Life Wide Open with CboysTV - The Real Reason Jake Left CboysTV

Episode Date: August 22, 2023

In today's episode our Ex-Business partner and former Ex-Best Friend Jake Sherbrooke joins the podcast and reveals why he left CboysTV, Why he burned our merch, what it was like leaving the group, and what he's doing now. Our friendship is back, and we can't wait for you all to hear what ALMOST brought CboysTV to an end. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com and use code wideopen. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code WIDEOPEN at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod #ad Follow us on Instagram @cboystv and @lifewideopenpodcast To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The three Instagram videos were awesome. Despite the fact of the whole ruining of the friendship and making it pretty weird. I don't feel necessarily old. Your hairline does. Every other person's a YouTuber in this time. Literally. I get the question still to this day. I wish you never left.

Do you want to Celsius? Yeah. All right. Hey, can you grab me one too? Some water stuff. I ain't doing it. You know, need that extra. Need that extra.

I can go grab it. That extra. Pop! That extra zamboni. Oh, my Lord. Fucking happening. All right, right now, we need everyone's guesses. How long this is going to be?

Like, how long are we going to talk? Like, when do you... I think, like, it just goes as long as it goes. There's a lot of, like, over decade of stuff we could cover here. I mean, more than a decade. Yeah, it's literally two. Jake, is this your first pod? Yeah, ever.

Like, I mean, we rolled some for fun at home, but they didn't go anywhere. All right, boys. We're here. We're doing it. We're really doing it. The time has come. Dude, this is, uh, hands down been the most requested podcast since we started the podcast, what, two years ago now?

Yep. About 100 episodes, 90-some episodes in. Bring Jake on. Bring Jake on. And, uh, I'm gonna be honest, bro. You're one of my best friends and I'm kind of nervous. Yeah. I'm glad someone said stuff.

my way over here i like pulled over i'm like why you freaking out dude it's a heavy one just because there's so much to cover yeah that was uh literally what i was thinking you know i'm just like at the end of the day we're all best friends but there's just so much untold unsaid so much stuff going on yeah i'm not worried about i'm not worried about anything but i think what makes it nerve-racking is that there's we just want to tell it the full thing you know and and tell it as Ackery, like, I'd hate for it to end and be like, why didn't, why didn't I bring up that point? You know, I think that's what everyone maybe is thinking. It's heavy, man.

All right. Gosh. I don't know. I guess to like to add a little bit of context for the listeners, this is Jake Sherbrook. He is one of the founding members of Seaboy's TV, and we split ways, what, three years ago? That's 780,000 subscribers. You guys want to know something crazy. You have more followers that probably don't know who I am than.

Are you sure it was 780? Yeah, it was 780. It was on April 12th, 2020. Yeah, we've never told the story of, I guess, what happened between the splitting between C-Boys and Jake, and here we are. Time to tell it. Time to tell the story.

Wasn't there kind of like you couldn't come on for a while? Yeah, so that was the thing. So we're going to get into the beans of all this, but basically I could have came on right away and then ended up getting in like a massive lawsuit and then everything gets into like disclosures and you can't talk about anything and you know it just all got super messy like do you guys remember the time i came over here and you're like hey when you can get on the pot i'm like probably august that was two years ago yeah yeah that's crazy yeah so you've been in a lawsuit

up until last month yeah a couple months ago okay it's crazy see i i've been refraining to even ask you like in real life um you know what the details of that are so I'm I shouldn't say excited to hear but also very intrigued to hear the story behind it but um gosh I don't know where do we start well I mean I think we could start with I mean part of the reason why you left also ties in with you know the guy who's been holding you back from getting on the podcast now for the last two years who you were in the lawsuit against um I mean shit where do we start do we uh because we can we can say anything tell the whole story do we just want to like give a background of how this person came about we could start there or we could even

start from like just the good old days back before we were even making youtube vids just kind of give the backstory to dude i can't believe you said that i literally created a timeline 2016 18 19 20 all the way up until the day all right let me see it all right what do we got well they're basically so they're kind of just footnotes of key points we want to talk to but basically like 2016 we started see boys tv yeah okay so see boys tvs tv start basically we have been best friends there's a group of seven of us we all lived in a town called cormorant cormorant has a gas station a liquor store and a bar there wasn't many people in the town it's a village there's actually no people in the town so um all the people that are our age

we were best friends there were seven of us us four sitting right here micah behind there ken who is walking behind right now as well and then our friend justin um people ask how did you guys start like doing the things that you do like in the videos and I'm like dude we've been we've been doing the things that we do in the videos since we were 10 years old we just never filmed them until CJ picked up a camera because he had bad concussions he couldn't ride a dirt bike drift the cars being in whatever we were doing so he started filming it yeah that was kind of my way of getting in the beings involved still and and but not all not doing like you know like crashing cars into each other and whatever um and i feel like people always were like you guys should

have a tv show you know like all the stuff that we were doing at that time youtube wasn't as prevalence everyone was like you guys need to be on tv yeah yeah we do yeah we always thought that our group dynamic and our uh friendship was something special that something that's something that you would see on tv and um therefore we always thought that we had something and then once the video started coming out people were entertained uh it turned from basically the seven best friends just doing our weekend shenanigans uh for fun into making a video and really having no direction or or really any idea on how to how to make a proper youtube video but what we were really good at was just having fun at that point it was more so we were just doing whatever we were doing on the weekend and i was

just hauling this camera around with a strap on my neck with i was so worried about breaking it. It was like a $500 camera. And we'd bring it around and just film legitimately everything, whether it was like good, bad, whatever, you know, just. It was just us doing us, no matter what it was. And it was kind of like these videos were almost for us. Like, it was just fun to watch and they would end up on YouTube. And then very slowly, it just started gaining a following. And it was kind of like a snowball. It was like, and then there's this little audience. And then it was kind of like, Well, now we had this positive reinforcement behind, and we're like, we got to keep making more.

And it was fun. It was like a game growing it, you know? Hey, Ryan, real quick, can you switch sides with me? My neck is so fucked up. I can't, like, look this way. Yeah, I can do that. His next jammed up from the mini truck flip. I swear I put on deodorant, and it's not that bad.

You sweat? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Tell me about your seat. Yeah, that's way better. Oh, yeah. I moved a bad seat. Welcome, bro.

well this feels way better yeah so i i guess it needed to be said kind of where are you know the foundation of seaboy started you know people think that we've been making videos and that's you know the we were never friends before i guess what they see video like week after week but like the things that we do now we've been doing since we were little kids and we were just best friends having a good time when we started making the videos and i remember We had a paycheck come in December of 2016, going into 2017. And it was for, like, out of the whole year, I think we'd made, what, $800? It was like $11 or $1,200.

But technically, we hadn't been going that long because when I made the channel, it was like end of July. And then when we posted the one video that actually made some revenue, it was in, like, beginning of September, by the time it probably took off maybe October. so like all that revenue is really just from that one shifter cart vid that popped off and when I say popped off it maybe had like 100,000 views but and then so we had to basically incorporate make a LLC to collect that $1,100 and then we didn't know what to do with it because we were like who gets what so we just donated it we bought toys or whatever made a video with that but at that moment Ken was like if we're going to start an LLC who's going to be a part of it And we were just like, well, all seven of us. That's the only thing that makes sense. And we just split it seven ways evenly across the board.

Yeah, I think everyone had like 14% or something like that. And then that was the start of Seaboy's TV as a company as like kind of what it is now. But, you know, seven partners. And that's kind of where the problem is. Well, I mean, I think the development of something great is what I was. Absolutely. Absolutely. And people have asked that, I mean, I even hear it sometimes now, like if I get talking to some old guy about business and, and how do you make that work, you know, with seven or five or whatever? But I mean, the whole point of it is because then everyone's got equal, you know, gain and equal loss. So like, because I mean, if there was just, let's say one or two owners, then it's like, the way all of us work is like you don't want to, you want to be. You know, at least have some control or whatever. You go up together and you go down together.

Exactly. So everyone's got there. Everyone's got to pull their side. Yeah. So it just seemed that was the best way to do it. And it was. From there, you know, we started to get a little bit of traction. We're making videos.

We're starting to kind of figure out what we're doing. Kind of. I don't know if I'd say starting. Well, I mean, we were at least on the right track. Yeah. And then this guy comes into our life and pitches us this TV show. Oh, God. Which, which.

Yeah, we were pumped, though. Yeah, no, we were. We were. At the time, like, at the age we were, it was something big. No one has got something like that. And YouTube. And YouTube wasn't quite as big as it is now. I think we could kind of see where it was going, but it still wasn't quite as big.

And being on MTV seemed or another big network like that seemed like that seemed like that's the big break. You know, like, that's like the end-all be-all type of thing. So we thought it was just the biggest deal. And I remember just sitting on these like Zoom phone calls, just geeking out. Well, it started out with they pitched us that they were going to give us an MTV show. And then it turned into like Discovery Network. And then it turned into like planet. Like the weather channel or like animal planet or something.

We're like, whoa, what the fuck? Where's this going now? The worst part was is that we, like, oh, we're really close to the MTV show and we didn't get it because we weren't diverse enough, if you can guess? I don't know how accurate that is. I mean, that's what they're saying that.

Okay, you're right, you're right. But that one seemed like it was the closest, and we were obviously most excited about that. And then from there, yeah, it was just like discovery, animal planet. Like, what would we do on animal planet? So that guy that came in and pitched the show, it's called Bob.

I like that. Yes. Bob, perfect. So Bob comes in, pitches this show. We take basically like a month off of YouTube videos. And at the time, it really didn't make that much of a difference because we were a lot smaller, didn't really have a schedule or anything like that. But we filmed these, it's called a pilot episode, and it takes forever, sucked.

The ideas were terrible. I mean, how long after the initial talkings was it that we actually got to the pilot episode? Like a year or was it two? It was a long time. I'm trying to think it, dude, the problem is it all just gets so slammed together. But I'm pretty sure we like started the talking. And then it wasn't until like we had our new shop when we started filming the pilot episode. Yeah.

Because I was trying to figure out all of that. And because we were like using the shop and the Maverick and going out on DL and doing all that stuff. So Bob comes in and starts working on this TV show. We filmed the pilot episode. It ends up not really going anywhere. and then and then this is like the craziest part that i always wonder about but me and ben were sitting in the shop do you remember this bro i remember it like it was yesterday we we had just gotten our truck wrapped in everything the duramax we were sitting in the duramax in the shop we're feeling

good we just got off some merch sales we were like coming to the end of the year and uh made some money that year yeah we were like damn things are like going pretty good right now and then that call came in yeah a call came in from bob and it's me and ben we get in the truck and we just set it up and we just like he basically goes how you guys doing yeah like like a what's up call you know and uh basically he is like oh i got some ideas or whatever and you know wanted to run by you guys and blah blah blah and basically wanted to like come back and that's when he said he wanted to like do something with all of us right and uh i'm trying to figure out how to integrate to like the audience of uh my mindset at the time and i don't want to say it was like good or bad but i was just in a uh kind of a weird head space

you know and um anyway so this guy comes and uh basically says he wants to manage all of us you know um and uh pulls our parents aside yeah like was talking to my dad and your dad and was like i want to manage them and here's what i can do for them and and like promised basically promise the world like a lot of these people do for anyone i guess in our position there's going to be so many people that try and get their greasy little fingers on you to to like because he saw something good because he was talking to us how are things going and we're like things are going great we you know we're selling merch the views were doing well we finally were getting traction and and like had something good and he almost saw that as like an opportunity to like

we were snowballing hard like get in on it like and dude here's the thing and i'm going to say this right now because obviously we're going to go through a bunch of ups and downs in this you guys dodged a bullet like so heavily so like the amount of oh my god i wish you guys i actually don't wish you could experience what I had to experience through that entire time. It was terrible. So that was after we shot the pilot episode. And we spent like, it was probably more like two months doing this pilot episode. And I mean, I guess I'll speak personally for, from my point, it was just a shitty ass episode. Like, it just wasn't that good. Yes. I never got picked up. It never got picked up, of course, but it took us like two months of time. And I guess speaking from my

point of view after spending that amount of time with him and watching this guy work and actually seeing him work versus listening to talk on the phone about how he can do all this stuff for us and how he's going to make us rich and all famous and all this then when he showed up and it was time to like get to filming he didn't in my opinion i don't think he knew what he was doing and that's the thing like you called it from the start and i'll never remember that but i'm going to be like fully honest transparent i was straight bamboozled and was drinking the kool-aid obviously yeah Yeah, I mean, so basically we did that pilot episode and it never got picked up. And then he came back in again.

I finally thought we got rid of this guy because I was so annoyed of him because it seemed like every time he came in, he would hold up making YouTube vids. And we were at this stage. I'm like, we need to just keep pounding the pavement. Keep growing this channel. Like, we're going to get to this. And then he would just be here selling this fucking dream. Dream. Dream.

Yeah. You guys are going to be rich. And I guess also to keep in mind, like at that time. we weren't making money like individually like we were maybe selling some merch but we had I mean by the time it was all done being that we had a distributor that was doing it was like we were really taking no money in our pocket right um which we you know later figured out and then once you do the numbers there's a lot of stuff you learn when you're doing this as time goes on then we ended up pulling it in but like I mean we were maybe making like 1900 bucks a month individually like all of us wouldn't

you say yeah so like we were hungry And we were looking for anything to cling on to to make this work. So I can understand why you and even some of the other guys would be like, like, please, like, yes, we've been trying. Like, we want this, you know. So it was easy to be bamboozled in that, like you said, I guess, in that sense. Yeah, I think that's one thing that's good to preface is like that, I mean, I was like half and half on it.

I didn't have the read that you did either. And I was like, I mean, I think I'm. I'll listen, I'll hear him out. And at the end of the day, came to a majority vote. But it was never like Jake's vouching in your headspace and we're all like, nah. I mean, it was like we chatted about it. And we went back and forth for a little bit. You know, we had some in-person meetings and ultimately we took a vote.

It's a complex conversation to have for a bunch of 19-year-olds. You know, we were young and we were going through it. But basically what ended up happening was, He came back in and he said the, like you said, the managing thing. He wants to manage us now and manage our YouTube channel. So he's not going to make a TV show for us anymore. He wants to manage our YouTube channel and then like try to pitch us to like some other company. Right.

So this might be fast forwarding, but then we can come back. So basically how our structure was going to be. We were basically, from what I was told, greenlit for a show with like other cast members. And we were going to use those funds to then build the. channel or whatever right well obviously none of that happened of course but that was like the whole thought process behind when he came to all of us and me is like we'll get these shows or whatever do these pilots and then we'll use those to grow the channel and whatnot and you were closest with them because you guys were kind of like more buddies I think and he was kind of buddies with your dad

over the course of time of spending time with you guys yeah oh of course yeah well he probably more in with him than us right yeah but he'd love you love you guys with him than us right yeah but he'd love love Jake. He looked at Jake like his little superstar. That's what he saw. Like he came in, wanted to manage us. And then it got to the point where we were like, all right, we got to take a, we got to take a vote. Are we bringing them on or are we not?

