Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Why Ken Says No

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

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Currently the number one business podcast on Spotify. I don't know how that happened. I think maybe it was just kind of like a fluke little. Like we had gained so much followers in such a short amount of time. They're like, man, people really like this, you know. But like, how does that happen? I don't know. It might still be at the top of the charts.

It's not. It's number two. Oh, it is? It was number two yesterday. It might be lower now. We're probably at 100 now. But anyways, thanks for that, guys. We appreciate all you guys.

We've had so many random people coming up to us that we just didn't know even watched anything. There we were. Listen to your podcast. It's killing it. It's like older guys. Yeah. Or like even women.

Older women. You like you would just assume they don't know who we are. Like Rob approached me at Zorba was yesterday actually and was telling me how much you love listening to. Rob? Yeah. Are you talking about your dad? Rob the plug. Oh.

Wait, you think Ken's dad's name is Rob? Well, his real name is Robert. So they call him Bob. That's true. Oh, that's true. I was like, and Ken is the type of guy to call his father by his legal name. I've never heard you call my dad that, though. Well, yeah, of course not.

I call him Bob, but I wouldn't be surprised if you started calling him anyways. I'm pretty sure his name in your phone is literally Bob. It's not Dad. Pull your phone out right now. It's Bob work phone. Pull this shit out right now. Yeah, it is. It is.

It's Bob? It is. See? So it's not that far off. But yeah, our good buddy. Is there anyone else out there that has their parents in their phone as their first names? No. Yeah, only can.

I think it's like if you work with them, because I, I have a couple friends that work with their dad, and they call them by their name, I guess. I suppose at work, yeah. Because then it's a little more professional. Ken, you used to work with your dad. Is that why? Hey, daddy. No.

You probably get a little bit more respect to the workplace. You didn't work with Bob? I did. Oh. Worked for him. Yeah. Yeah, CJ put him in his place. Works for him, yeah.

He didn't work with him. We skipped over this real quick, but congrats to Cody Bell on winning the AirPod Pro giveaway. We got to get this channel to one million subscribers because YouTube, Jip, us out of our gold play button for Seaboy's TV when we hit one million subs. I don't know why, but apparently our channel does not fit their criteria and they won't send us a play button. What do they say? It violates community guidelines. No, they just said we don't fit their community guidelines. No, no, no, no, no. They said we didn't have original content.

Oh, that's what it was. And then we asked why and they're just, the typical like corporate thing, they're just like, I'm not really. Yeah, they were just like, I don't know. You can try back again so we can try in 90 days and i think it's been 90 days but something tells me they're just going to say no again the only other youtube i've ever seen that happen to was steve will do it i don't i don't know if he ever got it but they said something similar to it but i'm sure it was more along the lines of like not following their community guidelines and i can understand on his side of things that makes sense but yeah i mean that makes sense but ours it does not honestly it pisses me off i know it pisses all you guys off like what we we earn like something

that not a lot of people do and then they're just like yeah you don't get the you know the plaque i think we're getting ripped off but hopefully we can get to the bottom of that but anyways um ken you're kind on the hot seat hot seat today i heard there's you're just how do i say this you're so fucking interesting you're and you're mysterious you are so mysterious okay dude i've been your always i've been your uh i would say best friend you know eight years one of them one of the best friends despite what you guys see on the videos dude i think i know equally about as much as i did back when i first met you okay we know what we know what we observe from you but we don't ever figure anything more out than we knew last year the year before that are you aware of that is that

kind of your thing do you go about your life in a mysterious way where you're like no this is this is like me i like people not knowing me or like understanding what i'm about i mean what are you trying to figure out i don't know actually Why are you The way you are I don't know You were just born this way It's just the way things are

All right Well anyways I have tons of questions The viewers definitely have tons of questions We got a ton of them written down I don't know if we want to get into that right now We'll probably get into that later But Ken won't you kind of tell The viewers what your role is

Behind the camera around here Within the company So I'm like in charge of the merchandise So making sure it's coming in, getting out, all the customer service, any emails that get sent to me. I usually, the one that responds. Ken is like our sole customer service. Sometimes Mike. Sometimes Mike, I think, sends some stuff.

And I'm always like, Micah, why did you say it? Wait, what? I just love you. I'm picturing myself answering like two emails, just to, you know, take a load off Ken's back. And he just notices right away and goes, wow, whatever he said. Wait, like what he said. Like what he said didn't fit the, do you have like a formula of what you respond? I love me.

I can see why you would think that. I got to take care of stuff. And usually it's like if someone's asking something, I need to take care of it. And then he just does it. And then I, I take care of it. I would love a good example of this if this ever comes up because like I just don't believe that. Do you feel it gets done wrong or unprofessionally? You know, it's like, Mikea sends like the typical like smiley face at the end of it.

Brough. Have to have to. You send smiley faces and emails to customer service. Every email I send is a smiley face. This dude hasn't changed. Are you serious? No, I wouldn't. I would say I'm sure I peppered one in there, but.

