supposed to sear it to the meat. Yeah, but then the outside's seared. Burgers are gas, but I get not being into them. Yeah, I mean, I'll definitely eat them, but I'm going to take a thick, juicy burger.

Same. I'm here with you. You know, so my parents, they have a trigger grow, you know, with the pellets or and so it's a smoker technically. Isn't that what it is? But it just takes... So like since my house has been getting remodeled, I've been living there

and I'll make my stakes on there because I don't have a normal grill. It takes so goddamn long to heat up, especially in the winter because it's, you know, negative 30 up here. And everyone's going to say, get the blanket because that's what they told me on my snap story.

It has the blanket on it. It just is one of those things. It just takes a long time. But if you're a guy like my dad who's got plenty of free time, he's loving this. It's a thing. But for me,

who just got home from work, it's 8 o'clock, I don't want to wait 30 minutes for this thing to warm up, and then another 20 minutes to smoke the steak, you know, like a normal propane grill, you do what?

Propine. Four and a half, five minutes on the other side, and you're dial. If you medium rare, you're ready to rip. In the time you season your steak, and then you come back out,

yeah, you just rip it. You're ready to go. Yep. And that's why I just like a traditional grill. This is funny. And Hank Hill, he would say the same thing. You don't need any of those fucking colors. You don't get the propane. It's sometimes the vibe like when we go out camping and Slim fires up his smoker and he's got a bunch of racks of ribs and you sit around and drink beer for a couple hours and it's almost like an activity.

Oh, yeah. If you're smoking, you're pretty much just chalking it up for the day. The day. It's like I'm smoking today. That actually reminds me, CJ was grilling this weekend. Dude, yeah, I was manning the grill. He was, which was great, because somebody needed to take control, and I'm glad that there's a guy who's willing to cook. But I noticed something that happened this weekend, CJ. You were flipping that knife around, and you cut yourself.

Yeah, I did. That's not a good look for the knife guy. Well, it's hammered. I looked over, CJ's bleeding all over the forego. What happened? He goes, snapped it. Yes. I don't have a knife suck.

I've actually officially ran out of knives because I'll be at a place, right? So I'm at, I mean, there is more, but they're not, they're kind of just shooting ones. I know, I need to go get some more. You were just asking for so many knives to come in after this spot. CJ's out of knives.

Jeez, you said it. Ran out of a knife. Where the fuck? Didn't you, you literally yelled at at us for losing our knives. Yeah. Well, I didn't lose them. I didn't lose them.

You said if you lose your knife, you don't deserve one. No, no, if you lose it, you don't. I give them away because I'll be... That's cool. I'll be at a place and people love to come up and go, CJ, can you snap it or like, whatever? And then I'll, like, pull it out and I'll do it, and they'll be surprised that I have it on me.

And they'll be like, give it a try. And then, like, they'll, like, maybe do it or, like, I'll kind of show them, like, I just flick like this. And I'm like, you can just have it. And I always leave and they're always like, what? Like, they can't believe I'm giving them this knife.

Jeez, a man of the people. And I realized this weekend when I was at Zorbas and this guy came up, I just, I don't have much from memory of it, but I know I gave him my knife. And then I was like, I think that might have been my last, like, halfway decent one. Jeez, that's an expensive gift. And it was like a $60 thing, but, yeah, you're doing it every time. I know, I know. It's just what you do to give people in the sport and whatever.

You know, usually they'll, they'll come up and they're like, hey, can I have your hat? Well, you know what you think in my hat. Exactly. So that's a good. How about this? Kid? How old are you? Eight? How about this knife? Dude, that reminds me.

He comes home running with it. Out. Look what CJ gave me. He taught me how to snap it. It still got his blood on it. Still got a little bit of blood. I think that sticks with people for a long time. That's what I kind of think, too. What's like a grandfather, CJ. Passing down knives.

I gave Sean, who was dropping Evans Zerpike off. He brought his son Axel and he's like five. Six. And I'm like, he just had a birth. I went and grabbed him a youth-sized dirt bikes hat. I'm like, he's going to love this because he's literally obsessed with dirt bikes. He's playing with a little YZ. And I'm like, look what I got you.

He looks at it and he's kind of funny. And he's like, thanks. And then I put it on him and he's like, sweet. And then I was like, do you know what it says? He just like runs off and goes, no. Maybe the youth dirt bikes hat needs to just be a picture of a dirt bike. Maybe that makes more sense. Because I like, show it to him.

I'm like, look what it says. And then he ran away. And I was like, it says dirt bikes. He's like, how old are you when you're supposed to like know how to read? Five. Like when you're, I say that lightly because some people still don't know how to do like myself. I should say you learn how to read in kindergarten when you're five. I mean, he probably could read.

I think he just didn't process. You think you fully learn how to read when you're in kindergarten? Well, not fucking Shakespeare. No. I think it's like you're going through elementary school. It's a different. Second grade you're reading Magic Treehouse books. Yeah.

Dude, I was cooked. Really? Yeah, I was a bad reader. Yeah, I was a bad reader. I had to get pulled out of class and go and, like, read in this closet. Straight up. Dude. They put you in the closet?

I would get pulled out of class. They'd make them word. And they would have me, like, read with a special teacher, like, in a closet. Damn. I was like, there's really no better place to do this? Just in a little windowless room, so there was no distraction. Next to the mop bucket? Yeah, they could distract you from it.

