Life Wide Open with CboysTV - TJ Hunt on Quitting YouTube, His Secret Cars, and Paying Over 360k a Year on Car Insurance

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

In today's podcast we interview Youtube legend TJ Hunt. We chat about creator burnout, his family plans, secret cars (and why he has them), and his insane insurance bill. Thanks for listening everyone . If you would please rate us 5 Stars it would mean the world! Thanks to our sponsors! Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/wideopen. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Get your new wireless plan for $15 a month at https://www.mintmobile.com/wideopen Get $1 a month trial at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Follow us on Instagram @cboystv and @lifewideopenpodcast To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. All right, guys, we got a bit of an automotive YouTuber OG on the podcast today. A legend. Yeah, legend. We've been... I'll take the title.

We've been really excited about this pod. So thanks for having us at your shop. Yeah, no, I appreciate you guys coming here. I feel like we've been like trying to link up to a certain degree over like a few different, like, years. Yeah. And I'm stoked to have you guys here. There's a lot of guys in the shop. We're like, are those sea boys here?

They're all super soaked. So, yeah, I'm honored to be on the cast guys. Thank you. That's awesome. Yeah, it's funny. It's kind of gone full circle for us because I actually subscribe to you when you had like 7,000 subscribers. Whoa. Yeah.

And I think I found you off of Evan Shanks. He gave you a plug. He's like, yeah, this new guy is coming up. He's really good. And I went and started watching you and then, you know, you just blown up since. Isn't it crazy like what the community used to be like back then? Like it was such a different world. Yeah.

I miss it often times. It was just different. It was simpler, but also it was just like so, I don't know, it was awesome. Yeah. And it was all new, too. Yeah. Exactly. It was like the first time seeing somebody build something from nothing and then watching

somebody build a BRZ from stock to putting stickers on it to wheels. It was back when like titles like installing an exhaust, but do really well. Exactly. Like sticker bombing of front bumper when like now that, you know, there's so much. like I guess there's so much different forms of content so many different people it's all been done now so you gotta really raise the bar yeah that some people always ask me like how'd you do it don't like honestly dude think about it this way imagine like investing in apple when steve jobs is a fucking nobody it's

like that's what i feel like i did like i was in it at the right time um and it's it's so fucking hard now like there's there's there's i mean you guys did a good job coming up but you guys had a very interesting angle which i think like really was able to like separate you guys and really like gave you guys that edge that allowed you guys to get the success that you guys that you earned but it's not easy it's very difficult now you want to know what's funny though is so i initially bought a camera and my plan i was inspired by you uh to make car videos i had a Subaru wrx and i quickly found out i don't have any money left to do mods with it so i just started carrying it around and filming us and then it was we kind of just took this this route with it

That's fucking route. So, I mean, I guess this podcast is about me, but what did, what was, like, the first, I'm curious to know, like, what was your guys' moment of, like, oh, this is, like, actually creating somewhat of, like, a dollar. And it was, like, friends were like, okay, like, let's all just do this. All of a sudden, like, I'm curious to know that backstory before we really jump in. It was the third video, actually. So, like I said, I initially bought it to, I was going to make car videos, but I didn't have

anything to film. So I started filming us on the weekends. one day one of our buddies bought this it's a shifter cart i don't know if you're yeah yeah yeah we were ripping it around and i was just filming it and we'd made a couple videos before that and uh i just remember my handshake and i was like this is gold this is gonna be good on youtube and wouldn't spend like two weeks editing it and put it up and uh maybe got like you know a little bit of views over time and started making money and then we're just like let's keep doing this yeah but dude it got like 10 000 views 20 000 views

30,000 views and we're like, oh, dude, we are famous. Yeah, we thought we were viral. We have gone viral. We're like 50,000 views. I remember, like, looking at lunch and seeing it, like, rolling over, like, 50,000. I'm like, boys, what do we even do with all the success? I think it made, like, a thousand bucks and then flip that thousand bucks into a new camera, better camera, and, you know, just started an LLC, because, you know, it's like, are you a

personal or business? You got to go from that route. So we had, like, seven best friends at the time. so we just started a seven-person LLC and we're just like, we're doing it. But then we're like, how do we split the money? Because we made 800 bucks that's December. Yeah.

And we were like, what do we do with it? And we're like, fuck it. Let's just donate all of it so we don't have to fight over it. Damn, that's smart. Yeah, so I mean, it was a good start. But, dude, I remember the exact spot I was sitting when CJ was like, yeah, dude, have you ever heard of the YouTuber T.J. Hunt? I was like, no.

And he's like, I just subscribed to him. He's got like 8,000 followers. and I was like, oh, no way. Do you make money on YouTube? I was, like, that person asking that question now that we, we actually, you don't get that much anymore. I guess, I mean, fuck, if that was, like, back when I had, like, 8,000 sub, that was, like, 15, 60 years ago, something like that. It would have been, like, 2014, maybe 2013. Yeah.

Dude, at that time, YouTube was, like, so, like, undiscovered. It was, like, making money from that was such a foreign concept. Like, social media was nowhere near it was today. Yeah. So, yeah, it's. even when I started making money, I was like, when is it going to stop? Like when it started adding up every month and it just like starts climbing, it's a very trippy. You always have that in the back of your head.

You're worried about it. Yeah, I think you've done such a good job, though, at creating a brand that's not T.J. Hunt and company and your merchandise. And then I remember CJ being like, yeah, dude, he's got merchandise, the hunting company. And that's how he like makes his money. And I was like, oh my God, I never even thought of that. you could start a brand and then promote it on YouTube and now everyone's got it but it's such a rabbit hole now I mean you guys understand at this point but like it quickly like came from okay like I'm making like X amount of money from videos and I have this audience and they're just

you know it like started to cloak when I started getting people like reach out for me to like promote like their products or whatever and I'm like why do everyone keep asking me to promote certain shit and then realizing okay you have a demographic that's valuable and then learning how to like and then I got really involved I got really interested in like the business side and how can you use that platform or that audience or that demographic how can you use that to like build something or uh and i started like looking like back at like uh like rappers who got super super popular and like what did they do with their fame in like rap culture and how did they use that to branch out to start like anything and it's very common with like sports players like

rappers um and then you look in like our field of like motorsport and then it's kem block Travis Pistrana, Von Gitton, and I, like, started studying. And then that's when, like, Uncompany came and, like, learned about investing and learned about, that's kind of what, like, Bertha Street Hunter. And it was, like, trying to build something larger because, you know, videos are great, but it's always tough when there's, I always like say there's, there's always, like, a 10-year-old whistle and diesel out there. and you every year goes on he gets a little older and then there's another 10 year old

and there's another 10 year old and then like a lot of one's only going to be so big for so long so like what can you do to like make your i don't know legacy there like how can you like invest farther than just like videos for sure yeah we talk about that all the time of uh how do we create a product that will outlive you know just our our youtube channel yeah or what how do you not lose the authenticity of what you're doing right now and then make it seem like dude i'm just making videos to promote this or like something like that which at the end of the day people see through that and you don't want for sure you don't want that to be in and you kind of always want to uh you know keep your core demographic happy with you know what you're producing

not just product wise yeah nelks a really good example of that yeah they kill it at that and they've managed to you know create different revenues from happy dad to merch but then their podcast and then they still make their main channel videos yeah i think when when people like really look at certain channels and they kind of see how they're structured like on a business like perspective it's like kind of the first time they say it they're like oh shit like it's not just like think about it like for the most part every large creator or creation team will have like a main of like some sort sort of like clothing or some sort of like merchandising and then they have a spin off or not even spin off but like another branch that's like a consumable to a certain degree whether it's food whether

it's like straight hunter like there's usually a main and then like after that a couple years once they learn how that flows they create a second that like okay what do i love to do that's like somewhat within my demographic obviously no partying and drinking it goes hand in hand uh but um like again logan paul maverick then started prime ks i same thing then started prime um i just that became very obsessed with like figuring out what that formula was and how they were doing it and why they were doing it and then I was like oh and then like you fall in love with it and then it kind of becomes again like authenticity is very important

if you're just like shoving messaging and branding and people's faces and like losing on what you're doing then yeah there's a very fine balance to that but it's it's a deep hole I feel like the personality trait of someone who wants to create and grow a YouTube channel also it transfers into business really well like they have the same I want to grow businesses I want to start other projects Because you have to be to create a YouTube channel and keep it going. Yeah, to be successful. I think you've got to have the knack.

Exactly. Yeah. Well, you do now. Yeah, nowadays, for sure. Yeah, to stay competitive or to really, like, outlive that into like, there's like making a living and then there's like, you know, how do you like make a serious operation? And at that point, like, you know, you could transform and do whatever you want. Because I mean, whatever capital is there and have fun with it.

You've been around for a long time. What is it? Almost, has it been a decade or almost a decade? Not yet, not yet. Almost though. Well, fuck. It's got to be close. Maybe.

I was going to say, I was uploading videos in 2013, I think. But that channel is like, I've had that channel since middle school. So there's some like older shit on there. But since I like really started, I don't know, 2014-ish, so fucking close to 10 years. So do you mind going back a little bit and kind of just telling us how you got your start?

Yeah. Because you got a pretty interesting story, if I remember correctly. Yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, getting going. Yeah. So I played competitive hockey until I was... Nice, I did too. Yeah, really?

Okay. Yeah. So I played until I was 19, stopped at, like, Junior A. Nice. And so, like, we were always on the road traveling. We saw AAA pretty much from, like, squirts all the way to midgets and then Junior A. So always on the road, always traveling. How is hockey in California?

Sorry, a little super competitive. Really? That's no offense, but surprising to me. It doesn't seem like a... So whenever we would go to nationals or we did, like, junior, Olympics, like, usually, like, the good states to watch out for would be, like, Michigan and, like... You never played Minnesota?

Mm, not that I remember. Dude, you ever seen... There's a lot of good teams out of Minnesota. I mean, that's culture there. You ever seen the Minnesota State Hockey Tournament for high school? Uh, I did, and I recently saw a TikTok of, like, them, like, jumping on the ice after I think it was. Yeah, it was nutty.

I mean, they fill up the NHL stadium. A way different fucking culture than here, but it's very competitive here. I mean, we have, like, the duck select team, L.A. King Select, obviously the goals. You have the AHL team, which is the farm team for the Anaheim Ducks. Very, very competitive here. Huge hockey state. That's so surprising.

Yeah, I know. People like, are what? It's got to be nice. So you wear your shorts to the rink? Yeah. Oh, shorts and flops and that's about it. It's got to be the draw to it too. It's like, man, that sounds exciting to try.

Like, in Minnesota, it's like, no, you just grow up. You just play. You got fucking boots on your feet. You're out there. No, no outdoor hockey here, though. No, well, every once in a while. It was rollerblades, huh? Yeah, with roller blades team.