There's a few that I've seen go out that are in there. I'm just wondering, like, I haven't answered, like, a customer service email in, like, a couple months, so I don't know. When I look at the map of Seaboy's TV over the past four or five years, you really started out as the villain. Like, you were easily the most hated Seaboy by far. People were furious because you would just, you do your thing where you say, no. Yeah. Just recently in the last six months to a year, I'd say, the tides have turned. And I think you might be one of the most, probably the one of the top C-boys, one of the top

characters. Everyone really loves you now. And I think they really appreciate you when you say no. I'm glad. When I think of your path of C-Boys TV, how it started and how you were as a character back then versus how you were now i would say you started out very authentic you were that no man like you were the guy that it like being yourself yeah you were being your truest form right and then i think that you started reading the comments and you didn't like being that villain because

no one likes to get shit on everyone hates that yeah exactly so i don't blame you one bit for that and people used to be extremely hard on you for that but what people don't realize is every group needs someone like that guy because imagine Imagine if we were all just like, yes, send it, do this, do this. It wouldn't be entertaining for you guys to watch because there would be absolutely no diversity in the group. So having you as that character back then, I think was very, very crucial to the early stages of Sea Boys. But over time, as those comments, I think, started to wear on you, you changed and you started becoming that yes, man. You started saying yes.

Yeah, you wanted to almost be like that more likeable character and like down to do things. fuck yeah send it like doing shit like that right or play i mean you didn't talk about it but it seemed like you were trying to be a little bit i mean you were trying to just give them what they want it depends on the it depends on the situation though there's some things where it's like it's not like doing a wheelie i'm not going to be able to do wheelie no no no no i don't think anyone expects you necessarily to do it but like you know before when we would ask you you weren't even down to even fancy the idea which was so entertaining for the camera because then it was like well somebody else is going to step up.

The only thing Ken's doing on a dirt bike is riding into a treat. Right into a treat. Yeah, there's probably right around the time, actually, that you kind of... He went back to his old ways, maybe. Oh, a little bit. But then, okay, so let me carry on on this thought process. So, so very authentic. Then you didn't want to be that villain character, as CJ was saying.

And then after it seemed like a year of doing that, you almost went back to your roots of like being authentic, which I would say would be the last nine months to six months. and now you're like the truest form of yourself which is like the best on camera you're back to the no can do you're back to the uh fucking with me and like getting like like getting actually riled up is like what you guys see when me and ken are messing with each other like on the dock at justin's bachelor party that was that's all we weren't even put on using that that was so real Ryan was so mad at us because we were making such a scene right we were pissed that whole weekend no well no he wasn't part of it that was and I think

I think that you are back to that, that Ken, that people almost hated on in the beginning. But now I think they understand it. That was you knowing how to push my buttons and pushing them so hard that you know you're going to get this kind of response from me. Look at Jamie. Such great service. This guy. That is, there's something to be said there. Obviously, as entertainers, we have to do this or want to do this at least to get some out of it.

But pushing your buttons is one of best, Ben's best. like he loves doing hobbies honestly at this point I do love it the camera comes out and Ben's just like I'm gonna push this so hard I'd be lying if I said I didn't love pushing your buttons but I know that there's a very fine line in the sand of like taking it too far which I think at moments I do take it too far and I watch the footage back and I hate myself for it

because I don't want to good no I don't want to be a bully because like I know kids watching our videos probably get bullied in school and I used to like I used to get bullied back in, I was like an elementary school. I never want to set that example that that's okay. But I think there's a very fine line of being a bully and being an entertainer of just messing with Ken. Because at the end of the day, we are best friends.

And it's for entertainment. It also is fun, though. And we all talk shit to each other. We razz each other out. Yeah, we do it to everybody. Yeah. We're pretty tough on everybody around here, I would say. You fuck up around here.

Oh, you're going to get rained. Bad day. It's like you're going to get made fun of basically. but you know what I'm saying though Ken on the trajectory of your character do you feel that way I feel because you've never said that I can feel like I never really consciously thought of it that way but you know look taking a step back and looking at it you blossom though you've blossomed into this character and I've said it for years though like a lot of people like I'll read comments you need to kick Ken out of C boys I'm like you kidding me he's like the best guy without Ken

like you add so much to the videos I've always been the one to say that I've said it for years Ken is the most important guy because it is any of us can go rip wheelies or whatever but Ken is truly plays his character because he is just being himself the best

and it'd be very hard to replace Ken which I would never want to do obviously I don't want to replace anyone there are friends hopefully this doesn't make you want to pay raise or nothing don't let this go to your head Ken it's like a sweet sweet treat when Ken does do something no and and it's not you don't say no 100% of the time so when you do do something we get hyped up and i know you guys do too like it's so great there's certain things that yes can do it there's certain

things that are just off limits to don't even ask can to do it like surfing don't even ask don't even no way no way i don't know why yeah what's up with your you don't like surfing you used to do it all the time yeah just moved on from it i'm fine now change man he's evolved god damn I have so many things I want to ask you. I don't know where to, like, really start. So we'll just kind of keep it broad here. How's life been? How's life been right now?

