Life Wide Open with CboysTV - Zackgoes on Bikelife Today, Pioneering Motovlogging & Chasing Perfection

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

Today on the podcast we are joined by YouTuber ZackGoes. With over 1.6 Million subscribers Zack was a huge part of the bike life scene, then he disappeared and quit posting. We talk losing footage, Chasing perfection, E bikes in Bikelife, him stealing our play button, and what he’s up to now and why he’s happier than he was before. Check out Zack’s Channel https://www.youtube.com/@ZackGoes Zacks Instagram https://www.instagram.com/zackgoes/ Sign up for a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/wideopen Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at https://www.square.com/go/WIDEOPEN! #squarepod #ad To watch the podcast on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. I'm pretty washed up right now. I'm not riding a pole. I don't think you know what washed up means. So is F.

What's it like when you're riding in the middle of the pack on an interstate highway? I'm going to throw like a nasty no-hander. And the next thing you know, I'm like under my bike going 50. You're still Zach, but like it seems like you're in such a better place. I was not acting with myself. I don't really like the attention. And I just realized I didn't want to do it. So what's next?

I just know the Turbo Turtle 205 is going to be so freaking stoked for this podcast. The Turtle? Turbo Turtle 205 has commented on every single podcast we have ever posted. Let's get Zach Goes on the podcast. Dude. And here he is. Let's go. Zach goes, dude.

The last time you were here, I think, was what, 2021. It's been four years. It was the last time you were here, Zach. You know, I want to say you were our first YouTube collab. You're the first creator we ever met, I believe. Yeah, I think so. Our first YouTuber friend. Yeah.

What's crazy, too, is when the last time you were here, we had just set up the podcast studio. Yeah. And we had the original desk set up. And we were still waiting on, like, a couple things to come in. So we couldn't film a podcast, but we sat down on the podcast studio. And we just, like, ran like a dry run of like, all right, this is how it's going to go. The practice run.

Yeah, the practice run. I'd be scared to hear what we talked about. Yeah, dude. God, I just want to say I'm so proud. of you, man, where you're at today. You're still Zach, but like, it seems like you're in such a better place. I feel good. That's for sure. I mean, talk about proud of me. You guys. Every time I come here, there's a new shop. There's freaking 30, 50 new toys sitting around, like seeing the evolution of where you guys were and where you are now. Like, I can distinctly remember,

even four years ago when I came here, like hanging out. I remember being like, oh, this is like a lot more like, there's more of a schedule here. It's getting more structured because the first time, dude, it was in the old shop. I showed up. I didn't even tell anyone. I know. Yeah. Yeah, I called Ben. I was like, yo, I need the code to get in the shop. He was like, what? And we went in and woke up Micah. Yeah, that was a good old day. The very first shop. So we would have been, I think, still in school at that time. Yeah. Wouldn't we have been? So we would be maybe in school during the week. And I remember you'd just pull up. You and your film are jaunt. Yeah. We called them jaunt. His name was John. Yeah. Everyone from Philly says jaunt. It's actually John. But at that time, I was a jaunt guy.

John. Yeah, I still don't understand that whole thing. But anyway, so, like, you guys would pull up and just crash at the shop. Yeah. Stay on the couch for, like, a month straight sometimes. It was never a month, but it was damn here, though. It was so. And it would get to the point where Zach shows up to the shop.

And he's like, yeah, man, we're filming these videos. And you stay there for a month and we're like, Zach, are you going to film a video? What are you doing? I definitely got plenty of videos filmed here. They're still sitting on hard drives. Really? You have it unpublished? Oh, 100%.

Yeah. Oh, 2019, that'd be almost six years ago. The first time I came up here, it probably was around that time. I remember one of the first trips, like I uploaded like the part one and I call it the G drive massacre. I had like this giant G drive. It was like a four terabyte, whatever. And it like locked up one day. And I contacted G drive like and they're like, oh, no, like, and it was under warranty and they were going to pay like five, six grand to have all the data recovered.

They sent me a slip. I like put it in a box, took the post office right away. A few weeks later, I called the. data recovery company like hey like you know where's this at they're like oh i don't think we got it let's check the tracking number and it was never scanned in they sent me a fedx label i just dropped it at the usps office just like not thinking about it and i went back to the usbs office like hey where's this at like oh don't worry like this happens all the time like fedex labels like it'll be out by the end of the week and i'm like well this was like two weeks ago and the lady went back for

like five minutes probably like went on her phone like had a salad came back and was like yeah couldn't find it so what yeah it was like tons of footage on there how many videos do you think We're on it. I think I have more videos either lost at that and unpublished than I do on like YouTube. Jeez, dude, that had to have taken the wind out of your sales. Yeah, that sucks. That was like the first time I wrote with Brian 636. I had that video on there.

And like there's a video up with you guys. And like it's like part two coming soon. I have like a sneak peek and that footage is like. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, I want to add some context to who Zach is and how we became friends and how we've known each other for eight years now. We've probably met back in 2017. Yeah, it was like 2016, or it would have been 2017, yeah.