So, like, our high school didn't have an ice hockey team, but we had a roller hockey team. Really? Gosh, that's so weird to me. That is weird. So, like, there, I don't know of any high school teams here. Maybe, like, the super rich private schools that are, like, 50 grand a year to go to, like, might have one. But roller hockey is, is what's here. But, dude, there's a bunch of ice drinks here.

There's just in our area, just from here within, like, 30 minutes, there's, like, maybe five different ranks. So you're playing hockey. So playing hockey. And when we were growing up, like, through that, like, we could. never like go have fun we were always stuck in the hotel room like maybe the hotels i gave us like the conference room we could all this fuck around in there so like from very early on i started watching youtube in middle school and then i got a macbook and we would just make like funny youtube videos like with the team like just stupid fucking shit which a lot of stuff i've had to taken

down because a lot of my teammates that are all in the nchel now and they're like hey really my name for prospecting like it's our video can you please remove them so yeah it's like demco the starter for canucks okay played with demco our whole entire fucking life Trey there's Tyler Moy Wow so you had to been on a really good team then I mean you got guys going to the NHL We all like I thought I was playing So that's part of this really I thought I was going in the NHL

100% like without a question That's where we were headed And I'll get to it But I had so many concussions I couldn't put on weight I was super fast I could like make plays But I was just I was getting fucking rock Junior A I got into like Two fights and I was like

Foof don't have the size for this But regardless started making videos and I was really young so i learned how to like edit and shit like on a very early age of a basic platform and then i've always like loved cars when i was younger uh like exotics and stuff because san diego a bunch of exotics bunch of money here so like i would go down to like the exotic dealerships and just like eat over them yeah this like merse laos diablo's viper shit like that then when i like got to be 16 was super stoked i'm getting license got a car immediately started like do basic shit like taillight tints plasty dip you know the fucking game yeah start yeah and then uh didn't

never never made you never made youtube videos but was like super involved in like the online forums are you guys old enough yeah yeah yeah i used to always try to figure out wheel specs or like you know just like toxicity on the internet before you too yeah i'd get reamed yeah so but luckily there was no like really connection like i just had like a there wasn't it was like a gamer take like it wasn't even my name so i just i'd like ask a stupid question so dreamt 45 year old go fucking to general yeah i just would scroll i like that's i swear i learned so much on the forums though same so that's i learned like all my basic shit so uh long story short that's where i kind of got my information and then after high school i was with a girl that i was for like four or five years and then she

broke up with me like freshman year of college or something like that and like rolled upside down this is like the typical story oh i'm gonna marry this girl like i've known her family like my my life's mapped out bullshit um and i was like gutted was like super depressed like i'm already like a skinny guy lost a bunch of fucking weight my friend's like hey dude like this is like six months now and like we're getting a little bit concerned here and then kind of like transformed that and started to like uh learn about like self help self-improvement and like certain motivational talkers that kind of help like reroute your mindset and like law of attraction and that route um that's like what i like grasp to frequencies and everything like yeah like just kind of like the power of

like your mind and like understanding you know that type of shit so from that point was like i'm gonna start new shit i like was going i would go to like a pottery class and just try anything started surfing started like skating more like would you like the most random ass fucking shit just like do something like it was bad imagine if you would have became who you are today but through pottery you're just the goat of pottery have you seen those like accounts on ticot where it's like these like dudes and chicks just like hand fucking pottery yeah yeah i get down the rabbit holes all the that's like me and i'm all buffing with just the apron on could have been me could have been shit yeah so started to like kind of get my feet moving a little bit and then found

YouTube again and started watching like couples YouTube like this is like OG YouTube but like BF first GF yeah Jesse Jesse Gina like that type of shit with like daily and this like daily uploading was like the thing and then it was like watching couples and shade and you're like oh I'm like a part of them I miss that type of like like self like loathing type shit uh then I was like fuck like I like cars I like YouTube I know how to edit like what's on the car world and at that point it was just Evan Shanks, that dude in blue, Dr. M3, Super Speeders Rob, and that was like kind of it.

Like, that was it. And it was all just them when you would be in the driver's seat and you have a camera filming you. Just a GoPro. Yep, and you're just talking. Or car review. Hardly even any cuts. No, yeah, yeah.

Very, like, basic. And that was just like the culture at that time. And it was never like about the person. It was about only about them hosting what they're talking about. Like, period. That was it. So then I started filming some shit Like tried to just copy what they were doing

Car reviews this and that And then I was like okay like that's cool But like I don't have any money Let me start filming me and my friends Similar story And then started filming more and more And then got a B or Z And then started filming shit on that

And would post that shit like on Facebook Forum pages I'd get blocked on the forums That was everyone was shit talking me on the forums And it just kind of like started building And building and building And it wasn't ever like a moment that popped But it was like

I eventually started uploading three times a week when I was in college like delegating all my time and then like one summer when I had maybe like 15,000 subs like was on summer break doubled down started like uploading like almost every day and then started making like three grand a month four grand a month and then that four grand a month jumped to like 10 Gs I'm like I saw the screenshots on my like YouTube adsense account like tripping out yeah and then it was like oh okay I just made like 13 15 grand at the end of summer I'm gonna go back to my job and I was in the nursing program at my school and then nurses here make like 100 Gs a year and I'm like I'm making more

right now allegedly if I continue this than if I wasn't on nursing and I went back to school saw like the syllabus for that semester and I was like I'm screw this dude I can't fucking keep up six videos in this trip in this trip and I was like traveling meeting other YouTubers all summer and I was I just like freak the fuck out and I walked out of class and like what year were you in school that year my junior year so you were in I mean I was I was in and I was like 50 grand in debt in college in college debt. Yeah, I just walked out and I was like, uh-uh. Just on the chance of, yeah, and you at that point, you were like, I'm going to be a YouTuber full time.

Well, it was more, it wasn't like I'm going to be a YouTuber at the time because like it was still such a foreign concept. It wasn't like a, like, you know, like there's third graders are like, I want to be a YouTuber when I grow up. Like that wasn't a thing then. So it was more like, fuck, I'm just doing really well now. If I slow down, I'll never know what could have been. And that thought scared the shit out of me. So I was like, fuck it.

Like I was really good friends with, in the fitness world, I don't know how connected you guys are, but like Christian Guzman, Max Tuning, Alphalit, Sourstrips. Like, they own those brands. Good friends of them. And I was like,

Christian dropped out of college too, the owner of Alphali, wildly successful. Like one of the probably biggest success stories on YouTube, like, of creating business and learning how to like do build that but he was like hey dude my thought was like youtube's now and colleges forever if i fucking fail i can just go back i was like yeah we had the same thing so it was still

that leap of faith and then of course it fucking lights up after that and you're like what the fuck was i doing yeah and you know then the rest was history yeah dude we we uh kind of did the same thing with like the college look on that whereas like yeah we have this this uh golden egg right now Yeah. If we don't give it enough time, what could happen to it. But, like, weren't making any money. Like, I remember when I dropped out. So you guys were in college, most of you.

Yeah. Yeah, but, like, dropping out and still not having any revenue for, like, or getting paid for, like, a year. I was like, fuck. Man, maybe this was a bad idea. Damn, yeah, that's a little more risky than my move for sure. Yeah, but I was young, too. Like, I was a sophomore, so a little bit younger.

Okay. And, like, 20. And when you're, like, 20, you don't really have that many expenses. So it's, like, better to take risk when you're, like, super young like that. Yeah, I remember when I, I bought my GTR and I was still living at home, because I didn't move out. I was like very, very, very like everything in the business, everything in the business. I stayed home until I was 21 and I had a shop across the street here. Even then when I was living with my parents and I was like trying to keep all my expenses as low as possible.

And I, I had some, I maybe when I bought my R. 35, I probably had like, fuck, maybe like a 150 in the bank. Maybe when my car was 80 grand at that point. So it's been like a half-mime of money. I didn't buy it cash, but just dumb moves that thankfully worked out. Well, they were young. It was. It was. You know, I don't remember like how well all the shit did, but back to your point when

you're younger, yeah, you're more like, fuck it, which is true. You got to take risk. The best time to do it. I mean, that's no secret, but. So do you, I remember back when you were at your parents' house, you had your vision board. Yep. And you'd always, like, show it. Yep.

And you'd knock. things off the list. Do you still do your vision board? I do as well, yeah. It's fundamental. Exactly. I think, especially in this world, like, you can get so caught up and so much bullshit. And if you like, I'm like, but I'm like, I'm not like weed with it, but I'm very in touch with it. Like, I still journal to myself. I'll write to myself. Like at least once a month. That's like, hey, right now, this is what's important to you. You know, this is what we're working towards, whether it's like a monetary goal or a like a business goal or like a like a personal life goal like I'm not at home at all right now I'd really like to at least get like 30 hours a

week where I'm like at home I'm with Sabrina I'm with my friends I'm with my parents I'm not just so sucked into this and kind of follows in line with the vision board I just think it's I mean I'm preaching to the choir here you guys know how like just ridiculous it is 24 7 and it's so easy to get lost yeah i don't know once like you like on my vision board like i've gotten everything i've ever wanted and like even still sometimes you're like all right i'm not really fulfilled yet like what the fuck like i've bought in like the mansion i've bought in every supercar i could ever think of i have more in the account than i like whatever foresee i'm not like why do now do i want something three times as much yeah it's like and then it's like okay

so the journaling kind of helps like I still have like my when I first started like my original vision board that probably like you're thinking of like what my goal was and it was like 10 grand a month and like financial freedom and like I was like that's all I care about and if there's ever a moment where I'm like well I need more it's like check yourself like there's times the most valuable thing yeah wildly and important I think but it's that shit just kind of helps keep me in check I feel do you go back and look back at them are you yeah always moving yeah no I go moving forward yeah yeah I know I said it I was like I don't know like I'm like you motherfuck no I always go back I'll read my journals from like dude I have I have like this journal again that I still writing and it's I have like shit like like congratulations like like you just made like you know 20 grand this month and I'm like 22 or something like good job Like you're like you finally made it and like it I like talk about the struggles even like when I was still getting over like that breakup that kind of like kicked me off and I think like going back in or like I still have videos that are like dear 25 year old me. I have a dear 30 year old me that's going to come out in like two years. That's cool. You have it like scheduled? I already filmed it. I already filmed it. And it's scheduled to post. It's going to post or is it yeah. Yeah. It's like like I just kind of like I just I think it's just the only thing that can. Yeah. It's like. I just the only thing that can. keep and yourself like and this goes for like whether you like you know people that are listening