Good. It's good. We all just bought that house. You're feeling good about that? It's nice. You're liking it. Finally buying an appreciating asset, not a money fit. Must be nice.

I feel like we don't really see each other in the house very much at all. I mean, realistically, we get up at, well, us two get up at early. We get to the shop at 9. Before 9.30. And then we get home at. 10 sometimes later so it's like we just kind of go to bed we sleep there we leave it's no different than living elsewhere it's just right now I own it a lot of people will be like so how is that like you like they'll be like oh you have roommates like you guys driving each other

crazy I'm like dude I don't even fucking see him like it's a pretty big house so like we're lucky to like be on different corners but like I already spend all day with you guys like right one thing my just wouldn't talk to your long clock is loud as shit he needs that He needs that, though. He's got the bed vibrator underneath the bed by the bottom. Does that end up? Yeah, it's great. Dude, it's great.

It's like, it actually works. It works. So I do like that. You need that, though. Like, I, I wake up to that thing. It's just like, I tip my hat to you guys being able to work together all day and then go home and live

together. We don't see each other. That's true. Yeah. That's true. I don't see each other. It's literally, I go to my corner.

CJ goes to his. Yeah, I say like once a week, Mike it goes underneath the stairs to his bed. to his bedroom, his Harry Potter bedroom. It's not that bad. You always make you like it's so bad. You get so mad when I do because you know it's true.

You got so lucky with the master suite and your closet's bigger than Micah's room, but you get mad when I say it because you know it's true. That's the sad part is that I don't could give a shit how big CJ's room is, but his closet and bathroom are bigger than my bedroom. But he's got like four closets. Oh, man.

It's two. We got to do some. It's a terrible floor plan for a closet, but it's gigantic. It is fucking big in there, dude. Dude, CJ always shuts me down so fast when I start talking about Mike's room. Well, I don't want you making Mike feel bad about it. I don't think it's bad. For me, it's like an 80-what-it-what-it-it-it-it-it-it.

We'll do a little remodeling. We'll make it bigger. No, yeah, we're going to do something about that, though. We're going to knock that wall out, make a room bigger. Yeah, dude, I don't know to use a hammer. Get to work, Mike. Ken, did you ever see yourself being? like a YouTuber or like an internet personality you definitely were I would say you seems like you

were thrown into this life partially pre-college no because see boys didn't start until like he's like after it started I felt like I might be see boys didn't start until I was well into college yeah you know so I was what 22 at that point dude that's crazy to think that you were older no when we started you were as old as when we started making videos. Yeah. Yeah. First videos. This lucky motherfucker.

I am so... 22. I'm so lucky to be as young as I am. Just the drive around is a brand new Corvette. It's like going into it, when we filmed that first slip and slide video, I never expected that, you know, that moment to bring us to where we're going to. Okay. So, uh, how about like, if we're, if we're not filming and we're all busy, what are you doing on your average day? Let's say you couldn't hang out with us.

You couldn't hang out with us. and you had to go and kind of hang on with your second crew, you know? What would you do? Or would you just hang by yourself? What would you do? What would you do? See what's up. Have a couple drinks.

Talk to Ben. Yeah. Did I not say that what he was going to go and drink with BJ? And we're not even saying that like you're predictable. That was our guess. Honestly, I'd probably do the same thing. Yeah. If you guys were all busy and I didn't have anything else to do.

Why is it that you love drinking so much, Ken? I mean, I don't think it's any more than it anyone else. Ken, you love drinking. I saw you smash that ice right before. Actually, Reisley were filming me. He's like, you made me. I mean, you're going to give me shit if I don't smash it. There's no winning.

No. For smashing it. I'm just joking, Ken. I mean. Well, I got, there's another thing to say, I was like, maybe to answer Ken's question, not necessarily for him is like, there's nothing to do around here in the winter that is. Like, North Dakota, Fargo, North Dakota is like the number one drinking city in the United States or one of the tops. Which is 43 minutes from us.

Yeah. Yeah, so it's like there's that. It's just kind of part of... Once the lake freezes over, I mean, there is quite literally... Ken, but you're drinking all day here, too, in the summer. All of us are. I mean, all of us are. I'm not going to...

You're not just going to point this on me. You're right. There's a dumb question. No, in the summer you do it because it's fun. In the winter, you do, because it's boring. There's nothing else to do. So, you do drink a lot, but I wouldn't say I've ever seen you get, like, out of hand drunk. Micah.

I've seen you get out of hand drunk, multiple times in the last week Ken, on the other hand, dude, very rare. Never. Like you have to get there was one, what, two weeks ago that you had to get driven home like a couple nights a week? Okay, Ken. Well, of course you got driven home. You're not supposed to drink and drive.