Yeah, so Zach was one of the first YouTuber friends that we made in this YouTube community. And he is like the originator of Moto vlogging. So if you guys have seen somebody riding wheelies down the street where you never see their face and all you see is just GoPro footage and doing crazy wheelies in the middle of Philly or New York or L.A., it's more than likely one of Zach's videos. I was not the originator of MotaVlog. You were not, but you were one of the first guys to bring it, like, to YouTube and kind to go mainstream with it.

I would say that, you know, do it with Dan, Jake the Garden Snake, freaking modinosity. There were a lot of guys beforehand. I was, like, my niche within that niche was, like, 15-year-old kid riding a dirt like just being an idiot. And that was, like, my niche. Yeah. On the street, because that's how it is in Philly, the bike life. That's right.

So, like, can you take it back to almost the beginning? So, like, when did you start doing YouTube? when did you start the dirt bike stuff? I mean, the first YouTube video uploaded was like 06, 07. But that was like not Zach Goes. That was like a different channel. I was like with my brother. Like I was super early on into YouTube and I saw the whole gaming thing happen.

I had like a gaming channel for a little bit. That's why I really learned how to like post and edit and stuff. And then I found to do it with Dan, the jakes, the garden snakes, you know, ride motorcycles. I'm like, dude, this is sick. And, you know, I know how YouTube works is back then at least. If there's like a niche of people, not many people making videos, they kind of grow together. and I saw the motor vlogging against that and then riding the dirt bike

being a younger kid doing it at the time that would kind of bring it up so I did that. And how old were you? 15. So you started making these moto vlogs when you were 15 years old. You originally had just like a pit bike SSR

I never rode a motorcycle in my life until I bought, I worked at like a pizza shop I actually still worked there sometimes I'll pick up shifts on Fridays. I saved up enough money, bought a dirt bike, bought a GoPro and I literally like my first video I'm, like, still figuring out how to shift the gears and stuff and, like, just trying to figure it out. I remember I downshift it in, like, the back tire.

I was like, is that engine braking? I don't know if that's, like, more expensive. Like, I don't think this has the feature. Like, now it started there with the SSR 125, just started with the parents being like, you got to stay in the yard. And then, you know, yeah, that lasted long. Yeah, no, not long. And then, and then went to the neighborhood and then went to the county roads and then eventually, yeah. Riding with the pack.

Yeah. My favorite thing would just be to go ride and then, like, get lost and have. to like GPS home, especially when I got my, uh, WR 250R street legal motorcycle. It's like a dirt bike still though, because that was the loophole in Pennsylvania. You turn 16, you get your permit to drive a car, but you'd also get it to drive a motorcycle, not allowed to have passengers on a motorcycle. So I could go kind of solo and I would take it to school. Yeah, you could go anywhere with it. Yep. Didn't need your parents in the car with you? No, it's actually, you're not allowed. I might have gotten a ticket for having someone on the back. So initially, you were doing just the

GoPro and I remember you never showed your face. Yeah. And why? was that i think part of it was i didn't want to but also like kind of the i don't know it was just like a good vibe and then i was at vidcon jeez i don't even know 2017 maybe ish and i met some random dudes um part of the goonies grom squad out there and like they just threw me and my buddy jack a bike and we went ripping around we went to laguna beach it was just such a vibe and like i felt so connected and i was like i just need to do it screw it like i'm doing it so i literally walking around like the pool of the Airbnb that we rented one room in so it was like a family not even the whole house no not even the whole house we had like one room i remember that was the

face reveal and like some of my top videos are literally just like blogs from like kind of high school times like graduation i think did good stuff like that the face reveal i remember that yeah zack go showed his face holy crap yo so when did you go from riding a dirt bike normally to being like one of the greatest wheelieers I would not put me up there But yeah but you you can dance around on the seat Like everyone watching knows that Evan is a great wheelier Zack goes is probably twice the wheelier Evan is

I would say triple Thank you The first day I rode the motorcycle I was popping wheelies on it I was dropping the clutch and just trying to figure it out Like the first video you can see me just like trying to figure it out Figure it out And I don't know man just practice makes perfect

I mean I probably wrecked a motorcycle It sounds really bad but I'm talking like 110 in the yard, you know, loop it out. I mean, over, it's got to be hundreds of times. He's good at crashing then. I mean, dude, I'm still, all my legs work, all my arms work. I'm doing pretty good. Did you ever get seriously hurt on the bike?

