Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Why Justin Left CboysTV

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

Episode #2 of Life Wide Open with CboysTV we have our good friend and O.G. Cboy turned engineer Justin Hanson on the podcast to talk about what he has been up to and why he no longer is in videos on CboysTV.  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 For merch check out: https://cboystv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Cheddar. What is this? Ryan, is that still focused on us? Yeah, I know he puts sunglasses on now, so he might, you know, change. change things. It might have thrown off the whole focus on my face. It doesn't recognize me. Are we rolling?

Rolling. Thank you, Jamie. Welcome back to the Lifewide Open podcast with C-Boys TV. Episode number two. Up to a solid start. We're rolling, man. We're rolling. Thank you guys so much for such a good response on the first one.

We were receiving so many nice messages. And last I checked, we're at 37,000 subscribers. Crazy. I remember when CJ put up the thing that said, Can we get to 10K by tonight? I was like, I don't know if I can. Let's do it. And then it's two for the stars.

You guys killed it. Also, Jamie would like to say sorry about the camera angles. He deeply apologizes and he learned his lesson. He did learn his. That was probably the best thing that could have happened because. Diled. Ken, actually, you know what? Jamie.

Sorry. Jamie, I should maybe start by apologizing for him. I lost my cool. I'd go as far as day as I lost Mike. Well, I was mad. I was like, you had one fucking job, buddy. Some might say you have, are the new resident psycho. No.

Who's saying that? Me. I think Ben reamed you hard enough for all of us. Like, I was like, I don't have to say anything after that. Ken, after I reamed Ken so hard, he disappeared for like two hours and just went and shipped orders. I don't even know if there was orders to be shipped, but he just disappeared. He started selling shirts on the corner.

I definitely learned my lesson from that from how psycho you went. Ken doesn't have a tail, but if he did, it was between his legs. It's an honest mistake, though. I probably would have done the same thing. Maybe. But, like, I didn't even think that the cameras were going to stop halfway. But anyways, we value having three cameras. We think it's very important and adds to the viewer experience,

so that's not going to happen again. And that's why it happened on the first one and on the 20-20. Honestly, something was going to go wrong. It was either going to be the audio or cameras or something. Hopefully we can keep this ball rolling too, so we're going to be like three years in and watch the very first episode and have a good laugh. It'll be like our YouTube videos. Yeah, exactly.

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All you got to do is subscribe to the channel, drop a comment, and then like the video. And then also follow us on Instagram at Sea Boys TV and at Life Wide Open podcast. Yeah. But we're going to be selecting one person and sending them these AirPods. Anyways. Anyways, we have a special guest to introduce today. And by special, I mean like literally the most special. I'm going to let CJ do the introduction.

Today, we have our longtime friend, OG C-boy, turn engineer, the nerdy badass, the soon-to-be-married man, Justin Hansen. Played John Cena music. Oh, wait, what did you just, did you kick something? Oh, wow, I didn't even see that down there. I was like, hold up, did we forget? No, no, I had that thing planted. CJ planted an ice under Justin's chair. It's only right.

Wow, what a way to start this. We've really been on an ice train lately. It's just so fun. It's just nice. I can 10 times last weekend. Holy crap, no wonder you cease to assist against you. It's like this guy is just a human drain. I just poured that down his throat.

I actually haven't had anything to drink all day, so I'm already wasted. Well, Justin. Good to be here. Happy to have you, man. Highly requested. Yeah. Everyone wanted to. I was kind of surprised by that.

There was a lot of comments about it. I feel like you were meant for podcasting, bro. Like, you have the perfect mix of, of wittiness, and you're smart, and you're, like, really calculated and you know what to say. like pretty much on any topic That's a really good way of saying I have a lot of shitty dad jokes That's about all that I have to offer

But no I appreciate You got a lot more in that Yeah no I don't know I feel like Especially with you guys It just comes really naturally to just like Talk for hours on end I mean we do this a lot But yeah I've always wanted to do podcasts

I feel like it's something that we'd all be good at And I don't know I like to listen to my own voice Because I'm a narcissist But no I'm just kidding You were the one that initially said We should do podcasts yeah i think two two or three years ago and and uh do it on patreon yeah and i bought those

super awful like amazon microphones those like us still have those which for the record i don't know if they were that awful because we never even tested them i tested i tested them apartment and they sound like trash yeah right yeah it's like a tin foil they looked like a microphone that like the back street boys would have been holding two thousand like a prop basically up on stage like god that was i didn't know what to do for podcasting because i was like oh well you need microphones and it was good start we everything that I was looking at there like I wanted to get a cheap microphone that people said oh it sounds good and yeah we never did anything with it that yeah I think we were yeah well we're here probably yeah I mean you guys made the point of like you don't want to do something

like this unless you have the ability to do it right I feel like if we had done it then we'd be sitting like in the shop just fans all over the place just really crappy mics no sound detonating it just sound like trash I think we had a hard enough time posting YouTube videos back then so like intricate or bring a podcast in that'd have been tough but yeah no but it i mean that was crazy like to think of how much stuff has changed from back then into where you guys are now like it's been so fun for me to just like watch obviously like you guys are all such close friends of mine and to see how much everything has excelled it's just so cool i feel like obviously i feel like a proud dad but like i don't know it's just cool to see it's really cool to see well i mean we'll get into

we'll get into all that and talk more along the lines of that. But I want to kind of dive deep into what you're doing like right now. Sure. Like what's going on with work? You're getting married in a month? In flesh. And all of us are in your wedding? Yeah, no.