I'm like, I'm pretty proud of myself for that. But I thought you're going to talk about having to like carry me out of holiday. And whenever I get really drunk, Ken just takes it upon himself. He's like, Mike, he needs to be saved. He needs to be. I'm going to carry him and I'm just like, is he really safe? Yeah, I'm just like, are you

really doing anything because he's so aggressive with you at that point it's we've been trying to leave for like 45 minutes and here you are just sitting like just standing there being a rag doll and it's like okay i i don't have an option but to just drag you guys dragging around dropping what about ryan's point on the fourth um somebody was super hammered they were throwing up and then ken goes you need to you need to go to bed you need to go to bed like they're barely able to stand-up. I think they probably just got done throwing up. I think it was Jake. And he put him in a hot truck. And Ken opens up the door to the closest

truck and quite literally throws him in there. And like the door wasn't closing. So he's slamming it. It was Jake and it was his truck. Because his feet were stuck in the door. It's all coming from a good spot in his heart. But I think he does more damage than good when he starts

trying to help out someone. That's great. Because he's also kind of inebrated. Do you think we take the pleasure of drinking away, being that we make you do it so unwillingly so often? Oh, shut the fuck up. This dude is drinking that white claw. Ken, we do not make you drink. You feel like we make you drink?

Well, when Ben forces two six-fax of ice down my throat over a day. Ken? Yes, that is not fun. It's so easy and it's fun and it's, yeah, that's not. There gets to be a point where it's just too much, though. Dude, can I possibly? give you some advice here and this would be advice for everyone watching or just the people that maybe feel like they get picked on constantly or whatever by their friends so you're you're getting

picked on by this ice thing has become a thing now that to ice can why do you think that it has become such a thing it's i think it's because you know i'm going to get this kind of response exactly so why do you give that response every time that's why it has now become a thing like they don't even consider wasting ice on me yeah because i like it i'm going to just down it. It's kind of like, uh, you give a great reaction. I know if I ice Ben, there's a 50, 50 chance whether he's going to take it or not. This dude will put an ice in my, the driver's seat of my car on a Tuesday night. And I get done editing or working or doing something. I just want to go home. Nobody's here. Well, you also have to drive. You can't

drink one and then drive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Nobody's there to be like, gotcha. And Tens just does it right before I'm driving home. Like, bro, there's an art to it, you know? How about when we were putting the Sherpin Lake and I threw it on your seat? Just got to admit that one. You were hung over. That was a low point. Yeah, I can't. Kind of a capper.

That was bad. But that was, uh, you're taking the worst example for me and I'm taking the best example from you. Wow. But that is, it's the reaction that you give. Exactly. It was like, dude, earlier today, I don't know where you guys got this. Literally, but I do not eat steak. I don't eat steak with ketchup.

I don't put ketchup on my steak. I literally, you guys just start texting. And I didn't react because. I knew if I reacted, you guys would, like, push it farther. And I just can't have people thinking I eat ketchup with my steak. Wait, do you eat ketchup with steak with your ketchup? Where did this come from? Cody. Cody, Texas.

This morning at like 7.30, he goes, Mike eats ketchup on a steak. I wasn't that surprised, though, because you're, I mean, you're a hot dog guy. Eat little kid food. But also, is it, yeah, I put ketchup on my hot dogs. Well, yeah, but I mean. Also, I don't eat hot dogs, glizzies only. Okay. I don't know if it's that weird to put ketchup on your stuff.

steak, though. It's probably weird, but I don't think it's like serial killer characteristic, like pouring the milk in before you put the cereal. Yeah. Weird that I just use the word cereal, but spelled differently in a sentence. Wow, that was actually super impressive. Yeah, but I mean, long story short, if you give a good reaction, like that's that's the moral of getting like picked on. Right. Yeah, 100%. If in, hopefully you keep giving. good reactions can i don't know if you even are programmed to not react that way so i don't think you could change it if you wanted to but for those you at home if you're a kid or an adult and you feel like you get targeted a lot maybe you should look at the way you react after someone cracks a

joke to you very very true um every friend group has that kid though with with that being said though Ken, do you ever feel like the videos misconstrue you? Do you feel like you have been painted as this character? And would you like to say anything to the viewers? Maybe anything you want to get off your chest and let them know about you. That gets lost in the edits? Yeah, like, or lost in the filming? Like a lot of people come up to you and maybe they have.

the wrong idea of you would you like to say anything clear the air take your time just let them think it's like everyone that's like oh just like oh just literally they say no can do and then just walk away dude it's just like so many people If that's the only thing you get from me, it's just like, come on. Okay, how about this? How about this? I'll pepper some things in and maybe you can run with it. The tree.

I think that's going to died. It's going to die off now. I hear that all the time. Whenever somebody stops by the shop, they always go, that's Ken's Tree. It's actually labeled on Google Maps. They did. Somebody did post that. How do you even do that?