It was the janitor. Yeah. You remember you guys? Yeah, he's rubbing up on him. Hey, boy. I'll take you under my wing boy. And when he's all done, I'm walking out, he just shuts his door and goes, he's fucked. Dude, did you guys have accelerated reading or whatever, AR? Oh, yeah.

What is that? Like, where the gifted kids? Yeah, that's like that's why I was like, the gifted readers had a special room. I was in the fucking closet. The other kids got the school I'm like I thought they called it accelerated reading because we had an AR

store so you just read books take the test, get points and then you could go There was a test on a computer You could get like that hell do you know about this Evan has the highest IQ I was I was in the elementary school dude I shredded shit I was in the gifted talented program

When you say shredded shit Define that for me I was the high level of read Because there's a different colored dots Yeah And they worked the way of Black was the high one. And I was ripping black at a young age.

Because I wanted those points so I could go. Yeah, you'd get bigger points for harder books. Yep. And then you'd get prizes. And there was a display case, like, in the hallway. So anytime you walk down the hallway, you would see these, this shit. Like, oh, fuck, I got to read this book and take the test. If I read the fourth Harry Potter, I can get 50 points.

Yeah, those were big points. Because they were a nerd. You were a nerd. You were a nerd. I never read Harry Potter. But if you read a really big book and then you get excited to take the test and you like kind of bomb it, you don't like get that many points. And you're like, what a waste of time. Yeah, because the points were like if you got 100% on the test, you get the points it was worth.

And then the shittier you did the less points. And I remember a couple times, you know, maybe buddies like his points were up and I needed some points. I'm like, fuck it. I'm just going to take the test. And I only read half the book. And then just bomb it. And then it's all waste because you could never redo it again. So no that time I did spend on, yeah, it was just all for nothing.

All for nothing. The listener can tell how well of readers we are by when we read the ad. That's a good point. When everyone's reading the ad, that right there shows how good of a reader. Spenney's surprisingly low on that totem pole. Well, the other thing is you can make cuts and you normally clean it up. Spenny's Canadian. It's not his first language. He was riding dirt bikes. He wasn't reading books.

American wasn't his first language. Reading. And now I'm pretty slow at reading. Like in comparison. Like, or when Sydney is reading something and I'm reading it too, she literally reads it twice as fast as I. Yeah, I know.

And it stresses me out because I'm like, I'm trying. Again, I know I do things slow. When's the last time you read like a book? Like more than just like get a little information for something like. Last May. I read a full book. I read a couple full books.

I don't even remember what they were. Evan. A manual doesn't count. I know. I'm just what I'm saying. But no, I mean... That's why you love reading those things so much, huh? Why?

Just because I like reading? Yeah. Got little pictures mixed in there, too. Yeah. A little comedy. A Chinese owner's manual is a little bit of like a... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a bunch of short stories.

Yeah, comedic relief. I don't mind that. Last book I read was... I was a senior in high school, probably. I still remember what it was. It was the Nike book. I watched the movie instead. It was entertaining.

Yeah, I was screwed in high school because I found out about Spark Notes. So you never Bro. Had to read a book. I just got an email that the reason I passed college, I used this thing called Chegg.

Has I ever heard of Chegg? Yeah. I paid for the premium Chegg. I knew my fucking whole career, well, didn't, not my career. My passing of college wrote on it. And apparently now,

kids aren't using Chegg because of AI. Yeah. AI stole Chegg's job. Obviously, yeah. So yeah, I was like, damn, that's the first real. And what did that email look like that you got? I thought they were going to tell you like you've been paying for it. That's what I thought. And are you still paying for it, Ryan? No, I'm not actually, which is surprising for you. I do love a good subscription. Love a good subscription. That he doesn't use. But no, they just like emailed me and they were like due to the onset of AI, like we're shifting focus. We're going to be like a research. Like they're just

using chat dpts integrated in their website. They're not storing all the data they used to, like, people used to upload their fucking tests. So you'd be like, all right, four is A. And it was easy. It had like all the test answers. Yeah, it was lit. Isn't that weird though? It's like,

what are we doing? Dude, how are we doing here? How do teachers even give students test or homework and then assume that they're not going to just go home and just take a picture of it, upload it to chat and just say, fill this out? Well, it's kind of lazy show you

because if they're all just running the same exact test, like they're kind of doing the same shit. Dude, I think kids are just strictly getting by using chat or just any kind of AI. Definitely,

but I mean, like with math, like when you show your work and stuff, even if you're copying it down, I feel like you're absorbing some of... Dude, I don't think so. I don't think they're absorbing shit

and the honest truth of it is I don't know if they need to. Like, I don't know if you need to absorb half the shit that you learn in school in high school. I guess when they have. You know, if you're learning, if these kids are learning how to use, like, AI and get through life,

like, that's realistically probably how it's going to be. Like, you don't need to know any of these algorithm things that you're learning in high school. You used to always say, oh, what, you think you're just going to have a calculator in your pocket? Yeah, yeah. We literally do. Yeah. Way better. I think there is value in people actually learning shit and having to, like, remember it and not just people.

He's so reliant on technology. You know what I think it is? But I'm being a realist here and looking at it of how it's going. But it's learning how to solve a problem. That's more so what it is. So it's like you get dealt these math problems. You got to kind of figure out the game on how to solve them. These kids are just like, yeah, I know how to solve it.