All the guys are groomsmen's in the wedding. Megan and I are getting married on August 14th, so like 28 days from now, which is crazy. It's coming up. Yeah. And yeah, Megan and I and my fiancee, we've been dating for nine years. years and change a long, long time. Mike, to say too long? No, that's what we were, I don't mean to interrupt, but I was like, we were talking about that

and we're like, isn't it super exciting they're getting married, which obviously it is. But I'm like, dude, I've never known Justin as any other person besides with Megan, which is a beautiful thing. Literally, what, nine years? Yeah, nine years. Crazy. That's like as long, literally as long as I've known you. Yeah, exactly.

So, yeah, she's like my best friend. So, I don't know. I'm just happy to get married. It's going to be a lot of fun. So it's been a long time coming for sure. Yeah, for sure. Are you nervous? No. I mean, like, I'm nervous for the day. I want everything to go right and I want everybody having a good time. But like, I think Megan and I are kind of on the same page where it's like the nerves about everything are pretty low where I think we're just excited to do it, excited to have everybody there, get everybody together, have a really good time. I mean, we've talked about getting married for a long time. It's just kind of like seeing that it's finally coming. And yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.

Damn, bro. I'm happy for you. Yeah, I was like, especially for you, it's a very special day. Any wedding that. consist of all of us. Oh my God. That should be pretty fun. I'm just surprised that you're letting all of us be in the wedding. I'd be most worried about that, especially after the bachelor party, bro. I think we got most of the bugs out for the bachelor party, but you hope. Yeah, we'll see.

Yeah. I don't know. I think there's not a group of people that I wouldn't, that I would want more. You guys are all my best friends. We've been friends for eons. You know, I wouldn't imagine anybody else standing up next to me on. that day other than you guys so thank you i'm honored honestly to be a part of it so yeah thank you yeah we're excited that's going to be uh that's going to be a good day yeah it's going to be a lot

fun so what is what is like the uh drinking rules um because i'd imagine you guys are going to be like okay you can't get too drunk until this time yeah well so not saying that we will yeah do you have a black list uh not yet depends on how you guys behave for the next month you get blacklist well i'm just wondering what what what we're What would happen if Cheddar showed up? Cheddar'd get shredded, and then I'd ask for Ben to come back. Oh, fuck, he's ready. Chet's dead.

Yeah. What do you mean, Ched's dead? Since the mullet's gone, I'm not too concerned now that the mullet's not there, so. Now he just looks like a little kid. Yep. Now he looks like he's a junior groomsman. He's the little ring bear. His mom's got to walk him up the aisle.

God damn. There's still time to do that. We can do that. That would actually be. be really funny. Okay, so, dude, I ask, like, if you're nervous to get married, like, are you, uh, granted, have you had, have you had any other girlfriends? No. It's just Megan. Yeah. No, I literally just Megan. Like, I had, like, yeah, Megan and I have been dating since freshman year of high school. Damn, it's crazy. First kiss? Yeah. Wow. And only kiss. Yeah.

Only one time. Which I think is, how was it? It was, yeah. Tell me details. Well, dude, I think it's, top of you're going to get like a lot of people that are going to be like that's lame you're you're lame for that well i mean but i mean it's like when you know you know yeah exactly why would you why would you look elsewhere the reason i well not the main reason i asked but okay so last weekend we uh we ran into these these two uh 45 year old women oh boy mommies yeah well dame morsel ran into us they scouted us out so me and ben me and cj are standing there and these two ladies come up to us and we were talking to them and they were asking us about

like YouTube channel I don't know if they came up initially they came up initially and was like can we get a picture for like my nephew or something like that right and we're like okay yeah okay so that's pretty normal thing take the picture and pretty soon they're like still hanging around and I remember she's like god damn how'd she say it she she started like saying like I mean you you guys are are really good looking which I I mean, honestly, I'd never hear that, but Ben probably all the time. But she starts kind of like going that way with it. And we're like, okay, yeah, thanks.

And so then CJ is talking to, like, one of the ladies and I was... Just being nice. We're not flirting with them or nothing. Yeah, we were just talking. Around all our friends. Right. Right, right, right. Exactly.

It was very innocent. And then the one lady was like, how old are you? To me, I was like, 22? She was like, I have a 22 boyfriend. What? Her husband's right over on the boat next to us. Like, not too far. Probably a football field away.

And I was like, husband or boyfriend? Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. I didn't know. Both of their husbands. I didn't know if she was married or not. So I was like, really?