Jake really wanted them. And CJ really didn't want them. So I felt like I was in the middle of like, I have to like sway the decision of Ken, Micah, and Ryan with these guys, all right, which way are we going? And then I just went with CJ and I went with you and I took both of them and my gut was just like, I don't have a good feeling about this guy. And I went with my gut and I told Micah, I told Ken, and I told everyone, I said, my gut goes with CJ and that I don't have a good feeling about this guy and that's kind of where

everyone else was like, you know, it just doesn't feel right either. And I remember getting done with that meeting of everyone being, like all right i guess it's just not the right fit it doesn't feel right and then we thought that's where it ended and i remember you walking out of that meeting and going sitting in your truck and you hopped on the phone and who'd you call did you call after that do you remember that meeting of all of us being like it's just not gonna yeah that's the thing is like uh like my mindset was so different then but it like obviously doesn't change anything but like i just i didn't really know how to feel or what to feel because you know like beforehand everyone's like thinking about it

and whatnot you know and then like I come into this meeting because I don't know if I was working for my dad or whatever and then you just like I remember you up with the whiteboard and you drop this bomb on me and we're like yeah we're not doing it and I was like oh I thought yesterday we were and like we talked about it but I like there was obviously a meeting beforehand which like I get I'm not I wasn't there every day all day I was doing other stuff but uh yeah I don't know it was like prior to that because i was been talking to ryan too and you probably remember this he'd just be like dude like what's going on like are you down or whatever and uh i just like something felt off with me and it wasn't that like i wasn't having fun because like when we go out and film like i had a shit ton of

fun and i loved all of that stuff but i felt like i wasn't growing my self as a person as like a business person learning things you know stuff like that i just felt like i was growing this character persona that like was still me but it wasn't me all the time and i just didn't want to live that my whole life you know that's when i was just like i think i'm going to go on a chance here you know and try something different and then uh it was april 12th i brought all you guys up into mike's room and i like told you guys i was leaving and then April 13th was the last video I filmed with you guys at Tom's store when we all pretended to work there. So you went to that they don't want to bring you on, but I want to?

Because the day I told you guys was obviously the day that like a decision was made or whatever that like something was going to happen. Something was in place. There was a plan, right? And like there was a show greenlit and I was obviously pitched. this grand rainbow of a master plan you know and i was just like you know like i i think i want to do this maybe it's like the next step into like having a mentor in life or like learning the business career or something different you know and like maybe trying to like compound my happiness and fulfillment and like building me better as like a person you know and uh i said okay i'll do it like it'll it'll it'll just be us you know that's when he pitched me he's like well let's just do it me and you you know

he's like we can get other cast members and stuff like that and uh yeah so i just kind of went out on a limb and went with my gut feeling which holy shit um i couldn't been farther from wrong on that one i'll totally admit to but that's the other thing too i uh i wouldn't change it for the world because like the things i learned and the stuff i went through was like like unbelievable you know and it it kind of uh and when i say i wouldn't change it for the world just the experiences i had you know the the path and route that was took obviously there was some super greasy and ups and downs in there that we can talk about later like what happened after i left and all that stuff yeah uh just to speak though like to your point of view uh like so the viewer

can kind of understand like we weren't doing that great at like where we were at We weren't rolling in dough. We were just literally grinding and making like 1900, you know, like Jake said, he was working at his dad's turf business to make enough money to still do other things. So like it was like kind of working on a on a pipe dream. And in a sense, we've been doing this for what, three, four years of that time. Right. I think, and I think we actually had like 600,000 subscribers.

Because we actually, we have a, yeah, we have a plaque downstairs at a kid, made and sent us and it has the date. And it has like June and it says 627,000 subscribers. So like realistically we weren't like super huge. We weren't pulling tons of views. So like you can't really blame you for wanting to give this a try. We'll get into this. But when I made that decision, like it was just a decision like I was leaving, you know, and we were all still friends and we were upstairs. And like I remember when you guys said like, hey, if it doesn't work out, you know, you can always come back right yeah and then i made the decision to just totally burn that bridge and like we'll get into all that yeah i think and i think we were we were maybe hurt because we were

like i don't know if we were necessarily hurt like we were just bummed that you were leaving you know it was almost like it was almost like we were bummed that that you didn't fuck with the vision like we like our dream like this guy came in and sold you and it was like to us we felt like that guy didn't have the credentials to sell you on it and we felt that you were being bamboozled and lied to like i mean i saw it and i do want to say i didn't go around and convince other people we just strat flat out oh ben said we all we just talked and everyone kind of just like i just don't think he's the guy man i remember after that meeting i drove home and it like i'm pretty sure like i cried i felt because you were leaving is is what you told this is you

were leaving to go to chicago and i was so sad that my best friend since before confirmation you know we we would ride snowmobiles a confirmation together and it was like man my best friend is leaving and I'm not going to see him again the same way that people feel when their friend goes to college or get as a new job or has to move across the country like that's how I felt dude what it felt like for me this is the only thing I could compare it to is like breaking up with your girlfriend for literally like because you're just gonna go try some other chick out. Things were going like kind of good.

Yeah, you know. But yeah, but like, and, uh, you know, and that's like the thing is, um, kind of put my, uh, self back in those shoes. It's like the person I am today is not even close to the same person, which is like really good. But, uh, I just, you know, I was always having fun and I had like this, I don't give a shit about anything attitude. And like, it, it, it kind of.

kind of like just caught up to me really hard you know like i just was always like circling around myself wondering like what am i doing like what what do i need to do it's like wait do i give a shit no and uh that's funny you say that well well like you're saying when like after you left you no just like or during your time just like uh i i have it it's i it's basically like 20 late 2019 early 2020 you know I just like was doubting myself I was just kind of super down in the dumps and I just wanted to like I was not in like a good headspace and I don't know how to describe it it was such like a mental thing for me because I was like just getting pulled so many different ways of like what to do what should I do you know like I have this group of best friends who are building something awesome you know like my dad wants me to take over the seating business there's this guy who's supposed to be some magical prince that's going to lead me to the promise land and i totally like put all my trust in everything into that i just like threw my sack over my shoulder and put my eggs in those baskets you know and just got straight kicked in the balls but um that's the thing

and i just like i kind of just went for it and then um i couldn't figure out what it was and even like after he was gone and like me and pat were going and all that stuff like my mental mind's that would slowly get better but I couldn't figure it out and honestly up until maybe three months ago I've like finally started to dial it in like it's crazy and obviously there's so much that happens in between that but man I'm happy to hear like what do you mean like what did you dial in like I I never told anybody this and I haven't told my dad my family and nothing but like two months ago I started going to like therapy and stuff and like just talking to people about like what's been going on in my life like I don't know I'll be like in

the best mood ever and i'm so good at like distracting myself from what like i think about when i'm alone and like i think that's why it's so easy to like create content and fun because you know when you're just out laughing and having smiles you know it's so easy to just not think about that stuff but like over time it just build and build and build and build and like i just it really mess with my head dude you know and uh i kind of in the last too much I just, like, totally flip-flot my life. Like, I started going to church every Sunday. I started going to the gym every morning.

This is, like, maybe he's a little personal, but I quit, like, jacking off. Really? Yeah. Totally stopped that. I take ice baths every day, and, like, every Thursday, I go to therapy. And as of the last two months, like, I've just been freaking dialed, you know? I mean, for the longest time, and you told me this yesterday, I'm like, maybe I'm drinking too much. So I stopped drinking for, like, nine months and six days, a couple of,

couple years ago. And that didn't do shit to my mental health. And I couldn't figure out what it was. I feel like I was, yeah, you, you definitely are looking the best, the most healthy I've ever seen you in my life. Yeah. I went from 225 to 181.6 this morning. Woo. Yeah. Yeah. You're dialed. I mean, and obviously you can just tell in your face, like everything. And you just, you're the most in shape you ever been. But also, I will say speaking to your mental, you're much more predictable. I shouldn't say predictable, but you're much less unpredictable then. You used. You used to. You used to say, to be very unpredictable and wild and maybe partly the reason why you maybe weren't super happy with, I mean, you would be able to answer us with your position at that time when you were

still in C-Boy's TV was like you were showing up and for one, we didn't typically ever have a plan. Like we were just, we didn't know what the fuck we were doing. But for two, you just were kind of like showing up and it was like, just be you, be funny, be you, just do whatever, you know, like, and kind of everyone was doing that. So it makes it stressful not having a plan, not having any organization. And then you're kind of like this wild man. Don't get me wrong. We were filming it during the moment.

I love every single second of that. But it was like I wasn't learning anything. I wasn't doing anything. I wasn't getting any skills, you know. And I was just chasing a dragon, which was like a dopamine rush of having fun, you know. And I just felt like it just kind of wore me out because it was like, how long can I hold this up? And it just kind of taxed me out. And I was just kind of looking for a outlet, you know?

So did he come to you with kind of like a plan? Like, listen, we're going to get this structured program down. The manager. Yeah, the manager. Were you able to, he kind of gave you almost like this out, like, hey, I can give you some structure. You can still chase that dopamine rush, but with a little bit of legitness? What was the feeling? It was more in a way of just like,

In my mind, what I thought it was going to be was like a mentor, you know, in like a different world, you know, I could still, because what I love to do in this like, and I will forever, I love to entertain people and be around people. I'm a huge people person. I love like, I have no problem being the center of attention. people pleaser yeah you like making people laugh yeah that's the thing and like i love that and don't get me wrong like that that is part of who i am but i wanted to have this like other part you know is what i'm saying like i couldn't just live that like in obviously you guys know we go to sorbos and even if there's no cameras like i stood up on the table for micah and i'm like hey everyone's saying micha happy birthday like i love that stuff yeah what you were going to do with that guy in that show you were kind of still doing the same role though as what you were doing here like you show up you be funny you be crazy you maybe you do whatever like it might be a jump that day or whatever the hell but did you feel like

it was more of like all right like i got the time the clock's ticking i neither need to go with the seating business or or make something happen now do you think that like the there was like a clock weighing on you in a way yes but i just like uh i felt like i just like i just like i just if I was on that path maybe it would like strike me into like learning more than just doing that too you know like obviously there is like in evolvement of everything just like how this is evolved like this this is nuts you know like when I left like this this facility didn't exist and you guys just straight evolved to the channel you know and like I just thought it would evolve me into becoming like a better business person or maybe a different career line would open up but I

just thought it was like a doorway to something else you know and i just put my full trust in that you know what though jake i honestly i truly believe that if you wouldn't have left when you did and made the decisions that you did none of this would be here and you had to go your own way because like at the end of the day you just felt like you had to be your own leader like make your own decisions and honestly in this in like the way that us five operate is like there's really no one person calling the shots or like we all kind of work together but like you since day one have always kind of been like the lone ranger like felt more beat beat to your own drunk or uh what is it go to your own he does what he wants like i remember someday as we'd be you know filming i don't know

if jake's coming today like he's it looks like he's at home playing PS4 you know yeah no and it's uh i think you're right in the way of uh i definitely am that way for sure now and you know i think i wanted to then but i just didn't have anyone to like teach me to be like that you know and uh obviously it gets like kind of emotional and stuff because you know you always like it's so crazy i always i get the question still to this day you know everyone's like do you wish you never left you know and like I look at all you guys you know and I think about it and I'll I have only one answer and it's not yes or no the way I did absolutely not I wish I never did that you guys like like when I like burned all the T-shirts and shit like that like

that's pretty I don't know it wasn't cool and I felt today I felt I felt I feel super bad and like the reason I did that is I was making like a business decision in a way and a problem with it is like I was doing that decision off of emotions you know like that's that's literally the feeling and reason of why and I'm not going to say this person's name because three weeks ago he came up to me in Zorba's and actually apologize for this really And it was one of your guys' friends' bachelor parties. Oh, yeah. And anyways, it was just like the end of the night.

And, you know, I was like still hanging out with you guys, but I was gone. I already went to Chicago and back. And I was sad. I didn't know who I was. I was just a lost puppy, you know. And anyways, I just start getting lit up in the parking lot, you know, and I just didn't know what to do. Like, what do you mean by lit up? Verbly.

Saying like, why you hear you? yeah like why are you here like you abandon these guys shit like that and i'm just like dude i'm just trying to hang out you know and like it was kind of awkward because everybody was a little messed up too and like it was just it felt super weird and like obviously it's totally different times that i was just like no one kind of said anything you know and like i just kind of looked around and i just like got in my truck and went home and the next morning when i woke up i just like chose violence like I was sad and it turned to anger. Yeah.

So to preface, that was an acquaintance or a friend of, like not anyone in our C-Boys group, but okay, I know what you're talking about. And that's when I say like I let my emotions make a decision that I totally shouldn't have made, you know. And I almost think we need to back, slightly back up. But during that time then, so we were actually in kind of a legal battle with each other. Yeah. Because, so Jake ended up leaving C-boys.

And in order to, you know, actually leave the company, which he wanted his name off the company because otherwise he would be liable for if something went wrong. Right. And we wanted his name off the company because we're trying to build something. And it's like we don't want him to, you know, if you're not going to be here with us doing it, then you can't be, you know, an owner in this. And Jake, you got to, we got to give a huge, like, I mean, thank you to you because, I mean, I remember from the first day. when you said, I'm going to leave, you know, obviously we were shocked, but you said, I don't want any money. Like, I don't want anything. Like, I, I'm not trying to get money. I just cut me out of the, like, I'm going this way. I don't want to whatever. Um, which we really didn't have also on top of that. We didn't really have much money. We were renting a shop and we, I think we had an RS1. Yeah. And that's thing. Like, I, I truly did, like, want to see you guys, like, flourish at the time when I told you, you know, and it's funny. It's ironic. I'm like,

I don't want a dollar. Well, the minimum buyouts. dollar so i got that bitch framed up in my office yeah and i actually was going to bring it in but that you should have been funny um but so before you left to go to chicago we had jake sign a thing just saying uh i will sell my shares of the company for one dollar so we basically did it we just hadn't i don't know if we gave you the dollar yet or what we did but you know whatever um so it was like basically a done deal on paper right and the reason why we did that right then there was because we were worried that when you went and got with this new manager, as soon as he gets involved in trying to do this separation, he's going to try and just take us for everything.

Because, which, I mean, he kind of ended up doing with you later on. Obviously, we'll get to that part in the story. But we kind of saw that one coming. So we were trying to protect ourselves. And you were, you were very nice and easy about it. You signed it. Didn't think twice. And, you know, just because you weren't trying to obviously jam us up. So I do a. appreciate that. All of us do appreciate that because that honestly saved, I think, all of this because I really don't, I think if you wouldn't have signed that thing, that document selling it for $1 or, you know, just cutting your shares off. I think that he would have just, you know, as he later on did and as he had done in the past, would have taken it to

court, stretched it out and just basically try to bleed us dry. And we would have, ultimately had to fold you know it would have crumbled i think what we what we had at that time so yeah i mean that was that was huge but but anyways i think there was when that guy chewed you out in the sorbis parking lot although we were like hanging out i think there was an animosity to us all because we were trying to still do this separation but your manager was like dragging it out like he purposely was like dragging it out and we had to keep paying lawyers and we didn't have money for that. So it was like we were... And we couldn't buy the shop. We were moved into the shop.

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Shop the Colgate Total Active Prevention System now at walmart.ca. Do you remember doing a Zoom meeting? Yeah, I mean a legal, like, I remember that. Yeah, dude, I, like, oh my God. It was ridiculous. I could tell on your face that you were already fed up of his shit. No, he was pissed at us after this. I remember that.

Oh, you were mad at us? that's when it flipped that's when it sold like what happened no no no so what happened was like i don't know if that was before after but basically like i just wanted like a clean rip just as you guys did like i just wanted nothing to happen and then like when all these documents get sent over and you got someone in your ear like hey look at this this this this and this and i'm like oh maybe like they are got yeah maybe these guys are trying to do it like a dirty on me you know and then obviously now i'm just like well i got to have my own team over here.