Okay. So use AI. Oh, yeah. So you learn how to solve it one way or another, but you still, that's how it is in life. Being the devil's advocate to that, it's like maybe a math problem. You could just plug it in, get the answer, and have it show your work. And maybe you don't learn anything. But when you need to learn something, you use chat a lot, right?

Like when I have like a tax question or something like an insurance question, I put it in a chat and then I learn from it. But it's not always right. Like it hallucinates stuff sometimes and just comes up with complete bullshit. Even before chat, GBT, though, you'd have to do your own research in some way, shape, or form. So it's like if you have a question you need an answer to, you read it. You might not retain 80% of it, but you do remember those key points that you were originally looking for. Yeah. And Ken, I mean, saying that it's, like, not correct, for the most part, it probably is.

For the most part, but, like, for a lot of high risk stuff. But I mean, that's kind of how anything is. Like, if you're asking, like, a high rate, like, you want to do your taxes right. Well, you shouldn't ask chat to do your taxes. But some people out there are. Oh, yeah, I guess. That's crazy. Yeah, so I don't know.

I mean, I think kids nowadays, uh, they're obviously just really. lying on it more and more. But I think it's cool. I use chat to ask the questions that teachers never taught me. You don't learn half that shit ever. Yeah, I guess you're right. But yeah, it's like, why is it beneficial for me to set my business up as an S corp? If you ask any high school teacher that, they'd be like, what?

I mean, you could maybe ask. I don't know. Kind of professional. Yeah, you'd have to find a professional. Isn't it weird? I said this to the guys I was golfing with last weekend. and how quickly chat GPT just became a part of everyone's lives. And before that, you had Google, but like, it is so much better than Google.

I mean, it's just might be one of the biggest advances we've dealt with in the last 10 years for sure. Like, I remember when Facebook and, like, Instagram and, like, you know, there's just, it's pretty how seamless. And it almost seems like it's been here this whole time, but it's really only been around for maybe like a year. Obviously, a little bit longer, but I think it was the end of 22. widely adapted. Yeah, remember when we were sitting on this podcast, and I was like, have you guys heard a chat GPT? And then we popped it up and we were like, write me a story about me and my friends doing

something. Yeah, I didn't really see what the benefit of it at that time when you're having to answer those questions. But yeah, it's crazy, dude. The world we're living, man. We're moving closer and closer to I-Robot. Did you guys ever see the YouTube video Mr. Beast did where it was like, last to leave this airplane just to keep it?

And it was like a private jet. and they had to like keep their hands on it. I think it was like a year ago maybe. I think it was like a hundred pilots started by keeping their hand on the airplane. In the plane or on the outside? On the outside. Oh, wow. And it was like a $4 million jet, maybe a $2 million jet.

I don't know. Nice jet. Either way. And it ended up going to this, you know, guy that kept his hand on the longest. And I just saw that this pilot that got the jet from Mr. Beast by winning this challenge. was arrested in Paraguay or something, like some foreign country for moving drugs. For moving like hundreds of pounds a week.

No way. That's insane. So he was like, I already won. Now I'm going to try and take another shortcut. He's like, I'm going to take this plane that Mr. Bees gave me and fly dope. How can I make money with this plane? And then he's like going down the list and he's like, this one pays the most. Yeah, definitely.

Yeah. 3.6 million dollars worth of weed. So how much trouble was he in? I think a lot. That's been pretty substantial. I would say he's probably looking at like Can I see a picture of this guy? I think that's him right there.

500. How old is he? 577 pounds. Did it say he was Jamaican? He goes by Captain Treasy. Wow. 261 kilograms. So why are they like still?

That's wild. Here's a question for some of the people on our podcast. guess. With marijuana now legal in the United States. No, but I don't think what it just said there, they weren't bringing it to the States. They're probably maybe flying it around. Because some of those countries are super illegal down there still. Okay. I think I don't know. That's about it been I guess. But like there still seems to be like a legal growing or whatever marijuana. Like isn't there still drug dealers selling marijuana even though you can technically just go get it out of? Yeah, because it's way cheaper to get it on the streets.

And also, I mean, avoid the tax, man. I'm now even starting to hear the classic, you know how it's just like, well, all these vegetables have this sprayed on it. Yeah, they're saying that about marijuana. They're saying it about weed too. I actually believe that. And, dude, when I was in Sturgis, we were hanging with a bunch of those, like, riders. And one of the guys said his family, I don't know how much I could say, but, you know, they do it legally, though. And he was saying that the issue is that, the issue is that they spray all that shit on there.

Oh. Like smoking it. Yeah. Yeah. Like the pesticides. One more thing to give a cancer. Yeah, but it's like very hard to keep up with. Once the government starts regulating it, they poison it.

Yeah. Classic. I just saw a thing like passed at the FDA passed like a new chemical that can spray on like strawberries and tomatoes to make them last even longer. I was like, I thought we were going the other way. Yeah, that's crazy. It is crazy to like make it last like a week longer. So I'm sure there's some in other places in Minnesota, but this is the first one I've seen.

the casino by my house has a marijuana lounge, like a bar that I've been in there. Because it's on the res. Yeah. And it's just like a smoking bar? I imagine. Do they serve you? I don't know. I'm going to have to invest again.

I just saw the big billboard for it. I better not. I got to. Well, it's like every bar you go into, you can get like the THC drinks now. Yeah. It's so crazy, man. That's another thing. You know, I said, like, it's just like Chad GBT integrated.