You have a 22-year-old boyfriend. I'm intrigued. Tell me more. And I was like, well, how did that come to be? And she tells me about how they met and everything and how he, like, asked her on a date and all this shit, right? And I go, wow. I would have thought you were married and she goes Oh no I am puts up her finger massive rock

I was like Holy fuck I'm twice as I'm twice as confused now And so She proceeds to tell me About how all these 45 year old Moms are just trying to get deep dick By like 22 year old guys

I was like This is a thing She called the milf effect Yeah Yeah She was like yeah it's the milfif fact like all these guys because like uh wives you know they've got lives they've got kids they've got bills to pay all this shit right and they just want to have husbands and husbands right but they just want

to have fun and like that's all like like younger guys want to do is just like have fun and so it's like win-win for all and i was like you're telling me that this is common and she was like oh yeah super common which i have a kind of a hard time believing it depends who you who you're marrying you definitely don't have to worry about dressing but No, no, but I was just, that's what the moral of the story is. So anyway, I'm just throwing it out there. No, no, but I was like, what? Like, this happens?

And then I go up to our friends, Mark and Tint, and they've been around the block a couple times. And they go, oh, yeah, no, that's common. I was like, I was a little taken off guard there, not going to lie. So I was. So do you think, like, the husbands meet the boyfriends? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, well, I asked, I asked, I was like, does your husband know?

You asked the husband? Do you know? No, I was, I was what Michael would call Bent interviewing, so I, you know, I kind of went into like a little interview on her. So she's the next guest on the podcast. Yeah, you were intrigued. If you're in being a phenomenal guest.

But I was, I was kind of asking just like, so what's the situation here? Like, does the husband know? And she was like, yeah, he's caught me a couple times. But like, I just, I'm so good at covering it up. What's a couple times? I was like, what? I'm sorry, I'm just babysitting.

No, I, I'm the pool boy. I swear. Yeah, no, I have no idea. In the meantime, like, I start catching on, like, oh, that's her husband and the other husband. They're, like, standing over on the back of the boat. Those guys didn't look necessarily. They weren't mad, but they definitely weren't enthused with these two gals, like, hanging around our boat, like, trying to talk to us. Yeah.

And I was like, I think you better go over, you know, get back with your guys and they're waving them over. I was like, oh, Jesus. But, yeah, that was interesting. That could have ended actually kind of bad for me and you. I would have slapped that guy around. It was weird timing, though, because Alex, my girlfriend and I just got done watching that show Sex Life. I don't know if you guys have seen it on there, but it's basically about this, like, housewife that has fantasies about her ex-boyfriend and goes and, like, cheats on them. The show was crazy.

Yeah, it's really good. But it was strange timing because I was like, no shit, maybe this does actually happen. Well, that's the thing, dude. It was shocking. The story that the day before and then me and Greta started watching that, I was like, oh my. This is more normal than you think? Is this just, am I just open-eyed to it now where I'm starting to see this? but yeah

I don't think it's common so you have nothing to worry about long story short I think it's common I think you just got a nice nice wife nice soon to be wife yeah and if it is

you have 20 more years to look forward to before that happens yeah yeah shit I'm kidding people have their own way of doing their relationships

hey yeah maybe they're cool with it yeah but anyways that's enough on that I'd say that's the luck on the marriage man we'll be there on your happy day Tell us kind of, I mean, a lot of the OG viewers, they don't know what you're up to nowadays. I kind of run them through what you're doing.

So what I do, obviously I'm not in the videos or anything anymore because I am a full-time engineer. I'm a manufacturing engineer for a company out here in DL, and then I do contract engineering for a company in Fargo. You graduated with an electrical engineering. Yep. So I graduated with an electrical engineering degree. and then immediately after I graduated started working in town got laid off due to COVID last year and then move back out here found a job out here now working out here so yeah just dope and by out here just it means like just down the road from us yeah that's been fucking awesome yeah it's been so

nice to be back out here it's been nice being able to see you more frequently oh yes but anyway I do that reason I'm an engineer it's just kind of how my brain works I mean you guys know like I just I'm always thinking of like okay how can I take this make it better make it faster improve it it's not easy I do I remember in college watching you it seemed like I mean it was every day you were like doing homework studying freaking like it and you'd like show me something it would have been easier for me to learn a foreign language yeah then figure out what you were doing I mean I was like trying to show you guys how differential equations work I think it took about 30 microseconds for everybody's face.

Just check out, honestly. Yeah, we were out of there. But, yeah, so when we were at, most of you guys went to school for anywhere between one and four years. And we lived with myself, Justin, Ken, and Jake lived in a house together in Fargo. And again, yeah, that was amazing. We also ran like our whole operation, like out of there. We like shipped all our merch out of there.

It was, it was a weirdest thing. We didn't have a shop. We just used it, man. Three-story house, just like a rundown college house. But there was a time when Justin, you would leave at 8 in the morning and show it back up at midnight. And you're like, hey, I was doing homework in class. I'm like, bruh, that's insane.

That sucked. Like, it was like a full-time job and then some. You were visibly stressed back then, too. Oh, God, it was so bad. It was not fun. It's so awesome having you around now. And you just slide in a video. You know, we don't make a point like, Justin, come out and we're going to film this video with you.