Most of the time I get in and rename them and they just delete them. But this one's stuck. I can't get this one. It's so funny because when we ride in Ken's Tesla, Ken's Tesla uses those maps or whatever. And it literally, as you roll past the tree, it says Seaboy's Shop and then it says Ken's Tree. It like has that specific tree label, which is amazing.

Only the tree shows up now. Anyways, yeah, that's interesting. So you don't feel like there's anything you'd like to get off your chest that? I'm sure if I thought of something. Okay. Do you feel like your ornery or like mad often? I don't think so. I think you're very laid back.

It's literally just when Ben makes me so pissed off. I can't even stand looking at him. What? Other than that. Steam rolling out his ears. I'm just happy that you call me Ben. What does he know? Glasses are right in front of you.

You've called me cheddar for the past month. It's like, dude, I almost thought for a while that you forgot what my name was. Last night, just so quick, I said something to, or I think I was putting mince in Ken's pocket. I got this game whenever we go out to dinner. You know, like the little. mint patty thing and he's mints and he's mints i'll grab like a handful of them and then throughout the night i'll put them in his pocket and it's like a game for me to see how many i can put it in his pocket until he notices it's so funny when he gets in his pocket i had three in there last night

him was thoroughly surprised and he just looks at me so quick and goes cheddar chill we should do that at like a retail store put stuff in his pocket and then see if he'll leave you can't see if the little beepers will go off oh that's so funny you for stealing you're like I just wear I didn't know it was in there like yeah that's what everyone says yeah being that we're speaking of names

can we can we bring it up can we are we doing this? Would you feel comfortable like I think it's been going on this long I mean I don't know we can go either way do you want to come

you don't want to do you you don't want to do you I don't want to do you. You've been hiding behind this identity. I think we can just leave it. Ken might have another life after C-boys where people won't be able to look him up and find them. If he decides to live something normal after all this, they won't be able to search his name

after a job application. We can say it, but maybe bleep it out. Can you actually don't want it? You actually don't want people to know what your real name is? It just gets so many comments, though. It's like, that's what we want. You don't care about that, though. I'm always so intrigued to find out the people that know.

Ken's real name. I'm like, oh, you knew Ken before at all. Before at all. Because before C-boys, Ken was Ken. That's what, yeah, today, Slick Rick walks in and he goes, dude, this is so funny. Our buddy Slick Rick walks in today and he goes, you know, I got to say, I just feel weird calling you Ken. Is it okay if I call you by your real name? Actually, he asked permission to get.

And then he said that he used to read books to Ken when he was in first grade. He was reading buddy. He's like, do you remember that? And Ken's like, no. Of course, Ken. You don't remember what you ate for breakfast. I do. Okay.

Anyways, when people come up and they'll call Ken by his real name, Blank. They'll be like, oh, I just saw Blank today. I'm like, who? So, Ken, I think that this is the title of the podcast. I'm going to be honest. You got to give his time. All right. Let it out.

You're going to feel good. It's going to be a weight off your shoulders. Dude, Ken's so nervous right now. I'm not going to lie. It's a terrible name. I didn't. Jesus, CJ, you're such an asshole. Now we're not going to say it.

Ken, Ken, say it, say it, say it. All I have to say it, Ken, this is such a buildup that people at home listening right now are just like, stop everything they're doing. I got a proposal for you. It's going to be so anti-comacian. If you let this, let your name out, I will pay for the legal fees to change your name legally to Ken. If you want. If you decide to. I know how much of a pain in the ass that is.

No, I don't think it is. I don't think it is. We'll do the work. We'll do the work. You've considered it? It's that bad of a name, you guys. Jesus, CJ. You're a fucking ass.

I'm sorry, bro. I'm sorry. I don't know why your parents. I don't know why your parents would name you this. What are you going to say to my mom the next time you see her? I'm going to ask her, hey, do you see the podcast? She's going to say no. Like Elon Musk named his kids like a serial number, and that's better than this name.

All right, Ken, give it to him. Everyone's quiet. He needs, it's going to take a little bit, I think. Do you want to spell it out first? I'm going to come over and hold this. I don't know. It's Grant. That caught me so off guard.

Holy shit. It feels like you just shot me. He kind of looks over and goes, I don't know. It's Grant. That's right, you guys. Grant. Grant. Does he look like a Grant?

I was, honestly, Grant's not a bad name. I was just kind of hyping it out. No, that was funny. That was funny. I was like, it's really not that bad of a name, but I love where CJ's going with this. My mom's just going to, like, sneak over here one day, and she's going to, like, start choking you out or something. I don't know what she's going to do, but she's going to send the dog after you. Yeah.

Yeah. She's going to sneak in the back door and choke CJ out when he's not looking. You guys come in. She's got me in a full fucking chokehold. It's to pull you off. I'm purple. This is going to be so much fun here. if you guys knew who Ken's mom was.

She's going to get me like Abraham Lincoln. All right. Yeah, no, no, no. Well, he got shot from behind. I don't know if you can say that, man. What do you mean? All right, Ken, Ken, Ken, Grant. Are you worried?