So seamless. It's like we've always had it. Same with this stuff. Like, I remember in high school, if, like, me and my friends got caught smoking weed, our parents thought we were, like, legitimately, like, they're fucked. Their whole life, like, are they going to start doing meth next? Like, that kind of shit, you know? But, uh, and now it's like, now it's like, you go to the grocery store,

you can get some fucking THC drinks. Isn't that weird? It is insane. How quickly it turned around. Like, oh, no, it's legal now. In, like, public settings like that. I always thought it was weird, like, when you're at a bar and they have all, like, the brands of THC Seltzers on the umbrellas.

I don't know. I was in one of the nice restaurants around here, and they've got, like, those umbrellas. And I'm like, can we just get like a your bar branded umbrella, like, instead of THC? They're probably doing them. Yeah, I know. There's a lot of money in it, too. Yeah, I know. And then it's like, oh, we have them.

Oh, Ryan, they're just stepping on your toes of promoting shit, huh? Doing sponsors. Yeah. Hire me. I can come in to do a sponsorship for your brand. Bar. Yeah, exactly. Ryan just posted up front.

He reads an live ad read while everyone's eating dinner over a mic. Welcome to Bar number or bar A. You're going to love the way that they have homegrown steaks. Speaking of doing stuff while people are eating. When we pulled up to Zorba's at the end of the cheap car challenge and you guys were so gung-ho about, dude, does motors cook on the Z? Let's blow it up in the parking lot. I didn't really want to. I did, dude, and since, like, I had worked there.

CJ, we talked about it for an hour. You wanted to. I had some, you know, it was like, it's like Evan on a golf course. You know, he's sometimes, he just doesn't, like, there's certain things some people are okay with, and I was like, when you guys were revving. It was too much. You were rev bombing it out?

Yes, I walked away. I couldn't. I wanted to blow it up. I wanted to blow it up, but I said, dude, people are eating. And then everyone was like, there's not that many people in there. I was like, all right. I mean, just spray and champagne. They didn't, the couple out there didn't care, but I was like, imagine being at a picnic table at a restaurant.

And someone's piece of shit. Someone's rev bombing their VQ 350, literally 25 feet away. I think it cleaned it out. I think it cleaned it out. We thought the thing was going to blow up and we're going to have to push it home. And I think after that Italian tune-up is, it's running like a top of it. Power of the Italian tune-up, baby.

That's a pretty good example of maybe we were just getting a little too comfortable. A little too excited It was a weekday It's better than if we did that on a Saturday Yeah no we actually wouldn't have done that Hey shout out Zorbas Shout out Zorbas Pelican Lake If you're ever in the area

Go there They got the best pizza The best drinks, best burritos And a great atmosphere And you might even run into us You're likely there We'll likely run into us So I apologize for rev bombing

That car in your parking lot But it's a great spot So hopefully we can At least add some sales Dude, I think it's pretty crazy, actually. Yeah, we're not sponsored by Zorbas at all. A negative sponsorship. It's a negative sponsorship.

We just genuinely love going there. It's home away from home. We spend so much money there. It's pretty funny. But it's pretty bizarre, like, the correlation that people now have, even though it's not a sponsorship at all. Because you go on, like, any of the Zorba's TikToks, like, they have, like, a couple locations and they all have like separate tic-togs

and you go on any of them not our hometown one not the town over not the town over that like far away and all the comments are just like where are the C-boys where the C-boys yeah that's funny is Evan there or like Zorba's at C-boys but yeah it's pretty funny they were actually talking about like giving us

some vehicle yeah no oh yeah shit I was supposed to pick that up yeah I was supposed to pick that up well actually I got called because somebody else dropped the ball, which is fine. Me. I dropped the ball. I was 100%. I was 100. It's all good. We have a deadline, and that deadline's not for two weeks.

So we got to know. Oh, shit. Do I get to know what? Yeah, we'll find out. Oh, my gosh. I, I just completely. You don't want me to show you? I just said I'll reach out on Tuesday, and that was last week. Two weeks ago. Oh, shit. You want to show me? I don't care. I just, I need, I need help knowing what we're going to do with it. I have no fucking idea, but they said it's either going to us or to the scrap yard. And I said, we'll take it.

Yeah. It's cool. It's cool. Let's just go get it. We'll go get it one of these days. We're just going to grab it. It's sitting out in front of the local Zorbas. It's just gone one day. They're like, what the fuck? It's not our Zerbos?

No. No, deal. But yeah. Oops. Yeah, that'll be good. That'll be good. Oh, all right. So, Mike, you are just showing us.

I don't know what that's sick. I don't know what the fuck we're going to do with it, but it's sick. It's a fire truck. Oh, my. They're going to give it to us. They're giving it to us. I'm assuming it doesn't run. It doesn't.

But I thought it was like a prop and it's been, because it's been sitting there forever. Apparently, it ran in 2022. I'm like, well, that's great. I mean it has a motor and it ran four years ago. If only we had a team that could easily put any motor we wanted into that puppy. Hellcat. Hellcat. Yeah.

Or at least a $3.50. But it was cool little, yeah, it used to be a fire truck, but now it's like a surf beach truck. I'm surprised you're getting rid of that. Ken, would you like that parked out front of your house? Uh, no. I was just trying to get a vibe for things I call that idea off guys What about in the backside of your house by your beach?