But whenever Justin's around, I love, Adam, I hope you do too, but I love seeing the comments when they're like they're still happening in your back yeah and so yeah when you rip a good dad joke in a video like it's it's not planned it's always just like fluent yeah i feel like you like dwindled out during those gruesome like college years you know because you literally like you had your goal of becoming an engineer and barely even had time to sleep so let alone drive an hour out to here to film a youtube video you know at the time was even I mean, if you're looking at it, it's probably less significant than it is now. You know, it wasn't necessarily bringing in money or whatever.

It was just... I know that, I know it, like, in my heart that if timing would have been different, then you would have, things would have been so, so different. But, I mean, you look back on where we were at. I was just grinding in school. I know. And you guys, like, I felt bad because I wanted to be a part of everything that was going on, but I couldn't justify, like, not doing what I was doing.

and then also come out and then it was we didn't have the structure where it was like yeah it was so there wasn't you guys didn't have it we didn't have a schedule just to be clear you're talking about when we had to like have that talk when we technically just you sold your shares is what you're talking about right now just to just to add context to the listener yeah so I'm trying to so for those of you at home that are probably confused late 2019 we came to a point where we were forming a couple new LLCs just because it had grown to a level where we had to have basically like an umbrella holdings company and like that was like the determining factor of like okay who is on this new company and it had to be really decided there and at the time you know we were pretty much

all full time Justin was uh were you it was right after college yeah or I was I had it was my last semester. Justin was, you know, doing what he wanted to do, which was become an engineer. I think you were on almost a different trajectory. Different trajectory. And also to put in, like, it's not that he didn't want to be doing. No, exactly. And, you know, we just had to sit down and have that conversation like, look, where is this,

where is this going? Because this is where we're going or planning on going and this is where you're going. It just doesn't really make sense. And that's the hardest part about going into business with your best friends is no one wants to have that conversation like we all dreaded that conversation it was probably one of the hardest things i've ever had oh yeah i think for everybody like there's nothing fun about that situation that just all around suck yeah which is so interesting you get plenty of people mostly adults that are like we guys are in business with your friends you're gonna you know it's gonna you're gonna you're

run into issues and then we're like for the record we know yeah we know that's how it goes whenever you go into business with your friends ever it's just we know so the fact that that that I mean, we're just able to literally be here sitting down right now. Oh, yeah. Just all, like, literally best friends is so amazing. I mean, no grudges, nothing. It would be really easy to, like, look at that situation, be like, oh, man, that's not fair.

But, like, it was fair. It was, it was the way that things needed to happen for, for everyone involved to be successful. I know that I could not have, like, supported or implemented anything into the process that you guys have and actually sustained it and made it any better than where you. You are now. It's been too tough for you with working your, obviously, your full-time job.

Yeah, I mean, and I don't want to do something if I'm not going to be 100% into it. And, like, it wasn't fair for me to be, like, 30% into this when it's something that means so much to you guys. And just to be clear, it wasn't because we're like, oh, Justin's not good. It was just like Justin's going down a different path. Yeah. Did it feel like, did we not do a good job at, like, explaining that? No, we didn't. I mean, I can speak from.

We did a terrible job. Because I just remember you going like, bro, hit me like a freight train. We could have talked about it. And we're like, yeah, we totally. And we've, we're just not good at it. How do you? Confrontation is so hard. And so then it's like we just hit you out of nowhere.

And then so we did handle that conversation pretty bad. Well, yeah. The way that it happened sucked. But if I was in your shoes on like the other end of that, I don't know if I would have been able to do it any differently. because there's not an easy way to let someone down in that way, as in like let someone off the train, where it's like you kind of almost have to be like,

hey, this is what is best for everyone. And whether it seems like it or not at that time, it's what it is. And it was the right choice. Like I've never since then doubted that that was the right or wrong decision. That was the right decision to make. Yes, it could have gone differently,

but we would have ended up at the same point. It's good that you were able to. see that even with how little we communicated that because i knew there was not a shred of any of that conversation and how that went down that was personal like none of it like if it was if it was personal you guys like we wouldn't have had that like bro moment afterwards where we're like we were all just like hugging yeah we were like welling up and like hugging each other like this sucks if that didn't happen i would have known like okay there's something else going on but like we had been friends four years. We have still been friends for years. I feel like our relationship is as good as it's

ever been. I agree. I wouldn't take the what we have now for anything. Back then when we were, you know, a hundred percent in and obviously you want it to be, but you just couldn't. You know, it just didn't make sense. Well, that was hard for for me because, you know, I dropped out of college for this. I, I devote pretty much 24-7 to it. Like, I have problems with my, girlfriend because I can't hang out with her because I'm just working and all these different things and um it I don't think I wasn't like salty towards you I was just like at a point it just didn't really make sense for me to put in that that amount of time and then for you to basically be in the same position part of it yeah part of it I think was to the way that everything

was structured was not it was no structure well I'm from like the on the business I of things where it was like everyone was equal partners in what was owned and that but there wasn't equal workload and that was the main problem exactly because i was just as much of a like shareholder as you guys were and i was putting in a fraction of the time so like again like i do not have a doubt in my mind that what you guys did was the wrong thing like or the right thing you guys yeah fuck you guys no no i think that was 100% the right thing to do if we wouldn't have had that conversation back when we did, I think things actually probably would have gone more south than good, you know? I don't know if we would have ended on such good terms.