Who's Grant? It's out now. Every time that happens, you're like out to eat somewhere. It was like, oh, hey, Grant. And we go, who's Grant? Rand. It's the one bartender at the inn.

She always makes a point to call me Grant. I think she just calls everyone by their name. game, Ken. She probably doesn't know you as Ken. She just looks at your ID or your credit card. Ken's all the way across the restaurant. She walks over, looks him dead in the eyes and goes, hey, Grant. She does, she does, she does, she goes out of her way in situations. She goes out of her way to call you Grant. Like, she might not be talking. How are you reacting when she calls you Grant? Because this might go back to the reaction. Do the pleasantries at a bar for a server. It's just like, oh, yeah. Pleasant trees, baby. Ken, are you given any of the server's pleasantries?

in the area? Um, no. All right. Oh, shit. You can't be saying this. I actually didn't mean to, I didn't mean to segue like that.

We're going that way, though. We're not going to talk about that, though. Pleasant trees. I'm sure. Mike has been handing them out left and right. Yeah, Mike, can we talk about this? You've been, you've been kind of a chick-manging it lately.

It's because we got the house. That's what the fuck. Okay, so that is what change. I was going to ask you, what the fuck changed? I never, ever had girls over to the shop. Mike is a fucking magnet walking around. But I don't know. Do you want to talk any more on that?

Nope. Probably not. Leave it there. We'll keep that. Maybe for another time. Another story. Ken or Grant? I've never probably called you Grant.

I don't think you have. I'd rather we don't, but it's... I can't. But I think we need to get to the bottom of why we call you Grant. The story... Why we call you Ken. Wow. I remember it like yesterday.

No, I'm getting all fucked up. You're really fucking up today. I loved that people. People thought that we were calling you Jamie. Jamie was your real name. Like that's how we let it slid. The reason why we were calling Jamie was because Joe Rogan's guy behind the camera that runs all the audio and cameras and shit is named Jamie. And he's like really good.

And Joe Rogan's are like, Jamie, bring it up. So like first podcast. I didn't know that. And I was kind of getting annoyed by it a little bit. Actually, you didn't know? I didn't. You thought we were just calling you Jamie for nothing? Yeah, I did.

What confused were you? I was extremely, because I don't, I don't listen to Rogan that, like, frequently. So I don't, you know, don't pick up on it that. Okay. Dude. That's funny. That is hilarious. Like, where the fuck did you pull James?

Such a random name. Anyways, can I, I feel like maybe I should tell the story on why you got the name Kenner. Would you like who Ken? Um, I think you can, you can probably do it better. I would, I would leave out a few details. What? We weren't even doing anything. Okay.

So, wait, wait. I don't know what there is to leave out. I don't know. I always tell stories so... Mystery. I tell stories so terribly. I always, like, gloss over things. Like, fuckishness of this.

All right. So the reason why Ken got the nickname Ken, which then became his real name and public identity is because when Ken first got his license, his parents bought him a Subaru Impraza hatchback, like the lamest fucking car. which for those you that don't know the Subaru Impreza is like the chassis that they build the Subaru WRX STI are the WRX without anything cool yeah so it's like an eco-friendly car for those who don't know what a WX STI is it's like a rally car so like Travis Pistrana drives drives one in all of his races or in the Jim Kana videos it's a badass car really fast cool can have the

impreza not cool not fast perfect for 16 not nice just got their license absolutely but obviously we saw them we're like well it kind of looks like a wrx that's that's pretty cool it's not a wheel drive let's go test it out and ken's the only one with his license so anyways we would all pile up in ken's uh Subaru and we just assume since tp is in his impreza wX STI drifting around gravel road corners that ken should be able to do TP Travis Pistrana Oh, I was thinking... No, no, no. Chill.

Sorry. Yeah, anyways. I'm the one who came up with... I'm the one who called Ken his name because he was drifting like Ken Block. Jesus. Mike, you're Skip. No, I'm the one who gave him that name.

You just skip to the conclusion. Okay, anyways, so Ken Block, he drives for... Why are we talking about Travis Estrana? That's not how it came up. No. I'm like, he drifts his Subaru like Ken Block. Mike, you don't know where the store is going. Anyways.

I was there. I'm getting. Hey, CJ, why don't you shut the fuck up? Mike, you tell it. I was getting into that point. So anyways, we would pile up in his impreza, drift around, and Ken Block was the rally car driver for a Subaru at the time. Travis Pastrano also does.

I don't know why I was saying Travis Pastrana, just because everyone fucking knows who Travis Petronas, and I was also trying not skip. Yeah. Anyways. Skip what? I was trying to tell a fucking story, Mike. Why you always got to get in the way?

Sorry. Anyways. So Ken would fucking do these, he wouldn't want to drift, but we'd be like, come on, come on, come on. so we'd peer pressure the shit out of them. Eventually, we'd go down this gravel road, and he would rip the fucking e-break, and we would slide this thing sideways.