You do love Zorba's Ken I do because it's on my way home and it's very convenient So you just eat there every day I actually don't Cooked more in the last month than I have a Really? Let him cook What do you cook?

Stakes Mostly steak Should we fire up the steak talk again? You ever have a side with it? Speaking of steaks I just got a new grill A little salad steak and salad No potato too much starch

I think I almost died on Sunday I was driving home from the Bachelor party urgently let's just say I was I was speeding pretty hard in the vet and it was raining and like I have all season

tires which I obviously thought would two fight on snow and they didn't but like I wasn't that worry I thought I was cool to just drive pretty decently quick like it was going to be okay but I think the tires are so wide that the car is much more prone to hydroplaining than I thought.

Yeah. And when you say the word hydroplaining, everybody kind of thinks it's like when the car gets light and you kind of feel like you're out of control. But I was coming up on an intersection. They had fixed, it was at the county line. And they had fixed the new road and the old road was fairly shitty. And then when they turned all the equipment around, they must have just fucked up the old road. And so there was like a puddle, basically. And I hit this puddle. No exaggeration was looking at. out the right side window in my car before I even fucking knew what happened at 80 miles an hour. Like I'm driving and it went and I went like this and I went like this and I went like this. Thankfully the new road was like perfectly smooth. So it was slippery. It was like our drift track.

And I just went like this. I first went this way. I went back this way. I went back this way and then it snapped in line. Holy crap, Ryan. 85 miles an hour. And that's why I text everywhere. I go, holy shit.

I almost just piled up. I didn't see that. I saw it. I didn't even know. It was the most extreme. It was like when you watch those videos, those cars on the skid pad, when they just like get kicked out.

Bro, it was crazy. Good thing that there was no oncoming traffic. Yeah. But I mean, there was deep ditches, old field, you know, deep ditches all that. Oh, crap, Ryan. It was really, really bad. It scared the shit out of me.

No shit. That is scary. I guess hydroplaining like is a thing. I thought if you had good tires, like I thought hydroplane was for people with bad tires, but apparently not. I'd say what you said earlier, the width. Yeah, just running three 45s on the back. Yeah, he's not. You slower down?

Yeah, I did slower down after that. But I'd been like, oh, that would have just been great. They'd have been like, this fucking asshole. As I'm upside down in the ditch, I had to call C. Jake. He was like an hour behind or ahead of me, and I had to call him to be like, dude, you gotta come back and get me. I would have spun around.

I totaled. I totaled the rig. So yeah, it was really, really scary. So be careful out there, boys. Glad that it didn't end bad. Yeah, me too. I like got home and I was like, hmm, not this sucked. It is crazy, like cars, you know, like physics, the ability for them to end up back straight.

It had snap back really fast. You know, yeah, you're sideways and you're this way, you're that way. And then you ended up straight again. Like, I remember one time Cody and I were like, headed the ski hill and it was super icy and I remember being like maybe we shouldn't go today and we're like 16 and we're just driving in Detroit lakes and just went around a curve and fully 360ed and then ended up straight again in the oncoming lane which is scary but I was like how do we not just spin anywhere but back straight forward momentum yeah lucky too yeah no it was

I'm gonna attribute it three percent to me been ripping on the Corvette lately and drifting it around and kind of knowing how to correct things. And then 97% to pure luck and it not being my day to have a big problem. Did you ever get back in the gas? There's no way you hit the brakes. I basically didn't really do anything with either of the pedals. I kind of just like was just sliding. Just whipping the wheel.

Yeah, kind of like just going. Yeah, on limiter. No, and just kind of correcting it back and forth. and then I straightened out and then I got back on the gas. But that's knowing not to panic, like, literally in that situation, you hit the brakes, there's got to be like a 99% year-cooked. Chance I would have piled up. And then usually a lot of people, they lose control.

It's the first panic they do is just bury the gas. Bury the gas or break. I mean, yeah. I mean, hit the brake, but yes, hit the gas for most people. But yeah, you black out. You slam on the brakes. Been there. But, yeah, dude, I mean, are we going to talk about what happened

filming last week. Yeah. Oh yeah. Pinky? Yeah. Pinky. I hit up this guy. His name is

a dumb Speed Freaks on Instagram. And I'd seen this thing for a while. It's like a 600 horsepower short block engine. Big block Chevy.

Big block Chevy that essentially has wheels. Wheels on it. It's an engine that has wheels on it. No transmission. Not much more than that.

It's a clutch to the yeah. Yeah. No. No. No. So anyway, he like built this thing to like be a burnout car and burnout buggy. And I was like, dude, do you want to bring this thing out to Octane Fest?

And he was like, yeah, I'd love to. Because we got a burnout competition, which would have been last weekend. And he was like, can I bring it out to the compound and like slide it around beforehand? I was like, absolutely, that would be great for the video. So he brings this thing out, parks it in the garage. And I tell the rest of the guys, you know, I was like, you guys, if you saw the the video, like I go down, I'm like, yo, I got somebody in here. They had no idea who was behind the garage door or what was about to pop out. I was like, this thing's ridiculous.