There's a really good quote. I'm not sure whose quote it is, but it's one that I've been holding on to is conflict delayed is conflict multiplied. Yes. Yes. That is exactly what you're saying. The longer you wait to address something, the worse it's going to get. Right. Almost always. Yeah. Oh, 100%. That's like universal like you the longer you wait to like deal with something the worse it's going to be when you do deal with it it wouldn't have made sense to like just kick the ball along until you guys have like a million subscribers and then it's like oh well yeah then it almost i mean then you get like obviously viewers involved and stuff like like it was with jake you get people that are just like what's going on what's going on not that people didn't ask but the only thing that i

would have changed is that i wish i could have said something to the channel of like hey i'm back and off like i i'm not going to be around because the the statement for sure the the lack of an answer for the people who are wondering like okay where is he that's the thing where i was like okay i wish that i could like provide that at least that where it's like hey and i think that's what i'm happy that like at least we get to do it now i think part of the reason at the time was it wasn't like you were done being in videos or anything like that and also we felt i mean i would i think we'd be lying if we didn't feel like a little bit embarrassed it's about the way that we did go about it so that we weren't going to call you up and go do you want to make a

statement you'd have been like nah at the time mate i don't know also though like you had been in in such grind mode with school you hadn't been in videos for oh yeah i mean it had been a very long time so it would have been almost like hard to be like hey justin's not going to be you know because it was it wasn't going to be much of a change is kind of the way we i was far from regular for weeks i remember i remember one time i think i think it was three months you went without being in a video and then you came when we were doing the uh building the snow fort and you got to you were in it for that but i remember I remember thinking like, man, Justin hasn't been here for three months.

And I think we even said something in the video. I don't know how or why, like how are this bond works, right, called the C-boys. Before, even before we were named that, it was seven of us. And, you know, you get a lot of people that are like, why don't you make Cody a C-boy? Or why don't you make Evan a C-boy? I don't know. Yeah, it's not a gang. We can't add.

Here's, all I got to say is, we can't add people. We can have plenty of characters on the channel. And this character could get paid and put on payroll and be like just an entertainer. but they won't be a seaboy. I don't know how to, like, explain that. It sounds so cring. It is. It is a seaboy.

Well, it's not cringe. It's just like, we didn't pick it. Like, we just, it's kind of easy. So I'm saying, like,

whether you're not on the business, there's seven seaboys. Whether you, or not you have your own channel fucking down the road. I don't know why. I always find it like. At heart.

Like, I guess, you know. I don't know. Yeah, I guess maybe, actually, I don't know.

Yeah. Maybe Justin is. No, I don't know. So, yeah, technically Jake proclaimed himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that is, so then it gets a little weird. But anyway, Justin, Justin is.

You burn the merch and it's like you're out. No, yeah, yeah. No. Well. I burned all mine. I just didn't record it. He went home right away and had a little bonfire. Something funny about, like, the whole, like, C-boys thing.

It's, like, weird when, like, someone comes up to me and be like, you're a C-boy, right? And I'm like, I mean, yeah, I guess. I'm on Seaboys TV. I don't know. It's just like I don't walk around. I'm like, I'm a seboy.

I'm not a seboy. No, but I'm saying it's like I don't walk around like I'm a seboy. Like I'm C.J. Lotzer and I'm a part of Seaboy's TV. Yeah. Yeah. And you know,

and everyone calls me a sea boy from that. But it's like that's the thing is I don't want to necessarily be known as a sea boy for the rest of my life. You probably love people. No, no, you're not going to. No. Well,

you're just a part of Cboy's TV. It's like a show. You know? Yeah. Or just, definitely. It's like a part of a group identity. Yeah, it is. It's like a bad way.

Maybe I shouldn't say that. It'll be clipped when I'm way older. But like, you know what I'm saying, though? Like, you don't necessarily. And then people crack the joke like, how about when you grow up, you're going to become a C men. That's what people were cracking jokes. Like, when we moved into our new house, it's on a different lake. I guess we can say it.

So it's on Pelican Lake. And everyone was like, so are you going to be the P boys now? And I'm like, no, we're going to rebrand. Be the P men. We've aged up a bit, and they'd always laugh, but I cannot stress enough that we're not like, we're the C-boys. We didn't just decide that we were the C-boys. We just started C-boys TV. And it's funny.

It became so much part of our public identity. Yeah, we'll be the first ones to say it. Like, our name is definitely our name, right? It is, yeah. But C-boys? Like, we're just, you know, oh, you guys are like, boys gang or what, you know? It's our name, but, like, we don't. necessarily accredit ourselves to being like the boys yeah it's pretty easy for people

to like uh chirp you you know he's like oh there's a sea boy like it's not fucking hard at all no it's not hard at all it does roll up at tom it just is way too well it's super weird to think about uh i just remember when we're at in california at tanner foxes this suburban drives by full of kids and then i're like fuck tanner fox they're all yelling and i'm like i bet you get that he's like yeah don't don't like yell back at him please and Jake was about to, but it reminded me when we finally started getting those around here, it, like, honestly, I was flattered. You just get the random, like, fucksy boys.