Like any broken bones? I broke my back. Yeah, that was a scary one. Yeah. No, that's on, yeah, that sucked. You almost went over that guardrail on that bridge, I remember. Yep, that was nuts. Like, it's pretty crazy of a story just to be like a person on YouTube and then make it on

YouTube and you know have over a million subscribers like that's normally someone's whole story but you've lived like so many different lives and there's been multiple different eras of Zach goes so like obviously you had the YouTube channel and you were grinding that for probably a while I mean um I mean that was full time like probably close to seven years give or take yeah last February was 10 years of like the first video upload on Zach goes and I actually prepared a montage and I didn't finish it like I went through I downloaded all my videos and I put them on a timeline and I was like I'm going to get like the best moments and I would go through it and I probably got half it was like eight hours long after I cut everything so I had to go through again and I kind of

I dropped the ball on that I'll be honest there's a guy someone commented on my first video ever like yo where are you and I like comment at the back I'm like yo like new video in a week and I was like I think about that guy sometimes yeah well no I like replied back like sorry dog like I You know, but I thought it would have been a cool like 10 years or whatever, but we'll see. So what do you think kind of happened with like, I remember I almost kind of watched it firsthand. Yeah. As far as you went from posting consecutively to, I mean, you're literally at our shop and then you're just not posting and we're posting and we're still filming.

So we were in the grind of it together. Yeah. But you were always way bigger than us. But you were, yeah, he was already what one would consider pretty successful. we were at probably 200k subscribers it was grinding and it was grinding

and towards I'd say like the thick of it it was there wasn't ever a schedule but it was like I didn't want to just upload a video because I need to upload I was like when Zach goes drops the video you're going to click on it

because if I upload a mid video people click on it you know they'll click on it they'll click on it they'll watch it I've good reputation but like a couple of those then you know when you click on a video and it's eh you know when I drop a banger people aren't going to click

so it was like very like when I drop a video it's got to be a banger and of course i've had ones that aren't but like i have to think it's going to be and think it's worth watching so i was pretty anal about just the editing and everything like that and then towards the end it was just like like i'm watching it and you watch something over and over again like you can't tell if it's interesting or not and like people are getting bored of the wheelies and basically i was overthinking the editing and i had a couple different editors i tried with some of them worked but none of them really stuck around for the long haul kip was here kip did a great job

editing but it just wasn't like really what he wanted to do yeah and it just got to the point because i remember i didn't upload for it wasn't a long super it was like maybe some months or something like that and i was like i thought i was lazy i like couldn't get myself to do it and i came here i was on like the i called it the 10 week 10 000 mile road trip where i started in florida went through texas arizona back through los angeles up through joshua tree broke down in green river utah and then I was here and at that time I was uploading

and we filmed the video you guys uploaded yours of course I didn't upload mine and that was I don't think I uploaded after I came here last maybe I did either way it was pretty close

and what I realized was that was my last dish effort I was like I'm uploading every week I'm either gonna do this or I'm gonna find something else to do and I couldn't do it I didn't do it I didn't find a way to do it

and what I've realized since is like being a YouTuber's heart and in order to do it you have to want it. Every single bone in your body has to want it. And I had been doing it for over five, six, whatever, seven years, riding motorcycles around the country, you know, risking my life, possibly freedom. And I've been on rides where like people are getting seriously hurt, you know, where people had passed away. And at the bottom of it, too, I also didn't really want to be a YouTuber. Like, I didn't like all the attention. Like when I was on these rides and like, you know,

we'd go out to bars, whatever. And like, I remember being younger and like guys were buying me beers. I'm like, oh, God, buys me a beer. I got to talk to him now, you know, this, this. And I was like, God, like, I just didn't like that energy of, like, I don't know if you like me or you just want, like, to be close to me because I have, like, these, like, I couldn't tell, and I didn't like that energy. And it was kind of like, I can't ride like this forever. I don't really like the attention.

I'm getting burned out on editing. And I just realized I didn't want to do it. Yeah. And, you know, being a YouTuber, it's hard. And you guys have a great team. You kill it. And it's awesome to watch. I just realized I was like, it's just not for me.

I did it to the best that I could. I got to a level where I got a taste of kind of a lot of the things that come with it. You know, you can make good money, the fame, the attention, the connections. Like, I got it all. And I was like, I just doesn't seem like something I want to do long term. And maybe I'll, in five years from now, I'll be back at it full battle. I don't think so. I think I just, I stopped it.

And I accepted it. I'm like, I'm not doing this. And I felt way better. Yeah. Really? felt happier, like emotional. Yeah, I actually went back. I was, because the time I was just sitting there, I mean, YouTube money's still coming in.

I just wasn't doing anything. I'm like, and then I started working at the pizza shop down the street again. And I'm like, kind of like, oh, like just feeling better. And I just, you know, just wasn't for me. I mean, I still love riding. And it's funny. I still like filming. Like, I like the filming, the production.