it has nothing to do with like oh write it to yourself if you're like wildly successful like monetarily like has nothing to do with that but it's just like as we grow older like as we get older we mature like there's like all these new stresses and anxieties and like there's relationship shit there's financials there's like taxes there's like economy there's all these things that can like cloud us from remembering like what's important because like have you ever seen those like weird things when you're young they're like how a like an eight year old like perceives the world and it's like vibrant and there's colors and you hear all these things as you get older it's like a little duller and duller and soon you forget like what was important then that type

of shit like that psychology of things fucks me up so I just I really like am so interested and invested in like remembering what you care about once you have the role at your fingertips because then you get distracted right what do you care about now like what keeps you going you said you've you've achieved everything that you put on your vision board so what keeps you motivated the last year it's like family like starting a family um it's Sabrina um for those who don't know. So like I Sabrina's with me for like six years now like we're finally like okay like finally getting into that like marriage and and family and starting that next wave she also has had like a huge health scare the past like three years she's diagnosed with cancer

and it's that was like a really big pivotal part where it was like fuck like all the money in the world all the cars in the world like all the shit and then like one thing happens and it's like whoa none of that matters and we like we all like know that but like when it happens you're like oh none of it matters so to me like what's most important is like am i spending enough time with her like i'll give up like x amount of views a month i want to do i'll give up like x amount of revenue i'll give up like hey i'm not going to do this event i'm not going to travel to this event like am i at least getting in x amount of time am i like devoting that to us because like when I thought that like there was an X amount of short

window that I'd have with her like everything changed so like what's most important now is like I want to like make sure that when I'm more or less ready to like peace out like I have everything we need to like focus on us go where the fuck we want not worry about anything and just focus on us and our family do you have a lot a timeline of of how long you want to do this i have no idea i i i was literally just talking about this like beginning of the year i'm like i'm finally at the point where like i've had everything i've wanted like my biggest thing i've wanted to do is like build my race program and like i don't want to drive fd i don't want to go and compete and do all that stuff like from a kid i'm like oh i want to have a like a professional program

i want to have my own hauler i want to have my own like full rig i want to have my full staff I want to be able to show up, drive. I want to have the dream partners that's like, hey, you're getting paid a lot of fucking money to do this, and you just show up and do it now. So kind of like Ken Block? Now I'm here. And I'm like, cool.

Like I have every fucking partner I could ever want. And I'm like, I want to enjoy it now. But now that I'm here, I'm like, I'm so tired. It took so much. I gave up so much of myself to, get here now i love it to a fucking bloody pulp like i'll kill myself again to get here but it took so much of like my soul to get here and gave up so much of the past like 10 years i'm like okay i need to like find the balance this year we're doing like 14 driving events and uh seven months

um and it's usually like a four to five day venture like good life is an example so leave and come back so you like do the math look at how much you're on the road and say cool like you've always wanted this but to have that it takes this much fucking time yeah this much effort this much away from this business and this business and this much away from family and then you're like fuck is that what i want is it better to be like showing up to the track with an open trailer and like six fucking scrubs on a stock z and just ripping or is it better to show up in a million dollar a race hauler with a hundred tires and three spare motors and a full fucking team and all the stress that comes with it and all the stress that comes with it and then you dial back and you go and

you talk to people like vaughn or i've had conversations with ken and it's like okay hey you're here but like now what's the balance where does that come in and then it's like okay you're here you establish yourself and now it's like hey i'm going to give up this much like this is what it's going to take out of me on the corporate partnership side and on like like speaking in third person like on the tj hunt side what am i going to give up at home what am i going to give up on youtube what am i going what am i going to give up on how many uploads i'm going to do meetings i'm going to have a street hunter like development plans i'm going to have with hunting company like what am i going to do on like meeting out on like certain like certain like fundamental like shareholder

meetings to do that yeah and what family time has that you know what family time has that well and then you say hey i'm going to do this tj hunt's going to do these events as t j hunt but because of that hey all the other businesses that like kind of developed that you're going to have me this much less this year and if you're not okay with that we need to have a conversation you only spread yourself so thin yeah do you feel like you almost become like a slave to the lifestyle that you create and i have friends that are more successful that are and then you go and you see him and you're like hey dude like off camera like not even on an off camera and not even YouTubers alone but just like professional in

very high other elements of any type of world and you're like hey dude what's up and they're just like hey dude what's up I'm like dude like it's been so long hour in it's like yeah man yeah just tell there's a lot way and you're like dude the fucking soul is gone out of them And there's some that I have friends with some that have like Realize that fix it come back and like dude like it's too thin Like I'm not like the body's there but like the inside that wanted it It's like fucking just gutted and it's like that eight-year-old perspective Ripped out of them like how much of a slave to the game

Do you need to take to have that because it's just a fact Unless you have a billion dollars. that was given to you and you don't there you can't have you can't have both no you can't have to work no you have there is a like if we want to call it a slave to the job like there is that to a certain degree and again everyone loves what they do I don't think you get that to that success level if you don't truly love it and you're like well this is what I want to do anyway but when it's all you're doing like 130 hours a week whatever how many hours are on a week and you never stop and you never like take that for yourself for the family to find the other things that

recharge you yeah it's like you like what's the point right dude i mean ryan says all the time but you always is like you got the boat but you don't have time to you can you don't have time to drive it or take it out on the lake or you got the you know whatever it goes with anything you got the the big house but you never get to use it because you're always out on the road working um and that's like what you're saying right now you're you're totally on a you're way way more successful than me but i'm trying to just be more present like just enjoy the moment not be like stressing like okay what do we got to do next what we got to do next because like you're right it just takes it out of you i mean and to define success i i don't view it like that

you guys have a lot of things going for you that like and i i have some shit like whoever the fuck's doing you guys is thumbnails who's doing that means you yeah yeah you photoshop god that's a whole another conversation that's actually might be the nicest thing you've ever said yeah thank you spend a lot of time i need to have you talk to fucking anthony in there do i have them fucking start of your show i'm like learn how to fucking i noticed you were doing some new ones at the beginning of the year and i'm just like that's a that's all different conversation

but um a great example is like i have 30 something cars i drive four of them yeah bro you got 30 cars yeah that's crazy what do you keep them all so i have some the channel doesn't know i have some that the channel well obviously the ones that the channel

knows and i have a lot overseas um that i've been like just collecting and buying and just like importing when they're legal So when will your R34 be able to come? You have an R34, don't you? Yeah, or does that not knowing? No, I know, I do.

I have a base I blue, one. Okay, so when's that going to be here? I might just keep it in Japan. Really? Dude, how is Japan? I want to go over there. Dude, I will fucking go with you guys if you cut out the time. I was supposed to go at the end of this month for Matsuri and Abysu and drifting there.

You guys never been in Japan? No. Fuck, dude. They haven't been. Cool? my god, is it cool? Yeah. Yeah, dude.

It's the fucking best ways in the world. What if you're not like a massive JDM guy? Okay, that's like, the JDM is a big appeal to it, but just like the culture, like, the, the, the, the, the, everything there. It's just so different than the States. But like, if we went there and we, you guys know what Ebisu is? No. Motherfucker. What?

You are so uncultured. Okay. Well, I guess you guys aren't like super into drifting. no oh wait no yes i have heard of that i just didn't know that's all i was pronounced yeah so that's like where i was the last time i was in japan like two months ago i spent i spent like a week up in the mountains have i have a car there that's a just a little jcx mist like a drift missile um and it's there's like a track up way the fucking mountains looking over the countryside of japan and there's a zoo inside the track like the owner of

Ebisu he's very very successful well off he has like this animal zoo and there's like eight different tracks all around Ebisu and you can store your car there you guys can buy a car there and like they maintain it for you so you just show up arrive and drive and they'll do your tire chains for you and you just rip what's that cost to have them maintain it so you have to buy it from their inventory so they always have cars like for sale they'll pick up so you just like buy dude my JZX was like 13 grand um and that's like all you fucking need it's a one j tires are relatively cheap compared to the states there and it's like i don't know i don't know exactly how much it is to maintain a year but it's relatively cheap and if you guys bought like two fucking cars there

three cars there you guys would all go out there and you can there's skit pads and it's all right hand drives you have to learn how to drive on the other side that takes a second to learn all that but yeah you guys have a fucking blast dude dude like you guys you guys would oh my god i can't what's the best season when should we go uh like literally the end of this month it's like spring it's like so the snow's like just melting and then it's like it will be like it will get fucking hot in like the summertime but like right now it's like spring that's like all the americans start to go over um to episode it's like more fucking americans is it tough navigating around being yeah or do you not know it is it is um i'm really close with a company called top rank that deals with like importing

that's right by all my jdm shit that's why like all my cars over there in japan about all to them so they like are always like our liaison and will like show us where to go but now we're friends there's so many people there like when i go there if i just i literally get to the airport they pick me up drive me to their like big facility i get the keys of my 34 and i just like i'm like i'll fucking see you guys i'll drive up to the track grab that car i'll come back so i'll brought for another car and i know where i'm going now where like you just pop up google maps and as long as you have like the address you're fine but dude if i will let us know when i will fucking take you guys up you will you got to get better at driving boys

That's the perfect place to learn. Really? Like, dead ass. There's a track for all skill level. Like, all skill up. There's an open skit pad. And then there's, like, a figure eight course. And then there's, like, a larger course that's a little bit more of, like, road course.

And then there's, like, like, toge, like, 10 foot wide mountain pass. Like, you fall off. You're dead type shit. There's big entry shit. There's 100-mallon entries. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing.

But so I have cars that I've been buying there for. a while a lot of shit people don't know about and do you do it as investments just a cool thing that you personally want to do yes you want to import them do you want to keep them there forever kind of like a mix of everything there are certain cars like i've been so on to the 34 market for a long time so i started buying them up along like for a while other cars too that are like you know i've known we're going to be good investments yes but also like it's like my eight-year-old self i always like channel that i'm like what does he fucking want yeah I'm like, I love that.

I want a every color. It kind of seems like you're going back towards, like, the JDM. You've done it all. I mean, you had the super cars and all that, but you keep sticking with the Supras. Yeah, well, it's like I've gotten to like the Avenador, the Eurricon, the R8, the Ferraris, the whatever. And they're really fun, but to a certain point,

it gets like boring. Because you can't modify them? I mean, dude, the twin turbo, Lambo, wide body that Whistlin has now, like that's like it was far that's like the end of the line yeah you could go to 2000 horsepower but like on a street is what what's what more do you really need um so yeah like then you know once i've gone through that i'm like oh well like what's the shit that no one can get what's the shit that's not being made and then like that just kind of like blossomed like that re-ignited that younger self and i was like fucking get the chuckbook out like just fucking

fire off and just buy all the shit you could ever want and and the thing is like the rare shit that you know is good you'll never lose your dollar on yeah like sure maybe if the world goes upside down and currency falls away, sure I'll lose my ass. But at that point, what the fuck's the point anyway? So it's like, I'll buy them now.