You know, like, that's why you never get lawyers involved in anything. I think, I mean, you just had the wrong people, wrong people in your ear. Obviously. Yeah, that, well, yeah, obviously. But, but yeah, going back, so that kind of started to create this animosity to all of us. Like, obviously, we went from, this is a clean break to now, I think there was some frustration involved out of both parties because it was, I mean, at that time, it was very hard on us because during that time none of us were getting paid so we were like I think we went

I mean fuck like seven months six months yeah and like I just remember having like like we would kind of like get I guess we'd get a little bit of paychecks but I remember like it was always like I had less than a thousand bucks in my bank count the whole time and we were posting all these videos and it was kind of starting to take off which almost leads into another point when you left there was so many people that were like in the area and obviously our subscribers as well that thought oh they're done jake left like i i legit had people like i remember one time i was at uh i was eating dinner with my girlfriend's dad and he and they had a bunch of other people and this guy who was just like so rude to me he was like so what are you going to do now that jake left you i was like like what

i'm just going to keep keep on going like we're going to keep making videos and i think a lot of people thought, oh, they're done because Jake was, Jake left. He's the star. And, uh, it put a, it lit a fire under our ass for one, but then for two, it made us reconsider and relook at everything we were doing in the business and we dialed it in. We started, you know, just from really the ground up. We, we started looking at everything. Like, how are we making these videos? Like, we would schedule out things, you know, and, and started planning and working on the thumbnails. Just literally, literally everything because we were trying to just becoming strategic yeah we became very strategic yeah and like failure like if if those people would have been right yeah it would have been a bad like that was

everything we could do to prove those people wrong like we were so fired up that's like the coolest because of how many people were telling us that we were we were so fucked without you dude that's the thing and i love and here's the crazy part and it's kind of a good spot to uh bring this up and then we can continue but uh coming back to when we were all together do you guys remember being outside the shop i don't know it's just like a random day we were all sitting around a fire pit and like we were just having a fun stereotypical weekend you know and we're all like arms around each other like this is awesome we're going to do it and like one day or ben said you know guys one day we're all going to have our dream cars and i'm going to own a Lamborghini and the day i was stuck in the trunk of that

other car and i heard a lamo pull up you know what the first thing i I said was he fucking did it. And then it was help. But no, I literally like when I heard that thing come in, I literally just remember staring at all you guys and Ben saying

that and I'm just like, he did it. Like, and it was cool because like I don't know if you guys know this. You know how cool it's been from like the outside perspective watching you guys grow? Like it's it's weird being a part of something taking yourself out of that.

just watching that thing climb to the top it is the coolest thing in the world just like seeing the evolvement and like because when you're in it you know you're going just like 200 miles an hour and you guys kind of don't realize like how fast it's going you know and like just you time blows by and you know you just like watch this thing in like a matter of years just turn into a staple and icon like only a one of a kind in the entire area which is like the coolest thing in the entire world to me like i i loved it every second of it it's crazy i think that goes to show like all the other outside people that were going on during this just like that fight outside of whatever bar you know where that guy was young it was all the outside people that really caused

the problem we were all we all wanted to be good you wanted a clean exit we wanted a clean exit we wanted to get back to work. You wanted to get to work on what you're doing. It was everybody else that tries a stick. They're either hands for money or their opinion and stuff like that into a situation that can really be the downfall. It probably were some of that animosity that was created from us to you and you to us wasn't what we were saying to each other. It was what other people told us we should be feeling or what other people told us that they'd heard or what people said, no, this is how you should feel or oh he's going to do this like the lawyers oh he's going to try to take you for this you got to put this language in and i think that really goes a show that what we were is such and what we are

is such good friends that we just wanted to do our own thing but it's the other people who don't understand the situation that can really muddy the waters yeah it got like dude when you burnt those shirts people are like hating on us people were hating on us we got so much hate everyone was on your side and the worst part was like the local people that always said we're going to fail and they were commenting and reposting that and then i i truly saw like like who had our back and i still remember exactly who did it and who didn't yeah so that sucks yeah people around the area but i remember that and i straight up had like a breakdown then the next morning i was literally sitting in my parents kitchen crying being like my best friend did this to me and

my other friends everything was just like pile like like come crumbling down and that was like the moment like at the lowest I think that was like the rock bottom of like all of our all like everything that happened like that was that was it that was it and then everything built from there obviously got better but that was a banger though like when you you drop that burning like that was like I like I remember it was dude I was like holy fuck they got some serious production like this is a great story. They got fucking Morgan Freeman. What was up with that?

Like I was just like, is that really? Is it an AI, isn't it? No, no. That was literally, I had nothing to do with that. That was me and Zach Hubby. Yeah. That was it.

And where'd you get the Morgan Freeman? So that's thing. AI wasn't out yet. You got, we were 21 years old. AI wasn't out, right? And anyways, I was watching a YouTube video and it was Morgan Freeman telling all the memes of

2021. I'm like, man, I can't be Morgan, or no, what year, 2020. And I'm like, man, this is hilarious. Why would Morgan Freeman do this? Scroll down, it's a guy who does voice reenactments. No way. It wasn't even Morgan Freeman?

Yeah. And I literally, like, email them. I'm like, if you can say these words, I will pay you as much as you want. I need this by tomorrow. And he goes, done. It sounded so good. Yeah. And the funny part is, though, you guys, like, right away, right after that,

karma just kicked me in the ball so fast because my first video wearing, like, Viking costume. Oh, my God. Can we get, can we get a copy of that? No. Can we put it on forever? It like, it will never be seen. Bro, that shit. So before that, though, you got to, that was where it shifted.

You had everyone on your side, I think, because you were a major fan favorite. And I think a lot of people were like, you know, C-Boy's TV is still doing their thing. But when Jake comes out with his, he's going to be crushing it. Like, he is going to blow us out of the water. And then you dropped that burning the merch thing. And I was like, damn, like, they actually. can all of a sudden make videos because I was like this I didn't think this guy could do shit all along but I guess we were wrong I'm like oh fuck because I'm getting nervous

Bob manager yeah Bob didn't have anything to do it whenever whenever we say makes sense I did that whenever we say Bob's real name just put a beep because otherwise it's going to sound yeah yeah yeah I got um and you can leave that in but uh but I remember thinking that and I remember like oh fuck and then uh you know you guys end up finishing up it's like you we finally come to the agreement you get your name off the company and keep in mind i guess you had probably been not posting videos or doing anything online now for what like a year literally it was like this guy took a year like he didn't just come out like it took him a year to make one youtube video and he comes out with your fucking first video dude what was up with that what like you guys when that was you don't

understand you guys can imagine how the pilot episode was if you've ever seen okay you guys Here's the thing Coming back to what you said I and then yes Like With that momentum I probably could have just came out of the gate so hard And it just slapped me in the face so bad

Well you guys premiered it too so you were watching Oh and I was doing I was watching the The live comments and I was just like Because everyone was It was just ripping I was watching them too because I had my broken foot at the time so i was all rested up and i mean keep in mind you've been like promoting

for a year like i'm coming out with this channel and all this so dude that's the thing we would just came out doing something like the three instagram videos were awesome like and despite the fact of like the whole ruining of the friendship and making it really weird from the outside viewership it created like just some drama and hype and it was sick right yeah i think just dropped the ball on delivering to cj's point yeah you had the catapult loaded full as it can be ready to launch whatever you want as long as it's awesome dude so we were out we were out uh like drinking that night because we were like uh jakes dropping his video tonight and i was like god i don't even want to watch this i figured it was going to just be like just shitting on us

ripping all of us apart like all these different things right and then cj text yo you guys got to watch jakes this video and i was like i can't dude i literally can't i'm not trying to ruin my night I'm trying to have a good time. And he's like, believe me, it's worth the watch. And we get back to, we get back to Tint's house, and we all put it on, and we watch it. And I should you not, everyone was like this. Mm. And it got done, and it was just silent.

And we go, oh. Then I was like, holy fuck. We're good. Well, it was like, dude, it was like the whole moment. momentum shift of like us getting shit on for like the past year and I'm not going to lie it felt kind of nice and and I was just like oh my god oh my god this guy is a flop like I get what you say yeah we had a feeling and then that so it's proved so so what he got in there what was going on on your side he was like here's a great idea and you were just like okay yeah no that's the thing like as

being 21, 22, like, so heavily influenced. and I just put all my trust on them. And at this point, I'm like, I'm all in. I can't shake and I do. Like, what am I going to do? Like, I already had those other three videos up. There's nothing I can do at this point. I'm like, let's roll it.

You know, get the Viking costumes out. Yeah, the Vikings costumes, bro. In the, uh, what are they? When you break the tripod, yeah, the look this thing. Yeah, just broke a $25 tripod and threw it in the, he put that in the intro that guy dude but yeah anyways so i don't do it's i can't help i'm sorry no i'm sorry it just reminded me of something like when you were doing it we're like is he being held hostage why else would he make content like this yeah oh it's up bro

oh hey couty oh dude so you had to have watched that and just been like We're fucked. No, literally. Yeah, I want to know what was going on in your side. How did we get there? So how we got there? So basically like how it became about or whatever. So, okay, as I was told, like there was a show that was greenlit, right?

So we got to maybe give some context. So right after I left the boys, I ended up moving to Chicago for, what, three months maybe? It was like a summer. The whole summer, yeah. Yeah, basically the whole summer. And I maybe came back like two, three times. And I got some like, dude, we're not. not doing anything i call my dad i'm like come fly down here pick me up and it was like four hours he

like all right so anyways like the time i was down there so like i left you guys right at this time i'm like thinking all right i got this we got a plan i fly down there i uh i didn't have any i like literally took my clothes and a one wheel and like that's how i got around down there or whatever and like i get to his house and like at this point i was like super drinking the Kool-Aid because like his house was pretty cool for what it what it was right and I like come in I'm like all right so maybe this guy knows what he's doing and obviously a whole different story but anyways we start like getting to work down there right like making t-shirt designs and stuff like this and like he starts showing me at like a couple designs and I was like that's that is subpar

like that is like that's bad right and I'm like we need to change this up a little bit right so like finally dial in some t-shirts whatever and now we're which is exactly what you need before making any any content right right some t-shirts to sell to the people all bass accords here and but i'm just rolling with the punches you know i'm following his lead on this one i'm in it like i'm i'm gonna do this new milestone in my life you know i'm trying something totally different and so like we're working down there and working on like other show pitches and stuff that was like going on he's like yeah i just got to wrap up like these two projects or whatever and then he's like we'll get to work on some stuff and i was there for like maybe a week two weeks

and uh we maybe did like three things that had to deal with me otherwise i was like pressure washing his roof and like i'm like i'm doing manual labor over here wait wait a shit you pressure wash i have snapchats of me pressure washing his roof and i i i've had totally bet i can say you guys all that like i literally like did edging did this did that i'm like wow i'm like you're going on next thing you know you're wearing a little uniform yeah you're doing other people's lawns too yeah oh my god anyway so like start doing yard bitch for a bit right so like i'm i'm playing this role i'm like all right cool it's whatever and um i don't remember if it was like fourth of july coming up or something was coming up and my dad like flies down and gets me

go home and he's like how is it i'm like oh pretty good you know he's like wrapping up some other projects and stuff and whatever i'm like yeah but i had to like clean up his house and stuff like he was like selling it at the time or whatever and he's like oh he's like just give it time whatever you know like yeah stay true yeah you'd figure that like something's gonna happen and you know he's staying positive about it and he's like all right drops me off you know and go on dl and hang out friends and have fun whatever and punch a washing machine oh my god i forgot about that i so forgot about that so he just said that whose house was that dude i don't know we shouldn't mention what what happened we were just talking me and you

it was the first time that we'd seen each other in like two months and it got it got kind of heated and you punched a washing machine not at our house we got a party saying again no then we're just we're just chopping it up and and then things got like like kind of escalated and I was like what are you doing down there and I must have struck a soft spot in that roof and he punched the fucking washing machine yeah no I totally forgot about that till you brought that out that's kind of funny no it's all right anyway so I like I go back and uh anyway so like basically the whole time we're down there we're just working on like merchandising stuff you know like the whole time we're down there like obviously like how many

hours a day just out of curiosity what felt like all day every day probably only like a couple hours here and there because we're out doing other stuff because he's got these other unwrapped up projects bro i remember how he works yeah yeah you know exactly just doing nothing but he's taking a lot of time hamster wheeling it yeah yeah it's so hard when you like just put your full trust in someone because like i just kept giving them the benefit of the doubt you know but eventually like i just got totally like like we got to start doing stuff you know like people are asking questions you know like there needs to be a like we got to do something like whether if we're going to just like shoot a tv show and that's like what we're going to do well let's just go

do that but in the meantime we're just like sitting here not doing anything like we like make a channel or something or go to work, you know? So by like the summer's over, like I just moved home. I'm like, you, like, we got a... And you had nothing to show for it. No, exactly. Zero. I had a couple t-shirts and a hat out of the whole summer, you know?

Were they even for sale yet or no? No, no. They weren't even for sale. And like, these designs might have whipped up by the time this podcast over, dude. Like, it's pretty heavy. Anyways. I just pictured you guys having like 15 meetings throughout the summer about the same t-shirts. No, bro, but you don't understand. Like, there was, like, it was like thousands of

them we were going through. I'm like, here's the deal. We just need something cool. Pick a couple t-shirts and a hat. I'm going to wear it. We'll do some cool stuff. Kids are going to buy it. We'll move on, make new ones, right? Like, we're not going to find a perfected t-shirt that everybody's going to love. Yeah. And, like, I kind of started getting, like, floored up with it. And I'm like, do we just got to go home. We got to start, like, filming something. Both of you, right? Yeah, we both get here. And now he's living at my dad's house in the, basement and so god that was that was uncomfortable because now you guys were back in town and we still had this animosity to us and it was like now they're back here and they're

going to film in cornrods so we're going to have two two people two groups filming around this tiny little town yeah i remember thinking and that's the thing is like um basically the stuff we were doing is to do show pitches and pilots and stuff like that right i remember he wanted to do quibby what's quibby that was like the the big thing he was talking about fucking left yeah that is why you're yeah sorry we said why are you leaving jake you said i'm going to have a show on quibby

yes yes no quibby the whole network didn't you work out yeah no it literally like that is the reason that i'm pretty sure is the reason why we came home and like started the channel is that thing just shut down and um dude man

all these bad memories just hitting me like a brick dude but yes anyways um There was this app called Quibi. If I remember correctly, what it was is that it was original content that you had to pay in order to view. So the reason why I was like, that will never work is because if it's original content that no one's ever seen before, why the fuck would they pay to view it? Like, you know, it makes no sense. But anyways, yeah. So basically Quibi failed.

Total flop. It was like a three-month thing. Yeah. So anyway, so we come back. We start like filming stuff for pilots for you. YouTube anyways he's like got us all totally convinced like okay uh we're greenlit for whatever this is going to be it's basically it was uh do you guys remember uh i don't even know if i can say the name but just beep it uh is or whatever oh yeah so basically like that was greenlit

and there was just other cast members we were going to use right and i was like at this point like whatever let's do something let's do something right and uh yeah so like yeah we're good to go we're just waiting on this and that this and that you know and it's just like it's the same story over time you know and i just got like kind of sick of it sick of it revolving like yeah just hamster wheel and revolving door and then i think it was by the time we uh got to you remember the video where we did like the pumpkin drop thing like we started throwing pumpkins out of the plane onto the car or whatever it is an all right idea or whatever but like uh That video was filmed in September,

and he didn't get that out until, like, October 20th. And that's when we were like, okay, we got to do this, like, weekly if we're going to do this, right? Was he editing them? Yes, so he had editors back home, so we had, like, these big drives. We'd upload them to the cloud or whatever, or he'd mail them to them, and, like, it would take so long to edit them. And after that, I was like, yeah. you're just not going to edit these videos anymore.

And literally out of nowhere comes Pat Reagan. Just calls me up. And he's like, hey, I, uh, not doing Sasquatch anymore or whatever. And he's like, you need a editor. And I was like, yeah, absolutely. And he's like, sweet. Come down like tomorrow. Pat was like our buddy.

We had, we had known Pat and done a couple things with him over the years and just knew him. Like, he was, he was part of a film production crew down in the cities that it was kind of like the same thing of C-boys, except they were just making videos for other people. And it was, like, very high production. They made the Just Another Day video. Yeah, the Just Another Day video, which is on our YouTube channel. It's like a, I can't remember what the edits called, but it's like this edit. It's like a sequence thing of events.

Yeah, and it was really cool. It's pretty sweet. They made that. But he left that company. Jake left C-Boys at like the same time. Yeah. You guys came together. Came together.

Dude, as soon as Pat came on, it was like everything just clicked for, like, the content the thumbnails the ideas like everything like he just he basically took over like yes he took over like the editing and all that stuff and basically like at that time you know like then and i just like run in the background i'm like i'm like none of this stuff is happening like i whatever you said like isn't happening and i'm getting kind of floored and i'm like me and pat just kind of got to like go and do stuff so like to just stay relevant you know right and uh eventually Eventually, I think it was, like, December 31st. Like, I was just sucked literally dry.