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like you're just such a different person that you were the last time that we hung out, right? You're just way more motivated. You're way more dialed in and calculated. You're focused. Yeah, you're smiling now. You seem happy. And do you think that that would make, you know,

going back to being a YouTuber, easier or better. I think it could. If I made a run at it, I could maybe figure it out, but it's also just like the angle, like when you're editing and maybe you're like kind of frustrated or bored, like you need that thing under you, like that fire, that want, that desire to take it to the highest level. And when I do something, I like doing it to the highest level. And like it was that like, well, I don't even really want to, you know, it was like kind of that. So it's possible. But yeah, I mean, I agree, man. It sounds probably ridiculous to the viewer saying like oh i just couldn't get myself to do it but it is extremely hard being a YouTuber it's

harder than you would imagine that's why to be at a high level and actually putting out quality content consistently it's just i mean it's a grind absolutely and even with our team now it is a grind we have like what 22 employees we have all these people in place on systems to try and make it easier and it is significantly easier than it was back in the day but uh still stressful still grind i don't really blame you i don't really blame you at all like that's a good enough answer for me and i mean we watched it firsthand you just you just were over it you just like were unmotivated but you were still hanging which was cool but when i saw you guys i think i was like after also like a string of concussions so i was like also out of it in that sense there was a portion

where I was like, I look back at now and I'm like that, I was not acting like myself. So I remember last time I was here, like I was, I think back to it. I'm like, thanks for having back, guys. Yeah. No, you're a show, man. You were, you, uh, it seemed like in those days, you got a little bit more wild and unpredictable as, like, like, like, yeah, unpredictable is probably the best word. But like when we, from when we first met you to then, I guess the last time we saw you in 2021 it just seemed like you were just getting more and more unpredictable and uh that's why i just said at the beginning of the podcast like i'm just so like i'm super happy to see appreciate that and just like right away like when we just saw each other downstairs for the first time

you can just tell you're just doing so like you're you're a completely different person so i mean man it's just cool it's cool to see that it was cool just seeing everyone dapping everyone up then a lot of the new guys too that i'd met for the first time kind of like looking at bike culture now. Are you still involved in it? I am. I don't know how much I can say, but I'll say that I've been in contact with an organization in Japan that is funded by one of the big Japanese motorcycle brands. And over the past few years, they've been researching bike life and like trying to just learn more about it and stuff like that. And I did an interview with them. I don't know exactly what they're going to do with it. But there is big Japanese manufacturers

looking into it and at least researching it, trying to learn more about it. Is it a lot of Is this a viable market? Because they like it? I mean, here's a thing. How many videos can you see people doing wheelies on the internet all across the world? They're like, wow, we're making these dirt bikes for jumps and motorcross or trail riding or whatever. But people are using them to wheelie. What if we market it towards the people that also like to do wheelies?

Makes sense. It makes a lot of sense. But, I mean, there's definitely some risk with it. And, you know, you promote a bike to do wheelies and a kid, you know, is wheeling on the street, gets hit by a car, loses his leg. like there's so it's i think it's like a weird a weird thing but they're looking into it so interesting so what was your involvement in that i mean i met one of the guys at a like supposed to be like wheelie competition in new york city leaking the bike star through it and i met the guy there the cops ended up shutting it down for like permits or like something i don't know

exactly what happened but was it one at a track though no it was in new york city like rented out a parking garage so like on the top it wasn't a big sick Yeah, no, it was, it was awesome. Like, I literally, at that time, I had, I don't remember what bikes I had, but I didn't have, like, a big bike. And I was, like, trying to, I was talking to my buddy Jay Nasty. I'm like, yo, dude, can I rent your $4.50? I want to, he's like, I don't know, dude. I was going to sell it.

I was like, I just bought it. I was like, all right, I'll buy it. Like, I need a bike for this. That's the bike I have today. That was, like, four or five years ago or something like that. Yeah, it got shut down. I started kind of, the guy would DME once in a while. And I remember for a while, I didn't have Instagram on my phone.

I had like an old phone that wasn't activated I'd have all my socials on there so that way I couldn't get distracted I'd be on my main phone you know check emails whatever if I wanted to indulge I'd go on my extra one and I was looking in the DMs and it was like I was like who the heck's this guy and I click on it and it's like hey

we're flying with a crew from Japan we're going to be New York all week and I got them to come down to me and I mean had a good interview it's probably two three hours Wow you think that the bike life scene is still as big as it was yes it's probably bigger

really especially with the e-bike stuff coming out. Like you can, I mean, you could say that's not core bike life, but it's a form of bike life for sure. A little bit more discreet. Yeah, you get away with a lot more, but I'm also seeing a lot of stuff on Facebook of like police departments taking a picture of like a kid on a sir, on doing a wheel, like have you seen this kid like trying to come down on crack? They've been seen more. They might hate e-bikes. I think they might hate e-bikes more than they hate dirt bikes. I agree. Like police departments because I see a bunch of stuff about it too. And like it's like just the classic like police department

TikTok of being like, these are illegal. Yeah. These are illegal. And it's just like a little electric bike. I'm like, relax, dude. What's it doing? Ripping up a little bit of grass here and there? Hey, man, don't rip anything on the pavement.

Just drive it there. Well, that too. Yeah, so you think it's bigger now. I think so. I mean, I think it's always grown. Even with a crackdown? Man, it's always around. It's worldwide.

It's hard to measure it on a scale. They've been trying to crack down on a bike. since I was a little kid. Like, I remember watching with you, Ben, like, just Baltimore City and, like, news reports of, like, you know, they're chasing these big groups of guys on dirt bikes and banshees, rip and wheelies in the street. They can't catch them. They can't do anything about them.