Like, they're going to think this is funny. So I walk in there. And I shake his hand. I go, what's up, brother? Thanks for coming. And he's like, yeah, dude. And I'm like, looking at this thing. And I'm like, this is insane. I was like, the guys are not going to expect this to come out of the garage door, right? And I was like, all right, dude, just roll it out the driveway or roll it out the garage door and just roll it down onto the drift track and I want to get you hopping out of it their reaction and then we'll do like a little walk around of this thing and then go and spin it and he was like all right sounds good so I walk out I go down we open up the garage door and he just comes out hot rip it next thing I know he's doing donuts already he's like I was like

oh shit he's going for it like he he's doing the show just right off the bat like he was excited clearly. And then next thing I know, he drifts this thing completely sideways into the trees. Yeah, he kind of started going wide. Like he was doing tight ones and then he was like, all right, I'm just going to hit a big drift. And then basically just into the fucking tree. Yeah, teaboned himself into a tree. Into a tree. So he drifts this thing sideways into a tree. And like, it's just a straight, it's a motor with like this little exo cage around it. Which was only strong enough, we found out to hold the fucking Barbie plastics that he has on. Like it wasn't a roll

cage. And the cage was kind of where his body was, if I remember correctly. His legs are literally straddling. Motor. And there is zero protection. So we obviously run over there. I mean, you see it in the video. We're freaking out. We're like, holy shit, dude,

are you okay? He crawls out and proceeds to go, my legs are broken. And not a single one of us questioned it because we just watched what happened. We were like, holy shit. words he says to us. My legs are broken. I mean, he just seemed like a guy.

He knew his legs were broken. I was like, I didn't doubt it. I said, fuck. Okay, we got to get him to the hospital, you know? We go, okay, do you want us to call the ambulance? He's like, no, no. We'll be sitting here waiting for probably 30 minutes until the ambulance shows up. Or we can put you in the sprinter van and rush you straight to the hospital right now.

He's like, all right, just give me in the sprinter, let's go. It's like one thing if, like, your femurs are broken because you can, like, bleed out if you break your fever. I thought he was femurs were the ones that broke. Yeah, bad deal if your femurs are broken. And he's like, oh, it's down here. And we're like, all right, get him in the sprinter. And then he put his weight on one leg. Kind of both legs.

Yeah, like, try to stand up, but we were like, bro, bro, bro. Chill. But when he was standing there, his cowboy boots were like kind of loose, I think, on his feet. So his feet were like sideways. The cowboy boots were kind of like cocked. Yeah. And we were like, oh, my God. Like, I saw that.

And I was just like, yeah, his legs are straight up snapped right there. And so we get them in the sprinter and we're like rushing them to the hospital and we're like, how are you doing, bro? Like you doing? And he's like, I think the adrenaline's starting to wear off boys. And we're like trying to talk to him, like keep them like, you know, calm. And we're like, all right, bro. Like we'll be there in 10 minutes. And he's like, oh yeah, I'm starting to feel it now.

Like, oh my, this is so bad. This is bad. Yeah. Like we're freaking out. We get to the hospital, get them in a wheelchair. And the doctors are like, yeah, this is going to take a while. Like, plan for a couple hours here. and so we... Keep in mind, we're mega-bombed. We're all mega-bombed, especially like, dude, I haven't even said a word to this guy. The first word I said to him, are you okay? Like, you know, like, we make a new friend, and he gets hurt before I even, like, realistically, anything. So I'm just bummed because I'm thinking, dude, that sucks. Like his summer, he's going to have broken legs, like a Kimbo- Broken Likes is bad. It's the worst thing that gets out and gets hurt. I'm really bummed because I didn't not want, obviously, we don't want, we don't want, we don't want.

why anyone to get hurt, but especially someone outside of the group that we just met. So we're just fucking down. Yeah, we were down bad. We're down bad. And, you know, now we can kind of say it in like a more of a lightful way, but because of him, we got so lucky, what would happen

next. He goes back. None of us are family, so like none of us can go back there with him. And we just roll back to the shop. They're like, you guys got a couple hours until he's out. We go back to the shop and we're eating and his filmmaker, like his buddy was with us. And he gets a call from And we're all perk up and we're like, what's he saying?

What's he saying? He's like, oh, okay. All right. All right. Hangs up and we're like, what, what's the word? What's the word? And he's like, yeah, he just got out of the x-rays on his legs. And then they put him in for an MRI on his head.

And he's good. We're like, what do you mean? He's good. Like, doesn't have surgery good? Like just cast? And no, like, we can go pick him up. We're like, the fuck. We're like, holy shit.

This is great news. The best thing we heard all day. Yeah, this is incredible. And so we. drive in and proceed to pick him up and he walks out of the hospital. We were like, a beautiful sight. We're like, holy fuck, bro.

No crutches, nothing. And he was like, I guess it was just like a dead leg. No, it wasn't a dead leg, but it was just a double dead leg. Crazy hit, but yeah. That's fine.

And he was good. He was good. He was good. Oh, dude. Dude, it was a complete 180 from what we were expecting of, you know, he was like, they're broken.

They're broken. And we were like, this is not good. Like if he knows that, they're obviously broken. Yeah. And he's like, no, I'm good. And it's funny, we pick him up, we talk up in the sprinter, we get to meet him and catch his name and, you know, everything, all that. And we get him back and he goes, so what are we going to do now?

And we're like, I think we're going to take it pretty fucking easy, bud. Like we just, we don't, like, you were scared, we were scared. Like, you know, good. He goes, cool if I drift the TRX for a bit. I'm like, I guess if you can press the pedals, man, have that. Just go over there away from the trees. Yeah, bro, I got you. And then fast forward to like two hours later, the runaway transam.