Like, with who? My bank account. Okay. Like, like December 31st. So were you funding these videos yourself? Your manager at the time wasn't chipping in? Any idea he had any, like, like we were funding all of it. Like those vans in the Pumpkin Drop video.

Like, I went and bought the vans. Like, all the new camera. equipment everything like we built out my the studio like i paid for all that or whatever and you know come december 31st like i am capped i'm like dude this this isn't working i'm like talking to my dad and julia and whoever i'm like he's got to go and you know like they they started like seeing it too just like over time they're like yeah nothing's happening they're like it's been so long you had this full grown ass man living in a basement yeah yeah and you know like the benefit of the doubt was over served you know what pat think of him did they get a

pat did not like him so so basically no one liked no yeah no one and like me and pat just kind of like we're talking and i'm like yeah i'm gonna tell him it's time to go you know and uh so were you like pretty pent up like were you like pretty pit like veins were shown i was like dude i'm like it was it just crashed and burned like i got on the what was supposed to be the sickest flight of all time and it just turned around and landed back in Fargo you know I didn't fuck you over yeah yeah it's like literally totally just like bent me straight over and I had nothing to show for it just blew a bunch of time and now I'm starting over from scratch kind of jammed up your name in the process with oh yeah I really did video credibility yeah absolutely like it just

everything totally flopped you know and then um so yeah I told them on uh December 31st like you know we you're done we're done like you have no equity into this like my my literal it's just me on the company and like i've been the only one putting money into this and like my my dad's been flying you back and forth we've been like you just cut ties you know and he did not like to hear that like at all like he was just yes he's like what do you mean like stuff's just starting to take off i'm like what are you talking about no it is not obviously it's a nerve-wracking conversation to go into that's the thing like he was just trying to like pitch me on this and this and that and he hits you with a you know it's funny you say that because

uh just got the email that we're actually good to go and i got a big meeting coming up and i'm like i really don't care about your big meeting dude like we all know you're just kind of a i don't yeah you've been playing us yeah yeah and uh it just turned into this whole big or deal and uh basically so what happened i actually uh sent out the lawsuit and all it said was if you just walk away it's done like there is no lawsuit like i just i'm doing this to protect me you just walk away because you have no sweat you have nothing to show for this if anything it damaged my name so much that like i should be asking you for a check but i'm like i don't want anything so you sent out the initial really yeah well i just sent the initial thing out that says

all you got to do is just leave so you served him yeah basically and uh all i said was just you got to exit my life because he would literally just like keep coming back like literally showing up and like what do we i'm like dude no like trying to like be like hey i got this idea yeah you know just trying to keep do this thing and i'm like no dude like this this is done it's it's this is like in the past Like, I got to open up a new chapter. I'm like, I just burned every bridge behind me and then spent all my money in the meantime. And now I'm here and I got nothing to show for it. Like, I got to do something here.

And that was the start of it. He said, no. And then it turned into a two year long. Why? What was he trying to get out of it? He said I owed him like 400 grand. For what? His time?

His time. Yeah. For how long was it? Like eight months and you guys did what? nothing yeah exactly like it the math isn't adding up everybody i tell the story to or sees it they're like dude you got nothing to show for it so so you serve him he sues you i don't know the exact terms but i'm basically just like if you walk away go home i even like offered to bring him his stuff which i ended up doing i paid a guy to drive all of his stuff down there all you got to do

is just like get out of my life like we're not working together anymore we have no business we have no LLC together we have nothing when when all that was happening was it like flashing back like holy shit this is how the boys felt on the other end of it with him being like kind of when we started it was like you two and then you were going against them then yeah i i totally know what you mean uh it was like the amount of stuff that was just going through my brain at that time uh it's crazy and here's like the biggest thing when my uh i guess what i call it now and what my dad call he goes like well you just like paid tuition at that point you know like just a lesson you know and uh obviously i don't wish it upon anybody to have to go through something

like that but like i learned a ton and in a way like it just got me readied up for the next two that i'm in now you know i got sued by a massive energy drink company and a sunglass company which what yeah yeah you getting sued by bang was bullshit yeah dude and we can't say that he had the name yeah what oh that was the other thing from when you came to us told us that you left you said oh yeah also we trademark banging oh yeah oh yeah yeah that created a little bit yeah and we were like what do you mean trademark bang and mike made all the designs you trademarked mike's designs well that that was just funny because i was like well you you deserve and like that is your name but then i was like but manager sent all my designs in to to get it trademarked and i was like

what is this? That was kind of a weak point, I think, because although it was like, it was like your nickname that we kind of like gave you and helped and then we all like built it up almost through the videos. But also I didn't really have a problem. I mean, it was like weird, but also it was like, well, we can't keep using it anyway.

So we were like, eh, but it was just, it felt like, I don't know, like I can see where you guys are coming from. Disrespectful thing. You log into the trademark thing and see all Micah's stuff. You're like,

all right, what did you just, they didn't want to say anything about it. Yeah. But honestly, I mean, it makes sense that you would, you know, there's two points of views that could both be understood. Yeah. So then what?

Bang? I think you're skipping. You can't say. I think we need to. Yeah. Well, we're getting like, wait. I think we need to stay on. He's still in this lawsuit right now for the next two years with his former manager.

Yeah. So basically, um, it's like as if things couldn't have gotten worse, they got worse. Oh, yeah. If things couldn't have gotten worse, it just like kept spiraling. Now you guys, you guys, are suing each other. Yeah, and now it just turns into this big thing. And the problem with that is it just like hung up so much other stuff because it shows

like a pending lawsuit if I'm like trying to get something that I could post. Yeah, all this stuff, you know. And like nobody wants to like ambassador or anybody that could just like has to owe someone a bunch of money or anything like that, you know? And it just created a kind of a lot of headaches. And I think the biggest headache was just for like me personally. in the back of my mind you know it's just like oh this is close to over and then the hamster wheel starts turning again and it's like actually we want this this this this this this and this

dude that was i feel you because that's why he was i mean that was kind of happening with us when we were trying to get do the official split with us it was like we'd come to an agreeance and then the goalposts would get moved by him it was like well we want this and we're like okay yeah you can have all the videos and use them whenever you want well we want this and it was like it just kept moving and it was just never stopped and it was similar in the fact that we couldn't get alone so then we were just like fuck yeah so i get it on a smaller scale i guess is kind of similar just the underlying fact that you're in a lawsuit or like anything with lawyers those ways on you so stressful especially when you're in a creative business that you have to be in a good mood

at 21 and you see these numbers i'm like i don't have any of that you know like you spent everything i had we want a half a million dollars yeah he's like well you know my time and uh did some of this and some of that at a 400 grand i'm like for what exactly yeah that's what blows my mind the most he's like pay me money and you're like you didn't not only did you not make me any money because if you if you did you'd maybe have a cent to pay him but right he took it also it was like on both sides of of us both having that being in that situation it was like a ton of money and we're like we don't even have close to that amount of money i don't know where you're getting this problem or who's going to give you this money but we don't got shit we don't got

anything to give you right i think it was just make-believe numbers like all right uh five and six zero zero like what do we want to go for yeah and uh so that's the thing so basically at this point now it's just me and pat and like it's just this huge thing that's always there right and we're just like on the grind doing good and then some paper show up you know and then it's on the grind doing good then some paper show up and it basically bills or killing the vibe yeah whether it was bills or just like now we want this and it's just going to take a ton of work that it's like it literally you guys I had a binder and I was going to bring it but I have a just like so they call it discovery where you bring in all the evidence right and we asked for like 10 things maybe his discovery was

maybe like this thick i have a binder of all the stuff i had to supply it's like all the ad revenue from here to here uh minutes of watch time these videos that have been up how his likeness got killed i'm like dude you have 13 followers on instagram that's right i forgot about that though the what when you made your video you made your goodbye video and you kind of trashed him weren't you worried about that yeah so that's the thing though like i didn't use his name it's i literally just said like not trying to get sued anything like that and then the defamation claim comes through and it's like you can see my face and we're like you can't like people know it's me and i was like no they don't and so that was his biggest thing he was so adamant about like getting that video

down which was like he's like i've lost so many jobs because of that video you know people look up the last thing i did and they see that video they and we were like requesting you're like show us when your last actual job was and like i don't think we ever got it you know and um but yeah so you start making videos with pat so like once it was just kind of at a lull you know and like uh the ball kind of starts rolling and we like start getting traction and figuring out like what kind of videos we want to make and the route we want to go you know and stuff like that and uh it starts going pretty good and then uh anthony comes in and um this is so random you guys but it's like so we who's anthony sorry so

uh so he's just basically like me and cody's partner or whatever but he just like he's basically like my business mentor and he's actually a fucking phenomenal one and he's just like one of the boys he's awesome he's hilarious he doesn't want anything to do with like being on video or anything like that but he was like super interested in like the online store type of thing and uh at first me and pat were like super cautious like he sent us an email and he's just like hey it would love to learn how this works and we're like here we go again yeah here's round two and so we like ignore his email he sends out another one and um we just ignore it anyways i get this dm on instagram from his daughter she's like 15 at the time and she's like

and i didn't know it was daughter she's like hey i'm turning 16 soon um i i saw your truck was for sale i really want to buy it and i'm like okay the claptor yeah and you were like jumping on yeah let's go and so this this is the best part of the story so he told her he's like you know what you negotiate your own deal you want your first car like they made a deal he'll get her first car and so she's like what do you want and i just throw the hail mary out there you know just like not even close to what the things work and she goes uh it's like 15 grand or so the thing was pretty clapped you yeah the clapped her yeah and she goes okay we'll be there this weekend and i'm like oh yeah and uh anyway so they like show up i got my white

Mustang still at the time and I'm like get in let's go for a ride and I'm like swinging around the parking lot and we're hauling down the road whatever come back and they were all giddy and we were like checking out the truck and me and Tony go for a ride in the truck and dude the rear end's literally about to like leave like you put it in gear and it's like gunk and he's like what so what is that back there I'm like oh it's gen one thing they all do that my log rolling around in the back yeah literally I'm like that's just a gen one thing I'm like mine over there does it or two And he, I didn't even realize, but he came in the same truck. And he didn't say, like, mine doesn't do that.

And he's like, well, she really wants it, so I'll take it. And he just hands me an envelope of cash. And we go in the house and I just count it all right in front of them. And he's like, all right, is it all there? I'm like, yeah, it's there. He's like leaving, driving it at home. And the thing's, like, falling apart. And he calls his wife and he's like, I just got so bent.

I could not tell my daughter, no. anyways when he was there he's like uh yeah i was the guy that was trying to email you and we're like oh yeah we're i don't know kind of just trying to stay away from that stuff and he's like no he's like i don't want anything and he's like i'll actually make like a document that says i want nothing in return but he's like i'm curious how like the giveaway business works you know and he's like uh i just i want to see how it goes he's like what if we just do this he goes i'll uh buy your next item and he just so was like let me come in and seal like the shopify store works how you guys promote and stuff like that and he goes if you don't even make your money back he goes in the thing it says

you don't owe me anything like i'm just curious to see how it works and i was like okay so like we do it and i think we had like the slingshot or the ranger at the time and that was like the first one we did and son he's like well he's like would you ever help me like open my store and i'm like sure and like we just start like hanging out and like we actually got a long long like super well or whatever and he was like showing me this and that he's like well if you uh help me with my store he goes i'll like help you with like your accounting and stuff because at the time i was paying like i think over 25 grand in a year just to have like my books done and stuff just because it's insane well i'll handle that and he's like that'll save you a bunch of money and stuff

and so like i help him open the halco gear store or whatever and we start doing that and uh anyways it just kind of evolved into just like being friends or whatever and then that's how we just kind of like started bums and that's just kind of like our baby together which is what we do so he's just like the sunglasses business yeah sunglasses business and um that's just kind of what we do so he just hangs out with us and kind of like mentors us business wise handles the books and stuff like that but he likes going to like events and stuff like that so we just kind of hang out and uh it's freaking awesome because like that's the thing I was kind of looking for and I'm so grateful like ever since he came into my life like I was so skeptical so scared just like kept pushing back

pushing back and like didn't want anything to do with it like it's been awesome like I've learned more now than like I ever have you know it was almost that business mentor that you were looking for in the beginning someone who has run businesses and has done things and it's super cool and we have like a lot of common you know and like it's awesome because like if I do something like like super dumb you know and it's it's not like the dad thing you know or you get like scolded by your dad or whatever he'll just be like well would you that was stupid you're going to do that again you know and he's just like all right let's like move on to the next thing you know it's kind of a mentor and a friend in business you know and kind of like just showed me the path of like running numbers you know

and we just kind of do our thing on camera and uh me and cody are kind of like the promoter side of the sunglasses and he's like I'll just run the backside and it works out really well nice so what's going on on the on the youtube end it's literally just me and cody doing our thing and uh that's kind of what we're trying to dial in now and it's so funny so we like shut the bang inside down for a while because like sunglasses have uh within the last two months this is like the coolest part so you know everything was just in my life kind of dwindling and like i said i started going to like the therapy and my better decisions i mean cody started going to the gym every morning you know you just like you feel more dialed in when you're just like healthier in a better

mindset and you get more creative and stuff like that and uh within the last two months like i've been having so much fun never laughed so much and like it really rebuilt my relationship with cody which is like the greatest thing and uh your cousin yeah yeah literally my cousin and like we've been literally living it up together and uh like as soon as that starts happening like other good start happening you know and uh like last month when we were doing that 23 for 23 deal like our videos were doing okay but it was like nothing like in the millions of views or even like barely at 100,000 views and some were lower somewhere higher and it was like our best month we've ever had ever as far as sales for and it was like it was awesome just because we were being smarter doing better

like just overall looking at different routes we can go you know like we tried to advertise on Hulu, Netflix, Snapchat, like all that, like traditional advertising and stuff. And, like, it works. But it's so crazy. I think I saw you liked it. Did you watch MTV Jesse's thing when he's talking about the core thing? Yeah. Like, that's literally what I saw and kind of like what we started doing.

And I don't know. That's the thing. Like, we and I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself of, like, the success I want to see. and we're basically starting from the ground up and like Bums has kind of just been like our baby and I'd like I've loved sunglasses forever obviously like the shield and then it turned into the super big shield I just had the craziest sunglasses yeah

I don't even know if some of them could be called sunglasses some of them were like welding masks but I just wear them you know that like that's been the coolest thing and like I I'm not going to totally ditch it but like the banging brand to me is it's obviously super special because it like built me up into who I am and I built it with you guys and it's super fun but I'm just I've kind of found a passion for like an actual like item you know and the cool thing about sunglasses is like some of the people that are buying them don't even know who we are like two giveaway winners ago I called him and I'm

like you won he's like won what I'm like a no timber sled with the it was like the pit bike Timber slet down. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that call and I laughed. Yeah. I was like, well, that's good. He had no idea.

I thought it was a scam. Had never heard of us. Had no idea who we are. That's what you want. That's exactly what you want. And I'm like, okay, we're reaching people that don't know who we are. And that's the thing that I love is like, everybody loves sunglasses. But I have so many people that are like, hey, well, you make a t-shirt.