And then I'm just like, all right. This doesn't happen to me so much anymore, but I remember back in, like, the college days, especially when we were smaller, I'd go out to the bar and, like, someone'd come up. It'd, like, chirp me. The football players really love chirping, which is so funny. I got a story about that. So funny not is. But it'd be chirping me, and I'd be like, dude, I don't even fucking know who you are.

Like, okay. And, like, walk away. But we like the football team. I mean, we still like them. But, like, there was just certain people on there that were chirping. I wonder where those guys are at now. Actually, I did meet one of the guys. I'm not going to say his name.

But a dude that I had gotten, like, a Twitter beef with back in college that was on the team. He was chirping us because they had this public Snapchat, a part of NDSU. Whatever you posted and sent to, it would get posted on that story. And there was this video of these two guys pulling our. like C-Boys TV sticker off this pole that had a bunch of other stickers on it. So one of us must have slapped it on there. And it was like, keep this trash out of NDSU. And I screen shot it and I tweeted.

I don't remember what I tweeted, but I was like, hey, bro, if you wanted a sticker, you could have just asked how to give you a fresh one. No need to take it off the pole. And then it got like, it was something like that. Did you ratio him? He probably ratioed me at least back then. No, no, no. Sorry, maybe you don't know what that is.

I know what it is. When the tweet behind it, the reply gets worked. So, of course, they tag them, and it becomes this whole thing. It was like football team versus me. And then, of course, Ben chimes in, starts chirping back. So we're sending all these tweets back and forth. Just dumb as fuck. Dumb as fuck, honestly.

Stupid. I meet this kid. I literally met this guy at the 4th July. Very nice guy. He's actually an engineer. I can't remember of what sort. He's an engineer, just like you, Justin. Very nice.

He even apologized. He was because we actually put two and two together. I had met him the day before. I didn't even fucking recognize him. I shake his hand. Like, what up, man? How's going? You know?

And I see him the next day. And, like, his buddy came over and was like, oh, you're one of the C boys? And he was like, oh, you're one of, I got on a Twitter beep. I was like, no fucking way. You're him. And, like, we had this moment. And, like, he's like, hey, man, like, I'm sorry, like about that. Like, I, you know, I was like, yeah, me too, dude.

I was probably just as much in the wrong. So we, like, dapped it out. And it was all good. But it was funny because he's like, so whatever happened with that? I was like, uh, we're still doing it. There's this one time that we were out of bonfire and like four football guys roll up. And one of them used to date my sister. So I already had kind of, I was already kind of salty about it.

And, um, because he was kind of a douche canoe. So anyway, I don't even remember what this kid said or what he was doing, but he, he, like, chirped me or something, maybe being a dude or being a seaboy or something like that. And I just go, buddy. my Snapchat pulls more views than your football game and I just remember he was like he dead

so bad dude he was pissed and at the time it wasn't true at all that was like it wasn't that was the biggest cap ever dude so he doesn't know how many views my snapchats pulled so at the time I was I was just like man I hope this guy doesn't

all right prove it yeah imagine you're like fuck 12 you expect me to believe that I don't yeah I don't even know. Those early cheddar days.

I mean, not all of them, but there were certain ones that had a lot of beef with us. And we had beef with them. We had beef with them. I feel great, dude. Such a weird rivalry. It's like a toothpaste and orange juice constantly. It doesn't make any sense at all. I feel great that, I mean, I had forgotten about it, but meeting that guy and he fucking, like, we both apologized to each other.

We dabbed each other up, Hannah, like, man. Went great. I think that's how you could, yeah, like how you could solve a lot of. like haters, you know, a lot of haters on the internet are just typing things because they're seeing what you're doing and they don't know you, but then you could meet them for two minutes and they'd be like, all right, you're not that, you know, you're not that bad. Do people at your work like ever, do they know that you're associated with us? What do they think? Like they're, they love it? No, I wouldn't say that at all. I have been fired five times. I had to, all five times

I'm not genuinely associated with them. Older people that are kids will recognize me or The kids will be watching. There's a sweet older woman who works at where I'm at. The other night when I was, I was like helping her out with this robot. And she came over and she's like, I was helping this sweet old lady out with her robot. No, she's a boss. She knows how to work this thing better than I do.

She's sweet. And so as I'm working on it, she, like, leans over my shoulder. And she's like, so someone tells me you're on YouTube? Tell me about that. Does that suck? No. It's honestly, it's kind of cool. It's fun.

It's cool for me to be able to be like, I'm so involved in two totally different facets of my life. You still get to ride it kind of. Yeah. No, it doesn't suck at all. Is it? I mean, this is kind of on the same topic, but like, is it hard to see?

No. I guess I just don't think about it that way where it's like, there's times where it's like if I'm grinding on a problem for like weeks on end. It always, it's like that one thing that you put on the shelf and you can look at it and be like, man, that was a lot of fun. That was like a really good time. But like for me, it's, it's that. That's what it is. It's the, it's a memory that's up on a shelf that I can go and revisit whenever I want.