And he ended up... It was a death trap. I don't know how we still are alive. But anyways, he would drift around these corners, and just... So we started calling him Ken Block, because he was like the fucking K-Mart version of Ken Block. He had the Impraza, and he was drifting it.

I know Ryan, he's munking with the cameras right now, but you have a great Ken story. a ridiculous Ken story would you care to tell it or would you rather not would you like to hop on maybe maybe switch places one of us Mike Ken is like all right I guess I'll hop off then Mike's or Ken's settling in he's leaning back he's like what Ken do you know what story this is was this at Ryan's apartment no boy do I have stuff to say today oh boy you mess up one time you don't talk in the number one business podcast in the USA you really regret it okay so you know when you're a kid and you

sneak out you tell your mom you're going to your buddy's house to go play xbox and then you end up just driving around on night just catch your license so jake and i we went to walmart all this story oh yeah and we uh we bought a nightgown and we dress this girl up to look like the well from the ringer right or the lady in white the lady in white which is our version of the ring the ring basically yes and so we went to ken's house not Knuck in his backyard. What time is it? Like 4 a.m.

Oh my God. It was like 4 a.m. It was way past our bedtime. Yeah, it was way past our bedtime, for sure. And we get, we get to Ken's house and we sneak her on the back. We knock on his window. And Ken opens the curtain and screams. So we bolt, right?

And we're running around. And Ken pops up on the patio. I was asking goes, got the fuck. Got my property. The next county overheard it. I've never heard you scream that loud in my life, bro. It was terrifying. My blood ran cold.

My blood ran cold. And then all I see is... And so we just kept running around the yard. So we had to get the next truck, dude, in the front yard. No, no, no. It was your cyan T.C. We did. We had the T.

And then all I hear is your little, your little boiler exhaustion. Yeah, yeah. Buh, no, so I ran, I was coming around the corner of the garage. and you came busting out the front door, dude. You didn't know it was Ryan or Jake or, you didn't until I saw the car. Yeah. And I was like, wow, this fucking asshole. So we run you like almost catch us.

We get in the car. I almost got to your car. Like it was you were that mad, huh? What were you going to do? Why were you so mad, Kent? Wait, what were he going to do? I don't know. It's a good thing you didn't catch him.

It's a blackout. Ryan might be dead and Ken might be in prison. But the worst. part is, is obviously my parents didn't know that I was out at 4 a.m. I was supposed to be sound asleep at Jake's playing Xbox, but you woke up your entire family and probably the neighborhood with this endeavor. You asked Cody if you could have a gun. Here's my favorite part. Did you know it was Ryan? You wanted a gun? I didn't know who the girl was. And I was like, so you were going to shoot her.

I don't know. Ken was ready to go to prison. You know when you're hot, cheddar. When you're Yeah, I know, I know. You do things you don't mean. Like, grab a gun? You want a gun? So from Cody's version, Ken's brother. Don't ever wake Ken up from sleeping. Okay, so Cody, Cody tells the story really, really funny of him getting woken up by Ken going, where's the gun?

And Cody's like, what? Ken's like, give me the shotgun. And Cody's like, no. Ken with a gun. so then the next day i'm sitting here at the shop actually washing my car and bob comes strolling over he goes hey that was really dangerous you could have gotten shot like all this stuff i got in so much trouble for that how old were you at the time probably like 16 16 15 yeah well yeah 16 if you had your license i suppose right yeah dude it was bad goes back to the reaction ken that sounds

like a problem you had for your idea. So, what? Ken, if you shot him, you'd be in jail right now. Uh, yeah. Dude, I don't have a legendary story to tell now. I'm like, yeah, what time Ken shot me? What if you were alive? If you got shot, would you impress charges?

I wouldn't have. I'd been like, that's pretty fucking lit. It's trespassing, though. Ken's trying to justify it. He deserved it. He was, yeah, I shot my best friend when I was 17. If Ryan lived, it would be kind of a baller. He was trespassing on my parents.

Be a badass story. To be fair. I have tried to kill Ken at least two or three times on accident. Yeah. I rolled the go cart for one. Little kids. Yeah, when we were little kids. And then it was our first peanut.

The first peanut, like one of the first videos, we had that cutlass supreme. You fucking sent that thing like 150 feet. Mm-hmm. Just a flat airbags went on airbags at night. Did you have the seatbelts on? Yeah, we had seat belts. We had helmets on. But Ken's, no, you did.

Ken's head still went into the windshield. It was the airbag at the windshield. I think my head, I don't think I don't think it was so rattles. We still don't know for sure. You guys got to go back and watch that video, actually. I think it's called we bought a car. Yeah, we totaled. That was one of the dumbest things we've done.

That was fun, though. We weren't even doing it for video. We were just doing it. Do you remember that we had to scrape together like $200? We had to borrow money from Justin. Justin loaned me. The $45 that we could pay for a car. I don't know.