Like, I'd buy one, but I just don't want it to say banging. And I'm like, I get it. Like, it's cool. You know, it's, it's cool. my audience is like that's for my actual core audience you know but like it's so fun building something that has a chance of like outliving my lifetime you know and that's like what I ultimately have a passion for you know like we've been just doubling down and we just ordered a ton more shades and are looking at different manufacturers new box boxes trying to figure out a way

to get like an ambassador program going where like athletes can have their signature shade or whatever and like kind of trying to figure out how to snowball and like my my goal at the end of the day is to be like a blenders you know or like uh there's something of like that you know like yeah i've just love sunglasses so much well i think you got a great name and uh and uh i've heard the product's great but i haven't gotten any bums myself and which is bullshit because every but i've single person around here gets a pair of bums except for your boys dude his girlfriend even is like three pairs bro unbelievable you can't hook a homie up well i can i'll buy him no no i tell you what i tell you what i'll bring a bunch over if you like um then you buy him

no no i'm kidding i'm kidding but no it is it's great and uh i'm happy to see that um yeah you you have created a product that is bigger than yourself and has the potential to be bigger than yourself or a YouTube channel or anything like that which is awesome man i think that's exactly what you know people make videos for yeah in our in our case you know we're still trying to figure out even what that is for us but um you know i think that's the ideal situation for any creator is to to uh create something like that and the cool thing too is like uh it's just kind of something to grab on to you know for hope too it's just like it honestly has helped like my mental health a lot because now i kind of have a you know when you have like a vision or a path like it's so

much easier to okay i'm wake up every day with with you know where you're going intent yeah yeah exactly and like that's the like sometimes and you guys probably get it the hard thing is like okay let's sit down have a meeting what are we going to film you know and it just gives me like a sign a relief that we're like we're making videos for a reason to push bums into being bigger than me or the youtube channel or any like thing that i just if it'll it has the chance of catching on you know and becoming a maybe not a total a list mainstream sunglasses but enough to where like they'll sell themselves like that was that was the coolest part about last month we didn't have a giveaway we didn't have nothing going on and like it was the best we ever did and we're like okay like

there's something there like people are buying them 23 dollars shades for 23 days and it was like a marketing right just like just a marketing idea that was yeah yeah yeah no that was great that was great and and uh leaned on you know being more creative and obviously it worked and we were basically just pushing them through like instagram just coming up with funny reels whether it was just like i had like Andrew's kid do one or Cody's telling everybody they're all free you know and that's funny people were just geeking out over it and I was like okay like I'm loving this like we're in they're cool shades too by the way yeah I mean, the, all the styles are, you know, they're cool,

and then they're at a price that's actually fair. Right. You know, so, I mean, it really is a no-brainer that people love them. And that's, you just had to get the product in front of them. Right. And that's, like, the hardest part is like, I, obviously, I bought, like, really dumb stuff. But I've never bought a pair of Raybans because I can't keep track of, keep track of sunglasses, you know, like, we own a sunglass company,

and I'm losing them left and right. Like, it's terrible. And, but that's kind of, like, why I started it is. just like a good affordable awesome speed kids flashy college shade and then you got like the more black or whatever for the older people but yeah it uh it's just cool how it kind of came full circle as a passion but it started off with just big shades and then big shades and I'm like okay not everybody gonna wear those it's all right we did sell those you remember that we had the bang and shields dude I have a picture of that I have the original I it's not here but yeah those things

they were so cool but you couldn't see shit out of it yeah well it's He said like banging. Yeah, you're like, no sure what I'm looking at. But it doesn't matter. I look cool. So you don't make bang and merch at all anymore? So what we're going to do,

we do. So we're kind of going to evolve it. So I'm basically just going to be selling like limited packs. So there'll be a bronze pack, a silver pack, a gold pack and a platinum pack. And it basically will just be like bronze will be like t-shirt hat. Silver will be t-shirt sweatshirt hat or something like that.

And it'll just basically be kind of like, drops of like a hundred and just for the people that want the the core the the OG designs are like the the the I should say the OG group that supports the bang and brand you know but I'm like my main focus is just like bombs like I'm all in on it I don't want to forget about the other people that help me but like I just I love it and I see it being my future what did you learn after uh doing YouTube on your own having a like a group of when we started, you know, and like being together, being stressed out about getting stuff done. And then going to two people, you wear a lot of hats, dude. Like, it's insane. Like,

I still laugh when I see you holding a camera. It's funny, right? Because you never think it would ever happen. And like, I've had to learn enough to use it. Like, it just, it doesn't fit, right? Like, it's weird, but like, I like it. I shouldn't say I love it. But, like, I have to, learn to do it and like I enjoy it but uh just like making sure everything works like okay so we're having a drop tonight okay I got to make sure all the products are cut in I got to make sure all this got to make sure the inventory is good I got to make sure the website's live so really funny um literally coming back to it uh we dropped a shade like two weeks ago and the only reason we did it is because I forgot to change it from draft to active and I was like why are none

of these selling I'm like oh they're not on the website and uh so like simple stuff like that and just like keeping everything in a row and like working as a team like okay what are we going to film how are we going to do it when we're going to do it do you have enough time to edit all right when you're editing i'll do this this and this and just like keeping your ducks in a row like you got to be dialed you know and it it's full time like it's seven days a week you know and it uh but if you love it and that's the thing if you love your job you don't have to work again a day in your life absolutely and you're living it i think a lot of the the people at home don't realize how difficult running a YouTube channel is like an actual like a

successful YouTube channel like that where you're actually outputting content and and doing all the things you know it's a grind like it is uh everyone's like oh man you guys must live the life just play all day yeah they'd see us on a Tuesday or no sorry they see you guys on Thursday out at the bar having some beers like man you guys just get to party all the time like no actually we just uploaded a video and like today's probably the only day we get to do something now we got to go back tomorrow you know like monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday doesn't exist yeah it's just another day it's just today like you're working and and it's amazing how fast you post on wednesdays how fast wednesday every week comes it's like

it's wednesday and then it's like boom it's wednesday again yeah it's tuesday and you're trying to figure out how you're going to get the video up i just remember when we used to do two a week oh my god i don't even fucking know how we did it it just was a different time you just when you have your back against the wall it's really easy to like it's not easy but it's just like what else you're gonna do me and pat did that for i think two or three weeks when i had that diesel pickup and oh my god it was just we were kind of both grumpy it was brutal you know and like you need a serious team yeah i think what people sometimes don't realize is although that what you're doing is fun the capturing of it and making sure it all can be cut together and put into like a good presentation that's entertaining

makes it it takes away the fun you know because you're not just going riding you're like okay we need to get a shot here like making sure the camera's on yeah how'd that shot like oh we were into the sun like it becomes a little bit more stressful because you want it to turn out good so that way you can output this good thing to your audience you know that you can be proud of know that you can be proud of. We literally just had that problem. So like a GoPro was recording and like it got bumped and then the screen just like glitched and it would have been hilarious.

So we were going to basically, it was a total flop prank. But remember when you guys did the water thing to Evan? Well, we were going to do that to like Tony or my dad or whoever. Water thing? No, you put a bunch of water in the back seat with the lid. Oh, yeah. So we were going to do that to Tony. And I had the GoPro on the dash.

I was going and it said it was going and I didn't know he didn't have his seatbelt on and I'm driving like an a hole instead of all the water going everywhere the Walmart dude just did us a super solid or Walmart McDonald's dude did us a solid put like the lids on tight wrapped him up put him in bags I ordered 15 waters none of the water spilled but I put his head into the window and like gave him a concussion instead of pranking him like he was sitting over here I thought he had a seatbelt on so I was going to whip it over oh he flew across the back seat all the water yeah he ends up just getting slammed into the window and he's like dude what what are you doing i'm like that was a bad prank so is he okay yeah he's good but he's just like what were you trying to do and we're like

we're gonna prank you but we missed it they gave you 15 waters yeah i ordered five mcdubals and 15 water oh that's what they wouldn't do it for me that's because we strictly ordered water yeah yeah see i told him we had a crew working up down up the road smart classic yeah but that's even like the other thing it's like that and then like going into that prank you're probably wondering like how are we going to film this so do we just put a GoPro here so we have someone running a camera to get the other shot because like you know it just makes it difficult yeah it makes it more uh just more work put into it it but right intensive i can't tell you how jake you know watching from the outside going through all the emotions that we have and now in the last few years really coming back together now we're

homies we're sending memes in the group chat back and forth every day we're texting you know what are you guys doing cody's saying get that bread in the morning stuff like to watch you find a rhythm again and be happy. CJ was talking about how you look healthier and stuff like that. When you smile now, I can tell it's real and you're not just smiling so everybody else thinks you are. And I can't tell you as like your best friend how good that feels to see someone doing well and being happy and catch a flow.

It's the best. Dude, thanks. And like to piggyback off of that, obviously big ups to you. It's so cool. best friends with you and Cody and seeing you guys say like that made me so happy when you guys like yep it's us too now it doesn't really get much better than that

because you guys like you said you rekindled the relationship and then started making well that was the coolest thing how it came full circle is like so me and Cody were like best friends from childhood up you know and then like we got into high school and then when we kind of went to college we started like slowly peeling

apart instead of seeing each other every day you know he'd like come up to school or whatever we were doing and you know after Pat left Cody just kind of came in and it was awesome like it was so fun like we just started doing stuff and it like totally rebuilt our relationship and it was like those years that we missed like just came in in a couple months and we were just giving her again you know it only made sense too like it just is such a natural collective yeah yeah you know for sure it works together you know what's crazy corn run's got to have the highest capitol of youtubeers in the whole world like screw l.A

Dude, freaking corn rot. Yeah, there's like population us, bro. No kidding, dude. Every other person's

a YouTuber in this town. Yeah, literally. Man. Now we got big wrench. Yeah, we got big wrench. Yeah,

we got big wrench. Now a YouTuber too. He has to explain to people. You're starting a channel? Well, he's a part of this channel. Yeah. Yeah.

We're bringing outsiders in. Oh my God. That's hilarious. What do you do for a YouTuber? Yeah. Yeah. It is fun. It is fun.

People in the town. be like, God damn, they're multiplied. Shops coming up everywhere. Jesus. Yeah. How is, how's, uh, Davey doing, your dad? Dude, that's like the other thing, too, is, um, I don't think my relationship with my dad has ever been stronger ever since, like, our work life kind of like, like, separated,

you know, like, like, obviously, and I loved it. And we get all on great. It's not like we had any problems, but like, we just work together all the time. And, you know, like, you don't really do father's son's stuff. stuff after you've been with them 15 hours a day for seven days a week for three months. You know, like that stuff, you just, when I go home, I'm like, all right, I want to go hang with my friends or go do other stuff, you know. And now that I'm not there, like, we do all kinds of stuff together that is just non-work

related. Like, in a couple weeks, me and my dad are getting matching brands. I don't want to do it. It's going to suck, but I'm doing it because. Why don't you just get a tattoo? I'm getting one of those, too, but I'm, I want the brands cooler. Yeah, we're going to actually get like the Shibrook S right on. our chest.

No way, really? Like a Superman almost. Oh, yeah, dude, it's going to be awesome. And I thought he was kidding. He's like, nope, we're doing it. They ordered the brand. It's on the way. We're flying to a cattle farm, and we're just going to lay on the ground.

You're going to do it at a cattle farm? Yeah, we're going to have a doctor there. Oh, yeah. We're getting matching brands. A cattle doctor, but so sick. Dude, it's going to actually be pretty bad. Are you going to film that, obviously? Oh, have to.

Yeah, you can't not film that. You know what? It's crazy. You could get it too because it's an S. Oh, yeah, Cody. He's just like, no, I got to film. Yeah, he's like, oh, someone's got to film. Yeah, so.

We just do like rambunctious stuff together. You know, it's like he'll come up with an idea. He's like, let's try this. Let's try that. It's been cool. Dude, for the, I'm sure some of the viewers have seen your dad on video. But if you ever meet Jake's dad after you met Jake, you go, oh, makes sense why he's away.

Yeah, literally Apple, like, fell right under the trip. Yeah. We were actually. We saw him, I don't know, it must have been a month ago now. We were at the inn eating, and he, uh, he bought all of our dinner. On his birthday. On his birthday. We were going to buy him dinner and then he bought our dinner.

That is the most deep thing. He goes, well, you fuckers already owe me everything. So what's one more dinner? Hasn't changed. Yeah. Oh, I love that. That's funny. God, that is so good.

Dave. Yeah, that guy's one of a kind. So is there any like, uh, hold, Let me go through this list and make sure. Yeah, we got it all the time. This is great. Yeah. Hey, you go through the list.

I got to take a. Dude, I actually do too. Oh, we're good to go. Can we take a pause? Yeah. Take a pause. All right, we're back. We needed to refuel.

Take a bathroom break. We're back now. Yep. Now it's time to ask the real burning question, Jacob. Yeah. You and your cousin Cody race, your Mustang against his BMW. Did he really wax you? You guys don't understand.

blew my door. What's up with that, Jake? Dude, I'm telling you. No offense, Cody. But Jake. The curse is still alive and well. I ain't winning nothing. You went to fucking Texas to pick up this Mustang.

You get back here and you get beat by an almost stocked BMW. No offense, Cody. Cody's got a fast BMW, but you would just think a supercharge fucking Mustang 50. The supercharger is, it looks cooler than it is because it's a, it's a, it's just, it's It's just for looks? No, no, no. It's a warranty, like, install. So it's maybe on like a 20 more horsepower than factory.

So, like, it's got stock injector, stock fuel system. It's literally like a bolt-on whipple and a whipple tune, and that's it. So why did you go to Texas for it? Because it was a good deal. And Ryan actually kind of nailed it right on the spot. So, like, obviously besides my pole dobuckle, the body was in, like, okay shape, but nothing like crazy. And the motor was super strong. didn't have any wild parts on it, which I didn't want, because I wanted, like, a solid car,

and the blower's, like, 15 grand, and the hard parts out of the way. Holy 15 grand? Yeah, because, so it's a three-liter whipple, and they can push, like, 30 pounds of booze, which is, like, 1,500 wheel on a coyote. And it's on, like, four pounds or six pounds right now. Is that what our Ford Ranger has? Yeah. Are you actually putting a three-liter whipple on your Ranger?

No, we just bought one that has one in it. Actually? Well, we're doing something else with the range, but sorry. but anyway so like my my end goal with this car is um i just want to build it into like a full-blown drift car so that's what we're doing so i like been talking with vaughn and the rTR team and they've just been loading me with parts so i'm doing full like 90 degree fun haver kit wide body kit i got like the rtr wheel set up and it i just want like the most rowdy obnoxious daily drift car of course you do the keyword of that is daily yeah see that's the thing everyone's like

oh you won't be able to daily it i'm like oh i'm like oh i'm like oh i I'm gonna. You can daily anything. It just depends what you can live with. Yeah, exactly. I almost asked, where are you going to drive this thing, Jake? But then you answered my question. Everywhere.

Yeah. I mean, dude, it doesn't, I don't think you could like physically or possibly make a louder car than that white Mustang. And that's the goal is we're going to try. Oh, I want it back. Like I need that shit. What's up with definitely? You love Mustangs, bro.

Dude, I do. And that's the thing. I wanted to go a different route and like you probably would have thought it was cool but R34 is now legal in the U.S. So I'm like, that's the route I want to go. And then like I saw the new RTRMau saying, I'm like, okay, that's pretty sick.

Yeah, and then I just like sent a Hail Mary to Vaughn. I'm like, how do I get one of these kits? He's like, I'll send you over to my buddy Jim and you guys can work something out. And I'm like, let's go so that we just went for it. That would be sick. Yeah. But your first drifting experience didn't go that well.

Yeah, what's up with that too? It's right there. I got the video, dude. Granted, it looks like it did pretty well for you. I mean, yeah, congrats on the viral clip. Jay. What's up with you Mustang guys? Dude, okay. You just couldn't help yourself, huh?

No, I, uh, 6.4 million people now know I can't drive. It almost looks like you did it on purpose. No, I didn't. I wish I could play it off and say I did. That's just. I don't know, man. The cards are lining up. Yeah, you think of that good to perfectly put it in the pole?

Yeah, that's a good point. Never mind. You think I'm that good, bro? Never mind. Yeah, good point. No, so, like, I was like, Cody was at the shop. Tom was at the shop. I'm like, all right, I'm going to come in hot, you know?