I'll at least get the ride off, get the money out of the certain accounts that you don't want to just get absolutely bent over on taxes for. And then, you know, when you're ready and import them you can. When you go to Japan, you can or if you don't want them,

you sell them for twice the money you bought them for. So with all these cars, do you have like a car dealer's license? Okay, nice. I was going to say, you'd have to. Some I do want a dealer's license. Some I don't.

I have property and other places, that can help, like, register certain different things in different areas. We got to have a conversation after. The hardest part for us is being that we all are partners in the business. It's tough for us to go out and buy a GTR or a Lambo through the business when it's technically like our personal car. Like for you, it's like you are the business. It's just how you set it up.

It's just how you define what it's being used for. So technically you could. I mean like theoretically like C-boys like the company could buy any car under that company name and then you know depending on who's registered it could be a company car and you could still have like employees drive that set car wouldn't it just what's the liability look like for that like is all my cars are under like you know not well most of them are under the business there's certain exceptions for certain things but the liability on that is like triple my personal policy Because it's like, the business is worth X amount. So the coverage is like way, way, way, way, way, way more. But then also. How's your insurance? Fucked.

Dude, what do you spend a month? Can you tell us? Probably like, a month? Or a year? I don't fucking know. Whatever you want to tell us. Yeah. No, I don't mind.

I don't know. Probably a month anywhere from like, there's always so many things being added and not added. I don't know, like 15 minimum to like 30 grand? A month. Whoa. No way. Well, so I have shit.

And then we talk about, well, and then we talk about dealers. And then the dealer's insurance is different. So there's like, it varies. Um, uh, yeah. But that's just the price of like, okay, I have this many cars on the roll. It's true. I want to build it at any moment or any time. Yeah.

You need to have a loan insurance. And then it's like, okay, well, if I'm going to have it on a dealer, dealer plate, I'll swap the dealer plate on it. And then I'm allowed to drive that for a certain X amount. Um, and it's ultimately just easier if you can dislike. write out all of it to have everything always insured, and it's also a better write-off if it's going towards something. Right, right.

That's one thing we've done, I mean, I'd say really well, is literally pretty much every dollar we've ever made, we put it back into the business, which luckily we've set it up in a way where we can kind of do a little bit of everything. You guys can. Do you guys do so much of it? Which is great, because you can be like, I want a Lamborghini, and it's a great investment just like for you,

or it could be like, I want a fucking three-wheeler. And it's also just as good. Yeah. That's also the best thing for us is like, dude, yesterday, super long story. But we basically have been doing these like R6, like off-road durability test kind of things. Yeah, no, you always say no. We just bought our third 2007 R6. Fourth.

So we had our third, right? It was brand new to us before the trip. drive out to moab have like off-road tires on it and uh we're ripping in moab a hell's pass or whatever it's called oddly enough we're passing whistling diesel yeah it was the weirdest we were there on the same day as whistling with his g wagon dude dude oh yeah yeah yeah we're at the top of this like sketchy rock pass and we just see heavy deep coming up in his brodos and we're like what the hell and then whistling diesel getting towed behind him and they keep i don't think heavy d noticed it was us and then he just kind of kept going and we look

at whistling and he looks at us and we go, what are you doing here? He just keeps going and we're like, see ya. That's fucking tight. It was really funny. That's cool. But anyway, the front break on the R6 breaks, Evan like tipped it over on like this rock. So then we're like way in there

and we had to get it back out and going down this huge rock face. In the pouring rain. Keep in mind. And he lays it over and it slides down this whole, pretty much a mountain. Slides down this mountain. And it was like a super fresh R6. basically like kind of totals it so we we get all these parts shipped out to us we fix it we

we get this custom sand paddle made yeah it was crazy looking and uh yeah it was like for a crotch rocket you know like a dirt bike paddle tire yeah yeah yeah huge so we get this sand paddle made shipped here we're paying expedite shipping paying a shop to let us use it and everything like jump through all these yeah literally and we're like all right we got it we're good we get to glamorous yesterday drove across the whole country keep in mind we're damn You're in Mexico. Damn it. Yeah.

Dude, that's my backyard. Yeah, we had to travel, what, 36 hours? I mean, 48 hours to get there, right? I mean. And we're like, all right, we're here. This is going to be a viral video. Nobody's, nobody's taking an R6 in the sand dunes. We had this thing made.

We're like, fucking finally. All right, we're here. I put this chain on and I don't latch the master link enough. Oh, no. And the chain goes through the case. About two and at, like from here to that corner away from the start. Yeah, yeah. just turned it on, we filmed the intro,

goes to just start driving, snap. And the chain goes through the case and it cracks the case and it cracks the oil filter. Oil everywhere. Evan just drops the bike and he's like, you guys are fucked. What is wrong with you? And I'm immediately like, this one's on me, boys. I'm so sorry. This one's on me.

It's like you take initiative to like do something and fix it. And then you fuck up and you're like. So what did you guys do? So we immediately go on Facebook Marketplace and we track down another art. six in Palm Springs. Oh, God. That's not too far, but it's a hike still. It was like three hours there, and then three hours to San Diego,

and then we drove to San Diego last night to set up for the pod. But as I was getting to, is when things go wrong like this, for us, luckily, it's pretty cheap. Yeah. We go out and buy. Relatively, yeah. So you buy this new bike, right? And I think it was like $4,500, which sucked.

We were not stoked about doing it, but we're like, and at least it's not a call. You know, like if you were or another automotive. And I think about that with like, I mean, whistling and daily driven and these guys that are like working on exotics, bro, you have one thing go wrong. It's like 50, it could be 50 racks. Oh, yeah. On these super expensive cars. Yeah, you pop a motor on the Uricon. Yeah.

Yeah. You're like 40 G's deep. Yeah. It's crazy. So it's a different world. Anyway, we've done, you know, we kind of dabble in a bunch of. of different things and it's it's nice you guys have had car shit you've had like pranks bikes and yeah and yeah the the one where you guys uh wrap the car pink and put all the eyelashes

oh yeah yeah that was funny that was funny yeah we watched that one here no we do all kinds of shit so that car looked pretty sick actually it did yeah it did you don't think so i thought it looked cool we like we're gonna set up a bed up here between me and ev and we were like yeah we'll do the same thing sea boys did i'm like if i lose i'm not fucking driving it so it's You're not going to happen. And I just drove. I just ate it. He drove it for 30 days.

Really? Dude, fuck. He was definitely. It's different though. He was being like beaked at the whole time when you're driving here. Dude, you should see you in our neck of the woods. Super embarrassing. I couldn't.

I couldn't. No. No way. Dude. Who's coming up with this shit? I guess just all of you all. There's just too many. Everybody.

I mean, we have so much. Exactly. Dude, we have just. I at least I do. And like, we have boards where we have so many ideas. I fucking love that. Which one can we do right now? Or which one.

You know, we're planning out six weeks ahead. Yeah, I had that same conversation with Whistling when he, we were like going back and forth for a while when he bought the Iricon and eventually I was like, how much, how you can keep it up? How much shit can you fucking do? He's like, whoa, let me tell you. And he's like, dude, you got a, you got a mind.

Yeah, it's crazy though, because he's playing with. Yeah, dude. Oh my gosh. And normally it comes, it's not at our expense, but they'll just look and they'll go, all right, how can we mess with one of the guys? And it's perfect because we have the group to go, background.

Yeah. Dude, nobody's safe. It's nobody ever. Dude, the other, when it's all for everyone's own benefit. You know,

you might get punked, but I mean, it's helping you in the end. That's how you guys. That's how you guys. That's how you guys. I've been trying to save Ken's life recently.

He's, he's a vapor. Oh, a vapist. And, uh, I hired a hypnotist. Tape nash.

How yeah. Hired a hypnotist. Didn't work. Ended up putting a bill, uh, his face on a, yeah, hypnotist.

Like had him come to the shop to hypnotize. to hypnotize him. Didn't work. Ended up just settling for a billboard in town with his number and his face on it, which his number was already leaked. So it was like he needed a new number anyways. I'll give you a really good idea. Hire an exorcist. Maybe you have a D.

Jesus. Oh my gosh, dude. I've given up. That's a solid one. I told him fucking, dude. We thought about taking to rehab, but he freaked out.

Yeah. That'd be too far. Oh, show what he did when he painted it. Go to my page. Oh my. You got to see this, actually. This is the best. He went and...

That was your actual number? Like dead ass, how was your real number? Yeah, he had to get a new one. I can't believe it. I had to come see this with my own eyes. This is a week later. And then the cops showed up. Cops showed up.

Because they thought people were vandalizing it. No way. Yeah. Dude, that's fucking gold. That's amazing. Oh my God We just came from Denver We have a buddy that lives in Colorado there

And we bought him this three-wheeler Dude's a three-wheeler Love three-wheeler's So we buy them like the most legendary three-wheeler I saw some shit on TikTok Of like some dude Showing up with a three-wheel or somewhere Maybe

Yeah it wasn't from you guys It was like someone posting your shit It was like viral And I was like something about it When we locked them in the U-Ha No Or a different one You guys were like out in the fucking stick somewhere

I don't know It's probably where we live I can't recall what it looked like, but it was something about, like, some dude and a three-wheeler, like, meeting up with you guys, and it was, like, viral for some reason. I don't know, man. We've done a lot of shit. We start to lose track. I bet. I don't even remember what we did three weeks ago.

Yeah. Two weeks ago. I feel that. I don't know what I had for breakfast this morning. Yeah. I'm right there with you. Keep moving forward. Yeah, dude, I try, man.

Trade mark that. Wait, do you guys play hockey? I did, yeah. Just you. All that. But I actually had a really bad concussion story, too. Really? And that's kind of how this also all got started.

I, you know, just was sitting there. I was at my lowest point. And just started thinking, like, what do you really want to do? Yeah. And, yeah, so I always say similar to you, like, you know, when you're at, like, rock bottom or down there. Yeah. It's kind of a blessing in disguise because you only got one way to go and it's up. You're your most creative when you're that destined.