I haven't even paid them back. Dude, dude, dude, dude. We might have just found a pirate ship, boys. Oh, is the one of Pelican? We might have just found a pirate ship, the next podcast. Wait, what? Let me see it. Tell me.

Okay, so I just got a text from our buddy Parker Fuller, who used to work at custom offsets. And he goes, listen to the podcast. Sean, old boss from custom offsets, built a pirate ship on a pontoon boat. He was trying to sell it for a while, and I'm pretty sure it's still available. Can we get it up here? Ask them how much. And where is it at? Where's it located?

We might actually be buying another thing from custom offsets very soon. so package deal yeah tell them it's a package deal exactly oh that's really weird odds not the other mic isn't it amazing you put something out like i want a pirate trip and people that show up knocking at the door hello hey dude yo so i just read your text and we're actually sitting on the podcast filming right now and what are the odds what are the odds but yeah we're so stoked like how big is it yeah can i get his number and we can get some more details on this thing can we ship it up I just texted him right now, because I was like, hey, do you still have that pirate ship you're trying to sell? Because I know some people who need it.

He had, like, a legit, like, cabinet maker, like, woodworking guy. No fucking way. It's going to be expensive. Well, I don't know, maybe. But it's not like, it's just a pontoon with the thing built around it. So it's not, like, a legit pirate ship. But I just thought it was hilarious. You guys were, like, wanting a pirate ship.

And I was like, huh, I actually don't want it. I mean, to be fair, we're not looking for a legit pirate ship. We'll see how much it. much he wants for it if it's like anything more than 30 grand i don't know if we'll be able to justify it oh no it won't be it won't be that much okay good sounds good thanks bro you guys see it all right peace dude the pirate the pirate ship uh saga continues no way we might we might make this happen before the end of the summer you guys are part of this journey this is actually pretty crazy really only the podcast the true

oh we've really been capturing it all right anyways we're just going to wrap it out without you can we got the hot spot here for ken this is the last bit we got a little i don't know what we're going to call this segment just like a little q and a hot ken and a king's like this has been a q and a whole time she's about a bench review for an hour now going into this podcast ken was extremely nervous i'm sorry this has gone fantastic and ken was like i'm just not good being put on the spot like this i was like dude we're going to make you feel comfortable ken like i just know you bent interview people and you just ask them question if you're question yeah it's almost like it's almost like i want to get to know someone

Someone is so fucked. All right, yeah, yeah. So we got a couple questions. We put some questions together that we're going to just spit at you. Brian, you want to start that. Whether it's a one-word answer or if you want to elaborate on it. Okay, got it. All right.

So we're going to start out by, you know, pretty base level. Why do you always say no? Some things just aren't worth doing. You know, sometimes you can just get away with like, hey. I don't want to fuck with this. Okay. All right. Okay.

Should we combat? Just accept his answer and go to the next one. Okay. All right. Second one. Why is your screensaver still your focus RS? I don't have a picture worth changing it to. Nothing's worth anything.

That screensaver's been there for like two years at this point. So I'm just leaving it. All right. Would you just... Okay. Okay. All right. I mean, CJ, I know your screen savers.

has been that dream board for like six years now. Yeah. Can this is because I have dreams and I'm trying to make them happen. And they are slowly happen. It's very different from your ex car. The car that you don't even own anymore. Thank God you don't have a girlfriend. Otherwise, it'd probably still be one of those guys.

All right. Do you ever think you'll shave your beard? No, I look like him 12 when I do. Fair enough. Do you plan on living the bachelor life forever? Do you want to settle down? I can settle down eventually. but not right now are you actively looking not actively are you

passively dude passively like everything else can does if it falls into his lap quite literally so what are some of your favorite hobbies outside of working working um can't say drinking fuck uh Shut the fuck up

Relaxing maybe Cleaning? No Bro So moral of the story You seem like pretty good guy I mean I mean

Well this honestly might have been My favorite podcast Yeah this is great Ken had a good time You're amazing man Ken you're natural So funny You went into it so nervous

And if I wouldn't have said that No one would have known I hate being the center of attention On things I love That's it I love throwing things in there But I hate being like The

The attacking Benterview person. Oh, that was a really real answer. You just said, I hate being the center of attention. That was a great, that was probably the best answer you've given, the most honest answer. Without your little roundabout, whatever. Man.

All right, well, let's end it here. This is great. We're going to keep filming these every Friday. Yep. And go ahead and subscribe. We're going to give away one of the life-wide open signs we have right here to subscriber. Yep, next week we'll be giving it away.

So we're trying to do a giveaway every time. But yeah, subscribe. Let's get to 100. Okay. Thank you guys so much. And follow us on Instagram, Life Wide Open podcast. Yeah. Ryan, you got to come on the next one.

Why is Ryan? Comment some questions down below if you guys want to know anything about Ryan. Dude, this gets got me so excited because now it's like we got to do this for everyone. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. No, absolutely. We should do this for everyone, the hot seat. Yeah.

All right. I agree. We're hitting it. Thank you guys so much. Peace.