Because I've done that corner a million times. I'm like, I'm just going to step it up a little bit. And it just looped out. The thing is with the Mustang, to turn them into, like, drift cars or go drifting with them. There's, like, a lot of actual stuff you got to do, such as, like, the steering rack. in them are electronic so like you know like in your drift car or like you know when you're just drifting a car and you throw the wheel it'll return on its own the mustangs don't because it's electronic steering rack and you should have bought a miata exactly which in hindsight I should

have just kept the one I had and just use that to practice with but you were explaining that to me the other day and you're saying that's why every you always see these clips of these mustangs doing like basically losing control and hitting crowds or poles or houses or whatever the fuck it's hitting in that video, which seems to be a trend with Mustangs is because of that electronic steering rack? Yeah, well, the thing is that, uh, like the old Mustangs didn't have that. So it's still, it's still stereotypical. It's got to just be the driver. Yeah, that's probably too. You know, we're just a different breed. But the other thing, too, is so everyone's like, why don't you hit the brakes? I had them locked up, but you got to like

pull the ABS views because they go. Yeah. So whatever. But I don't know. I'm just a bad driver, dude. Dude, so, uh, uh, you're getting toasted, roasting and toasted in the Mustang groups or what? Oh, yeah. So there is a Mustang group on Facebook. I'm a part of it. Every Mustang person's a part of it. The page is bigger than my YouTube channel itself. And my video's front and center pin to the top, and it says,

this is why you don't, or this is why daddy shouldn't give their sons their car. And I'm just like, oh, brick. So, yeah, I'm just kidding. I feel like no Mustang guy has any ground to stand. No, no. The only person that does is like Vaughn and the goat, but we're all. just trying to be like him. If there's one thing that I know,

you're having fun in the comments in that, in that Mustang group, though. Oh, yeah. I'm loving it. The amount of times I've had like temporary ban in that group. Everyone is just violent in there. You've always been doing that. Oh, yeah.

You've never got a temporary ban from every Facebook group since we've been friends. Yeah, dude, there's this snow cross page that Cody will send me it and it's just like locked. I'm like, ah, ban from that one. You never back down to a Facebook common section battle or Instagram comment section about you don't you'll be there oh yeah I'm in like I'm keyboard warrior

like class A status you're replying if someone's talking shit absolutely I've been from day one do you guys remember uh Nicholas Conicello yeah dude first troll ever who was that guy didn't you guys get to the bottom of that so so for

backstory uh you'll remember now Ryan I have every single comment ever on my laptop in a folder again to the listeners or viewers when we first started up our YouTube channel this was in the first year, there was this one guy's name was Nicholas Conicello and he would comment

like, I mean as soon as we post the video, it was like he would comment something very negative towards us and especially Jake. Just Jake. And with Jake, he would get very like personal with factual details of his life that we hadn't even leaked yet.

So we're like, digging on your family. Is this guy getting this information? Is this someone in the area with an alien? name is this someone random that's doing a ton of research where are they finding this so what was the deal with that uh didn't you guys come to an immense i think we all didn't figure it out but the weirdest part is uh yeah he knew my girlfriend he knew everyone in my family like he would just like come out he's a stocker yeah and dude that's the thing you know the comment that's like first he was first like every single video you know dude the weirdest part is then m tv hit us up and

wanted to do a show on catfish that was another one right i think we thought he was that guy what if they were no he was what if they were planting that's what if they knew about him bro that's that's what it was oh what if they set it up for the show they're like oh perfect this will be a perfect online presence to do a prank on and they were sent up and then the show never aired i don't know that was it that's a really good idea besides for the fact that it's bullying like it's just straight up feeling like that's a really personal bro like for a show like creators meeting like their biggest hater online yeah that's what it was the catfish yeah yeah yeah but i mean it's just

dude that's kind of effed up right imagine that wasn't me and someone who like took that stuff and like tried their own life or something yeah they're just like they were setting it up for some big show yeah they just probably would just act like nothing ever happened i'm sure that would make the more sense otherwise how would they know that like he was like our biggest but where the fuck were they getting that information that shit wasn't online like he was hitting details that That only a person that knows you. In the area that is a friend of a friend.

That knows you and has known you for a long time would know. It is very strange. You know what? My only problem with your hot-headedness in Facebook groups is, Jake, everyone still thinks you're a fucking C-boy. And we get drugs into it. Every single time, dude. What was that deal of power crew?

Last week, dude, some guy you were beefing with. Dude, hashtag C-boys, hashtag all this shit. And we're like, If you ever do anything bad, it comes to us as well. It's all of us. When I saw the hashtags and stuff, I'm just like, let that one go right through to that. Just kind of let that skirt through.

But, no, so there's this dude. He doesn't even deserve his name out there. But he's got a Lambo like Benzer or whatever. Dude, he's a flex offender. I literally go, hey, I got a buddy that's got one of those, but he's not a dick. And anyway, so we like start to try. and gap him in this super run.

He's like, no, I know that thing's fast. I'm like, what, do you buy a fast car and you don't want to race or whatever? And then, like, I went out for the drifting thing and just totally looped at my first run. That's classic. It's funny. It's so classic. So you kind of set that up on yourself then. But, Grant, he was kind of being a D-Bag.

Yeah, yeah, no. You put yourself in that. I was just trying to start a little stumping for the video, you know, and I was kind of kidding, you know. Did you have it on the video? Like, you talking shit? Yeah, I'm pretty sure you put it. Yeah, it's in the video. Yeah, yeah.

I'm pretty sure it's in the first minute. I literally see the Lambo come through. I'm like, oh, my buddy's got one of those, but he's not a dick. And he also thinks he can beat your ass. Yeah, his name is Ben Roth, just in case you don't know.

He shows up at the door. Here's his number, his address, too. I'm here to fight. Your friend Jake said you wanted to fight me. Just in your front lawn on like a Friday morning. You're like, huh, well, uh, some news to me.

Yeah, no, that, uh, I feel like that happens all the time still. You know how many people? people we meet that are like have some kind of something to say and they're like yeah yeah you see boys yeah jake and you get brought up and we're like nope nope nope nope nope nope no he he left he left he's actually on his own he's across the water he's on the other side of the lake he's on the south side of corn rock it's so funny how we both probably have like our own issues and we're still drug into both of each other's lives literally uh like the tracks on the raptor

thing or all that stuff jammed up for a bit yeah or uh i went to ndusu no i mean we might have probably did some shit to me you're not you're not allowed around here anymore i'm like whoa whoa what are you talking about i'm i'm not i wasn't there like and they're like oh sure buddy what was the story with that one yeah you went there with the toilet on the back of the truck i'm sorry i'm sorry um influence fed and then and then you got pulled over yeah and they were like you're not yeah you're blacklisted yeah because we were there like three weeks prior on our pit bikes yes i know they're like we caught you last week with pit bikes and they're like if they see a camera they're like they're like they're the only ones that do that i'm like yeah i kind of kissed that

goodbye like what would ever happen if we needed to go back to college like we got a little bit of credits built up there like like like if we're like hey we'd want them back they're like we have nothing no recollection you've been here i'm like what i mean i don't got much to show for it but But I got a little, like, my 16 credits. Yeah, where's my, I had a half a semester. No, I had more than that, but, you know. The only thing I have from NDSU is 30 unpaid parking tickets. And I still have them.

That might be part of why I banned. Jesus. Whatever happened with that? Still got them. Still ain't paying them. How many parking tickets? I have them all. No, I'm pretty sure.

I thought it was more than that, dude. Didn't we bust them all out? I think I counted 33. We would hang them. Well, you would hang them all around the. Bangintation. Around the fucking, just entryway to the, in the college house, which basically turned into a merchandise shop.

Just, you know, the merch. Yeah, there was like one seat and it was in front of the computer to print labels. Dude, I actually got really good at it, though, on how not to get them. So I would take one of my dad's vehicles. Because remember when you sign up for school, you put a car with a license plate, and then that ticket would get attached to your account. Well, when I'd go to class at Barry Hall, I would turn on the strobe lights, leave the car running out front,

and go into class come out no ticket it's a hack it's actually pretty funny yeah that is a hack yeah yeah i think you might broke the system i was dialed it's actually a really good idea and i got front row parking every day dude um that was fun times man yeah yeah we've had a lot of fun times together but like here's a question i wanted to ask you guys so i'm guessing you did watch my why i left video yeah um i thought it was very very well said and well produced too yeah i think that was my favorite video i think we've ever made a crazy backstory on that when me and pat were making it day of posting pat was talking to me about how premier can sometimes crash and get rid of your whole project and i'm talking pat's had like weeks into this thing like we uh we like we like we thought this whole video

out right like we're gonna like i i got nothing to my name right now we got no money we got nothing i'm like i got this mustang that's paid off and that's it and so we're like i'm gonna make the why left video and give away my car at the end right Right before we're going to launch the video, maybe the afternoon of, the whole project's gone. Like, everything's gone. And so, like, we're, like, panicking. And I'm like, does this happen often? Like, Pat's like, no, he's like, I just go into my most recently saved.

And he's like, it'll come back. For like two hours, he's looking for this thing. And he's freaking out. And finally he found, like, what are those files that are, like, lower quality? And then you can up them up or whatever and link the clip. So we got it back together and got it out. My God, dude. That had to be so stressful.

oh it was terrifying and then um originally we thought like oh like bobs logged into all of our accounts you know we're like he did this and no it was like we were like it's first thing it came to our head because uh during that time i don't if you guys remember but there was like a month when uh not a month not quite but like where we didn't post any videos because in between him leaving and us doing like our thing like he like locked the channel changed the password changed all that and like we couldn't get into it and then we got it back real quick but then um so we're like oh my gosh she's probably still logged into all these other accounts we're like changing passwords everything and stuff like that but we got it but my question was uh in that video when i was saying like what was

more fun to film to you guys like now having pretty much almost every toy you wanted or like then in the beginning because it's two very different times me and cj talked about this yesterday we were talking about this with our friend Spencer and his filmer who has watched for a long time and you know we're kind of explaining how we got a little bit more a little bit more structure a lot bit more structure right now um more options and uh I think that we are so much more creative now because we have more of a budget and I think creativity is a muscle that only gets stronger with time and the more you use it the more you become more creative right But to answer your question on the fun side is I honestly probably have more fun now.

Really? Yeah. I think so. I can kind of see how you're saying that because there was so much. I'm unknowing back then. That was the thing for me is like that the fun side of it, I should say, is like when an idea would just pop up, I'd just get juiced. you know, and it would come out of thin air and, like, we just went and did it.

Like, it was so hype. I disagree with Ben's answer, but I don't necessarily think it was more fun back then. I think both of them had their pros and cons. Back then, it was like... A Saturday hang out. It was fun in the fact that it was lighter. There wasn't so much weighing on it,

whereas now I feel like there's a lot more to live up to each upload. And also, we have... more obviously money put into making this a good thing so you want to be good but so like i remember it being lighter and maybe more just lighthearted back then but also i remember it being uh slightly frustrating because because people wouldn't we just weren't really all on the same page um and it it was hard to film which is maybe why some of those weren't as good whereas like maybe now i would say all of us, you know, understand, you know, maybe how to make a video now just because we have all done it over time. And maybe we've gotten a little bit smarter over the past seven

years, you know, we can plan things out better. So in that, I remember being frustrating because I'd be like, let's do this. But everyone was just kind of like moving at 100 miles an hour. Just like, I got to say, like, I think the whole journey to me has been like the same amount of fun. obviously the ups and downs of frustrations, but it's quite literally like raising a child. So you got your, you got a son and you're like, I kind of miss those old days when he was three years old and didn't know much. And it was fun. We were just having fun. But also now he's like, let's say 10, 11, 12. Now he can kind of do things with you. You might miss the old days, but you can do a lot more now. That's kind of how it feels. Yeah, I get what you said. That's a great

way of saying it actually you really you really got to be just being the in the moment present and and enjoy the process as it goes because if you're not enjoying the process and you're constantly looking what you do have to look at the next thing but like if you're constantly doing that it just starts to really weigh i find that is like i can't believe you said that because that's something i wanted to say and that was like the biggest problem i had like i have never been one to dwell about the past because the past you cannot change right like at all no matter what you do no matter what you say like nothing can change the past but you can change the future but the problem was i was always looking in the future and honestly like i didn't really realize that

till i started going to like therapy like i used to like live in the now quite literally not care about tomorrow but that's not a healthy way either because i was like a future jake's problem right well then i'd Like, that's a classic line of yours. Yeah, it's future Jake's problem. Future Jake's problem. Yeah, dude, I just remember doing that with my credit card. I just like, future Jake, you are effed. But, um, yeah, it's kind of crazy to just like get pulled back in.

And, uh, now having a destination of where I want to go. The goal I see is like, even if I'm taking baby steps, I know I'm going in the right path, rather than just like, you're so focused on if you're on the right path to get there that, like, who did that was who just ripped in front of that that was ev bro that was Mike no that was not sounded like it came from I think the F smiling right now we're gonna know if it was ever real quick sorry we all pass out guys just ruined my moment yeah farting on you yeah come on yeah but no I actually don't think it was heavy looks too in shock big wrench hasn't said much but no and that's like honestly one thing that's like super help me like mentally is like you know you only can do today

yeah like tomorrow's tomorrow and which is like super big and I'm like glad I figured out now is like there there is like a balance in that rather than just living in the now literally versus just full on future like just do it day by day you know something I've always tried to do is I've always been so proud of where we're at whenever it's been like when we first started I was just proud that we had a following of 20,000 people. I was so stoked on that. And then 100. And then we had a million.

And I've tried to never compare what we're doing to anybody else or somebody else's success besides for our own. And just constantly be happy with the success, but hungry for more. Right. And that's something, you know, that I've always tried to remind myself of. and I guess just trust the process of it and that was like the hardest thing for the longest time you guys because like I was over there and you guys are right in the back door so you know like always watching always doing this you know and like it's just so hard to not compare or I should say it was you know like it was borderline impossible right and in the mindset that I was in and now like that I'm kind of steering into like a a different lane you know as far as like my end goal or product or like where I want to do like my my end goal like I love entertaining I love YouTube but like I really don't think I'll do it forever you know like I'm I'm gonna do it as long as I can but like I'm gonna do whatever it takes to like I want to work

at bombs full time like I just I want that to be a thing and like that's the that was like the hardest thing for the longest time and now I'm stoked if dude I couldn't care of one person watches like i just love to entertain that person and like like you said you can't compare because guess what there's always someone better there's always someone with a faster car there's always someone bigger than you and like it it humbles you real quick you know and you get that and yeah just being happy with what you have and stoked for where you're going is like the coolest thing in the world did you feel like i guess the momentum shift of of people then commenting on your video is like comparing you to us oh yeah like we still get that now

And, like, the thing is, like, you guys are a whole different monster than us, you know? Like, our thing is, like, I just want to kind of do, like, car content and, like, we host turf wars and stuff like that. And, like, Cody just wants to do rad dirt bike stuff, which she's freaking doing really good at, you know? He's, like, the only person around here to start doing backflips, which is sick. It's crazy. It's awesome.

And for us to do, like, the snorkel thing and come up with ideas like that, week to week, to week, to week, like that's just not like that's almost impossible for us for just like two of us you know damn near impossible for us yeah and that's the thing like we're just kind of in a different caliber of like staying in our lane and trying to grow something else using this you know and hopefully that can attract its own audience which we've shown it does you know um through just people not knowing who we are and that's what i'm mainly focused yeah yeah i think there's a lesson for that like from that to literally anyone no matter what you're doing like you got to run your own race you got to be you know like you'll never be able to to be a better version of

somebody else like and no one else will be able to be a better version of you so like you got to just do like you know what I'm making sense I guess like you got to run your own race and you got to do uh you know you can't be constantly trying to to do what other people are doing because you'll never do it as good as them and that that literally was like the mindset I should say I wasn't in and that's like literally why when we were at like 60k or 80k when I gave away my Mustang I'm like okay they didn't give away a car yet let's give away a car yeah and it was like impulsive and bad and like I'm lucky that it like halfway worked like the the opening night like it was I should say the opening night and second night was like

the biggest back-to-back day we've ever had. But obviously you guys know like numbers, profitability-wise, what you buy your merch for is a whole different thing. If I was doing what I would do now, we would have been awesome. But instead, me and Pat were like, yo, we just made a bag. Let's go to Vegas. So we got tickets, went to Vegas. I love it.