And you don't have anything else to lose. Yeah, not 100%. So, like, you might as well just send. it take some risks you know 100% 100% I mean exactly said you're something you can lose at that point like you're already in the fucking shit exactly but oh I was gonna say it's funny though because uh so like Whistlin for instance he spends 400,000 dollars on this Ferrari and he'll hopefully make four videos from it and you know he's definitely making way more money but he also has more cost you know so you're curious to know

what his demonetization I don't think he's pretty careful about it I would have to be when you're playing with that much money I don't know I don't think he's getting demonetized I know he had an issue with his he's had multiple videos

yeah no nowadays though yeah like I know his Ferrari vid got I think it got demonetized for a second and he just privated it wait got it worked out with YouTube and then put it back up because he couldn't you know I don't blame him either yeah he's a he's a

genius in his own his own way he's taken an approach to like an extreme that like no one had done before um but yeah oftentimes i'm like i remember when he bought the lambo i was like so like are you gonna like really write this car off how much you fucking spent really just going to write this car off which was i don't know if he's ever said how much it was but more than like like half a million bucks was that considerably more than the f8 um and he was like no no i'm not gonna i'm not gonna were you worried no it's just a car so like that car bought me like my dream like my ultimate number one car that any like eight year old tj could ever have and what was that

i haven't shown it oh really yeah i can show you guys like off camera but even building it for like over a year dude that's so cool that you're doing stuff like that keeping some things to yourself because i'd also imagine you're driving around out here everyone's noticing your cars yeah i'll give credit to cletis because that's where i got it from i remember going on to his house like three years ago and i was like who's fucking porches out in the corner he goes oh that's mine i'm like I'm like, you bought a car, did it make a video one? He goes, yeah, it's just nicer. Sometimes it's just to be, like, in full cognizant.

And I was like, fuckers, right. Cleast doesn't strike me as a Porsche guy. I was going to say, that's also interesting. Exactly. It was a, it was a, I think it was a 9-97 turbo, all black with murdered windows, stock. Nice. And I was like, fuck, okay, yeah, cool. And that was kind of like, I was like, not a bad idea.

What do you think of the GT3RS? The 992 or 991? 991. I am, like, on the fence about buying another one any day. Like, I've already had one. Favorite car I've ever owned. But I've purple. The purple one.

But I bought that car the same time I bought, like, the G-Wagon 4x4 squared, which, again, fucking super cool car. Yeah, that was bad. That's the highlight of yellow. Dude, so the only reason. Yeah. So I bought those when the market was low. I'm, like, really, I'm, like, super obsessed with car market. And, like, car market is really, like, based off of, like, economic market and, like,

what certain loans are looking like and whatever, whatever. So I'm very, like, I'm very, like, in tune with that. And I remember when the market was going down, I was like, dude, these are going to be two fucking stickbys. I'm really close with Hunter from West Coast Exotic. So, like, we just, like, are nonstop. Dude, I could literally show you my, my text of them. We're always going back and forth with cars. And the UV, the UV, I know, it's a problem.

Our guys just kick us in the nuts. Yeah. We just lose my. Really? Dude, I'll hook you got. I'll hook you boys up. Like, literally, like, like, love that. There's, there's another UV part we're looking at literally like the other

day with like full MS or like all we do is like talk cars but regardless best fucking car in the world i like it more than the dot two only because of the ub purple but why are you thinking about getting one you should fucking do it i'll talk you into it so be careful i was gonna get one before i got the hurricane oh it's uracan ericon or whatever the same fucking um it's such a better car than i should i is it really i guess yeah the only thing that i didn't buy it or i guess the reason I went towards the Lambo is because it's a Lambo. I was going to say because you wanted the Lambo. Yeah. And like, dude, around us,

bro. You don't see Lambeles anywhere. No, I get it. No one's ever seen it. There's like, none in the area. And I just think it just kind of adds to the aura of like a YouTuber in the area. I get it. Not really that that means anything, but it's just fun. It does with a certain degree. Like, it fills your cup in a certain way that, like, checks that box. And like, that's what makes some cars. People will be like, oh, he, they're doing it. But, but that aside, like, if that, if that,

If that, like, is a, I don't want to call it, like, a justification. But if that is a reminder of, like, hey, I worked fucking hard, this is what I can accomplish. And if it has a Lambo badge on the steering wheel, then sick. But, like, when you come down, when it, when you boil it down to, like, motorsport and what drives better. And, like, as I've gotten, like, larger and I've been able to, like, take motorsport more seriously. And I've actually got to learn how to drive. I have their appreciated cars in a different way. And then it makes the Euricon feel like garbage.

Really? You drive an R.S. And you're like, oh, my God. It's just amazing. it's amazing yeah but you guys have roads around here that you can like properly drive them on okay 9-11 9-11 in Minnesota

or uricon in Minnesota way worse drive the uracan Minnesota yeah I suppose I don't know that it's an amazing car market right now is actually like fairly decent on them what do you think the car market is at right now because I feel like it's just changing it's at a low right now you'd say it's a low it oh it's for sure it was like really high

like the past like two years dude r35s went from 2010 r35 with 60,000 miles went from 50 grand 55 grand to back to like 90 I remember I bought my ericont or my gtr 35 back of like 2018 it was like a 2017 I spent 78 grand on it wow which was like pretty like low then and like five years later that same car had it have been for sale today would have been 110 grand that doesn't happen in a two years shift. Just the economy went fucking crazy when they started giving money out to everyone. Now everyone's like, fuck, I'm out of that money.

What the fuck am I going to do? Inflation's back up and now interest rates are back up and everything's tanking. So right now it's out like a pretty big low. You think it's going to keep going down a little bit more? I don't know. I don't really. I mean, like, we're like borderline in a recession, depends on you right now. It's different too because like

certain cars obviously, I don't know about the GTR, but if they're discontinuant, I'd imagine they might just stay. I don't know. Are they? I thought I heard that. Oh, when you said D.J. I meant like R34. I was like the R34 has had a record sale,

the Millennium Jade like M. I guess I was saying R35. But yeah, R34 is for sure are going to just kind of stay where they're at, if not go up. No, for sure, we'll go up a lot. Dude, they just like, they just all win her two weeks ago, a Millennium Jad M. Spectner just sold for a million dollars. That's crazy, dude.

A million bucks. Do you find that a lot of vehicles that you want, you can't justify because it just wouldn't be a, a good YouTube car or are you just like at the point of fuck it? So like it kind of goes back to what my content reflects this year like I've been down this road of like all right I'm gonna build like what I think

will do well or like I'm gonna build like what I think like will do well on like thumbnails or what we'll be able to do and I've just gotten kicked in the ass so many times where like I just haven't been able to make it work or like we try to do something and it just didn't get the result that I wanted and then like it ends up like me like texting like me and LZ are like

super close so I text LZ I'm like fuck dude I can't figure out this shit I whatever and then and then like adam is such a prime i don't know how i just tangent in adam but adam does such a good job but like i'm just going to build whatever i think is fucking cool like i don't care if it if it does well or not and like that has been such as good recipe for him so now at this point i'm like i don't care what it's what the views are going to do like i'm already i respect that but also you can't really do that coming up coming up you can't yeah that's the thing i agree so like again my perspective now you're now you have

the opportunity. I'm like, okay, I'm here. Like, you have this certain, like, corporate sponsors to, like, help. And that's a whole different fucking side of the argument. But now I'm, like, this year we're strictly building exactly what I want. Just like, I think this is cool. If no one likes it and it doesn't do X amount of views, fuck it. Like, whatever. Like, at least I'm enjoying it. Doing it for you. Yeah. How many videos you post a week now? Or does it, do you have a schedule or do you it's kind of like if i get one out i got one out just one a week and then sometimes more i used to do a lot more like uh click baiting enticing titles and since i've brought anthony on he's like my full full time filmmaker and editor like and i've like kind of like talked with adam

he's kind of like helped me see a different perspective i'm like at this point i just want to like upload full pieces like the past like six months every episode for the most part unless it's like me vlogging and i'm this little shit head but like we film it like front to back i finally got a team that can like help build to the level that I want and we like really heavily document everything um and I'm like hey I'm not gonna rush an episode out just to get an episode out at anymore just to like meet a ad sense that I want to see to like fulfill myself to like because I like my worth is in my ad sense you know what I mean yeah sometimes that hurts you too when you have to like push it out in order just to yeah hit that that that upload schedule that will see it and

are like oh I clicked this video expecting X and it like didn't bring me like fuck that and you you lose that trust we're slaves of the upload schedule we're coming i mean it's like a seven day a week fucking yeah grind every thursday but how many how many people do you have on your team now so are you are you editing as well no you don't do that anymore no i know you used to be yeah as for a long time weren't you yeah up until like literally like eight months ago i was doing i was doing all of it myself and i had a really tough time like letting go i'm like no one can fucking see my vision i haven't be the one doing it and then it i finally found the right people i uh the team here is five the team of hunting co is four our team at street hunter is three or four in those

immediate companies then other things there's more but there's like i don't know 10 to 12 different employees that kind of help keep my immediate circle going and you you employ like a pretty good amount on your friends because you got calvin who else you are your your girlfriend works with you works with us yeah Sabrina is like the backbone of like she's she's my whole entire like schedule and yeah she's so fucking smart it's like you need that though it's disgusting yeah our lady that does all of our ads was talking to Sabrina for us and uh Sabrina was like she was nope nope uh you talk to me like running the schedule and like we appreciate that we were

like that's my fucking girl yeah we were like dude because our chick kind of does that that too and we like really appreciate that yeah it's just one of those things where i just like i don't say i've gotten taking advantage of but like it's just to to keep shit in check in line when it like goes when it doesn't go through me or when it goes through me like i'll get like kind of overcept on and i'm like i don't want them to think like you're being a dick hunt is x so like i need someone do the communication for me until like you develop that relationship with ex person then it's like okay like it can be like affiliated to like this level but for sure Even in, like, big brand deals and corporate partnerships and stuff,

they're, like, you have to have that else you'll just get taken advantage of in this industry. And it's happened to me before. Same, dude. Yeah, we've been there too. And it's really hard to negotiate on your behalf. It's so much easier to have somebody else negotiate for you because it's a lot easier to have someone else be the asshole than you be the asshole. 100%.

So that way they don't take it, you know, as, like, oh, he said this or he wanted X. And it just gets messy. Yes, Sabrina does a really good job of being like, no, you're not talking to TJ. You don't get to hop on home with them to talk about your idea. Like, if you want something, if it doesn't go through me, it doesn't go through me. It's crazy how YouTube has changed, though. Like every large YouTuber, every successful YouTuber has a team. It's like.

You have to. Yeah, you need it. And I remember. Order line, I like, don't like that. Because it didn't used to be like that. Yeah, it used to be. You just go alone. You'd just film yourself.

For the longest time, I like would get so pissed at like, not pissed. Don't take that out of context. But you'd see channels like Hoonigan or Donut Media. and like late night Jimmy Kimmel and late night Who's the other fucking dude Jimmy Jay Leno?

Not Jay Leno He's my boy Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Founder Founds Like those channels are just like Sitting at the trending page And it's like it used to be like The fucking name for YouTube

Broadcast yourself That was their fucking slogan And now it's like YouTube Corporate rules everything Money Politics rules everything The government rules everything Nelk, you can't be here anymore.