And I remember back, I mean, before we started YouTubeing, I used to watch so much of that shit up on, just on YouTube. You'd watch, like, videos like that. And I don't think that you can post stuff like that on YouTube anymore, can you? That was another thing. The demonetization was getting brutal. And it was like I either had to make the shift of like more family friendly and like kind of follow more rules or like just not.

And I just felt like I felt like a debt to the bike life community. Like I'd grown so big through it. And just to like switch it up kind of felt like it just didn't feel right is what it was. It didn't feel core. No. And it's like what am I going to make like freaking. I mean you guys make sick videos and you're pretty green. Do you get like kind of harmful and dangerous acts?

always green always green if we go yellow it's a fucking catastrophe oh i could we got so much money invested in it's a bad deal no i bet but it was that was tough and i think there's ways to get around it where like the first 15 seconds matters a lot but like my videos like i would put the like the bang bang bang like just get them hooked and it just felt like that that was another part yeah i think they did start cracking out because i mean you just never see videos like that anymore just riding on the street you've seen what seronser's doing on the e-bikes that's true He's ripping on the street. You're right.

He's killing it. Serenster's the modern day, Zach goes. I think that you pave that path for him. And, you know, it's funny you say that because I was talking to him on the phone like a month ago. And I was calling him about something. He was like, by the way, he's like, if you hadn't had done what you'd done, I would not be doing it. He is like the, yeah, he hasn't done his face reveal or anything. So he's like the newer version.

If I would have been what I'm doing then now, I'd be closest to Sronster with the e-bikes and stuff. Because that's a great, that's the new niche, man. I mean, people love that. It's huge now, but I remember when the Suron first came out, it was kind of like, I don't know. What was it called? Like, the Segway, too. I did a brand deal with him, dude.

There's so many. There's so many. Yeah, dude, they never paid me or sent me a bike. I was pissed. Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the e-bikes, I agree, are overall better.

Like, it's going to be much more accessible for everyone. It's probably better because it's not making noise. Yep. All that. And it is under the radar, but there's nothing cooler than. a guy on a two-stroke just d-nin-ding-ding-ding-ding ripping it at 12 o'clock like you're trying to dip away in your batteries dead oh shit yeah that too yeah but like that's still that's so cool man I mean

maybe where we got the idea to start doing wheelies and stuff back in the day was just watching those kind of videos I mean obviously you wanted a wheelie but bro I'll never forget when you and I were watching the Baltimore videos down in your basement and just be like this is nuts this is nuts we'd never seen anything like you know remember chino Absolutely. Yeah. He's still a legend, though, isn't he? Absolutely.

There's dirt bike rail. Yep. Rest in peace. There was a bunch of different guys. I can't think of them now, but... Man it on. Yep. Absolutely.

What do you think? Have you been to his events? Like, his track days? Yeah, I went to one. It was cool. Pretty lit? It was wild. It was a good time.

I would love to check that out. Yeah, and it was cool because, like, normally, like, at, like, dirt bike tracks. Like, I've been doing them and, like, done jumps and stuff. And in the pits, like, there's no wheeling at all. But there was, like, everyone was just, like it was also the track which was so cool what's it like when you're riding in the middle of the pack down the streets of baltimore and everyone is wheeling and you're on a on an interstate highway so i've never rode in baltimore and i've also i wouldn't say i that allegedly allegedly

yeah riding with a bunch of guys being in the pack it's like one of my like safe places if that makes any sense which is very ironic but it's just like everyone's around and you hear all the different bikes and it's like you look over here and like there's someone new to me over here there's a guy of Harley doing a burnout it's just like I don't know man it's so madness it's so cool because when you're with a level of riders where like everyone kind of has an idea

of what they're doing it's like my favorite thing to do is like start in the back of the pack you know with everyone not really wheeling pop it up and they just kind of make my way up through the front and it's just like you kind of see someone like are this guy's doing that okay he I could see what his body language like especially some of my friends like Brian 636 or C bear

when we were riding I could tell by their like body position oh he's about to like come back and scrape or he's about to do this or that so it's cool to like kind of read everything and get through there and it's just it's so much fun how many gnarly wad-ups have you seen in the when when someone's in the middle of the pack and it takes out people surrounding them i've been one of them man i was in st louis one time and i remember there was like someone taking photos and i was like oh i'm going to throw like a nasty no-hander this is when i was starting to get them on lock and i went i hit it and it just kind of like And the next thing you know, I'm like under my bike going 50 and freaking coming out.

And I've had a couple things where like it's affected all the riders, but for the most part, it hasn't. It was funny. There was another guy in the pack. And he was just like, Motivog and like, hey, man, there's that goes. Here he goes. And then I crashed. She was like, oh, no, Zach. What does the road rash look like when you end up underneath your bike going 50?