That is so you. I love it. The 21-year-old mindset were like, oh, my God, we're rich. And at the time, I was like, I don't need to get paid back for my car. Let's go to Vegas. Like, I'll give that thing away to someone else. make a new one another day you know what's the story of vegas you guys went you guys want a ton of money we want a ton of money and by the end of the day we didn't have two nickels together to buy

a hot dog god damn like opening opening slot my brother pulls like four grand and i was like we are in we go buy three hundred dollars steaks suits he gives pat yeah like 250 bucks pat all's son's up three k on blackjack and we're like we are murdering it i'm on uh uh uh craps or no not craps uh roulette and I'm like, okay, this is awesome. Like, I turned, I think, $100 into $1,500. I'm like, we are kings. We are awesome. Night two, we have $16,300.

We're like, roulette table, all black, baby. Let's do it. We got to go to Vegas with you, man. No, you guys. Hold on, finish, finish the story. Okay, so how it went down, right? Everybody was so messed up. There was no turning back, right?

Like, classic Vegas story. Like, you know, whatever. People make mistakes. You live, you learn on. We got lucky. So my brother is so drunk that he's got hundreds falling out of his pocket. And I'm finding him just from picking up the trail. And I'm like, this is great.

You know, we are living it up. So we go to the roulette table, put in a thousand. Boom, nails it 2,000. We're like, all right, baby, let's go. All of a sudden we do 2,000, we lose it. We're like, okay, we got to do 4,000 to get it back. Classic, yeah. Oh, my God, we lost that.

We throw everything in at one time. And it hit like 10 or 12 blacks in a row. And we're like, okay, it's got to hit one of the. these times we go back to the room get more money and we're like all right this is it and uh yeah we lost it all had nothing and then 16 grand yeah 16,300 dollars in a nice louise dude it was a lot of fun though but there was like like that's the thing like we came out of there pretty unscathed because the only reason we went to Vegas we were supposed to go to Hawaii to meet up with like the go go guys or whatever when my brother calls me he's like hey I'm working in Vegas there's a flight

out of Fargo two days before for 40 bucks take it i'm like oh yeah we're in and uh yeah so we just start living it up partying like animals like i'd never been to Vegas like that like i went when i was 15 and got robbed by a stripper that's like the worst thing ever but anyways uh oh man that'll still happen yeah but yeah i think that's what they are there for anyways so yeah um dude i think that it's so fun when the whole gang gets back together and we can film and have a good time and there's no like weird vibes or like two people trying to film like the same thing which we've kind of ran into it you know yeah kind of weird but now it's just like like the homies hanging dude especially after the vibes are there bro it's always

so fun like when we were jumping into the pond yeah that was a funny that was so fun dude gosh I was in pith athletic form in time bro no it's uh dude I will say it's um it's so fun hanging out again like just you know like obviously it slowly faded away but you know like that feeling was always there and it was just like kind of if you or whatever and then like when we went on the boat with ryan uh like a couple days ago or whatever like the vibes are so high and like after this dude i feel like it it's it's good you know and it peace has been restored in corn run yeah peace has been restored and that's the other thing too is uh like i'm probably i I got to say it where, like, I mean it, but I, like, I am sorry to you guys for the way, like, that everything happened.

And, uh, yeah, I just definitely made my decisions out of, like, an emotional choice, you know, which wasn't the healthiest. And, uh, but at the end of the day, karma kicked me and I was in the Viking costume and you guys got the Lambeau. So, um, well, fuck. We appreciate it. Yeah, man. We love you. Apology. We love you. Yep. You're fucking man. Yeah. And, and we have to, vice versa. so we're truly sorry if there's anything in that moment in time that we did to push you to make a decision like that it's a two-way street yeah no it's uh i think this is the first time we've even said that out of both ends like like obviously both ends it was like they owe each other an apology but the way we operate we just don't even need to really say it we're just kind of

like we're good no yeah we're good without saying anything yeah i love the bro it's all water under the fridge now you know yeah i'm glad it honestly like this podcast i'm glad that it although it was it was a very long time um before it came out it uh it was good that it took this long because i feel like you know there's just no animosity to it there's uh i feel like the emotional level there's yeah like no one's heated anymore no one like there's just nothing really it's been four years yeah dude it's been four years holy shit right beginning of 20 or three and three quarters and a 19 or four years yeah that's crazy wait i think dude this next year i will have been gone longer than you were here when i was here

dude isn't that crazy to think about though that we've been doing this for like uh eight years yeah we're gonna come up on a decade i know we're like oh geez man we really are though i mean as far as that goes and you guys feeling old? Dude, yeah, right now I'm feeling really old.

I'm so jammed up. I don't feel necessarily old. Your hairline does. Yeah. Oh, he's in the same bow,

bro. But that's that have that. Cody and I and maybe Mike we're going to fucking turkey. Dude.

Hair transplants. Do it. They got the cheapest transplants in the world. Let's do it. Jacob going to get a dick enlargement. Um,

bum, bum, yeah. No, we ain't going there yet. It is, it is crazy. though like dude like time is going so fast like this summer is gone dude we're me on

it's done we're done like i look at our video schedule we had a meeting uh this afternoon we were you know writing down the next however many weeks six weeks and i'm go holy shit we're already at the end of september it'll be october when we finish this last like time flies like the older you get and yeah just yeah i don't know i i i'm really trying to kind of just start enjoying, you know, the moment, the present, because it's like, you're only going to be as young as you are today. But, but the beautiful thing about where all of us are at and even big wrench, we don't really have to grow up. No. Like, we will, we will look older, but like, in theory, we could kind of just, you know, you only are as old as you, as you feel

and as old as you act. You don't have to, you don't have to get all mature. and uh lame lame yeah you can be cool for as that's that's up to you i feel like even though our like i don't want to say regular jobs but like i feel like our dads even though they have regular jobs you know like building houses chiropractors seed and lawns whatever it may be i feel like they have the same of a little bit in that in them and we kind of got that from young at heart yeah you know like they all still kind of do rambunctious stuff and they got the stories of their own you know 100% man i'm glad i'm glad peace has been restored though and And I can't wait to, like, continue to do stuff with the whole gang.

Dude, it's fun. I truly feel like that's, like, the best form of all of us. We all are in our truest form when we are together. Yeah. We kind of owe Dave. We don't kind of. We owe Dave. I mean, we told them thank you, but thank you.

Because when we, you know, before we were making YouTube videos, we would always be hanging out at Dave's shop, you know, his turfing area. And whether we were, like, drifting cars around in the snow. Because, you know, he runs the turfs. surfing business so he's got all this asphalt and heavy machinery that you don't want to slide into poles poles yeah but then also like a field that we could ride in and whatever like you know we would always be hanging out there like just i just remember spending hours it'd be like a friday night at like

two in the morning we're not even like we didn't even drink at that time or nothing but we would just be hanging out snowstorm where we're just in your dad's shop you know it's a used actual use shop so it's dirty and we're hanging out and and we did not care one bit i mean we just be losing his tools losing his tools yeah gas on the floor yeah see boy's tv but like we were just yeah he provided a hangout spot for us which i think and also had like space for us to almost come up with these crazy ideas just out of boredom yeah that then slowly grew with us and and we you know went from and i mean if you go back you'll you'll see there's tons of videos of us running around dave shop just whatever and god fucking we'd be misplacing tools yeah where's this i'd be like

oh it's in ryan's uh dc it's it's it's pretty nice of him to let us dumb asses hang out there and slide around and i mean could have fucking hit a tractor or something who fucking knows you know oh that's why he bought us dinner the other day yeah you know we already owe him everything was one more dinner yeah but uh yeah so i mean that was pretty cool we couldn't have been here without everything that has happened in your life good or bad in our lives good or bad could have never ended up right here laughing without it so thank god it all happened fuck i love you boys like it takes no matter what you did whether who you are there's like so many factors that can be involved in how something happened whether they were a positive reinforcing factor or a negative factor

like there's so many ways that like it doesn't just happen by one person you know it takes It's a tribe, man. It's a team or like a combination of certain events and different people that, you know, and like this wouldn't have been possible without obviously everyone in this room. And, uh, I mean, plenty of more, dude, whether from fucking, you know, Randy or your dad or whoever, or, you know, just Tom at the Cormoran store. It was like there's just always been so many people that were cool to us. Yeah, dude, Tom's actually came in clutch.

So we're building our shop right now. You've been just basically filming out of his because I got booted from my dad's, bro. Oh, did you? So he finally had enough. Oh, yeah. He's like, I'm like, you're ready for round two? Starting a new channel up.

He goes, you're out of here. Really? No, not actually. But Tom's actually fun to film with, you know? Yeah. It makes it easier because I can just leave kind of projects going. Tom's a cool guy. He's in the same stuff.

Yeah. He likes cars, derp. He likes basically anything that's fun. Yeah. Dude is so funny. So, like, I was building my banchi and then like Tom heard it and he just went and bought one. And then for one,

race and sold it you know like he's heavily influenced too he's still a kid yeah there you go tom's another example you can fucking thanks tom yeah so what are you doing with that shop i saw on your video or just like instagram like you got like some are you building that out right now it looked like there is some kind of like yeah yeah so basically what we're doing i'm trying to get out of the the chicken coop uh oh man dave's old garage yeah the coop the coop so the studio or whatever so basically we're like warehouse and everything out of there and we've just like so outgrown it you know everything's just cluttered and crammed and so basically we um kind of building the front half into just like uh you know like kitchen area and then there'll be a shower and stuff like that and then like

offices upstairs and then a little shop area and then we're just going to basically build like a shipping warehouse it's basically you took this whole building and went like that and just kind of smushed it down you know oh yeah and uh but yeah it'll just be so much easier to work out of because then we're just straight across the road from the field or wherever we're going to film you know you guys are still overtaking tom's tools and stuff yeah yeah it's so funny i'll be like need something like hey tom you got saw over there and i'll let myself in yeah congrats on that that nothing better than getting a space that you feel like you can expand in you know absolutely dude that was like a good feeling it was cool you know like it's been such a grind of ups and downs

and finally like getting a building and like we had so many like rental shops and stuff it's like we're paying all this money to nothing you know yeah Yeah, you know, whether it's storage or a dad's studio or wherever. And then, like, now we just have a place of our own and, like, can't get kicked out, you know? Exactly. And you can do whatever you want with it. Yeah. Yeah, it's a major play.

I mean, you don't have to tell any of us sitting here, but, like, for anyone back home, I mean, invest in yourself, you know? Yeah. Big time. Like, it's huge. And obviously, it's a big move, but, like, it's needed. And it'll help in the content to come out of that. It's going to be incredible. And I mean, if you, like, the thing is, too, is, like, you outgrow that building, you go and build a new one or buy a new one, you can sell that.

Like, it's only, it's just a, yeah, exactly. It's not, like, renting where it's out the door. Yeah. Well, maybe one day we'll get our own, uh, C Boys Bums line. Dude, I can't believe you said that. Uh, I was trying, but there was not enough time. I was going to literally make, like, a crossover one and give you guys your each individual personalized shades. one said like whatever whoever's nickname would be so it'd be like big wrench i was going to put

howie on yours because your name and my thoughts howie mandel and dude okay there's yeah it's a crazy long backstory but we honestly still do it to this day and like i have to sometimes i like text cj or whatever but like i convinced the people i knew howie mendel and i'm just like i'll text him right now and then he'll like call me and i got the dealer no deal picture and it just says howie mandel and he'll be like so and i'll be like yeah whatever but what you know howie Yeah, so stupid. It's just so random. But it's funny.

It was, and it's still a name in my phone. Love it. Yeah. Do you, do you feel bad about blowing up that firework directly behind Ryan? What? And almost losing his, dude, I think of that. I think about that more than what. I actually think about a lot of things that I did.

And like that, that right there is a prime example where, where I was like, I got to get some content. Dude, that was one of the most savage things I've ever seen you do. Yeah, dude, and we're like Ryan's hearing sacrifice. Something that he can never get back. Yeah, and like, oh, I honestly, I really do feel bad now at the time when Ryan was like ready to deck me. I'm just like, dude, it was funny, you know, like, don't get so mad. And now I'm just like, that was so dumb.

Ryan's hearing is easily the worst. I mean, I'm not, none of us really have that great hearing anymore. but Rhine's is easily the worst. And you guys keep telling me that, and I go, win, and they go, we always try talking to you and you don't hear us. Yeah, you don't talk back. I know better.

You just send Mike down. It was in the other pocket. No, it's between my legs. Oh. Yeah, but I literally, I just don't even hear them. Jake, um, one of the last memories I have of you, a part of the group before you left was,

it was March of 2020. COVID happened. Oh, God. So the whole world is getting shut down and we're in Cormorant isolated and we're like, we're going. It ain't coming to hit us. What do we have to worry about? We're in Cormon.

Fargo news. Uber driver gets COVID. First sighting in North Dakota. Fargo, man. If you have been, if you have ridden with this guy beyond lockdown, Jake is like, oh God, I got a call from him. I rode with that guy or Uber called you and goes, hey, we saw that you rode with the first. breakout of North Dakota this last weekend and Jake's like oh shit because we were like yeah let's just hang out in corn rent we'll be fine well Jake was chasing a chick

go gets an Uber girls are getting you in trouble kids so Jake gets this call as we're all hanging out in like a circle together like I'd already been hanging out for a couple days yeah yeah yeah any any he's like I think he was on speaker and they say it on speaker and we all just look at each other and we just start back and there was a door that closed like the main shop area and it had a window in it and we just all back up through the door shut the door i'm pretty sure cj already had like bleach right i was sanitized everything it was bleaching everything well back then you didn't know what how bad it could have been which i'm not saying it couldn't have been bad whatever we're not going to get into that but at the time i was like we didn't know we don't

get this some fucking hand sanitizing like wiping everything and the and then uh we're looking through the window typing mess messages on a piece of paper and we just say you got to go go home. Jake, Jake had to go isolate for what, you had to, or quarantine as they, I will never forget. I was just like, I felt like, everyone else was freaking out. Yeah, and I was like the, the homie that got it, you know, like, I'm not, you're infected. I'm like, yeah, like, I got the thing and I just remember CJ looking through the door, cracks it and goes, sorry, bro, you got to go. I had to go home for like two weeks. So I'm like, not sick, playing way too much Xbox, got nothing to do. I'm like, can I just come

hang out? And they're like, sorry, dude, probably should take precaution. You know, we don't want to get everyone else sick. And I'm just like miserable. We were killing off the, the two weeks. He came back at the end of the two weeks, but yeah, fuck. That was such different times. It's almost like you forget that any of that ever happened. I kind of forgot

about it. Isn't it weird? Dude, there's endless and countless memories that are probably like, forgotten that's like hilarious. Oh, good Lord, Ryan. Let's not bring up memories like that. Which one? I can't show the world, but...

Oh, whoa. That's back in the other one. Yeah, it's in the old shop. I'm looking... I was looking for a video of Jake on the other side of the door and us on the other side, but I can't find it, so...

Dude, it is never good to live in the past, but I do love going down memory lane sometimes. It is funny. It's funny. It's some good. We kind of got to rekindle those memories. Yeah. Because otherwise, you'll forget about it.

I honestly am worried, at least speaking for myself, I oftentimes forget. so much like i don't even remember what we did last week because i'm so focused on doing whatever we're doing now we're moving at a million miles an hour um that you know i hear these old guys talking about oh yeah remember when we did this and we went down to this street and then they were sitting here and you got that and how do you remember that yeah and i'm like holy frick i hope i'll remember these things you know one so it's good that we we bring them up yeah i like it's funny

you know one time uh we were out to eat at our favorite place called sorbuss and uh they have these drinks that are like half liquor half red bull and like a full red bull can jet fuel and um rocket jake jake took it upon himself for some reason to what drink four you drank two you tried to drink two in under a minute and then you failed so you went and got two more and tried to drink them in under a minute. I have the video. There is six total, and I don't, I think that would have been the tipping point. And then you got CJ coming around the corner with 12 yag boxes. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Jake and I drank 10 of them. Between the two of us. It was the easily the most rambunctious I've ever seen a human being. Rambunctious. I've never seen a human act the way that you acted.