Steve, you can't be here anymore. Oh, you say this about the president. You can't be here anymore. And like, and like I used to get so fucking rustled like when that YouTube was taking that change. And I'm like, this supposed to be about individuals. This isn't fucking uploading professional like,

like, no shade to eBay Motors. This thing we should. I said anything you guys are treating. They're spending hundreds of thousand dollars in episode. And it's a fucking YouTube video. Yeah, that's not fucking fair. And there's a certain level it used to trigger me. I'm like, because you can't.

It's not very independent anymore. And there are some creators that are doing it. There are some creators that came up with it. Whistleon, we keep talking about him. He's a great example of someone who's like in the last couple of years who's done it. But at a certain point, it has to expand. He is, but like nobody's going to recreate what Whistlin's doing and take him down. Nobody's going to do what Mr. Beast is doing and take him down.

Nobody's going to do what we're doing, what you're doing. No one can be a better sea boys. No one can be a better. You have to be yourself. and like so many people just go out and like try and just be that person with like a little bit of their own personality and it just doesn't work i don't know it's just like it's not sustainable either 100% yeah and it gets very large very quickly when you want to like scale to a certain degree and also like scaling isn't also isn't always what you want it to be there are certain times where i'm like fuck we scaled to this point and i'm like wish i didn't scale to this point like it was almost sometimes more fun when it's It was just me and Calvin in the garage with Harbor Freight tools just barely making it. I don't know. It's perspective.

What do you think is like some of the worst first mods to put on your car? Like you go out, you buy a WRX. What is the, in your opinion, something you should not do. Well, there's like the obvious, like you go to AutoZone, you get those fucking stick on vents. That's like, that's like, who's doing that? You're a lost cause if you're doing that shit. Oh, there's a lot of people here that do that. Fuck, I don't know.

Like, those fake turbo whistles, those are really big here. You see those? You put them in the... Yeah, I've seen those. Yeah, you put them in the tip. Oh, what? Yeah. You actually did that?

Oh, yeah, those are huge. I hate that shit. What do you think about, like, the rap carbon fiber? Like the, like, it's wrap? Yeah, that's shit. But it's carbon fiber? Yeah. Yeah, I don't like that either.

Do you have it on your car? What car is me? No. You used to? I had it on my, on my, Dude, I was like, when they were putting it on, they're all like, this looks cool. I was like, dude, that is not cool. Don't fucking do it.

Fake carbon fiber wrap. I feel like every car person goes through, like, a journey. Like, we all plasticied up our shit. We all have done taillight tints. Well, that was all you could do at the time. It was 20 bucks. You wanted to do something. Exactly.

So I don't think there's something like you can't do because, like, I, dude, I've put, for full, it was kind of a joke, half not. We put, like, carbon fiber wrap on Sabrina's like, at a Matrix like a years ago. I remember that. Yeah, like we've all done like shit like that. So I feel like there's not something like that's like totally bad.

The one thing that like I've really like changed my perspective on is like rep parts. You don't mess with them. I don't want to say that. But like I've been the person who's purchased it like unknowingly of like why is it a bad thing. Who fucking cares? I can't afford the real thing. Like I'm going to get the cheap one. I'm going to get the cheap one.

Like I've had that mindset. I've seen that. But now owning like straight hunter and having that perspective and when you see like how much work you get into it goes into a certain part. and then it gets knocked off. Like, I see that perspective. I also, like, I don't hate people that do that, but I'm like, oh, I just,

I have a different taste in a different perspective being on the other end and seeing both sides. Yeah, your taste has been able to evolve, though. Yeah, but again, taste takes years. It's not, you know, when someone's been for a year, you can't crack that on them for not understanding your ideology

of why something is, like, okay or not. I agree 100%. So, like, I don't know. Why? Is there something that you guys absolutely fucking hate? No, I was just asking you Get CJ going on On cars that shouldn't be modded though

Yeah, I mean, some people like I don't know, it's just like you have a Chevy cruise Like don't fucking put a wing on it And then like Just ruin it Because then it's like You could have just saved your Drove that car for a year

Saved your money Traded it in and then got a BRZ 100%. But instead you just were so eager You fucked it up You, it is now worth less. No one wants to even buy it in the first place. He's passionate.

Dude, he's passionate. I just see it. I'm going to play devil's advocate. And let's see if you can hear me out. Oh, boy, here we go. So I was that guy to a certain degree. My first car was an E90, 328. Now, if you're not a big BMW person,

that motor that's in the 328 is a inline 6 and a makes like 280 horsepower. and there's this very similar car that looks exactly like it called the 335 comes with an M55 N55 N55 turbo wicked fast for their time and when you don't know everything when I was looking into the forums I was like hey is there any way I can add the turbo on my on my 328 to do like the three and I was like willing to and I've spent I dumped a bunch of money into like the M3 replica front bumper and I've spent money on like changing my rear bumper to look like the 335 dual tip

and I spent money on you know all this shit to make it and all the people in the comments are like stop fucking doing this seller car get a 335 is way better but at that time it's like it's way easier to justify spending two grand and like going through the work of selling

or like and spending an extra 5 grand and it's and you don't know any better so you oftentimes look like a fucking idiot doing shit like that so like I agree with you but I've also like been there maybe not on the scale of like a Chevy cruise putting on like a fake ARP wing that's like mounted backwards and shit.

I get that. But I've also been on that area where I'm like, oh, well, I could justify one little thing here and like put a cool duck bill. It's like these slow little things that you can get right away that end up hurting you in the long term though because in the end, you ended up paying just as much money as the difference damn near of the car. So you should have just saved your time, saved your money.

The right answer is wait, be patient, sell the car, buy the right one. 100%. I'm not, like, mad about him doing it. I just, like, think to myself as, like, more so, okay, I'm mad about it. I'm just thinking, like, I'd say that. I'm just thinking, like, I feel bad for, like, you're, you're never going to get ahead or you're never really going to catch up with that method.

For sure. Dude, I guess. 100%. Playing devil's avocado. Oh, boy. The thing that I see is, like, these people aren't the type normally to, like, save up and then go and finally buy their dream supra and then do all the right mods to their dream supra and get all the carbon fiber and and like do everything just beautifully right yeah but they are going to enjoy

the process of taking what they do have and doing some shitty mods and they're not even going to fucking think about the money that they're losing by doing the mods to it when they go to sell it like i i think you're thinking of like two completely different type of people and you're not that person and you hate the other person because I don't hate it. I just think to myself, I feel bad for you. Like, why are you doing this? It's embarrassing when you see him.

You're like, oh. And then you take a phone and you send it all your boys. And you're like, ah. I don't do that. I don't do that. Yeah, neither do I. Never. There's a Facebook page up or Instagram.

It's like I'm tired of respecting all builds. And there's some true atrocities. And I get that. But it's part of it. There's no right or wrong. Dude, it goes back though. Honestly, who am I supposed to say anything? If you're happy doing it,

That's, like, the number one thing. Happiness, health. Yeah. You know, so like... I think it's just a learning. Can't knock it, yeah. It's just life. You have to do the stupid shit to be like, oh, wow, that was whack.

I think I'd do that shit again. Well, hopefully they realize that. Yeah, like... But if they don't... But if they don't... But if they don't... It was just on the wing. It was just the center of the wing.

They still think it's cool. They still think it's cool. It was tasteful. It was honestly, it was tasteful. I don't know if you can say that's tasteful, dude. You can't say that tasteful. It's honestly. gotten pretty real now

have you seen like the one that's like there's like depth in it like I've seen rapid I'm like is that rap or real carbon you can't fucking tell yeah it's getting really good like there was like that match shit that was like textured now there's like this he had the match shit okay yeah but it's just what you do with

your first car you know yeah it's all good I'm just cracking jokes I'm in there done that I'm I think we all have didn't you hire a private investigator to track down your first car that's a fucking crazy story, but I did. And the guy was not happy. Why? Not happy. The guy, long and the story short, I like tried to find my original car back and we hired the PI to find him and he

found, yeah, he found, so it was like a dad. He found the son and like the ex-wife. The dad wasn't living at the house anymore who owned the car. He got in touch with them and was like, hey, like I'm like a private investigation guy on someone trying to find this car. And the guy was like, they were not from a nice area. Like very like, the lack of better. word. It was like, ghetto, not. It was like, this is not, like, I, not. What was your first car? Just, just for contact? E90, 328. Okay, okay, so it was that one. I wasn't sure of that.

Yeah, so that exact car, like, dug up my old van, dug up my old records, found it. It's like an hour and a half away. And the guy was just like, more or less, like, cussed out the PI, is like, you have a fucking reach back out to me. Like, don't ask about my dad. I know the fucking car are talking about. I haven't seen my dad in forever. Like, fuck you. And he called, like, the ex-wife. And the ex-wife was

like, I haven't fucking seen him. Like, get fucked. Like, like, just, very angry people. Left on bad terms. Bad terms. And then like, yeah. And then I was like, I'll push it a little bit.

And I was like, all right, offer them like a thousand bucks just like tell us where the dad is. And that like really pissed him off. We texted them again a third time and it was like

shoveled up your ass. Like don't. And I don't, I don't know what's going on or like why it got to that level. But I saw the time. I thought he was lying to me, but I saw the text.

I have the call logs. And I was not happy. Just be like, dude, swam my old car back. And I'm probably willing to even overpay a little bit. Overpay a good amount. And that's all, like, it was a risky movie telling him we'll pay for the name because I had like the guy, you know, think about it from our perspective, I have someone who's paying a private investigator to get a hold of me and is it going to pay me to tell him

something. I thought I was going to be like, all right, tell him 10 grand. I thought I was going to turn to like a pissing battle of like how much money can they milk. They didn't know it was like T.J. Hunt trying to reach out. It was just like an undisclosed person trying to reach out. Maybe he was doing illegal things in the car. Well, no, for sure. For sure. There was some like suss, like, shus, like, shady shit that was happening with that group and I was really bummed.

I thought we were going to get it back. It would have been a great storyline too. You'd say, and then you reflect back to I made all the mistakes and I'm going to go back and revenge myself. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to like. Avenge.

Yeah. Well, yeah. I wanted to like, I should have talked to you first, right? My thesaurus. I wanted to put it back to like it's like original glory of what I wanted it to be. But yeah, it would have been cool. So there's a lot of YouTubers in this area.

I'd say a ton for a car. Do you think that it's like oversaturated? You go somewhere and everybody's got a camera and it's like hard to make authentic or original content when everyone that you pan the camera to is also holding a camera. Ruins it when they have a camera. I think it's just like where we are culturally.

Like it is now when you go talk when a 50 year old asks you what you do for a living, you go, oh, YouTube, then they go, oh, YouTube, my grandson, I get that. But like five years ago it was like YouTube, what's YouTube? How do you make money? Yeah, the cultural, like, standard is this different?