It hurts. It hurts. I think I got a tire mark on me too. I mean, it's just, it's road rash. And I have like a bunch of scars. I don't have any tattoos, but I'm like, I just get free scar. free like tattoos you know they're all memories road rash the worst i mean it's better than broken bone it's a different kind of pain though it's it's it's just like a burning yeah constant uncomfortable

it hurts when it's healing it humbles you you know what my trick was always if it really hurts i just think like imagine what it would feel like if someone took a dagger and put me in the stomach like that hurt way worse than this yeah i guess that's one way to look at it yeah yeah so do you still ride Are you still riding? Yeah, I still ride. I got a 110, 450, KX85. I got a little KLX 125. It's like an old trail, but kind of like the TTR vibes.

Actually, it was the first dirt bike I ever saw. Really? So living in, you know, my house growing up, like the neighbor had a dirt bike. He'd ride up and down the street. And, like, I always wanted one. Parents like, no, it's expensive. You'll hurt yourself.

Thank God they didn't give me a dirt bike, dude. I hurt myself enough on a bicycle and a skateboard and stuff like that. But the father had passed away. and I went to the celebration of life. It was just next door. And I popped over, like, looking nice, you know, like pants and a buttoned up shirt. And everyone was like, it was supposed to be casual. But I talked to them and they'd seen, like, the videos we talked about riding dirt bikes.

And a couple days later, you knocked on my door like, hey, man, like, you want it? And I was like, oh, yeah. And it was the first dirt bike I ever saw. It's not running, but I want to get it up one day. That's cool. Searchlight Pictures presents the Roses, only in theaters, August 29th. From the director of Meet the Parents and the writer. of poor things comes The Roses

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I've been driving monster trucks, like, giving rides, and they'll put me in the show as, like, Zach goes. Like, here, Zach goes. And I don't usually, I posted the last one, but I don't usually posted, but people will be stoked to see me there. They're like, dude, what the... Yeah. Did not expect to see you here, I'm sure.

So that's been a good time, too, around a lot of the shows. You got to show them what you're doing at the shows. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So there's two things I do. One is, like, just kind of going to Zach Goes and Wheeling. And it's kind of tough because it's, like,

either mud or sand, and I'm into 4-50. I actually put knobby tires on it the first time this bike has ever been in the dirt It was on the show, yeah It's a big switchup for you You used to shave the knobs off it back when we were right Well you ride it off or I had like street tires Yeah

But so that's the one thing But the other thing I've been doing It's called King Kong Caneval And basically after the FMX riders go There's like a they have that giant inflatable landing You know you guys got what a couple now And when they like bring it down They need something to fill the spot

What I would do is like Dress up in a gorilla costume and I would come out, like, you know, try to, you know, get down on all fours. And I'd, like, pull this guy out of a golf cart, steal a golf cart, with the golf cart around and, like, all the kids go crazy. Just pop up the video. Yeah, I'm working out of the video. It's hilarious.

Is this not the most Zach goes thing ever? Like, dude, you are just so built. Dude, just having great time. For doing these shows, bro. You're just so entertaining. Yeah. And during, before the show, like, throughout the whole thing, they do like, there's like a two hour, like, you know, beforehand.

And everyone, they'd announce, like, oh, keeping me. mind, you know, there was a gorilla that escaped from the local zoo, you know, keep your eye out for it. Oh, got it. Just to hype it up. So I come out and, you know, I get on the dirt bike. And then the guy goes, wait a second, I know that gorilla. That's King Kong Caneval. The world's only gorilla motorcycle jumping gorilla. So ride that around a little bit, do some wheelies. If I grab a banana, like these giant inflatable bananas. Yeah. And I'd hold it like while wheeling, but then, you know, eventually use them to jump. Yeah, there's wheeling with it. And we literally had like a two by four and like a cut like it was it's the smallest jump so the whole stick is like you go around you'd skip

till i jump the first banana you jump one banana grab the next one oh like how many bananas you can jump yeah we're trying to set the world record so you know we get to two bananas get that but then i'll tell you what dude three bananas is tricky so you can you can play it up here and this is this is like you know the height of it you know Zach you're a wheelier but i don't think i've ever seen you actually jump that's not true bro last time i was here i see i see smoked you on the pit bike track. I don't remember that. I do remember that, actually, yeah.

So on the third jump, I just wipe out. On purpose? Yeah. Yeah, and I thought I'd, like, figure out a way in my head, like, all right, it'd be good to ditch the butt. And every time, I just, like, won it every time. So they're all a little different. Get up, you know, got to hit the chest.

This is, like, a Father's Day weekend show. This wasn't last year. This was, like, a little bit over a year ago. And, like, I came back this year, and everyone kept, oh, is it a grill come? Like, everyone, all the kids were asked. It's hilarious. That's awesome.

There's another one of the crashes. That's what it looked like when I was trying to wheelie your grom. Dude, you actually did look like that. Remember that? Yeah, dude. Classic clip. That is a classic clip. Chasing it down the road.

I guess really the only time I ever remember you jumping was when you sent that jump at Cody's gravel pit. Yeah. No, I jumped over it. Well, I mean, I did quite a few jumps, but then the one I ditched it and went over. Yeah. Went pretty well, actually, considering. Yeah, it's like Zach goes and it's like crossout flies. That was the thumbnail.