And when somebody asks about it, that's an excuse to go, like, revisit that time and that, like, the growth that we all experienced from that. It's so natural for me to, like, talk about it with other people and, like, put such a positive light on it where some people are like, oh, well, my kid wants to be a YouTuber. And I don't want, like, I don't understand this side of it. You're able to speak, you're able to speak on that. Oh, yeah. And I usually tell them, like, well, if they got the heart for it, like, do it. Seeing how far you guys have come, as it like, as a business, as a channel, what you guys have accomplished is so awesome to see. And, like, every time I watch a video, it just makes me proud and brings a huge smile to my face.

You unknowingly stepped into a role of dad of the C-boys. I mean, I knowingly stepped into it. Yeah, I just love that, watching a video back and you're like, I'm proud. Like, there's, like, only other people who. who do that with our videos are our parents yeah you want to know for us though as we look at you and we're proud and happy for you because dude you're doing everything you want you're an engineer you got a beautiful home you got a beautiful dog you have a beautiful wife you're just about you're soon to be wife yep like you are doing it dude like you you're living out your ideal life

I think you know and we're happy that you are so let me let me turn it on its head do you guys feel like you are living your ideal life um yes honestly to be completely honest with you but there was a little bit of jealousy in what you have going yeah it is nice the stability would it be nice to be i'm just saying at least like this sounds really dumb coming from me but like to be married in like the next three years yeah that'd be awesome and you already got that shit locked down but uh they take take things hand in hand with what you're when i look at you like my first thing that i envy is like you're able to be accountable reliable like you know what's going to be happening you can have a set schedule and be like yeah

I'll be available at 6 o'clock next Tuesday if someone asked me what are you doing next Tuesday at 6 o'clock I'm I'd literally have to tell them I don't even know because I have to be literally ready to do something at the drop the hat you know or drop the time whatever the fuck the same but yeah that's like the one thing when you say like are you happy like with where you're at I am very happy I'm very like grateful but I still want more like and I'm working towards that you know i'm not satisfied as maybe the way to say it like i want i want to keep doing more and like but are we happy all right with what we're doing i'm so yes yes this is exactly i can't imagine doing anything else at least right now yeah like i'm doing exactly what i want to be doing

yeah no i was going to say like dude honestly yeah i love it i don't love like the stress factor of not knowing what i'm going to be uncertainty tomorrow yeah the uncertainty but like dude my biggest thing is i i get really stressed about not knowing what's next for uh filming or video purposes because like dude i just want to like create and make really good videos and if we don't necessarily like know what the next video is going to be like that that's like stressful so it's a minor minor but yeah dude honestly i'm pretty fucking happy that's good like to be honest it's like part of the reason that i don't know if i could ever do what you guys do i'm so structured and like i have to have like the not necessarily repeatability but predictability

yeah and like be able to plan like okay this is what i'm doing whereas like you guys live so in the moment yeah like okay we're going to montana tomorrow pack your bags we're going so sporadic and we do have like nowadays we have a lot better structure to our business and like we do try to plan things out better so you can actually live your life and um you know have relationships outside of the business but uh it still is you know it is still that way you know like you don't know if i'm gonna have to just fucking you know go film this thing really quick and ends up taking all day and you just don't know no matter how structured we are i swear we always come up like one of you guys or one of us will come up with an idea that's good right and we're like

we got to execute now or soon you know whatever whether you it's a good new giveaway or a video idea or a merch idea, you need to execute right now. If you have an opportunity, you need to take it. Yeah, so, so then it kind of messes up the feng shui, totally worth it, totally do it, but you guys are like, ever certain.

You are professional, calculated risk takers. Exactly. Where you guys, I don't know if I'd give us that much credit, bro. I think we're calculated. Calculated to a point, yeah. Calculated to a point, but I wouldn't say professional. I'd say amateur, calculated amateur risk takers.

Sure. Because you guys are always willing, you are willing and able to think of something creatively. Like I cannot speak to enough to like the creativity that you guys bring as a whole. Like individually, you're all incredibly creative. When you get all you guys together, it's insane. Like it's just an idea bubble. I don't know. Maybe you guys don't feel the same way because you spend so much time around each other.

But being like out of the bubble for a while, it makes me realize like, whoa, the ideas that you guys can generate is crazy. It's definitely like when you put us together, it's an interesting dynamic of like the collective responsibilities and roles that everyone has. And we'll talk about that in future podcasts about really breaking down like what all of us do. We really feed off each other. But yeah, we do feed off of each other. And as soon as I have an idea about, like,

I don't think we're going to do this. So should we talk about, like, the pirate ship? Oh, yeah. You're just going to do it? That was actually my idea. No, it was my idea. I had the dream. I told the dream.

Well, you had the dream that we were on a pirate ship. And I said, can we buy a pirate ship? Did you guys, are going to buy the pirate ship? I said very hard. Well, we can't get a shipped. We were going to buy a pirate ship. Imagine. That was my idea.

To buy a pirate ship. Oh. But you're, you had the dream. I had the dream. I said, I said, guys, I had a crazy dream last night. I had a dream that we were on a pirate ship, like rolling around the lake. It was crazy. And then somebody goes, can we buy a pirate ship?