Like, now it's like, you have like Addison Ray, Charlie DeMilio, famous from TikTok to like celebrity A status. So like I think now, like, is it weird? Like, I feel like it's weird, yes, because like I was here like when I was getting made fun of for doing it. And now it's like, oh, you don't have a YouTube channel, bro? Like you don't make TikToks and it's just like a different world. So like it doesn't like bother me.

but I'm like fucking fakes Like this is like I don't know Like I'm like not salty But it's just The authenticity of what it is now I don't believe is what it was When five years ago

I feel like now it's like I'm doing it for the money in fame Because Logan Paul did it It's like when we do it's like I didn't think there was any money in it And I just think the passion Is derived from a different place Then than it is now

100% So like I don't know I mean there's more proof Like why would I not want to start YouTubeing and become the next TJ Hunt and have a big house and 30 cars and

same thing to look you guys like oh I'm a I have a group of friends in the middle of wherever like I'm you know we're really funny we're gonna make funny like you know phase did a really good job of just showing like that side of it too and what can be done and so I think it's just like the new like standard

and it's just like it's hard because we're the old people trying to adjust to like what was ours type of thing like damn kill How old are you? Yeah, 28. You're 28. Yeah, how old are you guys?

26, 23. Six. Okay. Yeah, so, like, relatively the same time period. We, like, claimed this, like, surf spot and now all these fucking cooks and Grombs keep showing on. I do kind of think about that. There's, like, the first wave of YouTubers who were, like, not even getting paid.

Like, that was before AdSense. And we're kind of, like, on the second wave. And now I think there's, like, possibly the third generation has been integrated. And now I'd say we're almost on, like, the fourth. Dude, we are on the fourth. It's TikTok. I'll post TikToks and I'm like I see people in the comments and they're like

like oh who is he like I only know TJ from TikTok like he has a YouTube and the people of comments like how the fuck do you not know that like there is a generation that is like just TikTok you were saying you got made fun of when you were first starting out we did too we did too

all the time yeah like just on the forums but also like friends that knew me then were like you're making you're filming yourself making YouTube videos like just the basic shit and it's like yeah like it's like I don't know did you wear it as like a chip on your shoulder I used to I wore it as a chip on my shoulder I wanted to prove everyone wrong kind of feel like I need to get back to that but I mean it definitely fueled me to a certain degree yeah like kind of helps feel you but yeah

I mean yeah and it's just like I was more so like I'm gonna show my ex girl from what I'm all about yeah you showed her yeah yeah so like to a certain degree but I don't do you feel like you still need that no I know I've let it go I used to just a have that like though you know like i wanted to prove everyone wrong yeah all that but that was different let me ask you guys this like is there a what's next for sea boys like is there all the time like i mean we're talking about you know i know you don't want to give too much away but like no i mean it's we can talk we want to come up with like a product but we're very very meticulous like we want to make sure it's a great product like yourself or happy dad or whatever um we just don't want to launch

shit and also I think we still have a little bit of ways to grow like we need to grow it a little bit bigger before we start pushing that and we don't know what that product is on top of that yeah but it needs to be something that can live on by itself like we're going to give it the push but it's it's something that it's not like merch where you have to make videos and keep pushing it for sure whatever you want to live on its own have its own two feet and exactly not have you guys pushing it every day to get sales well just like you didn't name it tj hunt's wide body kits you know Yeah. String after, so.

Mm-hmm. Exactly. I'm always, like, very curious to see, like, what people's perspective or, like, if they have, like, a three-year, five, year, 10-year. Not that it's always necessary, but it's always curious to see because you guys have so much potential. You guys are what, doing, like, 800K to a million of video. Around that, yeah.

Yeah, that's fucked. Like, like, so I'm, like, I'm very curious to see. Dude. You guys have so much creativity. Like, you guys are, have a flow that, like, you don't really see. There's not. I think the only other people, like, you know, like, I think the only other people like, could compare you to is like nilk just only in the realm of like a group of dudes that can like

film with hasbula and then like just do fucking a prank or like buy a i don't know like that type of environment i'm very and it's cool because like i've i've watched you guys go for a very long time so i'm like i'm like i appreciate that i'm like that makes me pretty happy that you that you keep an eye on us because i mean i mean i try to like keep an eye over like i'll just be informed i don't really like watch videos anymore but um you guys are oh that's why i was like fucking thumbnail guys over here like that's a whole other like sad side topic and category of like what i've noticed people are starting to do yeah we put a lot of time and do it like we'll we'll come up with a title and thumbnail before we film a video yeah i i know a lot of people

do that too yeah it's nice though too because we have bits though so like you could have a five-minute bit that is a great thumbnail title but then you fill it out doing a prank or yeah ripping around in a car whatever you know so yeah no for sure so you said you were building a a shop next to your house that's genius that would be so nice dude because then you can just boom boom yeah at home especially if you're trying to start a family and all that like yeah well it's just like california and you learn like okay and this is like a whole another we could do like fucking 10 different podcasts on so many different discussions but like i got really interested in learning about real estate and learning about taxes and learning about where money can be spent how it can

be moved so you're not just completely writing shit off and like hiring making us another company so that this company pays that company which then like funnels it this way which hits this tax code which doesn't it's all like legal but it's like how these multi-million dollar businesses are being handled that school doesn't fucking teach you right um which like again one other fucking topic don't get a started on school yeah but i was like fuck for how much for spending on rent in California, I could just build a fucking castle at my house and rent it to myself and pay like a mortgage to myself and write it all off. And I could be able to.

Especially in California, you have to be smart because it's so dang. They're taking so much of your honor. We're getting bent. So you haven't thought about just going to Texas? So many times. I'm surprised you haven't. For a while there, LZ almost had me moving out to Florida. Like so fucking close.

Yeah, you could too. That like stems the whole conversation. of like, okay, just buying property in different areas or like completely uplift, uprooting and moving. And this kind of goes back to our original topic of like, okay, like what's most important to you now, which is ultimately like family and dislike friends. I'm like, okay, I could move to Texas. I could move to wherever and get like 80 acres and do the whole whistling diesel thing in the middle over the fuck he is. But then I'm like, okay, so it's just me and Sabrina. Yeah. I love that girl with death. But like my friends mean the world to me.

And even then I do, I've had someone like, well, fucking move with you. Like I don't give a shit let's get the fuck out of here i can move i can be remote um but i just think like yeah money's great but like i'd rather like have a life spend an extra like 30% in taxes to live here and i i've been here my whole life my family's here and also i think a really big part of like a lot of my success has been being in california of like the corporate and partner relationships that i've built um they go like really really deep more than i think like the internet is able to like really see um and i think that's paid like a vital success into how I've been able to, like, create a pillar for myself

in the world of, like, you know, everyone trying to do this. So I think California's kind of important. I will not be here forever, though. No shot. No shot. When I'm, like, done, I'm going to leave. Dude, I think that you could get a compound in Texas or Florida. Probably Florida makes a little bit more sense.

And then just bounce back and forth, though, because then it keeps, like, the content interesting. Again, like, have also thought about that. that um but i don't know it's just it's a lot to maintain a big property to that level yeah and it's like i have fucking adam i have multiple cars like already stored there i go there and i'll drive there certain cars that are that i'll compete in on the east coast if i need to or whatever and it's like it would make sense to a certain degree but there's like already so much shit going on that again like the conversation of spreading herself too thin um into like

manage two different lives in two different areas and I'll have a spare set of everything on that side and it's like it just gets a lot it just gets really messy and it's like okay like I'll sacrifice the monetary value to have the comfort and luxury of friends and family and simplicity so I mean we're kind of in the same place of like we want to get a place in Florida or something like that you guys want to stay in Minnesota like is that conversation ever rained kind of got us we need to stay there roots are pretty deep there but we could get A second spot. But roots to how you can't leave, you can fucking...

Oh, I mean, we could. No, for sure. But, like, we got a really good compound there. We got, like, 40 acres. Okay. Like, 45 acres. And then our shop is, like, fully built out. Not saying that we couldn't just, like, up and move.

There's no real sense. And sell that. But, um, and then all of our families, all of us got chicks and, uh... It's the area, too. And it's kind of, like, authentic to us. I feel that. Like, the C-Boys are, or, or, like, Minnesota and Mid- I wouldn't even, like, say, considering leaving is an even option if you're not, like, dude, like, taxes and politics just completely suck here.

And if that's not, like, really like... They kind of do in Minnesota. They kind of do, but, I mean, not enough to... Not as bad as here, not even close. But we probably will get another place somewhere. Because, like, dude, the hardest part is... How would you delegate that? But a lot of you guys' content is in the snow.

No. Well, it, unfortunately, it is, but we've been trying not to do so much snow contact content because it actually isn't as, uh... servable to the masses because i mean most people most people don't live in an area with snow so it's unrelatable so like we find that you kind of hit a cap and like if we want to keep growing past that and especially like after it's like popular up to january 1st just because i think people are in that like wintertime spirit it's christmas they like the idea of snow and egg glues and snow and whatever else comes with it. But after Christmas, it's like, I'm ready for summer.

I'm ready for spring. So people maybe, and we'll have snow around until, like, May. So that's why we go on, like, an RV trip like this, and we stack content, all that. That's what Nelke used to do. We actually, I don't think we got the idea from them at all. No, I'm not saying you did, but. Yeah.

No, I remember they'd go to, like, Europe. Your guys is, like, mindset is very similar, which is really cool to see. What we do want to do, though, is get a spot in Florida. And then in these months... you know, February, January, March, you can kind of bounce back and forth. It's like, I got an idea I want to do with dirt bikes right now, but we can't do it up where we're at, so we go there. But then it's like, oh, we want to do this snowmobiling video, go back home.

You know, you can kind of bounce back and forth, but it's just, you know, it comes down to money. Travel's nice, too. It's fun. You go for a week and, you know, you can go, like you say, you go to Japan and then you come home and then you go to Colorado and then you come home and then you do. I've had a lot of fun on this RV trip, honestly. Me too.