Yeah, she was killer. Last time Zach was here, we went and we were riding three wheelers around and and ripping the, uh, the roads. But we were just like parked at the end of the road. Remember that cop pulled up on us? Yeah. And then, and then Zach's filmer Kip goes, run, run, run, run. He was fully facemassed up.

We were like smashed like he was riding in Philly. Bro, what do you mean run? We're going to run and he's going to run. and he's going to just drive straight to our shop and just be like, how'd you think that was going to end? And I just remember Kip was pissed at us for the rest of the time you guys, you guys, such pussies, didn't run. Yeah, no, he was like pissed that he got, like,

he didn't get a ticket, though. They took down our names and stuff, so I think that was... Nothing even came of it for us either, though. Yeah. Yeah, that was interesting. Yeah, I had all that footage, too. We didn't post any of that. I remember when we made Kip and Mike race.

Oh, yeah. They raced on foot. They did a foot sprint race. Kip had to have won, right? Yeah, he did, because then Mike had to do the water. Hovercraft. Yeah, the Hovercraft, water, and flower. Remember that?

Then he threw up. That was so far. Yeah, and then he threw up. Yeah, after you got me first. Yeah, we got you with that. Dude, that was so fun. That was such a good prank, dude. I was like not expecting it at all.

Oh, yeah. You were just standing behind it, or what? So, like, the fan from the Hovercraft. Yeah. It was blown. I think you set me up. with it. Okay, I can say water.

It was like, yo, there was a fan and you're like, yo, dude, we want to get some like sick videos of you and these goggles and we're going to like have your hair blown in the wind. And I'm like, all right. Like I put them on or whatever. And then you just fucking hit it. Five gallons of water. That's the one thing.

I got to be careful because you guys like to be up the things. I remember the first time I was here, you know, Ben convinced me there were sharks in the lake. And I didn't know. Did he call him lake sharks? Because he loves doing that to people that are doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he believed it too. Yeah, I remember, dude, it hasn't stopped, dude. Remember that time you took a shit? Well, bare footing? I was gonna say that was wild. Did we ever show that?

No, we did. I was insane. I was thinking about bringing that up, and I don't know if I was that is crazy. Well, because the day before, me and banging had the Carolina Reapers. Oh, no.

That's not good. So then the next day, we're on the boat and we're barefooting. And I'm like, man, I kind of got to go. Like, my stomach's going. And I was like,

I just thought it's the best idea. So at first, the boys just thought I was mooning them. And there's, we, I don't know if you guys, I might have the clip somewhere. And it's just like, we have it too. It's just like a mist. Yeah, we're going fast. Man.

50. Yeah, it was my first day bear fun. So do you ever talk to John, your film, or anymore? Yeah, dude. We're still homies. Really? Yeah. So where do you stay now?

You live still in Philly? Same spot, Westchester, yeah. Westchester. Yeah, I've never said that, but there you go. No, you ever see Bamar Margera anymore or no? Yeah, I've seen him ripping around. I got a picture of him. when he was with his Lambeau.

He signed my skateboard when I was, like, six at Fairman's local skate shop. And his barn is there, like, for skating. I know some guys that were sponsored by Fairman's that closed down a year and a half ago, which was sucks. But no, so I'll get in there for, you know, once in a while. And I've never seen him there when I'm skating. But I think he's home right now, actually. Like Bamland?

It's Castle Bam. Yeah, Castle Bam. Yep. It's where they shot out, like, a lot of CKY stuff, some jackass stuff too. And, yeah, it's sick there. yeah yeah Zach was like our first friend that when he'd show up you don't know what he's going to do and now it's wild to think about because every single friend that we have is exactly like that it's a breed but but back in the day we were like oh my gosh this is stressful you don't know what

you don't know what's going to happen when Zach's here and now it's just like it's it's part of the fun of like when our friends show up it's just like hey Dalton just be ready with the camera because we don't know what he's about to do how Gavin is now you remember when you swapped our YouTube plaques I was gonna bring that up I had a question about that

I mean so people who haven't heard this story it was this is when I was like moving out to California and we both had at least 100,000 subscribers we had it was the old style plaque that's the new style and on the wall over there yeah and I remember I was like

dude you'd be so funny if I just like switched hours and took theirs and I was gonna wait for you guys to notice but I got like too excited and like I think a couple a couple days later I faced I'm like yo I got your plaque and you guys were like what the fuck you're like I figured it's kind of fucked up but I left mine so like but when I got mine back

did you guys open it up and swipe swipe swipe the play button around because the arrow is backwards yeah yeah yeah I looked at it and I never asked you guys but I was like man who the fuck did this this is so what if we like rode on it or something we might have done something on the back of it put something on the back side of it did you I got to open it up and see what's there because I got it back and And I remember thinking, oh, that's kind of weird. And, like, this year, I looked at it. Like, I need to ask them because they did something to this thing.