Next thing, you know, we're trying to find a pirate ship. And then we're spitting out. How much does a pirate ship cost? Yeah, and we're thinking, like, to be honest, we just saw one at the bachelor party in Wisconsin. We're like, this thing's sick. Oh, I bet that was like 50K. It's built on a giant pontoon. Huge.

I think we're going to build a pirate ship. God, I don't know how it's going to cost a lot of money, but I'm down. Wait until the price of longer comes down. Dude, you can show up on a $300,000. wakeboard boat to the sandbar and I mean you're the coolest guy out there

possibly but if you show up on a pirate ship you're dressed in pirate gear with the pirates of the Caribbean theme song blaring on repeat out to the

we want to get a bunch of speakers and face them outward and it still might happen it still might happen you're a god you're Poseid oh I've got here yeah yeah it'd be next level

I know which boat would you want to be on yeah I want to step foot on that pirate ship i want i want to walk the plank and then we were like guys we'll start making sure the sea boys made me walk the plank oh we have a little guest shop on there dude this is what we're talking about the ideas man they just flow yeah if somebody has a pirate ship for sale to just send it expensive as shit the one we were gonna buy was like uh it was like a pontoon base and then they built the pirate ship on top but it was like they couldn't ship it because it would fall apart

basically and also the pro it was in florida the problem was which we didn't realize We're literally about to fucking send the money. And thank God they told us they couldn't ship it because we looked into it more in-depth. Maybe we're not as calculated as we think. But we looked into it more in-depth and because of how much weight the wood added on top of the pontoon,

which was a pretty big pontoon, you were limited to only like six people on this thing. So I was like, imagine, we were thinking like, how much people was it, Ryan? Was it six? Six people. Oh, actually, I did not know that.

I didn't know that. Yeah, we read the fucking description. the fine print that's something that we don't imagine though we would have to calculate we were we were ready we were ready like it was so wide we were going to have to pay for like the thing where you have to have it escorted which is how much money was that a mile to have two people it was going to cost like it actually wasn't going to i mean it was going to three bucks a mile it was going to cost a lot of money i think it was going to be like nine grand to ship it no it's like ten ten or something grand to ship it that's a lot of money but in the grand scheme things i was

like ten grand for a pirate ship to be shipped up here that's not that bad that's not that bad guys. Oh, my God. But if money could take care of everything, it'd be one thing, but something's just not possible. Like that was like, no, even, I don't care if you pay $100,000, you can't transport this pontoon converted pirate ship that probably is just waiting to fall apart. As soon as you get going 70 down the interstate, the guy was, pieces of wood are going to be

flying off left and right. Yeah, the transport was just telling us it's not possible. We're like, we didn't want to take no for an answer. We're like, what do you mean? You need more money? But, yeah. So, yeah, I mean, maybe that might happen. Yeah, I was like, maybe we'll build one luckily or hopefully still find one.

But it's like, someone listening to this might go like, well, then build it. Just don't quit talking about it. But I'm like, we can't sacrifice two weeks to just build a pirate ship. Two weeks? It's going to take a lot longer. I'm just saying, I'm saying if five of us sat down. Brian's going to do it over the next, five, six days a week and built a pirate ship. I think it'd take us two weeks.

If anybody else, if any YouTubers out there build a legitimate, I'm talking big, pirate ship. I want some jacks, you might have stole our idea. And I'm, I have this now. That's true. July 16th, 2021. But, uh, what do you guys think? Do you think we maybe, maybe cut it? I feel like I'm about to, I'm in a song right now.

It's hot as shit up. Yeah. I know. I was thinking, I was like, I was getting worried at the beginning. It was the combination of like, it's this guy of water. It's not your neck glistening. You cool. down now, but I was getting stressed out.

Like, you were making me sweat because I was watching you sweat. I thought Justin was going to take a shirt off. I was, I was thinking how funny was a sweat rate. Oh, my God. But, uh, well, anyways. Yeah, that was great. Thank you for coming on. You're always welcome on the podcast.

Yeah, it's going on anytime you want. Yeah, I'm sure the viewers freaking loved it. Uh, for you guys still listening, if you hit the subscribe button, uh, and then comment and drop a like on the video, we're going to be selecting one of you guys to win these AirPod pros. We'll, uh, also you got to follow us on Instagram, see boys TV. and LifeWite Open podcast. Thank you guys so much for watching.

We're going to keep doing these, so we'll see you next time. Peace. Hey, if you guys enjoyed, share it with a friend. Maybe they don't know who C-boys are. Maybe you think that they might enjoy us. Maybe they have a pirate ship. Let's get this. Maybe they have a pirate ship.

Yeah. Oh, that's a better thing. If anyone has a pirate ship out there and, like, you can get it here, two pairs of your podos. We are ready. Yeah, we are ready to pay. I mean, we only pay so much. Easy, easy.

Don't tell them that. We still got a bargain with them. Yeah, no, but we want a pirate ship, so we're in the market. Yeah, we got to make it happen now. Till next time. All right, yeah. Thanks, guys. I love how I went from happiness in the career to we need a pirate.