It's been, I'm kind of about ready to go home. home now it's been over a week and we still have like another week but dude but it uh you know it's been very productive and it's fun getting to meet people like you and uh just do this kind of stuff that we wouldn't be able to do back home i think it's it's really fun honestly yeah how many videos did you guys plan out about this trip three we have four i think actually three plus ebay motors cool and then yeah we're doing the ebay motor shoot yeah um at the tail end of it and then we've stack this is our third podcast so we're making it worth it yeah

for sure then we even spent a day in Las Vegas ran around cause some havoc yeah cause some havoc yeah you like Vegas oh we go dude that's like five hour driver there that's this is like that's dangerous I feel like I'm being tugged right now dude we'll do like fucking you can get a spirit airline flight for 50 bucks oh no way or you can fly back at night

a little one day or yeah well one day casino like you gamble run oh yeah what do you play i used to fund my channel off of gambling i oh way i almost went into professional blackjack yeah yeah yeah big blackjack player really yeah my dad is a really big blackjack player and like taught me really young my proper obviously like the prop like counts but then also learning how to count cards and understanding you know variables and odds and shit like that so i was you can count cards you're gonna come with us next next time i was really into it yeah basic strategy basic just like basic shit where i could be like hey dude don't fucking hit that or like so when i was younger

so there's a casino that's an 18 and up so at the end of high school we're all around us 18 we started really going gambling a lot and like that when i was like in my prime i was like fucking reading all these books strategies and counting and and all my boys would come like if you guys would gamble you know that one black track player can call everyone's hands it's not illegal i could tell you i could tell each and everyone what to do so like we would go there and love to come with I would tell everyone what to do And all my boys would be like, all right I'm bringing a hundred bucks tonight

And I would do my best to make everyone money And hell yeah What's the most money you've ever won Vegas? Can you say it? In one night? Yeah One night, maybe like 20 G's. Nice.

Nice. Nice. Winning money? Bro. We just lose money. I've never left Vegas with money. Really? No, never.

It's hard. It's really hard in Vegas Because the odds are so shit. Like the only, like your best odds is you need to have a pocket of at least five grand and play like, usually it's like $100 hands is to get like

Do you do progressive betting if you start losing? Do you... Yeah, so I have a couple of different like betting strategies depending on what I'm feeling or like how beat up I'm getting but I'll like progressive, yes

or I'll do like super heavy off the rip just to kind of like see where my luck is just on a friend new deck but it just depends if it's single deck or double deck you can kind of play that progression differently because you're going to run out of cards I'll just cut the shoe on you so quick if you're just doing too hot.

Damn winning sounds fun. We just need to learn how. kind of walk away in the first place. Dude, let's fucking go. Yeah, we'd love to. You ever play, like, roulette or, uh, bocrot? Oh, yeah. Oh, no, not, not. So, one of my best friends, Kevin's Vietnamese, so he, like, knows how to play the

bot crot game, whatever the fuck it's called. I'll do roulette every now and then, but I'm like, uh, I'm like, uh, get a couple drinks too deep and I'm like, fucking five grand on black, baby, let's go type of guy. Same thing. Not that much, but I'm just, like, way too confident and just red or black. Yeah, that's, that's like, usually a big bit every time we, because we go to Seema, every year I'm there for like 10 days and we do we go to Vegas a lot for like to shoots and shit we always do like a bit we're all walking a casino with at least like a thousand bucks and

just like start every vlog off like how much more are we going to make today either we lose it or we win it and it's always great when you win it yeah dude we saw you in Vegas uh at seema uh so like sometimes we'll go just last year okay uh we didn't like meet you you were walking this way and you had security all around you and there was like it was like very frantic because I'm sure you're getting mob at Seema. Yeah, Seema's nuts. Seema's like very... It's kind of like us.

We go to a place called... It's called Haydays, but it's basically like a big snowmbelling thing. Same thing as Seema except smaller and you can't walk at all anymore. So we felt your pain, or not your pain, but we knew how it goes. It's not pain. It's just like some people just like forget that like everyone's just a human.

And you have places to be, so if you have to stop at each spot to sign and take a picture and everything. Yeah, it's like you're getting pulled every different direction or at least like for me my experience is always like especially this last sema where now it's like oh we're gonna use you as like as our like new face and there's like you're getting pulled every different direction every hour on the hour for something else

of like driving outside or autograph sessions or you were everywhere yeah yeah every board had tj hunt here at this time your cars were everywhere too yeah that's like something like that like i learned early on growing up i always loved going to sema like me and my boys would sneak in and try to get in there and just like because it was so close and that's like all the dopest shit would be at seema yeah so like for us i was like oh it's the coolest place to go so i've always had this fascination with it and then over the years i've like started to develop the partners that can like give me certain spots and then it's turned into like oh we want to take your craziest build we want to unveil the build and like each year like people have seen us do it and now it's like it's really worked into our like year what's our sema build this year what's it going to look like what how How's it being funded? Where is it going to be advertised? And it's like a full on meticulous game plan from like the moment

Seema ends. Okay, what's next year? How are we going to do it? And how's it always comes down to the last 38 hours? Yeah. Yeah. This car is going to be our semen car this year for McGuire's.

And it's going to be fucking nuts. Dude, I love this car. Yeah. I wasn't like the biggest fan of the new BMW like front end, you know, with like the big girls. But dude, I love this thing

This is an aftermarket front end Okay But it's not like somewhat similar Grill look right It's like the most different type It's smaller and it's more like It's not as big as the catfish OE but much better

I like it a lot Fantastic This might be my favorite BMW Dude for sure You have an Aricon right now Yeah Dude get this car You'll thank me later

Really? This car is your stock Aricon Yeah I'd walk you What? What? 100% Crazy

I have cup holders I have a clubbox I have back seats I have a truck. Cruise control. I have cruise control. I have a better audio system. I have dampening control.

I have a like, and it's faster. Dude, we were telling Ken. And it's all the drive and real old drive. Yeah, bro. And it's pretty sweet.

I'd rip the front end off of it so fast in the Minnesota winter. There's no front end lift. I don't know if Ericon has that. Yeah. I don't know. I didn't really like this car. I only bought this car for what that is up there.

And then I've just been owning this since. And it's fucking amazing. It's so fucking good. How about Euris? You got one of those, too. What do you think of those? It's a really nice paperweight. That's just a tax ride off, though.

Okay. Yeah. You got your chick driving it. Yeah, dude, she fucking loves it. That's amazing. Yeah, it's just the 6,000 pound limit. Okay, yeah. 4x4 squared, same thing.

It's like, okay, we need to try to offset taxes. How can you do that by a truck-weighted limit car? Right. Uris, the same thing. It's the same thing. It's just double the price. Kent says it every time. It is.

Same car. Why would you buy Euris when you can just buy an R. Q8 or whatever it is. Why do you have a Lambo? Yeah, I mean, it's a Lambo. As a little kid, bro, the dream was always to do a lambo. But also, most people buy it because it's like, hey, my business makes X amount. If I buy this car, I can ride off X amount. It's 100% right off in California. Well, it's actually not anymore now. It's going to be like 80, but it's and every year it's going to get progressively. So you're going to see people do that a lot, a lot less. But yeah, like if

you buy a $500 Rolls Royce, that's over 6,000 pounds, that won't, that colon in, the $500,000 100% right off. Yeah. Nice. So, like, think about that for a second. Crazy.

That's why I see a lot of money. And like G wagons. That's why everyone has G wagons here. Those are all business owners who just buy the Gwagon and says business vehicles. There's like things, how many miles you can do on it,

whatever. But, yeah. This cars is amazing. Yeah, dude. I love it. I love the green too, race racing green.

That individual spec, baby. Yeah, now it's a one of two. Some other motherfucker did it too, but. Oh, really? Yeah. This is like a custom motor spec.

Oh, no shit. Paint's sample? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You love that green, bro. Dude, I'm doing every fucking, like, it's like, you know how, like, I guess maybe Stradman was, like, Matt Purple? Yeah.

I'm doing this on, like, everything. Any car I've ever, like, paint for the most part now, I'm just going to start a collection of BRG cars. I love that green. I'm obsessed with that. Yeah. I love that green. Especially with the peanut.

Well, I guess is that orange or peanut butter? Orange. Orange. That's orange. I've never heard that one. I like that. Peanut butter interior? No, it's orange.

It's cool. Yeah, bro. So, it's super rad. I look forward to you selling Erikon to get an M4. Dude, if I saw my, if I saw my Hurricon right now, I'd probably lose like 50 grand from when I bought it a year ago. What year is it? 15.

610-4. 610. Yeah, I mean, how much you get it for? Can you just do you say? I mean, out the door like 2.30. Okay. You wouldn't lose 50 grand, not now. I figured, how many miles are on it?

36, okay. Okay, how much you buy it with? 30. yeah you it's the taxes it bro is the taxes yeah you don't like if if you're paying taxes for us you can't get that money back dude yeah tax here my vendor was 35 grand who yeah that's insane just to get it so i'm assuming minnesota's pretty gnarly too yeah it's like 10% of yeah it's 8% yeah okay same thing um yeah it's just learning but it's whatever i like honestly i'm not too hung up on that and i don't i don't let that like stop me no for sure and i really don't

care but i mean it does it does kind of it's a kick in the nuts oh for sure but it's just and it's not even like the fact of the matter it's just like nobody wants to get kicked in the nuts and lose money it doesn't really matter how much well no any exotic you buy you should always know you know it's money yeah like you should always have that mindset and that's like if you play your cards that you understand it like you you can profit off of every car you ever have it's just learning how to do it yeah and we made content with it and everything content aside and content aside like i just love it yeah i love it it was always my dream to get a lambo yeah always my but um i don't i don't know dude i can't really see myself in one of these i could see mike

my buddy mike he's not here right now but i can see him mobbing a beamer for sure i can see ken mob in it that's probably it for the crew no really no i'm not i think it's sick it's just maybe i don't know it's not really what i've always like like jdm i'm a tuner car kind guy but yeah i feel like everyone is like that until you drive one of the new ones and you're like oh it doesn't have to be like a low-key junk box and like have to be low-key worried about going an hour in this car without it blowing up or like something happening and then you drive these like new modern ones and it's like or like the eight 90s so fucking good if you set them up right really like modern mws i just think are apart from 9-11s are like untouchable well maybe if we got time after this we'll go for a cruise

and it'll change our mind. You guys take it, go up and down the street with it. Put it in real drive-dict to Glamis? We'd get there a lot faster in that. That's for sure. Beamer in the sand, dudes. I don't know if we'd fit, but things fucking really cool. This has been really good, dude.

Thank you so much for having us. I'm so pumped just to get to sit down with you. How long have we been talking? I don't know. It's gone. 45 minutes, hour and 55? A while. Sorry, it was just going so well.

We didn't mean to hold you up this long. I told you, I was like, I rode off the whole morning for you guys, so. Appreciate it. How long are the normal podcast? This depends. Sometimes they're two, sometimes they're an hour. This is on the longer end. This is a good conversation.

I'll take it. Yeah. I'll take it. Well, I'll expect a round two for me and we're in Japan. Absolutely. We got to run another one back. Saki.

Let's do it. And then in Vegas, dude, we got to help us make some money. Dude, don't fucking tempt me. No, seriously. We do need your help in Vegas. Dude, I guess team was not the best time. But I was like, that's always a fun time to link up. We'll keep you posted.

we'll keep you posted okay we'll fire whatever if you guys haven't already check out tj hunt's channel tj hunt on all platforms yeah you'll find anything in there perfect all right please thank you