Yeah, I think we drew on on the back of it. We did something. Yeah, we might have to pop it open when you get home. Yeah, yeah. If it's before this podcast goes live, we'll pop up a picture of it if there is something. I'll be lucky to be home in a week. I got a trip in front of me. Oh, really?

They just came back. Oh. I'm trying to find the, I remember just some random dude having our plaque and seeing it on, like, online. I can't believe we got that thing back. I think John ended up mailing it back to us. Yeah, no, we definitely mailed it back. Yeah, that was funny, though. I wonder if I called you, if I posted, like,

I got the Seaboy's plaque or, like, I don't even remember. We were pretty proud of that thing, too, you know. That was the only achievement out of all the hard work we'd put in, because we weren't making hardly enough money to survive, and we just had this one silver plaque. That was, like, the only thing that said you are a YouTuber. Yeah. And we're like, damn, now it's gone.

And then Zach goes, just stole it. Just took it. Yeah, I left on our. couch for three weeks and then just stole our YouTube flag and left oh man so like after you stopped posting on YouTube you mentioned like you still had the YouTube ad rev coming in then so like what did you eventually have to do though so I end up doing for money so I was at like the pizza spot but that was kind of just like to do something like I just can't do nothing and then John actually started working at a local sports bar and he was like yo come here dude they're asking me

my friends want to come making pretty good money i was like screw it dude i'll do that so i was serving and pretty soon i was bartending so i actually was i bartended there for about two years and it was a great time learned a lot and i figured out the most valuable part about bartending isn't the money it's the connections i was like a it's a good sports bar but it was in like kind of like more of a corporate area so i met all kinds of different like people like i figured out like one guy who was talking to was like the owners of the whole thing and i got good friends with him. That's how I got the whole monster truck gig was with KSR Motorsports. He was a regular he'd come in and I asked him like, yo, what's your shirt? He's like, oh, you know, I throw

monster truck shows, this, this, and I started talking to him. I showed him the videos. He's like, dude, we got to get you in the show. So now I'm, he had me working all the monster trucks. Now I'm driving just like the ride trucks, but I'm hoping that'll like move up to eventually crushing cars and doing jumps. Driving the monster truck? Yep. Yeah. No, I see you being out of that. Yeah, it was a great time. And it's funny. I like had to go right from, it was like my girl's birthday and they were having like a whole dinner. So I went right from there to in my van and I like, I'm like, oh shit, I got a flat tire and I go out. And everything was fine, but I was just used to being so up. Yeah. And usually the van's the biggest thing I drive. It just felt so small.

So you enjoy the work that you're doing now more than being a YouTuber. Yeah. You can't beat the traveling and the just doing ridiculous things and all that stuff is fun. But as a whole big picture, I'm definitely happy you're doing what I'm doing now And like it's it's it's I'm not even bartending anymore I might go back get some shifts here and there But it's I'm doing some social media stuff For some random companies I'm doing the monster truck shows

I'm just kind of doing whatever Can you talk about this trip that you're on You're gone you said for a few weeks Yeah no we're just uh me and Dylan We're ripping around and just we started in Pennsylvania Came all the way out here and then we're gonna go back That's awesome yeah I think it's pretty crazy

I guess for you to say that because so many people probably think that you know being a YouTuber is like the dream right but then you show you kind of just unveil behind the curtains of like you know what it does to you mentally and it does yeah you get burned out easy and if you just it's like I said it's it's super hard to do and you need to have that fire that why that like this is like the angle where I'm going that's what I want and I'm willing to you know outwork everything I'll do anything and give you that extra reason to push through when you might get frustrated you need that and when you lose that it's real hard to do so what's next you know i'm focusing on something pretty exciting i'm keeping it off the internet

for now um but i'd say i'm in some sort of education and i'm hoping that that'll lead me to going to new heights so i'm i'm i'm i really want to post stuff about it but i'm going to wait until i'm like done at a certain level and just keep on ripping it's exciting dude yeah well bro i mean we're super stoked for you we're happy for you yep and uh well i think i had a couple things i want to I had the YouTube plaque, the bare footing, and then one thing is, like, I used to come up here, and I always heard about this guy. His name was Evan. It's like, yo, Evan, this guy, he wheelies a mile. You guys were talking shit. You said he could wheelie longer than I could. We were probably just trying to. But now that he's here, dude. He might have. We might need to do

a battle. Oh. And I'm, for distance? Well, that's the distance. Well, we could do like a game of bike and or a distance. And I think, here's the thing. I'm pretty wild. up right now. I'm not riding a ton. I don't think you know what washed up means. So is F. No, so it sounds like pretty fair. Dude, yeah, I think I might have a slight chance at the distance. Your stunts are nasty, but I'm down for whatever you want to do, dude. Let's do it, man. Shred something up. Well, thanks for having me, guys. Once again, it's been great knowing you and seeing the evolution. And I'm happy for you guys. Thank you, bro. We're happy for you, too. We're happy for you. Happy that we can finally make it happen. Absolutely. Finally do this. Well, hey, everyone, should I direct them

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