He's running around the field, filming with us. It's literally a runaway and we're like, you got to stand back because you can't run very fast. Yeah, well, he was like, cool if I stand over here. And I looked at him and go, fuck no. Get over there and stand behind something, bro. I was like, cool if you stay. That's in the open, bro. What is what's going to happen when this thing starts going to rogue, which it did?

I was like, you're standing behind the shipping container, buddy. I was like, dude. I ran into him when we were at SEMA, and, you know, we were in the burnout pit, and they're just like, all those dudes are crazy. Like, they're all, like, gearheads, metalheads, like, running full strong. And every time someone ran into them, they're like, dude, you're crazy. That thing's crazy. I'm saying about his V8. It literally is a V8, strapped to a small piece of metal with a seat.

Well, he said it's the whole rig is 1,000 pounds, and the engine is 800. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. But he's trying to boost it up to a thousand horsepower. So it's a thousand horsepower to a thousand pounds. There's not enough metal between me, my nuts and that engine to really be pushing any. Yeah, to mention that steering rack gear chain stuff was awfully close to a guy's nuts right off the. Yeah, it's a crazy rig.

Crazy rig. He's a crazy guy. Like, I checked out his Instagram afterwards. And I was like, oh, this guy is, he's just a maniac. Like, he runs on limiter, which I love. Yeah, when shit like that happens, though, it puts everything in perspective real quick. That's for sure. Yeah.

It was 100% for sure. I think it was like two minutes from the time he pulled out of the garage to the time we were rolling away in the sprinter. Yeah, I think so. It was fast. Thank you. The Lord. He's good. I was watching this.

It was making me think of this. This has been something I want to talk with you guys about for a while. That he's out there wearing no armor. And there's this thing that's been going around. It's an old word. that's come back called larping. Talk to me. People are larping in Miami when you take a rental

Lamborghini and then you larp that you're rich. But larping originally started out with a bunch of old people pretending that they're from like medieval times. Have you guys ever seen the videos? Wacking each other in the head? Yes. These guys dress up in like night

in shining armor outfits and then just beat the shit out of each other. Yeah. Dude, they got like real axes and they'll just fucking go up smack a guy with the head. It is, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Most of the stuff I've seen was foam.

Oh, this, okay, so I've always wanted to do a motorbike jost. Put that up to believe. That seems like, oh my. Ken, you could not handle that to the knees. I'm not gonna lie, this is insane. I've never seen this. I've only seen it with the foam

swords and maces and action. Yeah, see? This shit looks sharp. They must have it doled to some degree. But, yeah. still heavy. Do you almost fucking mass that carries when he swing that hard? Top comment. Bro's got to go to work

tomorrow. Chill. Second one is bro's ACL on thing. I've seen one when the guy's just standing there. He's got like both his arms kind of and this one guy just goes, Bing, Bing, that's the one I'm thinking. And like you got to imagine there's not much foam inside this little

steel fucking helmet. Like it's just a bucket on the poor guy's head. It ain't doing anything. What if that ding, you heard how loud it was a camera badge and what it was. Dude, even if you had a football helmet on, you don't want to take that to the head. Still get the concussion

either way. That's got to hurt so bad. But to bring up your point, the craziest one is when they do it on horses and fucking joust each other. It would be pretty fun to do this. Oh my. Like, it breaks the stick. This is a thick, wouldn't stick. Did he take it to the

fucking neck? Dude, I mean, this is like, it's some real... You got a I wonder what these people do in real life. That's what I'm saying. What are they new for real life? As he's named in this, Sir Christopher Hatton. You know, what I would love to go to one of these. I'd like to see this stuff in real life in person.

But you know my ultimate reason why I don't want to go is for one of those giant ham legs. Turkey legs. Turkey out of the turkey legs. You get them at Valley Fair. Yeah, just I feel like it would hit different walking around there with it. You know? We should go to one of these larping. into the Renaissance Festival?

Never. I always like the one, the thing where the guy stands in there with his arms and you throw tomatoes at him and he like roasts you. Yeah. The gesture. That's kind of funny. Yeah, just the classic, like, if someone did something bad where they put their fucking head in like their hands and everyone

town throws tomatoes at them. Like, where's the best Renaissance festival? Like, what's a good one to pull up to? They have that one. There's one like by Minneapolis. I want to go to, like, I'm talking, I want to go to the Rednecks with Paychecks version of this shit. I'm not trying to go to just a classic one where people are out there. I want to go to the one where people are really getting into it.

Dude, these guys were born in the wrong century. Not just era. We always say Gavin was born in the wrong era. These guys were born in the wrong century. Imagine like how, you know, like our parents feel about some of the shit we do. Imagine we just show them that. I'm going to go to the fucking field, drink nine beers and get whacked in the head with an axe. at least with ours there's like quite a bit of upside.

These guys ain't getting shit. Doing it out of the love of the fucking game, dude. These guys are actually in France, so we might have to go to France. Oh, wow. Of course. I'm going to France for my honeymoon. Maybe I can convince Greta. You pull up with Greta to one of these?

I may be pretty lit. For fantasy authoritarian or authorian role play, there's a five-day living history larp held at the Sherwood Forest Fairgrounds in McDade, Texas. It's always in Texas. I was in Texas. So how did it go from that was larping to somebody fake flexing a Lamborghini in Miami? You're just faking it.