So we get Jake back to the shop, our old shop at the time. And Ryan had his F-150. And Jake was so rambunctious we had to just lock him in the back tailgate of the of the of the of the 50 to just look at each other and go flailing what do we do with this guy right now we're like figuring out the options like do we bring him home do we let him stay in the box do we put him to bed upstairs and we're just like what do we do meanwhile he's i just remember you eating a hundred bucks yeah so we let him out and it was like it was like if you had a raccoon or a or a grizzly bear in in a cage and you let him out and he just went apes shit. But you gave the grizzly bear 14 Red Bulls.

Help that video. I'm running around. He's smashing the plastic chairs. He's throwing the chairs at the wall. You're laying on your new Mustang. No, that wasn't my iPad. I think it was Ken's.

Or Cody's, it was Cody's iPad. Oh, it was your iPad. Yeah, because that day, that was the day that we got the big C-boy sign and I got my Mustang.

It was a big day. I was Jack. Did you guys remember? I broke my wrist your hand. I showed up the next day. And you're like, what happened? I was still in the same thing?

Same clothes, had to be work at 5 a.m. for my dad. All that. Oh, my gosh. That is one of my favorite. I have the video on my whole the time, dude. Whenever somebody orders a trash can at Zorboz, I just think of you. I honestly hadn't been back to there. I literally probably hadn't had a trash can since then until like last weekend.

Cody put one down in front of me and I was just like, holy, I don't want to go there again. Are you more controlled now? I'll say like 100% for sure. But like obviously there's like a difference. like if we're having a bunch of fun and everyone's rallying like I'm still me dude like I still want to have a ton of fun but like if someone's out partying on a Wednesday and like I got stuff to do like no I'm gonna stay home like I got I got I got stuff to get done you know where before like if I'd work at 5 a.m. for my dad and like we were partying until 3 I was

partying until 3 and I was making it to work at 5 you know like and but it's like it obviously isn't feasible and you have way different energy then but yeah I will say um because for like the longest time i did think i had like uh you know like a a drinking problem or whatever and i quit and like it wasn't that but uh i don't know i'd definitely say i'm definitely more controlled now and can like kind of throttle back but yeah before it was like all or nothing but what do you mean we were in 1920 21 having a blast yeah we were partying like rock stars yeah did you kidding me give me an 850 horsepower mustang and a bunch of red bulls what am i gonna do yeah dude when you bought your c6 corvette and you were six six

Baby. That turf and money right there. Yeah, baby. That was crazy. That was like, I think that was the start. Pop up a picture. Yeah. Oh, I got one.

Just imagine a 16-year-old kid that should not even be driving a Ford Focus for his recklessness and just overall decision making. And then put him in a Corvette, which was like in our eyes at the time was like the craziest car we've ever and boy did we find out how fast it was I think it's still the fastest I've ever gone in a car 160 miles an hour oh my gosh dude that was the first thing I did

when I got the car I came to this I came to this shop picked up Ryan and I'm like let's see how fast it goes and we loop it like right out here bro because we were used to driving cars that when you were going to drive them aggressively you turn traction control off yeah yeah You would always do that.

Yeah, you're like, this will slow us down. You know, we'd be driving, right? And we'd be driving normal. And then you see Jake's hand just slip forward and go, Trashing a troll off, look over. Both of them look at, you look at make eye contact, and Jake goes, You ready, bro? And then after every poll your dad would call, what you doing?

Oh, nothing, just driving? You driving nice? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, bullshit, I can hear you all the way across. well dude so that was the thing so obviously i had to be on my dad's insurance and everything and so like the rule was like i could get it be on his insurance if he's allowed to put like a tracker in it right so it shows my speed and everything right so like anytime i'd get on it it it would just be like totally recorded and i knew the phone call was coming after but i think one of my favorite memories in that car is when i was with you and i thought i messed it up we were driving to your dad's house and your dad was going to take a look at it and something with like the oil pressure was going wrong so we were going to like limp it there and i cj's like Take it easy. Be nice. And we're just watt throttle everywhere.

And he's like, you're going to nuke this thing, bro. Jake had no engine remorse or I don't even know what it is. If you have any sympathy or even like. No, you were a car sociopath. Touch to like this vehicle is on its last leg. You don't have any touch that. You're like, keep riding it hard. Dude, you were driving your mom's out back.

Yeah. Blew it up. You blew it up. My favorite parking lot of the school My favorite feature is Daily driver Yeah Just ruined her car

Should have shit No car drive I had another one I had to put a new motor into that car And then we ended up just ruining it anyways But the funny thing was Is the reason you got that Corvette

Is you wrecked your first car Which was a Jeep Grand Cherokee You rolled it right in front Going back to like Where you maybe used to be Even slightly more Or much more unpredictable

You would just like go into wild man drift mode and so you right in front of me started drifting and then just dipped off into the ditch and rolled on the roof right in front of me dude i will never forget that because it was like uh new year's eve it was super cold it was negative 20 i'm in shorts flip flops and i'm ended up in the trunk no seatbelt on my story to my parents is i was plugging in my phone lost control yeah but i didn't tell them until they found it so like the jeep was rolled i go to the shop get a skid steer i'm mad i stick the forks through the side of the door yeah the jeep was fine yeah like it was a little dented up and then you totaled him i had to bring it back and so i set it in the shop

and my dad calls me in the morning with a panic he goes where are you are you okay i'm like yeah i'm in bed what's up totally forgot i rolled my jeep and he's like looking at your jeep i'm like oh yeah i hit some ice last night i was plugging in my phone he's like what at 90 yeah dude that the hood's just crushed in there's four holes through the side of the door oh man that was so funny yeah i remember there was a point when you were trying to flip it over nicely and we weren't using like chains or any type of logic we just use the bucket and after a few missed ones you just like what flip the thing over and just totaled it i will say that's one thing that i'm kind of sad about as i get older but it saved me a ton of money is like when something breaks i go fix it instead of just

Instead of totaling it. Instead of just rod on it, you know, which I mean, like what a normal person would Yeah. Dude, we should have you do like a little, like a little one-on-one session with our buddy Evan. Have you haven't figured that out yet? Wreck it all. Wreck it all. Drive it into the ground.

Jake, when I think about our early YouTube videos and what made them so special, it was the group camaraderie and everyone just having a good time and your compulsive buying and your compulsive acts every everything that you did very impulsively where it would half of it would happen and then the camera would capture the other half because it was happening no matter what right but like you're going to buy the shifter cart so compulsive and cj was just like let me come let me come let me come let me come and you were damn near down the driveway before he could jump in the back of the you almost truck let me film the buying of the cart i do remember that think about that like that vid uh was kind of like a kickstarter it was a staple you know like it gave

us that boost but yeah almost almost yeah because everything had to be a surprise with you still does still does yeah everything's got to be a surprise i'm like well just let me in on the surprise i'm trying to film it for the video dude the hard part is now so like being on my own as i'm building something i'm like well the only people i'm under surprise is the the audience so uh i probably should show the process you know in a couple videos you know i'm like i can't can't hide any secrets because it's me and cody you ever play pranks on cody oh what do you got one in mind or did i do so i don't know a pee beer prank dude oh my god dude and cody drank it he he didn't know it was pee in there dude we can talk about this so we were we were you know underage crids drinking root beers by

a fire right yeah yeah and uh as we do we'd burn stuff yeah dude and uh anyways Cody was like I can beat you in a chugging contest I'm like no you can I'm like all right let's do it so I he's like talking to CJ because I told CJ what I'm doing and I take this bottle

pour it out and I just fill it up you know with piss dude drank the whole Cody beat me by a mile but he drank every last drop there we go there's pee it was pee it was pee he knows

he just starts yakking everywhere there was some questionable stuff back in those early videos between Cody drinking your pee Ben putting his face into Ken's ass the sex doll in the hot tub yeah yeah yeah the whole video with the sex doll

yeah I don't even know if we can say Tina we named the first part but you know one thing about Jake though that I've always respected is you really know how to go into a deal and kick a guy in the nuts you know What kind of deal?

You know, like that one time that we went and bought that four-wheeler with a kid? You guys had me so wound up. I literally almost totaled our pair. You were stopping at green lights, driving through red lights. You were so disheveled. I was just distra. You guys were not. You got to fill the back story.

So we're looking for a four-wheeler to buy, and this can't amp pops up a couple hours away. You got to show the story in before that, though. So Jake was always. buying stuff because he had excess money because he worked the turfing job and would get paid more money than the rest of us getting paid $10 an hour. He was probably making 20 and he was working more. But he was always buying stuff and he'd always be like, yep, kick that guy in the nuts, got it for a deal. That was always the thing. Like whether it was the four wheel or snowmobile, he kicked somebody in the nuts and got a hell of a deal. And we're always like, man, he is so good at getting deals.

It was time to go and pick up these four wheelers or one of these one quad off of Facebook marketplace. And we were like, Jake, you got to come with because you got to kick this guy in the nuts. You know what you're doing. We're going to film the process. You take the reins. So we get into this deal, right? And we're just like following. We're just stepping back.

And we're like, let the master work. Let him cook. Let him cook. Right. And Jake walks in there, you know, fresh off us, hyping him up. Right? And we're like, God, I'm excited to see the process. Yeah.

We're going to finally see him kick someone and wants. We show up. Jake is like looking at this thing. Literally, like, kicking the tires, walking around. And he's like, he takes him. takes his finger out, puts it in the exhaust, swabs, smells it, and we're watching it, and we're like, holy shit, so this is the process.

No wonder why he gets the deals, he's picking this thing apart. And he's asking all these questions. And he's like, how are the rings? These guys aren't buying it for a second. They're just like, is this guy an idiot? The filter looks a little oil, he's smelling it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this, right?

And he finally goes, all right, man. wanted five grand for it let's let's do 35 he's like no five yeah the guys are not buying for a second they're just looking at you it became awkward like all right this is just kidding awkward jake taking the right four grand four grand that's the best i can do and he's like well i mean five i'm selling it for five grand so and finally jake's just like all right fine no he did not get a deal five grand man right and we're standing there at this point and we went in like and then it just ended like this we load that thing up hop in the car and we

are all just ruined and hollering and you're laughing so hard we kept going what did it smell like I literally almost hit a car stopped at every green light pulled into what are we going red lobster and you guys are like you're going to try and get a deal

to the lobster too dude we were in tears we're in tears dude we're sitting that red lobster crying Thank God it was only us And the subs that were next to us They were like man what is going on with these guys Oh my God

Dude Yeah so when I saw you driving to Texas Or flying to Texas to drive this car back I was like man that poor Texan dude He probably got kicked in the nuts Dude I can make some deals boys But we roll deep it's hard

Yeah when you roll deep with the camera Yeah bro you got a camera rolling deep He's got something to prove too That shit was funny funny bro that is so funny dude i think one thing uh this this is just kind of going back to the college thing but i think one thing i i missed and totally love is all the stuff that happened that is just like total viral worthy that didn't get caught on camera such as like uh swapping the projector and when we were swiping tinder like i found that thing put it on ticot and it like instantly hit

four mill. Really? Damn. Oh, really? Yeah. And I don't know. Just like the rambunctiousness that we all did in college was just kind of, it was a

milestone for sure. Everything was fresh and new. You had so much energy going into filming, you know? It was just like you want, you were just, every time we did something was sunny. It was a tornado. Yeah. We were talking about this yesterday, actually. I don't even remember.

I don't think we were filming this, but remember when we were at Sains, uh, shop with all the snowmobiles and you thought it would be a good idea. grab a fire extinguisher off the wall and spray it. Oh, two of them, two fire extinguishers and spray it everywhere in Sane's shop, cleared all of us out and you're standing there. Tarty was over after that. Dude, no. So what Jay came up to me and he's like, hey, if you do it, I'll do it.

Our buddy, Jay. Our buddy, Jay. Yeah. Manaberry. Jay Manabary. He's like, if you do it, I'll do it. I'm like, well, if you're going to do it, I have to do it. And so I just grabbed it, didn't think twice.

He didn't even pull his pin, dude. I just cleared everyone out. And then G-Rig came in with me at 7 in the morning and we cleaned his whole shop. I felt pretty bad. I think that's the only time I've ever seen Sane Skinner actually even remotely upset. Yeah. Yeah, those fire extinguishers make a mess. I remember one time you sprayed me right in the face with it, Jake?

Yeah. That shit really, like, takes the saliva out of you. You know, now that I'm thinking about it, aren't you guys just like a little happier that I'm, like, more mature and just don't fucking do shit like that anymore? like Ryan's hearings better. No, the only thing I'm happy about, Jake, is that we don't have you and Evan on the same payroll. Because we would be so ungodly broke.

Like, dude, we would be just like, I don't even, I can't even imagine. And it is fun. It is fun to get you two all revved up because you both have like the same very impulsive behavior and like the no care. Yes. Which is super entertaining, obviously,

on the standpoint of like, content and just being your friend right but then when you got to cut the check for it at the end of the day you know a little bit more now it hurts oh it hurt dude that's the thing like yeah when i was cutting my own checks i'm like is it really cost that much is like oh it's it's terrible no but it's all it's all for the greater good yeah yeah dude we give evan a hard time we gave we gave you a hard time for it but like at the end of the day we don't you know we don't cares. It's funny to laugh about it. I was going to say, it is funny. So, like, we go back to that bike bit where we were jumping the BMX bike into the pond. When I chopped that together,

it was like you never left. And it was interesting because I feel like in your videos, you're kind of running them and you're talking to the camera. You're doing the explanation. But then when you came back and we're in our vid, you went right back to that role of like, you were just fucking this goofball. You're being record. this impulsive funny you were saying the funny stuff and like not that you don't do that now but like you went back to that same character and it was just like literally like nothing ever changed it's funny you say that and like when i first felt that was justin's bachelor party oh shit that was for him too for like and like the camera came out like it just felt like normal

like you could just do what you want and you know the thing is like when the when the camera comes out obviously we are who we are but you turn it on a little bit you know like you're filming you turn it up and like when there's something funny to be had you do it yeah right you know cheddar was out that week yeah there always there is something there is like it is I mean you can probably attest to this when you're not necessarily having to worry about the shot or any of that and you get to live in that moment and like be present and then make the like you're like oh perfect I can make a joke here whatever there's like like something that almost like it takes a pressure off that makes you do better on that side yeah

absolutely when you're not having to like worry and it's uh it's kind of cool too because like it made me you've been on both sides yeah it makes me feel for like the cameraman to okay just wait you know like no reason of like ruining it or whatever but uh i don't know it's fun because like i am that person and like now i have my feet under me and it's just like it feels so good to like be able to come hang out and just do whatever we do you know and then like be able to have something of like my own more of the full package right exactly and like i don't know it's cool but yeah yeah i will say when we all get together freaking hands off bro because it's like it's so fun it is uh we have a blast all right bro well i think we've been going for almost three hours yeah we did our longest podcast

three hour mark okay and honestly i feel like we're like we could go for another three hours but like the door is always open you know you're one of our best friends we love you and uh i'm so glad that you know we've rekindled this everything that that happened happened for a reason but we're you know back to where you're always welcome over here and i'm so excited to have you in future videos it's gonna be so fun be in your future videos and have you on the podcast because i'm sure people loved you and uh are stoked for more so yeah and uh if there was any questions questions we didn't answer. I guess you're throwing below so we know. Yeah. Yeah. And if I was going to say if you're not already subscribed to Jake's channel, Jake Sherbrook on on YouTube, Jake Sherbrook on

Instagram, all that. We'll put it down in the description. Bums I wear. Go check out, go check out all his stuff. And I think that's it. Yeah. See you guys next week. Until next time. Yeah. That's a wrap. Sweet boys. Woo. MWW!