Because those people aren't real nights. Yeah, they aren't actually from medieval times. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. They're not actually killing each other. What's the larping definition? Live action role playing. So I mean, yeah, I guess. Okay, yeah, so you're just larping in a different manner.

Yeah. All right, that makes sense. Live action role playing. In the late 70s, inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and historical reenactment groups. But now, that's kind of like how they became popular now as people are live action role playing, them being wealthy. Kind of like Jack is larping being a race car. It's hard to say what he's lirping that week. And I'm larping like that I'm a hot dog connoisseur.

Well, no, you're just a hot dog connoisseur. You don't have to. Yeah. Yeah. You're just a hot dog stand worker. I guess if you're doing that, if you're saying that you're live action role playing a hot dog connoisseur, that would say that you don't like hot dogs. You're just doing it to be popular.

Is that true? Is that true? No, I think these people like what they're doing. That's true. Yeah. Going to a level they couldn't obtain realistically in real life. Yeah, like what? Nobody could actually eat 15 hot dogs.

And like Mike could actually, I mean, he does quite literally own a hot dog card. So it's like you're actually just, any hot dogs. You're just doing it. You're not larping at all. I don't love hot dogs as much as everybody thinks I do. Yeah. You're a humble man. Yeah.

I like them though. Yeah. I like him for the shape. I love your modesty. I eat them for the shape. What do you say, Ken? You're very modest about it. Yeah.

How do you have some absolute gasoline brats the other day, though? She's Mikey. can't just start switching up on the dogs. Start? I've been eating brats. That's how I'm in this freaking predicament. Maybe he just likes it for the shape. Do you know how you know if you're at a gay picnic?

I thought that one was dumb. You know, Ken? I don't know if I'm on a gay picnic. The hot dogs taste like shit. Cut that probably. Leave it. Leave it. Oh my gosh.

And just leave the pause on Ken. And just I just rub your eyes shitty hot dog We were out fishing at the family cabin And Aiden and Brody were down On the dock Brody's helping Aiden

With his pole Next thing Brody's pole Just shoots off Into the lake Okay Oh the whole pole The whole pole's gone

So Brody thinks this rod Is just a lost cause I'm like hell no So I grabbed a spoon Cast it around for 10 minutes end up catching the pole that has a fish on it and then...

Oh, that was the fish? Yes. What? Bro, he's stoked. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So he caught the fish and the fish just ripped the pole out of his hand? No, he was helping aid and so the pole was sitting

just right next to him, but he was sitting on the dock and you just heard it quick, like the pole's gone. And I think Brody was just chalking it up as a loss. Like, oh no, I'm like, no, no, no, no. we're going to get this back. So I just put a heavy daredevil on and just started casting around and ended up snagging into it. How many pounds is that?

Didn't officially weigh it, but we're going to go over six could be upwards of seven, which is a big bass. That's a big bass. Yeah. So Evan sent this picture of this bass and we're all like, you know, dude, congrats. Like it's a huge one. But the fact that you caught the rod that was hot, like that's great. And Brody's face, when he pulls that out and see, we didn't even.

I think it was a bass, because it was, you know, it was dark out pretty much says it all. So that was a pretty cool, pretty cool weekend memory. And Mike, did you make yourself race car merch, Mike? I hate to be sneaking peek on your... I was just being a boomer on chat GPT. Oh wow, look at that. No limits, no fears. No horsepower either.

Look at that as the truth. Or even really Ws. There you go, Mike. You could... Yeah, I mean, second place is not first. Not first. You know, it's not, but we were hanging in the fight. Yeah.

You know? And yeah, how about these guys? How about the ranches in their photo shoot? Should we frame these? Yeah, 100%. Big. Big. Dude, people love...

I think that's a good one. I like that one. It's amazing. They're, like, forming a big W. I just want to know what Dalton said to get a smile out of those two in that moment. Dude, Big Ranch was loving it. Yeah. Big Ranch was not so much.

The Crescent Ranch. is so good. Yeah. Yeah, Big Ranch said, thank God, Gavin was wearing sunglasses so I didn't have to stare into his eyes. It made a lot easier. Dude, I mean, who's got better wrenches? Like, who actually has better fabricators? No, it's decided. Nobody. Nobody in the world. Bro, they're goaded. Big Ranch had said, you know, yeah, you know, it was kind of awkward, but it's, you know, it's just me, Gavin, Dalton, taking pictures. But when other people showed up to the

park to observe what was going on, he said, That was, that's when it got awkward. You were full grown, man. I just love taking big wrench along for these adventures because it's just so entertaining. Like, what the hell is that? Yeah, I agree. I love Gavin making small talking that too. Yeah.

Yeah, he's, Gab's getting his 95 shaved into his head. And he's just like, so what have you guys been up to? Bro. Nothing. When he shaved Spenny's 96 backwards, he goes, well, it was on the other side of his head. I thought I needed to go the other way. Like, what the hell are you saying right now, brother? Did you catch that?

I did not. I did not. You're like, he's all love drunk, you know? I'm not thinking straight. He's got something else on his mind. Ben, you ever figure out what you were going to talk about? No. I guess we'll have to do it next week.

Yeah. Oh, dang. We'll put a pin in it. Something to come back for. There was something. I know there was something. It was something important. Yeah, we'll figure it out, though.

And we'll be back next week. With that piece of information. There will be something. So stay tuned for next week's job, dude. Love it. Love it. Well, thanks, fellas. Please subscribe.

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